The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-22
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
FOR BOARD OF TRADE
Was Announced at the Annual Meeting
Last Evening-Pres. Thomas of
Middlebury College Speaks on
Education in Vermont


John NJ. y ~ i Middlebury college
as the NcSS al speaker in the Vinci-
tia club L.st evening. The annual bus
mess meeting of the board at 1880
o'clock was followed by President Thorn
as address on the Carnegie Foundations
educational report for Vermont and FIVE
minute talks by local men identified
with municipal and semi-civic organ
| izations. Pleasureable musical selections
were contributed by the Orpheus male
quartet and a tempting buffet luncheon
brought the affair to a close.
The gathering of Board of Trade mem
bers at the business meeting was but
slightly smaller than the assembly which
listened to the program. The retiring
president. Henry A. Phelps, was in the
chair and number of important mat
ters were considered before the nomnat-
ling committee brought in its report for
| the new official slate to serve during
1914 Reports from both the secretary
Charles III. Wishart, and the treasurer
George N. Tilden, indicate that the board
| in 1913 passed through a period of un-
usual activity and that its efforts prom
Use at this time to be crowned with sue
cess in an uncommon measure. In its
financial aspects, the report of the treas
urer, satisfactory in every detail, augurs
a continuance of that large sphere of
effort that has characterized the efforts
OF the board in years past. Both reports
were accepted by unanimous vote.
Complete unanimity prevailed in con-
firming the election of the following list
of officers: President, Marshall S.
Rounds; vice president, Harrison G.
Woodruff; secretary, Charles H. Wish
art; treasurer, George n. Tilden; audi
tor, Frank McWhorter; directors for
four years, Rufus G. Robinson, Guy X.
Varnum. In completing the business
session At was the sense of the meeting
that the directors be authorized to as
sess the members each the sum of 81
per year as dues.
Retiring President Phelps Address.
One of the notable features of the
evenings doings was the retiring mes
sage OF Mr.. Phelps. The 1918 president
surveyed the work of the organization
and ventured number OF thoughtful
suggestions for its guidance in the fu-
ture. He favored certain steps that
would look toward an old home week
celebration in Barre the coming summer
as well as the most thorough provisions
for entertaining the New England Asso-
citation of Cemetery Superintendents who
are to be the guests OF local organiza
tions June l6 and III. In his opinion,
the opportunity for giving Barre gran
ite another big boost would not be all
lowed to suffer through lack of prepara-
tion. Mr. Phelps paid passing tribute
to the generosity OF Ira q. Calef, as
well as to the untiring efforts Of the
men and workers who made of the re-
cent hospital campaign moving sue
cess. For the Board of Trade he favored
resolution conveying to the president
of the United States protest against
the dissolution proceedings which are
now perple&ing the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford and the Boston & Maine
railroads. In closing, Mr.. Phelps
thanked his co-workers for their liberal
assistance during his tenure of office
and bespoke for his successor the same
helpful cooperation.
Mr.. Rounds Takes Chair
At this point the newly elected pres
ident took the chair and made his maid
en- speech take the form of set of Id
commandments which he hoped would |
help to guide the board i'm its future |
activities. The stone tablet on which |
the new president inscribed his com
mandments bristled with cautions |
against "knocking,9 suggestions as to |
the best methods of civic betterment, |
and epigrammatic homilies on the duty |
of city to its neighbors. The latest |
president of the Barre Board of Trade |
shared alike in the applause that was
accorded the new head and his prede
cessor.
President Thomas Speaks.
Once again a Barre audience was priv |
ileged to listen to one of Nermont's fore
most educators, who was introduced by |
the chairman. President Thomas was
greeted with hearty ovation as he ad-
vanced to the center of the room and |
began to speak. What the head of Mid
dlebury college had to say on the Car
negie report was not confined to a single
phase of that exhaustive review of edu
cational conditions in Vermont; his COM
words in dealing with the re-
port were not directed at one paragraph
Or single section of the report, nor
we're his criticisms levelled solely at the
structures which the investigators placed
Dn the college institutions in relation to
state aid.
One the contrary, the speaker made
his greatest appeal to the audience by
conducting an entirely impartial and dis
passionate review of the findings which
the commission made at the behest of
The last legislature. His appeal for
hearing on the defense was by no means
prayer lifted in behalf Of the college
ie represents or of any individual col
ege. In fine, his remarks were confined
10 the early history of education in
its developments, erring depar-
.ures in its evolution. its present-day
lefects and the splendid opportunities
or realizing the greater good from the
indings of the commission. ii President
Thomas did nothing else, he convinced
lis hearers that he is capable of giving
IN unbiased opinion on subject that is
ust now challenging the attention of {
linking men throughout the state. I'm
consciously, perhaps, he created stim-
Illus for reading the report with eyes Of !
andor and fairness and not of preiu-
lice. In
In prefacing his remarks, the speaker I
,rieiy traced the history of education :
n Vermont from the day when learning +,
.mong the young was y private matter
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