The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1905-06-02

PUBLISHERS
Bradford, Vermont
Gov. Douglass of Massachus-
etts has had a plenty of official
life in his first state of official
position. A letter to the chair
man of the Democratic Committee
emphatically says that he will
not be a candidate for reelection.
The reason he gives for this ac-
ton is that he prefers the bust
ness life and quiet home life to
the strain of political honors. He
is man with simple tastes and
It can readily be seen that his
position cannot offer him any
thing to compensate for his pleas
ure IN a busy business life and
quiet home life. His being elected
is nothing short of a political
miracle at time when the whole
country was voting for a republi-
can president With enthusiasm.
1t was doubtless the personality
of the candidate, which carried
the Massachusetts, democrats on
to victory. He has made a good
governor so far and he will
doubtless perform the duties of
the office to the best of his ability,
and then men not thirsting for
political honorS can readily see
why he would rather retire.
The State Press has been quite
generally occupied with the ques-
ton of refinement in our schools.
There has been some diversity of
opinion as there always is when
many minds wrestle with the
same problem. The first place to
teach refinement and courtesy is
in the home, but. even in the
best of homes, like instruction
from the teachers in our schools
will aid the young people to be-
come proficient in the art of
good manners. Then too where
there is no such teaching in the
homes the school teaching is all
the more necessary. What if our
school system does teach all kinds
of wisdom, and leave out of reck-
oning the rudiments of polite be-
havior, have we really turned out
by the process, a really educated
pe4sor. We will certainly have
turned out many bores with
plentyof learning but true edu-
cation means more than book
learning. We believe that in
most schools, at least, some at
tention is paid to the manners of
the children.
Scientific forestry IS not, as
some think, the preservation of
forests in their entirety, but it is
that trees not ready for lumber
shall be saved and some science
be applied in the cutting off of
mature lumber. The idea is that
a lumber yard shall be productive
all the time rather than once IN a
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are to be cut as soon as they, ma
ture, and the young trees are to
be left until old enough to make
good lumber. Care as to the re-
plenishing of forests as fast as
cut is also to be exercised. What
is there about this scheme to
cause any worry to owners of
timber lands. 1t has simply to
come and the sooner the plan is
adopted the sooner will our lum-
Der business be on a sound basis.
Along III the same category as
Boards of Health comes the ques-
ton of pure foods. 1t is a la
mentable fact that as a nation we
are eating adulterated food. Into
the simplest of our food commod
tiles has come this debasing of
the supply. Even things used in
the adulteration, have themselves
been tempered with, and artificial
products take the place of vegeta-
bic products. Much of 1t is COM
paratively harmless, but much of
it is not only harmful but dam
gerOus. Our state laboratory is
doing valiant work in pointing
out adulterated products, and we
hope that a vigorous wedding
out process may be the result.
All over this country Jacob A.
RiiS is known as man who
thinks and who has the allevia-
ton of the poor ever on his mind,
as well as the changing of econ
nmic conditions for the better
He holds high place in public
estimation because he is an ear
nest. honest man. with his brains
and heart i'll the right place. The
death of his wife last week will
bring to him many expressions of
sorrow from those who know him,
and many who only know him by
his works will also feel sorrow for 4
his sorrow, which will be genuine :
although he will never know ;