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The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
Davis to Coach Amherst.

George Davis. the old Giant and White
Sox shortstou, has signed to coach the
Amherst ball nine this coming spring.
according to report. He was one of the
big cogs in the wheel that made the
White Sox worlds champions, even
though they were 'hitless wonders"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
DOWN THE ALLEYS.
ARCADE DUCKPTS LEAGUE.
n II n ININFANI-EIQ
:. OF G. INTERCoUNCIL BOWLING LEAGUE.
Burns and Murphy Rest.

San Francisco, Dec. 3O.-Frankie Burns
and Harlem Tommy Murphy did a little
light boxing to-day and will rest to-mor-
row in preparation for their twenty
round match on New Years Day.
BY agreement. the boys will weigh in
at 10 o'clock on New Years Day at 1856
pounds. Burns is already at weight.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
King After Boss Job.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 3O.-Johnny
Killing, deposed manager of the Boston
Braves, announced to-day that he would
quit baseball unless he landed a job as
manager of a class A organization.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
Leach to Be Released.

Chicago, Dec. 30.-Tommy Leach, out
fielder of the Cubs, is said to have gone
back so far that it seems certain that
Manager Evers will release him to a
minor league before the season opens.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
Kramer Goes TO France.

New York, Dec. 3O.-Frank Kramer, the
champion bicycle Splinter, has been en-
gagged by Paris promoters to take part
in a series Of races with European cham
pions in January
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
Hughie Picks Pirates.

Detroit, Dec 3o.-Hughey Jennings
manager Of the Detroit Americans, said
to-day that IL Pittsburg secures Roger
Bresnahan it will cinch the 1919 pennant
Tor the Pirates.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31

They're still picking George Baumgard-
ner, the young st. Louis Browns twirler,
as the best In the American League.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31

If La Belle France is looking for some
body to coach her baseball team, why not
get oui Willie Keller?
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
NATIONAL GUARD
QUINT IS BEATEN
Y. M. c. A. Yankees Take Slow
Basketball Game by Al
to 3 Score.

In a game that afforded little or no
practice, the Yankees, from the boys
department of the Y. NJ. c. A. last
night gave a team from the National
Guards a good drubbing, by the score of
Il to 3. The Rosedale Fairgrounds team
was scheduled to play the Yankees a
postponed league game, but for some
reason Cancelled it Skaters shooting
was the feature of the game. Lineup
and summary:
YANKEES. NATIONAL GUARDS
SNaher, r. +. Wheeler, r. f.
Bingiey, L. +. Stevenson. l.. I.
Galway, c. Greenberg. C..
Ford. r. G. Franklin. r. C.
MeRny L. G. SchWeGlcr, L. q.
Goals from the 6eld-ShafCr g. Bingey 6, Gala
way l. Ford 2. Meany .. SchwesIer /. Free tosses-
Shafer l, GreenoerE / Rderee-Mr Law. Time
keeper-Mr. Sidney Leach. Scorer-Mr. Birdsell.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31

Jack Dunn. manager Of the Baltimore
international League team. says that In
Eddie Murphy the Athletics Ass eskting
q great lead-on man
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31
RACING CARD FOR TO-DAY.
.JuarcE.

FIRST RACE-SeIng; three year-olds and up
Kard: fre and one-haf furlongs.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-31

.Apprentice allowance claimed.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The organizing committee OF the Seven
teenth International Congress OF Medicine
has issued bulletin stating that the con-
gress will be held In London from August
to August l3, inclusive. and that his
majesty. King George V has gracously
accorded his patronage to the congress.
The members OF the congress will bc quail
flied members OF the medical profession
and scientific men who have been noml-
mated by a national committee or by the
executive committee.
What IL your idea OF economy" asked
one statesman.
Making everybody except my constItu
ents get along with as little money as
possible" replied the Washington
Star
In downtown Office building where
many foreign consuls have their headquar-
ters a small boy attracted much atten-
tion yesterday. He was plump. short and
light haired and wore clothes of unmIs-
taxable foreign make. He stood leaning
against a radiator on one OF the upper
floors putting at long pipe df the shape
seldom seen except I'm the mouth of n
Dutch" comedian on the stage. He looked
blankly at the people who spoke to him
and when the unusual spectacle had at
tracted a small crowd he fed into an office
turning first at the door to blow a small
cloud OF smoke into the faces OF those who
wondered IL the boy was dressed for a
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22

Now they seem to be a little less than
20 per cent, though Of course their act
nal numbers are increasing at the rate
of perhapS million a year. The Ma
hometans, on the other hand, have just
About held their own and have now
something more than 81 per cent of the
whole. They exert. as is well known, a
much greater political and social infiu-
ence than that which would be strictly
proportionate to their numbers.
buddhism still almost monopolizes
Burmah, but in the rest Of India, where
il once had predominance over Brah-
manism. it has become practically neg
ligible. with only 336,S7O followers. The
Jains have suffered so much from the
nlague that their number has de-
creased to less than 1,2J0O0O, while the
Sikhs have increased in ten years from
less than 100000 10 more than 5000
600. The Parsees. who make no attempt
at proselytizing, have increased In just
the same ratio as the general popula-
ton. They now number 10O,1OO. and
probably exert greater influence,
through their intelligence, enterprise and
wealth. than any other community in the
world of their relative size. Finally, II
is to be noted that there has been a
marked growth of Christianity, its pro-
fessors having numbered 1,S62634 IN
1881. 2.2S4.3s0 In 1891, 2,923, ,241 in 1901
and 3S76.196 in 1911.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES.

Undoubtedly it is iDconsiderate, not
to say unkind Of certain persons to in
terpret various acts Of Mayor Gaynor's
as significant Of budding desire TO be
DemOcracy's Presidential candidate mex.
fall. The Mayor has said he has mo
Presidential bee buzzing" in his head.
And If there IS no buzzing in the Mayors
head it is obvious that the buZzing must
be in the heads of those who attribute
Presidential ambitions to him. Indeed.
it is not unlikely that their heads are full
of vice and crime.
It is no desire to enter the vice and
crime squad which prompts us to re-
mark that from any one who did not dis
avow the Presidential bee a speech like
the Mayors at Albany the other night
would seem like bid for notice. The
Mayor talked about the tariff and trusts,
Just as candidate might have done.
Mr.. Gaynor, to be sure, refused TO believe
that the only good trust Is a dead trust
and the only good tariff one which has
been slashed TO It's least common denOmi-
hator at one sweep of the legislative
sword. Yet even so candidate might
have done for there are Democrats who
will not support the ambitions of candi-
dates determined TO swat the trusts with
out fear or favor and TO render tariff
an institution conspicuous by its absence.
1t is doubtless annoying TO the Mayor
thus to be thrust into position Of prom.
inence on the Presidential stage at the
precise time when the spotlight happen J
to have been turned off the best previous
performer. His observation and expert
ence will tell him, though, that time al
ways vindicates the victim Of deceptive
appearances, and his study Of philosophy
must have enabled him to bear up under
the temporary misunderstanding.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
THE WILsoN-HARvEY INCIDENT
A New Jersey View Of the Break Be
tween the Governor and the Colonel.

From The Newark Sunday Call.
The controversy over Governor Wilson's a.ti-
tude regarding the ladders by which he has
climbed as TO his right TO kick them from
| under him when they have ceased 10 be useful.
should be divestel OF purely political bearings.
II the eminent candidate who Is now Governor
OF New Jersey were accused merely OF dIvorc-
ing his from ex-senator Smith and
Colonel George Harvey, there would be nothing
TO say; but the charge against him IS not that
no is person suffering from incompatiblity
OF temper, but that he himself is deserting
from one side TO another, according TO the
benent which he happens to think no may de-
rive from the change II he is habltually un-
faithful II is necessary, OF course, to deny him
further opportunity to make departures from
tho straight and narrow path
The explanation that has boen offered for
Governor Wilson's curious changes In allegiance.
personal and political, is that he has found
himself deceived in the past. This is almost
incredible. unless he Is a much weaker creature
mentally and morally. than any OF his friends
are willing to concede. We prefer 10 regard
him as the most unconscious OF cyclists, the
perfect example OF tho man who believes that
his mission and merits are so great that all
things should give way to them. including the
ordinary rules OF human conduct. and even
plain. unadorned virtues. such as remembrance
OF favors, consideration OF the welfare OF others
and the like II II be taken that he is fully
convinced that his nomination and election 20
the Presidency are necessary to the salvation
of this country. that, like Mahomet, he Is as
sured by some private revelation that heaven
itself prefers him that he might wade
through seas OF gore to attain power then the
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
DEMANDING Az ACCOUNTING.

The Tribune is in receipt Of a circular
letter from California which purports to
come from labor unioniSts, who do not
| sign their names, for reasons that they
say are obvious, and who are insisting
| that the American Federation of Labor
| give an accounting of the funds raised
for the defence of the McNamaras. The
secretary of the Federation in a state.
ment to the press put the sum raised mt
$4,000; later ii was said TO be $4,000.
and the money, it was announced had
all been spent. The anonymous union
lists in their circular profess to believe
that about 100000 was raised in Cali
fOrnia alone. Some unions in that state,
they say, assessed their members 50 80
each for several months in succession,
Of So The circular is accompanied by
editorials from several California news
papers supporting the statements Of the
circular and its demands.
The demands are entirely proper, and
it is to be hoped some way will be found
Of making them effective The pro-
claimed object Of the labor leaders was
to raise million dollars for the defence
of the McNamaras. What reason Is
there for suppOsing that they fell so far
short Of their purpose except the mere
announcement that the fund reached
only about 100000? If such assess
ments as those alleged to have been
made in California were general the
sum raised must have been vastly in ex-
cess of the amount published. Moreover,
irrespective of what the amount was, the
members of the unions are certainly en-
titled to know how the money was spent.
Why should it have been necessary TO
spend even 100000?
Into what sort Of hands some of the
funds went is shown by the Use Of money
In bribing jurors Is there any reason to
believe that persons who would bribe
jurors would be perfectly honest them
selves in the handling Of funds of which
there was to be no accounting and OF
which only a few insiders would ever
know the amount or use? The raiSjno
handling and eXpending of the fund Of
fered every opportunity for graft The
leaders of the unions were irresponsible.
Some of them, as their subsequent in
dictment shows, probably had a guilty
knowledge of the dynamitings and would
be ready prey for backmallers. Hon
est labor unlonists everywhere should
join with their California brethren in in
sisting upon an accounting from all those
who handled the Mcnamara fund.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
DIX r. T. MARTINS GUEST
Governor and His Wife Enter.
tanned at Dinner.

Governor and Mrs. Dix were guests or
Frederick Townsend Martin at dinner at
the Plaza last night Among those pres
ont were Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor, Mr.. and Mrs Edmund l.. Baylies, Mr..
and Mrs. Ormond Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
II. Nelson. Clarence Jones, Miss Con-
stance Warren, Count Guy de Lasteryire,
Mr. and Mrs Chauncey NJ. Depew, Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Frelinghuysen, the Duke
de RicheIieu. the Duchess de Chaulnes
Mrs W. P. Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. b.
Duke, Mrs James p KernQchan. Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Townsend Martin. Z. r. Bacon
and the Duke of Newcastle.
After the dinner there was a reception
in the ballroom, to which $50 were invited
including 120 judges of all courts in New
York City Among those invited TO the
reception were Miss Anne Morgan, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Waters Taft, Mrs. J. j.
Emery, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard S. Brown,
Mrs James II. Kidder. Mr.. and Mrs. ].
Frederick Tams Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs,
Mrs Ben Ali Haggin, Z. II. Outerbridge
George r. Sheldon, F. s. Witherbee, Mr..
and Mrs w. Rathbone Bacon, Mr.. and
Mrs. Archibald G.. Thacher. +. K. Sturgis,
the Misses Crimmins, Robert Graves,
Adolph Lewisohn. Joseph s. Auerbach,
Eliot Gregory. Craig Wadsworth. Edward
Zimmerman. General Brayton Ives, Fred
erick w. Whitridge, A. Barton Hepburn.
John H. Davis. Livingston Phelps and
Chester 3. Mclaughlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald de Koven. Amos
II. Emo. Mr.. and Mrs. George Rose. Mr..
and Mrs. Waldron Williams, ]. Clinton
Spencer. Professor and Mrs. William
Chandler. Or. Stephen S. Burt. Alexander
d. Shaw. Hamilton w. Cary, Sherman Day.
Melville T.. Stone. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis @.
Kaufman. Charles n. Harris. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph S. Ulman. Mrs. Sidney Dillon Rip
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Mott Warner.
George l.. Van Tuyl. Edwin Clarence
Moller. w. MacNeil Rodewald, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch. Captain and Mrs. Fenton
and Robert Richards.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
THE RITTER BOYCOTT.

The activity of the Housewives
League of this city in urging a boycott
on J0-cent butter is highly encouraging
sign of the times, because 1t shows that
the consumer is at last awakening TO
sense of his own partial responsibility
for exorbtant provision prices. All the
blame cannot be thrust upon the middle
men and the provision spectators. I'm
doubtedy his own Indifference and sub
misSiveneSs account for large snare
of the increase of the cost of household
necessaries to the city consumer.
Organized abstention from the use Of
butter so long as its price remains ab-
normally high would certainly have
wholesome effect, for II would show that
the ConsuIGer had begun to insist that ne
be taken into account as factor III the
adjustment of prices. Hitherto the law
of supply and demand has been consid-
cred inca pable Of suspension so far as
demand IS concerned The spectators
i'm food have assumed that the demand
would he constant 10 matter what hap
pened to the supply. But If any large
proportion of the consuming public
should combine to regulate the demand
new trade balance would have 10 he
struck and dealers would be confronted
with the necessity of hunting for mar
ket for their over-valued products.
The chief trouble in the past has been
that there has been no cooperation
among the purchasers to combat the eff
forts of the dealers TO control prices and
TO boost them artificially. The single
householder is impotent when 1t comes
10 resisting advances, but when thou
sands and tens Of thousands unite the
makers OF quotations are forced TO sit
up and take notice. The present
squeeze" in butter is accounted for by
the explanation that the storage-house
men put away a much smaller quantity
than usual last spring and are now In
q position to collect much larger mar
gin of profit pound. But their ability
to collect an overcharge rests upon the
willingness of the public to maintain
the normal consumption OF butter. III
the housekeeper is ready to stint herself
or deny herself entirely the demand
will shrink fast enough TO make butter
prices tumble inside a month.
The Housewives League has n mis-
sion Of serious economic Importance. II
it can bring about organized resistance
to excessive prices, can encourage It's
members to study the problems of mar
keting and cooking. and to reduce the
extravaganza in housekeeping for which
Americans Of all classes, and especially
of the poorer classes, are noted, 1t Will
have earned a high place among our
associations for uplift. What the down
trodden consumer needs most to be
taught is how TO help himself.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22

TO the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In Thursdays Tribune appeared a
paragraph saying that two Engishmen had
visited the Park Department to find out
where the Prince of Wales tree was
planted. | also am an Englshman who
would be glad to have some Of your readers
who remembered the occasion. or partic-
pated In the ceremonies, say where the tree
was planted and whether It Is still alive.
Park officials say 1t died when young
IL would he of interest to many Ia know
more about the occasion when the Prince
OF Wales, afterward King Edward VII,
planted the tree, and | hope you will find
space for some OF the COMMUNICATIONS re-
gardng the same ENGLISHMAN.
New York, Jan. IS, 1912
Because OF the numerous injuries
which have been made at the Park De-
partment recently as to the existence
In Central Park OF a tree planted by
the Prince of Wales on his only visit to
this country, Park Commissioner Slower
has made an inquiry and has ascer-
tained from old park employees that the
tree died while young. The records of
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

Conditions in the world of money and
business are sound. Distributive retail
trade has been checked to some extent
by the cold weather but tendencies as
a rule are in the direction of expansion
ir most lines Of industry, the best feat
ure Of the situation being the progress
sive improvement reported in iron and
steel. So far In the current month new
orders have been In volume equal 20
shipments, notwithstanding the fact
that the railroad companies have not
been especially heavy buyers. Accord
ing TO THE Iron Age" the weakest spots
in the market are the large idle capacity
of the various steel plants and the alb
sence of a better price movement. In
pig iron business has fallen off i'm recent
days, and quotations are still on an un-
satisfactory basis from the producers
point Of view, although in well informed
quarters II is said that indications point
to increased activity in the first half Of
the present year as compared with the
same time in 1911. Reports received by
the commercial agencies covering all
parts of the country are far from dis
couraging as to the future of business, in
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
SITTNG THE COURTS.

The intensity Of feeling which Presi-
dent Taft showed i'll speaking Of the lu-
dicial recall found response among his
hearers I'm the state Bar Association, as
If must among all serious people 1t
would he q grave calamity to American
institutions if the independence of the
Judiciary were weakened and what Mr..
Taft called the self-impOscd restraints
Of the Constitution were removed. 1t Is
an important duty, therefore. for mem
hers of the bar and for judges to do
everything that they can TO raise the
prestige of the American judicial system
and TO eliminate all the reasonable
grounds for dissatisfaction with the adj
ministration of justice. Impatience with
the courts would probably never have
gained the headway that 1t has If justice
had been prompt and sure. If, for eX-
ample. there were the general satisfac-
ton with the working of the American
iudicial system that is felt in England
with the operation of the English sys-
TEN, is 1t likely that a plan to weaken
the judiciary would be seriously enter
tanned?
One reason why the holding OF a
statute unconstitutional prOvOkes feel
ING of irritation is the time that it often
fakes to find out whether q law Is valid
or not. Were it commonly possible to get
n decision az TO its validity within few
months after its passage the public would
be reader to put up with the inconVen-
ience and delay necessary TO operate the
machinery for amending constitutions,
and the unwisdom of proposals to refer
questions regarding the COnstitutionality
of laws to popular vote would be gen
orally recognized. The Massachusetts
system of obtaining from the highest
court of the state an opinion as To the
constitutionality of pending legislation
may be exceedingly useful, preventing
many veXatious disappointments and ma
terially reducing the grounds for public
impatience with the courts.
To insure our judicial system against
attacks upon its independence legal
processes must be simplified and made
less costly. In newspapers published in
all parts of the country we find COM
plants of legal delays. In states where
conditions are much simpler than they
are here the congestion of calendars IS
even worse than it is in this city. Presi-
dent Taft has called the reform Of legal
procedure so as to make justice mex
pensive and prompt the nations greatest
problem, and probably nothing else
would so confirm the judiciary in public
confidence and so protect it from radical
attacks as q method Of making IL i'm
possible to defeat justice by wearing out
the patience and exhausting the purse Of
an adversary and depriving criminals Of
the favor they enjoy under the present
! ruleS of trial
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Tho Editor ~ The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: DR.. jacob ought to be cognlZant Vi
the fact that If the physicians practisins
according to their various schools OF ma
teria medica were infallible, or were even
successful In a majority of cases, there
would be no such great demand for Chris-
tian Science treatment as exists To-Day
or does he claim for his fraternity OF drug
givers divine right" to practise meolcile
according to their school and none other'
VIII he still maintain, Notwithstanding
strong evidence to the contrary from mem
bers of his own fraternity, that his patients
do not endow the drugs prescribed for them
with magical powers OF Middle Age Witch
craft. based on superstition, which powers
inert matter cannot possibly possess except
In the imagination?
Can any observant thinking. wideawake
human being profess TO ignore this science
as the greatest moral force OF the century!
Brooklyn, Jan. IS, 1872 READER.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
TIE RELIGIONS OF JyDJA

The division of the Indian peoples
among their chief religious faiths has
become matter of much greater prac.
tical Importance than ever before. ON ac-
count of the recent constitutional re-
forms in that country, under which rep
resentation in the legislatures is i'm n
great measure based upon it. The i'm
pending revision Of the regulations for
Council elections make even these de.
pend upon il. The recent census Of the
empire will therefore he studied with
much interest by Brltish-Indian states
men and also by many throughout the
world who, for missionary or other rea-
sons, earnestly consider the progress Of
that vast. strange nation.
The IIindus, who are subdivided into
a number of different sects, are still the
overwhelming majority, though they
seem to be losing ground little to the
Mahometans. Ten years ago they were
more than 20 per cent Of the whole.