Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
What Is the Answer?

lington to Shelburne. The train was
a mile long. He walked the whole
length of the train arriving at the
front end just as it pulled into Shell
burne The distance between the two
places is six miles and the train was
going 20 miles an hour. How far did
the brakeman travel and at what
speed?
It is assumed that the caboose was
at the Burlington station when the
train started, and the engine at the
Shelburne station when the train
stopped.-Hyde Park News and Citi-
zen.
Fairchlid and Reirden.
The house did we'll to kill the joint
resolution providing legal services for
the joint committee Investigating the
Brattleboro retreat. The committee
as appointed was we'll able to take
care of itself on the legal side. From
the senate Senator Fairchild, who is
capable of sitting on any court bench
in Vermont, was appointed and
Speaker Wilson selected from the
house Representative Reirden of Bar
ton, a capable and energetic young
lawyer, who, in his conduct of the ex-
animation of the witnesses, has shown
himself more than equal to the some
what exacting task. With legal talent
of this kind within its own make up,
it would have been waste OF money
for the state to have brought in out
side assistance no matter OF what
prominence-St. Adams Messenger.
England's War Debts.
"War debts grow with tremendous
leaps in very short periods of time;
but it is equally true that they have
been retired most slowly. Following
the revolution of 1858, for a period of
1928 years England alternated between
periods of peace and war. During
the "a years of war approximately
1926 100000 were added to the nation
al debt and during the GA years of
peace the debt was reduced only $780,
100000. The Crimean war added
e33, 200, 900 to the public debt of En-
gland. The Boer war wiped out the
savings of SO years that had been APP
piled to the reduction of the national
debt.
''All of the savings of the imperial
government Of the richest country in
the world, from the Revolution of 1858
down to 1914, a period of 226 years,
would be sufficient to finance only 80
days of the present war. The tax
payer of Great Britain today is still
paying taxes to cover the interest on
the debt incurred by his forefathers
in the American Revolution, the wars
of the Napoleonic era, and Queen
Anne's war.
eff the experience of England in the
last 200 years in the retirement Of ma
tional debt is to be taken as crlterl-
on, it will probably be safe to conclude
that a thousand years in the future
the English people will be paying tax
es to meet the interest on the debts
now incurred. "-Joseph E. Davies, in
the March Century.
Working the Newspapers.
One might suppose from it's name
that a newspaper was printed for the
purpose of publishing the news and,
as a business venture under private
management, was conducted to yield a
reasonable profit on the capital in
vested. But these must be erroneous
views; for they are not at all the pop
ular conception of a papers aim or
privilege.
According to the general under
standing a newspaper exists princi-
pally to boom everybody's business
but its own, and to grant unlimited
space to free advertising. Even the
United States government holds to
this opinion tenaciously and periodi-
cally sends long notices of the time
and place of holding civil service ex-
animal tons, new postal regulations or
whatever else needs to be widely
known, and invariably requests that
the same be published in full without
charge to the government" Senators
and congressman, with now and then
rare exception, expect every paper
in this state to advertise freely and
extensively the fact that they have an
appointment to West Point or Annap-
oils to fill and wish candidates to pre-
sent themselves at certain time and
place for examination.
These notices, it is argued, are of
interest to the subscribers and have
certain news value. The subscribers
may also be interested in the fact that
some farmer is going to sell herd of
cattle at auction, or merchant has a
counter Of marked-down remnants
ready for purchasers; but the news
value of such items is practically lost
in the commercial nature of the an
nouncement. The government is not
an object Of charity, but can we'll af-
ford to pay for the advertising it
wants done. 1t is not lavish of its
favors where the newspapers are con-
cerned, but ties them up with the red
tape of postal regulations against
which it is useless to struggle. If
young men are desired for cadets at
West Point and Annapolis, Uncle Sam
is just as well able to pay for notice
to that effect, as is the woman who
wants ga good capable girl for general
homework"
The American Forestry association
at Washington has lately tried to use
the newspapers of the state to inter-
fere with Gobernor Graham's plan of
consolidating the forestry and agri-
cultural departments of Vermont
Such interference appeared to be in
rather questionable taste on the part
Of the association, which displayed
even more assurance in calmly assum-
n o thot the noDprS would nI1h1iSh tho