Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-06-01

success. Inc congregational church
was filled Sunday morning at union
service IN honor OF the day and the
men for whom the day was establish
ed.
A bare representation of the boys of
81 were present, five in number, but
they were escorted by several Sons of
Veterans and Associate members of
the G. A. r. There was special
music, Rev. Turner assisted Rev.
J. j. Hutchinson in the service and the
points Mr.. Hutchinson brought out
were most interesting and instruc-
tive. He said the fruits of the strug-
gle of the Civil war were being enjoy
ed by this day and generation because
the veterans of the Civil war did in
their day their duty. He said that we
of our day have our duty to perform
and how well we perform that duty
now determines what future genera
tons will enjoy. There is no way of
avoiding our responsibility and our
future national life and liberty is be-
ing written now by our day and gen.
GRAFTON.
Monday was perfect day and
long procession formed at the school
yard shortly after o'clock, headed by
the band. Following the band came
the school children, three veterans in
the II. r. Barron car, and two on foot
with the color bearer. Then came
veterans of the World war, Knights
Templar, Guards of the Sacret Heart
of ST. Paul's church and Woodmen,
making an unusually long line. After
proceeding to the cemetery under the
marshalling of N. R. Underwood,
where the graves of departed soldiers
and members of the organizations
were decorated, and returning to Sea-
ver's hall there were exercises under
the direction of E. G. Collision. The
band furnished splendid music for
the occasion under the leadership of
A. G. Owen.
Rev. M. A. Turner gave the address
of the day. A summary of what he
said may be summed up as follows:
"There is tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune; ,.r.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries."
There comes to every individual in
his life flood tide which if he makes
use of, will lead to success; if neglect
ed may bring distress and failure.
This is equally true of nations. Take
for an example Egypt; she was a ma
ton of power and prosperity until
she took the Children of Israel into
bondage. Because of her sins against
these people curses came upon her,
and the plaques were not removed un-
til she had liberated them. Greece
was a nation of culture and refine
ment until she went into evil prac-
tees. Rome fell because of slavery
and debauchery. Today Russia is
literally broken to pieces and the
question is, who can gather up the
fragments and make a united nation
again? -
The Civil war was our great ma
tional crisis. To meet this crisis men
were called from the common ranks.
You men who enlisted for service
were from these ranks. When the
nation needed leader to guide its
affairs through this period it did not
call millionaire, an aristocrat, nor
an autocrat, but it chose Abraham
Lincoln from the common folk.
Those were not days of selfishness.
Vermont, although one of the small
ler states, was not lacking in loyalty
and patriotism. On April Va, 75,-
900 men were called for, Vermont's
quota being 78O. The legislature ap-
$1,O0O,OOO, and provided
six regiments for two years. May z.
two regiments were called and before
May IL, five regiments were ready
One in every 10 men enlisted. OF
age, every other one.
You are the living memorials. You
were the right hand of the nation in
it's time of need. We have other per-
petual reminders in the soldiers mon
which are scattered all over
our country, and in the biographies
of such great men as Lincoln, Gar
field and Mckinley.
The cost of the war was $2,700,000,-
900, an insignificant sum compared
with the loss of human life.
Sixty years ago the South was in
secession and slavery and the negro
was in bonds. Today the country is
united and the negro is legally free
the last 60 years: In the early six
the stage coach, now it is the palace
car and automobile. In 1860 the to-
tai railroad mileage was 30,626 and
in 1919 it was 233, 592, an increase of
202, 1866. Sixty years ago word was
sent by messengers; today we have
1 1854, 1885, miles Of telegraph wire, and
% ,281, $50 miles of telephone. Sixty
years ago war messages were carried
by footmen or on horseback; in 1918
by motorcycle, airplane and by wire.
Sixty years ago it took weeks to cross
the ocean; in 1919, SO hours, 58 min
ltes by airplane. Wireless telegra-
ply is indispensable and wireless tel
,phone that will cross the ocean with
it's service in the not far distant fu-
lure. In 1860 the imports were
53,616,119; in 1919 5000, 876,582
an increase of $2,742, 200 ,463. Ex-
ports 1888, SIG, 057; 1919 $7,225, O84,-
257; an increase of $6,891 sos, 200.
During the. World war it was the
United States that went long way
towards feeding the world, financing
he war, and that gave the best of
her young manhood to save the day
or right.
The road that has been leading
through the years toward the success
hat this nation has made, was not
Ill through the avenues of pleasure
tut by self-sacrifice and industry;
md this road is paved with the bodies
f heroic men, and cemented together
With patriotism which never dies.
nd washed in the blood of nations