Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Yalue Of Domestic scienee.

out just what foods and how much
food your family needs TO be efficient
and that the young ladies are taught
how to make the most of the foods
you buy. If the course puts an eff
cient manager into the home, the
purpose is accomplished. IF it teach
es Young ladies to watch the kitchen
waste and do their bit toward taking
care of the $700,O00,000 waste that
this country allows to go into the
garbage pail, then the course is a
practical one.-Waterbury Record.
Vermonts Share of Men.
If an army of one million men is
raised by CONSUMPTION, Bennington
will be called on to furnish about 80
men according to figuring by the St.
Adams Messenger. This may be
varied somewhat on account of the
great Importance of farming opera
lions this year which may save the
rural population largely from con-
scription Vermont's full quota in an
army of one million men would be
$3.50, whichis not very large in COM
parison with what the state did in
the Civil war, during which Vermont
was creditd with furnishing 81, 248
men and probably did supply several
hundred more who enlisted in other
states. The population of Vermont in
Civil war times was slightly less than
it is now.-Benningto Banner.
Helps Put Prices Up Too.
The people who should receive the
severest punishment in these days
are the ones who rush to the store
and buy all they can get and hoard it
up. If everybody would keep their
head, buy as they need it, and give
the other fellow a chance it would do
much to stop this insane notion of
gobbling everything in sight. 1t does
not help the merchant in the least. In
fact it makes him Disguised. He has
his troubles in keeping up with his
legitimate demands. The final analy-
sis is it helps no one, and should be
frowned down by all thinking people.
If everyone would heed this advice it
would stop much of the annoyance
now in evidence.7Northf1el News.
Congressman Greene on Universal
Service:
CONGRESSMAN F. L. Greene of St.
Adams recently said in a speech IN
Congress:
every man in old Rome qualified
| to bear arms was under the universal
obligation to military service, and
every man qualified to serve the state
! in any other capacity of great use
fulneSS was under equal obligation to
perform that service when the state
demanded it. And it was deemed
among the Romans in those days to
be a distinction beyond price to have
the state reach down to any man,
thinking him to be qualified for ex-
ceeding great usefulness, and con-
script him to his post of duty. He
became one of the 'Conscript Faith
erS.'
f'You know it is an old, old PROPOSE
ton in our experience, and it has been
introduced into something like col
| loquial axiom that many men are SO
troubled with what might be called
astigmatism of the Imagination that
| they are able to discern with almost
microscopic clearness the fly on a
barn door, but they never see the
door that the poor old fly rests on
never. So that perhaps part of the
emphasis that has been laid upon some
of these details as to who shall be ex-
empted and how old these soldier boys
may be, and all that sort of thing
serves as an excuse to ignore the
barn door.
"You will notice that our friends
on the majority in bringing out this
bill, propose that substitution of the
volunteering principle as far as il
will work, and are very careful to
guard their bill so that if it fails to
work, or in the judgment of the presi-
dent shows signs of failing to work
| then shall there be brought into effect
the last power of this conservative
authority of the government. / want
to say-and / appeal to your own
sense of logic as to whether / may be
| justified in saying it or not-that
am opposed to going into war in
/ this great emergency on the PROPOSE
ton of raising half of our army con-
ditioned on the failure to raise the
other half
''NoW for the first time in about 20
| years men will be assembled in a
great war army of the United States,
men of ali kinds Of nursery and era
die inheritances; because, as you
know, my friends, there has been a
wonderful inpouring of all the races
and tribes of men to this land since
the Civil war. For the first time in
such democratic army as we should
raise from selective CONSUMPTION
these men will be assembled in the
ranks together They will learn that
mystic fellowship that is embraced in
the word 'comrade,' and when they
are mustered out these men will go
down through all the walks of peace
to the end of the days of their gen
Grafton as American citizens beyond
a doubt
in conclusion let me suggest that
now to US here today down through
more than century come the words
of Nelson, which through that cen
fury have been readapted to suit
American ears, words that have won
1erful significance at this time, and
words that are directly applicable to
che issue before this house, America
expects not merely volunteers, but
every man to do his duty"
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