The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-21
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cages every persons attention
when the years of youth are
past. An eminent Viennese sur
geon has announced to the world
that physically a person need
not grow old as surgical work on
the glands which cause old age
to invade the body will prevent
it by grating new and young
glands from animals on to the
worn out glands of man. This
is rather alluring but we know
that there are two ways of grow
ing old. It's a mental process as
we'll as a physical process. We
are young in mind as long as we
maintain interest in the world
of affairs about us. We are old
at thirty if we no longer have no
vital wants nor vital interests.
1t is a known fact that men who
retire from active business often
die soon after. 1t isn't the lack
of work in a physical sense but
it is the lack of a dominant IN
terest. The mind has been
focused upon making things come
upon accomplishment, and then
suddenly there comes a morn
ing when there is no urge to
start the day by setting machin-
cry in motion, its a listless sort
of existence and soon the mind
gets inert and the body follows
the mind and there is death.
How is the eminent surgeon 60
ing to graft into our brains the
young and eager desire when ex-
perience has taught us so many
times the emptiness of many
wants ? There is nothing so
pitiful as the physical body's
outlasting the mental fabric and
so we are not quite sure that
this surgeon is promising the
world the boon, this age-preven-
tion appears to be at first.
The pardoning power has been
so misused in this country that
it has come perilously near max
ing traversty Of law. The
pardoning of Charles w Morse
and many others instantly come
to mind, but the latest pardon
which involves a man of national
importance is the release of
James A Dorsey, the millionaire
Illinois cattle king, who was
sentenced to eight years in pris-
on for selling tubercular cattle
to farmers all over the country.
Of course, he is in poor health
and after having his sentence
reduced by half, he is now out,
having served only one third of
his sentence. Florida has done
better because a public cutlery
prevented the releasing of one
Mundenhall, who killed only a !
couple of women. The protest |
was so vigorous when his case
was to come before the pardon
ing board, that the criminal him
self preferred to withdraw the
1t is good healthy |
sentiment whish creates an at
so unfavorable that
criminals prefer to serve their
to living among people
who will not associate with
them. There should be educa-
ton along the lines that pardons
may not be granted except upon
the discovery of new evidence or
of the innocence of the victim
and the courts, instead of
Board or a Governor, should I
weigh the evidence. Of course,
there would be, some miscar-
riage of justice even under this
system, but it wouldn't be COM
parable to what now go on where
sentiment or money is the con-
trolling factor.
We Americans love to talk in
round numbers, and a few hun
dred thousand dollars can grow
into a million or two under the
facile tongue of the POSTMASTER.
So we are accustomed to think
and speak of the men of money
n any community as million
lires regardless of the facts. h
This gives us a fine crop. Last
year we were told that we had
5000 millionaires and. of course. \
We knew that a good percent of
hem were war millionaires."
The way we came by the figures
vas the statistical route and
lere is the formula as given by /
Forbes Magazine: the theorist I