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8, 913. 8 THE SUN BALTIMORE. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28 I the Snndrv Civil Annronriatlon bill for- RUSSIA CLOSED TO JEWS Criticises Utterances Oi Wilson In Maryland And fZTte irginias FRISCO STRIKE LIKELY Telegraphers Give Receivers Until Tomorrow To Meet Terms. PUBLIC WITH WILSON, SAYS COL HARYEY President On Policies, Lauds His "Extraor-l 't dinary Faithfulness." erlck Thuec, Jk-rs. Henry Miles, of Washington; Thomas Mies, i ISP fcv HARVEY bidding the use oi money tnerein appropriated for prosecuting labor unions and formic1 nssni-vih'ntia fnr violating the law, we said in tne ueview ior ioveiuw-i.

In brief, the proviso was regarded by its sponsors as a mere precursor of a definite amendment of the "substantive statutes" to exempt one class from the punishment visited upon all other classes for criminal offenses against the law. Already signs appear that, encouraged by President Wilson's attitude. Mr. Gompers intends to urge this explicit proposal upon Congress at the coming regular session, in conformity with the prediction of Senator Hughes. The inevi-tableness of this consequence of President's action was apparent from the beginning.

It becomes evident, therefore, that unless the President can and will control and chain the forces opposed to the fundamental principle of "equal rights for all. which he himself has unloosed, the. country will very soon face a determined struggle for class domination whose outcome every patriotic citizen must contemplate with the gravest foreboding. This prediction was fulfilled promptly upon the first day of the regular session, when identical bills were introduced in the Senate by Mr. Bacon and in the House by Representative Bartlett, who championed the to the Urgent Deficiency bill, re-establishing the spoils system in the Internal Revenue Department-The proposal is entitled "A bill to make lawful certain agreements between employes and laborers engaged in agriculture or horticulture and to limit the issuing of injunctions in certain cases and for other purposes." It provides: First That it shall not be unlawful for persons employed or seeking employment to enter into any arrangements, agreements, or combinations with the view of lessening the noiiis of labor, or of increasing their wages, or of arrangements, agreements, or combinations, be unlawful among persons engaged in horticulture or agriculture when made with the view of enhancing the price of agricultural or horticultural products.

Se.cond No Federal judge or court may issue an injunction in any labor dispute or with respect to any agreement or combination fix the prices of agricultural products unless to prevent irreparable injury to property or a property right of the person making the application for which there is no adequate remedy at law. Third That this prohibitionismodi-fied by providing that for the purpose of the act certain fundamental rights of property shall not be considered such under certain circumstances, that is. the right to employ or be employed, or to change these relations and assume new relations of employer and employe, or to carry on business with anv person in any place, or to earn one's living as an employe, shall be personal and not property rights and Fourth That persons at work or seeking work shall neither be indicted, prosecuted or tried in any Federal court for entering into any kind of an agreement or combination to better their workhig conditions or for enhancing the price of agricultural products unless any act which they do in pursuance of their combinations or agreements would be in itself unlawful. Sees Dilemma For Wilson. Whatever doubts may have arisen in President Wilson's mind respecting the "intent" of Congress In enacting the Sundry Civil proviso which lie himself put forward, there can be no possible question of the purpose of this measure.

It Is direct and explicit. It not only removes every form of conspiracy and combination of labor unions and farmers' associations from the Sherman act but it guarantees immunity to both from either civil or criminal liability under every Federal law upon the statute books. President Taft pronounced its insinuating precursor which President Wilson signed "class legislation of the most vicious sort." Writing of the Pearre bill, which embodied the same provisions and was rejected in 1008, President Roosevelt declared unhesitatingly in his message to the Sixtieth Congress that it "represented a course of policy which, if carried out, would mean the enthronement of class privilege in its crudest and most brutal form and the destruction of one of the most essential forms of the judicial protection in all civilized lands." The proposal is so plainly abhorrent to the American principle of equality before the law that explication seems unnecessary. Suffice it to say, for the present, at least, that the bill introduced by Senator Bacon and Representative Bartlett was, in fact, formulated by the American Federa tion of Labor under the direction of Mr. Gompers precisely as we foretold.

Simultaneously Representative Robert L. Henry, chairman of the powerful Committee on Rules, added to the amend- ments to the Sherman act. which he introduced on December 1, the following i Section 10. That nothing in said act is intended nor shall any provision thereof hereafter he enforced so as to apply to members of organizations or associations not for profit and without capital or to agricultural prod-nets or live stock in the hands of the producers or raisers. Here again is complete exemption to be accorded without reserve or qualification by "substantive law." Representative Henry justified his aetion in the following statement to the press Section 1.0 provides that the act shall not apply to members of organizations, not for profit and without capital stock, or to agricultural products of live kmh-k in me nanus or tne producer or raiser.

The exception is deemed proper for the simple reason that, under an appropriation bill recentlv passed and signed by the President, f'ongress provided that no part of a fund appropriated and placed at the disposal of the Attorney-General should be used in the prosecution of those belonging to labor organizations, etc. This shows the national will and latent as expressed by Congress. Mr. Henry's deduction is entirely logical. If it was proper to withhold funds for prosecution of a class from one appropriation bill, it is equally right to withhold them from all.

Mr. Henry's bestowal of responsibility for such proposals upon the President also is fully warranted. He might indeed have gone further and said with absolute truth "instigated" as well as "signed" by the President. The Henry biil is not the Administration's measure. That is yet to be formulated to conform to the promised message.

But nothing could be plainer than that tne tune is distressingly close at hand when President Wilson must choose be tween disappointing the powerful class whose hopes of special favor he himself has raised and fulfilling his own solemn pledge to the American people to oppose with all his strength "every form of special privilege and exemptions" while holding himself as President dedicated to "the common as against any particular interest whatever." Is not here a cloud upon. President Wil son sky which cannot be described, say, upon Mr. att's, or, perhaps more slgnift cantly. upon Mr. Roosevelt's? President's Control Complete.

It is an administration Consrress. Prosi dent Wilson assumed command, as leader ui'iiis party, immediately upon his. election, and he has maintained his nuthorit-v by sheer driving force, supplemented by discriminating use of patronage. No signs appear that his bold will be weakened or mat Jiis predominancy will be seriously questioned during the present session. Inevitably, therefore, and more specific ally, perhaps, than ever before, the coun try will render a verdict upon the Administration at the Congressional elections in November of the coming year.

If the Dem ocrats carry the House of Representatives, tne President, will have won a notable vic tory; if they fail to hold a majority he will u.ive sn tiered an irreparable defeat. mere is no Question in our mind as to how the people would vote today. They wouiu sustain the Administration, not merely through a division of the onnosiHnn but gladly an'd avowedly as a tribute to jir. wiisons earnestness and devotion to duty, and to give him full onrortunltv to develop his policies. The vital result in November will be determined wholly by what shall be done affirmatively and what snaa nappen incidentally In the meantime, What Of The Future? What are the prospects, in the ltehr of past experiences and present conditions? me House now comprises 291 Democrats and 144 Republicans (including the few Progressives as at the beginning of Con gress).

The Democratic majority 147 is so great that a reversal in two short years seems to be practically inconceiv able. But let us In 18S6 the Demo crats retained the control they had won in 1884, along with the election of Mr. Cleveland, b-ut their majority shrank from 84 to a scant. 15. In 1892 they swept the country, only as a consequence of tariff legislation and hard times, to reap disaster two years later.

The comparison is striking: Demo- Repub-TT crats. Means. House elected in 1892. .220 12; House elected in 1894 104 240 "During those two years the Democrats lost 116 members out of 220. If this year No Hope Of Treaty Extending Passport Privileges.

WASHINGTON'S HANDS ARE TIED Larue Trade Balance In Favor Of United States Gives MiiMcovitc I re A A vn ft Washington, Dec. 27. Unless 'Russia takes the initiative and the prospect of her doing so is practically negligible there will be no settlement of the controversy regarding the treatment of American Jews in the Czar's dominions. According to information received this afternoon at the State Department, the fact that American manufacturers would suffer more keenly than anybody else from any attempt ou the part of the United States to bring coercive measures to bear on Russia in the matter is back of the present inactivity on the part of the State Department in the premises. The United States exports to Russia $60,000,000 worth of cotton, farming implements and other commodities every year.

Russia sent to the United State's goods valued at not more than SD.OdO.-000. If the United States, in order to obtain equal treatment for American Jews in Russia, adopted any measures against Russian goods coming to this country, Russia would promptly retaliate, and the American manufacturers would bo hurt in the proportion of two to one. No Change in Iteeiproei It developed today from inquiries made at the department that despite the action of Congress in 1911 in abrogating the trade treaty with Russia there has been absolutely no change in the reciprocal understanding of the two countries. That is to sny, despite the abrogation, Russian goods still come into the United States on a par with the goods of the "most favored nation," and American goods go into Russia under the "conventional tariff rates," adopted by the Czar's government with respect to "most favored nations." The reason, according to State Department officials, is as obvious us the ratio of two to one in the amount of trade between the two countries. Russia, on the other hand, has not expressed her resentment of the treaty abrogation for equally poteut reasons.

Although she buys more from the United States than she sells to this country, what she buys is absolutely essentinl to her prosperity. Cotton is tho principal article which she purchases from the United States. She has tried raising cotton within her own confines, but lias been unable to educate the Russian peasant in proper methods of cultivation. She has considered raising it in Turkestan, but tlio results have not been promising. Russian Government Firm.

Cautious overtures have been made St. Petersburg with the view to having the Russian Government settle by treaty the question of equal passport privileges for American Jews, but these suggestions have met with a firm notice that under con sideratlon would the Russian Government consider a departure from its present rule regarding passports nor will it permit tho question to be tied up with any commercial or trade treaties. The effect which those who brought about the abrogation of the 'old treaty looked Jor has not boon realized. They expected that, following such action by the United States, the Jewish citizens of France and England would force their respective governments to take similar action and in this way isolate Russia from the benefits of trade with other countries on an equal basis, but Kngland and Fram both flatly refused to take the matter Outlook Thus the outlook for a settlement of the question on the basis expected is practically hopeless, according to State Department officials, despite the stand taken by the Democratic party in its platform condemning the discrimination against American Jews. Apparently, however, the rumors of thts platform, while perfectly willing to express the party's disapproval of such discrimination, realized that the prospect of bringing successful pressure to bear on Russia whs dubious.

All that the platform actually says is that the party will sanction no substitute for the abrogated treaty unless tho discrimination is removed. Russia is seeking no substitute treaty and for the present at least seems to have no Intention of doing so. $10,000 GIVEN TO SCHOOL Virginia Episcopalian l'lan I. arc Institution For Hoys. Lynchburg, Dec.

27 promoters of the proposed Virginia Episcopal School for Boys are meeting with marked success, $10,000 recently having been given by UK-board upon condition Hint raised to build and partly endow the school. Another similar gift, it is understood, is In sight. The school will he located near Left-wich, Amherst county, upon a site of 110 acres, r0 of which were given by Williau: King, of this city. The Rev. Robert C.

Jett, for 20 yean rector of Emmanuel Protestant Kpiseop.d Church at Staunton, has undertaken the financing of the school. He has been made rector of the proposed institution. The officers are: President Dr. Joseph B. Dunn, of Lynchburg.

Vice-President W. E. Mlnges, of Abingdon. Board of Directors Dr. Joseph B.

Dunn, W. E. Minges, William King, the Rev. J. W.

Johnson, of Roanoke, and Rev. R. C. Jett, of Staunton. VIRGINIA INDUSTRIES GROWING Old Dominion Produced OOO Worth Of Mnnnfactnres Last Year.

Richmond, Dee. 27. The Commissioner of Labor has had printed the sixteenth annual report of the State Bureau of Labor. It covers the entire illd for the year, gives the number of establishments, the wages paid, the value of ths output and the increase or decrease in certain lines. The report shows that coal and cok( Iron and machine works, paper and pnl mills and tanneries have shown Increases, while the chewing and smoking brancbei of the tobacco business, fish oil and fish guano and boots and shoes show a decrease.

The total value of manufacture! is placed at $178,942,512.78, an Increase ol $0,577,296.81 over last year. The decrease in chewing and smoking tobacco is due to the dissolution of tb trust and the removal elsewhere of several large plants from this and other cities in the State. APHASIA VICTIM: IDENTIFIED J. B. Crawford, Of Brooklyn, JT.

Y. Located In Norfolk. Dec. 27. J.

B. Crawford, of Brooklyn, N. who has been missing since December 16, when he left bis fiancee, Miss Katherine Ramsey, at a restaurant in New York, where they had dinner, was identified? here today by his brother-in-law, George D. Newman, who arrived from New York. Crawford, unable to recall his name and with his mind a blank, has been cared foi by the Norfolk police for several days.

He will be taken home by Newman. LONELY WOMAN KILLS SELF Found Dead In Norfolk With Bullet Wound JVear Heart. Norfolk, Dec. 27. Alone in tb world and despondent because of Hi health, Mrs.

Sarah Riley, a widow, wai found dead in her room this morning with a bullet wound near her heart and a revolver clutched in her right hand. Cliff Kelly, who occupies a room in th house, told the police that Mrs. Riley said to him last night he would never see hoi alive again. When she was not up at th usual hour this morning Kelly notified th police. The door and windows to Mrs.

Riley's room were found locked. Th woman was in bed covered up. Mrs. IUlej was about 40 years old. Pardon For Hotel Auditor.

Richmond, Dec. 27. Governoi Mann granted a conditional pardon todaj to William Jonathan Rowley, who has beoj) in City Jail since March 24, when he was sentenced to one year in the State prison for embezzling funds of the Jefferson Ho tel, of which he was then auditor. Rowlej was removed to Memorial Hospital this afternoon for treatment, bis condition be ing considered serious. Hagerstown.

The city livery, Ew.r(, W. Huyett, proprietor, was badly dam by fire that started in the haymow tk eral buggies were destroyed, but all the" eel and Charles Stem, who were tUsUtsJ1" the firemen in the haymow, were I. T. Rockville. William Gray, a negro.

charged with assaulting Joshua Musgrove' a young white man, at. Damascus, surren' dered Friday to Sheriff Whalen. Iie WaJ taken before Judge Arthur Mace and re leased on $200 bail for his appearance for a hearing January 2. Hagerstown. The plant of the New-York Central Iron Works Company, whieh was removed nere irom ueneva, a.

has 1 .1 1 T-V tf. uueu auiu us 11 agauian, Moller and J. Clarence Lane, trustees in bankruptcy, to the newly formed York Central Iron Works Company, which is capitalized at $225,000. Hagerstown. Donald, the 12-year-old son of II.

C. Foreman, was accidentally shst in the face while shooting hawks on South Mountain. His brother lowered the shotgun from his shoulder and the weapon was discharged. The flesh on bis face was torn Into shreds, the lower jawbone being fractured. Hagerstown.

Charles Moss, lock tender at the Weverton locks, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was assaulted Friday night. An unidentified white man knocked him down and threw, him into the locks. There was no water in the locks. Moss was found unconscious at the bottom by neighbors. Annapolis.

James Anderson, a 19-year-old negro, died in Emergency Hospital here Saturday afternoon from the effects of a bullet wound in the head. Norman Colbert, another negro, of the same age, is held for the shooting, although It is said to have been accidental. Chesapeake City. Cecil Lodge of Masons has elected the following officers: Dr. Clifton C.

Laws, worshipful master; Z. T. Loveless, senior warden; H. G. Hager, junior warden; Byron Bouchelle, treasurer; Walter Blair, tyler, and Hugh W.

Caldwell, secretary. Cumberland. The barn on the dairy farm of M. A. Getty, near Westernport, was burned Christmas morning and four horses, one pair being valued at $550 two cows, 11 yearlings, 250 barrels of corn and other feed was lost.

The damage is $4,500, with no insurance. Chesapeake City. A number of teamsters, after completing the work of hauling gravel on the road between Cherry Hill and Providence Corner, gave a day's work to the county. Sixty-five teams hauled 224 loads of gravel on the road. i Mrs.

Grace Koontr, who was the Socialist nominee for County Treasurer, having polled nearly 1,000 votes, was awarded first honors at the ball of the Valley City Dancing Club in the ladies' prize waltz contest. Rockville. A total of 2,182 deeds and mortgages were placed on record in the Circuit Court here during the year ended November 30. This exceeds the record of any previous year, with the exception of 1909, when 2,233 were filed. Federalsburg.

The livery stables of Hurst Nichols, at Hurlock, were burned Friday morning, entailing a loss of about $1,000. A high wind prevailed at the time and the Glen Oak Hotel nearby was threatened. Havre de Grace. A creamery company has een organized at Perryman and a large building is being erected. It will be opened in the spring.

BRIEES PROM THE AS. Richmond, Va. L. C. Hazelgrove and S.

S. P. Patterson were appointed receivers for Bernard Frances Company, dealers in women's fancy and dress goods, by the Federal District Court today on application of B. Lyman, the New York Dress and Costumes Company, and Benjamin Levy, all of New York, who allege special favors have been shown preferred creditors. Harpers Ferry, W.

Va. A. R. Miles, 85 years old, died here Friday. He moved with his family to this place SO years ago from Clarksburg, where he was born.

His widow and the following children survive Mrs. Arthur Dufresne, Mr. Fred- COTILLON CLUB GIVES DANCE Annual Christmas Punction Held At Braddock Heights. Frederick Dec. 27.

The annual Christmas dance by the Cotillon Club took place last night in the casino at Braddock Heights. About 200 guests were present. The building was decorated with Christmas green and illuminated with colored lights. A buffet supper was served at midnight. The patronesses were Mesdames Glenn n.

Worthington, D. Charles Winebrener, Charles B. Trail, Noah E. Cramer, John L. Johnson, T.

Poole Jones, Edward S. Eich-elberger, Albert Pearre, Frederick W. Cramer, Allen Rohrback and Bernard O. Thomas. Among the out-of-town guests were Baltimore Misses Alice McCarty, Marian Miller.

Washington Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fox, Louise Hoover, Marie H. Yeakie, Edith Osborne, Mildred Moore, Elizabeth Naylor, Eleanor Bowers, A. M.

Wood. Hagerstown Misses Mary Mish, Virginia Lane, John Markell. Detroit Miss Alice Miller. Westminster Mlw Hairriet Miller. Indianapolis Miss Ethel Stiltz.

Portland, Ore. Miss Margaret Haga-dorne. New Y'ork Miss Mary Tetard, Mae Francis. Cambridge, Md. Miss Marie Dixon.

San Francisco Miss Laura Markey. Hanover, Pa. Mable Kintzsing, Margaret Alleman, Carl Davidson. Danville, Va. Miss Mary Brockman.

Bangor, Maine Raymond Norton. Thurmont, Md. Senator and Mrs. John P. T.

Mathias. New Market, Md. Francis and Elizabeth Willis, Jane Detrick. Rockville. Md.

'John Brewer. The committee was James H. Gambrill, H. Hanson Maulsby, Quynn Rodick, D. M.

Gilbert and Thomas Zimmerman. NAVAL OFFICERS GIVE BALL Mrs. Gibbons And Commander Pringrle Receive Guests. Annapolis, Dec. 27.

Naval officers attached to the local station weer hosts tonight at a dance given in the gymnasium building. It was one of the hops to which the midshipmen were invited and this made it the biggest function of the Christmas season. The guests were received by Mrs. Gib bons, wife of Capt. John II.

Gibbons, superintendent of the Naval Academy, assisted by Com. J. R. T. Pringle, officer in charge of buildings and grounds at the institution.

Dance At Kensington, Rockville, Dec. 27. A large number of guests from Washington and Montgomery county attended this evening the annual Christmas dance at Kensington. The committee of arrangements was composed of John T. Williams, Orin J.

Field, William W. Skinner and W. L. Townsend. The chaperons were Mrs.

Merritt O. Chance, Mrs. J. Philip nerrmann, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.

William W. Skinner and Mrs. Eugene Jones TO DRAFT UNIFORM AUTO LAWS Maryland One Of Eleven States Interested In Proposed Measure. Wilmington, Dec. 27.

Ex-City Solicitor Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr member of a commission appointed by Governor Miller to represent Delaware in the preparation of uniform automobile legislation for 11 States; has been selected to draft the law. The draft will be finished in about 10 days and will be presented at a meeting of the commissioners to be held in New York. The proposed law will be presented to the Legislatures oi ueiawme, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New loru, you-necticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Admits Theft Of Brooms.

Wilmington, Dec. 27. Thomas Rvan, aged 71 years, of Havre de Grace, pleaded guilty today to the theft or a dozen brooms, valued at $3, from the J. I). Sisler Company, of this city.

i was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The aged Marylander said he bad 'Philadelphia; William 'r-'. and Bernard J. Miles at home. Winchester, Va.

Fire of an nririn Ao.t.t-r-niroA large grist unknown mill and lodge hall at Armel. Frederick county, ri-day, along with all the contents, including mill- machinery and furniture and equipment of the Modern Woodmen of America. The property was owned by Joseph B. Newlin. Parkersburg, W.

Va. Never having been ill or having received medical attention until last Saturday, Capt. Franklin Brook-hart, 84 years old. died here Friday as tbo of the hursTins of a blood vessel. Capt.

Will Brookhart, of Pittsburgh, is a tsurvivine son. The funeral win ie neia Sunday at Hockingport, Ohio. New Market, Va. Notice of a contest of the local-option election held at Shenandoah Citv, lember 9, when the town went "drv" by a majority of one, has been filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Page county at Luray. Webster, W.

Va. Mr. Anna J. Keener, 4 vears old, a native of Elllcott City, died at the home of sister, Mrs. B.

F. Robinson, here. Sh(J was a sister of Mrs. Sarah Guise and David Hudson, of Baltimore. WEDDINGS.

Whiteford. Miss Helen A. Stoker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M.

Stokes, was married Wednesday to Charles Perine Treakle, son of Mrs. S. Elizabeth Treakle, of Street. by the Rev. J.

M. Wallace, assisted by the Rev. G. H. Bemiett The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Harry F.

Stokes, of Fylesville, Md. Miss H. F.stelle Stokes, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Misses Flora B. Kurtz, of Jarrettsvllle Ella Treakle, sister of the groom, and Grace and Esther Stokes, 6isters of the bride.

The best man was Rigby W. Stokes, of Whiteford. brother of the bride. The ushers were Clarence H. Stubbs, of Delta, Pa.

Lester Huff, Edgar Treakle, cf Street, and Oscar P. Stokes, of rylesville. Lynchburg, Va. Miss Florence Burford Webber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

P. B. Webber, was married Friday to Nathaniel Mason, of Roanoke. The Rev. Dr.

John Hannon, pastor of West End Methodist Church, performed the ceremony at the bride's home. F. L. Hurley, of Roanoke, was best man and Mrs Laura Wimmcr matron of honor. Other attendants were George L.

Cox, of Philadelphia, and Miss Ruth Hudnall, J. S. Webber and Miss Ina Walker, and Gordon Asher, of Roanoke, and Miss Mary Walker. Accomac, Va Carl L. Lankford.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Lankford, of Salisbury, and Miss Gertrude Ray 'Core were married Wednesday at the home of the bride's grandfather, Capt. C.

D. Flick, by the Rev. Dr. Asa Driscoll. Adolph Koenig was best man and Miss Mary Ashby was maid of honor.

Frederick. Miss Rosa N. Bowlus, daughter of Daniel Bowlus, and Charles Minnink, near Myersville, were married at the home of the bride by the Rev. Mr. Zuse, pastor of the United Brethren Church, of Myersville.

Miss Helen Brunner, of Hagerstown, was maid of honor and Ralph Ma-gellis best man. Hagerstown. Miss Gussie Mae Mosc, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mose, of Sharpsburg, and Clifton Lee Entler, sou of Mr.

and Mrs. George B. Entler, of Hagerstown, were married at the home of the bride by the A. A. Kerlin, pastor of the Sharpsburg Lutheran Church.

Lynchburg, Dec. 26. Herbert II. Downey and Miss Mattie C. Waldron, daughter of Mrs.

Grafton Waldron, of Big Island, were married Thursday afternoon by the Rev. Dr. W. W. Hamilton, of the First Baptist Church.

DEATHS. Grantsville. John Huff, an employe of the Jennings Lumber Company, was caught in the rubber belt of the elevator and had his left leg torn from his body. Death was almost instantaneous. He was 51 years old and Is survived by his widow and four children, the youngest being three years.

Federalsburg. Frank N. Deen. CO years old, a retired farmer, died suddenly at Hurlock Friday, He was apparently in good health last night and was found dead in bed. REV.

MR. WICK TO CELEBRATE He Was Ordained By Cardinal Gibbons 25 Years Ago. Cumberland, Dec. 27. The twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the priesthood will be observed tomorrow hj the Very Rev.

Benedict Joseph C. Wick in Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church. Father Benedict was born In Pittsburgh 48 years ago and has lived here most his life. He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Gibbons.

Father Benedict is provincial of the order, the office having been conferred upon him in 1909 by the Provincial Assembly at St. Augustine Monastery, Pittsburgh. The celebrant of the masa tomorrow will be the Jubllarlan, assisted by six priests. The Very Rev. Joseph Antony, rector of St.

Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, will he archdeacon, and the Rev. Ignatius, rector of St. Alphonsus'' Church, Wheeling, wTill be subdeacon. CITY HAS BALANCE ON HAND Annapolis Tax Rate Was Increased IO Cents Last Year. Annapolis, Dac.

27. The city of Annapolis had a cash balance of $343.71 at the close of the fiscal year In July, according to the annual report of Mayor James F. Strange, with supplemental reports of the City Collector and Treasurer and other city officials. The report shows that the total receipts for the year were $100,000.41 and disbursements $99,714.70. There was due the city at the close of the year $15,856.02, against $15,182.03 owed by the city, thus leaving a balance of $674.59.

The Mayor refers to the increase In the tax rate of 10 cents, made In order to meet the floating debt, which is greater this year than last. This additional debt was created through the erection of the Municipal Building, new quarters for the Fire Department in the First ward and other improvements. JOHN C. BENTLEY DEAD He Was A Member- Of 1012 Leg is lature From Montgomery. Sandy Spring, Dec.

27. John Caleb Bentlc.v. 62- years old, died at his home. Cloverly, tonight after an illness covering several montns. He was a director of the Savincrs Insti tution of Sandy Spring and of the Union TurnpiKe company until it was sold to i i tue htate.

ne was aiso a director or the Agricultural- Society of Montgomery County. He was member of the last Legislature, was a well-known foz hunter and contributed articles to magazines devoted to that sport. A widow, four daughters Misses Florence and Mildred Bentley, Mrs. William John Thomas and Mrs. F.

L. Thomas and one son, John N. Bentley, a member of the Washington National Baseball Club, survives Richard L. Bentley, of Jordan, Stabler of Baltimore, Is a brother. BREAKS SILENCE OF 15 YEARS Former Resident Of Eredericlt, Believed Dead, Writes Prom Korea.

Frederick, Dee. 27. After a silence of more than 15 years William A. Lajoy, thought to be dead, has written to a friend in this city from Korea, where he is foreman In a gold mine. The letter was received by John J.

Snyder and contained a photograph of Mr. Lajoy and a number of views of the mine. At the hge of 16 Lajoy sold newspapers in this city. He was addrossori rm nr. occasion as a "worthless brat." Several days later he'disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts.

He had been cared for by Mr. and Mrs. John 1 Snyder, who made every effort to locate him. After leaving this city he visited almost every State in the Union and fiually embarKeu ior Japan, lie began in a Korean mine as a laborer and finally became foreman at a salary of $2,000 a year. DEMAND INCREASE IN WAGES ITnion 3Ien Xotifled To Set Semaphore AVhen Called Out And Let Trains Ron AtTheir Peril.

Mo. Dee. 27. The strike committee of the Order of Railway Telegra phers issued orders tonight tor tne ieiKra-puers on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad to strike on Monday if the conference with the receivers of tne Frisco on Monday morning is fruitless.

The telegraphers, it is announced, will make no concessions and a strike is regarded as inevitable. The instructions issued tonight to the operators, conditioned. on the fact that the strike actually be ordered after the conference with the receivers, follow "When notified strike called turn board, set semaphore at danger, whether you have train orders at hand or not, so if trains proceed they do so at their own risk. Decline to handle all Western Union business after strike is called." Demands Presented In 3Iay. St.

Louis, Doc. 27. The demands of the Frisco railway telegraphers for a revision of the wage scale and of the readjustment of working conditions was presented to the officials of the road last May and conferences began with the officials last October. The officers of the union have issued a circular setting forth the demands of the operators and the action of the company substantially as fellows: "The following propositions, submitted by the telegraphers, were refused by the railroad company: "That exclusive agents be put in the schedule the same as the agent who is required to handle telegrams or telephone messages. "A consecutive eight-hour day for all except exclusive gents and that telegraphers be not required to work in more than one office in doing a day's work.

"That a telegrapher taken from his home station to do relief work be paid for time lost in transit and be given expense more. Want Pay For Handling Malls. "That telegraphers be not required to scrub waiting rooms, offices or outbuildings; that where they are not now required to handle mail between the post-offlces and the station they be not required to do so in the future; that where they continue to handle the mail they be paid $15 extra a month. "That the telegraphers be not required to clean batteries where three or more telegraph circuits are used. "That the salaries of employes who serve express companies or a commercial telegraph company be increased by an amount equal to the average monthly salary paid by the express or telegraph com pany during 1912.

"A .15 per cent, wage increase for telegraphers. As to the latter demand the general manager offered a slight concession." Ask Doable Time On Sunday. The telegraphers also asked that telegraphers be paid double time for Sunday work and double time for overtime. This demand was refused by the company. The telegraphers also demand that a committee, composed of the division superintendent and a telegrapher, be authorized to recommend increases in the telegraph force at stations where it deemed increases needed.

This recommendation, It was demanded, should be compiled within 10 The telegraphers also demanded that the telegraph force in any force be not reduced over the protest of the local agent, except on the recommendation of the committe, unless both of the committee agreed to waive an investigation. This entire clause of the demands was refused by the company. W. C. Nixon, one of the receivers fr the Frisco, declined tonight to indicate what action the receivers would take when the committee of telegraphers meets them on Monday.

The negotiations thus far have been with F. D. Levy, assistant general manager, whose headquarters are at Springfield. NEW RANGE FINDER ADOPTED Increase In Effective Eire Of Troops In Battle Expected. Washington, Dec.

27. Upon recommendation of the school of musketry at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the army ordnance department has adopted a new range finder which is accurate in Its record of distance within 2 per cent, up to 2,800 yards. Already 50 of these new devices have been ordered for use by infantry and cavalry regiments, as 'well as a dozen larger ones for use by the field artillery, and this number will be further increased until there is one for each company of troops. By means of these new instruments ordnance officers believe that a considerable increase in the effective fire of troops in battle will result. Experts in the ordnance bureau point out that it is impracticable to guess accurately at an enemy at a distance beyond 600 yards.

The tests made by the officers who recommended the adoption of the new finders simulated service conditions as closely as possible at distances from 600 to 2,800 yards, for infantry fire and at distances from 2,500 to 6,500 yards for field artillery fire. The device which now becomes part of the army equipment is a form of telescope having two object glasses and two side windows at each end of the cylindrical tube, the common eyepiece being in the centre. The rays from the object enter the side windows and are deflected by prisms in rear of the windows through the object glasses. Two prisms in the centre reflect the two imagaes through the common eyepiece, one image being seen above and the other below a horizontal line which passes through the centre of the field of view; The images are brought into coincidence by the revolution of one of the prisms. The instrument being in adjustment, the image in coincidence, the range is read from a scale, dependent upon the amount of revolution of the prism.

TRIES TO CUT OFF WIFE'S HEAD Italian, After Mnrdering Spouse, Tries To Kill Self. Cumberland, Dec. 27. Pietro Con-tosanto, a New York Italian, is under police guard in the hospital at Keyser, W. and the dead body of his wife is in a mortuary at Blaine, W.

Va. Contosante, the authorities say, went to ninJnn Tirliorn his wife W3S livinev and when she refused to return to New York J. V. with him almost cui ou. uer nead and tried to kill himself.

E. T. Roosevelt At Annapolis. Washington, Dec. 27.

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt left for Annapolis this afternoon. This evening and tomorrow he will make a general inspection of the Naval Academy, leaving late tomorrow for Port Royal, Va. From the latter place he will go to Charleston, S. to attend a meeting of the American Historical Society.

Robbed In Lodging House. Wilmington, Dec. C. Dili a farmer of Sudlersville, robbed of 37 in the lodging- house of Michael Bennett, this city, appeared in court today against Joseph Bennett, son of the proprietor, whom be accused of the theft. Youn" Bennett said the money was stolen by another lodger, who returned $26 of the amount and escaped.

Dill was reimbursed to this extent and the case was dismissed. I nrav Holds Union Celebration. LuraJ Dec. the strains of religious' hymns and Christmas anthems Lurlv's community Christmas tree exercises were held tonight Hundreds of children marched around the tree, which is klated in the principal square -of the town, formfng the shape of a star on the east MinfsJersT'aU denominations took a leading part in the proceedings. The tree was decorated with hundreds of electric Ughta contribution of citizens of Luray.

Lynchburg Contractor Missing. rvnehburg, Dec. 27. Jesse Ilollo-rn abuildinsi contractor and member of rne First Methodist Protestant Church, disappeared December 15 and no clue has been dfscovered as to bis whereabouts. When Mr Holloran left home he told his wife he Air.

iiono noanoke to consult arcMSvisUedBnoke and there trace of him has been losu SEES "CLOUDS'' ON THE HORIZON Hson's AssertionThat There Is Bat One, And Declares He Has Grievously Erred In Some Re-i spects, Bat Thinks Defeat Of Ad- ministration AtNext Year's Elec-. tlons Would Be A National Ca-v lamltj Continued from 1. shall Insist upon supervising the trades and fixing the terms? Countries like Pern and Ecuador and (Bolivia en not uncover their vast rc-' sources without the use of quantities of Imoney which they themselves do not pos-ess. If they are not to be allowed to 'obtain the requisite capital from England or France or Germany upon the best terms 'they can obtain, where are they to get it? Surely not from the Treasury of the rniteil States. Not even Secretary Bryan propose that.

Calls Proposition "Extraordinary." From American investors, then, upon most modest terms fixed by the State Department? Hardly! Our people have never shown a disposition to embark in South American enterprises, even when offered the extraordinary inducements which attracted foreigners. Are they likely How to hazard their fortunes for profits not only prospective but restricted, in far-off lands, when billions of tested securities at home are awaiting absorptii? Whence, then, la thc'Vnianeipation" by considerate lenders at tasy rates to come? Is it emancipation? Is it not enslavement? By what conceivable right or upon what fancied theory can the United States assume a suzerainty so complete anct so rar-reaelung mat is me qm-Miuu which some South American or European government is bound to raise, and soon, too. with respect to a definite transaction. What will be the answer of the Administration? What can it be? Shall wc, if pressed, recede from the Mobile declaration? Or shall we fight, if need be, in defense of a doctrine which is obviously untenable? In either case, how would Bolivia or Ecuador or Peru profit from such interposition in favor of "human rights, national integrity and opportunity as against material interests?" We cannot but conclude that President Wilson did not perceive the ending of this extraordinary proposition when he launched its beginning. And we can but hope that contingencies likely to result in embarrassment, if not humiliation, to both the country and himself may not arise.

Business Depression And "Witless DemagoK)." The Secretary of, the Treasury, in his first report made to Congress on December 3, recalls that "a feeling of unrest began to pervade business circles last April" and congratulates the country upon the immediate effect of his owu alertness in announcing that $500,000,000 of emergency currency provided by the Aldrich-Vreeland act would be issued forthwith, if the banks should require it to "ease the situation." The relief, he declares, was "instantaneous that is, the banks dil not need the emergency currency, did not ask for it, and so none was issued. In brief, there was no money stringency, such as he had shrewdly suspected, calling for his somewhat precipitate action. But idle and available funds are ever the bete noire of a promoter, and the eager Secretary could not rest easy until he had scattered some of the cash at his disposal among the people. Having heard somewhere that money was required to move the crops, he invited, or rather requested, Western and Southern banks to accept ths use of $50,000,000 from the Treasury vaults. Considerations of partisanship were rigidly excluded from his generous proposal.

"It was essential," said the Secretary in his report, "that the action of the department should be non-partisan and uon-politicnl the crops of Republicans, Democrats, Progressives and all other classes of people had to be moved, and the earnest effort of the department was to have the. Lenefits of this action diffused as widely and impartially as possible." Who comprise "the other classes'' can only be imagined. Socialists and Prohibitionists, we suppose. In any case, the Secretary firmly informs us that he frowned severely upon any suggestion that the money he tendered exclusively to original Wilson Democrats. Clearly, such a proceeding did not comport with his conception of the duty of a Secretary of the Treasury for which, of course, we are duly thankful but, in all candor and sorrow, was ever such witless demagogy? lii-iioHlu deeded.

Be that as it. may have been, a sufficient number of bankers yielded to temptation to take of the 50.000.000 urged upon used it as they saw tit: and the Secretary now awaiting for it to be "gradually nra'V The fact, of course, la that tlK'i- 'S no occasion to make these -kisoits. There was no currency fp.mlr-e nt time and there is none iie-w. It Is not Iftcl; money that makes for the existing depression in business It is lack of confidence. Nothing could be more fallacious than the notion which apparently possesses this Administration that expansion of credits is the sole requi-aite of commercial activities.

The real es-aential is a market. Prudent manufacturers do not borrow money, even when they- can obtain it upon easy terms, for the sake of borrowing it they seek it only when they can use it to advantage in providing goods that cad be sold promptly and profitably. All such felt that revival of demand might ensue almost immediately from final enactment of the new Tariff bill and acted accordingly, greatly to the satisfaction of those who had insisted that no untoward consequences would flow from a mere change of rates. But the happy moment arrived and nothing happened. Merchants not only continued to doubt the wisdom of filling their shelves, but as sales gradually diminished they began to cancel orders Increasingly, to the end that, in the latter part of November, there came about what Mr.

Samuel Untermyer depicted in his speech to the Economic Club of Springfield is "a sudden and alarming cessation of business activities all over the country," hardly, if ever, precedented in the history of our industries. Euslnes World Digested, He Says. The consequence is that business in all lines is. today, at a standstill. And the worst of it is that it is no mere depression it is positive dejection.

The very spirit of enterprise seems to have evaporated for the time. Nobody is even trying to do things. The common disposition is to retrench in every direction, to take no chances while holding fast to such certainties as may exist and generally to adopt a policy of what the President would designate as "watchful waiting." The President himself is convinced that prompt passnge of the Currency bill would start the wheels of industry awhirling. doubt it for many reasons, not the least of is that the sole basis upon which he rests his sanguine anticipation -is that it is only necessary "to set credit free- from arbitrary and artificial restraints." That is a desirable thing to do, no doubt, and certain ultimately to prove advantageous. But radical revolution of a delicate and complex financial system cannot be encompassed so completely as to product marked benefits in a month or perhaps in a year.

Assuming the passage of the most nenrlv perfect measure that could be devised by the wit of man, time must be had for hd- Justment of the many parts of the intri cate macmnery. Moreover, if. as we have assumed and believe, the present unhappy state of affairs is attributable far less to lack of credits than to lack of con fidence, practically no immediate relief can be anticipated from the source to which the President pins his faith. So far from attempting to affix the blame for the plight in which the country finds Itself, we frankly cannot perceive even now now it couia have been averted Bat none can deny that the condition exists nor that the cloud which represents jit is much larger than a man's hand and shows no signs of diminishing. Bacon Amendment Discussed.

r. Commenting upon the passage, as an Administration measure, of the "rider" i COL. GEORGE they should lose 74 members out of 291 they would forfeit control of the House of Representatives and of all legislation. The fact, too, must not be overlooked that the majority in 1892 was a real majority won against a united opposition, whereas the present majority is only apparent. Just 'as Mr.

Wilson is a plurality President, so is the Democratic House a plurality House. If Republicans and Progressives had voted together In 1912 they would have had a majority of 12 In the present House. Take New York as an example. Its delegation stands: Democrats. 32; Republicans, 11.

A fusion of Republicans and Progressives would have resulted Democrats, 16; opposition, 27. New Jersey is represented by 11 Democrats and 1 Republican. Fusion of Republicans and Progressives would have elected 5 Democrats and 8 True, a complete union of Republicans and Progressives at the forthcoming elections is bevond the power of accomplish ment, even though an understanding should be reaenca ny tne leaaers. wiiu omy publicans and Democrats in the race a certain proportion of the Progressive vote would go to the Wilson candidates. Roosevelt To Be Reckoned AVith.

Whether this percentage would suffice to offset the effect of Democratic disaffection in States like New. York and Illinois is a question. Whether it would overcome the far greater and incalculable consequence of continuing and increasing business depression, lack of employment for hundreds of thousands of workingmen and disgust at income taxation, added to the norma) reaction which invariably follows a Presidential victory, is even more problematical. Enough has been said in any case to show that little dependence can be put upon faith in maintaining a majority simply because it is large. The record of 1894 indicates how quickly it may disappear entirely.

Nor. in our humble judgment, snouiu too much reliance be placed upon a con tinuance of Mr. Roosevelt ODUuracy. None realizes better than that most astute of politicians that, to win the Presi dency in 1916, he must (1) defeat Mr. Wilson in the Congressional elections ana incapacitate him for the remainder of his term, (2) avert further disclosure of tne numerical weakness of his own party, and (3) reconcile Republicans and business men generally to his candidacy.

For our selves, we shall be greatly surprised if the movement looking to a union of forces already inaugurated by Mr. Roosevelt's personal lieutenant, Comptroller Prender- gast, of New York city, does not eventuate in sharply drawn lines between the Demo cratic party and the opposition in the coming November elections. This is but political speculation, to be sure; it could hardly be magnified, therefore, into a cloud upon the horizon, of a properly sanguine President but as what they upon the golf links call a fine Scotch mist, we confidently reckon its claim to be worthy of passing consideration. Wilson "Stands Singularly Alone." We shall not dwell upon other causes of disquietude which readily occur to mind-We wish that we could share the President's apparent optimism, and wrould he the last to increase his difficulties hy direful prophecies. But it is necessary to recognize conditions if we would overcome them, and it is idle to deny that the situa tion at the beginning of this fateful year is one calling for the exercise of supreme wisdom, rare courage and patient tol erance.

The truth is that the duties and respon sibilities of a President of the United States have grown to be almost greater than one man should be called upon to hear. And Mr. Wilson, by temperament, by inclination and by circumstance, stands singularly alone. Of his chief official aides and advisers, barring Mr. Bryan, who has constituted himself a sort of Presi dent emeritus, but two the Attorney-General and the Secretary of War have so far impressed upon the country a sense of their full fitness for the headship of great departments.

That the President himself has erred grievously in some respects we have felt impelled to indicate as clearly as might 'be, to obviate, if possible, unfortunate rep etitions, but much, very much, is atoned for by his extraordinary faithfulness to duty. We doubt if among all of Mr. Wilson's predecessors can be named a President who gave himself so so unsparingly, to his work. He need have no apprehension whatever that the country fails to recognize and appreciate to the utmost, his really splendid applica tion to the public service, but the fact that self-sacrifice such as this merits exceptional consideration cannot be too frequently or too strongly emphasized. Defeat Would Be Calamity.

We cannot but believe that defeat of the Administration in November would be a national calamity. We sincerely hope, therefore, that 'the clouds which we seem to perceive may disappear like mists from the face of the sea that peace may be unbroken, that prosperity may be restored, and that the spirit of contentment may again possess the souls of men in this most blessed of lands in a Happy New Year. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high -7 Where knowledge is free Where the world has not-broken itself up into fragments by naitow domestic wans Where words come out from the depth of Truth Where tireless striving reaches its arms toward perfection Where the clear stream of reason, has not lost its way into the dreary desert sana oi dry nanit Where the mind is led forward bv Thee into ever-widemng thought and ac tion Into that haven of Freedom, Lord, let my country awaKe DEWEY SEES NO SIGNS OF WAR But Admiral Believes In A Battleship Washington, Dec. 27. George Dewey, admiral of the navy and hero of Manila Bay, who yesterday celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday, has given to the world a message of peace.

I see no signs of war in the future," says tne- Admiral. "I trust there will be no more I do feel, however, that this nation should not Us jjuard. to of of a views of peace and the future of the navy are expressed in the few words of General Keifer, former Repr sentative from Ohio He said 'In time of peace prepare to main tain "That is the way feel about the navy, and, I hope there will be no more wars, it seems to mje that it is well for this nation to have a four-battleshlp-build- ing program to replaqe obsolete vessels and prepare to maintalb peace. CLEITER TRUST FUND $1,543,160 IVevr Trnstees tar bady Cnrzon's Heirs Ulalte R.epovt Washington, Dec. $1,543,160 is to be new trustees of the 27.

The sum of turned over to the fund created by the late Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago and Wash- ington, as a marr age dower for his daughter, Mary V. Leiter, when she be- came Lady Curzon, according to a re port of the account made by the District Auditor in the Disn rict Supreme Court, The income on the cotal settlement since the marriage in April, 1895, to Decem- ber 22 last is shown to have aggregated $903,916. The accounting wa made necessary by the resignation of he original trustees their places of two and substitution ii others. The original man iagel settlement was $700,000, and wheri Curzon's fa- ther died the fund pas increased by an additional cash payment of $1,000,000 Payments have beeni made to the benefi- ciaries as follows: before her death, fTo Mary V.

Curzon. to George Nathaniel, Earl Curz on, $162,210, and to for his three chil- the Earl, as guardia dren, $320,294 A petition was file today in behalf of the Earl of Suffolk asking the District he will of Levi Z. the trustees might Court to construe Leiter in order thai know whether the $350,000 trust fund provided for the thiee children of Lady Curzon should be adriinistered under Eng. lish or American laws. A similar petition was nied in connection with a trust fund $150,000 created by the will with the heirs of Mrs.

Leiter's granddaughter, Mary Meta Campbell, as beneficiaries; The Earl Suffolk and Berk shire is one of the two substituted tru ptees, Seymour Mor- ris, of Chicago, bein tne other. DRAPER BALL 1 OST BRILLIANT Surpassed Anyth ngf Of The Kind Ever Given Iri Washington. Washington, Dec. Draper, widow of th P7. Mrs.

William F. late Ambassador to Italy, gave a renaissance ball at her magnificent home in Farragut 'Square here last night, which is said to have surpassed in brilliancy anything A the kind ever held in the national capita I. Official and diplo- matic society was 1 the function. rgely represented at To the strains of nlusic furnished by the Marine Band and in ballroom which was veritable rose bowr, society belles and beaux, garbed as kin beauties, armored I and queens, court mights, monks and peasants of centuries ago, trod the stately minuet and other age until an early hou easures of a bygone this morning. Look Ing on In wonderment at heautlful women attired in almost pr ficeless creations and jew-els were the leaders of the nation's affairs.

Mrs. Draper represented Marguerite de Vaiois, Queen of Heiiry of Navarre, King of France, and Mi Margaret Draper, Marie D'Anjou, Quee France. Miss Draper of Charles VII of with Count Gunthe: von Bernstorff, son of the German Ambas- sador, led the mar ph, which, with its many intricate figui es, is said to have been one of the most beautiful features of the ball KINDERGARTENS FOR ALL Edneators Want Them For Public ScM ool Child. Washington, Dec, 7. The sentiment of the country, as void by school author! ties, is overwhelming; fy in favor of kinder garten training for rill public school chil dren, according to ari announcement made today oy tne united States Bureau of Edu canon.

Opinions on the sut ject have been sought by the Bureau of Education from school rvisors and nrlmnrv teachers from all ov4r the United States. The opinions adversd to the kindergarten method, says the anr ouncement, are "sur- prisingly few." In a report to be issued shtotlv on present kindergarten conditions in this coun try representative views of those opposed and those tavorablelto the kindergarten win uu givu. jluc leport also will contain tne opinions ox expel P-'ts as to the advan tages possessed the kindergarten- trained child over th child without such training. A new division ha been created in the which is making a Bureau of Education special study of the ndergarten its place its economic value in the, education, syste to the community ari a its future develop- ment. TO STUDY MEAT PRODUCTION Committee Of Experts Named By Secretary Of Agriculture.

Washington, Dec. $7. Secretary of Ac- riculture Houston td "gut announced the appointment of a special committee of ex- perts to conoucr a various factors whii general inquiry into comri hnt-n present unsatisractojiy meat production i condition in xae uuiii Rtates. The personnel of tie committee includes Dr. B.

T. Galloway, Assistant Rroh hot Agriculture, chairman; Dr. n. Wa eis, presiueui. ui rvausas State At! cultural College; Prof.

C. F. Curiss, dean and director of Iowa State Prof. ii. w.

Mumioru, processor or animal hus bandry, University Illinois; Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the Bureau of Animal Ttv dustry, United States department of Agrl-N. Carver, director culture, and Dr.

T. Rural Organization Department of Agrictj ervice, United Stata lture. The work of the cdmmifrtee, it is sHfen will centre largely the study 0f eco nomic questions inv tiiveu in tne m-odnr- tion, transportation. slaughter and mar- I''. "kleptomania in hia blood." -t A.