Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
VILLAGES THAT GROW.

1t is expected that before another
year rolls around there will be develop
ed at Essex Junction, one of the finest
water powers in the state. A fifty foot
dam is to be thrown across the Win
ooski river to provide for an eighty
foot fall of a vast volume of water.
This will mean several thousands of
horse power that may be harnessed and
delivered to n part of the village. This
fact alone would mean a great boom for
a village prepared to make the most of
1t. Good power is the life of manufac-
turing and manufacturers will go far to
get it.
Manufacturing Is the life of villages
and the right kind of villages go a great
ways to attract 1t. Industries, however,
cannot be secured in these days without
effort and without payment of some-
thing on somebody's part. Brattleboro is
perhaps the best evidence of hustling
community spirit hat Vermont can
show. 1t is growing steadily and SUBJ
stantially. Several big industries have
been located there within the past few
years and more are being attracted right
along. Brattleboro Is not getting these
industries without giving up something
for them, however. Brattleboro has
learned to give. Her public men and
business men have learned to give of
their time and their thought. They have
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Her voters have learned to give from
the public stores.
B~rattleboro as a communicates
sembled in town, village and school dis
trlct meetings-has voted 1914, 900 for i'm
portant public improvements within a
short time. The appropriations and
their objects were as follows: $50, 900
to aid in railroad terminal improve
ments; SIS, 500 to provide a public square
on the site of the Brattleboro House;
$4,000 for addition to library; $1,000 for
special highway improvements at the
southern entrance to the town; $3.50 900
for new schoolhouse on Oak Grove av-
enue extension; 100000 to provide for the
construction of five miles of new side
walks; $500 for repairs on the town
house.
There is a notice now posted in Brat
tleboro for a special town meeting to be
held May 20 to see If the town will vote
to exempt from taxation for ten years,
the buildings of another new corpora
ton that is establishing a manufacture
ing industry there. The board of trade
has already furnished the site for the
factory. Judged by what they a lone
In the past, the citizens will vote the
exemption asked for. They have seen
That the enterprise that they have
shown In the past has been profitable.
They have seen that the dollars tina
10y Hu'S Np'cu iIOHH puDllC luHuS ana
the dollars they have contributed from
private purses have not been dollars
given away. They have been dollars in
vested for the good of the town and
every citizen in It,.
Suppose there is a manufacturing in
dustry looking for a location. Which
town do you suppose 1t would pick out,
one that had raised 1914, 900 within a
short time for public purposes or one
which in an existance Of more thar a
hundred years had never shown any in
dication of enterprise or any disposition
to give?
Brattleboro has proved in Vermont
what other enterprising villages have
proved In other states-that In order
to grow and expand, it must learn to
give-that the insistent desire to get
should be forced to the background
that giving instead of boarding should
become a habit When a town has learn
ed this. 1t a go forward even with mod
est natural advantages. If 1t fails to
learn 1t will remain dead. with bound
less opportunities lying right at hand.
Huntington Clipper.