St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-02-20
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
Vermont Interests and the Knockers.


When academic discussion of the pro-
iect to promote the development OF Yer
mont's varied interests is in progress,
we are all enthusiasts. When it comes
to some concrete project, however, then
many of us are inclined to speedily be-
come pessmists Many Vermonters are
anxious to advertise the Green Mount
ain state until somebody shows that it
will require some money to carry out
the idea, when they suddenly crawl into
their shells, being careful to leave their
mouths where they can be heard utter
ing shrill and discordant protests.
The representation of Vermont at the
Jamestown exposition affords an excel
lent case in point During the past two
years the press has been filled with good
resolves and people on the street corners
have argued that we should do some
thing to attract the attention of people
outside of our state to Vermont's
beauties and advantages as a resort.
The last republican platform contained
plank calling for measures of this kind.
1t is fact generally recognized that in
order to do effective advertising you
must reach the people to whom you are
trying to cater, and not assume that
they will find you out after searching for
you. Some people seem to believe that
we can insert an advertisement in our
local papers and reach the people of
other states whom we are endeavoring
to attract to Vermont.
Be this as it may when the state
through our lawmakers acting on the
we'll known public sentiment in favor of
advertising Vermont voted to provide
for the representation of our common
wealth at the Jamestown exposition, GER
tain people in the state at once began a
crusade against the idea and some have
even gone so far as to say that politics
can be found in this criticism. We do
not know how this may be but certainly
there is divergence of opinion with
reference to the project. The Montpelier
Journal comments as follows:
The Randolph Herald last week printed
an amusing account of the spellbindina
process whereby a Vermont Legislator,
was mesmerized into voting an appro
priation for the Jamestown exposition
The Legislature of 1906 was a some
what impossible body but the real trut
OF the Jamestown idea was that tn
administration" that all powerful ide;
parsonage or group that made histor
so rapidly in the hours of the receI
assembly, had passed it's o. K. ar
Jamestown was a fact. And the carr
ing out of the idea cannot be consider,
in any other light than as an admin
tration measure.
To this the Bennington Banner, viii
can hardly be charged with unstint
praise of all things done by the admin
tration replies as follows:
Then score another for the admin
tration. The appropriation was one
the most sensible and every way desi
BILE made by the recent Legislature.
will not be the fault Of the administ
ton if the committee wastes the
preparation on building which is
warranted by the amount available q
in junketing trips. The appropriation
ample for the purposes intended, if II
with care and judgment
We believe that the commission vii
able to so expend the sum appropria
for the purpose of representing Verm
at the Jamestown exposition that
state will receive large amount
advertising of the best kind as a res
and if they succeed in accomplishing
result nobody will have just reason
complaint. On the contrary the c
mission will be entitled to the thanl
the state for its services Burlin,
Free Press.