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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
A COMMISSION ISSUE NOW.

IN NEW local issue for municipalities was created by the Legs
IA lature this year by the enactment of the municipal CON.
mission bill, and it has already begun to stir up interest
in cities and towns in the State. In Jersey City a commission gov.
eminent movement has been started and is given momentum by the
recent graft revelations. Newark has been considering the ques
ton of a commission government for nearly two years, and has an
deliberately drawn charter prepared, which, with probably some
changes, will be introduced in the next Legislature. So in this
city there is practically no issue, as public sentiment is almost a
unit on the new charter question. The present era is one of recon
struction of government and the next five years will witness marked
political changes in New Jersey.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03

High wages Cause Cr0esusPh woo.
To the Fditor OF the Evening Star;
I wonder If the STAR readers con-
slider that the high o 8 Of living and
high prices generally are due to the
exorbitant and bountiful wages that are
being paid to labor?
This is what the head of me Of the
Oldest established manufacturing and
mercantile firms in the United Sta -es
claimed in an interview printed yester-
day in a New York Sunday paper.
Here are some of the things this man,
whose opinion was cited as that of an
eminent authority, said:
Right now l should be in the West
buying from two to three million dol
lars worth of this years clip of wool,
but instead l have not bought a pound
of that staple, nor shall / do so until
the business sky clears. . = No
body is buying except on a day-to-day
basis. Everybody is doing a hand-to-
mouth business.
Recently I had occasion to order a
new evening suit from my tailor. He
charged me s10O-the usual price. When
/ asked him what he had paid for all
the material in the suit-cloth, silk I'm
ing, buttons, etc.-he told me II was a
little less than 1913. The disparity be-
tween the cost of production and the
charge to the customer was due wholly
to labor"
II this is a sensible specimen of a
business mans intelligence and logic
is business a very scientific process?
or Is business a matter of being able
TO see only one side of a question?
The materials of the dress suit cost
S2s. Therefore, this manufactures
thinks hal s7 went to pay for The
labor.
In the first place, a tailor who gets
500 for a dress suit and caters TO men
OF this business mans stamp. has 8
store on Broadway or soma equally ex-
pensive street and pays a rent TO some
Millionaire landlord travelling In Europt
or amusing himself with making more
millions on Wall Street. How much OF
shat s77 went for rent? Any of 1t?
Did the owner of the tasloliHg estab-
'ishment. who so affably explained that
s93 would owe the materials in the
suit, get anything out of the trans
action? The probabilities are that he
had a wife and family ami IN automo-
bile that ate well into thai s77. And
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
Proverbs, Prizes, Higher Benent,


To TIE Editor OF the Evening Star;
That proverb contest running in the
Evening STAR interests me very much.
I am a foreigner by birth. but have
studied the English language. I am
studying it yet. SO I hope you will par
don any mistakes / make in writing a
few words about the contest.
Many people just sit down n work
on the proverbs SO as to win one OF
those fine prizes. OF course, that is all
right, but to me 1t is a study in learn
ing more English as much as anything
else. II a prizes ome my way | will
take il.
BY learning more English in studying
the proverbs I mean that in this way
a foreigner can get at what may be
called the soul or spirit of a an
j guage much better than by regular
reading. That is because these
proverbs express ideas that we must
think about. When we look at these
pictures we must get the words to fit
them, and these words are so strong"
as l may say, that we will always re-
member them. Besides this the
proverbs almost always grow up from
the people, and SO we get to know the
peoples ideas. r. g.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
CANADIAN EXCLUSION OF THE NEGRO.

HS7 ANADA meditates a policy of exclusion of the negro. The
" ground taken is that he cannot become adapted to the rigor.
Gus climate of Canada and might become a public chaIg
He is, therefore, in the class of undesirable citizens. Until quite
recently the average Canadian rarely saw a negro. Small com
panies of the race have now appeared in Canada and there is pros
pect of a considerable influx of the race from the United States.
During slavery days the sympathies of Canada were with the negro,
and fugitive slaves sought and found asylumin Canada. Since the
civil war many articles have appeared in Canadian newspapers
deploring race prejudice in the United States and white discrimina-
ton against the negro, but it would appear in the policy Canada
proposes to adopt that the prospect of any considerable negro
population in Canada has completely changed the Canadian view.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
IAN INCONSISTENT MAN.
The hapless ladv was a. ub,s,

The hapless lady was at whist
Irresolute and weak.
1t seems she always would insist
On leading from a sneak.
Her play was nearly always bad
And always made her husband mad.
His constant nagging made the dame
Decide to Join a club:
And now it seems she plays the game
Much better than ner hub.
But matters stand quite as of yore;
Her play still makes her husband
sore.
Washington Herald.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
DIED AT THE WASH7UB.

IT. OOD'S "Song of the Shirt" is recalled to mind by the death
I5l of an overworked and overweight widowed mother of six
young children in our city. In illhealth, without means of
support other than hard labor at the washtub, this woman toiled for
her small wage until she collapsed from exhaustion and died. "In
a whole ctyful friend she had none" And yet Newark is a city of
charities and philanthropy. Fatherless and motherless, the chill
dren of this victim of poverty now become public charges. The
charity that could have saved the mother and preserved a humble
home will have to take care of her bereaved brood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
Just a Line
About Men
You Knou

Republican State Senator Herman H.
Breidt, from Illinois. who was an n
terested spectator at the procee Iings
of the Fourth Precinct Police Court,
was very much amused when he heard
a patrolman testify that a certain pa
tient in the City Hospital showed a
slight Improvement and that the i'm
provement was in his favor.
Corse Payton. whose company will be
seen in the Newark Theatre for the
summer season. cannot resist the temp
tation of coming before the curtain to
address the audience. Last night in
announcing the play for next week he
remarked that there would be thirty in
the cast. Thirty" he said; Just think
of it. Thirty for thirty cents. That
makes it a penny apiece, and surely
any of my actors is worth that"
Carl Schneider and big Phil" Nc
Manus, the members Of Sheriff Harri-
gan's staff who have charge of trans
ferring the prisoners from the county
Jail to the different penal institutions,
recently brought from the Jamesburg
Home for Boys a young pig that hal
been given to Schneider.
Schneider took the pig to his farm,
out Caldwell way, and tried to. bring
it up as any ordinary porker should be
brought up. But, according to Carl,
this particular porker isn't the regular
kind. Instead of roofing around hike
a pig. this one will search out bones
and hide them, like a dog, and will also
enaw on an old bone in dog fashion.
McManus went out to see Schneider's
pig OF Sunday and thinks it is a won
der. He is trying to induce Schneider
to go into the show business with him
with the dog-pig, or pig-dog, which,
ever it is, as the leading attraction.
Vice-Cbancellor Stevens has q social
side to His nature that one, seeing him
immersed in the endless technicalitles
ton, would hardly suspect. When on
the bench he is so taken up with the
subject before him that nothing short
of a sudden shout of "f1re!" could wreck
his train of thought. When the hours
of relaxation corne he can give point
ers to professionals at q game Of golf.
A local politician in speaking of the
frequent changes in the political COM
plexion of George l.. Record, told the
following story:
An Irishman in company with other
workmen was putting the finishing
touches to the roof of a church. when
he slipped and fell, rolling over and
over down the steeply sloping surface.
On his way down he passed groups of
workmen who heard him muttering and
mumbling to himself as fast as he
could. He rolled to- the edge and fell
downlto the ground, where he landed in
a big heap of sand.
The men hastily scrambled down,
expecting to pick up his remains, when
to their surprise they saw him pick
himself UP uninjured.
After a while one of the men asked
him what he was mumbling so fast
when he was falling down.
"'Shure an I was saying God, dlvil,
God, divil. I did not know where I
was going and 1 made sure be praying
to BOTH"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
UNOBSERVING

John. did you TAXI the note to Mr..
Jones?"
Yes, but I don't think he IA read
it,"
why so, John?"
Because he Is blind. sir. While
wur in the room he axed me twice
where my hat wur, and it wur on my
head all the time. '-Housekeeper
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
GREAT CAUTION.

why do you object to living in the
country" asked Mrs. Crosslots.
Because replied the girl who was
considering the offer of a position, "if
l live there 1t spoils the fun of going
into the country when my society gives
a picnic. w Star.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
GOING BACK.

who was that man who just went
out?"
THAT was a magazine scout"
Eth! What did he want?''
Hes working up an article which
will prove that the grandfathers of plu-
tocrats are usually undetected Grim
inals."-Cleveland Pain Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The People 5 Rostrum
F+4Es


The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public and
invites signed communications OF
not more than n hundred words
treating OF topics of the hour.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10

the Bundersat receive $4,000 a year
each.
The President is obliged to reside
at Berne, and the constitution com
pels him to abandon his profession
or occupation during his year Of ten
ancy, so that accepting the Presi-
dency usually means a monetary
loss; and unless the President has
private means, he is pecuniarily
worse off than any second-ratc
tradesman in the city of Berne
The position is only possible be-
cause the President is not expected
to entertain. The semblance of 4
republican court which exists at the
White House and still more so at the
Champs Elysees does not exist in
Berne The Swiss President may oc
.casionally be seen at the houses OF
the foreign diplomats; but he does
not entertain them in return.
Once year only the Federal gov
eminent gives a dinner to all the
diplomats in the capital and at this
toasts are drunk and speeches made
If the President is a rich man he
may entertain, but he does so in his
function Of citizen and not as Presi-
dent.
The President for 1911 is NJ Marc
Ruchet. NJ. Ruchet is a French
Swiss and a Vaudois, hailing from St.
Saphorin, near Morges, on the north
shore of the Lake of Geneva. He is
the son of schoolmaster, and, like
most Swiss Presidents, a lawyer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10

three sovereigns and Independent
cantons absorb locally most of the
functions of government, and leave
very little for the central Federal
government On most of those mat
ters which remain for the Federal
government the Bundesrat has no
final power The ultimate authority
is either the National Assembly"
which is Switzerland's Congress, or
the referendum in the shape of SUD-
mission of disputed questions to di-
rect popular vote.
The two chambers of the Assem-
bly,, sitting together, elect for three
years the seven members of the
Bundesrat; and elect for one year one
of them as President. No President
may take a second consecutive term,
but there is nothing to prevent a
President being reelected after an
interval. One Swiss citizen, NJ
Deucher, has been twenty-four years
member of the Bundesrat, and four
times President of the Confederation.
The Bundesrat-andt therefore also the
President-has no patronage. This
results from the system of electin5
to public offices.
The presidency is, strictly speak.
ing, an honorary" Office All that
the President gets is an allowance Il
1890 francs, or $4,000 a year. He
gets no representation or entertain.
ment allowance, and no official resi-
dence. The other six members OF
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10
OBScURITY BADGE OF
SWISS PRESIDENTS


BERNIE, May 29.-Happy is the |
country whose citizens do not know |
their rulers name. 1t is a pledge |
that no man hates him, covets his
Office or regards him as a tyrant.
Judged by this highest test of ma
tional happiness, Switzerland is Eu-
ropes paradise.
The ideal of a Swiss president is
the Greek ideal of a virtuous woman
he must not give rise to talk. He
is expected to live in decent obscur-
ity like a hundred predecessors
whose names, records, achievements,
virtues and failings are remembered
by no man. And when he has fin
ished his brief term OF office he is
expected to return like Cincinnatus
to his pillow, the pillow being, however
in the great majority of cases, a law
yer's desk.
The president of the Swiss Confed-
Grafton does not owe this happy OBJ
security to chance, but to the delib-
crate wisdom of the Federal Consti-
tuition, which, as amended in 1874,
was devised so as to deprive the
Chief Magistrate of as much work,
power, dignity and responsibility
as possible. There are 1913 articles
in this constitution vet only one
in the ninety-eighth-is the Office OF
President mentioned and then some
what casually, as if the holder were
minor official. The constitution
treats the President thus unceremo-
niously, because it is intended that
the President shall hold no distin-
gushing position.
The repository of supreme author
ity in Switzerland is not meant to be
the President at all, but the Bund-
esrat or Federal Council. This Bund-
esrat, which is the nearest thing
Switzerland has to a cabinet, con-
sists of seven elected members. or
these the President is merely one.
In dignity he is chairman of the
council and, therefore, primus inter
pares, but his power and RESPONSE
,bility are exactly the same as the
power and responsibility of his six
colleagues. Every single act of the
Federal executive government is I'M
dertaken by all seven collectively.
The Presidents duty is to sign
documents on behalf of the Bund-
esrat That is the beginning and end
of his specialized functions. In
every other respect he is merely a
member of the council.
The President is elected for only
one year, while the seven Bundesrat
members are each selected for three
years. The position of Bundesrat
members, therefore, entirely dwarfs
the position of President. The Bund.
esrat, not the President, is collect,
lively the real chief of the Swiss ex.
ecutive.
The Federal organization of Swift
erland is a reality, and the twenty
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10
CRUISE TO PLAcATE GERMANY.

CRUISE TO PLAcATE GERMANY.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 29.-The
Novoe Vremya, in a leading article
today, says that the present cruise
of the American fleet in the Baltic
Sea is dictated by the necessity OF
smoothing away the bad impression
created in Germany by the peculiari-
ties of the American squadrons visit
last year to England and France. The
administration of President Roose-
welt, the newspaper asserts, was
marked by a peculiar hostility to the
Russian Empire, and public opinion
then, owing to the skillful work Of
interested parties, also was hostile.
We" says the Novoe Vremya,
cannot attribute the direct political
meaning of the visit, and can
scarcely yet rely upon the truly
friendly relations of the United
States. Nevertheless, it would be a
direct inadvertence to miss the op-
portunity for Russo-American rap
prochement."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10
FALSE DECORATIONS


PARIS, May 29.-French weak
ness for orders and decorations
seems to remain unaffected by the
many impositions of swindlers of
late years. The latest case turns on
the alleged practices of a well-known
lawyer named Valensi, whose
mother is said to possess a fortune
of over $1,OOO,OOJ, and moves in good
society in Paris. Valensi has been
arrested in connection with the sale
of fake decorations.
The story of a practical joke
played by Valensi on the town of
Lille, while making a tour of the
principal cities for the purpose Of
establishing branches of his organi.
cation everywhere as revealed in the
course of police investigation, has
greatly added to the gaiety of Paris.
The order, sold by Valensi at prices
varying from 800 to over $1,000 was
called "The Red Crescent" and con-
sisted of rich Tunisian jewel sus.
pended from a red ribbon" which,
however no one was allowed to wear
in public.
A year ago, Valensi, accompanied
by a man described as Said Garden,
and claiming to represent the Gov.
ernor General of Morocco, went to
Lille to inaugurate the first provincial
branch of the organization. Both
Valensl and his companion wore
snowy burnouses. An immense and
sumptouous turban covered the head
of Said Garden, while a red fez gave
an equally Oriental touch to the
president of the Supreme Council Of
the Red Crescent" as Valensi de.
scribed himself
The delegates were received in al
most regal state by a number OF
prominent Lille personages, and en-
tertained at a semi-ofIicial banquet ~
the best restaurant in the city, After
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10

the banquet Valensi stepped on the
balcony of the hotel, where the Moroc-
can flag had been hoisted, and deliv-
cred an eloquent speech, telling how
he had not hesitated to quit the de-
lights of Mulai Hafd's Court to fur.
Their the noble work of the Order Of
the Red Crescent. Before leaving tho
city Valensi bestowed perfect
shower of decorations on all those
who had taken part in the entertain
ment.
Since Valensis arrest, the police
have found an alleged accomplice,
Corsican named Clement. The in
quiry, which is being actively pur-
sued, will reveal, it is rumored, the
existence of a wide intrigue, in which
many well-known and highly placed
men are said to be implicated.
A further arrest is that of NJ.
Meulemans, director of La Revue
Diplomatique, on a charge of having
aided and abetted Valensi Meulc.
mans is said to have sold forged
diplomas to several persons. The
police raided the Offices of the Revue
Diplomatique and seized a number Or
papers relating to the case
Meanwhile, according to the Lokal
Anzeiger, the scandal is said 20
spread as far as Berlin, where many
well-known persons have been lately
decorated with fake" orders, for
which prices ranging from $1,100 to
81, 200 were readily paid
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10
Parade of Sovereigns
English And German Sovereigns Seen
By London Crowds---Cheers Most
Marked For Kaiser---False
Decorations Dupe
The French

in full uniform covered with decora-
tions, bishops in their robes, officers
of the guard in scarlet, choristers in
SUPPLIES, notables in court dress,
velvet coats, silk stockings and silver
buckles; peeresses and fine ladies i'll
dainty laces and feathers all mixed
with curious Americans. There were
pubkeepeTs and their wives, and the
dingy casual of the street lightly
elbowed the royal carriages with
flunkies in scarlet and champing and
fretting horses.
That same afternoon the King,
Kaiser, Queen and Empress, with
their suites, drove in Hyde Park. By
five o'clock the gate at Hyde Park
corner was the converging point Of
the stream of people, who presently
concentrated themselves into a wait
ing throng.
Carriages and motors filled the
driveway and by degrees banked up
in series ranks right and left Horse
men and horsewomen and children
on ponies gathered at the merging of
the bride path into the Row, while
streams of omnibuses emptied
crowds of passengers into Hyde
Park corner and the lawns of Green
Park, which, besides Constitution
Hill, was filled with waiting men an /
women.
Still there was no crush. Still the
traffic moving along Piccadilly was
not interrupted. The quadruple
stream of omnibuses, cabs and mo-
tors swept along steadily with only
periodical pauses for the cross cur
rents
It was six-thirty o'clock when at
last the scarlet royal liveries came
in sight. To all except the front
rankers the royal liveries and the
scarlet ribbons on the horses heads
were the whole spectacle. They saw
only so much of the cortege.
Stumbling on Royalties.
There was really vociferous cheer.
ing for the Kaiser the next day At
the same spot as he passed with the
Empress. The crowd thus showed
it's appreciation of the German ruL
er's generosity in taking a second
turn about the park; and, instead Of
going out of the gate, many children
on ponies walking from the Row, an
bands of boy scouts with bare knee:
marched along to catch the imperia
eye.
The Kaiser wore a white top-ha
= and was very gracious. One Ameri
can remarked:
81 can't go around the corner with
, out meeting the King, Queen or EN-
, peror. I stumble on royalties every
where. Next to unfinished corona
, ton grand stands, clinging to tn,
, churches and monuments, and othe
T landmarks, boy scouts and omnl
? buses, crowned heads seem the mos
frequent street spectacle in London.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-03-03

the mats, the furniture and the pic
lures on the walls. He stood watch
ing her for Il moment and then asked:
We'll. what are you lookin' for-more
dust? 'Twon't be hard TO find IL.
Dust thou art and unto dust thou
shalt return Every time / go out
door and come In again realize how
true that is
Emily shook her head.
NO, sir" she said. 81 was thinking
that this room was different from any
I've ever seen. It's got good many
things in X that 7 never saw before,
bat | guess they're pretty after you
get used to 'em."
Captain Cy laughed aloud. After
you get used to EN-. hey:" he repeated.
Yes, sir. That's what mamma said
about Auntie divers new bonnet that
she made herself. Il was thinking
that you must be peculiar"
Peculiar
yes. sir. | like peculiar people. I'm
peculiar myself. Auntie used to say I
was the most peculiar child she ever
saw. P'raps That's why came To you.
P'raps God meant for peculiar ones to
i've together. Don't you think maybe