Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-04-28

While there is great need of more
money for better highways to in
| crease the transportation facilities of
| our farms, more money for both build
| ing new road beds and for mainte-
| nance. more money for AGRICULTURAL
| support, for better schools and many
other very urgent needs, we are face
to face with the fact that our present
state tax of 40 cents, and our local
| taxes are unbearably high. and even
now do not provide adequate revenue
We can accomplish much in refining
our business methods and in watch
! ing expenditures, but that win not
make a material change in the con-
/ ditions that confront us.
The plan Of progress for Vermont
! greatly increases the income without
| increasing the tax rate.
1t utilities our latent energies.
1t is already operating in a few
spots in Vermont, but thus far there
has been no State spirit for spreading
is influence 1t has merely grown
through activity of local workers
1t is now proposed to inject this
scheme OF Industrial Plant Culture
INTO this campaign because it is the
! only way, it is the best way, it is the
Z
One example of its working is found
in the machine tool industries that
nave grown from single plant that
/ brought $4,000 per year into the state
IN '89 to six plants that brought about
Slo,OOO,OOO last year. These six plants
are all prosperous and filed with
young enthusiastic people who are
competent to start other plants Near
" all OF this sum comes into Vermont
and is invested here
There has been demonstrated here
IN the last thirty years a plan of In
dustrial Plant Culture that can be ex-
tended
l believe that millions of dollars of
our savings institutions viii find their
way back into Vermont when we dem
onstrate the safety of Vermont invest
ments.
This Plan is in harmony with the
prime need Of agriculture, for it draws
greater population into the state and
increases the home market.
1t balances the states activities to
the benefit of all. Vermonters have
been migrating to other states because
our State has lot offered good oppor-
tunities
1t Is not proposed to neglect the i'm
Mediate need of our State while set
Ing in motion the big plan.
We know that there should be in
creased support for agricultural edu-
:ation, including adequate aid for the
state College of Agriculture and ex-
pertinent station, so that these insti-
ntlons may Increasingly meet the
needs OF the farmers.
There should be an organization of
armerS cooperative associations for
Standardization and marketing of Yer
nont agricultural products, so that
ney may be marketed at the lowest
oss1ble expense and to the best adj
rantage.
Assistance should be given to the
armer in control OF livestock diseases
especially tuberculosis, so that the
osses may be reduced to the mini
mum.
There shoaId be linking up OF the
agricultural and Industrial interests. !
not only TO Increase the home markoff
put 10 make available enormous sums
tor highway construction and mainto- I
nance, Tor 1t is the cross roads az well |
as tue trunk lines that are essential /
% connect the farm and the market i
The children OF the countryside are |
40 best timber for the future charac- |