Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-06-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Refuse to Surrender i.

Refuse to Surrender.
What the journal and the Monthly
forget is the fact that two or three
state papers refused to surrender to
the demand of the submarines of
higher education and propose to insist
on the truth and propriety of the prin-
ciple that the little red schoolhouse
has first call on the state treasury, and
that before huge appropriations are
made to colleges and universities the
| barefoot boy should be provided for.
| The Herald has notion that the next
| legislature will contain very respect
| able group of men resolved to insist on
the right of the common schools before
other powerful and well-endOwed
interests are firmly attached to the
state treasury. Herald.
The Newspapers Part.
From a hcme-talent dramatic per-
| Torrance recently produced in Rutland,
the free library in that city realized
| S446.06 1t would be interesting to
know, if it were possible to ascertain
the facts, just how much of the success
of the venture was due to the publicity
given the enterprise by the Rutland
newspapers Few persons realize how
much commendable projects of this
nature must depend upon the news
papers. The paid advertising. usually
at low rate, helps to be sure, but it
is the continued publishing of de-
scriptions, both before and after the
productions that keeps up the human
interest in such entertainments. There
| isn't movement of public nature.
whether to forward cause or to raise
funds for commendable purposes, that
does not receive its greatest impulse
from the newspapers. -Bennington
Banner.
| Facts Are All That Are Need d.
Good names are on the list of the
projectors of the vermont Local
Option League and there is no
objection to the fullest presentation
of facts. But it is facts which have
driven sentiment steadily in the
direction of more stringent law than
the present one Since 1902 Windsor
prison has needed enlargement, and SC
has the house of correction, the indus
trial school and the hospital for the
J insane. The state is compelled to
start school for the feeble-minded.
We are now reaping the harvest, and
the sight of it is converting many who
voted for local option in 1902. The
less booze the better, and the more
stringent the law against it the less
booze there will be. If Kansas car
enforce prohibitory law, Vermont
can. Turn on the facts, and the facts
will drive the legal saloon from Yer
mont. -MiddIebury Register.
True.
Those editors. who are talking sc
: much about the need of more hotels fai
to note the fact that the automobile
has revolutionized the hotel business
Where the leading hotels once haC
many guests that came and spent the
summers they now have very few, bu
, they are receiving a great transien
,, business. Parties come for day, {
night or a meal and pay transien
rates. Those who formerly came fo1
the summer either go to some camp
! farm nome or visit many places il
autos. The growth of Caspian LAKE
camps, Highgate Springs camps, ou
the changed conditions in the summe
tourist business. What Vermont need
|, now is thousand camps like Samoset
n and more wayslde inns and tavern
where the weary, dusty autoist cal
get good bath and a good meal
More little hotels like those at Stowe
Greensboro and Greensboro Bend, etc.
scattered all over the state. The da
=. of the big summer hotel is passing
The day of the we'll equipped camp an
Waysde inn is here.-MorrisviIle Mes
Senger.
Where the Fight Comes.
In another column appears tn
= announcement of the formation of
state local option league and the appes
' | of that fior for c,1prort nr
/, readers will be interested in the argu
s ments brought forward in favor of tn
present law, for they seem decided
/ paradoxical. The league believes i
regulating rather than exterminatin
l.. the liquor evil. They take the groun
J, evidently that the business will b
so obnoxious that it will kill itself
i They prefer to let it do this rattle
than take up the active warfar
Y against it. The league says it is fo
!, temperance and sobriety and believe
+; this can best be secured under tn
present law. In short all the stron
points of the present law which the
: call attention to are on the prohlbitive
not the license side of the law. The
why not prohibition? If it is the bes
thing to cut off the snakes head. VIII
not do 1t all at once. instead of inc
If by inch, on the installment plan? Til
n decreasing number of towns that hav
voted for the open saloon.> since til
10 present law has been in force, show
n that Vermont is not in favor of licen
II ing recognized national evil, br
- prefer to prohibit it. We hope for til
+ success of the Perry referendum neg
,s, March and the present trend is in tt
30 direction of it's success.-St. Johnsbur
Republican.
t Local Option League.
History is repeating itself in tt
formation of the new Local Optic
League in Vermont, and it takes I