The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
Makes Address on Panama Canal and Talks to
 College Men
SHOULD GIVE MORE
 STUDY TO CONDUCT
Gives a Lot of Advice to College Students and Says That Rich Mans Son Has Poorest
 Chance of Success

St. Paul. Alinn.. october 25.-Prsideat Taft tonight bade farewell to Minnesota and departed for the real "home of lie enemy Wisconsin. His speech here to- night was on the arbitration treaties.
 The President arrived in St Paul after a two hours automobile ride from Min neapolis.
 IIe made two important addresses to- day, one on the Panama canal at tho luncheon of the Young Mems Republi- can club of Minneapolis, and the other was a lot of homely advice to students of the University of Minnesota. To the latter the President suggested that life better be devoted to more elevating sub iects than "barbaric college yells," and he also declared that the young men who started in life without means was far better equipped than the rich mans son. with an income sufficient to live cn without working.
 Wants Fairness The President also made plea for fairness in sport He deplored the ae- tion of baseball crowds in attempting to put the visiting team at disadvantage by insulting remarks hurled from grand stand and bleachers.
 q love baseball" exclaimed the Presi- dent. but also love a fair deal.'' The President spoke generally of the responsibility of university men and wom- en. ''For in these days must not leave the latter out" he explained. "Universi- ty men go out into the world without any money as a rule" said MT. Taft, "and these who have no money usually serve the public best. If there is anything that is burden for a young man fl is an income that will enable him to live without work.
 You don't applaud that enthusiastic cally.' he added with smile. You look about, after you have been out of col lege for 25 years and pick out, if you can, l a single man that has made a real suc- cess and had a great deal to live upon | when he left college. If you find him he is entitled 10 a great deal more credit than you are if you have had to push in order to get enough to eat. He has had more difficulties than you
 The President said he wanted to JtoI for if he proceeded he would have to criti- else some phase of college life. There were countless cries of "go on; go en-" so MT. Taft went on.
 q suppose it Is necessary he said, "to keep up these barbaric yells and that the leaders go through the con- tortion that we saw here to invoke this strange spirit. But it was not necessary two score years ago. They got along with a less sharp yell and somewhat more graceful hurrah."
 Study Manners
 MT. Taft suggested that American universities might well devote littla more attention to a study of manners, The Anglo-Saxons. he said, prided themselves on their straightforward. ness, on their telling each other just what they thought, whereas they might learn great deal from the politenesi of the Latin races.
 Heaven save me-" said the President from a candid friend. We pride our. selves on never doing anything to de. ceive and we go on treading on othera toes making a day a week uncom- fortable for somebody else, because we either forget to treat them with cour- tesy or otherwise thought that they did not deserve it for the time and we fail to get out of life all that thero is in it. Life is not made up, my friends, on grandstand plays and a man cannot be hero in his family all the time. The truth is the nero Doug comes only at rare intervals. It is the little details of kindness and attention that go to make up your real value as Q family unit in the system"
 Continuing he said:
 q wish our university games could be attended with a little less partisan ship and better treatment of the other side. When l see players on the other side beset with insults I feel as if there might be an improvement and that we might depart from showing our deep interest in our side by that method.
 q know that am preaching an ideal that Is beyond what 1 could have felt at 21, but 1t does not hurt you some times to hear the truth
 MT. Taft accepted reelection as a vice president of the American Hu- mane society with headquarters in AL bany N. Y.