Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-06-30
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
inconsistency.

$66, PIT. so. which would follow the
overthrow of the license system. Later
on as an argument for the retention
of the present law. the Herald antici-
pates the time, when, through that
wakefulness of the public conscience
which local option insures, saloons may
be banished entirely. Some slight
inconsistency in this line of argument.
But inconsistency is not one of the
virtues that bothers the 'fair-minded"
pro-saloonist to any notwithstanding
Standard.
| Agrees as to County's Attractions.
A suggestion: Orleans and Essex
counties ought to exploit their scenic
attractions. There are latent posi-
bilities in the summer tourist business
for northern Vermont and Orleans and
Essex should spend few dollars to
tell what they have to offer. No place
in America can Guido Essex county as
a location for camp sites. While we of
Rutland county are naturally interested
in lakes nearer home it must be con-
fessed that Willoughby and Memphre-
magog are sheets of water upon the
shores of which a cottage or camp
provides a summer habitation fit for
king or peasant-Rutland Herald.
Two Vermonters Honored.
Two native Vermonters were honored
with the honorary degree of IL. D. by
Dartmouth college at the commence
ment yesterday-Charles A. Prouty.
director of valuation of the interstate
; commerce commission, and Daniel
Willard. president of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad company.
Mr.. Prouty is graduate of Dart
mouth, where he made brilliant rec
/ ord for scholarship. Mr.. Willard,
{ who is rated as one of the ablest rail-
road executives in the county. won his
way with but little educational train
ing. He started his career in the
' humble capacity of a section hand
> while living in his native town of
Hartland. Reformer.
Vermont in the Navy.
For little state perched far from
the seaboard on one of the northeast
t gables of the roof of the United States
s Vermont has played very important
O part in the United States Navy. This
= is brought to the attention by the
II promotion of Rear-Admiral Henry T.
q Mayo, Commander of the first division
s of the Atlantic fleet, to vice admiral OF
O the navy. He was the first of the
three ce-admiraIs to be appointed
/ Rear admiral Mayo is Vermonter
IS born and bred, and he and all his for
It bears and relatives are we'll known anc
"a very popular around Burlington. His
father. Captain Henry Mayo. was {
y leader in the navigation of Lake Cham
IL plain at the time when Champlain'!
!. lake commerce was important. Capt
70 Mayo's wife was Carrie Wing, of thu
well-known Wing family.
Vice-Admiral Mayo was born Apri
IL, 1856. appointed to the Navy Sept
lie %, 1871 and reached the rank of Rear
a Admiral Feb. Is. 1914. He has to hi
II credit 20 years and five months of SCI
shore duty. He was the officer il
command of the naval forces of tn
I'd Mexican forces who demanded tn
1e salute of the flag April ID.
"a Admiral George Dewey, Vic e
~ Admiral Mayo and Rear-Admiral Clar
re were all born within rs miles of on
i'll another. Vermont thus has carried OF
If an unusual share of the honors of tn
49, United States navy. Probably tn
~ traditions of the splendid fighting don
as by the American seamen on LAX
IL Champlain had much to do with inspi1
r. ing the Vermont boys with a desir
- for sea service. National (Washing
III ton, D. c. Tribune.
Crooked Business Again.
r. Without doubt the oleomargarin
10 manufacturers who have been take
re to task for defrauding the government
r. belong to that chorus of crooked busi
in ness interests which is demanding tina
=, the government ''let business alone. -
al "Let alone" and these swindler
or would have gotten away with $27, 000
gs 600 by the manufacture and fraudu
oh lent sale of colored oleomargarine 9
- uncolored.
n The federal government, however
ne did not see fit to let these violators {
eating. gathering evidence and pros,
cutting the swindlers. sending many {
them to prison, and recovering hui
ce dreds of thousands of dollars in stamt
ur and special taxes, and collecting fine
r. amounting to many thousands
dollars more.
. The extent of these frauds, whie
by have been going on since the enactmel
S., of the oleomargarine law in 1902. me-
IF be gathered from the fact that sine
the first of January. az violators ,
lu- the law have been convicted. of who
He 20 have been given prison sentence
e's fines aggregating S148, 900 have bee
;s assessed and unpaid taxes amountir
Is to 1851, 900 have been collected. Du
las ing period of two years 5000 frau,
try have been detected, and the tot
ost amount due the government in tax
of from the larger offenders is placed
u S27 ZOO, 600.
The report of the Investigate,
shows that since 1902, more tn,
Ill 200. 900, 900 pounds of colored oleoma
AIS garine have been manufactured al
use fraudulently sold as the uucolor
gh product. and the report adds:
red Approximately 1000, 900 poun
- of this 200, 100000 pounds were sold
ieo oleomargarine manufactures to deale
and as uncoiored oleomargarine and TIN
wi? in many cases sold to the ultima
vac consumer as butter. The remainil
- 100000 pounds were made by butt