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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
THE soHoo1 ooNrRoKERsH.

The decision of some of the friends of the school teachers, who are at the same time resident taxpayers, to make respectful and effective appeal on their behalf this evening, is just what was needed at this point in the con- stroversy. The teachers have exhausted their resources and have right to ex- pect that the public will find a way to reinforce them without offending against the proprieties. The Journal and Courier confidently expects that good will result.
 It Is perhaps odd that it should have happened So but it has happened that a word from the taxpayers was neces- sary. In the absence of form of reach ing popular Judgment prescribed for in the charter there has been a growing danger of the immediate parties to the controversy overlooking the fact that back of them and above them stands the public, the actual rulers This has been particularly true of the Board of Education which has steadily ignored the fact that there might be a strong feeling for the teachers, on the one hand and a popular impression, on the other hand, that the issues involved were clouded and obscured by arbitrary conduct on its part. The suggestion, for example, that the distribution of the money allotted by the Board of Finance ~for school purposes exclusively con- Gerns the commissioners of schools has been, we fear. misconstrued by the commissioners themselves. Technically their understanding of the division of power Is correct, but broader view of their usefulness would of itself lead them to regard that as their duty which commends itself to the taxpayers and residents. Their power is given as a matter of convenience not as a right; they are the servants of the public which uses their labor. They would be very unwise to ignore what has all of the appearance of a popular endorse ment of the teachers petition upon the ground that in their judgment popular opinion was poorly conceived. That is not a safe way to interpret the prin- ciples which control a self-governing body. We question if it is an intelli- gent way to interpret them.
 We have been asked again if we think the teachers have been wise in their methods and what is to happen if tue teachers, too, are to be unionized !?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
KHERE IT IS.

If Henry Watterson is sincere in urging us to get back to the Consti- tuition, it is distinctly up to him to tell us where 1t is." So says the Richmond Tlmes-Dispatch. And Henry Watterson tells where it is, as follows: Where it has always been, enshrined in the hearts of those who love liberty, serve God and respect, venerate and obey the laws of their country, organic and statutory"
 A good and complete answer. The Constitution is not lest, although at times it seems to be somewhat ob- scured, And the cheering indications now are that it is going to come shin ingly out of whatever temporary ob- scurity it may be in.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
DID YOU YER 2

There isn't the harmony between tbe Board of Education and the teachers of this city which the Board of Finance and many others think is desirable. and we regret to notice that the foundation for lack of harmony between the Board of Education and the teachers of Paterson, New Jersey, has been laid by the Board. During the last two years many of the young and beautiful teach CTS of Paterson have, in the exercise of one of their most inallenable rights. blessed themselves and others by mar- rying. The other day thlrty-two young and beautiful hopefuls graduated from the Normal training school in Pater- son, and were thus addressed by Pres ident Reardon of the Board of Educa- ton: You know, young ladies, that the board of education has gone to no little expense to fit you for the posi- tions you are to fill, It naturally de- mands something in return. It may be unpleasant for some of you, I know. but we must make a rule. We have been greatly handicapped by the &C., tiyity of Cupid and we have got to put a stop to 1t. For that reason we, are going to demand of each of you that you will not marry for at least ten years to come"
 What fools these mortals be-" How much force is an official demand that a girl shall not marry going to have when Love, a fine young man and her own good sense demand that she shall marry? The Paterson Board of Educa- tion needs educating.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
4 RA1IoN4L FOURTH.

A year ago 8 movement was under taken in every section of the country to have the celebration of Independ- ence Day harmonize with the behavior and imagination of serious-minded people from whom all sense of humor had not departed. It was a successful movement and nowhere was 1t more so than here. The dealers in fireworks were notified that certain explosives which had been popular the year before could not be offered for sale and the general warning was added that the streets of the city were not to be used in a reckless manner. The result was day of few accidents End compara- lively little noise.
 Steps have been taken this year to bring forth the same result but we question if the public itself is as sensi- tive to the necessities of the case. We doubt if 1t has thought much about it and for that reason may possibly be about to endure more irritating bonn bardment than ever before. This would be regrettabie from every point of view. Those who are obliged to remain in the city have right to expect that the noise of the day will be reduced to a minimum, while those who are unfor- tunate enough to be ill and bed-ridden should have kindly mercy shown them. Those who have an affection for the country which we inhabit and have a confidence in the work of the found- CTS must look with sense of humilia- ton upon manner of celebration more characteristic of reckless children than grown men. In fact from whatever viewpoint we study the threatened con- dition of things on the Fourth of July the more are we impressed with it's terrors and dangers.
 We would not undertake to deprive this playful people of their innocent en- 5oyment in things which while they cannot be called important or elevating are not demoralizing, but they should willingly and giadfy co-op5S5te with the eitS officials in reducing the noisy 0ombardment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
IPHEMERdL.

Hicks-Is he a generous man?
 Wicks--Oh yes. He is always giving himself away.-Somervill Journal,
 q had no idea when I penned this little child of my brain"-
 "The poem shows it, madam. m."- Houston Post. A crank is man who knows more about one subject than we do about twenty.-Life. Was anybody drowned?"
 well, not to speak of; just the fel- low who'd rocked the boat."-Philadel- phia Ledger.
 First Old Lady--What kind of a time did you have at the funeral? Second Old Lady-Well, I've enjoyed myself more at others.-Life.
 Does Barker's wife dress appro- priately?'
 NO, indeed. She wears 4O-horse- power togs in runahout. Life,
 "Jones is the most prominent mem Der of our golf club"
 why, he can't play golf"
 "No, but he always pays his dues" Cleveland Leader.
 First Suburbanite-I see they have taken the a. m. train off this line. Do you miss it?
 Second Suburbanite-Oh! nothing like as much as I used to miss it when 1t was on.-Philadelphia Inquirer,
 She-Mary Graham is certainly a very clever woman, yet she has little to say.
 He-That's where her cleverness comes in, She leads man to believe that she thinks he is worth listening to.--Pick- Me-Up.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
The Simmer Argument. !.

A problem of wedlock
 That never Is settled That makes father mad
 And that gets mother nettled; It comes up each year
 At the summer resort; Who'll clean the fish
 That father has caught? Mother says that she won't,
 Father says that she should; It Is clearly her task,
 And Is so understood.
 If catch the fish,
 And I head em' and tail 'em. It's really your duty
 To dig In and scale 'em." To this mother says,
 In positive way; When I clean your fish,
 It will be cold day. You have all the fun.
 When you angle and hook 'efll. I'm doing enough
 If Pm willing to cook 'en1 You're wrong" declares father,
 You swore to obey; It was one of vour vaws
 On your glad wedding day" True" replies mother,
 "I'll bow to your wish, When the minister says
 That I swefe to clean fish" Oh, endless the worry,
 And ceaseless the row; The summer Is here, They are arguing now. They want to decide,
 And the problem is great; Should ma clean the fish,
 If pa digs the bait? Detroit Free Press
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
RAILR0AD MERGING.

It is rather difficult to follow the tor tuous course of the undertaking to join the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad in some kind of wedlock with the Boston and Maine. We are not sure that 1t Is necessary to follow it closely as the chances are altogeth- CT favorable for an ultimate consollda- tion after an approved Mellen pattern.
 IA more interesting phase of the enterprise is the fear felt in Massachusetts that some thing will happen as a consequence of the merger which will dis agreeably affect the commercial inter- ests of that part of New England, It recalls the like apprehension which overlook the people of this State when Charles P. Clark resigned from the presidency of the New Haven railroad We were impressvely warned that his suOSSSSoF must pe d NOHASSlANul AldiA or the most dreadful things would happen, so a Connecticut man was chosen. AS the history of the road as it has been written since shows, the great amount of grey matter used at l that time accomplished nothing of con- sequence. The actual control of the l property had long been transferred to New York. The Massachusetts fear that something will happen If the New Haven gets its last remaining railroad Is grounded on similar misunderstand- ing of the trend of things, Things must constantly improve In the man agement of the New Haven railroad or 1t will cease to enjoy the prosperity 1t constantly seeks. It cannot acquire new rights in the State of Massachu- setts and then fall to abusing them. It would be the first to suffer.
 The Hartford Courant has clear idea of what is to be feared instead It says: "The real dangers are to the State and the social not the industrial structure. These big consultations
 indicate a drift toward government control, If not ownership They seem to be inevitable, It is asserted that this merger was chosen by the Boston & Maine people as preferable to one with the Central, and that one or the other was bound to come. If the New York, New Haven & Hartford road annexes the rest of New England and finds each new State ready to harass 1t, hostile as some at least of the States covered by the Boston & Maine are to railroads, how long before the management will be knocking at the door at Washington, not to protest against control from down there but to urge national charters so that vast Interests of the company may be re- moved from attacks by so many legls- latures and be transferred to the jur lsdlction of Congress?'
 The Journal and Courier has already discussed this possibility but a better understanding of 1t will not be helped by placing obstacles in the way of thu inevitable. If the State of Massachu
 setts would set aside its unreasonabl
 apprehension and begin to study thu railroad problem as 1t has actually formulated itself 1t would see that sentimental opposition pays no divi
 dend; that New England Is in for complete railroad consolidation sooner or later and that in all probability it
 early arrival will benefit and not in.
 jure.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
SrITERS.

This is a world of change, but oc- casionally there is human being who isn't a rolling, mossless stone. Such one is Maurice A. Moriarty, who was until last Saturday an employe of the Cheney Brothers, silk manufacturers in Manchester, in this State He had worked for them fifty-four years, and he isn't as old as one might think from that statement, for he began his work when he was only eight years old. He didn't become oyerseer of the spinning department when he was nine, but he did just as soon as he could, and most of his long life of work has heen snent as overseer. He has been one of the desirable citizens. He has two daugh- ters who are teachers, son who is a doctor, daughter who is student at Columbia college, daughter who IS married, and another son.
 Fifty-four years is long time, as time is counted in this world. It Is es- pecially long time for an employe and an employer to stick together Such a record speaks well for both, and is we'll for both. Mr. Moriarty and the Cheney Brothers arc stayers. They have done well for themselves, for each other and for the state of Connecticut Would there were more like them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
Connecticut Interests,
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 Seekers after patents will approve the plan of Commissioner Moore to re- duce the time required to grant a patent from six months to one month. This Is dependent upon the commits sioner being given the number of ex- aminers the office requires, at pay com mensurate with their ability, and with the room necessary to rapid dispatch of the work. The saving of time thus resulting undoubtedly would be great The claim on the whole seems fair, as the patent office is fully self-sustain- ing. and Is likely to continue so. The plan is said to be warmly supported by Secretary Garfield, but its execution depends upon Congress Because the quarters are crowded and inconvenient work accumulates while the business of the office increases Perhaps the worst drawback is in the low salaries paid to examiners, which result frequently in the government losing the services of a good man as soon as he obtains valuable knowledge of patents and processes, because such men are al- ways in demand by private concerns who are willing to pay them good salaries,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

It is very difficult undertaking to es- tablish just where the line of wisdom Is to be drawn in a controversy which makes its appeal to the passions and needs of men, but one thing is sure and that Is that the teachers have on the whole shown commendable moder- ation and willingness to convince the taxpayers of the city that their needs are real and their requests just. As for the fear of unionization, it's expression fits badly the lips of lawyers for ex- ample It is the date and era of con- solidation and no matter in what form it comes it means each time the same thing, the betterment of those brought together But in order to answer questions like these to the satisfac- ton of those putting them it is ne- cessary first for them to state the op- posite manner in which the teachers might have gone about their task? They are in sense in the market with goods to sell, goods which the city needs. For the city to undertake to take advantage of its impersonality which 1t would never think of doing if 1t was building school house or contracting for school furniture, and seeking to force a wage upon the teachers Is to say the least most ques- tionable. The teachers have not un- dertaken to bulldoze the Board of Ed ucation, as so many have hastily con- cluded. On the contrary they have explicitly voted to accept the board s schedule, if compelled to, though also determined to continue the campaign for full and complete justice. There has been altogether too much said in criticism of the teachers who have lit- erally been compelled to organize in order to get the hearing they deserve and too little said of the arbitrary att titude of the board which has been as- sumed on the untenable theory that 1t is an engine of resistance to all things not originating In it's own head.
 The right of people in a democracy to assemble for the purpose of discuss ing their own affairs is as old as the 1 Declaration of Independence and if we understand alright the people of this city 1t will be many generations be- fore u ey relnquish that right. There is nc reason under the sun why the dignity of the Board of Education should stand in the way of such a gathering, though as self respecting persons the people of the city will treat it as a department of their own household suggests. A distinct loss Is recorded whenever the assembling of the people is either interrupted or
 NAoNN' II NelO Oy dSStD1ulllE first in secret and then in public that the patriots found the way to drive out the red coats and set up this re. public. Instead of now criticisine the school teachers of New Haven, whose effective work has been approved ofl- cially by Dean Wright of Yale Col. lege, for banding together for their own protection or their friends fol assembling in their behalf, 1t Is thu part of wisdom to encourage both Neither is capable of injuring the city In which they live and which they dc so much to build up and make strons each year. Let us at least keep oui tempers,
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
4 PLAN ron MORE Po11rENEss.


 There is a good deal of joy over the announcement that Secretary Cortelyou will soon issue new set of rules for the guidance of customs officials, These, it is said, will insist upon a less rigid construction than is now put upon the law regarding importations by passen- gers, and will direct the inspectors and examiners to show the utmost cour- tesy to travellers, thus obviatng great deal of the friction that has flooded the Treasury department with complaints against the customs service, particu- larly at the port of New York.
 Nobody who isn't a smuggler likes to be treated as If he were one, and though there are many smugglers ev- erybody isn't one. Perhaps the United States will lose something by being a little more polite to incoming travel CTS, but the people of the United States will make it up in good feeling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
BALDWIN HETEROGENEOUS

We have almost complete stock on which we shall make q general reduc- tion of ten per cent. from our regular prIces--and goodness knows, they were low enough before.
 No. F Grained Case, Zinc Lined, was s1s65; Is SIZED.
 No. os Golden Ash Case, Zinc Lined, was S2l 80, is S1s.I7.
 No. 200 Golden Oak Case, Opal Glass Lined, was S5S.g0; is S4s.50.
 And many others.
 Every one is a Baldwin there is none better.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

Some United States farmer must have moved to England. A correspondent writes to the Bucks (England) Adver- tiser that farmer has found out that by planting onions and potatoes in the same field in alternate rows the onions become so strong that they bring tears to the eyes of the potatoes in such quantities that the roots are kept moist, and a large crop Is raised in spite of drought.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

gemlike flames, fluttered forth again in agony, fell and died. The tiny corpses are sold to the French bird dealers at four cents to six cents pint, and are resold for food to the owners of pet birds fnches, thrushes, canaries, nightingales and the like.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
A waste of Time.
(Indinnanolis News.l

VIHuIHHHpUIIs NEWh.J
 It really seems almost waste of time for courts to try cases when the higher law is invoked. Why should not some State frankly accept the sit- uation and place on the statute book some such simple declaration as this: Any man shall have the right to kill any other man that has insulted or that he supposes has insulted woman of his family?" That would give private vengeance a legal, as well as senti- mental status, and hasten the progress to anarchy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

Before or after? A Philadelphia man struck by an automobile after leaving his club says he cannot remember in which direction he was going.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

A Pennsylvania prophet predicts that the world will come to an end within a few months If it does will the Con- necticut legislature also come to an end?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

4 New York man recently command ed his wife to choose between him and her dog. She chose the log, and ex- poets to live happy ever after.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

Sir Robert Ball, the famous scient- is:, likes to tell young people things which will be of value to them. Re- gently he was showing a small boy a star through a. telescope, and told him that this star went around another enc. The boy wished to please Sir Rob- ert, so quickly said that he had just seen the star make the circle Sir Robert didn't try to explain to him that 1t took nine hundred years to do it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

signcr Matteucci, director of the ob- seryatory on Mount vesuvius, has published some details of the eruption of the volcano in 1906. The west side of the cone has fallen in to a depth of S20 feet and the east side to depth of 96O feet, or about the equivalent of one-tenth the total height of the mountain, The parts that have fall en in represent a bulk of about hun dred million cubic yards of rock. The crater, which prior to 1906 had a depth of about a thousand yards, is now cut down to from 600 to 700. This chasm is capable of holding S4,OOO,OO cubic yards of rock-a figure far below the ancient measurements. In the eruption of 1904 there was only one lava stream Last year there were seven that covered S75 acres of land.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
First of July PpiCG Reductions

Before many weeks we shall begin to get fin our snow shOvels, sleds and other fall and winter merchandise, for the fOrehanded merchant must get in his stock early in order to have it when it's wanted. Now this means that we must have room at present filled with summer goods, and so we must hustle of such seasonnble goods as take up lot of space. That's why we are reducing
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Large beds of oysters have been dis covered in the Umhlatusi lagoon, on the Zuluiand coast and a Johannes burg syndicate has been formed to de- velop the industry. It is proposed to export the oysters to London.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

New Zealand's Domestic Workers Union is making headway and now embraces all the leading cities of the colony within the scope of it's organiz- ation. A working week of sixty-eight hours, graduated scale, of wages and a variety of indoor reforms are pro- vided for in It's charter. Its members are classified in this order: House. keepers, lady helps, generals, house. maids, nursemaids, Kitchen maids, laundry maids, cooks, waitresses and nurses in charge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02

In France, at this season, says a bird dealer, "the banks of the streams are yellow with bonhres every night, About the fires loaf peasants, men and women, smoking, chattering, spooning. They keep the blaze going all night and at dawn the ground is an inch or two deep with May flies, firefies, moths-little creatures that flew out of the darkness into those clear and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
Tell Us Yo5 Glass Troubles

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