The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
(HardWick Gazette.l

disclaim any connection with tn
printing of the public acts SUP
plement issued by them las
week, and which every reader o
The Gazette received. Can yol
blame them? The principal faul
with the supplement, one tina
needs condemning most, is tn,
type face from which it is print
ed; and with no line spacing
makes the study of it's contents
very distressing to the eyes. Then
too, the printing is poor. The
state contracts for publishing
these acts and delivers them tC
each paper to be issued by then
as a supplement. The contract
was let to the lowest bidder, and
the concern which printed the
job, happens to be, through its
paper, one of the loudest in
claiming favoritism and graft in
apportionment of public work.
How will it explain the wretched-
ness of it's own work now that
it has had a "divy"?
Barre Times
In giving a second warning to
dealers in milk, the State Board
of Health is showing a great
deal of leniency, more so, in fact,
than some of them deserve. 1t
ought to be sufficient to notify the
dealers in the product and then
let them stand the brunt of trial
if they fail to remove the cause
of complaint. But the board
goes beyond that point and now
notifies them that prosecution
will follow if the milk is not
found to be in a satisfactory con-
ditiOn after the second warning.
In order to get the fairest results,
inspectors will be sent to the
dairies to personally examine the
conditions. These threats of
prosecution have had little terrors
for the unfair dealers in milk,
for there has never been dispo-
sition to carry out the threats.
In consequence, we have the
word of the health board that two
thirds of the samples of milk that
were last examined were found
to be contaminated. But there is
reason to believe that the State
Board of Health will be as good
as it's word this time and that if
examination discloses unsatisfac-
tory conditions, prosecutions will
be the next step. 1t will, there
fore, behoOve the dealers in the
product to have a care as to the
methods of handling the milk. A
person who lacks the necessary
self initiative will get little
pushing and it will not be gen
tie showing, either. So let those
dealers who have not pride
enough in their occupation to be
clearly take fair warning from the
statement just issued by the
State Board of Health There
will be little ground for them to
stand on in court if they don't.
Mortified News.
When the News withdrew the
railroad time table from its col
umns January LIST, upon the ]
statement of the railroad manage
ment that it did not purpose to /
advertise further in this form, it |
had no idea that there would be
any more necessity for explaining I
the matter in print than in the {
cause of the withdrawal of any
other advertiser. The complaint '
hat the running time of trains |
cannot now be easily obtained {
and, what seems to the News, |
comment by some of
he newspapers, makes it neces- I
sary to speak of the matter briefly {
The railroad time table has been j
'un in the News as an advertise /
nent for years and under the {
present management of the road
t has been paid for with mileage
books good for the bearer-not so
jailed editorial mileage, such as ]
s issued by some roads. The local {
Advertising rates were charged
he road and payment was made
n mileage which could be used on i
he road or turned into ready S
money. t
The decision of the manage
nent to withdraw this advertis- G
ng was based upon statement to
he effect that the present inter- |
tate law forbids transportation i
n payment for advertising. Just r
What paragraph in this excellent t
lational law attempts to inter f
ere with the railroad business
within a state is not quite appar- Il
mt. 1t is more probable, how t
yer, that the section" referred t
O was found in the recent grade n
rossing act or possibly the law o
aising the taxes on railroads to S
more equitable basis, both of t
7hich measures had the hearty
Import of most of the news S
apers. a
However that may be, no pub c
sher can take any exception to n
he railroad company's withdraw is
of its advertising from his e,
aper, and none has been inclined 7
D do so, so far as we have OBJ C,
erved. The public, however, has n