The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-25
ARLINGTON

Eddie Conroy is giving his attention
ito jitney enterprise which he has just
opened. If you want to make a train
on record time; to me met on the ar
rival OF a train; to reach any point
day or night; to make your home af-
ter dark no matter what the obstacle
or the indisposition that looms big and
large, call upon Eddie. He'll get you
there if within the power of a strong
arm, a clear eye and well broke and
trained flivver.
When the Israelites reached the end
of their unhappy journey of forty
1 years, and stood facing the outlook Of
the promise land, they were given a
sign by which to distinguish, it from all
other lands. IT'S a land of brooks
and waters" And so they found 1t.
Brooks everywhere, and where a
brook could not make its way through
the land, the river took up the job.
Literally the whole land of Canaan
was soaked much to the disgust of the
Jew. But for all that, there is no land
or country in all the world as fine as
| the land of Canaan to him. Arlington
can go the land of Canaan one better.
Brooks, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes
have spread themselves over the land,
but we are not kicking, not in the
least, in fact we are very happy that
so much of the beautiful is finding it's
way to the sea in a perfectly decent
and sane manner. Arlington can take
care of itself. This the land of Can
aan did not always do.
An observer around town need have
no doubt but what Equal Rights for
Women will win out. There are as
many pair or rubber boots in female
attire going and coming these days as
of the opposite sex. Some of the men
are wearing low shoes, not being able
to find their rubber boots. 1t must be
that they did not look very carefully
for their wet weather equipment, for
it cannot be that-well, the thought is
not to be entertained for moment,
but on the other hand, you never can
tell what is likely to happen as the
spirit of Susan B. Anthony goes march
ing on. The majority of our men have
quite small feet
The Coming Town Meeting
The various lines of activity in pre-
paration for the coming Town Meet
ing scheduled for next Tuesday after
noon, are focusing in spirit of de-
termination to show whether modern
progressiveness and efficiency are
more desirable than the conservatism
of our fathers. The issue Is squarely !
up to the majority of the last Town |
Meeting.
The world moves, not for the sake of |
moving, but because it cannot stand |
still; il never did stand still, and what |
is more, it never will Our fore-fath- |
ers saw it move, and as best they |
could, moved with it, not very last, |
but lust fast enough to render it pos |
sible for their children to grasp the |
evolutionary fundamen ais of life; to |
enlarge and make clearer the vision |
of possibilities, and TO qualify those, |
who are, by the commonest of all com |
mon laws OF life, to get right sense |
of the value of essentials, to see things !
-facts--in their right proportion, and |
above all, to build into The lives of /
those who are to come after the pre-
sent, those qualifications for work, |
for invention, for the anticipation of
yet greater things to come. No man
liveth to himself, and no man dieth
70 himself This is the law of life
for it is the law of service. We are
the children of our fathers, and to live
in the honor and the dignity of our
inheritance we ought to give to our
children even as we received from
those who first turned our feet towards
the open future.
The ways through which we have
gone for years with no uncertain tread
or misgivings, were once entangle-
ments which daunted all save those
of stout hearts and clear vision. The
wilderness gave away to the vigor OF
mental and spiritual thought
and purpose, and we, the inheritors,
enjoy, or ought to enjoy this with all
and in the keen sense of
a spirit of responsibility to those who
are soon to test and mould the future;
that they pass out into the years to
come over and through ways which
we have helped them to oren euuipp-
ed with all necessary qualifications
and insnired and encouraged by our
hearty interest in all things that help
to round out and make for useful and
happy lives This is duty, respon-
sibility, an obligation resting upon all.
The cost is as nothing. The opportun-
ity constitutes a larger inheritance
than the conservation and insurance of
any financial possibility Dollars are
and can only purchase i'm
personal things, Minds are personal
and produce personalities which be-
come blessing or a curse according
to the way they are fed or starved.
"The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world" but the School House
in which the mind is developed de-
termines what that rocking shall
to.