The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-05

Vermont bureau Information
To the people OF Massachusetts, and
New England generally, the departure
made by Vermont IN starting a public
ity and information bureau to Further
the development OF tnat state VIII
occasion much satisfaction. Any.
thing done along this iine bv any pait
OF New England Is bound to benefit
New England as a whole. Especially
Is this departure an interesting and
welcome feature as sign tlict Yer
mont Is preparing TO get IN the pro-
cession OF progress and. make way for
conditions that will enable 1t TO reap
bigger returns from It's natural at
fractions We need the cooperation
Of Vermont In respect TO our highway
problems, our better farming" prob
lens, and along various lines.
The last legislature authorized The
expenditure OF $4,000 ito promote the
! further development OF the natural re-
sources OF the state by the collection,
preparation, publication and distribu.
ton of reliable information aud sta
tistics touching its natural and indus
trial advantages" In accordance with
\ this act, bureau of information and
publicity" has been established in
connection with the Office Of the sec.
rotary Of state, Guy W. Bailey, who
has his Office in Essex Junction IN
statement to the press the bureau
says
IL Is Mr. Bailey's plan to issue book
let's on subjects pertaining to the re-
sources Of the state and give them
wide distribution. He has in prepa.
ration a booklet on summer resorts
and boarding houses. This pubica-
ton is intended to cover the subject
fully, giving information on all sec
tons OF the state and in fact on every
thing that interests the vacation seek
er. This booklet will be available at
city railroad ticket Offices and infor-
nation bureaus OF the metropolitan
newspapers.
Agriculture and the farms of We'd
mont will be the subject Of the other
booklet, now being prepared. This
booklet may be had by addressing the
secretary.
Vermont while 1t shows decrease
in population in the rural farm val
ues according to the census of 1910,
have perceptibly increased The cen
sus also shows that the farms of Yer
mont raise more grain to the acre, es-
pecially corn, than is raised in almost
all the other states of the Union.
Much has been published OF late
respecting the decrease in Vermont's
rural population and some writer's ex-
press themselves as believing they
have made discovery. While this
condition is in part true, ii is not diff
ferent from a like condition that eX-
lists in practically all of the older
states of the Union. Every country
has passed through an era of chang
ing population from rural sections to
cities and villages. The tendency OF
is TO commingle.
AS applied TO Vermont this condit-
ion does not mean that the state is
growing poorer. In dollars and cents
Vermont is richer today than ever be-
fore in her history. Her savings
banks and trust companies have loan
ed to the people of other states
mostly Western states-$31, 900, 900,
the deposits of Vermont people.
The farmers of Vermont are pros
porous Her manufacturing indus
tries are well engaged There is
much to be said in favor of the state,
and the new publicity bureau contem-
plates giving information on many
subjects of interest to the people of
the country from time to time.
New Hampshire has long enjoyed
a heavy summer resort business. Its
White mountains have been famous
resort for generations and that reg
ion has been well advertised by the
railroad and hotel companies. OF
late years the state itself has done
much to advertise itself along GER
tain lines. Some think the New
Hampshire plan of publicity is open
to criticism, in working too much
along the line of developing a mere
summer population. Perhaps Yer
mont can improve on that plan. In
any case the attractions of the Green
Mountains need TO be brought more
fully to the attention of the public;
also the opportunities to buy farms
cheap in that state, and other feat
ures that doubtless will receive atten-
ton from the newly established pub
licity bureau. AS regards the citizen
ship of Vermont, no concern need be
felt. 1t is of the right sort. Yer
monters have done much to promote
the growth of other commemorative,
from coast to coast. The same hardy
and vigorous stock will yet place Yer
mont itself in the forefront of progress
sive and prosperous states.-Spring-
field, Mass, Union. April 80, 1911.