Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-01-21
GERMAN AIR FLEET RAIDS ENGLAND;
DEATH AND DAMAGE TN FIVE TOWNS;
BOMBS HURLED AT ROYAL RESIDENCE
PRESIDENT THOMAS
ADDRESSES D. A. R.


held its 18th annual conference to-day,
with a business session in the morning
at Kellogg Hubbard library. election OF
officers and n social in the afternoon,
and this evening an address was given
by President Thomas of Middlebury Col
lege on The Men Who Made Vermont"
the lecture being followed by rccep-
ton
Mrs W. r. Dewey. Of the Marquis dc
Lafayette Chapter. this city, welcomed
the visiting daughters and the response
was made by Mrs. L. NJ Pember. past
State regent Mrs Jennie Valentine of
Bennington spok. FOR the Colonial Danes
and Mrs. Arthur :. lsham for the Daush-
ters of 1872. The annual report Of tho
State regent showed that lively inter-
est Is being taken among the chapters
in Vermont A luncheon was given at
the home Of Mrs. j. A. DeBoer on State
street to officers and other guest.
The following officers We're elected:
Regent Mrs Perley F. Hazen Of St.
Johnsturv; vice regent Mrs V, F. Penn,
Der OF Wells: recording secretary, Miss
Sarah r. Clark of Charlestown. n. H..
treasurer, Mrs. F. NJ. Roscoe Of Barre:
auditor. Mrs raymond Mcfarland Of
Middleburv; historian. Mrs F. II. Gilling-
ham Of Woodstock: chaplain. Mrs. T.. r.
Lord of burlington. The two members
Of the nominating committee elected
were Mrs Mary NJ Jackson and Mrs
F. u. Ross
The subject Of tho address Of President
Thomas was '"rhc Men who Made YER
mont" He brought ont the fact that Ver-
Sy nd
that there were many western character
stics in early Vermont. He described the
kinshr Of Vernon and the west and tn"
influence Of the nioneer settlement OF
western character upon the people of the
State He maintained that Vermont is
not duly appreciated nor rightly under
stood until she is accorded her place both
as the last born child OF New England,
and the first born emigrant to the west
Concluding. he said
THE first stage Of the march in the con-
quest of the continent was accomplished
by the men who made Vermont our
glory is not alone in Plymouth Rock; it
is far more on the prairies and beneath
the Rockies where the spirit that awoke
first in these Green Mountain valleys has
ma de America great. Vermont. first IN
land state, first proved the power of eX-
pansion in the American people. She was
the first state which was never colony.
never in BONDAGE to any man. our closest
kinship is with the free American pio-
necrs not with the old world colonista
We can never he content as minor
Stat" of New England. a dependency Of
Boston. We started for the west. and IL
We did not get far We got far enough to
catch the spirit. II is ignorance OF our
history and denial Of our genius that adj
ViScs us to remain sclf-Centered. training
our children toward the occupations which
our fathers happened To choose We are
citizens of great America. pioneers OF a
continent. and We demand an education
toward the life Of the nation. We Will
not make our children peasants; we were
born in the passion of the mastery of a
continent and we will have our children
free
Dear old Nermont,--to the hurryinc
traveller along her eastern and western
highways. a wilderness of wild mountains
with narrow foreground of meager
farms but 10 those who know her detles
and passes a network of fertile valleys
smiling IN plenty and content:
Baptised in struggle and bred to diplo-
macy and war. her children fighters all;
Yet as true a lover Of peace as ever lived
beside great hills:
Cautious. close-rVouthed secretive. trail
ed by bitter experience to the wisdom Of
suspicion; yet opening her heart to her
friends with the cAndor Of child
Excelled by none in unity and brother
hood when reused TO common cause;
then lansing nv reaction 10 jealousy and