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New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
THE TiLK or THE DiY.

! Arrangements are being made for n we'd
ding IN New York which might never have
| taken place but for the part taken, as a
| peacemaker, of an umbrella, "and not such
good umbrella at that" according 10 the
| statement of the man In the case. They
had been engaged for months and IAN UNI
derstanding" had existed Tor long time
! before The course Of true love ran with
, ont ripple until about month ago a
| trinlng incident caused disagreement
which eliminated one evening in mutual
| 'goodbys' forever. 4 few days ago the
| man sent 10 the home OF his iiancee for his
| umbrella, which he had left behind when
! the all-is-oycr-bctwccn-us Interview took
place The messenger brought instead this
note: Cons yourself. you silly hoy" And
so they'll be married
! Coming down. called the elevator boy.
! in response 10 ring from the floor below.
! "Merciful heavens. where's safety
pin?" gasped an elderly lady who was
! passing through the COrridor.-SatIre.
| 4 Danish correspondent OF "The Lancet
| i'm the current issue reports a case which he
aays: throws light ON a miracle related
| I'm the Apocrypha. The patient was man
seventy-seven years old, with a cataract
of eight years standing. While at work In
his garden one day the patient had occa-
sion to rub his right eye several times on
account OF sweat which had tricked into IT,
He awoke next morning to find that the
sight of his right eye was restored. HIS
wife and neighbors also remarked that his
eye no longer looked gray. On examination
! by doctor five days later nothing was to
| l. ~ he hn ~ cd
down. when II was seen as gray, shining
body floating In the vitreous humor at the
bottom of the eye. where 1t moved with the
movements of the eye" The miracle OF
which Tobias is the hero Is the subject OF
painting by Rembrandt In Brussels
| 4 certain young man who prlded himself
on a brusqueness that he mistoOk for wit
met an eminent but touchy sculptor at IA
studio supper.
so youJe the chap" he said on being
introduced that makes mud heads"
| mot all of them" the sculptor replied
quetly.-Youth's Companion.
It seems that Governor Wilson has no
Illusions about his claim to good looks
William Bayard Hale, in THE Worlds
Work" says that the Governor told the
people during his campaign that they might
as well prepare themselves for a busy Gov
ernor. for the Lord never intended him to
! be ornamental. Yes" he remarked once:
For beauty am not a star:
There are others handsomer, far;
But my face--I don't mind it,
| For ] am behind il;
Tis the people in front that jar"
| There's no coal left In the cellar.
ma am"
| why didn't you tell me before Mary?"
Because there was some, ma am -
| Punch.
At the wedding of young woman who
had been employed for number of years
! In department store six OF the brides
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
THE BUILDING or THE SHIPS.

THE BUILDING Or IHE SHffc'
The British Admiralty on Wednesday,
according to schedule. launched the latest
of its great fighting machines. the Queen
Mary. which is not, as some dispatches
say. mere Dreadnought, but is one OF
those still more formidable battleShin
cruisers TO which British naval builders
are now giving their best attention
Yesterday the Austro-lIungarian navy
launched its second all big gun ship, the
Tegctthoff. which is To carry twelve l.
inch guns behind pOnderous armor.
Also It was announced Yesterday that
the German Naval Minister had frus'
trated the amiable efforts of the Imp rial
Chancellor to establish an agreement
with Great Britain under which each or
the two powers would keep the other In
formed Of its naval plans-an agreement
which if made and kept would obviously
90 very far toward aycrting that rivalry
in construction which is all the more
costly and burdpnSome because II is con-
Quoted in the dark.
These circumstances. and others which
might be mentioned as occurring at the
same time, are forcihle reminder Of ~"
incxorable progress of naval construction
and naval preparation among all n"
great maritime powers. lt - an I'M
preSsive fact that there was not On" of
the eight great naval powers which cid
not launch at least one Dreadnought last
year. and also that seven of the eight
began the construction Of additional
ships Of that type. Few new ships were
actually put in commission, and the rela'
tive rank Of the powers was probably not
altered. But there was progress towar
the commissioning of ships which por-
tends probable changes of rank in the
near future, including perhaps the eX-
changing Of places By Germany and
America and also by France and Japan.
In vessels built before the Dread
nOught era America has a preponderance
over Germany which has been suiiiclen;
thus far to keep this country In second
place and relcgat@ Germany TO the third.
But IN 1910 America completed tive
Drcadnoughts 10 Germany's five, md last
year two TO Germany's four Thus the
two years gave America only four but
Germany nine Of those formidable YES
sells. At that rate Germany must soon
win second place and the United States
drop to third. 4 similar process is visi-
bic in the fourth and fifth places
Frapce, now fifth, adheres 70 her policy
Of two new ships year. But Japan
last year continued work on one
launched another and laid down thre
more: so that she threatens TO suppiant
France in fourth place and crowd the
latter down TO fifth
There are some other considerations
besides the increasing number Of ships
We have already discussed the battleship
cruisers, the value Of which Is yet 80 be
demonstrated The introduction Of IA
inch guns In our own navy Is an inter
csting experiment. The suggestion OF
decks proof against missiles dropped YER
tically from airShips opens mp another
important field Of speculation and expert
mcnt. And all these and other circum
stances convincingly mark the twentieth
century as an age i'm which the para
mount importance of sea power Is not
| likely 10 be ignored or neglected.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
VICTORY FOR BROWN DEBATERs
Providence Collegians Win from Dart
mouth and Williams.

Providence. March Thrown University
won the annual triangular intercoilegiate
debate with Dartmouth and Williams TO-
night by defeating Dartmouth at Hanover
n. H., and Williams in Providence Will
Jams won from Dartmouth at Williams
town.
The question debated was Resolved
That in dealing with such Industrial COM
binations as the Standard Oil and Ameri-
can Tobacco companies the policy of federal
control without dissolution is preferable to
a policy of dissolution designed to enforce
competition"
Each team supported the negative side Oh
the question on it's home platform.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
BRITISH STRIKE BILL PROSPECTS.

BRITISH STRIKE BILL PROSPECTS.
A deadlock over the anti-strike bill Is
what to-day apparently threatens Great
Britain. with the only avenue Of escape
as we suggested yesterday, the desire OF
both parties to be relieved from a burden
which is daily growing more intoleraoie.
The deadlock will not, however, be Tar
liamentary. Mr. Balfour's speech is in
terpreted as indicating that the Union
lists will not offer faCtional opposition 10
the governments measure. They patrl-
! Otically regard the crisis as too grave Tor
mere playing politics" They will criti-
| else the bill and try TO amend II, but
whether or not they succeed in the latter
effort they will not prevent its passage
! or seek to turn the government out.
They will, as Mr.. Balfour said. give the
policy of the government fair chance
| to vindiCate itself.
! The deadlock seems likely to arise
after the bill has passed. The bill pro-
| videS for the fixing Of minimum wages
/ in districts by district boards, and does
not prescribe in its own text general
minimum wage schedule for the whole
! kingdom Indeed. it is said that the
government is irrevocably pledged not
| to make such a prescription, though one
will be offered by the Labor members In
| the form of an amendment 1t is pretty
directly intimated that if one were made
| in the bill, on the basis of the strikers
demands. the mine owners would refuse
! to reopen their pits after the enactment
of the measure. On the other hand. II Is
even more clearly forecast that If the
| law fails to contain such prescription,
agreeing with the minimum scale adopt
/ ed by the miners themselves, the strikers
will refuse to recognize it and will re-
main on strike. II will he remembered
! that the official conferences Of few
| DAYS ago for the settlement Of The strike
/ failed because the miners insisted upon
| the acceptance Of their minimum scale
as sine qua non and would not so much
as admit it as a topic Of discussion.
SO the government is confronted with
the classic dilemma epigrammatically
expressed by Lorenzo Dow: You'll be
damned if you do, you'll be damned if
you don't" The hope of salvation rests
chiefly upon the. magnitude of the strike
and its effects. which may cause it tC
break down of lis own colossal weight
\ week ago more than 100000 person,
were idle because Of the strike, III
Guiding some in almost every considera
bic industry In the kingdom. Now We
are told that the number approXimatcS
3.OOO000 How can such Il state of. af
fairs continue much longer! IT would
be deplOrable TO enact an unjust meas
ure even for the abatement Of so vast d
calamity, but there must be. some way
of securing relief with equity, and if tho
Parliamentary Opposition in its criti
cisms Of the pending bill should succeed
in pointing out such way it would
perform a service Of incalcuable value
to the kingdom.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
BAR EXAMINATION.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Your columns OF the 18th inst con-
tain n report Of the meeting Of the Law
school Alumni Association OF Columbia
University. which took place on the even
inc OF the 18th serious mistake occurred
I'm the report Of the meeting furnished to
YOU with respect to the result OF the eXami-
nations for admission TO the bar taken 10y
the students OF Columbia, Harvard and the
New York Law School included in the last
class TO apply for admission. In justice 10
those institutions ] beg to request that
YOU publish this correction to accord with
the statements made at the meeting, which
had the pleasure OF attending and nave
since secured authoritative verihcation OF
the figures involved.
In summarizing Judge Leventritts very
interesting address concerning the present
procedure regarding admission 10 practise
law and the work OF the committee on
character appointed by the Appellate Di-
vision OF the Supreme Court of which com
mittee he is chairman, he said that the
last class to be examined was fairly typi'
cal Of all. and showed that widely different
results were reached by students from diff
.he code and evidence on the one hand
and the substantive law on the other He
pointed out that at the last examination
the percentage OF failures In code and evl-
denee from the three law schools was as
follows:
Columbia Observation-Disclosures. per cent
Harvard .........................O 40 per cent
Scw YORK Law School. per cent
on the other hand. I'm the examinations
I'm substantive law. the examinations were
passed" by the following:
Harvard p'I 'el''
New York. Law School. .3o per cent
He also pointed out that almost all the
students from Columbia and Harvard law
schools who failed to pass their examina-
tions I'm code and evidence on the first
occasion passed the same when making
their next effort. The report furnished ia
you refers to the percentages passing" in
substantive law as failing" thus doing
a grave Injustice TO the law schools in
volved. II also referred to the New York
University by mistake, instead OF the New
York Law School.
/ learn that the probable explanation fol-
the large number Of failures In the exami-
nation on code and evidence on the part Of
Columbia men the first time IS that the
habit has grown up for students to take
this examination at the close of their Sec
ond year. when they are already well
equipped in substantive law, but have not
vet studied code and evidence and they
take the examination in code and evidence
again IL they fail, after having studied
these subjects during their third year at
the law school. thereby ridding themselves
OF the burden OF taking all the examina-
tions together at the end Of the third year
OH completing their law school courses
MAX ]. KOHLER.
New York, March l5. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
4 REVOLTTTONARY '1R.

II is only a little while ago that SIDE
door cars in the subway were pronounced
by the suhways experts to he an "oper-
ating monstrosity." Now it Is announced
that side door cars are 10 replace end
door cars even on surface lines. This
is indeed a revolution. Not even the re-
call of Judges would be so revolutionary
as the recall of the Oldfashioned, hlgn
step car which has tlouriShed from the
beginning of things. 1t win be remem-
bered that occasionally car steps were
built so high that only long legged men
could negotiate them. This was never
done by design ii was always explained.
but by accident, the cars being con-
structed without consideration OF how
long human legs were.
IT is truly revolutionary for car build
crs and operators to consider how long
human legs are The idea that car
should be built which may be entered
with no more effort than is required to
step up the curbstone from the street
10 the sidewalk (Which Is what is gravely
asserted of this side door carr and one,
moreover, which you cannot be com
PEELED either to enter or leave Wlllle IL
is I'm motion. shakes our belief in the IT.
remediable stupidity of street railway
operators. After all that New York mas
gone through il takes great deal to do
that
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
PREFERENTIAL PRIMARIES
The Right of the Enrolled Party Voter
to Choose His Candidate.
a thn E,ditnr ~ The Trlhune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In his usual forceful and mastery
manner President Taft deals with live pub
lie questions in his Boston speech and lines
I'd with the Progressives as far as 1t re-
lates TO preferential primaries" so gem
eral as to cover national. state and local
candidates. He has nothing to lose by SUD-
mittng to such a decision. Every one must
indOrse his demand that such primaries
should be lawfully established, regulated
and safeguarded by state Legislation. Inc
manner of nominating candidates for cleo
tlon matters very little IL the nomlnators
shall be chosen so as to act under IN
struction by such primaries. The choice OIL
such nOmnators would be the voice OF the
enrolled party voters. a preference prl-
mary law should provide for oaths for the
members of all nominating conventions
and committees by which they would be
compelled by law to name the candidate
selected by majority OF the enrolled party
voters I'm the several districts, as the case
may be-.
In all these demands for so-called pro-
gressive measures and systems the Presi-
dent has done well to bid us recognize the
fact that all our brilliant past in men and
improved conditions IS the work OF what
some are wont TO call effete. 1t Is very
doubtful If other systems can outdo the
work Of the statesmen past and present.
We must not ignore these facts of history
However we may boast OF this record II
is no good or sufficient reason why the en-
rolled party voter should not be empow-
cred to nominate directly as well as to
oIect all marty candidates. J. L. NJ.
Brooklyn, ~ Y, March 90 1912.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
~rwvOR1> DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, MARCH D. 1872

associates behind the counter acteo q"
bridesmaids. and Il was not discover"
until all arrangements had been perlecIe"
that four religious denominations were rep
resented in the group. When this was COM
mented upon the clergyman VINO per
formed the ceremony said that this was
the age of similar happenings. "A Roman
Catholic priest" he said. "who Is the chap-
lain of the battleship Utah received an
altar service recently from the crew anu
friends ashore. nhe majority of the ere"
are Catholic. but the presentation address
was made by Jewish sailor. Such Incl
dents are better signs Of real peace than
elaborate meetings
England Is England still, ITO insure the
respecta bility of these mansions, only ten
ants of English nationality will be accept
ed" stonily declares notice OUTSIDE
block Of fats near Oxford street.-bondoh
(,1gIa
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Tribune Bureau.l


Washington. March I.-The President,
the Secretary OF War. Senator du Pont'
chairman Of the Senate Military Affairs
Committee. and Senators Martin, Bacon
and Fletcher discussed at some length the
question of whether five cadets expelled
from West Point some time ago for hazlns
should be reinstated. Mr.. Taft decided
against such action last fall, and the Sena-
tors are urging him to agree to legislation
reinstating the cadets.
The President saw many callers to-day,
a great number of whom called to con-
gratuate him on his New England
speeches and to bring him good news
from home"
Mr.. Taft has under consideration an In
vltation, presented by Samuel w. FAR
child, president and George Taylor, secre-
tary, Of the Union League Club or New
York TO attend the annual reception or the
club on April IL. Senator Root introduced
the New Workers.
Foster V. Brown, who recently resigned
as Attorney General Of Porto Rico and is
on his way to Chattanooga to resume the
practice Of law, saw the President to-day.
Mr.. Brown said the only complaint the
Porto Ricans have against this country is
that they have not been admitted TO Amer
lean citizenship. The island is In most
prosperous condition, he said.
Among the White House callers were the
Vice President, the Secretary Of Commerce
and Labor, the. Secretary of the Navy
Governor Tener Of Pennsylvania, Ambas-
sador Herrick, Senator'S Burton, Nixon,
Bailey, Dillingham;, Overman, Root,
Borah, Brandegee and Crane. ex-senator
Scott, Representatives Driscoll, Pray,
Plumley, Dupre, Morse, Loud. Bartlett,
Madden, Slayden, Hayes, Swizer, Hawley,
Fordney and Bartholdt and ex-Represent-
ative Kennedy.
Mrs. Taft and Charles Taft returned to
the White House tonight from New York.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22

eral system is broken down by constltn-
tional amendment it will be out Of the
question to abolish the state as the uillt
in either the election or nomination OF
Presidents The nationwide primary Is
a visionary extravaganza. 1t cannot
under existing conditions supplant the
national convention, which is the natu-
raj supplement To the Electoral College
and which is capable of rejecting the
wishes of national party far better
than they could be reflected by any fed
eral plehiscite.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
POPE RECEIVES MAJOR BUTT
Greets President Taft's Personal Nj
at Private Audience.

Rome, March 2l.--The Pope received TO-
day in private audience Major Archibald
w. Butt, personal aid to President TART
who was presented by Monsignor Thomas
f. Kennedy. Titular Bishop Of Adrlanapolls
and rector OF the American College in
Rome The meeting was Of most cordial
nature.
Major Butt presented to the Ponuh an
autograph letter from President TAFT. win
which the Pope was greatly pleased. He
r'c.iIled with pleasure the Friendly inter
course between the Holy See and Mr. Iait,
who. In 1902, whep Civil Governor OF inc
question of the Frlars lands in the Phlilp-
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
ASK AID FOR FISK UNIVERSITY
People of the North Urged to Help
Tennessee Institution.

Governor Benjamin W. Hooper OF Ten.
nessee, who has been elected trustee OF
Fisk University, in Nashville, has appeared
to the people OF the North TO complete tne
$500, 900 fund which is now being raised TOT
that institution President Taft IN a letter
to the trustees OF Fisk said OF that UNI
versity:
1T has the largest number Of negro col.
lege students Of any school OF the stanaa'o
which It sets, and II any university OF tn'
kind is to be encouraged It Is FISK Uhi-
versity."
Calr~.i Roosevelt writes: Il very earnest
Is nope that the burden resting upon r'sA
may he quickly lifted. 1t would be a ealaln.
ity not only to the cause OF education ou'
to the cause Of good citizenship 10 nave
Fisk crippled in its work.
Communications should be addressed "
II l.. simmons. No. 90 William street. OF
to President George A. Gates FISK 0"''
versity, Nashville. Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS

A New York dressmaker has had 70 ps'
SO 600 fine tor importing gowns
aAcoIlete valuation.-Boston Herald
New York Yoman says that mOans' o,''. ,s.m
teach their daughters to hirt Give 'i''"
MA degree, as it were-columoia s'a'''
Fifteen hundred dangerous weapons n1y'
been dumped overheard by the New ~,
police. being practically all rhat are NV
ou,ced by the crooks-Washinston POST
!, occurred to Mr. Collins one OF tne 49, .,
mobile bandits recently surrounaeu an
york. TO wish he had killed all the oop' =,
,'o1Ice force before he pulled the thing on
!; his bright thought. howeyer Seiam,osyraeuss came
Post-Standard -
New York papers claim to be up 20 as,.. ~.
20, one of them has an item saying the'e
600 horses in the city while sons fnr.nea o horse
,be same column is an item ,su"h had 10 be
W. s' hodIv hurt In a runaway tnat ), nsS S. laid
sHo, Os course the paper shoulu pp@n.6 safe1
shere are II, 800 horses In ths e''y'-"~
Union and Advertiser'
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

TBy Telegraph 20 The Tribuue.l
Newport. March 2l.-Dr. George l.. Pea
body. OF New York. has purchased from
the heirs Of William +. Weld, OF Boston
their property on the north side Of Nara
gansett avenue. This estate is taxed for
$1,000 and includes two acres of land, with
4 stone dwelling and stable
Mrs. French Vanderbilt is expected back
from California on Monday.
Mrs Amos Tuck French and Mrs. stuy-
vesant Leroy have returned from Ne"
York.
Rear Admiral willard II. Brownson I.
: n. retired. Is a visitor here.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
A PARCELS POST PLANK.
no Editor Of The Tribune

Sir Anont the communication of J. J.
Wilson In to-days Tribune on parcels post
Is it premature to begin an agitation in
YOUR valued columns In favor OF plank IN
tho forthcoming Republican platform In
favor of better laws I'm regard TO the rights
Of the public? Let this be followed up with
a demand of prospective ConSressmen that
they agree 20 vote for the same and have
done once and for all with the "tiresome
commissions" to which your correspondent
refers. The Congress knows what Is re-
quired. Why not get busy? G. X VI.
New York, March 20. 1872
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
LUNCHEON FOR THE BACoNs
Society Round the World Enter
tsins Ambassador and His Wife.

Paris, March 2l-Robert Bacon, United
States Ambassador to France, and Mrs.
Bacon were guests at farewell luhcheoh
to-day by the Society Round the World
founded by Albert Kahn, of Paris, Tor es-
tabllshlng wider sympathetic international
relations by sending students OF all couh-
tries around the world.
Forty persons were present at the lunch-
con. which was held in the clubhouse, ut
Rnmlogne- on the Seine.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22

which owns those elevated railroads.
When subways are laid out with view
to making them parts Of an existing SyS-
TEN only the company operating t'at
system can operate them with advantage
70 itself or TO the public, and competition
for the operating contract is virtually
nraclu6pd
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
Ne,u-7lork Trinn1e.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1912.

Orned and published daily bV inc
Tribune Association. Ner lorH co'b,',
ration: Ogdcn ". Reid, PreSifeHt' oo"oo
Hamlin, Secretary; James u. baII.''
Treasurer. Address. Tribune bH''"'"9'
yo Ia Nassau street. NeC YORK
New-York tribune., 1912-03-22
People and Social Incidents

Of this seasons debutantes at luncheon "a.
day.
cards were received here to-day announo.
ing the engagement of Miss Carol New.
berry, daughter Of the ex-Secretary OF m.
Navy and Mrs. Truman n. Newberry. IA
Captain w. H. Alleyne, of the Queen,
Regiment. The young people met on tha
visit of Mr.. and Mrs. Newberry to Ber.
muda The wedding viii probably taks
place in June.