Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-07
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Golfers Lies About Vermont.

days is buying a periodical that
makes business of lying about Yer
mont We are not aware that it has
any particular circulation in this
state, but what it has ought to con-
tinue with that fact in nlind.-Rut-
land Herald.
| Talking National Politics.
Some sharp eyed Democrats are
of War Baker is remarkably like
Woodrow Wilson and they draw the
conclusion that Mr.. Wilson might
look long way before he could find
better man to whom he could pass
along the presidential duties when his
presidential term expires. Many will
doubt the wisdom of such tactics both
| because it hasn't yet been established
in this country that the presidency
goes by succession and because trying
to make political capital out of war
| conditions does not appeal to the av-
erage loyal American. - ST. Adams
Messenger.
What War Really Means.
A Bellows Falls man tells of a
friend of his in Canada who is the
father of four sons who went to the
front in Francewith Canadian troops.
One was killed and the other three
are at home, one blind, one minus
leg, one minus an arm and all with
lungs impaired by gases. When our
boys ego over the top" some will fall
not to rise again but others will reach
home with scars and wounds they
will carry through life. This country
will then awake to the fact that we
are really at war with a powerful and
INSCRIPTIONS foe. To many people
so far this war seems like a dream
Bellows Falls Times.
Bond Auto Drivers.
A friend makes a suggestion
which we think has some merit-that
when he takes his license, be required
to provide bond of $1,000 at least to
indemnify anyone who suffers loss or
injury through his careless driving.
Many operators haven't a cent in the
world with which to pay for any in
jury they may do. Frequently it hap
pens that those responsible for acct
! dents escape liability in this way.
| Such a requirement would have ten
dency to limit the number of drivers
to those considered by the bonding
companies to be reasonably safe. The
motor vehicle is a source of danger
on the highways, not only to its oper-
ator and passenges aboard, but to
pedestrians and to other vehicles of
all kinds and special protection is de-
manded-thus reasons our friend
Randolph Herald and News.
Potato Talk.
| The western potato growers are
shipping potatoes into New Hamp-
| shire, paying 20 cents a bushel
freight on them and selling them.
| The New Hampshire growers are
boarding their tubers in the hope Of
securing higher prices. They may
| find their best market-the home
market-fully supplied when they de-
eide to sell their potatoes and have to
pay freight as the westerners do to
get their potatoes to a customer. 1t
looks from this side Of the river as
though those New Hampshire pota-
to men are trying to be too sharp and
may cut themselves before they are
through. More money is made by
selling potatoes when there is a de-
mand for them at a good price than
| by attempting to squeeze unreason-
able prices from the buyers. YER
mont farmers have an opportunity to
beat their New Hampshire brethren
by selling their potatoes now at the
good prices prevailing.-St Johns
bury Caledonian.
The British Navy.
Premier Lloyd Georges tribute to
the British navy is not overdrawn
when he says that but for the navy
"disaster would have fallen upon the
allies. Prussia would be mistress of
Europe, and through Europe of the
world" Some exacting critics would
have it that the British navy ought
to have crumbled Heligoland to dust,
have steamed to within firing range
of Hamburg or gone through the Kiel
canal, but they are talking of the i'm
possible. 1t has been a great achieve
ment to keep the ocean open to all
commerce except the German. Ow-
ing to the protection afforded by the
navy, Lloyd George has declared, it
has been made possible safely to
transport 100000 men for the
British and allied armies, 100000
horses, 25,000,OO0 tons Of explosives
and supplies and 100000 tons of
coal and oil. Only $500 men out of
lost.
These figures are impressive 1t is
not to be gainsaid that if it had not
been for the British navy, France
would have had to stand the Ger
mans shock unaided and alone. Her
armies would have been crushed long
ago. 1t has been service which has
demanded unceasing vigilance, under
conditions of great hardship and en-
tirely without spectacular effects The
imperial German government would
confirm all of Lloyd Georges opinion
of the British navy. In Germany
there is little disposition to underes-
innate its power and efficiency of &C
Reformer.