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Boy Scouts a volunteer
War Scare Result. eo uD..' ~

of military discipline and training. They
of American cities, except that Gen. Ba-
den-Powell has appealed to boy nature
by substitutin.; a khaki uniform and a
combination of wild west and South
African scout drills for the more formal
and exacting dress and duties Of a cadet.
The territ orial volunteers, the boy
scouts, the girl guides and .-.e imperial
list agitation generally have had the eff
the army which Britain never before has
possessed. Mr.. kipling's scolding is no
longer needed. The English are frighten-
ed and they are enthusiastic about their
army. In spite of popular excitement,
however. the so-called blue water school
maintains the ascendancy and Britain
relies upon it's navy to save it from in
vasiOn. This implicit trust in the navy
is probably the only reason why COM
pulsory military service has not been
adopted. II the conservative party should
again come into power it is probable that
some system of universal service will be
instituted.
The British army Is quite small its
regular force at home and abroad, ex-
elusive of India. amounting only to 49,
go men, or about twice as many as lie
American standing army. At least 70,OOJ
of these men are required for garrison
duty abroad. The regular establishment
In India comprises about 1900 white
men. The native army is more than 49,
10 strong Including the colonial mill
tias, the army reserves the territorial Is
and all other forces composed of white
men, the total strength OF the British
army is 6SO.C0O men. Making similar in
illusions. Germany has more than four
million soldiers, ard has practically all OF
them at home.
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Pays Big Money
for q Poor Army

tically the same as is spent by the United
States. But India also spends 500, 600,
OOU year on the army. and other parts
Of the empire expend $G0,OOO.OUO. If the
entire British army of 10000 men, Brit
ish and native Indian. be considered, the
annual cost is $500, OOC, 600: or more than a
hundred million year more than Ger
many spends to maintain its immense
military establishment.
Compulsory universal services and small
pay to the officers and men enable Ger
many to maintain its vastly superior
army at only two-thirds of the cost of the
inferior British army. If Great Britain
must fight Germany for its life and en-
pire, il behooves the British to be more
economical. This argument is the great
est weapon III the hands of the imperial-
istic military party in its attack upon the
time honored British notion of yolun-
tSer army.
TomOrrow-The British Crisis,
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men have the benefit of instruction from
regular army officers.
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MANY Messages Of Coincidence.

News of the death of Maj. Venable
quickly spread, and yesterday afternoon
and last night the house was visited by
friends anxious to offer coincidence and
proffer their assistance il 1t were needed.
Among the first to reach the house was
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The hoy scouts are another result o
the German scare. They are young boy
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century
Napoleon threatened the British su-
premacy, but
ENGLAND Got Others England did
to Do Her Fighting. little arh,ing
on land. Subsidies were paid TO the
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TomOrrOw-The British Crisis.
VII. The Fear of Competition.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britiar
and Ireland. ever since the Boer war, ha.
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The ineff1ciency OF the B4itish regula
army was proved in the Boer war. Eve
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Table of 81 and S1.50 Embroider-
les, from IS to ~ inches wide: choice
of all-overs, waist frontings and
fOuncings; in the handsomest de-
signs produced this season, i9c.
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Now comes strong party in England
demanding that Great Britain turn its
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Record Sale of best 12kc Yard
wide Percales, of heavy smooth
finished grade; light grounds with
neat fast stripes and dots. Yard,
9%4c.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.

ltrom Inc Tribune BuTeau-I
Washington, Jan. 25.-The Italian Ambas-
sador and Baroness Mayor des Pianches
have issued invitations to diplomats and
others for a farewell dinner at the En-
bassy on February Z. Until the return to
this country. the first of next month, of the
Italian counsellor. Marchese Paolo di Mon
tagliari. who brings to the ambassador his
formal letter of recall. the exact date of his
departure will not be announced Many
social enga gements for the ambassador and
the baroness are being made for the re-
nlainder of their residence here Their de-
parture will cause much regret
The Russian Ambassador, who has been
ill for some weeks. is still confined TO the
Embassy and denying himself all social en-
gagements. but has sufficiently improved 70
admit of Baroness Rosen and their daugh-
ter, Baroness Elizabeth Rosen. carrying out
in part their engagements.
The Austrian Ambassador returned to
Washington to-day from a short visit In
New York.
The Swedish Minister and Nine. de Lager
crantz returned to Washington to-day from
a visit of several days in New York.
Countess Moitke has gone to Boston TO
visit her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Thayer. and will be absent from the capi-
tai until February 8.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29

tee, If we are not mistaken, favored,
but fiscal supervisor" This idea Is
borrowed from the practice of the state.
The wide area makes single pur-
chasing agent for the whole state OBJ.
viously impracticabIe, but we do not
see that any similar circumstance
stands in the way of single purchaser
OF supplies for the city. The legislative
committee does not report new char
ter. We see no reason why ii should
1t is In favor of doing nothing but patch
ing the old charter and that can be
done by the adoption of few amend
ments
The merit of the WINS charter was
that 1t extended the principle of home
rule and made constant interference
from Albany unnecessary. Naturally.
that principle is not accepted in Albany.
In regard TO the wages of policemen.
tremen and school teachers, the COM
mittee is not even prepared to admit
that 1t is not the duty of the Legis-
lature to fix the compensation of such
local employees. The sense of duty
which inspired the repeated passage of
the equal pay" bills is strongly in evil
dence all through the report on the
charter.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
FAVORS AN EXPORT TARIFF.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A few days ago you printed letter
from Wilbur A. Heisley with reference to
high prices. Those he refers to are the
prices now being paid for provisions, but
from what he says later on in his letter by
way of warning to the grand old party
the Inference Is that the remedy for high
prices for provisions, of which he complains,
would be a general reduction in the tariff
on manufactures OF course that would
mean a general reduction in wages, which.
of course. is equivalent to reduction OF
the volume of cash poured on the domestic
market, which, again. is equivalent TO
general reduction of business.
1t would seem that the real remedy Tor
high priced provisions would be consti-
tutionaI amendment permitting a good ex-
port tariff on provisions; or, at least, an
export tariff as high as the import tarin
Instead of this course, however, constl-
tutional amendment is proposed which Will
rermit Congress TO levy tax on incomes
from whatever source derived. and this
in face of the fact that all taxes on capital
come out of wages and not OFT of profits. If
income is taxed, capital evades taxation
by fleeing the country of taxation, as Eng
lands capital is now doing, unless the
needs of the wage-earner are so great that
he will stand reduction of wages equal
to the tax EQUITAS.
South Norwalk. Conn, Jan. %, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
PRECIOUS METALS IN 1909.

From a bulletin just issued by the
United States Geological Survey it ap-
pears that the output Of gold In this
country last year was about 500, 900, 600,
a gain of fully 81, 100000 over the out
put of 1905 California and Colorado
each continued to contribute a plump
fifth to the total supply. though the
former state reported an increase of al
most $2.000O00 in her yield in 1909, while
the latter showed a decrease amounting
to nearly 81. 1.000, 600 The largest increase,
a trifie more than S3.0O0,OOO, was ef-
feeted by Nevada her entire production
closely approaching $15,O00,00O. In a
measure this exceptional output is due to
the fact that at one leading mine in Ne
vada the ore taken out in 1908 was stored
for treatment on the completion Of a mill
which went into operation last year.
Should there be no untoward experience
like the labor strike which cut down
South Dakota's yield in 1909 about
100000, the Geological Survey ex-
poets that during the current year the
hundred million dollar line will for the
first time be passed.
Last years output of silver is eSti-
mated at 90, $4,000 ounces, an increase
Of 100000 ounces over that of 1908,
but a decrease of nearly 100000
compared with 1907. Moreover, in spite
Of the gain in quantity In 1909. there
was a din1inution in actual value, for sill
yer brought 53 cents an ounce in 1908
and only 80 cents last year. Indeed, the
value of that metal in 1909 was fully
S10,O00.000 less than the average for
the previous thirty years. The low
price in this country was undoubtedly
attributable to the astonishing produc-
ton in the Cobalt region In Canada.
Government statistics. it will be OBJ
served. show that on the whole the
gold industry of the United States en-
joys the same moderate prosperity
which now attends the production Of
most OF the baser metals The silver
miners have been less fortunate. Their
experience, which has probably been
helpful to the manufacturers of plate,
furnishes fresh occasion for congratula-
ton over the fact that the country's
currency does not rest on a white
metal basis.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
AmuSementS.
academy OF MUsIc-e:l5-s:ls-


academy OF MUsIc-e:l5-s;is-Ra
SToR-2:i5-s:Is-seven Days.
BELASCo-2:l5-s:l5-Is Matrimony faiiure
:2o-The Lottery Man
BROADWAY :15-The Jolly bacneiofs.
O-2:l5-S:15-The Chocolate soldier.
I-2-S-NaudeSille
CoMEDY-2: -2:i5-s:l5-The Watcher
CRITTRION-2:I5-s.2 .2o-The Bachelors Sapy.
TALY'S-a:ls-sso- so-The Inferior Sex
EDEN MUSEE-The World in Wax
:3o-The Moilnse.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Little Town OF 'Sesh-
RIc,JK-2:l5-s:l5-Your Humble Servant.
sIOBE-2.I5-S:15-The Old Town.
HkcKETT-2:I5-s:l5-P of Bohemia-
fgsNAI tsRsTEIN' 2:l5-s:i5-NauoeVilie
EFRAI,D SoTARE-S:i5-Old Dutch.
EIppODROAIE-2-S-A Trip &c JAPAN IN
side the Earth; the Ballet oF Jewels
:l5-A Lucky star. e.,K
TKNIN(s PLACE-2:I5-Der Zigennernaron-o'io
Die Forester Christi ,>,.
1-N-Ty-E FP OC~I<FcI2-a-s-The Dollar Princess.
LIBERTY-2-s-The Arcadians
IYCFITM-e:Is Dot
TyRIC-2: 2:I5-S:I5-The City.
MANHATTAN OPERA HotSE-2-0risehoiS-
MAMIE FIIIoTTs THEATRE-2:3o-s:So-
The Passing OF the Third Floor Back .
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoCSE-2-Orieo-o
-FIa-sel und GreteL -,
NEW AbEsTERDAM-2:l5--s :lS-Ths Barrier-
NEW YoRK-2:l5-s:i5-The Man Who OWNS
sAv0Y@a:I Faith Healer.
ST NICHOLAS RTNK-Ice skating
sTUYVESANT- T-2:15-s:15-The Lily. w.,
WALLACE cK'S-2:15-s:l5-Alias Jimmy Naieh-
tine
wrBFR's-2:ls-s:I5- Bu::les.
WEST END-2:15-S:15-The King or Saconia-
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29

ment of Mr.. IInox's plan would involve
radical changes in the condition of af-
fairs in Manchuria which were estab-
lished by the treaties Of Portsmouth and
Peking. Doubtless 1t would cause such
changes. But those changes are bound
to come in time, and 1t seems to us that
the sooner they are effected the easier
that achievement will be and the better
for all concerned. For the present
status In Manchuria is not permanent.
1t was established by the treaties re-
ferred to merely as a temporary device.
The idea was that it should prevail until
China so improved her administration as
to make 1t prudent to give her control of
the great Manchurian trade routes. The
American idea is that with the advent
of constitutionalism in China that time
has arrived, and that under certain in
ternational guarantees the relinquish-
ment Of those roads TO Chinese owner
ship, to which Japan and Russia stand
pledged a few years hence, can now
safely be made, and can be made now
with less friction and with less disturb
aDce of japanese and Russian as we'll
as other interests than would be possible
at the time when under the treaties the
thing must at latest be done. japanese
persistence in declining the American
proposal may not involve the slightest
discourtesy to this country, but it does
seem to us to involve menace TO
Japan's own best interests.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
CHARITIES TO MERGE.
Two Children's Institutions Await Sd
preme Court Sanction.

The Nursery and Child'S Hospital. Lex
ington avenue and 5lst street. and the New
York Infant Asylum. Amsterdam avenus
and 61st street. are about TO unite their
forces, only awaiting the formal sanction
OF the Supreme Court 20 complete their
plans. The Board OF Charity has rsportsd
favOrably upon the proposal
G. Morgan Browne. OF No. a. Pine street.
said that the property at Lexington averne
and 5lst street would be sold and II tas
city could be persuaded 10 release its claim
TO part of the property. a sale mutually aa-
vantageous TO both the hospital and the
city could be made. This sale is eSpeetea
to give the new combination OF the tNo
charities a fund of several hundred tAeu-
sand dollars. which will be expended q
Amsterdam avenue and Stst street. greatly
increasing the work OF the new inSIltutl0n-
The new board will be made up OF tweN7
men from the New York Infant Asylum
board, twelve women from the NUrssS
and Child's Hospital board. and six addf
tional men are 10 be chosen outside Of thsSe
two charities Mr.. BOrwne thought II ws'
likely that Gherardi Davis would DC sn0
new president. Mrs. AlSernon Sydney SUI
Hvan. president of the Nursery and SIliia
Hospital. said the name OF the new. se
largsd charity would be the New f0'A
Nursery and Child's Hospital. Mere tsSn :
thousand children are annually cared 10'
BY the charities.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
PEOPLE and Social Incidents

Ballinser and the Austrian Arasa.,..
and Baroness Hengelmuller wsrs .rr.-
the guests entertained at dinner to-,,ss.
by Miss Mabel Boardnan.
Senator and Mrs. Guggeuheim ent.r,,;.
at dinner tonight the Postmaster Gene,
Senator and Mrs. Newlands. Senator, -
Mrs. Carter. Senator and Mrs. Rav,a-
Senator Brandesee. Mr.. and Mrs. Tno,,-.
Chatard. Mr.. and Mrs. WilIism 3. R,drsI--
DR.. and Mrs. Richard d. Harlan, DR.. an,
Mrs. Fremont Smith. Mr. and Mrs Isaao
GUggenheim, Mrs Ellinser, of New Yers
and Miss Ruggles.
Mrs Lurton. vito OF the new asxoe,.,.
justice OF the Supreme Court, was IN.
guest OF honor at luncheon to-day, WIT,
Mrs. Frank 3. vrooman as hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tiffany Dyer entertained
large party OF young people at dinner To-
night for their debutante grsnddaushtsr
Miss Helen Parker. The entire party
afterward went 10 the small and earIy
dance at Rauscher's.
Dr. Cary L. Grayson was host az \ larv>
dinner party given on board the Mayeower
tonight, and most OF the guests asterwars
went with him TO watch the sailors as tkA
navy yard In one Of their weekly dances
Mrs. John l. Gardner. OF Boston. WIN
came on for the dinner given last night by
the Secretary of the Treasury and M-z
MacVeagh in honor OF Cardinal Gibbons /.
now the guest OF the Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury and Mrs. Norton.
The small and early dance tonight raz
an unusually brilliant affair. Miss Eth.l
Roosevelt greeted many of her youn.
friends there, and Miss Harriet and Miss
Katherine Anderson. rieces OF Mrs Tar
were among the guests. Mrs. Hsnnen lem
nings received for the committee, which Ia
composed of Mrs. Francis Newlands, M-s
James Marion Johnson. Mrs Richardson
Clover. Mrs. Robert Chew. Mrs. Frank 3
Moves and Mrs Archibald Hopkins. chair
man The guests were, for the most part
the deb1tanres OF this season and young
diplomats and men IN society,
Mrs James c. Pilling entertained a young
peoples dinner party tonight for her denu-
tarts daughter. Miss Ruin Pillins. and
later took her guests to the small and ear.y
dance
Mrs. Gardner Williams entertained a
young peoples dinner party to-ligar pre-
ceding the dance.
Mrs MscVeagL. Mrs Dickinson, Mra
Wlckersham, Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Balm
ger were the guests of honor at recspuon
given at the Congressional Club this atrsr-
noon. when Mrs. James Breck Psrkins.
president. and officers OF the club were
hosts. Mrs. Huntington Wilson and Ma
Beekman Winthrop poured tea, and taa
guests were members OF the club and others
in official life.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir IF the suffrag gist women really mean
business, why don't they go about their
politics In a practical manner? What's the
good of their everlasting talking, except as
constant reminder that they are women?
There is no question that they have as
many opponents among their own sex as
among the men. Knowing this the men. at
present controlling legislation. tell them
that when they can show that all women
want suffrage they shall have it. Now IL
the womenites are really in earnest and
have any ability in practical politics. WHY
not organize by states, counties and towns
and have n general woman primary all
over the country to determine the vox
mullepri' so TO say? The men are quite
willing not to mix in this brand of politics
and the women can run the entire primary
machinery to suit themselves BY such
organization and primary the country will,
not only know what the consensus Of
woman opinion is on this disputed suh,ect
but the women themselves can show what
they can do in handling the actualities M
an election. Let them choose a day. In
June next, say, when the weather Is Hkelv =,
be fair. and on that day call all the femi-
nine hosts to the polling places and %,
their votes for or against the enfranchisa
ment or their sex. The plan is sensible and
feasible Are the women who are now go
visibly and audlbly at the front equal IN a
practical demonstration? II they are viii
they do 1t. or are they afraid TO put their
principles to the test? We pause for a
reply! v
New York, Jan 26. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
TOO MUCH.

Under the new municipal order old
and honored classifications in the world
of public service are being ruthlessly
wiped out. Colonel Mike Paddel's
taking off was a tragedy which still
siaggers the Bowery. That a function
ary so firmly installed in Office as
Colonel Mike lauded by the outgoing
Mayor as 1.-The best Water Register the
city ever had" discharging for years
Oh the side the responsible functions of
afde-de-camp to no less a municipal per-
sonage than Little Tim" Sullivan.
could be coldly ousted on the mere
charge that he didn't use MS Office chair
and desk often enough to chase away
the dust was revelation to thousands
of the ingratit of republics and the
pettiness of politics. Mike" went to
the political guillotine, while the Bowery
shuddered and whispered. 20 Murphy,
what crimes have been committed by
1.-The candidate to whom you lent tae
organizations name!' Yet ''the best
Water Register ever" at least died
with his boots on. He was not humili-
ated by being asked to abjure his true
character and status, to reform his
habits and to linger on in degrading
servitude to new political notions and
new official models.
Colonel Mike never became de-
ciaSs6. But there are other dignitaries
OF the old order VINO have been obliged
TO endure that narrowing experience
Those images Of civic otiuns cum digni-
ratc, those ornaments Of the municipal
council chamber, the sergeant-at-arms
of the Board Of Aldermen and his as
sistants, have been rudely awakened
from their dream of immunity from the
common lot Of toll and set to daily Ia
Dor like any ordinary civil service in
cubated municipal servants. Who could
be so insensible to the eternal fitness
OF Things as TO ask dignitary as i'm
posing as sergeant-at-arms to descend
to vulgar work?
When a Democratic House Of Rep
resentatives-the first since the war
assembled at Washington In 1875. il
elected functiOnary of this ancient
and honorable class, who within a few
weeks wrote home TO friends in Virginia
that he was "a bigger man than CID
Grant. He spoke appropriately and
conYincingly for his whole class. and
were he alive today his heart would
be bowed down at the affront to the
guild contained in the orders to our
local custodians Of the peace and dig.
nifty of the aldermanic chamber to hold
themselves in readiness to do messen.
ger as well as professional service there
on meeting days, and to inspect auctions
III various parts of the city on the many
proVidentially ordered days of rest when
the beard does not sit. We cannot pict-
IRE a ergeant-at-arms with the real
spirit submitting to such a declassifi
cation. The new regime is evidently
asking too much of the self-respecting
survivors from the old one. AS James
FL. Randall, the author of Maryland.
My Maryland put it:
Better the shot. the blade, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the soul
Better sudden death like Colonel
mike" Padden's.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN.

All the old-fashioned ideas about rear
ing children are going into the dust bin.
Children said DR.. Woods Hutchinson,
lecturing upon their children have
bottled-up intelligence inside OF them"
which tells them what is best for them.
Parents are now beginning TO bow be-
fore that awful bottled-up intelligence.
They are learning to acknowledge its
superiority and act accordingly.
DR.. Hutchinson told the public some
thing about that bottled-up intelligence.
You cannot give a child too much to
eat" he said. If the child wants to eat
between meals, let him eat between
meals, for beware how you thwart that
bottled-up intelligence. IF he tends II
gorge himself on sweets, you may
know that his system Graves that form
"of fcod'
This process of consulting the bottled
up intelligence, of course, cannot begin
too young. The crawling infant on the
floor must be allowed to follow his own
instinct in selection of food. If he con-
Sumes immense quantities of shoe but
tons, pins and carpet tacks, it is because
Of that b0ttled-up intelligence which
makes him better fitted than an adult
TO choose the kind of food that is to 20
into his stomach. Soap is q dainty much
enjoyed at the early stages of life. Care
full parents, awed by the superiority of
instinct to reason, will beware how they
cut off the little toddler's supply of soap.
His system, in its infinite wisdom. Graves
soap, shoe buttons, carpet tacks. pieces
Of paper and similar fare, and the little
angel knows what is good for him.
In time he will grow up to prefer
candy and cake to the contents Of waste
paper baskets; and again, if you are
wise parent, you will bow to the prompt
ings of nature. AS the child becomes
man he will gradually outgrow know
ing what is good for him and will reach
the stage where only physician can tell
him what he may eat. and then. instead
of having bottled intelligence" inside
of him he will carry the bottled intelli-
gence of his doctor in his waistcoat
pocket and take it, one to five tablets.
after each meal. When he is in that
condition it is not strange that he mar
vels at the instinct which tells child
infallibly that his system needs shoe
buttons rather tLan the fiat pearl but
tons that fasten underwear.