St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-07-28
PRESS COMMENT
No Pulls In Business.

health and looking out on life with
plenty of cheer. He celebrated his
birthday in Lyndonville on Sunday.
Mr.. Vail finds the opportunities for
young men never so large as now,
but while opportunities have increas-
ed, the time has come when only mer-
it in business life wins success. Mr..
Vail amplifed his point of view in
this way
THE young man who is willing to
work and has ability and a good edu-
cation is the one who is going ahead.
There was a time when, because a
|person was the son of an old friend
or had influence, he would be given
a good position and boosted along.
That day is past Too much is in
volved in big business to have its af-
fairs retarded because of a friend
ship. 1t has been discovered that
one cannot run a business under the
present high pressure by favoritism
or nepotism. / don't mean that
young men with friends are not Civ
en- chances, but l say they have to
make good or get out.
If anyone desires to test Mr.. Wallis
viewpoint, a little inquiry in any
neighborhood will show that the men
who are at the front in affairs got
there because of hard work and
proved capacity. Young men must
work out their own salvation in bust
ness as in everything else.-Spring-
field Republican.
The Price of Public Safety.
That public improvements cost
something and are apt to make
prices high, but are worth all they
cost, was recently strikingly illus
trated. Desiring to locate in a place
to spend his declining years a man
looked at properties in a live Yer
mont village with good schools, wat
er system, sidewalks, lights, fire pro-
lection, sewers, good streets and a
few of the modern municipal luxur-
les, such as a little park with foun-
tain and public band concerts.
The price at which properties were
held seemed a bit high to the man
and he went to another similar vii
lage, and then to another but the
property valuations and the tax rate
scared the man and he finally bought
a residence (and it was a good One)
in village having no sewers, no wat
err system, no fire protection, no
lights and none of the little extras,
and the price of the property seemed
cheap, and the tax rate was 10
cents lower.
He considered himself a shrewd
man and boosted of what he had
done. He patted himself upon the
back for two or three years. He
joined the ranks of men who opposed
water, lights, sewers and fire pro-
lection for that town, and the num-
Der predominated of course, or the
hox hoa
Finally, one morning, like light
ming out of a clear sky, his house was
discovered on fire Without pro-
lection the place burned with other
buildings the man was glad to
receive aid from the fire departments
of at least two of the towns which he
had avoided when buying property,
and that aid cost the up-to-date town
money, because it pays it's fire de-
| partment something for efficiency. In
any of the three towns in which the
man first contemplated locating, his
buildings in all probability would
have been saved with little damage.
The moral is plain. Taxes spent
wisely for sound public inves tments
are not a burden. Public safety and
comfort cost money but are worth it
and always increase the value Of
property Keep a keen eye on your
public moneys, hold public officials to
strict accountability and then pay the
tax required for modern and worth
while things without Wilmington
leans County Monitor.
Nature Taking.
Some of our contemporaries have
been trying to stretch the truth in
! Vermont nature faking-live beef
"corned" by an electric flash, eXplo-
sions from an electric spark from a
cats back, and so on. Why eXag-
gerate when the truth is stranger
than fiction? They do say that in
various Champlain valley gardens
the cucumber vines have grown so
| fast since the recent rains that the
| little cucumbers are being worn out
dragging along on the ground-Bur-
lington Free Press.
New Hampshire Farms.
! Commissioner of Agriculture Eel
ker has just issued an illustrated
booklet advertising the agricultural
attractions of the Granite State which
is exceptionally creditable as to con-
tents. Appropriately emphasis in
this publication is placed wholly up
on agricultural possibilities. Such
reference to New Hampshire as a
summer resort as appear are Incl
dental and have to do with the ad-
vantages of this business as offering
nearby market for farm products
Recognizing the advertising appeal
of good pictures, the bulk of the
space in the publication is taken up
by reproductions of actual farm
scenes, farm buildings and growing
crops. The reading matter which
accompany and explain the illustra-
tions is contributed by Richard Pat
tee, former master of the State
Grange, and one of the most intelli-
gent and industrious promoters OF
farm life of whom New Hampshire
boasts. Mr.. Pattee's plea for an ag-
ricultural New Hampshire is earnest
enthusiastic and convincing. The
case for the state could not have been
better put and wherever this pam
phlet finds circulation there New
Hampshire's attractions find appro-
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