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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
anATEGORIcALv FALsEHO0DS.

The statement issued at Oyster Bay yesterday
by direction OF the President after Admiral
Yanlamoto's visit, that their interview had sim
ply confirmed all previous assurances Of n per-
feet understanding and stable friendship be-
tween the two countries, is welcome though
happily less needful to allay anxiety than it
might have been considered a few days ago.
The "scare" has pretty nearly subsidized, and 1t
is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain
at all times the charity Of Admiral YamamOto
in attributing the false statements about Amer
ican-Japanese relations which produced 1t to
nothing worse than lack Of information on the
part OF sensation mongers. Day by day the
suspicion Is strengthened that they were DELHI
eratey and knowingly put forward for some
sordid or malicious purpose. Vague rumOrs and
impressions may be charged against mere ignO-
rance. Specific and-to use their own pet word
categorical statements Of detail are llkelier
TO have another origin.
One day this week it was crcumstantiaIly de-
ciared that Japan had been sending Categorical
notes" 10 America and making Categorical de-
mands" The statement was false and ground
less. It was declared that the japanese Am
bassador TO this country was about to be re-
called or 10 resign That was similarly untrue
and void OF excuse. Again II was told, with de-
tails of amount, shipping directions and desti-
nation that America was purchasing Welsh
coal for use IN the Pacific There was not q
word of truth in It, nor there any fact
which might have given reasonable cause for
such an assumption. Once more were told
that marine underwriters in London were
charging war rates on Golfers bound for Manila.
There was not a shadow of basis for the story.
With such number of false statements "cat-
egorically" made the easygoing theory of mere
sensation fails. These are not idle rumors.
They can be regarded as nothing else than con-
scIous inventions-in a word, falsehOods. How
many more of them will be put forward we do
not venture to guess nor do we concern our
selves particularly with their EXPERIMENTATION
1t be some third power" or desire for Journal
istlc notor1ety, sOrdid seeking OF speculative
gain. We are inclined to think. however. that
they have already served n far different pur-
pose from that which was intended. They have
discredlted in advance any further tales Of the
kind which may be put out, so that now no
judicious man will believe any alarmlst report
concerning Acknowledgements relations And
that is great gain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
NAVAL ACADEMY CHANGES.

The board Of officers appointed by President
the Naval Academy suggests in its report
changes which are intended TO make the work
of the academy more practical. The studies are
10 be better adapted to the needs Of the navy
Subjects of doubtful or decreasing utility are
to absorb less time. Subjects the utility OF
which is increasing because Of recent develop
ments in naval construction are to receive more
attention. Methods of instruction to be
changed so as TO keep the academy In closer
touch with the navy. NIidshipmen are not
merely to get book learning as It is impaired
Mt an ordinary technical school or college but
are to be taught far as possible both by
precept and example, the difficult art OF being
an officer.
The substitution OF seagoing officers for per-
manent professors as heads Of the teaching de-
partments Is thus recommended:
Permanent heads gradually lose that intimate
knowledge of the service requirements which is
indispensable to efficiency, and there results a
general tendency to conservatism. Besides the
small number Of scagoing officers that come IN
contact with the midshipmep has q tendency 20
make their military training less efficient.
The permanent head of Il department of
mathematics, physics or chemistry Is doubtless
n better scholar than practical officer tenn
porary assigned to teach the given branch is
likely to be, but he usually lacks the essential
flavor OF the service He is a specialist, as
the head OF a corresponding department in
technical school ia a specialist, and he almost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
TESTS FOR CBAUFFEURS.

As result of their curious aversion to seeing
corpses lying about on the public highways AMI
their still more remarkable unwillngness 70 let
a fourth rate mechanic and engineer wreck a
$4,000 machine out of mere sportiveness, the
Germans are now warmly advocating a sight
test for motor drivers. Owners Of automo-
blIes as we'll as medical men and government
officials, believe that chauffeurs should be put
on the same footing with locomotive engineers
in respect to the evidence they must give Of
their fitness to tear along the roads at express
train speed. 1t has long been the practice to
examine the eyes Of locomotive engineers and
TO reject all applicants and incumbents whose
vision falls below a certain standard OF acute
ness. The Germans are now asking why con-
slderations of public comfort should not make
4 similar examination necessary In the case OF
the motor drivers.
The radical sanity Of the suggestion comes as
a shock. To infuse so much pure reason into
automobile despotsm at one injection might
seriously disturb the serenity Of the lrrespon-
sible hierarchy Of chauffeurs and reduce auto
MODELLING to a vulgarly Innocuous sport Ike
checkers. If Il chauffeur were compelled 10
demonstrate his ability to distinguish a goose
from q baby at n range Of two hundred yards,
il he We're hailed before an examining board
and forced to prove that he could decipher the
warnings on q village signboard while scooting
along at the rate Of fifty dusty miles hour,
he might feel constrained to take up plain. ordi-
nary assassination and sAndbaggIng as an ocCu-
patton. We feel sure that this oppression Of
a large class Of honest. struggling workngmen
would not be tolerated for an instant outside OF
an autocratlc country like Germany where in
dlvidual liberty is ruthlessly broken beneath the
cruel yoke OF official miscreants who try TO en-
force the medieval superstition that the pub
he thoroughfares are meant for public use.
If the Germans are about to carry sanity to
this absurd degree we shall not be surprised to
hear before long that they have Instituted n
compulsory test OF the moral vision of chauf-
feurs. Not content with compelling the poor
fellows to distinguish q goose from baby In
order to hold down their jobs the Germans may
require every chauffeur to perceive at a glance
the moral difference between running over a
piece Of poultry and a mothers darling, and
the relative Nervousness Of racing with n prl-
vate automobile and running away from the
constables machine. The stupid consistency Of
the Teutons may even carry them 70 the point
Of forcing chauffeuTs TO confess that they con
slider It rude to laugh at n motor cop" whom
they have Outstrpped in a race against time and
o fine. Let us be thankful that Americans have
long since ouJgrown all such primitive i'm
pulses and have learned that lodging IS the
better part OF citizenship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
LOOKING FOR ROOM AT THE TOP.

After making careful comparisons between
those of her native land and the ones she meets
in England, an American woman who is spend
ing the summer on the other side finds that the
trouble with clerks and shopkeepers in America
Is that here every man feels that he ought to
be President, and every woman believes that
If she got what should be coming to her she
would be the first lady Of the land Over there,
we assume. inasmuch as there is no White
House TO aspire to, the men are content TO
measure calico thirty two inches to the yard
without hope OF much reward beyond that
which the sense of duty well performed is said
to bring, and the woman who works for q stlpu-
lated sum each week is not distracted by specu
lating reception gowns and the sort Of vege-
tables which will grow best In the White House
garden, nor does she attempt 10 convey the i'm
preston that in performing her duties she is
comforting q great favor upon her employer
We do not understand that the situation Il
desperate enough to warrant closing the door
of hope to young Americans, thereby causing
them TO be more contented with their lot. what
ever 1t may be, although we might admit that
the abundance Of opportunity which IS contin-
ually lying about loose here tends TO create a
bumptious disposition on the part OF some en-
ployes which Is hardly beneficial to themselves
their employers or the public. We have sus-
pected that Intelligent aspiration. in moderate
UOSt5, was never udTlIIul, ana IldL TIE iiOl4Oi
however erroneous. instIlled into the mind OF
the small boy by his mother and maiden aunts
that the Presidency of his country was among
the least Of the things he might hope for, fur
nished him with some of the incentive to ex-
ertion which led him, In later years, TO he a
fairly competent poundkeeper.
There are, no doubt some persons who are
spoiled by opportunity but those who belong
to this class are so susceptible to the agencies
of decomposition that If opportunity didn't
bring about their downfall something else
would. The fault which our critic Of things
American notes Is one which we fear 1t Will not
be possible entirely to overcome, at least so
long az the hewers Of wood and the drawers OF
water insist upon mounting to places of respOn-
sibility, thereby setting a precedent for rising
generations. This is one OF the conditions Of
living under our system of government, but
we have managed to struggle along in spite tf
the handicap for something more than a century,
and we probably shall have to make the best
Of Il IN the future.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13

the classification of property for taxation and
another restricting the tax levy for public
schools are objected to. So, too, IS the require
ment Of separate schools for white and colored
children. The changing Of the boundary lines OF
counties is said to be beyond the power Of the
convention. The final objection is general
Ito the constitution as a whole, in that it is not
20 constitution in the sense contemplated by
"the enabling act, but a code Of general laws
(which the convention had no authority to
"frame"-and it cannot be met without recast-
ing the entire document.
The convention will do we'll to eradicate all
the Objectionable features some of which might
be held TO be violations Of the enabling act. If
Oklahoma wants legislation along these lines
it can afford to wait until its State Legislature
is in session. Many of the ideas embodied in
the constitution are crudely experimental, and
crude experiments have no proper place in a
constitution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
ROCKEFELLER ON GOLF.
Gets Enthusiastic and Speaks Highly
of the Play of Egan.
IRr re,srraph to Tho Tribune. ]


Cleveland July 12-John D. Rockefeller. who has
attended the amateur championship golf tourna-
ment on the Euclid links every day. has grown
enthusiastic over the different plays and players.
He followed H. Chandler Egan yesterday and
stenographer followed him. taking down his con-
versation verbatim. It printed tonight as
follows:
II have long been devotee Of the game Of golf
I thoroughly believe there is sport IN existence
which does much TO develop in man his best
traits of character. Il brings out all that Is good
in him and kills of tho bad It promotes right rv-
ing and. after ALL that is the thing must
all work 20 bring about
This is a splendid course. but think at Forest
Hills my putting green's in better condition We
not through with work there. and It will
be year or two before have the links IN the
condition want But at Pocantico have an ideal
course. excelled nowhere
''Egan IS In perfect form to-day. Look at that
splendid drive from the second tee. There Il goes
on to the green. only few feet from the flag Fine
work.
Did you how easy he made his swing7 Not
bit Of wasted effort the carry through was
splendid. and this Is what gives him the distance
Ho has caution in every shot that he takes. He
plans Just what he expects 20 do. and then he has
the nerve and the skill 10 make his plan successful
He entirely lacks OF the greatest faults OF
most of golfers lie takes his eye Off the
ball. like his face His eve IS clear ana his hand
steady. He has self-control You do not see him
lose HIS temper when he is unfortunate enough to
get into difficulty. His play out Of trouble is mar
vellous,
Now he is about TO try for that difficult put. I
wish people would not talk such a time There
is nothing that so disconcerts a player as talking
when he is about TO make a shot. Golf etiquette
demands absolute silence at such a time.
Mr.. Esan has remarkable Judgment as to Dis
lance and direction. See that shot for instance.
1t was perfect approach. He uses irons as we'll
as any one have ever play. He has a diff
cult put for three. II will be too bad IL he
misses.
"Oh, that was magnificent He has dropped his
ball twenty feet from the hole. There, he has
missed three foot put by two inches. But that
not lack OF skill. He was unfortunate
There's beautiful drive. See that brassis on
the green, IN two. He has ten foot put to be
at boyle. HurEah, he made I'll That was great
You do not know how pleased I am,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
DUCHESS SUES A COUNTESS.
The Spottiswoode-Mackin and de la Roche
fouoauld Case in Court.

Paris July 12.-The involved litigation In which
the Countess Spottiswoode- Mackin who Miss
Sally Briton, OF st. Louis, and the Duchess de la
Rochefoucaud. daughter OF the late Senator Mitch
ell, of Oregon, concerned finally heard IN
court this afternoon. The originated IN dis
pute in 1909 over the countesss claim TO the re-
covery of the rent OF house leased 20 the duchess
which the latter left on the ground that Il in
adequately heated In the course OF the cOntro-
versy the duchess's jewels attached in libel
suit brought against her by the countess. Tho
duchess now seeks first. the repayment OF $780, the
expense of living at hotel while the heating OF
the house was insufficient; and. second. 5000 dam
ages to her reputation caused by the countess in
entering a criminal complaint because the duchess
removed her jewels when attachment proceedings
instituted In connection with the rent suit
The decision OF the court will be announced on
July 26.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13

necessarily teaches his subject in a bookish
way He has the advantages, but also the
limitations Of q specialist. The active officer
has neither but he has the air of the sea about
him; he keeps instruction close to pracucallty'
as he would hold the nose of a ship close 10 the
course laid out for her. Referring to the par
tial failure Of the academy to turn out prac-
teal men, the report says "The board has
learned from the officers Of the Atlantic fleet
that the graduates are very unsatisfactory In
their method OF handling the enlisted force"
The question that the Navy Department has
to answer before carrying out the suggestions
Of the report is whether or not the advantages
of being taught by specialists more than COM
pensate for the disadvantages. The professor
of mathematics can probably better ground his
pupils in that branch of instruction than an
officer temporarily turning his attention to 1t
from his usual duties. To most OF the modern
worlds work is applied the theory that the spe.
calist can do it better than the all around
handy man. Technical schools are equipped
with teachers on that theory. Mining engineers
learn the technical side of mining from men
who may not have spent year In the mines.
Mechanical engineers do not turn aside from
engines nor electrical engineers from dynamos
to give instruction to young men studying those
subjects. The specialist instructs them, and he
is supposed to be able to give them firmer
grip upon the theory Of his chosen subject
than the practical man could give. If the grad
yates are a trIfle bOokish at first, their i'm
practically quickly wears off, while their firm
technical foundation lasts The trial of differ
ent method at Annapolis might prove that tho
midshipmen were not an exception to the rule
which is believed to hold good in civil life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
PLANS FREE HOSPITAL FOR HORSES.
A. S. P. c. A. VIII Establish Institution and
Instruct Drivers in Treatment.

Plans for a dispensary and hospital for horses
the owners OF which cannot afford to give them
proper treatment. were determined by the board
OF managers OF tho Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals yesterday. A committee has
been appointed to select a site and procure the
necessary funds.
Another committee IS to establish farm on
which fire. police and draft horses. disabled In tho
service OF the city. win be cared for when turned
to the society's care. provided for by the
law enacted at the last session OF the Legislature
The two committees will cooperate in making the
farm temporary home for convalescents from
the horse hospital.
Instruction in the prevention OF Diseases the
proper treatment of minor ailments and IN the
general OF horses will be given by the stan OF
the hospital to all drivers and owners who care 10
attend IT'S clinics
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
FOUR FRESH AIR PARTIES.
OUer 800 Children Sent in One Dan
to the COuntry.

Over $50 poor children were sent 20 the country
yesterday By the Tribune Fresh Air Fund Ths
first company numbered q and went to St HELEN,
Home, at Interlaksn. Mass. where they viii h,
the guests OF John z. Parsons A little later
drowsy ticket agent at Pier ID North River reused
himself from dozs long enough 10 run outside ira
Office to find what was making such nolss. Il.
turned out to be only the Chapel Hill Tribune
Fresh Air party. numbering 81. nearly all boy,
They will be entertained at Euncs Home.
In the afternoon 50 girls left for Tena1y. N. T..
where they Will be entertained at HappyIand. III,
last company or yesterdays aggregation was tina
largest. numbering $50. II bound for Ashford
Hill. the home at Ardsey. y. y. which entertained
over 1900 children last season.
In the party which went 20 Ardsiey were vvo
little girls who both said they had been to tina
country before
What was It rkeT' they were asked
oh IL was awful pretty! It had lots Of STONES
with names on them, and there were flowers and
things"
When did you goT'
Then the missionary that had brought the chill
dren explained that last summer their mother had
died. and the children had paid their only visit 10
the country-to cemetery near New York And
this was all they knew about t.
The missionary said that In the party thers war,
several girls who had been as far as Central
E14L Park. thought that that was the country and
wanted to stop
Much less pathetic than these ca sss bit showing
just as much ignorance OF the country was Tbs.
or boy sent up Utica. This little fellow hai
learned IN school something about cows and had
decided TO learn how 70 milk When he arrived
a. farm he made of for the pasture. where 4
gentle COW stood quietly enough He bent down 70
her Tor 8 minute and then was seen r11nin;
toward the house Up to his hostess lie ran WITH
Hll4k Gripping down the side OF his face. and be-
seNched her to come quick and help him because
no SKID X have turned the milk on and I can .
| turn II or again"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT
lBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune


Newport r. L, July 12.-There was mora .o...
about the Casino this morning than On an,
since the season began Among those WIN ~
tered to-day were Peter D. Martin Mrs PTS
Gambrill. Ogden Mills and DR.. Alexander G 7-'
Mr.. and Mrs Nathaniel Thayer. of Boston :.
rived at their cottage for the season today
Edward ]. Berwind returned from his v,,. .
New York yesterday
The women OF the Afternoon Bridge Cluh -.
recently leased the James Gordon Bennett, ss,.,.
have changed the name OF their organizat,o, :,
the Bennett Club.
Francis Roche returned to New York to-day s,,.,
visiting his mother. Mrs. AureI BatonyL
Richard T. Wilson. IT.. has been III sine. M,
arrival In Newport two weeks ago. He was soma
what improved to-day.
Mrs Oliver G. Jennings. Mrs George 3. scc,,
and Mrs William Payne Thompson gave lunchso,.
to-day. A dinner given last evening or Mira
Joseph Hartman
oliver G. Jennings. James W. Gerard. Edv,,s
Fred. Pierson. IT.. returned from New York n.
night
Count sala. OF the French Embassy. is thu z,.,,
OF George Peabody wetnore.
Henry Clews and Mr.. and Mrs Francis N Var.
arrived for the season tonight
Mrs James L. Kernochan Is the guest on NJ
James P Kernochan- Mrs Harry Peters IA IA
guest OF her mother. Mrs. W. S. Wells.
z. Rollins Morse returned from New York To-
night and has as his guest W. A. Drayton
William Turnbull Is visiting Daniel B. Fear,,
over the week end.
Three hundred children from the Methodist Eo,.
copaI Church were guests OF Mr.. and Mrs Alf,s1
G. Vanderbilt at Oakland Farm to-day. Ths groy,
was fitted especially for their comfort. TroIs,
rides IN special cars were enjoyed by the childrs,
before and after the picnic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-13
REVISING oKLAHoMA's CONSTITUTION.

REVISING OKLAHONA'S CONSTITUTION.
The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention has
reassembled, and at its first days session has
stricken several Of tie most criticised features
from the proposed act The convention ap-
parcnuy Is acting In accordance with letter
addressed by Attorney General BOnaparte to
its chairman, Mr.. Murray, who had sought an
expression of President RoOsevelts opinion
concerning the merits or dement's Of the con-
stitudon. The Attorney General replied that
It would be improper for the President by his
criticisms 60 assist in framing an instrument
upon whose conformity with the enabling act
he would afterward be required TO pass. The
Attorney General. however. sent TO the chair
man Of the convention Il list Of the cOnstitu-
tionel provisions TO which objection had been
filled with his department" On the merits of
these objections Mr.. Bonaparte did not pro-
nounce an opinion, but they apparently i'm
pressed the Oklahoma convention for It
promptly altered the constitution TO meet sew
eral OF them.
The constitution originally contained many
provisions stripping the courts Of powers ex-
ercised by courts in most of the states Con-
yiction by jury was required before punish
ment for contempt Of court. This provision has
been eliminated. The habeas corpus writ pro-
vision has been amended as not TO inter-
fere with federal jurisdiction. The section Civ
suffrage laws has been stricken out. The ini-
tiatiYe and referendum provision is stripped Of
its most radical features. Determinations
against foreign corporations have been modi-
fed pet provision Furnishing foreign cor
pora.ion for appealing TO the federal courts had
TO 20. Governor Conner or Alabama devoted a
para graph OF his recent message 10 this villany
of the corporations and Oklahoma had IL nicely
stopped. state law might be unconstitutional
under the federal Constitution, but under the
Oklahoma constitution corporation was pro-
hibited from testing It in the federal courts.
As the convention decided TO increase the
number Of State Senator's and Representatives,
IL is probable that IL the new apportionmeut
the much criticised gerrymander will be cor
rooted.
But the removal of these various oddities by
no means answers all the objections mentioned
by Mfr. Bonaparte The state is still authorized
10 "engage In any occupation or business" The
exclusion from the suffrage Of officers, soldiers
and marines "a the American army or navy Is
criticised. The provision for eanvassing cleo
ton returns Is said TO be substantially the I'D
fair "GoebeI election law" provision for