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TEE NEWS THIS' I£ORy?XG.
FOREIGN. — Crippen and his coin
• - - ~ .. Miss Leneve. were arrested on
boerd the ste&in£hip Montrose in the St.
Lawrence River. ■ ■ ■■ - A dispatch from
Korae says the Vatican Is greatly of
lend*d by the methods adopted by Spain.
hut has not yet recalled the Papa] Nun
cio at Madrid. == = The Spanish Pre
jnier, SeSor Canalejas. in a public state
ment, put the responsibility for a rupture
between Spain and Rome on the Vati
ra?i. : ...-_; Th* «"3P.r and his family re
turaed to Kronstadt from a six weeks'
rruise In the Baltic. ... ■■ ■ '■ Turkey has
♦Jecided to parches ■ powerful battle
ship from an English shipbuilding firm.
. - — — . Honors, chiefly medal& have been
oocferred upon five thousand persons
was GiStlnfruiPJied themselves in the re
r«.nt Pari"- floods- '. " A dirigible bal
loon IbH Gotha, Germany, at > o'ck»ck on
Saturday right, landing safely at Tacrel,
» ;:^out law hundred miles away, at 6
o'clock yesterday jnorning.
E^OMESTIC- — President Tan approved
&t Beverly in opinion of Attorney G»r.
(ral Wlckcrsham, that there can La no
lawful objection to th* statue of Gen
'•£■ Robert E. Lee. in^ConCedcrait^ uni
form, betoe ' n Btttnary Hall of the na
tional Capitol. = There was a falling
off '- exports of American foodstuffs
last year to the amount of $29,000,000,
aa compared with the previous year, it
rras announced at Washington. •
Secretarj' -of t-tate Koenig said at A.
bany that the new Callan automobiling
law, -which went into eSect at midnight.
T.ould hv strictly enforced: it will In
sure safe and cane ■.. boring, «nd win
tnd reckless driving of cars. == Clark
Williams, State Controller, issued a
statement at Albany esplaining the new
law providing for the licensing ■•■ pri
vate bankers. = A telegraph operator
sit Castle .Shannon, near Pitts burg, rislted
his Ufa In saving dynamite from tix
lilosion in the burning wreck of a freight
train. — r^_- A rec-r^runization pla.n. by
vrhlch the Chicago Southern and Indiana
Southern, twe "Walsh"* roads, are to be
etydj was announced ai Chicago.
Fire caused betirecn SluO/H'O a.nd
53»<Mftti damage and destroyed forty
building? at Canibrids^, Sid.
CUT. — An old woman committed -.
cUe, frarffnl of losing her mind on *.v-
COiuxt of insomnia. . ■ JCorman llai>
jr<>od, editor of "Collier's Weekly," said
the HngSlsh poopl*- everywhere praised
Mr. Hnimtf ii Il*i Guild •■■''• speech.
Twenty-five biscuit concerns win be In
corporated in Delaware to-day Into a
v3'3,G60,00G corporation. —- — A ma lay
i:r»consciousi all night in •- gutter at
White Plains, where ho hod been thrown
l»y an automobile which ppeecJpd away
s^ter the accident. ===== .i *-;•<•;> How,
iti addr*-sstns the Brotherhood of the
Unemployed, said his aim was to or
sranite •unskilled laborers so that they
should b<? able to demand s. r . a day for
their service.*. _^ Bishop Iferrbnaa C.
Harris, o1 Can described the growth
vt Christianity i" the Far East. = — —
The wife «jf Erwin \Vi<3«;r. who confessed
i. robbing the Rosso-Chinese Bank
agency* called on lier tiusbai I In tlie
Tombs prison. —=T^rz .Settlement workers
«* < >ruirienci<H] CoAmS^stdner T)riscollt< plan
T«5 hay*- br«'ad Bill woi^ht.
THE v.-',«THKH. InOications for to
<*3y: Fftir, laoderate winds. The tem
;-«T3ture yestrrday: Higbei SO degrees;
io^cft, 6i degrees^
VKIQCB OKLAHOMA.
Oklahoma is nothing If not unique.
1 Cougu rn.ua ■ coiner Is the L'uion, it has
Jiever suffered iron; Stage fright, and it
Las never been oppressed by any u>--'
of <litiidc:ice or B<df-«Straint- it- con
btittltion vraa ttso moat eccentric ever
iraxnrd by •■-■h Amerkan community tak
ing its first lessons iv telf-jroveraiuent.
ii. first state J<dininh?tration has been
M'DFB.ti#iaJ and »-p<>-'TH<-UI:U. 15- <;..-.
. ranr being a real jrenius at trouble
makicg and self-advertisement. His en
f/irce<3 rctirpm^-nt two years age as
t)-ca?«r-"-r of tb? Democratic National
Committee in no way sobered him, and
be has gone she-io* quarrelling with his
associates in caVe aad joining issues
>-Ith tbe slate arid federal courts. His
latut exploit was the midnight rape of
Oklahoma's great *eal and its convey
ance in ■ Ugh power automobile from
<^UThrie to Oklahoma City, where he lias
fet up a new capital in spite of the ex
press provision of (1 " ■'■ enabling act that
the Elate capital *bou>] remain at
Guthrie until i9J3. That comedj hegira
was ■ comparative failure, however l>e
«>aif?':> ♦! •■■ state <*ourts ordered all the
• •fllccr*: except the Governor back to
Gutlirie peatfitt* ■ determination of the
validity of the capital clause in tho act
of adruis-iou.
Now the count of the youngest state's !
population has *"en completed, and Its
rate of — ■•■>■.■;. for the last decade prom
ises to exceed that of any of its older:
associates iv the. Union. The increase' j
i:i the n.- r - ■ rears* since the special fed
oral census ot '.:•■>. was taken has been ■
237,774. or 16.7 per <-ent. Comparing the- j
present population of l,«»."»i.vci] with the j
population of Oklahoma Territory and ;
tlie Indian Territory hi 1909, the gain j
has been HBLSO ■■ 108 per cent. No
other stut«; lias been forging ahead as
rapidly as mk.\ N'ortli Dakota may j
fciiow ,i sslti ■'■■•• •"•;.«;• com. but that j
ya'ji wHI be made ■•„ a WKI smaller i
population than Oklahoma «ud the In- j
Ma* T'-rrr-'-v had ten pear* ago. No j
'»ther new State has ever taken rank as j
Oklahoma has in tho first decade after t
Ik mlnlU&tau. It ha* now live Itepre-j
seniaMv*-s !n Congress,! and wi!l have |
*i£bt under the ii*w apportJonnsfniU j
even it the ratio is raided from 191,182 J
'•• '21Z*,t)f*) ■■• ££»jQ&Ol Its political power j
■■ i!! equal thai <f Knnsas or Arknusas.
It Is a r&m&fk&blc recoiid for a ccrouion- .
wealth ban "■ ont of etraddllng clother. j
•It is ■•■;■••■ with the -plate's !*re- 1
dilecrioa :o the exceptional and Ua« ab- j
iforrsal test it e'noxiM be nb-j^i to vo. - ■
en ••■ constituti anjemuYient ]>!■•-• rilj
\n< : : ■■;in<-os(r;i;'" Qualifications for the es
• .-.-;•'■ snffrasci! In a frontier oo>
muaity questions about ancestors are
generally held to be jit bad t.-i-'.- Every
good citizen is -;:iSIi;tI :r> . ■■ life own
ancestor. But the fantastic politicians
who control thy i"-iii.- party in
Oklahoma have raised the ridiculous
outcry of '*negro fiozninatlos" and want
tc disfranchise tl • negro by restricting
tho suffrage to descendants of persons
entitle ; to vote In I .<■ days before the
negroes were freed in spite of the Tact
that tbe federal Constitution and the
enabling act both forbid any legislation
snaking nice, color or previous condition
of servitude tests of *,:■.'-'■ -■■'■' for
t"h«* enjoyment of 'In* ballot. Tbe census
of 1010 chows that there are 138*436
neproes in Oklahoma — -5.4 per cent of
die population. Arc the ninety-two
whites and Indians in each hundred of
population afraid of being "doin" atod"'
by the eight oefrroes? Of course they
art' not. But Oklahoma would not be
Oklahoma if so absurd ■ proposition
were not submitted seriously for ap
proval by the burlesque disciples of
Thomas •:■-••;, whose word is now
law in th:rt remnrkable state.
CnARIIIXG EFFRQXTERY.
! The National Conservation Association
in Its latest circular letter calmly claims
I credit for the withdrawal Ml!, under
which President Taft recently withdrew
. from entry some seventy-one million acres
j of the public domain, placing it under the
caption of Bills Advocated by the Asso
! ciation." 'The Hon. James K. Garfield
"presented the views of the association
"a? to this bill before the Senate Com
"nittee on Public Lands," asserts Gifford
Finchot, president of the association, con
fident, probably, that the public has for
i gotten the views presented by Mr. Gar
field and anxious to secure a share of the
credit for the best and most farreaching
piece of conservation legislation ever en
acted by Congress. Mr. Garfield did ap
pear before the Public Lands Committee
of the Senate and did discuss this bilL
Here arc some of the things he said :
A- to the particular question of the
withdrawal by the Executive of lands
under the land laws of the United
States, I am of the opinion that, as has
been expressed by Senator Xelsoiv ample
power now rests with the Executive, and
therefore I feel that it is not necessary
for the purpose of continuance of the
exercise of that power to pass the meas
ure that has been suggested.
Further along in bis testimony Mr.
Gar Geld answered a question as follows :
I believe this bill is unnecessary, be- ;
cause the power is inherent in the Exec
utive to do the very thing; suggested by
this bill, and in doing It be i*. of course,
bound by existing statutes relative to the!
disposition of the public domain. I
In beginning his testimony Mr. Gar- !
field explained his presence by saying : i
"I represent, by request of President |
"Eliot, the National Conservation Asso- i
"elation, which association has been rak- '
"ing up the various questions affecting
"conservation. ; |
To assure a committee of Congress
that the legislation it is considering is
unnecessary, is merely conferring on the
Executive powers which he already pos
sesses, that it is. in a word, a work of
supererogation, ha* never been regarded
as tile most potent means of Farthering
the enactment of such legislation. That it
did not prove so in this instance is shown
by the fuel that, following Mr. Garfield's
testimony, many members of the com
mittee v.-.-- strongly disposed to drop the
measure. Their fa.lure to do so in this
case was due soleiy ■■•'•.■ work of Presi
dent Taft. who assured them of bis con
viction, and that >••; hi- chief legal ad
visers, that the Executive possessed no
Bach power as Mr. Garfield and his ass
ciates in the National Conservation As
sociation Imagined: that there was every
probability that, despite the fact that
ttrf* power had been ■ ■■■ -■<! by. two
adminis ■ without authority of
law. were any existing withdrawal order
to be contested in the courts it would be
pronounced null and void. Therefore, by
accepting the assurance of Mr. Garfield
and the association members of Congress
would be incurring: the grave ressonsibil
itv of leaving the entire withdrawn por
tion of the public domain, as a result of
such lesal decision, open to all who might
desire to grab coal lands and power sites.
phosphate lands and oil land?, and. in
deed, all th; every sincere conservation
ist desires to conserve, with he single
exception of the forests, the withdrawal
of which has lieen specifically authorized
for law.
In taking this stand Mr. (Jarfield was
unquestionably sincere, although It.- was
doubtless actuated by pride of opinion.
Toe proposed legislation could in do jws
sible way retard the cause •■> conserva
tion. ii- purpose whs merely to •• ••:■
Hfh by .:i«--];»Tivr> enactment a power
which Mr < : : -: r f i i ■ i « l had believed (he Ex
ecutive possesses! without Mich enact
ment and thus to make all withdrawals
Impregnable ■■• '•. assault in the court*.
In selecting Mr. Garfield as its spokes
rnau the National Conservation Associa
tion became committed to his view and
responsible for his course. The prime
far tor iv the association. Clifford, Pincliot.
now its president, was strongly, and
doubtless sincerely, committed to the Gar-
Oeld view, Bnt in now seeking, to claim
credit for legislation which, through its
official spokesman. It declared superfluous
aid ai po -.- ; ,r\ . the Rational Conserva
tion Association is perverting facts
whk-b. in the interest ••• historical accu
racy, Bliould be made clear.
i Tin: ADDITIONAL CURRENCY AS
SOCIATION.
The formation of a national currency
association among the ban. of this city,
under the &ldrich-VreeJan4 a<:t. in i.-om
pliauce with the suggestion of Secretary
MacVcagrh. does not indicate any fear or
expectation that .-in emergehcj' win arise
■ •'•'■• ihe issue of emergency cur
rency iJecefsaryl ' lie sky i- clear, and
uotliiug teems more remote than the
pro.-jioct cf a resort to extra note Issues.
Bankers who are members of the newly
formed association nay they never ex
pect it to meet again, for the Aldrkh-
Vreeland act • . Ires by limitation In
about four rears. 'I'll' 1 association Is
formed for ti^ same reason i!i»t l!w
Treasury Dfjiartxnent bad plates made
for printing tlie new currency and had
ST/io.OOp.OCO of Hie now Mils printed
namely, in order to have every thing in
readiness in ease of need.
With the formation of currency .— ■-
ciations the machinery tor Issuing "addi
tional currency" v. ill be in existence, and
this Is obviously the part of wisdom, even
though the Issue of Aidrlch-Vreehiud
■...:•- remains extremely unlikely. The
formation at tut association in New York
v. ill have its Influence in stimulating the
format of fls^clatlona elsewhere. X-"
York's example will be followed, and
tiiit. Is what .Secretary MocV«9gh ti;
sirrs. The Tribune criticised the A!
dricli-Vreeland plan when its considera
tion ".-•«£ pending before Congress, aud
Yv-YOI;K DAILY TRIBCKS, 3[O!TDAI\ AUGUST 1. li9lo.
iis cnuieness ni»l artificiality [ierbaps
«»ulfi not be iudre strikingly Illustrated
than by the uttcv Eallure of banks up to
thi^ time, and then only as a result of
prompting from Washiustou. <<• organ
ize the currency associations it calls foe.
Bui whatever its defects, it would l»e
useful in any real emergency now thai
the Secretary of the Treasury is attend
ing to the creation of the necessary ma
chinery.
THE RER9IMER raw //\ //'; f.
j The result in Ilorkimer County is v.
setback for the direct primaries move- :
ment and on its face Indicates a reces-
I si. La the demand for primary reform
I there. The Strobel organization was in !
complete command of the Republican
County Convention, controlling two
thirds of the delegates. Resolutions in- i
dor'sing the Governor's policies. Including
; direct primaries, were smothered in com- j
1 mittee. Vet last year the sentiment for,
! them was bo strongly represented in the
county convention that Mr. Strobel had
to yield to it. reverse himself and put on
the appearance of supporting direct pri
maries. The candidate for the Assembly
was instructed to favor the reform.
The Assemblyman chosen under those
Instructions regularly dodged the vote J
upon the primary question, on the ground, j
It was reported, that if be voted for di
rect .primaries the organization would j
prevent his renomination, and if he voted 1
against them he could not be re-elected, j
He apparently did not think enough of j
his chances upon bis record to seek a re- j
nomination, accounting the sentiment for j
primary reform In his county as a bar to I
his further political preferment Why!
that sentiment was not as strongly repre- j
sented in the convention this year as last i
year is difficult to determine at this dis-|
tance. Probably the primary question |
was lost sight of in t i hot campaign for j
the Congressional nomination in the dis-'
trict of which nerkimer County is a '
part. The Congressional issue resulted
favorably for Mr. Strobel's candidate and
doubtless helped him to gain complete ;
control of the convention. j
The result in any case shows the need !
of vigorous and organized effort on the'
part of direct primary advocates. Her- ■
kimer County, after the victory of last 1
year and the action of Assemblyman ,
Eveleth In Failing to carry out his Instruc- '
tions, would seem to have been favorable
ground for conducting an aggressive cam- !
paign. As an Indication of present sen- 1
timent in the state it will not do to at-
taeh too much importance to the llerkj
iner result. Not until a considerable
number of county conventions have been
held will it be p'osriHe to say what prog
ress the direct primaries movement has
made in the last year.
CHECKING WATER POLLUTIOX.
The request which has been made of
Governor Hughe* th:it lie will issue an
executive order prohibit ins; the further
pollution of the upper Hudson with the
waste of factories may or may not be
granted. We may pretty safely leave
that to the discretion of tho Governor.
as an earnest friend of pure water con
servation and as the best judge of the
propriety or power of the proposed ac
tion. But there can be little doubt that
earnest and systematic action should be
taken for preventing the further pol
lution of potable and indeed also naviga
ble waters, and for the abatement of the
pollution of them which now exists as
expeditiouslv and as completely as may
be found practicable and just.
An excellent example in the preven
tion of further pollution was set last
week by the State Commission of Health
in refusing to approve the plans of the
city of Rochester for sending its sewage
into Lake Ontario on ihe ground that
they did not provide for purification
sufficient to insure the lake against con
tamination. When such purification Is
guaranteed, doubtless the plans will be
approved. Similar action by the appro
priate authorities elsewhere would pre
vent an increase of the existing evil, and
would indeed conduce to Its e^!!re
abatement, for when a city arranged for
the purification or otherwise inoffensive
disposal of a large part of its sewage it
would be far on the road toward thus
dealing with it aIL
It should be possible, also, to make
steady pn-u'p-ss toward the modification
of the drainage systems of all places
which now discharge sewage into
streams so as '•■, ate the evil of pollu
tion. That such pollution is a serious
evil from both the sanitary and the
economic point of view is scarcely lon
gwr to be disputed. The constitutional
right of riparian owners to be protected
therefrom has been several times fully
affirmed in the courts of various states
and Is coining to be generally accepted.
It would, of course, impracticable and
oppressive to decree that every city which
was draining into a river or lake should
under a heavy penalty at once refrain
from so doing. It takes time to remodel
sewer systems?. But the public welfare
requires that the work of remodelling
them so as either to divert sewage en
tirely from the .streams and lakes or to
render it Innocuous before pouring it
into such waters sisal! be undertaken
earnestly and with all practicable expe
dition. To poison an •■■'.>"- wells in
time of war is accounted inhuman and
illegal. It rely is no better to poison
unnecessarily our own water supplies iv
•'■■'■ of peace.
'AUGUST.
To-tlay begins the dullest month of the
year in business and politics and urban
amusements; and theoretically in news.
though bore Iho unexpected always bap
pens. August is also the dullest and the
longest month in the life of the "summer
widower.*' Happy is •.■• for whom its
length and its dulriess are broken by the
annual vacation.
The month begins well with a breath
ing spell after an exceptionally protract
ed siege of torrid beat, The air Is dry
and bracing again, refi^uing sleep is
possible once more. Let as forget what
\ve have passed through, enjoy what is
given i.> for the moment, and pay no
heed to the sultry days tiyit may lie yet
before us. Peaches are growing ever
larger and more smculont as the summer
advances, watermelons are abundant, the
fee famine spectre has nor yet lifted its
head. Maybe our scorched municipal
lawns can be coaxed to turn green again
by belated treatment. To entertain us
there are our summer advisers in two
camps, tl 1 latest ones advocating black
under.- - t lie old, familiar ones ex
tolling again the cool delights of white
duel outer garments. By combining the
two we should bo able to create an illu
sion of tlw premature coming of \\»
beautiful Indian summer that will '„.,,.
pensate us "i much discomfort a little
later.
The baseball scores will ii t - there to re
vive our drooping spirit; after a hard ;
day. and the* nights will grow longer and
cooler in bleb to diseu. c ,3 New fork's
chances of the pennant. May the talk
be Increasingly hopeful! Politics may
bring a few early surprises. And in the
dosing days «if the njonth the city will
begin to look alive again, the return from
country and seaside will begin, the the
atres will open. The outlook for August
is not so bad, after all.
r.\rr as& fiction.
There were brought to this port late
on Saturday niglit the master and crew
of the Barbadian sloop Sunlight, who
were rescued at sea by a passing steamer.
They told a taletaat deserves a place is
the long record of the hardships, of the
deep. For twelve days they fought off
starvation with sugar soaked in vinegar.
Fact is still stranger than fiction. No
writer of sea stories would have dared to
venture to employ such a diet to save
bis characters from death; noi'c could
even have invented it. One wonders if
he could have found a precedent for it
in the recorded experiences of seamen
that furnish tbe basis of fact for the best
of these fictions, and wonders also if
such a diet would produce the desired
Impression of extremity hi novel or short
story. There are certain limits beyond
which the realism of life becomes too
bald, too prosaic, for the purposes of tie
tion, and requires explanation when so
employed, just as orach as does a reck
less flight of, the imagination. .Mr.
Jingle, a capital romancer, discovered
this when he told the bald, prosaic facts
for once. He startled the ingenuous Mr.
Pickwick with the true tale that he had
once lived for several days on an ivory
handled umbrella, then spoiled the effect
he had produced with the explanation
that the umbrella had bees pledged at
the pawnbroker's first. And that flight
of the poetic fancy, 'The Crew of the
Nancy Brig." is explanation from first
stanza to last.
The i\\r-t of these live Barbadians is an
Interesting fact, but it would make poor
G rtion. It i* too prosaic. And yel their
experience does not lack romance, for
these men. bat barely recovered from
their exhaustion, resolved to return to
their, frail boat Island sailors, accus
tomed to coastwise seamanship, unfamil
iar with the tifos of the compass, they
decided to 1 rave tbe unknown open sea
and io Stand by their Httie ship. It was
she who failed them in the end, doing
her he»t. we know, to the last, as all
craft do their best for brave sailors snch
as these dusky men have proved them
selves to be.
! ]fo\r:r AXD IX ESS.
; While there is a wide divergence of
opinion in the financial community over
; the probable course of Stock Exchange
I prices in the .immediate future, there
appears to be no doubt in the minds of
; our bankers that the prevailing quota
tion level and fundamental conditions
governing the actual worth of American
securities warrant buying for Invest
ment account. European capital has
been moving into our first class stocks
in recent days, but the home investment
demand is inactive, specially for rail
way mortgage issues which now return
a much better income than ordinarily
can be obtained on this class of in
vestments. The speculative situation
has been strengthened by the elimina
tion of weakened holdings, involving a
heavy reduction in an undesirable class
of loans, but in various quarters it is
thought that a further readjustment of
speculative accounts must take place
before sustained improvement in prices
need be looked for. Banking interests
saved a situation last week that ap
peared to be headed toward a stock
market panic, and by their purchase of
a long line of stocks from financially
crippled would-be railroad financiers
they brought to a close ambitious
schemes the carrying out of which
would have done more harm than good
to the position of a number of railroad
properties. And the action of these in
rests served to reassure the business
world, which had begun to show signs
or" ncut« nervousness over the price
melting process in the stock, nmrket.
Bank reserves at this centre are un
usually strung for this period of the
year, and greater caution in banking
operations is reported in the South and
West, where in the last twelve months
tht re ha - been a heavy overextensibn
of loans. .Sterling exchange is at a level
that encourages the importation of gold,
the position of the sterling market be
ing one of the best features of the pres
ent financial situation. The demand
here fur accommodation is light, but
.outside of call loans ther*a is no dlsj osi
tion ■• ■ the part of lenders to make con
cestions in rates, despite tin larg-; hold
ings ■•: the Clearing House institutions,
which In th« l.<<: three weeks have ad
vanced their it servo above legal re
(fuirements from *V''i'.>.:'«<H» to $47,220,
900. Cankers are averse to locking up
their funds through the fall, except at
extremely profitable rates, and as a
consequence commercial paper in not
easily negotiated on terms acceptable
to drawers. According to current In
dications, New York will be able to, draw
gold from abroad In the course of the
next few months to whatever extent
may bo deemed advisable, owing in
large part to the promise of growing
foreign interest iv our securities. Eng
land's ablest financier, Sir Ernest Cas
sel, la a member of the syndicate that
restored stability to our stock market
last week, and his participation In the
operation doubtless will serve to widen
the European inquiry for American is
sues.
Reports from trade centre* indicate a
disappointing forward business in some
sections, with", however, no signs of the
depression bo freely predicted In "Wall
Street. Confidence over the future is
more pronoun and measured by pay
ments through clearing houses and by
grosn railway earnings general trade is
by no means inactive. Compared with
a ear ago, clearing^ for the week just
closed show a gain of 8 per cent, well
distributed throughout the country,
while lor the third week in July across
transportation receipts present an in
crease of 12 per cent, following one of 11
ptr cent in the week before. Not returns
are hot as favorable, owing to heavier
operating costs. Much needed rains
have fallen in crop territory, and, al
though it is likely that both cotton and
corn will make a less favorable exhibit
iii th? forthcoming government report,
showing conditions at fae close of July,
than was noted d month ■<•-.<. there ap
pears no reason to doubt that thi ; rod
ucts of the ground will reach a money
value thts year as large sis i. not larger
than the heavy total of 1000. Better
advices come (rom the local drykobds
market, with especial improvement noted
In cotton gooils following the arrival of
many out-of-town buyer*. Prices are
tending higher for the good reason that
the price of raw eollon la dearer than at
any previous time this year, while at
present quotations sellers are receiving
less than tiv coat of production. More
over, the ..rurtailrm-nt at th" mills ia be
ginning to exert its natural effect upon
the market.
Unfilled orders on the Hooks of the
United States Steel Corporation at the
close of Che second quarter, of th« year
reflect curtailment of purchases by the
railroads and by other consumers of
steel products, but they fait to bear out
the theory of certain Wall Street "ex
perts" that a serloua reaction is under
way in the iron and steel industry. The
concern's net earnings supply further
evidence that there Is still a profit in
the business. As a matter of fact, net
results for the quarter have been ex
ceeded only once in a corresponding
period in the history of the Corporation.
According to "The Iron Afire." the reces
sion in prices of iron and stael this year
has not been so largely dv*; to shrinkage
in business as to the grreat increase in
productive capacity. Pig iron is rela
tively quiet. The demand for. structural
steel shows improvement, A heavier in
quiry is reported for copper at slightly
higher quotations, and a healthy ro
adjustment of the market is fore
shadowed by the decision of producers to
restrict the output, which far months
has l>een running far in excess of con
sumptive needs. Commodity prices are
irregular, with weakness in wheat op
tions due to active marketing of winter
wheat and better reports from the
Northwest. The consumption of wheat
by the millers is increasing-.
The proposal to equip thij port with a
drydock capable of holding the) largest
steamships in the world is practical and
sensible, and should be realized without
unnecessary delay. New York wants its
commerce to be fed by the world's
largest vessels, and it should certainly
have adequate accommodations here for
ministering to all their wants.
Chicago "talking delegates'* perform
their duties in automobiles. How long
before Chicago laboring men go to
their work in taxis'.'
One of the leading women's clubs of
Louisiana has issued an appeal to other
women's organizations to support "the
"application of the unwritten law to
•women.' Trust to woman suffrage to
advance public morale.
Tennessee rail fences are being con
verted into lead pencils. At that rate
Tennessee moonshine stills will soon be
turning out baby foods.
There is much room for sympathy with
the Chinese who protest against the
stage exploitation of a recent particu
larly atrocious murder in this city, as
calculated to arouse racial animosities
and provoke acts of violence. Such
shows, either on the stage or in moving
pictures, can never be elevating or edify
ing or serve any good purpose. Their
only possible influence must be debasing.
if not actually criminal. Their disap
pearance from the public view would De
lor the public soon.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Not only what the German Emperor
drinks, but how he drinks it. is tho sub
ject of an article in the "Strassburger
Post. "Willlani II." says the "Post,"
•is no Philistine In hid manner of
drinking. for whether he drains a
golden cup on the banks of the Rhine, or
a Roesner in a Bremen cave, or a Hun
garian crystal beaker at a hunting box, he
acquits himself equally well, and drinks
v.-ith frankly boyish enjoyment. But though
ho is no apostle of total abstinence, he i.-: a
convinced adept of moderation, who never
cared for much alcohol, and has of late
years taken leas and ever less." The
"Post" adds that at the Emperor's Pots
dam residence, the New Palace, strawberry
liqueur and cider are always offered, and
tha Emperor, whose favorite beverages
these are. often urpes his visitors to par
take of them.
"I don't know whether to accept this tes
timonial or not," mused the hair restorer
man.
"What's the matter with it?" demanded
the advertising manager.
"Weil," explained the boss, "the man
writes: 'I used to have three bald spots on
the 'op of my head, but since using one
bottl< of your hair restore* r nave only
one.' "—Philadelphia Record.
Governor Crothers of Maryland and the
Automobile Commissioner of that ftate
have under consideration a plan for reci
procity in automobile licenses that seems
to strike "The Baltimore Sun" as being
about right. It is proposed to enter into
an agreement with other states by which
licensed automobile owners In .Maryland
can run their cars in those states without
obtaining additional licenses. In return, li
censed automobile owners in other states
will have the same privilege in Maryland.
•"This reciprocal arrangement i. ; practica
ble, and, from the point of view of auto
mobilists, it is altio desirable," says The
Sun."
•'Do you think you could identify the
burglar?" asked the detective from City
Hall
"Well, I never saw him, replied the
victim, "hut he was a very small man."
"How <Io you know?"
"Haven't I told ycu .h<" got into our flat
without any trouble?"— Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
I Th' ','Corflere fieila Sera" tells this story:
I "A. Telxera do Motos is a descendant of an
j old Spanish-Jewish family which emigrated
Ito Jtaly men; years avo. He became a
; Katt councillor In Koine, and In recognl
i tlon of his knowledge as a Jurist was re
cently appointed 1 no c-f the king's attor
neys. Shortly after the honor waa con
ferred Teixera renounced hia faith and
was baptized a Roman Catholic. When he
appeared before the King to thank him for
having bestowed the honor the King con
gratulated him and said that he might be
particularly proud because be adhered to
his ancient faith. Teixera answered, with
much embarrassment, that he had become.
of the same faith as his royal master;
whereupon the King, without making any
answer, gave him to understand that the
audience was at an end."
A witty lawyer, whose ability brought
him to the front ranK In his profession,
ultimately became a member cf Parlia
ment. In the course ot a debate on one
occasion he considerably angered a mem
ber of the opposite r>art>.
The latter .tumped to his feet and ex
claimed, angrily: "The honorable member
for X- ■■ , as every one knows, haa rooms
to let in his upper story."
The lawyer merely smiled as be replied:
"True. l have rooms to let, but there lie*
the cUfrerenee between the honorable mem
ber for '/. - and myself. Mine are fur
rushed." -Tit-Bits,*
The Rev. H. V. Brooks, of Santa Anna,
Tex., gave notice in "The News" of that
town that on tbe Sunday following the text
of. his sermon at the Methodist? Episcopal
Church would bo: "My Choice for Governor
and Why." iii commenting on tho adver
tisement "The Texas Farm and Fireside"
Bays that it has no knowledge m to whom
the preacher Is ■■:,.,..: I, •-,•-•. for Governor
"trom a pulpit dedicated to the service of
the Living God," but ii ii"**.- know that "m
boosting tho causo pfiiony one .it the flyo
candidates he 1- not Imitating the example
of Paul, who laid down a safe rule for the
guidance of ministers of the Gospel wnc»
ho said: 'For I am determined not to Know
anything among you. save Jesus Christ and
him crucified.' And Paul lived up to this
declaration, for while forced to ■- I;.' In
Rome, the seat ot civil power. for two
"■!•"'• years, he was never known to apply
for a chaplaincy or to lobby with the
Senate for civil legislation or fur political
preferment -for his friends." ri/C
"Why do you always .say. 'AM scarce a«
"Bf-cau?»e' they are about the scarcest
things In the world."
"More scarce than men who enjoy n««arln«
about the cleverness of other i»«opl« I
babies ?'*— Chlcafro Rr mrd- Herald.
FOB THE USE OF ALL
A. J. Bloor Cites Plans of the Men Who
Designed Central Park.
To the Editor of The Trtbun?.
Sir: Referring specinoally to the edi
torial headed "Playgrounds ant] Parks in
your issue of July '■>• and. Incidentally, to a
good deal more that has appeared within
the list two or three weeks in several
other New York papers on the same topic
(generally with Central 'Park as the test),
perhaps you can spare some space for a
few further observations on the subject.
I read somewhere recently that Olmsted
4 Vaux, the designers of Central Park,
meant it simply to be a park, without ref
erence to the necessary sports of the chil
dren and youths. This is a mistake. I can
aye: that during all the years of my in
timate association vlth theal men In the
architectural work of the park it was in
tended that provision should be made with-
In Central Park ouads for every Haas, at
any age. In the community, high and low,
rich and poor, and for every grade be
tween the extremes. ;
Another misapprehension exists, and Is
1 perhaps fostered by thosw alive to the con
stant growth of the commercial metropolis
, in population and wealth, and who are ever
;on the gui vive. overtly or covertly, for
the bonanza of about a hundred and fifty
street blocks, as sites for "palatial resi
dences'* now "sunk" In the not p»cun!arii>
proStable but 011 the contrary tax absorb
ing Central Park. Such people opposed the
Introduction of the Metropolitan Museum ot
Art within the park conrlnee. and their suc
cessors were last year arrayed against th*
artists who wanted to tern the old Arsenal
Into quarters for the National Academy
of Design. They are naturally averse to
any building of permanent quality within
the park precincts. But their statement
that the designers of the Central Park meant
to make of It simply a big example of
what can be accomplished by the arbori
culturist and horticulturist is wholly incor- |
rect. !
When It came to the* selection of a site
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art there
was no stronger advocate for that which
it has since occupied than Olrasted &
Vaox, unless perhaps Andrew H. Green,
first Us Controller and subsequently the
( president of the Park Commission. And, if
; they were still alive. I am convinced that
ail throe would be equally set on the park
i affording another site for the Academy of
| Design, and that as close to the museum as
J possible.
It Is not easily conceivable (even if it
should fall short at any point of what
might reasonably be expected of it) that
the Metropolitan Museum, any more than
the British Museum or the L,ouvre. will
ever be emptied of its treasures and de
molished so as to lea+e fts site free for
res'dentia] and commercial purposes, and
the like characterization of permanence and
immobility would surely bo as appl?-able
to a neighboring building, the home of the
National Academy of Design, and destined
to become a high art exchange and an
American Luxembourg .
The more, within reasonable limitations,
there are of such permanent structures as
the art museum and devoted to high uses
—to art. science, knowledge, education (but
to American fine art above ail)— within the !
park area, or divided from it, as in the
case of the Museum oT Natural History, by
only the width of a boundary street, 'the
more easily and promptly will be frustrated
the designs of those who can see in the
park only the grave of huge profits in real
estate operations. a. J. BLOOK.
Storiin^'ton, Conn., July IZ, 1920.
AN AGRICULTURAL GRADUATE.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: <i) Kindly inform me through your
valuable paper. The Tribune, as to the
prospects of a graduate of one of the agri
cultural colleges. (2) Also name aoeM of
the universities where this subject la
taught.
By so doing you will oblige an old sub
scriber. BENJAMIN HORN.
New York, July S>, I'M.
[The purpose of every agricultural
college is to give a student who
takes the full course a combined scien
title and practical knowledge of all the
branches of agriculture commonly con
ducted in his state sufficient to enable
him to take up farming as a business
with every reasonable prospect of suc
cess from the start. He is prepared for
each of the many problems before they
confront him. In short, the agricultural
colleges wert: designed to make batter
farmers, and tho graduate has th» "pros
pect" of succeeding as a farmer.
But perhaps this la nut quite what the
writer means by "prospects." Many
graduates of the colleges are called to
become managers of wealthy men's
country estates or of special depart
ments on the estates. Naturally, the
colleges themselves, as their work en
larges, draw on graduates foi their
Instructors and professord. There is a.
possibility that this field fur graduates
from agricultural colleges who have no
wish to become fanners may be greatly
enlarged! and that thousands may l^ave
their alma mater with the prospect of
becoming high school teachers.
(2) The list la 100 long. Every state
has an agricultural college; many are
connected with state universities. None
is better than the agricultural college of
.Cornell University, in your own state. —
Ed.]
WANTS CROP REPORTS CENSURED.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: the present bearish business con
dition is not a natural but an artificial
business depression, caused by rich men
who control the money supply of th« peo
ple through our banks and use it fur en
riching themselves and forcing the people
to starvation. At the present time they
justify this action by sending fall and
exaggerated reports of crop damages
throughout the country. This so affects
IRe general business of the country that
merchants refuse to buy; the stock mar
kets are then worked down for the purpose
of weakening credit*, and the country now
is facing a panic.
Our government must correct such
abuses by exercising strict control over
all grain and stock exchanges and a cen
sorship of crop report news. The great
elevator systems now permit the storage
of all surplus grain, the same S3 cold
storage does our eggs and meats. Then
when they close the factories ami throw
American labor out they keep the price of
foodstuffs up until they absolutely con
trol the government.
The Middle West is producing bump«
crops, and com Is so tut along thai it
looks better than it ever did at this time
of year. Tho great crop liars should bo
suppressed for the goo.l of urn country. A
closed season should bo maoe n.i no fake
reports allowed, MECHANIC
East Plttaburg, Perm.. July 27, IYIO.
A MONOPOLY.
From The St. l v aul PkMMet V ,
■ M aco hai a oeij rang ed r« Itgion which
..msts from t« creed all r*fer-n% to hell
v nlcage is alwayi .:, ai..u ,. f c petition
OF NO POPULAR INTEREST.
\ rom The Rochester Democrat and Chronl-
Now examine the money to your pocket.
There la a counterfeit ISO bill in circulation:
MONTE CARLO 0001.0
'■ Prime of Monaco Confronted by
an Awkward Dilemma.
(Copyrigb'v Y<>l<\ by the Bremwowl Ccmpany.)
Monaco-Is still furnishing a considerable
amount ot discussion in connection with
the two questions of the grant of a con
j stitution anu of th- succession to thf»
thrcne. Tht reigning Prince, it may to
recalled by \ readers of the?e !ettrr3.
was led by something very much akin f»
! a revctutionarj rising, for which lie ww
• totally unprepared, to pledge Mm3».-lf t-»
! endow his subjdfcts With a constltatlun o*
the most approve] order, according to the
i terms of which parliamentary sanction ai;>l
approval would b» jndiapensab'«s to a'l
hi>» sovereign acts, in on© word, he sol
j emnly promised '.<> surrender his rote of
autocrat for that of kiere executive •' par
i liament
It now turns out th»t the Constitution
' alists are bitter foes of the gambling es
: tabllsliment regime, and are bent on tak
ing steps to turn the Blanc-KadziwiH
. Bonaparte gambling establishment syr.dl
cat** bag and ha^jaze out of the princi-
J pality. Prince Albert hiinsMf la not vnezc
• ly one of the bencnclaries of the syndicate.
' his entire civil list being rail frorr. '"■'■,
, chequer, but ho a also one of the principal
i partners In the concern. And now Ulan/-.
Radziwlll and Roland Bonap;me are turn
in? on him, declarin? that he had no right
whatsoever, as a member cf their parr.
blinsr syndicate to relinquish his sovereign
powers to people opposed '■■> it. Tber
moreover, arsrue that he had virtually at
dieat^d all his sovereign po^eni to the.r
concern, and therefore had co power to
Klvr away what bi had already alienated-
By way of a further complication, tao
ex-Crown Prince of Monaco, who was re
cently officially barred from the succession
by his father, with whom h- tad quar
relled, is a bitter aaseay of the gambling
concern, and >"•'. too. »■« the. Prince's cous!r..
the German Dv • of Urach, who is next !«
the line of succession, but to whose pres
ence on the throne of Monaco France
would undoubtedly object, owing to tM
fact that he is a cavalry general in active
service in the German army.
The Prince si Monaco is now engaged in
considering the question of the abdication
of his throne in .favor •■' Roland Dona
parte. hoping thereby at any rate to pro
pitiate the French government, which ia
all important, and also the gambling estab
lishment syndicate. If he Ctocs thts he wilt
have to do It quickly: that is to say, before*
the Monaco parliament with which he has
promised to endow his subjects i 3 con
stituted; for, once organized, it is doubt
ful whether its members, with th^ir known
views with regard to the syndicate, would
sanction the actual transfer of the throne
to one of the principal partners in ths
concern. it is - question, too. whether
France would like to have a Bonaparte 0:1
the throne of Monaco, altnoogli Rolar.d"^
presence there would certainly tend to de
grade the nama '■•; Bonaparte, not only in
France but also throughout the length ar.d
breadth of Europe, and to deprive the pre
tensions of the. dynasty to the thxor-o ©?
France Of any remaining chances of suc
cess wt lea they may hitherto have reta-ined
in fact, the gambling concern Monaco
seems in a very parlous condition, and no
one would be astonished ■•: one •" th*sa
days France, with the good will and ap
proval of all Europe, were to Mca in <:.. - :
quietly annex thp principality, wiping It
out of existence and putting an end on:o
and for all time to the gambling concern.
which daring th« financial year just come
to a close has yielded, according to official
returns, net profits to the tune of 7X'Xv.'^-»
francs, or 514.000.0 Cv: that Is an increase in
prctits of It.OOQ.OOG over tho previous yea:.
These are net, aft*r payment cf a.ll
expenses and due^. including tbe civil !i-;
of the Prince of Monaco, which amounts
to J300.000.
Former Prince as Actor.
Inasmuch as my statements «i^ to tlia
fact of Prince Floiistan I of Monaco iiu.
in? been far a time an actor have been
questioned, [ would refer tae writers of the
' v " letters which I have received about tbe
subject to the "Souvenirs d"un Medicin o*>
Pari?,"' just published in Trance. The
physician in questie-.t v.as Dr. Pourci--=.
who during the Napoleonic era was a con
spicuous figure in French life and ver>
eminent la hi- profession. In his "Sou
venirs" he relates a conversation which
took place in liGo with Prince Ftarestan bc
foro ihs latter* tk-atl:.
The prince, who was an old friend of
*he doctor, declared to him that he ! -u.I
never been so happy as he was when liv
ing tho life of a cuiplc citueri in fari:;
and earning his li\ing there as an actor
at the beginning of the- nineteenth century*
}(.. spoke to the doctor or' his experi
ence at the AUtbigu, at tha Theutved-
Marais and at the T ■...':• de la CU^ xnd
informed him that be had always acted
under the name of Ploresi 1 Indeed, ho
weni no far as to show him clippings from
newspapers In which there were eulogistic
comments on his acting, and also a" col
lection of posters b.-nring his name. It
was In those days that he married Mile.
GUoart, the daughter of the Paris charcu
tier, or pork butcher, of thai name, n no i 3
the grandmother ■- the j»rr = ent Prince of
Monaco. Tht> prince left many volumes of
•■■'-■.. with his experiences In Faria
a.-* an actor. It 13 a pity that they Should
have remained In the archives of th»
■''■■■ house of Monaco instead of bet::^
published, as tnty would undoubtedly
prove both amusing ami interesiins-
A Near-Bishcp.
Sir Charles Dunbar. formerly Archdea
con of Grenada who as such Is entitled
to the prefix of "venerable" In lieu ot
"reverend' to his name, and who hu.s been
advertising m several American 1 apcrs
for temporary or lengthened charge of a.
church in this country or for ensage^
loan! on a preaching tour, is the eighth""
baronet of his line, and has had a rather
extraordinary career. For he has leeV
chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo end. "
to Btattop Ctaughton, cf London: has teen
an army chaplain ii the «.oionics. was ap
pointed first Bishop of Pretoria, but «a,i
"released from that appointment before
he had taken it up. and holds his degre »
of Doctor of Divinity not from any Eng
lish, Scotch ■.■: Irish university, nor even
from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who
has power lo confer what are known a*
"Lambeth degrees," but from tlio German
University of Jena. In fact. Sir Char 3
Is probably the Only clergyman ...
Church of England to hold hi ? degree fa
divinity from a German university, and IZ
is probably owing to this that In the aJ-.
vertlseroent which ho ha? published fee '
expresses: hia readiness to tnke up clerical
duties in America either for the Protes
tant Episcopal Church or "any other ,1,-
nomination." This speaks volumes for tl:o
breadth of hU mind, though not for hi-»
orthodoxy as a onetime Archdeacon of tl:«
Church of England.
Sir Charles, m >■•< Ls move than sixty-six
years old. is, according to his own ac
count, a many sided man. his principal
recreations consisting In "public speaking.
yachting, antiquarian research, sciencv,
music, art. horticulture and fore try." H!*
family ts an ancient one. claiming decent
paternally through John Du:ib«r. Earl *>*
Moray, and Countess Marjorte Moray, wht»
was a daughter of King Robert ii. frcr-i
£Goapatrlc the Earl." who was confirmed
in the earldom of Northumberland by
William the Conqueror In 10S» and hud ;\
grant of lumbar, with ihe adjacent lan.*
11l I^othlan. from his klnsroac, Malcotrn,
King o? «^s Scots, in lftlj. Vast.'u*cJ
pairtc's father. Maldrcd. «v brother o*
yhakespeavo'a •■^•acioua" Duncan !. KfcS
vt tne Scots, who was murd*r<4 by Mac-