Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17

Will This Be Found True?

The action of the supreme court of
| the United States in sustaining the
| Webb-Kenyon law is not so much a
| victory for prohibition as it's friends
| imagine. This law forbids the ship
| ment of liquors into prohibition states
and is intended to protect the dry
states from the shipment of liquors
either for personal use or for illegal
sale. One point in relation to prohi-
bition is not always understood par
ticularly by prohibition leaders. Thou
sands of men believe in prohibition
for other people, but want a little Ii
quor for themselves either for person
al or medical use. With this idea in
mind they vote prohibition relying on
being able to get what they want by
express from outside the state. IT.,
under the Webb-Kenyon act, it is
found possible to stop these personal
shipments good many men who have
heretofore voted prohibition for their
neighbors will vote against prohibit
ton on their own account. The en-
forcement of the Webb-Kenyon law
will tend to make some of the now
prohibition states return to local OPP
tion.-Bennington Banner.
Success and Failure.
A story in the Saturday Evening
Post tells of a man who failed seven
times in different lines-and then
succeeded. He had learned something
from each of the seven failures, and
when success was finally achieved, he
went back and did some of the unsuc-
cessful things over again. His first
bad egg was farm. He now owns
one that makes money. He failed IN
a grocery-and now owns the MAORI
ty of stock in a good one. He owns
bank and timber business-in both
of which he lost out formerly.
This man has had unusual oppor-
tunities for Analysing success and
failure into the elements which go to
make up each. His conclusion is this:
"a failure is the man who does the
wrong thing without learning from
it; the man who does the right thing,
but quits before it is finished; the man
who finishes but does not get it right;
and the man who does not do it at all.
"Underlying all those is the same
attitude of mind-a sort ofuncertain
ty; a half-hearted disposition to let
up whenever the pulling is hard and
wait for a lift.
Success demands mental state
that enables you to meet all classes
of men on a level; an open mind that
takes in the details of a problem and
comes to a conclusion after, not be-
fore, full consideration; the resource
fulness which enables you, when your
wagon breaks down on the road, to
invent way to mend it and get it in
with your load just the same; persis-
tency that enables a man to do what
he started out to do. He may not do
it the first or tenth way he tries. He
does not always stick on project he
finds foolish. But in one form Or
another he carries through whatever
he starts"
The New Year is now here, with it's
balancing up of accounts, with its ex-
animation of consciences, with it's an
alysis of the past and it's resolutions
for the future. Many a man has
failed in the past who has it in his
power to succeed-even after seven
or twice seven failures, if he has
learned from them the lessons set
down above. Continued failure is
simply bad habit of mind. Success
is also a habit which can be formed.
In finance, in home relations. in all
the great business of living, failure
is unnecessary and wasteful. Why
not start the New Year by laying the
foundations of success ?-Brattleboro
Reformer.