Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-06

her troops are equipped TO take the field
at the first call, and technical require
mcnts for promotions to commissions, the
tests of soldlery efficiency and merit by
which the personnel Of the organization
Ii held In discipline, never were 30 faith
fully imposed ns they are now. At thu
United Stotes army manoeuvres in re-
cent years Vermont's commander has
been warmly commended by tho regular
officers for the excellence OF his troops
and their honorable share in the mimic
war game This cannot be said OF the
mlhta OF many a State that has many
times tho population OF Vermont How
would 80" explain It?
NO BUCKET SHOPS FOR VERMONT.
Several years ago Vermont passed an
anti-buckctshop act. and put that curse
out of tho way OF dong snv more mis-
chief here And if memory ia not ocklo.
the author Of the law was invited to mako
ono or more addresses In Massachusetts
and tell how the good work was done
because tho Bay State was trying to get
mp moral courage enough to follow Yer
monts example. But Mr.. Rosters flg-
ures show that We do not begin to have
Ds many people that must necessarily be
moral as Massachusetts has
In such a state as Mr.. Rossiter pictures
some outsiders would expect that the au-
tomobile would be u taboo because OF the
prejudice Of n backward people. As
matter of fact, the percentage OF auto
mobiles owned In this State according
| to population is one to every ITO persons,
which ranks eighth 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 associa-
ton has characterized a model auto
mobile 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 effect has been spared
TO arouse cattle owners to the necessity
for cleaning up their herds and exercis
ing tho utmost precauton In the pur-
chase of only tested animals for the re-
enforcement Of their daires. and a gem
erous law amply compensates the farmer
for the slaughter of condemned cows
when his herd Is tested Already most
marked decrease in the number OF cattle
responding 70 the test Is reported by vet
erinaries, and it is apparent that few
years more will see a remarkable change
In conditions, particularly as public sentl-
ment has been aroused to the point Of
demanding of mukmcn. for instance. 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 was
vigorously enforcing a salutarv pure food
and drug acts before the United states
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II CONSERVING THE foRt-S1S'
! With the period covered by Mr.. Rossi-
= ter's statistics Vermont has engaged an
u e~rert State forester and with wise Ia We
! has begun a Systematic and persistent
! uropaganda for the conservation of the
forests now under private ownership. u
IT hps also made the beginning of :, chain Of
a nub1ic forest reserves that will doubtless
IT In time he extended through every county
V In the State with the idea that each one
Of them will serve as localized object les
It sons Of forest culture for the surrounding
d country II has also founded a state
is nursery. and supplies seedlings to all for
Il est planters and sends experts 10 super
IL intend their planting at bare cost.
l. During this same period Of "decadence'
- Vermont originated and Jointly with New
- York carried out n weeks program m