Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-01
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Pretty Slim Argument.


the Local Option League is putting
| out that. we should take no action on
, the prohibitery amendment when so
many voters are away,-the men in
the service. Ii would be a great
thing 10 do. would It not, TO sit by
and do nothing while the boys are
away Does that argument appeal
to the fathers and mothers of the
boys in the service? Imagine sol
dier's mother sitting with folded
hands while he son Is fighting in the
trenches, for lar that she might do
something that would take away his
rightsl Is it rot a more reasonable
idea 10 work day and night, in every
possib'- --ay, in order that conditions
may b i-@-.e S-t-l- 81 -1e ',c-z,e
| fires brighter when the boys come
/ home st. JohnSbury Republican.
I Ask BOYS Home to Locate.
! From every community in this 10
caiity some of its most substantial
and promising young men have gone
I into the great American army. For
/ tunately the war has closed without
many being called TO make the su-
preme sacrifice and those who have
been spared are longing TO return TO
the pursuits of peace. Some OF them
have had their first contact with the
larger life of the country and are
feeling the lure of new fields. But
none OF them have become deaf to the
call of home, friends and neighbors.
II some OF the leading citizens OF
these communities would get together
and write an invitation to these de-
sirable young men TO come back, and
viii pledge their cooperation in get
ting them started on a farm or IN
some local business, many OF them
would return with greater love and
enthusiasm for the old town than
they have ever felt Their return
would be a community asset and
strengthening of country life, a lib
1 eral reward for this little effort.
Gather Your substantial citizens and
invite the boys TO come back and
dwell in your neighborhoOd--Brat
! tleboro Phoenix.
Money Spent IN Wrong Place.
Vermont pride is not much iatter-
On the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AllclL Liz
State School for Predetermined at
Brandon is so overcrowded that one
Of the barns is being turned into a
dormitory; and even so, teachers else
: where are sometimes almost inclined
TO think that the defcientS" are not
all in Brandon yet. If feeble-mind-
edness is on the increase in Vermont
which Heaven forbid-the reason
for 1t should be found and removed.
J. y. Barss, former superintendent
: OF the state industrial school at Yer
! gennes, often deplored the willing
: ness of Vermont TO build, or enlarge
prisons, workhouse, reform schools,
Z and asylums, and its slackneSs in
o seeking and graduating the root of
: the evil 10 be found in criminal, dis
sipated and diseased parentage- If
: half the money spent in erecting and
= maintaining such institutions could
= be devoted TO improving the strain OF
=, our citizenship, il wouldn't be neces-
sary to turn thoroughbreds out of q
L barn TO make room for an over-sup-
: ply OF useless humanity. How car
II the state feel that il has done any
where near its whole duty in simply
e caring for the unfortunates upor
. whom the sins of the fathers have
a been terribly visited; while it per
:, mitS conditions 10 exist which deprive
: innocent children Of their birthrght
: of a sound mind in a sound body
( Pointing with pride TO fourishins
e penal institutions and asylums is likt
s admiring the brilliant flowers O
poisonous plants. II IS poor soil il
Il which such things grow and needs L
p be plowed deep. When that is done
, perhaps our colleges will be NOR
: over-crowded than cur schools for TIL
- s.,f,To -,---I-l Sr---~-E-FI pnr1--av
j Looking After Needy Children.
i The establishment Of new state de
G partments Is always attended witt
i more or less nisgivings that the ad
Is venture may not work out in prac
q tice as il looked in theory. TX
years experience Of the board o
charities and probation. Of which Sec
: rotary ". II. Jeffrey Is the activ
= head, seems TO Justify the experiment
- IN Vermont Mr.. Jeffrey IS doing
in really wonderful work for chiIdre
D. bereft Of homes or placed in unfa
vo-able home environment He j
70 following a sane and sensible cours
- in dealing with the many hundred
- OF cases that have been brought Z
his notice. Whenever possible, tn
L child Is left in its own home, wit
7 conditions so improved as TO warran
lr this adjustment. In many cases chi
n. dren have been placed in bette
Of homes than their own. Where Meth
" er of these steps were possible the
- have been committed TO institution
until homes could found for them. NJ
Jeffrey is using rare tact in his wor
an essential in so delicate an UT
u dertaking In his report he calls mel
IN tied attention 70 the wisdom of confr
CO ing mentally defective women {
child-bearing age.-Randolph Heral
and News
II there Is one department in th
state that has demonstrated its wort
IN il Is this same department Whs
viii become of II remains TO be seel
=. The Randolph contemporary puts