Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-03


Singleness of purpose is "A rare asset
for an individual. or an organization.
Apparently the New Jersey Com
muters' League possesses it to n
marked degree. Since 1t was form ed
with one single object in view, that
is natural M proper. Members OF
the league have long memories. That
explains why the Republican members
do not wan Governor Fort and the
Republican Assembly n>ininees to
speak at Republican meetings in East
Orange. They might have forborne, IN
the interests of the campaign, TO make
any open protests against the appear
ance of these men, But The Com
muters' Leaguers are militant and by
that token frank. 1--WE feel" said
President Marshall, of the league, with
charming d%irectness, that Governor
Fort has handed us a gold brick and
any Republican meetings in this city
east Orange) should be held with
his assistance or the Essex AS
sembly candidates"
The Aero Club Of America, it is said,
will erect a monument on that spot
in the Canadian wilderness where
Hawley and Post, winners of the inter-
national balloon race from st. Louis,
landed. Apparently less n less effort
is required nowadays to win fame. or
what passes for 1t. Hawley and Post
were literally blown into %aeronautic
prominence, since it was their duty
during the record breaking flight
merely to sit tight while the wind blew
where It listeth and carried them on
their way. True, they might, at any
time, had the cold of the upper air
penetrated to their pedal extremities,
have effected a landing, but that would
have been very bad b~allooning form.
The flight will doubtless prove an Inn
mense boon 10 mankind. and If It does
the is fitting and proper.
And now Count Zeppelin proposes to
seek the North Pole in the type of
dirigible balloon he invented. Count
Zeppelin has had a great deal of hard
luck in his effort to demonstrate that
the conquest of the air might be effect
ed with a lighter-than-air ship. But
he has accomplished wonders between
mishaps, and it is gratifying that a
mar OF his determination, rather than
a mere self-advertiser, is to undertake
this most hazardous of feats. The
North Pole is not the untrodden spot
1t once was, TO be sure, but that fact
does not initiate against the inpor-
lance of Count Zeppelin's proposed
undertaking. Perhaps if he succeeds
he will be able upon his return TO she'd
some light upon the now almost for
gotten polar controversy.
The seeming ease with which divorces
are secured in certain States of the
Union and the wide diversity between
the divorce laws of the various States
account probably for the plight in which
a resident in New York city finds him
self. This man was recently arrested
for bigamy and is now in Jail awaiting
trial. He readily admitted he had mar
ried a second time without the formal
ity of a divorce from his first wife.
He explained also that he understood a
divorce was unnecessary when the mar
riages were performed in different
States. He had been married first lin
New York. Then, after a number of
years. he crossed the river and was
married again in Jersey City.
There is nothing remarkable about
the fact that Germany and the United
States are seeking to acquire at once a
large number of aeroplanes for military
purposes. Practical demonstrations Of
the past six months have, or should
have, proved to the most skeptical that
no modern army and navy is complete
without a mosquito fleet of the air.
1t has, perhaps; not yet been deter
mined how the ~aeroplane "a be used
to best advantage during war time,
but there is no longer any doubt about
whether it would come in handy in
some way. Should this country find
itself involved in war a volunteer such
as tombstone would seem as big as a
regiment.
Q
Mayor Haussling has seized in the
present campaign the opportunity II
continuing to urge his beloved project
the reclamation of the meadow lands.
Since it has afforded him this oppor-
tunity the campaign must have been
very welcome to him. tn Mayors
enthusiasm, which should be shared by
every public-spirited Newaiker, is ex-
planned by this prophetic extract from
one of his speeches: more thar six
and one-half square miles of the TWEEN
ty-three and one-half which compose
our city are meadow land, end if we
can reclaim it and sell 1t for factory
1871