Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-06-11
PRESSCLIPPINGS
Same Problem; New Administration.

|
The first of July the new health law
goes into operation in Vermont. The
town health officers will be succeeded
! by district health officers. 1t remains
to be demonstrated if the new order
of things is any improvement over
the old. The quarantine signs, the
dirty milk or a sinking garbage can
will probably be just as much of
community problem and public men
ace as ever.-St. Johnsbury Republi-
can.
Check Up on Auto Drivers.
Secretary of State Harry A. Black
| has taken the proper course in hold
| ing up the licenses of two drivers of
automobiles which figured in acct
dents Sunday. Even should some per-
son who is not to blame be deprived
of the right of driving, it is better
than allowing anybody and everybody
! to rush up and down the roads of the
state. 1t is an unquestionable fact
that many people who are not compe
! tent to handle cars are operating
them in the state today.-Burlingt
! Free Press.
Teach Youngsters to Swim.
The frequency of drowning acct
dents reported in the press makes
timely the old advice: "Teach your
child how to swim" Boy or girl,
teach the youngster to care for him
self or herself in the water. Deaths
from drowning in the small ponds
and rivers in Vermont are in the ma
| iority of cases unnecessary, inasmuch
as a few strokes would have brought
! the person to safety. There is, after
all, little or no excuse for person
not knowing how to care for ones
a difficult art. 1t soon becomes a
pleasure. and is one of the most bene-
fetal kinds of recreational exercises.
The number of drowning accidents
would be cut in two if parents would
do their duty by their children.-St.
Adams Messenger.
| Indifference to Ideals.
In an address to the state conven-
/ ton of the knights of Columbus,
Bishop ]. J. Rice of Burlington,
touched on some pertinent truths,
among others the following:
''Not only do we find that these SOL
! i'd, substantial men of sound judgment
are playing into the hands of politi-
clans by their refusal to accept pub
/ lie office, but also we find them reti-
cent and tinid in making known to
their fellow-citizens their soundviews
/ on the various questions in which the
projects which socialists are attempt
! ing to enact into laws; they deplore
and bewail it all, but they keep their
wailings within their own family
/ circle.
81 am at a loss to understand how
so many solid substantial American
citizens can sit idly by and allow
scheming, socialistic politicians to
plot against their liberties and seek
| to deprive them of that which is
dearer than life itself. Yet the in
! difference, reticence and apathy of
men of sound judgment is the oppor-
tunity of the propaganda.
The propaganda is much in evil
dence in American life; his methods
are not well known; his appeal is not
directed to reason but to emotions
and sentiment; he seeks to commit
the voters to his scheme before they
have time to reflect on the conse-
quences Of their actions; ne is a keen
student Of American psychology; he
recognizes the fact that the American
| people OF today are not reasoning as
they did in the days of old district
schools. A solid course in logic is
I
education; serious books which would
stimulate thinking are dust-covered.
A generation ago a teacher was
! accounted successful only in propor-
ton to her ability to make her pupils
work and think; nowadays the teach
1 er must do the working and thinking.
while the pupils indulge in light fic-
ton or arrange for their fox-trot and
movies. -Bellows Falls Times.
Vermont Republicanism and Graham.
Apparently the idea was that If ono
man could be convicted and he could
I be prevented from telling anv more
than was positively necessary to con-
wet him, further investigation could
De STAYED of and the rest of the gang
YOU'D be safe. And so former Bank
{ Commissioner Williams was tried
With a great flourish of trumpets. .Rut
the people Of Vermont saw through
the whole game. They wanted to
know just what Mr.. Williams was
prevented from telling. They wanted
TO know how he could be convicted of
Le!ITIhg otner men commit crimes and
therefore presumably innocent,
All TINS becomes the more asto1nd-
ing when 1t is known that it was
commissioner Williams who took +ha
initiative by writing an official Iet-
ter 20 Attorney General Herbert and |
notifying him of the discovery of fbe
shortage in Graham's accounts.
Inc public was told that other men
should not be tried until the IeoisIs- |
ture had chance to look into the /
matter When the legislature tried /
20 investigate, it was told that the /
courts should have chance to trv
the cases. After the legislature was
out OF the way, then the matter was
again postponed. How long can
:, vermont judges themselves afford to
nave TINS sort Of jug-handled justice
In the meantime men and women
and children throughout the state
were being promptly tried and sent to
prison for lesser offences than are
CHARGED against fnrn,ar Rar-,hI;oa. !