Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04
Editorial Scraps

mer than in winter. Banish all alco- holic beverages. Eat largely of cooked fruit.and vegetables. Drink nothing below 70 degrees in temperature and drink sparngly. Be careful to seek the society of cheerful friends. Prac. tice moderation in open-ar exercises. Don't iret. Don't worry Observation of the effect on human beings of living at q high altitude has disclosed that red corpascles in the | blood are 10 per cent. greater al high | altitude than at sea level This is an | indication of purer blood. That lack l Of oxygen in the atmosphere at high | attitudes is the primary cause of all i mountain sickness. That the blood Of l persons living i'll high attitudes Is | much richer and therefore much more capable of resisting disease germs than | the blood of persons living at sea level. | It lbegins to look very much as If | Delegate Wickersham of Alaska were | likely in the end to be the worst suffer | CT from the charges which he has | brought against Attorney General Wickersham. The affair is not yet settled and there may be new develop. ments. The New Haven Register gives this picture of Conneeticut's remarkable governor: aHe Is not n booming man. He impresses all fwho really know him, without his saying it, with the belief that he set out to be governor of Connecticut, and has not wasted dreams on anything further.
 The large adyertieing value which any transatlantic line gets from hay ing the biggest or the fastest ship in the world is illustrated by the an nouneement that the plans of the new Cunafder Aquitania, which Is being built at Clykebank, have been modi- fled so that she will be 10 feel longer than the Hamburg. American liner Imperator, which is to pe put into ser vice in 1913.
 The army worms have been busy this summer in the Rio Grande Valley cotton fields, Texan and Mexican, and have done lot of damage. They'll find suitable preparations made for them next season, the planters say.
 President Taft signed the Canadian reciprocity bill last Wednesday after noon. "It's done" said Secretary Knox. "Its done,n said the Ptesi. dent, as the two clasped hands. Con gratulations upon the passage of ttc measure poured in all day.
 Last year this country boughtSS, ,565, 530 worth of German toys.
 The Ohio state board of agricultur, is to establish farm labor bureau, ir the hope of doing something to meet the insistent demand for hands to hell in the work of harvesting,
 Mfr Pinchot's criticism of the preSi dents message on the Controller bay affair reveals him uncertain as to his facts, but very positive in his opinions He k entirely unable to show that the president is wrong in the demonstfn' ton that no monopolization of harboI and terminal facilities is possible, un- der the acts of Congress, at Controller bay.
 The Louisville Courier-J Journal, or gan of the bluegrass country, not only recognizes that this is the age of auto mobiles, but Is ready to predict that good riding and driving horses in the future will be the toys Of the rich al least in cities.
 The suggestion has been made that when the Panama canal Is formally opened in the year 1915 the battleshiT Oregon should lead the procession through the new waterway, the posi- tion of honor being given her in mem ory of her 1000 mile race from Sar Francisco around the Horn 10 talk, part in the spanish war
 The Bank of England al least Is pre- pared for war. It's cash reserve in re lation to liability is above 54 per cent. or the highest known al this season ir over 10 years,
 Direct nominations in Connecticut would be an interesting and iinstruc- tive experiment, and possibly the sys tem will soon be tried, in view of the action of the Senate in passing the di- rect nominations bill.
 The attorney.genersl of Connecticut has been called upon to decide wheth- CT the old-fashioned cattle-show bal loon, from which the aeronsut de ssends To the earth by means of par achute, is an airship within the mean ing of the new state law regulating aviation. In very learned opinion, which refers to many court decisions, he concludes that balloons gre not ail- ships.