The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-21
The MeddLer
IN the coat iifs yOa. put Il on. +"

worthy of place In this column!
Mr. Meddler:-Thore is Few thing
going ON around town that you hau
ought TO write piece about in your
na1er: but as you aine seen fit TO dc
so, some of my friends has suggested
that | can do it just as we'll And tho
1 amt never wrote much for the pub
lie press, | presume ! can, us ! notice
Won aint very particular what you put
, In the Mcddlcr column, Anyway II
YOU don't print this letter | shall give
il TO Walter Gilbert and tell him 10
print il in the Sunday Republican
same as they did Mr. Bradleys.
One of the things | think you ought
to write about is the way the mer'
chants ON Main street pile up thelr
goods aud their boxes ON the side
walk and in the cutters. sup
nose YOU dassent write about this be,
cause they advertise in your paper. /
see in Boston that the police are go
ing TO make every storekeeRpr keep
his goods of the sidewalk, and l
think they ought to in Brattleboro rs
the sidewalks aint none too wide TO
walk on. OF course ! know that the
stores ON the east side Of the street
cant get their goods unloaded at the
back doors because a good many oil
them aint got any back doors. But
empty boxes hadn I ought to be al.
lowed to stand around all day, and
tables full of goods hadn It ought to
take up sidewalk room that the public
needs.
Another thing is the loaiing on the
streets nights and Sundays. sup
nose the boys and men would rather
sit ON the stone steps of Mr.. Averill 5
bank than to patronize the Y. NJ Z.
! A., but if the bailiffs or the police or
/ Governor Proctor or Judge Gibson or
| Attorney General Fits or the school
committee or Ed. Crosby or Hub Har'
ris or Judge Newton or X. Haskins or
the Thompson Fund or the Board of
! Trade or the Woman s Club or any
body else would get up scheme to
make the loafers move on, perhaps the
\. NJ. G. 4. rooms would be used more
Last Sunday / see six boys during
church time pitching pennies at the
car track. It a good thing Bryant
wasn't around or he d have claimed
the money belonged to the Twin State
Gas 4 Electric company, Brattleboro
Division. Anyway it WASH I no time
nor place for pitching pennies. /
Why don Z you say something about
these motor boats' They ought to be
licensed Just the same as automobiles or
dogs or beer saloons. A man hash I .
got any right to try and run one OF
EN- unless he can swear like a golf
player. Swearing is safety'valve
that keeps 'em from doing worse dam
age | presume Bob Bacon can qualify /
all right; as state 5 attorney he has had
considerable experience with making
other folks swear; some of EN- have
sworn outside the courtroom, TOO,
hear.
These Mormon meetings ought to be
exposed. First we know all our Young
men will be growing up to be polygous.
| don't believe in religious persecution,
but there aint any call for Mormon
missionaries around here. What we
need in Brattleboro is the habit of prac-
Using some of the religion we've al
ready got. -,
The worst feature of our civic life
and one that you haint never wrote
about to my knowledge is the selfish,
ness of our automobiles. If you II
stand at the Brooks house any after
noon and especially Sunday and watch
the autos that 60 by, you II see about
half of them with one person IN and
four or five empty seats waiting TO be
kept warm. Them as has company
has some other autoist with
fem. maybe someone whose auto ought
10 be in the machine shop-and is-or
maybe someone who has just sold his
old one and hash t got a new one yet.
They give each other rides about half
the time and drive round alone the
rest of the time. About twice a year
they give someone a ride who don t ,
own an automobile and they take him
round the little triangle. I've had (
two rides in three years, one with
Jake Ullery when | invited myself,
and one with Carl Henkel when | paid
for it. You'd ought to write some
thing scathing about this, and seattle ,
'em good.
The last thing I want to speak
about, and l don t suppose you'll pub
ish it either, because il s about you-- ,
it s that a good many of your read :
ars, including me- don't like it because
YOU find fault too much. [ amt no
kicker as you'll see from this letter, 5
though there s one or two things I've
called attention to that ought to be .
fixed, and l believe in making things :
rs pleasant as possible. These things
hat I've brought up are important
out you ought to know that every ,
lime anybody gets a grudge and
wants you to write a piece about it,
you hadn t ought to do it. You needn t
print this, but be sure and print the
est of the letter
Pro Bono Publico. '