The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
ibid STOLYPIN
| WIN OR LOSE?
Russia Wonders Whether Victory
Over Council of Empire Was for
Reaction or Reform.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 22.-Rus-
STA is still trying TO make up its mini
whether Premier Stolypins victory
over the Council OF Empire, or Mus
covite senate, was victory for re-
action or reform.
AS Russian statesmen go, NJ. Stoly-
pin is a progressive. Nevertheless,
he violated the Russian constitution
in suspending the Duma and resort
ing. during the suspension, to an lh.'
perial ukase To put through his plen
for the classification OF the Polish
provinces His plan is also unjust
TO the Cars Polish subjects-so
much that the few radicals in the
council OF Empire, joined the reac-
tionaries in voting against IL.
The various reactionary groups
combined against the Premier, be-
cause they considered him danger
ously liberal and their defeat appears
TO have been a liberal triumph, but
NJ. Stolypin only accomplished il by
abandonment of his intention 10 car
ny his governmental anti-corrupuon
prosecutions up TO the men primarily
responsible for them-the Grand
Dukes.
The outcome will probably depend
on how the Premier uses his power.
II he becomes infatuated with its ex-
ercise the constitution Is not much
longer for this world and there Ia an
end OF parliamentary government in
Russia. II he only did, for just once,
what IL seemed to him necessary TO
do to defeat the reactionary plot
against him, his assertion OF authority
may make for ultimate Improvement
by frightening the reactionaries into
quiescense.
Didn't Wear Enough Clothes.
Cattaneo, the champion swimmer
of the world, who has several times
tried. with near-success, TO swim from
England to France, has been arrested
in Paris for riding bicycle through
the boulevards, clothed in a scanty
swimming costume. 1t is said that
he tried TO attack the police at the
station and demanded whether there
was a swimming pool at the lunatic
asylum in which he might train for
his next try at the English channel.
He was sent to a special infirmary at
the Depot prison According TO a re-
port, Cattaneo fell some time ago and
injured his head. Coming from
Calais few weeks ago he stopped at
a hotel here; he was later given no
tice TO vacate because he insisted on
promenading through the corridors
clothed in thin sweater and bathing
trunks.
Old pictures in oils can be Ere
stored" more or less perfectly by an
application of electricity, according
TO Professor Brandy, recently admit
ted to the Academy Of Sciences by
two votes over Mime. Curry, the
radium discoverer, NJ. Etienne Is on
trial for fraud, on the principle that
his electric process OF picture re-
storation by electricity was a fake.
DR.. Brandy testified that he had seen
made and had made
them himself with considerable sue
cess.
To Stop Ship In Jiffy.
A French inventor, M. Lacour, has
patented an arrangement for stop
ping a ship at full speed within her
own length, or of turning her com
pleteiy around in the same distance.
The device would be of tremendous
service on ocean liners and prevent
almost entirely, collisions In fogs or
harbors.
The arrangement is composed of
large plates hinged to the ships
sides. These plates, when released,
open outward like huge ears, and
when at a perpendicular with the side
Of the ship, at which point the re-
sistance against the water 10 at its
they stop. These plates
can be opened on both sides instan-
or one side AT a time. Thus,
IL only one side Is released the ship
turns face about very quickly. II both
sides are released the ship retains
her direction, but stops very abrupt
ly.
The necessity for such an arrange
ment has long been admitted. NJ.
Jacob, another Frenchman, invented
an apparatus which worked under the
ship, but owing TO its position was
out of order and repair
was impossible save In dry-dock. La
cour was his co-worker and. when
Jacob died, carried on the work
The side-plate system 10 regarded by
ship-line officials as being exceeding.
ly simple and effective. Experiments
on a 100-ton vessel have been going
on for some time at Poissy, near
Paris, and the arrangement is now
said to be perfected