Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-02-14
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Dillingham; Real Father of Bill.

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Among the chief proponents of a
literacy test has been Senator Will
liam P. Dillingham; and the passage
of the measure is to a large degree a
triumph of his long expressed ideas.
On other occasions he has been able
to convince congresses but never
presidents. He is really the father
of the message as it now exists and
deserves the larger share of credit
for bringing about the benefits which
will Observation-Disclosures News.
What Happened in Norton.
Norton is a little town of less than
| 500 inhabitants in Essex county on the
! Canadian line. Last March it voted
for license, Is yes and eight no votes.
| A second-class license was granted to
a man who paid the maximum sum
| allowed by law, $4,000, for it.
The explanation is simple. Stan
stead county in Quebec, just across
| the line from Norton, voted no IL
| cense a year ago after hard fight
and drove out all it's liquor saloons.
So the liquor men came across to
ness.
Doesn't that make Vermonters feel
proud of the Green Mountain state?
The Vermont Issue.
Bonding for Permanent Roads.
We believe that the time has ar
rived when the state should take
some definite action towards bonding
for permanent roads. This much is
true, that the average town has gone
the limit, so far as voting money for
permanent roads-in fact, nine out
of every ten towns, shows an indebt-
endness which is not in keeping with
the grand list-and in many instanc-
es this debt is due to trying to keep
pace with other towns in building
| permanent roads. Let the state do
little experimenting. Let bond issue
of S5OO,OOO start the plan and it it
works out we'll, more bonds can be is
sued in two years. Let the money be
expended in business-ike manner
put into the hands of commission of
three of Vermont's best men-men
who are so interested in the work that
the idea of compensation will not en-
ter into the deal.
1t is a fact, that if Vermont is to
continue to be recognized as one of
ideal summer resorts and tourist
states, the road building problem
must be, solved better, and IN our
Judgment, it will be necessary for the
State to establish trunk lines, build
them, and wholly maintain them.
Towns the size of this have neg
lected the roads which do not prop
erly come under trunk line roads, just
to build roads for passing acquain-
lance tourist business.
The average town in Vermont has
been MIXED to the limit on permanent
roads. The present law has been
thoroughly tested and in our judg
ment it is fully proven, that many of
the towns cannot stand the strain
any longer. Let the state build and
maintain the roads that properly
come under the heading of trunk lines
and the only way to do it is by issu-
ing bonds. We hope to see the pres
ent legislature take some definite ac-
ton along this line.-Waterbury Rec
ord.
Thompson the Man for State Fores-
ter.
The Rutland Daily News of Feb. 1
says editorially, under above head:
Judging purely by the biographi
cal data as furnished from Montpe-
lier, it would seem that Sidney
Thompson of Barton, son of the late
Judge L. E Thompson of Irasburg,
brother of Frank D. Thompson of
Barton, 80 years Of age, native Of
Vermont, a graduate of Dartmouth in
1910, and Of the Yale Forestry school
in 1911, is prominently the man who
should be selected as forester of Ver-
mont under the new, business-like dis
pensation as recommended by Cover
nor Graham.
GAS emphasized on Wednesday,
Rutland would be fiattered to have
one of it's enthusiastic students of for
estry receive this position. 1t is clear
ly evident, however, that the Barton
man, by reason of his larger expert
ence, other things being equal, is the
man to be selected for this important
position. 1t seems that for some
thing like six years Mr.. Thompson
has been employed in forestry work
by the federal government.
GAS it appeals to the Rutland News,
this experience, preceded by thor
ough college course and a special
course in the Yale Forestry school
should dictate, beyond peradverture
of question, that the appointing pow
er should select this applicant as the
successor of Austin F. Halves about to
retire. That is the showing, so far as
the candidates thus far in view goes
"The Rutland News hasn't the
slightest notion of what Mr.. Thomp-
son looks like, hasn't the slightest in
formation as to his temperamental
qualities for an important executive
position. If a man of his education
and the extent of his practical field
work is not head and shoulders the
superior of the other applicants of the
post, all of the recommendations and
records go for naught."
The above is very handsome en-
| dorsement of very worthy young
man. Every word is deserved.
Mr.. Thompson has had a very valu-
able experience in the White Noun
tain region of New Hampshire, in
Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia, Georgia and Ala
bama, under different experts of the
Federal forestry department and also