The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-18
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
MOntDelier JOurnaI !

tons from the railroads just be
cause the latter find the laws o
the state inconvenient
The matter of car-heaters, refer
ence to which has already beef
made in these columns, is some
thing in which too great care can
not be exercised. In fact, exhaus
tive and satisfactory tests alone
should govern the acceptance
thereof.
In the matter of posting tariffs
it appears that only those opera
tive between state points are t.
be displayed and these, as Mr.
Donovan of the Boston and
Maine so truthfully observed, are
only a very small part of the bust
ness of the average railroad sta
ton.
If it does any one any good, by
all means let us have an Official
Classification and a set OF state
local and joint tariffs posted in
railroad stations. 1t may add to
the gayety of nations if nothing
more.
Woodstock Standard
Twenty-Five years ago today
Roswell Farnham, then governor,
appointed to the Supreme Court
Bench John w. Rowell of Ran
dolph, one of the first lawyers in
the state. The appointment was
to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of John Pierpont, chief
judge, and that is the position now
held and honored by John w.
Rowell, as great a lawyer and as
good a judge as the man whose
place on the bench he first filled
and to say that is to say all. And
so year by year for a quarter of
century Judge ROwell has con-
tinued to do the state faithful and
valuable service. A year or so at
ter his appointment he said to a
friend, 81 have no higher ambition
than to be known as and to be, in
fact, good judge"
AS long as Vermont endures
he will be so known, and that he
may have many more years to be
valued and beloved is the wish of
all who know John w. ROwell,
whose "silver anniversary" occurs
today.
bellows Falls Times.)
The local reporter on any news
paper has no snap. His pathway
is not strewn with roses, although
the general public often seems to
think that such is the case. A
Pennsylvania paper hits the nail
pretty squarely on the head when
it says:
The man who handles the local |
department of a newspaper learns
after due experience not to ex-
pect very many thanks for a col
umn of pleasing things, but he
knows as surely as come the sea-
.s Sseels that a single line in which
there are unintentional mistakes
will cause some one to be heard;
also that when he has made pleas
ant mention 900 times of some
person, place or thing, but on the
one thousandth time fails to do so,
he must not expect to be forgiven.
The omissions may have been
from accident, inadvertence or
even an entire lack of knowledge
it matters not. The simple
fact remains that he will be
judged on that. EIe may say
good things about some business
man for weeks, but let him make
some mistake and the good things
are all forgotten and that mans
business is denied him.
This is true of reporters, but it
is true of almost everyone's work.
Mistakes do not pass unnOticed
when the things that are done
right are accepted as no more
than what is due.
(NOrthfield News.)
The public will not sustain The
Burlington News in it's conclu-
sion that "Auditor Graham is
many sizes too small for the office
he holds" The facts do not war
rant such a conclusion. Mr.. Ora
ham has thus far been a faithful
official, competent and careful.
The voters of the State will not
stand for attempts to belittle
Auditor Graham.
(Rutland Herald.
1t is to be hoped that it will be
clearly established whether the
man who wrecked the bank in
Philadelphia was a crank, a luna
tic or an anarchist. On the solu
ton of the problem a great deal
depends. For if he was the rep
resentative of an anarchist group
his desperate deed may well cause
alarm. The bomb thrower, the
embodiment of spite, will hurl his
missile in utter disregard of per
sonal consequences, apparently ;
willing to be blown to pieces him.
self if he can only wreak ven
geance upon his enemy. The
Philadelphia incident may prove !
to be but the crazy freak of an I'M
balanced mind, it is hardly con-
ceivable that it should be other ]
wise, but it will be a relief to have
prompt ascertainment of the facts.