Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-09-27

bestos that Canada cannot begin to
supply. Before many moons there will
be railroad to those mines and then
people in this county will begin to
realize, just as the people did when the
railroad reached Barre and granite hill
in Barre, the real worth of those
mountains of asbestos. - Morrisville
Messenger.
The Green Mountain Boys.
"The Green Mountain Boys would
be an excellent name for a regiment of
cavalry if Gen. Woods idea is carried
through. He believes that it would
stimulate recruiting regiments in the
American Army, like those of Great
Britain, took their names from locali-
ties in which they were recruited, and
| if, so far as possible, they were per-
mitted to remain in barracks near their
homes. If 1.-The Green Mountain Boys"
were chosen as a name for Vermont
regiment there would be some rich,
though interrupted, traditions to carry
| on. 1t would be q matter OF pride to
| Verm0nters to keep their regiment
| filed up and ii would afford ample
stimulus to deveiope sound traditions.
Burlington NsWs.
| Former GoverpCr sy1ead's Success from
Small Beginnings.
The Howe Scale company of Rut-
land, so long and successfully managed
| by Former Governor John A Mead
| has changed hands. The formal trans
fer Of stock took place this week AND
is said to involve more than million
dollars. Dr. Mead took this plant
when it as in trouble and apparently
headed for the junk-heap. He began
by doing the work which had previous
~ required three men 10 DO and kept it
up for years, until he had the plant on
a sound and growing basis. Dr. Mead
started in life without a dollar and
owes his success to constant effort
rather than to any brilliant stroke.
The boys who begin life with the idea
that they can succeed by a pull or by
some grand coup are throwing away
their chance. Most young men fail
through lack of patience. They want
10 get position that pays good wages
at the start but it is thousand times
better to get the place with a chance
for the future even if the wages are
very small. Start right and keep GO
ing is the only road.-Benningto Ban
ner.
The Demand for State Economy.
The more people think about state
expenses the more are they impressed
with the inexcusable waste in doubling
expenses in some departments in few
years. despite the fact that there is
very slight increase in Vermout's pop
! ulation.
1t cannot be that the people of the
Green Mountain state are twice al
wicked and laWless now as they were
few years ago. Yet State Treasure
Scott's annual report for the fsca
. year ending June 80, 1916, shows tina
the cost of the administration of jus
: tice in Vermont during twelve months
. was SALT, 876. SO as compared will
v 1921, 124. IS, ten years ago, 1906, anC
SPA, 889. 70 in 1903 The doubling O.
these expenses is public scandal.
!. We do not know why the department
t of weights and measures should in
! crease from 81, 208 in 1911 to 14,046
-. in 1913, and to $1,000 80 in 1916
= There is not the slightest excuse TO
t this.
t The Vermont public department
spent the sum of S84, 669. 70 in on
year.
. Not many years ago the state legis
e lature met on the first Wednesday il
:. October and followed the long estat
q lished precedent of adjourning b,
Thanksgiving. Now the session drag
along number of months.
J. For the fiscal year ending June sc
SCI, 079. SO; in 1907, $81, 759 10. In 100
n the legislative expenses Jumped t
). S134. 293, 80, in 1911 to S145, 794. 20, i
1913 to $3.50, 577.12, three times a
s much as in 1901.
l. In this connection the St. Johnsbur
CALIFORNIAN voices the general deman
for reduced expenditures as follows:
1.-THE people of Vermont feel thu
, they are law-abiding body of peopl
and that they need as little official re
straint as any people in the country
n But we doubt if there can be foun
elsewhere in this country 355 9E
people, who have more prosecuting a
torneys, more judges of courts, nor
N collectors Of taxes, more managers {
,e state institutions, more laWmaker
more heads of departments for the re;
. labor to be performed than this SAN
r. little state of Vermont. We believ
ii the government of the state is to,
in heavy and therefore unnecessarily e,
- peDsive and that there is an emporium
l. ty for some constructive men to outlir
es practical system for retrenchmel
Us without sacrificing efficient COVER
w ment. 1t will be we'll for the state
its officers and candidates for publ
office set themselves seriously to wo1
to bring about recognizing of tt
state government along these lines
Manifestly it is up to the comir
". legislature to set a good example
% the various state departments. and i