The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-24
GLAD VERMONT
I STILL REMAINS
UNSPOILED
Noted Philadelphia News
paperman's Impressions
of Green Mt. State

adelphia Public Ledger, who with
Mrs. House, has been touring Yer
mont during his vacation, paid the
Cpledonian-Recor office d pleas
ant call during his stop in st.
JohnsbuIy.
He says his favorite vacation
tour is from St. Adams to St.
Johnsbury and down the Connect
cut river to Massachusetts,. H
enjoys the Vermont dirt roads and
constantly changing panorama of
hills and valleys and mountains,
ard is enthusiastic about Vermont
as a vacation paradise. IF all
visitors are as enthusiastic about
Vermont's attractions as this
w!elder of a ready pen, it will not
be long before Vermont will be
discovered"
Here is how Mr.. House writes
from Vermont under date Of
Windsor, Aug. 10.
ave slept last night in Jeffcr-
solVille, a village OF SEQ popula
ton between st. Adams and st.
Johnsbuly. ! mention Jefferson
vile because the knowledge that
such towns still exist is worth dis
semnating. SO far as | could
learn, no name in that village car
riCe string of maSsed conSonants;
no throat is capable Of uttering Il
gutteral sound. ! did not hear a
double negative or note a split in
tinitive. Probably there IRE q few
scattered around, but | didn't hear
them. And in that town Of 500
persons there isn't billboard or =
motion-picture theater, Shortly
before dinner | went up town to
submit myself to the kindly minis
trations Of barber. | was told
/ would find shop in a certain
grocery store. | found the store
and Il shop-in an inside room.
But there was no barber. | ques-
toned the grocer as to the exist
ence Of such facial artisan. He was
here awhile this afternoon SAL
the grocer, but he took his car and
drove away; | don't suppose he'll
+ be back"
"In the rear Of the hotel as the
SIuutS VI tNtllltlt zen CANT
upon man milking a Jersey COW.
4 We fell into casual conversation
and | commented in favorable
WY upon the pulchritudc of the
bovni( lady. | know something
OF COWS and am able to discuss
them intellgently. found that in
mplimenting the cow had
+nnohal thA canta+ e,l,ipu hat
guarded the owners confidence.
He told me the cows. name was
Molly and that she was the fourth
IL her line. He had owned her
mother, her grandmother, and her
/ grcat-grandmother. He owned
her offspring. The name had de-
ctnded. He called them all Molly
ana would continue to do so -
long as the line was perpetuated.
That was his pride and joy.
: "The incident in itself was in
significant, but it points truth
for which | always contended. j.
1 is that every man has his distinc-
ton. One man sends a son to
Harvard; another has a we'll of ice
cold water in his yard. Here was
o man in the Green Mountains Of
Vermont whose distinction was
tfat he was perpetuating a line Of
mich cows. There is d good hotel
in Jacksonville. The rooms are
cheerful and clean, the food eX-
ccllent. We had dinner, lodging
end breakfast The bill for two
was Sd. You don't believe 1t"
Well, it does sound fshy.
"Today | went into the office of
The CALIFORNIAN in st. JohnsburV
in the hope that | might meet Viii
liam Dudley Policy Policy is 4
short story writer who has done a
lot of bully stuff in the five or six
years last past. He used to be
the editor of the St. Johnsbury
CALIFORNIAN. | didn't know he had !
sold the paper and I went in to
tell him | like his stuff. Every |
once in a while somebody comes
into my office at home and tells
mo he likes my stuff; | like to pass
that sort of thing along, so | went |
in to tell Policy.
"Now, in nearly every story Pei
ley has written the st. Johnsbury |
Caledonian figures as the Paris |
Times. And in nearly every story
Felley has dramatized himself as
Sam Hold, the editor Of the Times. |
So | went into the editorial room
OF the Caledonian and asked for
Sam Hold. 1t was a very clevc"
crack, but it didn't take. The edi-
torial room turned blank and |
puzzled face toward me. It said,
in~effect, that nobody of the name |
of Sam Hold worked on that paper |
or had ever worked on it. Then |
! diaGrammed my clever crack,
and the light broke through. They |
told me Pelley sold the Caledonian |
some years ago and was no longer |
connected with the paper.
"If it is left to me, and despite !
the fact that try to shirk the |
responsibility, pretty nearly every
thing is left to me, rural Vermont |
Is the only motoring paradise left.
1t is the one spot | know anything |
about not yet appreciably infected |
bv the cake eater who shoots n
| EiRh-powercd car along the motor !
highway at a rate of so or 60 |
miles an hour. 1t is the only one
which is not messed up by those
who tie tent and a bedroll along
side an automobile 4and. descend
upon the country. "
an a ride of nearly 200 miles
in Vermont | haven't seen an
empty salmon tin nor the pallid
remains of Yesterdays roadside