Putnam patriot., 1912-04-26
Editorial Scraps

cd on new pnhse, ithly having at last determined to strike blow at the heart of her enemy. The announce ment that powerful Italian fleet has been engaged Tn attacking the forts in the Dardanelles will no doubt startle the world, but what the effects, direct or indirect, of her bold action will be, il is impossible to predict.
 Writing in the "Independent, "Prin- cipal Washington tells us that the ne- groes, while not increasing as rapidly as they did, are not dying out. The increase nowadays is mainly in the South. The number of negro farmers down there increases also from year to year. As white folks move to town in order to go into business or to work in the mills, black folks rent the vacated farms. President F.. C. Branson of Georgia's state normal school is quoted AS saying: "There are fourteen Missis- sippi counties in which the negro farmers outnumber the white farmers five to one; in four of these more than twenty-five to one; in one of them nearly thirty to one. And 1 may add that the negio Is fast rising out of ten ancy into ownership. In ten counties of Mississippi the farms cultivated by negro owners outnumber the farms cultivated by white owners.
 A record for long distance telephone conversation was established January IF, when connections were made be- tween Denver and Boston, a total dis tance of 2,400 miles. Connections were made through five toll boards, in- cluding New York city. No trouble was encountered, conversation being carried on with ease.
 The huge New York model tene. ment house dedicated Wednesday on the bank of the East river Is memori- al after the late Bishop Potter's own heart. The tablet on it bears this in- scription: ITO the Memory of Henry Goldman Potter, Bishop of New York, and in Grateful Recognition of His
  Righteousness and Service.n
 Colonel Isaac r. Mack, aged 6s, of tsandusky, O., for forty years editor Of the "Sandusky Re eSister," one of the earliest members and directors of the Associated Press and formerly com- mander of the Ohio C. A. R., died suddenly of apopiexy April 18th while in a downtown store with his wife.
 President ldadero's reply to Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson's admo- milton in regard to the treatment of Americans in Mexico was received al the State Department. The note is re. garded as an attempt to relieve the Mexican government from financial H. ability for damages inflicted upon foreigners by the rebels, rather than as evidence of any resentment against the action of the State Depart ment here, iu remin ling the Mexican factions of their obligations under international law toward foreigners resident in Mexico.
 Clara Barton has become little more than the shadow of a name, but the name was founded on real services to humanity begun when humane ser vice was not common to everybody as it is now. She had long been separat. ed from the work of the organization with which her name is associated and her death in no way affects that. The simpler methods of the earlier day gave opportunity for individual dis tinction which the complex system of modern philanthropie work does not offer. Her career was unique in many features and can never be duplicated in the Red Cross field.
 Years and years ago, back near the middle of the last century, occurred one of the most dramatic disasters that has ever been recorded. In April, 1856, the steamer Pacific sailed out crowded with tourists, everything joy ous, and never word was heard from her afterwsrd. Supposedly she went down from having struck an iceberg And this Is the one great Atlantic line disaster due 10 icebergs that we recall
 Cotton exports in the fiscal yea which ends with the month of Jun, will exceed by approximately twS million bales the highest exports o any earlier year.
 Acquisitions approved by the gov ernor include: Of the,exeeutiye com mittee of the soldiers hospital board on the comptroller for si2,oo0 tor the care of disabled soldiers, sailors and marines of the civil war; of the same committee on the comptroller for S2,. l4s.0o for the care of invalid soldiers of the Spsnish-American war.