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New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
FOR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION
Chamber of Commerce Committee II
Cooperate with School Heads.

The following members of the Chamber
Of Commerce have been named by Presi-
dent Hepburn to serve on the chamber s
committee on commercial education
George P. Brett, chairman; Mortimer l..
Schiff. Thomas w. Lamont Frank II.
Scott Lewis Nixon, Frank A. Vanderlip,
Alexander G. Humphreys. r. A. c. Smith,
Edward d. Adams, Edward Holbrook,
Clark Williams, J. Louis Schaefer, James
H. Post, Lionel Sutro. william Hull
Wickham. and Serene S. Pratt. secretary.
This committee will cooperate with the
educational authorities for the furtherance
Of commercial education I'm the public
schools and universities and the estab-
fishing OF special courses in foreign Ian
guages. The committee also is to devise
plan whereby the Chamber of Com
merce may establish examinations like
those OF the London Chamber OF Com
merce for candidates for certificates of
proficiency; arrange with merchants to
give preference to holders OF such certifi-
Gates and TO establish a free bureau Of
employment for their benefit.
The committee will report upon the feast
bility OF establishing a commercial scholar
ship fund TO aid meritorious graduates Of
the public schools in taking courses in the
study Of commerce and foreign languages
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
ARTISTIC cARTOONING.
4. Recdy In The St. Louis Mirror.

W. NJ. Recdy In The ST. Louis Mirror
Cartoonist Bob Minor" OF The Post-Dis-
patch" has abandoned the pen for the crayon I'm
his pictorial work. TO tine great STRENGTHENING OF
the quality. The pictures have more substance 10
them more Elasticity They are decidedly more
artistic. less crude In Appearance Indeed.
Minors work now asserts its rank with the best
there IS tn daily cartoouing II shows remark
able development and particularly In bringing out
the figures IN lire the pictures were fiat Now
they seem as II you can see behind them. Minor
Is destined. believe. to get In the class with
Boardman Robinson. ~ The New-York Tribune
who. OF all newspaper artists In this country has
the finest. freest. swashing stroke. the greatest
daring IN massing his black and letting in his
white. Robinson Is decidedly strong and un-
conventional. Sometimes the picture Is almost
wholly lost In the splash he makes. but when
you get II, you get Il good and you cannot escape
II. Robinsons drawing is most like painting OF
any daily cartoonist with whose work / am ia
mliar. lie is good In composition. Minor Is
not quite sure Of himself az Ia Robinson. but he
grows gradually into a like authority His work
approaches nearer TO painting and good illustra-
tion and gets away from the schoolboys slate
style. Robinson IL the most artistic car,oonist In
tho country to -day-indeed. more artlst than car
teerist, 1 should say,
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
THANKS.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: For the space of almost a year I
have followed the work OF Mr.. Boardman
Robinson with great deal OF interest,
often buying your paper for his cartoon
only when there was a lull in the round OF
sports. and l must here add word Of my
satisfaction with your sporting section and
Herbert" for his able summarizing OF the
weeks sport.
The proportion of harsh criticisms to
encomiums is at least a hundred TO one
when an editor or a caricaturist Is the sub
Ject OF discussion, and the disparity be-
comes greater among those who take Il
upon themselves to- address tho journals
Mr.. Robinsons style appeals TO me very
much, and his conceptions dealing with
New York politics and the city government
are unusually apt and we'll executed. par
ticularly his drawing printed Friday last
which points a strong moral TO those who
would 1uggle the city's debt.
II you don't see your way to giving this
letter space I shall at least have the salts
faction of registering my vote OF approval
for Mr.. Robinson and Herbert"
z. F. G. Taft
New York Nov n 1911
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
YINE 10 STOP.

The time has come for a halt In the
sycophantic rush to eXtol American In
ventive genius The American inventor
has been so praised and f1attered that
he Is making life in this country hardly
worth the living. The inventor should
be compelled to understand that, while
he is all well enough in his way, there
is limit to human endurance and that
there Is a host of plain, unimaginative
and even honest people who are pos
seSsed Of no ingenuity whatsoever who
were born TO perform their humble
tasks In the good old-fashioned way and
without the aid Of new-fangled inven-
tiOns, and who will rise in their num-
bers and smite the authors of this pitt
less persecution Even the worm will
turn, and those who are forced In these
times Of high prices to spend more than
all the working hours earning their
daily bread cannot be expected TO de-
vote their scanty leisure to puzzling out
the purpose Of modern inventions which
more and more are making life a bur-
den.
SO far has the modern inventor dared
to tyrannize over the simple and un-
imaginative that every modern hotel
has become a chamber Of horrors to
those unbessed with inordinate ingenu-
ity. Who has not lain all the long night
with a dazzling electric light staring
him in the face because some heartless
inventor has devised a scheme for de-
taching one bulb from the push button
which extinguishes the others and has
carefully concealed the controller Of
that one bulb under the bed or I'm some
other outlandish place? OF course. those
who have so suffered might have braved
the scOrn Of bellboy and learned the
secret, but who cares 10 exhibit his
ignorance?
WHO has not silently cursed the in
ventor Of that rear buttOnhOle which II
is the uclight Of every laundress so 10
conceal with starch and iron that ONLY
those provident members Of society who
always go provided with n corkscrew or
a bowie knife can produce an opening
wherein to insert their after collar but
ton?
What guest Of modern hotel has not
inadvertently filled his tub with boiling
water only TO discover that some inven-
tive genius has so carefully disguised
the vent that the would-be bather must
either spend the forenoon nude and dis
consolate waiting for the water to cool
or else fOrego his bath?
But the nc plus ultra of mans In
humanity 10 man was reached whel
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
government is confronted with the al
tentative of establishing the lines itself
or having none
MR. LITTLETON Is RIGHT.


Representative Littleton is right In
seeking TO put an end to the Stanley
committees inquiry. 1t has been use
less proceeding from the first. 1t has
added nothing Of value to the public
knowledge regarding the dominance OF
the United States Steel Corporation In
the steel industry. 1t has raked over
ancient history, keeping up an interest
in its proceedings merely by putting
prominent and wealthy men on the wit
ness stand; and now that the federal
government has begun a suit against the
so-called Steel Trust the only conse-
quence Of the Stanley committees con-
tinuing to blunder along is likely to be
defeat or impairment Of the govern
ment's plans to bring an alleged offender
to justice.
There remains. to be sure, one further
opportunity for the committee to employ
its theatrical devices. We refer to the
possibility of putting Mr.. John ID. Rock
efeller on the witness stand. Mr. Rookie
feller is plainly cast for a part In It's
show. lie should tell the committee his
story in reply to the dramatic Mr.. Mer'
ritt. With his denial obtained under
oath the Stanley committee might see
that it had completely cleaned the rich
field of personalities and given the pub
lie its moneys worth of financial peep
show. Then it might go out of business
with a grateful sense Of having served
its party well.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
ANOTHER ZIONIST PLAN.

The current cOnyention of the Con-
federation of Jewish Farmers suggests
another Zionist plan, quite different
from but perhaps more practical and
hopeful than that which is commonly
called by that name. The Zionist
scheme which has interested many
prominent and influential Jews and also
enlisted the sympathetic attention of
many non-Jews, involves the redemp-
tiOn Of Palestine and the restoration
of the Jewish people thereto; or, as an
alternative, the settlement Of the Jews
in some other available country of their
own. theoretically and sentlmentally,
the scheme makes a strong appeal.
Practically, it is seen TO be beset with
many and probably insuperable diff
culties. not the least of which are in
herent in the Jewish people themselves.
Such an enterprise could scarcely be
justified by success unless it included
at least a majority of the Jews Of the
world. and the possibility Of getting so
many of them to engage in it seems to
many thoughtful men too remote for
serious consideration.
The suggestion of this convention is
that the Jewish people Of each country
shall establish Zion Of their own
where they are or wherever they are
permitted to do so; particularly In the
United States, where they are perfectly
free and where is to be found to-day a
larger number Of Jews than in any
other country, excepting only Russia
and Austria-Hungary. The idea is that
instead Of continuing I'm the condition
TO which they were forcibly reduced by
their oppressors in the Middle Ages
they shall resume the natural self
sufficient mode Of life which was COM
mon 10 their nation in the years OF its
independence, prosperity and glory.
There can be no question that from the
Exodus TO the Captivity the Jews were
chiefly and characteristically a pastoral
and agricultural people. 1t was only
when they were denied the right to own
land or TO till it that they perforce be-
came tIadesmen, herded in cities.
The customs and tastes of centuries
were destroyed and forcibly replaced
by Others in years Of persecution. Ii re-
mains 10 be seen whether they can be
restored by suasion and by appeals 10
advantage In a time Of freedom. One
or the great grievances and complaints
Of Jews in Russia IS that they are pent
within the pale and are denied the priv
ilege Of owning and tilling land II
would be strange If, when they escaped
from that tyranny and those grievances
by coming hither, they should elect
voluntarily 10 remain I'm the same con
ditiOn against which they protested
there and should voluntarily place
themselves within pale. IL would be
strange, too, If the example of many
Of their brethren here did not impress
them and inspire them to follow ii. For
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
HONE POLITICS AND FOREIGN
POLICY.

POLICY.
Sir Edward Greys much-looked-for
statement Of British foreign policy was
by common consent highly successful.
1t was marked by one Characteristic
which strongly commends ii, or the cir
| cumstances Of It's delivery and recep-
tiOn, to the world as an example worthy
Of emulation. That was its winning the
approval and commanding the support
of both the great political parties. On
the floor OF Parliament the leader Of
the Opposition, aggressive partisan
though he is in matters of legitimate
controversy, appears 10 have supported
Sir Edward as cordially as did the
Prime Minister himself, and in the pub
lie press the strongest expressions Of ap-
proval appear in those papers which are
as a rule most unrelentingly arrayed
against Sir Edwards party.
This achievement, which must be ex-
ceedingly gratifying to the British ma
tion, may be attributed In part TO the
tact, the integrity and the ability Of the
Foreign Minister himself, who is a
worthy member Of a distinguished line
of statesmen. Yet It is no reflection on
his deserts to judge that it was and is
also due largely to the genius Of the
British people and their temperament in
dealing with such matters. Their rule IS
to be united In foreign negotiations and
thus to present an undivided front to
the outside world. When all is calm
abroad there is no lack Of controversy
at home over foreign policies and there
are partisan differences as radical and
as irreconcilable as any In home poll
tics. But when II Is a question not Of
Liberal against Conservative but Of
England against any other power, such
differences vanish and the Foreign Of
fee becomes almost as much superior TO
politics as is the Crown itself.
That example is TO be commended to
those In any other country who would
iuggle with its foreign relations as a
part of the game Of politics for the sake
Of putting somebody in a hole The
result Of 1t abroad is worthy of atten-
tiOn. France recognizes the loyal main
tenance Of the entente while Germany
perceives that British policy is void
Of offence This remarkable result,
moreover, was attained simply by main
tanning a strict regard for British in
tereSts. That fact is confessed on both
sides. The British policy was not pri-
marily and essentially either anti-Ger-
man or pro-French, but British, and in
that fact It sets another example to the
world. The patriotic policy commands
national support and international re-
SDect
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The German Am
bassador and Countess Won Bernstorff en-
tertained at dinner at the embassy tonight
for Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Garrett Mr..
Garrett was recently appointed Minister 70
the Argentine Republic. They have also
issued invitations for dinner parties on De-
cember Is and 16.
The French Ambassador and Nine. Jusse-
rand will entertain a luncheon party on
New Years Day.
Mr.. Won Bach, Russian second secretary,
will go to Pennsylvania tomorrow to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Converse at their
country place. Chetwynd. Rosemont. A
ball will be given there tomorrow night,
which Mr.. Won Bach will attend, and he
will return here on Thursday to Join the
big breakfast party to be given by Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Mclean at Friendship in
honor Of the Russian Ambassador and
Nine Bakhmetieff
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington. Nov. 2s.-The President anu
the members OF the Cabinet met at II
o'clock this morning to discuss the mss
sage. The meeting lasted six hours. after
which II was announced that Mr. Iait
ould deal with the trust question alone IN
his annual message, which will be transmit
ted to Congress next Tuesday.
Senator Curtis told the President ths
morning that, irrespective OF who the
Democratic nominee for President would be,
Mr.. Taft would carry the State OF Kansas.
Mr. Curtis said that. while Senator Bristow
and the La Toilette followers would strain
every effort to capture the delegation, ne
felt absolutely sure the Kansas delegates
would be instructed for the President,
Attorney General wickersham said 'ht the
White House to-day that his department
was self-sustaining. The department col
lected more money In suits than was ex-
pended by II last year. despite the fact that
expenditures were 100000 more than the
previous year. The Harvester Powder and
Plumbing trusts are preparing to dissolve,
Mr.. Wickersham said.
President Taft has accepted an invitation
to attend the dinner OF the Tippecanoe Club,
In Cleveland, on January 90, Mckinleys
birthday.
A delegation OF prominent men from
Pittsburgh, including Mayor Magee ac-
companied by Senator oliver and Repre-
sentatives Burke and Dalzell, asked the
President to recommend the reappropriation
OF the $4,000, 900 Appalachian reserve fund,
which has lapsed The Secretary Of state
and the Secretary Of the Interior were pres
ent at the conference
President Taft received the Russian Am
bassador in the Blue Room this afternoon.
The Secretary Of State introduced the am
bassador who presented his credentials.
Among the White House callers were
Senator Works, Judge Garland. Of the Gus
toms Court Colonel Parker. Republican ma
tlonal committeeman from Hawaii; p. J.
Donnelly. Of Brooklyn, and Mrs. II. F.
Dimock, Of New York.
Mrs. Tafts Thanksgiving house party will
be completed tomorrow by the arrival Of
Miss Gordon Hamilton. Miss Marion Crane,
Miss Phyllis Rice, Miss Isabel Vincent and
Miss Eleanor Boutecou. Bryn Mawr stu
dents. They will remain at the White
House several days
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
BANKERS MAKE MERRY AT SEA
Cheer Racing Steamers and Get Elk.
cited Over Football Games.

Bankers Fleet" Gulf of Mexico, Nov
2S (by wireless to New Orleans).-Delight-
ful weather and smooth seas have been ex-
perienced by the fleet OF four steamers con-
veying members OF the American Bankers
Association to Panama. Late yesterday the
passengers cheered a spirited race between
three steamers of the fieet-the Carrillo
the Sixaola and the Tiviyes. The Carrillo
Captain II. =. Smith, won.
On board each OF the ships a daily news
paper Of four pages, containing wireless
dispatches, is printed. Yesterday an
extra" was issued. carrying the results
OF the Savannah automobile races The
excitement aboard the ships was intense
Saturday as the bulletins on the Harvard
Yale and Army-Navy football games were
received and posted
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
CRITICISM OF ITALY
One Of Her Sons Makes a Plea for
Absolute Fairness.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me, as one OF your Italian
subscribers who has not written you any,
thing about the war up to this date. to
make few remarks on, your editorial,
The War and The Hague"
l cannot describe to you my feelings be-
fore the onslaught against Italy By the dlf-
ferent people OF the whole world; that is
the hostility TO a nation that has back Of
her "A glorious history that stretches over
about twenty-five centuries, and the SYM
pathy to a race which has given the world
nothing except brutal wars and massacres
and anything but civilization. There must
be some mysterious underlying reason
which | fail 10 grasp; there are facts that
| acknowledge | cannot understand. Can
any one possibly explain the hostility OF
the Jews and OF the Armenians toward
Italy and their astonishing sympathy tow
ard Turkey?
Your editorial states that Lord Avebury
has prepared a memorial for The Hague,
which. your editorial implies. proves con-
clusively that Italy made 'precipltate
aggression and failure to observe
either the letter or the spirit of the Treaty
OF The Hague" Every people OF every ma
ton In this world is biassed: think my
country the best, you think yours the best.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
ORDER SYNOD HALL BUILT
Work to Begin in Cathedral Grounds
Next Week.

Tho trustees OF the Cathedral OF St John
the Divine met yesterday and ordered work
TO begin next week on the synod hall, on
the southwest corner OF the cathedral
grounds. which is TO be the meeting place
OF the Episcopal General Convention In 1913
The architecture will be that OF the
cathedral as changed by the new archi-
tects. and the material will be stone, with
some brick OF light shade. The main
entrance will be on the street The cost
will be 10000. The present synod hall will
be used for sessions OF the House OF Bish-
ops during the convention. and then Will be
torn down to make room for the south tran
sept OF the cathedral
The trustees added the Rev. DIR. Charles
L. Slattery, OF Grace Church, and the Rev
DR. Hugh Blrckhead. OF St Georges
Church. to their number. meeting will
be held on December IA, when the new
Archdeacon OF New York will be nominated
and elected.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

I'm various places, in New YORK ana
New Jersey and other states. agricult-
ural colonies Of Jews are enjoying
much prosperity. OF course, such com
munitles must be founded and judi
ciously cultivated. 1t would be foolish
and disastrous to transplant numDer
of Jews from city to country who had
never lived In the country Deiore anu
who knew absolutely nothing about agri-
culture. and expect them unaided 10 pe-
come Immediately prosperous farmers
But with a proper application of III
struction and assistance the ghetto
dwelling Jew might be transformed into
wholesome lived farmer or gardener
and in that transformation great
problem both for him and for his
neighbors would he solved.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
THE PLAYBOYs OF NEW YORK.

THE PLAYBOYS OF NEW YORK.
To make a Donnybrook fair Of a the
atrical performance was characteristic
cally Irish. What other nationality
would have done what the Irish did on
Monday night at the first performance
in this city Of THE Playboy Of the
Western World? The French have
been "slandered" worse than the Irish
are In that drama over and over again,
both on the stage and in books, but they
have never made a riot about it. TolstOi
and Gorky have drawn pictures Of the
Russians that are far from fattering,
but their compatriots have accepted
them philosophically. Phlegmatic races
say to themselves that after all "it is
only play"
Granted that Synge's picture Of the
Irish peasantry Is not pleasant, why
should Irishmen feel so sensitive as 20
resent 1t with potatoes, eggs and asa.
fGtida? Opinion Of the Irish race, OF
its virtues and It's charm, as well as Of
It's foibes, is too well established TO be
altered by one playwright's vision of Its
character, even If his play is not satiri-
cal.
Mr.. Synge seems to think that the
Irish, the fundamental, unsOphisticated
Irish with whom he deals, have none
too solid a sense Of reality; that they
permit imagination to carry them so far
that even parricide may impose him
self upon their fancies for a time as
romantic hero Life and drama become
inextricably mixed in the minds Of
fanciful people. And in sense doesn't
the childlike forgetting even by sophisti-
Gated Irish in this city that, after all,
It was 'Only play that stirred their
wrath bear out Mr. Synges notion?
Wasn't every one who threw a potato
or an egg at Monday nights actors-so
far as his Irishism was not merely pro-
fessiOnal, tendency among expatriates
wasn't every mothers son Of them, If
sincere, indescribably naive combating
wit with missiles and fortifying their
reputation among the solid peoples CT
the earth by rloting over a fancy2
Weren't they all 'playboys Of the West
ern World?