The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-07-15
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
(From the Fair Haven Era.

Many in this country know by
personal experience what it is
worth to the people of this State and
others can gain first knowledge from
the recent report, the second annual.
Of the 155 patients discharged 20
per cent. were apparently cured; in
| AZ per cent. the disease was arrested;
in Is per cent. improvement was
noted, while less than Is per cent.
were unimproved. 1t has since been
ascertained that 20 per cent. Of these
later cases are dead, thus showing
the great Importance of early treat
ment.
The general showing above is
certainly highly satisfactory, when
it is considered that only com
paratively few yearsa go tuberculosis
was accepted as largely hereditary
disease and positively incurable
Another positive deduction is that
a change of climate is not SO essential
in successful treatment as to gain
a knowledge of and follow the right
course of living. The results of
treatment and training in this
worthy institution, together with
the educational campaign which has
been inaugurated throughout the
State by the board of health, has
already accomplished remarkable
results.
1t is confidently believed that this
is hardly more than the beginning Of
what will be a through and success
full fight against the dread disease
in this State. Every good citizen
should and doubtless will become
interested in helping along. the
grand work of graduating the tuber-
culosis plague in Vermont, says the
Mortified News.
Uyndonville Union-Journal.)
State Forester Halves, at the meet
ing of State Federation of Women's
Clubs recently held in Rutland,
urged that club women take up
the study of forestry, 1t is a work
in which they can accomplish much
good. if only their efforts are rightly
directed. For one thing, they can
develop an increased interest in
shade trees along our highways, a
matter that has, as yet, we are sorry
to say, received very little of the
attention it deserves in Vermont.
The beautifying of our highways is
comparatively a new issue here and
the club women have a good work
before them in this one thing. They
can study how to have trees set out,
by the road sides, in a uniform
manner, and can urge the authorities
to clean up the brush that has been
cut on either side of the road and
left in unsightly piles. AS they
progress in doing this other things
in the same line of work will be sug-
gested. Much of this work, too,
will be of a permanent nature, work
that future generations will appre-
ciate and thank the people who came
before them for doing. A number
of the women's clubs in the State
have already taken up this work in
some degree and we believe are
entitled to a fair share of credit for
whatever interest in forestry has
thus far been aroused in Vermont.
Tue following from the Boston
Herald pertains to this subject:
Gotten it needs only one doughty
champion, such as any woman's
club can furnish, to prevent the
destruction of shade trees and
shrubberry by telephone line con-
tractors or municipal engineers. |
The efficient work of Gutzson Bor-
glum in New York, protesting
against the destruction of some 300
fine old oaks and chestnuts, which
city engineers had condemned to
make way for park paths, is a case
in point. Massachusetts has a fine
asset in her trees. Fruit trees
planted along the highway may yet
serve a double purpose, as IN Europe.
And if the women's club take up
such work in earnest there is a vast
deal of improvement they can bring
about. "
Barre Times.)
The recent commencement eXer-
cises of the University of Vermont
were made notable by the announce
ment that the halfway mark of the
institutions present ambition in
finances had been reached, and that
the resources had been increased
by half a million dollars. When
the start was made several years
ago to raise one million dollars .
for the University's endowment,
the project seemed almost impossi-
BILE of completion, and even $500, 900
was a very large amount when it
was considered that the graduates
iii not have any gDrgsfara hla