Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-07-29

and dismissed every needless officer. To-
| day her troops are equipped to take the
| field at the first call, and technical re-
| quirements for promotions to commits
sions the tests of soldierly efficiency and
merit by which the personnel of the or
ganization is held in discipline, never
were so faithfully imposed as they are
| now. At the United States army man.
Ceuvers in recent years Vermonts COM
mander has been warmly commended by
the regular officers for the excellence of
his troops and their honorable share in
the mimic war game This cannot be
said of the militia of many a state that
has many times the population of Yer
mont. How would 81 explain it?
No Bucket Shops for Vermont.
Several years ago Vermont passed an
i-bucketshop act, and put that curse
out of the way of doing any more mis-
chief here And, if memory is not fickle
the author of the law was invited to
make one or more addresses in Massa-
chusetts and tell how the good work
was DONE because the Bay state was
trying to get up moral courage enough
to follow Vermont's example. But Mr..
Rosster's figures show that we do not
begin to have as many people that must
necessarily be moral as Massachusetts
has.
In such a state as Mr.. Rossiter pic
lures some outsiders would expect that
the automobile would be taboo because
of the prejudice of a backward people.
AS a matter of fact, the percentage of
automobiles owned in this state accord
ing to population is one to every 10
persons which ranks eighth as compared
with other states. Not only that, but in
this little patch of census gloom there
was found craftsmanship enough to
frame what the American Automobile
association has characterized as q model
automobile law and recommends to other
states to follow.
Perhaps no state in New England has
spent more money in the past ten years.
comparative population and wealth con-
-sdered, for the stamping out of bovine
tuberculosis. No effort has been spared
to arouse cattle owners to the necessity
for cleaning up their herds and exer-
csng the utmost precaution in the pur-
chase of only tested animals for the re-
enforcement of their diaries, and a gem
erous law amply compensates the farm
Ter for the slaughter of condemned COWS
when his herd is tested. Already a
most marked decrease in the number of
cattle responding to the test is reported
by Veterinaries, and it is apparent that
a few years more will see a remarka ble
change in conditions, particularly as
public sentiment has been aroused to the
point of demanding of miIlmen, for in
stance, that their herds shall be officially
adjudged free from this disease
In this period, too. the state has more
or less completely reconstructed its laws
regulating registration of physicians. sur-
geons, dentists. pharmacists. etc. along
the most modern lines; it adopted and
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States government did the same thing,
and is aided in this important public
service by what is acknowledged by eX-
perts to be one of the best laboratories
on hygiene on the continent ii enfonces
anticipating and ant-public drinking
cup regulations; ii requines the most rig
id inspection of the milk supply of com
munities; 1t has compelled the registra-
tiou of nurses; and it has so strength
ened the powers Of it's board of puhllc
health that today the most up-to ate
IDEAS of public sanitation ana hygiene
are enforced under it's direction by local
health officers in every Town in the
state. A state school for these local
healh Officers Is held annually for a
week, ana under the law attendance is
compulsory and the health officers are
PAID Tor their time and expenses out of
the pubic treasury. An anti tukercu-
aosls commission has visited practically
every stable town in Vermont, carrying
methods OF tls hitting the disease and de-
INerlng pubic, addresses ON the subject
OF the great white plague. How does
this compare with states where the een-
sus hgures do not present perhaps the
glu11niest statistical picture to ne found
at the present time In the United
Sta1ss?
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With the period covered by Mr. Rossi-
ter's statistics Vermont has engaged an
expert state forester and with wise
laws, has begin a systematic ana per-
sistent propaga nda for the conserxa tion
of the forests now under private owner
ship. 1t has also made the beginning of
chain of public forest reserves that
will doubtless in time be extended
through every county in the state with
the idea that each one of them will
serve as localized object lessons of for
esi culture for the surrounding country.
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