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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
NO ALCOHOL FOR STUDENTS
President of Cornell Says Total Ab-
 stinence Is the Best Policy.

Ithaca, April 25-''The idea for the college student should be total abstinence said President J. G. Schurman, in welcoming the delegates of the tenth annual convention of the New York State Prohibition Associa- tion here.
 Many people feel both for them selves and for their sons that total abstinence is by far the best policy, and total abstinence is what we ought have among our students" said Mr. Schurman. up to recent years the scientific attitude has been that alco- hol taken by men and women moder- ately was not injurious but beneficial. It was believed that glass of wine at the dinner table was beneficial. Science now has shown that drinking even at regular intervals or moder- ately is injurious. The altruistic idea is being replaced by the idea of health and hygiene. This association will not in all probability get total abstinence for years to come. The attainment of this object will be dif- ficult, but at present tn ere is a deep ening sense of responsibility in regard to the movement"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
OLYMPIC'S STOKERS STRIKE

Three hundred stokers struck on the Olympic, as she was leaving Southampton, yesterday. because they were dissatisfied with the life saving equipment. Forty collapsible boats had been added to the 16 wooden boats which had made up the origin al life saving apparatus of the lost Tftanic's sister ship. But the stok- CTS knew that these boats were inef- ficient and very likely to give out when most needed. Some of them asserted that a mans finger could be thrust through the canvas of which the frail craft were largely composed. The men demanded wood- en boats staunch enough to endure a stiff sea, if necessary This is tine substance of the news conveyed In a cable, transmitting information of the strike
 It is to be hoped that some error may be found in the news Oth,r- wise the conclusion must be reached that the managers of the White Star line are almost inconceivably stupid. greedy and indifferent to the lives Of their passengers and the crews upon their ships.
 It is evidence like this which brings home to the public mind the conciu- sion that the entire commercial sys-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
GOVERNOR BALDWIN
 ON EDUCATED MAN

Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, de- livering the fifth of the series of Dodge lectures at Yale last night, spoke on the topic, "The Educated Man As Creator of Public Opin- ion." In part he said:
 "The educated American finds his largest opportunities for leading pub- lie opinion in the ordinary intercourse of common life:
 Every man is strongly and inces- sanity drawn, by the influences of our times, towards the common stan dards of opinion and action. As he is drawn thitherwards, he is carried away from himself. For most men this is probably we'll. Each century in modern times has been better than it's predecessors, and to stand as well as the average of men in your com munity in the twentieth century is, comparatively considered, to have at tained some measure of success.
 But what is right for most men is wrong for the educated man. He must keep ahead of those who have
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
MRS. ASTOR'S NEW ORDEAL
She Expects to Become a Mother Be- fore July, But Her Health
 Has Improved.

New York, April 25-It was learn ed on authority yesterday that the health of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, about which there have been so many rumors since her hardships and wid- owhood in the Titanic disaster, is now satisfactory to her friends and physi- clans to whom it has been a source of great anxiety in view of the fur ther ordeal through, which she is soon to pass.
 Mrs. Astor expects to become a mother some time before July, and her health is consequently the subject of much care and constant watchful- ness. She was i'll on the Carpathia after her hazardous experiences in the cold on the Titanic's open boat but at no time there was her condi- tion serious, and since she reached her home in this city her condition has daily improved.
 Vincent Astor sees her constantly He is kept advised of the progress of the search at sea for Col. Astcr's body and will be informed of any prospect of it's recovery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
RUTLAND DEAL REoPENED
New York Public Service Commission
 Asks Tor Further Testimony.

Albany, N. Y.. April 25-The public service commission will give a further hearing on May 2, upon the applica- ton by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Go. to acquire the majority stock of the Rutland Rail- road Co. The commission announced yesterday that since the final submis- sion of this matter it has received numerous communications from mil nority stockholders for and against the granting of the application and from various localities and public of- ficials favoring generally the pro- posed sale. The case was reopened for the purpose of taking testimony along this and other lines.
 The commission says that 1t is of the opinion that the New Haven Company should make further proof as to the plan and method of rate divisions 1t proposes to allow or se- cure for the Rutland road and its subsidiary company, the Rutland Transit Co.,, on all traffic to and from Montreal and other Canadian points and to and from Chicago and other Western points.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
SENATOR BURROWS FALLACIOUS IDEA

betray his employer. Suppose the Sen- ator had remarked in the wisdom of his ripe experience that burglars crack bank vaults because bankers have low ideals, or that bookkeepers embezzle because merchants believe in embezzlement.
 There is nothing the matter with the ideals of the people. There is much the matter with the machinery through which those ideals have to be realized. The people are immediate ly and busily engaged in remodeling the mechanisms through which they express their will, and they hope co make a very successful job of it in another four or five years, or less. No man is so stupid as to desire somebody else to pick his pocket. The collective wisdom is not less
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tenn of the nations is defective, and that all considerations of humanity and justice are laid aside in mad rush for dividends and yet more divi- dends.
 The Titanic has been at the oceans bottom only week, and the bodies of the 1,60O dead are still sought in the sweeping ocean currents. But the lesson is so poorly impressed upon the managers of this steamship com pany that they send the Olympic to sea with such a lack of care for the lives entrusted to them. that the stok- CTS on the ships pay roll refuse to sail, preferring poverty for themselves and their dependents to voyaging in sea going death trap such as the OlymI ic would be, as surely as the Ti- tanic was, should collision occur.
 There are negligences entered into by money mad men, which should come into the rank of manslaughter, or full murder, when life is thereby destroyed
 Among those who should be subject to indictments for homicide in some degree are those who hereafter send ships abroad without sufficient mod ern life boats. and life ,rafts, and a full number of life preservers in good condition and ready for use.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

whatever is wrong in. the body polite rests on the mistaken ideals of the people," said United States Sem ator Theodore B. Burton, of Ohio, in an address to the University of Penn sylvania, Sunday.
 The distinguished senator indulgcs in a glittering generality which flashes meretriciously from the lips of multitude of apologists. The people elect men to office in whom they trust and believe. These men, few in number. are approached from the side of their greed and neces- sity, and induced to betray the peo- ple Were the ideals of the people then that they desired public ser wants of the IsmaN and Benedict Ar mold type? Not so. Any man may
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
GIRL, IA, MADE WIDOW
 BY TITANIC WRECK
Bride Only Two Months, She Is Res
 cued While Husband Drowns.

New York. April 25-A girl. fourteen years old, with dark si1ken hair, walked into the third class passen- ger department of the White Star line offices yesterday and talked in Syr- ian to D. J. Faour, of 63 Washing ton street.
 The girl said she was a widow, and that her husband, to whom she had been married only two months, went down on board the Titanic. She said she had $75O and jewels worth s1,000 when she left Syria.
 "It's all gone" she said to Mr. Faour. "All gone and have no hus- band"
 She said she was Mrs. Celamy Alex ander. Her husband, Fraza, lived for twelves years in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He in Syria where he had been born. There he met and married the girl, ana they started on board the Titanic to go to Wilkesbarre.
 As a sign of her recent marriage the girls finger nails were dyed a deep red. She was clad in simple black gown and on her head she wore a silken shawl. When she uncovered her hair many persons in the White Star offices were amazed at the beau ty of the girl. Several gathered near to listen to the translation of her story She Iooked so young that IL did not seem possible that she had been married and now was a widow. She told R. H. Farley that she want ed to get money and a ticket to wilkesbarre as she wished to go to her husbands friends in that town.
 Of the 154 Syrians in the third class of the Titanic twenty-nine were sav- ed. Four of these survivors were men. five children and twenty women. Mrs. Alaxander said the SyrianS were bound for Eastern Pennsylvania. She
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
FIRST THINGS

The name of America was first giv. en to the New World 405 years ago today, April 25, 1907, by a group of savants, the heads of the Vestien Col lege, in St. Die, province of Vosges, France. The house where the meet ing was held is still standing and is visited by many tourists from both North and South America. Mathis Ringemann, a poet and scholar of German nationality but a native of France, was the first to suggest the name America in book entitled "Introducto Cosrnographice.'' He urg- ed that, as Amerigo Vespuce had dis covered the mainland, while Colum. bus had only visited neignboring isl- ands, the greater credit should go to the former, and with this view the St. Die scholars agreed. Today is also the seventy-sixth anniversary of the founding of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
MISS BYlNGTON'S UNFORTUNATE REPORT

The vaunted reconstruction of the Charities Department is seen to be A blunder. The exceedingly clear and definite statements of the exper- ienced ladies who freely give their services to the city's organized pri- vate charities, leave no doubt upon the roint.
 Miss Byington's report discloses ommends, and scores Bridgeport for its failure to adopt, have been in con- stant application and there has been constant cooperation between the charitable societies and the Depart ment of Charities.
 The very cases which Miss Ewing ton cites as examples of those that were not properly handled, according to her view of it, had been observed by the servants of the Associated Charities, or the Conference of Char ities, who vouch for the wisdom of the course that was adopted in each case.
 It is not to be inferred, however, that Miss Byington, was consciously biased, or that she purposely includ- ed in her report. misleading infor- nation. She was doing the best she could with the limited time and ex- perience that she had. It would be too much to expect that she could have the detailed knowledge of the many cases coming to the attention of the Charities Department and the private organizations, necessary to a proper understanding of the condi- tons. And this allows a possible limited residuum of cases in which there might be an honest difference of opinion between experts regarding the best course to pursue.
 The extent of Miss Byington's fail- ure to understand, or represent the conditions in Bridgeport grow natur- ally out of her devotion to her em- ployment. and of her unfamiliarity with local conditions She had the experts natural desire to return something for the money. and did 50 to the best of her ability, reflect ing. however, in her recommenda- tions, only those changes which had been politically determined before her advent. Experts usually do reflect the pre-conceiyed views of their em- ployers, and that is perhaps not al- ways an offense; but where the em-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

been entrusted with less. Conformity with the mass of the community may do for them. He must labor to make the mass of the community conform to him. He will do this most effectu- ally, who, so far as may be speaks from an optimistic standpoint, and en- courages an optimistic spirit in those around him, seeking to promote pup lie confidence in the soundness of our institutions. and no less to allay pub lie distrust of honest efforts to i'm. prove them. The man who has really profited by a college education will not have failed to learn that, in ac tual life, extreme views are seldom pushed to their logical outcome. He will be apt to hold his own if he has any in reserve. and to have little dread of the practical results of those of others. As he looks ahead he will see no lions in this way.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
MARCONI WIRELESS WIZARD,
 IS 3S YEARS YOUNG TODAY

Still youngster, with the best part of his life before him, is Guglielmo Marconi, the wizard of the wireless. for he was born in Bologna, Italy, thirty-eight years ago today, April 25, 1874. While his father was Italian, the mother of him was Irish, the sec- Cnd wife of Joseph Marconi. we'll 0-do citizen of Bologna. Guglielmo. Vhich is Italian for William, was dven an excellent education by pri- vate tutors and at Leghorn and the University of Bologna. He early be- came interested in chemical and cleo trical problems. and by the time he was fifteen his family were convinced that little Willie was a genius-a con- viction they have had no reason to change.
 We like to think, although doubt less it is seldom true, that there is a critical moment in the life of every great man which determines his wnOle 1uIurc career. 50 IL IS COlQ that one day Signor Marconi, while a student at the University of Bologna, cast a pebble, or heayed a rock,' into a mill-pond, lake, or other body of water. Little waves widened in cir cies all around, as little waves have ever had a habit of doing. But the phenomenon set Guglielmo to think ing. If one filings a sound into the air, he unused, will there not be waves in the atmosphere correspond ing to the waves on the water? He surmised that there might be, and 50 erected a pole, with a Morse key on top of it, in his fathers vineyard A similar pole, ten miles away, caught the message, and then and there the impossible was accomplish ed and wireless telegraphy became an accomplished fact.
 Marconi was then twenty-one. At twenty-four he sent a message across the English channel, and the world gasped with amazement. At twenty seven he flung a message across the Atlantic. Now the miracle of yester- day has become the commonplace of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

to-day. The accomplishments of the Italian-Irish inventor during the last decade would fill several volumes. What he proposes to do is more in teresting.
 One of the Marconi projects that will soon become a reality is the es- tablishment of a direct wireless sys- tenn between London and New York. At present transatlantic messages are sent between the stations at Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay. Nova Scotia. Under the new arrangement high powered stations will be erected in the suburbs of New York and Lon don for the direct transmission of wireless messages between the great est cities of the New and Old Worlds Signor Marconi predicts that this system will be in operation by the first of next year.
 Even more ambitious is the ar rangement between Marconis Com pany and the British government to NSSoOAN'AA eAA e1iA~A Co VII cICSS IOuC0 connecting Great Britain with Can ada, Australia, South Africa, India and, in fact, every part of the em- pire. By such a scheme, with high powered stations scattered through out the world, the British goveri- ment would eventually become inde- pendent of cables. The preliminary plans provide for stations at London, Egypt, Bangalore, India, Pretoria, South Africa, and Singapore.
 Although a resident of London, and patriotic citizen of his adopted land, Signor Marconi remains loyal to his native country, and at the begln- ming of the Italian-Turkish war he went to Tripoli to superintend the erection of wireless stations for mili- tary use. While there he made a number of trips on the army aero planes. and thus became interested in the science of aviation. He is now understood to be working on inven- tions for the improvement of flying machines, but has refused to make any announcement as to his projects in that direction.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
A WISE LEADER

that purpose. He seeks justice for the engineers, but not by conspiring tc rob the public.
 This Is not the first occasion upon which the head of this powerful la Dor organization has shown his famil- iarity with the economies of railroad ing. Without raising freight rates the roads West of the Mississippi have met the just wage demands of their engine drivers. There is no sound reason-aside from watered securi- ties-why the railroads East should not do likewise, and Chief Stone knows it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

the famous bell tower of Venice had been one of the artistic wonders of Europe, and it was unthinkable that it should be permitted to remain in ruins. Although reduced to a heap of rubbish, the cleverest architects of succeeded in placing every broken stick and stone in it's original place, and in material as we'll as appear ance the new Campanile is a replica of the old. What gigantic task 1t has been may be realized when
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

ployment is public some confusion may arise, for the paymaster to whom the duty is owed, and the employer who actually exercises the power to hire and discharge, have not always the same interest.
 Byington's report which discussed methods of administering charity. The carelessness with which she detracted from the services of individuals in the employment of the city must be more severely criticised.
 The ladies at the head of the .pri- vate charitable organizations assert that Supt. Brennan was splendidly eff ficient in administering out door re- lief. One lady, of experience and ex- pert knowledge, asserts that the ser vices of Investigator Morrissey are absolutely invaluable, in the work in which he is engaged, not only in the granting of public relief. but in the proper distribution of private dona- tions.
 Why this difference of opinion be- tween Miss Byington and the admin istrators of the city's great private charities?
 Can it be that the latter have prac- tical knowledge of the work and its needs, as we'll as minute information about the work of Supt. Brennan and Investigator Morrissey, and that they are free to express their views with out bias, while, on the other hand. Miss Byington lacked the exact knowledge necessary to sound juds- ments and was moreover hampe-ed by pre-conceived notions of the meas ures proper to be taken. notions that were political in origin, and design ed to be political in result?
 At anyrate we have absolutely inn partial ladies of great experience ir charity work defending what Miss Byington condemns.
 The vaunted .reconstruction" has been in every respect unfortunate. 1t had it's origin in the hatred of poli- tician for an upright public servant. It was continued as an asset to estab- fish the control of political dynas- ty. It has ended in the disintegra- ton of an effective and valuable or ganization and in an absolute injus- tice to Former Supt.s Joseph Brennan, Investigator Morrissey and Clerk O'Neil.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George and Queen Mary, is fifteen years old to-day Born April 2s, 1897, she is lovingly called "tne little jubilee princess" Her full name is Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, but she is universally known as Princess Mary. She is an unaffected child, as fond of sports as her five brothers, and we'll grounded in those principles of domestic simplicity which have made the royal household the type of the ideal English home. AS the mod ell of all the little girls of the Elm pire, the Princess has much weighty responsibility on her young shoul- ders, but she has set an example for her millions of admirers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

w. J. Stone, chief of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, speaks in 8 way easy to understand, in dis cussing the proposals to arbitrate the difference between the engine drivers and the railroads. He rejects entire ly the proposition to have the matter before a large commission to be nam ed by President Taft, seeing clearly that this would immediately be taken as an effort to increase freight rates.
 He distinctly shows his disapprov- al of the idea that the Brotherhood should unite with the railroads for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
NEW CAMPANILE OF ST. MARKS
 IN VENICE DEDICATED TODAY

To-day the old bells of the re- in Venice will ring as merrily as of yore. and, in the presence of dis tinguished assemblage of clergymen and laymen gathered from all over the world, the rebuilt structure will be dedicated and solemnly blessed. The new Campanile is a perfect re- production in every single detail of ago. to the consternation of the whole Christian world. For ten centuries
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
EMMA CARUS LOST ON STEEL Actress Now Sues Stock Exchange
 Firm for Squeezing Her Out.

New York, April 25-Emma Carus, the actress, filed suit in the Supreme Court yesterday to recover $6,9S7 from the Stock Exchange firm of w. L.. Stevens & Go. Miss Carus, who sues as Emma Carus Everall, alleges that in October, 1911, she purchased 100 shares of United States Steel on mar gin under an agreement that the stock would be held subject to her order She alleges that on Novem- Der 13 last the defendants converted the stock to their own use malicious ly and without notice to her. although she offered to pay the amount due on the stock
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

said her husband had made money as a rug merchant in Wf1kesbarre, and that he had told her the names a final goodby.
 T wanted to be with him." said the girl. T hope some ship comes to some city with Franza on board He was a good swimmer"
 Then the little widow sighed. She said she had every hope that her hus- band would come to her soon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

Founders Day will be observed to- day by Carnegie Technical Schools in Pittsburgh. In the church calendar, to-day is set apart to the memory of St. Mark.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

Sacramento celebrates its forty eighth birthday, the California capi- tai having been incorporated as a city on April 25, 1864.
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