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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

in the shuttle of poor roads leading
up to 1t, would build something like
thirty miles of splendid macadamized
roadway, and seven years would gite
us highway, leading from Brattie-
boro through Montpelier to st. Adams.
Seven years more would bd1ld such
a roadway from Bennington via Rut-
land, traversing the present slough of
despond in Addison county, to Eur
lington, connecting az Essex with the
first one and with q cross link from
White River Juctioh to Rutland, via
Woodstock. Another seven years
would put line up the Connecticut
from White River to st. Johnsbury
and Newport, with link from Mont
pelier to st. Johnsbury. Seven years
more would give us stretch across
from ST. Adams to Newport and an
other belt line from Essex to st.
Johnsbury, with enough left for at
least one connecting link across the
mountains at the southern end.
Twenty-eight years and State we'll
tgirdled with the best modern high
ways, at not cent extra cost. By
Increasing the fund, it could be done
in less time. Worth thinking about,
isn't it?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
PRESS COMMENT
What the Newspapers Of Vermont
and Other States Are Saying
About Topics of Interest to
Journal Readers.
ADVANCING VT. AGRICULTURE.
New England Homestead

New England Homestead.l
The first annual report of the Ver-
mont Commissioner of Agriculture,
published few days ago, is meeting
almost unanimous commentator. O.
L. Martin, the energetic commission
er. is obtaining an excellent GRASP of
the agricultural situation in the
Green Mountain State, and IT. must be
remembered that this new department
of agriculture is only yearling. One
of the most encouraging features of
this report is the constructive atti-
tude taken. 1t is very evident the
commissioner does not intend to let
things agricultural get into rut and
run on like the brook, forever He
makes several suggestions for new
departures, one of which is the es-
tablishment of schools for farmers;
this as substitution for farmers in
stitute work. 1t is quite probable
that the college of agriculture of the
University of Vermont at Burlington
will have some mighty good sugges-
tions fer cooperation with Commits
sioner Martin in this line. A lot of
work is being done by the new COM
missioner in the interest of horticul-
ture and farm crops; this with par
ticular reference to apples and corn
two subjects which are now and will
be for some months to come promi-
nently before the attention of New
England farmers. Mr.. Martin is also
getting his COW testing association
work well started. There are now
three and new ones will shortly be
! formed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
THE AUTOMOBILE AGAIN.
(GrOtOn Times.)

More or less automobile agitation is
going the round of the State press and
so far as The Times is able to learn
there is one side of the question that
has not been touched Did you ever
stop to consider what an inconven-
fence and menace to safety the auto
mobile is to the farmer and farmers
wife? No. 1t may be of interest to
know that previous to the advent of
automobiles the farmers wife could
drive to town and do the purchasing
for the family, thereby saving much
of the farmers time and giving the
wife little restful and pleasant trip.
Farmers wives do not do this now.
They don't dare to. 1t would not be
safe. They are almost sure to meet
an automobile if they make the trip,
and rather than jeopardize their life
and limb the housewife remains at
home. This has tendency to de-
crease the sales of the local merchant
and increase the sales of the mail or
der houses.
Automobiles may laugh at this side
of the question but you have only to
go among the farming population to
find plenty of evidence.
The road hogs are numerous. Some
among the horse drivers but more
among the outside automobilists,
many of whom never look back to see
if they have made trouble, or assist
those whom they have injured. Local
Automobiles are more careful and
considerate and try to avoid accidents
to their townspeople, and to them is
set the task, If ever it is done, of
bringing the public in general to re-
Cancellation of the new method OF
travel.
OF course it's fun to ride in an au-
tomobile; it's fun to go at dare devil
speed; it's fun to see the old farm
horse shy, but it's no fun for the far
mer.
Automobiles must stay. But there
ought to be some arrangement where
by automobilists would not be the on
ly persons to enjoy drive along our
beautiful highways. At present the
automobilists have full sway and the
farmers wife must give up the pleas
ure she has been accorded in the past
of the trip to the neighbors or the
village store to do her shopping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

worth infinitely more than a few
thousand dollars worth of lumber
and cord wood. Among the most
beautiful and Inspiring views in the
East are the far reaching forest-clad
stretches of mountains like Mans
field, Cancels Hump and Killington.
Some day, and let us hope that the
day is not far removed, hundreds of
people will visit our mountains
where only tens are attracted now,
provided we do not strip the hillsides
of their forest covering. If we leave
only the ugly nakedness of bare rock,
rotting stumps and tangled underbrush
we may be sure that few people will
travel through such an "abomina.
ton of desolation" to gain the
views from their SUBMITS
1t all comes back 20 the moral of
the ancient fable dealing with the
killing of the goose that laid the
golden egg. The forests conserve
the rainfall upon which our health,
our comfort and cur prosperity de-
pend. They provide us with material
for building purposes, and wise
policy will preserve constantly
maturing timber supply. Upon the
forests we must depend for the beau
ty of the landscape, feature grow
ing more valuable from a CONNER
cial point of view every year, if we
can look no higher than tho money
value &c things.
Vermont must protect he' forests.
1t is no longer merely Il matter of
private ownership. 1t is 6 matter
involving the well being Of every
man, woman and child dwelling with
in the boundaries of this State, and
the sooner we awake to the vast i'm
portance, to the imperative urgency
of wiser methods in forestry regu-
lation, the happier, the richer and
the safer we shall be.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
THE VALUE OF OUR FOREST1.

The Journal is very glad to be
able to quote from the Lyndonville
Union-Journal extracts from letter
written recently by Theodore N.
VAIL regarding the development of
Vermont AS our readers are well
aware, Mr.. Vail is one of the great
est of the present day captains of
industry, and is not afraid of rea-
sonable and honest Government SUI
pervsion of corporations. Mr. Vail
having chosen this State as his home
naturally is interested in its pros
perity, and few men are better quail
flied than he to give expert advice.
He advocates more extensive agri-
culture, forest reservations, and the
stocking of the woods and streams
with game and fish. Mr.. Vail very
wisely suggests forest reservations
embracing the headwaters of our
streams. Such a policy seems to be
absolutely necessary in order to pre-
vent drouths and freshets.
In the mountain towns of Eden
and Lowell may be found the sources
of the Missisquoi, the Lamoille and
the Black rivers. In Granville,
Warren and Roxbury are the head
waters of the White, the Mad and the
| Dog rivers. The town of Orange con-
tains the sources of the Winooski and
the Waits river, one flowing to Lake
Champlain, the other to the Con-
necticut. In the mountain towns
along the ridge that separate Ben
nington and Windham counties may
be found the sources of such rivers
as the Otter Creek, the Deerfeld,
the Battenkill, the West and the Win
hall.
If managed wisely these forests
might be made TO furnish consider
able revenue and in any event the
dwellers in the valleys have a right
to appeal to the State authority for
protection against a policy of forest
cutting that depletes their water
supply and subjects them to the dan
ger of freshets.
Mr.. Vail encloses in his letter an
article from the New York Times,
quoting recent decision of the
United States court, in which Justice
Holmes sustains the State of Maine
in its contention that its police
power is adequate to restrict the
owners of private forests from pursu-
ing policy opposed to the protcc-
ton and promotion of the common
welfare of the people When the
highest court in the land declares
that the State has standing in
court to protect the atmosphere, the
water and the forests within its ter
ritory, irrespective of the assent OIL
dissent of the private owners of the
land most Immediately concerned, ,
II will be seen that the way is clear
for Vermont to exercise almost un.
limited authority in matters pertain,
ing to forestry.
The State might well interfere tC
prevent the stripping of the slopes
of mountain like Mansfield. Sucf
a mountain clothed with verdure IL
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

political management has been no.
toriously bad, and although the eff
forts by Governor Hughes for the
adoption of such a system have not
yet been crowned with success 1t is
very significant that the Legislature
elected this fall contains many mem
bers directly instructed to support
such a measure, while not few of
those who opposed the Human
Green bill were defeated or escaped
by narrow margins. That a man of
the character and standing of Gov
ernor Hughes should advocate such
measure is a very strong argument
in it's favor. In his annual message
to the Legislature of 1909 he said:
"All that is worst in our public life
finds its readiest means of access to
power through the control of the
nominating machinery of parties.
AS the evil so largely
resides in the perversion of repres-
tation we should proceed along the
line of progress by restoring eff
fectively to the many the powers
which properly belong to them and
have been usurped by the few" New
York conventions have been bossed
so long that a real representative
convention is almost unknown. The
delegates wait for orders and when
they are received they register the
will of some higher power.
In Vermont we know that the eau
Gus system is a good deal of a farce.
AS rule handful of voters attend
and the real will of the people often
is not obtained. Even in close con-
tests the votes of large minorities do
not count, whereas in a Statewide
primary every vote would count.
When a convention is almost evenly
divided there are ways by which a
few delegates, enough to secure a
majority, may be obtained. 1t is not
as easy to control voters in 246
tONhS uiQ NIllVS a. IL 10 W COIIdll
handful of delegates.
With real primary election, inter-
est is aroused in manner entirely
different from that shown in the eau
Gus system. 1t brings the respon-
sibility home to the people as the
caucus and convention methods
does not. 1t makes political corrup-
| ton more difficult and the fact that
men like Barnes, Woodruff, Wads-
worth Raines, and other machine
leaders in New York bitterly oppose
the measure is a pretty good argu-
ment with many people in its favor.
The direct primary question is
one that should be discussed thor
oughly by the people of Vermont in
order that they may consider the
subject fairly and intelligently when
the Legislature meets in 1910. 1t is
big question, one on which much
may be said on both sides, but it is
one that cannot be ignored. The
fact that States have used it are not
willing to abandon it certainly is a
strong point in favor of the system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
HORACE F. GRAHAM.
(Morrisville Messenger

We notice that the Burlington
Free Press is carefully grooming a
citizen of that city for the responsible
position of State Auditor to succeed
Horace F. Graham of Craftsbury. If
the people of this State know their
business, and we think they do, they
will not let any aspirant, however
worthy, push the present incumbent
out of office. "The Watchdog of the
State Treasury" is a term that fits
Horace F. Graham perfectly. Amid
all the eXtravagances of public Off
Gals; the foolish acts of foolish
Legislature, this man has stood as
solid as a rock. He has done every
thing In his power to prevent the
looting of the State Treasury. He
has used his influence, in every hon
orable way, to curb legislation that
was not in the interest of the tax
payers. He has carefully scrutinized
every bill that has been sent him
to audit, and if it was not absolutely
correct and in compliance in every
detail with the statutes, it has not
been paid. Auditor Graham has saw
ed the State thousands of dollars ev-
cry year. He is absolutely honest;
absolutely incorruptible; absolutely
accurate and just in all his work
The State should retain his services
just as long as it possibly can. Wheth'
er he wants to be renominated or not
we do not know, but we do know thai
he ought to be renominated, no matter
who wants his place and, If we do no
greatly mistake the temper of the peo
Pile, he will be renominated unani
mously.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
THE DIRECT PRIMARY.

One of the live topics of the times,
and one that is growing more lively
every day, is the direct primary sys-
TEN. This is plan in the interest
of better and more representative
government, whereby the present
caucus and convention system shall
be abandoned, and nominations made
by direct vote of the people. Under
the Hinman-Green bill, which was
favored by Governor Hughes, but was
rejected by the New York Legisla-
designation of candidates in two
ways, by party committees acting
under legal regulations or by petit
ton signed by prescribed number
of enrolled party voters.
The system of direct primaries is
now in force in some form in more
than two-thirds of the States whose
population numbers more than half
of the population of the entire nation.
Fifteen States, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wis
consin, with a population exceed
ing 25,O00,0O0, have mandatory laws
adopting this system of nominating
candidates for practically all offices.
Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
have mandatory laws covering nom
nations for all but State offices. In
California. > Indiana, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Michigan and Tenne-
see mandatory direct primaries are
held for certain offices or in certain
localities and in Alabama, Florida,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Michigan
the laws permit the use of this sys-
TEN in nominating practically all Of
fcers. Connecticut, Delaware, Mary
land, Maine, North Carolina and
Rhode Island have certain provisions
Tor optional direct primaries. In
many other States. particularly in
the Southern States not specified in
the above lists, party rules have been
adopted providing for mandatory
Statewide direct primaries. 1t is q
noteworthy fact that no State has
abandoned the direct primary sys-
TEN, having once given it a trial. and
returned to the old caucus and con,
vention system.
The fight for direct primaries
which has attracted the most atten,
ton has been in New York, wher,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

One of the principal counts in the
indictment against Speaker Cannon
in his stubborn attitude against the
policy of forest reserves in the White
and Appalachian Mountains, a pro-
ject even more important than the
irrigation policy in the West, be-
cause it is more needful that existing
industries be saved than that new
areas shall be opened.
Not only Vermont, but the whole
Nation must go to school in order to
learn the extreme urgency, the i'm
lcrative necessity, of q wise forest
policy to be undertaken speedily.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Washington country has reason to
be proud of the showing made by
Sheriff F. II. Tracy in the Jail account
just made public Not only is it an ex-
ceedingly creditable thing to be able
to turn over to the State Treasurer
balance of over $1,000, but what is
infinitely better is the work of real
reform carried on quietly, which sends
the prisoners out at the expiration OF
their terms of sentence better men in
stead of hardened criminals.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
1trntpnt @Mthmtan.
VERMONT GRANITE.

Tho limited States Geological Sur
vev has Just issued a bulietin vi
.Tbe Granite of Vermont written
nv r. Nelson Dale, which contains
much valuable information. While
the present period, when depression
exists in the Washington county
granite trade, owing to labor diificui-
ties. may not be the most opportune
time for a discussion of the SUBJECT
tho shutdown is believed to be only
a temporary one, and the information
contained in the report is valuaoie
and encouraging.
According to this bulletin the total
value of granite produced IN tne
United States, in 1907, was $lS,oob-
ESQ. Vermont's output being valued
at s2.693. SS9 or 1892 per cent OF the
total value of granite sold in the
limited States. For the first time
Vermont led all the other states
with Massachusetts a close second
and Maine third, though not far be-
hind In 1906 Vermont sold 11.44
per cent of the granite sold, rough
and dressed, for building stone In
the United States. The total for the
country in 1907 showed a consider
able decrease, and Vermonts per-
centage was 1920 per cent. In 1907
Vermont sold 1915 per cent OF all
the granite of the country produced
for monumental work, or over one
third of the total output.
The distribution of granite begins
at the north with quarries in
Derby, east OF Lake Memphremagog,
in Orleans county. In Caledonia
county, granite is found in Newark
in the northeast corner, in Kirby,
fourteen miles south; in Hardwick,
in the western corner; and in Rye
gate and Groton, in the southern
mart There are three groups OF
uuarries in Washington county. In
the northern section are deposits in
Woodbury. and Cabot; south of these
are the Calais quarries; and in the
southern part of the county are the
Barre quarries, the most extensive
in the State. A few of the Barre
group of quarries are over the Or
ange county line. There are also
granite deposits in Randolph. Wind
sor county contains the white gran
lite deposits of Bethel, quarry in
Rochester, and the green granite of
Mount Ascutney in Windsor and
West Windsor. There is also light
granite quarry in Dummerston,
Windham county, near the southern
border of Vermont.
The bulletin gives among the 40
table buildings and monuments made
of Vermont granite the State Cap
itols of Vermont, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin, the State Library and Su-
perior Court buildings at Hartford,
the Union Station and the first and
second stories of the National Muse
UNI at Washington, the Cook County
Court House, at Chicago, the Prison
Ship Martyrs monument at Brook
Ign and the sarcophagi for President
and Mrs. Mckinley at Canton, Ohio.
Vermont has really made only a
beginning in the development of the
granite industry. The treasures OF
the hills awaiting the quarryman
are vast and varied and another
decade should see very large ex-
tension of the stone industry of the
State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
ANIMAL MEETING.

The stockholders Of the Capital
Savings Bank and Trust Company are
hereby notified to meet in the rooms
of said bank in Montpelier, Vermont
on the 18th day of January, 1910, at
Q o'clock in the afternoon to elect
seven trustees for the year ensuing
and to transact any other proper and
necessary business.
FRANK N. SMITH, Treasurer
Montpelier, Vermont, Dec. 8, 1909.
DIG to J13-10.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

The village of Orleans loses one of
its principal industries in the burn
ing of the piano supply plant of E.
L. Chandler and Company. 1t is hop
ed that the plant may be rebuilt and
that the industry may be saved for
that enterprising community.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
PERMANENT ROADS.

What Vermont is expanding yearly
in here and there small patch OF So
called permanent road, scattered
about so widely as 10 be almost lost
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Tongue coated? Bitter taste? Com
plexion sallow? Liver needs waking
up. Doan's Regulets cure bilious
attacks. 20 cents at any drug store.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-12-09

so STRIKINGLY HANDSOME AT.
LANTA WOMAN TESTIFlES.
TWO GIRLS STOPPED.

Atlanta, Dec. S-Cleo Evans, a strik-
ingly handsome young Atlanta woman.
confessed to the police this afternoon
that she was an agent in the white
slave traffic, and asked the officers to
detain two young women, who were to
leave for Columbus, Ga, shortly.
The police found the young girls at
the station, waiting for Miss Evans.
The latter had two tickets to Column
us, which she said had been sent to
her for the girls use by the keeper
of a disCrderly house there. The
Evans woman was formerly a book
keeper in this city, but said she had
been in Columbus, and was sent on
here to recruit young women. The
girls she had selected were but Is
years of age. They sat in court and
laughed and giggled as though the
whole affair was a joke. The Evans
woman said: Il strayed away my
self, but at the last moment | had
not the courage to lead these tive chill
dren into that life. | want you to
know what | have done, and want to
have those children saved
Police Judge Broyles believes that
tae woman thought she was under
suspicion, and took this means of es-
Gaping punishment, but he was forced
to dismiss her. His suspicious were
strengthened by the fact that the
brother of one of the girls was fol-
lowing the trio. Tho younger girls
will be sent to the house of the Good
Shepherd
In dismissing the Evans woman the
magistrate said: IF l ever hear of
your doing this again l will do what
can to send you to the penitentiary."
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-12-09
SHERiFF'S SALE.

State CT Georgia.-County of GlynD,
Will be sold before the courthouse
door of Glynn county, Georgia, on the
first Tuesday in January, 1910, dur
ing the legal hours of sale, the
following described property to-wit {;
Old Town lot No. three hundred and
forty-five (345) in the city of Bruns
wick, Glynn county, Georgia, accord
ing to the Baldwin map of said CITY
with Improvements thereon Levied
on and to be sold as the properr' i
J. Basil Davis under and by virtue
of an execution issued from the city
court of Brunswick, in favor of tie
National Bank of Brunswick, and
against j. Basil Davis for s., S00.i7
principal $159.42 interest and $15.2b
cost.
This December Sth, 1909.
w. n. Berrie,
Sheriff Glynn County. Georgia.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-12-09
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