Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-02

! NUMBER OF people who spend the sum- |
mer in the Green Mountain state, and
perhaps, treble your income from
summer visitors.
| This summer business can be enor-
mously developed in a thousand and
one ways. Again, winter sports can
| be SO promoted as to attract thou
sands of people and millions of mon
ey from the great cities. Switzer-
land doing this SO successfully that
the income of some Swiss resorts is al
ready as great in winter as in summer
/ PROMOTE THE NEW EDUCATION. |
(f) Give better support to agricul-
ture and education. So organize the
promotion of farming and the better
ment of schools that both will work
hand in hand with the utmost efficien
cy and at the least expense in every
school district, town and county This
calls for liberal appropriations from
the state treasury, but still more does
this policy call for the brains and ex-
perience, genius and judgment, re-
quired to carry it out.
School agriculture, domestic science
and manual training should be vital
part of education. My little weekly
of that name makes this entirely feast
BILE in every school. Hitch together
the school. the home and the shop, in
stead Of having them entirely separat-
ed.
Provide short-coUrse schools of from
three to six days, in each township
or district to be attended by old and
young. Here demonstrate in a prac-
teal way the latest about the know
ing and doing of the agricultural,
home and industrial interests of the
different communities. Not one per-
iy, f,,7
Of the marvellous array of knowledge
means and methods which can thus be
be made practically available to all the
people.
The commissioner of agriculture
needs to be one of the greatest con-
structive forces in the state. with all
the men and money needed for the job
Figuratively speaking, the better
farming movement must have enough
: dynamite in it to blow up the indiffer-
ent farmer who is still in the same
> rut with his forefathers, who still
SCOTS at new tangled ideas" While
such farmers are growing fewer by de-
grees and beautifully less, to reach
= this type means no end of practical
demonstrations and "show me" object
= lessons.
: There should be cow testing associ-
ations in every township. All the
sheep farmers in a county or in a
bunch of towns should unite in local
sheep society, to study the sheep in
dustry in a thoroughly practical, sci
entific, up-todate, businesslike, TWEEN
tieth-centUry manner.
Every county and town farm should
be branch of the state experiment
station. Part of every fair ground
should be used for demonstra ton
methods and crop growing in new ways.
D Feeble schools should be consolidated,
: every school provided with gardens
conducted by the pupils, and the school,
house should be made center of So
! cial, civic and intellectual life The
:, churches should co-operate-suppiant
I churchianity by simple Christianity!
e OTHER THINGS NEEDED.
Revise the tax laws so that taxes
shall be borne by those best able to
pay. instead of loading down the peo-
2 pie least able to pay. Legislate for
humanity first, and for property sec
. ond. Let the laws favor individual
a character rather than special priv
lege.
Enact clear-cut laws enabling every
t farmer to protect his crops and stock
{ from the depredations of birds, deer,
{ dogs. Do you realize how many OF
d your farmers have been bulldozed into
believing that they haven't the right
i to shoot deer that is destroying their
n young orchard or other crops? Under
these conditions, how can you expect
them to devote time, money anC
n brains in developing orchards. AS tt
J, dogs your whole sytem Of Legislation
/ results IN propagating worthless mon
: grels to prey upon the sheep who's
n golden hoofs should annually bring un
$ told wealth into the state
Encourage forestry. PrOte ct agains
: forest fires. Develop wat powe
n and sell it at cost to homes, farms
e factories. Establish rural mountat
r warders to safeguard people and prop
d erty, to prevent crime. and thus kee
y down taxes. Promote good roads.
e EXPAND THE MIND
r Above all the minds of the people O
e Vermont must be TRANSFORMED The
v must come to look forward, rathe
g than backward. They must have new
e vim, vigor, snap, energy, GO, ''git
3, up-and-git.
L. They should give the glad hand t
y the foreigner. Help the new settler
Sc whether from this country or iron
across the seas. to happiness and sue
e cess under Vermont conditions. Re
:, vivify rural life!
n This is big program. Years vii
Ia be required to carry out it fully, bu
re now is the time to begin. Make
Id start, keep at it, and amazing prog
n ress will result.
. OBJECTIONS? WHAT OF IT!
TX realize that every imaginable oh
y lection will be raised to this policy fo
the regeneration of Vermont, and t
L our plan for developing this policy
1t There are plenty of DIRECTORS in Yer
% mont.
u You have too many kickers, too few
IS boosters. Ten will criticize a grea
,, constructive policy to one who ca
ID suggest feasible improvements.
IN But this is expected. The Who'll
:, problem must be put in all possibl
{, ways before all the people all the time
'C If this is done efficiently. the peopl
will quickly grasp the situation am