Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-06-21

many women to enter the business
world. Necessity, too, was the cause
of many seeking employment, and at
the end of the war many thousands
We're dependent upon themselves for
! support. Then the first great blow was
struck at the false assertion that women
could not take care of themselves.
Scarcity of male help gave them an OPP
portunity, and they soon proved that
they could be as serviceable as men.
Now there are few positions, where
main strength is not necessity, in
which women do not stand an equal
chance with men. Still there is one
bad feature not to be overlooked.
sWomen are supplanting men because
they will work for less wages, having
generally only themselves to support,
rwhile men with families must seek
some other work. The battle is grow
ing fiercer, and the women must have
the highest education attainable in or
der to compete with the men in every
branch of business.
Henry E. Bush spoke on "True
Americanism," as differing from the
ideas of certain class of foreigners
which are fiocking to our shores. During
the last two years there has been such
an increase in foreign immigration that
our national institutions are in danger
of being undermined. True American
ism sprang from the actions of the early
settlers, and the sentiments of the Mass
achusetts Bay colonists was cited as an
example. The Americans of our day
differ greatly from those of our fore
fathers time, as the country and con-
ditions have changed. How is true
Americanism best to be obtained? is a
question of great Importance. For one
thing, there is no reason why a foreign
er should not be obliged to live here as
long as an American born citizen before
being allowed to vote. A boy born I'M
der the American flag and taught
patriotism from his birth, must
live here p years before he is al
lowed to cast ballot, while foreigners
may vote after residence of only five
years. 1t seems, also, as though. con-
gress could make proper immigration
laws, so as to keep out the obnoxious
class of immigrants, who are becoming
more numerous every year. True
Americanism opposes nothing if it is
for the good of all, even though it may
not be exactly for our own interest. At
present the rule is that good men re-
main out of politics, while the bad class
enter the political field only for the
money they can make out Of it. True
Americanism will not only make just
laws and see that they are carried out
but well protect our industries from the
labor of other countries. He closed with
the patriotic words: "America only for
those who are truly true Americans"
Messrs. Thompson and EXner played
! q selection on the guitar and mandolin
and were obliged to respond to an en-
core
Miss Fannie M. Chapman was the
class historian, and gave an amusing
account of the trials and tribulations of
the class for several years. She said:
"History is a record of what man has
done. 1t is the yard stick by which we
measure the past, and the compass by
which we determine the future. Every
nation has its history and every great
man has his sayings recorded 1t is
therefore useless to deny the right and
| necessity that the history of the class.
) '94 should be preserved as one of ID.
most important factors of the world. !
Although she endeavored in a feeble
manner to do justice to the class of '94
full justice could not be done, she said
as it would require the pen of a Macau
lay or the tongue of a Demosthenes
She carried the memory back to the
l first days at school, when the myster.
l les of the alphabet puzzled them, anC
recalled the happy day when they
: learned to write and thought then thai
1 their education was really completed
l AS advancement came, the one desir,
was to enter the High school, which
l seemed to be the seat of all knowledge
/ and how proud we were when the da,
e dawned when we would be freshmen
: in more ways than one. No more bril-
d liant class lin their own opinion) eve
=, existed. The class, coming from
d different schools, was united for tn
e first time when it entered the Higl
5 school in '90 and it then mum
S bered 26; 10 taking the Latin Cours
d and ID the English. In the freshman
S year the class lost one of its number b,
# death. Out Of the II remaining onl
e three had the courage to take the classj
Is cal course, yet none of those had eve
b regretted their choice One of the mum
Der, by dint of hard study, passed int
e the next class and graduated in tn
:. class of '93. Four others of those VIII
IS took the F,nolish co,lrso prod,o+ol =.