The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-25
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President Wilson has put the
Post Office to the third class on
the civil service program by his
recent order. Civil service is
better than political patronage
as the determining factor in Civ
ing out the places. Of course,
it looks like the President was
playing politics to- save the
heads of deserving Democrats
but the change has to be made
sometime if it is made at all;
and, while Republicans might
prefer that the change shouldn't
come until we had Republicans
generally in the postmastershlp
berths, after all it isn't so serious
a matter to the dear "peepul.
The retirement of the Postmaster
General is what we are looking
for, for we want a prompter
delivery of our mails and we
will welcome less politics mixed
up with them. The trouble with
our mail service has been higher
UP than poStmasters, who prob
ably have worked harder, under
the present administration, than
ever before. Our postmasters
have had to run a bank and an
express company with the thrift
savings stamp campaign and the
parcel post. Let the civil SER
vice come for the postmasters
are as deserving as any group Of
public servants of being put up
on a merit basis.
More than 100000 acres in
this country was planted with
peanuts last year. This ought
to take care of all the peanut
politicians in the country. 1t is
said that they are three times as
efficient for running the body
machine as an equal weight of
beef and five times as efficient as
the same weight of eggs. Pea
nuts are good but ham and eggs
and a good steak will probably
hold their own against the pea
nut as the main course at dinner.
What a host of ghosts the
reputed fatal illness of the mad
empress Carlotta raises The
days of Macmillan in Mexico,
the turmoil in Europe and the
pitiful ending of the drama, a
few bullets and stone wall for
the emperor and a mad house for
the beautiful, young empress.
Armour's business has been
very good this year as it has
been announced that its 1920
sales totalled S900,000,000 and
the net profit was S5,320,000
which is very good, | thank you.
All the meat eaters in the coun-
try did their bit in 1920, we
reckon, to swell the profits to
this extent.
Mr. Bryan has come to life
again. Of course, those of us.
who hear him talk to his Sun
day School Class Sunday morning
in the Park know he has never
been a dead one but over the
country it may cause some sur
prise that he is trying to pull
the Donkey out of the hole his
fool drivers got him into. The
Miami Herald sizes us the stu
alton in this manner:
No surprise is caused by the news
from New York that William ] Bryan
and his brother, Charles Bryan, have
a program for the rehabilitation Of
the democratic party. 1t was sug-
gested in these columns a few days
ago that when the time arrived for
reorganization Of the party that the
hand of Mr. Bryan would be seen as
well as felt.
Mr. Bryan submitted as humbly as
his dignity would permit to the TAX
ing over Of the party by the Cox
Taggart-Murphy crowd last summer.
He had his say in open convention at
San Francisco and then gracefully
retired to the ranks. No one in the
ranks was less obtrusive. The new
captains drove the old ship on the
reefs, and, in the language Of that
distinguished Southern senator, John
Sharp Williams, There she sticks r
But recently it appeared that the
rising tide end wilder waves might
wreck the remains. There has been
bitter warfare on Chairman White.
Some Of the women Of the party
have been bombarding him with re-
quests for his resignation. An artist