The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-16
SAVING MONEY IS NOT
ALL THERE Is TO DO
]. X. Elood Of Wet Windsor Calls
Attention 10 Some OF the
State Issues.

J. H. Blood who represented West
Windsor at the last session OF the
Legislature. In letter to the Wood.
stock Standard, does public sery-
ice in calling attention 10 some OF the
things In relation TO state govern.
ment that are ten forgotten The
real point made By Mr. b ood is that
Il Is Just as wrong 20 bc penwIous
aud penny-wiSe as il is to be careless
and eXlrayafant His letter TO the
Stardard IS as follows
Much is being sad IN TIE papers
of the State IN the editorials as well
as by contributors, about state eX.
penses down with public expense
slash cur EXPENSES" reduce the sal
aries OF our state oiHcis's ecopo,
mize" expenses increased 2o9 per
cent, etc.
Nearly all of this propagandu IS
Icing spread broadcast 20 make me
common peop'e ia ng tne stale s. eo-
ing 10 ru because .ts expenses are
more than they wore forty years ago
and tiat when they Vote ior a can.
didatc Tor any office they mrst prom
ise to ash our oNpeuses % 40 least
forty years axe.
Let me tell ai the editors. cand-
dates for Office soreheats, and what
few ignorant kickers there are tha,
The voters and the common peop'e
are not going to d. any such thing.
Aithoull have served the past
two terms In the House o.! Legisla
urc / am not a politician, have no
u,n t0 grind anl can state frankly
why the common people are not go.
ung back forts year, for the Sole
purpose OF cutting state expenses.
/ believe our state has and will
keep it, expense down as low as Il
Il economy t. So do and nJ lower
bnt the common people are not al
foolish even though ! am one OF them
and proud 10 say Il.
True economy does not necessarily
involve reduction Of expenses, Tor
example our town IS % small dairy
town oi small to medium sized dair'
les. our daIrymcu are paying "ous.
ands ol dollars each month for grain
while forty years aga their expense
'ur grain was practically nothing and
they were selling few pounds ol
mtter. some wool. lambs, turkeys ant
beef cattle toXem, today they are
selling twelve TO eighteen thousand
dollars worth of whole milk eacl
mont. in the year. The farmers were
never better of financially, their
farms were never as productive their
buildings as good and their wives and
chi dren az we'll dressed aud happy
as they are tOday, their expenses are
much mote than forty years ago but
their income much more thau Offsets
tlem so claim they are practising
true economy and ! believe our state
Is doing the same For example
wish to give iew facts which ! am
personally sure OF for am dttytour
years old and remember forty years
back. When eighteen years old
taught school and boarded around,
at one house they sent me up stairs
to bed with a tallow candle for d
light which ! set down on a window
slll. tthere being no other placel, tho
panes OF glass we're 80 shaky Il blew
ont my electric light Cthe candle) and
IN the morning there was tW0 or
three inches of snow on nay he'd THAI
lad blown In, hut | forgot to say that
my salary was the whole OF three
dollars per week. Next taught
twenty.eirht pupils in small room
and boarded myself and received
six dollars a week.
Does anyone want our school sys
tenn and our schools back there and
Il wasn't .oity years ago either Our
school expense IS many times what
4 Was then, but claim our scNoo'
and our teachers are enough better
so that our returns Tor money spent
dollar for dollar were never grcatcr
than today
Our roads were never as good a.
now and are being made better cyery
yea. Our expenses for roads arc
large yet we are getting returns and
We pay.asWe.go and are gong tc
continue the same pollcy, We are get
ting over six hundred thousand dot
lars per year from autos that We did
not get forty years ago, We were
getting seyenty-Gve thousand of thai
per year for "hack roads" but ! gOl