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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

The Amazon is estimated to be
nearly 700 feet deep at a point 1000
miles from the sea.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

Writer Judged by style.
And, after all, it is style alone by
which posterlty Will Judge of Il great
work, for M author can have nothing
truly his own but his style.--Isaac Dis
raeli.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

1t Is better to charge an item twice
than 10 forget TO charge 1t once. That
is the true principle of "~double-entry."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

Some peoples idea OF taking life
easy seems to be making it hard for
the rest OF US.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

Should girls be told? Well, yes. II
you Il find any who don't know al.
ready.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

A woman's heart is a slate, on which
one man writes and another acts as
a sponge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

The Jordan is the worlds most
crooked river. 1t wanders nearly go
miles to cover 60.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

II you think that a woman cannot
keep Il secret, ask her age.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
RIVERS

The Danube flows through countries
IN which 81 languages and dialects
are spoken.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
SNAPpY ONES
The more waist the less speed.

Many a damsel IS a kitten with men
and a cat with women.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

The fool gives himself away by
laughing at the wrong time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

II the porch Is a large one. set
aside n end OF it for q playhouse for
the children. This viii keep them out
OF the sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

Dancers seem to think the music Is
better IL the orchestra comes from an
other town.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
las SHE is SPOKE"

The kings English be put strange and
led On suitable occasions it may be used in
mediation the point of drowsness the part
votional exercise is really that of going to sleep
From the lips of frebrand orator it may fan into
flames primitive passions that have long lain dormant
Quite the most unique of the kings English,
however, is to be found in the annals of sport. The
citizen the belief that he understands
his mother tongue since he has written and spoken it
all his life will find many paragraph from the sport
page the understanding OF which neither dictionary
grammer text book will help him. For instances:
''Wale Pipp greeted the newcomer with slap
against the barrier of the right field for
and Pek crossed the platter, while Ruth stopped at
third Lee Gagged Meusels lift Thereupon Frank Baker
whanged the globule deep right center triple
which conveyed Ruth and Pipp the disk. After
had famed, Baker tailed off Shang's one base
jolt to the lett Jack Quinn whitfield for the curtain
fall"
Here as everyone will admit. IS English compost
ton which addresses itself a large reading public
standing in the dictionary still not versed
in the jargon Of baseball the paragraph is altogether
uninIelgible. But what IS still more battling than It's
unintegbiity is the fact that to those skilled in the
vernacuar of baseball the strangeness at the Ian
guage is intended add a charm the message con-
ye=eo. Verify. the k.1es English may be PIT a
iety Of uses.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
PRESIDENTS SOUND SENSE.

The position taken BY the President Harding in
his personal message TO the senate may dsappoint
ing former soldiers. yet that it is on
the effort to reduce taxes will be thwarted if the
amount which would be involved in a soAiers' com
pensation grant placed the treasury at this
time. That, believe. will be disputed even by
the most of the bonus because it is
self-evident.
While there has been disagreement as to the
probable burden that the bill, if enacted law,
would impose the treasury it at least would
TO large The question is whether the for
mer service deserve the asked but whether
the government is able at this time TO pay it. The
president takes the latter position, while admitting
the gratitude those pleading for the measure under
consideration.
The situation certainly is not pleasant one. IN
questionably many former soldiers would be helped
greatly by the receipt OF modest sum- AS a nation
them much. AS nation it happens that our
have the limit the president
states To pile top of present obligations an
additional load might make the discharge OF all doubt
fuL That is the view Saken in asking delay Of the
matter. An individual who has money cannot
meet demands nation that has exhausted its re-
sources is in the position The United States has
not exhausted her credit but further increase Of
debt would prohibit reduction of taxes. Which of
the alternatives should be chosen question at
issue. The president has made his choice and it is
the choice of all clear-thinking citizens,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
LEAVING 1T TO CHANCE.

Wheels of chance have been placed the tables
of cream soda establishment in New
York City for the benefit of those who afflicted
with indecision. The of the drinks and con-
fections served appear the wheel. If you do not
know precisely what you and have trouble in
choosing from among the various special
ties give the wheel spin and let chance decide
for The proprietor says he led~o install the
wheels by the fact that many unable
up their minds promptly to what they would
order. They vacillated between this and that; one
thing would no sooner catch their fancy than they
would be attracted by something else
1t is a common failing, and deporabe one.
How comfortable it would be for all they
had to make their minds but could leave every
decision to the caprice of chance with the
that its choice would be satisfactory by
the wheel
The persons who make their mark in the world
those who able decide for themselves. The
ability to reach decision promptly facts
are at hand is of the conspicuous characteristics
Of these who achieve greatness Wavering is a sign
Ct weakness. This of the lessons on which
emphasis laid in the training of officers for
in the United States army during the war. Learn to
make quick decisions stick to them the candidates
told.
If several courses OF action are open, weigh the
merits and dement's of each, if or three
seem to be equally attractive pick one and go
ahead Your choice may not be the best that can be
made but you are likely to accomplish in the
long than he who dallies unable make up his
mind and waiting for else or for chance to
point the way.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
WAR

The greatest argument against war Is. of course.
Like all platudes il is trie and in the laboring
weather of a June hangs heavy ones head.
War itself is great of seasons, and died
in of 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. People of the
world therefore, justified in declining to wait on
seasonal before discussing the ques
ton of disarmament
is difficult make people think about dis
armament; but it is extremely difficult marshal that
thought give it the impulse action and make 1t not
only arcuate but effective. It is unfortunately true
that of to that the time for act
ion is at hand but gaze appeangly from the comfor-
table depths Of apathy for some one else to
show what the action should be do 1t.
War never can be abolished by compulson; there
things YOU not egislate out of existence,
and human nature is chief among them.
Righteousness, which is another word for univer-
sal peace be the and not the effect Of dis
armament. Righteousness in the minds of eleva-
a plane of principle. To appraise contemporary
righteousness is not thing; all men are not
righteous But the majority? Does the majority
of mankind abhor war, not because it is afraid the
other fellow has a gun that shoots more miles, but
because of antipathy iself The TO that
question is the answer to the Disarmament problem.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
The
Passing
Shoe

NO matter how ornery a husband
MAY be. his wife Is usually
WILLING TO give him
A little credit
FOR his good Intentions
WE are glad to see that a writer
HAS come out in a fearless
WAY in defense of the freckls
THAN which nothing
CAN be cutter if the surroundings
ARE satisfactory.
WE do not blame the boys In the
composing
ROOM these days for seeing which
can
SHED more clothes
PRINTERS or girls.
THE reason why a plump
LADY knows that she Is getting
SLENDER is because
SHE has to loosen her corset
STRINGS every week.
THE Ford seems so much like a
sENTIENr being that sometime we
expect
IN our absent-minded way to
YELL out of the front door
TO some delivery boy to drive on a
FEW feet farther for fear the Ford
may
NIBBLp at our young and tender
privet hedge
WHICH is having enough trouble as
it is.
THE leopard cannot
CHANGE his spots but a
REAL uptodate girl
HAS something on a leopard.
A magazine writer says that
THE ostrich when
PURSUING its intended prey
OFTEN covers % feet at a single
bound
AND we suppose the mag. writer
AFTER getting far enough ahead
SO that he could safely do so
CIRCLED around and came back
AND measured the distance
BETWEEN footprints in the sand.
OUR memory goes back
TO the time when a family
IN about the same
COMPARATIVE circumstances as
the
ONE that has at least a Cadillac now
WAS satisfied with
BRIGHT red hose-reeI standing
SIMULTANEOUSLY In the front
yard.
A man always gets ratified
WHEN a girl proposes to him
THAT she can easily make
HIM believe after they are married
THAT he did it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
RETURN IT TODAY

BY what kind of inscrutable mental process or
word jugglery does 1t about there are some
objects which but professional will take
and keep If he can, while there others which are
appropriated by eminently respectable and women
who would feel hurt If they that the method
in which they acqoired hese objects something very
close to stealing.
No OF these amiab1e and respectable people
would take dime out his neighbours pocketbook or
$50 bill if he could without fear of de-
lection. And still hotel keepers complain continually
OF shinkage of their able silver supply poceted often
By people who have than enough of it at home.
This irresistible impulse would any of these
persons to steal empty milk bottle from somebody's
porch; and STILL before took OF paper cups, it
necessary TO asen by chain the public drinking cup
In the case f.books the moral law to sus-
pended altogether Many persons who could bring
numberless afidavits their honesty integrity
in every other walk of life. will borrow books and
though their former may pine for the want of
them, the books not returned Practically every
Of recall he fact that someone not vet
returned the book he borrowed two years ago And
very likely going stock of we should
come uTon two which We have not returned
In Of the largest libraries the world over it
fas been found subject all outgoing ndi-
viduals search seizure process keep down the
Number of books stolen each year. Apparently this is
IN international afliction.
1t IS tribute to the inherent coed nature of men
end that this failure to return books has not
put end altogether to the lending books. AS we
wont to say in matters potcal Something ought
TO be- done about its
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Pacific exporters
The organization, Mr. Mansfield
explained, stands for sound eco
nomic principles, for a free, open
competitive market and against
pooling of grain by any interests.
Immediate action is necessary
against this program Of national
Townleyism," he said, for unless it
is defeated the grain trade faces
humiliation and the country dis
aster. at is a menace from which
no line of business is SAFE" he said.
"The attack on the grain trade is
merely the first symptom Of what
threatens to develop into a national
malady, a malady that would en-
danger the entire industrial struc-
ture."
Meanwhile preliminary steps will
be taken to deal with other special
interest groups and the general
campaign against all class laws ad-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

vanced.
Education received by farmers
during the fight on the Lantz anti
grain exchange bills m Illinois has
brought failure TO attempts to sign
up Illinois farmers for grain pool
ing, Mr.. Mansfield said When
Illinois farmers learned their mar
ket would be destroyed by the very
bills which they had been told
would benefit them, they marched
IN protest on the state capitol, fill
ing the galleries and OVERLOOKING
the corridors Their protest was
effective. The bills were killed
Associations Of managers of CO.
operative elevators IN Iowa, Illi-
nois, Indiana and Ohio have de-
clined 10 grant the preferential
treatment which the pooling plan
contemplated, it was announced,
and will handle all grain on the
same basis.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

uonary stuff and the oil obtained from
them is used food and a cosmetic
Allow many gills are there in one
pint?s Ans. -Four.
5--In cloth measure how many In
ches equal one nail? Ans. Two ana
one quarter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
CHICAGO.-The middleman

aroused.
While giant organizations of
workmen, farmers and other classes
have been forming, he has been the
unhappy buffer of all disputes.
Now he is organizing for sell
preservation and preservation of
public welfare against class legisla-
ton and radical agitators. r. /.
Mansfield, we'll known Chicago
business man, has been named
chairman of the new general edu-
cational committee to combat these
alleged evils.
Associations in the movement or
expected to join include the United
States Chamber of Commerce, ma
tional associations of millers -four
dealers, cotton growers, wholesale
grocers, lumber, coal and produce
organizations, grain exchanges,
country banks and Atlantic and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

6-What did the savages use as
idolsY Assn. Grotesque figures. hair
animal and half human.
What goddess was supposed to
have the power or restoring the aged
to youth? Ans. Herbs.
S--What made pisraeIi's novels non.-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

ular? Ans. Because many OF them
described real persons in the society
Of his time.
s-What city did Alexander the
Great found? Ans. Alexandria
lo-By what name did the Creeks
call the city OF Troy? Ans rlium
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

NEW YORK JUDGE is quoted as saying American
children not properly reared. So thre are some
American children in New York Ell?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

SHORT NIGTIES for women is a style edict from
Paris. Nothing new the only change being that they
will be nights instead of days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Irwin " Willat is shortly to begin
work on his fourth production for
Hodkinson-"Fifty Candles" written
by Earl Derr Biggers- A light
comedy?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Rumor hath it that Marshall Neilan
will make "Penrod" for First Ma
tional. featuring Wesley Barry. But
perhaps it's only a kid
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Chaplin's next comedy will be
called Vanity Fair" That noise you
just heard was William Makepeace
Thackeray turning over in his grave.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Bayard WELLER will Sircct Viola
Dana IN & picture tentatively titled
There Are No Villains" Who says
there amt?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Ruth Stonehouse will play opposite
Tom Santschi In a series of two-reel-
ers for Pathe Remember Santschi
in The Spoilers with Bill Farpum?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
DAIR SE1I
| p ) ~,
-

Marie Provost, ex-bathing beauty,
is TO star in a series OF productions
for Universal Hope she's In good
shape for the coming season,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

The well-beloved "Wallingford" will
come to the screen next Fall. A
Cosmopolitan production Il ought to
lake a great picture.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18

Director T. Hayes Hunter,-the
man who made "Earthbound," - is
finishing up The Light In the Clear
ing" the screen. version Of Irving
Bachelors novel for Hodkinson re-
lease.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
How Much Do You Know?

What country has such law abid-
ing citizens that it does not need a
police system?
2-How many presidents of this
country saw service in the senate?
3-What sort of disease IS sta
phobia?
4-How much territory did the or
iginal forests of America cover?
5-What is the area of the District
of Columbia?
5-What is the origin of the express
sion Indian Giver?"
What was Lincoln's favorite
poem?
S-What is the estimated age of the
earth?
9-What river contains one-tenth or
all running water on the globe?
10-What state has the most coll
leges?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-18
ANSWERS TO SATURDAYS
QUESTIONS

(which are the New England sta
ties? Ans. Maine. New Hampshire
Vermont. Massachusetts,. Rhode Is
land and Connecticut
2-When will the next eclipse occur
which is visible in the United Statesr
Ans. There will be a partial eclipse
of the moon October 10.
3-What is seasame? Ans. 1t is a
genus of Indian or African herbs. The
seeds are used in pudding and confec-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-22
RUSSIANS START
TOWARD PETROCRAD
(5y Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Jan. 21-Unrecognized
by the United States government but
not unsung by some residents of this
country soviet Russia's official rep
resentatives in America are going
back home tomorrow with their de-
ported leader Ludwig c. A. X. Mar
tens Only the members of "Ambas-
sador" Martens staff and their fam
ilies-forty two in all. including Gre
CORY Weinstein, chief of staff"-are
to accompany him. Scores of sympa-
thiZers have expressed regret at not
being able to so along. A steady flow
OF these folk has entered Martens of
flee since he was ordered deported, but
their request to accompany him were
refused his secretary announced to-
day.
Hundreds of Martens supporters
packed four halls last night to bid him
farewell but he did not appear. nor
was he available today at the Rus
sian soviet bureau, where assistants
were packing papers and records. pre-
paratory to closing the offices. Bit
his aides scoffed at reports that he
was missing and expressed belief that
pier to see him aboard the steamer
Stockholm.
Martens came here in March. 1916
to represent steel works at Perm.
Russia. In March, 1919, he announced
himself as the appointed representa-
tive to this country OF the Russian So
cialistic federal soviet republic, but
his credentials were unrecognized by
the government, although he claimed
to have interested numbers of Ameri-
can business men in a proposition TO
sell millions of dollars worth of SIM
plies TO his country.
Opening an office in New York. he
surrounded himself with a staff com
posed largely of Russians who had left
that country during the reign of the
car. He was unsuccessful in appeal
ing from deportation proceedings. and
recently was ordered sent out of this
country by Secretary Wilson.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-22
CUARDSMEN GIVEN
CHANGE OF VENUE
Trial Will Be Held at Hamilton. Ma
rion County, Jan. 81.
f6y Associated Press.)

JASPER, Ala, Jan. 21.-The special
grand jury will resume it's inquiry in
to the lynching of William Baird next
Monday, 1t was announced by Special
Prosecutor Horace Wilkinson when
adjournment was taken this after
noon. Additional evidence, it was said,
has been obtained and the probable
connection of five more soldiers with
the lynching is to be sifted
The main witness today was Mike
Palarie. a Townley miner, who was
taken into custody at Birmingham
last night and who claimed, according
to officers that he heard soldiers dis
cussing the "lynching of some one"
and later saw members of the mob
drawing lots to determine who should
shoot Baird
Judge Wilkinson left tonight for
Birmingham, where indictments were
served on nine national guardsmen
this afternoon. Change of venue was
granted the accused today and the
trial set for January 81 at Hamilton,
Marion county.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-22
HENRY WHITE IS
FOR DISARMAMENT
Ambassador Under Roosevelt Thinks
World Is Now Ready.
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Another
of the American commissioners who
helped draft the treaty of Versailles
Henry White, ambassador to France
under President Roosevelt-told the
house naval committee today that the
time was ripe for world disarmament
and the the United States should mi
tiate the movement.
General Pershing's views will be
sought next Tuesday. The committee
already has heard Gen. Tasker H
Bliss, former American representative
on the supreme war council and a
member of the peace delegation Sec
rotary Daniels and Acting Secretary
Davis of the state department. Wether
it will hold further hearings after
Tuesday has not been learned.
Mr.. White gave it as his opinion
that the gSeat burden of taxation re-
sulting from the world war made the
peoples of aN nations anxious to cut
down on expenditures for ornaments.
He expressed it that the world was
crying for some agreement" to limit
ornaments as a means of reducing
taxes.
Discussing the proposed naval
holiday" the former ambassador said
he did not think the United States
should stop the naval construction it
now Has under way. He said he would
like to see the United States at the
top when the disarmament begins and
suggested that the relative sizes of
navies could be fixed by agreement at
the proposed conference. He added
that questions raised at the confer
ence might show "the right Of some
nations-Great Britain. for instance
to a larger navy than others"
Because of the threatened spread of
bolshevism, the witness said. France
might object to disarmament on land
In this connection, he said that the
state Of chaos in which Germany had
been kept over reparations was. do
ing more to open the way to bolshe-
vism than any other single factor.
AS to the time of calling a confer
ence, Mr.. White said that should be
left to President elect Harding. He
did not think President Wilson should
call it as the fact that he would re-
tire on March might lead the other
nations not to take the invitation Sc
riously.