Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-13

one of the federal governments many
agricultural activities, at salary
anywhere from $1,000 to $500 a year. 1t
seems to me the boys of Vermont are
overlooking good thing right here.
The Sources Of the States Wealth.
After agriculture. which remains the chief
single industry i'm Vermont, the granite,
marble, slate, soapstone and limestone
quarries employ the largest number Of
hands Of any Of the states activities.
The granite quarries are located at
Barre, which has 100 firms engaged in
the granite trade at Montpelier, North
field, Hardwick Woodbury., South Rye
gate, Groton. Calais. West Concord, and
West Danville. Marble quarries are
worked at Proctor,-the seat Of the
largest company the Vermont Marble
company,-at West Rutland, Middlebury,
Dorset East Dorset, Pittsford, and Fow-
Ter Poultney is the chief centre of slate
quarrying. Slate is taken out also at
Castleton, Fair Haven, Hydeville, North
field, Pawlet, West Pawlet, and Wells.
Soapstone is quarried at Weathersfield
and Chester Depot, and limestone quar-
ries are at Isle La Motto. Nermonts
mineral operations are capable Of further
large development.
There are IFS creameries and 80 cheese
factories in operation, and % firms manu-
featuring farm machinery and impe-
specialties are made in % factories, dis
tributed among a dozen cities. II cities
and towns have iron fouudries. Pulp
mills operate in ten places completing
the destruction of the states forests.
Cotton goods manufacturing is done i'm
but four cities, but wooden goods and
knit goods are large industries I'm Yer
mont. Bennington is the centre OF this
trade, though IL other cities and towns
share in IT, Bellows Falls is the states
centre in paper manufacturing. There
are mills also In Tutney and Bennington,
Bratteboro and half dozen other
places. The Estey and Carpenter organs
are made al Brattlcboro the principal
city in Southeastern Vermont. and one
Of the pleasantest communities in a
galaxy of beautiful cities.
Vermont may not consume much
patent medicine, but she supplies it in
enormous quantities to the rest of the
country Burlington is the seat OF one Of
the largest patent medicine factories
in America. and Of several smaller plants
besides. This trade is shared by 10
other Vermont cities. and yields a sur
prisingly large revenue The new pure
food and drug law has to some extent
hampered this TRADE.
Taken altogether Vermont makes a
highly creditable showing in manufac-
lures. She has plenty OF water power,
much Of it unused. but rarely enough
at any one place to supply all the power
for large industry. Much OF her power
must be produced by steam, and coal.
as well as nearly all OF the raw materials.
must be shipped in by rail Remote from
the markets and from the seaboard. Yer
monters overcome these natural obstacles
by developing superior grade Of bust
ness ability ana working harder than
their competitors in more favorable local
tiles.
Unlike most other states. Vermont has
no department of labor, or of industrial
supervision in her state government.
There has been no demand for it. The
growth in this line has been too recent.
ana the conditions in Vermont industries
are almost without exception So favor
aple TO the people employed i'm then, that
they nave not been moved to call upon
the state for protection
Extending the Public School system
The Western man is surprised to learn
lhat IN vermont, a state more than n
century old. high schools have only re-
Gentry come within the province Of free
Pupnc education. There have been many
senlnaries and academies in the state
some OF them very old, which did I'M, vyorl,
OF me nigh schools but were not part of tho
PuoIc school system. The state until
Ia'eIE provided only primary education
Tree. There was no mandatory biyb
scHooI law requiring towns and cities
10 provide free high school cducotior
until 1896. There are today ~ Iist
schools and free academies doing hiyb
school work There are I'm addition -
private seminares and academies doing
hlsh school and college preparatory work
me three colleges-Niddlebur Norwich
ana 'he merely nominal State University
crown the states educational svster1
4hTee state normal schools train Yer
mont teachers for their work Vermont
mas not Yet accepted her duty to proyida
lree college education for all her sons
ana daughters / believe none of tho
states mas yet done so: in none Of them
Ho'S me public school system include
Tree education in college or uulyersItv
II Is the practice in all the state colleges
ana universities, I believe. to charge mi
tion tees. state Superintendent Morrison
OF New Hampshire and State Supcrin
tehGeht stone OF Vermont. are urging
thelr state legislatures to include free coll
leEe education in the public school svs-
tenn They advise also that free indus
trlaI education be extended as rapidly as
suitable teachers can be obtained
Mr. stone says Accepting the prin-
clple that the child is educated for So
ciety and the state, then there is no To-
gical stopping place below a college edu-
cation The common schools high
schools and colleges are supposed to pre-
pare Tor life; consequently, the state has
duty In such preparation. 1t is as es-
sental that there shall be scientists in
agriculture as that there shall be farm
ers; as necessary that there shall be
social and industrial leaders and re-
formers as that there shall be voters.
therefore unrestricted opportunities
should be afforded each to secure tnat
equipment for life for which he is adap-
ted. Although ii can be deferred for a
ume' the next step beyond free high
school advantages is free university
course"
A. Glimpse into the Future Of Higher
Education.
With the leaven thus working among
professional educators, and the average
citizens advancing conception Of the
states duty to its members, il is likely
that the next generation will see not one
but many states engaged to provide for
al their youth a complete free college
education, with such special Industrial
education as may be sought by students
whose chief talent is in that direction.
Already we perceive the desire of the
larger universities to become postpaid
uate schools, leaving undergraduate work
Tor the state univeTsities-in the West,
at any rate. The educational work of
the future may possibly be divided along
these lines, the state undertaking to car
ry the youth through primary secondary
ana college courses, and the lavishly
endowed private observation-disclosures,
yale, Princeton, Chicago, etc.,-affording