The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-02
4 NEW INTEREST |S
 FELT IN AVIATION English Navy's Hydro Aeroplane Aroused It LADS TRAINED TO COOK Modern Civilization Watching With Anxiety Anti-Semite Agita-
 tion in Russia-Duchess
 of Marlborough
By PuILIp EyrnETv

new interest in aviation. The navys n.y. dro- -aeroplane has aroused 1t; the pro- posed series of flying exhibitions over land and sea will encourage, increase and grat- fly it. It is an interest greater than at- taches to another step forward in engi- neering science, for with the new flying machine has arrived the new man. the new type of airman.
 The man of the moment is Lieutenant and Acting Commander Charles R. San son, the flying sailor. His exploits in Weymouth Bay afioat and aloft in I'll. M. S. Amphibian" have seized the irnasina- tion of England as no other development of the wondrous new science of aviation has yet succeeded in doing. Men of other lands or of our own race might leap from the ground and soar aloft on wonder wings, and we have looked on in admir- alton at the illustration of the surprising developments of modern science.
 But 1t is with other feelings that we have seen an aeroplane issuing from the element upon which is established the dominion of our race. We understood perhaps for the first time what the word aviation meant when we saw sea power project itself to higher dimension.
 There is fair prospect that In the near future the Briton or at any rate the Brit on who lives An London, will be able to enjoy some share of a vast field of em- ployment which has hitherto been prac- t,cally closed to him.
 The L. c. c. Cookery School at the Westminster Technical institute is now thoroughly established. and here lads are being trained to become chefs, and will in time, no doubt, remove the reproach that mo Englishman can practice the higher branches of cookery. There are model kitchens and pantries, larders and sculleries and store-rooms on the most approved modern plan, and the youths who are undergoing a three years tram Ing are taught on a system which nicely blends theory and practice Many dishes are daily prepared and cooked by the students under the tuition of able in- structors and the food so provided is sold to the students of the college at a little more than cost price.
 The experiment has proved so successful that another, in a sense its complement, is to be undertaken. Isdore Salmon, l..
  inducing the council to start the cooking school some time ago, made the sugges- tion-and 1t was readily accepted--that a school for walters should be established in the same building. A consultative com mittee was formed and its composition is a guarantee that the school will not lack expert advice and supervision. Mir. Sal mon himself is chairman and c. Herman Senn, the vice-chairman, while other names prominent in the catering world are those of c. M. Amedt, E.. Daoust T. Mitschell, H. P. Stephenson and A. Wolff, Sir Charles Frederick and T. Golden have also joined the committee.
 Modern civilization as 1t Is represented in all the great nations of the world, is watching with the gravest anxiety the progress of the anti-Ssmite agitation which has grown up in Russia around the ritual murder case
 Desperate efforts are being made by the Black Hundred, the party In Russia which has declared eternal war on the Jews, to spread the belief among the g- norant Russian peasantry that the mur- der was the work of Jews carrying out the blood rtuaf' myth of the middle ages Every means by which the super stitution of the Russian people can be nflamed Is being used and with such effect that the danger of a repetition of the terrible ''pognon' scenes has become extremely real.
 The ca\. t will be remembered, con cerns the murder of a boy named Andrew Yushinsky under horrible circumstances. A jew was arrested on the fimsiest evil dence and has been waiting trial for over a year
 Vigorous protests signed by leading Christian theologians, men of letters and scientists in England, France and Ger mo hox eh11 t,-x f,y, ( is declared that the Blood Accusation is "a relic of the days of witchcraft, and black magic a cruel and utterly base less libel on Judaism" Despite these widespread protests, however, the agita- tion continues with unabated force in Russia, pamphlets being scattered wide spread in which such phrases as Chris tians, watch your children and other warnings against the alleged practices of the Jews are to be found.
 Even as recently as Saturday the "Zemstchna," the organ of the Russian reactionares In St. Petersburg, called the British signatories to the protest against blood accusation" in Russia hypocrites or mercenaries. This paper then pro- ceeded to the length of declaring 1t to be an irrefutable fact that the Jews con tinue to kill our little children. bleeding them for hours.' and 1t charged the pro- testors with attempting to exercise pres sure to prevent public trial.
 ''I look forward to the time when all the good will and energy for social services so profusely given now will be used to the best advantage. It is surely our mis- sion to prevent any waste of this treasure of human energy and to agitate for q practical and technical education in these matters. to ensure that there shall be a thorough understanding and equipment for personal service. Above all. it should be our duty to guide encourage and i'm spire men and women in the discharge of that social duty which constitutes per feet citizenship
 In these words the Duchess of Marl- borough. tall and slim and girlish, brought to an end a charmingly sym pathetic speech at the seventh annual meeting of the British Institute of Social Service. held in a great giided chamber of Sunderland house, Curzon street, May fair
 Referring to the speech afterwards, MT Percy Alden. NJ P, who has, been elected a member of the council said that he wished more duchesses would speak like that"
 The meeting of the institute was held at Sunderland house by permission of the Duchess of Marlborough. and the chair was taken by Lord Weardale His lordship said that the old. selfish theory of the survival of the Attest had passed away, and the world had begun to recog- nize that men and women were not born solely for selfish purposes. but that they had responsibility to their fellow mon and their fellow sisters: that they had obligations pressing upon them to do what they could to ameliorate the lot of these less fortunate than themselves.