The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-03-17

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said to have remarked that
France cannot and therefore will
not pay the war debt she owes
America and that this country
may as we'll wipe the account
off the books and forget it. We
don't want to make these war
debts troublesome and will with
out doubt carry them for decades,
perhaps without much interest,
but wiping them off the books is
another matter. A nation like
an Individual cannot afford to
repudiate honest debts. There
are many angles to this debt
proposition; but as far as this
nation is concerned there is no
angle from which we can see the
reasonableness of canceling the
debt. For one thing, Europe
must not be made to feel that an
orgy of blood is anything but ex-
pensive and that the expense has
to be met long after the actual
event is over.
Lloyd Georges scalp will have
to hug tight to his head for a
time for they are after it in Eng
land. As the head of a coalition
cabinet, he has no easy row to
hoe. He is the last of the war
premiers to be in power and he
must possess no little diplomatic
skill to have held his conflicting
cabinet together SO long. By
many he is considered an op-
portunist and he has certainly
won many battles by compro-
mise, which may or may not
support the contention. How
ever, without being giant, he
has accomplished considerable
for his country. He has met
domestic crises with enough skill
to avert catastrophe and he has
won several victories in foreign
affairs. But the hecklers are
after his scalp and it is entirely
possible that one of these days
they will get it. ..
Governors of different states
have in the past made certain. re-
marks to each other covering a
variety of subjects. Now the
governor of Minnesota is about
to remark to the governor of
Florida that the northern state
has more lakes than Florida.
Some of the most famous guber-
material remarks have been on
the subject of liquids. Mime
sofa with 10000 lakes credited to
it in the 18th edition of the En-
cyclopedia Britannica claims to
have the largest water area OF
all the states, with Red Lake of
four hundred square miles,
Leech Lake and Mile Lakes, each
two hundred square miles. But
Florida claims 10000 lakes with
Lake Okechobee with an area OF
1900 square miles. And, of
course, Florida has a lot of water
around the edges which isn't
counted.
We surely are funny people.
We are land of democracy but
we love titles and have our
colonies, doctors and judges of
the tin and tinsel variety. We
also lock the garage door after
the gas buggy has been stolen,
schools burn, hotels burn, theatre
roofs collapse and then we in
vestigate. Wire tappers operate,
gold bricks are sold, and we in
dict a fresh crop of wildcatters.
We wax extravagent on road
building and neglect to provide
for maintenance, we spend all
our money on school houses and
forget it takes teachers and we
haven't money enough to pay
them. We know all these things
and yet we persist in our folly.
Two of the Arbuckle defence
witnesses have been indicted for
perjury in connection with the
Arbuckle case. The district at
torney who brought these
charges says that he considers
this far more important than
prosecuting persons charged
with other felony" The very
justice of our courts rests upon
the truthfulness of witnesses.
There may be nothing in a
name but DIR. Work as head of
a