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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12
PITTSFIFLD MAN TELLS
INTERESTING STORY
Experience With Case of
Rheumatism rs Years Ago


Geo. III Carpenter runs carriage
and automobile painting shop at Pitts
field Mass. He enjoys reputation as
highly regarded
In a letter he wrote he said Mys-
FERROUS Pain Ease 80" y | used 1t
% years ago and it cured my rheu-
matism"
A simple straightforward statement
OF fact from a substantial citizen.
Think what he must have suffered
and how grateful he felt after 20
years.
The Scotch Liniment known as
Mysterious Pain Ease penetrates in
such a way that it relieves inhamma'
ton and pain ceases to exist.
Many people in all walks OF life
have heartily endorsed 1t Users OF
Mysterious Pain Ease recommend
1t for pains of rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains Of ell kinds. neuritis, lumbago,
sciatica, burns, muscle cramps, stiff
neck, chilblains, muscular colds
where the shoulders, chest and back
muscles are in pain, and pain arising
anywhere from Inflammation.
Pain Is matter Of Inflammation
If you can overcome the inflammation
tho pain goes.
A Scotch liniment and it did stop
pain so surely and quickly that peo-
pie thought there must be something
mysterious about it They got so they
asked for it by the name "myster,
Ious Pain Ease'-named by grateful
sufferers who had found the way tc
be rid of pain
Mysterious Pain Ease is sold by
most leading dealers. Any druggist
can get it for you from his jobber.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12
SATURDAY, MARCH 70, 1921.
NEWSPAPER MEN m wAn.

Gen. John J. Persblngs tribute II
The loyalty and faithfulness of The
American correspondents with tie
army In France confirms the popular
estimate Of these men who rsked
their lives that the people might have
all the news while 1t was news. As
the general writes "They subordll-
ated their instructive and natural de.
sire as newspaper men for news to
the obligation OF intelligent co-opera-
ton with tile military authorities,
who Of necessity were alone IN posi-
ton to Judge when and what items
could be safely transmitted. can
remember no occasion when a CORE
spondent knowingly violated the trust
placed IN him. They coop
Grated with The army splendidIy and
played tile game which helped us win
the war; There is nothing new In
this eulogy. The training Of their oc-
cupation makes newspaper men adj
mrably amenabe TO discipline. Their
loyalty and trained Intelligence gave
them understandable viewpoints that
made II impossible for them TO become
menace or endanger in any way
maneuyers of attack. They did their
duty there as they have ever done 1t
no matter where they might he with a
combination of brains, heart and &C.
tivlty Their chief goal is 10 tell the
truth. and In France they did what
was to be expected Of them to uphold
the dignity aud reliability Of their pro
fesSlon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12

The disappointment expressed ny
various newspapers because some Of
the large cities haven't made bigger
population gain, is rather amusing
when taken along with the concern
they express over declining food pro
ductlon. Cities are recruited mainly
from the country. and by foreign I'm
migration Not enough children arr,
-"ared by city families to make any
gain IN population at all. The cities
can't expect TO grow by drawing a
lot OF people away from the farms
aYd have cheap food too,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12

Al The South magnetic pole, which
Is long way from the geographical
South pole, Il compass needle sus-
pended SO as to swing IN n vertical
plane, dips until 1t reaches vertical
position with the south end downward.
An ordinary compass needle suspended
SO as TO swing horizontally only he.
comes sluggish near the poles, the
magnetic force Of The earth tending
70 pull one end Of The needle down, In.
stead of making the needle swing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12
DON'T FUSS WITH
MUSTARD PLAS7ERS!!
Musterole Works Without the
Blister-Easier, Quicker

There's no sense in mixing a mess
CT mustard, -four and water when you
can easily relieve pain, soreness or stiff
ness with little clean, white Musterole.
Musterole is made Of pure oil of
mustard and other helpful ingredients,
combined in the form of the present
white ointment 1t takes the place OF
mustard plassers, and viii not blister.
Musterole usually gives prompt relief
f-cr core throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis,
Group, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia,
headache, congestion, pleuIisy. rheuma-
tisrn, lambago, pains and aches of the
lack or joints, sprains, sore muscles,
bruises, chilblains frosted feet colds of
the chest Gt often prevents pneumonia.
35c and CSC ja-s; hospital size $500
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I'm, ~, lnx.ntors.

" were an inventor should try
TO invent something lie publ, wants,
bur Is unAule TO gel rather than some
thing thai The public might Ike after
getting used Ia 1t. hut WOULD have TO
he dducaled up 10 The Nations
business.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12

Nature is TIC Chiropractors ony
aid adjustments remove the pinch
on the nerves and enable Nature to do
her part in making aad keeping the
body we'll
N,nety-iive per cent OF diseases are
due 60 pressure upon nerves along the
sides Of vertebral column. This pres.
sure interferes with their functions:
hence inhammat on, unnatural action,
pain and distress are manifested
where these nerves end All diseases
are prolonged until pressure upon
thee nerves leading to the affected
parts is adjusted It is the business
OF the Chiropractor to release this
pressure with the hand the doing of
which has never been taught in other
schools, AMI has never been praCtlced
by them
Ancient methods and cure alls put
but title check on disease Tines have
changed and science is progressing,
Chiropractic adjustments, relieyin;
nerve impngement permit nature u
remove the cause Of disease and cor.
rect abnormalities without the use G.
drugs.
The most famous surgeon, perhaps,
using the knife today Gays THE
drugless practitioner IS one of the best
things that has come into the life of
the present day
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A Commemorate Custom.

is the gift of an Annuity to an old
servant or employee Rates quoted
by mai on request National Life
ms. Co. VT Mutual Fare S. Kin
sley, General Agent, Mead Building,
Rutland, VT Adv
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rAnnun2lo keeps on talking about
a glorious death, and the Italian GOV.
ernment wishes he would hurry aud
fiji the action 10 The world
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-12
HARLEY DAVIDSON
MOTORCYCLE

You will enjoy a sport I'M
paralleled in the outdoor realm,
yet it costs you less than a
cent mile with a solo mount,
or just about cent a mile
with sidecar. Compare so
miles of this, costing less than
40 cents, with SO miles by rail-
road costing 3 cents mile, and
8 percent war tax, or $1.62--
four times the cost of travel
ing the Harley Davidson way.
Weigh the facts. Start a
new pleasure era in your life.
Come in now and see the new
Harley-D Davidson models. No
obligation if you do. You can
buy a Harley-Davidson on the
easv payment plan,
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DR.. w. 3. GAGE, chircpractor.
Putnam House Bennington, VI.
Thursdays, ito S p. M.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-28

Company Of Indiana, for 1920. is q
concrete example Of the distribution
Of surplus. Net earnings were? $751;
377,803, against $34,s04,417 in 1919.
After reserving .$20,404,139 for taxes,
there remained >$40.973,4S4 for divi-
dends. AS result of these huge
earnings the company put $31,S56,S0G
back into the property. Were this
company to close tomorrow, the pay
ment of wages would stop. Dividends,
however, would continue until the sur
plus set aside for their payment was
exhausted. r>>~,r ,e..~- ~
Wages: represent the applied effort
of the workers in producing the com
modities, Of the industry out of which
the surplus is created. In all justice,
the wages OF the workers have an
equal claim upon that surplus with
the ownership Of a stock certificate.
The stability, Of home life rests upon
steady employment and just wages.
The power Of a nation rests upon
:the stability of home life.
Destroy the home. wipe out its In
fluence upon national life, and the
nation, like the home, will be swept
into the wreckage carried along by
the Hood OF loose humanity ling
On the banks of the turbulent streams
V1st4AO IS
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CONGRESS KILLS
BILL III. TO TO REVIVE =.
:. TAYLOR SYSTEM 7 |! i
Speed-Up Measure Bitterly At:
tackled By Labor Member;
Originator Repudiates 1t.

WASHINGTON, May 26-The
house refused to legalize the Taylor
."speed-up" system while discussing
tenders of the system were Congress-
men Underhill (Massachusetts) and
Blanton (Texas). The former sells
hardware and recently received lit
tie cheap notoriety by an attack on
President Gompers and the trade
union movement. He exhibited the
same intelligence in discussing the
'speed-up'' system when he acknowl-
edged he knew nothing about it.
Congressman Blanton made his
stereotyped speech, when matters
concerning labor are being consid-
cred.
Congressman Nolan, member Of the
Iron Molders' union, challenged any
ings on this proposition and then de-
fend it on the floor oe the house..
"You cannot apply this sort of a
system to human beings" said the
trade unionist. "You cannot time
them as you time a horse or a, dog
on coursing park or the athlete
on the cinder path, who trains for
a particular race or game. You have
got to give some consideration to
the human element involved in in
dustry.''
Congressman Hull called. attention
to. letter written by the present
president Of the American Engineer
ing society. who originated the Tay-
lor system, and who has since re-
cheney by stop-watch system ?"
asked CONGRESSMAN Tague (Massa-
pudiated it.
Opponents of the system said there
was not a manufacturer in the coun-
try: who waa using it, and that it has
been completely discredited except by
those who want a job holding stop
watch.
care you going to measure eff
chusetts). "There is not a. man who
has ever had men in his employ in
great numbers who has ever applied
the step watch system without find
ing out that it not only broke down
the efficiency Of his men, but it also
broke down the morale of his men.
"The gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Blanton) says it ought to go into
effect. He does not tell you why.
He cannot tell you why"
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aided in the, piling up Of the surplus
in industry out of which dividends
are paid and extensions made to prop
erty, and. by all the rules Of morality,
by all the ethics of Christianity, by
all the finer sentiments of humanity,
by all concepts Of justice, the work.
ers ought to share in the surplus.
The right to obtain a part of that
surplus is vested in the stockholder.
His interest is represented by the
ownership of a stock certificate, bit
of paper, for which money may or
may not have been exchanged He
is not required. or even expected to
contribute the bending of a finger in
productive labor to obtain his share
Of that surplus. He is not required,
or even expected. to- know q single
operation of which the surplus was
accumulated. The piece OF paper,
properly attested. guarantees to him
the enjoyment of all his normal COM
forts out of this surplus of industry,
whether or not that industry IS In
active operation. - b sSs5s: z5ss@.s5
The ethics Of modern business. IN
effect, declare that wages must be
paid out Of the current earnings Of
industry. Profits may be distributed
out :of present. or past earntnss.
# The report of the standard OIL
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ment and the ownership of home.
From these roots grows the tree of
industrial progress and social con-
tentment. >.'.
Modern industry has created a code
of ethics for its own convenience,
these ethics accept the doctrine that
when current industry is depressed,
wages must fall, regardless of the
surplus accumulated in the past. That
portion of the surplus which is not
distributed. in huge dividends is de-
voted either to extensions Of plant or
to the purchase of stock in other in
dustries. =, Rarely is this surplus re-
served for the payment of wages in
times of depression. When markets
are overproduced or under-consumed,
industry stops. The mills. close. Wages
end.
Dividends do not end. They are
sustained blythe surplus that has been
piled UP in the years Of plenty. These
years Of plenty mean little to the
worker. He Is constantly struggling
to pay debts contracted when "busi-
ness is dull" 'Dull business wipes
out the small chance he has to gather
a personal surplus, and this. at best,
can be gathered only sby sacrificing
normal needs. 5S5 q. 81. s;I=1 AZ &
NeYerthelesa Wqrkers laaYs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-28
REDUCED LIVING STANDARDS" Menace TO LIFE OF AMERICANS

The first effects Of a depression, in
business are men and women look
ing for work, wage reductions,
changed working conditions and low
ering standards Of living. The second
effects are unrest among the workers,
strikes, injunctions and general social
bitterness. The first are economic;
the second human. .
Reducing living standards" is more
than a phrase Of speech treating Of
inanimate things. 1t means that men,
women and children must abandon
normal comforts and change: their sys-
TENS of life to g. lower order. The
child who is in school must be put at
work in the factory; the wife and
mother, perhaps, must be taken from
the home and drafted into industry.
The income Of the natural bread win
ner Of the family, the father, is so
reduced that it is unable to meet the
demands made upon it. The entire
family must be thrown into the vor-
tex of industry in order to live. Upon
this changed system Of life mary de-
pend the future of the children. Op-
portunity for complete education! be-
ing ended. and with it the develop
ment of natural faculties, at a period
of life when they are best adapted
for development. the child may be
thrown into an environment that will
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-28

change his entire course of life, de-
stroy his ambition and crush his
ideals. He becomes a cog in an in
dustrial machine, discontented, with
out initiative, without resources, NOV
ing with the machine. growing up
with it, being part of it. Sometimes
when the wage cut is especially Sc
we're, the family is dispersed. The
father goes away from the town. The
mother turns to whatever kind of
work she can do. The sons leave the
remnant of home, and the girls dis
appear. The happy family, it's parts
disintegrated, is no more. Home life
is ended. Home ties are severed.
Home influence is dead. The: home,
the family, has been swept into the
wreckage carried along by the flood
Of loose humanity. abiding on the
banks of the turbulent stream of life.
The home is kept intact by the
wages of the breadwinner. Wages,
translated into human terms, mean
food. clothing, shelter. education,
pleasure, refinement for humanity.
The volume Of the workers wages
determines the character Of his home
and the extent of his enjoyment of
human ideals. ~ ..s ~: ,tE t.., T.
L The roots Of these ideals In the mind
2of the worker are constant; employ
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-28
CREED SEEKS TO
ExPL0!HA|L "A
Plan On Foot at / Washington to
Give Board R'pxel to Give
Away Natufaa! Resources. .'

WASHINGTON, May PA bill in
the Alaskan development board,
which would have power to give away
the. natural resources of that immense
country. This board would have con-
troll over the national forests, water
powers, bird reservations, agriculture
al experiment stations, fisheries, game
and ur-bearing animals and the un-
reserved public lands of territory
more than one-sixth of the total area
of the United States.
= The bill would evict from Alaska
the various departments of govern
ment and set up a form of admins
tration wholly different from any,
thing that exists in any state or ter
ritory. Even the president could not
disturb the board except for neglect
of duty and malfeasance in office,
and the only control congress would
have would be to withhold appropri-
ations or repeal the law creating the
board.
Agriculture Wallace shows that if the
board refused to grant or renew any
application, entry, patent, lease, per-
nit, license or privilege in Alaska,
the applicant could appeal to the Sec
retary of the interior, but if, on the
other hand. the board should grant
the application, th> . would end the
matter.
AS an indication Of the untold
wealth that would Lc at the disposal
of this board, responsible only to
itself, Secretary Wallace shows that
there are 2O,000,O00 acres of national
forests in Alaska, created between
1902 and 1908.
"We have in Alaska" says the fed
eral official!s "the opportunity to cre-
ate second Norway"
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RUN 'ACITAT0RS''
OUT OF ALABAMA! B
Governor m State Joins with
Mine Owners In Attempt to: =.
Crush Miners Union.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 26.-1t Is
estimated that 100000 men. women
and children in the coal district of
Alabama are without food. They are
housed in tents furnished by the
relieve this situation, trade unionists
are contributing funds and the state
federation of labor has forwarded
$500. The coal owners deny that
starvation exists, while they force
miners to make oath that they are
not, and never will be, members of
the United Mine Workers.
A statewide blacklist is being con-
Quoted against the union miners with
the approval of Governor Kilby. The
state executive acted as arbitrator in
the recent mine strike, and supported
the coal owners in every point.
Governor Kilby also ruled that the
coal owners are under no obligation
to re-employ these miners. The gov
ernor has been called upon to relieve
the distress that his decision Gre
ated, but refuses to act, and has pub
licly declared that he 'sympathized
with the miners" This statement has
brought a whitening reply from Van
r. Bittner. representative Of the
United Mine Workers, who tells the
official that such hypocrisy makes
men wonder" The trade unionist
refers to public statement by the
governor when the strike was on,
wherein the people of Alabama were
called upon to run the agitators out
of our state.''
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Brought Here to Break Stke Five Of Six Painters Refuse to
Work When They Learn Of Labor Iob|e Told There Was No
Strke Demand Return Fare and Are Ordered Out by Harris

Fighting for the open shop thing and honest
do take sides for and but
and herdng them quite another It Of the most despabe
occupations to which heretofore descend
c. Harris president Of the Citizens Alliance and Ed Whalen
former director Of the u Employment here have finally
found themselves playing that role.
On Saturday last six hired painters at Chicago arrived
Duluth and taken directly the office of Mr. Harris from
which place they be distributed to various contrac
The had been Informed Chicago that there strike
here and they refused work when they learned they
be used strikebreakers.
In spite of all the coaxng begging intimidation and coercion
Harris and Whaen employed they failed induce five Of the number
forget their manhood and labor principles ab their fellow
workers.
mo Strike! Everything Is Open Shop"
The story Of these pathetic Two of them
and sitting the Club in Chi
cago when the president asked them if they wanted Duluth
work painters No strike and just shop and
union the job, he said
Both brokenand they would anywhere
for chance make honest dollar They
certain the La Sale hotel they
named johnson who would them all the information and would
furnish them with transportation to Duluth.
TO the La Sale hotel they where they found other
waiting ne The engaged hiring painters proved
R. E. johnson with offices at 4o4 Gillan building ST. Paul The
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SEE -? :; q! Committee TOLD ROADS
NEEDji11iii<::: lji1ii :: S0LvEPRoBLEMS
Private Ownership Of Transportation On Its Last Legs; Officials
Admit IT. I'VE Are In 1hes Of Death" One Declares; Many
Railroads Face Receiership; Mismanagement is Cause.
By CHARLES M. KELLEY.

Private ownership Of transportation legs Railroad
officials admit it. They have frankly informed members
that unless solution Of their multiplying difficulties discovered
without delay Of the carriers will close their grp' and go
under.
We in the roes of DEATH spokemn for the Association
OF Railway Executives told the senate committee interstate
"A lew Of the roads pull through but fear that
will be unable solve their problems. That
situation for the business Of the
nation'
Unes bridge the gap between your and
Senator Cmmins joint author of inquous
aton sadly replied you continue for another year.
That is plain, isn't it?''
Perfectly plan' admitted julius Krutsctt chairman Of
the board Of the Southern Pacific.
Depressed Officials Gather at Washington
depressed set of specialists oreghered than
buzzng about the national capitol which the
all railroad discussion They have been called here state
ment of results gained under the transportation written after
their dctaon and to offer their supporters congress- if
have anything of the sort Offer hope and consolation for the
future The result of their effort has been
pessmm of statesmen and force them admit reluctantly that
ali their fnead plans ownership have gone
naught.
The simple fact s and railroad deny it, that
has arrived Wall street and the neutrality-suspicious. who
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-28
HOW RAILROADS
..GI|IEA||,1|: | WORKERS
Congressman !! Tells Georgia :! Ia:
Dor Federation How. Managers
Manipulate Government Aid.

:: :: s:As1EsIANTA, Ga, May 26.-The rail-
roads appealed for an increase in
freight and passenger rates to in
received $1,34O,Q00,OO0 in additional
revenue while the increase in wages
amounted to $55s,000,000, differ
ence of $576,000,OO0. said former
Congressman William Schley How
ard, in an address to the convention
of the Georgia state federation of
labor.
1.-THE roads have been enabled to
obtain a fabulous net profit on the
increases given them by laying off
their employees" said the speaker.
doesn't it stand to reason, there
fore, that railroad operator, given
from IS to 40 per cent increase in
rates is. guilty of cheating and
swindling if he reduces wages SO per
cent out of the increases allowed him
and doesn't reduce freight and pas
senger. rates, so. per cent of these
increases?"
The speaker declared that the ma
nipulations Of Huntington, Morgan
and Hartman have done more to
retard the progress Of the roads than
anything else. He referred to the
purchase of the Central of Georgia
railroad by Hartman who poured
$16,O00,000 worth of watered stock
into : this property and then sold it
to the Illinois Central railroad for
$32,000,000. The railroads, since that
time, he said, have been using sub
terfuges. to avoid the payment of
more wages to employees.