Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-05
Wars Toll.
Shamed by Working Woman.

earns her living by washing and iron
ing clothes it was handed back with
zone dollar a week" written above
the signature. "Isn't there some
mistaken" the woman was asked
"None whatever" was the answer and
the Woodworking washerwoman con-
tinued: eff one dollar week will
care for our boys and help win the
war, l am willing to give one dollar
a week." When some people con-
trast this spirit with their own we
should think they would feel like
crawling into a hole and then pulling
the hole in after them.-Brattleboro
Reformer.
Useless Occupations.
The information was sent broad
cast recently that the draft would in
clude a quick induction into the mill
tary service Of those in the draft age
who would not Immediately become
identified with some useful employ
ment. For some time this has been
agitated. Many men who have been
employed at useful labor have come
under the process of the draft boards
while others who stood higher on the
list have been allowed to continue
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something of that sort. Many men
have been forced to abandon a profit
able and necessary business to
shoulder a gun, while human Jolly
pops have been allowed to remain at
home and pass their time in further
ing the interests of sport.
AS time wears on we see the dis
comforts of the war evenly applied.
The same laws which are to be ap-
piled to men in unnecessary occupa-
tions should be applied to women.
There are a lot of both who ought to
be ashamed Of their conduct when
their services are needed IN various
capacities.-Windsor Journal.
Necessities VS.. Luxuries.
Our people have a saying, which
has become current, that the luXuries
of one generation are the necessities
of the next. We seem recently to
have practiced just such system of
evolution. Our people are shining
examples of the truth that extrava
gance breeds extravaganza. We Of
this generation listen to old people as
they describe conditions Of their day,
and we wonder how they managed to
render life at all endurable.
Yet these same old people, in their
day, enjoyed life to the full. They
did not consider, themselves. in any
sense objects of pity. They lived
simple, wholesome lives, and the wis
dom of their mode of life is amply
demonstrated by the mere fact that
they, the opponents of this simple,
frugal life, are yet with US to bear
testimony to it's merits.
Thoro ic Oroaf mood fhot IN y,oonu
respects, we revert to the frugal life
of our ancestors. True, in many
matters their luxuries have really
become our necessities and are no
more an extravaganza than were
their simple Injuries. But we have
added unnecessarily to these luxuries
1t is these we are called upon to
foregO.
Mark well the man or woman who
continues the extravaganza of former
years. Their patriotism is of pure
ly negative quality. Henceforth, I'M
til this war is won, extravaganza and
disloyalty are going to become al
most synonymous terms.
And even then our frugality will
be worthless unless it is practiced in
the name of the cause, and the re-
suits applied to the cause in which
we Vermonters have enlisted along
with other Americans.-Burling
Free Press.
Reckless AutomObiling.
Sunday automobiling is beginning
to get in it's deadly summer work,
with reckless speeding over narrow
roads, on which there is more trav-
cling on that day than at any other
no
Grated by chauffeurs inclined to be
more than usually irresponsible. The
joyous crowds on JOY ride race with
each other in spirit of natural or
artificial exhilaration, jam the accel-
orator down in tight place to get by
even if the other car is pushed off
down a steep bank, and whizz around
sharp turns as though they expected
everybody else in the road to fly up
like flock of startled birds at their
approach. The result is a casualty
list of killed and wounded in the
Monday papers that almost makes
the report from the seat of war pale
into insignifcance; while the high
way is lined with wreckage waiting
for removal to a garage. The Lud-
low Tribune reports that on a recent
Sunday one deserted car was found
IN the mldQle OF the ROAD near Gas
sett's with a rear wheel off, and just
below the Lawrence farm was anoth-
er that had turned squarely out of
the road and was halfway down in
ditch Cautious mortals who wish
their days to be long in the land or
feel at all choice of their bones, es-
chew automobiling the first day of
the week and not strictly from mo-
tives of piety, confine their peringrin-
ations to the Jewish limits of a Sab
bath days journey. While accidents
are bound to happen, in spite of all
their number would be
materially reduced if the criminally
careless and still more criminally in
ebriate received a workhouse SEN
tence, instead of a fine, for daring to
touch the steering gear of a car
Springfield Reporter.