Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-12

Greater Vermont association acting in coz
operation with committees appointed By
local governments local boards of trade.
and other local organlza tons These local
committees would organize parties of pil.
grlrns to tour the state; they would also
see to 1t that visiting parties from Other
| parts or the state were Hospitality enter.
| cained. All individuals and groups who
| ueslre TO take part In the pilgrimage,
| would communicate with the Vermont
week committee and obtain from them
the credentials which would enable the
| Hlgrins to secure the commercial rates
at the hotels and the special rates from
| the railroads which II Is hoped
the railroad companies and the managers
or the hotels will be glad to give.
| pilgrimage In Vermont would appeal
| 10 all citizens, and would benefit all
| Divided by our mountains, tempted ia
| look TOO exclusively to our own local
| problems, Nermonters need to get to-
gether.' to think of our State as a whole
commonwealth with many varied re.
sources which require only general en-.
thusiasm and harmonious thinking and
united effort to bring them to rich and
profitable development. Opportunities for
people from different parts of the State
10 meet as guests and hosts for fellow
ship and State-plannng would contribute
largely to hasten the new era in the his
tory of Vermont, which so many forces
are bringing into being.
The task of organizing parties to share
III this Vermont pilgrimage would fall
10 local organizations whichh naturally
take an interest In the State as a whole,
It's needs and possibilities. Prominent
among such organizations would he
boards of trade, automobile clubs,
oranges churches and schools. Local
representatives, as hosts and guides would
display and interpret all that is most
succes:ful and significant, most expert
mental and most probematcal In the life
ana institutions of the community.
IT Is becoming recognized that tho
Washington trip Of high school classes
docs not prove to he as educative and
heheicial as has been expected, and there
Us tendency to abandon these trips az
features of nigh school life This is lust
the time. then, for Vermont to substitute
Tor ashington trips a State pilgrimage,
winch would offer an ideal opportunity
LOT pupils to see the State and to meet its
people and might contribute toward the
solution of one of the most serious prob
TENS that face Vermont. If the law of
travel for adults Is now see America
first. the rule for the high school pupil
should be see your own State first II
there Is any state in the Union which
needs to attach its young people to ITSELF
by every bond of affection and intelligen"
interest. it Is Vermont At their most
impressonable age our young people must
nave revealed to them all the distinction
ana the charm. all the resources and the
possibilities of the Green Mountain State
Suggestive plans for trips from differ
ent centers would be made by the Greater
Vermont association. Probably several
days of the 10 days of the pilgrimage
special attentions and hospitalities might
p" extended to the travellers who viss
those places during the appointed days,
these ARRANGEMENTS being in charge o.
local committees. No special CONNER
c1al or business offers during this perio,
or pligrmabe are desired. but If com
munities would make visitors their guest.
lii any special entertainments or privi-
leges. II would be in harmony with tho
spirit of Vermont Week Factories ant
business establishments, public and priv
ate institutions would be expected to hol'
themselves in readiness to entertain ant
instruct visitors. The season would %
one of open house extended hy Yer
honterS TO Nerinohters.
1t mas been suggested that the per-