Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-05-22
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Vermont Raises Much Wheat.

ylelQ Cn1S OpgnC TO give 0OU,UOO OU-
shells, which will make 10000 barrels
This would be a respectable portion
Vermont. With proper coaxing we
can raise all we need.-Randolph
Herald and News.
Watch for "Wet" Scouts.
"Wet" scouts are already out get
ting a line on public sentiment in
Vermont regarding the federal
amendment for national prohibition.
This question will probably be the
leading one so far as state issues are
concerned, in the fall campaign, and
with the announcement of candidates
for the house and senate, it will be
expected that candidates will come
out in the open and make their posi-
ton clear.-Enosburg Standard.
Community House for East Burke.
The village of East Burke, one Of
the least populous in Vermont is to
nave a public library and community
house, the gift of Elmer A. Darling.
The new structure is bound to be the
center of village activities and as
such makes a very fine present. Ell
mer A. Darling, it will be recalled, is
the Vermonter, who went to New
York City and made money in the
hotel business, then retired to Burke,
where he owns a splendid property.
Times.
Weekly Goes to 81 a Year.
The Bellows Falls Times has adj
vanced it's subscription price to So a
year, and it is easily worth it. Many
people do not realize the extent to
which everything. entering into the
Of a newspaper has soar
ed in price, although most of us have
a vivid idea of the high cost of liv-
ing in general. AS a matter of fact,
there is not good newspaper in the
United States, daily or weekly, that
is not worth vastly more than people
are paying for it.-Burlington Free
Press.
Plenty of Money in Vermont.
"Motoring as usual" seems to ap-
ply in Vermont, for there were 5000
more cars registered up to April 80,
1918, than for the same period last
year. This speeding up may be due
in part to the fact that the secretary
of state required early application if
former license holders wished their
old numbers, but it is probably due in
a measure to the increase in the num-
Der of motor vehicles. Vermont has
not been 'bled white" financially de-
be in position to meet other calls
based on necessity.-Barre Times.
More Deadly than Shot.
German propaganda is more dead
ly than German artillery. 1t defeat
ed the Italians and had not allied re-
arrived to stiffen up the
Italian morale Italy might have been
out of the fighting today. 1t disrupt
ed Russia and is doing it's destructive
work in this country today. German
propag anda is responsible for the
SANDERS on the Red Cross, for stories
drunkenness among the
American troops abroad, for every
vile and disreputable story that is
whispered from lip to lip. Many
Americans listen to the stories and
repeat thenn-they are in effect Ger
man propagandists. 1t is time for
them to stop and the next time any
such story is whispered to you ask
the man if he is a German propa-
gandist. Many Americans are play
ing the kaiser's game believing they
are passing out inside information.
1t is time for these whisperers to stop
or to be stopped.-Burlington News.
Germans at Fort Ethan Allen.
The report is out that 1900 Ger
mans, born in the Fatherland, but
naturalized citizens of the United
States, are to be modified at Fort
Ethan Allen as the 31Oth cavalry and,
after the requisite amount OF train
ing, will be sent to relieve the regu-
lars at Honolulu and to guard the
Mexican frontier That they are not
to be ordered abroad may be as much
out of a delicate consideration for
their natural repugnance to bearing
arms directly against their own coun-
trymen as out of a vague dread of
their falling too readily into the
hands of the enemy as prisoners of
war and later forgetting all about
their Individual scraps of naturaliza-
ton papers. On the whole it might
be as well to send them all to Homo
lulu or Halifax or some other safely
remote corner Of the globe, and sta
ton on the Mexican frontier a guard
that, possibly, would not be quite so
acceptable to the kaiser's ardent ad-
mirer' and well-wisher, Friend Car
oAAo' -Op1 LiSAACAu AsCpOAICA.
Black Only Avowed Candidate.
State Senator Melvin G. Morse of
Hardwick authorized the editor of
the Free Press last evening to make
the announcement that he will not be
a candidate for the Republican NOM
nation for secretary of state, as he
contemplated for a time. Senator
Morse has accepted the call to go to
France to do Y. M. C. A. war work
for the benefit Of our boys and conse-
quently it will be impossible for him
to take part in political affairs in Yer
mont for long time to come.
1t is no secret that Senator Morse
would have had considerable support
if he had continued in the race for
secretary Of state. AS the situation
now stands the only avowed candi-
date for this honor is Harry A. Black
of Newport, clerk of the Vermont
house Of representatives, who is well
n nd "a hixy EY,oyx1yo opI IocnruoI1xy