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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-09
SOUTH FAIRLEE.

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June Is.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-09
WEST FAIRLEE.

"The Sheik" Fairlee, Tues. Eve
June Ii.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-09
FAIRLEE.

Dancing at the Lake MOrey Casino
every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-09

THE OPINION PRESS.
Subscribe To The Opinion.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
TEACH YOUR CHILD A TRADE

Teach your child a trade" says Secre.
tary Of Labor Davis in an article in
Forbes Magazine. Education has for its
purpose the making of the growing man
or woman more useful to himself and
to the world. 1t should make the fndi
vidual better able to care for himself and
to provide for his own happiness. and
should benefit society generally by in.
creasing the value of the individual as n
social asset.
Our whole educational system is
directed toward turning out boys and girls
equipped to enter the professions, to un.
dertake what Is known as brain work
or. more aptly, to occupy 'white-coI
jobs.
More than 80 per cent of our pon,,l..
ton Is made up of the Industrial worksr
and the farmer Educating 100 per cent
OF our school children along lines thar m
them for the professions is plainly IN.
justified when we know that less than q
per cent OF them will be able to make a
living in professional life. Today. while
our 'whitecollar' occupations are crowded
to overflowing. we are actually LACKING
in the skilled workmen ahd artisans heces'
sary to keep up our production in shon
and factory and to do our struct,,raj
work."
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
GiUe EUery
Oned Chance
rREsIDR 1T HOPKINS virile

nRESIDR 1T HOPKINS virile
address at the opening of
i Dartmouth 154th year is so
meaty tina: it may well furnish food
for discussion in several editorials.
We Ehall here consider only that
part of his speech which deals
with the problem of restriction pre-
cipitated by President Lowell Of
Harvard.
1t should be said promptly that
the master mind guiding Dart
mouth has not joined the head of
unfair Harvard in the undemo-
cratic appeal for restriction of aca-
demic opportunity to socially Sc
lected groups.
DR.. Hopkins calls attention to the
limitation imposed upon college at
tendance by inadequacy of funds
available for institutions of higher
learning. Therefore, the growing
desire for collegiate education
fairly imposes upon authorities the
necessity for a selective. process of
admission and the later elimination
of the incompetent and Of those un-
willing to acquire the standards of
given college.
Granted, under the circumstances,
if they can develop a democratic
theory and a just application of
this theory in the practice of re-
striction and elimination.
When our American democracy
is much wiser in self-interest and
farther-sighted in constructive pol
icy, it will know the value of
making the higher education at
least practically possible for all
who want it. The selective proc
ess can then be rigidly enforced
upon the inefficient and the unfit,
regardless of those social groupings
that obtain outside Of academic
halls.
Meanwhile, every genuinely Amer
lean college has the responsibility
of applying it's restrictive measures
in such ways only as will conserve
at once our American democratic
principles and the traditional stand
ards of the academic aristocracy
of brains.
The gift of this opportunity to
certain social elements and its de-
nial to others-who, nevertheless,
are Intellectually ambitious-spells
treason to our ideals, and is sure to
shove our civilization in the direc-
tion of that mediocrity toward
which, according to President Hop
kins, democracy has a distinct tend,
ency to skid.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
earthly this tabernacle dissolved
A Cipher
That Counts

DIPLING stands for nothin'
in the England Of today, W
IA are assured by another OF tn
fifty-seven varieties of Englishme'
who visit us periodically to pla'
their part in teaching America how
and what to think-in the Interest
of the British Empire.
We are willing to believe that
Kipling is a political cipher
Nevertheless, since he merely voiced
what most Britons feel about us
his utterance counts as much as al!
ciphers preceded by concrete
numerals.
Not what Kipling said but what
we have abundant reason for be-
lieving that his countrymen think
ought to be enough to make us
not anti-British, but vigorously
pro-American in self-respect and
in all international relations.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
What Is Exercise :?
BY Henry Smith Williams

muscle attached to the same
bone.
And then we learn that the
one thing that a muscle can do
Is to contract. making Itself
shorter. No Psychologist un.
derstands Just how the muscle
accomplishes this. In sone
mysterious way it's individual
cells change their chemical
composition and their physical
shape and the muscle as n
whole becomes shorter, and as
1t does so the two bones 10
which II Is attached must be
flexed at the joint, so that they
move with relation to each
other. That the muscle swells
up as It shortens (you may
feel your biceps to illustrate
the point is mercy incidental.
THE muscles that thus move
= the bones about and so de.
termine all our actions will not
contract except as nervous
impulse from the brain directs
them TO do so. II a small area
Of the brains surface IL In.
jured the muscles are par
a.yzed, Exercising the muscles
Is therefore a mental function
as we'll as a physical function.
That Is a very important point
to remember, You cannot en-.
eroise your body without In.
sense also exercising yoar
mind.
And 30 we might answer the
question with which we started
by sayings Exercise Is that
kind - MENTAL action
through which certain sets OF
our voluntary muscles Ss
made TO contract, That n =
more useful definition than
enc which regards only the
muscles themselves.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
building God house not made with hands, heapen
THE SPECTATOR
Stamping Out the Drug Traffic

HE only way to get rid of
- the traffic In noxious drugs.
such as cocaine. opium and the
like. Is precisely the same way
that we can get rid Of war. 1t
Is by some concerted world
movement. Little by little 1t is
filtering into the childish brain
Of mankind that the enemies TO
the human race can only be
conquered by the united action
Of the human race.
THE only way in which TO
prevent morphinism and co.
cainism." says Grant Richards,
'is to control the production Of
these drugs at the source by
international law, and there
after the distribution for their
legitimate uses OF responsible
and authorized medical prac.
titioners alone"
OPIUM is the product 0f the
" poppy: cocaine is isolated
from the leaf Of a South Amerj-
can plant.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
Aged Immigrants

~ LID people are filling the small
monthly quotas of immi-
~ grants which we allow to
come from our ancestral homes in
Europe-so we are told by a Polish
Y. w. c. A. worker.
Immigrants who have become
American citizens send for the old
folks to come away from European
misery and die here in comfort.
The old folks are properly not
excluded here. Their American
sons and daughters guarantee they
will not become public charges.
But the quotas are small and
only few can come. The old peo-
pie in Poland, with money sent
them from America, can buy and
bribe their way here ahead of
young immigrants not so subsidized.
What America needs is not old
men and women to come here and
die.
What we need and want is
young, strong, hopeful men and
women to come here to live and
work and help us make America
grow up to her destiny.
We are not deaf to the calls of
humanity. Let our people bring
their aged relatives to spend their
declining years in peace.
But let their sturdy brothers and
sisters come, too.
The restrictive immigration law
is unjust and anti-American. It is
working ITO deny us the young
blood by which for. a century our
strength fhnA constantly been re-
newed.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

ID V. D. (before Volstead's
Ds day. some foolish folk used
TO try TO drown their sorrows
in the flowing bowl. But when
they sobered up they found that
they still had to face their old
cares-and themselves.
This is an old story, as old as
the perplexities of human living.
The Roman poet, Horace, tells
in one of his odes of a care.
weighted man who tried to ride
away from his difficulties.
When he came to his journeys
end. he found sitting astride be.
hind him-Black Care. the spec
ter he had striven to escape.
Your tired business man and
all the heavy-hearted who try,
with the froth of frivolity and
the light wine of vain enter.
tainment, TO neutralize the un-
dramatic drab of dullness of
their lives-they find on tomor-
row the need to face themselves
and stern reality.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

nH. yes! there is just one
" chance for the breaking up
OF that partnership, and that is
through the hell of insanity. For
that is the tragedy Of madness,
that 1t brings dissertation OF the
elements of personality and ire
sponsible death-in-life.
On occasion you are at the
door of this hell, when. for in
stance, you are beside your.
self" with passionate anger.
Then, as we say colloquially,
you are practically mad"
However. to get away from
the grewsome aspect of this
theme and to speak construc-
lively, let us consider again the
unacceptable character of human
personality.
You have known of persons
who have been stricken with
grief and have tried to forget
their trouble in travel. What
ever partial success they can
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

RE there then TO use the old
"A shakespearean hras
partly meaningless now to be
no more cakes and ale?
Yes, indeed, play and JOY
a-plenty! But a minimum of
self-delusion and, above all, no
foolish fancying that you can
really, reasonably get away from
yourself.
Nor should you wish for sr/h
escape. Rather. in enlightened
self-interest, make and keep
yourself the best Of company
for yourself.
And. by that token, be a DO.
tential and desirable friend for
other men and women-and
even for kiddies and dogs.
Copyright. 1922. by King F.a,pr..
syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
WHAT SHE THOUGHT.

WHAT SHE THOUGHT.
II told him plainly just what
thought" she said.
Land sakes!' her grandmother er.
claimed; how could you say such awful
things to a man?"
Broadway actress and her car wera
in an accident the other day, but not
greatly damaged. Just a little paint
Clipped off both.
Europe should make up her mind that
Uncle Sam cannot support her in the
style to which she was accustomed be.
fore the war.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
Overlapping Marriages
n ODOLPH VALENTINO, fasci-
II mating movie star, assures
~ breathlessly anxious world

~ breathlessly anxious world
that he and his present, absent wife
will be REMARKED, Of course, and
as soon as possible. The marriage
made in Mexico did not "take" in
California, because it was perform
ed before the divorce between him
and his first wife had become effec-
tive.
1t must be a great inconvenience
for men and women who have con-
tracted the marrying habit that the
varying divorce laws of States and
countries make overlapping mar
riages difficult.
How cruelty unsympathetic some
of these laws are to the much
marrying kind, who can hardly
wait to be off with the old before
being on with the new!
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
Censorship

TENSORSHIP which makes it's
living by finding things to
~ censor is an abomination.
Obscene literature disgusts all
normal persons whenever they hap
pen on it. Censorship advertises
obscenity, brings it to public at
tntion, and particularly to the at
tention Of those weak minded mo-
rons who are likely to be evilly
influenced by it.
CASTOR Boissier, in his essay on
Martial, said:
Shall we conclude that every one
who reads best-sellers and goes to
the great stage hits attempts to live
in his own home like the personages
whose Misconduct he has wit
messed? Usually readers and audi
ences are solid, bourgeois people,
guilty of nothing worse than de.
praved curiosity and anxious for
brief look at things they would not
dream of doing. Authors also are
not so much vicious as eager to win
public notice by using the short cut
of Scandal.
1t is covered-up dirt, prohibited
and locked dirt, that testers. Moth
ing is so cleanly as the sunlight of
publicity.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
Stars and Stripes
REFERRING TO A PLuCKED BIRD.

REFERRING TO A PLUCKED BIRD.
Lloyd George gays the dove Of peace
has folded her wings. They have been
clipped SO Often that she hasn't much
II the income taxes keep rolling in for
ten or twelve years more we may by that
time be prepafed for the late war.
Scientist seys the kiss microbe Is fatal.
But not always Sometimes the engage.
ment Is broken.
Perhaps that Greek army that has been
put to rout wiz come over and start a
restaurant,
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
WAYSIDE WISDOM
A PROFITABLE FUNERAL.
CCopyriEht, ls22.)
BY S. E. kiSer

A PROFITABLE FUNERAL.
HENRY MEEKS died yesterday;
IL What, you ask, is that to your
Other men have passed away,
Death, you say, Is nothing new
I will grant you that, and yet
Henry's case deserves attention;
Lirger for a moment; get
All the facts have to mention.
HENRY had a constant dread
III OF disasters he foresaw;
"Troubles coming sure" he said.
people don't respect the law;
Honesty Is out of style,
Decency has been forgotten;
Faith has dwindled; art is vile,
And society is rotten.
seSEE the women, how they dress,
- All their modesty is lost;
Still they stumble. thinking less
Every season Of the cost.
Home life lacks the charm 1t had,
Girls have cast off all restriction;
Things are going to the bad;
Put a pin in this predictionl
SsCTRIKING mobs and profiteers
- Stir I'D trouble everywhere:
Nothing's sacred, 1t appears;
People navigate the air;
God deprived mankind Of wings,
And He frOwns on aviation;
Anarchy is coming; things
Soon will sink in desolation!
oCAMING, jazzing and divorce,
" Lawlessness throughout the land;
We are on downward course,
And the end is close at hand~
Henry Meeks Is dead: there's one
Reason less for being worried;
All his bowling has been done;
BY tomorrow he'll be buried.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

nR. HOPE. medical officer OF
- health of Liverpool. re-.
Gently declared:
international effort should
unity all our health work; and
we should cooperate not only
to prevent war, but to mini
mize disease"
Only so will We realize the
noble vision of Louis Pasteur:
Science and peace will rl-
umph over ignorance and war;
nations will unite not % de-
stroy but to build; and tho
future will belong to those who
have done most for suffering
humanity"
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
vi

The plain. Hlmple and only
means OF reducing to a mini.
mum the menace from these
two drugs is international
agreement. Just as there can
be no peace without internt-
tionai peace, so there can be
no health without international
health.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
You Haze to Live
With Yourself
BY DIR. Charles Fleischer-

win is gained from momentary
dissertation with their abnormal
situation and their taking the
focus of attention from them.
selves.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

THE Constitution OF the
l. United States prohibits cruel
and unusual punishment. But
even that cannot save you from
living with yourself.
Therefore, in self-defense and
in wise selfishness. you might
as we'll make yourself as decent
as possible. Incidentally, too.
you become correspondingly fit
for association and relationship.
Who knows but that you
might even make a desirable
partner in a nobly successful
marriage, and deserve TO live
happily forever after!
In any case you have to live
with yourself. There is no get
ting away from that. no run
ming away from yourself.
No sympathetic State can
grant. and no most indulgent
church could recognize, a di.
vorce between you and yourself.
You are inseparably, indis-
solubly welded to yourself. for
better or for worse.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
We TOWNE GOSSIP
- Copyright. 1929. BY Star Company.
BY X. G. B.

AND ! was reading.
THE MORNING
paper.
AND ! got to a place.
WHERE THERE wal
a story
.souf SOME man.
WHO HAD crossed
the Atlantic.
JUST FOR the
purpose
or. fR1IHe to swim.
THE ENGLISH
Channel
AND WHEN the
reporter.
had SEEN him last.
HE'D BEEN swimming 9
eight hours.
THINK It was.
AND The channel
currents.
. .
WERE PULLING
him back.
AND IT looked very
much
.
As IF he'd fail
AND BY the time.
Observation-Disclosures
THE coLoREo kid.
HAD MADE the grsds.
ANo WAS sitting
down
TO GET his breath.
q .
AT THE top OF the
hill.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

DOUBTLESS that seems I"
~ very elementary, not 20
saw absurd. question. Every
one knows that to exercise is to
indulge In muscular action.
Generally speaking, we use the
word when we would refer to
muscular action taken for its
own sake, and not in the per
formance of work. It is one
way of stating the case, to say
that muscular exertion of any
kind constitutes exercise.
But I would like to go into
the matter a little deeper. for
I shall have a good deal to say.
first and last. in these columns
about the value OF exercise; and
Il ia desirable that we should
clearly understand our terms
II we know just what exercise
Is. IN a rather technical sense.
we shall be better prepared 70
beneflt ourselves by indulging
IN the right kind Of exercise
VIEWING the human body
' with tho eyes Of the anato-
mist. we find that Its chief
bulk is made up Of a set Of
bones called a skeleton. and a
somewhat intricate mass OF
muscles, by which the skelc'
ton 10 padded out to the amil'
lar proportions Of the human
figure. But this padding Ia
done In a peculiar and inter.
entlng way. II we were TO
dissect out any individual
musc.e OF the several hundred,
we should find that It's two
ends are attached TO different
bones, with a flexible joint
between, Under no ctrcum'
stances are both ends of the
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
One Lump, Please
BY BUGS" BAER

SOCIETY is very much inter.
~ ested in what our well-dressed
furnace is going to wear this
winter.
SHORT tons will be popular.
~ With slate-Colored trimmings.
DLACK will be stylish. But
- coal Of any color will be in
demand.
A SHE'S to ashes. dust to dust.
"A They sell 1t for coal, buy It
we must.
ALL mine boys are back at
"A work, resting from their
latest strike. Miners and own.
ers are very friendly. At all
times. When they aren't shak-
ing hands. they're shaking fists.
DCBLIC is invited to every
L peace banquet SO that capital
and labor will have somebody to
wash dishes.
CCIENTISTS figure that this
~ mans earth will be colder
than wharted herring in 10000
600 yrrrs. That indicates they
didn't reckon on coal strikes.
This proletariat's hemisphere is
going TO be very cold and so
quick that your alarm clock will
explode.
NEW YORK will suffer more
~ than other towns, because II
can get bituminous coal, but II
is against law to burn soft coal
in hard neighborhoods.
WHEN icicles come home to
w roost in your coal bin and
frost Is on your vest, you will
bless your enemy who heaps
Goals OF fire on your head. In
fact, you will hold out your
skull for another dishful.
CHILBLAINS are something
that even Presidents can't
veto, no matter which way Sen.
ate stampedes. This is no laugh.
ing matter like Bill Bryan's opln.
ion on Darwin theory.
WE'VE got to have coal IL
we've got to steal II ana
law classes coal shovels among
concealed deadly weapons.
DECEMBER is almost crawl.
ing up our backs. Glad New
Year will soon be here and no
heart can be warmer thar lts
nose.
GOAL is only fifteen dollars
per ton now. So you had bet.
ter buy 1t while it's cheap.
LOOKS like we're going to
- take our furnaces like our
coffee.
ONE lump, please.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

The female mosquito bites, but II 10 not an
established fact that the male does.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28
A SERIOUS MISSION.

Doctors have announced 70 the world that
the brain worker needs a heavy, substantial
breakfast. 1t Is unfortunate, however, that
they omitted to say how a brain worker could
procure such a meal
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

THERE'S A little
colored boy.
GOES sv our house.
NEARLY EVERY day.
AND CLIMBS the hill.
THAT BEGINS to
rise.
HALF A block away.
AND EVERY time.
HE comEs along.
He LUas a baske..
A GREAT big basset.
wlra LAUNDRY
In II.
AND suppose
HIS MOTHER does it.
AND HE delivers.
AND MAYBE collects.
AND ON hot days.
IT'S oUlTe some job.
aErTlne UP tn. hill.
AND FREQUENTLY.
he STOPS to rest
AND oNcE or twice
I'VE HAD a desire
TO GO and help.
sUT IT'S been so hot.
AND The baskets so
big.
I'VE STAYED righ.
there.
ON NY front porch.
AND vesIsaDAv
HE WAS going by
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

NEW YORK will suffer more
~ than other towns. because It
can get bituminous coal, but Il
is against law to burn soft coal
in hard neighborhoods.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

DCBLIC is invited to every
peace banquet SO that capital
and labor will have somebody to
wash dishes.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

ONE lump. please.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

I ,ooRS like we're going to
- take our furnaces like our
coffee.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

WHEN icicles come home to
w roost In your coal bin and
frost is on your vest, you will
bless your enemy who heaps
Goals OF fire on your head. In
fact, you will hold out your
skull for another dishful.
The Washington times., 1922-09-28

GOAL is only fifteen dollars
per ton now. So you had bet.
ter buy 1t while it's cheap.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-21
Are You the Man Who
"Never Reads
Advertisements ,"

obtained their knowledge from advertise
ing. But it is a fact that no man can
escape the effect of advertising even if
does say he "neVer reads advertise
mentS"
Not one of us ever reasoned out en-
tirely from his own mind that the
earth is round. If we had not read it
or heard it we would never have known
it.
In these days of good, truthful.
helpful advertising to say, 81 never read
advertisements" is merely your way OF
saying, Il don't read all advertise
ments.'
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-21

Once in a great while there is
effected sucn refreshingly diff
tcrent' musical organization that
it attracts countrywide attention.
Such an organization is the Nor
deglia Company, which will pre-
sent its unusual program on rhe
first evening of the Community
Chautauqua in st. Johnsbury on
July 27. The company which for
the past eight or nine years has
been one of the most popular mus
zeal combinations on the platform,
is composed of Pietro MordeGlia,
famous accordion player; Jane
Golding, Russian violinist and
singer, and Christine Wisner,
reader, singer, mandolinist and
pianist.
Pietro Mordeglia is known che
world around as The Celebrated
Accordionist." Pietro first learned
to play the ocorcdion by expert
menting with the accordions mace
by his father who was an expert
at this trade Pieetro showed such
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-21

dred Ordway motored to Lowell
Sunday and spent the day with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. H.
Brahana.
Miss Ruth Corley Of Irasburg is
spending this week within her aunt,
Mrs. Fred Wedge.
Lillian Findley of Washington,
d. c. came Saturday to spend her
months vacation with her mother,
Mrs. Laura Findley and sisters,
Olive and Alva.
Mrs. Sylvester of Lowell is
spending a few weeks with her
daughter and son, Mrs. George
Porter and Will Sylvester.
Orval House, Marion Chaf'ee
and Viola Kennison motored to
Richford Monday.
Mrs. ]. w. Fletcher. Mrs. Fred
Witt and son, STANLEY. spent a
few days last week at Edith Stod-
dard's cottage at Willoughby lake.
Herbert Gregory is spending a
two weeks vacation with friends in