Putnam patriot., 1911-11-17
Editorial Scraps


 Of the deaths by accident in Con neeticut during October, twelve occur red on the steam road, seven on trolley lines, and like number by gas, six by falling, four each by drowning and ah- fomobile, three each by shooting ,bufn- ing and crushing, two by sealding, and one each by sufloeation and elevator accident.
 The dairy commissioner k having throughout the state linen posters con faining the law passed by the last gen eral assembly in relation to the adul- iteration of milk.
 Df. Woods Hutchinson suggests something new in education. lie would allow no man to go on the judi cial bench until he had spent months in study of hospitals, insane asyum5, the slums, the society of the "4o0" and other places where human nature in its extremes can be studied.
 Abraham Isaacs, l06 years old, died smoking a cigaret at San Francisco hospital
 Tie French astronomer, Camille FIammarion, writes to the European editor of the New York Herald, that the periodical displacement of the north pole reached year or two ago the previously unknown magnitude Of 55 l.2 feet, but has slowly begun to subside.
 Rev Thomas Ewing Sherman, s. J., son of General William Teeumseh sherman, has been committed to Dr. Henry Stedmanis santatorium at Ja- maica Plain, after long struggle tc retain his mental faculties.
 IA servants wifen was the account of her occupation entered by Mrs Champ Clark, according to a repor from Kansas City when she registered as visitor at the manual trainini high school In that city. When tn principal asked her to elueidate, sh explained that MT. Clark, being speak CT of the House, was servant of th people,
 Few incidents of diplomatic natur have had 10 be more delieately hanc jed than the clash between German and France over Morocco, and, no' that it is ended through process ( peaceable negotiations and adjustmen both governments can be said to hay earned congratulations.
 ssWhether or not the American have an adage equivalent to our Col bier, stick to your last, do not know but America's great inventor Ediso certainly lived up to it while in Re lin," says letter from that city, tan showed that dynamos, machine shoI and the children and grandchildre of his inventive genius interested hir more than the sights of our city.e
 Woman has acquitted herself triun psantly at the very point where he critics had been most doubtful. If W have eannl suffrage, we have been told and juries of women, look out for reign of prudery and petty censorship tt It lho pohtS hHEBNhN' siA's C'' fornia's first jury of women had for ii first duty to try an editor on tn charge brought no doubt by mem ( publishing an obscene and indecen newspaper, and waited only 70 min utes to return verdict of not guilty. It is an interesting coincidence tha ason of the president of the Unite States and a son iof his principal riva for the nomination have received pri zes of S875 each at the same time fo good work at the Harvard law school The Imperial German Bureau of Fly giene has published statistics of cen tenarians in kurope, who number il all 1000, says the "Malin.'
 Reports from the college footba squads do not on the surface aftor great assurance that the reforme rules of the game have yet aeeon plished all that was desired in the wa of lessening injuries.
 A boy scouts republic thas been or ganizei at Wadhearst, Sussex, Eng where an estate of 100 acres has bee given for the purpose, with mansion farmstead, and farm buildings, u buildings altogether being large enoug To accommodate POO boys. The pla is to establish school farm, the col ny being conducted on republiea principles, with mayor and counc elected from among the boys.
 Organized charity is sometimes a cused of spending more money in il vestigation than in giving relief. the sufficient rejoinder is not obvious there should be some weight in Chicl go's discovery that 5000 families n ceiving aid from Cook county As ''d serving poorn are quite the contrar, In the list of the spotted, Fit sppear are Is with bank accounts-one ( high as $1090 and many familis where the head of the house draws salary of $iso 8 month, besides T property owners.