Putnam patriot., 1912-03-08
Editorial Scraps

Announcement has been made by President C. l.. Beach of the Conneeu- cut AgricultursI College Of the 3D. pointment of professor Of poultry husbandry vice Frederic Henry Stone burn, who resigned several weeks ago, to take effect when his successor was appointed. William F. kilpstrlek, professor of poultry husbsndry at the Mississippi State College has received the appointment and will report st storrs, April |. Professor KiIpatilck is southern man, being native Of North Carolina.
 4 New England conference on rural progress will be held iu Boston, March <. The meeting will be at g80 o'clock in the morning in the rooms of the state board Of agriculture in the State House. The general subject is, The need Of development Of agriculture in New England and what should be done to accomplish il by various agencies.
 II is not Theodore Roosevelt but the American people who gre on trial. The issue at stake is not his qualifications for a third term in the White House but their fitness for popular self-gov- ernment under constitutional re- strains. Theodore Roosevelt has torn up his solemn promise of Nov. <, 1904, that "under no circumstances will be a candidate for or accept another nom. Ination.p But the promise remains as valid as It was on the day it was writ ten. MT. Roosevelt cannot nulify it. Only the American people can nulify 1t.
 Praising the progressive and states manlike qualities Of the administfs- ton Of William Howard Taft, nine Republican governors united in ten- dering their unqualified support to President Taft for renominalioa and reelection. They unanimously joined in predicting that President Taft will be reelected in November, and sand that he Is today the strongest candi- date the Republican party can n0mi- nate as it's standard bearer at the na- tional convention in Chicago.
 The "WashlnRton Star" displays prominently the following statement;
 "From sources entirely independent of the White House IL Is ascertained that the confidence entertained by the administration and others that Colonel Roosevelt would not toe candidate against Taft was based on definite and repeated statements by Roosevelt made within year that he would not be candidate for 1912, and did not intend to oppose President Taft for renomina tion."
 The first cooperative movement of southern states toward the solution of sociological problems Is undertaken in the call by Gov. Benjamin w. Hooper Of Tennessee to sixteen governors to send delegates to "southefn sociolog. teal congress to meet in Nashville May T."
 The 5000 Magdalen islanders are to he congratulated upon the decision of the Canadian government to establish new service for their benefit. Per haps no one appreciates the value of wireless teegraphy more than such literally isolated people, who happen not 10 lie in the way of a cable or of cable Of of frequent vessels, For six months of ,the year the Magdalen islands are bound,
 George Sheppard, who was an edi- torial writer on the New York Times under Henry J. Raymond and for time its managing editor, died Thurs day at his home in Jamaica Plain at the age Of 94. II is curious coinei. dence that John Bigelow, who was MT. sheppard's immediate predecessor in The Times, died recently at the age of 94.
 The Enoch Arden story is reeurrent in real life, but seldom with such an accumulation of misfortunes as follow. ed r. ]. Thompson, who found his family al savonnah recently, If the re- port from that city may be trusted, after an absence of s7 years.
 Plans for rapid-transit subways to cost sio3, ,2oo,o,D were presented last week 10 the Chicago council committee on local transportation by the city sub. way and harbor commission.
 "The poor man 'slalfalfa'' Is the name now being given in the West to the long despised and outlawed Russian thistle. A few years ago who could have dreamed that Il could ever cause a lawsuit, unless perhaps as to the res possibility for spreading a nuisance But now in Cove county, which is in Inc arid northwestern part Of Kansas, one farmer has sued another for his share of crop of thistles--Rassian thistles How did il come about Simply because last summer was so exceptionally hot and dry that noth- ing else grew in that region.