Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-09

The Legislature was informed last
winter that more than three hundred
defective children for whom APP
plications had been mad for admis-
sion to the Home for Feeble-Minde6
-" at Vincland could not be re-
ceived because the home was already
crowded. This fact would explain the
failure to secure admission for the de-
tec,lYe ~a-year-oid boy at the Orange
%poorhouse, who, it is nov found, has
been kept tied to a post in the yard
of the p%oorhouse to prevent him from
getting into mischief. The boy has
haG no training. and is q veritable
savage. No parents to provide. no
home to occupy, no child companions,
no instruction, nothing but b~arbarous
neglect, III the midst of a rich commit
nifty full of churches. The State gets
up commissions to search out the
addresses are solemnly made from plat
forms, there are honlilies In the pull
pit, and dissertations in official reports.
What nsockery when, while all this is
chorused, an S-year-old boy can be
thus maitreated by public officials in
the heart of q Christian community in
his State
A form of insurance not yet intro
duced. in this otherwise enterprising
oo,,ptr, Il. tlo fA-,,r,aan - ;zAa,1-+o
against the chances of loss by some un-
toward public event like, for example,
the death of King Edward in Eng
land. Big dry goods and other business
concerns in England took out insur-
ances on the Kings life because in the
event of his demise they would sustain
losses. There is also insurance for
stocks and various kinds of business
transactions enterprises. King
Edwards death will cost the British
insurance companies millions. There
are possible events in the United
States, besides fire and burglary. to
cause large stock and business losses.
The comparatively few Indians left In
the United States are large land -owners.
The total area of allotted and unaliotted
lands at the beginning of the present
fiscal year included over sixty-eight
million acres. of an appraised value of
1851 ,l1S,549. The government holds in
trust for the Indians sS2. 1887. No less
than 1S2,0S5 Indians have received al
lotments of land, and there are 124, 600
una,lotted. Indians. So. while the red
man has been fairly pushed to the wall
by white civilization. there is patrimony
left for them to maintain them until
they disappear.
Poet Laureate Austin's funeral ode to
his dead king is mechanical. 1t Smells
Of the lamp" Getting up odes and such
things to order Is not inspiring for a
poetic genius. But for a job of this
kind kipling's genius would be much
better than Austin's, His 'Recessional''
has strength and majesty, which Aus
tins ode has not.
1t may be said that while Roosevelt
was killing elephants In the African
jungles Taft was no less busy in the
same way with the great American
elephant. The evidence of Taft's Prov
ess will not be lost upon Roosevelt
when he gets home.
George III. was not a very popular
ma in America in his time, and there
are some unkind references to him in
the Declaration of Independence.
Wonder how it will be with George "?
There Is IA chastened official program
for Roosevelt in Berlin. but probably
if he goes around much the Berlin
%populace will make up for all neces-
sary omissions.
The Passaic Board of Trade thinks
that tonight it is going to take the
presidential shine off the Newark
Board OF Trade.