The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-08
MAKE VERMONT ATTRACTIVE.
That Will Tend to Keep Young Yer
monters in Home State.

Calvin Coolidge is an excellent dem
onstration of the fact that we turn
out something in Vermont aside from
maple sugar Burlington News.
Yes, and the pity is that we have
to "turn them out" rather than keep
them in Vermont, where they could do
the old state so much good. mBarre
Times.
1t is true that Vermont has done
rather more than her share of leav-
ening the stock of other states with
good old Green mountain blood 1t has
always been the case, and it must not
be expected that the lure Of bigger
pay and wider opportunities elsewhere
will be at once overcome.
1t is natural for young folks to go
away to make their fortunes but it
is increasingly true that Vermont is
offering year bN year better induce.
ments for her native sons and daugh-
tiers to stay on the old farm or at
least within the borders Of the state
Vermont agriculture has made great
strides within the past few years.
Farming on our sidehills and along
our mountain sides is still more or less
of problem, but agriculture and Ror-
ticulture in our highly fertile val
legs offer increasing advantages and
reasonably good compensation.
Thanks to our county agents and
the advanced character OF the farming
knowledge disseminated through. our
public schools, agricultural schools and
colleges, our farmers have advanced
consistently beyond the rule of thumb
methods of their forefathers and the
science of farming has now become a
highly specialized business.
Despite the strain of war conditions
and the fact that farmers, by virtue
Of their Femoteness from population
centers have shared less than other
producers in increased war prices, Yer
mont farmers are prosperous, and, with
the readiustment certain TO come with
the New Year, will be able to realize
good profits.
In fact, lear by year, the farmer
whose living comes mostly off his own
farm will probably realize as good a
return on invested capital as the aver
age business man-better, perhaps,
than many whose living expenses must
be met entirely outside of their bust
ness.
Industrially, Vermont is necessarily
handicapped by her distance from the
coal and iron mines, but on the other
hand, Nermont's water power or white
coal is becoming developed more and
more profitably each year, while the
supply of irst-class, dependable la
Dor is always an inducement for man
ufacturing concerns to locate their in
dustries in Vermont.
The Herald believes that the census
of 1920 will show that better than 80
per cent of Vermont's population, gain
fully employed, are employed outside
of agriculture, most of them undoubt-
edly in the industrial plants which are
steadily growing in number and inn
portance.
Professionally, the rewards, which
come to lawyers, doctors, clergy, edu
Gators, editors, engineers and other ex-
perts are not so great in money as can
be earned by men of similar ability in
other states OF larger populations, but
most professional men find something
better than mere money in their work.
The true professional man must al
ways find his supreme reward, not in
hard cash, but in the estimation of
work well done, human progress for
warded, society advanced and public
morale benefited. In this respeck and
in the added qualification which goes
with an exceedingly high standard Of
professional ethics and most agree
able association, Vermont offers some
peculiar advantages.
There is, therefore, an excellent and
reasonable opportunity for advance.
men- in Vermont, and the more our
young folks consider the states advan-
tages, the more obvious are the oppor-
tunities that are presented for reason
able success in agriculture, industry,
business or the various professions
The most salient purpose i: many
otherwise obscure publi2 activities in
Vermont is to make the state more at
tractive, not only for the casual OF
transient resident, but to our own boys
and girls who alone can make the flu
ture of the state what il ought to be-
Rutland Herald.