The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-29
Monday, October 20, 1912.
GOLFERS LIES AGAIN

The regular army enlistment record
of Breathitt County, Kentucky, as
noted in these columns some time
since, was such as to make that county
exempt from the draft Other To-
calities have done even better, and so
far Preston County, West Virginia,
appears to be in the lead with a
draft requirement (theoreticaD of
237 men and regular army en-
listment (actuaD of 342-statistics
which we owe to Neil j. Fortney,
Judge of the Circuit Court of Preston
and Taylor Counties. The contrast
to Breathitt, as we saw it, was YER
mont, wherein enlistment had Jagged
badly And how patriotic Vermonters
did hate to have us say it!
They promptly called more than
sufficient attention to our ig-
norance, prejudice, etc, and
hymned the historic and commercial
glories OF Vermont at full length, not
forgetting such staples as green calf
skins and monumental granite. Also,
they have one fact germane to the ar
gument, viz. that Windham County
(the southeastern corner of the state)
was draft-exempt for the same reason
as was Breathitt But the real
point is this: Late in September, Adj
jutant General McCain's statement
showed that, on a pro rata basis for
enlistments, Vermont stood last of
all the States of the Union. Yer
monts quota for the regular army. as
fixed April 1, is ITO men, To the
nrct nF nnfnhn- tor a
enlisted, or almost exactly two-thirds
of one-tenth of / per cent of the total
National enlistment Vermont has
Census of 1870 over one-third of /
per cent of our country's population.
How about 1t, rmont?-Collier's |
Weekly.
If you really want to know about |
it, Golfers, we are glad to tell you. !
1t is this You lied about 1t before
and you are lying again now. The |
other time we thought your mis-
statements were made through not |
having the information, but since |
then the facts have been furnished |
you SO we now know you are lying |
with malice and intent to deceive. |
This being so We do not fear that
you may injure Vermont. Malicious
mendacity is generally so apparent |
that it proves its own antidote.
Vermonts record in furnishing men
for the American army through vol
unteer enlistment is so exceptionally |
good and so far above the average of |
the states that nasty little liars like
Golfers Weekly should deceive no
one.
With only one regular army re-
cruiting station in Vermont 1t is not
strange that only few Vermonters
have gone into the army through that
channel and it is no more ocutely inn
portant than how many enlist from
Grand Rapids or Tallapoosa.
The essential thing is how many |
enlist in the service in proportion to
population through all the channels
available and in this Vermont ranks
among the first seven of all the states
of the union, while Kentucky, where
Breathitt county is located, ranks
33d and New York stands somewhere
around the 18th place.
During the past week there have
been ten volunteer enlistments into
the army from this village, but as
they went through National guard
station instead of through regular
army bureau they will not appear in
the adiutant generals report and, for
that reason, will never come within
the pinDoint vision of Golfers
Weekly.
Golfers is clearly one of those mar.
row minds that refuses to see any
thing that, by any chance, might
broaden its knowledge and under
standing
Golfers can get the facts from the
adjutant generals office just about as
easily as it got falsehood, but it is
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