Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-31
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
COrrect!.

Correct!
Get right down to brass tacks and
remember this-the Vail agricultural
| school at Lyndon and the Randolph
: state agricultural school are as differ
I ent as black and white. The former
| fits young men to manage the great
estates of millionaires; the latter to
make farming pay in Vermont. The
former is just as important as our
colleges for the same reason, that it
| long-felt want in doing something for
the boys who are willing to stay in
| Vermont and help make farming pay
here. We need both schools.-Mor-
| risville Messenger.
Letting Foreigners Vote.
The Vermont legislature has been
asked to consider a bill which would
give any resident of a town or city
| who is not citizen the right to par
ticipate in local elections in the event
of his paying tax on certain
amount of property. 1t ought not to
take long to dispose of proposition
that makes property ownership and
not citizenship the qualification for
voter in town meetings. While we
and patronize them when they set up
in the trades and professions, there
can be no objection on their part il
we withhold access to the ballot box
from those who do not become one Of
us completely. No one is barred from
voting in town or state, or national
affairs if he will meet certain simple
requirements. No injustice is done
by insisting that these requirements
! be met Certainly we do not want to
cheaper the value of citizenship even
! in our smallest governmental unit by
letting in foreigners on the special
| qualification that they possess prop
erty: That would be an injustice to
ourselves and would be contrary to
the theory of our institutions.-St.
Adams Messenger.
Pooling the Poor Biddies.
That Woodstock man who lights up
his henhouse by electricity at 4
| o'clock in the morning and from tWi-
light until 7 in the evening is a regu-
| lar Egyptian tasknaster, whose 40
foolish old hens ought to be protected
from such imposition by some sort of
an Adamson law: It is pitiful to
think they haven't any more sense
than to increase the egg production
from three to 20 a day under the
pressure Of such outra geous working
| hours. Fancy, too, the feelings of
the rooster tricked into coming off his
perch at o'clock of a winter morn
| ing to salute q sun which rises with
startling abruptness before he has
time to give the alarm and plaques
him into thinking he has oversight
again. Small blame to him if his
| -doodle-doo sounds suspicious
| ly like profane utterance and his
surly expression causes the family to
stand around at a respectful distance
until he has had all the best pickings
| for breakfast. Then the idea of the
whole henhouse being kept up till 7
o'clock at night by blazing lunlin-
airy that sets with q switch ought to
| be enough to cause complete egg eX-
! haustion.-Springfe Reporter.
Asbestos Properties Booming.
Very little has been said about the
work the Chrysotile company is doing
in Lowell, but great things have been
done during the late fall and this win
| ter.
The men now interested in the
property, supposedly New Workers,
| do not lack for money and pay cash
for all they buy. They neither ask
credit nor help.
Unless some railroad seizes upon
this opportunity and builds in line,
the asbestos will be taken from the
works by improved traction motors
and cars, some of which have been
tried out and found adapted to the
work required of them. We under
stand these tractors are light but
very powerful, something on the line
of those used in Stowe by the Burt
| company, and others.
We have maintained from the start
that it was only a question of time
when this mountain of asbestos, the
largest and finest deposit in the Unit
ed States, would be developed and
that it would rival Barre Hill granite
quarries in the effect that it would
have upon this entire region.
1t now looks very much as though
'this dream would come true" and
this spring see business really start
ed in developing this great deposit.
The embargo placed upon the ex-
port of the Canadian asbestos has
forced American capital to develop
this deposit.-Morrisv Messenger.
The Page Vocational Bill.
The passage of the vocational edu-
cational bill in congress, known as the
ith-Hughes bill, gives occasion to
note the services of Senator Carroll S.
Page in connection Herewith.
The exigencies of national politics
brought Senator Hoke Smith into the
| position of senior sponsor for the
measure, but Senator Smith has not
failed to give credit to his Republican
colleague for his years Of earnest
work in behalf of the cause On July
81, 1916, he said in part:
II am always glad to give the sena-
tor from Vermont every possible
credit for his splendid work upon this
subject and almost to regret that we
have Democratic majority and that
he has not charge of the bill instead