Putnam patriot., 1909-02-19
Editorial Scraps.

New York has adopted the Torfens system Of land tile registration, mak. ing II easy and as cheap to sell q house or farm as 10 sell horse or COW. II does away with that costly and cum. hersome method devised in the dark ages, and elung to like many other su. pextitious notions as loo sscfedly seb- erable to be changed for anything more simple. The Torfens system is .n vogue in some Western States and works sa- tisfactonly.
 MT. Tall and party of engineers who accompanied him to Panama to in- sIsrt the canal and ienfn if there bad been any feasons discovered that made II necessary, CT mofa nds nulaRaans, tp ehnnge the present plan oi lock syss tenn for 2 SCR level canal, were una nimeus u declaring He lock system k the best. sniest nnd in the end tltH- uu ,ssu eileapNt President Raessee el as well ss ffesideui-eieel Iafl. coincide with shis declaration. II ls W0fse than uselesS for any one b contend faf q sea- level eanai llIe lace ef lhIs statement II dtstafbs public epiniou and reflects un tue united Judgment ef the mest eminent engineers Ia the country. who have siaked their reputation on the Nssiee they hasePiveu as to what plan ln besi lo build the canal.
 A little episode that sfanspifed in @Aiaitiafd last week may he usefuily te- peAled In other cities where the need k required The butchers formed trust and ordered out their telephones, an- nouneing that no more house deliveries would he made--pufehasefs musl come to the shop for meat when they wanted any. That WAS the attitude on one side. The other side were the house wives sof the city, who organized and arranged With farmers to get Il fresh daily supply Of meat. fhis oane lo the know ledge of the butchers before inc contract was completed. offering te deliver orders as usual and offering q reduction ot three cents pound on the best cuts. That was accepted, and now ihsfe k war among the iadios-~bnt that duesn | affect the ecstaey oi the ladies
 Bf. Fisher, of Yale. in an address be- fore the Association of l.lie insurance Presidents. In which he stated that hu. man life could be extended li yeats hs preventive medicine. In Prussia the average lenatheninT of life k at the rate of s1 years ia a century, while In Massachusetts IL is only half that mum. her. In Prussia they make science of preventive medicine. while in this country wc arc not carrying IL out sci. entitcally. X fall in the death rate al ways follows sanitation. IL reduced deaths In Havana oae half. In New York The death rate was reduced last year the lowest ever known, through public agitation for good sanitary con ditions. rufc air, pare water, pure food. milk especially. Tuberculosis and other diseases, once deemed inearable, arc now reduced by preventive mea- sures.
 The malicious and false charges made hy The New York World and Indiana. poiis News. charging the President, his brother, t. T.. Tan, Mf. Cromwell, and other distinguished men with be- ing combined in securing part ef the money paid to the French government for the Panama canal, by graft me thods. k now ln the conris. X grand Jury has found true bills for criminal iitei against sundry newspaper editors and publishers, and judge has issued bench warrants for the sppv vhension of the persons indicted.