Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-09-11

The Fourth Liberty Loan.

loan campaign which will be whirl-
wind drive, is assured in advance in
Vermont, which has both by nature
and requirement the habit of going
over the top in all war-winning move
ments. But that success is doubly
assured in view of the fact that E. r.
Morse of Rutland, has been secured as
manager of the campaign. Morse is
a sort of Foch in Vermont. He has
practical and organizing faculties
highly developed and when forces I'M
der his direction get the word of adj
vance they know that the attainment
of the detectives is foregone con-
clusion-Rutland News.
The Idler's Idiosyncrasies.
When we see Wilhelm described as
'Kaiser Hun" we'd like "g" to it.
Now that we've formed the habit, it
is a war garden for us every year,
war or no war.
The "more than a million" now in
France are entitled to the best we can
send them in everything.
Some folk imagine they are helping
win the war when they crowd wages
down to the lowest possible point.
| be offered September %. The person
who can buy, but doesn't buy is a
Stacker.
With a world wheat surplus of a
billion bushels, we may again be- per-
mitted to taste real "white" bread
again.
I Saving money by cutting down ex-
penses, does not help win the war, if
the money is kept on deposit in the
bank.
Some girls have real patriotic adj
miration for the soldiers; others are
just fascinated by the soldiers uni
form.-The Modern Woodman.
Troop Trains.
| North or south, east or west, in
fact, wherever one may be, the sight
of troop trains filled with soldiers
bound for service overseas is a famll-
lar one nowadays. And yet, no mat
ter how familiar, it is a spectacle that
never fails to stir ones emotions. A
ways are and all along the route the
passers-by and travellers are greeted
by them with waving hats, hands and
handkerchiefs. Gay and buoyant as
is their action the underlying fact
which makes it spontaneous is pro-
foundry touching. Close proximity to
departure from their native land and
all it's familiar life to face the perils
/ ahead, serves to transform the merest
strangers into ''home folks" to whom
the boys must bid goodbye as they
pass. Many a motorist, after return
ing the salutes of car after car of
smiling, brown uniformed lads, must
needs have had to steer carefully for
a bit because of the road becoming
suddenly blurred ahead. And by the
same token these youths brought to-
gether from every point of the COM
breadth of our land are not strangers
to US, but are "our boys" whom we
love and honor with all our hearts.
Heaven forbid that we should ever
fail them, or prove ourselves I'M
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Reformer.
Soldiers of Eighteen.
Considerable sentiment cropped out
in congress and elsewhere against in
Guiding boys Of eighteen in the mill
tary draft, and many people think
nineteen is too youngt Exigencies
demand sacrifices, and this is one of
! the greatest-for parents to give up
their lads, scarcely beyond high
school age, before they are either tax
payers or voters, to the war Moloch.
| DuI from q practical view
it should be so regarded-the step is
eminently proper. We need to sum-
mon the largest number of men we
can and assemble them quickly in or
der to bring an early decision. Where
are we going to get them with best
promise Of results and least disar-
rangement Of social and economic
conditions Youths of eighteen have
commonly reached degree of physi-
cal maturity that places them on a
par with men past 40 to say the least.
Their animal spirits, their nerve,
their endurance are superior. Added
to this, they generally have no depen-
dents to support and their places in
the industrial fabric have not been
| fixed.
The examining surgeons will do
well, however, to exercise special care
in the cases of these lads to see that
they have really matured. Often a
boy of eighteen will have reached the
minimum weight and still be undevel-
oped. Hard military service will
stunt such boys. They should be
held in deferred classes. A year will
make a great deal Of difference with
them. This is period of life in which
maturity arrives in varying degree
and each case should be carefully in
vestigated lest lasting evil follow
Randolph Herald.
Thomas H. Bradley, Proprietor, Occi-
dental Hotel, Goshen, N. Y.