The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-03-22
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Mortified News. !

Il0DOfO, was IuIH0u uOWn Ill Ills
town meeting last week for re
election as selectman. Some of
the admirers of this bright young
man have slated him for great re-
sponsibilities in national affairs,
in years to come and it is hoped
that this set back will not strand
him politically for all time to
come.
bennington Banner.)
The newspaper is for everybody
and hence must publish some
thing for everybody. If you see
something which is of little inter
est to you, remember that there
are others and that the entire
paper is not especially for you.
The very thing that is dull and
uninteresting to you may be the
one thing in the paper for some
other readers. There are whole
papes in the daily papers that
are of no interest to us but they
are to others. A paper which
contained nothing but such mat
ter that would interest any one
or another of us would have only
a limited number of readers.
There are many people of many
minds.
(LyndOnville UniOn-J Journal }
Sheffield furnishes the first in
stance that has come to our no
tice of enforcing the new spit
ting law passed by the last legis-
lature. The day before town
meeting Sheffield officials secured
notices of this new law and had
them posted in the Town hall,
which is practically new build
ing During town meeting an Of
fence was committed, the offend
er was promptly arrested and
fined $40 for splitting on the floor
of the hall. Sheffield has certainly
set good example. A number
of these notices containing this
new law have been posted in diff
ferent places about this town and
probably others. They should be
noticed and the law obeyed or Of
tenders punished. The habit of
splitting may be old and hard
one to- break. 1t certainly looks
that way. Appearances seem to
indicate that the only way to
break it will be by the extraction
of few ten dollar bills from the
offenders. The law does not, of
course, prohibit splitting, but it
does prohibit splitting on side
walks and in public places, only
in receptacles provided for that
purpose.
burlington Free Press.
Now that people have recover
ed their senses with references to
the trading stamp it hardly seems
possibly that the trading stamp
ever could have gained the hold
which it had upon the merchants
of Burlington, but those who
made the fight against this little
trade barnacle realize what this
meant. Where one or two houses
continue to offer trading stamps
the effect is not appreciate in
the community as a whole, but at
one time there was danger that
competition would drive the great
majority of our business houses
into this business. The present
situation in various cities in Yer
mont, including Burlington, is
well illustrated by the st. Adams
Messenger as follows: at has
taken several years experience to
thoroughly explode the trading
stamp idea in Vermont, but, if
the merchants that have abandon
ed it one by one had given heed to
the friendly council of the news
papers in the beginning, they
would have more money in their I
tills to-day and their customers {
would have more to trade with.
1t is an old, old truth that one
cannot get something for nothing, I
and when some modern Aladdin's
enchanter comes along every now 2
and then crying "new lamps for 7
old" it is safe to set his business 2
proposition down as a part of Q
the fairy tale he stepped out Of" 6
(St. Adams Messenger q
Commissioner Gates is furnish :
ing gratifying signs of activity
in organizing the state highways 9
for a busy campaign i
when the season opens. There is +
promise in this that some prac-
teal results to the good are to be
from the operation of
the new highway law. If the h
state can be aroused in the next S
two years to take hold of this o
serious problem of good roads =
and improve to the utmost every =
afforded by the new {
statute, there is reason to hope Il
that the benefits accruing will be
so cOnspicuously substantial that
the people will resolve that a ,
work so well begun shall be car y
,ied forward to the finish. And :,
hat will mean that the legisla- 4
-ure of 1908 will have to be more \
in appropriations and (,
more progressive in intentions in
aspect of this matter than any
of law majors that Yer