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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-17

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-17
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-17

81 declare" said Mrs. Cumrox after
making a round Of calls. "all these
buffers must have umpired baseball
games"
'TmpoliteT'
'No; polite, but positive. They seem
to have got into the habit Of saying
everybody is out."-washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
POLITICS KEPT OFT.

BY the reelection of President Win
throp Mayor Gaynor is again defeated
in his efforts to secure control of the
Board Of Education. These efforts took
the form at first of plan to legislate
the present board out of office and re-
place it with a small paid body subor-
dinated TO the Mayor and the Board or
Estimate and Apportionment, precisely
as the city departments are. Defeated
in this plan to take away the inde-
pendence of the Board Of Educanon'
the Mayor has since devoted himself TO
gaining control of it by seeking to have
his man elected successor to President
Winthrop. All his instruments in this
operation were of Tammany antece-
dents, which gave to it the aspect or
the worst political assault upon the in
dependence, Of the schools in recent
years.
The defeat of the Mayors candidate
assures the freedom Of the schools from
politics. and this is the feature of their
administration in which the public can
take the greatest pride. Except so far
as it has succeeded in keeping the
school system out of politics, the organi-
zation OF the Board of Education leaves
a good deal to be desired. Educational
critics regard the board as unwieldy
because Of its large membership, and
members themselves admit this defect
Perhaps when the investigation Of the
educational system now being con-
Quoted, which extends to the work of
the board itself, is completed the pub
lie will be in possession Of information
pointing the way to its reorganization
so as to preserve its present indepen-
denCe of politics and yet increase its
efficiency But when that is done it is
safe to predict that the city will require
that the checks upon such interference
as the Mayor has just striven to make
effective shall be strengthened rather
than relaxed
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
SEcESSLONS FRON cHLNA.

Late news from China strongly con
firms the view which we expressed long
ago that one Of the chief problems which
Yuan Shih-kai has been trying TO solve
is that Of maintaining the integrity Of
the Chinese Empire. The question is
not merely what kind of government the
people Of Canton or Of Marking or Of
certain provinces want, nor indeed what
the people of the whole Middle Kingdom
want. Even the latter are merely part
of the empire. and while they are the
most important part, the desires and in
terests of the rest are entitled to CON
sideration Indeed. the interests Of the
Middle Kingdom itself demand most
careful attention 10 the wishes OF those
adjacent domains whose continued con
nection with IL are essential To continued
prosperity.
It has been evident from the beginning
that Manchuria would be less friendly
to republican propositions than China
proper, if it would entertain them at all.
The true Chinese are exceedingly demo
been accustomed 10 exercise large de-
gree of local self-goyernment. The Man
churians are intensely aristOcratic Even
the coolies are welded 10 the worship of
the clans of mobiles This feeling is OF
course intensified by the fact that the
ruling or lately ruling imperial clan IS
Manchurian. We can imagine, then, that
Manchuria would, as is now announced,
withdraw from the empire rather than
become part of the republic.
1t is with the aim Of maintaining unity
among the parts of the empire and keep
ing Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan and
Tibet all bound together with the Middle
Kingdom that Mr.. Yuan has been dill
gently laboring, and especially that he
has been negotiating with the Manchu-
rian princes. His difficulties have been
vastly increased by the circumstance
that foreign influences have been ar
rayed against him. One power has been
insidiously seeking to persuade Man
chliria TO secede, and another to foment
a similar movement in Mongolia and
Turkestan, while a third has already es-
tablished close relations with Tibet. 1t
Is probable that Mr.. Yuan would prefer
the establishment of republic, II 1t
could be effected without disruption.
But even the most earnest republicans
might incline to the maintenance Of the
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
Board Of Trustees Preparing for
Openlng Next September.

At the regular monthly meeting Of the
Board Of Trustees OF Columbia University
YESTERDAY President Nicholas NIurray But
Ter reported the recent organization OF the
Advisory Board OF the School Of Journal
ism founded by Joseph Pulitzer. and the
action taken by tho board forming plans
for tho opening Of the school next Sep.em-
Der.
\ new plan for strengthening the rela-
tions between Columbia University and
other institutions Of learning in the vari-
GUS parts OF the country was reported by
President Butler Under this new plan an
exchange professorship Will be established,
beginning with the next half Of The present
academic year, with Coe College, Iowa,
and Dr. Leighton 3 Morse of the Depart
ment Of Physics. will lecture at the west
ern university, while Professor Weld VIII
come to Columbia.
Several gifts aggresating Sl,@l. were
announced by the Trustees, among them
the following: $4,000 from William Fl.
Nichols for instruction and research
laboratories in chemistry In HaYemeyer
Hall; S25 900 from Mrs. Russell Sage, for the
+. G.. Janeway Library Endowment Fund
at tho Medical School $4,000 from w.
Bayard Cutting, to establish the William
Bayard Cutting, jr.. Fellowship in Inter
national Law; $4,000 from Augustus Scher-
merhorn, to he expended for the current
needs Of tho University; $3.50 from William
G. Low. for the purchase Of books on
MARITIME and international law.
Or. Theodore c. Janeway gave to tho
trustees the medical library left 10 him
by his father Edward G.. Janeway.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
FOOTBALL RULES.

The changes made in the football
rules will PUT new life into the sport
The seasons of 1910 and 1911 showed
that the reaction from the old style of
mass play had been carried too far.
In order TO make the play more open
and to compel frequent punting and
passing the running offence was over
handicapped and undue advantages
We're given TO the defence. In games
between teams Of somewhere nearly
equal strength the touchdown resulting
from straight offensive play became a
rarity. Most of the scoring done was
due TO goals from the field or To touch
downs following blocked kicks or fun
bles. A weaker team with reason
ably good defence could afford 10 let
the other side do most Of the playing,
trusting itself 10 score through the
errors Of its opponents.
Tactics Of that sort are out OF place
i'm football, which is essentially a game
calling for team work Of high order.
4 concerted attack is the life of the
sport. and when the attack was so
hampered as TO be practically incffcc-
tive inside the twcnty-iive-yard line
football contests came near degencrat-
ing into mere kicking exhibitions, each
side. realizing that there was about rs
good chance TO score through surrcn-
dering the ball as through keeping pos
session Of IT, Luck and individual
brilliancy were much more important
factors in the games of last year than
football strategy and consistent aggrcs-
sive team play.
The changes made in the rules all
tend 10 eliminate the undue favor
shown to the defence and to encourage
The neglected running game. The side
having the ball will bc able TO carry IT
further and can no longer he brought
10 a dead standstill after reaching the
twenty yard line. The value of the
touchdown has been increased, as it
ought 10 he. and team which aspireS
To rank high next season will have 10
be able to show real offensive as we'll
as defensive strength. Skill and endur-
ance will tell much more than they
have done i'm recent years. The public
has grown tired Of draw games and Of
games won 10y plays of an accidental
character. 1t will welcome the return
to sounder football principles which
the rules committee has sanctioned
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
Nv INTERNATIONAL LNOUIRY.

The cost Of living problem has been
approached from almost every point Of
view except the international one advO-
Gated by President Taft in his recent
message Nations have Investigated it.
Economic societies have debated it. In
dividuals have puzzled over it. The con-
clusions reached have been in accordance
with the theories with which the investi
gators started out. If they have held the
quantitative theory Of money, as most
economists have, they have made the re-
port that the rapid increase in the gold
prices. otherwise their conclusion has
laid stress on other factors.
The advantage of an international in
quiry would be the elimination Of local
considerations. Worldwide comparison
Of conditions would he possible; statistics
could be so standardized as to make such
comparison easy, and a collection Of all
the facts bearing upon the general ad-
vance in the cost of living would he one
of the results of such an inquiry. All Of
this would be Of great scientific impOr-
tanCe, and if the inquiry were in the
hands of scientists of the highest ca
pacity the conclusions reached might be
of practical value, though it is improb-
able that lower prices would follow. The
utility of the investigation would rather
he in the scientific thoroughness with
which facts and statistics were collected.
If the work were done eXhaustively and
in a spirit free from political partisan
ship and theoretical bias it. would fur
nish mine of information for many
years to come out Of which economic
study might develop in the end some
really adequate explanation Of the great
cycles of price changes which often
cause genuine distress.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
CAN HE 20 TT

Governor Wilson seems to be having
hard work in the w row. After Henry
Watterson comes George Fred Will
Jams. Both confess to an engaging
first impression Of the Governors per
sonality and conversation. Both visited
him in the salad period Of his Presiden-
tial ambition and went away enthusl-
astic. But the chill of disillusion has
followed Colonel Watterson. as he
says. found out that Mr.. Wilson had
the "austerity" Of a "schoolma ster" and
lacked "a heart grateful and kind I"
George Fred has discovered from a
per'usal of the Governors History Of
the American People" that he is desti-
tute of mercy, charity, love and
nationality" Therefore he joins the
colonel in exclaiming: May God protect
"the Democracy from such a leader and
such leadership"
1t is a sweeping indictment which Mr.
Williams draws against Wilson the
historian. He writes to his bosom
friend, Mr.. Pettigrew. of South Dakota:
It is clear that he has had profound
contempt for the Farmers Alliance, the
Populists, Greenbackers. bimetallists,
trade unionists small oficeseekers
Italians Poles, Hungarians, pensioners.
strikers. armies Of unemployed. To him
these classes represented no economic
wrongs. Cleveland has been his Wor-
shipped idol as President. He has re-
garded the East and the bankers as the
sole custodians Of financial wisdom The
vital question is, Has year destroyed
"all these impressions and put mercy.
charity, love and nationality into
hardened heart?"
Mr.. Williams evidently fears that the
indiscretlons of Wilson the historian
will return to plague Wilson the can
didate Can he square himself with the
Populists, Greenbackers, bimetallists,
trade unionists, officeseekers, Italians,
Poles, Hungarians pensioners, strikers
and unemployed as facilely as he
played on Colonel Harvey's heart
strings and won that injured benefac-
tors pardon? Possibly the Governor
might assure the various voting ele-
ments enumerated by Mr.. Williams
that his mind is "a one-track road and
"can only run one train of Thought at
'time," and that when he was writing
history it never occurred to him that he
might some day be Presidential can
didate. When Benedick said that he
would die bachelor he never thought
that he would live long enough to be
married. Obviously 1t would be cruel
for those who have smarted under the
disapproval Of Wilson the litterateur 10
vent their grievances on Wilson the
politician. Forgive me and forget my
mannersw may be as effective salve
with them as It has been In healing
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
NICE AS A PORT OF CALL
Many Passengers Now Go Direct to the
Riviera on Ocean Liners.
vdi,or ~ The Tribune

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir. The necessity for port OF call on
the French Riviera for ocean liners must
he obvious to all American visitors TO that
region OF sunshine. With "A coast line OF
more than one hundred English miles from
Tollon TO the Italian frontier at Ventimislia,
the cate d. Azur possesses infinite attraction
for visitors Of all natonalities To Amerl-
cans I'm particular the want OF port In
the centre OF this district, to which may
be added Bordighera, San Reno and the
western part Of the Italian Rivireia, has
been felt up TO the present time.
Nice with a population of upward OF
1s3 90 inhabitants, occupies almost CEN
traI position between Genoa and Marseilles,
and she may be considered as particularly
fortunate In possessing in Villefranche-
on,v three miles distant-one Of the finest
natural harbors on the Mediterranean
coast The Gulf OF Villefranche. with
deem water extending close inshore, we'll
protected by hills and mountains. with
good and safe anchorage. is much fire.
ouented by warships OF all nations. Until
about fifteen years ago Villefranche was
the principal winter station and depot for
the American feet in the Mediterranean.
With the exception of occasional visits
from, Tourist steamers and yachts, this
mort has not been used for passenger
traffic.
A regular passenger service calling at
yillefranche was finally established last
season by three of the principal steamship
companies trading between New York and
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
UNIVERSAL STRIKES.

There is nothing antecedently or in
trinsically absurd in the belief expressed
by federal immigration inspector that
the Lawrence strike, which he has been
investigating for the government, was
intended TO be only part Of a nation
wide if not a worldwide strike in the
textile trade and thus, as the plotters
hoped. the beginning Of social reyolu-
tion. There are, it is said, various circum-
stances of the Lawrence situation which
appear TO confirm this view. and GER
tsinly there have been plenty of occur
rences in other lands which point in the
same direction The great conflict in
Lancashire in which a partial and tenn
porary truce has just been patched up,
has had some of. the symptoms of at
tempted universality, and the threat is
that when the truce expires it will be eX-
tended throughout the entire textile
trade Of the United Kingdom.
Year before last a confessedly univer-
sal strike was attempted in France, in
which all workers we're TO cease work,
regardless of whether they had any
grievances against their employers or
not. They were 10 strike for the sake
of striking and thus Of paralyzing so
ciety and government and making labor
organizations the dict9tors of the ma
fion. Through the energy of Mr.. BRAND
the attempt failed, after it bad been
enormously costly. Again. last year a
similar undertaking was made in Great
Britain. which also failed. largely be-
cause the genius and temperament OF
the people were unsympathetic toward it.
But i'm both cases the intention was I'M
disguised. 1t was to bring about So
cial and political revolution, as re-
suit of which supreme power was to
pass into the hands Of self-constituted
committees of trade unions,
AS these things are frequently mar
aged through international arrangement,
It may have been agreed that the first
attempt at such revolution should be
made In France, the second In Great
Britain and the third here. There are
reasons why America might be regarded
as a particularly hopeful field, where
success might be attained even after fall
ure elsewhere The supposed sensitive
ness Of the local governments Of this
country to yote-getting considerations,
the extreme character OF socialism In
America and the extent to which social
Est doctrines have been sympathetically
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Tribune Bureau. ]

From The Tribune BureAu'I
Washington, Feb. 5.--The President hopes
to send the judicial appointments "nlch
have been hanging fire for so lons 10 'he
Senate on Wednesday. These incluue, OIL
course the successor 10 Justice Harlan'
The hackers Of Judge Hook are conhoeht
he has been selected, but the packers Oh
Secretary Nagel are equally confident. The
hackers of julius NJ Mayer for judge or
the Southern District of New York are con-
fident his name will be found on the list, as
are the hackers of Judge Carpenter for the
Illinois vacancy resulting from Judge
Grosscups resignation.
President Taft was much gratihed to-day
by letter from a Chinaman, one Chans
Lang, who, writing apropos or the Presi-
dents recent appeal as president or the
Red Cross for assistance for the sunerers
from the famine in China, says: / am
poor humble Chinaman in Salt Lake anu
haven't anything to return TO our fresioent
but thousands and thousands of thanks.
God blesses to you!"
Replying to the invitation OF the BrooK-
lyn Grand Army OF the Republic, the Presi-
dent said to-day that he feared 1t would De
impossible for him to accept the invitation
to attend the Memorial Day exercises IN
that city. but he suggested that they bring
the matter to his attention later.
Representative Austin, of Tennessee, de-
clared at the White House that there was
no truth in the reports that the Republican
County Committee at Knoxville hao m
dorsed ex-President Roosevelt, Mr.. Austin
said he could not account for the story e&-
cept as a piece of irresponsible insurgent
press work.
Mayor Kreissman and Otto Stifel, OF st.
Louis, assured the President to-day that
he would have the solid delegation from
Missouri.
Isaac T. Mann, Of West Virginia, who
was luncheon guest at the White House.
predicted that the delegation from that
state would be for the President.
Father Vaughan, the English Jesuit VINO
lectIred here last night, was presented to
the President by Chief Justice White.
The President entertained at dinner to-
night Secretary Nagel Representatives
Bartholdt, Dyer and Catlin, Of Missouri;
Mayor KreIssman and Otto Stifel. OF St
Louis and Secretary Hilles.
The Presidents callers included the At
torney General, Secretary Nagel, ex-Gov-
ernor Bailey Of Kansas, Senator'S Heyourn'
Sutherland, Briggs, Townsend, Bradley and
Root, and Representatives Dwight, Burle-
son. Anthony. Peters, Cooper, Flood Gillet'
Foster, Mckinney, Vreeland, Underhill'
Higgins and Mckinley.
The President and Mrs. Taft were joined
at the White House to-day by Miss Harriet
Anderson, the niece Of Mrs. Taft, who has
been the guest of the Secretary OF the
Navy and Mrs. Meyer. Mrs. Taft occupied
a box at the Belasco tonight, having with
her Miss Taft, Miss Anderson, Miss Emer-
son Lamb Miss Helen Barber Miss lsaoeI
Vincent, Miss Chase and Miss Wolf all OF
whom. with Miss Della Torrey, form the
Presidents house party. From the theatre
they went to the Southern ball, where they
were Joined by the President
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
lErnm The Tribune Bureau.


Washington, Feb. 5.-The French Amoas-
eador and Nine Jusserand entertained at
breakfast to-day I'm compliment TO Count
and Countess Buetzow. of Bohemia VINO
arc the house guests OF Mrs. John Hays
Hammond. Their other guests were Mrs.
Hammond. Ex-Governor Herrick, Mrs. Her
bert Wadsworth. the Russian naval attache
and Mime. Vassilien, Commander Retz-
mann. German naval attache; Miss Eliza
beth Adams, Mr.. Dmitrow. OF the Russian
Embassy, and the French naval attache
and VIscomtess Benoist d'Azy.
The Russian Embassy will be established
I'm the residence owned by the former Vice
President and Mrs. Fairbanks, at nth and
K streets within a short time. The SER
wants for Ambassador and Nine Bakhme-
teff will arrive in this country tomorrow
and eight or ten vans OF their household
effects. including many rare books, pct
ures. tapestries and pieces Of bric-a-orac'
have already come from abroad The house
is admirably adapted for entertaining haV-
ing undergone a thorough renovation.
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernstorff had about eighty guests at
the embassy yesterday afternoon for tea,
when they were assisted by the members
ot the embassy staff
New-York tribune., 1912-02-06

the Mediterranean. This new service
which promises 10 become very popular
was opened by the Cunard liner Caronla
C20.OOO registered tons) on December D. lsio
Followed by others of the same company,
as we'll as by ships of the White Star ana
Hamburg American lines, no fewer thah
twenty-four calls were made during tne
season, representing an aggregate OF loe'oVv
net tons according to returns furnlsheu
by the customs authorities Of the port,
The number of the passengers landed ana
embarked was 1O51 and S02, respectively.
The landing was effected by steam ten
der and by rowboats from the ship to
pontoon moored at the end of the mole
or breakwater of the little port, which
is situated at the northwest corner OF the
gulf. The facilities for landing and en-
barking passengers are much improved
this season. The roadway on the break
water has been widened. A new custom
house, with commodious waiting and ex-
animation rooms. has been erected at the
quay. Ample space is provided for car
riages and the autobuses belonging to the
various hotels to await the arrival Of the
passengers and TO convey them 10 their
destination in Nice in about half an hour.
The first arrival this season was that OF
the Cleveland $4,000 tons), belonging to the
Hamburg American Line, from New York,
with 5G' passengers, Of whom 135 were
landed. She embarked 195 for San Fran
cisco and other ports. The next to arrive
was the Caronia, from New York, via Ma
deira. bringing 10 passengers for the
Riviera and embarking 10 for other
Mediterranean ports.
The arrival Of thirteen big liners with
an aggregate OF 261 800 tons, belonging to
the three principal companies, is an
nounced for the present season. This does
not include the ships of the Fabre Line
Of Marseilles and others, which will prob
ably bring the total up to 100000 tons.
With such vessels as the Adriatic (245Oo
tons), OF the White Star: the Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria (25,0O0 tons), Of the Ham,
American. and the Caronia 10000
tons), Of the Cunard Line, the port OF
Villefranche is certain to become a IA
vorite landing place for travellers from
the United States. P.L. N.F.
Nice, Jan. TO- 1912