Putnam patriot., 1921-09-23

Not SO long ago a Putnam man who has lived some years in the West, sent us s poem entitled Home !" It was a doggerel tribute to the weekly paper coming ffty-two times year from the old scenes of childhood 10 the place where maturity was being lived out, successfully or unnecessarily We didn't reprint it because our lino- type operator has a particular grudge against poetry, whether t Is written 1 by William Shakespeare or Amy Low. ell But the verse did bring to our attention the fact that when 1t comes to successful representative who are out in the world "doing things" Put nam is no laggard. Read over the mailing list of The Patriot and you'll find all kinds of addresses-m mission aries n Ceylon and Khodesia sol diers in Panama and coblentz. doe tors. lawyers and merchant chiefs, and most of them came from Putnam, and all Of them eagerly awaiting the news from home. If you don't believe ] it we can show some irate letters from Putnam's sons and daughters com planning of the non-receipt of The Pa .riot, an occurrence which was more frequent in the dead days of Burleson than it is now.
 As matter of fact Putnam has plenty of splendid representatives in ' asl stance. Putnam distinctly has some thing on Boston. If you had been born and brought up in the august city of the bean and the cod, you would undoubtedly have derived a large share of your juvenile mental stimulation from two volumes the Holy Bible and the Atlantic Monthly. Now Putnam, oddly enough, has 6 hand m the making Of the Atlantic Monthly When Ellery Sedgewick, the editor, who follows Tn the foot steps Of Howells, Fields, Aldrich and Walter Page, has tickish bit of work to be done, he turns to his assistant Miss Frances Dudley Warner, who Is decidedly first of Putnam and second ly Of Boston, with honorable mention along the way of excellent work per formed at Mount Holyoke and W Welles ley College. and two popular books tC her credit
 Then turn Co New York and you'll find Putnam there weaving its wool into the huge human fabric tha makes the greatest city in the world Upon the west side of town. near thu North River. there is q great materni ty hospital, the Sloane Memorial. Ev cry day many little lives come into th' world at Sloane. famous for it's grea mission in the world of American hos pitals. When the myriad nurses an, attendants of the great institution 2,
 for orders it is to Putnam woman
 that they turn, Miss Isabelle Byrne whe two years ago, from ali the grad r uates of Roosevelt Hospital, was chos
 en through her splendid record to be come the administrative head 0 Sloane. In this position Miss Byrn fills one of the most difficult and on of the most coveted positions in tn 5 entire profession of American nurs ' ing
 But Miss Byrne Is not Putnam's on
 ly representative in New York. Dow
 town where lawyers unrayel snarls b
 the score while the stream of humani ty goes right on making more snarls
 there are Putnam boys who yearly z
 higher and higher in the legal pro | fession For instance. there's Ralp $ W Botham and Robert C. Perry an
 Walter Gilpatric, all from Putnam an
 all claiming Putnam as home, for - like all good New Workers, they com . from somewhere else
 When 1t comes to Washington
 while Putnam has no Congressmen s Senators or Cabinet Ministers to it credit as yet, it has plenty of son down there who are doing their par
 in the activities of the administration Every time Senator Johnson or Sen ator Lodge begin to spout oratory fo