The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-24
Build Up Your Town or Get
Out, Says Emmett
Hay Naylor
DON'T DISPARAGE
ITS ACTIVITIES
Greater Vermont Associa-
ton Holds It's Annual
Meeting

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| ing the scope of the agricultural, indus
trial and commercial interests of Yer
| mont and for developing the states nat
| ural resources were discussed at the an
nual meeting to-day of the Greater Ver-
mont association. What is being done
along these lines was Illustrated by maps
charts and other exhibits. :
| The meeting was held at the city hall
On the south side of the hall was ar
ranged the advertising literature of sew
eral of the big industries of the state
with photographs, etc In this line the
| Woodbury. Granite company and the Ver-
mont Marble company of Proctor are es-
peeially prominent, as their exhibits in
clude large photographs of the buildings
constructed Of the products of their quar-
ries, also several views OF each plant.
The Woodbury. concern also has beau
tiful exhibit of carved granite from its
quarry.
The endeavors Of the Greater Vermont
association were so arranged in series
of maps that the work accomplished
might be seen at a glance. The display
consists of five maps of Vermont to
which are attached eolored stickers show
ing just what has been done towards or
ganizing the state for its future well
fare. The first map shows the business
and civic associations organized before,
during, and since 1912, and whore there
are county agricultural associations. The
second shows where there have been "Bet-
ter Acquaintance" automobile tours.
There have been three of them and all
took place in the fall OF 1913. They
were under the auspices of the Burling-
ton Merchants association, Rutland BUS
mess Mems association and Bennington
county Board OF Trade. third map
shows the points where the Greater Yer
mont association has been in cooperation
with the national department of agri-
culture which included lectures by G. H.
Dodge, superintendent of road construc-
ton, his subject having been @Good
Roads" 1t also shows where meetings
have been held OF boards of trade with
Mr.. Clinton and Mr.. Dodge Of the Office
of farm management, and conferences
with +. n. Carver of the rural organza-
tion service at which state officials and
officers of state agricultural organiza-
tions and representatives of the Greater
Vermont association were present. A
fourth map shows the field work done
by Secretary Taylor of the Greater Yer.
mont association in his talks before com
mercial and kindred organizations. The
fifth map shows in what places there
are COW testing associations. This il OF
unusual interest TO Vermonters as Yer
mont has more such associations than
any other state in the Union, irrespective
of size, and also has rs per cent of all
the organizations in the United States
which shows that the farmers of the
state are organizing for efficiency and
are in the lead.
The maps showing the "long traf are
of interest, too. On them is clearly in
dicated the trail as it exists at present,
there being $50 miles of it, stretching
from Killingtoa peak in Rutland to the
town of johnson. II also shows the
be constructed soon.
Emmett Hay Naylor, secretary of the
American Association of Commercial Ex-
ecutives and of the Springfield. Mass.
Board of Trade, outlined a practical
method OF organizing commercial or
ganzation. 'It is not what you get out
Of an organization, but what YOU put
into it" Mr.. Naylor said. "The man
who is constantly, villifying and dispa- |
raging the place in which he lives and
is not willing to work arm in arm with |
his neighbor better pack up and get out
Herman n. Morse, secretary of the
Bennington County Improvement asso-
,iation, was another speaker.
At the dinner tonight the guests will
include Chairman Howard Elliott of the /
New Haven railroad. Editor George Har-
rey of the North American Review, Theo-
lore n. Vail of the American Telephone
Co., and Charles A. Prouty.