The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-30


warmer and drier climates. Local
conditions in different parts of the
State must also be taken into &C
count and our aim should not be
to apply a uniform system to all
places, but to build roads to stand
the traffic they have to bear, util-
iZing material which is most anvil
able, so far as suitable.
| also favor maintaining and eX-
tending still further the patrol
system. This seems to me absolute
ly essential to the maintenance of
our gravel roads and if carried on
steadily and carefully, it will as
sure the upkeep of gravel road
once properly constructed.
C. Health:
l believe in the work of the
Board of Health and think it
should be continued. With the
great scientific discoveries of this
and the last generation, amon~
which there are none greater than
those along medical lines, epide
mics should and can be largely
prevented-certainly controlled.
Whether the responsibility for
public health may not have been
taken too much from the idividual
communities is a fair question. Be-
cause tie interests involved are so
much broader than local lines,
this work must be done under
Statet supervision and largely by
State administration, but it's local
administration should be kept as
much in local hands as is possible
and produce efficient results.
d. Charities and Probation:
The work of the board of Chair
ties and Probation is of great in
terest and Importance. The condi-
tons justifying the creation of this
Board were serious. Some town
poor houses We're not fit to live in
children were obliged to room
with diseased adults and housed
with them were minded
girls having numerous illegitimate
children. These conditions have
been greatly improved.
The State cannot and should
not displace volunteer organiza-
tions. The responsibility for public
welfare work should be brought
back to rest as directly as possible
upon the peonle. They receive the
benefit and they should bear the
burden. Governmental departments
usually lack personal interest in
and attention to individual cases.
Any effort of the State in regard
to such work should include the
closest cooperation with these
volunteer organizations. There
seems no reason, however, why the
work of this Board requires ex-
pansion or an increased appropria-
ton and, with what has been done,
it would be my opinion that its
work could now be continued as
efficiently at a decreased expense.
e. Scientific Forestry and Re
forestation:
am interested in scientific re-
forestation and believe in it. There
are areas in our State better suit
ed for use as forest land than forI
agricultural purposes. Much of this
land is now practically abandoned
and is fast passing into the hands |
of foreign corporations. So far as
the income of the State will per-
NIT, the work of reforestation oil
our waste lands should be exte T.
ed. a. - = /
6. Is your attitude uncom-I
promising in demand for one NOR
al standard?
If | understand what this ques-
ton means, there is absolutely in |
my opinion but one answer, There
should be but one standard.
Z. Have you in mind any off
ces for which you consider women
especially qualified? Are you in
favor of their representation in
matters pertaining |
to state institutions, such as The |
Industrial School, the State Pris-
on, the School for Feeble Minded |
and the Asylum for the Insane?
Should there be State as we'll as
a National Childern's Bureau?
The answer to the first part of
this question is obvious. For OK
ample, women are naturally fitted
to bring much greater help to the
solution of problems pertaining to
education than to the construction
of highways. Women now have
the full rights of equal suffrage
and with these rights have equ-
ally the privileges and obligations
hereunder with men. In general,
do not think any discrimination
should be made against women in
official positions and women
should not confine their interests
to particular lines of public bus
mess. Appointments should be
made on the basis of fitness, ex-
perience and ability; not according
70 sex. Women appointees should
hold the same authority as men,
and an equal degree of response
oility. They should be selected on
4 similar basis.
The law does not provide for
any Boards or Commissions to
nave in charge the Industrial
school, the State Prison, the
School for Feeble Minded or the
Asylum for The Insane. These
Institutions are now most ably Il
by the present Director
IF State Institutions. Under ex-
sting conditions | do not know of
'easons justifying the changing
IF the law and the establishment
If a commission to conduct this
work. We have too many COM
missions.