Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-23
WHAT TIE PAPERS SAY.
Daniels and the Navy.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Daniels and the Navy.
Wits, real and fancied, have been in
dulging themselves very generally at
the expense of Secretary Josephus Dan
iels because he abolished liquor from
the United States navy. One would
infer from the cartoons published, and
the merry quips on editorial pages. that
he has thereby reduced the navy to the
status of Sunday school, and that
consistent alcoholism is an essential to
good fighting, while advanced paranoia
would make the navy all-conquering.
It's too bad that some OF the people
who write for papers don't read them.
For instance, the papers have been full
of accounts of the French army, and
the German army, and the Russian
They all seem to be giving pretty good
accounts of themselves. Yet the liquor
was shut off when the war began.
Apparently then, it is possible to fight
without it.-Rutland Herald and News.
Postmaster Boss of St. Johnsbury.
Such little thing as living up to the
civil service rules in Vermont does not
worry the Democrats of the Green
mountain state very much. By the by,
strict enforcement of the civil service
rules in New York never concerned the
Democrats of the Empire state very
much either.
Over in st. Johnsbury, Vermont.
they do say that A. H Gleason, the
postmaster of that town, still continues
to occupy the position Of member of
the Democratic state committee for
Caledonia county. They even assert
that Postmaster Gleason assists IN the
distribution of political plums In direct
violation of the state law.
Not only do they declare that Post
master Gleason does these things but
that he also has permi Mission from poltl-
al leaders higher up to keep on
playing his dual role.-Essex County.
IN. Y Republican.
A Commemorate Stand.
| It is gratifying to note the stand
! taken by the trustees of the University
Of Vermont in connection with the re
port of the special Vermont education
al commission. The resolutions adopt
ed and made public by the status COM
mittee of the University are an unqual
flied approx al Of the recommendations
of the contained in the Carnegie Foun-
dation's report. The two paragraphs
quoted below are Of special slgnl9-
canoe:
THAT we fully concur with the find.
ing of the commission that the state
owes its first obligation to its element
ary and secondary schools and that all
funds available for purely educational
purposes should be expended on these
schools until their needs are supplied.
''That we heartily endorse the position
of the Carnegie Foundation that there
are only two consistent policies a state
can pursue toward institutions of high
er education either to leave higher edu'
cation to be supported by philanthropy
or to treat it as function Of the state
entitled to state sup port, with the nxec
policy of appropriating money to nc
institutions which the state does MOI
control. ''-Enosburg Standard.
Drinking Shortens Life.
The annual convention of the insur
ance presidents Of the United States
and Canada was held in New York city
last week. In the course of discussion
New York actuary declared that the
loss of 500, 900 men as the result Of the
present European warfare could b.
made good in less than 10 years if al
the inhabitants Of Russia were to alb
stain from alcohQlic drink. He an
nounced the findings of a mortality in
vestigation into the lives of 1000. O0t
insurance policy holders. covering 2!
years. Forty-three leading life insur
) ance companies in the United state
and Canada contributed their detailed
records on the 1000. 900 lives.
80 4 tho who adm faH fh9
they had taken alcohol occasionally t.
, excess in the past but whose habit
were considered satisfactory when the.
were insured. there were 289 deaths
while there have been only 100 hat
this group been made up of insure.
lives in general. The extra mortalit.
was over so per cent, reduction in tn
average life of over four years."
An average loss of four years from
life's span is big price to pay for tn
pleasure of occasional drinking. TO
: the statistics deal only with moderat
i. drinkers. Immoderate and habitua
drinkers cannot get insurance at ALL
Bellows Falls Times.
Submitted to Harris and Hindiey.
Hard cash must be scarce in Ve1
e mont when it's farmers sell 1000, 90
"Christmas trees" at the rate of 81.
and seven cents apiece for shipment t
other states.-New York Sum-
What pity these million little tree
a cannot be permitted to adorn the hill
sides Of Vermont for 80 or 40 year
longer and thus add millions to tn
wealth of the state.-Bellows Fall
k Times.
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