Putnam patriot., 1912-07-12
Editorial Scraps

ported some time ago lhat 4is neW beet sugar faetoHies were projected in 26 states. 6Ht lt noN appears that al ] but q haze been temporarily ahaa= i doned because of the Democratic "ffee l sugar plan.
 Exports to south America have shown a phenomenal gain in the fiscal 1 year which ends with the present l month Prior to 1911 the total value i Of exports to South America kad never i reached 100 million dollars. In l8ii, 1 the total was, speaking in round terms, 1 10s million dollars, and in the current | fiscal year which ends with the present 1 month, seems likely to be about l35 | million dollars, having more than l doubled since 1905.
 The foreign commerce Of the United l States made a new and remarkable re- cord in the fiscal year justended. The | total value of the merchandise entering and leaving the country in it's trade with foreign lands and it's own island possessions in the fiscal year 1912 was billion dollars the value Of mana factures exported was mere than billion dollars. Of this 1 billion dol ars' worth Of uon-dutiable merchandise entering the country during the year ending June %, l9l2 about 900 mil lion dollars worth was from foreign counties and i00 million dollars worth f,o,,. uatUa{I and porfa Rico
 EOn Sunday there was an interna. tionai series of Olympic games opened at Stockholm. The first series were races of various distances, all of which were won by American runners.
 The Democratic platform has one plank declaring against the doctrine of protective duties, and in favor of a tariff for revenue only. This will pro babiy help Taft's vote.
 Fire, said to have started from spon- taneous combustion due to the eXces- sive heat of the sun, destroyed several hundred new ties piled along the road bed of the New York Central road,and 80 warped the rails that trains were delayed half an hour.
 In Jamaica the prolonged drouth is causing considerable suffering. Al- most all the crops are injured, banan- as to the extent Of 60 per cent. Cattle are dying in some centres, while re- lief funds are being distributed to aid destitute people in other quarters, Unless rain comes soon the island s prosperity will he seriously menaced.
 We'll nigh desperate over the alarm Ing decrease in the oirthrate in France, the Cabinet will shortly introduce in the Chamber of Deputies bill for be- nuses for mothers of more than totr children The minimum will be in the neighborhood of sl00 per child, though the age of the mother and the number Of children will cause vari' ance in this amount. A tax on oache- lors and childless couples will proba' bly, be advocated as means of raising the money to pay the bonuses.
 With the loss of the Titanic fresh in the public mind, special interest at- taehes to the recent launching of the Imperator, which exceeds that huge vessel by some 5000 tons. Theiship Is being built for the Hamburg Ameri- can company at the Vulcan Yard al Hamburg, and the ceremony of nam ing the ship al the launching was performed by the Kaiser, whose inter est in the German merchant marine is second only to that which he has shown in the upbuilding of the Ger man navy.
 Lawyer (. J. Bonaparte of Baltimore hopes To have chance to vote for the Colonel this year; if he doesn't get il, he'll vote for Dr. Wilson. He thinks the Colonel should run in order to de- feat Taft and as an accommodation To Roosevelt men Who shy at a straight democratic ticket Lawyer Bonaparte is remembered as the Roosevelt attor- ney-general who didn't prosecute The good Harvester Trust because the Col. onel forbade it, and who tried to pro secute the "New York N orld and the uIndianapolis News in the Federal courts for libel because the Colonel or dered 1t.
 Last fiscal year Canada sold sl5l, s5s.O54 worth of her farm, forest, mine, mill and fishery products To the Mother Country, and SEQ, ,993 worth 10 her Uncle sans country. Her imports from the United King dom aggregated Sll7,l2l ,632; from the United States, s36i, ,S5s, ,s90.
 "As one looks over life as it is lived by he leisure classes said Bishop Brent in the "ehurchmann last week, tone is impressed by the unused tal- ents and vitality among the unmarried of both sexes. The days are happily past when it was thought contrary 10 propriety for young women of means or sbloodp to launch out into useful occupation. If there were as many do- nations 10 great causes of talented lives as there are donations of money, hu- manity would not go limping the.way II does