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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
MASSACHUSETTS, REJECTS.

The rejection by the lower branch Of
the Massachusetts Legislature Of con-
current resolution rajifying the income
tax amendment to the federal Constltu-
ton is especially Signiiicapt because 1T
3 represents the deliberate and properly
ascertained judgment II the veters.
Massachusetts is practically the only
one among the states acting on the
amendment in which the question of
ratification has been fully and fairly
presented to the electorate The pres
ent Legislature was ciected last fall.
The state conventions "a the two parties
adopted platforms definitely committing
candidates for the Legislature 10 posi-
tive policies The Democratic conyen-
ton favored ratification. probably be-
cause the Democratic national platform
Of 1905 had committed the party at
large 10 the support Of an income tax
amendment The Republican convention
4dopted a plank which. while not an
tagonizing taxation or incomes as such.
seriously questioned the advisability OF
cnIareing the federal power 10 tax
Them. since that power. if employed 10y
Tie nation. would drive the states out Of
I. field OF taxation which sound eco
nomic policy might make it advisable
for them 10 reserve for themselves.
Tbe Republicans Of Massachusetts
sonsibly held thar the Issue was not
properly partisan. 10 be decided in each
state in accordance with declarations IN
national platforms. but one Of local con-
sequence. 10 be decided ia accordance
with each states selfinterest. Massa
chusefts levies state income tax, and
were the federal government under the
terms Of the proposed amendment 10
legin 10 tax incomes Massachusetts
would either have to give up its revenue
from that source or sanction double
taxation Of the possessors Of incomes
exceeding = certain limit. Moreover.
Massachusetts is one of the states Oh
which the leyying of federal income
.fax not appCrtioned according 30 popu
latlon would impose a disproporlonate,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Countess Anna Maria Helena de Noailles,
a member of one of the historic families
of France, made a curious will which has
lately been proved. She left her estate at
Meads, Eastbourne. England, to found st.
Mary's Orphanage." laying down the fol-
lowing rules for the education of the girls:
No competitive examinations, no study be-
fore breakfast no study after .. m. all
lessons TO be learned in the morning. no
girl to work more than four and a half
hours daily. No arithmetic. except the
tables for children under
ten. No child with curvature of the spine
to write more than five minutes day until
thirteen. Each girl must be certified by
two phrenolegists as not deficient in con-
scientiousness and firmness; no Child to be
vaccInated.
THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.
Junior. winner of the Floyd McKffn garrison
memorial prize Of 500
With thunder driven heart
And the simmer of new wings.
!, q worm that was, upstart
King of Kings.
have watched the sunset die.
As I burst the lucent bars
Of the sky.
10, the argosies of Spain,
As they ploughed the naked brine.
Found the heaven girded main
Like to mine.
Soaring from the clinging sod,
First and foremost Of my race,
T have met the hosts OF God
Face 10 face.
Met the tempest and the gale,
Where the white moon-rtren cloud
Nrapt the splepdor of my sail
In a shroud.
When the ghost Of winter fed,
Swift I followed with the snow.
Like silver arrow sped
From a bow.
] have traiIed summer south
Like a fash of FURNISHED gold.
When she fed the hungry mouth
OF the cold
Till the world became scroll.
All the oceans, one by one,
Were my goal
Other winged men may come,
Pierce the heavens, chart the sky,
Sound an echo to my drum
Ere they die.
1 alone have seen the earth.
Age-old letters swept aside
In the glory or new birth.
Deified!
In these days OF scarcity Oh proNehder
and high cost of living it's a slight crumb
of comfort to hear OF one commodity that
is plentiful It's crab meat The Baltimore
papers report that on the opening of the
crab packing season a day or two ago in
the various tidewater counties on the East
err Shore Of Maryland the size and quail
itv of the crabs caught were all that could
be desired The crab packing business has
In the last decade grown from practically
nothing to large proportions. and, with the
exception of the oyster business. is the
most profitable industry in which water
men are engaged on the Eastern Shore.
School Trustee Remember, children,
Michelaneelo often worked for months on
a single curve.
Willie atchergivinus? Never heard OF
the bush leaguer.-Puck
Kansas has begun a big campaign TO rid
the state of the housefy. Or. 5. J. Crum-
bne, secretary of the Kansas State Board
Of Health, tells how the work is being
carried on: In eveqy postoffice in Kan
saa, In every other public place in all
slaughter houses and livery stables. every
where possible. Is posted warning cry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06

have caused radical notifications and
improvements In the plans Of school
houses. libraries and other public build
ings. adapting them TO use as places of
general assemblage and thus converting
them into centres % social and civic
activity. II was formerly a sad waste
of capital locked UP in costly school
houses to have them used for only u few
hours on five days Of the week and
empty all the rest of the time. It is a
great gain TO have them opened in the
evenings for the refreshing and enlight-
ening Of the minds Of adults Nor is 1t
extravagant to expect that before many
more years we shall see the system
which has made such progress in New
York generally extended throughout the
nation and opportunities for mental adj
vancement in adults made practically as
universal as is the compulsory instruc-
ton of the young.
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IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau.1


Washington, May 5.-The Yice-President
and Mrs. Sherman were guests Of honor
at a dinner tonight with Senator and
Mrs Oliver as hosts. Tomorrow the
President will entertain guests at
luncheon TO meet Prince Tokugawa Of
Japan, and on Saturday he viii go TO
Utica, to remain over Sunday.
Several hundred gayly attired women and
well known men watched the ball game this
afternoon between members Of the Chevy
Chase and Metropolitan clubs which was
played for the benefit of the free wards
of Providence Hospital Among the spec
tators were Mrs Stephen B. E1kins Mrs.
John E. Reyburn, Nine. Chermont, the
Belgian Minister, Ms aud Mrs I-a=z Ar
derson, Mr. and Mrs. John p. Story, jr.r
Mr. and Mrs Robert Roosevelt, Miss Olga
Roosevelt. Mrs. EIbridge Jordan. Louis
HamersIey, OF New York; the Misses
Riggs, Representative ond Mrs Nicholas
Longworth, Mr.. and Mrs John a John
ston. 0den Horstmann. Mrs. Murray Cobb,
Major and Mrs. Spencer Cosby. Miss Jean
Oliver, Colonel and Mrs. Charles L. Nc
CawIey, Mrs Livingston Hunt, Mrs. CIar-
encs Moore. Mrs Emile Montgomery, Miss
Mary Hoy1e. Mrs. Karl Core. of Pittsburg;
MIS-. JOHN W. weeks ana MIS-. George
Howard. Mrs. Guidet Duryee. Baron Har-
denbroek, Emile Casteur. Miss Hartman,
Mrs. Livingston Hunt, Mr.. Alexander Brit
ton and mir. and Mrs. John Sidney Webb.
Mrs. Andrew Y. Bradley, Mrs. Evan SIN
clair Cameron and Mrs. White chaperoned
a party of young girls of society who sold
score cards. Miss Olga Roosevelt, Miss
Anna Irwin, Miss Margaret Barbour, Miss
Krogstad and Miss Helen Parker were OF
the party
Mrs. Hunt Slater is entertaining Mile.
DagTnar Rubner and gave dinner at the
old Pierce Mill this evening in her honor.
In the party were the Misses GUIDE.
daughters OF the Minister from Norway
Mrs. Samuel + EmmouS, Miss Harriet
WadswortIi, Alfred Mitchell Times, Brit
ish counsellor; Mr.. de Thai. Russian sec
ond secretary; Jonkheer van weede and
Jonkheer de Beaufort, of the Netherlands
Legation; Hugh Rowland, Arthur Hale and
William Bowie Clark
Miss Esther Denny entertained guests at
supper at the Abb Club following the
play at the Belasco tonight The party
Included Miss Alice vandergrfft. Miss
Katherine Danger1eId. Miss Anna Irwin,
Lieutenant RowcIif. Harry Blagden. Brit
ton Brown and David Barry, jr
Mr.. and Mrs. John Il Mclean ara enter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06

To The Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: iIalley's comet IS not the only sky
exhibition announced for the month of
May. Two of the four solar and lunar
eclipses of 1910 will take place-the first.
total solar eclipse, occurring on May s, and
the second total lunar eclipse, being visi
BILE ON May % and II. The solar eclipse Of
May will not be visible to us Of the East.
but the lunar eclipse of May % and "a Will
be vIsible-the moon entering the earth's
shadow CNeW York; at 1850 p m. and leav-
ing the eart1's shadow at 2:26 m
Such an eclipse is not as interesting and
instructive as total solar eclipse, but
there is a certain weirdness about the ter
restrial interception OF the moons sun
light When watching a lunar eclipse we
should recall a few facts respecting our
beautiful satellite-one of which is that
our earth IS about forty nine times as large
and, also, that bodies at the terrestrial sur
face weigh approximately six times as
much as they would at the lunar surface.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
Brookine Mass May 4, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
PRACTICAL CITICS.

II is probable that never before in the
history Of the world was anything like
as much attention paid 10 the study of
what WE may senerically term civics as
there is now. We would not except even
Athens, because there the study of the
science Of citizenship and government
and social interests was confined to 4
small and privileged class. while in orr
day it is universal. and if it prevails
in one part al he community more than
in another il is in the very part which
corresponds with that TO which it was
unknown in Piato's day And this must
be regarded as q decidedly hopeful cir
cumStancc For while the saving i'm
puted TO James Madison may have been
trile, that even if every Athenian citi-
zen had been Socrates, still all the
Athenian citizens would have been a
mob, we must certainly prefer a mob
Of philosophers to q mob of ielots The
citizenship Of the city. the state or the
nation is the aggregate of citizenship
OF the individual citizens.
In this view of the case we might give
high rank as an agency for the cultivation
Of practical civics 70 the department Of
cur educational system which has just
complsed the tweBty-first year of its
work. We refer 10 the organized scheme
Of adult education which is commonly
known as the free public lecture courses
Of the Board of Educa ton. For while it
is not specifically devoted to civics in
the narrow and technical application Of
the word. but aims TO cover the whole
Stadjanl generate OF popular and popu-
larizable knowledge the fact is that the
best Development Of enlightened citizen
ship is 10 be attained in Just that way.
There are some, particularly among our
socialist friends. who have 1dwelt so
much upon narrow topics of social eco
Monies. 10 the neglect OF more general
and extended and symmetrical Obserra-
tiOns Of the world. that they have be
come little more than faddists and doc
trinaires. That error Is carefully avoided
ia this Peoples University as the
lecture system has been aDtiy termed
and the development of citizenship is
sought through the symmetrical devel-
opIneni OF the whole man.
1t is encouraging 10 observe the steady
growth OF the system both here in New
York. where il had its beginning, and
also ia Faany other cities which have
wisely followed tho example of the me
tropolis: and 10 observe. too. the man
ner In which tie demands Of tie system
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Icon 10 Trlhnne Rurean. !


Washington, May 5-The President ana
his party arc expected back at the White
House TOMORROW morning. Besides the
regular Friday Cabinet meeting, president
Taft will confer With the Senate and House
leaders. n number of conferences having
already been arranged for tomorrow and
Saturday President Taft viii be IN Ne"
York on Monday 10 open the fair TO ne
given for the Actors Fund OF America
and in the evening will deliver an address
before the Board of Trade OF Passaic, N. ).
Governor Fort was at tho White House
to-day. making arrangements for the
Presidents visit to Passaic. Mr.. Tart VIII
return to Washington early Tuesday morn
ing, but viii leave the city the afternoon
of the 18th for New York. The Following
day the President will attend the launching
of the battleship Florida, afterwaTd din
ing with the workmen constructing the YES
sell The night OF the 1ith viii be spent
at the home of his brother. Henry w.
Taft, In New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
CoMMUTER AT THE BRIDGE
Delay of Business Men by River Traftc
Resented by Roads.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
= Sir: This morning fourteen Erie MAIN
line and New Jersey and New York CON-
muter trains were delayed from twenty
minutes to one and one-half hours at the
Hackensack drawbridge by reason Oh
brick schooner being wedged I'm the draw.
Several years ago the Erie, In associa-
ton with the Delaware LackaWan1a g
Western, the Jersey Central and Penn5yi-
vania railroads, took up vigorously with
the War Department the question OF nav
ing the drawbridges on the Hachenssek
and Passsic rivers closed for an hour or
two in the morning and an hour or two IN
the evening in order that cofnmuter trafne
might be handled promptly. For many
years. as is quite well known. the open
ing and closing of drawbridges during the
rush hours have seriously delayed the SUD
urban trains Fully 10 per cent cent OF the
delays to Erie commuter trains Is due to
open draw bridges
Some years ago the government issued
Instructions relative TO the Harlem River
draWbridges The traffic OF the fiaCkcn-
sack and Passaic rivers is hardly 10 per
cent of what it is on the Harlem River, yet
the government has steadfastly refused TO
put in effect such an order for these water
ways
This is rather serious matter to rail-
roads carrying New Jersey commuters. and
any assistance You can give us toward agi-
tating the subject / have no doubt Will
be thoroughly appreciated by the patrons
of the railroads whose lines cross the
HackensacIz and Passae rivers.
There Is really not sufficient traffic on
these rivers TO justify taking the chances
that commuters have to take in being sert-
ousIy delayed as they were this morning.
J. H. MADDY,
Erie Railroad Company.
Ken I'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
HR. ROOSEVELT on 'TNTERNA
TTONAL PEACE

HR ROOSEVELT on 'iN1ERAA-
TIONAL PEACE
That an e1-Presidcnt of the United
States should address the Nobel Prize
Committee at Christiania as the recip-
lent of the prize for promoting internal
tional peace is unique Incident 1t
was highly interesting 10 have such r
prize won ana such an address deliv-
cred by a man OF militant disposition
who had been conspicuously associated
with the increase of ornaments and the
cxertion of military power. But there
was no incongrlity Indeed, not in
spite of, but rather because OF, his ap-
preeiation of the need of military effi-
cheney Mt. Roosevelt was fitting e4-
ponent OF the peaceful desires AMI de
signs of nation which without undue
boasting can claim TO be second TO none
in its aversion 10 war
To the logic of his address It would
be difficult to take exception The first
means of avoiding war is through
treaties of arbitrati and the next is
through the development Of an inter
national tribunal similar 10 that which
our State Department has recently ad-
vocated. There should also be move
ment for the checking Of the growth If
ornaments, but on that point Mr..
Roosevelt wisely observes that the
thing must be done by general agree
ment. and not by the act of single
power AL thoughtful men will surely
agree with him in holding that it would
be eminently undesirable for peace
loving power 10 dIgarln. and thus put
itself at the mercy of some rival So,
he argues. there should be league Ut
peace among the nations, which should
restrict the size of ornaments, but
tain a sufficient military force TO make
its will effective 1t is easy. perhaps.
to make a Jest Of the proposal to keep
the peace. even if we have to fight for
II. but. of course. that is precisely what
is done in every community which has
police force for the maintenance of
peace and order. and that is the precise
preserved in the world by an interna-
uOnal league OF peace.
We believe that Mr.. Roosevelt accu-
rately expressed the most intelligent
and enlightened sentiment of this ma
ton in thus arguing that peace must be
based upon justice and righteousness
and must he maintained by a power
which is physically capable of repress-
ing disturbances and enforcing order
While no single nation can exercise
such power, n league of half q dozen
might easily do SO. But to secure per
manent cooperation among the half
dozen chief nations of the world for
that purpose, however desirable If may
be; is not a simple and facile task, %
be achieved at a single sitting at after
noon tea. or even. we fear. at single
session of the most responsible and au-
tboritatiTc Of International congresses.
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People and Social Incidents

tanning ut Frieudship Miss Gracs Brown.
OF Cooperstovn. n. y. and wfli give tea
i'm her honor to- J1orrow afternoon.
The BefsscO was SLED tonight with a
brilliant audience to see the Calcium club
of George Washington University in Tbs
Girl and the Page which was presented
for the benefit az The .Funior League Of thu
National Junior Republic. Mrs. Robert
Roosevelt, Mrs. a. q. Barney Mrs. Larz
Anderson Mrs. Gardner Williams. Miss
Boardman and others were IN the list Of
patronesses and trsost ,of them entertained
parties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
THE CABINET.

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington. May 5-The Secretary OF
State entertained at dinner tonight In
honor of Prince Tokugawa. President of
the House of Peers of Japan. who is max
ing three days visit 10 Washington Ills
guests were the Postmaster General. the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the
Ambassador from Japan, Speaker Cannon
Senator GaIIinger, Senator Bacon, Sen
ator Carter, Senator Brande3ee, Repre-
sentative Payne. Representative BurleSOn,
Lieutenant General Young, Hear Admiral
Richard Wainwright. Paymaster General
Harris Brigadier General Henry G. Sharpe.
the Assistant Secretary of State, the Third
Assistant Secretary OF State. Chandler
Hale, Mr.. Sengoku. Secretary of the House
of Peers of japan and private secretary TO
Prince Tokugawa, and Mfr. Miller, Of the
Department Of State.
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rRE MEMS THIS af0RNT6G.

CONGRESS-SenaIp. \ speech by
Mr. Bourne praisiilg tire election law Of
Oregon hHeusast on a discussion of fed
oral patronage especially in the South
--= House: The railroad bill was I'M
dor consideration, an amendment FAVOR
ssle 70 carriers by water being adopted
FORElGN.-A dispatch from the cor
respondent 81 The Tribune in London
says that King Edward is i'll with bron-
Cht1s. and though his recovery is not
deefairea Of hiss breathing is rapid and
- lriS heart action weak. - Five hum
,hed persons were killed and many huB-
dreds injured by earthquake which
destroyed part of Carriage. Costa Rlca-
- Ex-P-esident Roosevelt delivered
IN address on international peace before
p t4ae Nssel- Prsse Committee and a large
audience. IN CAasiStiaTia. Norway. -
The parliament Of Argentina WAS opened
in Buenos AHI'es- with message from
President tlcorta. - Commander
Robert +. Prary delivered his first publie
p lecture in Great Britain to a large audi
-Cnce in Queens Hall London. 60 "A
dispatch from Cfang-tSfa. China says
lie band Of reYolutioniStS which stirred
up anti government riots there, has
moved on TO Tayell, Hu-Peh province,
which explains Yesterdays reports OF
trouble there.
Secretary BallingeT, tes-
tifving before the investigating commit
been in accordance with his duty, con-
tradicted statements of ex-Secretary
Garfield and read a letter giving Presl-
dent Tafts opinion Of Clifford Pinchot
- Publications of the new waterway
treaty with Canada. were exchanged by
Secretary Knox and Ambassador Bryce.
An explosion In the collieTy or the
Palos Coal and Coke Company, at Palos,
Ala. buried $50 miners, all of whom are
thought 10 be dead. - The Assembly
70 ado
resolution reported by the Committee on
Rules providing for the appointment of
= legislative committee 70 investigate
the feasibility Of imposing state tax.
suitably graduated, on incomes. -
The state Prison Commission at Albany
elected Henry solomon, Of New York
president of the board. -= Super1n-
tEsndent Hotchklss again criticised Lewis
II Vail. president OF the Dutchess Fire
Insurance Company. II was learned at
Polrshkeepsie. X. Y. The defence
IN The trial Of Dr. e. c. Hyde for the
murder Of Colonel SWope opened its case
in kansas City.
CTTT=Stoclzs were strong = Evi-
dencc was given tending to show r A
FIpf71ze-s connection with the 1907 copper
pool. -- District Attorney Whitman
.lets inE5 more evidence of the white
slave" trs 47ic in she city == Thomas
Marin described the quotation service
he ha6 been giving 10 the Consolidated
stock Essclaange. == The federal granq
Jury continued its Investigations into the
workings Of the alleged Watch Trust
-- The body of Henry Pennington
Toler. the former Christian Scientist
Who Jumped into the East River three
months ago was recovered. =- i was
officially announced that Paris and Ber-'
lin would take scores Of millions OF
American railroad bonds and notes.
THE WEATHER Indications for to-
dsv: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest so degrees. lowest IS.
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ASCENSION DAY AT TRINITY
Day Also the 64th Anniversary of Con-
secration of Present Building.

Trinity Church was packed at the Ascen-
sion Day service yesterday. which also was
the sixty-fourth anniversary of the conse-
Grafton OF Trinity Church. The chancel
was decorated with white lnies daisies
roses and other white flowers. interspersed
with ferns and palms
The choir. under the direction Of Victor
Baier. the organist. was augmented TO fifty
voices. and an orchestra OF forty-three
pieces helped in the musical programme.
The service was conducted by the Rev.
Dr. w. #. Manning. Among those i'm the
church were Bishop William Walker, OF
Western New York Bishop John Gardner
Murray of Maryland. Mrs. David ~ Greer.
Mrs Vernon NJ Davis. J. Howard Van Am
ringe and William Barclay Parsons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

IFrom The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington, May 5.-Fhe Austrian naval
attache and Baroness Preuschen Won Und
Zu LieDenstsin went to New York this
morning preparatory to sailing on Satur-
day for Europe. The baron viii enter upon
sea duty for several months, while the
baroness visits friends and relatives They
will return in November.
Sefora de- CaIvo1 wife Of the Costa Rican
Minister, has returned TO the legation after
q short visit to friends in New York
Senior PuIido. Venezuelan first secretary.
Is spending several days in New York
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HOLDEN SALE NOW $4,000
Portrait by Trumbull Brings $3.50 at
Continuation Of Auction.

portrait of Mrs ELIAS RoUdiuut. painted
by Holm Trumbul, from tire I'd Frosssrd
collection. brought S60 The bighest price.
at the sale OF the Edwin B0hcock Holden
collection at the American Art GaIlegie> i,t~r
evening. The buyer vas Edward Dressed
North. The evening sale realized sep ami
the afternoon sale S2.6a. makipg total SD
far of SEQ
J. n. Lewis paid So 80 at the evening Ss1s
for miniature of John Andre ey Trtlm-
bull At the afternoon sale The LAM
scape. with the Sportsrpau. an impression
of an etching by Rembrandt was bought
by 'KeI pei FOR Si02 80, other Rembrandt
etchings The Angel Appearins to ths
Shepherds" and Christ Driving the M0nev
Changers from the Temple. were knocked
down 70 'Meder'' at 81 50 and SIS. resnec-
lively.