Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-28
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
Gas Attack, at Camp Bartlett.

Gas Attack, at Camp Bartlett.
According to a dispatch from
Westfeld, Mass, two members of the
| First Vermont regiment are victims
of a gas attack. The dispatch says
they are parading around camp in
blankets, pleading for the loan of a
uniform as a result of an encounter
with an animal last night which they
mistook for coon. Their own
clothes are being fumigated.-St.
Johnsbury Republican.
Save by killing Worthless Dogs.
When you stop to think about it
Vermont might well consider the con-
servation of the large aggregate of
food fed to worthless dogs in this
war time. We could dispense with
the vast army of ours and incidental
ly make it possible to raise more
mutton, thus releasing a large guam
tity Of meat products for export to
our allies who are fighting our battles
for us in Europe.-Burlingto Free
Press.
Vermonter Called to High Position.
Daniel Willard, the Hartland, Yer
mont boy who began his career as a
section hand and climbed one round
after another to the presidency Of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has been
called by President Wilson to one of
the most important positions of this
emergency time as chairman Of the
war Industries board. He will con-
tinue to hold the position Of chairman
of the advisory board of the council
of national defense Brattleboro
Phoenix.
Farmers Should Produce Maple
Sugar.
Every farmer in Vermont who has
sugar orchard ought to begin to
make plans early for utilizing his ma
pie resources to the utmost A big
per cent. of the sugar producing trees
are never tapped With the price of
sweets of all kinds soaring maple
sugar in 1918 will be more of a lux
ury than ever before Producing
sugar will help toward the common
cause while at the same time giving
the producer ample return for his eff
forts expended Re-
former
Comes to Vermont for Big Men.
Certainly the large corporations
know where to find big men. AS a
rule, the heads of these corporate
bodies are men who have started
from the very beginning of the COM
pany and then advance has been
made step by step as ability and op-
portunity warranted. This section,
and especially Mad River Valley, has
been pleased during the past few
days to note the preferment that has
come Attorney Matt B. Jones' way,
in his election as vice president of
the New England Telephone and Tel
egraph company. The election at
this time means much to Mr.. Jones
and his company, from the fact that
President Spaulding is now in gov
eminent service and that during his
term of service Mr.. Jones is to be the
acting president. Mr.. Jones is a ma
tive of Waitsfeld and spends a part
of each summer in this section. We
wish to congratulate both the COM
pany and Mr.. Waterbury
Record.
Why White Flour Must Be Saved.
The writer has heard a number of
people express the idea that it is a
needless sacrifice on our part to eat
corn bread and save the white flour
for our allies. One old lady was
heard to remark the other day 81
shall not deny myself white flour so
that the Frenchmen can have it. 1t
won't hurt them any more to eat
corn than it will u.s." Such remarks
show how little some people under
stand the real issues. It is abse-
lutely impossible to feed the armies
in the field corn bread. Bread for
the soldiers must be made in the
great central bakeries far behind
the lines and shipped to the trenches.
Corn bread will not keep long enough
for such transportation. Then there
are practically no mills in Europe
which are equipped to grind corn in
to meal. Corn meal will not keep
long enoug h to be shipped across the
ocean and used abroad-Hardwick
Gazette.
Autos More Dangerous than Typhoid.
Automobiles killed more people
IN New York state during the first
nine months of 1917 than did typhoid
and scarlet fever combined. This is
one of the outstanding features of a
statement just issued by DIR. Herman
M. B1ggs, New York state commits
sioner of health. Analysing the
,Ii0A CeI!iCy 1eCoIuS lOI ISII InuS Tar,
DR.. Biggs declares that while sani-
tary efforts succeeded in reducing the
typhoid fever mortality 26 per cent
below the average of the past five
years, automobile accidents threaten
to take the place Of typhoid as one of
the chief preventable causes of
death: DR.. Biggs points out that the
steadily increasing toll Of automobile
fatalities shows the imperative need
for stringent enforcement of traffic
regulations and education of the pub
lie in carelessness on the streets and
highways, the use of which must be
shared with vehicles.-Brattlebo
Reformer
Chances of the Soldiers.