Putnam patriot., 1909-07-23
Editorial Scraps.

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 Last week we spoke Of the unusual number of serious accidents occurring recently. The New York Tribune says on the same subject. .Quite as aston ishing AS the number of injuries, many Of them fatal, resulting from sundays accidents. here and abroad, was the va- rieiy of causes which produced them. To the usual dfownings and automo- bile wfeeks were added coilasping porch in city park. lhe bufzling of Il motorcycle, and the burning of q motor boat Nearly all Of them were trace able to somebody's eafelessness
 l II Hale, the peach authority says that Connecticut peaches will be mr. keted about Aug 10th, and by the goth they will bc in abundance The Con neetieut peach crop this year, he adds, will be as fine peach crop N was ever had. If they are spondingly cheap housewives ought to store up double their usual supply and have them all eaten up this year.
 The Lynn, Mass, shoe manufaelur- CTS are so unreasonnbly dominated by labor organizations that they are talk ing oi moving to some other place. The Association of Manufacturers say:
 uII is hardly to be expected that the Lynn shoe manufacturers will stay in I .t Ba4. In IA..sa manufacturing when they cannot sec anything but failure before them.
 Putnam Business Mems Association should inform the Lynn shoe manufac- tufefs that Putnam Is an ideai place for their business, and learn on what conditions they will come here.
 The Southwest and uow the West k sending out cry for help to harvest the seasons bounteous crops. b0,no able bodied men are wanted hs farmers at the West, and the Department of Commerce and Labor cau furnish spe- .ciilcation where farming work can be had. Cities ought to send out colonies of their Idle population.
 Boston appointed special eommis- sion to inquire into the conduct of the cits's financial affairs under Mayor Fiizeeralds administration, and found such stupendous frauds in all its de partments, that It has made the com mission n permanent one. Besides the financial benefit, such disgraceiul sean. ldsls as those under Fitzgerald will be avoided.
 The judiciary committee of the lse- gislaturc has reported in favor of re- pealing the shabby law that foreids q man lo sell electric light to his neigh. bor, If they live side by side. Says the Caurant. "The whole pieayune law hose discovery has brought unropu' lafity, not 10 say contempt, upon cor pofale monopoly management, should be wiped of the books
 Enhu Root k as confident as Pres, ident Taft, thai the country k going to get pretty good sort ot tafin out oi the scrimmase-a taiiti with "down' ward revision in 1t, and an improved free list. This country has many great statesmen Of the Presidential si1c mhs have influence in legislation, and tn, President is Intellectually as he k rhy slcally great above ordinary statesmen and nothing can resist him in carrying ont what the people demand.
 The Congress that made the Wilson tariff got away from Washington Aug as The Congress that made the Me kinley tariff, sol away October 1. I'm Congress that made the nlngleN tarit got away July ai. The Congress tha Is making the Tanfi will get away a an early date.
 The movement 10 establish Pan American Bank In New York, will branches throughout central and Soul America, has been received with gtea enthusiasm by the governments of La tin America.
 The Wright Brothers, afier man. hindrances, have made another record breaking flight. Glen II. Curtiss, an other aspirant 10 carrs.off all honors b, beating all other flying machines, ha made flight of al minutes, and alight ed without mishar, at Hampstead, l. l., last Friday
 The Pratt X Whitney Ca., an Ameri can company. go, q big contract t' build a government small.arms factor, for the \ australian government, in com petition with many British tirms. Th' American eompanyAs tender was sslo, 0oo, as against sosn,oo bid by its low est competitor, and 10 do II in one yea against the others three years