The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-15

IulI SIldre III Iue winning OF tne
war, and the yards are now turned
to the uses of peace, one as a dye
plant, and the other for the manu-
facture of gypsum products, the raw
material being brought from Nova
Scotia.
At Portsmouth. too, was built the
Kearsarge, with oaken timbers taken
from the slopes of the mountain
whose name she bore. She laid
her bones upon a Caribbean reef,
but New Hampshire does not for
get that her record is written
Portsmouth, Cherbourg, Roncador.
So important, indeed, was the
shipbuilding industry in New Hamp-
shire that the state seal bore, and
still bears, the representation of a
ship upon the stocks, though its
heraldry has recently been revised !;
and, while the ship still remains
upon the states escutcheon, the
barrel of rum which stood so prom
inently in the foreground was
erased, in Difference, perhaps, to
the Eighteenth amendment.
The embargo act laid a heavy
hand upon our shipping, but coinci-
dent with it came the beginning of
that development of our water pow
ers which has created the indus
trial cities of which we continue
to be proud.
Thus New Hampshire stands
forth today, the little state with
the big history. Its ppulatiOn is al
most stationary, succeeding cen
suses giving it little beyond the nat
ural increase. Its taxable inven-
tory, though lacked high by the in,
genious devices Of modern taxing
boards, is probably excelled by sew
eral private fortunes in the United
States; but still the people of the
state manage to have most of the
things which modern life insists to
be necessary.
New Hampshire's automobile reg
iStratiOns, for instance, are in such
number that it is possible to take
the entire population of the state
for a Sunday afternoon ride. TO
accommodate them the state has
developed a series of trunk high
ways. three in number, which tra-
verse the state from the MaSsa-
chusetts border to the Canadian
line, piercing the White mountains
and following the course of the
states greatest rivers. TO these
the commonwealth is adding cross
state roads, which will gridiron
New Hampshire with modern high.
ways.
Good State Institutions.
New Hampshire's state institu.
tiOns provide for all the needs OF
the states dependent, delinquent,
and detectives, and for it's enter
prising youth the University of
New Hampshire presents expanding
courses for the training of young
men and women, who, unfortunate
! ly, in too great numbers, do not re-
main in the state to enable it to
enjoy the fruits of its bounty 10
| them.
Its public schools are now SO
arranged, so equipped, and so SUD.
| ported through state aid that nc
child need lack full SO weeks of
schooling each year, with free bus
transportation and in some in.
stances with a free lunch thrown
! in.
Its agriculture in particular is a
subject for pride. The farmers are
hard-wOrking and thrifty, and many
of them upon their stony acres car
realize the truth Of the old Jest
that even sheep in New Hampshire
had to be provided with steel muz
Zles to enable them to Craze, anG
that most of the crops of the state
| Iidh " Dc pldHlCu Will shotgun
New Hampshire agriculture has
specialized of late particularly ir
the dairying and truck line: but
even at its best, it cannot yield the
the rich rewards which farmers
have secured in other states.
In common with the entire agri
/ cultural brotherhood of the coun
try, New Hampshire farmers have
suffering from changed conditions
and from existing depression. But
they are still self-respecting anC
self-suppOrting.
But a native points out he sup
poses that the states chief product
will continue to be men,, in toker
of which, as Webster said, "The AL
mighty has hung out a sign higf
up in our hills" where the Old Man
of the Mountain, with the storms
of ages beating upon his rugged
brow, broods ceaselessly over the
moving scene which is unfolded be
fore him.