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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
TitIes of Democracy.

1t has offer been remarked with amuse-
ment by the subjects of monarchies that
the citizens of republics are title worship
ers.' The love of the American for high
sounding titles seems innate, and is surely
inexplicable.
The evil goes farther than a reverence
for meaningless foreign titles. 1t infects
almost the entire body of citizenship with
an absurd love for such honorary titles
as can be conferred in an American COM
monwealth. The acme of the abuse has
long been observed in the prevalence Of
"colonels'' in Kentucky. But the case Is
nearly as bad in Ohio M other States.
Military titles, in an essentially unmili-
tary nation, are at a premium. General"
lieutenant" colonel "captain'-these
titles are Haunted by men who have
never seen service, who have never. per-
haps, been even National Guardsmen, and
who may not even have served namely
on a Governors staff. The public takes
pleasure in recognizing such titles. At
torney General Bonaparte becomes Gen
erar' ~Bonaparte-it is hard to tell why.
Every man who has ever held any office
of any real or faneiedf Importance is an
honorable and the word has grown
meaningless. There is q plethora of
Judges and "squlres." At every turn
we meet with strange doctors and PRO
fessors." The good old, honest word
Mister has lost its SAVIOR. And there is
little hint of betterment. The titular pros
pect is really NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Plain Dealer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
A powERLEss CoMM1ss1oN.

That the elaborate and expensive off,
cial machinery of a State Railroad
Commission set up by the Legislature
this year has no inherent power, and
is simply an advisory body to make
recommendations. is the carefully pre-
pared opinion of the Attorney-Gen
eral. In other words, the commission
is a humbug. It can give no orders
to railroad corporations because it pos
sesses no authority to enforce orders.
The other day the commission took
steps to compel the railroads to
abolish grade crossings where neces-
sary. The Attorney General says it
has no power whatever in the matter.
Existing laws enable municipalities to
procure the abolition of dangerous
crossings without reference to the COM
mission, which cannot i~nterpose.
If a State commission is so barren
of authority 1t is practically useless.
If 1t is to be simply a bureau for COM
plants and a vehicle for recommen-
dations, why maintain it on such an
expensive scale? These questions will
occur to the minds of members of the
Legislature. The commission should
either be invested with real powers or
it should be reduced to a single COM
missioner at a moderate salary and a
clerk. There is no need for engineers
and experts.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
STILL HARp1NG ON NEWARK.

A Paterson newspaper cannot go to
press without a grievance against New
ark. The latest sore to be rubbed was
the result of the trunk sewer legisla-
ton. Newark agreed that Paterson
should be permitted to establish a sys-
tenn of local disposal if it wanted, and
then a bill was framed giving Paterson
the power to go outside of Passaic
County to locate the plant. That was a
horse of another color. Paterson people
would not tolerate a big nuisance, but
were willing to infict one on a neigh
Dor, and Bergen County was convenient
for the purpose. 1t was the old story
of the boil on some other mans neck.
But the idea of helping Paterson to
force it's disposal plant on another mu-
n~icipality did not commend itself to the
Essex representatives in the Legisla-
ture, or, in fact, to any Others except
the Passaic delegation, and so a plan
conceived in utter selishness and disre-
gard of a neighbours rights was killed.
But it would not nave been carried out
under any circumstances. The courts
would forbid. The alleged breach of
faith by Newark was simply an exhibit
ton of comfy and decency. Paterson
can locate a disposal plant within its
own territory. Nobody outside of Pat
erson objects to that.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
career Of captain webb.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
Will you please print a sketch OF the
career of Captain Webb, the man who died
trying to swim the rapids below Niagara
Falls? SPORT.
rCaptain Webb was born at Colebrook-
dale, Shropshire. England. in 1S4S- In early
life he was an able seaman, then CHER
mate Of an Atlantic packet and later. mas
ter Of h vessel sailing between New York
and Liverpool. He first came to public
notice in April. 1872. He was a passenger
on the Cunafd steamer Russia, when, in
midocean. a sailor fell overheard, in a
heavy sea. Webb went after him. The
sailor was lost and Webb was picked up
after thirty-flve minutes in the water. Tho
first gold medal awarded by the Royal
Humane Society of England was presented
to him by the Duke of Edinburgh. He
made his first public appearance as a pro-
f~essional swimmer in July, 1875, when he
swan twenty miles In the Thames in 4
hours and SO minutes. In August of that
year he swan the English Channel, from
Dover to Calais, t~hirty-f1ve miles. in 81
hours and 45 minutes. This was his great
est feat. In 1879 he swan from Sandy
Hook to Manhattan Beach. and on the
night Of October 10, 1882 he completed a
great feat of endurance, having remained
In the water, In a tank, for 128N hours.
eating and sleeping In the water, and leav-|
ing 1t only fifteen minutes. at the close OK
each twenty-four hours. On July. "a. 1888,
ne lost his life, while attempting to swim
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara. He was
last seen seventeen minutes after he ell
tered the water. and his body was found
TOUR days later. some FIVE or six miles be-
low the whirlpool. The post norton ex-
animation showed that death was caused
by the terrible pressure to which the body
was subjected by the force of the water IN
the rapids.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
rhe SCHOOL rraternity.

The public school is the school of democ-
racy; the secret fraternities make it the
school of a cheap aristocracy. The soci-
cites are not truly ffaternal in any sense
of the word. They make for arrogance
on the part of the members and they
promote jealousies and heart burnings. The
members of the organizations hold them
selves higher than authority and presume
to dictate to the city that is giving them
an education.
The school principals say that they are
determined that the a~nti-fraternity rule
shall be enforced. They are sure of the
support of everybody save a few fond
parents who ought to be thrashing their
offspring instead OF encouraging him in
disobedience. West Point and Annapolis are
public schools. A secret society could not
live in either place from the retreat of
one day to the r~eveilles of the next. It's
the hard-isted discipline that does things.
Chicago Post.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Governor Stokes has made a credit
able appointment in naming George w.
Jagle, of Newark, as a member of the
board of managers of the State Hos
pital for the Insane at Morris Plains.
Mr.. Jagle is we'll known for his public
spirit and his habit of doing things
when invested with a public duty. He
will be a worthy coadjutor of John C.
Eisele, of this city, a member of the
board, who is a man of the same
stamp.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

At a time when Newark and some
other municipalities are talking about
changing their elective school boards to
appoihtive boards the Eighth Ward Inn
provement Association of Jersey City
starts a movement for the enactment
of a State law making all existing ap-
pointive boards in municipalities cleo
tive. A Hudson Assemblyman is to
prepare a bill for that purpose, and
civic associations and municipalities
will be asked to cooperate for the pas
sage of the bill. We can assure the Jer-
sey City Improvement Association that
the city of Newark will not cooperate,
and we doubt If the movement will ex-
tend beyond Jersey City limits.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

The defeat of County Counsel Elvin
Crane for delegate in the Democratic
primary in the third district of the
Second Ward was a special feature of
the Democratic voting yesterday. MIR.
Crane ran for Governor in 1898 and re-
ceived 15S, $50 votes IN the State, COM
ing within 5,499 votes of being elected.
And yet his successful opponent, Foster
M. Voorhees,, after his term expired,
was defeated for a petty public office
in his home town of Elizabeth.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

She was a splendid servant. but she
didn't know anything about gas TO
cook with, so he went to the Kitchen
with her to explain about the range
SO hat she could see how it was
operated he lit each of the many burn-
ers. While still explaining a message
called him from the kitchen and he LETT
her. saying: II guess you will find that
1t will work all right now, Martha
He didn't see the cook again FOR four
or five days; then, upon entering the
kitchen. he said, well, Martha, how's
thai range doing?"
To his utter CONSERVATION she re-
Piled: Deed, sir; that's the best stove
1 ever did see. That fire what you kin
died for me tour days ago is still a
burning, and 1t amt even lowered
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
Hadrfan,a wall.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
What and where was Hadrian's wall? BY
answering in the EVENING STAR you
will greatly oblige IS. d. w.
[Hadrian's wall was a structure built 40
prevent irruptions of Scots and Picts into
the northern counties of England, then un-
der Roman government, and extended
from the Tyne to Solway firth. 1t was
eighty miles long, twelve feet high and
eight feet thick, with mile castles and
smaller sentry boxes between. Along its
whole northern side was a ditch about
twenty-six feet wide and fifteen feet decp.
while on the southern side was a Roman
road connecting the garrisons Of the differ
end stations. 1t was probably from ten tol
fifteen years in building and required 10000
men to garrison its stations. 1t was prob
ably built under Hadrian, 121 A. D., and
extended by Servius, 207-10-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
Wise Youngster.

ITO begin with" said the country
merchant to a boy who had applied for
a Job in the store, Il will give you 81
a week and your board"
will you let me. a all / want to
eat?' dueried the boy.
Certainly" replied the merchant.
Why do you ask that?"
Because" explained the boy, the
more 1 eat the quicker I will be able
to work my weigh up. See ?'-Chicago
News.
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Balls for Bowhng.

To the Editor OF tho Evening Star:
To settle a dispute please say what par
ticular kind Of wood the balls used in
bowling are made of. S. G. A. y
1.-THE material of which the large ma
jorlty of bowling balls are made is either
the African lignum vitae, which is white
when first imported, but soon becomes red
by usage, or the black lgnum vitae. A
rubber ball is also on he market, the great
objection to which is its price; and yet an
other kind is being introduced, which Is
made Of hollow cast iron.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
Assistance Always Available.

Don't you sometimes feel that you
have more than your share of wealth."
NO" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax; its
the fear of getting less than my share
that worries me. If you get too much
you can always find thousands of peo-
pie willing to help you even up
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Another and perhaps worse series of
massacres of Jews in Russia seems
about to begin. A new organization
has been started, with the object of ex-
terminating the prosecuted people, and
excuses are already reported at differ
ent points. The civilized world, of
which Russia is moi a part, has stood
aghast at horrors in the past. Can it
endure the sight of greater HORRORS?
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
He,d Newer FeeI 1t.

would we care fur a drop o whiskey.
Cassidy?'
Faith, Casey, I'm afeared 'twould do
do me stummick no good"
Come. come, man; what ails YET"
Tn jisht tellin' We a drop would be
no good at all in a stummick like
ine."-Philadelphia Press.
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Asked and Answered.

Young man. do you keep your a
to the ground7"
No. sir; my time is fully occupied IN
keeping my nose against the grlhd-
stone"
And the questioner passed
on.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
rhe unfortunnte Part Of n.

There is for an American. however, just
one unpleasant sensation in watching the
L%usitania race against time. 1t is that
she,i as all the other modern ships have
done, makes her maiden voyage toward
the United States and not away from it..
While thR country may feel f1attered that
its patronage is so keenly desired, it is
unfortunate that we are NOT able to build
and set afloat some of the mighty salt
water Observation-Disclosures Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
A shrewd Guess.

"of course she's delighted with the
success of her new novel; sai Miss
Gadie. She told me she worked on
it off and on for ten years"
All then she started 1t when she
was 49, remarked Miss Wise.
us she 2S now?'
"She must be. That's the age of her
Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

The control of the Republican organi-
cation will remain with the Regulars,
who's elected a good majority of the
members in yesterdays primaries.
Chairman Dalrymple has %undeniably
displayed good judgment in his posi-
ton. and will undoubtedly be reelected
for another year.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

is as TO the platforms to be adopted.
and especially the excise planks. It Is
felt that neither convention can safely
juggle with that question. The deliver
ence must be direct and uneouivocal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
IN HUMOROUS VEIN.


"Your bump of destrnctiveness." said
the ph~renologist. rs large. Are you a
soldier?'
No was the reply. st am a chauf-
feur."-The Independent.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Didn't Frank Sommer make a great fight Of course he
didn't elect a majority of the delegates, but majoities aren't
the most important things in the world. 1t requires more real
courage to lead a forIorn hope than to win success with big
bauaions at ones back.
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His Obligations.

'I freely admit" remarked Mr.. Meek
ton. that I owe everything to my wife"
And she occasionally reminds you
of the fact?"
well, must admit that she isn't
the easiest creditor in the world
washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Now that the political primary issues
have been threshed out, popular inter-
est turns to the nominating nve
tions, State and local. The State con-
ventions will be held next week and
the uncertainty respecting their action
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

That man Grafton Grabb says he
regards himself as the architect Of his
own fortune,
Architects had nothing to do with
his fortune" answered Senator Sorg-
hum. The people he stood In with
were the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Star.
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Leaders, forsooth |

A dispatch from Atlantic City tells us of the arrest of a boy
burglar whoN looted several residences, among them that of Judge
Allen B. Endicott. The story says that, in addition to other
articles, the burglar stole all of Judge Endicotts railroad
What is a Circuit Court Judge doing with railroad
passesf Possibly the Assembly Investigating Committee might
find it worth while to ascertain just what public officials do
and do not receive railroad passes-who are entitled to them by
law and who get them as a favor.
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VIEWS OF EDITORS.
An interesting Fight.

TIL Cleveland ~mayoralty battle will be
worth watching Each candidate is a foe
man worthy of the others steel. Each
has the confidence OF the community.
Each is a vote-getter. Each is a bundle
of energy. 1t will be anybody's election
till the ballots are Hartford
Times,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
FROM STAR

Anonymous communications cannot be
printed. Except on political subjects the
names Of correspondents are not required for
publication. but as a guarantee of good faith.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

YES" said Meekly, I'm told that
we're going to move to Swamphurst."
But said the old doctor, the
climate there may disagree with your
wife"
1T wouldn't dareg'- Philadelphia
PressA
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To the Cashier.

Excuse me, sir, but this is the sixth
time thai you have gone away without
paying"
"oK, my dear young lady, when q
man sees you he forgets everything
Observation-Disclosures Tales.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
FORT AND KATzENBAcHP STATE CONVENTION PLATFORMs-THE
ROOSEVELT THnRD-THRM EsELN0

Although it looks as if Fort and Katzenbach will be the
opposing Candidates for Governor, there most emphahcany isn't
any certainty about it. There's many a slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip and a lot of things may happen between now and
the time that the roll is called in the respective Conventions.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Justice Fort carried his own district
in East Orange. Sheriff Sommer carried
his own district in Newark, Senator
Colby carried his own district in West
Orange. Honora are even.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Nathan B. Scott, United States Senator from West Virginia,
is quite positive that President Roosevelt will be renominated
by exclamation. He says:
MAKE up your mind that the people of this country are
Roosevelt crazy. 1 find this wherever I go, and there is no
use in discountng it. 1 do not mean to say that the Presr
dent is a candidate for a second term. He has several times
told me that he was not. I don't believe. however, that he
can stop the tide that is running in the party
Senator Scott is a high tariff man, a standpatter. He has
extensive corporation interests and connections and has no love
for President Roosevelt or his policies. If he had had his
way there would have been no laws regulating the Railroads.
the Trusts or the Packing industry. He is a practical poll
dcian who believes in conducting campaigns on the old style
as practsed in New York and Philadelphia.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

When the Democratic State Convention meets it will be
able to call attention TO the abuses in our State government as
revealed through a committee created by the Democratic House
of Assembly. This committee, the Convention may say with
out stretching the truth very far, was at the outset hampered
and obstructed in its work by men who assumed to speak for
the Republican party. And the Convention is likely to indi-
cafe the course that a Democratic administration would have
followed in applying remedies and furnishing the wrongdoers.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Those who were mainly responsible for the creation of the
Senate Investigating Committee are not Boosting much about it.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

Senator Scott was a devoted friend and admirer of the late
Mark Hanna. Shortly before the 1attefs fatal illness he was,
it will be remembered, the favoite Presidential candidate of the
anti Roosevelt element. At a Gridiron Club dinner in Wash
ington, during that period, an imitation ventrloqust was doing
stunts with club-members dressed up as manikins. One Of
them was made up to represent Senator Scott While the
I" ventrnoqust' was talking to the other supposed dummies
" Senator Scott = kept jumping up and yelling, "Hurrah fol
Mark Hanna President Roosevelt, Senator Hanna and Sen
aor Scott were all present at the dinner. The two former
laughed heartily at the antics of the West Virginia Senator
understudy, but Senator Scott himself seemed to be tickled tc
death. At each interection of Hanna's name Senator Scot
clapped his hands with tremendous vigor and then looked along
the table to see how the President was taking it.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

What Senator Scott says now about the Roosevelt tide may
be exaggerated-he is prone to slp over-but that a strong feel
ing exists in favor Of the Presidents denomination and reelection
cannot be denied. Neither President Roosevelt nor his best
friends are doing anything to encourage this, It is being fostered
of course. by those powerful interests which refuse
to accept a a settled fact the permanently of the Roosevelt policies.
There can be no retrograde movement, mo- backward step. If
the great corporate and financial syndicates had sense enough
to realize that, and to cease their futile efforts of disappearing
Roosevelt and trying to bring about a reversal of his policies.
the demand for another term Of Roosevelt would soon simmer
down and he would be allowed to follow his strongly expressed
and sincere desire to step down and out J. M.
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Will it be necessary to nominate an independent candidate
for Governor in order to give the voters a fair chance at thu
ponsf
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11

What position will the Republican State Convention take
1t cannot defend the maladministraton, the ineficiency, the
negligence Of public officials. It cannot plead ignorance after
the facts we're publicly exposed Will it assumes responsibility,
plead guilty and make a plea for leniency1 Or just apologize
for the amazing and nerveless lack of energy in dealing with
the situation and let it go at thatf
Had the Republican State leaders been fit for their places
the Democrats could not have made an issue on the Assembly
Investigating Committees revelations. Had they insisted upon
the designations of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Wat
Labor Commissioner and Exposition Secretary Bryant, the
Trenton Asylum managers and the whole gang at the Railway
Reformatory; had they Immediately cleaned house all around,
would be nothing left on which to make an issue. In
they acted as if the party were bound to stand by all
the wretched incompetents and chair warmers-and played right
into the hands of the Democrats. Where has all the Demo
campaign material come. froml Has it not been manu-
featured for them and handed over in packages by the Repub-
in the persons of those individuals who soemnly regard
as "leaders."
Leaders, forsooth