Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-03

Ide Wendell P. Stafford, Judge of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, and William H. Taylor of
Hardwick. judge of the supreme court
of Vermont, also secured their knowl-
edge of jurisprudence within the same
walls. The firm at one time was
Belden, Ide & Stafford. Mr.. Belden
Minnesota and Mr. Ide chief justice of
Samoa. At least half dozen aother
men who were students at the judge
factory became successful in their
professional work and some Of them
may land on the bench before they
round out their careers -Brattleb0ro
Reformer
Desirable Advertising for Vermont.
Vermont is getting some very desir-
able free advertising in little Illus
trated folder "See New York State.
The Tourists Paradise =" which is
being circulated by hotels. automobile
associations and others throughout the
Empire State. In the folder is
statement made by G. r. Delhi. chair
man of the American Automobile asso-
citation good roads board. in which DR..
Delhi says: ''In its automobile reci
procity policy New York sets an
example that has been entirely follow
Ell by only one other state, Vermont
An exc ange of courtesies is offered
for a single day or for the whole year.
It is the general feeling that the
amount Of wear which a visitor may
exact from the highways in the use of
his rubber shod wheels is more than
offset by his daily expenditures, in
addition to which he frequently be-
comes a permanent investor. Farm
values on main market roads have
advanced markedly, and bargains are
no longer numerous" This cannot
fail to be the means of drawing a
great many New York automobile
tourists as we'll as tourists from other
states into Vermont Rutland News.
Misguided Energy
Lamoille county's 14-year-old burg
lar, Glendon Tuthill, who has confessed
! that he committed four breaks within
two weeks including a postoffice and a
railway station. ascribes his downfall
to the reading of wild west literature.
Naturally boys are Influenced to con-
siderable extent by what they read
; but it is more than probable that the
Tuthill youth went wrong because he
had not sufficient healthy employment
|
, boy S head and hands busy, particularly
his head, it is not necessary that all
his waking hours be devoted to study
or work A we'll balanced ration of
study, work and play will keep in the
straight and narrow way many a
youngster who would otherwise stray
out of bonds. The Tuthill boy certain
Iy possesses two characteristics that
make for success. courage and ingenUi
ty, and had ne been pointed in the
right direction by someone who real
, lied his capabilities he might now be
, on the way toward the making of a
useful citizen. A whole lot of what
we are prone to call general cussed-
} ness" is nothing more or less than
, pent-up energy that breaks loose in
, the wrong direction. -. Benningt ton
:, Banner.
Congested Prison Conditions
Of late there have been so many
people confined in the Vermont state
been placed in the corridors at night.
What right court has to issue a nit
timus to such place when conditions
are such. we fail to see, although such
right is doubtless within the law.
, Probably when the law governing this
kind of process was made there was
no thought given to the possible con.
tingency of the place being more than
= filled. 1t seems strange that a state
n that increases in population not faster
. than Vermont should, in the last five
years, have such an increase in the
e number of ]awbreakers. We do not
believe that over half the people who
are at the present time confined in the
1{o
e offenses of sufficient magnitude that
warrants their being kept in the insti-
5 tuition for longer term than year
g In some instances the inmates of this
V prison are men who have families anC
:, who would be only too glad to return
, home and assist in the care of them
q We're they at home and at work as
/ lot Of them could and would be. the
n state would be better off. To ou1
mind a prison is not place for every
lawbreaker to be put for differen
periods of time. The shortest kind O.
a sentence oftentimes works the hes
kind of a moral Observation-Disclosures
s. Journal.
1t Education and License.
II The question of license to sell intoxi
K eating liquor as a beverage may b,
: considered from the standpoint o.
;, morals. or public welfare, or business
= or brotherly love. These argument
y are mostly familiar to the averag
it reader, and each voter can and shoul,
h study out the problem for himself
q There is one phase of this question
however. that is somewhat new to tn
e people of Burlington, and this is tn
proposition of prominent publ
official. that the state should not ap
propriate money for the education o
young men of Vermont in the variou
Sc state institutions of Burlington. if tn
y people of this city are going to insis
IF that learning how to drink intoxicating
q liquor shall be made a part of tina
y education. That is broader point o
e view than many Of us have often TAX
en-, involving as it does all the othe