Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-08-07


mcrcial and agricultural standing of YER
or apologize attitude at this point. There
are moro than thirty thousand farms in
this state with total acreage of four
million six hundred thousand acres val |
ued at above one hundred twelve million !
dollars-an increase Of thirty-fve per |
cent. In the ten years extending from !
l9oi-l9li Encouraging also Is the knowl- |
edge that the average farm consists Of !
ono hundred forty-thrce acres, indicating |
that our people own their own property |
and are not victims Of any oppressive |
landlord system. No fcudal castle or
PATRON system has ever existed in free |
Vermont In this respect, also. the state
stands unique
In common with other New England !
states we find Vermont in the very be-
ginning OF its existence providing for the
education Of its childhood and youth.
IN l7G-, the very next year after the
first permanent settlers had housed their
families at Bennington, they taxed them
solves to build schooihousc From that
day on Vermont has been no laggard In
providing it's childhood and youth with
facilities for elementary ana secondary
schooling. II Is true no doubt, that our
schoolhouscs and appliances are not all
that they should be, and neither, for that
matter, are they so in any other State I'm
the union We should have Il care that
Vermont is not by SANDER Of her own
people held up to the contempt of the
rest of the world 1t has boon my priv.
,oge to visit and gain some frs'-uand
United states and / can not condemn too
severely the reflections Of discredit upon
Vermont people and Vermont Institutions
that have been circulated through the
public prints and flung from the platform
to the humiliation Of every loyal citizen
Of our fair state. ! have no question
but that the moral standards OF SON.
Ncrmonters living in our cities as well
as in the isolated mountain towns ar"
lower than they should be, but at our
worst We have no record of murdcrous
police officers such as shamcs New York;
we have no reputation as nursery for
unapprehcndod criminals as Chicago has;
there Is no stencil of graft rising above
any Vermont city like that of san Fran
cisco; there is here no exploitation of
white slavery such as st Louis has
! known, the Illicit stills and law-evading
| moonshiners Of kentucky have no kim
bred spirits in the mountain Businesses
f Vermont
/ OTHERS HAVE POOR SCHOOLS.
! ut is a sad fact that many of our
school surroundings are unattractive
and many of our school rooms bare and
destitute of necessary apparatus, but We
are not peculiar in these respects. Turn
tp an editorial in the issue of The Jour
Ilal of Education for the seventeenth Of
July. 1913, and read this report Of school
survey of one OF the wcalthicst and
most populous States to the west of us:
School-rooms are insufficient. equipment
| Inadequate, and conveniences often lack
ing In comfort and sanitation. That
statement could he duplicated in every
state in the union. We should have a
,,arc that we do not ded'e our own gar
ments unnecessarily to invite contempt
, from mankind that vermont does not de-
serve. The muck raker' perhaps has a
mission but he exceeds his mission when,
to get into the public eye he heaps un-
merited obloquY upon those whose glory
and honor he should defend.
with words Of patriotic wisdom Doc
tor Winshlp declares that me l''Ii' req
,a., =, .r.,r, ,.,ors changed ite
,,',.,',,,,, a.. si7o, we want r.
500. o,,d crar+s and plohae
and devices inside these country schools
We want to make the outhuillings sani-
.., ,a,. We nouo m .i,vo greer
,. a o,,r,cti,.o walks ahout ON,
,,..,'.o,,a,,,o,,,os yye shall have school.
,d w.. will load many otho,
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LOYALTY hEHlNS Al H'-hI-'
,I.oyaltv. Ike charity, boSins ut home
To qrow This splrlt of universal ncighbor
bood we must cultivate a love for th'
men and women of our town and county