Putnam patriot., 1912-02-23
Editorial ScraDt

Editorial ScraDt
 President Taft signed ffs pfOelsms- fss8 admitting Arizona so statehood at U oiela1k tsedaes8sY
 Tae recent crossing of Lake Ere to 90 automobile. and fhe practically e9nps-ie freezing over of Lake -1pe- flot fgr tae Bfsi lime so far ss ls kaosos sfe t1o aafss o9 the exceptionally ze- ssfe Nsste1 fhe Wssf bss sufferea Lake tlIehiaso I ff0zsn, toos baf 1hosgf, unBsssl. this is BW 8nprees- 0eabe9.
 Richard T. Eig. ihe pslItlesI ee9no- naiss os tae university of WUe9nsias W6o aas lu GefmaBy fof gear. bas fel8saeG 4ifa great admiration for 3 German 8ofd lie heard II every. where and ta bIm II iutefpfeis Ger saaaF aGf8ndllehEeitz .-- thorough. meas II pat Germany ahead in sebolsrsHip IL applied scholarship b iudssty t applied scholarship to gos efnment. Df [. Hart Merriam. ofnithol0gist af fhe agfieutafai departments. tell. fbe farmers that the owls and the 1zsks--a fes species of wicked hawks ezcepfed--afe the most useful bird friends they have.
 According to authoritative views ex- pressed at Eerlin The moment has ar lived in the Chinese situation when q joint sgfeemeni bY all the interested powers, including Japan and the nited .iales, pIedRing theuseiSes To lake no sLep in China. except in com a8on. Is desifabie aud even necessary. Even a dog" said Sir Justice aoimes in one Of hi. lectures on the Common Law, "dlstingnisbes being stumbied over and being kicked"
 4 Kentucky judge is Of opinion that, on hot days and with a big crowd Of passengers to handle, railroad condnc- LOTS are mol required 10 look amiable -" Trade between Porto Rico and cont. mental niled States in the calendaf year iusl ended amounted to s72 ,eJ. 7 ts0, of eighteen times as much as in Isg7. The year preceding the aanexa. ton Of llal island by the nited States. The trade with Porto Rico since iis au- BeAali0n has grown more rapidly than with any other commercial eommuni- iy of importance, and now exceeds the value Of our trade sith Spain, or China. or India, Is nearly equal to that with Argentina and is more than Shat with nil BHlilsh Oceania including Australia of @ith the entire continent ol Affien
 tifst and last the Methodist Book Concern has distributed out of its profits more than si,H10o0 for The topporl' of aged preachers and of the widows and children of dead preach CTS, and for other church uses
 Clifford Pinehot, in signed state rnent made public tonight. announces that he has withdrawn his support from Senator LaFollette's Presidential candidacy and that he will hereafter advocate the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt.
 More than billion dollars worth Of nsnufaetures passed out Of continenta I United States In the calendar year of lsli Exports of manufactures from She United States have more than doubled tn ten yeas, and quintupled in twenty years.
 Over 20 million dollars worth Of au. tonobiles were exported from the United States in the calendar year 1911 or twenty times A much as a decade ago. The exports to foreign countries last year, including tires and other parts, were valued at s2l ,6g o0l and the shipments Co our own noncontigu. auS territories, Hawai-, Porto Rico. and Alaska sl SIS, i65. Meantime i'm. parts ot automobiles into the United States show decreasing tendency. From lg'i2 to lao8, before the industry had developed In this country, i'm. ports rapidly increased, from about A hall million to i've million dollars. the high record in imports of this class of vehicles. Since ias, however, ihe imports have steadily decreased.
 Abbe Charles Layson, better known ns Pere slyacinthe, died recently ir Paris aged s4 years. Educated for tn, Catholic priesthood he rose steadily [, prominence. Being unusually gifte, he became the most noted preacher il France. Actuated by liberal spin he left his church, was dealt with fo
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