Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-05-24

| IN vermont, 0VtucuLly Is CudL Acl
banks, investment and insurance com
panies, as well as individuals, have
loaned their money to assist other
communities and other enterprises
outside of the state, rather than help
their neighbor boys get farms and
homes. They seem to prefer taking
things easy and clip interest coupons
to helping establish manufacturing
industries and utilizing natures fore
es that would give employment to
thousands of young men and girls,
thereby increasing the wealth, power,
prosperity and population of the state
The history of the past is convincing
proof of the truth of this statement.
The many millions of Vermont money
loaned outside of the state, thereby
escaping proper taxation at home.
and to the impoverishment of her in
dustries, cannot be considered loyalty
to the state. Little wonder that your
paper and other state papers feel
wrought up over the subject. =
Vermont has brains, money and
forces of nature at her command to
make the state great, wealthy and
powerful All that is necessary is a
combination of those forces, backed
by enterprise and good Judgment.
Then would be seen money flowing
into the state instead of going out.
Practically everything now used on
the farms and in the homes of Yer
mont, except maple sugar, butter and
eggs, is brought into the state, and
the money to pay the bills is sent out.
How can any state or community be
expected to prosper under such con-
ditions Vermont needs wide
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1t is painful to read of reduced pop
ulatlon, abandoned farms and perish
ing communicated too true No
for large manufacturing plants than
in Vermont. Climatic conditions
need be no bar. With material help
in those directions, the young men of
Vermont, If thrifty, persevering and
Industrious, will readily become fore
handed and there would be no occa-
sion for leaving their native state;
but If careless, improvident, spend
thrifts, they would be poor as Jobs
turkey, live where they may.
Before closing, permit me to di-
gress moment. Never since the
days of "Bristol Bill' has Vermont
been shocked by the exploits of such
noted criminals, which shows that
Vermont is law-abiding and law-en-
forcing Ga good place to raise boys
and girls, while all over our coun-
try today crimes of the most revolt
ing nature are running rampant
nothing equal to it ever before. Muir
ders, hold-ups, bank robberies and
burglaries are daily occurrence in
all our large cities; who wants to send
their boys and girls to such places?
Then, too, Vermont has never been
visited by earthquakes, volcanoes,
tornadoes, cyclones, violent storms,
floods, hot winds, drouths year after
year, the plague of grasshoppers,
chichbugs, and a thousand other
things to destroy life and property,
such as have swept the West, South,
Southwest, Mississippi valley and the
Pacific states, in some instances TAX
ing heavy toll of life and impoverish-
ing large sections In southern Cal
ifornia the orange crop, the main de-
pendence of the ranchers, was last
winter almost totally ruined by the
frosts and thousands of trees were
killed.
Boys and girls of Vermont, don't
run from home looking for better
things.
Fred M. Kimball.
Long Beach, Cal, May IL, 1922.