The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-13
'PAY-AS-YOU-GO
ROAD POLICY
Recommended by State
Master O. l.. Martin
Of Grange.
| GRAVEL FAVORED
AS MATERIAL
Address Given at State
Grange Meeting in
Rutland.

Rutland. Dec. ia pay-as-you-go,
tnolicy in the construction OF gravei
roads in Vermont was advocated Dy
Orlando L. Martin, state master, III ms
annual address to the Vermont sta.e
grange in session here to day. he saiu
that the national grange in session az
| Portland, Ore, had adopted such poi-
| icy and similar policy should 10
adopted by the Vermont grange
State Master Martin declared that
the state needs good roads for manu-
featuring and other interests ana fof
the use OF tourists but, above all, needs
them for him who tills the soil to aid
in the marketing of products. However,
| the building Of these roads must de-
mend upon the resources of the state.
Mr.. Martin declared that the back
roads of Vermont have been improved
as result of legislation which set
aside $250,000 for that purpose lie
urged that the state exercise more CON
| troll over the heavy truck that Is 50
disastrous to highways.
Growth Of Grange.
In. opening his address he said that
he had visited 40 subordinate oranges,
ten Pomonas and nine field meetings,
| IN addition TO many conferences. There
are new oranges to the credit of the
organization. Thus making 30 Pomonas;
and III subordinates, comprising l5,-
O97 members IN Vermont. IT has been a
year of excellent work and co-opera-
| ton.
The executive committee voted $500
| from the current fund to the educa-
tional aid fund so that now there Is
So 900 working in this worthy cause.
The patrons cooperative fire insur-
ance has passed the two million dollar
mark. He commended the Deputies for
| their excellent work. He recommended
that the deputies meet and organize
by selection of president and secre-
tary, hold conferences for the purpose
of increasing the membership. He urged
the members o-bewarc of ready made
resolutions sent for adoption, until aft
err they knew whether they came from
recognized grange authority.
| Mr.. Martin touched upon the inn
provement in Vermont educational
system, the change in part having been
! effected by the efforts of members of
the grange and said. II have reason to
know that the good influence Of the
grange is deeply appreciated by the
state board Of education and by the
teaching profession, and is reckoned by
them as one OF the few great powers
for good in the Green Mountain state. F"
He further said that Vermont has
made a good experiment in agricul-
tural education, and having learned
that united support is better than di-
yided and duplicated endeayor, we
should encourage to the last degree the
Vermont State Agricultural school at
Randolph Center.
Mr.. Martin compared the agrieultur-
al conditions of Vermont with the
west, his observations being that the
| New England farmer is just about as
well situated to-day as any fellow
there is and that be better stop com
planning, grasp opportunity by the
forelock and go to 1t and find an Elf
cient market for his dairy products.
| He urged that the excessive freight
rates must drop materially. He urged
every movement looking towards the
improvement in livestock conditions
and the Punishment of the scrub Of
bovine tuberculosis. He urged that the
way TO get fair prices for milk and
other products lies entirely within the
power Of the producers and must be
worked out by the producers them.
selves rather than by congressional
enactment, thus make farming pay in
the future as il has been made TO do in
the past.