Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-06-23
The Green Mountain Club.

The current issue OF the Nermonter is
devoted almost entirely to the further
ance of the Green Mountain club, an
organization formed to bring the Green
Mountains before the public. Sections
of the club have been formed in several
parts of the State and recently the
Bread Loaf section has been organized
in this county. There has been a steady
growth of members in this section. The
Green Mountain club is a State organ
iZation and the movement intended to
be distinctly a State affair. The coun-
Gil consists of member from each
county and the officers are from the
various parts Of the State. The spe-
cific work to be carried out is to make
the mountains accessible by means of
marked trails which would be kept in
repair Camps or shelter houses are to
be built where they can be of service
and maps and books issued of the work
done on the mountains. This literature
is to be distributed at home and outside
the State with the prospect of getting a
large membership to make the appeal of
the club stronger. The following is
from this issue of the Vermonter:
A special literature, a first aid to the
interested, has sprung up in the last
decade, which, by its simplicity of text
and beauty of illustration, lures its
victims to study along every line of
plant, animal, or insect life Bird
Clubs and Nature-study Clubs abound
on every hand. Nothing is forgotten
from the lchen to the oak. A meal of
personally collected mushrooms was
once a triumph of hope, but now, es-
chewing the deadly Aminita we serenely
chew the toothsome fungus and dis
course familiarly of the dozen other
edible. varieties.
We know the joys, woes. and init
mate life of the animal kingdom from
the mouse to the moose, thanks to a
brilliant, though sometimes maligned
body of writers, described at times by
envious literary folks as the wood
chuck" school Of literature
The forester, blessed man who makes
two trees grow where one grew before,
and is standing the proverbs on their
heads by showing US how to "have our
cake and eat it, " has at last won proper
recognition, and forestry is one of the
established departments of state ad-
ministration. In Vermont thousands of
acressof wooded land have been offered
the state for the use of a School of
Forestry.
Then again we are urged to Get Back
to the Farm that we may get what is
coming to US in health and wealth. An
apple orchard, as a provision for old
age, is better than an endowment pol
icy. Amiable cows yield their own
weight in butter annually, and hens of
fabulous price and egg a-day habits
rush into print The Imagination of
the city-dweller is stirred, he responds
to the call, and soon the land will flow
with milk ,.honey, butter, eggs, aban-
doned farms and other high priced
commodities.
Our books are distinctly of the open
country and of wide domain. They tell
of snow shoes and toboggans, pack and
lump line, birch and paddle, trail and
camp fire, rod and reel, rifle and shot
gun, pike pole and peavey cayuse and
burro, in their backgrounds of silent,
snowy wastes, green forests, rushing
rapids, sunlit lakes and shining peaks,
all redolent with the smoke of the
camp fire and balsam boughs. These
are the things which crowd their pages
making them pulse with vivid out
door life, until the mind of the house
dweler stirs with unwonted yearning
for Nature to again claim him as her
own.
All this concerted effort seems like a
many-sided conspiracy to somehow en-