The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-01-07

Bradford NclLuoAl
If the printed report that The
manufacturers in this region have
offered to National Secretary Dun
can to submit the question as to
which side first broke the agree
ment to arbitration and to abide by
such decision. If the manufacturers
are declared to be in the wrong they
would at once put their men back
at work and if it was decided that
the men at Mortified broke the
agreement they should be ordered
back to work. is true of the stu
alton in the Washington county
granite belt, it would seem that
Secretary Duncan weakens his own
and the strikers position in refusing
to accede to such a fair proposal.
What more can be asked by labor
or capital, if each is honest in want
ing a settlement, it is hard to under
stand. Manufacturers say it may
be the first of April or May before
the trouble is adjusted and work
resumed. If this is the attitude of
the national secretary, all summer
would not seem too long time for
him to bring about termination of
this trouble.
Mr.. Oscar C. T. Sonneck, chief of
the division of music in our con-
gressional library wishes he had
kept still on the relative popularity
of Dixie and Yankee Doodle as
patriotic songs. 1t has raised such
a buzzing around his ears that he
must think that there is a hornets
nest in the near vicinity. What is
left of the boys in blue don't give
Dixie first place. There can be no
dispute on the point that southern
ers are more enthusiastic over Dixie
than northerners are over Yankee
Doodle, seven days in the week,
although we can get up enough
enthusiasm about Yankee Doodle
if any one goes to putting it down
as a poor second. Yet Mr.. Sonneck
was only giving his opinion and like
the boys ready retort q Your say
ing so don't make it So"
The death of Miss Clemmens the
Friday morning before Christmas,
coming as it did with the shock of
an accident, gives us once more
a glimpse of the uncertainty of life.
But few hours before she had
telegraphed her fathers message on
the report that the famous author
was dying, which was exaggerated
again, no doubt enjoying its jocular
vein, as she was like her father in
many of her tastes. The message
ran 81 hear the newspapers say /
am dying. The charge is not true.
l would not do such thing at my
time of life. | am behaving as good
as | can. Merry Christmas to
everybody" The promised merry
Christmas was not given to- the
maker of merriment.
The Rutland News says that 1T
begins to look as if the insanity
plea was coming into vogue in other
than murder" and cites William
Watson who forgot to be polite in
his late poem and DR.. Cook who
saw things up in the polar night.
Insanity explains lots of things that
admit of no other charitable ex-
PLANTATION, so that may be the rea-
son why the world employs it in so
many and varied cases. Undoubt-
edly it is overworked, although not
always.
Philadelphia may be sound asleep
but some of her doctors are wide
awake if the charges made by the
director of the board of health and
charities are so. The doctors are
charged with deliberately prolong-
ing the periods of illness that the
doctors bills may be increased.
They're large enough without this
padding. Philadelphia ought to
try the Chinese method on the doe
tors and pay only during health.
Frederick Remington is dead.
His pictures of the West in its wild
and woolly DAYS when Indians were
chasing game, both human and ami
mai. upon the plains have preserved
for all generations q pretty accurate
idea # those times. The Freedom
of the prairie was IN his veins and
in his brush.
France is quite wrought up that
the United States immigration Com
mission ulaced that country first