Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-08-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Fortunes in Stone.

Fortunes in Stone.
The poet tells US that one may find
sermons in stones, as we'll as books In
the running brooks. However this
may be, it is evident that Frank M.
Cory, erstwhile keeper of fish
market and fruit stand in Montpelier,
has found fortune in stone. as his
salary as president of the Wetmore &
More Granite quarry at Barre has
just been increased to- $4,000 per year.
Increases were also devoted to other
officials, the melon cutting being ex-
ceptionally fine at the annual meeting.
Springfield Reporter.
Vail for Hughes Cabinet.
Our congratulations to Theodore N.
Vail, whose list birthday was cele-
brated July 16 at his home at Speed
we'll Farms. Mr.. Vail started in bust
ness as a postal clerk and has now
come to be the chief wire chief, so to
speak. Gov. Mccall of Massachu-
setts, in his address before the Greater
Vermont association in Montpelier re-
Gently, suggested that when Mr.
Hughes comes to select his cabinet
advisers, the chairman of the Vermont
delegation to the Chicago convention
not Postmaster General Vail?-St.
Johnsbury Republican.
Great Electric Power Possibilities.
The Conservation commission, made
up of Ex-Lieut. Gov. Stearns of john
son, H. NJ Macintosh of Burlington
and ]. A. Stacy of White River juno.
ton, appointed by Gov. Gates to in
vestigate the sources of the water
| privileges Of Vermont and report the
same to the next legislature, were in
the southern part of the state recently
on an investigating trip. The commit
tee gave several days to that business
| in southern Vermont. especially in
| Windham county. They also visited
several points in northern Massachu
sets, where dams have been built
developing thousands of horse power.
| They are enthusiastic in the results of
their Investigations and believe that
in all parts of the state are water
privileges that can be utilized to
greater advantage for commercial
purposes There is no doubt that
electricity will be used for all purposes
in the near future and it is we'll that the
state gets the benefit of the investiga-
ton the committee is now making
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The Humanitarians.
Whatever faults may be found with
old time prisonism. the one that stands
as the most glaringly obvious through
out all the ages is the steadfast indif-
ference, and sometimes iron contempt
of the public toward the ex-convict-
the man leaving prison having paid his
legal debt, but who must answer to
society for countless years afterward
for the crime of being an eX-convict.
That-and that particularly seems to
have been the most damning feature
of crime. The crime, itself, did not
matter so much, nor the trial, nor the
guilt; it was because man had served
time in a prison. To be an ex-convict
: was really worse than being convict.
| 1t barred the way to reform alton,
friendship and employment. All the
avenues to commercial and social
rehabilitation were closed. A few
people may have felt that it was prob
ably all right for man to get out OF
! Jail sometime, but he ought to go AND
shake himself-he must not monkey
with Gods anointed-his was an I'M
sanctified existence, indeed
But happily, time has worked mar.
I ex-convict had to face his ignoble past
D both coming and going he now receives
warm encouragement in many quarters
:: in those quarters where intelligence
\ and Christianity have found place.
real, sure enough glad-hand, and bes
of all chance to make good
The very latest and positively the
most firmly and thoroughly organized
r movement yet to be launched for the
rebuilding of temporarily demolished
humanity is The Humanitarians, /;
natio 1al association which has for :
main object real, genuine system fo1
helping the man leaving the prison
to secure employment with reliable
firms at mans wage! The organiza
f ton is fathered by a Kansas prison
official. and is incorporated under TIT
laws of Kansas.
The association has two hundred ane
twenty eight manufacturers, railroads
wholesale and retail business houses
printing Offices, lumber companies ant
n other branches of business located il
h twenty four states of the Union, will
: ing to employ men returning to tn
. world after having completed thei
q Sentences
v The following is a quotation from
f The Square Deal, q weekly pape
i published by the inmates of the Kansa
state prison at Lansing, which fur
:, nishes foil details as to the organiza
TONS personnel and working princi
plies:
d THE members OF the national coun
:. Gil will include such men as Governo
Dunno of Illinois, Ex-Governor Foss Q
massachusetts,, Governor Hunt of Ari
iona. Henry Ford, President Ripley O
the Santa Fe Railroad system, Mr.
Chalmers of the Chalmers Motor com
8 pany, MIR. WHY'S Of the Overlan
le Motor company, James Couzens, tn
Il Detroit millionaire, and man
st other men of affairs, equally stron
n. and prominent All these gentlem e
- are deeply interested in the men re
a. turning to the world from prison
~ They are not alone their employers