St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

New England family, the first of the
new states to join the old ones, but
in reality, although unoficially, one
of the fourteen original states-in-
creased in population faster during
the past decade than during any SIM
liar period since 1870. It increased
in numbers less than four per cent;
but it is one of the few older sisters
than can boast of growing at fast
er rate during the last than during
the previous decade. New Hampshire
cannot make such boast. Neither
can Massachusetts,, with its great
manufacturing commercial and nsh-
ing interests; nor can Illinois, with
its great city of Chicago, nor Missouri,
with St. Louis and Kansas City, nor
Michigan, notwithstanding Detroit s
phenomenal growth, nor Minnesota,
with its two big cities. The list OF
states which have slowed up, while
Vermont has been increasing its pace,
also includes Indiana and Iowa and
most of the states OF the new SOUTH
including Texas, the agricultural
Mecca, which is reputed to be draw
ing new citizens from all over the
south.
Vermont is an internal state, with
out nayigable rivers. Although pos
sessed of abundant water-power, its
manufacturing potentialities have
been hampered by lack of water
transportation, and it's distance
iron supplies; and every Industrial
pursuit possible to its people has al
ways been handicapped by the
Chinese wall which has dwarfed its
trade and barter with Canada. It is
the best agricultural state in New
England in grain, hay and the or
binary cereal crops, after making
due allowance for the market garden
ing near larger cities in southern New
England. With one exception, its
yield of wheat to the acre last year
was greater than in any other state
in the union. Only two exceeded it
per acre in oats east of the Pacific
slope, and none east of that slope
showed a greater yield per acre in
barley; and it ordinarily outs more
hay to the acre than any northern
state east of the Mississippi.
Then Vermont has done more
than its share in peopling the west.
Many of it's sons and daughters have
been lured away to the great prairie
lands, where farming is easier, and
to the big cities and manufacturing
towns; yet it more than holds it's
own, and it is fully abreast of its sis
tiers in educational, civic and social
progress-in whatever tends to ply
steal, intellectual and spiritual i'm
provement." - [ Burlington Free
Press.
Telephone Head Objects to Hedgers.
One does not recognize in Theo-
dore NJ Vail, president of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, the careworn head of. a great
corporation. He seems never to be
harassed, never weary, never ner-
vous. He just works as though he
loved it-and he does. He enjoys
making every minute of the hours
count, without watching the clock to
know that they are passing. He
seems to stand apart from human an
noyances, and to observe and to
utilize the great trend of events. He
is interested in every new project
and quick to realize its possibilities.
There is never a moment in which
his gray eyes are not focused upon
human activities. Information is d.
gested as readily as his simple din
ner.
In the New York headquarters he
sits at flat-top desk. The Office ira
dition is that before you approach
it you must know just what to
say, because the dispatch of business
in that Office parallels the later ra-
pidity of modern telephone service.
Mr.. Vail is not in ready sympathy
with the man who doesn't know what
he wants until after he arrives
1.-THE Lure of Work." Joe Mitchell
Chapple, in National Magazine for
July.