St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-07-14

Alive TO Fish Interests

plans are under way Tor continuing
the work in much the same systema
tic way that obtains in Bennington
county. The consignment of $4,000
fry is but one of several con
signments that are expected from
the state hatchery within the pres.
ent week in addition to many finger.
lings later in the season, over so ap-
plications for fish having been filed
with the state fish and game depart
ment by interested persons here
abouts. 1t is hoped that the opera
ton of the anglers license law will
make possible the establishment in
this county of a branch hatchery or
rearing station where fry Matched by
the state may be raised to the finger
ling stage before distribution.-Brat
tleboro Reformer.
The Banner congratulates the fish
ermen of Windham county in max
ing a start. Now if they will catch
several Brattleboro fish hogs and
duck them in a horse pond a few
times until they learn to be decent,
then form a county organization of
anglers who are willing to live up to
the law themselves and see that
others do, discipline every member
who fails to treat farmer or land
owner right, and keep steadily at it
year after year, it will not be long
before the beautiful trout streams of
Windham county will furnish much
more sport than they do now and
the fishermen more real pleasure in
living under the law in letter and in
spirit than in all the time fighting it
and trying to bring it into disrepute.
Who AccompIishes Most.
Not long ago Miss Anne Morgan,
one of the three or four New York
heiresses who stand for really high
achievement in the world of philan-
thropy, and President Wilson both
undertook to define high society.
The president said that high So
ciety' was for those who have
working and no longer have
important to do" Miss
Morgan is quoted as saying that "be-
ing in society imposes obligations, |
which consist in spreading among
the less fortunate fellow-countrymen,
culture, learning of all kinds and |!
of every useful art and |
craft" Miss Morgan lives up to her |
high conception of noblesse oblige |
but has she taken into consideration
the new rich, who land in high So
,iety if they have nerve and dollars
enough, the empty headed scions of |
The rich who have no conception of
usefulness in any line of endeavor,
Is well as the few, the very few, who
nave the brains, the hearts, the ideals
md the money to do great work
'or humanity. 1t seems to those
ooking on that most of the culture,
most of the art, most of the music
Ind most of the research is found
outside the ranks of what is meant
~ society" Most of the worth
while things are accomplished by
hose who feel the push of necessity,
lot always the necessity of abject
poverty, but the necessity of work
% keep the material wheels of life
'iled and smoothly running.-United
Opinion.
Middlebury Kultur.
The Herald has no desire to re-
rive the somewhat bitter memories
II the fight on the educational bill,
n which the colleges, headed by
President John M. Thomas of Mid
llebury, one of the most astute poll
icians in Vermont, succeeded in tor
)edoing the rural schools of the
tate, but when Middlebury goes out
# its way to gloat over its victory
md continues to asperse the fOunda-
ion and commission which freely
rave it's time and money to Yer
nont's school problems, the circum-
tance calls for attention.
Prof. Raymond Mcfarland, former
Bull Moose candidate for Congress
n the first district, writes as follows
o the Boston Transcript:
Another circumstance that was
rejudicial to the interests of the
reforms was the contention
dvanced that the commissions bill
7aS made in New York.
This particular falsehood was Of
cially and publicly denied by Lieu
enant-Governor Hale K Darling,
rho told in detail who engaged him
0 write the bill, with whom he con-
erred and how the bill was put to-
ether, yet a voluble member of DR..
'homas' faculty is permitted to pro-
nulgate the wretched lie in another
tate.
The article says further:
To the three colleges of the state
said that one should enlarge it's
ctivities, that a second should un-
ertake less, and that third should
ease living altogether.
This statement is on a par with the
ne reprinted above and is absolute
Y without foundation, as any one
nay determine by reading the print
d bill. One more excerpt
The report itself recognized that
My 35 per cent of the industrial
population of the state is agricultu
al; yet the predominant form of ed
lcational training that was proposed
rave scant measure of consideration
o the 65 per cent of people not agri-
This looked like an at
empt to make Vermonters unani-
nously a peasantry. Vermonters
want their children educated while
hey remain on the farm, but they
lave no desire to keep every Henry
Norman Hudson a Cornwall farmer.
There is a striking similarity be-
ween this statement and that of the
distinguished Vermonter, who, for
Getting everything but the opportun-
ty to raise himself upon a falling foe,
that zone Edmunds or Nor
ill, educated at a state college," was
worth 10000 of the rabble["