The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-10

Prof. H. C. Parker, of Columbia
who was with DR.. Cook within foul
weeks of the time when he claims
to have scaled Mount Mckinley
topmost heights, seems to have the
Doctors scalp hanging at his belt.
He tells of the breaking up of the
party to make a try for it another
year, and of DR.. Cooks intention
of tramping around bit before
returning to the states. He shows
up the "top" pictures with other
peaks showing, while a picture of the
real peak would be so high above
other peaks that nothing but sky
would remain, the open Lodges also
could not be at the top, Prof.
Parker claims, as it is conceded
that the top is unbroken ice. The
Mount Mckinley business doesn't
look well for the Doctor, we have to
admit, but it's wise to wait for the
Copenhagen report on the Pole.
A girl in Brandon is just getting
out of a hospital, her life having
been saved with difficulty. The
cause of all this trouble is said to
be the eating of cheap candy.
Here is something for mothers to
consider. Children allowed to buy
candy by themselves will naturally
buy the kind that they get the most
for their money. The fact that
it looks pretty and tastes sweet is
what counts with them.--except
quantity. But here is a real source
of danger to the child's life, more
persistent than the germs of epidem-
&c diseases which may be floating
around in the air. By cheap candy
Is not meant inexpensive candies.
There are plenty of simple candies
which are not expensive but they
are uncolored, and they are not
injurious.
The project of joint Champlain
memorial has failed, perhaps prin-
cipally because New York didn't
ask us to her party. The result
is that we will probably have a
New York memorial on the New
York shore and Vermont memorial
on our side. 1t seems regretable
that this should be the ending, but
since Vermont is in nowise respon-
sible for the outcome, the best we
can do is to 60 ahead with our own
plans. We cannot afford to put
so much money into our memorial
as can our larger and richer neighbcr,
but we can put just as much care
into the selection of the site and
brains and forethought into the
shape which the memorial shall
take and so have as choice if not
as great memorial.
Judge James L. Martin, who is
presiding over the trial of the sugar
men in New York city, is receiving
compliments a plenty and rejecting
credit on his state as well as upon
himself by his handling of the case.
What he is after are facts so that the
real question of guilt may not be
obscured by bubbles so familiar
as the tactics of many lawyers.
While Vermonters are not always
credited with pos 3essing all the
abilities of cosmopolitqns, they
are generally said to poss IS a
large store of horse sense and
Judge Martin is evidently dealing
out large doses of it in the sugar case.
The case will not suffer, although
the defendants may, if guilty, from
this application of common sense.
Mrs. Newell Dwight Hills evident
ly belongs TO the race of old-fashioled
women, for she tells the Club
women that she thinks that the
club idea has been carried too far
and that the Home is the better
place for some of woman's activity.
She also has a word to say about
the question of woman's voting,
seeing no particular good from the
move, as there is so much that needs
her help beside politics; religion,
charity and education seem to
to be worthy of woman's steel. |
1t will do no harm to heed the call /
of the Home as given by the
q Old-fashioned' women in these |
days of the trumpet calls of the
suffragettes.
The first drowning accident of
the season in the state, occurred |
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