The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-09

and other New Thought move
ments are straws which show the
: direction of the wind. There is &
wide spread dissatisfaction con-
: corning drugs as curative agents
even within the profession itself
as well as on the outside. Many
an eminent physician is studying
the influence of the psychic upon
diseased tissues, and as a result
new truths are discovered; per-
haps, more correctly, old truths
are being put into practise. Psy-
chical Therapeutic is not a system
of Christian Science, neither is it
: the Emmanuel movement, but all
recognize the curative power pos
sessed by the mind in health or
disease, and each uses this knowl-
edge in its own way. In Psychical
Therapeutics, drugs, surgery and
the other means of healing are
recognized as necessities in the
healer's art, but the education of
the will and the brain to a ra-
tional understanding of its right
full functions is considered very
important with it all. One is
taught that diseases are few, COM
paratively speaking, but that all
ments, more or less distressing,
are numerous; that these ailments
can be minimized in their import
ance to ourselves nearly always
without injury to our bodies and
with benefit to our minds. A mild
stoicism is taught us, and most of
us need a good deal of this logic.
The recent somewhat wholesale
changing of names in Vermont has
caused a cry of protest to go up,
Surely some of the names are
meaningless; some are an i'm
provement. While we are protest.
ing, we might think over the Rut-
land Harald's dictum that "this
business of altering the geogra-
ply of the state without cause is
largely in the hands of the news
papers," The plan is for the news
paper in the vicinity of such a
change to refuse to conform, but |
to keep right on calling the town |
by it's old and rightful name. Some |
of the changes are bad enough to |
tempt one to see what such a |
policy would accomplish, if the
newspaper field covered the terri
tory in question.
The manager of the American
Motor Car Manufacturers Associa-
ton shows that the business is
steadily growing. This years out
put is figured at 10000 cars, and
next year it is expected to reach
the 100000 mark, which will mean
about $200,O00,OO0 in sales. The
2significant fact about the demand |
for automobiles is that the COM
paratively low priced cars are the
headers in sales, which shows that
it is not a fad for the immensely
rich, but that it is intrenched in
the moderately well-off class of
Americans.
The American Institute of Ho-
meopathy has departed quite per-
from tradition in adopt
ing an amendment to its code of
ethics. This amendment releases
from professional Sc
crecy regarding private affairs OF
patients on their families when
such secrecy may result in the in
Jury or infection of innocent per-
sons. To the lay mind, this amend
ment sounds like good common
sense.
President Taft is credited with
the following assertion: 81 shall
not shade my opinions to suit the
of amateur reform
ers. Amateur reformers are too
apt to get up cult and then pro-
nounce everything wicked that
does not conform to their cult"
Human nature all over again. The
eternal ego, "Pm right; you must
be wrong" But reformers seem
not to have a monopoly of this
trait.
That reprobate, Leopold of Bel
GUM, is about over his reign. II
may be fortunate that extreme old
age and the nearing end of his ,
subjects patience come together ,
or he might be forced to abdicate
AS it is, he may die before his sub
jects force this issue. The selling
of the palace art treasures is a Sc
we're strain upon that virtue, how !
ever.
We feel perfectly sure summer !
is here because of the canoe and ]
swimming accidents. Every day I
records its quota of deaths be-
cause somebody rocked the boat {
or when in swimming when too
warm. We pursue the same old !
round staunchly refusing to learn
by the experiences of past years {
Some newspapers are offering | !
this sage advice: Don't fret; It f,
won't make you any cooler (
That's all true, but there is some {
in boiling over when :