Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09

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BA 1921
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Before turning its too too fat
policemen loose on a cold world
Columbus. O., Is to give them a
chance TO make the weight. The
decision to fix a maximum avoirdupois
limit for the cops of the city, was
reached by the mayor recently. He Is
convinced that a policeman who must
be told whether or not his shoes are
shined is neither useful nor orna-
mental.
But Mayor Marshall is an official
with a heart, and realizing the suffer
ing which a drastic order cutting off
big fellows from the salary list would
cause he has generously offered them
the use of the gymnasium at police
headquarters. Failure to take off
every ounce of superfluous flesh is to
spell dismissal to the delinquents.
There is nothing particularly allur-
AAS q b - "a
lioeman, an those citizens of Column
bus who are on the alert may expect
to see some of the heavier of their uni
formed protectors surreptitiously study
ing the Beauty" and Questions and
Answers columns.
Lo, the poor Indian in Nevada OFF,
Gals in the State which boasts Reno
are said to have taken so little interest
in the reported massacre of fourteen
Indians that it was necessary for in
dividuals who wanted to see justice
done to take the Ease to Washington.
From the evidence at hand It was ap-
parent that the Indians were murdered
in cold blood by a gang of white horse
thieves. The man who reported to the
Nevada authorities the gruesome find
of the bodies is now believed to be a
member of the band of murderers. Yet
he was not arrested, and no effort was
made to investigate the crime and
bring those who were responsible for it
to Justice.
1t is difficult to understand how
racial prejudice which was the out
growth of local conditions could
exert any such influence as this. In
most any section of the country the
discovery of the bodies of fourteen dogs
and evidence tending to show that they
had been wantonly slain would force
an immediate and drastic investiga-
ton!
In the course of his annual report to
Congress, Secretary MacVeagh, of the
treasury department, w-axes-whether
unconsciously or no makes little differ
ence-humorous. In recommending
that the monetary question will come
into Congress detached from sectional
or political considerations, he says:
"Our system can fairly be called a
panic-breeding system, whereas every
other great national banking and cur
rency system is panic-preventing. AS
long as we continue under our present
system we are liable to panics. and the
devastations of panics reach Repub-
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the country alike. Panics are no longer
necessary and 10 longer respectable.
1t is for the government to say whether
We shall have panics in the future or
not. 1t is a mere matter of choice
Secretary MacVeagh has a few things
also to say concerning a statement at
tributed to senator Aldrich at the last
session of Congress. The senator from
Rhode Island, it was reported, sale that
a saving of $500, 600, 900 a year. The sec
rotary says in his report:
when it is a fact that the entire
ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment last year were less than $3.50, 000,-
900, n when a great part Of those ex-
penditures Is not reducible at all, as,
for example, the interest on the debt
and the pensions, one can readily see
that there is probably not very much
more than $500, 900, 900 gross left on
which to save $500, 900, 900. Now, to
effect a saving of $500, 900, 900, when the
whole expenditure amenable to any
saving Is 5000, 900, 900 is, of course, not
SO easy"
When the owners of the turbine
steamers Yale and Harvard, which
had been Used On the outside route
between Boston and New York, de-
cided to transfer their field of opera
ton to the Pacific, a feat of consider
able magnitude confronted them. 1t
was necessary to send the boats. built
only for a coastwise passenger service,
on the rough voyage around the Horn
at an unfavorable time of the year.
Whatever anxiety may have been
felt for the twin steamers during their
~perilous-or what might have been
perilous-passage was concealed by the
officers of the company owning the
boats. Nevertheless the telegram from
Los Angeles announcing that they ar
rived Wednesday in the wireless zone
t~wenty-four hours behind their SEIZED
ule was a most welcome one.
Raf1es de luxe. with such trimmings