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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
The Fourth Liberty Loan in Orleans

Promptly at 9 o'clock Saturday
morning the people in charge of the
soliciting, and their able assistants,
met at the club rooms and soon start
ed out with one purpose in view,
that of raising $4,000 before night,
and thereby putting. Orleans over !,
the top" with the ''Fighting Fourth
Liberty Loan, and promptly at 8
o'clock that evening the mill whistles
blew rs times to announce to the
people that the goal had been reached;
This is an example of what united
effort will accomplish, when every
citizen puts his shoulder to the wheel
and all work together.
A member Of the Woman's COM
mittee was invited to go with each
group. The women who went were,
Mrs. L. E. spafford, chairman; Mrs
NJ. NJ Taplin, Mrs. M. Ellery IrlpP'
Mrs. M. L. Pearson, and Mrs. e. L.
KEYS. A noteworthy fact was the
willingness with which each and
every one met the situation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bassett, Mrs.
Henry Bassett and Miss Marjorie
Bassett, are spending few days at
Lake Willoughby, occupying French's
cottage.
Joseph Emond returned from Three
Rivers, Mass, on Monday morning,
where he went on Saturday, to ac-
company his grandson, Alfred Root,
to his home.
Mrs. c.. S. Stevens went to Rich
ford on Monday, to see her sister.
Her mother and two brothers have
been very i'll with pneumonia follow
mig the influenza.
The Misses Matte Garvin and Alice
Hughes have postponed going to the
Bryant & Stratton Business college
for one week on account of the cpl
demic which now prevails.
Everett Wiley has finished work
inc for the Orleans Post Card CO.,
and has moved from Manchester, N.
H., to Corinth, where he expects to
make his home for the present.
Continued on Page Eight.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
Red Cross Notes,

Since the emergency call came
Friday morning, the Red Cross have
shipped sixty-six suits of pajamas,
thirty of which were made by the
ladies in three days. One dozen
was donated by Mrs. G B. Rowell,
and two dozen were ready when the
call came.
The home service section Of the
orleans Red Cross branch, has been
organized, and are now willing and
ready to be of help to those who
have people in the service, by Civ
ing them information pertaining to
their allotments, assurances, etc.,
and in many other ways not men
toned here. Anyone having friends
IN the service and seeking Informal
ton, may apply to this committee:
NJ. NJ. Taplin, Chairman; Mrs. A. H..
SWEET, Secretary; Mrs. G. S. Dodge,
Treasurer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
Orleans News Page
News and Views from this
Hustling Village
News from Men i'm the Service.

A cable to Mrs. Dickens on Satur-
day morning announced the safe ar
rival overseas of Harry Dickens, who
sailed nearly three weeks ago.
A letter from Gerald French, U.
S. A. A. S., with the Italian army,
tells his friends that he went to the
Red Cross hospital the middle of
August, and although not seriously
i'll, would have to remain there for
time.
Friends of Sergt. T. H. O'Donnen,
will be glad to hear Of his promo
ton to End lieutenant. He graduated
from the army candidate school in
stoned the same day. He is now with
a machine gun battalion.
Elmer E. Doe returned on Mon
day, from visiting his son, Lieut.. AL
ton A. Doe, of the 57th Pioneer In
fantry, before his departure for over
seas service. While there he saw
formerly with States Attorney Stod-
dard, and J. Stannard Campbell, both
of whom received first lieutenant's
commission shortly before they sailed.
Lieut.. Doe was recently made Battal-
ion-Adjutant. Mrs. Alton A. Doe
will remain with her parents in Maco,
Texas, while her husband is in the
service.
| Bugler Howard Towle died of pneu-
monia at Camp Devens, on Friday,
Sept 27, following the influenza.
! The body arrived on the early morn
| ing train, and a brief burial service
was held at Pleasant View cemetery,
at2 n M in CHARGE of the Rev Mr.
| Sn1ithers. He was born in Derby,
twenty-seven years ago, the son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra ToWle. He has
one brother, Roland, somewhere in
France, and another younger brother
living with his father in Lisbon, N. FL.
The mother died several years ago.
His wife, Mrs. Mildred Towle is i'll of
influenza at Aver, Mass. The Towle
family moved from Orleans to Lis
bon, N. H., eleven years ago.
Harry Robinson, chief engineer of
the Royal Naval Motor Boat Reserve,
arrived in town Saturday on 80 days
leave, after an absence of over two
years, having enlisted in 1916. He
then lived at North Hatley. For five
following a slight accident and in
lection of the wound. He reports
conditions in England much better
than they were a year ago. More
food, more ships coming in and going
out and fewer submarines to prey on
them The ship he came over on was
conveyed by II boats, one Of which
was torpedoed on it's way back. His
work has been in the English channel
and his experiences with submarines
are yerv interesting,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
Methodist Episcopal Church Notes
w. S. Smithers, Pastor.

Prayer service tonight at 1880.
Sunday services. Sermon by the
pastor at 1880 a. m. Bible school al
II m. Junior League at o'clock.
The evening theme will be "Breth-
rem" or the 4th in the series on
What 1t Is to Be a Christian"
Because of uncertainty arising
from the prevailing influenza, the
special services announced to BEGIN
Oct. 8, will wait till later date if
such can be arranged. Further an
nouncement later.
The w. H. M. society met with
Mrs. Jenness, Tues. afternoon, Sept,
"a. The following ladies took part in
the programme. General exercise
"Our Litany," all present: "The,
Third Floor Front" Mrs. Smithers rs:
'The Priesthood of the Mite-box.' =
Mrs. Geo. Wheeler; "Seventy-five
Miles from Railroad" Mrs. Jerness
"Christmas in Frontier Home y
Mrs. Lyon; "Shall We Pack a Bar
rel?' Mrs. Gilmour Mrs. Moulton
was programme leader. Next meet.
ing, Oct. 80.
Ten members of "The TWILIGHT
Club" Roland Andrus, Kenneth
Baird, Alma Bickford, Dorothy Col
ton, Hazel House, Ernest and Bern
ice Mack, Beryl Marshall, and Alice
and Dorothy Witt, of Mrs. Wits
Sunday school class, have sold 100
calendars, giving $500 from their
profits to Red Cross work. This is
certainly a fine record for these
boys and girls.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02

Harlan Stearns and sister, Freda,
go to U. V. NJ, Burlington, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wells will move
into the house with DR.. j. F. Wright
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Wiley spent the
weekend at home, with their par
ents.
Miss Eta Barber of Fairfield, ILL.,,
is spending some time with her cousin
Miss Anne Jones.
c.. M. Dwinell and Arthur Ordway
came home from West Danville the
last of the week.
Clayton Kipp came home from ST.
Johnsbury Saturday to visit his
mother, Mrs. Jennie Kipp.
Mrs. J. C. Anderson was taken
sick last week and Miss Mabel Parlin
took care of her for few days.
Mrs. w. J. Joslyn entertained the
eight members of her Sunday school
class on Saturday afternoon.
Miss Elsie Skinner went to Rum
ford, Me-, last week where she will
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Webster
The Orleans high and graded
schools are due to open Monday.
October 7th, unless further notice is
given.
AS preventive measure, the
authorities have closed the public
places, but the situation at present
does not seem serious.
The body-of Howard Towle, son
of Ezra Towle, a former resident OF
Orleans, was brought here for burial
in Mt. Pleasant cemetery on Satur-
day.
Miss Lillian Doe, who accompanied
her father to see her brother goine
overseas, stopped at Northampton
for short visit before returning
home.
Mr., and Mrs. Alfred WilEie are
moving this week to Somerville
Mass, where they will make a home
for their daughter, Mrs. Winnifret
Trip.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
ORLEANS LOCAL MENTION

Read Cosmos" clairvoyant adver-
tisement on page four. adv.
The Canadian circle will meet with
Mrs. Morrison on Friday.
Mrs. Fred Lathe was operated on
for appendicitis on Monday.
Born on Monday, Sept. 80, daugh-
ter, to Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Pave.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
Liberty Lean Notes.

The number of subscribers to the
4th Liberty Loan in Orleans district,
numbered 1928 on Tuesday night, or
about $3.50 of the population.
The local committee were ably
supported by the efforts of G.. H.
Moulton, who worked on the loan
among the employees of the Parker
Young Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Why Prices Have Risen
w SO High

1t could not have been otherwise Either
in terms of falling money wages with stable
prices or of rising money wages with
more than offsetting fall in purchasing
power-prices rising still faster-the real
wages had to be less. Real wages are
tested by thetheir command over consumabe
goods, buying power. Average consump-
ton falls when average production falls.
These recent years have been years of a
restricted output of the things that civil
populations consume-a smaller rather
than a larger output of civil supplies. The
explanation is not far to seek Two-ffths
of our national productive power has been
diverted to the supplying of military
things, shunted away from civil produc-
ton. Two and half million of our work
ers have been conscripted into the training
camps or out upon the firing line We have
sent other millions into the shipyards and
into the muntion and armament factories
The coal miners have supplied ships and
the factories instead of cellars. A d.
minished civil consumption has merely re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Where Do the little Peoples Fit Into the Landsca

the recognized intellectual leaders of the
confederation, has caused profound SEN
sation by his recent book, Die Neue
Schweiz' (Alten: Trosch Verlag, 1919.
Though not himself politician by pro-
fession, he claims that in a real democ-
racy every citizen ought to be able to speak
of public affairs and he appeals, above all,
to the younger generation to save Swift
zerland from the deadly danger which
threatens her His diagnosis of the va
rious ailments of the Swiss body polite is
sufficiently remarkable to deserve careful
examination even in a foreign journal, for
it has a far more than local significance.
He proves this at the outset by boldly rails
ing the whole problem Of small states, and
sums it up in the assertion that if the
present system in Europe remains, the
small nations cannot live,' but must be
driven into the arms of one or other Of
the great powers. A small country like
Switzerland cannot hope to resist an at
tack such as that directed against Belgium
no matter how much it may arm itself. The
old situation which prevailed up to 1870
and under which Switzerland represented
genuine military force in the world has
been replaced by a system Of giant states
which overbear any possibility of resist
ance on the part of their small neighbors
Yet many Swiss cannot reconcile them
seive to the role of 'scraping and grovel~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Public Opinion on the Presidents Trip

of the Allied nations. But such triumphal
visit could be staged with more safety and
with better grace after the peace terms have
been signed"
'The New York Herald" suspects that
the President may be going to France
because he wants to go there, an ex-
PLANTATION not yet advanced by the Wash
ington Interpreters of the Presidential
mind;
"None, SO far as has as yet been dis
closed has been frank enough to say that
the President has decided to go to France
because he wants to go to France-an al
together natui al and human desire. His
tory records no instance of a man in Mr.
Wilson'S present position being averse to
the applause of his fellow men, and GER
tainly Mr.. Wilson would be given wonder
full reception in France. Why, then, should
the self-constituted interpreters 'pussyfoot'
concerning a situation which is perfect
ly apparent to the Man in the Street 2"
New York newspapers generally ques.,
ton the wisdom Of the Presidents de-
cision. "The Globe" comments:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Violent Price Fluctuations Are tho
Real Burdens That the Work
ingman Must Garry

is probably the minimum wagethus get
ting the wedge in at the bottom where it
will raise everything, and indirectly-so it
is believed--under the rising general stand
ards Of wellbeing the profits of employers
will also feel the uplift. Interest likewise
will rise with the better recognized neees-
stiles Of the creditor class. And finally
also, we may believe, the landlords, needing
more income, can reasonably look for higher
rates. And all then will be as well as may
be with us that have waited so long in doing
so simple thing. The way to raise any in
come, wage other, is obviously merely
to raise it,
1t was inevitable, then, that real wages
mast suffer. The civil population had to go
short. The wage earning class includes
nineteen-twentieths Of the population. 1t
was only through the diminished real wages
that the necessary margin Of labor and
product could be set free for war. The
goods and the labor could be over there
We couldn't give away our cake and keep it.
And there was still another reason why
wages had to be small. Not only were the
goods scant for affording real wages, but
an unusually large share of them were being
distributed as profits. Business margins
were exceptionally large.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

happy. 1t does not reflect the spirit of
Cancellation and accommodation which has
wonderfully marked our war effort
Surely the wisdom and restraint and self
sacrifice which Americans have patriot
cally displayed during the great war ought
not to be 50 exhausted that none will be
left oves for the great tasks of peace And
the certain thing is that angry talk and
burning jealousics and trumpetings by
monopolsts of all sorts not only are out
of place to-day, but tend to prejudice the
calm and fair consideration that must be
given tq the whole problem of getting
peacefully back to the status of peace
at is no time for any group or class to
breathe out threatenings"
"The Post" adds:
1--WE ourselves have no doubt that labor
has advanced during the war to a terrain
from which it will never be dislodged. 1t
will stay there with the utmost good will
of the people who will have to pay the re-
sulting high taxes. But the temper and
the social attitude are the main things to
be anxious about in all the coming read
justment, and we think that too prompt
protest cannot be made against the temper
and attitude OF Mr.. Gompers in his speech
at Laredo"
"The New York Times" commends Mr.
Gompers:
"Mr Gompers's hopes for the welfare
and happiness of wage earners after the
war will be shared by all men Of good will
and enlightened minds. Mr.. Gompers has
a right to speak for American labor By
his loyal devotion to the great cause of
freedom, to the war policies of the govern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

peace conference is as much necessity as
choice. He cannot dvest himself of his
authority. He cannot we'll delegate it, The
Prime Ministers of the Allied nations will
be there. America elects her Prime Min
lister and calls him President. 1t is fitting
that he should be there"
"The Charlotte Observer" thinks "the
peace conference would find very i'm
portant bit of furniture missing if Pres
idept Wilson should not be there" 1.-THE
Providence Journal" believes his decis-
ion to be "a grave error of Judgment"
While "The Richmond Times-Dis-
patch" is of the opinion that "in this
decisi n he is adopting course contrary
to the best judgment of the people," it
concludes:
However, if the arguments against his
attendance are not weighty enough to re-
strain him, he will be assured of trium-
hant reception such as never before has been
accorded to any man, for the countries he
may visit will in him the personifica-
ton of those democratic ideals which
brought America into the war to the rescue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

sense; and here by natural process, our
author brings us back to the federal as
opposed to the centralst idea The proc
ess already visible in Russia and Austria
must be allowed to extend still further.
The forcible control by one dominant race
of number of subordinate races or racial
groups must come to an end; and life
must once again acquire more numerous
focusing points President Wilson's
famous enunciation of American princi-
pies Gin his message of January 81, 1910
is adopted the Magma Charta Iibertatis
populorum and the true programme of
Swiss foreign policy. The salvation Of
Switzerland is only possible through such
a thorough transmutaton Of values as is
implied in that message and as will auto
matically put an end to the invidious dis
tnction between small and great in the
life of the nations. Thus the essence of
Professor Ragaz's creed is the profound
truth that the future international order
must and can only rest upon satisfied ma
tionalism. Internationalism does not
mean that the small and medium peoples
with their own individuality are to be
crushed fiat by the so-caled world peo-
pies, but rather "a free living together Of
all peoples, great and small on a basis
of mutual respect. 1T is impossible to be
international without being national
"One of the most eloquent passages in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
High Wages of War Stay High in Time of Peace

with the priccs7 Doubtless so, if only the
prices stop rising. But when once prices
are stable long enough so that the wage
lag has been taken up, some other way Of
taxing must be devised if the expenses of
war are still to be mot. 1t Is the entire ma
ton that must pay, laborers with the rest,
If the necessary saving is to be accom-
plishcd.
But now that the war has stopped? As
the burdens become lighter the real wages
can rise, and will rise, even with billion
of new taxes to be cared for--the interest
burden that is to be borne because of n
war that has passed AS the volume of
products available for civil consumption is
reSstablished the average income can
come, and must come, to buy more goods;
the average money income will be more If
prices do not fall. Real wages will go
higher even though the billion dollars of
new interest burden will somewhat modify
the distribution of national income.
But will wages rise in terms Of money?
unquestionably, if prices continue to rise
always, however, with some wage lag to
the advantage of profits. In any case, wages
will be exempt from war exactons. If
prices arc held stable wages must
shortly catch up with prices. The cur
rent margins of employers will be trans.
ferred to the account OF real wages. Out
Of larger aggregate product for civil con-
sumption labor will be getting a larger
fraction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

made arrangement which is to be incubated
of the worlds affairs for all future time"
"The New York World" believes the
President is making great mistake
''in deciding finally to remove himself so
tar from the seat of the government he is
charged with administering in still criti-
cal or crowded time, for purposes which
can better be served where he is"
Likewise:
The Tribune shares the general regret
expressed throughout the country at the
PRESIDENTS decision to attend the opening
OF the peace conference. 1t is our cenvic-
ton that he is making grave mistake.
Whatever formal invitations have been sent
by the leaders Of the Allied peoples. they
could not speak for the traditions or the
faets OF our governmental system"
But "The Evening Post" speeds the
President to his task
as spokesman of a puissant nation that
entered the world war solely for the sake
OF human liberty and wishes to see the
treaty ending it pillared GA Justice and ON
enduring right
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

There is decay in the old political sense
of the Switzsr, a complete lack of any
real foreign policy and poverty of ideals
which sometimes seems to border upon
spiritual bankruptcy. And here Professor
Ragaz stops to break a lance against the
wretched phrase, Point dargent, point
de Suisse, as contrary to all the great
minds of Switzerland from Zwingl on
ward. Even the peasantry is becoming
steadily infected with capitalist thought
The result is that the Oldest democracy of
Europe, the motherland of democracy, has
ceased to be a real democracy, and in
certain sense has almost ceased to be
real republic Indeed, the growing re-
spect for monarchical ideas is shown by
the vehemence with which large section
of public opinion turned against the re-
publican and democratic countries and in
favor of emperors and crown princes.
at must not be supposed that Professor
Ragaz, in all this frank and outspoken
criticism, is ever really in doubt as to
the spiritual future Of Switzerland or
the possibility of keeping alive the true
Swiss spirit. He simply sees the danger,
and is of those who at the right moment
prefer skilled surgery to homeopathic
cures. Those who deny the small state,
he clearly sees, those gross material
lists who judge all by size and quantity.
The danger of the Philistine attitude is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

the book consists in a condemnation Of
xenophobia. TO be Swiss is to honor
and love foreign peoples Switzerland.
both by its composite character as blend
of three great racial and intellectual cur
rents and also by its proud historic tradi-
tions as the forerunner of democratic lib
erty in Europe, is specially bound to re-
sist the infection of racial hatred and TO
appreciate the best qualities in all its
neighbors. Acting on this principle, Pro-
fessor Ragaz finds words of warm SYM
pathy for France and Italy, and in par
ticular for England, whom he greets as
the home of political and religious free
dom and as Swtzerlsnd's most loyal friend
and protector in the past
"But it is his verdict upon his own
kindred nation, Germany, which is the most
striking and deserves to be quoted at some
length:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

I'm another respect the Presidents ap-
pealanee at Versailles and on European
rostrums will scarcely be welcome. II
David Lawrence, his faithful Rosner, is to
be believed, the President entertains ideas
akin to those entertained by the British
Labor party and the minority of French
Socialists. If this is so, his advocacy of
them in Europe will necessarily SAVIOR OF
intrusion into delicate domestic contro-
veisles concerning which all peoples are
sensitive.
Lloyd George and Clemenceau do
not want to hold joint debate with the
head of the American Republic under any
circumstances, and certainly not while he
is their guest and they are engaged in
thrashing out in a democratic way their
domestic differences"
"The Mail" speaks of president Will
sons regretable decision" and "The
American Evening Sun" refers to
"agitating his pontfcating in Europe as
head o. the American Peace Commission on
the ground that statesmen of the Entente
countries eagerly desire him to become the
spokesman of humanity IN the ssasy-