Putnam patriot., 1911-08-11
Editorial Scraps

week or abstinence rom new ROWnSt hats, candy, soda water, the theatre, etc., and to turn the dollars thus saved into the campaign fund.
 A pension of s4 week for every man or woman more than 50 years of age is provided for by Representative Victor l.. Berger, the Socialist member from Wisconsin. The Representative included in his bill clause that none of the courts of the country, not even the Supreme Court of the United States, should pass upon it's validity.
 As climax to the unprecedented droulh, i52 cotton mills in North and South Carolina shut down because the water in Catawba river k so low the Southern Power Company cannot sup ply the plants with power. IL is es- timated that 70,000 operatives are thrown out of employment.
 In all the discussion over the fate of the reciprocity bill in Canada not word has been said so far about the Canadian Senate, and perhaps few Americans realize that there is such parliamentary body in existence.
 A police automobile charged a mob attacking an othcer, in New York, and sent It spinning. The new way to dis perse dangerous mobs may be to motor them down instead of now them down.
 That President Taft is stronger In Connecticut than he was when nomi- mated before and that he will be Con neetieui's choice in 1912 Is a part of what Washington paper has to say as the opinion of il number of Gonnec. ticut men.
 The nsurgent-repabliean coalition in the Senate has met the shock of two tariff bills and may pos. sibly stand one more. But 1t will not endure much longer than that.
 President Taft has agreed to visit az rieultufal fairs in Maine, Vermont and Connecticut, and he is not likely to be permitted to stop there, If teasing will avail Other states will want him.
 People in Boston and New York, where such good savings banks exist, are doubtless palronizing the postal savings banks just opened there for the novelty of the thing. But in time , per cent interest instead of the which could be safely had will cease 10 be an attractive novelty.
 It was decided by the committee having charge of the selection ot a place for the annual meeting of the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution to hold 1t in New l.Rndon. The date will probably be Sepk. 6.
 A heated controversy in. Kansas City as to> W neither a sunfower Is flower or a weed is to be carried into the courts. The contention that it Is flower ap- pears to have the best chance in Mis- the sunflower, has statute declaring il weed, the supreme court of Mis- souri has once before declared 1t a flower, and quoted poetry to clinch the matter.
 A new state law in Michigan pro hiblts the employment of women in any place where liquor is sold, and therefore warning has been served on the proprietors of all cafes and saloons that women employed in any capacity must at once be discharged. This sweeping law will make plenty of trouble for honest girls employed in restaurants, and it is to be wondered whether the legislators realized the scope of their enactment.
 Ernest Thompson Seton, who has been busily developing the boy scouts of America, is about to begin organil- ing the girl scouts of America.
 Dr. Ernest C. Levy, chief health of. ticer of Richmond, has come to the conclusion, after close comparative study of the mortuary statistics of this and other cities, that the American negro is slowly ana steadily dying out and will be virtually extinct in tht twenty first century.
 The signatures 10 general arbitration treaties between the United States anc Great Britain and the United State, and France were affixed last Thursday This marked great step forward ir international relations as well as per sonal triumph for President Taft. Il is probable that Germany and Japan will soon take favorsble action on the same issue.
 There can be no disagreement with the remark of the British prime minis. ter athat this Moroccan question has reached point at which II win be- come exceedingly difficult, embsrrass- ing and anxious unless a solution is found.n IL brisiles with difficulties considered purely as an African or col onial question.