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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
UNIFORMITY IN THE PTPE FOOD LAW

UNIFORMITY IN THE PURE FOOD LAW.
Food Commissioners. representing the various
states of the Union. will meet I'm annual conven-
tion at Denver and the subject of a uniform
pure food law for the states will again be dis.
cussed. Before the passage Of the national pure
food law in 1906 that association took the
ground that the nation should pass food law
and the states adopt II. with only such changes
as necessary 10 nj II for state administra-
tion. Thus the law Of the whole country this
subject would he uniform and identical. In
1905 the association addressed President Roose
welt follows
The various laws which have been enacted by
the different states-and almost every state has
food laws-need the unifying principle Of a ma
tional law 10 render them properly effective. II
is evident that the state laws will be made TO
agree with the national law in definitions ard
general principles. differing only therefrom In
methods Of execution. The enactment ~ ma
uonsl law. therefore VIII be beneficial 10 state
officials, and especially TO manufacturers who
will find uniform legislation I'm the different
states instead OF different requirements I'm each
state. at present obtains.
After the national act was passed the com
missioners used all their influence to have It
adopted by the various states and II was sub
stantially accepted by practically all Of them,
until now the confusion Of law which exists re
garding divorces for example, Is unknown
garding food. But AZ its convention last August
the association OF food commissioners started
new movement for diversity and confusion. The
national law was denounced anda committee was
appointed to draw up a new model uniform
pure food law for enactment by the various
states. The new measure, differing greatly
from the national law, was introduced in the
legislatures of several states last winter, and
campaign In its behalf Is 10 be begun at the Den
yer convention. II Will be a mistaken campo ign
and can only bring discredit upon the pure food
movement If successful II would cause intol-
cradle confusion Differing requirements in diff
ferent parts Of the Union would place unneces-
sary burdens upon manufacturers and increa 50
the cost OF commodities 10 the public. The ideal
should be one law for the nation and the states
If the present national law is defective IT should
be amended both by the nation and by the
states. but a movement for a different law
for the states, or for any OF them, from that of
the nation should be defeated by intelligent pub
lie opinion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
SOCIAL NOTES. FROM NEWPORT.

tBy Telegraph TO The TribuneI
Newport. Aug. 1.-THE players who are 10 take
part in the national tennis tournament. at the
Newport Casino. tomorrow began TO arrive to-day.
The Casino was the gathering place for the players.
and the regsterings included William ID.
Bourne. T. c. Trask. Norman Johnson. Edgar F.
Leo. Wylie Cameron Grant. Harold II. Hackett.
F. b. Alexander. E. S. II. Pendergast. William
Rosenbaum. Z. F. Hutton. G. F. Touchard ami
Miss Josephine Robb. Of New York: Donald Wood
ward and Walter Bennett OF Jamestown Fred
erick I. Thomas. Ewing Steele. a. S. McCloud and
F. Steelman Balm. of Philadelphia; NJ. Kinnard
Smith. Of England: the Due de Valombrosa. Of
Paris; Miss Carolina Ramsay and William j.
Cothier. OF Philadelphia: otto II. Henck. Of Mont
clair. y. J.; c. VI. Bull jr., Of Newport; II. G.
Martin. OF Brooklyn: Pierre Tozzi. of Italy and
Mrs. Jack Gardner and Alfred Baker. Of Boston.
Mrs Jack Gardner paid visit TO General and
Mrs. J. Frederick Pierson today.
Sr. and Mrs Lewis Iselin have arrived for the
remainder OF the season, Joining Mr.. and Mrs.
thur Iselin and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Iselin at the
Halcyon cottage.
The Due de Vallombrosa has decided to remain
In Newport for two weeks more a guest Of
Robert ". Goelet.
Key Daingerfeld has concluded his visit 20 Dr.
and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs. and has returned
TO Baltimore.
Mrs. Edward c. Knight tr.. is expected very soon
from abroad To join her family.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert l.. Gerry entertained a small
party of friends board the steam yacht Electra
this afternoon
William Storrs Wells has gone 10 New York.
Mrs. George r. Sheldon. OF New York Is the
guest OF Mrs William c.. Rocker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
WOMEN AS ENGLISH PRISONERS

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The recent hunger strike OF the surrraeetes
In protest against being treated in prison as com
mon criminals instead OF political offenders calls
attention TO the wide difference made between the
two.
prits TO imprisonment IN the first division pris-
oners I'm this division may buy their own food wear
their own clothes receive their mail and be visited
by their friends. Those In the second division have
prison food. prison clothes one letter n month and
solitary confinement for twenty-five hours out NJ
twenty-four. The correspondent of a London nora-
writes:
you may publish paper containing n gen
eral criminal Indictment TO political assassination
and rank political offender and ger four
months In the first division. You may commit high
treason and lead armed body OF raiders a0ainxt
a people with whom your country IS at peace and
be sentenced to six weeks In the first division You.
may go cattle driving In Iysisnd and get six
months in the first division. I. ia recognized that
male Offenders may act with u POLITICAL motive hut
a woman acts. as every Knows irresponsibIv
and without motive. and cannot therefore commit
political offence"
At the recent suffrage fair In London one of the
most effective exhibits a facsimile of the
two cells allotted respectively TO common and Do
litical prisoners.
From American point of view Il seems rather
absurd that some four hundred women OF educa-
ton and refinement should have been sent To
prison common criminals. of them for a
purely technical offence. such trying to get into
the House OF Commons to present n suffrage petit
tion. Only the other day two young women grad
yates of Edinburgh University were sent TO aiI for
three weeks in the second division merely for
walking past Mr.. Asquith's house in silence carry
ing suffrage petitions In their hands.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
Chmark. Mass. Aug 49, 1903.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
GAS ENGINES FOR NAVIGATION.

In view of the possibility that large ships
NAV some day be propelled by gas power, an
experiment now In progress on the Rhine Is
worthy of note. A boat which is employed TO
tow bigger vessels up and down that river has
been provided with two internal combustion
engines each OF 200 horsepower. They are
operated by means of gas manufactured from
brown COAL Ignite, and that material Is
supplied in the form of briquettes made by
adding some glutinOus substance like tar to
the puverzed coal and moulding 1t in blocks
of convenient size. According TO CORE
spondent Of The London Times" the briquettes
are delivered the boat for nine English
shillings about 50 81 ton. 1t is estimated
that the cost of briquettes enough TO drive
boat of 500 horsepower would be slightly more
than 30 cents an hour
Ignite Is inferior In heating qualities TO
bituminOus coal and anthracite, and does not
command n ready sale in those parts of the
world where il is abundant The use of Ii on
the Rhine, however, seems TO point to a new
sphere of usefulness for, apparently, no dih-
Guilty has been experienced In purifying the gas
made from II so that the cylinders of the engine
will not clog. In this respect II is superior to
bituminous coal, which still presents embar-
easements 10 those who would like to use II
for the manufacture of producer" gas. OBJ
viously If il is serviceabe in the development
of power on the water II is equally we'll suited
to the work on land Hence the trial now being
given TO ii on the Rhine deserves watching.
One of the most important advantages which
would attend the general use of gas power
in navigation is that il would leave the air
uncontamnated by smoke. The towboat which
has begun running the Rhine is provided
with funnel to carry off the waste gases from
the engine. but not a particle of smoke is
emitted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Cleveland is all purfed UP directory census
which shows its population as $4,000. giving H..
as one paper puts II. the weterweight population
championship of the Middle West" on the basis
OF its police census and the names In its 1909 drec
tory Buffalo claimed a population OF $4,000 TO
100000. Detroit came forward more strongly.
porting a total OF nearly 100000. and Milwaukee
qualified for fourth place. with slightly more than
100000. Having easily beaten those three rivals.
Cey Gland seems content.
Mrs Muggins-when girl is married she is apt
to think her troubles are over.
Mrs Buggins-Yes. she doesn't seem 70 realize
that things go amiss with a Mrs.-Philadelphia
Record
Writing In THE Independent Some College
Spelling" Dr. William r. Bailey. assistant pro-
fessor of political economy at Yale. says that
mo one can blame the colleges OF this country IL
they demand of the requirements Of admis-
sion the ability on the part OF the student correct
Iy to spell words with which he would express his
thoughts" DIR. Bailey bases his article on a study
of misspelled words in three thousand word essays
submitted 10 him by two hundred and fifty stu
dents. There average OF five mistakes to
each pupil. Nearly fifty men, DIR. Bailey
made the mistake of placing an unnecessary e.
at the end of a syllable. departement. 'develope-
ment.' A very common error was TO transpose the
vowels Ell and le. Relieve and receive were
the words most sinned against. Preceding and
succeeding offered difficulties to many while
Offered and preferred proved troublesome Why
principal and principle should be often in
correctly used by college students is a mystery
There are a few simple rules for spelling which
should have prevented at least half OF the mistakes
Before the age OF fourteen these rules should be
part OF the educational OUTFIT Of the student In the
grammar schools"
Tom-Say. did you ever kiss a girl In a quiet
spot?
Jack-Yes but the spot only quiet while I
was kissing it.-Boston Transcript.
Before it adjourned last week the Senate Of Con-
necticut passed appropriation OF 50. 900 to pay
gratuities to the newspaper men who covered the
session. thereby bringing down it's head the
bitterest kind OF eensure from the leading papers
of the state The New Haven Journal Courier
suggests that II the Senators really think as much
OF the reporters the appropriation would seem
to indicate they pay the money out of their own
pockets. This has met with response from the
Solons I'VE have discussed this immoral appro-
priation," says THE Hartford Courant." until we
are sick of It. The Courant pays its own en-
ployes. gives its Legislative pay and con-
sders them TO be working for the paper and not
for the members. II pays It's baseball editor and
does not expect the baseball association or the
Senate to-"
so you believe in telepathy?''
Yes, answered MIR. MeektOn Though Hem
rietta Is miles away can tell exactly what she Is
thinking about this minute"
And does she know your answer"
she does She Is wishing l would hurry along
worrying about where the cash Is coming from
Washington Star
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
TIE METHOD OF PRoGREss.

Our neighbor "The Sun wants 10 know
why not voluntary instead Of compulsory di-
rec; primaries. IT, il remarks with perfect
truth "a political party wishes 10 give its mem
beers absolute control of the selection of its
candidates for Office. instead Of leaving the
choice 70 representative conventions. no law is
necessary 10 enable ii 10 do so. The desired
END may readily be attained by voluntary ac-
'rion within the party, without any legislation
whatever" Why then should there be a resort
TO compulsion when ali that is needed is vol
untary actiOng
For the same reason that the other roandatorr
laws have been passed in the last twenty-6ve
years or so affecting the action of parties ..Tbe
run refers TO this control of parties by the law
making power as lone Of the greatest chances
I'm New York State politics" II has taken rIsca
because hopes of Improvement by voluntary o.
ton have proved illusory. The first sten iowa I'd
the regulation Of parties taken In this countr,
was The passage of various permissiye or on
tional acts. These might be described as hints
by the state for voluntary acceptance The
parties might or might not obey them as tbev
saw ft. But Of 80 little avail was il 10 lool,
for improvement from voluntary action. even
when the steps toward betterment were sug.
gested by legislatures that this first course was
abandoned in favor Of mandatory laws controll-
ing the activities of parties. Every step for
ward from the period of the snap caucus. where
force and fraud prevailed in the making of
nominations, TO the present has been the result
OF some mandatory enactment. or voluntary
betterment there has been little or none Party
machinery has been conducted with as much re-
gard for decency as the law required and no
more Even to-day, with all the safeguards that
the law erects TO protect the due representation
OF the party. voter In the party councils. the
scandal Of the Buffalo and Of the Carnegie Hall
conventions lis possible. Grady can do and still
Goes do THE dirtest days work" OF his life II
check 10 such convention scandals as these
ID 70 come no one seriously expects II to come
from the voluntary amendment of their conduct
by the parties. but only through further leglsla-
iion taking away from conventions and their
committees on contests the power To unseat duly
elected delegates or from a compulsory change
in the system OF making nominations.
So with direct primaries. Only in the South
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
WOULD REVIVE STURGEON INDUSTRY
A Matter of Great Economic Importance. Says
Minister to Nicaragua

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The revival OF the sturgeon industry and the
Introduction OF the sterlet In the Hudson River
New York Bay. Long Island Sound. and also in
your lakes. In all Of which few years ago stur-
geon were very abundant Is matter OF such
great economic Importance that It's value runs al
most into countless millions OF dollars
As American Minister 20 Rumania servIa and
bulgaria. from which countries have been trans
ferred TO Nicaragua. had opportunities to learn
much about the value. habits and environment Of
the Danube sturgeon and sterlet. From the nfor-
nation gathered l concluded that II would be pos
sible TO introduce successfully those two valuable
hsh In our waters. and before leaving Rumania I
arranged with the officials OF that country to send
to the United States large quantity OF the eggs
and fry OF both the sturgeon and sterlet. I am
glad TO say that the United States Fish Commits
sion and the Delaware and Pennsylvania state com
missions greatly interested this subject and
express their faith in the success OF nv plan
With systematic Introduction OF the proper species
OF fish In our streams rivers. lakes and bays a
publication OF the waters and ample protection for
the fish. II will require only a few years 10 give
every section OF country an abundant SUNNY
OF fish. The HussO sturgeon. plentiful in the
Danube and Black Sea. a large quantity Of which
hope 10 bring to this country. In six years
weight OF more than two thousand pounds and
gives more than four hundred pounds of the finest
caviar. worth In Bucharest-t would sell for much
more In New York-more than $3.50.
l am deeply interested in this subject. and I
doubt II there is anything do in my dipIo-
matte capacity that In value or Importance to our
country will compare with the successful intro
duction into our American waters of the two most
abundant and valuable fish OF the old world MAY
l hope 10 have your cooperation?
HORACE G. KNOWLES
Washington. August 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
BRITISH LABOR EXCHANGES

From Daily Consular Reports -, ondon. tar
Cbnsul General Robert j. Wyhne' Cconceruing W. W.
ntshes The following Information ~ no ESTABLISH
labor exchanges which II Is PlUp SShich favora'"
in the United Kingdom ana on sis predicted: -.
action nv the British parliament ~ ns by rsorss.
The pI IN OF the government sgsself and crss
izing the British Board OF hiS shall be concsrA
with the new labor exchanges aaneted The Gov sI
unemployment insurance 70 pIivisons, each "..hIsL
divisional clearing house, uiutionaI clearing ~ 10
ana al, a IN these ten divisions yl nr EXCHANGES
between thirty and forty hrs' one hundred as
IN towns with population oI0d Glass excnassssnd
sand and upward fOrty-hve seeo 'an ATTY thoss ana
in towns OF a population oe, nT one hundrs1Tn the
fiftv minor exchanges in sInaue' committeesS am
larger centres general adVls"S unoyers anu cssss
sisfine ~ eouaI numbers OF erlp viii in al vssnf
nloves win be appointed. but nartal pernnrrtitsn
be under the direction or an iset 10 the -
official appointed by and 81 Ie'' rrsds
Board OF Trade p-,tseh Board - xurIw
The president of the ne NJ Ss' a wear. rislns
the building period to a'S"""
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17

Miss Angelica Gerry had gor.
for short visit u Lake De.,.
Mr. and Mrs. William ]. Clotb,sr
Muenchinger King cottage during M -, are at IA
nament' and H. w. Slocum. ~ NY tennis tor.
taken apartments at Berger's a,' York Ia,
OF Boston. is a Newport guest Hemenws,
Henry Walters returned TOD.
yacht Narada after the New w. :" me steam
cruise. iorA Yacht Or
Henry Clews went TO New yorL
f. F. Hutton arrived from Nen. ,vuaS
his yacht iork to-day "A
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Osgood cho.
York. are the guests of James T w. o. New
G. w. Jean is the guest Of Miss G, o ward Nm
William X. Vanderbilt jr. Is tha e" Jones
mother' Mrs o. Fl P. Belmont. al Mars1 49, q hs
Mrs. H. Mex TwomblS gave a d, r,~lO'e HOus
land tonight and Mrs. Margaret r Ma az Vine
a luncheon. "i'Nin sas
Mrs. James p Kernochan has beepn -
afternoon receptions, which she WIN SUNDAY
throughout the season. e0n'as
Mrs. r. c. Potter. OF New York q.
her sister, Mrs. c. MGR WinsloU Tbor1. sues' q
Is the guest of Pembroke Jones. ir. 'O's
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew AstOr Willis -
evening. also j. T. Terry ir OF York I5a-t' Leu Ha
Pierre Tozzi of Italy. is the guest 80 - 60, AZ
Ettore FOntana Miss NJ Mccormack ~ mites mites
the-HudsOn. is the guest Of Mrs Nau.- ser'
Mckii1. Alfred Baker. Of Boston, is the gns..
his aunt Mrs. Seth BrowneU SNr
r. Livingston Beeckman has gone N w.
for a few days "t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17
IN THE BERKSHIREs

Lenox, Aug. 1s-The Rev. DR.. William n. v.
bert who is spending the summer in Lenox !,
now a guest OF Miss Adele Kneeland. at Fair lawn
Mrs. Robert Woodward who has been al Bar
HarbOr. has returned TO Lenox to spend the ial
months with Mr.. and Mrs. Thatcher " Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maynard have returned D,
Mount Kisco. after visit in LenOx.
Mr. and Mrs R. Curzon Hoffman and r cursun
Hoffman r., are at Curtiss Hotel.
Mrs. George Winthrop Folsom have issued card,
for dinner az Sunny Ridge on Saturday
J. Wadsworth arrived tonight at Curtiss Hotel
The first meeting Of the Berkshire Hunt will n
on August .. at the Lenox Club. The run will 30
over the +. \. Schermerh0rn property. Richard
Watson Glider. Robb De Peyster Tytus and John
Hutton. who have country places in Tyringhan.
have bought one thousand acres. including The
FeTnside property, formerly occupied by the
birmingham Shakers. The estate was owned BY B.
A. Dingwan OF Mexico.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-17

sition. considerable weight seemed 70 De at
tached TO the point made that TO pass tue oii
would be to force the negroes INTO Tue Senoo'
give them q better education than the WHITES
and, as they put it, make them more uSeie''
than ever" 1t is needless to say that theie
would be no danger of their becoming De,ter
educated than the white children win equai
advantages unless they were better ntted 10
take hold of what offered TO them.
Judge Dickson of Tennessee, in Hampton
Magazine" suggests his belief In the aDiii'!
of the negro to fit himself for suffrage oh 'ii.
same basis as the white If given an equal
chance under an educational test by asAins
in view of the large amounts of money being
snent 70 educate the negro, both by the states
themselves and by charitable persons In the
North. If the South can continue to disfran-
chIse the negro by constitutional methods Tine
New Orleans Picayune' looks upon the sltua-
ton with great alarm, and says:
In the face of this state of things the outcry
seems to be general that every negro through
the operation of compulsory laws shall be tausi.
10 read and whenever majority shai! oe az
TO read that majority will vote. only the 'Iuel
persons now living remember or seem 10 care
for the horrors of negro domination. whhe tne
younger generation seems either TO desire UNI
versal negro suffrage or is too ignorant or TOO
Indifferent to what IT would bring ABOUT W
realize oppose its horrors.
The Telegraph of Macon, Ga, not less
Southern than The Picayune," while regret
ting the admission of the negro into full pollu-
cal fellowship. pays a tribute to his shrewd-
ness in the assertion that compulsory educa
ton law will have no effect upon negro children;
that they will attend school without the inceh-
tive so often necessary in the case or white
children" for 1.-The negro knows only too well
that in education lies the secret of political
in tba view should
vail more generally in the South 1t might be
deemed the height Of wisdom to pass compulsory
education laws to force the white children TO
take what the negro seeks in the face of opposi-
ton. In any event there is growing belief In the
South that, whatever may be the results OF a
more general dissemination of knowledge among
the negroes, the effect cannot be so disastrous as
TO permit large part of the population to re-
main in ignorance.