The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-03-24
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things much better than they
were even done before but then
we do, perhaps, unconsciously, go
back to the ideas of poor old
China, even though we may
change the methods. The Rookie
Teller Foundation gave, not long
ago, six million dollars to John
Hopkins University to endow a
school of hygiene and public
health. This is the proverbial
ounce of prevention. This is
what the Chinese meant when
they agreed to pay the doctor as
long as he kept them well and
stopped his salary when the fam
lily got sick. We have taken
health as a matter of course and
paid our doctors to get us we'll
after we got sick. This new
school is destined to do a great
work upon good foundation al
ready built for we have been
dabbling with this public health
and sanitation for some years.
1t may decrease our number OF
doctors as it doesn't take so many
to dispense that ounce Of pre-
vention as it does the pound of
cure, but the country can find
some other employment for the
other fifteen who have no ounce
to peddle.
Rest is soon to spread over the
battlefelds again for the last
large shipment of the war dead
is to arrive in New York about
Mar. 3Oth. This has been a
narrowing experience for the
former service men and for the
families of those who fell in
Flanders Fields. But this coun-
try could do no less than to re-
turn the bodies of her dead to
the parents who wished them to
rest in the soil of the homeland.
Those who went to the long
sleep in the lands they helped to
save, sleep well, neither are they
forgotten although they sleep
where they fell.
Germany wants tourists and
knowing that the tourists must
come from the countries of the
allies, an order has been issued
that all statues and pictures of
the former partner of Gott shall
be removed from public places.
That is doing a good deal for a
little money. And they are more
considerate of our feeling than
they were in the days of war.
We are gaining, for Winston
Churchill has decreased the num-
Der of minds these humans are
supposed to possess by one. In
stead of the conscious, sub con-
scious and super conscious of the
specialist he has just two-prim-
tive and creative minds. If we
could be sure we had one per-
fectly woodworking mind, we
would be satisfied with that.
The northern papers are put
ting up stories about the robins
in the north and therefore the
coming of spring. There are a
lot of robins having a good time
yet in "Juneland" and they are
taking no chances of a freeze
since their houses are not steam
heated.
We are so relieved to find that
it was Megatherium instead of
a Pleisiosaurus that was seen in
a lake in the Andes not long ago.
The former has been extinct only
about million years, while the
Pleisiosaurus has been out of it
some ten million years.
France didn't think that
America would ask for any in
demnity for keeping the Yanks
on the Rhine. Over there, they
have a notion that Uncle Sam is
a benevolent old man in his dot
age but Uncle Sam is fairly
shrewd old Yank himself.
Mr. Hoover will not accept the
director-generalship of the SEES
qui-centennial Exposition to be
held in Philadelphia in 1926. 1t
carries a hundred and twenty
five thousand dollar salary for a
few years but he thinks the Cab
met needs him or that he should
stay in it.