Putnam patriot., 1909-08-20
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Charities to keep hopeless e9naai4H live invalids from going L. Colorado Of any other health resort as il lasi chance for II will prove lost chance Every humanitarian impulse urges such pas tients to remain at home. Ii is All in justice and an ifrcpafable injury To Inc sufferers to send them away
 "Almost in frenzy, K The descrip. ton sent from Alabama of the way in which the Legislature passed The ne~ rigorous prohibition law. The law Tor bids newspapers to pfint liquor adVef. tisements, and to take out an internal reyenue license to sell liquor is convict. ing evidence of having sold if.
 A writer h the NJ Medical Journal thinks il not impossible that by l9sl cancer may be killing more people IT the registration area of the United States than consumption.
 The current report of the Jewish Gol- anizalien Association, the philanthro. uy which the late Baron de IIirseh so munifieently financed with s40, ,0oa ,ooo, rhows that the Jewish colonies in Ar gcntina now have population of lb,7II --a gain of 2,500 over the preceding year-and thnt both these and the colo nies in Brazil are now entirely selfsup- porting.
 Though Germany K already the most learned of counties, the number of university students continues to in- crease. This year there are 5l 100 com. pared with 1T, 1W last summer. The incseasc has been largest in dentistry, in which Europe lags behind the Uni. ted States. The largest department k that of philelogy and history, l8,9ii. Next come law with i,6h7, and medi- cine sith 9,Bl2.
 Following the example Of many small cities throughout the country, Chicago had cleaning day" Inst week. The Mayor had issued pro. clamation 10 all citizens to unite in ga- thcring up all refuse around their pre- misses, sweep up their back yards and alleys and te bring all the refuse l. one place. II Is thus hoped to have pfacti. cally all of the breeding places for flies and other insect pests which carry dis ease germs removed.
 Secretary MacNeaghis reported in. tention to have banknotes and other forms of paper currency washed ire quently in cleansing chemical solu' ton Is a practical lesson to teach the country the importance of cleaning of removing every unclcan ness to gel rid of disease breeding germs.
 A conference on the prevention Of in- fant mortality will be held in Nosem- ber next, when the measures which may be taken and the desirability of effort to save infants lives will be dts cnssed by doctors, teachers, philan. thropists and others who have studied The many problems involved.
 A committee appointed al the last session of the Illinois Legislature to search for "lost lands,e title to which should vest In the State, has begun In investigations In Chicago. Al it's first session complaints ef alleged land grabs along the lake front amounting Ia xs,ooo,0o were received,
 The entire herring fishery question that has caused trouble between the Newfoundland authorities and Ameri- can fishermen, has been happily set tied. The colonial cabinet has agreed 10 n renewal of the modus yiyendi be tween Great Britain and the fnited States. The entire fishery question, which has for years agitated the Ame- ficsns and Newfoundlanders, is to he settled by The Hague Tribunal.
 According To recent report of the q. S. census, the mortality of the In dians from tuberculosis is undoubtedly ' far higher than that of either the whites or the blacks.
 In honor of the return In October oi Samuel Gompefs, who has been In Flu rope studying continental labor condi- tions and problems, all the labor organ. nations of the Eastern States will to- gether unite in a monster parade in Washington on October 18th. IL will cost not less than a million dollars to gel up such n parade. II k fortunate for the country that the lahor organi. xations have such men as GompeTs tu lead and counsel them. lie has Won the respect ot capital as well as labor, fof his remarkable abilities AS well as uprightness.
 When score of the great railroads of the country are laying out from ss,0oo ,ooo 10 SIG, ,ooo, ,eco each for rolling stock and other Improvements, We may well believe that prosperity Is return. ing without taking into account othe' similar indications. As 10 what the yailroads are doing Il confirms The gov. ernment statement, that the crops oi the country, this year. are unusually bountiful, and that Is the foundation ef alI prosperity.