White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-06

Increasing competition and changing
economic conditions have caused re-
cession in New Hampshire's basic in
dustries, but there can be no competi-
ton and there is no change In those
gifts with which Nature has endowed
the state. AS a consequence, there
are those who think that New Hamp-
shires future must lie wholly In the
| further extension of it's recreational
interests and in the further develop
ment of it's water powers.
One of the largest Of the country's
manufacturers of sporting goods is set
down in the foothills Of the White
/! mountains, and from his factory 60
forth thousands of baseballs 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 concentra-
ton of New Hampshire industries in
the cities, and particularly with the
specialization Of cities in the shoe
and textile lines, came swelling
stream Of immigration from the north
attracted by the opportunities which
the states expanding mills provided.
Lots of Water There.
New Hampshire is not dry state.
| At any rate. no inconsiderable por.
ton of it's 9,341 square miles is GOV
cred with water. It's lakes are in
Vulnerable, ranging from Winnepe-
saukee, with its 80 square miles OF
area and it's 274 islands, down to the
tiny tarn in front Of the Crawford
house where the Saco river has its
source. All Of these waters, highly
protected by the state, TEEN with fish,
and the prediction which Gov. Moody
Currier made in his inaugural mes
sage a half century ago seems to have
come true The old gentleman was
| pleading for more generous appropri-
ations for the fish and game depart.
ment, and argued that it should be
/ possible to make each acre Of New
|
as the average acre Of land.
If one throws into the account the
revenue in taxes and purchases made
by the owners of the sportsmen's
camps which have spawned so plenti
fully on the shores of New Hampshire
lakes and streams, the governor is
/ seen to have had his vision realized. The
| federal government also has not been
neglectful and both the legislature and
| congress have established and main
| tain hatcheries which are modern and
| efficient-and some Of them pictur-
esque.
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 schools were es-
tablshed in the earlier towns and
| contracts were made with imported
teachers, who were paid at public ex,
pense
The colony was but seventy years
old when, amid the distress and dis
traction of the French and Indian war
I! the assembly made provision by tax
alton for meeting houses, ministers
! homes, schoolhouses, and the salaries
| of schOOlmasters. Endowed academies
sprang up within the following cen
| fury, the first being the Phillips Exeter
academy, which in 1881 celebrated its
sesquicentennial and which stands in
the foremost rank of preparatory
| schools in the country.
These institutions for the most part
bore the mark of the standing order
! of Congregationalism. The Methodist
school at Tilton, the Baptist school at
New London, the Free Baptist school
at New Hampton and the Unitarian
school at AndOver still maintain more
or less of their UNCONVENTIONAL affilia,
ton.
The great church of st. Pauls. which
was the first of that strong and nota
bile chain of church schools in the
East, together with the school at
Holderness, still adhers to its Episo
palan faith, while st. Anselms col
lege, established by the Benedictine
| Order near Manchester. and several
| academies for girls attest the devotion
| of the Catholic church to scholarship
| in a state where 1t numbers at least
third of the total population.
At the head of all Of New Hamp
| shire's educational institutions stands
| Dartmouth college, no longer ''the
| small college" which Webster loved
and defended Growing the heavenly
heights which spring upward from the
Connecticut at Hanover, Dartmouth,
with new buildings. an enlarged fac
ulty. expanding endowments, and, II
Is good to add the same old spirit
has come to rank with the great col
leges Of the country and is source of
constant pride to the state.
At Durham. one Of the first settle
ments and near the sea, is the Univer
sity Of New Hampshire. 1t, too, en-
toying an era Of remarkable expansion
and prosperity.