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New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
UsES OF i TARIFF B01RD.

IT i 10 be horad that the tariff board TO be
nrovided for in the Senate draft OF the tariff
bin viii be such body viii command the
respect and confidence Of the country. II is
generally admitted that permanent advisory
body is needed. II a naNimum-minimum tariff
is to be established. and the President * to be
vested with discretion in applying the maximum
schedules against the products Of a foreign
country which discrnDates materially against
American products. be should have the aid Of
an expert board in deciding when and TO what
extent such discrimination exists. Moreover, in
Recommending changes and improvements in the
tariff system the advice Of a permanent body
charged with investigating the workings OF our
tarif and Of foreign tariffs would be exceedingly
useful.
According 10 Washington dispatches. the Sen
ale Finance Committee has agreed 10 enlarge
the scope Of the commission amendment 10 be
proposed to the Payne biil. The committee
originally thought that the beard should lie
composed Of four department bureau chiefs
the heads Of the bureau of foreign relations #
the State Department. the customs bureau f
the Treasury Department and the bureaus of
manufactures and Of statistics of the Depart
rent Of Commerce and labor. II * noX re-
ported that experts chosen from outside the de-
partments viii be added. So as 10 bring the
board III closer touch with conditions in the
world OF industry and commerce.
The value Of permanent non-partsan COM
mission in helping the President TO apply the
double schedules Is evident. Yet II would have
an eFen greater value in educating the public
10 an understanding of the conditions in accord
ance with which tariff duties IN general should
he gaugeG The discussion Of the bill now pend
Sne in Congress has shown how difficult it is 10
get clear idea either OF the effect on revenue
of a change Of rates or of the differential IN
cost of production here and abroad which is
supposed TO measure the protection allowed to
the domestic producer. The trainers of the
HOUSE bill. for instance. based their calculations
of the productivity of their measure on the vol
Hnie OF impcyss in the fiscal year l905r0G That
.year, they held, was normal year for COM
nerce, offering fair balance between the un-
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

From The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington April &.-The Spanish Minister en-
teraned at dinner tonight in honor of the Ameri-
Minister to Spain and his daughter Miss Ide
who are to leave here at the end Of the week for
New York, preparatory to sailing for Madrid
Among the guests were the Belgian Minister and
Baroness moncheur. the Argentine Minister and
Nine. de Portela. the Greek Minister. the Assistant
Secretary Of State and Mrs. Huntington Wilson,
Mr.. and Mrs. John ". Foster. Mr.. and Mrs.
CroTninshield. the Spanish First Secretary and
Sonora de Pastor, Mrs. Frederick II. Benedict and
Mrs. Richard @. Lay.
The Brazilian Ambassador Is expected 70 return
here about Wednesday from weeks trip East
where he went to deliver lectures before several
schools
Baron r. Haymerle. who is now in Austria and
until recently secretary Of the Austrian EN-
bassy here, has been promoted TO the embassy in
Rome
Baron Ambrozy returned the Austrian En-
bassy to-day from a weekend visit to Mr. and
Mrs Fairfax Harrison, at the Plains. Virginia
He will be entertained this week by Senator du
Pont at his estate in Delaware where number
Of others will be invited
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

nrecedanted importations of 1906-'01 and the
greatly reduced importations of lSOf-oo. Inc
senate Finance Committee. on the other hanu,
took the iTnportations OF 1906-'01 as a basis Tor
calculating revenue for 19O9-1O. although lheS
wore mucb rbe largest on record for any year
befnc yaIued at S1434W0,OOO. as compareu
with 81. .22GOOO00O the year before and SI'l9f'
o0eOoO the wear after. In the first nine mohlHs
of 1qnS- "a imports have been about Sl9."oo'V'V
1arrer than for The first nine months OF 1900 oo
For the full year they will probably reach again
tho total Of 19O3-06 and be still S2OO.pU1.uyo
short of the total for 19G6-'07 It would be OF
orea+ advantage in deciding which basis OF
reckoning is the sounder if an impartial OUTSIDE
body had made an independent estimate OF the
praba bic expansion in impOrtationS Tor lT'3- 10
Similarly it is hard to follow the judgments
of the two committees on the differental In the
cost Of production which measures the necessity
of protection. The House inclines one way ana
the Senate another. Political pressure Is Drou2hl
to bear in many cases TO eNaggerate thlS dlilei-
entail and the levyinG of compound duties
nart specific and part ad valorem-so cohnph-
cafes the task of analysis that only rev Per
sons really know when schedule passes Wh'C
relation exists under its provisions between tIle
difference of cost and the margin of protecuoh-
4 tariff commission studying rates and costs
wear i'm and wear out ought TO he able to speak
with more authority and 10 protect not Only 'ie
nullic but the committees in Congress against
impositions. What the country wants is a sclen-
tific tariff. 1t will not begrudSe any degree HI
protection which it understands and holds to he
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

in its stead It was generally expected III lhe
campaign that his election would mean re-
version TO old conditions. Indeed, it was openly
promised by some of his supporters-of COURSE
MOI with his authority-that if he was eecteu
he would be as blind in both eyes as he alreauy
was in one. According to representations nliue
in leading papers of Newark, those eXpecIh-
tions are now being rapidly fulfilled. says Inc
Sunday CALI: During the last few weeks
there has been rush to get back TO cohuI-
..tionS which existed four five years ago De
fore the advent of Sheriff SOmmer. No check
has been interposed by either the county or
city authorities"
Thus a great city which had been redeeheu
from social corruption and made safe ana clean
is permitted to relapse into a moral slough
The Sheriff is said to treat the matter Joh-
inglv." but since he has succeeded in securing
for one of his followers employment as
'special attorney at a fat salary-to perform
work which hitherto has been done by the
County Counsel without extra cost TO the tax
payers-there Is hope that he may be moved
to do something of a serious nature. 1t is not
conceivable that the people of Newark will per
nit their city to be debauched again without
holding somebody responsible. But the situa-
ton as it stands to-day is an illustration of the
disheartening manner in which a good work
can he undOne through lack of perseverance In
maintaining it.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
LONDON OPERA SEASON OPENS.
Samson ct Dalila" Given at the Request of
Queen Alexandra

London April 26.-The opera season at Covent
Garden began tonight with the first perform
anCe ever given in London OF Samson et DaIa. -
Although this opera was written twenty-seven
years ago. 1t has been tnterdcted by the censor
of plays for the that 1t contains Scriptural
characters, and its production is permitted now
only the request of her majesty the Queen
The principal singers We're Charles FOntaine as
Samson: Nine. kirby-LUun. DELLA Robert
Moore, American. as the high priest, and Murray
Davey as Ablmelech other singers were Nine.
Boni and NM Huberty. Zucch. Doisly and Yer
heyden The conductor NJ. Frigara.
The opera well received Several members
of the royal family present in the Kings
box, while others in attendance the com
poser OF the opera. Charles Camille Salnt-Saens;
Enrico Caruso, Nine. Adellna Patti baroness
Cederstrom). Mrs. George CORVALLIS West and
many persons prominent socially. The leaders OF
the American colony in Paris for the
Easter season.
Mime TetrazzIni is the chief OF the com
pany. She will appear next Saturday in La Ira
viata." Signor Campanini conducting
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
METEOROLOGICAL FRElhS.

The error of the Weather Bureau in It's fore
cast for Inauguration day is still made the basis
for attacks on the governments meteorological
service. 1t is easier today than il at the
time to determine the source Of the mistake
that was made; indeed, any liSent and dis
interested person can now form n pretty accu-
rate opinion without having any special techni-
cal knowledge
! In some of the printed articles on this subject
three weather maps are reproduced. showing the
positions o. the storm centre a s o'clock on the
mornings Of March . > and T. \ glance shows
that in the first twentyfour hour interval the
storm moved from Manitoba TO Northern Ohio
a distance Of fully eleven hundred miles. IN
the second ii travelled to Il point off the New
Jersey coast, considerably less than five hundred
mileS-a remarkable diminuton in the progress
of the storm, which. had the speed of the first
day been maintained. would have gone much
further. Another fact concerning which any
one satisfy himself by examining the morn-
ing maps which the government posts in many
places is that when a winter storm in crossing
the continent reaches Northern Ohio il almost
invariably arrives ON the Atlantic Coast in time
to leave clearing conditions along the coast in
less than a day. i single instance of what has
been occurring right along for the last few
months given a week after the Inaugural
ton. On Wednesday morning. March 10,
storm was central Sputn or Lake Erie. Inc
following morning there clear skies in New
York City Philadelphia and Washington.
Quite aside from the highly exceptional delay
ir the advance Of the storm of March 4-Or. 10
put ii more accurately, the backing up on the
coast after the centre had passed-was another
phenomenon even more remarkable. In the A tIan-
tic Coast states ali heavy precipitation is usually
observed in the forward half of a barometric
depression, while the wind is from the SOUTH
southeast northeast Rain or snow after the
wind shifts to the west or northwest is about as
exceptional white blackbird A cold wave
behind the centre often produces an insignificant
snow furry. but nothing more. The strangest
feature of the inauguration day storm. there
fore, was the continued and heavy fall Of snow
lasting for several hours after the centre had
passed off the coast and while a westerly wind
prevailed.
Meteorology is not yet an exact science The
weather torecaster must expect Il reasonably
close adherence TO established routes and rates
of speed. 1t would he folly to assume that the
perpleXlnS departures from the rule which now
and then confront him will occur every day In
the future freaks and "fiarebacks" will be fore
seen. perhaps because their causes will he better
understood than they At present such
foresight is impossible
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
THE TALK or THE DAY.

In recognition Of his twenty-five years OF ser
vice as pastor If the old South Church. Boston
more than 81 600 contributed by more than hVe
hundred parishioners. was presented to the Rev
George 4 Gordon recently. The gift was ac-
companied by an illuminated book of parchment
with veIIum covers. bearing the dates OF his IN
staIIation and Of the anniversary, and containing
a brief inscription and tho names OF the con-
tri6utors.
Does the new ONCE boy loaf or make mis-
chief?'
Loaf" -
Discharge him We can direct mischievous
lads efforts into some useful channel, but We
can't do anything with a foafer.'-Bunalo EH-
press.
The Temple Berth Kodesh. OF Rochester. which
was destroyed the recent big FIRE. was organized
I'm October 1885, by twelve young men. and for six
months religious services held IN the home OF
one Of these. Then a large room the third floor
~ a business building was secured for that purpose
and In 1856 a Baptist church purchased and
converted into n synaEogl o There services were
held until 1924 when the recently destroyed build
ing was erected. after plans by Leon Stern. at
cost OF $4,000 The Rev. DR.. Max Landsbers has
been the pastor Of the congregation since 1870
Fitznoodle Cwlth yawnD-Ya-as, weally. It costs
Ina i've thousand a year just 10 live don y know
Farmer Hodge-Don't ye pay II! Taint Wuth II!
Illustrated Bits.
Baltimore is congra atuatng herself on the figures
shown by the new city directory. Just issued. A
decided growth commercially and a gain OF nearly
twelve thousand in population in the last year are
indicated The population is placed at 69 l2s, which
Is gain Of II 94l according to the directory editors
est
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
MAYFLoWER MEMORIAL.
London EXPRESS.

Councillor r G. Oakley. Mayor of Southampton
writes to The Express to draw attention to a
proposal establish in Southampton memorial
TO the Pilgrim Fathers who set sail from that port
for New Yord in 1920
1T is amazing" he says. that event of such
eminent historical Importance the sailing OF the
Mayflower should have been left long without
any memorial in Southampton. Britons who look
with pride upon the early colonial ventures Of
their ancestors, and Americans who regard with
affectonate veneraton the founders of their great
federation. must equally desire to notable
an incident suitably commemorated.
i wish appeal to the English speaking peo-
pies both sides OF the Atlantic join me in
promoting this memorial, which l. trust. may be
come one of the ever increasing number of bonds
which are linking together in renewed Hamity and
respect the peoples of New England those OF
old England
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
PROFESSOR PICKERING AND MARS.
Does Not Believe Planet Inhabited-says Re
marks Were Misunderstood

Cambridge. Mass. April 26--Professor W h
Pickering. director OF the astronomical Observatory
AT Harvard University. does not incline 10 the
theory thst Mars IS inhabited. and does not there
fore take any active interest in plans for sg-
Mailing to that planet. A few days ago Professor
Pickering said that II signals were to be nasheo
from the earth to Mars It would be necessary "
have q mirror that would cost some ten or twelve
millions OF dollars.
This remark intended. Professor Pickering sa!'.
to show the impracticabity Of the project seems
TO have been misunderstood inasmuch as news
paper editorials from various parts or the coun's
indicate that the impression has gained SFoul1
that Professor Pickering was planning tnter-plan@
tary signalling
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
MEMORIAL FOR PROF. c. r. CARPENTER

II is purposed by the faculty OF the dep4 "a
of English OF Columbia University 20 fouho -.
mortal library in honor of the late Professor -
Rice Carpenter. Professor William TenheS -.
ster has been appointed chairman Of con1nii'.s -,
to take charge of the plaUs, and it is oehe'eu
the library will be opened SON. after the oes ~
of the next academic year. in Seotemoer. u I'm
plan of the committee have ii situated II ~ " "a
iiton Hail. where the department. OF -
housed. The library viii include works Oh - -.
ence. files of periodicals and journals and n,s.
collection of the standard works OF EnglisA
srature
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

It is reported from Chicago that the friends Of
John A Johnson going to arrange, for a
national mass meeting of Democrats to be held
in St Paul next September. This meeting VIII
consider reorganizing the Democratic party and
changing its name. calling it the constitutional
party. We trust. however, that the Minnesota
reformers will not go far as to repudiate the
noble beast Of burden which completely typi-
fes its qualities Of mind and soul-its normal
heroic patience as well as its occasional exhi-
billions of pervers1ty and unruliness.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
People and Social incidents

Of Miss Marion Oliver. met a host OF her f4.-A
made when her father British Ambaszaso
here Miss Oliver and Miss Durand Will l.s-.
Washington June l for series of visit. a
Lenox Richield Springs. Manchester and Bosto,
Miss Du=and Will sail for England July /
Miss Helen Buchanan. daughter OF Brigadier csr
eral James A. Buchanan, entertained at tea .bI
afternoon in compliment to her house guests NJ.
Helen Hunt. of Montana. and Miss Gertrude In.
shire, OF Oregon.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
CHESTER s. LORD NAMED FOR REGENT
Will Be Elected To-day as Successor to the
Late c. A. Gardiner
m TeIecranh tn No Trihn

BY Telegraph TO The Tribune
Albany. April 26-Both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis in caucus tonight named Chester S. Lord of
Brooklyn, to be Regent of the State University to
succeed the late Charles A. Gardiner. At formal
meetings tomorrow the houses will ballot sepa-
rately, and Wednesday Mr.. Lord will be for
maIIy declared elected.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
NINE. SCHUMANN- -HEINK NOT WELL
Singer Cancels Spring Engagements and Sails
for America

Berlin. April 26-Mme- Schumann- Heink the
singer left Hamburg yesterday board the
steamer Butcher for New York, having cancelled
her remaining spring engagements in Germany,
France and Belgium the advice of her physician
The doctor advised rest before the singer begins
her autumn engagements IN the United States.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

Wilbur Wright's flight yesterday without the
aid of any boosting device is the more notable
because he and his brother have hitherto found
the use of special apparatus necessary in max
ing start Ability to reascend from almost
any place where a landing has been made is
essential to the largest usefulness of an air
ship.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
MEMORIALS TO CLEVELAND.

From The Chicago Evening Post
chair fisheries at the University of
Chicago wouldn't be such a bad memorial to
Grover Cleveland. but viewed in the light of the
events here in the year of 1894 a chair OF rail-
road transpurtat ton might be more fitting.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
Mr.. FAIRBANKS TALKS TO HAWAIIANs.

Honolulu April 26.-Former Vice-President q W.
Fairbanks attended to-day's sessions the Ha-
waan Legislature and made address to the
members
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

one railroad company now gives the women
on its fast trains cups of tea, and another pre-
sents boxes Of confectionery If they visit the
dining car. A third once in the habit OF
providing them with flowers at certain stations
No one will complain of this discrimination be-
tween the sexes hut isn't Il a violation OF the
law which prohibits rebates?
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

Speaking of a we'll known New Yorker who
died recently. The New York World" said yes
terday: He was Democratic in manner. Is
there only one Democratic manner. or are there
as many Democratic manners there are va
rieties of Democrats
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
NEW YoRks LOG scHooLHousEs.


According TO the annual report of the state De-
partment of Education only eleven log school,
houses left in the state,
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

and an effective popular opinion. which DiuS
fair to make itself masterfuIly felt III Tue lui
ther direction of the empire.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
PI- -ZZLES

Oh the chemists have perpleXed us
TIL We find we cannot state
Where the viands that have yeXed US
Really originate.
When an unfamiliar SAVIOR
Marks the fruits that used to suit.
Is ii a benZoiC flavor
or failure of the fruit?
If you have TO read the label
on each bottle that is sold
Before you are truly able
To decide what IL may hold,
When with citizens too frisky
The police are playing tag,
How shall they distinguish whiSkey
From an imitation jag?
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27

Cole Younger. ex-bandit out parole granted by
the Governor of Minnesota, has taken to the lecture
platform In Oklahoma "A young never
made a more serious mistake than 20 suppose that
the world him living IL doesn't" says
Younger The understanding with the Governor
of Minnesota was that l might do l pleased as
long as didn't do It in Minnesota the bandit de-
New-York tribune., 1909-04-27
is your husband interested in BASEBALL

How strange. | thought all the men were
NO. John isn't interested. That isn't the name
for his trouble. He is baseball crazy."-Chcagu
Record Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
COURTESY

n RESIDENT TAFT'S campaign for
courtesy is a part of a much big
Il ger campaign which must be
waged-a campaign for a restoration
to American ideas of American ideals.
The presidents inferential rebuke of
modern citizens for their lack of the
graces and amenities which soften and
sweeten life might have been extended.
He might we'll have blamed the nation
for it's general forgetfulness of the
Golden Rule--a forgetfulness which his
predecessor emphasized by his pointed
use Of the phrase "a square deal". II
America were true to Americanism
no other dealing but square deal
ing would be known, while the gem
eral practice of the Golden Rule would
necessarily include the courtesy which
President Taft made the subject of a
sermon.
Courtesy includes not merely social
kindness, graces of speech, absence of
rudeness, but honorable treatment of
business associates and of all the fell
low citizens with whom a man of af-
fairs may have business. TO transact.
1t is not American to keep one citizen
waiting all day at the door because he
is poor, and to grant another citizen an
interview because it is believed he is
rich. wisdom is not confined in
purse, and frequently much wisdom
may be learned from a poor man.
Indeed, a poor man has the advan-
tage over a rich man, because nobody
thinks It worth while to disguise his
moods from a poor man or to fawn on
him. That is to say, human beings of
certain type are moro courteous to a
rich man than to poor, even in the
land where all men are created equal
and are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights, among
which are life. liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03
SMOKERS PLEASURE COST
THIS GIRL FIVE DOLLARS

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 1.-[Editor
Herald: There have lately been vari-
Gus arguments brought up in favor
of the street-car smokers, and 1 wish
to relate an incident which has lately
come to my knowledge and which GER
tainly argues strongly for the other
side of the question. 1t also proves
that the custom is not only decidedly
disagreeable to other passengers but
actually dangerous.
One morning a young woman "a
working woman. not a shopper or So
ciety woman, who, according to the
smokers faction. should not use the
cars during busy hours) was riding
on one of the suburban cars. All the
way to the city the man in front oil
her was blowing his tobacco smoke
directly in her face, and finally some
of the cinders blew in her eye, caus-
ing considerable injury. She suffered
intensely with it during the day, un-
til she could endure it no longer and
was Obliged to leave her work and go
to a doctor for relief. She paid IS for
having her eye treated.
And this is by no means the only
case of the kind. AN OBSERVER.