The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
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slreS TO retire from the c"hairmanShlp OF
the rivers and harbor committee. The
country hopes he will be prevailed upo to
remain. The committee, always important,
is especially SO at this time. Mr.. Burton
is better qualified for the Craftsmanship
n any othter man in Congress. He has
made a study of the harbors and water
ways Of the country. He knows their
needs and he understands where and how
appropriations can be trimmed without loss
to the country. His long experience makes
him more valuable than ever before. 1t
is a bad thing for Cleveland and equally a
good thing for the country that he was
not elected Mayor. His field is In the
broad domain 81 national craftsmanship.
He should remain at the head of the rivers
and harbor committee toledo Blade.
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-. Prohibition In the south.
The prohibition wave is extending over
the South. The people who urge it have
no proper conception of the limitations of
legislation. The mere passage of laws is
not enough. They must be enforced In
order to be effective. and experience has
shown that laws dealing with the personal
habits of the people are ineffective except
in those communities where the local SEN
timcnt In favor of them is very strong.
Even there they are violated to a very
considerable extent. But the failure Of
such laws In other States is either I'M
known or totally disregarded. 1t is treated
as a new question, and no consideration
Is given to the long record of failures in
other States. They are determined to try
it in Georgia, Alabama, and probably other
States, but 1t is hard to see how the bet
ter instructed advocates expect greater
success than has attended the same sys-
tenn elsewhere louisville Courler-Journal.
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The Waterways Platform.
Considered merely as a combination of
the interests along the Atlantic seaboard
which would be benefited by the digging of
the waterways parallel with the coast,
from Cape Cod to the Carolinas, the con-
ference which has just closed its sessions
in Philadelphia reached a scale of import
ance that may well inspire the enthusiasm
and stir the imagination of the entire
population OF the eastern United States.
Viewed in It's larger and broader aspects,
as part of a vast national movement for
the development of neglected agencies of
commerce and for the conservation of hith-
erto wasted resources, the gathering k
its place as truly experimenting In the his
tory of the era Upon which the nation is
entering. If the same earnest determine
tion and intelligent interest shall be shown
all yer the land as was manifested here
for the deepening of the internal water
ways, the nation will without delay apply
itself to the great problems before it, and
In such a way that success is bound to
crown the effort.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Worse Than Useless.
The mandate of the Smith College au-
thorities that the young persons of that
institution must not attend Mrs. Patrick
Campbell's performance of 'The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray,'' which was to have
taken place at Northampton's Theatre-for-
Coilege-Girls, but was cancelled in conse
quence Of this action, is of course another
exhibition of moral boomerang throwing.
No the play nor its author nor it's actor
will suffer by condemnation from even
such exalted quarter; and no normal mem
Der of the college can be expected to neg
lect the first opportunity to see what has
now been denied. BY New Years, allow
ing for two recesses, the majority of the
girls should ave witnessed it or read it,
while those already acquainted with 1t will
have brushed up their memory for its pro-
longed discussion. Nor would they be
guilty of the charge laid at the door of
the present-day women by Felix Adler,
that of q fondness for the suggestive
literature; and even so they would be
doomed to disappointment in Pineros
drama that deals with one Of the Oldest
situations in the world and enforces its
lesson with peculiar power. College OIL
GERS, however, are Obliged to be mindful
of the rich old ladies and save the feel
ings of the prejudiced and uniformed on
this board or that committee. But 1t Is
always regrettable. when they resort to
such worse than useless methods even