The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-15
PATERNALISM IN
VERMONT, HARTNESS
Governor Tells Women Voters League
About POliticS-Denpsey Speaks
ON Schools

BURLINGTON. Sept 15,-At the
opening session Of the New England con-
ference of the League of Women Voters,
held last evening in the Williams Science
hall, welcome of the faculty for the Uni
versity of Vermont was extended by Dean
J. l.. Hills He called attention to the
fact that almost exactly 30 years ago the
University of Vermont threw its doors
open to women students.
Miss Carrie w Ormsbee of Brandon
presided at the meeting and introduced
Gov. James Hartness, who welcomed the
women to participation in the broader
conception of politics.
Politics has been played as a sort of
game" said the governor. Such game
win have less success in the future. One
of the things we learned during the war
was undertaking a great enterprise under
a great inspiration. We have gone back
in a measure to peace times in that re-
Snect. Women can help TO hold something
of that inspiration and that spirit"
The governor called attention to the
growth of paternalism and emphasized the
fact that taxes were not being expended
where they were raised. This, he claimed,
tends toward socialism. He urged the
women to stand for a broader state and
national policy, to send men or women
to Washington or Montpelier who will
work for the benefit of the whole state or
bridge or highway or some other worthy
enterprise for their own locality.
He urged a broader state consciousness
and purpose and recommended that the
women ally themselves with a standard
type of politics.
Speaking of the "Hartness plan," the
governor said. humorously:
"SmOkestacks do not make industry,
neither do machinery. buildings. or even
groups of men with co-Ordained expert
ence. Industry has got to have a soul just
AZ much as a man. We have some places
in Vermont that are suitable for agricul-
ture and there are some that will grow
nothing but rocks. In such places we can
very easily plant industries
Clarence II. Dempsey. commissioner of
education, spoke on the school system Of
Vermont, calling attention to appropria-
ton of from 100000 to 100000 for
school purposes, explaining its diStribu-
ton, for a bonus for trained teachers
S15OO00, extra salary; for training
classes, 100000, for supervision, S140,-
600. etc.
He called attention to the great need
of improved rural schools and announced
that n state program or course of study
was IN the hands of the printer and would
be distributed very soon
The commissioner reported an cncOurag-
ingly large number of teachers enrolled in
the various training classes. At CaStletOn
about 30 are enrolled, at the University of
Vermont there are about 30. at Lyndon
about 20, and about 22J or go in the -
One-year courses. He also said that the
high schools have enrolled about 10000
students this year as against from 5000
to 5000 a few years ago
y general discussion of educational mat
tiers followed the address The confer
ence continues today with an executive
session in the morning and public sessions
in the afternoon and evening Lieut.. Gov.
y. w. Foote will speak in the afternoon
and ex-Gov. Allen NJ Fletcher in the
evening.