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Show .mmx 'MmMm, Sfete j ONE of the few places where people speak of thrift with respect . . . Vermont, a small state pulling its full share of weight with the rest of the nation and making its own budget meet! The world has marveled at Vermont's scenic wonders. won-ders. Many have witnessed the spontaneous explosive explo-sive splitting of quarry blocks at some of its quarries, quar-ries, where great blocks of granite suddenly snap loose with a sharp report. But the world should know Vermont's people, too. They were first to express constitutional con-stitutional prohibition of all human slaveryl They were first in the nation to provide universal manhood suffrage, with voting not dependent upon property, owned or rented, or a specified yearly income. Vermont always hated slavery, and its legislatures adopted annual resolutions against it. Southern states grew more angry each year. The Georgia legislature requested President Pierce to employ enough able-bodied able-bodied Irishmen to dig a ditch around Vermont and float "the thing" out to the Atlantic ocean! A Virginia newspaper gravely commented that Vermont was "always "al-ways foremost in the path of infamy." Years later, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the Great Emancipator, came to Vermont to make his home at Manchester. A marker now stands on the lot in Bennington Ben-nington where William Lloyd Garrison lived, and where he edited the "Journal of the Times" early in the 19th century. Also, Bennington was the birthplace of John F. Winslcw, builder of the "Monitor," the steel ship of Civil war fame. Vermont is a pleasant place. The climate is cool and the atmosphere dry. The summer season, between frosts, is from 110 to 160 days, depending on location and altitude. Evidences of the ice age still prevail in rounded and grooved ledges, polished rock surfaces, Ice-borne boulders and great deposits of unsorted sands, clays and gravels. The range of scenic interest is vast, with mountains and broad valleys, river and lakes, and abundant forests. There will often be 10 feet of snow-cover snow-cover in the central part, and 34 to 46 inches of rainfall rain-fall through the year. Lake Champlain is 120 miles long, and there are many others, including Lake Wil-loughby. Wil-loughby. Lake Dunmore and Silver CALVIN CoOUDGi J (sis fP Lake. From Mount Mansfield, 4,393 feet high, there Is an excellent view of the White Mountains and Adiron-dacks, Adiron-dacks, with Lake Champlain visible SO miles away. Vermont has over 900 peaks with an altitude of 2,000 state and each section has its scenic attractions. Vacationists find almost al-most every kind of allure in Vermont, Ver-mont, Including hiking on the famous fa-mous Long Trail and horseback riding rid-ing on the thousand-mile bridle trail system. f v, . : 4 -u ---"-o-m inf :A,1- , ; i Jri-4'' -T JTt-'' hmiWj ;t- v - . ' C-r Ik 3U 41 In Poultney, when a lad, Horace Greeley set type in a small print shop. Salmon P. Chase lived and studied law at Randolph. Peacham was the boyhood home of Thaddeus Stevens. Eugene Field, with recollections rec-ollections of his boyhood in New-fane, New-fane, based several of his poems on local life In Vermont. Few states have produced so many notables in all lines of endeavor as hardy, mountainous Vermont. Samuel Champlain, French explorer, ex-plorer, was the first white man known to have seen any part of Vermont. When coming from Canada, Can-ada, in 1609, he went up the long lake that bears his name. The first settlement In Vermont, though shortlived, short-lived, was also by the French, when Captain La Motte built a fort and a shrine on Isle La Motte. In 1690, Capt. Jacobus de Warm established an outpost on what is now Chimney Point. In general, however, Vermont Ver-mont was a no-man's land in the 17th and 18th centuries, a mere passageway for French and Indian raiding parties seeking the English farther south and east. From the earliest days, Vermont gave attention to primary education. The University of Vermont was chartered in 1791. Other institutions for higher education include Norwich Nor-wich university, Northfield, the second sec-ond oldest military college in the nation; Bennington college; Middle-bury Middle-bury college; St. Michael's, Win-sooki; Win-sooki; Trinity, Burlington. There are three normal schools and two junior colleges in the state. One of the crowning features of Vermont is the province of the Green mountains. Here are found the highest peaks KUlington, Ellen, El-len, Lincoln, Camel's Hump, Mansfield Mans-field and Jay. The physical geog-graphy geog-graphy of the state is diversified, however, with the Vermont lowland on the west and much rolling country coun-try eastward. The state's geology is. complex and extremely fascinating. fascinat-ing. Vermont is nicknamed 'The Green Mountain State." Its motto is "Freedom and Unity." The state flower is the red clover; state bird, hermit thrush; state song, "Hail, Vermont." YEAR AROUND . . . Top picture shows canoeing on Lake Will-ougbby. Will-ougbby. Bottom is Toll Road House at the foot of Mt. Mansfield. feet or over. There are over 400 lakes in the state, and forests and forest parks cover over a half-million acres. Hunting, trapping and fishing are always available to the rugged outdoor man. There are recreational activities in Vermont all through the year skiing into April, fishing and other vacationing from May to late fall, and touring and hunting to the opening open-ing of the winter season. Tourists penetrate to every corner of the Vermont is pre-eminently a dairy state, with beef, milk, butter and cheese as important products. It is also well suited to diversified farming farm-ing and fruit growing. Many sheep are raised there, and it was in Vermont Ver-mont that the Morgan horse was developed. Both in quality and quantity Vermont leads all maple-producing maple-producing states with a normal yield of about 40 per cent of the total. The 35,000 bearing apple trees in the state's orchards yield a product of notable quality. In industry Vermont is noted for lumber and lumber products, woolen wool-en mills, paper-making, marble, granite, slate, lime, asbestos, talc, soapstone, kaolin, ocher and other products. Steel squares were invented in-vented in Vermont and are still manufactured at St. Johnsbury. In recent years a growing number num-ber of writers and artists have made Vermont their permanent homes. Others spend a part of the year there.' Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Fish-er, who loves her Arlington home, is one of the state's authors. Robert Frost, the poet lives in Shaftsbury. Chester A. Arthur was the first native Vermonter to become President Presi-dent of the United States, later followed fol-lowed to the White House by Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth. Adm. George Dewey, Levi P. Morton, John Deere, John B. Mansfield, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Saxe, Joseph Smith, Alphonso Taft, Brigham Young and many other figures in ' history were born in Vermont. -V V fi,,-4f - Try t - ;vi f ; ' i !i ' f I :. . '4 I -.-," I - 1 3 - it i f ' N 5 5 s ..... h-"J"--" ' -fcfrrt-1,---------- -"-n I,, ,f .j MORTIMER R. PROCTOR I Governor of Vermont A Vermont Sugar House ' |