News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-03-22
In banking upon the farm mortgage

we are standing upon the greatest r
source of the country, the basis of a
prosperity, resource in the hands
the farmer that is feeding and clothir
the people and producing billions I
new ealth every year. No security +
the people Is money, which Savings Ban
deposits are, can be more logical tina
the country's broad acres, none safe
This Oeing true and In view of pre-
ent agitation for some form of rurs
credit enactment it is especially filth
that we should briefly consider tn
relations existing between the bank
and the farmer and his farm. The
are close, mutual and should be reciI
rocal in other than the usual way, til
paying and the receiving interest
/ As has been trltely said the banke
should take interest in the farmer a
we'll as of him. Selfishness prompt
this for whatever BENEFITS the payo
| farmer in the way Of better products
better markets and consequent increas
of ability to pay benefits the payee ant
makes for the general good. And duty
commands it, for If we are true to on
twentieth century civilization and re
spond Loyalty to it's call we shall show
by word and deed that We are oul
brothers. brother and helper, whatever
may be his place and work in the com
pleXity of our national life.
The slogan of the new religion is CO.
operation. Il is in the sir. Coopera.
ton not only between men doing the
same business as between banker and
banker, farmer and farmer. but between
banker and farmer and between men
of all kinds of business AS another has
said, not cooperation but inter- coopers
tiun, one group of men acting for and
with another group Of men, having in
view not alone financial betterment but
hetter and more sanitary homes, better
schools, better roads, improved social
conditions and that general uplift
which means a better civilization.
Bankers and business men of Spring.
field and othar cities Of Ham pden Coun-
ty, Massa ;huse,ts, realizing the ex-
IRENE need of prompt and decisive L.
ton, if rural New England is to be-
saved, organized the Hampton Coul "
Improvement League for the accom-
plishment OF these PURPOSES
Il. To help the farmers introduce
the most modern methods of farming
2 70 organize them for better bust
ness methods ahd business organiz alton
B. To improve the living conditions
and TO make the open country so at
tractive that neither the farmers or their
boys and girls shall be attracted to the
cities.
The farmer needs help and coopera,
ton such as this more than other aud
greater facilities for borrowing money.
! &c Tho II FIJI uyb Go
planning about his credit, not the
Ham pden County farmer grown sue
cessful under the touch of help that is
helpful not only to the raising of more
and b tier crops and better marketing
facilities, but TO better living for him
>ef and family and best of all to d
knowledge gained from experience that
his banker and his merchant are his
friends, ready and wiling to help
him make of his farm tho gold mine
it rightfully is, aud of hi, home the
equal i'll comfort, sanitation and con-
venience of his hi h-rto envied neigh
bors living In the city or village He
has credit and to spare He is not ask
Ing for federal aid. He is not com
planning. Rather he is rejoicing that
he aud his family have come into their !
own financially, socially and IN the
Enjoyment of the amenities of life.
This is the help that we Vermont
bankers are privileged to give to our
armer friends, and we can DO our State
&c greater service than this. Vermont
$ essentially an agricultural State Her b
is inseparably connected with
he prosperity Of her farmers IL they
prosper, all prosper If they suffer or
all for any reason to receive the max.
mum return for their labors, 1t is a
common loss. The veal or woo of one
s the veal or woe of all If we act |
rom selfish motives we will not with.
lold this help, for it will be the bread
ast on the waters to return after not
many days, Increased not one but four
old for added income for the farmer
means aided deposits for the banker
nd what has BEEN and is being done
n Hampden County, assachusetts,
an and will be done in Vermont.
"Assuredly", President Wilson saws,
no thoughtful man ever came to the
nd of his life and mad time and little
pace of calm from which to look pack
poo it, who did not know and &C.
nowedge that it was what he had done
nselfishly and for others, and nothing
lse that satisfied him in the retrospect
nd made him feel that he had played
ne man"
Renemb aring this can we serve our
av and generation and ourselves better
lan by working zealously and whole
ear'e0ly for such an agricultural up
fit in VermCLt?
While we cannot expect immediate
suits like those achieved in Hampden
Ounty beginning can be made work
lg lndepen eutly. as many banks
rOughout the country are doing, in
he way of giving prizes to boys ana
rls for merl,Onous effort. raising corn,
rowing pigs cooking, canning fruit
nd vegetables, or in some other similar
ne Of work or by connecting ourselves
18th the county or government agent
orking in our vicinity. The impor-
mt thing is the beginning The begin.
ing made, results will surely follow.
r The work is Its own guaranty of
,ntinuance.
This work is at once our obligation n
I'd our opportunity. What the farmer
sed-, as 1 have already said, is not
ore credit but help to greater. effici- I,
ICY to a better understanding of the :,
liabilities of himself and his farm
elp that makes # himself better 5