Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1911-02-03
Editorial Scraps.

Cooperation vas the keynote oil the
closing session Of the Connecticut Pour
try Association, in Hartford, last week
Wednesday. A number OF the speak.
ers spoke In favor Of cooperation and
ell favored IL. One advocated poultry
men having cooperative warehouse
Of their own. Another saw no reason
why the poulirymen should not have
The profits as well as "the big fat loo-
sters who wore high hats and rode
around In automobiles. We have been
suckers about long enough. .
Rev. DR.. John Henry Jowett, Of Bic
rninghan, one Of the most distinguish
ed English preachers, bas decided e
accept the call TO b pastor Of the Fiith
Avenue Presbyterian church Of New
York city He has attended the North
Held Moody meetings ami had be
come well known to The religious coin.
munity in this country
The Socialist municipal government
OF Milwaukee has received much com
mendation for some reforms ii has 10.
trodaced. But now We learn, through
member Of its Common Council that
"ihe combined city pay rolls have been
increased slls,593 during the first SIX
months of the present administration
and has borrowed 81 10000 since last
October On this sum the city pays
from $1,000 TO $1,000 interest.
In New York ely New Years Day
In Chinatown began at midnight last
Saturday, and the festivities will con
tlnue ore week. Dating from the birth
Of Confucius, SOL b. G., the Chinese are
now celebrating the birth Of the new
year 1852.
In New York city there is an aver
age Of more than six violent deaths ey.
cry day, according to the eoroner's re-
port, which says:
1.-THE increase Of homicide by shoot
ing indicates the urgent necessity OF
saking severe measures for the reguia-
ton OF the indiscriminate sale and car
rying of firearms"
A terrific eruption from earthquakes
from the volcano faai, on one OF the
Philippine islands, occurred last Sun
day, doing considerable damage 10 the
fiimsy dwellings aud covering the rail-
road track with three inches Of mud.
The entire island sank five inches.
Later accounts give list of dead eaus-
ed by the volcanic eruption OF Mount
Taal, in the island of Luzon, Philip
pines, at 400, and many villages buried.
The earthquake shocks continue.
The Portuguese Republic has grant
ted an annuity of 81, zoo a month To
their deposed King Manuel, who is
"strapped, and dependent on relatives
and friends for his daily wants. 1T is
eommendable ACT, a> he had ne just
claim on the government that busted
him.
The game warden OF Oklahoma has
acknowledged The Ieceiptof eight bead
OF antelope, which came from the Ma
tional herd in the Yellowstone Park.
The object Of thus distributing around
the surplus increase of the National
herd, is TO preserve to the country this
most interesting game animal, and 10
savelit from total extinction.
simultaneously with the announce
ment OF its next meeting In Denver,
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, pre-
sents statistics showing the results of
ITS crusade against consumption dur
ing the last ten years. Ten years ago
there was only one organization to car
nv on its work. Up to september, 1911,
there will be over 500 such bodies Ten
years ego there were but five special
dispensaries for the use of tuberculosis
patients, now there will be nearly 400
by next September. In 1909 there We're
less than 100 hospital wards, with not
more than $500 oeds, by September it
is hoped to have 450 hospitals and nj
least 80, 600 beds
After perplexing discussion the
House OF Representatives passed the
hlIl for permanent Turin Board, on
Monday, by vote Of ls6 10 IS. Among
those voting ultimately were the De
moeraue leader and 81 other bemoera-
tie members. \ few Republican mem
bers opposed the bill itls is one of