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New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
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washington, June 1.-THE Ambassador
from Japan and Baroness Uchfda escorted
Prince and Princess Fushini 10 Annapolis
to-day. The ambassador and Baroness
Uchida will go to Buena Vista. PenE-. where
they have leased the Peacock cottage for
the summer within week or two
Youssouf Zia Pacha. recently appointed
Ambassador from the Ottoman Empire. Will
be presented TO the President on Tuesday
Reof Ahmed Bey, first secretary, will make
the presenta ton.
Senior Don Luis FfIipo Carbo. the Min
lister from Ecuador. said to-day that he
had received no further announcement Of
his transfer to Venezuela and his replace
Tuent by Rafael Maria AriZsga- SenOr
Carbo has become so enamoured OF this
country, feeling which is shared by his
family, that it is probable he will become
a private citizen of the United States and
will make his future home in Washington
The Minister from Belgium returned to
the legation to-day after visit to his
father-fn-law and motheF-in-Iaw, Brigadter
General and Mrs. John P. Story, at their
country estate. Whitehall. near Annapolis
Chevalier Won Loewentha1-Linau coun-
sellor Of the Austrian Embassy. and Nine
Won LoewenthaI-L.inau viii go 70 New York
tomorrow TO join the ambassador and
await the arrival of Baroness HenSelmtil-
Ter from Europe on tuesday. They will
then go to Bar Harbor for the summer.
The offices Of the Austrian Embassy will
be moved to Bar Harbor on Monday or
Tuesday.
Lord Eustis Sutherland Campbell Percy.
British attache left here this morning for
Dublin. y. H.. preceding the ambassador
and Mrs. Bryce by few hours. Captain
c. F. G. Sowerby, naval attache, will join
the embassy staff at Dublin later. He will
spend cOnsidera Bile time at Beverly with
Captain Archibald Butt in the summer.
Marchese Paolo di Monaghan Italian
Charge d'Affaires. and Marchesa di Mon
tagliari will go to Manchester on Tuesday
and will settle the embassy there for the
summer. Signor Roberto Centari. Italian
second secretary. left here last night for
Manchester and will visit various resorts
in the summer. spending some time at
Tuxedo.
The Minister from Bolivia and his daugh-
ter Seforita Elena Calderon, went to New
York to-day for A visit Of several weeks
They will divide their time among vari-
Gus summer resorts
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
THE GOVERNMENTS EMPLOYEES
Argument Against Longer Hours ana
Propossd Pension System.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir. In your recent editorial The Claims
of leisure" discussing the proposal 10 VI
crease the hours of service of government
en,nloves under Civil Service. severaI con-
siderations were disresarded-
The question is simply whether the
amount of work now performed by the de-
psrtmentaI clerks fails to be commehsuI e-'7
with their pay. Thirty years ago the loe@
that government positions were sineeures
had much to Justify it. The situation mas
been changed by % the decline III the
value OF money. (O the increase III the
volume of work done, and ca the Increases
already made in the departmental hours Oh
work.
At nresent the government would receive
mora than q fair return for fits money were
- NOT for the nresence of large numbers OF
clerks of advanced age who secured thelA
,ositior,s in the service with little or no
training for the work under the old regime
The vicious principle of seniority IN pro-
motions has given these persons salaries
utterly out OF proportion to their aolhtles-
In order to eliminate this element 1t Is
nroposed to establish an old age pension
system, with compulsory contribution I'M
der which the cultivation of Individual
thrift would be discouraged and energeuc
and seIf-respecting young men be deferred
from entering the governments employ as
life work.
In business the superannuated class
would he promptly. if somewhat brutaiiy'
discharged. If the United States chooses to
indulge in pity for them it should recog-
nize the bearing of it's action and should
nav for it directly without imposing con-
ditions upon the entire force Of workers
which will inevitably lower the grade of
its employees In the long run. Be this as II
NAV. the presence of this residual incoTn-
petent element is the cause of the govern
ment's failure to secure the worth OF the
wages it pays
On the other hand. the most efficient
clerks in the departments are unquestion-
ably the student class. i. e. the intelligent
and active younger men who are devotins
their evenings to fitting themselves to leave
a mode of living which already offers them
no attractions These employees constitute
a leaven which raises the general tone of
the departments immeasurably.
My contention is, then. that the men who
actually do the work in the government
service are already decidedly underpaid,
and that If (a) the hours are heightened or
(b) compulsory contributions to an un-
Service Will soon become inefficient in
manner analogous to the condition of the
regular army before fits rates of pay we're
raised JEAN SURPLACE.
Washington, June 9, 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
1rORTH CONSLDERLNG.

In the discussion of the direct nOmina-
tionS bills which have been considered
M Albany most stress has been laid on
their effect in state and county politics,
Not enough attention has been given 20
their effect in national politics A new
House OF Representatives is TO be elected
this fall New York's present delegation
in the House consists Of twenty-five Re
publicans and twelve Democrats If Re
publican control in the lower branch Of
Congress is 10 continue no seats can be
safely lost in this state There are too
many districts elsewhere which are in
danger The ma jority in the House of
Representa- tives Of the party electing
President has nearly always been re-
duced at the following mid-tern election.
II was wiped out entirely in the mid
term elections Of 1852. 1890 and 1894.
There have been not a few signs recently
of political unrest and reaction. and the
Republican party must call out all its
reserves in order to win next fall.
Confidence in the representative char
acter Of party leadership must be re-
established. What better means Of prov
ing the quality of that leadership could
he devised than primary nominations in
all the Congress districts: We have had
recent illustration of popular lack of
confidence in the old method of making
nominations for Congress in the Monroe
County district. The same situation may
have TO be faced in other districts next
fall if the people get the idea that the
Republican candidates i'm them do not
really represent the party.
Nominations by the convention method
are not sufficiently convincing. But if
candidate proves that he has the major
ity of the party with him his representa-
tive character is beyond assault. NOmi-
nation in primary is therefore high
IL valuable asset to party candidate.
If the Republican nominees for Congress
in this state were 10 consult their own
advantage alone we believe that they
would unite in urging the passage of
primary law. applicable in the Congress
districts. Were they 10 consult as well
the advantage of the party in the state
and in the nation they would make
demand on the Legislature for direct
nominations which even the reactionsries
in the Assembly would hasten to honor.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
At TgE WHITE HOUSE.
fErom The Tribune Bureau


~r--,.,.'-.o, Juue 1.-THE President held
,~,,,orsan+ railroad conference to-day
-. s,s,,a.ore AIdrich and EIkins and Rep
rsssutative Mann. of the conference eoiu-
u,tttee. Speaker Cannon and the Attorney
General. ,.-,
REPRESENTATIVE Smith. Of Michigan, asked
The president TO appoint the Rev L. A
s,norcar OF st Luke's Cathedral OTianoo'
p,Ia hut Formerly of Michigan. to chap
Isincv In the army.
,..or~a =. Kuber and his wife. whom he
,,ooad won and married in sixty minutes.
,oia +beir respects to the President. who
i,~torsd to their story Of their 14-0oo-nnile
-.a1L with 1900 more ahead OF them on
,,,.,ger of $3.50. Mr.. Taft presented rose
TO Mrs Kuber.
The President will be away from Wash
inston two days next week On Tuesday
he will attend the commencement exercises
az Marietta College, Marietta. Ohio, and on
Saturday the commencement at Villanova
Collage. yfIIanova, Penn, in the morning
and the closing exercises at Lincoln Uni
versitv- a negro institution in Pennsylvania,
in the afternoon
Among the Presidents callers were the
Secretary OF the Navy, Governor Clark Of
Alaska. Senators Burkstt. Crane. Dick, De
pew. Nevlands. Stephenson. Overnan.
Wetnrore and Paynter. Representatives
Weeks, Hayes, Reeder. Howell, Aiken,
Rush. Bennett. Smith (of Iowa.. Jameson.
Lindbergh Taylor, GOldfogle, Suizer and
Kustermann and Representative Wat
SON.
The President played gol. this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
"FTNTS FTELAFDTF."

There was little if any exaggeration in
the triumphant cry Of Russian reac-
tfonary. "Finis Finlandie!" on Friday.
over the passage of the bill transferring
legislative authority from the Finnish
Diet at Helsingfors to the Russian
Douma at St Petersburg. The enforce
ment OF this measure will indeed mean
the end of Finland as self-governins Ia
ton. 1t will also probably mean the end
or at least the great decline of that dis
tinctive high civilization which has made
Finland notable among the nations and
has made it an object at once of envy
and Of hatred to Russia. For it is
scarcely conceivable that such a social
and intellectual order can be maintained
under so incompatible a system of laws
and administration as that which Rus
sia will presumably impose upon the
conquered province. A RUssianized Fin
land will not he Finland.
There can be little doubt concerning
the Judgment of the world at large upon
this ACT. We have already cited the
studied expressions of opinion of the
most eminent iurists and publicists of
Germany. Great Britain and other lands.
and ir the press and on the platform
here. as in Europe, popular sentiment has
been strongly voiced. Without undue or
meddlesome consciousness there must
be expressed sincere regret at the event.
The world will be poorer for the fall or
Finland Nor does it appear likely that
Russia will be the gamer She will in
deed get rid Of contrast which has long
been annoying 10 her, but she will ex-
change a singularly loyal friend for an
unforgetting foe. The part of all his
domains in which the Emperor was most
secure will be transformed into scene
of disaffection and resentment. And
those Russians who seek enlargement of
freedom for themselves will be con-
fronted with the reminder that they
have lessened or destroyed the freedom
of their neigbbors.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12

fnery. The profits from them had 10 ne
distributed. and it is contrary to all
experience TO believe tnat in business
conducted so vigorously and with so
keen an eve to profit as that OF the
Sugar Trust there could he break III
the chain of guilty knowledge from the
directors room TO the Brooklyn plant
As the trials went on the case Of the
defendants broke down more and more
completely. The public was first asked
TO believe that the frauds were COM
mitted by workers on the piers WIN no
more iutelligible motive than TO make
a good showing for the Williamsburg
plant That ingenious theory failed
when il was proved that tha crookeo
weighers received higher wages than
they were supposed to draw. The hgh
officials of the Sugar Trust announcer
that il would be glad to see its unfalth-
full servants sent to Jail for having over
zealousIy cheated the government. But
il was testified later that al the IN
faithful who had been discharged IN
disgrace were being secretly cared for
at the company's expense. Pushed TO
lDe WIFI lA ltit utNSftttntClAS VI 49,
trial. the attorneys for those of the de-
PENDANTS who declined TO plead guilty
had to admit that the conspiracy had
originated I'm the directors room and
bad extended thence down TO the day
workers. but that there were breaks in
the connection here and there, notably
ia the offices Of the secretary and of
the superintendent of the refinery The
jury felt compelled to believe that there
were no such breaks. 1t sensibly held
that the government had established
deliberate agreement all along the line
10 swindle the Treasury and TO conceal
the distribution Of the plunder- The
exemplary value of such verdict and
its Christening effect on corporation
morals can hardly be overestimated.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
AVIS SUBURBANUS CHIRPANs.'

AVIS SUBURBANUS CHTRPANS."
Spring lingering chills the lap of June,
but in brief intervals of glorious early
summer suburbia is face to face again
with one of its recurrent problems, the
early chirping bird-GriS SuburbGn1Ls
chirpdRs. At sunrise it is UP and calling
TO breakfast the commuter who living
by the time table and not by the sun,
would fain sleep till and put his faith
in the alarm clock. Through the ages
man appears to have had but one aim in
his evolution, namely. to get as far
away from Nature as he possibly could.
Now that he returns 10 her, he finds that
his ways are no longer hers. and that
there are losses for all his gains in the
half-neasure between city and soil which
life in q suburb is. and which is all most
of us can afford. The greatest Of all
these losses Is the loss Of sleep at that
end of the day when sleep is sweetest.
Beauty's rest may come before IL; that
of mature wisdom begins after ) a. IN
Grave men have risen at the CHEEKY
call of the suburban bird, and, forgetting
their dignity in that matutinal hour,
have saddened the hearts of the wives
of their bosom with the intemperance of
their objurgatory eloQuence. Eminent
faunal natura lists have given the prob
lem serious attention. Can suburban
birds be trained to the ways of civilized
man. instead Of persisting in their at
tempts to lead him back to the ways Of
Nature? Can they be taught to sleep
till Z, snd-but this is a dream of syba-
rite luxuriousness-til . on Sundays?
Drowsy threats to wiring their necks"
they receive with 3 chorus Of derisive
chirps. The extinction Of the large birds
of earlier geological formation, with
voices to match their size, was caused,
we hold, not by primitive womans love
Of feathered finery. but by evolving
primitive mans determination not 10 be
deprived Of his mornings sleep. There
were no Audubon societies in his day.
and he knew nothing of the destructive
ways Of the worm with flowers and
plants.
The worm, We have arrived at the
cGusG cqVsdRS of the whole trouble. and,
we think. at the remedy as we'll We
cannot hope to demonstrate to il that,
while 1t may be a glorious thing to be
an early bird, it is a disastrous one to
be the early worm the bird is after.
Vain would be the advice, GO to the
labor unions, thou worm: observe their
ways, and be wise It could never be
induced TO strike for an eight-hour day.
But we can turn confidently TO science
for the solution. A slight chemical m0di-
fication Of the soil, resultant soothing
quality in the nourishmenc Of root and
bulb and bud and leaf, and the END will
be attained. No bird will rise at day
break to catch worm that does not go
10 work till or 8. We. shall have our
suburban mornings rest
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12

work by preaching the doctrine that
"the battle flags should be furled for
ever? War is the destruction of trade,
"and therefore vou. who are the life of
trade. re more interested than anybody
''else in putting a stop to the expenditure
"of millions to build battleships, as they
ARE doing in England to-day. Brave
words, and well spoken, but hardly mad
they begun to sink into the minds OF the
hearers when Mr.. Nixon began to uproot
them He admitted that peace was
beautiful dream, but doubtless speaking
from the fulness of his recollection of
some months spent in the leadership OF
Tamfnany Hall, and realizing the utility
of crying peace when there is no peace,
he asked the assembled travelling men
10 spread the doctrine that the country
must have ships, and intimated that
while it should not walk around with any
chips on its shoulders, it should be
ready, if it found some other nation
spelling for fight, TO gratify that am
bition.
If the advance guards of prosperity
in convention assembled had any prefer
ence in the matter of the advice given,
they were diplomatic enough to keep it
to their fifteen hundred selves. 1t may
be that they decided to carry neither
peace nor war as a side line, although
considering the greater demand for the
more peaceful implement they doubtless
appreciate the advantage of beating
spears into pruning hooks. The advice
was all in a days convention proceed
ings, anyway. and as neither of the gen
tlemen mentioned had anything to sell,
but only advice TO give, the delegates
doubtless felt that they could spare so
much time from the really serious delib-
eratiOnS of the meeting.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
REGARDING THE BAKERS STRIKE

To the Editor of The Tribune
sir: However averse one may be 10 in
terference in controversies between en-
p!oyer and employe. believing that they
should be settled by the parties thereto in
the free exercise OF the right of contract.
ana however disinclined he may therefore
be to take sides with either party in the
strike or the working bakers now going on
III THIS city. no one should shut his eyes to
the fact that the controversy involves Ques-
uons of serious public import
IL Is not here timely or necessary to dwell
upon the hard conditions to which the bak-
erS or our daily bread are too generally.
sunJected-thc low wages. the long hours
the underground, hot stuny sweatshop
rooms in which they toll. unhealthful for
the bakers and unwhoiesome for us.
Under existing industrial and economic
conditions these evils can hardly be rene
dled through any mere Individual exercise
OF the right OF contract The bakers do
not have freedom OF contract They are
heinined IN between starvation and accent
ing the employers terms. Nor do the en-
pioyers enjoy that freedom in it's entirety.
Each one OF them Is virtually forced by
unnatural competition In business To impose
such terms as are generally exacted by his
competitors Ia an artificial market.
II Is 10 be hoped that the employers will
generally consent to such a management OF
''eir business as shall tend to the common
"eIiare and secure for them the gratitude
ana esteem OF the public The fact that
some or them may already conduct their
BUSINESS In decent manner does not an
cannot relieve the bakers or the public
rom evils arising from conditions too gen
orally prevailing
JOHN sHERwIN CROSBY.
Ne" York. Juns .. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Theodore Roosevelt's return on Saturday
next, after over years absence spent in
Africa and in Europe. constitutes the all
absorbing feature OF the programme for
the wees opening to-day. This is not only
because the welcome which he is TO re-
ce'Ve on ms arrival has developed into a
big national affair. in the organization Of
which Cornelius Vanderbilt and many
other well known people are taking a lead
ing part. hut Is also due To the fact that
the colonel and Mrs Roosevelt are. above
everything else. New Workers. thar New,
YORK has been the home OF their family
for generations. and that the RcoseveIt
clan occupies to-day. by reason Of its num-
bers. Its affiliations and its influence n
notable place in New York society -rbet
Is why society is taking a very active IN
terest in the festivities arranged In connec-
tion with the return of the former Prsei-
dent OF the United States.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
THE Talk OF TIE DAY.

Die Wocher In q recent number speaks
of the fabulous prices paid by Americans
for amusement and cites the case Of the
'milliardarin' Mrs. Astor, who paid tenor
ZOO marks for singing twelve minutes
"A profession" says the writer. in which
one may earn a thousand marks a minute
is certainly a remunerative one" Com
menting on the paragraph. another paper
says: ''At the rate Of a thousand marks a
minute an hours work for the tenor will
bring him $1,000 marks, and for day-with
labor limitations, so that he could work
only eight hours-his pay would be- 10000
marks. At this rate the singer would real
ize for a years work--three hundred days
100000 marks, or about $36,000.ooo It's
wonderTu. what one can do with figures
having a good twelve minutes TO start
with
Mother speaking OF his playmate to her
own darling Just learning TO whistle)-Can
Harold whistle?
Four-year-old (contemptuously)-W
No he can only make the hole.-Harper's
Weekly.
why be in the business of making
trouble" asks a Georgia philosopher. when
it is obliging enough to meet you halfway
and do all the work for you?"-Atlanta
Constitution.
Teacher-Children, nature is superior to
man in everything. For instance. there Is
nothing that travels so fast as the unseen
Wiilie-Huh. You ought to hear what my
pa says about sight draft.-Puck.
Probably owing to discussion Os the in
efficiency of the Paris. telephone system.
caused By the prosecution OF a well known
Partisan actress for using expletives on the
telephone TO an exchange girl. tie teIe-
phone regulations have been revised. Hith-
erto the subscriber using strong language
to operators could be cut off from all COM
munication without warning. Hencefortb
the short tempered will receive an admoni-
ton on q first offence. On a second dis
play of feeling they will be cut off for two
days, while series OF personal complaints
of a subscribers langua sc will lead to an
rogation OF the contract
you are suspendedr' thundered Profes
sor Preston Yellers, of the school of Jour
What is my orence?" inquired the stu
YOU have violated one of the first rp,.s
OF modern sensationalism. You wrote q n
item about an elopement without referring
TO the girl as a beautiful society youns
lady. Washington Star.
well. what dye think of that" ax-
claimed a man in Park Row Yesterday
pointing TO an Italian bootblack who was
industriously polishing a big tan leatbAr
dress suit case The grip needed attention
all right for 1t seemed 20 have been the
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
IN THE sERKsHIRES
lBy Telegraph to The TriSnne

IBy Telegraph to The lrl0- "a =
I.enox. June 1.-THE attrac'l'u ~
hills now is the mountain lsure1 ..-ss
beginning To bloom in prOfuslon' Il a
the pink and white blooms are
on every hillside. -
Each hotel has its quota OF OF -
The Hotel ASpinwan this wees Us q
twelve bridal couples at one tinie -
the newly welded guests are as
automobile. a. Fl. Hawley' -
Conn. entertained sixteen frienus -
quet at the Hotel Aspinwah tAS sr1sI
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo pe +. Cr''-
from New York tO-,kiy and oyas s,-.salsss
villa. Buck Steep Manor. on
Mountain. near the Whitney esoa.. ~ .
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles cary ~ ~
so pleased with the estate ct li',, ,sst ,
Whitney on October Mountain ..,y -
have decided TO prolong then
three 10 five weeks. -. AZ
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Alex a,rss
tertaining for the week emu ,,.sa ~ /
Hoppin. Of New York, MISS As
andres hanc6,
Charles s. Meren end Joseen w
came up 70 THEW Stcckorias' =
night ~
A. the curtis Hotel are Ns