The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-10-04
LAST MESSAGE
OF GOV. BELL
Delivered Before General AS
sembly Today
THE CATTLE COMMISSION
Should Reduce Price Paid for Tubercu-
losis Cattle and carcasses Should
Be Burned OF Buried at
Once.
THE CATTLE COMMISSION

The message Of the retiring governor
Of Vermont, Charles ]. Bell, as delivered
before the legislature at Montpelier this
morning was as follows:
Gentlemen Of the General Assembly:
y is the duty, as well as the- pleasant
privilege Of the retiring executive, to call
the attention Of the incoming legislature
to matters of general interest and inn
lportance. will endeavor to do 50 brief.
| hi, making such recommendations Ill ex-
lperience suggest to be wise and for the
best interests Of the state and all IFS
people
Our Schools
/ The legislature Of 1904 did a most
ecmmendable thing when II passed the
/ bill making the S24o,000 received from
the Spanish American war claim the
nucleus OF a permanent school fund.
appointed commission, of which Hon.
Joseph al DeBoer of Montpelier was
chairman, TO see that this fund was safe.
! " and productivity invested ! heartily
approve the recommendation OF this com
mission and Of the Superintendent of
Education that this fund be combined
with the Huntington fund and the
United States deposit money toward a
permanent and adequate common school
fund.
On August ! 1905, | appointed Hon.
Mason s. Stone Of Montpelier, State
Superintendent Of Education. This was
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigIlt-
.4f1 =
Commissioner Of Public Schools for the
State Of Rhode Island. Mr. Stone II 4
tireless worker III the interests of our
schools and an ardent advocate Of con
slant improvement along educational
iires. am heartily in sympathy with
his efforts for more ideal educational
system and recommend his suggestions
IN this respect as fully set forth in his
valuable biennial report
/ Our normal schools are doing good
work. Teachers educated there should
feel under obligation u fll positions in
4 the state for a given time, ii required.
Morrill, Hall now under construction,
! a part Of the university Of Vermont and
state Agricultural College at Burlington,
viii offer exceptional advantages to the
farmer boys Of Vermont in fitting them
for careers of success and usefulness In
their chosen calling.
Our colleges are prosperous and CON
siantly gaining in influence. Would not
some plan for their better cooperation
and specialization be in the interests Of
economy and greater efficieneyg For in.
stance, with Burlington and Middlebury
for the higher education Of the young
linen and women aud Norwich devoted
exclusively to military science apd en-
gineerng, would we not obtain the best
possible resultsg
Among recent profitable experiments
have been the school for manual training
lat Woodstock, and the series Of public
institutes in the interest of elementary
! agriculture in our public schools. We are
coming to realize the necessity and i'm
lportance Of healthy. welldeveIoped
body as well as an active mind The
boy who can drive nail. or strike twice
lin the same place with an OK, or tell the
essential points Of good horse OF COW
and the girl who can sew, cook and lay
the table well, Is better prepared for thu
battle and responsibility OF lie than the
one who is ignorant OF such things.
] believe, az does the Superintendent OF
H Education, that an ideal educational sys.
fem for Vermont must include equality
IN support and advantages, efficiency IN
administration and supervision, an AIDE.
iquate and prodnctible permanent school
fund and an unrestricted course of study
al its essential features
Good things always cost something
but we are not disposed to complain
when we see that we arc getting oui
moneys worth. In oar transaction Of
public business we should always excr-
else a wise economy. There is, how
ever, an economy that il shoftsighted
Iibcrality is economical when the educa
ton of our children is under considera-
zion We can make no siirer provision
fof the continued success and prosperity
OF Vermont than by providing the best
possible educational advantages.
Deaf, Dumb and Blind and Feeble
Minded Children.
Az Vermont has no school for these
classes, provision is made by law foi
their education at approved institutions
ia other states.
The Governor by virtue Of his Office
Il made Commissioner Of these wards d
the State. and specified sum is annual
lly appropriated for their benefit.
The number OF children now being
educated In this way i SO. including one
blind girl residing II the State who has
been furnished supplies for educational
purposes at. home These pupils are APP
potioped among the several institution.
as follows; Massachusetts, School for the