Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-15

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Reports OF the cabinet officers to
Congress transmitted during the pres
ent session have been unusually inter-
esting. Secretary MacVeagh, of
the treasury department, waxed
facetious and sarcastic; Secretary
B%allinger, of the department of the in
terror. in his communication ave an
active imitation of a man who is very
much afraid he might not do the right
thing and wishes thoroughly to safe
guard the public: Attorney-G General
Wickersham gloated over his record as
a trust buster and forecasted much
more pleasure and excitement along
that line.
And now Secretary of War Dickin-
son puts across a confidential" mess
age to Congress so sensational that
the President himself is said to have
agreed with many congressman that 1t
should be kept secret. The gist of the
war secretary's report is this: I'VE
are totally unprepared for war" Troops
available to repel invasion are but one
fifth of the requisite number, he says,
and we have not half enough artillery
troops to man the coast defenses. The
original report was so strong that 1t
was sent back to be toned down.. If
preparedness for war is a guarantee of
peace maybe some of Mr.. Carnegie's
gift will be available for the purpose.
1t was Mr.. Carnegie. was 1t not, who
first advanced the theory to the effect
that it is a crime to die rich? His
enormous gifts for the purpose of bet
tering mankind have just been in
creased by a $40, 900. 900 contribution to
a campaign fund in the educational
war for international peace.
1t becomes more evident every day,
therefore, that Mr.. Carnegie was sin
cere in his declaration which at the
time 1t was made excited levity rather
than admiration. Gifts a~ggregating
the tremendous total Of $3.50, 900. 900 in
dictate sufficiently that Mr.. Carnegie
meant what he said and does not in
tend to become a criminal in the way
he outlined, If it is possible for him to
avoid 1t.
Opinions differ as to the wisdom of
some of the benefactions which bear
the Carnegie name, but there can be
no two ways of regarding the i'm
pulses which prompted them.
.
Behold the day of the probe: Men
prominent in every field of activity are
keeping 1t very busy. No twenty-four
hours passes without the spectacle of
some alleged m~alefactor of great
wealth or influence earnestly soliciting
the ministrations of the probe, or busily
lodging the point of the probe or loudly
crying out against the destruction
wrought by the probe.
Unsatisfactory conditions are con-
stantly being probed with more or less
definite enthusiastically promptly for
gotten, to enable a second probing of
the same conditions.
Verify, the probe is one OF the con-
spicuous features of the day. May the
results of its lavish use be worth while.
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It is the well-known ~prerogative of a
person who has made a will to change
it whenever he or h feels like 1t.
When a person owning such a docu-
ment becomes excessively annoyed at
another person remembered In it the
first thing he or she usually does is to
have changed the clause in the will re-
lating TO the party of the second part.
And yet despite the fact that Mrs.
Augusta Stetson's break with the moth
er church was as serious as such
breaks can possibly be Mrs. Eddy had |
left intact a clause bequeathing to Mrs.
Stetson so intimate a gift as a dia-
mond-studded crown. Perhaps after
all it was not Mrs. Eddy who was SO
angry with Mrs. Stetson.
A gallant judge Of Olympia, Wash,
declared recently hat a jury Of
women which heard and decided a
damage suit over which he presided
was "far superior in every way to any
that ever had sat in his court"
o wise young Judge!
An amendment to the constitution of
Washington granting equal suffrage
was ratified at the recent election. II
Judge Giles ever has occasion to ap-
peal to the voters of his State for their
support he should be able to bank on
an overwhelming majority of the votes
of the women.
For the nice things he had to say
of the jurywomen does not consti-
tute his sole claim upon the new
voting section of the commonwealth
The aides were not asked to remove
their hats in the jury box, and he ap-
peared to think 1t the most natural
thing in the world that they should
wear them there.
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