The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-05-26
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for sane idealism. He believes in
simple living and high thinking
and no one questions his stan
dards or his motives. With it
all he has a practical mind and he
does not expect any miracles in
the reformation of this world.
Just now, he is making a plea for
greater tolerance and asking that
quality rather than quantity
shall be the aim of our legisla-
tive bodies. He knows that we
cannot legislate morals into
peoples; or to put it in his way
"the golden age cannot be set up
by act of congress-" He says
that the things this world needs
are tolerance and the feeling that
the man who disagrees with you
may be right and not a crook.
He warns against the feeling
that these intolerant folk have
that they are superior intellects
and can set the only standards
for the world. We need trust
and tolerance, for the intolerance
of today can make martyrs just
as readily as the intolerance of
the middle ages. In any age, in
tolerance is narrow, mean spirit
which tries by the weight OF au-
thority to become a self-made
censorship of morals and conduct
embracing habits of dress and
manner of life. Since the world
has never willingly followed
these bigots, their best weapon
has been celestial or legislative
coersion. DR.. Van Dyke is right,
we are falling into the way of
sumptuary laws as the easiest
way to make the world over ac-
cording to the fanatics idea.
We all know that our greatest
hope of improvement lies with
the young, for the hardened
criminal is usually beyond cur
ing. L E Lawes, warden of Sing
Sing, emphasizes the need of
more preventive work by show
ing that of total of 1854 pris-
oners received at Ossing dur
ing the fiscal year ending June
80, 237 were twenty-one years
old or under, 100 were under
twenty-one, 96 were under twen-
ty and 578 were under twenty
five. Their average age was
twenty-eight.
Secretary Hughes may be pure
logic and icy cold but this coun-
try will have reason to be glad he
is at the head of the State De-
partment if he keeps us out of
the Russian tangle. He is disin-
clined to recognize that country's
government until it is on a sound
economic and social basis. On
that basis, it will be some time
before there will be enough
government to recognize. There
may not be much sentiment in
this stand but there is good COM
mon sense.
The death of Van D Dey re-
calls the vogue of Nick Carter.
Now Nick Carter wasn't exactly
popular with the parents of that
day but Nick was pretty good
if adventurous chap. He was al
ways the champion of virtue and
his mighty deeds of valor were al
ways in the cause of right and
clean living. He was hair rails
ing but never vicious. Can as
much be said of the penny dread
fuls of today?
We are just hearing of sort
of paradise on earth in the island
of Tristan da Cunha, for there
there are no laws, no taxes, no
money, no crime, no Jail, no Office
holders but there must be natives
for they are sending two mission
aries there. We don't know
where the island is, but we
would think they were getting
along pretty we'll without out
side help.
We are apt to attribute mer-
germany motives to John D. any
way so we cannot help thinking |
that in advising the public to
play golf he realized that 1T takes
lots of gas to get to the golf
links.
The millionaires who figure in
the courts are mostly million
aires by inheritance. Of course,