Putnam patriot., 1912-01-26
Editorial Scraps

Kansas City has found its modern ized eiiy government, modelled on Gal weston, a highly convenient thing dur ing the recent emergency. 1t was pos slble. under the relief provision Of the charter, to raise sz5, ,000 at once for the sid Of people suffering from cold. The provision was inserted as a safeguard | against fire, food or cyclone, but It served equally well for the seyerest weather the region has ever expefi- enced
 The Louisiana supreme court has | decided that negro has right to sit | in the white peoples end of a street car f all the sents in the black peoples | end are fuii, the Jim Grow" law 10 the contrary notwithstanding The l trial court gave a negro who had been ! refused seat In those circumstances s50 damages, and the supreme court has increased. this indemnilieation to SEQ.
 The fact Is given out, for whatever It may be worth, that two in every three of the ,l32 prisoners in the Fort 1seavenworlh ifederal lpenitentiafy are bachelors.
 Women are henceforth to take full and equal share with men in the polit- ical life of Sweden. The speech from the throne at the opening iof the Riks- f.af bill was to be introduced enfranchis- ing women and making them eligible al the elections 10 the Kiksdag on the same conditions as men.
 President Taft last Thursday com muted to expire al once the fifteen year sentence for violation of the na- tional banking laws under which Charles W. Morse, the New York banker and "ice king" served two years in the federal penitentiary at Att lanta, Ga. The communication Of sem tence, which gives Morse his complete freedom, but, unlike A pardon, does not restore his civil rights, was grant. ed upon recommendation Of Attorney General Wickersham and Surgeon Generol Torney, U k. A. According to the surgeon generals report to the president, Morse could not live one month longer in confinement and even at liberty probably would not live six months.
 The use of the modern whaling can non in place lof the old fashioned and more picturesque hand harpoon has been familiar for n good many years, but itis probably not widely known that another moaern invention has been pressed Into service, and that compressed air Is now pumped into the whales carcass until il resembles a toy balloon, and the hole filled with oakum, so that the whaler may set the carcass atioat with buoy to mark il, without danger of its sinking. In this way time can be saved in starting on The pursuit of other whales which may be In sight
 The Boston Traveller has been fined S.p0O for contempt of court for publish Ing an article about Rieheson after the jury had been summoned.
 The Equitable Life Assurance Com- pany of New York, whose building was recently burned, has sent 10 the family of Fire Chief Walsh the mort. gage on his home, which the company has eaneeled, paying S2,6ls.l2 in can eellation. This Is "a mighty good ad vertisement and just act.
 Those New Britain seers who are urging canal from that city to the sea via Middietown should take eour- age from the reports of Manchester, England IL seems that since Man. chester K canal 10 the sea was opened that city has increased its foreign trade by a2s.s per cent, while Liver. pool has increased her own trade by only 62.2.
 The intimate relation between the labor problem and immigration is con spieuous in the present situation at Lawrence, where strikes are in prog. Fess against the reduction in wages de- creed on account of the 54 hour law The mill operatives represent many nationalities, with the Italian, Polish, and Semitic elements predominating, and so few of them can speak the lam guage of this country that "the mill managers find 1t well-nigh impossible 10 get their side of the case presented. !"
 w. Morgan Shuster, the American who was recently dismissed from the office of treasurer general of Persia, in recent interview, spoke his min 1 frankly:
 .rhe pef result of the British and Russian action in Persia renders na. tion which was making progress tow ard peace and order and WAS building up its finances for the establishment of . constitutional government, . land of chaos aud anarchy, without prestige among its own people. and in addi- lion hss meant the sacrifice of hun 0seds of innocent lives