Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-25

Representation formS natural part or
the water power development. and keeps
more of Vermont soil and sunshine earn
ing for Vermonters.
OUR WAR VETERANS
From time immemorial the defenders
OF the home have been rightly given first
place In our hearts and esteem.
We were deeply stirred by the heoric
spirit displayed by our men and their
families in responding to the duty to fight
In life and death struggle against an
enemy of unknown strength.
No matter how much We may praise
the worthy worker who produces the
shelter. the clothing and the food for the
protection and subsistence of the family
there is something that makes our hearts
swell when we think of those who have
offered their lives to the service of de-
Tending the country.
We find many of these men who have
been in the war service now returned TO
civil life If we are losing any of that
deep sense of admiration, OF esteem. of
all that is best in hero worship in the
human heart, there is something funda-
mentally wrong with our scheme of life
The welfare of our people depends on our
continued expression of regard, pro-
lection. interest in and love for the men
who offered their all in the defense of
their homes, their State, their country
and civilization. The protection of our
homes by the fighters must be backed up
by true America nism in the hearts of us
all If we are to fully protect ourselves
from the insidious internal enemies or
society.
THE WORKERS
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first. but second only TO the defenders
come the producers Of the necessities of
life and those who cooperate in some
essential way with the producers
FIRST of these are the mothers who
work in care of the home. the mothers
who always bear the hardest part of
war and peace burdens
| The workers interests arc very many
ranging as they do from activities in the
home; the store, that serves a useful
purpose as a distributor;-the actual pro-
ducer Of food. clothing and shelter in
our great transportation system, and in
| our Industries
| There must he the keenest interest in
the opportunities of the worker
| There is no greater menace to our CIV
| ilization than the misunderstanding that
Is altogether too common between the
so-called capitalist and the worker
Any plan of progress that fails to
recognize the workers interest as second
only to the defenders of our homo is
sure to be fundamentally wrong.
| This part of the plan is too big to state
in this preliminary statement Perhaps
my intentions may he Judged from the
fact that, az a manufacturer, I have not
Joined ORGANIZATIONS that We're created
to combat tho labor organizations. and
7 hat IyA,,t Ia,
ward shorter hours leading first from
ten hours to nine nearly twenty ago.
and for number of years ran on the free
Saturday afternoon basis and now on the
eight hour basis
There can be no progress for Vermont
that does not ~ the workers interests
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
The question of woman's suffrage Is
prominently in the public mind at pres
ont. Ny conviction is that this country
and this state belong as much 10 the
women as 10 the mon; that the future Of
the state and nation. which Ia the future
or our sons and daughters, is of az much
intimate concern to the mothers as ia
the fathers. ! behave there should bt
no more distinction Of sex than there is
of creed and that there should be timel,
amending Of our federal constitution ir
this regard.
The 18th amendment to the Fedora
Constitution and the enforcement ac
, passed by Congress are both before thu
United States Supreme Court
When this whole matter is cleared W
1t VIII be the time for definite state
ment.
1t is my purpose to use the publicit,
or the campaign for the industrial ad
Vancement OF Vermont and Vermonter,
and l hope thereby to eliminate some O
CONTINUED ON Dage 3ourl