The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1912-12-06

1t is never safe to think that
the last word has been said on any
subject. We have been watching
the Bulgar-Turkish war with in
terest here in America, but it's
: safe to say that Ferrero, the Ital-
ian historian, brings to the sur
face a new point of view when
he calls attention to the fact that
one of the important causes of the
present Balkan revolution" is the
presence of returned emigrants,
the Americans of Europe" who
having lived under a government
of the people where the common
man or woman has a good chance
to enjoy life, stirred up the stay
at home peasants so that they
emerged from their lethergic en-
durance of gross abuses. The pres
ence of this leaven, according to
the Italian, gave the government |
courage to strike. 1t does not seem |
improbable the more this phase of
the revolution is thought over.
We are, perhaps, too accustomed
to look at things too near at hand
and fail to get proper perspective.
We say the Church is not holding
it's own, has even begun to lose
its grip on the people, yet church
statistics show that in 1900 only
seven out of each hundred per-
sons were members of any church, {
while hundred years later, TWEEN
ty-four out of a hundred were +
members of churches, the same i
holding good for 1910. S
Some day next summer the pres f
ent Isthmus of Panama will be a G
memory, and a vessel with Col. y
Toethals and staff of American q
engineers as the only probable Q
passengers will make the trip from Il
he Atlantic to the Pacific. Any %
where from Six months to year, 81
he canal will be formally opened, d
md the geography class will have p
ost the isthmus, "a narrow strip ~
If land, etc." only to have to h
earn about the canal. g
We don't pay our ministers en- Q;
ugh, and when old age comes, al
hey are in bad way financially, -
Mess they have private means or L
Wealthy relatives. Here is a little T.
hange to the tune, Rev. Robert fe
Tent, DID,, of the Lewis Avenue Ill II,
'ong1 Church, Brooklyn, is to be d,
resented with $4,000 as he re- al
Tres to become a pastor emeritus. W
il
Some other automobile owners
an sympathize with the feelings N
I the Oakland, CAL, man who Or q
cred his chauffeur to get his bt
$500 machine from the repair %
hop and take it out in the bay 1G
n the ferry and drown it. The -
epairs had nearly reached the or IA
5inal price of the car before he er
ook this drastic step.
ns
II we wait few weeks now, IN
radford will begin her four ~
lonths of good roads in Brad m
ord. Dame Nature looks out for tn
er children if we but give her OF
me. We wonder if next spring ca
ere man will do something to- na
ard fixing our main street, per- in
anently. We
There is as yet no real safety an
Europe, as grim rumors are =
Loaf that this country and that a. a.
'untry is bringing up it's army int
'mewhat beyond peace strength aw
be ready to checkmate the 9TH SIN
:, if any one of number of TN IN
ings happen. rot
the
The common house fly has long to
zen known to be an enemy OF the fir
imam, but now the stable fly has SIN
zen found guilty of carrying ar
Q germs of infantile paralysis. :
,tter not take any chances and OF
Ii any fly of any family az it is Sal
en-. Wo
thr
Those Dartmouth students who Iro
arted something doing down at p ia,
hite River, found something do Or
g, which they didn't start in the -
termath at old Dartmouth. -,
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