Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-08-09
FOoTE-PROCTOR

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education, in cooperation with the
next Legislature, will be able to work
out plan that will materially reduce
the overhead expense in the educa-.
tional department without detriment
to the service.
A. We spent So. ESQ, 900 on roads
last year, $4,000 of this being fed
eral work. / believe our practical
road builders here in Vermont know
more about the conditions in Vermont
and the proper way to construct
roads here and have them stand up,
than any set of engineers in Wash
ington, and it is being demonstrated
that roads costing $4,000 to $4,000
per mile and built according to fed
eral specifications. do not stand the
traffic. At present, we are not get
ting even fifty per cent efficiency
from the federal aid work. There is
a great opportunity here to cut down
expenses and get more roads built
for less money. If we can change the
specifications in this department to
the Telford type of construction, we
shall get more miles of road for our
| money and this type of road will
stand up longer, if properly drained.
The present method of taxing au-
tomobiles is unfair. ! am not parti-
cular whether the remedy is a gaso-
line tax or a registration fee based
on the value and weight of the car.
Our present system. based on the
diameter of the cylinder, is not in
dicative of the actual horse power.
6. The Legislature of 1921 ap-
propriated about 100000 for new
buildings for state institutions. 1t
will be necessary to make very little,
if any appropriation for this purpose
at the next session, and there may
even be some of this last appropria-
ton left over. In a statement made
to the press April 2, 1922, Judge
| Weeks, director of State institutions,
noted the increase in expense of
maintaining the State institutions,
| and indicated that the figures could
be and would be reduced.
| In the Department of Probation
| and Charities, the expense of super
vising probationers can be much re-
duced without diminishing the good
work of that department.
+ l believe we can and should collect
our revenue without a direct State
| tax. The average tax rate in the
towns of the State for this year is
about $3.40, the highest it has been
for at least 80 years.
| Candidate Proctor followed along
practically the same line, discussing
state matters in general but taking
no different stand from his compan-
ion speaker. They both agreed on
| the main question that budget
should be prepared early in the ses-
sion so that it could not be rushed
| through at the last moment when
everybody is tired out and ready to
| go home as was the case at the last
/ session. They faced the road ques.
ton in about the same way, neither
| of them being satisfied with the pres
ent condition of the highways.
| Candidate Proctor felt that we had
| too many commissions, also too many
school superintendent, and that g
consolidation could be made all along
the line. Both opposed bonding the
state for the highways.
In the matter of bovine tubercul-
osis. Mr.. Proctor said that he had
| personally come-in very close con-
tact with this problem. He said
/ Governor Hardness had appointed q
commission to study this matter In q
scientific way and he did not believe
i the state was ready to adopt a defn-
| lie -pOllcy IN regard TO huge sums eX-
| pended for bovine tuberculosis until
a report had been made by this COM
mission. He said the amount Oh
money spent annually should &C
/ down.
He closed by saying:
The ladies should remember that
just because they are assessed pol
tax their duties as to voting have moi
| been COMPLETED. Thew should be sure
their names are on the town check list
and be sure to vote. They should take
their new prerogative seriously ant