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The second Ancona Note.

The reply Of the United States to
the Austro-H ungarian note Of Deem
Der Is relative to the sinking Of the
Ancona Is adequate and responsive.
1t " the questions raised by the
Imperial and Royal Government with
sufficient explicitness to establish the
facts and principles on which our de-
mands are grounded. II properly re-
Trains from discussion of those prin-
ciples, the acceptance Of which by all
civilized nations has been made con-
spicuous recently In the renewed ad-
herence given to them by Austria's
Teutonic ally. With admirable brew
ity and directness. but with M sug-
gestion of unnecessary harshness, Mr..
LANSING %reiterates the terms Of our
communication Of December 8. The
message conveyed In that document
remains unimpaired in substance and
import. recording precisely the con-
tentions and sentiments Of the United
States with respect Of the destruction
Of the Ancona.
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PAN.AMERICANS AT RECEPTION
Delegates and Familics Enter
tained At Hotel Astor.

The forty odd South ard e.
American delegates TO the Psn-Auer .
Scientific Congress which vii, ia a.|
In Washington beginning reN' Nards
were entertained with tie meupel- a.
their families Yesterday afternoon -
reception I'm the Hotel Astor given 3
the special committee appointed ~ -.
Secretary 81 State.
Joseph II. Choate was the princ. -
invited ny the committee to as~s
in the reception. The representatives =
the State and Treasury departments a.
a special militar" attache also at'ender
as well as II &. Breckenridge. ciair.aa
OF the committee, n August Belnor'
There were about 1870 present in all
Henry Fairfield Osborn. president e.
the board of trustees ~ the America
Museum of Natural History. extended
an invitation 10 all the delegates % VS.
the Natural History Museum a1g tf-
Metropolitan Museum OF At ari a"
nounced that n special reception nr.
he given for the delegates a. to ~,
lean Museum on their retur f.Hu Was
ington. They will 20 10 Wash.Hg %
Sunday.
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AFRICAN GOLD.
With German Cruisers Out Of Com.
mission. England Gets IL Easily.

To THE ENRON nr 'rur SrS-S,r
Rro,har = y roo,cr .ays In T,,p ca
NJ pec.,nher o., ,b,, .pro,ber" I'm.
sted's recan, o,rwunGca,i on bas NO noir,
becanse NOV. or ,be goid Ga Afrtca .,nce
tho 1ror hecap has re-, sbinned ,ron
ina. continent, bro,ch toar ~ can,ur. :"
,rh,. 4. n c,rrou. s,,,ene,r in y,ey ~
tho Zoo, Tho, ,ha waoI,y -,,rLe, c,r,,,ors
~ pix,ev and ,hoi, En-. ,,a,, Lnoun
h,,,,ior h,oLor. fr.o,.,,iv r.far ,n en-.
recaIn, n, ,hs parL 81 Ensl.nd M nor
poid ,ro,r We, N,ri.a ,a,cai, ~
,5I n y-s 900 ,i,aooo b.iry re.
corded al.o ro,,co ina, tho Iondo,
S,oI,., oc,,.ior,i,, ,,~.,,tnns ,h. arrt,,i
az co,a ...ro,, sn,,,h A,rJ,. 4, t.s o..
sr.s ~ Sa,.anSnar ~ asa No,amna. On
TO- ins,.,Ys rhor. ar. ar,., 80 a.
rivai. ~ hsr ali o. rvnt a., -.
a,u ,,.o r. H. .,.o ,,nn,L,. pc.nh.r
and Eoyer,b.r ,oti IN. uanr -, ~.
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ground NJ those who's eyes saw only
the vicious side NJ NE and ~dhosr
vocal orRnns q potent In adycr'is.
ing their discoveries. W. do not
HITTER ourselves that they have aban-
doned M fruitful n field. although
for some time they have maintained
a refreshing silence. A. present II l.
not fashionable In dcfamc New York,
n In true: but NJ any moment there
may be nm outbreak NJ Wild charges,
unveriHed assumption and loud De.
n%unciations.
Baltimore will survive this attack,
The city may oven turn Il IN ndvan.
tage by Furnishing some particularly
bold and obnoxious offenders. Every
community has Its share Of these,
and nobody regrets their exposure.
They do not control Baltimore. how.
ever. any more than they control New
York. and nothing is gained BY sect.
Ing to fasten the odium they have
earned on the town 40 unfortunate az
to shelter them.
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her - NJ THE year n e~Uas,hsssd.
Fiv" hundred ami s~isty.seven reY.
sons WIRE killed ana twenty thoussnd
Injured by vehicles In the streets ~
New York during that period. Only
nbout one.auarfer NJ the fatal accl.
dents were due ~ sutomobiI. and
motor trucks. s~lxty-seven we're caused
by street ears. eighty. eight BY horse
drawn vehicles. for,y-six by falls from
vehicles. thirty.six by collisions and
eighty-one by miscellaneous causes
Commissioner WooDs has wisely
pointed out that II IL as important Ia
regulate by law the movements III
the public on the streets as TO rpgu.
late the driving ~ vehicles. n u fine
were imposed upon violators ~ the
rule that streets should only he
crossed ~ definite points, designated
by the Commissioner. many n not
most accidents from collision with
moving vehicles would be avoided.
II would appear, In view Of the
Pennsylvania State observations, that
the regulations imposed BY Commits
sioner Woops may alone be depended
upon to accomplish this end.
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sn~e act. whieh sppropriases ANN.
"I'y two cents fos evsvy injured per.
M for medi~nI rcs~srrh. n provision.
by the way. which may we'll bc
adopted by the contemplated state
and national Insurance acts. 10
which We have rrcrntly referred. Nat.
uf1lly Investigations were under.
taken upon many problems arising
from the n
Research work on a%nt,septics. on
Inc nature Of typhoid fever and on
gas Rangrene hns proved Of great
value; also the cholera cultures
brought To 81. Mary's Hospital from
Galicia IN 1914. from which ~vacclnes
may he prepared. Work was also
carried on by aid OF this research
fund 10 determine the virulencc of
bacteria In varying conditions; also
on dysentery, Industrial fatigue,
health Of munition workers. disorders
Of the soldiers hearts, and gunshot
wounds. All this material will be
made available In the Official medical
history Of the war. II is expected
that the coordinating work Of this
committee will mark the opening Of a
new era In medicine in England, re-
placing by accurate knowledge gath
cred by careful and qualified observ.
ers the former general statements
founded on imperfect observations.
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The association formed hy well
meaning citizens for the purpose of
preventing accidents and death from
nvoidable causes is contributing val.
liable information upon this subject.
Undoubtedly the association will take
cogniznnce of the following facts,
which have recently been authorita-
lively announced.
The State OF Pennsylvania is IA
yorcd in the possession of a Bureau Of
Accidents, which is efficiently gather
ing information rs n basis for various
safeguards against the prevailing
carelessness among the travelling
public. The astonishing fact is re.
corded that during the year 19l4.l5
only two deaths occurred among the
millions who ride upon the passenger
trains In that State, demonstrating
the remarkable efficiency of the rail
road service in Pennsylvania. This
happy fact is emphasized by the adj
dltional Information that of the 800
persons who were u%nnvoidably killed
on the railroad tracks by trains 900
We're trespassers and 100 were struck
al grade crossings, Does moi this
comparison clearly Indicate thu, the
chief guilt rests upon the public and
not upon the railroad managers This
is also proved by the report that thir-
teen passengers We're killed by street
railways; ten persons lost ll,"ir lives
by jumping from moving cars.
New York city would appear /" he
! almost rs dangerous ~ n battlefield
| when the report uf the Police Conn.
missioner from January I to No,em.
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THE AUTOMOBILE BLANKET.
II Nothing Else II IL y Reminder oil
the Days Of Private Carriages.

Il THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir: Thers
is still to be seen frequently in this
town n reminder of the days when
members of families of means went and
came IN their private horse drawn We
hicles. Their stable equipments were
not cheap. They included usually two
spans OF finely matched horses. car
ria yes. open and closed. for all sorts Of
weather: carriage robes OF fur. and
slAighs.
These belongings had to be suitably
housed in stables OF considerable cost,
occupying land that was valuable, Then
there were the coaohmen and the foot
men. their uniforms. and the stablemen.
In old weather blankets or FUR robes
were taken from the carriage or sleigh
and thrown over the backs OF the horses
to protect them during waits.
The frequently seen reminder of those
days il the RODE. sometimes Of fur but
more often of wool, carefully spread
over the hood OF a waiting automobile.
In wintry weather nearly all of the
gasolene steeds are thus protected when
they come to a halt to remain for n
brief period.
Various theories might be advanced
70 account for this careful b~lanketing
Of the automobile hood. One might be
that II is don 20 prevent the moto.
from becoming 100 COIu. sui every mo-
tor begins 10 heat up when I, Is stopped.
because the cooling water or air clrcu-
lat.on is SHUT off, and IL will stay warm
az to lis interior Cor several hours. An
other theory might DO that the motor
would respond more readily when start
ing II the carbureter or c~arbureters
were protected from cold bu, when "A
motor II running perfectly its coolest
part is the carbureter, which Is kept
chilled by the rapid vaporization.
Still another guess might be that the
hood is hlanketed to prevent the water
In the pump. piping or Naterjacket from
freezing This might come to pass II
the motor were left unblanketed over
night in zero weather. A puzzled OBJ
server has questioned whether the blan-
kct is not for the purpose of Keeping
warm the air to be taken into the car
bureter m starting This would he
OF no avail, for the carbureter's first
inhalation of warm air would be chilled
before II reached the cylinder. An early
type Of Kasolene motor took warm air
from the exhaust and fed II 70 the car.
hureter, and no other motors ~ that
type We're called for,
Moro OF these speculatlous. gathered
mostly from observers who are neither
gasolene motor experts nor chauffeurs,
seems to account for blanketing tho au-
tomobile hood. So IN the absence Of an
authoritative explanation those who
wish TO do so may take Il thai the prac-
tlce il an unaccountable survival from
the days which It recalls to mind.
BROOKLYN. December 90. r. L. r.
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HOLY WRIT.
Have We Enough Old Testament
without the ApOcry pha?

To THE EpIToR OF THE SUN-Sir, The
letter signed IS" regarding the .Apocry-
phs recalls To mind n passage in a
little book ! read with great interest
some time ago entitled The History
OF Freedom Of Thought" by Professor
J. b.. Bury. The author says:
The truth Is tina, Sacred Books ar. an
obstacle 20 mora AMI intellectual prog
ress, because they conse~ra'e the IDEAS Of
a given epoch and It's customs as divine'y
appointed
christianity, by adopting hooks % n
IONS past age, placed IN the path Of human
development a particularly nasty STUN.
bling block II may occur 10 one to won
der how history might nave been altered,
altered ii sur"ly would nave been. ~ the
Caristians had cat Jehovah out OF their
programme and, content with tho New
Testament. had rejected the 'nspirsti ton OF
me Old.
We have enough of the Old Testament
without dragging IN the ApoIrypha,
Arlington II. CARAVAN
P~ArcHoGrE, l.. l.. December 20.
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COLLEGE AND INTELLECT.
what Would an Academic Education
Have Done to These Geniuses?

To THE Editor OF THE SuN-Sir. The
editorial article in connection with the
statement of the professor OF psychology
In Beloit College say In part
So far as superiority counts, the fact is
that college hurts soma men. in,eLectu-
ally. helps some. and caves most Of Lhedn
Just about where nature set them down.
For instance, what might have hap
pened TO Shakespeare and Lincoln IL
their natural faculties and sptitudes had
been tethered by a college training?
Can the good professor by "A psycho-
logic ratiocination show that existing
college methods are not now deprlvlng
us of equally superior literary geniuses?
J. HENRY,
HIGHLAND FALLS. December 90.
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EVERYBODY SPEAKS IRISH.
Gaelic Words That Snuegle in the
Broad Bosom Of Our Speech.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrH-Sir: The
Rev. p. 8. Dineen's Irish-English die
t'onary and some other Irish works
have como Into my hands and ] am
amusing myself looking up well known
Irish phrases. Erin 90 braeh' t"Ireland
for ever") literally means ireland till
Judgment day: ''whiskey' In simply the
Irish for water. "uiAss' 'ehoneen' Is
In Irish "Seoinin." meaning little John
(Buil)' in thu sense Of "An~glUnaniac" /;
ma vourneen' IL my darling: ma
chree" means my heart: "a sthore''
Ia &c treasure Tor d%arltnG)"; and 30 on.
People know far more Irish than
they think. Apart from words like col
leen." 'shillelagh." dun "leprechaun."
Tough bard "~gossoon." &c, an ex.
traordinary proportion of proper names
OF persons and places here and all over
Europe are condensed Irish phrases.
Dun for example. attached 10 nun
dreds OF names OF towns in Europe. IL
Irish for fort: "svon" tamhain, is
river knock Is 'hlll": 'baliy"
tbailel Is town MacLean Ia Mac-giol-
la-Eoin. son OF the servant of st. John" ;
likewise Malone. Mallon. Mellen, MILAN.
Moylan. Mullen Mackay. Mackey, KEYS.
Hughes, Masee. O'IIea. Hay. Hayes,
are all derived from Aodh pronounced
Ee), the Irish for Hugh. with MAC
OF preNSed similarly Daniels, Mac
Donnell. O'Donel. Dunhill. Dunnel. are
from "Donal' tDaniel) 9aronne. n
river IN France, is really Gary avon"
Irish for rough river: for Of course
the Gauls of Europe spoke Gaelic til
they adopted Latin in the NTH century.
Irish is like Greek. and still more like
Latin. When the Polish scholar Cur
tin first heard the word lis me- 1Irish
for Il ann he cried out with s.tonish-
ment. God bless my soul, that IL the
Sanscrit 'asrni'," Professor Rlack.e OF
London took up the study OF Irish with
such intense enthusiasm that he read
Gaelic more regularly than his Bible
This vas because, sitting az breakfas ct in
a Scottish inn one day. he asked tho
waiter: What IL the Irish for a mare"
'capall,' Why, that Is 'caballus,' '
said Rlackie. What is the Irish for A
horse EACH said the man. Good
heavens, that IL 'equus' with the
cultural preserved" From that time
ne studied Gaelic. And he was not ac-
quainted till later with the Gram
matica Celtica" OF John Caspar Zeuss.
who conceived this work
while studying the old Irish manuscripts
AZ s.. Gall. thus insuring the study of
Gaelic for AL time TO come.
\. e. HuGHEs.
NEW YORK, December go.
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lBaltim0re's Morals.

Neither as bad al the professional
exposers of vice would make II ap.
pear nor ms good as the sensitive
residents of the town proclaim. Balti.
more's moral condition Is probably
not worse better than that Of any
other city Of Its size similarly situ-
nted. He is q poor investigator who
In n large town cannot find a scandal
t" justify his SALARY, and the Of.
fences that enlist the activities Of the
moral crusader lend themselves easily
to sensation.
Sew York. can sympathize with the
Maryland metropolis in its futile In.
dignation under the assault that has
beer made on It's name. This cit,
was 'or years the happy huntiu,
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In the Privacy Of Judge Osry's Din.
Ing Room.

Among the mcltitudinous speculn-
lions evoked by Judge GARY's recent
entertainment Of his friends, none
seems more reasonable or defensible
than that which represents the COM
pany as giving particular attention
to the paragraph Of President W.T.
sons address In which he said:
And there are many additional
sources Of svenus which can Justly be
resorted 20 without hanpering the IN
dustries Of h country or putting any
too great charge upon Individual sa-
penditurs.
"A tax Of one cent per gallon on
easolens and naphtha would yield. at the
present estimated production. 10000
900 . tar OF SO cents per horsepower
on automobiles and internal explosion
engines. 5000, 900: a stamp tax on
bank checks. probably $4,000. 900 a
tax of 70 cents per ton on pig iron. s1o.-
oo0.o 900: q tax OF o5 cents per ton on
fabricated iron and steel, probably S1o,-
00o. 900"
Against a tax on g~asolene and in
ternal explosion engines the voice Of
the great commoner. speaking for the
downtrodden, has already been heard.
Against taxation Of pig iron and fab
ricated iron and steel. two prime
necessaries Of life. why should not the
Colonel protest? He Is a man of iron ;
the impingement might be personal.
ruinous. He too patronizes the in
ternal explosion engine; others Of
Judge GARY's guests on this eventful
evening utilize that ingenious mocha.
nism In their goings and comlngs.
1t is worthy Of note that as time
progresses the names Of hitherto un-
disclosed guests mt this function are
revealed. SO far 1t has not been sug.
gested that the editor Of the Com
mOner was present In person. Yet Y
these proposals Of President WILSON.
which have already enlisted his at
tention. engaged also the thought Of
the Colonel and his fellows around
the Gary mahogany. who shall say
that the Nebraska statesman was not
with them In spirit?
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xEEPsx0 STREETS CLEAN.
N. t~stkssstSW EsssesstsA f~v ne
Present CcWAiusWs.

49,
TO 10 hbif"h or Tils rS-'o. =
officials ~ my hn"vI'-'se. nave D~en so
nl'llrh"d ava abused "' w re,hrrs'on
~" snua ~ last week did no disappear
AZ soon as u fell. ard 80 the 'om'nis-
slon"r ~ss abused from AL shes Any
New YORKER will remember that VI prev.
Gus yeats the snow was not ~ QUICKLY
removed, but TINS ~ n passing evil ,
The travelled New Yorker has haid
words TO say against The condition ~
our streets. NOT only because Of tb" snow
but because OF tn. duet AMI ar
Throughout Ia belle France he MAJ NAYS
strolled or motored over spot'ese s.ree.A
lie FOUND the same cleanliness ana cA'o
In populous London. In Berlin, when isa
dustless city. he could see at every corner
a wire ba sket inviting the pedestrian 10
throw In rubbish, and " by mistake one
dropped tho end OF a match II was imme-
diately picked up by a street cleaner
He remembers that In Prague flies could
not he seen except IN the entomoiogicai
museum. The same traveller wNh all
these re~membrances finds himself In
New York. where the streets are gem
orally thickly covered witt dust. n In
The warm seaAon with warns OF annoy
Ing flies and mosquitoes. He attributes
ali this 70 the Street Cleaning Depart
ment. and no word IA too sfrons Tor MIN
against lie head. but 10 Judge our
public servants fairly we nave TO con-
slider conditions as they meet them.
IN March, 1919. q city cleanup move
ment was started at a meeting durinS
which lame was iaid on immisrants
whoss cellars han oeen touha uhcIesn
and whose oathtuos were niieo WIN
paint poto' shoO, ..,,si
was IN me room long taV,e oI oeas.
Iuiiy Po.isneo "ooa 80. 80
70 inc thickness %, the uus. 80" .ua
~ Were o'eeneu .nS n 49, -.
" ,o.y ~ 80. M. ,.,n,~rar,. ara
not resnonsible for the clouds OF dust in
tho citv"
corld no, tell whom that nrst cleanup
,novement nroited. but this much I know,
4, was moi, the streets They remained
as ihev we're before. I made a request
urging tina, all streets be flushed daily
and tina, orv citizen he allowed to play
the hose on the sidewalk in front OF his
nrep,i.es without pav,ng for the water.
wen, from one depa rtment 20 another
ur,i, an official of the Department OF
wafer SUNNY wrote 10 me: "I nave
vravA fear tha. ~ tha time should come
w,hen ali tho sidewalks OF the greater
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LANGUAGE STUDY.
Some Good. Practical Suggestions for
American Teachers.

To TIL EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir. What
would be the result OF making the study
OF Spanish obligatory In the public
schools? Are not Latin. French and
German already taught in the public
schools But are there any linguistic
results apparent? How many college
graduates have any command of any
language? What minister studies his
ext in Hebrew?
In America there is a great dearth OF
linguistic requirements. The time spent
on foreign or classical languages liz for
the most part sadly. disastrously wasted
] myself have studied Ave lang and
acquired none. Nevertheless, | earnestly
advocate the study OF languages. with
the following reservations and Quair-
cations:
II Is a woful waste OF time and pa
t.ence TO teach languages TO those VINO
have little or no linguistic ability. or
at best n memory for the forms o.
sounds OF words.
Progress In the acquisition OF a for
eisn Language will be greatly facil.-
tated by a previous acquisition OF ones
native language. Even thts In moi, at
tanned by the discipline OF either public
or private schools, with some few ex-
ceptions.
Method is vitality important. An an
alytical study OF a translation OF the
first book OF Caesar then n mechanical
reading of the words three or more
times finally listening to a translation
as the eyes follow the text such a
method would get astonishing results
compared with the usua school grind
and abortlve efforts.
am much more Interested IN the edu-
cationL value OF languages thar in their
military value in enabling us to furnish
officers To South American countries.
But | do think II would be well worth
while to he familiar with our southern
.neighbors ~ on good terms with them,
even to the extent OF studying Spanish
and Portuguese, r, !. LLOYD.
BLooMfNGBuRG. December 20.
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Research Work in the War Zone.

That during the terrific and all ab
sOrbing struggle for national life and
prosperity now raging In Europe some
mems minds are directed toward sci
entiic Investigations. not always re.
lated to the death struggle, Is n OF
the good things of the day. The Berlin
correspondent OF the journal Of the
American Medical Association adverts
TO the fact that Professor ToLDT.
president Of the Austrian Anthropo-
logical Society. and his students have
examined 800 prisoners, taking
thousands Of measurements. which
have determined that there does not
exist n pure race. All the prisoners
are Of racial mixture; the various
racial elements have been moulded
into one people by language and cir
cumstances. Even among the Poles
there were Ave different groups, which
he has isolated In certain features.
Among the prisoners he found
lAiOoC WIN III AN ICkioi w
tween the northwest of Russia and the
Ural Mountains called Films, and
among those coming from the Cral
Mountains and the Volga he found n
mixture Of Slav with the Finn. the
German and the Tartar, two types Of
blond and one a brunette type. He
compared the ~so-called Little Russian
and the White Russian, who speak
the purest Russian dialect, with their
relations from Galicia, Bukovina
and Hungary, and with the I.ithua-
mans and the Slavs from East Prus-
STA. He found those from the govern
ments Of Kovno, wilma. Grodno aud
Suwalki to speak the Oldest Of old
Indo-Germanlc tongues. They are
Catholic but strongly inclined to
pagan practices. His conclusions will
be published.
Such studies may serve TO remove
racial prejudice, which even the so
called Christian civilization appears
not to have Influenced materially,up
to the present time.
Another interesting investigation
carried on despite the strenuous de-
mands of the war upon all individ-
uals was that of President LINDEN
BrRo Of the Supreme District Court
of Berlin. who Investigated the reln-
tiOnship Of alcohol to crime In the
Prussian statistics benring on prison.
ers for 1914. Among the male
prisoners 20 per cent. committed Grim
inal acts while in Il state of intoxica-
ton while among female prisoners
only 5 per cent. were under the in.
fuence OF alcohol when the crime was
committed. The fact thar 10 per cent.
of the male prisoners and ~ per cent.
of the female prisoners were habitual
drunkardS would indicate n lesser
criminal disposition among women.
In England also medical research
work has been done. under the pro.
vision Of the national health lnsuv-