St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-29
PRESS COMMENT
Judge Ide Has A Place.

Judge Ide Has A Place.
Judge Ide, who passed out of the
public eye when legislated out OF OF
fee as ambassador to Spain with the
incoming of the Wilson administra-
ton again has place in the sun as
head of the Vermont League to En-
force Peace. With Judge Ide a resi-
dent of ST. Johnsbury is is likely that
the headquarters of the Green Mount
ain war eliminators will be located IN
the "lily-white' burg on the banks OF
the assumpsic.-Rutland Herald.
Cobb Had Right Spirit.
1t isn't the size of the gift that
counts, it is the proportion as compar-
ed to means and the spirit that is back
of it. The widows mite, which was
all she had, outweighed millions from
other sources. Robert Cobb. color
ed barber, who died in st. Johnsbury
last week, was a poor man, but he de-
serves to be ranked higher as a public
benefactor than many men with great
fortunes. 1t is rather pathetic to read
of the way that he disposed of his
savings. as follows: 800 to the Sun
set home for aged women; 800 to the
Red Men, to be used for flowers for
funerals of members; 500 to the
North Congregational church; $50 to
the st. Johnsbury cemetery assoc1a-
ton. When additional chapters of
the St. Johnsbury history are written
the name Of Robert Cobb ought to be
perpetuated in them.-Brattleboro Re
former.
A Century of Thrift.
The American Institute of Banking
has proclaimed for 1916 a celebration
in recognition of the one hundredth
anniversary of the chartering of the
first savings bank in the United States.
1t will take the form of campaign
for the promotion of thrift.
New England has reason to be PROUD
| of its record in saving says Current
| Affairs, the bright weekly publication
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
While only eleven per cent of the
population of the United States have
! savings deposits, ffty-two per cent Of
| the residents of New England have
money deposited in the savings banks.
Not only is this percentage higher
| than that Of any other section of the
United States or of foreign countries
| but the average individual deposit
| is higher. Not only are there rela-
lively more savers in New England,
/ but the New Englanders, individually
| save more money.
/ Back of the Workshop of America
back of it's great achievements in
industry and commerce of all
that New England has done in bust
ness development, is this great foun-
| dation of thrift, measured by the more
than three and a half million savers
and their more than one and a half
billion dollars of savings.
| Celebrate the Thrift Centennial!
| noiIu NoWS
| Suffering From Unpreparedness.
| Lloyd Georges speech, in which he
| bluntly told all Britain, the labor un,
| ions particularly included, that hope
of ending the war in a victory for the
| Allies lay in further waving of union
/ restrictions on the manufacture of mu-
nitions. contained a repetition of much
which he had said before, but which
no doubt, he was moved to say again
with added emphasis.
| The sanguine souls, who have been
| looking for an early peace, can get
scant comfort from the minister's re
marks. The whole speech was based
as it were, on a theory of contest
still to be long drawn out, and to be
determined by the wasting and ex-
Il hausting process of which we have
heard so much lately under the term
"attrition." His explanation or the
enormous quantities of ammunition
; required merely bears out what has
come from other sources of informa
ton on the cost of modern war, and
be it remarked, points anew the NOR
al that nation can well afford to PAL
a heavy premium for that insurance
| against attack, which lies in real pro
vision for defense.
Contrast such a speech at this, made
by a man who has learned the lessor
of hard experience, with the Bryan
esque notion of an army of a million
| patriots to rush to arms between sun
:. rise and sunset of the day in which wa
! on the United States is declared. NJ
| doubt the million would be available
for purposes of enumeration, if 70
I no other valuable service. All the pa
, triotism. and bravery, and self-sacri
flee could count for little against tn
odds of a trained army of invaders
fully armed and equipped, and assur
: ed of a steady stream of ammunitio
: for the guns, agaist which force
! bravely patriotic but unprepared
! would be vainly sacrificed. Afte
, | nearly a year and half Of hostilitie
. England is warned that she must spec
up her munition plants and munitio
= workers-and thus is reminded agai
! of the price she is paying for the stat
of military unpreparedness in whic
she entered the war-a state, by tn
way, no worse than that of the Unite
States today.
The advocates of effective prepared
ness in this country could ask 4
stronger endorsement of their pos
ton than is given by Lloyd George
plain words to the English nation
| Manchester Union.
Must Have Support of Labor.
Lloyd-George speaks out with
frankness which we may expect frol
. him and from few others in Gres
Britain at this juncture. His talk d
rected towards union labor in Gres
Britain, through his address in til
House of Commons, rings with an on
inous significance which has far vic
er application than is specifically d.
fined in the liberal words he use
Grim possibilities are pictured in n
dramatic words:
if'S f00 Iata-tOO late