Putnam patriot., 1912-10-04
Editorial Seraps

erons generally throughout the world this year are bumper fhis is shown by ngufe- in 8 cabiegfam re- ceiyed by the department Of agficul- lure from the international Institute Of Agriculture at Rome Italy, giving the preliminary estimstes of the acre age production of wheat, rye, barley oats and corn.
 Connecticut protected manafactuf- CTS are busy filling The orders thai haXe been pouring in upon them. Few Of them haxe any notion of how near they came recently 10 more disas- tfous crisis than they have ever yet beed called on 10 face The one thing that saved them, AS Senator Mclean declared in his recent convention ad- dress. was the veto of President Taft But for thai, the senator saidt one-hali the factories in lhe country would have closed within year.-Haafofd Coursnt
 The autumn military manoenvfes in England and on the Continent, just concluded, have in every case eenclu- sisely proved that The conquest of the airi of even more vital consideration than supremacy on land Of water. Military and naval taelicinns Of the old school have been nonplussed Al every turn, and every European'waf department is now concentrating it's efforts upon the task 'of achieving the fullest possible utilization Of the aero plane.
 Having failed in his effort 10 get negro suflfagan, Bishop Guerfp ot South Carolina has made one Of his negro reetors-Rev. J. x. Quarles Of Columbia-an afchdeHeon. Remem- ber," he said last week to gathering of negr ehnlchmen, ssthe archdeacon is not the bishop. While l am going to be loyal and stand back Of the men whom 1 appoint, want you to feel in all cases affecting your nights that ] will be the final court Of appeal. ] will let no man oppIess you
 Eugene H. Grubb--an suspicious name,-liyes in Carbondale, Col.i and has written book about potatoes. He says that thi3 country k going to have $50, ,000, ,090 bushels of lem thome- grown this year, about 90,0o0, ,ooo bush els more than il had last year. That ought to help some.
 TheFfrst Uniied Presbyterian church of Connellsville, Pa, is evidently well rid of It's late pastor, Rev. E. Frank White. "A man can't be honest in the ministry and hold his job, he said Sunday morning. I've had pretty warm time of 1t, but I've got fhe clearest conscience of any man in he world
 Ella Wheeler Wilcoxis Pail Mall Ga zele verses about Canada are not in the same class with Rudyard Kip ling's, but the Canadians seem to like them better. He called Canada "A I.ady of Shows" Mrs. Wilcox calls Canada "England's Sturdy Son.
 fsAlt #GOuTst lItit hlt ItblAN III thN British Isles who will never chew gum, says London Journal, 'Just as there are people who will be in the minority when the first census of chewing gum experts Is taken by the government. It k stated that all Lancashire has got the habit, and the factory girls there have the whitest teeth in England in consequence.
 Chicago slums were described as among the worst in the world by Hen " Vivian of London, chairman Of the British Copartnefship Housing Coun- eis, in an address. NIT. Vivian said that 1t was a wonder that human be ings could live at all in some of the Chicago tenement districts. lie eN- tended his condemnation 10 include The apartment houses ot well-to- do people as being merely expensive slnms.
 A fly was made 10 walk across a prepared plate covered with the sub stance in which microbes would devel- op their cultures. In the small space Of few inches this surface was sprin- kled with blotches, each of which in- dicated that the fly had Jeff there the ou-ce of disease. Bear in mind that 1t is the same kind of fly that creeps over your own table and your own food and that you "shoo' away with your hand as If then the trouble was over. The nasty creature may be scat tering filth and disease wherever he walks and with each step. Kill him'
 Mayor Jost of Kansas City is dissat- isfied with his townsmen and, scolds them. "It is time the people of Kan sas City got some ginger into the busi- ness spirit of this town," he says. "l don. see the same kind of push ob- served in Kansas City fifteen years ago. We need some fire under our boilers or we are going backward. A city goes one way or the other.