Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-03


The beginning of 1911 was shrouded in
mystery hereabouts. The all but i'm
penetrable fog made it impossible TO
determine just what was happening.
Yet, despite 30 depressing a condition.
a large majority OF the fog-bound man
aged thoroughly to enjoy their holiday.
Americans 10 not feel the absolute
need, as is the case with more demon
the streets and squares to celebrate =
holiday. In fact, with the exception OF
the Fourth OF July. our legal holidays
are essential home holidays. They are
signalized by quiet home gatherings.
But that carnival spirit which 30 sur
prises Americans travelling for the
first time abroad IL not unknown here
by any means as the New York,
Thanksgiving and Halloween chill
dren's celebrations peculiar t certain
cities and the election night 1ollidca-
lions everywhere testify. Furthermore
with the growing flood OF immigration
comes tho continental carnival idea
There is room for 1t, but may It never
supplant tho home celebration.
.
It LIS not surprising that the mai
believed TO be responsible for an un-
signed magazine article entitled "The
Story of a Deserter'' should be wanted
on divers charges. The article is said
to have touched the sore spots 10 the
extent that an investigation was
ordered.
Two charges are to be made against
the author of the expose II he Is appre-
hended-desertion and theft. Consti-
tuted authority is always particularly
savage when the blow struck at 1t
comes from an unseen enemy. Whether
its sense of fair-play is outraged or
some consideration sways 1t canno be
determined offhand In each instance.
For months the New York police
sought tho author OF a series of sensa-
tional stories of the underworld Of the
metropolis in which emphasis was laid
upOh dAic6CQ dCdlo diQ Qii0Ck bl6hdAhSo
between criminals and the police. Nc
one doubted at the time the police
would need hesitate a moment as to the
charge they would bring had their
search been successful.
Cablegrams from Honduras indicate
that former President Bonilla will
ave such an easy time that his armed
attempt to regain his ONCE and power
can hardly be dignined with the name
revolution"
As was the case upon that celebrated
occasion when Napoleon essayed to
return from Elba to the dictatorship of
the Old World, the citizens and the
government troopos are iocking to the
standard of the invader.
Bonilla may find his ability to win
without striking a blow is not an un-
mixed blessing. Apparently the Span
ish-American character, as 1t Is de-
veloped In the tropics, must have just
so much political excitement. Accus-
toned to amend elections, as the Hon
durans are, they are likely to feel they
have been cheated If the present gov
m is overthrow quietly, and
may turn and rend Bonilla in a genuine
revolt.
Another professor goes far toward
getting us all wrought up by declaring
Venus is inhabitated. For q number of
years now one scientist after another
has been putting a population on Mars
or Venus, but after a vigorous discus
sion the proposition has in each In
been abandoned.
The difficulty lies in the fact that the
world at large is never quite disposed
to take the scientists word for 1t. The
from Missouri" attitude is never more
strongly defined than when a profess
sor, working single-handed and alone,
attempts to impress some big. new
discovery on a gaping world when they
can't see 1t.
If the d~iscoverer could persuade
enough reputable bona-fide scientists
to his way OF thinking the result might
be different, but these purely personal
= .a.totia,a oha.,f Nav. an4 yTA-xva a no