Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-05-21
PRESSCLIPPINGS
Americans Have Big Canadian In
vestments.

Much Of the capital which Canada put
into war industries was obtained IN
| the United States. The Monetary
/ Times estimates that there are now
3ss industrial plants in the Dominion
| directly connected with the United
! States.
The industrial development Of Can
ada has been remarkable, but IS said
TO have only fairly begun. 1t IS be-
| coming a more and more inviting
/ field for American capitalization
Gazette.
Disregard of the Law
! One of the most fragrant disregards
of the law that we know Of is that
regarding the carrying Of lights by
/ vehicles after darkness has fallen.
Very few Automobiles but that can
tell of the heartbreaking moment
when a horse and carriage has sud
denly doomed out of the darkness Just
ahead and the almost inevitable
smash is avoided by matter of inch
es. :,
Certainly this particular law should
he enforced to the letter. 1t involves
no particular hardship for a man to
attach a lantern to his carriage or
wagon when driving at night. Why
any person should neglect to do so
merely from the standpoint of his
own personal safety, is a matter OF
wonder.
We are headed toward a few COLI
| lisions with attendant loss of life as
result of this negligence whereupon
there will be a great outcry and every
effort to provide against future acct
dents. We confess our inability to
comprehend the particular psychology
which dictates a policy so pregnant in
possibilities of disaster. To our way
of thinking the ounce of prevention is
still better than the pound of cure
Burlington News.
A Towns Heart.
Farmers coming into and circulat- |
ing through a town give it its life. If
you don't believe it, keep the farm |
ers out of a town for awhile and /
watch the grass grow in the streets. !
What brings the farmers into
town? They come in to buy drugs
and groceries and to go to the movie
of course but the implement dealer
is the greatest factor in town with
the farmers. He sells them the ma
chimes and implements with which to
produce their wealth and the wealth
of the world. He gives them the ad-
vice and help and service which keeps
| their equipment operating. The deal
er more than any one else brings the
! farmers into a town.
If the farmers are the red blood
corpuscles, which, circulating through
the town give it life, and if the nipple
ment dealer is the one who brings
| them into the town, he is the towns
| heart. He pumps the life giving
stream through the towns of Amer
| lea.
Towns should be examined occa-
sionally to see if they have heart
trouble, and there should be blood
test once in a while to see if there is
anything in the circulation which will
| lead to cardiac complications The
heart is important.-The Harvester
World.
| Help the Paper Get the News.
The News is in receipt of the in
closed clipping. 1t perhaps as well
as anything we have seen tells the
story of a local weekly paper, that
/ tries to cover the news of the town:
/ I'VE presume there never was a
newspaper in any locality that gave
all the local happenings. 1t is often
that someone comes or goes that the
reporter does not see. 1t happens
! that the family Is missed several
4
the editor does not care to mention
them This is a mistake. In most
country towns the local work is the
hardest work connected with the
newspaper. A man may be a good
editorial writer, but fat failure in
the local work and vice versa. Ed
torial material is obtained by study, |
by reading newspapers, sometimes by
using scissors. Persons and local
happenings can't be read and clipped
from other papers, not by a jugful. !
II takes physical as well as mental |
exertion TO get out many columns of |
local news in a town of this size. |
Most people take local paper to get |
the local happenings. Don't be afraid |
TO tell the editor or reporter that you |
have friends visiting you. There are |
lots of people who are interested in |
your friends. You owe II as a duty |
10 them to let your friends know Of |
their doings. Perhaps you think the |
paper shows partiality but just see !
If II doesn't treat you right if you
Sooner or Later
Sooner or later the people Of Yer /
mont viii adopt a number of much 4
needed reforms. In the first place
they viii insist upon the reelection
Tor term or two of able and expert
enced legislators Ike Representative
tsaE-an. In the second place they
VIII insist upon the payment of a
lump as q salary so as TO put a pre-
MUM on short sessions In the third
place they viii let politicians finance
their own campaigns instead Of fore
ing the taxpayers Of the state 10 this
under various insidious guises. In
the fourth place they Will insist uno-
the application of more common
sense and sound business PRINCIPLES
70 legislation and upon less psycholo-
gy--Burlington Free Press.
These much needed reforms NAV
come sooner or later but II viii prob
ably be later. Not much can be hoped
from any Legislature which IS based
OF acreage instead OF population. As