St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-04-28
LYNDONVILLE
More COOPERATION, Development and
Live Clean People Needed.

Live clean People Needed.
1t is, naturally, a more difficult
task to enumerate the needs of ones
own town than those of neighbours
as one in the thick of battle cannot
get the right perspective over the
whole field. And yet, when the mat
ter is summed up, there is only one
essential thing we really need, only
one the world needs, and that is, now
listen, enough of the right kind of
folks. This granted, other problems
will disappear as by magic. To aid
in this direction are three avenues
of procedure, education, develop
ment, cooperation. Everywhere we
need these three clements.
We need education to make farm
ing business more successful, develop
ment of every natural resource, and
cooperation in raising and selling
farm products. These things will al
so aid us in reforesting our sandy
lands. So with all local industries
We need more and better business.
We should develop as a summer re-
sort, business lucrative in many
states. This needs more houses,
more chances for good board and
rooms, more development of natural
attractions.
In regard to public business, our
villages and schools should unite and
do away with the present complex
system of boards and corporations.
A competent man should be engaged
at a good salary to manage all mu-
nicipal affairs. Our water and light
systems, roads and sidewalks, all re-
quire such care and supervision.
From an artistic and clearly point
of view, we have much to desire. The
Village Improvement Societies do
much but these can do little without
the cooperation of citizens in keep
ing streets, lawns and back yards
neat. Education in this line is need
ed as well as in identifying our prem
ises. We also need a system of mu-
nicipal garbage collection that will
eliminate the unsightly ash heaps
and piles that appear in the
spring, when nature removes her
kindly veil of snow 'In short" as
Mr.. Micawber says, 1--WE need the
kind of folks who know enough and
care enough to keep clean"
Our churches need cooperation and
union. So much duplication means
wasted effort. Our library needs
more money, more patronage and
more interest. Our schools are un-
surpassed in intellectual and vocation
al training but need enlargement on
the athletic and aesthetic side. Play,
music, dances, voice and dramatic
culture, organized athletics take a
prominent part in modern education.
Our young people need more we'll
supervised play and social activities.
Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, boys
clubs, with competent directors are
doing excellent work. We need
more facilities for sports and amuse-
ments, both in doors and out.
Socially, we are over-run with
clubs and societies when we really
need more informal friendliness, old
fashioned neighborliness, higher
standards of living, higher and bet
ter ideals, less gossip and snobbish-
ness, less desire for show and dis
play, a return to plain living and
high thinking, these are what we
need. And though We have some
folks that are all right, we need
more
To sum up, we need more religion
and less churches, more society and
less societies, more work and less
worry, more friendship and less Cos
sip, more thinking and less desu1tory
reading, more order and less litter,
more men and women and less en-
cumbrers of the ground. God and
nature have done their part for US.
Let's do ours.
Mrs. e. G. BIOdgett.