The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-21

decided that anybody VINO pay:
tax on an annual income Of
$4,000 or more must necessarily
be millionaire. But it is &
known fact that, with salaries
where they have been, mar
getting $4,000 doesn't have tc
be worth $4,000 and there are
men getting from $4,000 to $780,.
900 in salaries who wouldn't have
estates worth a hundred thou
sand, should they die; and now
our crop of millionaires has been
reduced to 1924, which is more
likely a conservative estimate
and it brings down our idle
rich" class to harmless proper
lions. Most of us have or wish
to do a little something in the
line of work to justify our breath
ing the air and taking up space
in this land of the free.
How many times has Robbie
Burns been quoted about seeing
ourselves as we appear to others
and it's just as applicable as the
day it was written. A New
York lawyer, Lindsay Russell,
has held the mirror up to our
faces showing us the way we
look to Europeans. Of course
the Europeans haven't gotten us
quite right but there is some
truth in their reflections. Here
is what Mr. Russell says:
We know that our intentions are
honorable, but it is charged general
ly throughout the world that the
United States is aggressive. 1t is
said that the character of nation
must not be judged by one admins
tration, but by its behavior through |
out century. 1t is said that dur
ing a considerable period of time we
have taken Florida from Spain, the
Pacific Coast and Texas from Mexico. |
We have annexed Hawaii and the
Philippines. We fomented a revolu-
ton in Panama for the purpose of
taking the territory that we desired.
We have assumed an overlordship
of South America through the Mon
roe Doctrine. 1t is said that we ems
tered the World War for the pur-
pose of putting'an end to future wars
and of relieving the nations of the
burden of arms, and that yet today,
three wears after the war, we are
for military purposes more
than the other great powers.
This giving women the ballot
is going eventually to change
some of our laws on citizenship. |.
1t has been from the beginning
that a woman's citizenship auto
changed with her mar
riage to a foreigner. Man and
wife being one and man being
the head of the family, that one
was masculine. Occasionally a
woman married to a foreigner
has been given back her Amer
lean citizenship by special act
but for the most part an Amer
lean born woman, married to a
foreigner took his nationality
while a foreign woman married
to a naturalized American be-
came an American citizen. Now
that woman has the ballot some /,
other means will have to be de-
vised for a woman today votes
as freely as the man and she
should have the same say as to
her citizenship. 1t takes time
to make all the readjustments
and this tangle will be straight
ened out in due course of legls-
.ation.
Vice-president Marshall, who
las always poked a little shy
Jun at the statesmen in Washing
on and who has never appeared /
% take himself very seriously in {
lis position as second luminary,
S reported to have said: Il am :
he most expert loafer in Amer !
ca, and also preside over a body !
# experts" Of course, there !
sn't much to be done in a one :
nan government, and our friend, Z
he /vice-president will be glad 9
When it is all over. :
The Burlington Free Press O
avs What would any Burling- |
on boy who prays for snow on t
which to slide do, if banished to z
florida for the entire winter 2"
Veil we'll have to let you into a
ecret and answer your question
t the same time. He'd go skat-