Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-10
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
What If Someone Dies?

What If Someone Dies?
In the town of Somerset. which
voted three to one in favor of license,
the vote will be just enough to provide
three license commissioners and one
Householder Free Press.
Cause for Thanksgiving.
The Vermont legislature has been in
session now practically two months.
While much of it's important work is
before it, instead of behind it, it has
given the people of the Green Noun
tain state cause for thanksgiving that
it left so many things undone that it
might have done wrong.-Burlingto
Free Press.
What Is Wrong Here?
1t seems a little strange that the
underlying principles of the education
al bill should have been endorsed by the
teachers who met at Montpelier and
Burlington last fall and so bitterly
opposed by the colleges of higher
learning and the schools whose nominal
object is to train teachers. Who is
closer to the child, the teacher. the
| teacher trainer Or the college presi-
dent?-Rutland Herald.
rearing
The result of the license vote
| throughout the state Tuesday cannot
| fail to be most satisfactory to the real
| friends of rel prohibition. Only 19
towns and cities in the state voted for
| license. This IS the smallest wet"
area that the state has seen under the
local option system, in force for IL
years. Of these 10 towns, three or
four will not issue licenses. reducing
the number of licenses to Is or Is. The
outcome of Tuesdays vote should go
far toward killing the referendum
bill in the senate, for under the present
system prohibition is making steady
gains. The local option principle has
justified itself in Vermont.-Rutland
News.
More Good Roads Assured
At the rate the towns in central
Vermont voted to eXpend money fol
permanent roads in order to match
state contributions Of similar amoun
there is likely to be a big advance
during the coming summer in this mos
important department of governmental
, activity. The good roads propaganda
! certainly has taken deep hold on tht
people of the state. to such an exent
too, that they will not be satisfied
until all the main highways are PLACED
in excellent condition. The benefits O.
f advertising brought about by having
good roads have been revealed to them
in large measure during the past few
5 years. and the further benefits of NOR
/ good roads are recognized by then
G fully. Moreover. in addition to tn
= returns brought by the attraction o
summer tourists are the benefits to tn
: persons who have occasion to use tn
e which make the added expenditure
worth while-Barre Times.
= The Barre Strike.
'Tke strike of 5000 granite work er
= at a time when business is dull any
e way. is unfortunate The grant
e workers are the most highly paid i
Vermont and looking at the situatio
from this distance, it would seem tina
S what they should ask for is bette
+ working conditions and the removal Q
a dust from the sheds rather than ir
creased pay and shorter hours
Bennington Banner.
r 1t is difficult to understand why an
e body of workingmen should pick GU
f the present as a good time to strike
J There are hundreds of thousands Q
men in this country who are out O
y work because they can't find it;
S seems strange that in such troublesom
. times from business standpoint me
would choose to put down their tool
and walk out on a strike. 1t woul
k further seem that from the standpoir
f Of probable success a strike would b
y better staged when the market was O
a boom, when demand was strainin
o supply and when there was widespread
/. industrial activity. Striking on a ba
J. market looks like poor generalshiK
o. Of course it is difficult to comment O
8 the situation from this distance, BIT
these are thoughts that will come I
n the average mind.-St Adams Messe1
J. ger.