Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-04-22
For Liquor Referendum.

For Liquor Referendum.
The corporators of the Vermont Anti
Saloon League have held their first
meeting for organization under the new
charter. The bylaws which have been
approved by the board of trustees of
the annual meeting March IL were
adopted, and the officers elected at that
time were made the officers of the cor
poration, with Frank Plumley of North
field, president; G.. P. Cowles of Bur-
lington, clerk: and F. S. Pease, of Bur-
ligton, treasurer. At a meeting of
the headquarters committee C. T. S.
Pierce, of Vergennes, was chosen
chairman and the Rev. G. H. Smith.
secretary. Some routine business was
transacted, and the following statement
of facts and policy was unanimously
adopted:
1.-THE legislature of 1902 referred
to the voters of the state the
question of adopting a local option
high license law in place of the prohib-
itory law adopted by popular vote Feb
ruary 3, 1908. is now in the twelfth
year of its operation, and has had full
and fair trial under all conditions that
are likely to arise, and its workings
! and results have become familiar to
the people of the state. Many people
fully believe that it has not proved a
satisfactory method of dealing with
the evils of the liquor traffic
'In view of these facts we believe
the time has come when the statutory
method of dealing with the liquor traf-
fic should again be submitted to the
people of Vermont for their judgment
and we request the legislature meeting
J in regular session in January. 1915, to
! submit to popular vote the question of
adopting a state prohibitory law in
place of the local option law now in
force, such vote to be taken at some
convenient date in October or Novem-
Der, 1915.
"Since the prohibitory features of the
present law have been found in the
main effective when honestly enforced,
we would suggest that the state pro.
hibitory law to be submitted to popular
vote be in substance the present law
with its local option high license
features for the regulation of the liquor
traffic stricken out. and with such addi
tons and notifications as experience
| has shown to be needed"
President Thomas on Carnegie Report
Middlebury College has issued as
bulletin the statement of Presiden
Thomas at the hearing before the Edu
cational Commission. 1t is not a gen
eral attack upon the Carnegie Founda
tons Report on Education in Vermont
Indeed President Thomas endorses tn,
report as "a thorough, impartial, sci
entific study Of the educational system
and practice of Vermont He say
that the experts "have named the frs
and fundamental steps Of educatioua
reorganization and advance,'' and tina
their report will be "a stimuIativ,
textbook of educational advance il
Vermont for many years." He accepts
further "the principle that the primary
and supreme duty of the State in edu
cational matters is to its elementary
and secondary Schools" and adds eth,
college must not be competitor fo
resources that are needed by the Iittl,
children of Vermont He then argues
that college appropriations need not bt
discontinued to enable the state to d,
its duty by the common schools, ant
calls attention to the fact that the in
come of the state from the saving
banks alone the past year has increased
half the amount now expended TO:
higher education. He believes tina
Vermont will provide cheerfully al
, that is needed for wise and generous
institution of the constructive program
: recommended by the Foundation with
out the sacrifice of all state connection
with higher education. Vernon
ought not to be the only state in tn
union to do nothing for boys and girl