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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

cTTa HERE are problems in the larger cities of this State that can
find their solution only in a broadening of our scheme of
public education. Until recent years the public schools were
held 10 be exclusively for the benefit of the child of school age and
the tuition was academic. Many persons objected to the high
schools rs an excrescence on the public school system. As they
were conducted then the charge was not an extravagant one. Grad
ually innovations were introduced and the practical needs of the
community came TO be recognized. Night schools were instituted
for the benefit of children who could not attend the day schools
and in time their scope was enlarged. Drawing was introduced, fol
lowed by industrial training, and finally, in Newark, we adopted a
system of night school education of aliens in the English language.
There has been great progress In the day schools in the way of
manual training and on February a splendid high school devoted
10 manual training and commercial education will be opened for
he first time. This progress is inspiring, and yet We can do better
With the means at our command, But it is necessary to relax an
indexible State law which limits the enterprise of a school district
like Newark. We have recognized the fact that public education
should be shared by the adult as well as the child. And public
policy demands it, We have a magnificent schoo equipment and
1t is not utilized to anything like its full extent. Why should we
not do SO for the benefit of adults, immigrants who should learn
our language and get some knowledge of our institutions, and
mothers. who are noN left in ignorance, while their daughters may
xticsl she schools and learn the domestic arts? Why put a ban
on the grawnnps? Newark recently undertook to teach mothers,
and found thatthe State law forbade. Let the law be changed. Let
the city have the right and power to expend it's school moneys as
ii may see iii. Let the city afford facilities for education in house
hold duties to the many women who spent their youth in factories
and had no chance TO learn. There is a large economy in such
training. Ignorance in the kitchen makes a vast amount of waste
which knowledge would save. II also contributes to sickness and
great loss of earning power. The schoolhOuse is the remedy. The
loss by improvidence in families makes poverty, the cost of which,
in various ways. falls upon the taxpayer. 1t too often leads 10
immortality and crime. The Legislature will be asked TO amend the
State school law in a way to give liberty to the school district, And
who shall object?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

IT y bringing scientific methods of tllage home to the farmers by
means of a school on wheels New Jersey is doing a practical
educational work for the development of agriculture. The
farmers educational trains, trayersing the rural sections and stop
ping at roadside railroad stations, scatter the seeds of knowledge
far and wide. When this educational work was begun the average
farmer looked at it with the distrust and half contempt with which
lie self sufficient granger regards the mere scentist" in agricultural
affairs. For how could the college professor, if he had never delved,
know more about plants and soils and harvests than the farmer
who had deyed and sowed and reaped all his life? But the man of
the hoe has come around to realize that the State Agricultural Col
lee at New Brunswick does contain men who are well qualified to
teach farming, that their ideas and methods are all right and that
a farmer. TO get full value from his farm, must learn from them.
Consequently the assemblages at the stopping places of the State
agricultural school on wheels are now large and attentive. and the
farms throughout the State show the good effect of the teaching.
The last census gave the value of all farm property in New Jersey
as $254, $50, 665, an increase of 34.5 per cent. since 1900. There are
1,S03,336 acres in improved farms cultivated by about $4,000
farmers. What a field for the development of the States natural
resources, Increase the productivity of the crops grown and use
the most economical and efficient methods in farming and New
JERSEYS agricultural wealth will be doubled and trebled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

A clever presentation of a play, THE
the meeting of the Irving Club held
yesterday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Clifford Mooney. 105 Harrison
place, Irvington, with Mrs. Nathaniel
ard Fl. Robbins coached the play and
the members of the cast we're: Mrs.
Raymond D. Garter, Mrs. Frederic.
Goble. Mrs. Willis King. Mrs. George
Drake, Mrs. Gilbert C. Highly n Miss
Adelaide Morris. After the play tea
was served. Yellow narcissus and yell
low-shaded candelabra were used in the
decoration of the table, and assisting
the hostesses were Miss Edith Mooney,
Miss Janet Drake and Miss Margaret
Drake. Mrs. Robbins, of 2S4 Bridge
street, this city. will entertain the club
at its next meeting,
-
Mrs. Matthew 4. Quigley was re-
elected president, Miss Mary Campbell
first vice-president and Mrs. Isabella
Elliott second vice-president of the
Woman's Club of this city at the an
nual business meeting held last night
in the clubrooms, Al Hill street. The
other officers elected were: Miss Teresa
Gilvarry, recording secretary; Mrs.
Mary Kinsey, corresponding secretary;
Miss Florence M. Johnson. treasurer:
Miss Clara Ramsthaler, assistant treas
urer, and Miss Sadie Meyler. librarian.
Miss Elizabeth M~edcraft, Mrs. Annie
Hellman and Mrs. Melissa Colon are
the council members, and Miss Emma
Campbell is the auditor. The next
meeting of the club will be Monday
night, when Mrs. Henry B.. Taylor, of
Morristown, will deliver a travel talk.
=
Mrs. Gus Hattie entertained the
Whittier Club yesterday afternoon at
her home, sS Ann street, this city. A
pink color scheme was carried put in
the decorations. The next meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. William II.
Morris, 1I6 Bruen street, this city.
=
Miss Elizabeth Carter. of Broad
street, this city, entertained informally
at bridge last night.
Miss Louise Fischer, of New Bruins
wick, will give a reading Wednesday
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
1UsTAIIHEr
RBoUT MEN,
@6ORoW

Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Hugh Black, who
live in Lorraine avenue. Upper Mont
clair, are not Interested in the fight for
better trolley service on the Valley
road line, except in the interest OF
their ~neighbors. DR.. Black. who is a
professor in Union Theological Semi
nary, New York. is acting pastor of the
First Congregational Church. Mont
clair. The officers of the church W.
held out many inducements TO DR..
Black to become permanent pastor OF
the church, but he has steadfastly de-
clined to accept.
DIR. Black claims hat while waiting
for a car they can go almost the entire
| distance on foot-about three and one
half miles.
Colonel E. T.. Price, who has had a
| long experience in political matters
saws Judges and college professors do
not make good executive ofncers, as
| their views on the questions OF tho
| day are rather narrowed by their work.
''The best governors that we have mad,
In my opinion" said he, were men
, like Ward, Parker, Mcclellan, Aooett
and Wurts, who knee the people n
understood their wants and needs, n
consequently made good officials"
Senator James n. MHrtine startsd q
| wilson cheer at the jackson Day din
ner in Washington the other night by
shouting Three cheers for woodrow
Wilson. the man who does things.
The cheers were duly given. When
the noise sibsided Judge Simon Hahn,
who was standing next TO MARITIME,
called for three cheers for MARITIME,
but somehow or other there was nary
a cheer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Attacks OWL Service Rulings.

Attacks OWL Service Rulings.
TO the Editor of the Evening Star:
If the civil service is operated along
strictly honest lines, | would like to
have the following explained: Last
November |, with IL other men, ooh
the examination for elevator operator,
being informed that there was a
vacancy at the Court House. Now,
the way | understand the situation. not
one of the men that took this exami-
nation had a ghost of a chance to
secure this position, no matter how
high his percentage was. The vacancy
really occurred three months or more
before the date of this examination.
The custodian of the Court House had
a friend of his. a member of his W
club, working on that job long be-
fore a vacancy was declared or an an
nouncement by the civil service that
an examination would be held TO secure
a man to fill said position. AS ] under
stand it, this examination was ordered
mainly to allow this man to take this
examination, and, in the event of his
Passing it, which was without a doubt
all cut and dried" wac to have his
job protected and made secure BY the
civil service law. Now, what waE the
use of all these men. many of whom
had to lose a days pay in going to the
Court House, wasting their time to
take this examination? Are these ex-
aminations held as a sort of blind 10
fool the public into believing that they
have a fair and honest chance TO secure
a political position, providing they pass
a civil service examination at a SUI
hciently high percentage? The party
who has been appointed to Ali this
vacancy ooh his examination prl-
vately, [ believe. and was given a
rating of third man on the eligible list.
Many of the men who took the exami-
nation had by far larger experience
and we're qualified in YER way to fill
the position. Where does honest and
sauare-dealing come in?
SAMUEL Fling ERHUTT.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
OUR EXPOSED INSULAR POSSESSIONS.

TIT SERIOUS situation is developing in the administration of
F our insular possessions. MajorGeneral Carter states it
bluntly. In the Philippines we have a force of $4,000 sol
ders and a few in Hawaii. In both island groups there are more
Japanese veterans than American soldiers, and in case of trouble
between this country and Japan they would take concerted action
against us. To properly man the Notifications now being construct
cd in Hawaii will require a large force which our present army
could not supply. In the Philippines our troops there would be
wofully inadequate against a Japanese force. Congress is in
formed of these facts, and what will Congress do? Or will it do
what it always has done, wait for the disaster to occur and then
vote millions in the hope of atoning for il. But if Congress refuses
to furnish defenses for the Philippines, why not abandon them?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

q sling. his head was tied Up. lin svss
were blaokeped and he ssenned so4soS1y
able to stand.
The Judge listened to shs bdG Trash
woman's tale of woe, then asked In de-
rlsion: do you mean to say that tRis
little bit of a physical wreck could beat
you as you have statedT'
Yer honor, he wasn't a p81ystcAl
wreck until he tried to beat ms"
Lawrence A. TANKER, ct tire CtttsNap
Union. raj condemning Ia Albany eeT-
tain features Of the proposed New xtHk
charter.
4 don't want to see the oity b NJ
power of the bosses" he said. don't
want to see the city placed in the pA-
sition of old Golde.
"Golde, you know. married iR11Hs ~
age a beautiful young sotrsssA~ vssy
regrettable thing.
THE fair young Mrs. Gotde waA Co.
aiming the royal suite in . tafxe$-
story hotel Of 1-colored stone enc
day. and the hotel manager a pofaN-
ing out the suites manifold cosrvs-
~niences.
"'You touch a button he said, 'eaAf
this onyx bath fills automatically. You
touch a button, and the tempeTaeHse
of ach room rises or falls. You tApeh
8 button, and a motor car - ~ Ne
door. You touch a button
But Mrs. Golde, nodding mischtow-
ously toward her aged husband, sAld:
"'Oh, I have no use for your silly
buttons. I only need to touch my hus-
band. and diamond necklaces, yachts,
ropes of pearls-anything 7 want--ap-
pear.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
stoIcaI

No winter shall chill me, no sunshine
shall blind me,
No temptest shall fright ms, what
even winds blow.
Nor, cen should I die, shall the friends
left behind me
Know,
Shall a heart chilled by falsehood find
cold in mere snow?
Shall /, shackled by God, let the ele-
ments bind me?
Shall a cinder burnt out gain now life
and glow?
So. untouched by pain or by joy, Death
shall find me,
And ask If / care If I tarry or go:
And | answer, no matter what fate is
designed me,
ssNo!,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
THE GERMAN ELECTION RESULT rs.

IT " MIL the numerous rebalots in the German elections are held
((J the complexion of The new Reichstag cannot be determined.
But the results so far are heavily in favor of the Socialists,
who will make a large gain in the membership. In the industrial
centres the Socialist increase is extraordinary. One Berlin district
was carried by a Socialist candidate by an increased vote of 1000.
That the German democracy would make a formidable showing at
the polls was expected. as the causes were rife and we'll understood.
If the reba0otngs are largely in favor of the Socialists the German
ministry will have a problem on its hands when the Reichstag meets.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
MORSE GOES TO THE HOT SPRINGS.

m THOUGH the army doctors who examined the federal con
VIM Wet and former bank wrecker, Charles w. Morse. certified
that he was in no danger of death and was suffering chiefly
from depressed spirits, which is quite natural, the amiable Mr.. Taft
has ordered that Morse be taken to Hot Springs. Ark. Morse will
travel in luxurious style and will have anything that money can
buy at the Springs. 1t is Il relief, however, to know that Mr.. Taft
was firmly against a European trip for Morse and a soiourn at
Carlsbad. That shows Mr. Tafts backbone. But it is fair to say
that Morse will not see the inside of a federal pennentiary again.
He's out.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

Mr.. Billus-No dinner ready? What
on earth Is the matter with you. any
how?
Mrs. Billus-Oh, John. Mrs. Binks,
who lives next door. has the loyeliest
new set of furs and ] have no appetlte
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Revenge.

Bridget-An o do yez like bein' tn
maid av a prima donna
Mary Ami don't. She treats me
like dirt. But ] git even wild her.
Bridget-Phwat do yez do?
Mary Ami open the windows and
sing at the top of my voice. An all the
neighbors think it's her an that she's
gettin' r-r-rottent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

AFTER. DINNER STORIES.

A muscular Irish woman la the lit
tie. shriveled-up man to whom she was
married hailed up In police court on the
charge of ASSEMBLING and beating her.
He was the worst dila pidated man the
Judge had ever seen. His arm was In
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
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That's the Answer.

inats the answer.
Il don't believe 1 told you, dear
Said Mr.. Clarence We're de We're,
That I've invited here to dine
Tonight, Theophilus van Tyne
I've lost my memory, I fear"
We've absolutely nothing here
To eat" moaned Mrs. V. ITS queer
Some liked anned things, but not for
nine
1 DON'T"
oh" answered Clarence. that's a
mere
Detail. he'll stand our common cheer.
Be sure and bake some of your fine
Biscuits and give him eight or nine
you like him, then MOI with a
sneer),
ct don't!''
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

an enemy his troops
could not vanquish-
a sleet storm in the
Virginia mountains.
The roads were liter
ally sheets of ice,
over which his men
stumbled and fell,
helpless TO carry out
their plans. The pro-
vision train Jagged
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Would Come I'm Handy

Papa-No, I shall not allow Gwendo-
line to marry young Skads.
Mamma-But why not?
Papa-Suicide is hereditary in his
family.
Mamma-So is $40, 000, 900.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Averages Right.

Many beasts of many kinds
Many men of many minds
1t is true that many
Men there are who haven't any.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

Yes said Miss Paasay, young Mr..
Binks is a remarkably clever n~nancier.
It's delightful to see IN old head on
young shoulders, isn't it, Mr.. Jinks?"
"Ah-er-yes.' said Mr.. links.
But he apprehensively moved his
chair a little further away.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

The Sower aud the seed.
The young mans very needy,
He signs a lot of notes;
And why does he look seedy?
He's sowing his wild oats.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

Oh, well.
He carved out his own fortune"
Nonsense! He married It."
well, he had to cut out a lot of
ther fellows, didn't he?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

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, 1912-01-13
Did Well.

Charlie promised ME that on the
day he married me he would stop
drinking"
Did he keep his promise?"
"Oh, yes. He didn't take a drink all
day"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

TODAY IN HISTORY.

January 13, 1852, just fifty years ago
today, Stonewall jackson encountered
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Couldn't Helm II.

Have o tried Alpha oil for your
backache?"
NO. I'll stick to my porous plaster
for a while
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13
Feared the consequences.

why didn't you marry her.
Got scared
Scared. how?''
Somebody told him that she was a
twin, and her mother was a twin, and
her grandmother was a twin"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-13

rail fences furnished fire for the freez-
ing soldiers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-24
NO ROOM IN PENITENTIARY.
Annex Needed to Accommodate the
Maynard Blind Tigers.

That the state of Georgia will soon
have to provide other means for TAX
ing care of it's decrepit and sick pris-
oners is argued at the capital in At
lanta from the state penitentiary Off
Gals report to the effect that the
state farm at Milledgeville has be-
come overcrowded.
The farm was originally designed
for white women who couldn't we'll
be put on changing, and for peo-
pie whose physical condition preclud-
ed their working in camps, but, ac-
cording to Chairman Dawson, so
many blind tiger convicts have per-
suaded the trial judges to send them
to the farm instead of to the gang
that the place is being over-run with
them.
1T looks to me as if they let all
the able-bodied tigers go, or merely
fine them, and that they send all the
sick ones to the farm" Chairman Da-
vison is quoted as saying.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-24
Mothers Plea Saves Son From
Marching With Negro Conflicts

by Man in Fulton County Jail.
1t had not reached the door when
the grating was opened and a woman
rushed in. She ran to the boy on
the end of the line and threw her
arms about him.
You won't have to go till later,
Moss" she said. Mr.. Minor is 60
ing to take you out on the car and
save you from going with these ne
groes."
The boy was Moss Garrison, who
was mixed up in a shooting scrape
and whose trial and conviction are
too we'll known to need retelling.
The woman was his mother. The or
der to go out to the convict camp
had come after every effort of his
friends had failed to secure him a
Jail sentence, that he might be spar
ed the humiliation of going to the
roads and the association in such a
camp.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-24
ALASKA COLONY TO GEORGIA
Will Travel Seven Thousand Miles
From Old Home to New Home
in South Georgia.

WAYCROSS, Ga.-Ware county is
going to get within the next three
months the first colony of any size
that has ever left Alaska for a warm
er cline. Contracts for a number
of farms and farm sites have just
been closed by representatives of a
number of Alaskans and they are
now getting ready to move to Ware.
H. M. Badger and E. T. Matthews,
two prospectors sent here from Alas
ka, have reported favorably on Ware
farms and this brought the deal to
an end.
The colony will travel 1000 miles
from a country where the weather is
frequently as cool as 70 degrees be-
low zero to country where farmers
work the entire year and where
weather as cold as 20 degrees above
zero is rarity. The colony will be
eight miles south and southwest of
Waycross. Nearly all who have pur-
chased have set aside from five to
twenty acres for pecan orchards and
have ordered trees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-24
THE ALSOP BOYS HAVE FUN
AT. FATHERS WEDDING

At the Hotel Latham the blushing
bride, made radiant in a pink kimo-
no, received an American reporter
and expressed her joy. With Mr.. AL
sop she had gone out for an afternoon
stroll, it having been planned that
the wedding should take place at a
later date. He had decided, howev-
er, that they might avoid notoriety
if their wedding occurred without
any display.
With this in view he telephoned to
his sons to meet him at o'clock in
the afternoon at Broadway res
taurant. There he suggested to his
fiance that they get married at once.
She agreed and the journey was
made in taxicabs to the marriage Ii
cense bureau and to Trinity church
At o'clock in the evening Mrs.
Alsop strolled into the Hotel Lath-
am. She was escorted by a young
woman friend
I'm married, mama" remarked
the bride to the anxious and now
thoroughly astonished parent
He's the rag Time Kid"
II call Mr.. Alsop the ragtime kid, "
said the bride to the reporter Some
people claim that ragtime is national
paresis, but / think it is paradise. I
know it sounds slangy, but my hus-
band is the liveliest man I've run
against in New York. intend to
join him tomorrow at the Waldorf,
and we will probably leave in a few
days for a trip through the South.
my two sons, who, by the way,
you know, are much older than I,
are splendid fellows. think we will
get along very nicely together
The engagement of Miss Hill and
Mr. Alsop was announced shortly af-
ter her arrival in New York from
the South early this winter. The
wedding was set for March 10.
Mr.. Alsop has a handsome resi-
dence in Washington, where he lives
most of the time, and a large es-
tate on the shores of Lake Toxaway
N. c. He is a member of the Du.
quesne Club of Pittsburg, the ALE.
| gheny Country Club of Sewickley
and the Metropolitan Club of Wash.
ington. His brother is the Rev. DR.
Reese F. Alsop of Brooklyn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-24
DIGS FOR HIS OWN APPENDIX
This Surgeon Exposes the Member
and Others Chop 1t Out.

In1S surgeon Exposes the MEMBER
and Others Chop 1t Out.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Dr. Bertram
E. Alden, chief surgeon of the
French hospital here, has carried out
in part his theory that self-opera-
tions for appendicitis are not impos-
sible
On diagnosing his symptoms Dr..
Alden called in his professional
friends as witnesses. In the operat-
ing room he injected the spinal an
esthesia, which left his mind clear
and gave him the control of his
arms.
He made the necessary abdominal
cuts, but at this point the matter was
deemed too serious for experiment,
and two fellow surgeons completed
the operation, removing the appendix
while DR.. Alden remained an inter-
ested witness of their manipulations.
The operation took place Sunday,
and DR.. Alden is reported to be rap
idly recovering.