The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-17
CUT IT OUT!

II is high time that Brattleboro people
In general emulated politicians TO the ex'
,.n, Of "yicwing with alarm" the ridien'
,ous nonsensical and wholly unnecessary
Sunday closing movement that has starter
4, this town. Whenever occasion oilers
we point with pride" TO the many adNa'i'
taees that Brattleboro offers as a pace
in which TO live the year round or SIMPLY
to spend the summer months; we play the
bigger, buster, better Brattleboro tune on
,be SLIGHTEST proyocation, and never neglect
an opportunity to tell outsiders what
hus,linp. what an up.todate community
this little southern Vermont metropolis
is; in short, we sing the praises oil Bra''Ie'
boro wherever and whenever opportunity
offers. 1t is right and proper that we DO
This land ..we" in this case means ever!
publicspirited citizen of the town. but
in so doing we must not forget that the
town must be made all that we claim for
it. If we are going to keep IN town what
neople we already have and induce more
IN locate here we must quit making
monkeys of ourselves, as we appear 10 pe
doing in this Sunday closing folderoi.
The law which prohibits all work except
"acts of necessity or charity" on the SAB
hath has been ON the statute books long
time and will doubtless remain there LOT
wears TO come in spite of efforts to amend
II But law when not backed by puple
opinion amounts to very little, and we can
get along very well under the present ar
rangement if we exercise little common
sepse The amount of Sunday business
transacted in this town was never large
enough to give us the reputation oil peihg
Goddess community. 1t has been posi-
BILE. we admit, to buy glass OF soda' d
saucer OF lce-cfedll, clBai Va
paper, but that has never seemed TO Us
s,ficient cause for apprehension as to our
future abode. Why shouldn't this inno'
cent traffic in harmless, inexpensive ana
comforting luxuries be allowed to continue
Wbv shouldn't working man or woman
he allowed to purchase by the plate what
his or her more fortunate neighbor can
order by the quart? Why shouldn't the
cooling effects of glass of soda or an IN
,ooent hottie of Moxie be obtainable by
the hot and dusty automobiles who stops
here on his Sunday outing!
If there are people in Brattleboro whose
sense of morality is shocked by these
hideous practices let them move TO Som
erset. where land is cheap, where SUNDAY
,.ners do not corrupt and where drug
stores and soda fountains do not profane
the Sabbath air. Or if Somerset Is not
exactly to their liking leu theln pi'N o"'
anv little hamlet in the woods-let them
90 away back somewhere and sit down 1or
seven DAYS in the week. But as Tor the
rest of us, let us see to 1t that the enol's
we are making for a ivelier, more up-to'
date, more prosperous town are not nun
fed by the misguided notions OF few foik
whose day and generation are nearly past
For the present and future welfare oil
Brattleboro we want to hang on to all the
young people we have and get as many
more as possible to make this town theii
home. we want to get all the tourists we
can to make the memorandum "a good
stopping place. against the name OF
Brattleboro in their road books; we want
to dispel as quickly as possible the mpres
sion that we consider ourselves more sanctl
fled than the rest of the country
Put an end to the Sunday closing farce;
it's done enough harm already.