Putnam patriot., 1912-02-09
UaIIIe@. WItUln LUftt lUUHtHt4 Waakiies. within One Year.
Editorial Scraps


 It is beginning to appear that one Of The finest pieces Of constructive states manship in the Taft administration has been the establishment Of the post al savings bank system. Opposition 10 1t from the banking interests in gen. eraI has disappeared, and there are re- ports that the New York banks desire that the s5O0 limit on postal savings deposits be removed. The system has made good.
 The reduction in the Unitcd States troops stationed in the Philippine islands from F regiments to six will bring the American garrison to Che lowest point siuee the conquest In addition to lhe SIX regiments Of our regular amy of course. thefe mili still be the native constabulafY and scouts, in ali numbering about io9og men, of. iieered by Americans and forming 3ety efficient lofce fof policing the archipelago.
 An interesting find has been made by girl in Portsmouth, N H. while enjoying tue pleasant mysteries of New England gaIret on q winter day. She uneaIthed amid the forgotten treasures copy Of an old ballad com memoratiug Maynard's victory oyer Teach, the notorious pirate.
 A new philanthropy the word may be so used-has met with rather pectedly early and generous recep- tion in the raising of fund, already amounting to ESQ 600, for hospital for animals. The enterprise was started some months ago by Mrs. James Spey- CT, president of the New York women's league for animals.
 The receipt by the Secretary of State at Albany of more than s9ls,0O0 last year from automobile fees suggests the enormous extent to which those prac- tically indispensable vehicles are used.
 The merchants association of New York has been taking lessons from the boom committees of other big Ameh. can cities and as result Is to add five new bureaus to it's existing machinery. These are the traffic bureau, industrial development bureau, convention bu- reau, foreign trade committee and pub iieity bureau.
 The Nationalists introduced in the Douma bill prohibiting the admis- sion into Russia of Jewish citizens Of the United States The bill also pro- vides for an inere sse in the general GUS toms tariff, with special dutiesiagainst American goods.
 The abstemious gentleman of San Francisco who explained his embezzle- ment of bank funds by the statement that he had drunk hundred quarts ot beer in six hours may be presumed to stand aslonished at his moderation.
 Rumors that Great Britain intended to take possession of Palmyra island Gin reality group of b0 isletsl, lying about B00 miles southwest of Hawai- and almost in direct line between Australia and the Panama canal, re- suited in the subject being made a mailer of inquiry unotileially at the state department in Washington. Of iielals professed ignorance of any issue being raised as to the ownership of the islands, but admitted that utle was vague.
 Clarence <. Darrow, union labor at torney, was indicted at Los Angeles for bribery and corruption of jurors by the county grand jury, which for four weeks has been Investigating allega- tions Of embraeery of the trial jury in the McNamara dynamite case. Two indictments were returned containing four counts. Two of these counts charge Darrow with the bribery and attempted corruption ol Robert Rain
 Of 1,3l5 Mormon immigrants who came to this country, year before last, 547 were in family parties-husbands, wives and children, The number of men without families was 5Sl, 0f the 1s7 lone women many were wives go- ing io their husbands in Utah; some were widows; only NJ were young and unmarried women.
 "Mh here cooperative stores have been successful, says J. F. Sinclair of Wisconsin's new board of pubie af- fairs, "they have introduced the task of self-government, familiarized the buyer with cash payments and opened the field for investment on modest scale. The growth of the movement seems 10 be one of the best aids to the workingman In supplementing his own earnings to meet the present high cost of living"
 In this week s "Christian Advocatey the ediior-Rev. Dr. James S, Buck ley--tells the austere Methodists who still think it's sin To read novels that Rev. John Wesley sometimes read them The vast majority the editor pronounces not worth reading, and of course he has nothing but condemna- ton for wicked whether their wiekedness,ibe of the gross kind or of ihe subtle kind.