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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
Return of the Individual.
the Chicago Journal.


The cottage plan of schools, now be-
ing tried with such success in some
parts of Colorado. is another evidence
Of the way the current is setting from
organization" TO individuality.
In the cottage plan each grade of a
school is housed in a separate building
built to accommodate not more than
fifty pupils. The administration building
is separate. The whole effort of the
scheme is TO get close Individual con-
tact between teacher and pupil and to
cut out all needless drill and discipline
Up to date, the plan has worked ad-
mirably.
The country is learning that human
beings are individuals, after all; not
the mere units" which trust presidents
and soapbox socialists would have us
think. In all the intimate affairs of
life. the less Organization" the bet
ter: and even in the manufacture OF
steel, Louis Brandeis and Representa-
tive Stanley have shown us that small
plants may do better than large ones
The individual is coming back to his
own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
OLD-AGE PENSION PLAN
BEFORE SWEDISH RIGSDAG
Beneficiaries Will Pay Two-Fifths,
State Two-Fifths and Local
Authorities One-Fifth.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

i"ciSu correspondence Vi Inc StaT
STOCKHOLM, December 10. 1912
Sweden is to have "a contributory sys-
tenn of old-age pensions, the future pen
sioners paying two-fifths. the state two
ffifths and the local authorities one-fifth
of the total cost. The pension is to be-
come due at the age of sixty-seven in any
case. or earlier in the event of disable
ment by illness or otherwise; the rate of
payment is to vary according to earn
ingS, and additional voluntary payments
may be made to secure an eventual in
crease of benefit. The state contribution
and that of the locality are to profit only
the poorer pensioners, the payments out
of them being reduced by 30 per cent of
any private income possessed by the pen
sioner. so that their value soon becomes
negative quantity. Contribution is to
be compulsory on all persons whose an
nual income is under 5000 kronen, or
about $3.50. and it is estimated that when
the system is in full working some 600, 600
inhabitants out of more than $4,000 will
be receiving pensions paid for by their
own insurance money, while 100000 will
get the additional allowance paid by the
state. This is an outline of the scheme
devised by a commission appointed to ex-
anime the subject in 1907; it remains for
the ministry and the rigsdag to carry it
out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25

could have carved these statues was be-
yond the widest possibility. l have since
thought. and others have thought also.
that perhaps the primitive men who
erected that altar to that unknown god
might have been men of the same racial
stock as ourselves way back in the dim
days of the worlds first morning.
At any rate, these statues or images
rose from a kind of terrace foot or SO
above the level of the platform. paved
as before. They formed sort of cloiSter,
or colonnade, around the central plat
form, which rose twenty or twenty-five
feet above. On the center of the raised
platform or altar stood three or more OF
the same monster heads, placed one after
another, the i'rgeSt one being in the
middle. They We're in line. all looking in
the same direction, which my compass
told me was due west. They We're star
ing, therefore. toward the setting sun.
At the front end. or west end, the great
platform was approached by a flight OF
steps. The stones of the pavement were
so cunningly fitted together that onl.
here and there had a seed lodged and
grass grown. The stones of the platform
or altar were also laid up without NOR
tar and fitted in the same way. How
savages- with nothing but stone knive:
could have so perfectly trued and fitted
the surfaces of such huge stones, to say
nothing of moving them at ALL was,
confess, beyond me, but SO it was. The
massive was it and SO well made, thai
nothing short of an earthquake could
disturb ii.
Standing SO high the fierce winds that
swept over the plateau and platform haG
probably assisted in keeping it clear OF
vegetation, of anything, in fact. for save
for a few scattered lines of grass it was
as bare as the palm of my hand. Indeed
cleaner for although my lady haG
brought with her some soap, /, not know
ing how long we should be on the island
and realizing her dainty habit and what g
deprivation it would be to her, refraineG
from using it and cleaned myself as wei
as 1 could with water and seasand. &
poor substitute for soap as you can wei
imagine.
Well, we stood upon the platform and
surveyed the scene in silent awe. Moth.
ing in the parchment had led us to sus.
pect all this although l recollect the
stone goodies looking toward the niche
with the big palm tree, the spot in the
wall by which We were to locate the
treasure cave.
Come said I at last, breaking the
silence. 1--WE will have a nearer look al
these gentry
1T seems like the temple of vanished
race" breathed my lady. softly. staring
about her in growing wonder
AYE and of a vanished God" / said
extending my hand.
Go be continued tomorrow)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
The Hero and the TWpn-
tieth Century.

Great men do not seem to do so well
in the twentieth century. In fact. the
hero appears to be fading in the latter
era of progress
This is true in all lands The man
who engineered the Chinese revolution
was passed by when president was
to be elected. Popular idols find the
heights very slippery in France. in
Italy. in Germany.
The same conditions obtain i'm ltera-
ture. art, music. science, business, IN
all directions of human endeavor. We
have these days no Wagner or Bee
thoyen no DIR. Johnson or Shakespeare
no Raphael and Michael Angelo, no
Darwin.
This state of things has been variously
interpreted. All agree that 1t Is a symp-
tom Of advancing democracy, 1t Is gem
eral leveling, some say levellng up ana
some say leveling down.
Emil Faguet declares We are entering
into an epoch OF placeness. that
everybody and everything is growing duli.
drab. gray and cheap. This is the preVa-
lent note among the literary smart set.
TO woe. alas. alack and dear me! for
that the proletariat is overlooking the
world, the dead level of socialistc IDEAS
is manifest and the high school girl is
giving herself airs, just as though she
were not the OduSntcT VI q oid' AAAiiAeA ~''e'
Even DR.. f. Benjamin Andrews in a re-
cent number of the Journal or Ethics
shakes his head over the pretty pass
things are coming to because intell-
eence is getting so beastly common.
! I'm the terse and vivid language of the
street. this is ''all bunk" The hero is
disappearing for the reason that the
people have discovered his secret. lie
usually arises by the ignorance, gull
ibleness, and conscious impotence OF the
people Hence among populace where
daily newspapers and monthly magazines
are read where there is free speech ana
fluid social strata, it is very hard ciimp-
ing for heroes.
The people are becoming conscious OF
| their own greatness. They are reallz-
| ing what are the stern requirements OF
| real greatness. There will never De pos
sible another Napoleon or Hildebrand
The modern brand Of great man Is the
kind that serves not rules. The modern
reverence is touched by such names as
Pasteur. Metchnikoff, Edison, Burpahh'
Jane Adams and Montessori.
Goethes remark was: what especlaiis
| impresses me is the people. grea. mass
| a necessary inevitable existence
And a recent historian has struck the
| true note when ne writes Il CONSIDER
| it proper to portray a century not So
much by an enumeration OF its leaolne
men as by an emphasizing of the anony
nous currents from which II mas oeri'eu
| it's characteristic stamp.
The rise of the common people is
| very epochal thing, it is difficult FOR the
| learned brain of the literary caste 10
adjust itself to it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
Henry Wis Chapel.

From the London Chronicle.
The Most Honorable Order of the Bath
has ceased to be the Cinderella among
the orders of knighthood. With the res
toration of high ceremonial i'm Henry
Wis Chapel the ignominy Of the past
ends. Although no longer the wonder of
the world that Leland saw tfor so-called
architects OF the last century restored il
out Of all recognition) the roof still re-
mains thing of beauty. II has been
suggested that the chapel stands on the
site of a garden owned by Chaucer. Hen
~, who built ii, lavished money upon it
his successors evidently thought too
much, for they Utterly neglected il.
When George I reorganized the order by
introducing fresh blood. more honorable
canopies were needed they were provided
by dishonorably slicing the old ones into
two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
A Wider Field. ,
rom the Pittsburgh Post.

From the Pittsburgh Post.
what has become Of that bill collector
you used to have?"
Hes not here any more"
81 didn't think you would ever let him
go. He was too good at getting the
COIN"
'He was good at getting money out Of
people. So good that big college elected
him president"
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Will Supply Forage Need.

He also has found a forage plant that
in these days of plant breeding. 1T is
thought, can be hyhridized as a forage
plant. 1t is a relative of the famous sulla,
but this has never been grown in the
southern states owing TO its susceptibility
To frost. The new plant that may be
crossed with ii grows in Siberia as lar
east as Lake Bikal. and promises To
furnish new and good forage crop for
a section of the country where such
plants are greatly needed.
Now that Alaska is getting SO thickly
settled. there is demand for fruits that
will live there. and Mr.. Fairchild speaks
of the Siberia cherry that has been found
by Mr.. Myer as very promising. 1t is
a bush cherry growing no more than
four feet high. but the fruit, while small,
makes an excellent preserve. 1t lives out
doors at a temperature of forty below
zero. The natives use the preserve In
stead of sugar in hot tea. and Mr.. Myer
says the combination is by no means
bad as it sounds. But the arctic
cherry is gone one better by an arctic
black currant that he found growing out
at a temperature of IS. This, it also
is thought will do we'll in Alaska
One of the curious finds that has come
from South America is a fiber plant that
grows on the dry plateau back of Bahia.
IT is said to be more resistant to sea
water than the best Manila hemp, stands
drought and grows a large crop to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25

DIR. GGstave Eisen of the California
Academy of Sciences, has contributed g
new plum from Naples called the Papa
gone. II grows three inches long, has a
small stone and is reputed to be the fin
est favored plum in the world.
Another curious thing that comes from
South America is a new variety of tall
forest tree. The wood is purple and very
oily, with slight sweet scent The most
remarkable feature of it is that 1T is
proof against the attack of ants and is
absolutely everlasting. Posts made from
IL and stuck in the ground never rot
Trunks and furniture made from it are
insect proof.
There are scores of other remarkable
botanical finds. All of them are being
tried out in the experimental gardens and
such of them seem adapted to any
particular locality will be given trial
under actual field conditions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25


Capital, $25oooooo Surplus to Policy hoders S6444os7+
Preside
".
L.
j
NJ.
In addition to the admitted of $6S6S594I shown i'll
the above statement the First National Fire Company
had November subscribed capital surplus
which S23o4o had been paid The balance
of these subscriptions being paid monthly namnts and will
be taken credit for the companys admitted
when paid full On December the total subscribed
capital and surplus of the company of $ooooooo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25

Mortgage Loans first liens) $172 $50 90
Cash in Bank and Office 63.91611
Real Estate ............... 100000
Bonds Book Valued
City of Danville. SEQ, 10000
State of New York
Canal Improve
ment ......... 100000
Virginia Railway
and power $50. 10000. 90
Southern Building
Corporation 80. 100000
Accounts Receiv-
able ........... 1S,07794
Accrued Interest. 2.S15.36
s100.sS3.30 100. 1913 80
eccc
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FINANCIAL.
FINANCIAL.
STATEMENT OF THE
First National Fire Insurance Company
of the United States,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.

Result Examination by Insurance Department the District OF
Columbia as of November 1912
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
MUNICIPAL PORT DEVELOPMENT.

IN PUBLICLY owned water front is planned for PhlladeE
phia and is the subject of an official report to Mayor
Blankenburg. Philadelphia is backward in port de-
velopment. Dominated by railroad influences in her politics the
city has permitted the railroads to grab terminals and even
appropriate city property, to the injury of commercial interests.
Virtually, Philadelphia has no publicly developed water front.
In addition the city proposes to have a publicly owned belt line
in connection with the water front. Newark is better situated
than PHILADELPHIA. We are about ninety miles nearer the sea
and our bay is an arm of the greatest commercial port In the
world. Our 1000 acres of level meadow furnishes space for
enough manufacturing to make Newark the greatest industrial
centre on the continent. The bay water front, as yet unde-
veloped, can be acquired cheaply and a canal across the meadows
will make splendid docks right at the doors OF the factories,
which will have immediate connection also with five great rail
road systems. Whether our meadow and port development shall
be local or part of a general metropolitan plan remains to be
decided, but there should be no letup in the work of securing
the necessary land and water frontage. We must catch our
goose before we do the cooking.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
THE HEROES OF THE MINE.

eTa o the long roll of the mining industrys heroes who have
given up their lives for Others are now to be added twenty
in Yorkshire, England. They went down into the Gadsby
shaft in the allbuthopeless attempt to rescue thirty one miners
imprisoned by an explosion. -Four additional explosions wrecked
the entire workings and the heroes shared the fate of the earlier
victims. Could there be a finer example of manhood heroism
than that of the splendid EngEshmen who, knowing the deadly
perils they would encounter, went down into that mine to their
deaths? The three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae, celebrated
in song and story, were imbued with martial spirit, trained in
severe Spartan discipline, and knew that if they should fly an
ignominious fate would await them at Sparta. The Old Guard
at Waterloo were filled with a noble despair as well as with a
martial corps spirit. But what of these delivers in the earth?
They deliberately and calmly offered their lives to save comrades.
The Carnegie hero fund has on it's rolls no finer example of the
heroism of man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
OvERcROWDED NORMAL SCHOOLS.

RI, 9TH New Jerseys State Normal schools, at Trenton and
I'D Montclair, are overcrowded.. The Trenton institution
has had applications from more than $50 and has had to
turn away 10S of them. The northern part of the State has the
newer normal school, and the southern tier of counties is en-
titled to first consideration in providing additional accommoda-
lions for would-be teachers. No attention should be paid to the
claim of Hudson county for priority. And when North Jerseys
turn comes again why not rather build an addition to the Mont
clair institution? There is plenty of land. If this were done,
however, it would be well to induce the trolley company to ex-
tend the Valley road line to Paterson. 1t would require only
about three miles of track and could be done by way of Athena
and Passaic. The Montclair school is now inaccessible by steam
or electric transit from Paterson and Passaic, with their com
bined population of nearly 100000 souls.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
4 Coon

A GOOD POINT
Before you sympathize with the under
dog make sure that he didn't start the
sc~rap.-Puck.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
WHEN AMERICANS MAKE GOOD.

OUBTS about the records made by American athletes in
III their trial competitions in this country before starting
for Stockholm were expressed by European newspapers.
Even the Swedish papers had their doubts, taking their tone
from the British and German papers. The Swedish editors now
say that "the records made here silence all doubt about the
records created in the United States. These men all live up to
their reputation" This is not the first time that invidious Euro
pean criticism of things American has been discounted and
silenced. We may recall, for instance, the reflections on our
navy at the beginning of the war with Spain. In the judgment
of a French admiral who had never smelt powder on the ocean
a Spanish naval man was "equal to ten American sailors" Right
after that remark came the battles of Manila Bay and Santiago
were bottled up.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
POLICE INSURANCE IN A LUMP.

IN UNIQUE plan of wholesale insurance is proposed for the
Az New York police department. One of the big life insur-
ance companies is willing to take a total risk of SIS,
600 900 to 800 600, 900 on the lives of the 10000 policemen of
Gotham without regard to age at the rate of SIS per $1,000. The
insurance is to be made by the Poicemens Association and is
to he subject to the usual dividends, which will amount to about
$4,000 a year in the aggregate. If this proposition shall 90
through, and it seems admirable, the police associations of other
cities will not fail to take it up in their own behalf, and there is
reason in public policy for municipalities to favor it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10

ABoUT MME
(6UNloW

When asked how il Felt to be pros
trated by heat, Howard Smith, n
of the victims brought to the Cry
Hospital yesterday, remarked: i
never would have been laid out If l
hadn't tried to empty a ten-galion
tank of ice water in n hour. The
first few glasses tasted fine. but later
yes, later-I grew dizzy, then every
thing seemed to spin, anC when I
woke up I was in this hospital with
an ice-bag on my head. You take
my advice and don't take TOO much
ice water during the hot weather.
Give this tip to others who are fond
of ice water
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10


into the board room IN sucl hu"a
that the a was W u.
the auditorium, thoueh the Hee'ie
was continued In the BOARD fpon
more than an hour Wniie ehe peope
waited.
This spirit Of antagonism TO th'
public on the part of the school COM
missloners was resented, and 1t al
fected the temper of the public meet
Jig later.
It became known, also, with what
stealth the action of the board on
April % was taken. 1t was reported
how at IL o'clock on that night the
board "shooed" out h members OF
the press and went into secret ses-
sion, and at midnight, without re-
opening the doors, reconvened and
passed the resolution directing the
superintendent to engage a mar to
take MI. Evans's place at the head
of the high school faculty. In this
manner the fact was kept out of the
newspapers at the time.
The remarks of the speakers who
addressed the board were temperate
at the beginning of the meeting, but
when the commissioners refused to
explain their positionAor give any in
formations, and declared that they
had no charges to prefer against Mr..
Evans, the people became exasper-
ated and things were said that would
never have been uttered, I am sure,
If the commissioners had shown a
..-uzz;1- A. a.~-;ll, tha xnaffay
The feeling became intense when it
was admitted that a compact had
been formed and that no change in
the decision of the board would be
made.
Mr.. Blanchard says in his state
ment that he had been told by pupils
and their parents and others that
they did not like Mr.. Evans, and
this had an influence on his mind.
Fully a thousand people testified to
their desire for fair play in Mr.
Evans's case, but this did not move
| Mr.. Blanchard or any of his asso-
ciates on the board.
Mr.. Evans's personality" was
given by the board as a reason fol
his dismissal from the principalship
Did any n of the members of the
board or the superintendent show sc
fine a personality as did Mr. Evans
in his manly bearing and his schol-
arly remarks at the two meetings.
Were not the two big gatherings
something of d tribute to Mr.
Evans's personality?
This criticism by the board is or
a par with one of the statement.
made by SUPERINTENDENT Davey con.
corning the former principal of Lin,
coin School. who was objected to be,
cause. as Mr.. Davey said, he was no
a public speaker. Yet Mr.. Files is con
fessedly not a public speaker. If {
"nubIic sneaker" is necessary at tn,
head of a urinary or
scboo, is II not n-ecessary to hav,
ono 81 the bead of the nigh schoo
facu1tvp
Tbere ;s a very widespread opinior
+bo+ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Davev has ba.
mroh ~ do with forming. the onin
;ons of:+ha scboo1 comrissioners /,
roIa+;on 70 pr;ncina, Evans and tba
~ nranared the erst draft of III,
70 demote NJ
49, yrSoac haYo no+ haan aan;a,
-, ~ hoard a1thougb the member
80 800 ~ a;,a aSnress;on 10 ~,
eont.
wat 10 tho matter with tho Eas
onaaoo sohoc1 systarn why 10 a. +ba
80 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Doucv nuts -;
~ast-, 20 49, sutow -
nnsel oh any ~o - NJ &C., -
@ =. 10 4,anman 80 ,an
Why is there so much public feeling
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
FIRE DANGER AT THE SUMMER RESORTS.

eTO HE conhagration that nearly wiped out Thousand Island
Park, a summer resort on the st. Lawrence river, with a
property loss of a million, and the destruction by fire of
the "Dunes7 at Alenhurst, on the New Jersey coast, show the
peril that wooden hotels and other buildings at the resorts invite.
We NAV not be surprised by the occurrence of a confagration at
any time to sweep away some large resort on our coast. All
that is needed is a wellstarted fire and weather conditions to
favor its spread.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
GOLDFISH VERSUS MOSQUITO.

IT T seems that a new agency has been found to exterminate the
mosquito. 1t is the goldfish. The Illinois Central railroad
is going to stock the stagnant pools along its lines with
baby goldfish to eat the mosquito larvae. 1t is explained that
the goldfish minnow is the only one that will live in stagnant
water. The experiment may be worth watching, but it will strike
most people that it would be easier and cheaper to drain stag
nant pools than to retain them as arenas of a contest between
the baby goldfish and the baby mosquito for the survival of The
ftteSt