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FLANNERY Is NOT MAN
WANTED IN CHICAGO CASE
CONTINUED from Page One)

tragedy OF errors that connected Elan
Eery with the case. was made up Of
some strange condolences.
Descriptions OF the woman found
with her head crushed, reached Jo-
seph Roth, peddler at No. 400 Con-
gress-st. east and he notified the
local police, Mrs. Roth had worked
as cook in Flannerys saloon, Cham
plain and Dubois-sts., two years ago.
She disappeared, four weeks ago soon
after Flannery had called at her
house. Her husband, consulting a
fortune teller, had been told that his
wife would elope, and that he would
next see her in a hospital Roth de-
cided that his wife. had eloped with
Flannery, when she disappeared.
Descriptions OF the Chicago pair tai
and Mrs. Roth.
So when Roth received news OF the
Chicago tragedy. he told his story TO
the local police, and in the face OF
circumstances so peculiar, local police
wired that Flannery was probably the
man, and Mrs. Roth might be the wo-
man. Then they set out 70 look for
Flannery. Meanwhile, the latter had
sold his saloon Nov. s, and no one
could be found by the police who had
seen him since. Neither has the wo-
man been seen since. II made
wierd chain OF circumstantial evil
dence.
FIannery took the affair good
naturally. Saturday, when he learned
how il all happened. He said he had
a notion of going to Chicago and let
ting the police there have a laugh
with him. He said the last time he
saw Mrs. Roth was on Oct %. the
day that he met Mr.. Roth, and came
under the latter's suspicion.
Flannery had also been divorced
from his wife. here. just four weeks
ago. putting another link In the
chain OF circumstances.
Moreover, his wife, Gertrude Flan-
merry, nee Reimer, who is now living
in South Bend, Ind, notified the Chi
cago and Detroit police that the man
wanted in Chicago was undoubtedly
her ex-husband.
Flannery was not held for a min
ute by the local police after telling
his story of his movements for the
last few weeks.
= CHICAGO, Nov. f6.-PhysieiaRs at
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TOTEDO. o.. Nov tG.-Wheat. Cash.
$780,. Dec s106G May sIi1s.
July. GSac Corn; cash SIC: Dec.
33iyc: Dec, 33isc: May 84RC RYE:
cash, zoe Cloversecd. Cash. si0.S5:I
Dee, 1880 March, Sios7is No. 2
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-16
PRODUCE

There was not much to be said for
the market this mornig. Trade was
OF the usual Saturday variety. mostly
sorting up. and there was no import
ant change In prices. The supply OF
dressed calves has been rather less
than the market needed and prices are
doing about cent better. Poultry
cleaned up in good shape. and with
only moderate receipts. is hrmer In
tone. Butter and eggs are steady and
firm a 1.-THE last advances and the po-
tato market is also looking up little.
bring the average down. Butter and
eggs are firm. Dressed calves are
quiet and steady. Potatoes are doing
a little better and are steady at the
last advance. Linseed oil was marked
down three cents and is now at the
lowest point seen for n year.
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MARKETS AND FINANCE
BOSTON COPPER

Reported for The Times by Paine,
Wcbbev a. Co. NOV. t6.
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cerc and unfounded., The law as 1t
stands gives the honest and courageous
department head power to weed OUT un-
fit employees. 1t is possible that IN some
respects that process might be 1acili-
tated. or its operation might be made
more certainly Just and more confidently
free from even the suspicion OF partial
ity. Perhaps this might be done through
the holding Of examinations just the re-
verse from those for promotion, when
should determine who are the least efil-
cient and who. If any. are so inefilclent
as TO deserve reduction or dismissal Tor
the good Of the service. Such system
would have to be devised very carefully
and administered with exceptional dis
erection and fidelity. to avoid doing In
justice and imposing hardships-with Il
perfection almost beyond human ability.
More searching scrutiny Of the pending
bill will probably disclose the real intent
Of this provision and determine whether
II really aims in good faith at such an
ideal achievement as that which we have
suggested or is merely disguised de-
vice for doing what the rejected provi-
sion was obviously meant to do. If the
latter is the case, the amendment should
be overwhelmingly rejected, and II there
be any real doubt concerning it rejection
will be the course Of safety. The exist
ing civil service system is not perfect,
but it is far too good to deserve i'm
pairment in even the smallest detail.
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THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
[From The Tribune Bureau !

[From Tho Tribune Bureari
Washington. June B.-The French Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand will leave
here tomorrow for Boston. On MONDAY
the ambassador will 60 to Cambridge to
deliver an address before the Harvard stu
dents. With Nine. Jusserand, he probably
will remain a week In and near Boston,
visiting friends and Joining house parties
They have changed their date for SAILING
and probably will not leave this country
until late In June.
The Cuban Minister and Sonora de Martin
Rivero were the guests Of honor at iun-
cheon at the New Willard to-day with DR..
Ferrarra, Speaker Of the Cuban House OF
Representatives, and Sehora de Ferrarra
as hosts
The Swedish Minister and Nine. Eken-
gren, who leave here tomorrow Tor bar
Harbor, will stop in New York to visit for
two days.
Lord Eustace Percy. British third secre-
tary. will leave here the end Of June Tor
Moose Head Lake, where the embassy VIII
be located for the summer. A. Kerr clark
Kerr, OF the embassy staff, will return from
England the last Of the month and JOIN
the staff at Moose Head Lake.
Esmond Ovey, second British secretary,
has gone South for q trip Of several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ovey are soon to sail Tor
England to spend the summer.
l.. L. Caftanzoglu. charge d'affaires FOR
Greece Is in New York.
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A Writer'S Reasons for Thinking
Their Work Is Carried Too Far.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A morning paper publishes letters
from some of Its readers advocatins' VII"
a considerable show of reason, the elimina-
ton of the high school and college courses
from the educational system Of the city.
The writer's contend that public policy
tho motive for tho establishment OF '"e
system-calls only for the FREQ tuition Oh
children, who, owing to the monetary ana
literary inability Of their parents, wouid
likely grow up In ignorance and viciousness'
They point out that such pupils are ordiha-
riIy withdrawn from school by their parents
at the working age, before reaching the
higher grades, which are consequently mo-
nopoized by youths whose parents could
we'll afford to pay for their education. ana
they characterize the high schools ana COL
leges as In a sense sectarian. for the rea-
son, as they assert. that the pupils attend
ing them are almost exclusively OF the
same religious faith.
I do not attach any Importance to one or
the arguments advanced by these corre-
spondents-namely, the great saving In
the cost Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. De
ieve that the present disposers OF the citys
funds would quickly find or create other
channels to absorb this saving, however
great.
Ono advantage likely to result from this
change in the public school system would
be a material reduction In the number Oh
children overrunning the streets and con-
sequent dlminution Of street casualties as
doubtless many we'll to do parents. being
debarred from utilizing the city schools
would send their children to out or Town
academies and colleges TO be educated.
Another advantage, and great one
would be the relief we should all feel at
cessation Of the painful efforts OF certain
members of the pedagogue tribe to invent
novel and more or less absurd terms and
phrases bearing upon methods OF instruc-
ton and infinitely differentiating the mentai
calibres Of children, who, after all, are all
very much alike.
But the greatest benefit OF all would ne
| the limiting OF the opportunities for fraudu-
lent practices, such as are said to obtain
| at local college. IL seems That among
the numerous divisions and subdivisions OF
the same subjects Of study In this college
all with professorships attached--there
arc some specialtes which do not appeal
to ambitious practical minded students as
being worth while" but presumably 10
give them an appearance of sufficient I'M
portance to retain the professors In POSI-
tions the students, az / have been told by
one Of them. are solicited to enroll their
names In these classes, with the under
standing that they will not be called upon
| to attend them.
| II this be true, what an object lesson
In immortality TO the rising generation, ana
that too, In an institution where the moral
tiles are presumed to be observed. IL not
actually taught
| OLD PRO BONO PUBLICO.
| New York, June II. 1912.
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HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

Two or three years ago the president
Of the Carnegie fund for the pensioning
of teachers criticised the extent to which
colleges accepted students who failed to
pass some of their entrance eXamina-
lions. The figures as to Yales freshman
class published by Dean Jones indicate
that there has been little If any change.
or the class Of Is 34S in number. only
1913 were admitted without condition.
Only a little more than one In every
three students accepted could pass all Of
the entrance examinations. Probably
the situation elsewhere is no different
from that at Yale. 1t was general
when President Pritchett prepared his
report, and apparently his criticisms
have borne little fruit.
There has been, moreover a recent
increase in the number Of students not
fully prepared. Dean Jones, accord
ing to the dispatches, attributes their
number to inadequate training in the
high schools. But how much does the
diversity Of courses now offered in both
high schools and colleges have to do
with producing 1t. In the old days, when
the college course was rigidly confined
to certain subjects, preparation for it was
simpler than now, when a college offers
several degrees and high schools have
several courses, each supposed to pre-
pare students for course in college that
is the logical development of It. The boy
frequently changes his mind upon enter
ing college, and determines to follow a
course there for which his work in high
school did not fully prepare him. AS q
greater opportunity Of choice is offered
both in high schools and colleges the
present confusion is likely to increase,
and the number Of conditions upon en-
trance along with It, unless the colleges
make their tests Of fitness for admission
more general than they now are.
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"THE NATIONS AIRY NAVIES.'

II is not yet ten years since Wilbur
Wright first demonstrated the possibility
and practicability of fight with self
propelled and heavier than-air machine.
Yet to-day not only Is the aeroplane
recognized vehicle of transportation, but
the vision of two generations ago, Of
"the nations airy navies,' Is actually
realized in the official formation Of a
flying corps as an integral part Of more
than one army.
The German army is believed to have
taken the lead in this, but, with its GUS
tomary prudence and reserve 1t has not
published to the world its achievements
in aviation. The British army is less
secretive. and it Is now known that a
royal flying corps is being enlisted. We
have heard OF flying squadrons' and
flying artillery" and wDat not on the
surface of the earth. but this is literally
a flying corps. in the sense that 1t Is In
tended for aerial duty. The quallfica-
tons OF its members are of course radi-
cally different from those of the ordl-
nary army or navy recruits, and the con
ditions Of their engagement are CORE
spondingly different. How numerous the
corps will be Is not yet stated, hut II is
evidently the intention of the War Of
fee to make ii an important and effective
factor In military affairs.
IL is certain that this will bring i'm
portant topics Of discussion and ncgotia
ton before the next congress at The
Hague. or before some special intcrna
tional conference Rules of war on land
and sea differ mate rally, and the rules
Of aerial warfare will, probably differ
still more radically from both. 4 for
mer congress at The Hague forbade for
a time the discharge Of explosive mis-
siles from aircraft That prohibition
has now expired and will probably not
be renewed. On the contrary, lombard
ment from airships is likely hcnceforth
TO be recognized as Il legitimate method
of warfare, and there will be rules de-
filming the places and circumstances in
which such attacks may be made. A
new chapter will thus he added to the
status Of warfare. which may In turn
prove to be an introduction to the book
Of peace.
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IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau.

From Inc lTlDuHe buTedu'I
Washington, June 15.-Miss Mabel Board
man received congratulations to-day from
many sources over her appointment to the
Board of Education OF Washington. The
position was offered to Mrs. David j. Brew
or during the life Of Justice Brewer, but do
nestle duties prevented her acceptance.
Miss Boardman is the first woman OF
Washington society to be thus honored.
Mrs. j. w. MacMurray and Miss Mac
Murray sailed from New York to-day on
the Lapland to spend the summer In Ger
many and Switzerland.
Ex-Justice and Mrs. Henry b. Brown
will leave here Monday for New Haven, to
visit for few days. They will spend the
rest Of the summer along the North Shore.
Mrs. Frank c. Cosby, mother Of Colonel
Spencer Cosby, has closed her apartment In
stoneleigh Court and will visit in Boston
before going 70 the North Shore for the sea-
son.
Miss Martha Goldman has gone TO New
port TO open her cottage for the season.
Sir Lionel Garden. British Minister To
Central Americt. Is visiting In the capital
on the way to his new post. He has been
ish charge d'affaires
Solicitor General lehman has returned
from a short visit in New York
Mrs. Dallis Wainwright has as guests her
daughter Mrs. Henry T. Bull. and her
granddaughter. who have arrived from
Fort Riley. Kan, where Lieutenant Bull is
stationed. Mrs. Bull was formerly Miss
Sally Wainwright OF Washington.
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an luminosity compared with which that
Of Irish Nationalists toward the Sasse-
mach is "as water unto Wine
The franchise reform scheme is In
deed in one respect the most arDitrar!
that has ever been proposed IN consul
tutional state. 1t raises the number OF
electors in population OF 2O,OOo,Uo
from about 100000 to perhaps 2.oOo,-
OOO. which is decided step toward the
universal suffrage for which popular de-
mands have long been made. But IL
practically provides that all the increase
shall be purely Magyar, or that whi'e
other nationalities may vote they must
not vote against Magyar supremacy; Tor
it explicitly says that all electors VINO
are convicted of agitating against the
Magyar national character of the Hun
garian kingdom shall be disfranchlsed
and debarred from parliament Tor ten
wears. and that for second conviction
such disqualitications shall be Imposed
for life. The extension OF suffrage Is
thus an extension of Magyar Suffrage
and nothing more.
Equally striking was the manner III
which Count Stephen Tisza secured the
passage of the army bill the other day.
Upon the measure the majority. 80
strong. were agreed. But there was
resolutey obstructive minority, OF a
few dozen members, intent upon delay
Ing the passage of the bill by every par
liamentary means at their disposal.
After the Opposition had torn up the
desks and seats and piled them In
pyramid in the middle Of the Chamber
twenty of them signed demand for a
"close sitting" Under the rules such
demand must at once be granted. But
Count Tisza ignored it, appealed to the
Opposition to desist from merely OBJ
structive tactics, and threatened, as an
alternative, to adopt the policy of MS
predecessors. Count Apponyi and Count
Andrassy. and to declare that twenty
Deputies could not be allowed to usurp
the rights Of the majority. At this pan
demonium broke loose. amid which Count
Tisza literally went through the motions
his voice being quite inaudible-of
putting the questions of refusing he
CLOSE session" and of passing the bill,
and the Ministerial majority similarly
voted them by rising to their feet; and
Count Tisza declared them carried. IT
was scene surprising in violence any
thing that was ever seen at Westminster
in the days of Biggar and Parnell But
it made unmistakable the determination
Of the Magyars to rule the kingdom OF
which they were the founders and OF
which they form the steadily increasing
ma ority.
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SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

IRy Telegraph TO The Tribune
J. Newport June l5.-Stoneacre the Bellies
vie avenue property Of Mrs Linda Thomas.
has been leased by Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ.
Moreland, OF Pittsburgh. They are new
corners 10 the Newport colony, and VIII
arrive at the end of the month.
Servants have arrived to prepare Ninland
for the arrival of Mrs. Hamilton Mex.
Twombly. who was an absentee last season.
Baron Edward Won Reid, Of Austria.
who has been making a short visit, has left
for New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. George p. Messervy, OF New
York, have taken possession of Pinard cot
tage No. /. in Narragansett avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter S. Andrews left BY
automobile to-day for Sunapee Lake. where
they will spend the summer
Miss Annie Lyman. OF Boston. who is &c
her home here, will go abroad before t'ib
end Of the summer.
Mrs. Julia Little gave card party this
evening. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James
was a luncheon entertainer.
Mrs. French Vanderbilt has gone 10 her
farm at Chester, y. H.
Preston Gibson has returned TO Wash
ington.
Messrs Elisha Dyer and Frederick NJ.
Davies have returned from New York for
the week end with their families.
Mrs. Reginald {. Vanderbilt. who has
been making a short visit here, has motored
TO Roslyn. Long Island, to visit Mrs W. j.
Vanderbilt, jr. t-s
Registered at the Casino to-day were
William T.. Glyn and William Grosvencr
Commodore and Mrs. G. Ledyard Blair
and guests arrived on the steam yacht
Diana to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. William c. Riyes, OF New
York. have arrived at their cottage in Bath
road.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Parker, Of Cam
bridge; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert : Chew, OF
Washington; Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. NJ. Cole.
Of New York. and Colonel and Mrs. Hell
bert Bryant, of Alexandria, Va, are amonS
the recent arrivals at jamestown.
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IN THE BERkSHIRES.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

BY Telegraph 10 Tue IIiouhe-
Lenox, June i5-Mr. and Mrs Herbert
Parsons. who have been visiting Henry
Clews I'm Newport. have gone To Chicago TO
attend the Republican National Convention
before returning to Lenox.
DR.. Frederick s. Pearson. who has re-
turned from a trip to Mexico. is at his
country home, Edgcwcod Farm. I'm Great
harrington.
Mrs Henry McGovern. OF New York. who
has leased the Weatherbeo house, Arrow
CnT. in Great harrington. has arrived
there with hec family.
Captain W. r. Fearns. Mrs NJ. X. Beers
and Walter c. Gale of New York. who
have been at the Maplewood in Pittsfeld.
have returned to the city.
Beaumont commandery. Knights Temp
lar. Of Maiden, who arrived by special train
In Stockbridge this afternoon, gave brill
liant ball In Heaton Hall.
Mrs. Charles Dortic. Mrs. H. Humphrey
and Mrs. Il. X. Earl, OF New York; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Burnes. Dudley II.
Burnes and L. N. Judd, jr.. OF Greenwich.
Conn. are at the Maplewood In Pittseid.
Arriving at the Hotel Aspinwall were
Police Commissioner and Mrs. Rhineander
Waldo, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Pennant, Mr.
and Mrs. II. l.. Crawford. r.. l.. Crawford
Miss l.. w. Law. Mr.. and Mrs. Warren j.
Lynch and Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Feney, OF
New York: Mr. and Mrs. r. =. Lamon. r.
V. Lamont. jr., of Chicago, and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. X. Nimick OF Pittsburgh.
Mrs Henry De Forest. Of New York. is q
guest of her uncle, Thatcher NJ. Adams, at
Sundrum House.
Miss Nancy Craig Wharton entertained
at luncheon for Mrs. Russell Hoadley and
Mrs. George l.. Ronalds, OF New York, at
New Lebanon this afternoon.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles f.. Atwood, OF New
York, are guests of Mrs. Charles A. La
mont and Mrs. James II. Jesup Mt the Cur
tbs Hotel.
Charles Allen Mum, of New York, is q
guest Of Joseph II. Choate. at Naumkeag.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Luling who
hays leased their Stockbridge home to Miss
Lillian Cram, viii spend another year In
England
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Vaughan. who motored
from Kingston; William Webster. Of Cam
bridge, and Miss Dorothy Schoonmaker, Of
New York. are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Chester French.
Mrs. Henry HOLSTER Pease and Mrs.
Joseph w. Burden entertained at small din
ners tonight.
Mrs. John Richie was hostess at the
Country Club of Pittsheld this afternoon
for sixty guests at tea.
Richard Mortimer and Miss Mary Il. Nor
timer. of Tuxedo. are at the Red Lion Inn
for fortnight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl b. Putnam. Miss Enc
lie Putnam and Earl Il. Putnam. jr, Of
Philadelphia; Charles A. Peabody. Miss A.
T.. Peabody and James G. Parish of New
York: Mrs Herbert Hurlburt. of Bayonne
Point. and Mr.. and Mrs. t. n Parson and
r. p. H. Durkee, Of New York, are reg1
Uttered at the Curtis Hotah
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TENURE AND EFFICIENCY.

The Senate has done well in rejecting
i'm both its original and It's amended
form the proposal OF the House to limit
the tenure Of places I'm the civil service
in the District Of Columbia to Il fixed
term Of years. It mattered not whether
the term was fixed at five or at ten
years; the thing was radically vicious.
1t was calculated to deprive even the
most faithful and efficient public SER
want of protection for his tenure, and,
worse still, to revive the most objection
able features of the old spoils system
by making renewal Of that tenure de-
pendent upon personal favor or political
pull" The fixed term system for
subordinate placehOlders, wherever 1t
exists, is In conflict with the merit sys-
TEN and is being abolished wherever
the latter prevails, and its re-establish-
ment in the federal service would be
lamentable step backward.
The Senate has, however, substituted
for this pernicious proposal another
which needs careful consideration We
are told that 1t provides "for examina-
lions to maintain efficiency In office" II
that is In good faith its purpose, and If
1t Is calculated to do that in an equita-
BILE and efficient manner, 1t may be re-
garded as q desirable thing. For, OF
course, the maintenance or the promo
ton Of efficiency In office is one Of the
prime objects of the merit system. An
increased degree of efficiency Is gener-
ally attained at once upon the adoption
OF that system, through the selection Of
employees after competitive examina.
ton, and that degree Is further raised
by the making of promotions on the
same basis. But there is danger,
which must be frankly recognized, that
inefficient persons will sometimes be re.
tanned In the service, to the public detri-
ment, because Of the protection which
the law gives or is supposed to give to
their tenure Of place.
Now, the law Is not intended to give
and In fact does not give protection to
unfit persons. and the complaint which
Is sometimes made by department
head. that be cannot improve the public
service as he would like tn do and as be
would do II he had a free hand, because
. lot Of incompetents are kept saddled
upon him By the Law, Is generally inrin>