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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAOLE. NEW YOUR. THURSDAY. JANUARY 13. 19117.

JUDGE USES ACID TORCH CINCINNATUS FOUND CIVITAS WOMEN HEAR had found "viewer" spelled "fyouer." kettlei spelled kills, beach spelled been, and debt spelled dett In gome of them, and thai bo did not think that FIGHT IN PROSPECT ON DIRECT PRIMARY OUR STATESMEN GREAT and SMALL Chatfield Holds Court in Cellar. Cuts Iron Plate. United States Judge Thomas I. Chat- Held held court In the cellar of the Federal building yesterday and dem onstrated that he could handle effi ciently an oxy-hydro flame torch for 'titling metal. Unterrifled by a scat tering shower of sparks caused by the torch, his honor neatly cut out a piece of boiler plate about six inches square.

was made necessary when a trial of arch with us acid contents nau made. The trial was the suit of the Linde Air Products Company, against the Morse Dry Dock Company. The Linde company claims that the defendants are using their oxy-hydro-gen preparation in their work on ships for the Judge's observation. VETS LEGION PLANS PREPAREDNESS AID Will Appoint 4O0 to Drill Pupils in Schools as Defense Step. PRESIDENT SCORES POLITICS.

Want Recognition on July 5 as Well as on July 4, He Says. 1 The recently-organized War Veter-is and Defense Legion, which su percedes the Spanish-American War derails Civil Service Association. plans to initiate some practical steps the way of preparedness, and to wake up a few political leaders who have promised much and achieved little. The Legion numbers about 1,600 members in New York City, and with its auxiliaries included has a roll of THOMAS G-AWNOM. ver 20,000.

Out of these, 400 of the est tacticians will be selected to vol-mteer their services to the Board of education to drill the pupils in the public shcools, to aid in recruiting and ako other steps to help ill the general organization of a sound defense. have too many politicians who ling to hand the soldier in. rth Building on a silver plat- thing for the fifth as for N'othimr is too good fol loldie or th so long as lie does the fighting long-winded statesiuei "You si rharee the vet mpetencv. As a rule, average intelligence. But thev don't pull the votes, and so, of corse after I he vearlv son to the public conscience on the Fourth of nuisance and a menace to their the recent Constitutii hi.

the petition of the veterans tor he insertion ol a pretereni clause, as was done for the Civil War veterans, was defeated by being- practically nigeonholcd The report of tin is defeated by a vote of 73 to 60, but leaders did not permit a vote on final test. The petition was signed In view of this showing and thi eatinent they have received, the wlv-lornied Legion intends to mane fight for recognition. Its enlarged srooe vv make it a tormtaabie Doav. Defense Legion are: president; P. c-rn-y.

.1 1, mips s. treasurer; Thomas ergi-ant-at-amia; Bart Hunt, T. .1. 11 K. J.

Clare. John E. Relllv. HsJllrtay, Y. M.

H. A. DEBATE. A feature of the meeting of the Ninth Street Branch of the Y. M.

H. was a suit tort i ebate on tne sub- ei. of a six-year presidential term bv the congress. i ins is a ciuu ui aspir-inir statesmen, who discuss in tru senatorial fashion the leading national questions ot the day. a rrieaman Leaders Will Ask Governor Whitman to Keep Out of the Fray.

TO REVIVE STATE CONVENTION. Republican Organization Will Start Campaign to Repeal Primary Law. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 13 Another flfht to abolish the direct primary and revive the State Convention, Is scheduled for this session of the Legislature, unless It Is forestalled by the direct action of Governor Whitman. If he will keep his hands off during: the preliminary stages It is understood the friends of the old State convention ting a bill through both Houses but If he comes out strongly tgainst it It 'ill mean either a fierce fight or, and more probably, an abandonment for time being of the whole plan. le first move in what is regarded an organization campaign to re peal the direct primary law, Is sched- for Monday night at the meet ing of the New York Republican Club, when the committee on State Affairs, men f.

s. Hangs is chairman. will report in favor of such legislative action. A minority report for the re tention ot the present system will al- presented and a debate Will be precipitated on the floor of the open meeting. The report It Is understood will re- commend the resurrection of the State Convention In its old form and provide a sort of post-convention primary at which Independents, dissatisfied wlth the ticket named in the convention, may try to overthrow It by runnlna- an opposition ticket.

jod n. is saia to De one or men behind the Dlan. He advo cated the repeal of the primary law time ago. His speech was referred to the committee on State afTalni and It. circularized the fifty members for an expression of opinion.

Thirty-five memoers are sua to nave replied favoring the repeal. Hedges, former State Chairman Ezra P. Prentice, ex-Senator George B. Agnew and Emil Fuchs will proba- ly aerena tne repeal recommenaa-on on the floor of the club. Y.

M. C. A. LECTURE COURSE. Winter Term Series Shows Many In teresting Subjects.

The winter term of practical talke In vocational courses under direction of Melsom S. Tuttle, B. educational director, is under way at Central ranch Y. M. C.

Brooklyn. For Friday evening of this week, three courses will be started. They are: "Building a Memory," William Herol; "Planning it Scenario," by Russell Ball; and "Demonstration in Reading Men." by waiter b. liooa- win. Other courses to tnis montn January 24, "How to Study a Foreign reopening of regents courses, and on January 28, "V.n Knchsh.

by Horatio M. Drury. II. former instructor in English at the "National ny oh.uk. The courses now under way are: Pralling.

drawing, civil service and bookkeeping, by leading specialists; office practice, commercial, art and il- lustration, steel and concrete estimat- Hugh J. Wood, and "How to Speak in WISSNER A PIANO OF THE HIGHEST ARTISTIC CLASS The Wissner Piano has been before the public nearly forty years and in that short time has been used by and received the endorsement of many of the world's foremost musicians. You may purchase a Wissner Piano at manufacturer's prices at any of our factory ware-rooms. Three years allowed to pay. 55-67 Flatbush Ave.

which, if neglected, may be 'PLUFFING' HIS FIELD WITH HIS 'FLUFF' Foreign Historian Cot Mixed in His Use of the English "O-u-g-h." PLEA FOR SLMVLK sl'l I I l. Professor Matthews Tells Institute Forum English Tongue Is a Chamber of Horrors. To simplify or to kompllkate; that wm the question argued at the fifth of the Brooklyn Institute Korutus last nlaht by Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia 1 nlvcrsity and Dr. Ros- slter Johnson of New York. Whether It la bettter, for a lot of reasons, to suf fer the whims and eccentricities of our own peculiar English spelling, or for a lot of other reasons, including UOTUtntrumesi to the foreigner tllng among us, to take arms against a sea of orthographto difficulties, and by simplifying, terminate them.

Shall we apell head, heifer, leopard says, said, and many, as we do or hed heffer. lepperd, aei, sed, and menny? la It hetter to allow suspicious, i conacience, ocean, notion, anxious, and issue to remain as they or make them, auspishus, shure, conshunce, oshun, noshun, ankshus, ishue? Professor Matthews, chairman of the executive committee of the Simplified Spelling Board, which met for the first ume ten years ago yesterday, was fc the changes. Dr. Rossiter Johnsoi was for standlnc nat. In IntroduciriK the speakers Dr.

La naue wmie, president or tne institui Department of Psychology, said thi ail mankind is divided nn Inn parts, liberals and conservatives, and that the liberals would naturalh ho change in spelling and the conservatives for the status quo. And in the audience added almost inandihly that for spelling purposes all mankind is omasa into almost as many parts as For twenty-five minutes Professor Matthews addressed his audience with the aid of charts and arguments to show that English was being prevented from becoming the second language of all educated people in the world more by its hundreds of ways of being spelled than by any other thing. English Working Toward a Place as the World Language. "English is the grammarless language," he said. "It is the easiest to learn by word of mourli.

And because of the forthputting energy of the races that speak it on the shores of the seven seas, it is a competitor with French for the place of the world language the second language that ail educated men are able to speak. JEatin was once this second tongue. Two hundred years ago French became the language of all courts and all diplomacy. Neither of them became the world language because of their merits as language, but because of the spreading energy of the races that used them. "Now English is working up to that place.

But what chance has the poor foreigner, who plough, hough, thorough, through, dough, rough and cough, in which the letters o-u-g-h are pronounced in seven different ways? No other language living or dead has such a chamber of horrors. I remember a famous foreign historian, lecturing in this country on Roman history, who related how the members of the Ifottiati Senate found i 'incinnatus plrnling the with bis pluff. "The opponents of simplified spelling are using it every day without realizing it. If they go back to the first folio of Shakespeare they will find there -Sunne, batte, oecktuiomicke and which are not a whit sillier than many spellings that still survive. An unconscious process of simplifying silly spellings has been going on since then.

If it had been conscious as it is now there would probably have been opponents of the changes that, have tieen made in these words. "If the conservatives had always had control, however, we would probably still be sw.nging- in our arboreal residences the tips of our prehensile tails." Dr. Johnson Points Out Some Results of Simplification. "But." began Dr. Johnson, sweeping to the attack, "millions of books will be rendered antiquated if the spellings of all the words are smipbiied.

Every text book in the country will have to be reprinted. For if the teachers tell the children to spell one way spelling; but the cost is more than the whistle is worth." In addition to his part of the debate Dr. Johnson made a flank attack on the newspapers for some of their English usages that are rapidly oecoming pan 01 tne lan guage. "Parse 'from now on' if you can, ha challenged. "Whv 'higher he asked.

"Did any one ever hear of higher down or lower wny at the papers say Dates back to the 17tl Could anything date for ward to the 17th F.ven Ten nyson, careful he was. Hmh up In the Heavens' in a line which would have been much better if he had said 'Far up in the Heavens!" In the first rebuttal Professor star'led everyone by beginning: "I approve of practically all of the anuses to i.u obiects. higher up' Is It Is part Of live English, which is madp the street as wen as ut study. And I would hestitate to tel Tennyson how to write his poety," In added. "But when Tennyson spell; through t-h-r-o he has gone too fa: even for a simplified speller." Laughs at Professor Matthews.

Dr. Johnson in the second rebuttal fluoi thet." interrupted the chalnnan anc the man Sighed and sat down "I have studied the English language for twenty-five years and writ, ten thre books on Us phonetics, but I will not be able to speak it If I sutd) it another twenty-five years." an a foreigner who had come tfee bate to have bis dfmcultle; pnswa venicnl was COLGATE ALUMNI DINNER To Take Place Tomorrow Evening. lYcsideut Bryan to Be There. The forty-sixth annual dinner of the Colgate Alumni Association will be held tomorrow evening at the Hotel Manhattan, Forty-second street and Madison avenue, Manhattan, at o'clock. There are more than 400 Colgate men in and about the City of New York, and nearly all are expected to be present.

President Bryan of the Unlversltv and Professor Ellery C. Huntington of the faculty will sneak. The dinner will be informal. the officers or the association are: Herbert Hartwell Gibbs, '84, president; George W. Cobb, '94, first vice president; Charles H.

Sears, '98, second vice president; Ernest H. Whitney, '07, secretary and treasurer. BROOKLYN WOMAN QUALIFIED. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 13 Ruth J. Cras-son, M.D..

of 492 Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, has qualified for appointment as woman physician In State hospitals, as a result of having passed the recent competitive civil service examination held for that position. The salary is from $1,000 to 11,600. TO MANY CHARITIES Lafayette Avenue Presbyteriah Reports One of Its Most Gratifying Years. INCREASE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. Officers, Elders and Deacons Are Elect ed at Church Annual Meeting.

Election of elders and of deacons was the first order of business last evening at the annual meeting of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Lafayette avenue and South Oxford street. In response to the request of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Charles Carroll Albertson, for elections for officers, the following were selected: D. VV.

McWllliams, modera tor; F. S. Benedict, vice moderator, and A. G. Van Cleve clerk.

By unanimous vote the following were elected elders and deacons for a term of three years: C. B. Pearson, H. K. Twltchell, J.

Ernest McAfee. Eben Caldwell, J. W. Cook, elders: F. S.

Voorhees, George Pine, H. Hodges and Thomas C. Craig, dea- At the close of the election a gen-al reDort of benevolences was read by Edward W. Barnes. The following societies of the church, with their timers.

were prominent in the amount of good work done: Men's Class, O. N. Brown, president; Young omen oime i lass, ueorgla ttverst, president; Home Department, Caleb V.Smith, superintendent; Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. Herbert K. Twltchell.

presi dent; Ladies Benevolent Society, Mrs George F. Allison, president. A room is being fitted out in the Central Y. M. C.

A. by the Men's Class. Mr. Barnes' report also showed a big increase In the enrollment of the Sunday School. Isaac E.

Hasbruck, treasurer of the church, read his report on contributions to missionary, benevolent and other objects, exclusive of church uppori, as roiiows. The total of this systematic giving was $59,067.68. ne runos tor tnese contributions ere obtained from the following purees: Envelope and other collec-ions, $30,704.06: personal gifts, Home" Sunday School ($275.63 rom Home Department r. Stearns Bible. Class.

1567.80: Ladies Benevolent Society, i tiome a no foreign Mission ary Society, Cuyler Mission Hoard, J1.132; louttg Peoples' Association, Men's Bible Class, $55; Young Women's Bible Class, $169.29: Home Study Circle, Westminster Guild, Men's 4., Cumberland Street Branch, Gregg Chapel, EXIT THE COACHMEN Now Dual Body's Dinner Draws Majority of Chauffeurs, Last night, at the Red Hook lane and Fulton street, the Priv ate Coachmen and Chauffeur's Benevolent and Charitable Society held its twenty-ninth entertainment and ball. More than five hundred members and friends attended. It was a Joyous and yet dignified event. The society, a benevolent one, was organized for the relief of Its members when in distress. It was formerly composed of private coachmen only, but the adoption of the automobile changed the character of Its member- rrer cent, chauffeurs.

Of the total- membership of 200, 1T6 are chauffeurs. society, Breaking In reference to the apparently small membership said: laws are the bulwarks which have prevented the possibility of even a greater membership but which might prove detrimental to the worthy cause It espouses. Desirable members, however, have always been welcomed within its folds and the society bids fair to continue its prestige for many years." The following are the officers: George Thompson, president; Alexander MrMullan. vice president; Joseph F. Ueilly.

treasurer; Oscar Olsen, financial secretary; George F. Bart-lett. recording secretary; Edward Reilly, corresponding secretary. MONSTER CHORUS TO SING. The Community Chorus, a new people's movement for song on a large scale, is to launch Itself in Manhattan on Monday evening next.

Anyone may take part In a choral rehearsal. The Community Chorus Idea holds that everybody Is meant to sing, needs to sing, and under the right conditions can and will sing. There will be no Irving of voices. Everybody is eligible. It is expected that there will be over a thousand at the first rehearsal mi Public School No.

64, Ninth street, east of Avenue K. Manhattan, on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. LINKS 1MB PLANS DANCE. The Links Social Club. Will hold Its annual ball at the Imperial, Bed Hook lane and Fulton street, on Saturday evening.

January 15 The arrangements committee Is composed of Weiss. Leo Weiss, Charles Davis, Keub Cantor, Phil Brumer, Jacob EMMA GOLDMAN She Delivers a Vetriolic Address Against Society, Wealth and Employers. 'MOCKERY OF LIBERTY" HERE. Marriage Is a Tragic Faroe," Says High Priestess of Anarchy and Social RevoluUon. More than three hundred women itened to Emma Goldman at the Civ- Itas Club, 114 Pierrepont street, yester- afternoon, as she denounced so-sty as rotten to the core, character ized the politician as a "crook or a ol," excoriated the police force ana utorlcally bludgeoned private wealth, le cultured and bejeweled women need, when the apostle of anarchy iblushlngly declared that children ive as much right to be born out of idlock as under the sanction of the urch and state.

Marriage, under the present social stem, the anarchist declared, was a tragic farce and women have a right to become mothers without consulting either church, state or society. All I "i oiuent were character ized as oppressive and the best form as unnecessary and restrictive of personal liberty. In anarchy Miss Goldman found a cure for all social Ills, a nacea tin; all complaints, a leveier or all distinctions and a promise of complete and unalloyed happiness for the entire human race. The members of the club listened with attention to the enemv of or ganized wealth, organized society and criminal has a right to be anti-social, because society had robbed him of the 1gnt to become, happy and prosperous. "I understand the criminal and his point of view," said the speaker vehe- euuy.

iou say io column u. ciimo anti-social. What right have you i expect him to be other than anti-icial? You talk of the dreadful war In Europe, but you take little notice of the war that is going on in your very me war against mo vnimim, war against helplessness, the sweatshop, the mine and the factory. Look at home. In Europe they, are killing the poplc by the wholesale, hut death Is outright, not lingering such as society inflicts upon its Helpless ictitns here." io.n ul she nan neon represented as having imbibed the doctrine of anarch) in Russia because of persecution and poverty.

She denied came an anarchist in th- Tinted States and that the "mockery of liberty which given in this country nau aeier- iresent social order if that be possi-4e. "Rut it was when live innocent men were hanged in Chicago, as a result of ise they were anarchists, that, inia Goldman came to life as an an-hist," said the vitriolic speaker. "It then that I registered a vow to do possible to destroy the present so-I order and build on its ruins a system which would guarantee full imprisoned soul of mankind so that it could soar to the heights to which it is fitted to ascenu. Miss Goldman expressed contempt the ballot. She said to extend it women would only be to give into are hands the exercise of an utterly 1 li I the those davs had a higher conception of liberty than the men of this generation, who are using the ballot to create enough politicians.

To be a politician it is necessary either to be a crook or among the men. must remove tin- i can ituuus, we. must destroy the absurd conven tions which have so long fettered the woman and the whole social order us it Is at present constituted must give place to full and complete individual liberty. Whether anarchy will be ush ered in in violence or will be the result of a peacetin propaganda uepfima upyu you, not us. We will commit no vio-ience, the violence must come from above, not from below, and, frankly.

I neither know nor care how anarchy comes." Mrs. Quiii, the president of the club, who presented the speaker, said she had been highly entertained and with ice cream tea and cake. She didn't neglect tlie opportunity to do a thriving trade in the sale of her favorite books. Miss Goldman is austere rather than coarse. In speech gar Htough'she soars often Into the realms of poetry and treats her hearers to some choice diction.

She is short of stature, with a squat figure. nd appear Mesh than willing 1 i-arry. that increasing years are threatening her vitality. The audience was polite with her. That is to say, in spite of her extravagances of speech and the ferocity of her gestures, all appeared to remember that she was an invited guest, and governed themselves accordingly.

But on the whole there was deep interest. One woman at the close of the meeting frankly admitted that Emma Goldman had "hit her hard." "If she has done nothing else, she has shown me that. I ought to do something more for struggling society." this woman said. Miss said she didn't be lieve her speech would be productive of any good, hut she declared she was to make it under such Mrs Frank Cothren. who asked her the question which evoked pressed herself as highly pleased with Miss Goldman's efforts.

Mrs. Quln said the opposition to inviting radical speakers to address the Clvitas Club had apparently completely evaporated. YACHT CLPB TO DANCE. The seventh annual ball of the Rockaway Point Yacht Club will he held at Arcadia Hall, Halsey street near Broadway, on Saturday evening January 15. Commodore E.

J. Thlemer and his committees have spared no efforts to make the affair a social and llnancial success. The officers of the club are: Commodore. E. J.

H. Thlemer: vice com modore, Joseph H. Constantino: rear commodore, Frank Frolke; secretary. Frank S. Lock wood: treasurer, Oscar H.

Mott; financial secretary, Frank Hetzer, ana treasurer, josepn tt. con-stantlne. ONLY TWO LECTT "RE CENTERS. The Fourth Ward of Queens Bor nugh Is to have only two public lecture centers this winter. One Is at tho Richmond Hill High School and the othet at Public School No.

40, Union Hall and Pacific at reels, Jamaica. "The Land Kvannehnc- ill he the open ing feature of the lecture season at S. No. 40, at Jamaica, Friday evo- THE young statesman who can restrain himself from speech Is far more of a rarity in Washington that he who loses no time In spouting his maiden effort. For that reason Senator James W.

Wadsworth, of New York, is something of a curiosity to the elder statesmen here. Mr. Wadsworth has yet to be heard on the floor of the Senate, although Congress has been here a month and a half. He sits in the back row, surrounded by several Republican regulars, with gray heads on all sides of him and In the midBt of much oratory and debate. Yet he says nothing.

He follows the proceedings, attends sessions regularly and keeps his own counsel, much to the astonishment of older colleagues who, as a result of long experience, said to themselves when they first saw him: "About tomorrow this youngster will spring an oration." As yet, there is not even the outward sign of speech in Senator Wadsworth. He never appears to be restless in the least. It is no effort for him to remain seated while the others do the talking. The explanation is that Wadsworth, while young In years. Is old In politics and a person of much experience.

He was the presiding officer of a legislative body, the New York Assembly, for five years, during which time he was compelled to listen to manv barf speeches and occasional good ones, and ue imu an unsurpassea opportunity to Judge speechmaking from the viewpoint of the listener. He has heard so many speeches that contained noth ing ma wuron ana sentences tnat nis friends sav he is decidedly shv in rt. tlng up and saying anything, merely ior tne purpose of having it put down In the record. Senator Wadsworth's restraint Just "Marta" Popular Schola Cantorum That the revival of Flotow's "Marta" was not ill-timed was demonstrated igain last evening at the Metropolitan Jpera House when standees jostled each other to hear Caruso as Lionel, Mme. Hempel as Lady Harriet, Mme.

Obcr as Nancy and De Luca as Plun-kett. Elder people in the audience he me enthusiastic hearing the eminent tists bring out beauties In the melo dious score which they had not been accustomed to realize in the old days. Mme. Hempel had to repeat, following long applause, and In English, "The Last Rose of Summer," which she had first sung in the Italian text of the evening. Caruso, too, was applauded the echo for his aria, "M'Appari," came out five times to acknowl edge applause.

Mme. Ober's voice was it Its best, but her role was such that she did not need to employ all of her powers, and she sang satisfactorily. Mr. Bavagnoll's baton was at times too igorous; in the second act the fine quartet, sung mezza voce, came near to being smothered by the volume In the orchestra. Schola Cantoru.ni Has Triumph In Cameglc Hall.

Schola Cantorum concert last night in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, as intensely winning and scnolariy to programme, delivered with plc-resque appeal and eloquence. The list of Russian and Scandinavian peo- le's songs, given a capella, was in-ividual and glowing with life and romance. The soloists were Anna Fltzlu, soprano; Jean Vincent Cooper, contralto; Charles Harrison, tenor, and Hugh Allen, baritone. The Russian numbers were "Kol Slaven" by Bortnlansky; "The Nightingale." with baritone solo, by Tschai- towsky; "Kalinka," a traauionai lance song, with tenor solo; "Inter rupted Slumber," from the "Hapless Bride," with soprano ana Darttone solos; "Spinning Top." a folk dance. by Rimsky-Korsakoff a Russian Carol, by the same composer, and a prison song.

"Ballad of the Kremlin." The marvelously realistic numbers were given with earnestness and musical color by the chorus and soloists; the latter song was one of the most thrilling of the excerpts. The Finnish students songs, by ale voices, brought a new votive note to the programme as, with remark able swing and melody, the chorus struck Into three songs by Sellm Palm-gren, the humoresque. "I'm Coming Home," "Summer Evening" and Finnish Lullaby." The soprano solo in the first was charming; the "Finnish Lullaby," with its deep bass notes at the end of the verses, was wonderfully Impressive also. The big. stirring "Fight," by R.

F. Faltln, Sweden, followed with three songs for mixed chorus, by Wllhelm Petersen Berger. "In the Pine Woods," "Little Flower" and "Flirt Song," with soprano and baritone solos, were full of exquisite feeling. The Russian songs for mixed volcea were superb in their eloquent story of the Volga, with alto and baritone solos, the story of "Myllnka," by Kas-talsky; "Down St. Peter's Road," with soprano and tenor solos, the latter by the tenor of the Brick Church, Manhattan, Mr.

Harrison; a dance song, "The Gipsy," by Zolotarieff, and "Oh, if Mother Volga," a humoresque; "Merry Yuletlde." by Rimsky Korsak off; "At Father's Door." a dance song. by MoussorgBky, and "Doubinushka" Song of the by Slon-off, with baritone solo, were each virile. Carl Dies was at the piano. The type of these songs, bo splendid in their savagery, so moving in their heart eloquence, so rich and unapproachable in melody, in comparison with the songs of any other nation, make one give tribute to Russia for her music. NASSAU'S NEW CONTROLLER Earl J.

Bennett of Rockville Centre, Appointed. (Special to The Eagle.) Mineola, L. January 12 Earl Bennett of Rockville Centre, L. I who was recently recommended by the Republican County Committee to succeed Charles L. Phlpps, deceased, as Controller of Nassau County, announced today that he has received his appointment from Governor Whitman and will take office Immediately.

Mr. Bennett is a lawyer of ability and served as Assistant District At- of Nassau County under Dla- trlot Attorney Franklin U. Cole. JAMES W. WADSWORTH J8.

brilliant oratorical effort possibly could wm. rney are putting nun nown as a wise person, who will probably say something when he talks. They wouldn't mind hearing him start, Just out of sheer curiosity; yet they look upon his silence as one of the really bright spots in a Senate which has an output of several hundred thousand words a day. wfcen It is going at full head, and somewhere in the neighborhood of a million on those days when Senator Lafolletto speaks a BRAINERD. SEES BOTH AMERICAS BANDED BY AIRCRAFT Aero Club Sure Sky Fleet Will Be Main Strength to Check Invasion.

SHOCK TO SAILOR GUESTS. 'Every Coast Town Aerial Port of Safety," Is Keynote of Annual Dinner. That airmen in the end will create the principal bond between the countries of the Western Hemisphere was the keynote of the annual dinner of the Aero Club of America at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, last night. Ul 111. roc, 1 p.

tb.i. bond would be the principal strength of the countries to protect them from foreign invasion. More than 300 aeronautic enthusi asts heard the various speeches that followed the dinner. They listened to Rear Admiral Peary picture a federation of Americans to be brought about by the aeroplane. It was quite a siiuyK 10 uie rew ueep-sea sailors who were in the room to hear an offlcor i the United States navy twist a quotation from Themistocles from "He who commands the seas commands all" to "He who commands the air commands all." However, it was in keeping with the spirit of the diners, which also was shown in the drawing on the cover of the menu.

The latter was of Napoleon signing for an aeroplane. Henry A. Wise Wood was the toast-master. In introducing Alberto Santos Dumont, the Brazilian airman, Mr. Wood said in part: "A few years ago they smiled at the dirigible, and it is shaking the world's imperial city; they laughed at the aeroplane, and it is directing the armies of Europe.

They deride the overseas aerial liner, but I declare to you, my friends not as a dreamer speaking in rhapsody but as a cold and calculating engineer that the dav is at hand when the building of such a vessel may be begun, and is not far distant ere that liner shall, at established intervals of time, set forth for every capital. "Knowing neither land nor sea, nor reef nor Ice, nor coast nor boundary, these winged, swift and ghostly argosies shall make every town an aerial port, of every hamlet a haven of safety on the coast of that vast ocean of which its earliest naviirator slta among you here. men snan tnere be realized the dream that has led us on, and there be drawn into a single community possessed of a common consciousness the national families of all the earth. Than this, if there be a vision bigger with human good I know it not." According to Senor Dumont. it is only a question of a very short time before thousands of big aeroplanes will be flvine over the inacihi regions of South America, not only uncovering the River of Doubt, but fostering big business developments of a hemisphere that Is wonderfully Alan R.

Hawley, president of the club, predicted a day when there would be mall and express merchandise, as well as passenger and overseas airships, and told of the recent construction of airships that could carry ten tons. He then announced the award of the Collier Trophy, which is awarded each vear "for the achievement in aviation In America, me value oi wnicn lias neen thoroughly demonstrated by use during the Drecedine vear." to starline- gess of Marblehead, for his de velopment or what the airmen call the "foolproof aeroplane. Some Of the other nnnrrta o. nounced by the president were the Aero to lieutenant p. L.

Bellineer. P. S. v. for hltn American hydroplane record by attain ing an amuiae or lu.miu reel, and medals to First Lieutenant Tt Rol ling of the aviation section of the New lora national iruarn; israr A.

nrinrt-ley. Lieutenant J. Carberry, U. S. N.

Victor Carlstrom, who made the recent flight from Toronto to New York City, and a number of other aviators, who have won distinction during the past year. In all, twenty-four aero club medals were presented. TO ENTERTAIN COUNCIL. Many members of Bedford Council, Knights of Columbus, will visit John Hughes Council, Cropsey Eighteenth avenues, tonight. Th( tertalnment will be furnished by the Cheese Club of Bedford Council.

The Bedford men will assemble at tin clubhouse. 66 South Portland at 8 n.m. The entertainers are: Bolger, Frank Clark. Jim Gleason. Joe Fields.

Beggs ana neggs, jonn Keouch. Jim Huntinirton. Jim Lynch. oje Walsh, Frank Murphy and Jamie SAMUELS SERVICES FRIDAY. Edward Samuels, who died yesterday morning, will he hurled Friday morning at New Mount Carmel, Cj Don't Suffer Longer and allow yourself to become grouchy, upset, nervous and depressed.

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