Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-09-15
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Irasburg's Ball Team.

Burlington will have a chance Satur-
day afternoon to show whether it is
ready to support gilt-edge baseball.
The Irasburg team is one of the best
and the determination of the Burling-
tons with Palmer in the box to win will
mean a genuine game for honors.
Centennial Field ought to see a big
crowd. and it will, if Burlington knows
good baseball. especially as the visit
ors boast they will again trim Burling
ton.-Burlington Free Press.
Prohibit Liquors for Beverage.
The Newport Express and Standard
does not believe in prohibiting the
manufacture of intoxicating liquors.
It says: "There should not be an
open saloon in any town in the whole
United States. But the manufacturing
of liquors does not make necessary an
open saloon any more than double
cradle makes necessary pair of twins.
Man makes the open saloon. not Ii
quors therefore let man cut them out,
and liquors will find their proper place.
Then do not waste too much time on
the old school of Incorporate men.
They are as hard to purify as rotten
egg. It is the new laid egg-the ris.
ing generation-that needs looking
after, and kept sweet and clean. The
banishing of the open saloon, making
drinking unpopular, and refusing to
employ men who drink will accomplish
this and when this is accomplished,
liquors will adjust themselves even as
any other agency useful in a general
way"
Well and good!, But why manufac-
ture an article forwhich there is to be no
demand? AS we understand it, the move
ment for national prohibition would
prohibit the manufacture of intoxicat-
ing liquors to be used as a beverage,
permitting the manufacture of alcohol
for mechanical uses. If there were no
open saloons, there would be little use
in running eweries.-Bellows Falls
Times
The Front Seats.
They are fearsome things-the front
seats.
We mean. of course, the front seats
in the churches on Sunday.
The fearssof them is well.nigh univer-
sal, and is not easily accounted for.
Hardly any of US feel like taking
back seat for anybody else-except
on Sunday when our desire to be at the
head of the procession disappears and
the back seat looks good to US.
In some of the churches there are not
enough back seats to accommodate all
who want them. This is a defect
which church builders Of the near fu-
ture ought to bear in mind.
Too many front seats are a bad thing
for any church-unless they are filled
Front seats that are filled are an Or
nament to a church; and we have
never heard of preacher who object
ed to such decorations.
The church with many front seats
should have hrst-class acoustic proper
ties and preacher with fair lung
power.
Some people have an idea that the
front seats are reserved for the preach
er and his family. This il a mistake
The preacher doesn't need the front
seats He prefers the back seats. and
they ought to be religiously set apart
for his use.
COMMERCIALLY speaking the distance
between the preacher and the first rows
of his hearers is too often equal to
twice or three times the distance be-
tween the back seats and and the door,
"Better acquaint ance tours" to the
front seats organized and conducted by
the ushers might prove beneficial in
making the near-the- pulpit locations
more popular. Tribune.
Temperance Demanded of Militia.
There is movement all along the
line, in business, social. military and
professional life in favor of temper.
ance. The latest indication of the new
regime is offered in an official order
just issued by Captain E. w. Gibson,
commander of the Brattleboro company
of the Vermont National Guard, Co. |.
Our state militia let US say at the
start,i remarkable free from the taint
of liquor, but still there is, as every.
where in this world, small minority
who make trouble. Captain Gibson
in his order says:
"From and after this date, no mar
will be enlisted for Company l who is
known to be addicted to the use of in
toxicating liquors.
'Any enlisted man who is known te
be intoxicated or who conducts himself
in manner unbecoming a soldier anc
gentleman will be discharged for the
good of the service.
1.-The taking of liquors into the Arm
DRY on any occasion or to any of the
company will be hereafter deemed
sufficient cause for a dishonorable dis
charge"
captain Gibson in commenting OF
the order said that he did not expec
to make model temperance society
out of military company. THAT il
not an easy thing to do" he is quote:
as saying, "but the officers do expect
and the people of the town expect, AM
rightly too, that every man who enters
the service of the state will be a gen
teman. No man who gets DRUM
measures up to the required standard
the officers do want to make the mem
bers of the company self-respectins
and deserving of the confidence O
the people, They want to make tn,
company headquarters a place wher,
no man or woman may hesitate to q
and to make the organization such tina
any clean young man may be proud tt