Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-06

fhiLleuiato aiu aud assistance may Ds
made. And now a little of that eau dc
cologne. II you please. There, we are
feeling a little better, but the shock
was something fierce.
The circus is to discontinue billboard
advertising the coming year. Circus
owners, believing that the charges ex-
acted by the National Billposters' As
ISOLATION are ext~ortionate, have banded
together and refused to pay them,
They have given their billposters their
ultimatum. They VIII cease using bill
boards.
Without that tfme-honored stimulus
to imagination and anticipation will
the circus be the circus7 Bereft of fas-
cinating advance pictorial representa-
tons OF impossible feats. ita a~lliterattve
array Of bleck-faoed mouth-hlling adj
J%ectives, a the CIRCUS surv1ve7
Would any small boy In any genera
hon which has witnessed the circus
since 1t acquired a menagerie have
been tempted to crawl under a tent or
to barter his chance of being President
for the price of a ticket by other
medium than this same billboard adj
vertising which Is now to be ADAM
doned? We wot not We wish to proph-
esy also that the. billboard will come
back. Circus managers tried the ex-
pertinent of abandoning the parade and
1t failed. This one seems likely to
meet the same fate.
Colonel Cocktails, who is building the
Panama Canal and therefore speaks
concerning IT al an expert, believes 1t
should be fortified. He was summoned
from the canal zone to talk to the
members of the appropriation commit
tee about this matter. n those who
are urging upon the President the
necessity OF terrifying the new arti-
fetal waterway hope he may make his
case seem a very strong ono.
II a poll of the men who are directly
interested In the work In the canal
one could be taken there Is little
doubt that they would be found to be
desiring fertilization almost unani-
mously.
THE idea that the navy should de-
fend h canal is a ~mistake-aIl nom
sense, In fact" said Colonel Cocktails.
The navy Is the offensive, not de-
fensive arm. In my opinion there ought
to be coast defenses to keep the enemy
out, and and defenses round the dams
and locks themselves.
IF any Notifications are to be built,
IL should like to build them myself.
Divided authority often leads to fric-
ton. We have an organization down
there that can DO the whole business
1t is not often that a case which is
everyday and matter-of-faot on the
police blotter develops such ~extraordi-
nary features as came to light in South
Bend, Ind, recently. Two men were
arrested for d%isorderly conduct. The,
that he found them shooting crap-an
ordinary enough complaint.
The fac that the game was being
played at the time the policeman
stepped in having been admitted by
both of the defendants. there seemed
to be nothing left for the magistrate
to do but pass sentence. He inquired
In passing what had been the stake,
and perhaps received the premier shock
of his judicial career when one of the
y1An ra1lsaA p1poba1auSI,x sGNx, rri9a !,
Further inquiry developed the fact
that the woman had agreed to abide by
the decision of the game. once the die
was cast, and go with that man who
o her. The situation seemed to war
rant the judge in urging the trio TO
leave town.
An assemblyman has introduced a
bill In the New York Legislature pro-
viding a pension Of $40 a month for
aged persons who are without mean
of support. He contends that not only
will the unpleasant features of the In
stitutions which now oare for the aged
and penniless be done away with, but
that they can be cared for cheaper
than was possible in the old days.
TT pow costs the State very much
more than $50 a month 60 support its
poor no said in introducing his bill
Much of that is graft. With $40 a
month coming in steadily a poor per-
son could get along fairly well and
would not have to go to al institution"
Such an experiment, which, by the
way, will probably not be made just
now. would be watched with the
greatest interest. No thinking person
will deny hat our present methods Of
caring for those who have fallen by
the wayside because of Illness or old
age are archaic.
No more will the intrepid navigator
Of the skies be forced to shape his
course by the unfamiliar landscape be-
meath him or the heavenly bodies above
him. A Rochester inventor has per-
fected a compass for aerial navigation.
The aviator OF the immediate future
may steer as straight a course as that
which the most scientific sea-dog maps
out for himself. The proposition of lay
ing out airlines alorfg the earth for the
guidance OF air sailors may now be
abandoned as absurd.
Scientists and aviators agreed after