Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-11-17

one, but was against Mead. Nothing
''hysterical" or over active about that.
Ten years g the citizens of st.
Johnsbury rejected a proposition to
purchase a chemical engine and erect
a central fire station, on the ground
that the cost would be too large. AS
it has turned out the cost was too
large for not having installed the i'm
provements which were then rejected.
saving expenditures only to lose more
in the end. It is not certain of course
that more fire fighting equipment could
have spared either community it's re-
spective losses; but the chances are
decidedly in favor of the belief that
the seriousness of both fires might
have been reduced largely. Barre
Times.
While no fire of such proportions and
disastrous results as the m at st.
Johnsbury seems possible in Barton, we
are facing a serious situation in Barton
today. A committee was appointed at
the last village meeting to see about a
fire alarm system that was sure when
a call was sent in: but Barton today
has no safe and satisfactory alarm sys-
tenn. Yet some men insist on running a
stove pipe through the roof. Barton
had better invest before it is too late.
A few more fatalities through the
use of %hyprotism will serve to put the
practice to sleep.-Barre Times.
And because an occasional automo-
bilist is killed, stop automobiling.
Because experimenters are killed with
flying machines, give it up. Because
hypnotism is little understood and put
to improper uses by amateurs is no
reason for %condemning h%ypnotism.
Its practice for the amusement of au-
fences is looked upon with d%isfavor by
many and is of course the lowest type
of usage, and the very use the Times
refers to-, but hypnotism is a great
and useful science. 1t has been used
in the medical profession with great
1 success and will be used more as it is
understood, it's wonderful possibilities
realized and it's practice turned to prop
err channels. The public today scott at
it because there are s. many frauds,
some think it only a plaything for
amusement of audiences with no other
use, but hypnotism is~ a great and
wonderful thing, possible of accom-.
plishing untold good, as we'll as harm.
But let US not condemn hypnotism.
Throwing a Misrepresentation, SO
strong and u~nexcusable that some peo-
pie call it a lie, at Lieutenant-Governo
Mead who is candidate for governor,
and not retracting or acknowledging
the mistake, is hardly believable OF
such excellent papers as the North.
field News and the ST. Johnsbury Cal.
edonian and their estimable editors
Yet such is the case. Both papers
made the fiat and unqualified statement
that DIR. Mead had never been connect
ed with progressive legislation il
Vermont with the exception of posi-
bly, voting for it. The Monitor
showed both papers that DR.. Meae
originated and fostered the week.!
payment law, an acknowledged pro
gressive and important act, and asked
each and both if it were not true
Neither paper has had the courtes.
or courage to answer, thereby throw
ing their influence in a direction abso
lutely untrue. The C%aledonian has no
since had a word on guhernatorial poll
tics but the News on the contrary af
ter accusing the Monitor of being hys
terical because it had the courage t.
ask for the Disqualification sof DR.
Mead in a sensible way, has the fol
lowing which the Monitor calls worse
than hysterical:
Another campaign lie is nailed thu
early. 1t was reported the other da,
) that DIR. Mead was left at Essex juno
: ton, through missing his train Will
~enroute home. The Springfield Re
porter, rising in it's might, denies tn
base insinuation and says in italics tina
DR.. Mead Ibid not get left at Esse.
t Junction" The News, although it di
f not publish this outrageous story abou
the Doctor is glad to help give prom
{ %inence to the u~nequivocal denial of tn
Reporter and it is sure the conten
porary knows what it is talking about