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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
A COMPLICATED SITUATION.

There Is no way in which the admin
istration at Washington can Consistent
ly make war on the so-called insur-
gents. Every reason given TO sun
port the childish policy of depriying
these members of their patronage acts
as q two-edged sword. These men
are for the Roosevelt policies. which
the President is pledged to support
and was elected TO carry out. They
also are for all the genuine reform
measures the President has announced
on his own account. They are faith
full to the party platform.
Yet the President is said to have in
cined his ear to the argument that IL
these men are given any encourage
ment, and aid, they may hamper his
administration, because some time thew
might be found lining up with the
Democrats against him.
Or course, this would be a friehtful
sln-f committed by the insurgents.
Yet hardly so frightful as was the
corrupt job by which the reactionarv
organization, in order to win it's rules
nght last spring, bought, for political
considerations of the most disgraceful
KIND, the support of a number of Dem
ocratic members.
The situation is complicated. and
IL Is mighty shard to write messages
or frame policies to fit it.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
Looking Down On YuAiv

or all villainous roads, those out
sloe OF Skutari are the most depraved.
They are not roads at all. but lust
washes and wallows and bitches and
stone gullies. l have seen bad roads
in Virginia, roads surveyed by George
washington and never touched since.
but they were a dream of luxury as
compared with these of Turkey. Our
carriages billowed and bobbed and
pitched and bumped themselves until
got out and walked to keep from
being famed for life.
And then the houses-the villas I
had expected TO see; dear me. how
can l picture those cheap, ugly, I'M
painted, over-decorated architectural
crimes? They are wooden and belong
TO the jigsaw period gone mad. They
suggest an owner who has been too
busy saving money for a home to ac-
quire any taste, who has spent his
savings for lumber and trimmings.
and had nothing left for paint. Still
ne managed to reserve enough 10 put
iron bars on his windows-that is.
on part OF the house, the harem-
every man being his own jailer. as II
were. / remarked:
Il suppose that is to keep the neigh
oors from stealing their wives"
But the horse doctor, wiser and
more Observant. said:
No; it is to keep a neighbor from
breaking in and leaving another"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
DENIES DEATHS OF
BABIES ARE PREVRNTABI.R
RICHMOND w.

K 1 c H NJ OND, VAS ecGL-
Chief Health OFFICER Ivy this
morning, in discussing the application
made by the Board OF Hearth TO the
Finance Committee OF the City Coun-
ell. denied the published account 70
the effect that five-sixths OF the -destnn
or infants under twelve months Old
were preventable. ~
Il did not make that statement.
he said, and the only thing I said
including such a percentage was that
ABOUT one infant in six died before
reaching the age of one year would
not say that one-siSth OF the deaths
We're preventable."
The board asked for $2,50O to be
expended in the employ of expert
ehced nurses who would instruct
mothers upon the care OF infants
believe" said DR.. Levy further.
that II would reduce the percentaw6
OF deaths, but l certainly could not
say 10 what extent"
Last year the Health Departments
received reports Of 2,S39 births in the
city and 525 deaths. Tt Is logicallv
estimated that about enough births
were not reported to make the death
rate one in six, or about is per cent
or these births 1866 were white.
The deaths were 230, or about one IL.
seven.
There were 1,163 colored births ann
295 deaths, or about one ia four
This difference is one proof OF the
claim that the deaths are due to che
lack OF proper thought, or care. even
though unintentional, and a convincs
ing argument that the infant mortal
ity can be made smaller.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
Not the Least Alarmed.

The last time l was around here
L was telling you about the comet. "
said the tourist.
remember, boss grinned the
treckled lad on the fence.
Didn't brighten you much?"
Not bit. stranger
Well, listen. Since then I have
found out that the comet will be equal
10 twenty full moons"
Good news, by heck! Tharu be
more spOOnin' than ever. da won't
nave to burn so many candles. and
the mules can feed at night and work
twice as hard in the daytime"
You seem to be a good prophet
Dub. Do you know the tail of this
comet will sweep the earth next Nav ?''
That ought to please ma, sir. be-
cause May is housekeeping time"
You seem to be the limit. young
man. Suppose you awake some morn
ing and find there is nothing left but
the farm?"
Just what I am thinking, stranger.
President Taft says, Young man. stick
to the farm and / guess In that case
I'd have 10 do it,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
Travelling With Taft.

Alfred Henry Lewis, in the January
issue OF Human Life, continues TO
throw the pitiless searchlight Of truth
on men high in the councils at Wash
ington whose hands pull the hidden
wires OF things political.
The story opens with the stealthy
visit by night of a trust yacht TO the
shores of Beverly, the landing OF four
men, and their very evident desire
TO keep their visit TO the Presidents
cottage a profound secret Their
names VIII cause the reader to sit up
and take notice. The writer refers
to one of them as That careless one
who wrote letters TO Standard oil
Archbold. comforting that little grimy
thumb of Satan with tales of how he
was frightening Mr.. Roosevelt" The
leader of the quartette he describes as
The right hand OF money to smothe
congressional Investigations of its vii
ianies, and forge what law tools are
needed to carry on its rapines"
This is the first time in print that
the tale of this Beverly secret confer
ence has been told. but it gives the
key to much that President Taft was
moved to do and say on his tour.
All the devious counsels that decided
his route, and the why's and where
fores are clearly and mercilessly
shown-why the home city OF Sena-
tor La Toilette was omitted and why
that Of Mr.. Tawney was included.
The amazing powers welded at the
Capitol by the moneyed interests are
shown. and how rebellion In the
House from the dictates OF the AFRO
CANT trusts is suppressed with an iron
hand.
The January installment of this Sc
ries closes with the Presidents leave
taking at Milwaukee-the next issue
takes him TO Winona
Mr.. Lewis does not hesitate to call
a spade a spade. and the article is
written In his inimitable and pictur-
esque style. literally spiced with hu-
NOR.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
SCIENTIFIC BABY
IS The new PLAN
Chart System and Absence of Cuddling
Gives Promising Results.

One college woman who decided to
raise her child on scientific principles
mas demonstrated at the end of the
little ones second year the fallacy of
the statement 80 often repeated that
college women are untitled for moth
erhood. Her boy-a scientific baby In
all the word implies-is today far SUI
perior, mentally and physically, to
children OF his age. and he promises
ne highest development of sturdy
manhood when he comes to maturity.
The mother. Mrs. William Moves, de-
termlned early to fCrego nearly all
the manifestations OF motherly afrec-
lcn, such as cuddling, kissing. exhibit
ton, and fine garments. and to devote
her energy and thought entirely to
conquering the petty ailments incident
TO infant life and to building up
strong body with a correspondingly
acute mentality. She began by eXer-
clsing the baby in his second month;
by limiting his food to Just enough
and no more" and 10y keeping him in
the open air as much as possible.
Results showed themselves imme-
diately AT > months the boy. Leon
ard weighed y pounds, 1-2 pounds
more than the average; at months
he was p pounds above the average.
and he rarely lest this gain.
The average" babies observed by
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
ARE FLOCKING TO
The HOLY LAND
New Regime I'm Turkey Causes Influx
OF Hebrews TO Palestine.

Letters from Jerusalem say that the
proclamation OF the constitution in
Turkey has thrown open the doors OF
Palestine to the incoming of Hebrews
from all parts OF the world. In Jeru-
salem alone four-fifths OF the poulation
OF 100000 now belong to the Hebrew
faith, while at Jaffa, Tiberias, Safed
and Haifa Hebrews are reckoned by
tens of thousansc
Almost the whole extensive plain of
Esdraelon has been bought up by
them. Their prosperous colonies
spread from Dan to Beersheba, and
even farther south to the outskirds of
Egypt Thousansd are escaping from.
Persia to find shelter and protection
in the Holy Land, while every ship
from Odessa carries hundreds of them
The valley of the Jordan, once the
property or the ex-Sultan Abdul
Hamid, is being eagerly sought after
Dy Hebrew capitalists and syndicates
or Zioniets, whose agents. distributed
all over the land, are buying IN rich
properties Of Mohammedian offenders
whose incomes since the revolution
are considerably lessened.
The Holy City is essentially a Jew
ish town. Banking, as well as trade
and commerce, is monopolized by
Jews. The government has found il
necessary to organize a company of
Jewish gendarmes. Hundreds of
thousands of pounds are sent annually
from Europe and America to enable
the colonists to build homes, hospitals
schools, and invalid homes. Over 100
Jewish schools already evist in Jeru-
salem alone, and synagogues are go
ing up everywhere
The value of land has risen fourfold
The ignorant and poverty-stricken fell
laheen are being ousted from their
homes and villages by the sharp Euro
pean Hebrew settler, whose modern
agricultural implements and methods
have made the land produce harvests
never beforeS dreamed of by the ma
uves. The Anglo Palentine Company.
Zionist banking and commercial en-
terprise, is pushing the cause of Is
rael with great determination.
The racial excInsiveness Of the Jews
and their clannish proclivities are
arousing the opposition of the Otto
mans, and the Turkish constitutional
regime has in this question one of the
greatest problems that a new and pa
triouc government ever faced.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
A POOR MEMORY.

A Canadian farmer, noted for hfs
observation-disclosures, went to town one
day and transacted his business with
the utmost precision. He started on
his way home, however, with the firm
conviction that he had forgotten some
thing, but what It was he could not
recall. AS he neared home, the con-
Vlcuon Increased. and three times ha
stopped his horse and went carefully
through his pocketbook In a vain en-
deavor to discover what he had for
gotten In due course he reached
nome and was met by his daughter.
who looked at him IN surprise, and
exclaimed, Why, father, where have
you left motherT
-Ies1ie'a
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
VAN NORDEN ROBBERS
NOT YET LOCATED
DETECTIVES UNABLE TO FIND
BILLS WOMEN TOOK FROM
VAN NORDES,.

NEW YORK.-Special-
ters detectives said Thursday that as
yet they had not been able to discover
any of the $4,000 in large bills. which
were taken from Warner NJ. Van Nor
den by two women, who held him nm
near midnight last Wednesday, in East
Ihlrty-third Street, near Fifth Ave-
nue..
May Williams and Bessie Roberts
the two women whom the detectives
nave arrested and held on Charges of
highway robbery and whose cases are
10 come up for hearing in the Jen2r-
son Market Court tomorrow morning
nave shown no disposition to admit
that they took Van Norden's money
or that they know where it is.
Frank Dowdeil. the man who saws
that he is the husband of Bessie Rob
erts' and who was held as q sGS6f-
cious person by the detectives. has
been allowed to go Nothing that no
told the headquarters men threw any
light upon the case
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
NOT FOR UNIFORM
DIVORCE LAWS
Would BE Bad Arrangement From New
York Point of View.

The meeting at Washington of the
commissioners on uniform State legis-
lation is an occasion for the renewal
on the part OF many thoughtless per
sons and ignorant journals OF the agi-
tation for the enactment of a uni
form divorce law by all the States or
an amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton which shall empower Congress to
enact such a law
The objection TO this project was
we'll expressed some time ago by Chief
Judge Cullen. Of the court of appeals.
in an address before the Brooklyn
Law School of ST. Lawrence UNIVERSE
~, in which he expressed the appre-
hension that a uniform divorce law
would of necessity be a bad law from
our point of view in New York.
In this State we permit absolute di-
vorce only for one cause, marital in
fidelity. In most OF the other States
many other causes are recognized as
sufficient to warrant the dissolution
OF the marriage tie. A uniform di-
Norce law would have to be framed
in accordance with the views on this
subject which prevail in majority
OF the States. and hence il would be
condemned as bad law by public
opinion in the State of New York.
The people of this State would never
agree TO the lax divorce laws which
prevail in the neighboring Common
wealth OF Massachusetts or in Connec-
ticut or Vermont
So far as the causes for divorce are
concerned, we think each State should
be left free TO legislate for itself. and
no attempt should be made to secure
uniformity. What the country needs
is not uniform divorce law. but a
uniform law of divorce procedure. 1t
is only necessary that each State shall
prohibit the exercise of any jurisdic-
ton by its courts to grant divorce
except in cases where the marriage
took place or the defendant was serv-
ed with the summons within that
State. Such an enactment would leave
every State untrammeled as TO the
causes which il deemed adequate for
divorce and would practically put an
end to fraudulent divorce suits; fraud
ulent, we mean, because resulting in
Judgment dissolving the marriage
without the defendant having had any
real notice or any real opportunity to
defend
A uniform law OF divorce procedure
is within the practical possibilities.
We are equally convinced that a uni
form law prescribing the causes for
absolute divorce is not
-NetO YORK Sun.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
CHANGES IN THE
BRITISH NAVY
Show Recognition of Specialization
and of Younger Officers

Inc new year promotions i'm the
English fleet must constitute some
what grim and pathetic reading to the
hard working younger officers of our
own service who linger so long at the
sheer pole. Eleven commanders have
attained past captains rank. at an
average OF 81 years-not of service
but or age, the oldest being Al and
the youngest 80. Think in these DAYS
OF mead winds and adverse currents
OF captain OF 30 in our navy!
The other notable fact in this selec-
ton is the recognition given to spe-
clallzat1on. Seven Of the new captains
were either gunnery or torpedo Off
GERS, while only two were navigators
and but one sole and solitary nonspe-
cialtst appears In the list Capt. Low
Their Crofton, pleasantly remembered
here as flag commanded to that fine
sailor Sir Edward Seymour during the
huoson-tulton ceremonies, has attain
ed MS new grade at 80, thus jumping
over the heads OF 80 seniors and. luck
lily favored by a fair tide, with a sure
chance of securing flag rank at an
early age.
The promotions of lieutenants to
the grade OF commander are equally
noteworthy In the advancement of
gunnery and OF torpedo officers, a par
tlcular efficiency In battle practice
evidently constituting a strong claim
10 the remembrance Of the admiralty
Inc salt horse and weevilly biscuit"
suoalterns have Jared not nearly so
well, and this to US seems a queer dis
elimination. The oldest of new com
manders is 30, the youngest 81, and
here as the immortal Squeers has
II, here is riches" The ages at which
these command ranks are reached in
the British and Japanese navies seem
rather immature to us. But after all
IS said and done, and recognizing the
new responsibilities, are they. on the
WnoIe, so very young New York
Herald.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03

1t is difficult to realize the immense
proportions to which the automobile in
dustry and the use of automobiles have
grown in this country. II you stand on
one of the thoroughfares of travel
leading from one of our great cities,
you can sometimes count as many as
thousand cars passing on a Sunday
afternoon-Arepresen probably, an
expenditure of 100000 or more. II
has been roughly estimated that $50, 900
cars of all types will be manufactured
in this country during 1919 really
sJupendous number.
The interesting facts in the automo-
bile situation at the beginning OF 1910
seem to be, briefly, the following: More
machines are being manufa ctured than
ever before, Indicating a steadily in
creasing use of automobiles: fewer ma
chimes are being imported. owing large
~ 10 the Improvement in American
made cars. and the greater facility with
which they can be repaired: the va
rious makes are becoming still further
standardized: better and more uniform
automobile laws are badly needed; the
good roads movement has received new
life, and an automobile route from
Washington to savannah and other
roads In the South and West are pro
Jected.-country LII In America.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
The sunken Battleship Maine.

a Woeful recollection clusters 'round
the sunken Maine
SoDolng in Cuban waters as q moth
er in despair;
weeping in awful anguish who fair
would revive again
Inc spark or life that nestled on her
breast till death came there.
In ghoulish glee the vandai waves are
gnawing at her side.
While Neptune Kisses at the rnoaps
- that issue through her keel;
The martyred lives, whose rafting
bones make playthings for the
Hold solemn vigil in the brine as
coils OF Time unreel
They did their duty-daring death-in
freedoms noble cause;
Each life snuffed out in ghastly
haste appeals to Humankind
BaSkiDg under the banner which up-
holds enlightened laws,
Riven through gloom and hardshin
as star or hope OWNED.
Think ye u grave in battered hull sub
merged in foreign foam,
A Just reward for bravery, or fit
ting to the free.
Lift her up with the faithful dead and
bring the old scout home.
10 mingle with soil OF kindred dust
until eternity.
In this broad age OF grand desires how,
selfish is the thought.
That passes lightly over a forlorn
gigantic gloom,
Where men all flushed with triumph
on mission calmly sought.
Are swept like sale-tossed atoms to
a dire, Internal doom.
savage ire in human form leaves
mournful ghosts behind.
Which haunt the peace Of future
years, yea, stunt the heart and
b2ain,
OF risinS generations that incline to
shape the mind,
In heather grooves where midget
views grow rooted. wild and
vain.
The price of pearl was sadly paid that
Cuba may arise,
And walk in ways OF freedom which
the martyred Maine and souls.
Inflated off Havana, shall forever
symboliZei
In honor of Old Glory and the peo-
pie il upholds.
GEORGE SANDS JOHNSON.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03

human life ever justifed2 Aside from
lesal homicide. such as an electrocu-
tlon' the physician is sometimes con-
Ironted with the problem of saving a
human being uncomfortable torture
Dy giving grain of morphia. Take
railroad accident The physician
Is race to face with a human being
penned under a train and suffering
agony. One grain of morphia will end
II all. 1t is not uncommon for a nhv-
stefan to have to face this situation
and l Will say that under some Giro
umstances he is justified i'm using his
Judgment and giving relief in the sem
biance of death to the sufferer"
DIR. Spitzka was asked what he
thought OF phrenology. He replied that
the 'so-called science" was in error.
He denied the theory of criminal
brains.
Examinations of brains by the Lom-
broso school shows that great crimi-
nails have finely developed brains,
AFnlle In many cases the so-called
criminal brain had been found after
death in people whose lives were NOR
al and lovable.
Another statement of the physician
that fathers over so years old produce
most moral and religious children
caused the clergymen to gasp.
Children of fathers over 80 years
old are usually cyclists, military. and
aggressive" he said. Those born Of
fathers between 40 and so years are
philosophers and thinkers; but the
nnest moralists, religious teachers
and philanthropists, such as BENJAMIN
Fran klh4, were born after their faith
ers had reached the age of so years"
New York World.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
MAKING WAR
, ON The SPARROW
but biological Survey Says Its Flesh
Is Very PalatabIe.

Persons living in Bloomfield. Ha-
worth. Summit. or other villages about
New YORK, must not be amazed AZ
they md their next door neiRhbor
out on his lawn on a frosty night with
the garden hose unreeled. and dis
charging jet of icy water into the
creVices and caves of his house. Nor
must he be astonished in the warm
spring nights TO come IL his usually
sedate neighbor is discovered discharc-
ing small Roman candles into the
vines he has sedulously cultivated and
draped over his front veranda. He
VIII only be seeking to drive out the
English sparrows, after a method sua-
gested by the biological survey, and
puoIlshed Dy the Department OF Agri-
culture as a farmers bulletin
1t is new thing to find the bfolog-
lcal survey the enemy OF any bird but
the scientists of the survey wholly and
unreservedly condemn the English
sparrow. They say that IN it's ecopo-
mic relation the English sparrow.
among birds, is comparable to the
rat among mammals, and call II cum
ming, destructive, and filthy.
AS an incentive to the thrifty house
holder 70 destroy English sparrows.
Ned Dearborn, OF the biological survey.
urges that their flesh lis palatable and
nutritious, and I'm city restaurants they
are often served under the name OF
reedoirds.' English sparrows are not
protected by law in the United States.
and may be killed by any means any
where at any time, and in any num-
bers.
The English sparrow was introduced
into the United States about so years
ago, and is now distributed generally
over the Eastern seaboard and South
ern Canada, and locally westward to
the Pacific coast. This rapid dissem-
nation is result of the birds hard
mess extraordinary fecundity, diver
slty OF food, aggressive disposition, and
almost complete immunity from natu-
raj enemies through it's sagacity and
its preference for thickly settled com
munities.
N. 7. Evening Post.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-03
JUSTIFIES The
TAKING OF LIFE
Brain Specialist Tells When Murder
and Suicide Are COmmendabIe.

DR.. Edward A. Spitzka. the Noted
brain specialist of the Jefferson Medi-
cal College. declared at a meeting OF
the Protestant Episcopal Clerical
Brotherhood that murder and suicide
were at times justifiable."
His assertion. which caused a sen
sation. was made in reply to ques-
tons put by clergyman after listen
ing to an address by DIR. Spitzka.
There are times when murder and
even suicide appeals to a normal mind
as justifiable, breaking no law and
perhaps the only human way out of
a horrible situation" said DR.. Spitzka
Take, for instance. a soldier who
is to be hanged as a spy or mutRated
by barbarous foe. He knows there
is no escape, and, armed with a weap-
on, kills himself | think this case
is justifable suicide.
Nov, in answer to the other Ques-
ton, Is the taking or ending of a