The Coolidge examiner., 1932-10-14

change in those gifts with which
Nature has endowed the state. AS
q consequence, there are those who
think that New Hampshire's future
must lie wholly in the further ex-
tension of its recreational interests
and in the further development OF
its water powers.
One of the largest of the coun-
try's manufacturers of sporting
goods is set down in the foothills of
the White mountain, and from his
| factory go forth thousands of base
balls to be sewn by the women of
the community.
Women in organized industry are
plenty enough in New Hampshire.
however, but they have not come
from the farms, at least not from
New Hampshire farms where hand
| industry was to be found. With the
concentration of New Hampshire in
dustries in the cities, and particu-
| larly with the specialization of cities
in the shoe and textile lines, came
a swelling stream of immigration
from the north attracted by the OPP
/ portunities which the states expand
ing mills provided.
Lots of Water There.
New Hampshire is not a dry state
At any rate, no incOnsiderable por-
ton of its 9,341 square miles is Gov
cred with water. It's lakes are in
Vulnerable, ranging from Winnepe
saukee, with its so square miles o.
area and its 274 islands, down to-
the tiny tarn in front of the Craw-
ford house where the Saco river
has its source. All of these waters,
which are highly protected by the
state, teens with fish, and the pre-
diction which Gov. Moody Currier
made in his inaugural message Il
half century ago seems to have come
true. The old gentleman was plead
ing for more generous appropria-
tiOns for the fish and game depart
ment, and argued that it should be
possible to make each acre of New
Hampshire water area as produc-
tive as the average acre of land
If one throws into the account the
revenue In taxes and purchases
made by the owners of the sports
mems camps which have spawned
so plentifully on the shores of New
Hampshire lakes and streams. the
governor is seen to have had his
vision realized. The federal gov
ernment also has not been neglect
full, and both the legislature and
congress have established and main
tanned hatcheries which are modern
and efficient-and some of them pic
turesque.
Has Excellent Schools.
New Hampshire has always laid
great store upon education, and in
less than fifteen years from the
date of the first settlement scheGis
were established in the earlier
towns and contracts were made with
imported teachers, VINO were paid at
public expense.
The colony was but seventy years
old when, amid the distress and dis
traction of the French and Indian
war, the assembly made provision
by taxation for meeting houses, min,
isters' homes, schoOlhouses, and the
salaries of schoolmasters Endowed
academies sprang up within the fol
lowing century, the first being the
Phillips Exeter academy, which in
| 1881 celebrated it's sesquicentennial
These institutions for the most
/ part bore the mark of the standing
! order of COngregatiOnalism. The
Methodist school at TiltOn, the .Bap-
tist school at New London. the Free
Baptist school at New Hampton and
the Unitarian school at Andover still
maintain more or less of their de
nominational affiliation.
The great church of st. Paul's.
which was the first of that strong
| and notable chain of church schools
in the East, together with the school
at Holderness. still adheres to it's
Episcopalian faith, while st. An
selm's college, established by the
Benedictine Order near Manchester.
and several academies for girls. at
test the devotion of the Catholic
church to scholarship in state
where it numbers at least third of
the total population.
At the head of all of New
Hampshire's educational institutions
stands Dartmouth college. no long
er "the small college," which Web
ster loved and defended. Growing
the heavenly heights which spring
upward from the Connecticut at
Hanover, Dartmouth, with new
buildings, an enlarged faculty. eX-
panding endowments. and. it is good
to add, the same old spirit, has
come to rank with the great col
leges of the country and is a source
of constant pride to the state.
At Durham. one of the first set
Elements and near the sea, is the
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