The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11
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It is limited that the 2o5
wooden ships may be disposed OF
by the Shipping Board. These
wooden ships are about as useful
as tin soldiers and the sooner we
liouidate on them and take our
losses the better. If the Ship
ping Board should sell them
before the same Board gives up
it's existence, by the time limit,
it will have at least one good
thing to its credit.
Some returned travellers from
European shores report Europe
in a better condition than we
have been led to believe. We
can't help wondering if this pose
has been affected to reduce their
debts to this country under the
most favorable conditions. Pro-
fessional poverty pleaders don't
look good to us.
The Daytona Journal says that
all the average girl knows about
a needle is that you can use 1t
but once on photograph. That
may be so but we have a bunch
that girls know more about them
than that, for needles have been
woman's chief defence since fig
leaves went out of fashion and
Eve must have made her own
draperies.
A B Farquhar says MY sixty
five years in business have car
ried me through nearly every
crisis of the country. | have
never seen a period when. Amer
lea in the opinion of competent
observers was not going to the
dogs-or when it was not actual
ly growing bigger and better.
We reckon he may be right
about that.
Sherman said war was some
thing right warm, and 1T seems
so when you come to figure up
your income tax and pay for the
ineficiency and robbery of the
dastardly waste of materials
during the war period. Indig-
nation and information combined
won't do any good, for the dear
peepul pay just the same.
Colonel House has written a
book. Well, so have others but |
we don't have to read them. I'll
is a safe bet that the colonel
hasn't been verbose,
1t will seem quite natural to !
have a Colonel Roosevelt con-
nected with the navy depart
ment at Washington again. We |
might add that it will seem good. |
Japan has apologized with her
tongue in her cheek it would
appear. After she apologized to
this country, she sentenced the
Jap who killed one of Uncle
Sans marines to a month in
prison. That month in prison
shows what the japanese govern
ment thinks of this country and
another side of the Japanese
problem as it affects this coun-
try very intimately is given in
the following editorial from a
recent Miami Herald:
1t is extremely difficult to impress
upon persons three thousand miles
distant from a menace as to their
own peril. That is CALIFORNIA; diff
Guilty in getting the japanese ques- (.
ton squarely before the people Of
the United States. The people Of
that state and adjoining Pacific
Coast states understand the question
and are hourly impressed with its
danger TO them. The people who
live as far east as Kansas simply
won't bother about it. The millions
of people in the eastern states resent
mention Of the subject.
The simple facts about the Japan
ese menace imperilling this country
are that If the Japs are permitted
to gain more Of foothold in Amer
lea the entire economic fabric Of the
nation will be wrecked. The Jap is
content to live on very little food
and wear few clothes. He has no
ambitions for culture and no morals
The Jap farmer and Iaborer can
exist on one-ffth that which is re-
quired By a Caucasian. Therefore in
competition with white labor be can
afford 10 labor for one-ffth Of what
is paid a white man.
In competition with the Japs, the
white race would be wiped out.
That is no general term, but plain
fact
No man in America has given more /
study TO the japanese question than /.
Senator James ID Phelan Of Cali !;
fornia. He lives where the menace =