The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-01-27
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legislation won't make people
good, but quite per cent of us
rather believe it. DR.. E H Pratt
recently made an address before
the international purity con-
ference on the side that the fiat
method of curing evil is ineffi-
cient. He says people cannot be
made good by law and we would
say that they will not be made
good that way. Some of DR..
Pratt's remarks are to this effect:
Don't try to legislate away
cigarettes. Cut the nerve forces
that create a demand for cigar
cites in the individual"
Don't stamp out appetites.
Make them your servants, not
your masters
Don't talk so much about
evils"
"It takes health to cure disease,
truth to cure error, and virtue
to cure vice."
DR.. Pratt believes that every
agency should be set to work to
Great desire for virtue and that
that will be a more potent force
for right living than laws to
curb vice. He discounts the
gloomy view of virtue and the
high lights of vice. He says
virtue should be made pleasant,
gyms to build up healthy bodies,
movies, dancing, concerts, sports,
all should be used in clean way
and made the most of for pleas
ure as there is nothing about
any of these amusements which
needs to promote vice. The
trouble is the professional re-
formers have neglected these
tools, while, in some instances,
vice has. been quick to seize up
on them. The only reform worth
while is to build up STRONG bodies
and clean minds and Souls made
strong enough to resist evil. DR..
Pratt is also using surgery in his
fight against vice, performing
operations to relieve nerve ten
sion or to prevent nerve waste.
But he stresses particularly the
idea of making morality pleas
ant way by using all the agencies
at the command of the world in
a right instead of a wrong way.
In New Hayen they are still
sticking to the community chest
idea and it is a good idea as
there is then no duplicating of
work in raising or dispensing
charity. New Haven is raising
$500,000 to help along good
causes and to aid those in need
of funds. One item of $4,000 is
to be an emergency fund for the
unemployed. In a sense, this
will not be charity for it is to
be advanced as loans to help the
jobless worker keep his feet
until he can get a job and then
pay up the note which he has
given in favor of the city. All
notes given in return for loans
will not be paid but it is a safe
guess that the greater part of
this $4,000 will come again to
the city chest.
A real discovery has been made
for they now say that Columbus
was born in Portugal; but it
doesn't matter so much after all
at what port his bark was
launched on the sea of life as
he put behind him the gray
Azores" and "the gates of Her
cules" to sail on and on and on
to a new land. No doubt Portu-
gal will be glad to claim him as
anative son, but Genoa has had
him for a long time and may not
give him up so readily.
Ships sailing under the Ger
man flag are given queer names
these days. They are called the
Pirate, Boche, Hun, Fourteen
Points and Columbus, along with
the rest. 1t may reflect a state
of mind, if nothing more, but
we wouldn't suppose they would
ever expect the Fourteen Points
to get anywhere.
And probably Mr. Burleson is
asking himself why no corpora
ton ever asked him to accept a
position at salary of S150,000. |
1t is rather of a dangerous
business to discuss the French