Putnam patriot., 1909-11-26
Editorial Scraps.

The agony hl "iF'7f
 cbitdren af the uncertain fate oi iheii alo relatives entombed In ablazing lui' mace in the coal mines at Cherry lH.i was changed to frienzied joy when, s' The end of just seven days, U was announced that twenty Of the uniortu' nate men had been rescued aiise. All but the relatives had given up the pos sibiIity of any one of the entoinDea men having escaped horrid deathi and hope revived that othefss miehs still be rescued alive. But all nope failed when g. dead bodies hafi been brought to the surface. The rescued men had endured thirst and starvation and poor ventilation, after having euiil wall that shut out The flames, but most of them had sueenmbed unlit The rescue came and found but twenty alive.
 The first passage of train from New Jersey to Long Island, nndes the llua. son and East rivers, marked tae ptac- teal completion Of one Of the greatest engineering enterprises in the world history.
 The German war budget for l9lo, if received tin silence" by the German press, is all the more significant on that account. The increase of S45,~o,Vep in appropriations for the army and na- W. carries iis own interpretations
 Mr. Bryan, who desires to become r. <. senator from Nebraska, has al- lied himself with the Pfehibitionists us that State favos prohibition. The .Gommonefn now denounees the sa= looms in terms equivalent to declhfa- Lion of war. Mr. Bryan k no doubt sincere in his opposition 10 the saloon With record of 30 lives and 2lo In. juries. during the past sehsohi 1ustiiles President Elliot being consistent Toe of football for almost generation In regard to this record he obsefSes' MY position Is the same now as Il whs ten years ago. The recent tragedies oi the game have merely confirmed my opin- lon. I do not believe the human frame is strong enough to stand football as Il k played. Either you have got to change the rules or abolish the game.
 MT. Carnegie's abtipathy to militar- Ism does not extend to forts for defense. .f believe in forts, big forts, the biggest and best forts in the world and plenty of them. Forts are for defense, they safeguard our ports. IL is the mad race to see how msny.expensive battle ships we can construct, 10 which am opposed"
 Tn Ontario county, N. Y., there IS an association that has accepted as US sio- ran, "No Tuberculosis in loi5." IL giycs such evidence of determination that other organizations in the State, engaged in fighting consumption, are watching it with much interest. There is rood reason to believe, from the ex- traordinary activity to extirpate u that tuberculosis will De banished like cho- lera and yellow fever, In time.
 At 92 years Of age John Bigelow pub fishes his "Retrospection Of an Active Life,n thinking, doubtless, to walt any longer would be il-advised. He has never written anything that has not enriched American literature, and we may expect his best in his "iietrospec. tions."
 Count Leo Tolstoi, from Switzerland, delivers another messuge to the world. He appeals to the good sense oi the worlds peoples 10 refuse to serve as soldiers, either voluntarily or under prcssure, even 1T that refusal, entails punishment. Killing by soldiers, he asserts, Is criminal act. roistoi is like one serving in the wilderness.
 The Wright Brothers have organi- red the w right Company of New York, ..ln manufacture. sell, deal in, operate, and otherwise use, machines, or other mechanical contrivances for aerial na- siratien or operation IL is capital. ixed at Sl ,uu,op.
 The Grand Council of the Provincial Workingmen' ASso ocia.ton o' anada have declared in fave of sesering all connection with unions in the nited States. IL repudiates the proposed plan of forming an International Federation of Labor as proposed by President Gompers The preamble to the resolu- tions declares that the Canadian | nions must fight their industrial battles ae- cording to Comedian methods, These methods, 1t saxs. are patriotic, and the Canadian unionists ,will not oounten- ance any breach of the English laws. It continues
 aAny union having its seat of gov eminent in America and pretending To be international in ils scope, must fght Industrial battles according to Ameri- can methods. Said methods have con- sequences which are ahhorrent to the law abiding people of Canada--inNoiN. ing hunger, misery, riot, bloedshed ana murder, all Of which might ne termed result of the practical war now in pro gress in our fair fros snec ny foreign emissaries of the United Miners of America.
 From this declaration of The Cana dian Provincial Worhlngmen's Asso- elan, the National Federation of La bof, just me, it Toronto. will fetun ta the United slsies regarded ey them as no better than anarchists. Very rough