Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16

forth and causes the countryside to
call it blessed. People from those
parts look often over the sawtoothed
frontier of the everlasting hills and
dream of being annexed to Vermont.
but so far the sturdy self-reliance and
hoary traditions of that iron land have
held them back, so Barton and Bartonia
are still seemingly separated from the
rest of the world and satisfied with
their happy exile.
Men spent with toll in the busy
marts of trade, racked with the strain
of the great industrial struggle and
beaten down by the savage blows of
the grim genii of gain, turn their tired
eyes to Barton and long for its endless
rest. Long may such pastured para
disc exist for the healing, wounded
souls and weary, wOrld-worn bodies
Why long for a celestial city when
Barton is so near?-Rutland Herald.
The Local Paper.
If every family in Orleans county
would take their local paper, dividing
the subscription list among the three,
each editor could print much larger
and better sheet, make more money
out of it, and their patrons would be
better satisfied. This fall we visited
many sections of the county and were
not only surprised but saddened to find
how few families, especially in the
back districts, not only did not take
our paper, but no county paper at all.
Of course one cause for this was the
large influx of foreigners into. the
county-Canadian French, who either
could not read English, or who pre-
ferred paper from their native coun-
try. We found many French and other
aliens who did take a county paper,
but they were of the second gene1 alton
among us, were educated in our
schools, or of more intellectual class
who desired to keep in touch with the
world. Another thing surprised US.
Though family after family did not
take county paper-An orleans as
we'll as aliens-a large percentage of
them had one to read. This resulted
from the habit of passing the paper
around-one sheet furnishing the. read
ing for several households. Then
there was the ''swapping' of papers
which was quite common in neighbor-
hoods where dwelling houses were
close together, and which is not bad
idea. Another line of comparison
wi tn newspaper subscriptions are the
town check lists. The town of New
port SHOWS 90 voters on Cno llSL. AnC
yet, to be frank about it. but little
over one-half of this number are sub
scribers to the Express and Standard
To be sure there are many cases where
more than one voter is in the same
family, and cases where voters have
No family at all but even with these
deductions the greater number of the
875 could take the local paper if they
so desired. And this could be said OF
every town. And the low price of ont
dollar or dollar and half, furnishes
no reasonable excuse for not taking one
A local paper is an essential elemen
in community. All sooner or late
have to patronize it more or less. Thi
applies as we'll to those who do not. a
to those who do, take the paner. AM
the paper is largely what the com
munity makes it. If industrious AM
ambitious to advance. the local pape
!. is ready to take the lead 1t is tn
, fire under the kettle that makes tn
water boil and it is the interest takel
in, or the patronage given the loca
paper that makes its columns hum
| Every household should take the hom
paper, without the head of it bein
leased by an agent. or forced agains
the wall and choked into it. With
general patronage each one of our loca
papers could double in size. Try it.
Express and Standard.