The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-06-04

and wealth, it should have long
ago intelligently dealt with the
question Of guarding the most
important of all its natural re-
sources.
Only within recent years have
we learned in this country the
necessity of preserving our trees,
not for their beauty alone, but
because of their relation to our
water courses and rainfall. Ger
many, with a greater temptation
to prodigality than we are subject
to, is a generation ahead of any
state in the land in her treatment
of the forests. The legislation
vitalized yesterday by the Govern
or's signature is the most promising
attempt at reform since the Forest,
Fish and Game Commission was
established
Rutland Herald.)
Montpelier schools are moving
for positive progress in providing
for paper drinking cups to be used
once and burned, to replace even
the individual cups, which are now
sterilized daily and retained by
the pupils as personal property.
The recent tuberculosis exhibit
in this city offered some startling
light upon the ease with which
ordinary drinking cups, used by
IA number Of people, carry con-
sumptive infection, and yet even
the half was not told of the horrors
of the public drinking cup
Microscopic analyses of pieces.
Of glass from a broken tumbler,
which accompanied a public filter,
showed, according to a medical
journal, millions of virulent germs,
pieces of dead skin from abraded
lips, filth, corruption and disease
of the most dreadful types, of
which tuberculosis was by no means
the most to be feared.
Some of the most terrible dis
eases known to the medical pro-
fessions are directly transmissible
from the lips and the mucus mem
branes Of the mouth, throat and
nose.
How a clean man or woman can
drink from a public drinking cup
is beyond the understanding of
the doctor or the health officer.
Montpelier is setting a pace with
her cheap, sanitary paper cups
that every city, yes, and every
school in the state must follow very
shortly.
The easiest way to cure ones
self of disease is to avoid disease.
The paper drinking-cup is health
insurance.
Barre Times.)
With the Vermont state conven-
ton for nominating another gov
ernor Republican, of course) still
a year in the future, they are round
ing up the candidates, and the
collection makes quite a strong
phalanX. We are indebted to the
Rutland Herald for the information
that there are now no less than thir-
teen Nermonters, all of the same
political complexion, spoken of for
the position. The Herald's round
up is as follows, but we take it that
he order is not expressive of the
,hoice of the contemporary, for
acknowledgements Meade, the
Herald's natural first choice, is
Town to third in the list:
DIN Merrill EnOsburg Falls;
c. p. Smith, Burlington
J. A. Mead, Rutland;
J. A. Weeks, Middlebury;
Frank L. Fish, Nergennnes;
T. c. Cheney, Morristown;
Frank L. Greene, St. Adams;
c. H. Stearns, Johnson;
W. j. Bigelow, Burlington;
c. w. Gates, Franklin;
O. NJ. Barber, Bennington;
c. c. Fits, Brattleboro;
f. G. Fleetwood. Morristown.
However, a great many Of these
zen know that a simple snap of
he thumb and finger will flick them
ut of the running, and their men
ION at this time is purely compli-
lentary and superinduced by the
of certain small coterie