Putnam patriot., 1913-02-28
Editorial Scraps

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 Arrangements are being made for 1ae establishment of regular wireless service across Behring sea, between the American and Russian governments, which will insure telegraphie com anniestlon between America and Asia a. all times, even in the event Of the Interruption Of the cable service.
 Park Church, Worcester, is going to Iet the men smoke al their meetings in ahe basement and to put in q bowling alley for them.
 There is less graft, there is less scan dAI, police protection is better and na- lpre appears more beautiful in Wash 4ngion than in any other city in this country, President Init declared in his farewell speech to the business and professional men Of the capital.
 John D. Rockefeller bought from Mrs w. Seward Webb the fonf=story and basement dwelling house No 680 Fifth avenue, on the west side Of the shoronghfafe, between 53d and 54th streets, which Dr. and Mrs. Webb have occupied for many years. The asking price for the fine property, which has frontage Of 52.1 l.2 feet and depth Of l22.6 feet, was Si ,250,0O0. The sale price WAS somewhat less than that hgnre.
 in vetoing the Dillingham; Burnett Anfnigration restriction bill, President Taft followed course dictated by the most enlightened and the most hu- mnne sentiment of the country. The argument against the measure, that Gfle United States needs for it's devel- ppment iliiterate as well as literate im- migration, k unanswerable, while the barring Of our doors against the op- pressed of other lands who have been denied an opportunity to learn how 10 read would be fragrant violation of oar tradition.
 1t affected no votes, but read as 1t sas in the debate on the immigration Dill in the House by Congressman Moore of Pennsylvania, this jingle by one of his constituents added to the in- leresl of the occasion:
 We've dug your million ditches,
 We've built your endless roads;
 We've fetched your wood and water,
 And bent beneath your loads,
 We've done the lowly labor,
 Despised by your own breed
 And now you won't admit us
 Because we cannot read
 Yonr farms are half deserted,
 Up goes the price of bread;
 fonf boasted education
 Turns men to clerks instead;
 We bring our picks and shovels
 To meet your greatest need
 Don't shut the gates upon us
 Because we cannot read.
 The New York Times, discussing lhe bill in the Massachusetts Legisla- lure 10 tax eats, declares editorially in respect to eats that athey are purely paTasiiical, making no return what ever 10 their human hosts"
 Only by the introduction of the budget system and unified, eoncen. ifated control of appropriations can situations like that now confronting Congress be prevented in the future. At present, the appropriations of this Congress promise to exceed by hun ared million dollars those of any pre- eeding Congress, the estimated total aggregating sl ,i26, ,470, 200.
 Four states, New York, Illinois, Mis- sissippi and iIndiana, have accepted gifts of S1 ,0o0 each, to be held in trust for 250 years and three months and compounded semtannually at 1 per cent, for the relief of dumb animals, according to an announcement made oy the giver, Adolph MelzeF, retired soap manufacturer. At the end of the trust period each bequest will amount 10 SEQ, ,i55, ,964.l3, and the entire sum Is 10 be used by the governors of the states for dumb animals.
 Professor Frederick Henry Sykes, who was elected president of the Con neetieut College for Women, has ac- cepted The appointment and will give his whole time to the service of the college after the close of the present college year. Dr. Sykes is forty-nine years of age, and was born in Ontario, of English stock; but his parents had lived for time in Pennsylvania, and he has been a resident of the United States for sixteen years. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees al the University of Toronto, and his Doctors degree al Johns Hopkins. He was student for time also at the University of Oxford, England. He has had practical experience as a teacher in The secondary schools Of On torio; as professor of English and his- tory in Western University, London, Ontario; as staff .lecturer in English Literature for the American Society for The extension Of university teaching and as professor Of English literature al Columbia for the last ten years.