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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1915. Our own Wendell Phillips declare glng for three days," and a rickshaw coolie has deposited his savlugs for four years So, there belug more than NEW CONSTITUTION IMPROVES THE LAW ON COMPENSATION merit among NMD themselves corresponds.

The Suffragists liave a great ileal more missionary work to do among their own sex hefore they can hope to reverse yesterday's verdict lu New Jersey. r.v -VN'i, O'T'IiEB S. 1 Provides for Reimbursing Workmen Who Suffer From Diseases Due to the Work Which They Perform A Just and Important Extension of the Employer's Liability Principle Employers Join Wage-Earners in Urging Compensation for Occupational Diseases. Forget vour feet I By DR. THOMAS J.

RILEY, Ph.D. the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities n.l Former Holes? In Washington University. No. a. without re-f risk, and "Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached In the pul pit or what is enacted in That the newspaper in America has greater power than anywhere else is probably true.

At any rate, we are sore Mr. Mc- Aneny honestlv believes he has chosen the better part not for himself, but fo his usefulness. He ll one of those uiei who are capable of subordinating self, and do subordinate self, to the accomplishing of what will best serve tli" community in which they live. AUTHORIZE THE ISSUE. One of the questions to be answered at the polls next month ls whether the State authorities shall be empow ered to issue $27 ,000,000 worth of bonds to pay for the completion of the Barge Canal.

In any event, completion will come. If the cost of It be not met out of the proceeds of the bonds, it will be raised by direct taxation. And not much less than two-thirds of that burden will fall upon this city. What, therefore, the taxpayers have to determine is whether Pellon shall be plied on Ossa. They are to decide whether they will invite or avert a tremendous addition to next year's budget In round figures, the State has invested $100,000,000 in the CanaL It has contracted obligations for many millions more, and it must finish the work, no matter what the means re sorted to for footing the bills.

So It is for the voters to say whether they will make worse a situation bad enough already, which ls just what they will do should they decide that the bonds shall not be issued. RESTORATION OF HUSSET. Without doubt, the restoration of Police Inspector James E. Hussey to the force, by the Court of Appeals, ls strictly according to law. It serves, however, to revive unpleasant memories, and It also tends to limit confi dence In a police administration which Is entirely helpless in the matter, but must carry out the Court's decree without regard to its effect upon the per formance of police duty.

Hussey has been twice convicted of taking bribes once by a jury and once on a trial in the Police Department, after he had been restored to the force decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. The spectacle of a man with that record in the uniform of a police captain or Inspector- it is not yet settled to which grade Commissioner Woods will be compelled to assign him cannot but tend to weaken confidence In a Commissioner who is powerless to refuse that sort subordinate when the Court inflicts one of them upon him. Such reinstate ments used to be so frequent as to make the New York Police Force a byword and a scandal. Of late years they have been fewer, and it is greatl: to be wished although hardly to be hoped that Hussey's restoration shall be the last of its kind. Under the law, as it stands, no other course is possible which is the best argument In the world for a change of the law.

A police commissioner without the power to "hire and fire" is working ith his hands tied behind his back. The safeguard of civil service was sup posed to be thrown about the police to prevent dismissals for partisan and to protect honest policemen from the vengeance of corrupt su periors. In practice It has been found to protect corrupt policemen from re- lOvnl by honest commissioners, and to block the way to rooting out blackmail for the benefit of politicians and police officials, who became the agents of "the system" in levying "protection" on il legal businesses. "The system" has been In a state of coma, or at least quiescent, of late. A few restorations like Hussey's would serve as a very effective legal pulmotor for its restoration.

The possibility of such a calamity ought to be removed. HOME TREATMENT FOR THE INSANE. It Is an important experiment which Governor Whitman countenances in asking the State Hospital Board to establish five new dispensaries and ex tend the work of field agents in caring for persons who are mildly Insane at their homes, and teaching relatives to are for them. Some of this work is done in this section of tho State by a field agent employed jointly by the Manhattan and the Central Islip State Hospitals. But the innovation has never been systematically undertaken.

If a man believes that he is the Czar if Russia, or a woman that she is Car men Sylva, he or she may be called insane, but need not be taken away from natural supporters and protectors. In most cases of such monomania, there Is no earthly peril to anybody. Often the patient knows when periodical obsessions are coming on, and a sedative administered at home would be just as useful as one administered in an asylum. Many are the families that have members subject to illusions and never think of "sending them away." On the other hand, there are numberless cases where utterly Innocuous obsessions are used as an excuse for having a person supported at State charge. Probably the field agent and dispensary ilan would involve much saving to the taxpayers.

Certainly, it would facilitate the watching of hundreds of paroled persons who have been in asylums and may or may not have been lermanently cured. Humanity is, of course, the really vital consideration; economy has a secondary place. But, purely from the point of view of humanity, the mildly insane man or woman is better off in home surroundings than in any institution, no matter how well that institution may be managed. Let us trust the White Rats will not have to strike to secure their rights. Trusts and unions are equally out of one way of killing a cat, it would as though the ultimatum had stirred up a hornet's nest Also, as though Ma Tsu-eheiig had suggested better than ha kuew.

PROGRESS IN SOCIAL WELFARE. The text of the new Constitution Justifies the conclusion reached by Dr. Thomas J. Riley in an article published on tills page on Saturday, that the document to be submitted to the voters on November 2 Is a distinct Improvement upon the present fundamental law in matters of social welfare. The attitude of the Convention was conservative.

It has made haste slowly, defeating radical proposals, and at the same time voting down the reactionary amendments championed by William Barnes. It provides for a necessary administrative reorganization of various State departments concerned with social welfare, and makes it possible for the Leg islature to do various things which it cannot do under the present Constitu tion. If the new Constitution is ap proved at the polls, the 191G Leglsla ture will be empowered to extend the benefits of the industrial compensation law to those suffering from occupational diseases. It will also make pos sible effective control of tenement-house manufacturing. Dr.

Riley's detnlled analysis of the work of the Convention with regard to social welfare pro vides further proof that the work ofj the Convention was well done aud deserves support. PURDV DEFIES QUESTIONERS. As to "source of information not heretofore tapped" in making up per sonal tax assessment rolls, President Purdy of the Tax Board absolutely defies the questioning of the Mills Committee. He will not answer. He sim ply avers that the source was highly reliable, and that it was used under pledge that it would not be revealed.

This raises a question that should be Important to the Mayor, who holds the power of removal over tax com missioners. If any such pledge was Iven, a gravely pernicious precedent as established. Secrecy canuot be tolerated and will be tolerated patiently by an aroused public. It Is absolutely un-American absolutely bureaucratic, and is capable of being mis used for tyrannous purposes. To let any private interest give allegedly true 'Information" to swell nnother Inter est's taxatlqn, and to give a pledge of secrecy to prevent analysis and criticism in the full daylight, ls manifestly contrary to public policy, manifestly be yond the proper powers or functions of such a board.

If such a pledge were given by Mr. Purdy personally, he Is bound as a man not to violate it. He is equally bound to take the consequences. As for the cutting up of telephone books and city directories Into sec tions, and the magpie pecking at the names which Mr. Purdy describes, it Is simply confession.

As to the flat announcement that persons are assessed as executors "for a larger sum than the estate, so that the executors will come to us and swear what ls the intrinsic value of the estate" that is extra-legal, if not illegal. And the acknowledgment of an "exempt zone east of Second avenue" may be passed without comment. Every reader will draw his own conclusion. Our feeling is that the Mills Committee, vested with the power to compel testimony, should use its power to the utmost to force Mr. Purdy to answer all questions frankly.

If It falls to do so, It will waive the only vital function that justifies its investigation. A LOSS TO PUBLIC LIFE. George McAneny announces that he will be associated, after January 1, with Adolph S. Ochs, in the publication of the New York Times, and that his resignation as President of the Board of Aldermen only awaits the final disposal of some questions now before the Board of Estimate. For six years Mr.

McAneny has served the city. As Borough President of Manhattan, he had two votes in the Board of Estimate. As President of the Board of Aldermen, he has three. His place will be filled for a year by the vote of the Board of Aldermen to be chosen next month. The city loses much in the retirement of a faithful, diligent and clearheaded public servant.

Utterly incapable of being swayed by party or faction politics always with an eye single to the establishment and maintenance of business efficiency broad in his views of education and of social service kindly and courteous to those with whom he had radieal disagreements. George McAneny has been appreciated and applauded by our most intelligent citizenship. Mr. Ochs and the New York Times gain much by the acquisition of such a man. The administration of a great newspaper has many phases.

Mr. Ochs has always realized that success lies In the choice, the securing, the retaining of the strongest men men who will not be echoes of the voice of any chief, though loyal to policies after policies have been fixed. The vanity of omniscience has been conspicuous by its absence in his control of a newspaper which deserves its prosperity. Is the field that Mr. McAneny enters broader and with more opportunities for usefulness than the one he leaves? That is hard to determine.

Burke who coined the expression: "The Fourth Estate, holding the newspaper press as co-ordinate with the spiritual, the lords temporal, and the Commons. Macaulay said: "The gallery in which the reporters sit has he-come the Fourth Estate of the Realm." Carlyle said: "The Press is the Fourth Estate of the Realm." To Napoleon the Great is attributed the apothegm: Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand Brooklyn. N. T. In value as Adv WILLIAM V.

ntttSRi f. nnison. Blulueu Manager. Address: Eagle JiulldlDg. MAIN OFFICE.

Washington and fan Fraili'ihi n- M.mu.1 r. era, when vl.illng ttiese rltlen. are cordially lnlted tu make their Ijeailquurtrra In these bureaus. tu UHi Eagle Building, Brooklyn. St'HSCllIPTlON HATES.

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tl.CU uer year, iD'ludlng 1015 if The Eagle AI'VERIISIST, BATES. Main. NEW JERSEY'S VERDICT. New Jersey's method of dealing with a constitutional amendment so revolutionary and radical as that provid ing for woman suffrage is Infinitely better than the method of Now York. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, all of which vote upon the same issue in No vember.

The extension tie- franchise to women is a question so serious In all of its aspects that it deserves separate and distinct consideration by the voters of any State. This consid eration it received in New Jersey alone of the four Eastern States, where it was put before the elector; The verdict of New Jersey is not only significant so far as it reveals the sentiment against woman suffrage in that State itself, but it is also significant as foreshadowing results in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Not one of those States can he regarded as less conservative than New Jersey. Not one is likely to be more hospitable to an innovation so far-reaching Irs effect as woman suffrage. However Vigorous the campaign of the Suffra gists in this State, however vigorous may be their campaign in the other Commonwealths that are slill to vote, they must now contend with the in fluence which the New Jersey result will naturally exercise upon wavering voters, in addition to I he already clearly defined opposition of those who are actively arrayed against them.

The Suffragists claim that their defeat is due to the hostility of the political machines. That machine hostility played a considerable part in the result may be admitted. But machine hostility would not have accomplished the defeat of the amendment by a decisive vote in every county but one, and In the State by a majority of more than oO.OOO, if the independent citizenship of New Jersey had been convinced that woman suffrage was either necessary or wise. The Suffragists had on their side a corps of able and experienced workers they conducted their campaign with energy and intelligence; they succeeded in enlisting in behalf of their cause the President of the United States and the Sec retary of War, acting as citizens of New Jersey; yet. with all their ability, all their industry and with all the aid that the prestige of Mr.

Wilson must have brought to their cause, they failed to win. In the Presidential election of 1912 New Jersey cast a total of approximately 430,000 votes. The total brought out by the Suffrage referendum Is not yet precisely known but it Is somewhere in the neighborhood of 850,000. This is not so large a vote as New Jersey is able to poll, but It is large enough to be Impressive, large enough to indicate the widespread interest taken in the campaign, and large enough to reflect accurately the temper of the State. There is no reason to believe that the Suffragists would have done any better had every eligible citizen gone to the booths.

Suffrage has won no State, east of the Mississippi. It has lost Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan in recent years. It has achieved only a partial victory in Illinois. West of the Mississippi, four States rejected it last year. It encounters a notable defeat in its first battlo for an Eastern State.

But no one for a moment supposes that the movement will subside; that the leader: will lose heart that they will cense their efforts ultimately to capture every one of the enemy's strongholds. The vote given to the amendment yesterday was considerable, even If it was far less than was hoped for. and far less than was needed. It marks a notable advance in the Suffrage light. Whether It is to be regarded as high-water mark will remain an open question, to be debated with Increasing acrimony.

Suffrage would have won In New Jersey.it would win in New York. Mas- that the switi- THE NEW ST. LUKE'S. The consecration of St. Luke's Church In Clinton avenue, following the restoration made necessary by lire, was uu occasion of Importance not merely to that parish but to Brooklyn.

Sc. Luke's is one of the historic insti tutions of Brooklyn. Before the time that Brooklyn bi came known as "Ihe City of Churches, the spot on which St. Luke's stands was consecrated grouud Holy Trinity Church of old Bedford Village, the precursor of St. Luke's, stood there.

The three successive St. Luke's churches have housed a parish which has gro alike, under the discouragement of losses caused by fire, and under the stimulus of devoted and able rectors, of horn the longest In service has been the present rector, the Rev. Dr. Henry C. Swentzel.

To Dr. Swentzel and to his parish the congratulations of all the hurches of Brooklyn will be extended DO their present beautiful and appro priate church building. It will be in the future, as it has been in the past. one of those forces for righteousness which have done so much to make Brooklyn the community which It Is. NOW, LET CARRANZA MAKE GOOD.

The United States and eight South and Central American powers have jointly and formally recognized Venus-tiano Carranza as Provisional Presi dent of the Republic of Mexico. In a very short time England, France and Germany will take the same cr They have been waiting only for the United States to act first, avoiding the wretched mistake they made In prematurely recoguizlug Huerta, without regard to the fact that Mexico is ithin our sphere of influence. Carranza, thus, has his opportunity. Responsibility goes with it. From this time forward he must answer to the nations of the earth for what Is done anywhere in Mexico.

That is what eeognitiou means. If tliis man. whom many Americans distrust, will show wise and broad leniency, let by gones be by gones velcome into conference the other lead rs who have been hostile to him, and repudiate his own alleged utterances as the Church to which most religious Mexicans belong; if he will establish real religious liberty as it exists in the United States; if he will throttle grafting and pursue the lines pf in telligent economy, he can "make good here Madcro failed. hope Carranza will make good. Order and liberty in Mexico will be elcomed by every good American.

That Is all that we have wished for, that we have wished from our tur bulent neighbor. WHY MA TSU-CHENG IS PLEASED. There were reasons why, more than i year ago, Japan expected a tre-nendous increase of trade with China. Hie war struck Germany from the list if competitors, and It handicapped ither belligerents, but plans gang aft igley, and thereby hangs a tale. From fokio to Peking wont an ultimatum, re tarded In one capital as characterized iy moderation; by the other as hu-nillating.

It was "accepted." Soon the pot began to boil. Instead of battle, boycott. There are clans and China, and great are theii potentialities. Incensed at the ulti mntuni, quickly they responded to a iggestlon from one Ma Tsu-cheng. sending forth a manifesto written in tears of blood with bitter fingers," and declaring it to be impossible that the descendants of Huang Ti should rove unequal to an encounter ith the "monkey men," meaning the Japanese.

In circular form were issued Don'ts." They urged the people of China not to eat any food from Japan not to use any Japanese articles not to go to Japanese 6hows, and not to onr garments made of Japanese cloth. With the response, Ma Tsu-cheng was than satisfied. Some Chinese shopkeepers went further than they urged to go. They made bonfires of all the Japanese wares they had on hand. As the value of the trade af fected Is estimated at over $100,000,000 a year, It is a serious matter for Nip- These and other developments are set forth In two contributions to the Independent, saying that the movement has become more than a mere boycott against Japanese goods.

It has op erated as a stimulant to the encouragement of native manufacturing, for hlch there are vast possibilities. And it has caused, or appears to have pro duced, a national awakening. One of the contributors says that though no shots have been fired, Japanese manu facturing trenches have been stormed and Japanese hank accounts depleted. The other remarks It proves that the Chinese can work Ther th ch representing a dlf- erent race. This diversity In races las been the stumbling-block of China.

In the face of a common shame nd a common peril, tho ralnhi olors of the Chinese flag are blending nto white. The Fund proves that the hlnese possess national loyalty- pal, hard-headed, practical loyalty hat can clo It proves, and lotable thing is this, that China, ou' if her poverty, can raise millions upor nillions of dollars without the assist nee of any foreign Power. It proves ven to the satisfaction of the Idtterly umiliated Chinese themselves, that hina is not yet ready for the serap-eap of the nations. It proves that a hlnese nation of 400.000.000 patriots, ot merely 400.000.000 people, is a ossibility of the future. Within a year, by popular subscrlp-lon.

a national defense fund of will be raised. Money is pour-ng In from every province. "Herewith," "I offer 22 coppers small ash, the result of my beg Crneral Becretsr Company, the Court of Appeal: the then existing workmen's compen sation law to be unconstitutional on the ground that it deprived the ei ployer of property without due proc if law. The sentiment of the people if the State was so stirred by this de-Islon adverse to the interests of th vage earners that as speedily as lould be done, in 1913, the Constitu-ion was amended by adding the fol lowing section: Jury. which ir The present workmen's compensa tion law, passed since this amendment, has been sustained by the Court of Appeals.

There remains some uncertainty, however, as to whether the Legislature has power to pass a slm- Jury or death resulting from occupa- inn.il diseases. Therefore the Con stitutional Convention has submitted in amendment to the section quoted above specifically Including occupa- 1 disease, thus empowering the Legislature to pass a workmen compensation law for occupational dis eases and to provide payments to the workman for such sickness or dependents if death resulted fron disease. The important things about the present constitutional provision for workmen compensation are, first, that compensation may be paid without regard to fault except for Intoxication or willful misconduct and, second, that payments may be made without trial, thus saving the cost and delay of litigation. Under the com mon law, if a man having been injured while at work brought suit against his employer for damages the employer offered the defense that it was the man's own fault, or that of a fellow employee, or that the man took the risk of the occupation when he accepted the job, and that therefore he, he employer, was not to blame and should not pay damages. In effect, he burden of proof fell on the wage arner.

He could ill afford the cost and the delay of a litigation. The burden thus fell twice heavily upon the irty least able to bear it. Gradually it began to be realized that accidents happen without anybody's fault and that hazardous work lo be done and that there must be to do it. Men began to doubt the Justice of these common law defenses, itrlbutory negligence, fellow ant rule" and the "doctrine of as sumed risk." Gradually there has grown up a body of statutes in the sev- commonwealths known as em ployers liability laws, which Intended define or modify the common law defenses, but these liability laws were cely more satisfactory than the common law. Long before he was president of the Constitutional Convention Elihu Root declared that these liability laws were foolish, wasteful, efficient and barbarous.

Gradually, also, a new principle made its way into the laws and Constitution of the American' States, namely that injured employees or their dependents, if the employee was lied, should receive compensation thout regard to fault unless for place in the field of effervescent vaude ville. Theres no effervescence about mechanical combinations. Yesterday was the anniversary of surrender of Lord Cornwallls at Yorktown. It was duly celebrated, but we are not informed that hyphenated citizenship took uny active part In the impressive exercises. Hatred for Eng land was happily eliminated.

Personal and Impersonal ithlng to indicate ths few Jersey lowers th State In husbandry. interest of th mer a long time before it is adopted. can the idea be extended to in clude all property and so reconcile ,11 interests? Commissioner Fetherston should tudy the science of diminishing re- urns in the Tax Department. The ame thing applied to hummock ice ur city streets next winter might to $2,000,000. Ut The sinrk Exchangt cinsintr 2 'i 1 bucketshops.

If th Exchange keeps on at its muckraking lose all the avenues of easv money and leave billions of bank funds seeking investment in real industry at low rates. At this rate the time must soon come when a shoestring in Wall Street will represent opulence, for the Street's best people will be going barefoot. Dr. Benjamin Fay Mills, preaching the commuters of Greenwich at their railroad depot, is trying a new method in revival work. A morning for the hurrying Greenwich broker would be, "Wiy I Eat thi Flesh of Bulls or Drink the Blood "Pedestrian" shoes arc made on a comfortable last- yet style hasn't been sacri ficed.

It's the sort of shoe 85 oi men will be glad to know about. Black kid, patent leather and Headed right? The "Stetson Specials." are the pride of the Stetson shop? Dorn sou nats ana Derbies they're exclusive with us ir. INew York. Rogers Peet Company Broadway Broadwaj If 13th St. "Tho at th Sr Four Broadway Corners." Fifth Ava at Warren St.

at 41st St JUAflrtAiiAH. TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM C. HUDSON A Former Colleague Toils of HU Work. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: All old-timers like myself, were! shocked to learn of the demise of Wil liam C. Hudson "curley-headed, blue.

eyed Billy." His heart was In right place and his head was sqt on his shoulders. He had a felicitous' organization; there was no end to hlil pen or his Imagination; was alwayi reaay 10 neip and never to hinder tne reading public, as well as ambi tious aspirants, owed him more thar they knew. He was in the field 01 Journalism in two active generations ot turmoil, ttis heart was sunny an I recall when I first met hin in 1867, in the great Long Island Rai road smash-up. The information came rooklyn late in the afternoon. was hustled off by the old Morning Union, and met Billy at the Flatbush avenue station, too late for the train.

win ii In was evidently on space He was unprepared for the dilemma if no transportation, and askei ihare my livery. The next morninn money. Our sad work being copied President Oliver Charlick. at mid. night, hitched up a locomotive for ml the reporters, and we all sat on the coal heap in the tender, back to New ork.

The old ramshackle road and management had been pounded a reat deal by the press, and Charlick as very diplomatic with the re porters, riding with us, and invited a luncheon, but Billy promptly isked to be excused. So for forty- wun opportunities in those days to make something. Now he has gone, ith a host of others, who I00V nd see "what poor fools we mortals with no more studv for Vnnn. Everyone who is alive now to remem-her William C. Hudson, does so with int.

-on, and respect. True, ha fond of praise lint ho i. fond of praising others, and we have sutlers nono CATO It Brooklyn, October 20, 1915, A WORKING NEWSPAPER MAN. William Cadwalader Hudson was newspaper man to the end of nis (J years, which came dav hfor yesterday. The son of a clergyman.

he began the study of law, but aban. loned it for the more congenial Hold Journalism nearly half a century he became a political correspondent en tne pen name or "Seacoal." imagination and descrimive ability soon led him Into the field of lire, and ho published a num. ber of novels and had several plays By reason of his activity as a politi cal correspondent at Albany he was made secretary to the State Railroad Commission, when it was established by Governor Cleveland in 1883, and held this post for the succeeding ten years. His reminiscences of the period of his especial activity among those controlling political affairs he related In recent years In his "Recollections of An Old Political Reporter." Mr. Hudson's later years were devot- ditonai writing and to signed articles 1- the 1 the of The Eagle, with which 1 newspaper work was done Of a genial and kindly disposition.

public men and affairs as seen the inside. Mr. Hudson had a circle of friends, and he will be greatly missed pv none wno nan intimate as- sociations with him. Long a resident some of his works of fiction which was a faithful worker in tha field ho made lus own. Mary E.

Walker at 83 Dr. Mary B- Walker, aged 83, neatly Teacher, and surgeon, and heroine; Hers ls a medal of honor Won in the field; Granted, cum laude, by Congress; Often concealed. Modest, in garb bifurcated; Busy and brisk; Long she has warred on consumpUon, Fearing no risk. Drink, then, to Mary E. Walker; Much she achieves; Who ires what dress she ls wearing.

What she believes? I Energy, conscience, and daring Wake no regrets; Usefulness ouirht to be winning More suffragettes! 4 that the industry Itself and it the wage earners should bet or Industrial accidents. Most of th( European States have adopted thii principle, and about thirty of the American commonwealths. If this principle ot occupational risk, as It Is canea, is accepted It only remains fa detormlne what compensation is fair ana now it should be paid. Aim invariably the compensation ls so proportion of the man's earnings, a is paid through some stated numl of weeks. This principle was wrltl in the Constitution of the State of York by the amendment of 1913 and a compensation law was passed.

they applied only to accidents. They um not inciuae diseases or occupati. therefore, the constitutional convc tlon proposed to make this extension. Diseases of occupation may be to the condition under which an ployee labors or to the character of tne materials upon which he works. iney may be conveniently classified as: Diseases due to gases, vapors, compressed air, such as carbon dioxide, given off by fermentation in brew- erles, starch works, paper mills and sugar refineries; or carbon given off In the smelting of manufacture of illuminating gas and soua, in cemept and brick works, in the making of tunnels, and in explosions in coal mines.

Men workine ir caissons where the air ls greatly com pressed develop "bends," as they arc called. Diseases due to metallic poison dust, fumes, such as lead poison- anufacture of lead and glazed pottery and earthenware, and in painting and tile cutting; arsenic poisoning, Bteel grinding and the Dol- Ishlng of metals by files and emery Diseases due to organic dust, mch as from leather, skins, feathers, ivool, cotton, wood, paper, tobacco. Diseases due to parasites and micro-irganisms, such as the hookworm disease, anthrax, etc. Diseases peculiar to certain trades men as the chemical trades, as in the nanntacture of chloride of limp bleaching powder, sulphuric and hydrochloric acids; as in mining, and as in tne generation and use of elec tricity. The British Workmen's Compensa tion Act of 1906 has been Interpreted inciuae as many as twenty-fou: specified diseases.

So far as the Justice of the case is concerned, an industry shi the cost of its diseases the of its accidents. Ai should bear the wear and tear of Its men the same as the wear and tes of its machinery. So far as the wage earner and his family are concerned, impensation for a disease contract ed is the same, and is as much needed as compensation for an accident sustained during and due to his employ- It should be noted that many lararc employers of labor are quite as stronp advocates of this extension as are the vage earners themselves. This is ividenced not only by their declara- tions but by the fact that they have already provided such compensation. In the constitutional convention there ippeared to be no opposition to the imendment except on the part of some who cling to a lalssez fatre the ory of government.

It should be noted also that the mendment does not attempt to define to list occupational diseases. That ould be the duty of the Legislature under this grant of power or of the courts interpreting the statutes. The imendment was approved by a vote if 126 to 17. It should receive the ipproval of the electors on Novem ber 2. of Goats?" Tho night crowd would surely tarry to hear an elucidation of the text, "They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog and go round about the city." The landing at Saloniki goes to show that Turkey could not be properly basted without Greece.

The young woman of Lenox who ran ner car sixty miles an hour on the highway lost her license and gained a notoriety that may bring her a chance to show off on speedways where another fifty miles an hour tacked to her record would not be noticed by the police. Thomas Jefferson ne proud of my other founders of this er said "I am He and the Republic told what they thought of 1 of Indenendi and those views must always he held by loyal Americans. People who are afflicted with inflamed and painful hyphens need to apply daily until relieved, a poultice made of two parts Declaration of Independence and one part their oath of allegiance casting off the particular potentate for whom their hearts yearn in spasms of feudal reverence. Horseback riding is also good in moderation, provided an attempt be made to ride two horses at once, each go ing in opposite directions. An attempt to serve two masters also helps to work a disillusionment.

The labor i ons, protesting against n-made Constitution, autocratic rule of And they add, "The 'the Republi revised Constitution is the product of a convention of which 134 of the 16S delegates were lawyers, more familiar with the tricks of Juggling law than with dealing out even justice to the people." There is nothing to show that any of the delegates ever "Juggled law." Writing of the Federal Constitution at the time of its adoption. Benjamin Franklin said: "We are not to expect perfection in this world should that which is now-offered to the people of America be found an experiment less perfect than It can be made, a constitutional door is left open for its.