The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-06-17

| The Doctors of Medical Asso
citation, which has been meeting
in Boston, are agreed that more
publicity in their profession is
needed. They have decided that
much is being done for the wei
fare of humanity, which is not
known outside of professional
circles. 1t is also agreed that
they could do the country a
great service by writing more
freely about preventive medi-
cine, social hygiene, medical
legislation, sanitation, commu-
nicable diseases and the like.
For so long has the divinity
which doth hedge about a king
been also about the doctors with
mantle of silence that the lay
man has become suspicious of his
knowledge and his leadership
and followed strange masters.
Quacks, because they have ap-
peared to take the public into
their confidence, have had a
large following and all the isms
have grown out of this feeling
that medicine had failed. 1t is
true that all the schools, the
Christian Science, Chiropractors,
Osteoptahy, New Thought and
all the rest have done much for
humanity and helped pull the
public from the over medication
of former days, but medicine has
been making some strides in
these later days, which the
world hasn't known much about
because of the secrecy, which has
hitherto been a part of pro-
fessional ethics. A part of this
reticence has been necessary
because of false hopes which
might be raised when matters
were still in the experimental
stage, but we agree with the
doctors that much can be gained
by giving more information to
the public.
We regret that Donald Tobin
has been obliged, because of lack
of support, to suspend the Swan
ton Courier. The Courier has
been a readable sheet and well
edited. There has been no
trouble with the management
but where the public will not
support a paper there is but one
thing to be done-suspend it. A
is more than half a
public institution but it is
enough of a private one so that
it has to have money, earned by
it's own activities, to maintain
it. We feel that Swanton will
soon begin to find out what it'll
has lost in the suspension of it's
newspaper. No one realizes how
much advertising of the right |
sort a newspaper gives to it's
nome town. Perhaps, the citizens
do not realize just how many
times the newspaper helps out
.ocal affairs. Mr. Tobin will con-
5inue in newspaper work as it
S not the newspaper which has
discouraged him, but his field.
The Japs want to make sure
hat Great Britain will enter in
o the same treaty again, but
here are signs that the treaty
Doesn't look as pleasing to the
3ritons as it did when Germany
vas in power and a menace to
he Asiatic possessions. Then
gain Uncle Sam doesn't like the
dea exceptionally we'll and the
3ritons are not eager to dis
,lease our Uncle. We are getting
yer the little disagreement with
ieorge the third so that blood,
S becoming considerably thicker
han water.
The Carpentier-Dempsey fight
cheduled for July I'd is interest
ng a lot of our countrymen.
his is one of the times when it
wouldn't grieve the sporting
World if the Frenchman should !
vim, for Carpenter showed him
elf to be a real man when his
ountry needed him and Demp- !
ey just wasn't there.
Of course, it is only the capt. !
alists, who get the money and
.abor leaders are not captains :
f industry. But Warren S.
tone, head of the Brotherhood J
f Locomotive Engineers, has a
alary of $4,000. 4,
The death of Laura Bromwell. /