Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-08
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Various Matters from Various
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Various Matters from Various
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State railroads can secure cleaner sta.
tions by paying for them, just the same
as they must pay for anything else.
They cannot expect the over-worked
station staff to do the work, and, yet
that seems at present the only provision
for cleaning the average station building
in this state. Stations don't clean them.
selves by natural Mont
pelier Journal.
A proper recognition of ability and
painstaking service is the appointment
of John w. Hanley, of st. Adams. as
general passenger agent of the Central
Vermont railway. Mr.. Hanley has been
connected with the road for the past
twenty-five or thirty years and worked
his way up from the bottom wholly upon
merit. During his long term of service
he has not only made hosts of friends for
himself but also for the road, because of
his unfailing courtesy and his aptitude
for making things come out right. The
announcement of his promotion will be
received with satisfaction throughout
the state, and the road, as well, as MIR.
Hanley, is to be congratulated Mont
pelier Argus.
The editor of the Poultney Journal
considers himself immune from the con-
tagion of tainted money and agrees to
take the risk along with the cash in
this wise: A New York bacteriologist
found, upon examination. that dirty
one dollar bill was inhabited by $4,000
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ills as some of our subscribers are, thus
we advise all delinquents to get rid of
the dirty stuff and hand it over to us.
For while, at least, until paper ad-
vances once more in cost, we will be at
our office from Z to 6 to relieve any char
itably inclined person of the tainted
scrip.-Rutland Herald.
The Burlington News made the state
ment yesterday that Lieut.. Gov. Prouty
will soon make public defense of Yer
mont's jamestown commission and the
way it spent $4,000 voted by the State
legislature. If the lieutenant governor
will take our advice the only statement
he will issue will be one showing the
expenditure in lump sum. Such a state
ment will save him lots Of time and the
press of the state lots of criticism. But
few commissions have worked apologists
harder than the jamestown commission
and we for one would like to have it go
out of business even though this meant
that each individual member must re-
sign his position.-Fair Haven Era.
what Vermonter will supplement
Senator Proctor's princely gift of a sana-
forum with a half million endowment
and make it as free to patients as the all
they breathe?'-Fair Haven Era.
A very timely question but the prob
abilities are that no one man can be
expected to do this.-St. Adams Mes
senger.
No, but the State of Vermont might
very properly make the same conditions
apply to the sanatorium as now prevail
in connection with the State hospital for
the insane. Patients without means
might be received at the States expense,
and, in time, the whole running ma.
chinery might properly be financed at
public cast. AS years went by, the san
atorium could be extended and the bene-
ficent work made the same public bless
ing that it is in other states. The tax
payers might begin thinking about il
right Montpelier journal.
The movement to form a debating
club among the young men of the city
is one which commends itself to all
those who are looking forward to a pro,
fessional career. The ability to think
on ones feet, to express in appropriate
language ones thoughts, can only be OBJ
tanned by practice. There is charm in
listening to polished orator that a hes.
itating, laundering, awkward speaker
never can approximate, but from the
days of Demosthenes down men have by
practice cultivated and acquired facil-
ity of utterance of which they were ut
terly devoid at first. The old-time de-
batting clubs were responsible for some
of the ablest platform orators and there
is no reason why the young men of to-
day with the same application may not
win the same distinction. Some men
are born orators, but the most of them
who aspire to forensic honors have to
laboriously strive for success In that di-
rection. A well-organized and discip-
lined debating club would be source of
great good to its members, and its meet
ings, if open TO the public would be
thoroughly apprenticeship Her
aid.
The furry in financial circles last
week, did not entirely miss Vermont,
though this state has no closed banks to
it's discredit. The scare was owing to
the trust companies which are not to be
compared as bulwarks of finance with
national and savings banks. The trust
company had for some time been the
envy of bankers and others acquainted
with their get rich quick methods, ow-