St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-28
FOR BETTER
new ENGLAND
conference To Be Held In Northamp-
ton, Mass, Same Week As Ma
tfOnal Cattle Show.

New England needs a Clearing
Rouse and central organization in
which all existing organizations can
cooperate and have a voice that we
may know where we stand, what we
possess, what we are deficient in and
now We can best use our great powers
Looking over the United States we
md here and there states. cities or
organizations that are doing the
Things we want to do, so it is easy
Tor US TO take certain things and say
these things have been tested and
tried we can adapt them to our con-
ditions with profit"
The South owes its recent growth
ana development to the uniting of
different movements in one, that the
strength OF all may be used for each.
Wisconsin has for years had a Ref
erence Bureau connected with the
state university and New York State
has Community Research Bureau
supported by the cities and which is
proving itself a great money saver to
municipalities in their work
The Neighborhood Association last
fall made the first plans for a Con-
ference for a Better New England
which should be a united movement
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human, and which should provide a
service for the states, the munich
palitfes and the individual which was
based on plans which had been found
good.
Every civil division in the six states
is being asked to organize a com
mittee to cooperate in obtaining the
facts about New England conditions
we must have if any adequate plan
OF development is to be made, to ap-
point delegate to attend the Con-
ference at the October meeting in
Northampton to be held the same
week the Nationa! Dairy Show is held
in Springfield. and to raise it's quota
OF the sum necessary to cover the ex-
penses of the Conference work for
one year $4,000. This sum has been
divided among the number of civil
divisions on a population basis max
ing it 1882 per 1000 inhabitants.
The Conference had been divided
into 20 departments with a chairman
and a committee of at least six mem
bers representing the six states.
These departments have been formed
into five groups each with a definite
object in view: The Resource
Group will gather the information
regarding our resources, facts, sta
tistics, maps. The Business Group
in cooperation with national asso-
Citations is preparing an Industrial
Service for the individual business
man similar to that given by CO.
operating agencies to the farmer. A
trained retail sales director will visit
any town in New England this sum-
mer at the invitation of local Board
of Trade and study conditions with
the merchants, and wherever possible
his work will be followed by a travel
ing school of sales method for the
sales force Of the town.
The Government Group will direct
the Research Bureau for the NUM-
cipalities and in course of time will be
of aid to the legislatures Of the states
in framing cooperative laws. The
Educational Group will have two OBJ
jects in mind for this first Confer
ence, to show how the school system
of New England is organized for
training their pupils and for reach
ing the homes and the industries of
the country and to show the ire
mendous waste in human material
from preventable causes. The fifth
group is that of women which will
show how domestic isolation is be-
ing replaced by social action.
Every township and city, every or
ganization. every one who believes In
the future of New England is asked to
write the Conference Headquarters in
Worthington, Massachusetts,, and get
in touch with the work.