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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
REFORM IN OUR TAX SYSTEM.

6T2 HE recommendations by the State Board of EQUALIZATION of
Taxes in the annual report made public yesterday will
probably receive scant attention from the Legislature next
winter and will be made the basis of future legislation. But the
recommendations do not go far enough into the subject, and, in
fact, an official board is not well qualified TO make an exhaustive
report on Il subject so intricate as that of taxation. Tax com.
missoners are not selected in this State because of their expert
knowledge and they are not experts on the subject. Our system
of taxation is faulty. That is acknowledged. How shall we re
form it? Not by Il few changes here and there. We must 90 to
the root. We must reconstruct the system. The Legislature
made one step in The way of reform by providing that property
should be assessed at the rate of 100 cents on the dollar. All
property is not assessed at that rate. but the principle is now
established and the foundation is laid for a comprehensive reform
of the tax system. That reform cannot be worked out by an
official board. The work must be committed TO qualified experts
and the plan adopted must in its features embody the best results
of experience in taxing methods.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
SATURDAY EVENING, 2. 1911.
M'NAMARAS, FOES OF LABOR.

7 was natural thai men identified with organized labor at first
fatty disbeleved the statement in the press dispatches from
Los Angeles that the two McNamaras. on trial there for
dynamite crimes, had confessed their guilt. Having implicit faith
in the innocence of the miscreants and believing that they were
credible to them that there had been a confession of guilt. These
men know better now. They know that the MeNamaras are the
malignant foes of the labor cause and have dealt i a serious blow.
BY their systematic crime they have outraged every principle
of humanity and shocked civilization. Even the Russian anarchist
or the fanatic Turk would shrink from such atrocities. And their
utter cowardice forbids any thought of the heroic. Think of a
man sneaking with a dynamite bomb into the alley or basement
Of a building occupied by hundreds of human beings and, after
depositihg it. sneaking out again to disappear, leaving the bomb
10 do its intended deadly work! Such a being is a monster of
cowaNicc and cruelty. And this malefactor, after he had muir
deed tNentYone innocent people. could, in his fanced security,
sleep and eat and plan other enormities. Generous labor rallied
10 the support of the McNamaras when they were apprehended
and indicted. II was unbelievable that they, as officers of a labor
union. were capable of such crimes; that they had killed 112 PEG
pie and destroyed $3.000.000 of property. II was more reasonable
10 believe that they we're the victims of a plot against organized
labor. Labor money poured into a defense fund. More than $500,
900 was raised, and sympathetic resolutions were passed by hun
dreds of unions. Organized labor was grossly deceived. There
is an awakening, and ii S a cruel one. Confession fixes the helish
crimes upon the McNamaras. Cornered by the proofs, foied in the
attempt to fix the jury, fearful of going to trial and convinced
that there was no escape from justice, the criminals confessed.
II was the besr they could do and it is the only redeeming feature
of their case; for il at once resolves all doubts in the public mind
and extnguHhes the growing fear that the execution of the Grim
inals would occasion grave disorders in industrial centres in the
E nitedIStates.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
Blame Her.

The Garden Street Philosopher was
looking pretty sium. His eyes were
red. his stomach ached and he was on
the bum. He'd smoked a dozen black
cigars for which his friends had paid;
he'd drank a glass of buttermilk n
one of lemonade. He'd eaten seven
scft-shelled crabs for luncheon at the
club, and yet he wondered why his head
was playing rub-a-dub-dub. And later
in the afternoon he'd had a beer or two,
a sardine sandwich and some cheese,
some olives and a few dry crackers
from the china bowl. When he got
home that night he told his wife: I'm
feeling sick; We lost my appetite. l
don't know what's wrong with me; I'm
very much afraid there was too much
saleratus in the biscuits you made for
me this morning. OF, yoi, yoi! nay head
will surely burst; you must improve
your cooking, dear wife, you surely
must
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Christmas Is Comm

Well, Christmas is comm and how do
| know?
1t wasn't a little bird that told me so;
But down on the corner-now, say,
don't you tell
I saw dear old Santa a-ringin' a bell.
When he stands round there I always
know then
That Christmas time surely is comm
again;
With his tinkling bell and the chimney
so red,
It's a mighty sure sign of Christmas
ahead.
1 knew it was he, I've seen him before,
| knew by his whiskers and red coat he
wore;
And mittens and wig and funny
peaked hat.
When I see him there I'm mighty sure
Christmas is comm, you cant foool me
more,
That same funny man, I've seen him
before.
With his funny red suit and bell ring
ing clear
It's a sure sign that Christmas will
quickly be here. G. w. w.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

NBoUT MEN/
@@OTNoW

Seeing a sign announcing a Rattle
for Poultry inside. DR.. Hugh F. Cook
proceeded to go inside and try his
luck.
He must have brought his luck with
him, for within one-half hour after
entering the place he walked out with
two large turkeys. bundled them in his
auto and drove away.
Wouldn't that beat allP' said one
man to another.
ut seems as though he beat every
thing in sight, but you see he's a doc
tor and can get away with anything
o. A. Clark, of Mt. Prospect avenue,
has purchased some more dogs. Mr..
Clark really mas enough now to start a
dogs gymnasium" lie thinks as
much of his pets as anyone in the fam
ily, it seems. It's seldom he goes auto
MODELLING or carriage riding that he is
not accompanied with several OF his
domestic animals.
Ever since it was announced that
was making an effort to buy the New
ark baseball club" says Frank Million,
OF the Velodrome, 81 seem to have be-
cone a mark for any person who has
anything to sell from livestock to
theatrical companies, to say nothing
of mining stock and oil wells.
1.-THE climax came the other day when
| got a letter from a man down in
Nicaragua who wanted me to invest
$1,000 in a rubber and banana planta-
ton. l might have stretched a point
at the rubber proposition, but tn:
banana end looked too slippery to me.
To much like a skin game, in fact"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
THE FARCE OF THE REFERENDUM.

GH HE vote in New York State on the seven proposed constnu-
Ii tionaI amendments is only another objectlesson to show
the absurdity of legislation by initiative and referendum.
All these amendments were of the highest Importance to the voters
and yet, while they voted fully for all the elective officers down
10 constable and justice of the peace, less than 80 per cent. voted
on the amendments. If ii had been a special election the poll would
not have exceeded 30 per cent. of the normal vote. And, moreover,
The vote was largely against the most important and best of the
amendments. These amendment propositions were intended to be
organic laws. the people being the lawmakers direct. How can
such an electorate be trusted to originate and pass statute laws of
lesser Importance? But we have repeatedly had the same object
lesson in New Jersey. In the last special election on constitutional
amendments in 1909 the total vote was only about 10000, as com
pared with 433,292 in The election for governor the year following.
Shall we have statute laws imposed on the State by the will of a
bare majority in an election in which less than 90 per cent. of the
people cast their ballots?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
Wise old Man.

The Garaden street philosopher was
racing for "A train-or maybe training
for a raee-he ran with might and
main. g.. He tapped his feet upon the
ground and raised an awful dust. "Oh,
/ must catch that S;16," he shouted,
yes, I must.
I'm feeling sick today and so my
wife she said to me; Just stay at
home today, dear Phil, and lave a
rest, said she. ] know from past eX-
perienee Just what my wife
by rest; it would be up to me to take
down all the screens. I'd have to clean
the attic out and beat the Turkish rugs.
I'd have to scrub the porch and spread
some powder for the bugs. And that
is only half the things I'd have to do
today. So I prefer to go to work and
get m. rest that way
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
May / venture to predict that the
Market street pavement will prove a
costly investment for Newark? My
reason for saying this is that it is be-
ing laid in weather that is alternate
freezing II thawing, and 1t has been
the experience of the writer that pave
ments Of asphalt, bitulithie or brick
laid on concrete foundations under con
ditions such as exist at the present
time do not last.
The concrete does not set properly
and. as a result, the surface of the
pavement soon begins to crack and
crumble away. *. G. NELSON,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
STEAMSHIPS FOR THE CANAL. TRAFFIC.

SIFa HE question of IA steamship service for the Panama Canal
route may be resolved in two ways, a governmentowned
steamship line or a privately owned line viii mail subsidy.
the ships to be built ON plans by the government, TO be Immediately
available for the use of the navy in time of war and readily trans
formed into cruisers or golfers. For the direct uses of the canal
the government will need several large golfers, as well as refrig-
orator ships, and these also will be at the disposition of the navy
department in case of great need. The Panama canal will be a
means of solving some of the long vexed problems of the navy de.
Dartment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
DINNER STORIES.

p. F. Jerome. the secretary Of the
United States Hay Fever Association,
said at the convention at Bethlehem,
appropos of certain unpleasant hay
fever symptoms:
These symptoms are often made
light of, but. for my part, l feel toward
them as the poor man felt in the dem
lists chair,
"Thi man had a bad tooth pulled out,
and, as soon as the paroxysm was over,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
he placed his forefnger on anothsR
tooth and said bravely:

he placed his forefnger on anotheS
tooth and said bravely:
'Yank this fellow, too. DOCTOR
But that's a good toothi' remon-
strated the dentist.
1t aches. said the man.
But, said the dentist, the pain il
only sympathetic
"'Yank it anyhow was the answer,
Darn such sympathy"
The curious effect sometimes pro-
duced in kilograms by want of pune
tuation or the omission of a single
word cannot fail to have struck
everyone.
Says a Brooklyn doctor:
I had a female relative living up-
state from whom l had expectations.
She had been ailing for ONE weeks,
when n morning came a telegram
asking my wife to go at once, as she
my aunt-was much worse. She ac-
cordingly went.
During the evening of the follow
ing day l received this diseoncerting
announcement:
"'Aunt Matilda went TO heaven at
$3.50 returning by 11;50 tomorrow morn
ing"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
Just By the Way

A Sure Cure.
What cure?" she wept, to her soul
apart,
For a broken heart?"
And her soul said-wise in the ways of
men
go and break it again"
Huh!
Miss Brown is not looking like her
self"
ooh, no. she never does"
Appropriate.
What is that three-pronged affair
represented in Neptune's hand in
NEUROLOGICAL pictures"
q dom know exactly, but I think it
is an oyster fork"
still Bare.
Before she was married she was A
bareback rider"
Il notice she dances that way"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
TOBACCO INDEPENDENTS DIFFER WITH TAFT.

ca HE petition by the independent tobacco companies for a writ
of mandamus for the United States Circuit Court to vacate
the decree approving the dsntegration plan of the tobacco
trust and asking that they be permitted to intervene in the gov
eminent suit and that the case be certified to the Supreme Court,
shows that however well the tobacco trust plan appeals to the
President and attorney general it is regarded as a mere evasion
of the law by large business interests that are vitality concerned.
And these interests ought to know.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Married or buried! How truly akin are
they.
Two of the gilded are Joined until
death today;
And the preacher read the right words
but the cynic just
Repeated the other service: Dust to
dust
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
SOCIAL NOTES
OF Newark and the Suburbs

There was a large attendance last
night at the first of a series of
dances arranged by the Atlas Club,
held in English's Hall, East Orange.
The ~patronesses were Mrs. B. Franklin
Bernstein. Mrs. Lorenzo II. Abbey, Mrs.
A. Lyman Fowler, Mrs. George S. Mat
nard, Mrs. Thomas r. Macksey and
Mrs. j. d. Ward. Those who composed
the committee of arrangements were
Lloyd f. Fowler. George s. Maynard,
Ralph II. Abbey. James F. Macksey
and Harold r. Ward.
-
Alden Freeman, of Mum avenue,
East Orange, expects to leave early in
January for a trip to Algiers.
-
Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Delta So
rority of the East Orange High School
will hold a dance in the Woman's
Club House, that city, on Tuesday
night, December 20. Comprising the
committee are Miss Bessie Cook, Miss
Elsie Crawford, Miss Ruth Dolbeer,
Miss Edna Dolbeer, Miss Fayette
Morse, Miss Hester Davey, Miss Normf
Burroughs, Miss Linda Berggren, Miss
Marion Holmes, Miss Carrie Ludwig,
Miss Margaret Seymour, Miss Amy
Ditmars. Miss Alma Binzen, Miss Edith
Conger, Miss Jean Jervey, Miss
Georgianna Middleton, Miss Ruth
Day, Miss Dorothy Nichols, Miss Hilda
Schoch, Miss Eleanor Neustaedter, Miss
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

to be thus honored,
and, too, he is one
of the Oldest lord
mayor London ever
had. having just
celebrated his S1st
birthday. The lord
mayor has nothing
to do but e the
robes of his office
upon state occa-
sions and hand the
municipal key over
to distinguished Wis
itors occasionally.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

received ordefS 1folll
General Lee to at
tack the Union army
which had been lying
a stones throw
away for four of
I've days. But stand
in line of battle,
the troops found no
foe more formidable
than squirrels to
shoot, for during the
night General Meade
and his troops had
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Please keep up your fight for the
quick completion of the Plank road. so
that the horses may have a chance for
their lives. AS it is today the road is
bad enough to kill every animal that
tries to pull a wagon over ii.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Collector Loeb, of the New York Gus
toms Office, will not employ women
stenographers. He says men are bet
ter for office work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Sir Thomas is a p old man, and 1t 1s
expected thai he will handle the robes
and key as deftly as his youthful pre-
decessers did.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

When you see the various kinds of
shapes that can get into bathing suits
you no longer wonder at the restless
ness of the ocean.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

A waterproof veil is the latest thing
for women.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

w. S. Gabel, of Beloit, Kas., cut
wheat, threshed it, ground 1t and made
biscuits all in thirty minutes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

What do you mean by a rank out
sider?"
Somebody who knows more of your
family affairs than you do
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
Easily.

Teacher-Wha are the two fercest
animals?
Pupils-Cats. fightin',
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Japan has more than 500 earthquakes
in a year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Freak Troubles.
eye won't be able to give the side
show tonight said the ringmaster to
the manager.
whats the trouble?"
The ossifed man went out and got
pilsihed, The human ostrich ate a Welsh
rarebit and has Indigestion, the
bearded lady's wife is dead and the
mermaid has sprained her ankle
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Sweden is 10Y making 5000, 900
matches a day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
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TODAY IN HISTORY.

December 2, 1863, the Confederates
concentrated at Mine Run. Va,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
IN. THE LIMELIGHT.


London's newly elected lord mayor,
Thomas Crosby, is the first physician
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
TIE PEOPLES
\ R9STFQN

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public and
invites signed communications OF
not more than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Happiness is a pleasure that lasts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02
MouId Censor MANY PopnInr SONGS.

the Editor Of the Evening Star;
I wish to say through your excellent
that most of the popular
songs published nowadays are, to say
the least, indecent, and should, there.
fore. for the sake of moral harmony
in young folks, be condemned.
JOHN p. DAVIS.
60 State street.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

MIR. Popp-Young man. will you be
able to provide by daughter with the
same ~luxuries to which she has been
accustomed? ?"
Mr.. Popper-YGs. sir, the very same
ones-if you are willing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Gladys Nichols, Miss Edith Butts, Miss
Katherine Hovey, Miss Virginia Hovey,
Miss Margaretta Morrison. Miss Annie
Williams, Miss Dorothy Kent, and Mrs.
Swift Trow.
Mrs. Bennett Bernard Schneider, IT.,
of 351 Hillside avenue, South Orange,
will entertain at dinner tonight for
Miss Anna Hornfeck, of Verona, and
Miss Eleanor Souther. of South Orange.
whose engagements were recently an
nounced.
Miss Beatrice Firth, of South Orange,
will give a tea on Tuesday afternoon
at her home on Ridgewood road for
Miss Eleanor South. whose engagement
was recently lot to w. Roy
Miles, of South Orange.
Mrs. Alfred Yeomans and Miss Yeo-
mans, of st. Cloud, West Orange, are
spending the remainder of the winter
in Chicago.
Entertaining for their daughter, Miss
Margaret Dunning, Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cob A. r. Dunning, of 81 Haywood
avenue, Orange, will give a dinner
tonight at the Essex County
Country Club. A pink color scheme
will be followed with carnations. Cow
ers will be laid for forty-two.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-02

Alden Freeman, of Mum avenue,
East Orange, expects to leave early in
January for a trip to Aleiers.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-16

A CHRISTMAS VISIT

daughter provided sofa in the sitting
room for this function Wen, must
admit that my snoring is out OF tune.
but when I'm at home nobody pays any
at my daughters l woke up after a
few lines of refreshing slumber and
found those kids standing around
looking at me as a man might look at
q pink ostrich In q menagerte. They
insisted that l should snore some more
1t reminded them of their Uncle An
drew's sawmill, they said Later in the
day some visitors dropped in. and
v as posing as a distinguished old gem
tieman of culture and refinement, and
those kids began clamoring to have me
snore again. SO the company could
hear. l never was I'D against anything
When l first went there they had
the idea that grandfather was gor-
geous sort of individual, superior to
ordinary human weaknesses, but my
stock slumped like thunder when had
an attack OF rheumatism and had to
sit around amounting my fetlocks with
ltniment- That reminded them that
old CATER Gooseman used to have
rheumatism and used to soak himself
with Hniment. and he went to the poor
house. Children always associate Ideas
together in queer way, doggone them,
and those kids came to the conclusion
that / was destined for the poorhouse.
They expressed their convictions to
other children, and those children
passed the story along, and SO 1T got to
be the talk of the town that l was just
stopping at my daughters temporarily
before taking up permanent quarters
at the poor farm. and my daughter
came in for lot Of criticism.
Well, inside of week those kids
had me sized UP as false alarm and
they began playing tricks on me, which
is thing / despise. When was taking
my afternoon nap they tied a string to
my shoes and then fastened IL to the
chairs and things, and when I got up
I upset all the furniture in the room
and made such a racket that my daugh-
ter came with her seven league boots
on When explained to her what the
kids had done she few UP and said /
must be in my dotage. for her little
darlings wouldn't dream Of doing such
a thing. she said l must have tied
that string myself.
II saw that 1t was time TO do a van
ishing stunt. so ] packed my kit of
burglars tools and left for home on
the first train Had I stayed just one
day I'd still be the high man with those
kds-"-Chicago News