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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
Excerpts the Geran Bill.

Excerpts the Geran Bill.
To the Editor of the Evening Star.
Now they have lone it. The Geran
bill has passed the House. and it
seems likely to pass the Senate. with
perhaps a few minor changes.
AT the birth of this republic of ours
the trainers OF the constitution thought
it was inadvisaple to allow everyone
to vote; so they made a property
qualification; they created a sort of
suffrage aristocracy. an aristocracy of
the dollar.
We have outgrown this, and now at
the instigation Of a man who all his
life has dealt with men and women
who necessarily had more than the
average amount of book learning a
bill is being passed which will form
practically an educational bar to all
voters.
/ can see 40 other purpose thar this
in a blanket ballot. This ballot does
not simplify matters at all. It creates
an aristocracy of the mind which will
bar effectually all low brows' who
nevertheless have a perfect right to
vote.
This man who through his official
position has forced upon the people a
bill that is as undemocratie as it could
be made has not had the training in
life that would tend to make him a
good judge of the effects of such a
measure on the people at large.
A person who has dealt with edu-
Gated persons all his life necessarily
begins to think that there is a much
larger number of such people than
really exist. All his education and
training have been such as to make
him least fit to Judge such a matter.
He is distinctly not a man Of the peo-
pie; he is an intellectual ~aristocrat,
and hat is as bad as any other kind
of aristocrat.
He cannot possibly take into &C
count the millions of people who will
be unable to vote after the passage of
this measure.
He cannot possibly take into account
the many intelligent foreigners who
have come here because of the right
Of every one to vote who will be barred
from voting, because they have not
been in this country long enough to
learn the language sufficiently to en-
able them to vote on a blanket ballot
that may c~o..tAin perhaps fifty names.
Some of these people are thoroughly
acquainted with the politics of this
country from papers in their own Ian
guage, who on account Of being forced
to seek a living are unable to study
English. What about these people?
More and more am / driven to the
conclusion that demagogues are as
undesirable in politics as they are II
all other walks OF life.
HOWARD MCCALL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
CANAL TOLLS IN NEW JERSEY.

IN MONG bills introduced in the House of Assembly is one that
~ fixes the tolls upon the Delaware and Raritan canal, which
is owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. The toll is on freight transported, while the bill exempts
canalboats and other vessels from the payment of any toll or tax
by the canal company. The canal tolls fixed by the railroad lessee
are sc adjusted that they cannot compete with the railroad. All
vessels passing through the canal pay tax to the canal company.
Traffic on the canal is therefore no more than the railroad allows.
Some time ago a legislative commission was appointed to investi-
gate the affairs of the Delaware and Raritan canal. Senator Snzer,
of Middlesex, was a member of the commission. Its work dragged
along for two years and the inquiry finally amounted to nothing.
1t was evident that the paralyzing hand of the Pennsylvania railroad
rested upon the investigation. The ratemaking power to be given
TO the new Public Utilities Commission will enable that body to
inquire into canal tolls, as we'll as all other public service rates,
and that inquiry might take in not only the Delaware and Raritan,
but the Morris canal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
poLYD0RE QUESTION BOY.

Question: would like to know
whether palmists can tell if people
are going to be married.? J. +. S.
Answer-No. But palmists can tell
whether or not a person will be deeply
attached to another, inasmuch as a
profound capacity for love graves into
the hand a channel in the form OF a
line.
Lines of this kind are called, lines
of Affection Sometimes there are tWos
three or more, each indicative of a
separate attachment.
Whether or not any of these attach
ments is validated by marriage is, OF
course, not discernible by a palmist.
whose province is merely that of a
reader and not seer"
Question-In one OF your articles
you said that people that have big
knuckles are slow. Now in another
article o say that iexibility indi-
Gates br~illiancy. If b~ig-knuckled fingers
happen to be flexible what is the re-
suit? STUDENT.
Answer-You have evidently con-
fused what / wrote about big knuckles
with something else. Not slow. but de-
liberate and analytical-these are the
characteristics indicated by big
knuckles.
And if such a person happen also to
have flexible fingers he will undoubted-
ly prove to be brilliant In his analytical
processes of thought. Although not as
quick as the smooth-fingered Individual,
Mr.. Big Knuckle does not necessarily
lag much behind for all his greater
thoughtfulness. For thinking, as is
%proverbial. is about the quickest thing
conceivable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
On Tuesday afternoon had the
pleasure Of hearing Rabbi Wise speak
before the Contemporary Club in Wal
lace Hall. / was greatly impressed
with the ~eloquence of the reverend
gentleman, but as greatly disappointed
with what should have formed the
background OF his %eloquenee, namely,
thought.
DIR. Wise attempted to tell the ladies
of the club how to abolish political
machines and how to obtain good gov
eminent. If he succeeded in doing this,
then the ladies know more about gov
eminent than / do, and have a great
deal more imagination than / have,
for it seemed to me hat the rabbi just
uttered well-chosen words and SEN
tences and paragraphs that were full
of wit and sarcasm and eplgrams, but
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
Proper Moving Pictures Not Harmful

Proper Moving Pictures Not Harmful.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
L have taken much interest in the
controversy going on as to the faults
and merits of the moving-picture show
and would like to voice my opinion.
AS 1 understand 1t, there is a city
ordinance which prohibits children I'M
der a certain age being permitted 10
view these pictures unless accompanied
by an adult.
If this rule is adhered to, cannot the
mother, older sister or whoever the
guardian on this occasion might be i'm
aigne from the program on the side
walk, whether the pictures are fit for
the %youngster? There is a lot of harm
done to children who are allowed to
visit places Wheie Wild West scenes
and tragedies are shown continuously.
On the other hand the same child
ought to be as much influenced by a
picture show of something good and in
spring.
The proprietors of these places should
be made to keep the law and not allow
children under age to visit the moving
picture show u~nescorted. Then it is up
to the relative or escort to pick out
the place where the pictures will not
harm the child. Very often a blood
a~nd-thunder picture might be shown
in the house that. the guardian picks
o1lf but the older OerSon will s11ralNy
have tact enough to explain the abb
surdness of the scenes to the child.
SO to me it SINNERS down to this, un-
less the law is being broken by pro-
prietors who allow children in the
places, or the guardians of the children
do not perform their duties. l cannot
understand how the (proper) moving
picture show can hurt the child.
ENFANT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
UNWISE STATE PHILANTHROPY.

11a HERE is a humane purpose in the bill passed by the Senate
giving a pension of 1866 a year to every INDECENT person in
this State afflicted with locomotOr ataxia, chronic rheumatism
or other incurable diseases. A law of this character, however, is
admirably calculated to attract to the State from other States and
from abroad incurables of all kinds. It offers a premium to af-
ficted persons to come into this State for residence, and, moreover,
there are municipal authorities in other States that are not above
giving aid to such persons TO remove out of their Jurisdictions into
New Jersey. The hospitals for the insane in this State have at
tracted many INDECENT insane from abroad, and legislative appro-
prattons cant keep up with the growth of these institutions. 1t
is not public policy to offer encouragement to indigency of any
kind TO settle in the State as a public charge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
Just a Line
About Men
You Know

Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott nov
knows how to be sure to get hold o.
Attorney Frank M. McDermit when hi
wants a conference with him. He
wanted one It the Court House re-
Gently, and hearing that McDermit was
in Judge Ten Eyck's courtroom sent
for him.
TELL him I'll be there in a minute
said McDermit.
Five minutes passed and Mott him
self visited the room in search OF
Smiling Frank" Ten minutes more
passed without McDermit in evidence.
Again Mott visited the courtroom
This time the tail silk Ia that is Nc
Dermlt's constant companion was lying
on the counsel table.
"Never mind telling McDermit I want
to see him. said Mott. Tell him to
come into my office and get his hat"
The pinochle championship OF the
Court House was settled when Jimmie
Reed and Gottfried Kunz, of Judge
0dy 4CI Lynn . SOdt
walloped Criminal Court Clerk Tom
hcLelland and Abe Lehrich.
The series was three out of FIVE
games, and a supper at Achtel-Stetter's
followed by a theatre party depended
on the result. After Reed and Kunz
had taken the first three games they
kept right on and took the other two,
just to show McLelland and Lehrich
that they did not know as much about
the game as they thought they did
before the series started.
John Nate, standard bearer OF the
Nate Association, vows that he and
autos are enemies henceforth. Mr..
Nste accompanied a relative yesterday
in the try-out of a new machine. They
got stuck in the mud somewhere near
Summit, END John had 10 pull dow
d fence % aid in getting the car out
If the mud.
Captain vogel. OF the Fourth Pre-
cinct, tells the following story: a
friend Of his had been going to a SCHOOL,
for stammerers about six months, when
the captain met him.
How are you getting along, Tom
he asked.
"W-w-w-w-ell," his friend answered,
81 h~-h-h-h-have l-l-l-learned t-t-t-to
s-s-s-s-say Peter Piper picked a peck
of picked peppers, ~b-b-b-but h-h-h-
In Observation-Disclosures c~-c-c-c-can a
m-m-m-man u-u-u-u-se s-s-s-s-uch a
s-s-s-s-entence in o-o-o-o-rdinary &C.
c-c-c-onversation?"
DR.. Hicks once attended a medical
meeting and something hat one of the
physicians said irritated him very much.
When he got recognition he jumped up
and said: 1.-THE gentleman who spoke
last reminds me of one Of the old
Mississippi steamboats,. This boat had
a six horse power engine and a ten
horse power whistle. Every time the
whistle blew the boat stopped"
A young woman walked into a Mar
ket street department store, stepped up
to the hoorwalker, and asked for hose.
I'VE have three kinds, madam" he
said: ladies, mems and garden"
oh" she said, 81 want to wear mine
to the theatre"
Two aisles to the left, please"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
About Short weights.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Have all Newark merchants suddenly
become converts to the creed of honest
weighing and measuring, or has it be-
come impossible for the city sealer to
procure convictions for dishonest meth
DDS? It is hard to believe thai there
is no acknowledging going on in New
ark, in view of recent exposures in the
STAR.
This is not an evil which is readily
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

shaken off. 1t thrives most when there
is the least publicity. Would it not be
a good idea to send one of your re-
porters on another tour of investiga-
ton? If he should find no violation
of the law. great indeed would be
Newark. If there are violations, we
would like to know it. Print them, and
the mere fact that they are printed will
do much to deter others from the prac-
tise.
Throw a little of the white light Of
publicity on dishonest merchants for
the benefit of those honest members OF
the trade who have TO compete against
them, and for the benefit of the III
chasing public. WAIT AND SEE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
Say. UB,e stick May smite wielder.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
That the Geran election bill, with
its many lopsided provisions, has been
adopted by the House is a sharp blow
at our vaunted independence. 1t just
goes to show how far the one-rnan
power can be exercised in politics,
State or national.
Through 1T all, however, I can see the
light. You remember, Mr.. Editor, how
one Roosevelt tmy! I nearly forgot
how to spell the namely once bran
dished a big stick at the White House?
And now? Why, there isn't a baby on
our block today that would even hug
a teddy bear"
Governor Wilson is fond of WELD
ing his big stick in the form Of patron
age, and yet some day it will prove a
most dangerous boomerang.
DICK.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
A NEW LIMIT FOR ALL RIVER POLLUTION.

pts HERE is little doubt that the Assembly bill prohibiting the
Il pollution of the Passaic river by sewage or otherwise after
December 81, 1914, will become a law. "A few of the thrifty
small communities have calculated that they can go right on sewer
ing into the Passaic after a trunk sewer is built without undergoing
any expense for sewer construction. This bill establishes a limit
for them for pollution of the stream, and if, after the trunk sewer
shall be in operation, they are compelled to make use OF it they
will have to pay dear for the privilege to the municipalities that
own the sewer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
WHAT?i

Bacon-And do you read the Sunday
papers?
Egbert-Oh, yes; religiously.-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
The People 5 Rostrum


The STAR extends the privilege
OF these columns to the public and
invites signed communications Of
not nor than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

Two members OF the Nereid Boat
Club, of Bellevil!e, saved George F.
Woolston. of the Kearny Light and
Power Company, and one of his en-
ployees from drowning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

With the aid of Roentgen rays and
tungstate of calcium, Inventor Thomas
A. Edison expects to be able shortly to
discern without photography every
portion Of the human body.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

The holders OF the first mortgage
bonds Of the Norwich Insulated Wire
Company, OF Harrison, have begun
foreclosure proceedings.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23

The box factory of John zipfeld. jr.,
on Eighth street, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth avenues, and eight ad-
joining buildings caught fire, causing
$4,000 damage.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
MARCH 70, 1896.

Mrs. J. Lawrence Bogss, u, has gone
to Washington for q six weeks visit.
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-09-16

was on the witness stand in the muir.
der trial her lawyers were in another
court asking $500 month alimony
In a divorce suit instituted by her
husband. The suit for divorce was
the sequel to the tragedy in the hotel
and was won by the husband.
The killing of Copeland was acct.
dental and occurred when Henwood
was shooting bullets at Van Phul.
Henwood and Van Phul were rivals
for the friendship Of Mrs. John w.
Springer, wife of wealthy banker
and stockman. She had entertained
both men in st. Louis, her former
home, and at Denver hotel, where the
tragedy occurred. 1t was inevitable
under the circumstances that bad
feeling should have been engendered
between them and this feeling found
it's logical ending when the men met
in the hotel bar-room. There are
conflicting reports as to the encounter
between them; but there is no dis
pute as to the fact that Henwood shot
and killed Van Phul and in doing so
inflicted a mortal wound on Copeland,
a young miner, who had no pc:t at
all in their quarrel.
Mrs. Springer's maiden name was
Patterson and SIZE was born in st.
Louis. Among ,.er schoolmates there
was Van Phul. Later in life he was
sutton for her hand, but she married
a man named Folk and divorced him
shortly afterward. Two years ago she
married Springer in st. Louis. They
at once came to Denver and Mrs.
Springer has been a social leader,
though much of her time was spent
with friends in st. Louis and at Hot
Springs, Ark. The Springers' home in
Denver was on Washington street, but
they spent much time at their beauti-
full country place in Arapahoe county,
and also had suite in the hotel
where the tragedy took place.
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-09-16

for the selling end of the business in this fashion,
this task is delegated TO his wife, his son or his
daughter Particularly in the Of the young
people do these periodical visits get to fill large
place in their lives. There are hardships to be
sure, not the least of them suggested by the fact
that usually the trip to market must begin ere
daylight in order to reach the city in time to
catch the trade Of the earliest marketers, but the
farmer folk who have acquired the habit Of
huckstering in this way are invariably loath to
give it up. Many romance too has had it's in
ception during the progress of the caravans Of
produceladen wagons to market or in the eX-
change of courtesies between the farmer folk
whose wagons are ranged closely side by side
in the congested urban market districts
In the sparsely settled and more isolated sec
tons of the country there are many odd spec
tacles incident to the transportation of produce
to market. In some localities where canals
yet in use the quaint slow-moving boats
ployed to carry the eatables and in the south one
may see donkeys, bullocks and all manner of
conventional steeds pressed into service to move
the foodstuffs. Just here it may be noted that
the od-fashioned colored folk Of the south take
as naturally to the conduct of portable market
stands a fish does to water. In a kindly eli
mate such is theirs most of the staple vege-
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-09-16
MURDER TRIAL ENDS
IN A LIFE SENTENCE
HENwooD GUILTY OF KILLING
AND WEALTHY WOMAN RE-
VEALED AS CAUSE.

Denver, Colo.-Harold Frank Hen.
wood, slayer of George e. Copeland Of
Victor, Colo, who was shot accident
ally by Henwood when the latter
killed Sylvester l.. Van Phul, the st.
Louis aeronaut, was found guilty OF
murder in the second degree and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for life
Never in the history of local tri-
bunals have the presiding Judge and
prosecutor been subjected to such an
excoriation as that pronounced by
Henwood when asked what he had to
say "why sentence should not be pro-
nounced." He characterized his treat
ment by the court and prosecutor as
persecution"
The trial of Henwood was repIete
with sensational features. Like many
other sensational tragedies there was
a woman in the case; and while she
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-09-16
LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA

"While attending school at Rebanon,
Ohio, In 1882, became afflicted with
boils, which lasted for about two
years. when the affiiction assumed the
form Of an eczema on my face, the
lower part Of my face being infiamed
most Of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch 1t
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open,
the place would scab over, and would
burn and itch so as to be almost I'M
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place'to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part Of my
face would be solid sore. This con-
dition continued for four or five years.
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, SO much so
that my wife became alarmed lest 1t
prove fatal.
During all this time OF boils and
eczema, 1 doctored with the best ply
sicians Of this part Of the country, but
TO no avail. Finally l decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which l did, TAX
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
ing. In a very short time l began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until / was
we'll again, and have not haS re-
currence of the trouble since, which Is
over twenty years. I have fecom-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith In
them as remedies for skin diseases"
(Signed) A. G. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, o., Jan. IT, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere, sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cura," Dept. 8 X, Boston.
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-09-16
PASTIMES OF THE PAST

for it said that the wtchery of archery, no
matter how poor the score at the cheese box tar
get, was great helper on of Cupid, and many
marriages followed.
The writer has seen the archery game played
on several occasions, once the grounds Of the
Knickerbocker school, with only girls engaged
what morbund affair it was!-and once, on the
same grounds, with a detachment of young gen.
tlemen-wth what delightful difference!
But the archery game not to last 1t was
at last to join the grace hoops, and for time its
most ardent votaries were fain to solace their
grief with the game of croquet and its melancholy
dawwdling
When one looks back to that day, with its lady
like amusements, one but wonder at the
astounding progress made by the sex in outof-
door sports. Now they shoot at a target or at live
game, either, no more with blunted arrows but
with revolver and rife; they play golf SWIM pad
die canoes, play basketball even play baseball,
after fashion; ride astride like their brothers
what horror that would have been in the days OF
their mothers-and do anything that any proper
young might be permitted to do without the
slightest censure and quite matter of course.
Yet, there was something in grace hoops that
may be fondy cherished In ones memory along
with the dear old plush album, to which you con-
tributed your picture and some verses-and there
too, lingering in memory, the doleful cadences
of "Lorena"