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Putnam patriot., 1927-07-01
Appreciate Improvement

4 letter of thanks and apprecia- lion, signed by Joseph Sheppard Prospect street, for the improvement of Bellevue and Prospect streets by the city highway department, was couse of surprise to the council The letter was the first in the way of conmenaatian that the council has ever received and t wa such gra- fiieati0n to fhe members that it was suggested that tke letter be framed but DO action was taken 0n the suR- eestiun.
 The city clerk was authorized to draw an order s0 that the hremen can get their last quarters pay be- fore the holiday,
 To Add New Department
 | was stated by Alderman Richard that Mf Campbell aeent, and Mir. Mellor. superintendent. of the Nn- ti0ual khea Company, had called on him m regard Co adding another de- partment, assumed to be a degumming to their plant in which they would at times have t0 discharge 2500 gallons Of water and asking if connection could be made with the
 tffNt Vt 'st AaN@ stANt " t-tF AAt HAtf4 purpose. l. was the opinion of the council that everything possible should ba done for this industry and the matter was referred ta the highway committee and city engineer for in vestigation
 The mayor brought up the sale of the city's lot at the corner of Church and Providence streets and it was re- ferred 70 the city property committee 10 investigate and report at the next meeting
 It was 9.56 o'clock when the eoun- eil adjourned.
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on the 18th Of September for England,
and the other bearing Minchin,
Hamilton and the Princess Lowen-
stein Wertheim, which left Upavon,
England. for America August 81. The
fragments that are attributed to the
Nungesser-Coli expedition were only
seen at distance from the observing
fishing schooner.
This flotsam may be all that will
ever be found to indicate the fate of
ten people, nine men and one woman.
If transoceanic flying continues there
should be some method whereby the
aviators in their last struggles can
leave identifying traces, giving In.
formation as to the places at which
they reach the surface of the sea.
Light buoys capable of floating in
definitely might be released upon con-
tact with the water. The currents of
the ocean are we'll known, and 1t
would be possible to deduce from these
buoys the stories of the victims, even
though their planes might have sunk
with them to the bottom Of the ocean.
The finding Of these fragments of
the planes will doubtless intensity the
feeling against ill-prepared and hazard
Gus attempts to cross the sea by the
air. Already the reaction has reached
the point of a demand that prohibit
ton be pronounced against such fur
Their attempts in the present state of
the flying art and in the absence of
sure information regarding the
weather beyond the shores. AS the
record stands, this Summer has seen
more failures than successes. There
have been six successful flights over
long sea ranges, four over the Atlantic
and two over the eastern Pacific, and
there have been eight unsuccessful
flights, four over each ocean. The
loss Of life has been deplorably
heavy. Lindbergh's marvellous per-
Torrance undoubtedly stimulated
others and led to the Offering of prizes
which enlisted contestants who were
not qualified.
A more thorough observation Of
weather at sea and the construction
Of stouter planes. with larger fuel ca
pacity and greater power, must come
before transoceanic flying can be
rated as achieved beyond the point of
extreme hazard with percentage of
casualty too great for tolerance.
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Futile Press Censorship.

From the New York Times.
1t is not surprising that the Coun-
Gil Of the League of Nations wants
more time to investigate before pass
ing on the resolution of the Inter-
national Press Conference condemn
ing all forms of press censorship
except in the gravest emergencies.
Some governments have never real
lied that censorship. with even the
more drastic plan of eXpelling for
eign correspondents, in the long run
defeats its object. 1t is possible to
withhold unfavorable news or opin-
ion by delaying press dispatches or
by cutting out offending portions.
The expulsion of correspondent
may temporarily still an unwelcome
voice. But with that natural curl
osity which makes the average man
more interested in what is withheld
than in what is freely given, the
public in other countries Is likely to
pay all the more attention to what
has been censored (when, as always
happens, it gets through and to
show a greater interest in the re-
marks of a correspondent who has
been sent away. Both systems, incl
dentally, place a premium on news
from outside-and often unfriendly-
sources. The excuse for censorship Is
that, without it, all manner of mis-
representations can be sent abroad in
the form Of news" This occasion
ally happens. But experience has
shown that in most cases every unfair
or adverse statement is offset by fair
and favorable dispatches.
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maintained without wavering the pol
icy Of keeping the Communists out of
any participation in directing the
course of the organization. He knew
that the radicals were bent upon "bor-
ing from within" He was stanchly
supported in his position by the mem
bership, and his successor has carried
on this work with the same support
and the same result.
British labor has had a close call
from organization wreckage by the
communistic influence. The great
strike of last year was forced by the
red radicals and it cost the nation
heavily and labor dearly. 1t greatly
weakened the influence Of organized
labor in Great Britain. Evidently this
lesson has been learned, as the action
taken by the Trade Union Congress
at Edinburgh indicates, and there is a
brighter prospect for the British
workers and for the country in conse-
quence.
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BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

wars of a twentieth century American
city?"
Opponents Of restriction argue that
If we discriminate against the MeXi.
cans, they will feel aggrieved and will
develop i'll will. The answer Is urged
that we should not bar Mexicans nor
any other race on racial grounds, but
require all to attain a ;crtain stand
ard Of civilization, education and
assimilability with Americans. It was
that argument which brought eXclu
sion of Orientals.
In the year ended June 30, 1926, of
the 91,019 Canadians who entered the
United States 3,789 were professionals
electricians, teachers and engineers,
inclusive of 1880 physicians. There
were 21,065 skilled mechanics and
26.SO7 of miscellaneous occupations
agents. farmers, merchants and serv-
ants, besides 39,358 women and chill
dren. OF the graduating classes of
Canadian colleges in 1924, Al per cent
settled in the United States, and of
the classes Of 1926 33 per cent. The
Citizenship League reports that 40 per
cent OF the aliens who presented them
selves between January and June,
1921, seeking naturalization as Ameri-
cans were British subjects.
Great advance was made when the
immigration Bureau got authority to
have consuls or agents examine pro
posed immigrants and issue permits in
the European homes, rather than let
applicants cross the ocean only to be
turned back as unfit. There are re.
forms in methods which will be urged
at the coming Congress, especially in
the red tape" required before an
alien in this country can get a pass.
port to visit his native land. It now
takes many days to secure such a
document.
Copyright. 1927, by Paul v. Collins.)
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British Labor Gusts Communists.

Organized labor in Great Britain is
purging it's ranks Of radicalism. The
British Trade Union Congress, in ses-
sion at Edinburgh, has by an over
whelming majority voted to support
report from the general council on the
subject Of keeping Communists outside
of the trade union movement. The
card vote resulted in 374,600 against
referring the report back to the coun-
ell, and 14s,000 for such move. In
the discussion Of the matter plain
speech was used. The president Of the
Miners Federation denounced the
leaders of the minority, saying that he
could see little difference between
them and Communists. Both. he de-
clared, got their orders from Moscow
and their policy was to wreck the
British trade union movement.
The American Federation of Labor
has similarly fought radicalism, and
effectively. The late Samuel Gompers
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PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

I am, confess, bit sick of the
cultural snobbery of the professional
European and of the f1unky-minded'
ness of many Americans in the pres.
ence of anything European.
One can hardly go through a sea.
son in New York without growing
tired of the sycophantic genuflec
tions before widowed lords and tar
nished ladies just because they are
European.
We may admit, I think, that III
respect of art, of culture and of
craftsmanship in Europe more heads
rise above the human plane and rise
higher than in America, but in mat.
ters of material comfort, economic
advantage and educational opportu.
nifty for the masses of average men
and women the human plane is high.
er here than in Europe.
And in time our quota of excep
tons will fill up. We are a young
society, as the historian looks at
things, so give us time.
We may admit, l think, that In
America just now the men of natural
born superiority are not f1ocking into
non-material fields in quest of careers.
Industry and finance are attracting
men who, in a more mature society,
would enrich the arts and the
sciences. Men are becoming bankers
and business men who, in an older
and more balanced social order, would
be writing our books, painting our
pictures. making forays on the from.
tiers Of science, bringing the living
power of prophecy to bear upon the
sullen snarlings of our religious con.
troyersieS. and mounting the rostrum
in flo
ing youth in the high adventure of
making itself at home in the modern
world.
But have the men of natural.born
superiority ever, under any sort of
social order, pre- -machine or post.ma-
chine, American or European, fiocked
into non-material fields in quest of
careers, save from a leisure class that
has been matured by generations Of
fine heredity and favorable surround
ingS, freed by economic security from
the urge to acquire, and enriched in
outlook by long cultural traditions?
Our leisure class is too young. Give
1t its new rich adolescence and we
may see.
Meanwhile, America for all her ma
terialism against which our European
critics rail, keeps a career decently
open 10 the talented. We are still
socially fluid. There is unhappy evi.
dence of a growing separation into
classes, but there are still hatchways
which the able and the am
bilious may crawl up or the weak and
the worthless drop down from the
class or craft status into which they
were born.
And I cannot agree that we wor-
ship at the shrine of material sue
cess with the single mindedness of
which our European critics accuse us.
I do not know a people more pa
reverential in the presence
of brains or genuine achievement in
non material fields. Did not the
whole nation applaud when Lind
bergh refused to cash in on his
achi cvement?
The very weakness of the mate
rally successful in America for Lion
hunting" among authentic celebrities
may we'll be sort of shy confession
of faith in things of the mind and
Of the spirit. ii
1t is time to stop being servile in
the presence of the cultural snobbery
Of European critics.
lCopyrieht fao-,
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Antipodean Common Sense.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer


We talk about preserving our wild
flowers, and two or three States &C.
tually enact laws for the protection Of
certain imperiled species, but for all
this the vandal, the devastator and
the selfish despoiler do pretty much
as they please in our land of freedom,
On the other side of the earth is
another. land Of freedom, and in Aus
tralia the eXtinguisher is being put on
vandalism with a wholesome and edi-
flying effectiveness. The protection Of
wild-flowers act recently passed by the
Australian Parliament is going to be
enforced in every detail 1t is made
unlawful to offer wild flowers for sale
in any public place or to possess them
on any public conveyance. Police and
rangers are empowered to arrest all
violators, but it is not expected that
actual arrest and punishment will be
the most effective measures. The en-
phatic object lesson Of confiscation of
wild flowers on trains and trolley cars
will be distinctly educational, as will
the strict enforcement Of the provision
against public sale.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

The annual death Of the garden Is
at hand.
This is an advantage a garden has
over q man. Men die when their
time comes, but gardens die every
year. and presumably get used to it.
The hope Of mankind is that his
one final death is Of no more moment
to him, in the long run of the ages,
than the yearly death of the garden
in Autumn.
The little seeds. in the childhood of
their Spring. tlourished into a beau
tiful Summer manhood.
Now they are in their last days,
bravery holding out against the hard
ening of their fibrous arteries and
the advent of oncoming cold.
When Fall comes at last, with its
nipping breeZes, the leaves will turn
yellow and brown, the bright flowers
having long been a thing of the past.
with the exception of a few favored
blooms. But it shall make no differ
ence to the garden-in the long run.
X x X X
What difference does it make?
The doctrine of indifferency. some
times held up to scorn, plays n useful
purpose in the everyday Happiness of
mankind.
If YOU do not go around the golf
course today as well as you did yes
terday. what difference does it make?
What difference does it make if sus.
picion and distrust and ill-will meet
your best efforts at understanding.
love and righteousness?
These are all matters which, viewed
from the eternal standpoint of the
years. resolve themselves. if not down
to nothing, at least to not as much as
you thought.
It is a good thing for the gardener
that Autumn does come.
1t makes him appreciate the inside
of his house more.
The garden, too, feels the salutary
influence.
What respectable garden would
want TO go on blooming forever? Such
perpetual motion would not be hor
ticulturally seemly, would disrupt
cause and effect and cause mex
haustible ennui.
Surely no good garden would care
to be responsible for so much.
AS for the honest gardener (note
the qualifying adjective) he must be
content with three or four months of
bloom in this latitude.
Isn't it enough?.
No matter how much one enjoys
the high art and occupation of
gardening, for which it has been
truly said no man is too high or too
low, there comes a time in the year
when the garden grows boresome.
There is nothing to do in it.
Man was made for doing.
Those who Just sit' are forced,
through one reason or another, to do
so. MAY one express the hope that
this generalization will cause no one
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Removal of Underground Work.

While the question has not been
directly precipitated, it is indicated
that demand may be made by the
Federal Government that the District
should pay for the removal of all I'M
foreground construction in the Mall
Avenue triangle to make way for the
new public buildings that are to be
erected within that area. The matter
has been brought to attention in con-
nection with the permission that has
been granted to keep the House of
Detention in its present location pend
ing the preparation of the site in the
southerly portion of the area marked
off for the Department of Commerce
and while awaiting action by Congress
in making provision for new quarters
for that institution
There will be no equity in the i'm
position upon the District of any part
Of the cost Of removing the under
ground constructions. If mains and
sewers must be relaid to insure con-
nections that work will naturally fall
within the scope of District ap-
preparations upon the established d.
vision Of cost between local and Fed
eral funds. But the old work should
surely be taken out at the cost of the
Government and not in any part
charged against the District.
The situation regarding the House
of Detention Is simply another Illus
tration of the confusion resulting from
lack Of coordination in the new build
ing plans. AS in the case of the
farmers market, so in this instance,
failure by Congress to take cognizance
of the Federal building program with
reference to the Districts require
ments has led to a complication that
can be solved only by emergency leg
islation. and with the utmost speed
there cannot tail to be some conflict
lay Of the building program as we'll
as in serious inconvenience to i'm
portant municipal activities.
This whole question Of the reloca-
ton Of District bureaus should be
pressed for definite action at the
earliest hour of the next session, with
a distinct plan for both temporary ex-
pedients and permanent arrange
ments. In the matter Of the cost of
the removal Of underground construc-
ton the Commissioners should be in
sistent that the Government bear all
the expense of preparing the sites,
whatever appropriations may be
needed for new works to replace those
that are put out Of commission.
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pain? We agree that generalization
Is dangerous busineSs-but what can
one do? NATURALIZATION Is possible
in a personal letter, but almost i'm
possible in any other form of writing
We cherish the fond belief that we
do it about as well as the next one)
X X
A garden becomes lonesome in Sep
tember
1t is not the effect of the gray
skies, or the cool evenings, or the
falling leaves, as detrimental to the
happiness Of impressionable individu-
ais as these age-old factors are.
The melancholy days of the garden
come because there is little to be
done, and nothing much to be seen.
The play is over, the curtain about
ready to be rung down.
This pretty outdoor playhouse is
about to be closed for the season. and
we who have had reserved seats are
heartily glad of it.
X X X X
Late and soon, the garden has been
too much with us.
Viewed from the saner standpoint
of Autumn, we see we have been sur
fering from q garden complex.
gentleman who declared, on buying a
house with no garden, II buy a house
to live in"
Today we admit he may be right.
X X X X
The great hibiscus has had its last
blossom.
The seed pods nod in clusters at
the top of the twigs, feet in air.
ripening in the cooling air.
!. The petunias still put forth brave
show of blossoms.
The grass is almost as green as
ever.
Gladiolus leaves yet remain with
scarcely a tinge Of yellow.
Asters bloom gayly; roses are doing
very well. Something is missing from
the garden, however. Something has
gone out Of it,
Shall we call it the spirit of the
garden--or the interest of the gar
dener?
It Is both.
Maybe the garden Is not what it
is without both the intensity of Sum-
mer and the intensity Of him or her
who cares for it.
These make the garden what 1t is.
under the laws of nature, immutable
and otherwise. The sun and the gar
dener compose the team. They do
the work.
The seed and plants, in the Ian
guage Of the day, do their stuff"
\ X
Garden and gardener are glad for
the Winter rest.
This is the mood Of Autumn. the
feeling that accompanies snug in
closure, that springs to life in front
of the fireplace, and makes a home
home.
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The League and Panama.

The attempt of DR.. Eusebio Mo-
rales, former foreign minister and now
Panaman delegate to the League of
Nations, to interest the League in
move to Intervene" in an alleged dis
pute between the United States and
Panama over sovereignty of the Canal
Zone, may best be put down as a
tempest in a teapot. 1t has blown
itself out almost before it started. In
the first place, the League has nothing
to do with a dispute, If one existed,
between the United States and Pan
anna. In the second place, the League
knows it, if Dr. Morales does not.
The point Of difference between the
United States and Panama over jur1s-
diction and rights in the Canal Zone
is not so fundamental as to involve
the question Of sovereignty. The
question Of sovereignty has long since
been disposed Of. Both nations rati-
fed the treaty of 1903 regarding the
construction of the Panama Canal.
In exchange for the guarantee by the
United States Of Panama's continued
independence, plus certain monetary
consideration, Panama gave the
United States Sin perpetuity the use,
occupation and control Of the zone of
land and land under water for the
construction, maintenance. operation,
sanitation and protection Of said canal
Of the width Of ten miles," and the
Republic Of Panama granted to the
United States call the rights, power
and authority within the zone men.
toned which the United
States would possess and exercise If
1t were the sovereign of the territory
within which said lands and waters
are located to the entire exclusion Of
the exercise by the Republic Of Pan
anna Of any sovereign right, power and
authority"
The question Of the extent Of this
guaranteed sovereignty has always
been a matter Of issue, however, in
the minds Of some Panamans. The
construction Of the canal brought
about the accompanying construction
of railroads, warehouses, provision
centers and commercial houses to
supply the American colony in the
Canal Zone. The operation Of these
agencies has proved a profitable en-
hn n.
anna has objected to some Of them as
competing with and consequently
smothering certain Panaman indus
tries.
This point is recognized by the
United States in a treaty now pend
ing with Panama, in which the United
States agrees not to exercise all Of its
rights In the Canal Zone. The treaty
has been ratified by this country and
now awaits ratification or rejection
by Panama.
The prompt authorization by Secre-
tary of State Kellogg Of a statement
that the League Of Nations has moth
ing whatever to do with American
control over the Panama Canal Zone,
now or in the future, may be regarded
more in the nature Of a warning than
as an alarmed protest over the Incl
dent at Geneva. The Department OF
State has merely put itself on record
informally, regarding the continuation
of a policy laid down and strictly ad'
hered to in the Monroe Doctrine.