St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-05
PRESS COMMENT.
Eastman Was Right.


annual meeting of the Vermont
arar.ac..utica. association took a
J practi- al stand in urging druggists to
let liquor selling alone. Those
who sell with a license are on dan
gerOus grounds" he said, and those
who sell Illegally are slaves of the
worst kind, who plead guilty to SELL
ing liquor at times when they are
innocent rather than stand trial and
risk exposure of really illegal sales.
It is conceded that there is very
little money in a fifth class license
if the law is strictly complied with,
while illegal selling under the pres
ent local option law is pretty sure
to result in heavy fines and in the
end an irreparable injury to the
druggists business. The moral
i question in the matter does not nec-
essarily need to be considered, for as
a business proposition alone a drug
gist cannot afford to make illegal
sales of liquor.-[ Mortified News.
Mr.. DeBoer Is Willing.
To the names already mentioned
as possible candidates for the nomi-
nation for governor next year should
be added that OF Joseph A. DeBoer
of Montpelier. Mr.. DeBoer has
frankly admitted he would like to be
governor, but he has no time to go
out and work up sentiment in his
own favor. If, however, there is any
apparent demand for him to become
a candidate he will enter the contest
with the others.-[ Barre Times.
A Lesson in Efficient Management.
A lesson in efficient management is
to be found in the record of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
since it came under the control of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company and the management
of a Vermonter, Theodore N. Vail
Incidentally the record goes to sub
stantiate the contention held by the
Standard that the railroads of Ver-
mont, if operated under efficient
management, could give the public
first-class service, modern stations,
etc., and at the same time pay fair
returns on their investment.
For the fiscal year just ending the
! Western Union will show the largest
gross income in its history, the total
receipts from all sources being near
| ~ $37,000,000, an increase of S6,-
| 100000, or over 90 per cent, in
| two years. The first gain shown in
seven years has come since the
AM rican Telephone or Vail manage
NEXT took charge.
And during that time not only has
the service been increased, by the
| Introduction of the night and day
letter service, but for the first time
in years the employees of the COM
pany have come in for fair treatment.
The increase in wages has been sub
stantial, amounting now to nearly
| $2,500,000 per annum. This has
mr. Nd1 n sfzvT oh f@~, !.
better in the attitude of the en-
ployees toward the company. IN adj
dition to the increased expenditure in
wages, from 100000 to 100000
has been spent in fixing up Western
Union Offices throughout the country,
and the company has been brought
by modern efficient management from
the blighting effects inherited from
the days of Jay Gould
Could the Vail system of business
methods be employed in the conduct
of Vermont railroad properties. it is
fair TO assume that different condi-
lions would soon obtain and that an
tiquated depots, inferior equipment
and uneven roadbeds would give
place to that modern equipment and
service to which Vermont is as much
entitled as other sections of this
great country.-[ Enosburg Standard.
The College Graduate i'm Business.
The statistics of any of our col
lege graduating classes show re-
markable change as respects choice
of business and professions.
| Take for instance, the Harvard
class of 1911. Here are the figures
of students choosing the so-called
learned professions. Law, IS; medi-
| cine, "a; ministry, 8; teaching, 40;
total, 159.
These are the total for business
callings: Business, IS; engineering,
40; banking, %; manufacturing, rs;
chemistry, 6; total, 1874.
That is, the most famous Ameri-
can anniversary, once almost ex-
clusiyely a training school for the
scholastic professions, is turning out
more business than professional men
today.
| 1t is felt by many people that it is
a mistake, as a business proposition,
| for young man who is bent on
commercial career, to spend four
years in college. The recently pub
lisbed figures of the Dartmouth "ol
lege graduates of the year 1900, do
not support that idea. The returns
of that class so far as available show
/ ed that they are now averaging to
earn $500 per year.
And yet everyone of us counts in
his personal acquaintance college
men who are grinding away at add
ing up columns of figures or tending
ribbon counters, work for which six
months in a commercial school would
have given adequate preparation.
What is the mysterious influence
of the classic shades of college, as
/ Stunning due attention TO work on
the part of the student, that has this
power to enlarge the scope of man S
life, even from the course and fieshly
view point of business success?
1t would indeed be hard to ana
i lyZe. One great element must be the
personality of the college faculty
The boy comes from secondary
school where methods of teaching
are too often conventional and rou-