Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-05
/ X THE EVENING STARS TWO-PAGE MAGAZINE

It is something of a coincidence that
the members of the congressional COM
mittee which has beer investigating the
Ballinger- Pinchot pickering should hold
a meeting in Minneapolis today, with
the Conservation Congress opening In
st. Paul tomorrow. It would be more
than a coincidence IL the committee an
nounced its decision before the opening
of the congress or before 1t is con-
cluded. For what the members of the
committee, however, consider good and
sufficient reasons 1t is altogether prob
able that the finding will not be an
nounced until after the congressional
elections.
VIII the day ever come when holiday
events may be insured against the
perversfty of the weather? VIII the
streets of the city Of the future n
athletic fields be provided with movable
glass roofs which Will enable the popu-
lace to laugh at the elements to
defy the weather man to do his worst?
Why not? Almost every one of Bel
lamy's dreams in Looking Backward"
which seemed ridiculous when the book
first appeared, have been realized. Why
shouldn't postponed on account of the
inclemency of the weather be some
day %relegated to a semi-civilized past?
1t Is intimated that Mr.. Clifford Pinchot
is studiously avoiding President Taft,
as he is to leave st. Paul before the
chief executive arrives to open the con-
~servation congress today. The Presi-
dem will doubtless be able to mask his
disappointment with a smile. Indeed,
considering Mr.. Pinchot's activity since
he was relieved from his official duties,
1t is just possible that he is one of the
men whom the President would care
least to meet under any circumstances.
So instead Of d%epriving Mr.. Taft Of
a pleasure MI. Pinchot by leaving st.
Paul is doubtless doing him a favor.
In consideration Of his past failures,
there has been a tendency t. make
light of Walter Wellmans proposed
journey across the Atlantic in a dir
igtbie balloon. But there is something
formidable and compelling in the
figures descriptive of the big airship
which is awaiting its trial trip in its
quarters at Atlantic City. The gas bag
Is 288 feet long, contains 345,0 900 cubic
power of 1880 pounds! Barring acci-
dents, such a craft should enable Mr.
Wellman TO be the first occidental air
skipper to discover Europe.
Parents Forgive Eloping Daughter
or son., as the case may be, is a head
line which recurs In substance every
day. And usually it epitomizes a pa
thetic story. What, pray, is there left
for the parents of In clipping youngster
to do but to forgive, wen though 1t is
e possible to forget that the elope-
ment is a crowning folly? And usually
the decision to defy parental authority
in a matter Of this sort testihes to the
thoughtlessness and ungratefulness of
the one making 1t, rather than to ju-
dicious independence In thought and
action.
Those motor warships, Sans smoke
stacks, sans superstructure, which Eng
land and Germany are building will, it
is said, send the modern navies of the
world to the scrap-heap. Innovations
in the line of fighting machines are
constantly doing that In the minds of
theorists, but in no other place. When
it is considered that the monitor type
of battleship has persisted since the
Civil War, modern navies would seem
to DO in no particular danger OF ak
tincton just yet.
POINTED.