Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-30

renew his subscription last week, and
I of course commented on this open
winter. He got as far as "When ]
was in Randolph in 18.
He never finished. His funeral was
enthusiastically attended. IN ORTIZ
field News.
A Pertinent Question.
Are you helping Boston and New
York stores recoup the losses incur
red in their bargain Easements or are
YOU helping your local merchants pay
the taxes which go towards the up
keep of your own city Huntington
News.
Dale Should Speak in Congress.
Readers of the Herald were well
prepared for the type of address
which Congressman Porter H. Dale
delivered in Rutland Tuesday night.
1t was in the nature of a warning and
an spiratiOn-warn1ng that all is
not we'll in the conduct of the war
from Washington and inspiration to-
ward the sacrifices and tremendous
efforts which will be demanded ere
the war is won. Every hearer will
probably share The Herald's earnest
hope that the matters dealt with in
the evenings lecture will soon be
comprehended in a speech from the
floor of the House Of Representa-
tives.-Rutland Herald.
Dale's Master Word-Picture of War.
Hon. Porter H. Dale of Brighton,
member Of Congress from the sec
ond Vermont district, "put it over"
I in Rutland Tuesday highland then
some. In an impassioned and force
full address he placed himself secure
ly among the list of top-notchers
among the public speakers of Yer
mont.
On December "a the Rutland News
furnished the paint but was not the
artist that did the painting. The
word picture smacks of some other
artist" and on January 7: eff the
representative is half as eloquent as
the recent interview with him sent
out from Washington would indicate,
he is certainly spell binder"
Well, Mr.. Dale had the paint and
he qualified as an expert word paint
err Of the highest order. His advance
press agent referred to, living not
thousand miles from Rutland, if any
thing did him injustice. Far from
magnifying his eloquence, rather did
he minimize it. He not only said,
'For Gods sake, wake up" but he
said it with all the feeling, force and
fire of one who knew whereof he
spoke. He told the story of the bat
tlefelds, shot and shell-torn, in lam
guage that Will not fade from the
memory of those who heard him. It
is hard to imagine hearts that would
not melt, souls that would not be WV
flied, and muscles that would not be
steeled under the impetus of Mr..
Dale's eioquence. All that remains to
be seen.
The congressman asked the peril
nent question as to when we will
wake up. Are we so stolid and stoi-
cal and Indifferent that a hundred
thousand or five hundred thousand
little crosses must be erected cover
there" marking the graves of fallen
American soldiers before we wake
up, he asked with an earnestness new
er to be forgotten. In common with
other speakers, for one, like James
M. Beck, who was heard in Rutland
at the great war convention, the YER
monter had an earnestness amount
ing almost to spirituality that mir
rors a soul fairly scared with the
sights beheld in riddled France as the
outcome of a personal visitation. 1t
was such an expression of counten-
ance, such a CLEAN of the eye as the
crusader, imbued and saturated with
the Righteousness Of his cause, must
have had.
Mr.. Dale's description of the
French soldier and the indomitable
Spirit of France which turned back
the oncoming Hun at the Marine and
saved civilization, was masterpiece
Likewise was his picture of the typi-
cal British soldier, and his climax
was reached when he almost futilely
essayed to describe the indefnable
something which makes the Ameri-
can soldier the superior of them both.
Mr.. Dale came, he saw and he con-
quered-a Rutland audience Would
to God that the American people
would wake up. 1t is hard to con-
ceive of them slumbering if they can
hear the almost inspired message of
this Nernotner, who has recently re-
turned from the indescribable scenes
of horror, devastation and carnage
Rutland News.
They Are Coming to Vermont and
Why.
A real estate dealer doing business
chiefly on the eastern side of the state
announces the sale of 40 farms dur
ing the past calendar year, and as he
announces the names and residence
es Of the purchasers his statement
makes an interesting study. Of the
43 purchasers, 80 were from out Of
the state, and as individuals are not
buying up farm land just for the
privilege of holding it the presump-
ton is that the 80 intend to carry on
the properties they have acquired. A
further interesting sidelight is that