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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
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THE Men Who Compose
l This Commission, Ac-
cording to Whose Forthcom-
ing Report Taft Would Re-
shape the Tariff Schedules
Consists of One Republican,
One Democrat and Three Al
legged Non-Party Men, Two
Of Them Professors of Politi-
cal Economy and One an
Agricultural Editor - How
They Are Collecting Here
and in Foreign Lands Data
as to the Difference in Cost
of Production at Home and
Abroad-Have Had an Army
of Agents Scattered About
the World-Sone of These
Are Sheep. Wool and Cotton
Experts-Others Are Profess
sional Accountants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

ton In 1900. and in recognition of his
services to stock raisers Belgium has
made him "Chevalier of the Order of
Leopold His knowledge of the tariff
has been gained during years devoted
to various movements for the promotion
of reciprocity with foreign countries.
When appointed to the tariff board he
was chairman of the American Recipro-
cal Tariff League.
The two party men on the board are
James Burton Reynolds, a republican, Of
Massachusetts. and William NJ. Howard.
a democrat of Georgia. After gradual
ing with hOnors at Dartmouth, Reynolds
became a newspaper reporter, Washing
ton correspondent and editorial writer on
a New York daily. After he had served
nine years as secretary of the Republican
state committee of Massachusetts, Presi-
dent Roosevelt appointed him Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury. in charge OF
the custom houses. which collect the tar
iff. He was also sent abroad by Mr..
Roosevelt as chairman Of a commission
to consider trade relations with France,
Germany, Austria and Great. Britain.
President Taft retained him in charge
Of the customs service and selected him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
On the Brain.

WHILE John D. Rockefeller was
" showing the Rockefeller Family AS
ISOLATION over his superb Pocantico
Hills estate last month the talk turned
to golf, and the host said with genial
laugh:
ut is amazing how golf takes hold of
you-how it gets on your brain.
THE other day I got off a train behind
a young woman in green sweater and
golf skirt, with a bag of golf sticks
swung from her shoulder.
"A porter. as he relieved her of the
heavy bag of clubs, said:
'Hansome, miss?
No, she answered absently; four
some"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

dain. and his sister the dean of the
Women's College, Brown University,
until her marriage few years ago to
Francis Greenleaf AllinsOn, professor of
classical philology at Brown. The father
is now chief justice of the supreme
judicial court of Maine.
The other professor of political economy
on the board is DR.. Thomas W. Page Of
the University of Virginia. He, too, has
gone in for the higher education at home
and abroad. After graduating at the
University Of Virginia he took his Phi D
at Leipzig, and pursued postgraduate
studies also at the universities Of Oxford
and Paris. Before returning to his alma
mater he was a professor at the univer-
stiles of California and of Texas He is
fortythree years old. and it might be
said that his southern viewpoint bal
ances his brother onomist's-Chairman
Emery point of view con-
"erning things economic.
The editor on the board is a middle
westerner. Alvin Howard Sanders Of
Chicago, whom every stockman knows as
the editor of the Breeders Gazette. He
was born in Iowa ffty-one year ago, and
after graduating in law at the Uni
versdty of Chicago went to work on the
journal that he now publishes. He was
our commissioner to the Paris exposi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

p1oyes of German railroads. and sooner or
later. l was told, the employees of great
establishments like the Krupps' are going
to be made to conform to a rigid temper
ance standard. As it is. there is not so
much beer drinking in Germany as there
was when L was over there before,
quarter of century ago. But there is
still too much of it, and, l say, the
thinking men of Germany realize the fact.
A booty man. no matter how well train
ed. does booty work. Rum and the best
energy that's in a man can't play in the
same yard. Yes, / am a bit of a tenn
perance crank, l am glad to say. There 5
a reason. I've had unusual opportunities
to see how the rum addiction works out.
Some of the finest minds that ever came
under my observation, men who have
been In my employ, have been ruined by
drink. My experience is that 1t is the
most talented men who fall through that
trouble. The day will infallibly come
when they won't make the abominable
stuff any more; not drop of it, and I'd
like to live to see that day-but, of course.
l WON'T
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

OF are re q d / n &
much, these days.
about the tariff
board. upon whose
findin gs-now near
" due President
Taft will ask Con-
gress to base new
wooden and cotton
tariff bills, replac-
ing those which he
lately vetoed.
This board now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

With other things Mr.. Edison said
that Germany is far ahead of us In COM
merclal electrical enterprises There is
one electrical establishment in Berlin he
told the reporters. where O0j0 men are
employed day and night. and at the head
OF this establ shment Is a young German
who got all OF his training at Mr. Edison's
Menlo Park place-"one of my boys" Mr.
Edison called him.
Il am sorry that the Germans, whom
like immensely, got huffy over my re-
mark. while over there, that / thought
the young men of their country drank a
good deal more beer than was good for
them,'' said Mr.. Edison. ~ did say that,
but not by way of crit cisn; merely by
way of stating a fact which the best
minds OF Germany thoroughly realize
That fact is coming to be realized in Ger
many's great industrial centers. They
have ii in contemplation to enforce abso-
lutte temperance on the part Of all en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
" ESTERDAY 7 heard the Irish Ian
S1lnLan 70 he l.,

" ESTERDAY ! heard the Irish Ian
guage spoken for the second time in
my life
The first time ] heard it, 1t proceeded
from the lips of very old, woolly head
ed negro man. He could speak no other
language but Irish. / heard him speak
1t close upon twenty years ago. 1t was
when Mayor Gilroy was at the head of
New York affairs. The old negro came
to New York in the steerage of an Eng
iish steamer He had been told that he
had some relatives here, and he came to
New York to seek them out. He could
not find them. Somebody sent him to
Mayor Gilroy, a fine Irish scholar. The
two men conversed in the Irish tongue
for hours. The old negro had been
brought from Africa to Ireland by rich,
wandering young Irishman, in his boy
hood. The Irish estate of the young
Irishman was in a section of the Aud
Dart where all of the folks spoke the
native tongue: and that was the Ian
guage the negro picked up, and the only
European language Mayor Gilroy sent
him back to the old country plentifully
supplied with money, and saw to it that
he was cared for for the balance of his
life.
The Irish I heard yesterday was spoken
by two pretty chambermaids employed at
a New York hotel. They were south
OF Ireland girls. with the blue-black
hair and big gray eyes of the Iberian-
lied Hibernians of that section of
Ireland. They were speaking animatedly
and laughingly in one of the hotel halls
as l passed through l stopped to listen.
/ couldn't by any chance puzzle out what
language they Were speaking. 1t was a
liquid. fluid, a beautiful, soft language
in the mouths of those two pretty Irish
girls: but j couldn't identify it. And so
/ asked them what language they were
speaking. Irish. they replied. both blush
ing as only south of Ireland girls know
how to blush. They had oniy recently
come out to the states from Ireland,
and they were old friends in the old coun-
try. They told me that they'd been
taught the Irish tongue in the Irish
scholastic teaching of the native Ian
guage is now compulsory. they added. 1t
is a pretty language to listen to: soft
wholly unguttural, as smooth as French
or even tia ian: a poetic. eloquent
tongue. 1 had been told that 1t was
splendid language for love making.
could easily ina CINE that, after hearing
those two girls speak 1t.
A few days ago I had another odd
little listening experience. l went to
one of those hole-in-t he-wal Greek
bootblack shops on Broadway to have
'em polished 1t was the usual Greek
establishment of its sort-the print
of the Parthenon on the wall, a col
ored print of beskirted Macedonian
soldiers with fierce mustaches and so
on.
In a corner of the shop a Greek
bootblack-a grown man-who wasn't
employed for the moment, was repeat
ing some lines with great obvious en-
joyment. At first l paid little atten-
tion. imagining that he was talking to
himself-perhaps repeating some les
son in English. Presently, however
caught the words. The Greek was re-
citing. for his own pleasure, one of the
beautiful Greek lyrics from Byrons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

One doesn't begrudge man anything
or everything that he thinks he wants to
eat, and l am only dwelling on this end
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15

vancement Of learning, finds in the
American college and secondary
school diffuseness of curriculum
which makes for specifically and
weakens the powers OF concentration.
He says: THE American has NOT
yet got out of the spell, of the pio-
neer days. He is alert, resourceful,
but superficial. Alertness and re-
Sourcefulness can no longer take the
place of thorough training and care
full preparation
When American and English edu-
Gators agree we may be pretty sure
they are right. 1t must be admitted
that there are cardinal defects in
American educational methods which
should be remedied Training which
turns out students who, as one tutor
says, even in scientific studies have
not been accustomed to keeping
their hold ON work for amy greaf
length of time" is fatally defective
The American students should be
trained i'm thoroughness, in intens.
application. Whatever subjects they
take up they should be made to mas
ter. There is too much athletics
and too little scholarship, too mAcl
desultory work and too little "dig,
girs" in our schools and colleges
Chicago Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
ficiencies of the reciprocity bin.

ficiencies of the reciprocity bill
The farmers who opposed the
passage of the reciprocity bill by a
republican administration have no
grounds to oppose it under a Demo-
cratic administration of the House.
Here is the difference between re,
ciprocity before and after March a:
Reciprocity under Republican
house meant the Mccall bill. with
certain bad features remaining in it
intact.
Reciprocity under Democratic
house means the Mccall bill with
the Objectionable features corrected
by separate bills.
So there is no longer any reason
why AID the farmers, both democrat
ic and republican, should not get
busy and boost the Democratic pro-
gram.
Wickersham Is Worried.
United States Attorney General
Wickersham is worrying. He is
afraid the Democratic house will
bring about a congressional investi-
gation of the steel trust. 1t is one
of the Attorney Generals policies to
be against congressional investiga'
tons of any kind. His excuse is that
he is afraid of congressional inves-
tigation would give the trust mag
mates immunity from prosecution. Mr..
Wickersham is frank to say, howev-
er, that he has no intention Of pros,
ecuting the steel trust for being in
existence in violation of the law. So
the steel trust is sure of immunity
II there is no congressional probe,
If congress investigates, as it will,
the trust lnagnates will be no more
certain of receiving immunity than
if there was no investigation. Sc
the investigation might as we'll pro
coed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
SPECIAL WASHINGTON CORES
PoNDENcE.
By Clyde FL. Tavenner


The first business of the new
Democratic House of Repres entatiyes
Will be to pass the Canadian recipro-
city bill.
But we don't like the kind of
reciprocity Mr.. Taft submitted,' pro
test lot of the farmers Of the
farmers of the country, and some of
them Democratic farmers, too.
We like the idea reciprocity IT.
SELF, > says these farmers, "but I'M
der the particular bin about, to be
passed the revision downward is
principally on raw products without
sufficient reduction on manufactur.
ed things"
That is just the way the Demo-
cratic members of Congress feel
about it. That is just the way they
nave always felt about it. They de-
lGared time and again that the Nc.
Cail reciprocity measure was not the
KIND Of a measure they would write
eoiiis the writing, but that they
taHofed 1T as an important step in
Ehg right direction.
Very WE'LL" reply the anti cCall-
reciprocity farmers, "the Democrats
are now in control. Why do they
52 give US revision downward ON
a;ts9ufaetured things as we'll as raw
9nc:'ilots."
Chat is what the Democrats are
going to do. They will ass the
reciprocity measure to keep the
fai'h With the President; then they
viii pa2s some separate bills revis-
ing particular schedules downward
which VIII make up for all the de-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
How,s THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known
F, J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and fl
nancially able to carry out any abli-
cations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price Il
cents per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti
patton.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION
OF NECESSITY.

Notice is hereby given that at meet
Ing OF the city council of Manchester.
Iowa. held on the goth day Of February.
ton. hereinafter set forth. which said
resolution will be considered for passage
BY the g, city council council, at meeting to be
o'clock p m. on the Both day Of March.
1911. at which time the owners Of prop
erty subject to assessment for. the cost
in said resolution may appear and make
objection. II any they have. to the con-
tenplated Improvement and the passage
OF said proposed resolution. which reso-
Whereas a petition of the owners of
a majority Of the linear front feet
east Inc on Fast Union street from the
line of New street in the city Of Man
chester, Iowa. has been. filed with the
City Clerk and am presented to the CITY
February 20. 1911. asking for the com
structton of cement curb and three
foot cement gutter on each side OF
street to east line Of New street. the
Width OF street from curb to curb to be
NoW. therefore. Be 1t Resolved by
i the City Council of the City Of Manches-
Section !; That the construction OF
on each side OF Union street. from the
east line OF Franklin street to the east
line OF New street the width Of street
to be thirty-thr feet from, curb to
curb. Is hereby declared to BID necessary
Section 2. That said curb and gutter
/; shall be constructed OF Portland cement
and In accordance with plans and speci-
fications to be prepared by an engineer
employed by the city and adopted by the
City Council. :
Section 3. That the expense Of max
ing said Improvement be assessed
against the property abutting thereon in
accordance with the law governing the
intersecting streets. Which cost viii
be paid by the City OF Manchester, Iowa
And the contractor who shall make said
Improvement shall guarantee that the
same will endure without need Of re-
pair for one year from the date of Its
acceptance by the city.
Dated February 20. 1911.
| Attest:
J Edward Hruby, John Cruise,
| City Clerk. President pro
s-4wks. tempore.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
,EDNEsDAY, MARCH is, 1911.
THE ARMY MANEuvERs ON Q
SOUTHERN FRONTIER.

The army maneuvers in Texas are,
in our Judgment, the occasion OF too
much speculation and unrest secre-
tary of War Dickinson recently re-
turned from tour around the world.
He inspected the military forces of
the nations of Asia and Europe,
where frequent army movements ON
a large scale are common occur
rences. After his return there was
a good deal said in the newspapers
about the inefficiency of this coun-
try's army. And the alarmists point
ed out how easily almost any foreign
country could defeat the few un-
trained soldiers We did have.
1t is quite probable that the
President and the War Department
deemed an object lesson on this SUBJ
ject advisable, and ordered the
present concentration of troops in
Texas for the purpose of demonstrate
ing the efficiency Of this country's
fighting force
The little disturbance in one
state of the Mexican republic is GER
tainly too insignificant to call for
such an extensive military demonstra-
tion ON the part of this country.
Until there has been a greater de-
struction in Mexico, of property be
longing. to foreigners, 1t does not
seem, that any foreign country would
be justified in demanding that this
country prepare for the protection
Of the property of foreigners. in Mex.
leo. or consent to the occupciatio1
Of Mexico by foreign troops to pro
tect The property of foreign, citi
zens.
And talk about Japan being at the
bottom Of the Mexican rebellion re
quires quite stretch of the imagin
alton 1t is true, quite true, thai
Japan is not to be trusted that the
Japanese regard us as a nation o.
money-makers rather than soldiers
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
THE AMERICAN RHODES scHoL-
AIRS.

A number of Oxford tutors have
put on record their opinions of the
Rhodes scholars from America. They
are sparing neither of praise nor
blame, but the blame falls rather on
the training had in American educa-
tioral institutions than on the stu
dents themselves.
The friendly criticism is to the eff
feet that "they are intelligent, keen,
and alert and there has not been a
hint OF idleness or slackness since
they first came" They "are in
point of natural ability fully the
equal of our ordinary open scholar;
in point of energy, seriousness, and
force of character they are, in my
Judgment, decidedly their superiors."
They are certainly, as body, more
strenuous and serious than the ordi-
nsry undergraduate.
Now for the other side. Says ONE
tutor: 81 think that their training
III hiHeFlCd Has III HCSU cases encOuf-
aged smattering in a large num-
ber>cG subjects. AS general rule
they know nothing we'll, but know
something about a large number of
subjects They have not been accus-
toned to keeping their hold on work
for any length of time" Says am
other: "They have generally
shown little seense of scholarship"
Says another: "Our American schol-
ars seemed inclined to drift from
one subject to another, taking a
bird'steye view of each and resting
content with that"
These English comments on Amer
lean educational training are echoed
ON this side of the Atlantic. For in
stance, DR.. Pritchett. president Of
the Carnegie foundation for the adj
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
A DISTINGUISHED WOMAN.

Mrs. Stephen B. Ellkins is a re
markable woman, She is a daugh-
ter Of Henry Grassaway Davis. at
one time United States Senator,
and a candidate for the the vice
presidency on the democratic ticket
with Alton B. Parker. Her dis
tinguished husband was for many
years United States senator and
her SON is now a member of the
United States senate. Ms. Elkins
is the daughter, the widow and the
mother Of a United States senator.
Was there ever another woman sim
ilarly distinguished?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15

Little Ethel had been taken to East.
fake park to see the beautiful birds
and animals, and upon her return de.
scribed them to her mother. The
peacock made profound impression
upon her. and she told her mother
about 1t in this way: at is beauti
ful bird, mother, with electric lights
all through the ferns and turke!
under M"--Los Angeles Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
adventure in a Cyclone.

Aoventure IN q Cyclone.
Yes. said the Billville story-teller
"the cyclone carried his house into the
next county and set 1t down there as
comfortable as you please. and as be
stepped out o the door to survey the
country the man who owned the land
notified him Of suit for trespacs. and
the tax collector handed him a bill fol
taxes!"-Atlanta Constitution.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15

II your eyes are weak and are cas-
lily tired when reading and sewing, II
probably means that your generel
health is below par. A nourisbing
Met and plenty of sleep. combined
with exercise in the open air, are
Important When you must work rest
your eyes occasionally for few min
nutes at time. and always work IL
good lieht-tn daylightJf possible
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15
WHY DO BOYS FALL

1t is rather contradictory that boys
the country ovner sGo,lG he eager 10
enter re United s..tes milit l.v
academy at West Point and that at
the same time the academy authori-
tics should complain that they can
not get boys enough to fill the cadet
corps with % per cent of its full
quota.
Yet that is the actual situation,
according to the war departments
recent statement announcing examin-
atoms for admission to West Point.
Its statment shows a list, of some
fifty vacancies at the present time,
four OF them from Iowa, in the Fifth,
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh districts.
says in explanation of the long list
that for several years the cadet
corps has been Is to 25 per cent
below what it ought to be and it
makes strong appeal for filling up
OF the ranks, because the army needs
the graduates of the institution.
There is reason, of course, for
this shortage of students at West
Point, and it lies DIM, the failure OF
the eager applicants for admission
to pass the mental examinations. The
boys of the present days seem tc
meet the physical standards, all right
for of 351 who applied in a given
period only 81 We're rejected fol-
physical reasons; but they do MOI
meet the mental standards, for 1Ss
We're rejected in the mental examin
atons. OF the S14 young men who
Went into the mental examinations
in this particular period, 263 failed
in one or more subjects; 1854 failed
| in algebra. 237 in geometry. Some
OF them tried second time and
made up their deficiencies, but
only few of them-not one-third.
A school man who investigated
these 314 applicants found that they
We're not short on schooling, as fa,
as years of school attendance were
concerned. He found that 295 hat
been educated in the public schools
which they had attended am average
Of y Years and months each. OF
the total number, 1S9 young men
had completed classical courses in
high schools. More interesting still
l35 OF the applicants had spent a
year or more in college after high
school and of these college students
81 failed. or nearly two-thirds.
When 1T is recalled that young men
DO not. take West Point examinations
ON the spur off the moment, but
usually after about nine months mot.
ice and with abundant opportunity
for special preparation, the long list
OF failures does not speak very we'll
for the present day boys who seek
admission to West Point The in
creased number of failures might be
explained by harder tests than of
old, but those who know say that
the mental examinations today are
no more severe than they We're gen
Grafton ago when a larger proportion
OF the boys got through successfully.
The educator who investigated the
failures used the facts he found to
support his Statements that modern
public schools are net as thorough
as they ought to be. Probably he
claimed too much for his facts, but
they do put the public schools and
the modern high school product ON
the Observation-Disclosures and Leader.