Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-22
The Picture Of Progress.

culture. have become convinced that
the secret of New England's future
prosperity lies along two great avenues
of endeavor. One is labelled "Asricui-
tural Progress and the other Manu-
featuring Progress" The avenue which
| is labelled Agricultural Progress Is
lined with fertile New England farms,
cultivated to the highest degree under
scientific methods of intensive farming.
| All the farmers are joined together in
cooperative buying and selling organ
izations and the highest type of farm
animals are reared and used. The
avenue which is labelled manufacture
ling progress is bordered by huge cot
ton and wooden mills, machine shops,
foundries. woodworking establish
ments, paper mills, in fact every sort
of manufacturing enterprise which re-
ouires a high standard of skilled labor.
These factories are dependent for pow
er only upon the great rivers of New
England, in which the flow of water
has been regulated by storage dams
and on which every available fall OF
water has been thoroughly harnessed
and developed. The instrument which
joins these two into great prosperous
alliance, is a system of modern high
ways, trolly lines and steam railroads.
The students who have drawn this
DE as;ng picture for us, have been COM
PEELED, IN this day, to draw upon their
imagination to great extent in order
to complete it. The farms they find
upon the New England hillside and in
the beautiful river valleys are not Gull
tivatrd to the point of perfection they
seek, neither are the cattle or lhe
draft animals in use of the highest pos
sihie type except in comparatively re"
Instances. The farmers do not coop
crate in buying and selling to the eX-
tent which these students believe pos
sible and advantageous. The manu-
featuring feature is not developed as
highly either as they know 1t can pe
develoned. ONLY a few of the great riv-
ers are harnesseG to their capacity and
| fewer still are equipped with storage
dams and reservoirs which save the
tremendous energy otherwise wasted III
food time for the long periods of lesser
rainfall, when indeed the demand upon
the power is often greatest. There are
thousands of water powers developed
in part, or entirely undeveloped. which
are available for industries. yet they
are not in use.
These students have not stopped with
drawing the picture for the edilcatlon
of those who care to look and listen, and
they have applied themselves to the
task OF making the picture a reality.
They have reversed the usual proceed
ure. Instead of painting from life,
they have drawn upon their magma
ton in part and have now laid down
the brush and taken up the task OF
providing subject to fit the picture
They are not alone in their desire to
improve conditions here. Every wide
awake business man with red blood in
his veins recognizes the wonderful
possibilities of our State and the group
of states in which it is usually includ-
ed The young men of today thorough
ly believe that the picture these artists
have painted from their imagination
can easily be made a reality and they
intend to do their part toward bringing |
these things into being.
New England is essentially al
land of young men and thous-
ands of them are recognizing the fact. |
New England is growing and will
continue to grow, in riches, in |
prestige. in power and in men. The |
wonderful combination of climate and |
soil and market exists nowhere else in |
such true proportion. 1t can be said |
more truly of New England than of any |
other similar tract on the globe that it |
is the garden of the world. The farm |
ers know it and know that if they are |
not producing crops which prove it |
that the fault is in part with them, |
that they are not getting the full re- |
turns from their farms unless they use |
improved methods.
Boost New England" has ceased to |
be the hobby of the few and has be- |
come the serious business of the many. |
Organized efforts to let the world know |
of orr wonderful advantages are
springing up all around us and their
success is inspiring those who have
heretofore been half-hearted to put
forth greater effort
A greater and better New England
means greater and better Maine, for
Maine is the greatest State in New
England, and has many advantages
which the other states do not possess.
Massachusetts has but one Boston