Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-19

lied directly for the purposes of the
country. IF we can eat foods that
are grown in our own locality a GER
tain amount of car space is released.
This can be used in carrying COM
modities to the seaboard or in bring
ing fuel OR material to factories which
are doing work for the government
If in purchasing we can select goods
made in near locality in preference
to a distant one we are allowing the
! railroads to substitute a short haul
for long one. If we can use prod
ucts of our own country instead of
ship space. An instance recently
given to the public will show this.
I Makers Of candy and ice cream have
| been required Ter some months to
lessen their consumption of sugar 20
per cent. Mr.. Hoover tells us that
this reduction has released $4,000
tons of shipping for the use of the
government. The shipping so freed
has been used partly in carrying
wheat to Belgium and partly in car
-yin~ coal to New England factories
! which produce war goods.
Let it become one of our wartime
principles to use home products and
local products toward our needs
ton space saved by an individual or
family is necessarily small, but in
all kinds of conservation it is the ag-
gregate which counts. You will feel
satisfaction in the knowledge thatyou
are doing your best in your individual
capacity toward helping out the gov
eminent and meeting its needs
Burlington Free Press.
Takes Fall Out Of Judge Darling.
There is no insistent call for Chas.
II. Darling of Burlington to be gov
ernor and there are many people IN
his own city who will not support
him. While he may be lawyer OF
an analytical mind yet that is not
very strong qualification for the Of
fee. Hon Charles H. threw his hat
in the ring several weeks ago but it
created no furore. Very few people
have rallied to the call. The interest
of the people of Vermont today is en-
tirely conferred in winning the war
and the election of a governor to sat-
isfy some personal ambition is Sec
ondary matter.
Select the best man for the Office
then why, not do it. Forget geog
raphy, forget the mountain rule, for
get precedent. Vermont wants
governor of strong constructive abil-
ity, not technical lawyer. The one
thing that made Hon. Charles H.
Darling was selling manifest blanks
to boat captains while he was col
lector of the port of Burlington. He
held that job for several years and
made some $4,000 year-good bus
mess but most any school boy could
have done it. George Burleson was
the actual collector who did the work.
Getting right down to this COVER
den county is to have the plum this
year it would not be well to select a
man much better fitted for the Of
flee than the man who wants it. The
county has dozens Of men Of guber-
Material calibre, men who have strong
constructive ability and qualifications
that eminently fit them for the Office.
Here are just few: Geo. p. Whit
ney, Guy w. Bailey, Frank G. Lyon,
c. P. Smith, Max Powell, Robert Rob-
erts, F. D. Abernethy, F. E. Burgess,
w. B. Howe, Elias Lyman.
The list could be extended much
further and still better men found
than the one who has already an
nounced his candidacy for governor
from Chittenden county.
but CnlS is war year ana the
world is afame Politics has no call.
The one big thing is to beat the Huns
and make the landscape of Prussia
look like Belgium and Northern
France. Gov. Graham can carry out
Vermont's part as chief executive in
the states war work better than any
other living man. He is now the helms
man and we are in the middle of the
stream and he is steering on the right
course. 1t would be suicidal to
change at this time.
Judge Darling-yOur patriotic duty
is to retire from the race, cut out
politics for war and announce your
support of Graham so the present
work and present policies can be
continued without interruption.
Win the war-that's the one and
only big thing to do.-Burlington
Clipper.