The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-02

light and DOLE" said in reply, 81 am
most grateful for your kind congratu-
Il lations on the official celebration of my
birthday" and then added. II desire
also to express my deepest sympathy
at the loss of your distinguished prede-
cessor. Mr.. Cleveland"
4 This birthday of the King is a kind
of movable feast. so to speak. His real
birthday comes along in the middle of
November, and that Is a pretty tough
season for general merry-making in the
dominions of jolly King Edward. so he
has set an Official birthday. which
comes June IS. at a time when all his
subjects can rejoice and be glad with
a modicum of comfort.
i Poor Paul Jones, Only one other
!; man, perhaps, has had as restless a
time of 1t after death as he. and that
man is Columbus. One certainly could
not say of either of them. after life's
fitful fever he sleeps we'll" Nobody
has a dead cinch on it that 1t is the
dust of either that is being carted
round over the country. for there are
those that scott at the authenticity of
the dust of Columbus. and there are a
heap of people who laugh at the idea
that it was Paul Jones's dust that was
scooped up from under one of the slum
Oh tdflS. UuL IeL lIldl pass.
1 Here's the last about Paul:
The Board of Visitors to the Naval
/ Academy, in its report, made public at
l the Navy Department, says the body of
| John Paul Jones has remained without
permanent sepulcher for three years.
owing to lack of money for construct
ing the crypt. The Board recommends
that an appropriation of $4,000 be
made to build the crypt
1 They had $50 OO0 of a time when
they brought Paul's supposed remains
| back a year or so ago. 1t is to be hoped
that when they at last get the giddy old
| Admiral's dust under the ground it will
stay put this time.
| Well, You ought to hear the way
in which Rear-Admiral George w. Mel
vile goes for the labor unions. He's
mighty rabid, even for this kind of
weather
Because the labor unions won't let
a skilled workman teach his trade to
his own son is the reason the United
States lost the 100000 contract for
ships for the Brazilian navy" said the
Rear-Admiral.
I'VE have the best steel and iron in
the world right here. We have the
| timber, which England must import
| but because the labor unions have put
| their restrictions on the number of ap-
prentices skilled labor has become so
scarce in the United States that it costs
40 per cent more to build a ship in
America than il does in Great Britain
| or Germany.
zone apprentice to every four skilled
workmen is what the labor unions are
pleased to allow in the shipbuilding
| trades. In some trades they do not
allow any apprentices unless the latter
pay large sums to the trade unions Is
it surprising that the ranks of Ameri-
can worllmen have become depleted"
mo greater travesty on American
freedom exists than this robbing of
the young American of his birthright
to work at the trade he chooses. Moth
ing to my mind is so un-American as
to deprive a boy of his right to learn a
trade, or a man of his right to teach
it, Nothing is so dangerous to our
manufacturing supremacy '~'''
Rear-Admiral Melville is of, the ex-
perience and at that age when We let
him express his opinions about as
strong as he pleases.,
The bronze statue of the late United
States Senator George Frisbie Hoar,
erected by popular subscription among
school children and admirers thruout
the United STATES. was dedicated at
Worcester. his old home. in the pres
tDce VI a InTOHS Ol l0,UUU idSl
The statue depicts the famous Massa-
chusetts statesman seated in his favor
lite armchair. and is the work of Daniel
Chester French, of New York. 1t is
placed within a few feet of the City
Hall The statue does not meet with
favor among Worcesterites generally.
Justice William H Moody, of the
United States Supreme Court. delivered
the Grafton. There were addresses by
Gov. Curtis Guild and Mayor James
Logan. DIR. Edward Everett Hale led
the prayer.
Local officers of the International
Congress on tuberculosis. which meets
in this city Sept q to Oct L., inclu-
sive, are at a loss TO know just what
will be done with the foreign exhibits
which are expected to"arrive in Wash
ington during the next few weeks. The
congress will use the new National Mu-
scum as an exhibition hall. This build
ing is far from being in finished con-
dtion, and it will not be ready for oc-
cupancy by the congress until the sec
ond week in September Exhibits from
foreign Nations will begin to arrive in
the city shortly, and as there are no
public buildings at present at the dis
posal of the congress the officials are
busying themselves with looking for
storage rooms.
DIR. John s. Fulton. Secretary-Gen-
eral of the congress- in charge of the
Washington offices, has received a no
tification from the German Government
that an exhibit from that country isl
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