Putnam patriot., 1911-10-13
Editorial Scraps


 the one important food production in this pnrt of the country to escape the calamities of the years extraordinary weather conditions. It is described as a huge yield which will tax transpor- tation facilities for it's distribution. Yawning markets down country well come the coming.
 New England deserves the palm for nature faking. Boston reports cod with cigar and "cheW' of tobacco in It's stomach, and also an electric skate with lighted pipe in it's in- nards. Hartford boasts of a cat that volunteered to drag telephone wire through a conduit, and did it. It now remains for Maine to produce moose that acts as guide to sportsmen.
 A cliff 200 feet high has been made at Niagara fails to hide from the view of honeymooners and miscellaneous foreign tourists the group Of power plants which have disigufed the beau ~ Of the fails. The cliffs have been DultH bl iOGh anu iitHdf iO it6EAktSti the natural rock ns much as possible.
 We can make little progress toward either suppression of the "unwHtten lawn or the abolition of capital punish- ment when the pafdoning power acts as does Gov. Dix of New York in the Capt. Hains case. The killing of Will liam E. Annis three years ago by Capt. Hains was a premeditated and coward ly murder
 That next year there will be in use in the country 500,00 automobiles, or one for each l60 persons in the country, is the conservative estimate made by the local experts. Of these 1t is estimated that the metropolitan dis. trict, as the territory lying within fifty miles of New York City Hall is known, will have between 10000 and 100000.
 Among the placards carried by sand. wieh women in the suflragist parade in New York were "Down with the food po,soner," and "Better homes and pure food. " There can be no doubt as to the indorsement of Dr. Wiley when women have their say.
 How widely prices affect world com. inerce in these days Is illustrated in the prompt arrival from the East Indies of the largest shipment of sugar ever sent to this country. It Is valued at million dollars, of which $500, 900 is the duty paid for admission at San Francisco. It came on one steamer, and must have made tidy cargo of over 1000 tons.
 The project of the American automo- bile association for 25, 900 miles of na- tonal highway stretching from sea to sea and from the great lakes to the gulf, recalls the handsome picture in M7. Howell's "The Altrurian" of na- uonal parkway from New York to San Franeisco-a broad automobile road bordered by beautiful lawns and gardens and admirable sculpture.
 Letters are appearing in the com mercial papers urging the Washing ton government te turn away from the rebGfting Dominion and cultivate reciprocal trade relations with Central and South America. II is a good idea
 "Will anyone maintain," beliger- ently asks the London Spectator, ''that there is greater social equality in America than there k in England2n There's an official statement from Winnipeg to the effect that the brown rat--a newcomer in ManitoDa-has this year gnawed up things in house, barn and field worth round million of dollars.
 The lalest plot of capitalism, accord ing 10 the socialist press in New York, is this "men and religion forward movement Mr Morgan is helping to pay the bills, so that all doubt as to its sinister capitalislic character is dis pelled.
 \ news dispatch says that instead ot the normal sugar cane crop of BOO ,000 tons, Louisiana has one of $50 600 tons, and that the gain to the planters at the present price will be Sl7,500, GOO compared with last year.
 Reviewing the reciprocity battle in Canada, the Toronto Globe, the chief supporter of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in On tario, finds that appeals to prejudice determined the result.
 Infamous as il is said to be, incom- prehensible as il must be to the ahleSt minds, everybody except Mayor Gay nor seems to condemn, has cost thus far S2o0, 900 in getting framed.
 The food revolution that is raging with violence in the industrial and mining departments of Northern Fraace is recent development Of the great economic struggle manifested a year ago in the general railroad strike, and, last spring, by the civil war in she wine producing regions of Cham pagne and Bar.sur-Aube.
 The Chicago park commission sug- gests to the city council that lo0 acres a year of public park land could be se- cured out of Lake Michigan without cost To the city.