Second:  Since man is something more than a physical body, his work must be one in which he feels an interest and satisfaction.

Third:  Since there are various kinds of implements to aid man in his work, a successful organization should use the most effective type.

Fourth:  Since man is a creature of habit and functions most effectively when he has acquired skill through experience, each one in the workshop and office should be experienced in his particular branch of the work.

Fifth:  Since the high skill of men is attained through repetition of operations, the management must subdivide the work into classes in which each man can become highly proficient.

Sixth:  Just as there is an individual skill and ability acquired by the individual, so there must be a group skill built up.  The group skill is acquired by the coordination of the energies of all the workers so that the work flows naturally and evenly from worker to worker with the minimum hindrance.  This coordination takes place naturally through experience.  It only needs common sense supervision and a protection of the workers from the impractical interference of faddists.

HAVE FAITH IN VERMONT.

Travelers through the west, particularly on the coast states bring back the story of optimism that seems to be characteristic of the enterprising people who migrated west in the early days.  This spirit of optimism is not found in all parts of our country, and yet it is of high value.  In New England for instance, in each state there is a state pride, but perhaps not to the extent that we find in the larger cities and in the west.  Here we are more interested in the success of our various branches of activities.

Vermonters have been notably free to go beyond state boundaries in the acquisition of trade or profession and in practice, but optimism, which is the parent of enterprise, has an excellent chance for existing in our state.

The early history of industrial development shows it followed along the avenues of transportation—­seaports and lakeports and railways.  With the railways the industries spread to other states, notably Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.  Now there is setting in a readjustment and the time is ripe for Vermonters to use some of their spirit of enterprise within the boundaries of the old state.  Goods may be shipped to the best market from the top of our highest mountain at lower cost than it could be shipped from some remote competitors.  There is every angle favorable except the full knowledge of the situation and the elements on which industrial success can now be achieved.

The coming and use of machinery has been a most potent force in determining the economic rating of city and state, and it is in this respect that Vermont has now its great opportunity, and it is in the field in which invention, the use of machinery, the right methods of building up an effective group of workers that there is the surest reward for the energy put forth by investors, organizers and workers.