Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-21

wise ones hold the same view.-Esse1
County Herald.
Dale in Danger of Cannon.
While rot exactly facing the can
mons me .th, Congressman Dale Of
Vermont and the other American
congressman who are visiting the
war front have been going through
considerable danger in order to get
the information which they went af,
ter. They are earning their stock OF
first-hand knowledge of the war and
of the steps which are necessary to
put the American forces in fighting
trim; and when they come back to
the United States they will be able to
act comprehendingly and also to
guide the actions of their colleagues.
The trip to Europe, together with the
visit to the various war fronts as
we'll as to the governmental machin-
cry in some of the allied capitals is
bound to be of great informative val
ue.-Barre Times.
Beware a Hollow Mockery.
In a recent issue of the Bellows
Falls Times there is pert little par
agraph. 1t is about the conservation
editor asks, "Do the women of Bel
lows Falls really want to conserve
food ?" And then he says, eff they do
let them dispense with refreshments
at social functions. Let them find
some substitute for eating and make
it popular"
Here is a look at the conservation
proposition straight in the face. Here
is a realization that we must not
bluff in the matter of saving food for
those who are fighting our battles.
We must not sign the food pledge
with one hand while we are cram
ming a fist full of "eats" into our
mouths with the other. We must not
proclaim, "save wheat, save meat,
save sweet" to our neighbors with an
almost pious sincerity and then make
glutt0ns of ourselves behind our own
doors gormandizing to our hearts
content on the very articles we prom
Use to conserve If we do, we're bluff
fing. that's all there IS to 1t, were
bIufTing nation.
Social functions this winter might
we'll take the status outlined by the
worthy Times. And it's serious, too.
The sandwiches, the iced waters, and
all the little dainties, which usually
occupy a front-stage position in all
such affairs, should De stricken from
the program.
The food pledge card hangs from
nearly every home in this, our land.
We must see to it that that card is
not a symbol Of hollow mockery.-
Swanton Courier.
A Worlds Crisis.
Germany nearing the point of ex-
haustion? Look the situation as it
exists fairly in the face. With Rus
STA practically eliminated, the Itali-
ans on the run, and Germany still
holding almost all of Belgium, a
large section of France, most Of Ser
bia, Montenegro and Rumania, isn't
the situation a critical one for all the
allies, including the United States?
Germany and her allies have today
approximately 100000 men under
arms. People who talk about early
peace ought to read some of the arti-
cles in the November number of the
Magazine, publication of
the highest standing. Here is what
Andre Cheradame, the distinguished
publicist, says in the Atlantic:
GAS for the military strength of
Germany, it is an easy matter to
estimate it. Even if the Kaiser's |
armies were to withdraw from Rus
STA, Poland, Belgium and France, |
Pan Germany would still include |
$50, 100000 people. Now as Germany
has modified about 20 per cent of |
her own population and that of her !
have become vassals-we |
see that Pan-Germany can count up
on approximately 100000 soldiers. |
Prussian militarism, whose destruc-
ton by the Allies, has become the
true, legitimate essential aim of the
was, has therefore become far more
than it was in 1914"
Arthur F. Stone, in discussing
some phases Of the situation in a let
5er to the ST. Johnsbury Caledonian,
points out that Germany is stronger
,oday than ever before in history and
hat we are now facing the most Sc
,ious crisis in the worlds history.
Hon. James Hardness of Springfield
we'll says, "The question we have to
lecide in America is whether we
shall give willingly or whether it
hall be taken away from US, either
through taxation, or if the battle
r0nt reaches here through the sue
ess Of the U-boats, then we will give
lot only money, not only property, s
'ut everything there is to give or ]
ose. "-Brattleboro Reformer. '
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