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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-02

The resignation OF Admiral lIrownson,
who. as Chief OF Navigation. was prac.
tlcAlly the head OF the Navy Depart,
mont, affords another instance OF the
personal dictAtorlal methods Of Pres.
Ident Roosevelt Admiral HrownsOn
wanted the hospital ship Relief cap.
tAined by "A sailor Surgeon General
RiXey wanted Il captaIncd by navy
doctor MIR RiNcy Is the President 8
personal phy slcian and he Won, There,
fore. Admiral ilroNuEon. who Is a man
az convictions aud spuuk. rcsigued,
aud his resignation IL a great loss
10 the navy, which has made more
genuine progress under his direction
than I, had made In years previously
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-02

with the advent Of Theodore ROosO-
welt, who was nominated for the Vice
Presidency In order that he might be
destroyed. the party had been driven
Aither and yOn. BY man who was
trying TO graft the policies of bryan
ca the rotten Hanna stock. because
Ne foresight vas 20 great that he per
eelved that . revolution against his
PARTY wa fast approaching, Hut while
Mr. Roosevelt has converted many
% the rank and Ole Of his party
81 the Democratic policies, he has
never been able to reach the politll
clans. who know no method Of poll
Gee save the HAnnp brand. -Four
ysaFu ago the politicians, muttering
deep curses and driven along by the
Whip and spur Of popular opinion,
nomlnatsd Theodore Roosevelt again,
Iul this year he has eliminated him
self from further confederation and
hAs left the party 10 select lts nomi'
nss from the Geld Of likely candidates
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those mentloned' as candidate for president, and. as the Journal has all ready saId he would probably make an efficient administrator if he were called upon by the death or disability of the president to succeed to the presidential duties. At the same time he has never manifested anything higher than cer- tain routine ability Ills aspirations to be nominated for president were re- gRrded az too ambitious, and his career In the White House, if such a career were opened 10 hlm would probably be unInspIrlng, If other than personal considerations are to be counted, IL IS difficult to see how MT cortelYou would add strength to the ticket While his nominal residence k New York, he has never been particularly Identified with the state, nnd, If a New York man Is needed to Insure the eleetoral vote of that state, his influence could not be compared for . moment with that of MT, Hughes He seems to be regarded aS a safe man, no one knows exactly where he stands on the great questions of tho day But If he Is not n reac. tlonary his Identification with Wall street in the eyes of the voters might be uncomfortably close.
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J. PIERpoNr MORGAN, ILL. D.

Yale may we'll await now with com placent expectancy the gossip which is almost certain 10 follow the rumor that John Pierpont Morgan is to he given a doctor of laws degree at the coming commencement IL will be said that the university had its little axe to grind" that it was looking for any possible contributions from the multi-million- aire the conferring of this great honor upon him might induce him to give. Such lntmations have been made about men much less rich than Mir. Morgan, upon whom Yale has conferred degrees heretofore. But whatever others may say, 1t may be believed that the re- cipient of this degree will be above sus- pecting any such ulterior motive.
 Mir. Morgan has done much to make himself worthy of the degree about to be given him. As this paper observed in it's exclusive announcement of the coming event, 1t was he who, certainly more than any other single lnancier in the country and more than the admin lstration itself, was Instrumental in stemming the tide of the impending panic last fall He deserves all honor for 1t. Besides that, he is a Cbnnectl- cut-born man and a director of the New Haven road and much concerned in ifs prosperity which Is so closely all lied to the prosperity of the state. But more than these matters which have been mentioned Is the great interest that MT Morgan has always shown in the advancement of education. He Is one of the foremost In that ever grow ing army of business men who believe thoroughly in the college taught man. He has them in his employ and he advises others to employ them His generous gifts to the cause of educa- ton, and especially his art gifts to the Metropolitan and other museums, are noteworthy.
 MT Morgan Is a very rich man, but, unlike so many of them he has a very human heart. That he will hurry back from Europe expressly to receive the proffered degree shows that he does not hold the honor lightly There is a host of worthy sons of Mother Yale among the "honoraries, no less than among the regular graduates. Mir Morgan realizes that To say that he VIII be- i lieve 1t necessary for him to make a large gift to Yale or that Yale, on its l part, will expect one because of the ] giving of the degree, is to seriously misjudge both the man and university
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THE POLICE LOOKUP.

A local news item of yesterday morning said that not a single arrest was made in this city during the twenty-four hours of Sunday. The information Is particularly satisfying and of immediate interest in view of the statement in the contemporaneou issue of the Hartford Courant that during the hours of Sunday evening alone in that city as many as forty four arrests were made.
 New Haveners might well be glad were the number of local arrests all ways fewer than those in our sister city up the state which has much smaller population. Especially should this be the case in view of the great number of complaints as to the very inadequate number of complaints as to the very inadequate accommoda- tions that are made for the prisoners at the police headquarters lookup here. But as matter of fact New Haven's arrests are probably no less in number than the average; and, be- sides that, during the evening in question. when the forty-four arrests were made in Hartford, that clty's re- gently elected mayor MT Hooker quarters to make personal obser- vation of the methods employed and 1t Is not above suspicion that the Hartford police was little more ac- tive on that evening than is usually the case so that the mayor might have fewer dull moments.
 This paper has long believed that some radical changes should be made in the police lookup. Long since have criminologists condemned the method of locking up all prisoners in one room, however large. It is ine- vtable that the innocent and those less steeped in crime should suffer from too intimate contact and conver- sation with the old hands at the world old game of beating the law. What is needed is a lookup with individual cells and New Haven will not have a truly modern police department until that Is had.
 Judge Mathewson believes that when the county courts move into the new court house that the police de- partment should take up its quarters where the courts are now. Then in that wing of the building beneath the present criminal superior court room cculo be found ample and convenient space for establishing just such sys- tenn of individual cells as must be had.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16
yice-PrrsideutinI Needs.
lWa shIngton poal

" NhHllillB ANl Nhiti
 The people and congress have been singularly negligent in failing to pro vide means for determining the dsa- bllity of president No law has been enacted under which q vice president may take the relns in case of the dlsa- bilty of his chief, The people seem to have gone on the happy go lucky Dian, relying on good fortune and the toughness of their presidents, Happily the presidents have had good health None of lhem has been disabled In body or mind while In office, But this hnt been mere good fortune, which may change at ony time, Prudence would suggest the enactment of law under which the presidency might be admin lstered without Interruption, In case ol the disability of the incumbent.
 When, in addition to negligence IT thls regard, the people nominate ant elect a vice president who Is not in al respects capable of acting as president they arc Indeed tempting fate, The. are dlsreRarding the most palpahle les son Of life, which ls that death is al ways behind the chair.
 The two conventions will not be do ! Ing their work thoroughly and we'll fo ! the people if they fail to nominat good, strong men for vice president
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able to boast of roads that are at all good, l. has set lraps for the autolsts timing them over a carefully measured course, and then nrrestIng them upon signal if found to have violated the speed regulations But thls anl other methods have only tended to make the autolsts feel that they are being prose cuted and the natural and human ten- dency on their part has been to try 10 break the law without detection at the earliest possible opportunity,
 Finally Mlddlehoro has happened upon a plan which Is said to have worked very successfully abroad. Where threate have failed, polite re- quests to desist from speeding have beon found to accomplish wonders, The supposItlon has been that the au- tolsts are at heart law-abidIng per sons In nearly every Instance, All that is necessary Is for them to be approached in the right way, Other towns have adopted the idea with in- creasing enthusiasm and now we have the Boston Globe saying that this plan, in one form or another, should he adopted not only throughout Mas sachueetts but in all the other New number of large banners have been set up with this inscription on them; Twelve miles per hour through town We give you square deal; give us one" At waban the request ia as fol- lows: Automobiles will please run slowly through waban on account of school children and dangerous cross ngs,'
 IL is at least pleasing to think that such Christian application Of the Golden Rule to automobile matters lshould solve the riddle. The success of the plan and the inconsiderable trouble and expense that would be at tached to q trial of it in this vicinity makes a similar experiment here seem reasonable. We would call it to tho attention of the police authorities and the new auto club for consideration. Perhaps similarly polite requests would insure safety at our dangerous cross ings and lessen the amount of speed
 ing around New Haven. Then. if there be found those who wilfully persist in ignoring these appeals to their sense of right. let the punishment for the gull Ity be not fine-a man who can af- ford an auto can afford a fine and reck- lon 1t among the legitimate running sx- penses; not imprisonment for few days-even that does not strike at the root of the matter, but the arrest of the car itself. Let the owner be de. prived of his automobile for month Tor more. The habitual offenders are us- ually the most frequent drivers and they will feel being deprived of their machines more than any other pun. lshment.
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otherwise are completely overshadow- cd by It's performances. No pre- vious legislature can easily he recall ed which devoted SO much time to many important questions and so con- sistently reached lame and impotent conclusions respecting each or no conclusion at all
 The state of Massachusetts has, however In this respect the better of tho state of Connecticut assuming that a like era of legislative extray- agance should overtake t, Connecti- cut suspended its state tax some years ago and thus put It beyond the towns of the state to act lntelllgently as watch dogs of the treasury By es- caping the burden of direct taxation the Connecticut senstiyeness has be- come dulled, The people of the towns of the state of Massachusetts, who will now feel the pressure of the ad- ditlonal burden, have it in their pow CT to punish the men who have thus served them inetfeiently aud sav- agahtly If, on the other ran they like what has been done in their name, they can further encourage the l distribution of their money by re- electing their representatives
 The only possible way in which the citizens can resist legislative extrav- agance Is to punish the power which overtaxes him. He can learn of that only by feeling the pressure through a direct tax laid upon him to mee, legislative expenditures
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AUTOMOBILE REGULATION.

The "milk of human kindness" is be- ing used as a successful lubricant in another field of endeavor, where there has been considerable friction hereto- fore and where other and sterner meth ods have failed utterly. It is in refer ence to the regulation of automobile speeding
 Middeboro Massachusetts has been through the thoueand and one vicissi- tudes that every New England city and town has experienced which has been
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Progress Backwards.
(Springfield Republican.

SpIiHEHtlu htpublltdllJ
 Here is progress for You--progress backward, far backward, and leading only toward another dense obfuscation of mind respecting the problem in hand But the fact remains that lt has been the policy of the state for years to per. init and even encourage consultations of connecting railroads, even as lt has been the policy 10 prevent the construc- ton of parallel lines and to recognize the railroad as monopoly to be con- trolled by the public authority and not by competition. And if, on appeal of the New Haven case 10 the courts, 1t Is found that the letter of existing law has been violated by that company In purchasing control of the connecting Boston and Maine system without the consent of the legislature, II will none the less remain true thht the legisla- ture has been placing itself out of har- mony with the long established rail- road policy of the commonwealth
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You.

My heart Is full of song, my lips arc
 scant of speech, Il Is you you, you, It is us, each to
 cach' It is happy winds of dawn that blow
 the world awake, It is sunlight, leaplng sunlight on the
 ripple e-crested lake on, the wave of love In me that sweeps me when think, oh, tho founts of memory where my
 glad spirits drink Night and star and ripened corn, har-
 vest -hurdened hill, And the woods at twilight when the
 earth is still, Oh, loveliness of years that floods my
 mind anew. And back of all and in all just you, you
 you. -Jamts orpenheim in the Metropolitan Magazine.
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health well cared for in invonting nov schemes for the achievement of hls ends, His most masterful inven ton is Tag Day and it may be said of 1t that of all schemes for the collcc- ton of money for charitable purposes thus utilized 1t Is the most effective
 It was Tag Day in Washington last Saturday and the object of It's bene- faction was cast-orf childrcns play grounds, The friends of the children determined that the playground should not De neglected because 5f tho failure of the authorities to provide for its equipment SO they organized themselves into a rading band They provided themselves with the conyen- tinpal express tag and then accosted every one they met. The possession of a tag, displayed from the lapel of the coat or from the waist of dress, testified to the fact that the wearer had made his donation to the cause. One account of the raid reads as fol- lows: Children peddled the tags In ali parts of the city and no man es- capped, There were store tags, house tags, automobile tags, cab tags. and personal tags and a five dollar tag .hat made the owner immune from attack in all quarters, The store tag cost a dollar, likewise the house tag Every woman was held up in every store, and 1t cost her a dollar to continue her round of shopping without further solicitation. President Roosevelt, came across for five dollar tag that allowed him to take his customary ride on horseback without being held up at the bridge. Attorney General Bonaparte was tagged twice. he hay ing forgot to wear the original tag from home.
 It need hardly be explained that the bandits were successful In theh raid upon the people of Washington The price varied from five cents tc five dollars so that none escaped Would 1t not be a good thing for New Haven to institute a Tag Day, the pro ceeds of which could be divided among the charitable undertakings o' the city? Springfield has tried it witt great success and those who wert held up on the street testify that tho fun of the thing more than paid foI their peremptory arrest. It is not SC many years ago that the people o New Haven wore enthusiastically thu "We Walk" button, during the trolle! strike. With what increased enthus iasm would they wear tags which pro claimed their active interest in thu kindly deeds of life. A Tag Day un der the auspices of the Associated Civ ic societies would make bully holi day.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16

The White Star line has withdrawn several of its freighters from its New York service. It Is claimed that the railroads have so discrimina,ed against that city in freight rates that the grain of the country is being sent abroad from this country by way of Montreal IL is serious charge and one worthy of being investigated at once by the interstate commerce commission, New York is the ideal shipping port and anything that tends to turn our own freight elsewhere Is artificial and wrong
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGIsLATIRE

This is the manner in which the Springfield Republican sends the Mas sachusetts legislature into it's retire ment. "The legislature of 1908, which closed Its prolonged session on Saturday will be chiefly remembered for the state tax of $5,5oo,o00 which its throws upon the already overbur- dened localities. Its performances
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The national guardsmen who are about to go to Watertown x. Y. to the eneampment have not read without shudder the accounts in the papers of how even the regular troops were driven from their tents and were soak cd to the skW at the camp the other night, There is nothing so bad at camp as too much water falling or too little water to drink and the best that the guardsmen can hope for is that the place will prove 10 be an ideal water town in these regards when they are there.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16

Hay fever time Is now approaching pr D, F. Kyle, who has been investi- gating the subject, says that in at least sixty per cent of his cases the irrita. tion has been due 10 chemical altera- ton of the secretions of the lining membrane of the nasal passages. He finds that CD non Irritating secretions may become irritating on coming 10 the surface, t2l secretions may be irritat- Ing without change and t3) the secre- ton may be made irritating by contact with some extraneous substance. The variations give ragweed fever rose cold, etc. Nasal obstruction or lowered vitality may increase the trouble The treatment depends upon whether the condition is acid alkaline or inert. or neutral or whether lt Is due to am monium salts the sodium salt ar po- tasslum salt, or to sulpho cyanides, tactic acid or oxalic acid There is no local application, but chemicals are added 10 tho water to make the local irrtant inert. and elimination Is sought by stimulating the action of the intes- tines, liver and skin. In the forty DOT cent. of cases not cured the irritant has not been discovered
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16

On Thursday of this week the New Haven small boy who Is allowed to feed the elephants at the circus to earn his admission to the show will feel as important as if he were one of the politicians at Chicago preparing the G 0. P elephant for its quadren- nial performance In the spotlight be- fore the American people.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-16

Steel bands or belts, as substitutes for ordinary leather belts or rope drives are being successfully used In a fac- tory at Charlotteburg, Germany. Such belts may be reduced to about one sixth of the size required for leather belts; they do not stretch, pulleys may be made narrower. and in some cases shafts may be smaller Either ordinary pulleys or puileys with q special cover ina to increase friction may be used, A belt four inches wide and one fifth inch thick transmitted 900 10 2so horse. power at belt speed of s,ioo feet per minute, and tests have shown that steel belts may be run l2ooo feet per minute.
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TAG DAY.

This is so far as we know the inven- ton of a Washington, DC, mind A Washngtonian being deprived of the joy of plotting politics except in Q legislative and local sense finds hla
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Lighthouses are 10 be superseded by naval searchlight signals is the scheme proposed to the Kiel Nautical society by Corvette Captain Arenold, a retired naval officer Pointing out that such signals projected at an angle of forty i've degrees. are visible al distance of fifty nautical miles. he urges that cone of light reflected perpendicularly upward can be seen al least eighty nautical miles-much farther than the more powerful horizontal pencil of light from tower of slxty-nve 10 100 feet high The different beacons could be made recognizable by different col OTIS and different forms for the light sheAf
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oUp CONTEMPORARIES.
No Obtecticns to Any.

NNtN 'fplupH itltk hIlD William Is "it." If Hughes won't hitch up with Taft. any of the others mentioned will do There Is really no serious objection to any of the timber pliment
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SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Seven years of rail enterprise. from i9l0 to 1906 inclusive, increased the railroad mileage of the United States from i9O,SSs to 222,GS5 miles of roal, an increase of 3i,S02 miles, or is 2S per cent. The length of second track. sid ings and additional tracks increased from sb.5sl to Ss,5se miles gain of 25.9SS miles, or over iO per cent. Cross earnings rose from sl.336, ,000,O 900 In 1899 10 s2.Si6, ,O00. 900 in ia)s. and net earn ings from si23,aiO, 900 to s79o, o,is0. 900.
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Npllls Is DlIlsn

(NeW London Ielegraph,)
 To paraphrase a widely known hu- morous story, New Haven has put its stamp of approval upon a fact-~that IS pills Is pills. The Mothers club of the Elm City, composed of matrons of experience who have fought the good fight against sweets that sour on the infantIle interior and generate days of now go forward carrying banners sten- cilled Victory Yes the New Haven city fathers have passed and the may or has signed an ordinance prohiblt- Ing the distribution of pill samples from door to door You see, the en- terprisIng pill makers gave something for nothing; but they reckoned not upon the propensity of Mary and John to put everything to test in their lit- tie dummies The mothers will be pill-less as for as free sampling of the curative globules is concerned
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There he goes"
 He didn't succeed in business for himselfg'
 "No he was too prone to take ad- vantage of an easy boss
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After the proposal and the accept ance, what7'
 "ln q summer resort engagement? Yes"
 An introduction. should say"
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The New York delegation 10 the Chi- csso convention left the grand cen tral station on Friday from track l3. But even had Friday been the thlr- teenth. which 1t came within a day of being. that is no reason to believe that the republicans will be unlucky. Mir Taft himself walked under a ladder in Washington the other day just to show his disregard for expectations. He can win out in spite of all
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The action of the academic senior class in voting not to have any class supper al the shore and to petition the faculty to issue a diploma 10 their la mented classmate, George Edward Cat lin. is a true expression of the sort of friendship and affection that the sons of Yale feel for each other. The unfor- tunate death of the young man has been made more regrettabe because 1t has come just on the eve of gradua- ton and because all attempts to re- cover the body have proved fruitless