Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-22

4[SE-NGNE4
The general public may well share
the pleasure of Judge Fawcett, OF
Brooklyn. over the conviction Of Mrs
Maria Rappo. charged with being i'm
plicated In a kidnapping case. Tht
woman is to be sentenced to the peni
Tertiary Monday for from five to fifty
years. There Is every a. TO be
lieve she will receive what will amount
to a life sentence. Judge Fawcet'
made no secret of his qualification al
the verdict. He said:
This is a splendid verdict. 1t i:
the most severe blow the Black Hand
has received In my experience on this
bench, and its results viii be far
reaching. District Attorney Clarke
and ] know the defendant is guilty.
She was an important link In the
scheme to get this boy away from his
parents in the hope OF extorting
money"
II bCiO2 SCAitlillCliL o6cAAi5b nm
nappers grows in intensity after a
conspicuous and heart-rending outrage
and then wanes, but Judge Fawcett's
fortunately Is strong enough to en-
dure through the off years.
Employees of department stores in
st. Louis, where groups of insane pa
tents from the city sanitarlum have
been permitted to do some Christmas
shopping, agree that the asylum In
mates, without exception, acted far
more sanely than the average and
presumably sane Christmas shopper.
And indeed no one should be sur
prised at such a state OF affairs. The
schooled in repression and taught that
demonstrations in the presence Of
strangers were particularly unseemly
They were therefore on their good be-
havior, and did not think of being an
noyed when forced to wait for change,
since so much that was amusing and
entertaining went on about them.
The Christmas shopper, on the other
hand, was deep in the saturnalia of
unreason and unreasonableness. To
the layman It would seem that the
comparative quiet of asylum wards
would be better for insane patients
than typical Christmas shopping
scenes.
Mr.. Rockefeller announced that his
gift to Chicago University this year
would be his last donation to the cause
Of higher education In the Windy City.
But just to show that there are nc
hard feelings and that his heart re-
mains in the right place he raised the
last Of his annual gifts from 81, 900, 900
to $40, 600, 900.
Despite the size of this final donation,
the announcement that 1t is to be the
last one fell like a bomb among the
members of the faculty and the stu
dents.
That Rockefeller million had been
coming in with such regularity for sc
many years that the prospect Of hav-
Ing to worry along without it was con-
siderably dull, stale and improbable.
If they nurse the ten millions, how
ever. the university authorities will
have Just ten years in which TO steel
themselves to the new no-Rockefeller-
annual-gift-of-a-million state of affairs.
Colleges and universities in this coun-
try are u~nbusinesslike, according to the
report of an investigator for the Car
negie Foundation for the Advancement
OF Teaching. The investigator exam
ined eight big schools, paying particu-
lar attention to their business methods.
or lack of them. He Is not satisfied
with what he found. Among other
things, he says, there is little or no CO.
operation in the college world, and ex-
plains 1t thusly:
THE colleges are not only not or
gained for the exchange of help and
information and data, but as g. rule
1t appears they do not care to afford
1t. The broad reason for this difficulty
seems to be that the records of the col
leges as a whole and of individual de-
partments are inadequate and are so
lacking in uniformity hat any effort
on the part Of one college to help an
other is made with too much diff
Guilty"
Investigation OF the gas explosion
which snuffed out ten lives in New
York Monday apparently has shown
that it had its origin in mu.h the same
commonplace way as those minor ex-
plosions which result when plumbers
assistants seek leaks in gas pipes with
lighted candles.
1t Is said that an employee at the
terminal will testify at the ~coroner's
inquest that he permitted $4,000 feet
of the highly explosive vapor to escape
before he realized what might be the
consequence of his neglect and turned
the valve which shut off a further flow.
Such neglect would be criminal IL 1t
occurred in the open country and
j~eopardized the lives Of a mere handful
of persons, but In the heart of New
York city II is difficult to know how to
characterize it and make the charac-
terization strong enough.