Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-05-15
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Watch Your Step.

Watch Your Step.
When a man is out of step with the
rest of the world he thinks they are
| all wrong and wants to make them
over instead of reforming his own
ways.-Benningto Banner.
Down with the Yellow Dog.
Enlist in the new home defense
army to fight against Yellow Dog
ism. The Yellow Dog is the man who
thinks the country can't win, who
thinks we can't meet our obligations
after the war, who says this is a
Wall street war, who in any way,
shape or manner endeavors to weak
en- the morale of the home fighters.
Watch for the Yellow Dog in your
home community. He is there no
doubt Huntington News.
Must Have Men.
The Bennington Banner thinks that
the heaviest drain of the war in men
is likely to come during the next
call for the last week in this month is
500. For June it will be still more
according to the guesses of those
who have to do with the draft. In
the meantime there are frequent
other small calls which must be met.
There is every reason to expect
that the American army will be
doubled this year and that means
that each state in the union must
send as many more approximately as
it now has in the army. In another
year of war there will be very few
able bodied young men left in private
life except those who are hiding be-
hind some technical excuse.-Mont-
pelier Argus.
Close Contact Results of Liberty
Loan Drive.
Among those to whom should go a
part of the credit for the success Of
the third Liberty loan are the bank
officials who worked hard that the
might be set before the people of
their districts. This work was large
ly voluntary and was done without
expectation of recompense on the
part of the officials of the various
institutions. Nevertheless there is
an incidental gain to such as partici-
pated in the work because of the be-
lief of the general public in their
patriotic devotion to the government,
The banks have been indefnably been
drawn closer to the government in
the minds of a great many people;
and that, we believe, is likely to
prove of incalculable benefit to the
banks in the long run.-Barre Times.
Down Instead of Up.
In Canada where the fine tooth
comb is being used to bring men in
to the military service, youths from
10 to Fl years Of age are going to be
registered. This is a sensible step
that might we'll be followed in this
country when the time comes. 1t is
from the youthful, verile, adventure
loving class that the best soldiers
come The Civil war was fought by
boys, the average age being under
Fl. No one would say that the Civil
war did not develop great armies of
unexcelled fighters. The machine
gun company which went out of st.
Adams last year was for the most
part made up of school boys consid-
erably below the draft age, but they
seem to be soldering it in veteran
way, doing their trick front and rear
in the trenches without complaint
and making a mans job of it. 1t is
with the younger soldiers that fewer
exemptions would have to be granted
because as rule youngsters between
10 and Fl have not given hostages to
fortune through marriage and have
not become important parts of the in
dustrial machine A 19-year-old,
trained for year here could be sent
overseas at 20 and we would never
have any fault to find with the kind
of soldier he would make. A lower
ing of the age limit rather than in
creasing it seems to be the proper
step to take if it becomes necessary
to go outside the present limits
St. Adams Messenger.