St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-01-21

schools. 1t is a privilege to any town
to have as guests the men outside of
the state who have national reputa-
tions among educators. 1t will be
an inspiration to have them here.
We have come to the parting of the
ways in educational matters and the
leading educators of the state are
coming here to discuss, give living
force to the recommendations of the
educational commission.
The coming of such an organiza-
ton places heavy responsibilities on
the people of st. Johnsbury. We
must feed and house from 1900 to
1,40O people. Our hotels can care
for from 800 to 400 and that means
that from 500 to 1000 people must
be given accommodations in the
homes of st. Johnsbury. The teach
ers should be well provided for be-
cause they do not come as mendi-
eants, but willing to pay their own
way and no other organization leaves
SO much money among the local
merchants as they. To properly well
come and care for this large num-
Der of earnest and intelligent work.
ers is our task and it must be we'll
done. He was confident the people
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casion.
Judge f. L. Fish.
Judge F. L. Fish was next intrOd-
uuced and his subject was given as
Friendship in Business. He spoke
in a facetious way for some time
saying that he found the subject did
not fit here as the doctors, lawyers,
ministers and merchants were al
ready acting in a spirit of co-opera-
tion and friendship. He recited some
french stories and said he was glad to
find the spirit of unity that was mani
fest here because when men join
hands and act in harmony they can
accomplish things He was sincere
believer in the principle of monopoly
when monopoly is not used to Cypress
the people and is under proper gov
ernment regulation. He did not be-
lieve it was good for a community to
have 20 grocers when eight could
supply every want and the same was
true of lawyers, manufacturers and
merchants. Every man in business
ought to be able to make money for
himself and this could be best done
when business is properly controlled
and not over loaded with competi-
tion. 1t was better for business to
be restricted enough SO a man can
make money because every man owes
a duty to his community and he can
not properly perform that duty un-
less he possesses some substance. He.
cannot acquire substance unless he
has the opportunity of doing business
at profit. His closing advice was
to be friends and go ahead in body.
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Before introducing the next speak
er Pres. Fairbanks spoke of how the
village had purchased an auto fire
truck, which had done very efficient
work and had authorized the pur-
chase of a truck for the hook and
adder. One of the things we had
expected as the result of these i'm
proVements in fire apparatus was
over insurance rates. To show
what the truck had accomplished he
said the total fire loss in st. Johns
bury from 1905 to 1912 had been
5145,676, an average per year of
s1S,209. Since the fire truck had
)een installed in August, 1912 the
otal fire loss had Deen 81 600, and
he loss for the year 1913 was only
1917. He then read figures from
,ther towns sho wing that only TWO
# the size of st. Johnsbury had a
over average from the years 1905
o 1912 and none had approached
It. Johnsbury's figures since the fire
ruck was installed. The fire truck
las saved property owners and in
urance companies many thousands {
f dollars during the recent cold s
nap.
He then introduced Franklin H. s
Wentworth of Boston, secretary of s
he National Protective Associ-
tion who would speak on "The Ec- {
onomic Significance of Fire Waste" :
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