St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-07-16

mOnterS should honor the man who
did so much to point the way? 1t
was recognition of service, that is
all.
And Vermont won't stand still.
Progress is popular up here now.
The gospel of achievement has been
preached and has taken root. Its
fruit is already being tasted and
is so pleasing that the crop will be
closely watched, that an annual heavy
harvest will be reaped. Vermont
has the blood and the brains and
She is putting them to work on her
own problems. Young men are
ready to seize and guide the plow-
share. Vermonters are proud of
Vermont. Being called rural no
longer has any fears for them. They
recognize that God has been bounti-
full to them and they are determined
to do Justice to themselves. YER
mont has been born again and has
found the fountain of youth
LSt. Adams Messenger.
College Men for Small Towns
In his baccalaureate address to
the graduating class of Middlebury,
Vt, college, one of the best small
colleges in the country, John M.
Thomas, president of that institu-
ton, appealed for volunteers to
cast their fortunes with the small
towns of New England.
These towns he told them have
been losing population for more than
half a century. |Their people are
in need of leaders," he said. who
of you,'' he asked, will go to live
| in a hill town of Vermont, not
where there is the best job, but
where there is the greatest need?"
One man of the right caliber, he
added, could lift a whole communi-
! ty. One community so moved would
| change a whole county; leading the
way, the whole state would follow.
Not in Vermont alone, not in
New England alone, is such advice
timely, should such advice be taken
by youth fresh from the colleges
The large town and the big city
| tempt the college graduate, but ne
does not always consult his own IN
terest, nor the interest of the com
munity or the state to which ne Is
| indebted for his upbringing, by
Welding to the temptation. Putting
it upon the most mercenary grounds,
| it is quite possible that when the
average college graduate turns his
back upon his town and his state he
is also turning his back upon oppor-
tunities such as may never come to
him in a new Held.
The small towns are contributors
! to the educational system OF the
country. Their support of the
schools is continuous and generous.
From them are the colleges very
largely recruited. They give largely,
but receive little. Boys leave them
for the seminaries, colleges and uni
versities never to return. They
know, do these small towns, that
the young men to whose intellectual
equipment they contribute are never
coming back, yet they continue to
recruit the ranks of workers IN the
great cities. Nothing could be
more unselfish than their philan-
thropy. But why. should they not
be compensated?
| There are hundreds of small
towns in which the college grad
uate would do fully as well as he
can hope to do in the large city, but,
as President Thomas intimates, this
| is not ALL The small towns are in
need of the college product, they
are entitled to a share of it; they
should have it as a matter of right.
The infusion of college thought into
many of the small communities
North and South, East and West,
now drained of their youth and de-
cIining and decaying, would give
them new energy, reawaken them
to possibilities of which they have
ceased to dream The college man
could have no higher impulse than
that which would lead him to lit
ND the community from which he
sprang, no greater satisfaction than
that which would come to him with
the knowledge that he had put his
talent and his training at the ser
vice of his. own people. The small
towns have given at all times I'M
sparingly of their youth to the up
building of the republic; it is time
now. when many of them are in
need,that the stream should flow back
ward and inward Littleton
Courier.
More Undertaking
Magazine undertaking had its rise
and fall, especially its fall, yet
Congress is apparently deeper in
the miry business than before with
in the memory of living men. The
House will also Investigate the
lobby. not merely one lobby, but all
Hobbies, whether operating in the
present or the past.
There are individual members
who demand such an inquiry, in
view of the fact that Col. Mulhall
has publicly associated them win
his lobbying activities, and vind1-
s,1 h