The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-09-13
BE NN|NGTON c OUNTY
VERMONT IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION NEWS

ASSOCIATION NEWS
by no means the least of the OPP
portunities that are coming to the
farmers of Bennington County is the
assistance that is going to come to
us from the national government be-
cause of the countrywide cooperation
for Improvement Mr. Dodge, the
United States farm manager expert
for New England, recently spent a
part of day at the Association head
quarters. When he was assured that
the Association was in the field to
stay and that the work to be under
tax Il was not Z annual, but per
maront, proposition, Mr.. Dodge be-
cam very deeply interested in the
worl and enthusiastic over the out
look. He at once wrote TO Washing
tVu ,. c., tC u III he very best
possible agricultural expert for the
County. He also said that he would
SDtlU COaEluGldblt Time ucI6 dnu
that other experts who make spec
ialty of special lines of agricultural
interest would be available for our
work here.
The Government is going to make
unusual concessions to this County
because there is a strong countrywide
organization that is pushing the
work This will give the Govern
ment an opportunity to do its best
and to have a field which may be
come an example to other counties
not only in Vermont but throughout
the entire United States.
The Progressive Spirit.
Another encouraging sign is the
change of mind that is taking place
in this County as well as all over the
country There's are not only indus
trial and political revolutions in pro
gress but there is an even greater
revolution taking place in the agri-
cultural life
The conservation of New England
farmers that kept them doing things
as they used TO be done is giving way
to the spirit of progress. The pio-
neer spirit of the Pilgrims bids fair
to inspire the men living in the
homes of the pilgrims once more.
This pioneer spirit is not driving
them out west as il once did but is
leading them to far more funda-
mental pioneer task. This task is to
take the farms and make two and
four, and more blades OF grass grow
where one grew before and to es-
tablish organizations and co-opera-
| ton that will be monumental in their
achievements.
Now men are thinking about eff
| cheney instead OF discovery" saws
George French OF the Boston Cham.
I Der of Commerce, about methods in
stead OF opportunities, about inten-
sive cultivation of that which is at
hand rather than taking up new
| manifestations. The question is
not now wholly one of enterprise: it
involves more particularly problems
! OF economic production and dstri-
button"
For every one who goes into New
England with an open mind, there
are found many concrete examples of
the workings of the new spirit.
which is transforming the whole
region from whatever il was i'm the
way of conservatism and stagnation.
towards whatever the optimistic es-
innate of its future may be. II is
characteristic of New England tenn
permanent, ancestry and historic in.
clination, that when the impulse OF
progress attacks its men they have
the energy and the determination to
advance and advance no matter what
the obstacles in front may be-
The rise of this spirit is giving
New England its second great oppor
tunity to render the country at large
a most invaluable service. Ii is not
a spirit of war but a spirit of peace
full enterprise that is vastly more
fundamental to the building up of a
strong nation than the spirit of war
The people of Bennington County
may well feel proud that this spirit
is becoming more active and better
organized in this County than any
where else in New England We are
proud of the monument erected or
the field of the battle at Bennington
Let this pride and the heroism that
was manifested then re-ncorporate
itself in the work that is being un
dertaken for the up-lift and the i'm
provement. not only of the agricul
tural interests of this County, but Of
the entire life of the county.
Schools
Albert +. Roberts, the information
al secretary of the country life de
} partment of the Y. NC. A. spent &
day recently with the Association
The country Y NJ. c. A. has don,
much i'm certain counties by way Of
introducing play life into the schools
furnishing experts to instruct IN,
teachers and the pupils. II is tn,
, purpose of the Bennington County
Vermont Improvement Association tC
help organize a play and athletic
, league in the schools of the entir,
County and to furnish such experts
as DR. Brown of the country Y. NJ. c
. 4.