Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-02
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YER
MONT? DRY ROT.

To Hon. John A. Mead. governor,
and to the senators and representa-
tives of the Vermont Legislature now
in session:
Gentlemen:
You are the president and hoard Of
directors Of corporation composed of
all the citizens OF Vermont. AS
such. you will gladly welcome a compre-
hensive policy for promoting the corpo-
atoms interest. and practical plan
for so carrying out that policy as to
double the value Of every acre in the
Green Mountain state, while adding
to the personal efficiency, material
prosperity, happiness and health, and
spiritual welfare of every one of your
people.
EXPERTS SOLVE BIG PROBLEMS.
The success of big corporations in
| this marvellous twentieth century is
due to the big way in which they
perfect their big policy, and to- the
big plan by which their big organiza-
tion accomplishes big results by
means that are simple, inexpensive,
practical.
To develop such a policy and per-
feet such plan, the officers and di-
rectors employ high-priced experts to
weakness and its strength, and to tell
how to protect against the former and
make the most of the latter. The eX-
pert advises what he thinks is best
. for the corporation, irrespective OF
/ what the president, directors or stock
| holders may think.
The experts views may be bitterly
resented by some individuals o.
clique, may arouse personal feeling:
' and provoke very hot discussion. Blu
e the expert is advising solely in thu
\ interest of the whole company, an
if the directors sanction the carrying
n out Of the experts recommendation
n and provide the men and means fo
the necessary reorganization, larg
success inevitably follows.
e 1t is as just such an expert that
l. now address you, Mr.. President an
e Messrs. directors of the peoples col
lie poration of Vermont My report
based on twenty-five years person;
o. knowledge of your state. intimate a.
,e quaintance with its people. close il
n sight into its industries and it's cond
ir tions, supplemented by special stu
III les for some months past, togethe
al with wide observations at home ar
III abroad of similar problems. This r
lie port also expresses the judgment
the man who has had some part IN d
I'd veloping one of the largest industri
D. in the east and who has backed h
ry faith in New England by our milliC
al dollar plant at Springfield.
ne DRY ROT is ONE TROUBLE
ng in Vermont. Except in a few favor,
e. towns, your population has DECLINE
r during the past ten years. Speakil
broadly, the state has been stationar
he if not retrograding, for nearly fif
he years. Good farm land continues
es revert back to brush, some rural tow
OH have only one-third to one-half
in many people as they had prior to 18e
Your graveyards are too full, 70
he houses are too empty. Your your
a men and maidens have not only left t
". farms. but too many Of them ha
of left the state. Your birth rate is d
gracefully small, and but for the t
rs cundity of the virile immigrant fro
an over the seas. the proportion of deaf
I'D. to births would be even worse. Yo
m cities have grown. but so has t
lg- decrease in rural population.
of 1t is only in recent years that your on
,ur people have begun to show renew