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The Owosso times., 1922-01-06
NATIONAL LEGISLATION

Not a great deal of legislation was
passed by the Republican congress
during the last two months of Presi-
dent Wilson's administration. The
President vetoed the bill to revive the
War Finance corporation on January
2, and congress promptly repassed it.
On January II, $7,1O0,0OO was appro-
priated for enforcement of prohibition
The house decided, on January 10, that
its membership should not be in
creased. After much debate congress
set the limit Of the regular army at
175,0O0 men. Mr.. Wilson vetoed the
measure, but 1t was passed over his
veto. On February 26 the President
signed the Winslow bill, making avail
able to the railroads $370,OOO,OOO from
the government guarantee fund.
President Harding called congress
in extra session on April II and nearly
all the rest of the year 1t was busy
with the task of redeeming the pledges
Of the Republican party, with what
success must be left to individual
judgment. Among the first bills passed
were emergency tariff and immigra-
ton acts; new army bill cutting the
army down to 10000; and the budget
bill. On April 30 the senate adopted
resolution declaring the war with
Germany and Austria at an end; on
June 13 the house adopted a resolu-
tion Of similar purport, and the meas
ure was finally passed on July 1 and
signed the next day by President
Harding. Repeated efforts to pass a
soldiers bonus bill came to naught,
but a soldiers relief bureau was Gre
ated on August 2 and Col. G. r. Forbes
was made It's director. The house
passed both a tax revision bill and q
tariff bill, but the senate did not get
around to the latter. The tax meas
ure was enacted into law on Novem-
ber Fl.
Among other important measures
passed were bill to exempt American
coastwise shipping from payment Of
Panama canal tolls; a bill for govern
ment regulation Of the packing indus
try; the $4S,50OOO0 shipping board
deficiency bill; the billion-dollar farm
exports credit bill; and various meas
ures relating to enforcement of the
prohibition amendment, including one
the manufacture and sale
of beer as medicine.
The extra session came to an end
on November %, and on December 8
congress met for the regular session.
The Owosso times., 1922-01-06
1@Pg;!!s;;E!j{E|jS{S s.! s.
W. AaaGor sf.:N ooodl0ld si~ssH eYA
EDUCATION.

EdaiusGfon consists of stocking the
8emory with a large collection OF
valuable facts SO neatly arranged
shat they can be taken out in a min.
pts's notice.
This is q very difffcult task. It
takes almost twenty years to acquire
A'eomulete and welicatalogued stock
OF knswledge. And even then It
ccnsists, anly Of we'll chosen samples
from air the different lines which
have BEEN produced In the last 5,00U
y6am.
Many a. man has collected knowl.
D4ge for SIXTY years and has still
fheeasi compelled to order vast guam.
1ftfes Of, necessary, facts from the
,e4t6l&gn8~ each day.
Wien the young man has finished
layihg in the staple lines at the high
schooE he goes to college where an
s6orznp1s collection OF fancy educa-
ton iss dispensed at very low rates.
Hsrarhs may rsmain for four years
NayiHG- stocks q Latin, Greek, He
7eswF archaeology, pheontology, cos
nzpicSyg biology, psycho-s0ciology
7fskDl6sy; neo-Piatonology and other
costly complications with the utmost
1ecklesenesa
Soma young men have unlimited
tshelf-Teom for this sort OF stun, and
when they have been graduated 90
ON through life accumulating new
ana jaiarming lines Of knowledge.
Bua many students f1ll all available
shelxes In their memory In their
sophomore year and pile the rest
Of the, stun ON the floor.
. This Is q great mistake. Nothing
a sadder than TO see an earnest
young man wading wearily through
ee,765 poorly catalogued facts In the
effort to find a little mislaid infor-
N1n1ion in the art OF holding an
oeghteen- n-doilara-week Job.
He becomes confused and discour.
The Owosso times., 1922-01-06
BY EDWARD w. PickARp

Back to Normally was the slogan
Of 1921, not only In America but in
all the civilized nations of the world.
But minor wars, internal economic dis
turbances, chaotic financial conditions
In Europe, widespread unemployment,
famine In Russia and other hindrances
made progress In the right direction
slow, excepting, perhaps, In the United
States.
When the year opened the peoples
were grOaning under the burden of
taxation and depression resulting from
the World war. AS 1t drew to q close
they were still grooming but had hope
fully turned their eyes toward Wash
ington, where the representatives of
great powers were negotiating inter-
national agreements that would elm
mate some Of the causes of war, es-
pecially In the Far East, and limit
the means of making war. In the
success Of this conference and of 9TH
ers that might grow out Of 1t lay for
the time being the hope Of humanity.
Efforts to enforce the terms of the
treaty Of Versailles resulted In con-
ficts among some of the new nations
created by that pact, and several Of
the older nations were involved In
warfare. Germany. working fast to
recover her old position In the world
Of commerce, was hampered by the
disastrous decline In the value Of the
mark, and her leaders protested con-
tinually that she could not possibly
pay the war indemnity. Peace negOti-
ations between the British government
and Sim Fein were brought to a sue
cessful conclusion by which the Irish
Free State was constituted.
The Owosso times., 1922-01-06
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL

Two strong tendencies In the world
Of labor marked the year In the United
States. One was toward reduction
Of wages, as a part Of the return to
normaIcy," and the other was toward
the establishment of the open shop.
Naturally both were contested by or
ganized labor, not wholly successfully.
The railway executives took the lead
In both movements, but had many fol-
The Owosso times., 1922-01-06

Trying to sell bill of groceries ,oith
q complete t0orktn0 knowledge of the
styIe-prtncipIes of Walter Pater.
blocked with unpacked goods, and
his everyday lines OF knowledge are
buried In the coal cellar under a fine
new consignment OF ancient history.
Knowledge is great thing, but
che art OF arranging and using II is
far greater. We should fill y our
shelves with the best available knowl-
edge, and until we have learned our
stock and have completed our in
voice, we should waive further sales-
man sternly away. $40
The Owosso times., 1922-01-06

aged, not to mention dusty In the
process. When we see such young
man trying to sell bill Of groceries
with q complete working knowledge
OF the style principles Of Walter
Pater, we are constrained to believe
that he has overbought at the edu-
cation shop.
He IL overstocked and under.cata.
logued. His mental trent door IL
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PROGRESS SLOW
DURING The Year
Heavy Taxes, Chaotic Financial
Conditions and Minor Wars
Hamper Recovery in 1921.
HOPE COMES NEAR ITS END

Washington Conference on Armament
Limitation the Most Important
Event-What President Hard.
ing's Administration and
the Congress Have
Accomplished.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
:andlnp Of the Clubs.
GEN. PERSHING OFFERS
PLAN FOR DEFENSE
contemplates Assignment of National
Guard Division to Positions on
Coasts and Borders.

Washington. July 24.-Steps to es-
tablIs.h "a national position in readi-
ness for the army as development
OF the national military policy are
forecast in memorandum recently
submitted by Gen. Pershing to Secre-
tary Weeks and made pubic yester.
day at the war department.
Details OF such plans as may have
been already prepared by Gen. Perish
ing are not disclosed. The general
nature OF the project, however, cCN-
templates assignment OF national
guard divisions to specific defensive
positions on coasts and borders to
which they would be rushed in the
event of war.
Under this plan," Gen. Pershing
said, the military organizations re-
quired to secure critical landing
places upon our coasts and favorable
lines OF advance upon our land from
tiers can be definitely formed and
prepared. With such initial organiza-
ton assured, the additional military
units required for the full prosecu'
ton OF a serious war can be mobiliz'
ed at once and brought to full
strength without disturbance or in
terruption.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
ISLANDS LEGALLY IN PAWN
Orkney and Shetland Were Pledged
to Scotland by King Of Den.
mark In 1471.

The Islands OF Orkney and Shet.
land are legally "in pawn" says the
Detroit News. They were pledged
to Scotland by the king of Denmark
on the occasion of the marriage Of
che Danish Princess, Margaret, to
James III OF Scotland, In 1471. These
island groups were then Norwegian
territory, and had been so since the
close OF the Ninth century,
At the time Of their being pawned
the king Of Denmark was also sover.
elgn of Norway and SwedeH and
hoped that the marriage of the Dan.
ish princess would help to effect nm
alliance with Scotland-then a sepa-
rate kingdom from England.
To help matters on the Danish king
agreed to fix the princess dowry at
10000 forms (about $120,000)-10,000
ilorins to be paid before the lady
left Denmark, and the Islands OF
Orkney to be given in pledge for the
remainder. But at the last moment
the king could only lay his hands on
1000 Of the 10000 florins, and was
obliged to pledge the Shetland Islands
for the balance.
The pledge has never been re-
deemed, and though Denpark has
made several attempts to get back
these islands all the negotiations have
come to naught.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
WILL MAKE GAS ON THE FARM
FllvVer Fuel Can Be Manufactured
by the Farmer From His
Waste Products.

In few years many kinds OF farm
waste will be converted successfully
into liquid or gasoline fuel, writes
Floyd w. Parsons in the Worlds
Work. For some time alcohol has
been manufactured In large quantities
from 'blackstrap" molasses, but now
we find that 1t is possible to obtain
$50 pounds of potash from each ton
of this low.grade mOlasses, in addi-
ton to the liquid fuel. During the
war the price of potash averaged as
high as $1,000 a ton.
Federal chemists have found 1t
possible to obtain gas by the distllla-
tion of wheat, oat and rye straws 1t
is not too much to expect that one
day straw gas and gas made from
cornstalks, corncobs and other vege-
table matter will be used by farm.
ers to supply light and heat for their
homes, power for their stationary en-.
glnes and fuel for their tractors and
motorcars. Fifty pounds of straw
will produce 300 cubic feet of gas
an amount sufficient to drive a light
roadster 10 miles. The next step In
this experimental work will be the
perfection of method Of reducing
the gas to liquid form so that 1t may
be carried conveniently as a motor
fuel
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
MACAULAY HAD FINE CLOTHES.
Learned English Historian and States
man Had Hobby for Variety
OF Apparel.

Lord Macaulay, the English his
torlan and statesman and inexhaust-
ible conversatlonallst, had mind
overstocked with learning. And he
had a wardrobe overstocked with
clothes according to Margaret Mac
aulay's "Diary." Later in life" she
writes, 'he indulged himself in an
apparently inexhaustlble succession
Of handsome embroidered wastcoats,
which he would regard with much
complacency. He was unhandy to
degree, quite unexampled In the ex-
perience of all who knew him,
When in the open air he wore per.
fectly new dark kid gloves, into the
fingers of which he never succeeded
in inserting his fingers more than
half way After he had sailed for
India there we're found In his cham
bers between so and GO strops, hacked
into strips and splinters with razors
without beginning or end. About the
same period he hurt his hand and
was induced to send for a barber.
After the operation he asked what
he was to pay.
"Oh, sir said the man, whatever
you usually give the person who
shaves you In that case said Mac.
aulay, L should give you great cash
on each cheek"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
c. S. ESTES BUILDING
UNION STREET MARKET
Former Man Street Merchant Con-
;tructInp Temporary Quarters
for Retail Business

Cy,ns 6 Estes is making good pro-
gress - the excavation for his new
market on Union street In the rear
Of his Main street property If weather
will permit he hopes to begin work
OH the foundation the latter part OF
the week The site is composed most
ly of hard heads and the digging is
hard.
HIS plans call for main building
with a 25-foot frontage and depth
of 40 feet. To the main building will
be annexed the small dwelling house
in the rear. 1t is hoped that the build
ing will be ready for occupancy Sep
tember !.
At present the building will not be
continued beyond the first story as
Mr. Estes is anxious to open for bust
ness at the earliest possible date. The
property purchased by him on Main
street some months go is at present
tied up with long leases and in order
to have place in which to do busi-
ness it was necessary to build. When
one or the other of the Main street
leases expires it is probable that he
will move the business,
1t is Mr. Estes intention to operate
a complete market, meats, fish, veg
etables, fruit and groceries, in fact.
to carry stock similar to those sold
during the years that he was in busi-
ness on Main street.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
TWILIGHT LEAGUE AVERAGES
Holden, Leonard No. Retains Grip
On First place.

Tonight's game is between the
Holden, Leonard No. and Bradford
Co, teams.
The following players are hitting
for 500 or over: r. Shaw, Mattison,
Marcoux and A. Lister. Pellerln and
A. Laflamme each lack one hit of
hitting for 500 at the present time.
Batting percentages are high in Twi.
light baseball because the closing in
nings of som of the games are played
in em.-darkness, batted balls going
for hits which under ordinary crcum
stances would be put-outs. Then
some of the fielders are rather slow,
resulting in more hits.
The following have played four or
more games on their respective
teams and are hitting for 800 or
over. Pellerin Latour, NJ. White, A.
Laflamme, +. Buter, Cardinal, e.
Butler, Brooks on Holden, Leonard
No /; w. Coyne, Stein, Mattison, j.
Hurley, A. Lister, J, Lister, Har-
wood OConnell on Y M. c. A.; X.
Shaw, j. Scott, G.. Scott, c. Miner e.
Wright, Marcoux. La Franchise on
Holden, Leonard No 2; Bells, Comar,
Kearns, D. Shaw, j. IIaflamme, p. Nc
CURE, E. Leahy on Fire Department;
Olin, Plant, Beecher, Knapp G. Nor
rissey on Woodmen; Ford, Allen,
Buss, Merrow, A. Sawyer on Wax
Paper; Leonard, Belding, r. White,
Barnes on Wholesale; X, Cron-
in, A. Cronin, ], Percy E. Osland on
Merchants; Baker, Dakin, Lyons, Cliff
ford on Bradford; Il. Joserh, Norful,
Knapp. F!emings on Howitzer Co.;
Russell on e. Z. Waist. Pellerin has
scored 81 runs, Mattison 20, NJ.
White 10, Latour IS.
There will be meeting of team
managers Friday July 2S, at $3.50 p.
m. In the Welfare rooms. This is an
important meeting and each team
should have one representative pres
pnt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24

association has assisted 13 young
men in financing their education.
Twelve are taking college courses
and one correspondence school
course. Rules and application forms
have been prepared by the trustees
for the use of young men wishing to
avail themselves of the benefits OF
this fund These application forms
will be furnished to Bennington
young men on request, although it is
not probable that the income will pro-
vide for many new applicans for the
coming year
The will of Col. Olin Scott, founder
Of the Bennington Machine works,
was remarkable for the large number
Of public bequests, but more especial.
ly SO for the 20th article which
makes provision for assisting young
men to equip themselves for upright
and useful lives. The article reads
verbatim. Because of the fact that in
my boyhood and youth had to de-
prive myself of pleasure, and to strug
gle against adversely to obtain what
education received, in later years, it
has been my privilege and pleasure
to assist worthy boys and young men
to obtain an education, trade or pro-
fession and thus better equip them
for upright and useful lives and so
thus to perpetuate this object, de-
sire that my executors shall hold resi-
duary estate until such time as a cor
poration has been formed to take this
fund as a trust. and use the net in.
come therefrom to assist young men
and boys by ways of loans, advance
ments, or gifts as may seem to said
trustees most beneficial to enable
them to obtain an education, trade
or profession, hoping. however, that
it will adopt such rules or plans
that the income from said residutry
may be continually increased and the
scope of this work enlarged for the
good of humanity"
A statement of the corporation
to June 80, 1922 is as follows;
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
TIMELY BATTING
PUT BENNINGTON
/. ..,A!!!G' ,A!!!G'R Ross BY4 TO z
Defeated Windsor Print Works
in Well-Played Game
LACING FOR BABE DEMERS
North Adams Pitcher Given U.s.
ual Warm Reception by
Vermonters

Babe Demers Of North Adams,
who is credited with being recruit
on the Pittsfeld Eastern League
team, got his at Cone field Satur.
day afternoon when Bennington won
from Windsor Print 4 to 2, the vic.
tory being due largely to clean. hard
hitting by the Vermonters.
Tie three errors made by the visi.
tors we're costly but the locals won
with the stick, nevertheless. In the
sixth inning they went after Babe ,
and began lining low hard driven
balls over short stop. There were
three of them in row and the Ben.
nngton base runners were going wild
when Scott was injured while sliding
into third base. While the long first
baseman was receiving first aid De.
mers came down to earth and the
batting rally was stalled.
A home run by Bergeron in the
eighth saved Windsor from shut
out. The drive into right field was
one of the longest made on the new
field and drove in runner from first
Hurley pitched good ball. He was
at no time in trouble and had speed
to burn He figured in one sharp
double play that saved a run. Out
side of one booted grounder by King
the locals played cleanly in the field.
There was one exhibition of stupid
base running but in every other re-
spect the work of the home team
met with the approval OF the fans.
Saturdays game was the second oc.
casion on which Bennington has
beaten the much footed Demers. On
July 4. 1921, he pitched for North
Adams team at Morgan park and was
knocked out of the box The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
STATE TROOPERS
RESENT INSULTS
!. FROM STRIKE. K!EF.| Rs s.
Two Men in Hospital Following
Clash in Buffalo
THREAT BY POLICE CHIEF
Says He Will Arrest Troopers
Making "Unwarranted At
tacks" Upon Citizens

Buffalo, July 24.-One man with a
broken arm and another with frac.
tured skull were in hospitals today
after clashes with the state troopers
guarding the trolley lines of the Inter
national Railway company whose car
men have been on strike since July
2. The men were injured in the
breaking up of small groups of men
alleged TO have made insulting re-
marks to the troopers.
The troopers did not leave the
barracks this morning and 1t was un.
derstood they would not be put out
on patrol duty unless rioting =, was
resumed.
Police Chief Burfiend today threat
ened the arrest OF any trooper who
made "unwarranted attack" on citi-
Zens
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
MRS. ALICE 5LEAU
Bennington Resident Passed Away
Sunday After Long Illness.

Sunday After Long IIness.
Mrs. Alice Bleau, aged so years, wife
OF Joseph Bleau, passed agay Sunday
shortly after noon at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Higgins of SAT
ford street Although Mrs. Bleau had
been i'll for a long time her death came
as a great shock to the community.
Mrs. Bleau was born in Cheshire
Mass, but spent most of her life in
this village. She had a lovable, un
selfish disposition, always willing to
do and help others. She was tenderiy
cared for at the home Of her daughter
where every care was given her.
Surviving besides her husband are
four daughters, Mrs, Walter Higgins
Mrs. Nathan Howard, Mrs Harold
Burgess and Mrs. Alma Carey four
sons, Arthur, Raymond Elmer and
Robert; three sisters, Mrs. Albert His
Ter of Pittsfeld Mrs, Cora Hinkley OF
Berkshire and Mrs. Vina Middlebrooks
of Cheshire and a brother. Walter
Utter of Cheshire.
A prayer service will be held at the
house before the funeral service which
will be held at st. Peters Episcopal
church at S30 o'clock Tuesday after
noon Rev. J. Elmer Mckee will Off
ciate Interment will be at the Park
Lawn cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
DRESS REHEARSAL TONIGHT
People Who Can't Get Seats for "BII
leted" May Go.

People VINO Can't Get seats TOR bll'
Ieted' May Go.
The Opera house isn't nearly large
enough to seat all the people who
want to go to see "Billeted" Tuesday
evening. The play would be given
two evenings but for the fact that
Miss Virginia O'Brien, who has tho
leading role must he in New York, on
Wednesday For that reason, 1t has
been decided that those who have
been unable to secure seats can go to
The dress rehearsal which Is to be
held this evening, If they care to do
so, A charge of one dollar will be
made
Tnose attending should not expect
that the play will he presented with.
out interruption and repetitions of
some of the scenes, together with
suggestions and directions from those
who are in charge Of the rehearsals.
In spite of these annoyances, any
one who is anxious to see the play
will enjoy the dress rehearsal. The
doors will be open at 1880 and the
curtain will go up at s. Admission
can be paid at the box Office.
The play on Tuesday evening will
begin at SIS. All reserved seats
have been sold for Tuesday evening,
although some few Of the vouchers
have not as yet been exchanged.
All seats in the upper gallery Will
be So cents, None Of these seats
have been sold
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-24
STRIKING MINERS :,
TAKE PLEDGE NOT !
To RESUME WORK
One Thousand Promise to Stay
Out Six Years, if Necessary
INSIST upon, SETTLEMENT
Move Made in Opposition to Fed
eral Government Plan to
Reopen Coal Mines

Des Molnes. Iowa, July 24.-The
pledge not to enter the mine "for six
months or for six years" unless the
strike was settled was given by
thousand striking coal miners to
District President Morris OF the mine
workers at a mass meeting here last
night.
Mr.. Morris said the attempt OF the
federal government to open mines
was an attempt to disrupt the United
Mine Workers and that miners Off
cials had decided to ask pledges
from every miner not to enter the
mines until the strike was settled.
Detroit, July Ex-Governor Groes-
beck left Detroit today for Saginaw
prepared to take some definite steps
towards bringing about resumption OF
operations in Michigan coal mines.
Prior to the departure the governor
declared coal shortage becoming too
serious in Michigan to permit further
delay in bringing about resuption OF
operations.