Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-08-04

less than their hammers and chisels
to work with. Yes, there was some
thing else pluck. good judgment and
practical knowledge of their business.
With these concomitants, almost with
out capital, they started in very
small way in little rented shed. AS
they worked on. things came their way,
as they have a habit of doing to the
deserving, and it was not long before
they had to enlarge. Step by step
they pushed on, finally acquiring
large amount of real estate. at an
almost nominal price. in the very
water power connected. Later, they
introduced everything modern in
machinery and are able to compete on
even terms with the largest firms in
Barre. The Cross brothers are all good
| fellows. personally and socially, and
have borne leading part in the growth
of their town. They deserve all that
| has come to them and their outside
friends rejoice in their prosperity. =
Randolph Herald.
There is considerable complaint over
the severity of the examination tests
held recently for the admission Of rural
pupils to high schools of neighboring
towns. In West Brattleboro not one in
80. and in Bethel not one in II. of the
applicants passed The complaint is
that the questions were unusual and
ill-adapted. The passing mark Ger.
tainly was not high, and such an out
come is remarkable. 1t is understood
that the test was prepared by the
state department of education. That
ought to be headquarters for correct
action, but it easily might not be, in
this respect.
The high school education for ad-
vanced pupils, compelled by law to be
done at the expense Of towns without
such schools, which pay the tuition
where the pupils attend. is one of the
very best features of our present
educational system. Much Of it's
success, however, depends upon it's
, application. 1t will not do to let
down the bars and make the entrance
tests so easy as to be farcical, with
the result that high schools are flooded
= with lot of poorly prepared scholars,
> clogging the wheels altogether. On
the other hand. it is manifest in
justice to make the tests so severe as
to keep out ambitious and deserving
young people who really ought tc
e enter. The aim should be to subject
4 the applicants to exactly the same
= tests that the pupils of the lower
grades have to undergo in passing tt
: the high school.
S We should rather see error il
leniency shown the rural pupils thar
:, the opposite. The average scholar
) coming in from the back town ma!
not be so we'll prepared al the momen
in all respects as his town cousin, bu
tho fact that he cOn7pC of bic own fro
l. will argues in favor of his desire ant
e ambition to acquire education, and il
t the generality Of cases such pupil
|. will, in a short time, overtake an
}. often outstrip those to whom schooling
d has become a grind. At any rate,
is always easy to drop student VIII
lie doesn't keep up, while if he is barre
h out at the beginning, there is n
er chance for nina result that ma
?, have a wide influence on his Who'll
ife.-Randolph Herald.
m The coming Of a negro cavalr
it regiment to Fort Ethan Allen ha
is brought the race issue right home t
the people of that section Of the state
III From reports it appears that the color
g ed troopers do not meet with the gla
I'd hand at all times and places. even i
70 this old Abolitionist state. Whit
:, people refuse to sit with them a
III restaurants or ride with them in cars
I'd when there is any other way. Their
is even talk of putting on Jim Grow
street cars for their accommodation
All this is very strange and queer u
Is here in Vermont, where the negro use
al to be deified. 1t shows. however, thai
b. lament 1t as we may, and thunde
against it as We will, people are nc
so very different North than South
N The most bitter and unreconcilabl
lp negro haters in the South are NORTH
e ern whites who go there and see tn
N negro as he really is, not as Uncl
10 TOMS Cabin pictured him. In the
ID violent overturn of prejudice they fl
s, to the other extreme and can Sc
% nothing good in the blacks.
[. 1t is undeniably true that with tn
u passing of the genera ton which, i
,e their honest sympathy for the negr
II and their adherence of slavery, Over
"a looked his weaknesses and PATIENT
e mlnlsered to his needs-With the pas!
sc ing of that generation, we of the ne
~ one are taking largely differen
oi though not necessarily a better view
When the negro fails to measure up I
al our ideas, we condemn him. dra
IN away from him, leave him to his fat
~, and go our way.
q The colored soldier in the service
ry the United States has been a success
in when there was work cut out fl
&c him. We whites are very glad I
ro know what he did in the Civil war,
Ae the Spanish war, in the Philippine
on the plains, but we forget this whe
asked to sit beside him at the theatl
or hotel. Then he is just a pla
oh niger and our noses go up in DISCUS
is 1t would be as bad in Vermont as
by is anywhere else if we had as many
ed them. 1t is race feeling. 1t cam,
be be explained. 1t cannot be justife
N 1t is just so, and until Anglo.Sagxt
IS feeling changes it cannot be differen
e. And we expect that the residents
ill the territory surrounding Fort Eth;
en- Allen, where these troopers are, W
,~s become more and more insistent f
ny separate service and accommodation
an 1t is not that the conduct of the
Il" trOODers is worse than that of Il