Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-03-06
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Boys and Girls and Maple Sugar

Boys and Girls and Maple Sugar.
Vermont boys and girls have an
opportunity to help this spring in
making maple sugar and syrup. In
! Lyndon where the home gardening and
stock raising activities include all
children of school age, the youngsters
have marketed maple products to the
amount of several thousand dollars
in a single season-Brattleboro Re-
former.
Our Largest Tax.
Our biggest tax is still the fire tax.
Worst Of all more than half the loss
es that cause this big tex are strictly
preventable nd the result of care
lessness. : nese fires amounted to
$50 ,466,O54 last year. Think Of that.
Then exami.e your chimney and see
if it is sa"2; then every stovepipe
and stove, a2d furnace. Cigars, hot
ashc~ and open fires in CRATES alone
caua so 09GN9O loss. matches ST.
C00,C00. DO your part and 10 it now
and then see that your neighbor does
Messenger.
A Good Law for Vermont.
New Jersey has passed law re-
curing loafers, tramps and idlers to
go to work. All able-bodied males
between Is and SO must be employed
regularly or they are liable to con-
scription for compulsory work dur
ing the war. IF such law were on
the statute books in Vermont it would
end much of the concern over farm
labor. Enough boys and men able to
work at least part of the time on
crops are loafng in our towns and
villages to relieve the situation i'm
mensely. Among them are the ones
who, having some means or income,
"don't have to work" Besides these
are great many who in such times
rs these virtually waste their efforts
IN doing something that does not
need to be done. Vermont may well
consider the early mobilization of her
peace strength for war support
Randolph Herald & News.
Why Not Keep Bees?
Vermont, with it's maple sugar, has
its own means of solving the SUGAR
shortage problem, but there are other
possible substitutes for the ordinary
sugar Of commerce and methods of
supply within the reach OF any fami-
~.
Pasides maple trees, bees. sugar
beets. sweet, sorghum and Gull apples
furnish sources by which any family
can solve the sweetening problem at
home besides helping win the war by
increasing the supply of sugar avail
able for our hard-rressed allies
abroad.
Vermont does not have to be told
how to utilize its maple trees, but in
addition why should not each family
keep a few colonies Of bees or make
apple syrup from Gull or other apples
which might otherwise go to waste?
Each family can help solve the
sugar problem fOc the n2ti0n. Bur
lington News.
Tie 57th Pioneer Infantry.
There is still Vermont regiment
in the national army despite the Of
fetal designation of the First Yer
mont infantry as the 57th Pioneer In
fantry
Capt. E. w. Gibson, who is touring
the state in order to fill the regiment
with Vermonters, makes plain the
point the War Department plan of
numbering regiments in the Federal
service does not eliminate the organ
lzatlOn as an organization. Giving
the regiment a special designation in
the government tables but assures
the permanent continuance of thereg-
iment as a state organization.
Although men can no longer be
taken by the local boards for the
First Vermont, men beteween IS and
and be sent to the regiment. Men who
have become p since the draft regis
tratiOn may also enlist.
So the opportunity is still open to
ill the regiment and make the ORGAN
izatiOn q real Vermont command in
fact as well as in name-Burlingto
News.
On Viewpoints Becoming a City.
The Barre Daily Times says: New
port is getting ready to put on it's
municipal robes with the March cleo
ton next week, a charter having been
granted to part Of the old Newport
and to West Derby, which touches it
OF the northeast. The Newport Ex-
press and Standard advocates the
election Of Curtis S. Emery, formerly
Of Chelsea, as the first mayor of the
municipality, and there seems TO be
disposition in other places to give
him the preference in the forthcom-
ing election. There is no doubt that
Mr.. Emery could carry the honors of
the first mayor of Newport with dig
nifty, and there is no doubt about his
capacity to fill the office. In fact, Mr..
Emery would make a good chief ex-
ecutive for any Vermont Taunicipali-
ty.-Barre Times.
The Brattleboro Daily Reforrner
says: With the March elections New
port will appear in the panoply of
city, its boundaries including the vii
lage of Newport and West Derby,
which is a suburb" on the northeast.
The new munic:palitX Will contain