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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
THAT the spirit of Chris

vHAT the spirit of Christmas is upon
US. one need but walk through the
shops these days and be convinced.
Visit the toy department of any store and
learn that Christmas. with its kind old
Santa Claus. and. in fact. the whole
Yuletide spirit. lie deep In the hearts Of
the children.
Perhaps there are among the grown
ups some who haven't noticed that
Christmas dolls and rocking horses and
skates and such delectable things are
ever SO different from the common or
garden variety Of the year round. Miss
Bessie. the Christmas doll, for instance,
is not to have her silk-clad body and
waxen curls swathed in brown paper and
delivered by an ordinary delivery wagon.
Most emphatically not.
The Spirit Of Christmas is abroad and
he whispers Of Santa Claus and REIN
deers that pull the jolly old man and his
sleigh over the snow-covered roof tops
and stand prancing and paving at each
home while Santa slips down the chimney.
For it is in just this way that the
Christmas dolly. the Irish mail. the rock
ing horse. and even the big toy automo-
bile are transported from the show cases
and windows Of the department stores to
a place beneath the Christmas trees Of
eager little girls ana boys on Christmas
eve. II any one doubts this let him ask
even the first little girl or boy he meets
in Washington's toylands.
How on earth do you suppose fat old
Santa Claus is going to get that great,
big wagon down the chimney for you, -
was asked one youngster who was quite
persuaded that Kris Kringle had made
that one particular toy for him.
"Oh, / 'spect he'll get a rope. or II he
couldn't let 1t down through the chimney
he'd come through the door. Why. he'd
Just get a ak and chop the door down II
he couldn't get In any other place..
came the ready answer.
After that who could doubt old Santa
and his ability to travel over all the
earth in one night! Still there are UNI
believers. and even to be found in this
very domain.
Jaw. gee. don't believe in NO Santa
Claus" declared ono young scoffer. as
busily engaged as any In looking at the
toys. but always examining the price
mark as well. Somehow that very study
60 the cost Of things made him an out
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upon these trees the contents of $40 large
boxes of artificial snow. as from branch
TO branch he loops them with .152 yards of
parti-colored paper garlands and 2 $50
Yards OF futtering threads of shining tin
sell
Making the rounds of the isthmus in his
delightful role of the good old Christmas
saint to his colony of 10000 souls In Pam
anna, Uncle Sam will visit every home
from the most imposing to the IoWIiest Of
structures-and presto, in the early dawn
as ne vanishes up the last of the Chin
neys, there will hang about the frepIaces
I,1c christmas stockings. each bullying
from the tips of the ornate toes to th,.
tops OF the generous rims with toys and
goodies for the youngsters in the tropics
December %. 1912, on the Isthmus of
Panama will be just the bright. glad hol.
iday. the beautiful season of the inter-
change of gifts prompted by the feeling
OF peace on earth, good will to all man.
kind, that 1t is anywhere i'm the United
States. There will be the same abundant
cheer OF roast turkey and holly-wreathed
plum pudding made from the old colonial
day Merry England recipe Best of ALI
Uncle Sam, in his absolutely carefree
mood, Will personally attend to eyerv de-
tail. SO that there shall not be a hitch
nor a hint Of unhappiness TO mar t6a 40 ~
for any one on his pay roll
One month ago he sent down a consien.
ment of 800 toy artificial Christmas trsas
for appropriate table Ornamentation ana
followed these on the 14th instant hy n
shipment of fifty resinous Aatural baIsa ~,
trees from twelve to fifteen feet In he,eh,
10 be sold in his commissary stores a.
from 81 to $50. according to the size
In addition to these were 600 smsi,s-
trees. ranging from five to eight fast IN
height. for which the charge will he
from Is to SO cents. For the best preser-
walton of these trees he tied them Sc
curely at the top to prevent breakags
and without wrappings OF any kind. On
their arrival they will be put at once in
r1ie large cold storage plant to be kent
there absolutely fresh until a few DAYS
before Christmas. when they will be nut
at all the commissaries for sale
These trees have come this season from
northern New York. Owing to the embar
go placed earlier in the season ON the
shipment into New York state OF New
England trees. the regular shippers from
that section could not get their supplies
into New York city in time for Uncle
Sans holiday purchase On this account
there IL perceptible rise In the prices
over those of last year when for the
nrst time Uncle Sam played Santa Claus
on the isthmus.
The public all over the world has so
accustomed itself to regarding Santa
Claus as inseparable from his RENDERS
and sleigh with its jingling bells that
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which carries Uncle Sans consignment
Of balsam pine Christmas trees. there
will go down a special Christmas order
Of 1900 large, fat turkeys. These are over
and above the regulation supply OF
fowls. In addition there will be sold at
commissary rates all kinds of first-class
poultry. milk-fed broilers, corn-fed broiI-
ers. milk-fed roasting chickens Long Is
land ducklngs. capons. western yellow
ducks, fancy fowls. light fowl. squab.
geese and all the items of game to be
found anywhere in a first-class market
There will also be a special consignment
of fresh vegetables and fruits, with an
immense holiday shipment of apples.
pears. Malaga grapes. cranberries. celery
and lettuce.
In the commissary and subsistence de-
partment. which will be heavily taxed
to help Uncle Sam at this particular sea-
SON, there are In all $50 persons. Upon
the subsistence department devolves the
duty of operating depot or wholesale
store. a central plant. which consists OF
cold storage. laundry. bakery, coffee
roasting and packing plant. ice cream
factory. beef corning plant, ice plant and
laboratory.
The latter includes a pure food test
kitchen and a manufacturing department
of various articles: laboratory products
are manufactured for sale. In addition
are twenty commission hotels for me-
chanics and skilled employees, seventeen
Spanish messes. nineteen negro kitchens.
twenty retail department stores and mar
kets and one large public hotel.
The christmas sale Of toys opens i'm
been sent out already. weeks in advance
printed notices generally throughout the
isthmus Of the Christmas supply, il II
safe to assume that the shoppers will
suit of quick sales and ready profit to
Uncle Sam.
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of boys and girls never presents itself
Yet RENDERS and sleigh in Panama-the
veriest child would laugh to scorn such
a ludicrous picture. On the other hand,
as Santa Claus is quite as ardently de-
sired by children in the tropics as in any
snowclad quarter Of the globe, he must
devise way to get there. This Is exactly
what he has done.
In great measure Uncle Sam exercises
his own discretion in the purchasing of
Christmas toys. and SO determined Is he
to make each Christina. on the isthmus
fuller Of Joy than its predecessor, that all
last summer he had his agents securing
the continent for novelties of every de-
scription to place on sale at nominal
rates in his commissary stores in Pan
anna. All such things purchased in Eu-
rope were shipped direct to the isthmus.
With the experience Of last year-that
every toy shipped for these Christmas
sales met with prompt purchase-the con-
signment of the present season Is pro-
portionately larger, as the number Of
army officers and canal workers, with
their families. is greatly increased.
Last year 81 500 was expended by Uncle
Sam for his supply Of Christmas toys. ex-
elusive of the dolls. which netted as
much again. This season he has put his
hand deep down in his pocket and smil-
ingly brought forth 5000 for the toys.
and in addition has shipped down 5000
dolls.
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new one before this. but mother couldn't
AFFORD to get me very good one and 1
thought that maybe if 1 waited until
Christmas, Santa Claus would bring me
a nice onet'
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Paint boxes in all sizes are provided
bv the hundreds for children Of artistic
tendencies who desire to try their skill at
portraying any bird, beast. tree or flower
in their tropical surroundings. or to pass
the rainy season successfully working
havoc with the family supply Of maya
zines. or building blocks there is such
an amazing variety and so many dozen
gross as to render the getting together Of
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Perhaps the little girls on the isthmus
are not particularly careful mothers.
Perhaps they are lamentably ignorant of
hyg.enics. or perhaps the climate does not
agree with the dolls. However that may
be. there have gone down to Panama this
Christmas 5000 dolls to take the place
Of those which evidently have "shppit
ava" during the past twelvemonth.
This supply has up to this date been
furnished by New York firms, although
Santa Claus welcomes bids from all over
the country. There are blond and bru-
nette dolls, pale dolls and rosy ones:
dolls that talk and many that preserve
a discreet silence: dolls that walk and
those which. lacking this accomplish
ment, require of their youthful mammas
a perpetual carrying around in the arms
or to be rolled about in the smartest OF
small go-carts, which to the number or
several thousand have been selected with
loving care and forethought by kind old
Santa Claus.
There are dolls with rosy lips parted
to show perfect rows OF pearly teeth.
Quite the most ideal dolls In the world
for enjoying the meals set out by the lit
tie mammas in the china tea sets pro-
yided for lust such emergencies. There
are the latest up-tO-date mechanical
dolls that proudly strut as they speak
certain set phrases. cleverly thought out
in their mechanical insides. Others again
the abdominal regions. reward their
parents with a gasping sQreaky mamma
and papa. which naturally never fails to
send thrills of delight down the youth
full spines of every little girl In Panama,
who owns or cen sees them on sale.
Long before the most ardent devotee OF
Santa Claus here in the United States
begins his or her Christmas dreams the
fathers, mothers. uncles. aunties and
cousins in Panama have the subject act
lively under way. In response to an I'M
portant wireless communication from
Uncle Sam the family lists are made out
and handed In to the commissary stores
No, later than the middle of August. and
70 all such preferred requests he has due
rsyard I'm his holiday shipments.
of course the children have their i'm
portant part In all such respects. and i'm
mediately after the early summer vaca-
tions they busy themselves with writing
letters to Santa Claus, petitioning for
every imaginable kind of present.
These letters, read with gravity and in
terest by the clerical force of the 100
persons engaged In the commissary and
Subsistence department. help materially
in determining the scope of Uncle Sans
Christmas invoices. for by this means
he can even better than py the regular
lists or the elQerS discern tne real treno
of children's preferences in the toy and
book departments.
Several weeks are required to syste-
Matte the lists In order to forward the
requisition to the New York purchasing
department where Lieut.. Col. Wepdell l..
Simpson, 18th Infantry, u. 8. A., IL the
officer in charge upon whose capable
shoulders rests the momentous RESPONSE
bility of using his own judgment in the
final personal selection for Uncle Sam
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The public all over the world has so
accustomed itself to regarding Santa
Claus as inseparable from his RENDERS
and sleigh with its jinglng bells that
the idea of his sending his gifts by the
boatload To any OF his wolII-tiue iani4.
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the isthmian children for the erection OF
mimic Tower of Babel a very real pos
sibility.
For the child who evinces a taste in
planning his or her own garden there is
an almost endless variety OF toy trees.
from the delightfully."- stiff-as-a-ramrod
Noah's ark trees to every description OF
those with which Shem, Ham and Japhet
and their respective consorts and families
were kept busy replanting the universe
following their cautiously safe descent
from Mount Ararat. or course. there
are Noah's arks an minimum. for no
really truly child could consider that
Santa Claus had properly attended to his
duties without leaving in his wake one
or more such toys in the household.
There are eight hundred scarlet paper
bells to hang on the trees and over the
doorways 10 swing out their Christmas
chimes anu several large wooden pack
ing boxes heaped to the lid with tissue
paper OF all colors to wrap the Christ
mas packages in and another huge box
containing thousands of bolts of white
and scarlet and holly-decorated narrow
ribbons for the appropriate tying up OF
these packages.
The materials for the Christmas plum
buildings are supplied by Uncle Sam. who
mas also seen to Ii that there Is an
abundant supply of delicious readymade
plum buildings for those who from
the commissaries.
The increased demand for Uncle Sans
Christmas fruit cakes, made especially
for this season at his commissary bakery
necessitated the issuance OF a command
that all orders for Christmas cakes must
not be taken later than the 18th instant
il hey were desired to be delivered BY
December "a. The commissary frui.
cake sells at 81 and contains the full
value of one hundred cents OF ingredients
as the labor used in its preparation T.
not included in the selling price. For
this reason the cakes are exceptions
values.
In order that they may be properly
aged. the work of preparing them starts
in May and the ingredients used are the
best grades OF butter, eggs. New Orleans
molasses. raisins. citrons and currants
The liquid seasonings are brandy, lemon
and vanilla, the solid seasonings CHINA
mon, mace. allspice and cloves No baking
powders or any other ingredients that
would cause the cake to dry out are used
Each cake weighs about four pounds and
ten ounces without the icing. whleh
brings the finished product to over five
pounds. Last season over four tons OF
the output OF Uncle Sans ovens this
Christmas will be much larger
While fresh eggs are soaring up and
up In the local markets as the holidays
draw nearer. down In Panama Uncle Sam
is fnstructing his commissar.es to sell the
best grade Of eggs at 30 cents a dozen, as
against the prices of from As to 90 cents
a dozen which prevail generally In the
eastern states.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-01
A CALL UPON II NATIONAL GUARD.

IT F the time shall come for armed Intervention in Mexico the
National Guard will be called into requisition. This auxiliary
force is now in far better condition to respond to the call of
the government than it was in 1898, when it was necessary to
reorganiZe the regiments as volunteers and make a new selection
of officers. The federal government has gradually introduced salu-
tary reforms in the organization, the troops are vastly better armed
and as a rule better differed, and they are provided with an equip
ment they did not have when called on fourteen years ago. If
the New Jersey National Guard gets orders to mobilize the present
regimental organizations will be retained, with such changes of
personnel as may be necessary. A call from the President will
place the guard at once under federal authority as a part of the
United States army. According to plans prepared three great
camps will be established as bases for operations, the troops of
New Jersey and a score of other States being assembled at Mobile.
Only if the situation in Mexico shall be imperative for interven-
ton, to prevent grave evils to this country and protect the lives
of Americans, will the people sanction such a step as interven-
ton. The responsibility is upon our government. Satisfied of the
necessity, the nation did not finch from the war with Spain, and,
with the same conviction, it will not now from a momentous step
the consequences of which may change the continental map.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-01

cTS BE probability of a third party ticket, headed with the name
Ii of La Toilette, has not seemed to occur to the Taft man
ayers. And yet it would be a logical sequence of a Taft
nomination at Chicago. Senator La Toilette is not squeamish
about party regularity. He led an Independent fight in Wisconsin
against the regular organization and, with the aid of Democratic
votes, won and captured both the election and the organization.
he has been the uncompromising foe of the Taft administration
since its policies were developed and he represents principles of
government utterly irreconcilable with those which Mr.. Taft placid
y enunciates. 1t would be much easier for Senator La Toilette
to support a Democrat for President in the November election
campaign than Taft. And the same may be said of his supporters.
There would be no La Toilette bolt from a Roosevelt nomination.
There is every reason to believe that there would be in the ease
of Taft. And his candidacy would be formidable in the Middle
West and on the Pacific coast and would draw off many thousands
of Republican voters in the East. No doubt the prospect of a
La Toilette ticket was kept in view, though not mentioned, by the
Sun in its remarkable article yesterday expressing the conviction
that Mr.. Taft was doomed 10 inevitable defeat if nominated and
suggesting that he be dropped in favor of Justice Charles E.
Hughes.
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rUsTALIHE@I
ABoUTM ENY
(6ONYOW

Dav Fultz, the former Brown Uni
versity football star n baseball
player, who later starred with the Phil
adelphia Athletics and the New York
Highlanders until a bad knee forced
him to retire from the game. is a firm
believer that Roger Salmon, the New
ark boy now with the Athletics, will
make good.
81 have umpired several college
games in which he has pitched" says
Fultz. land for a youngster he has
splendid control and a good head, as
well as a fine assortment of curves and
change of speed. Under Connie Mack,
about the most careful adviser of
young ball players in the business, !
look for a rapid Improvement III
Salmon that will eventually make him
one of the best in the business"
AS Fultz, himself is and always has
been a careful student of the game,
his praise of Salmon is well worth cor
sideration.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-01

You're just like a girl : : ct the other
day at one of your famous soda foun-
tains.
"'Give me, miss I said to her, "a
plain, ~effervescing drink
"'What flavor?' said she. Straw
berry, chocolate. vanilla?'
mo flavor, MISS said I. Just plain
without favor-don't you under
stand?'
"She tossed her head and said:
Eyes. but what flavor do you want
it without? Without strawberry,
without chocolate, or without va
nilla p"
John d. Rockefeller, insisting on the
Importance of little thing said to a
New York journalist:
Don't be like a music dealer who
sent a piece called 'Impromptu Waltz
to a man who had ordered one called
'Valse 1mpromptu.'
1.-THE dealer on being taken to ac-
count, said crustily that he didn't see
for his part much difference between
'valse Impromptu' anc an 'Impromptu
Waltz
"The patron retorted to this:
1.-THE difference, sir, between a
'valse Impromptu' and an 'Impromptu
Waltz may be simila- t the differ
ence between q blind Venetian and q
Venetian blind"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-01
OUTCOME OF THE sUGAP TRUST TRIAL.

eH HE statute of limitations, operative in the cases of the sugar
trust magnates tried in New York for conspiracy, would
have barred the prosecution and spared the government and
the defendants the trouble and expense of a trial. The point was
brought up only toward the close of the trial, and it is said that
while the jury was a unit as to the guilt of the defendants eleven
of them favored a qualified acquittal on the ground that the
defendants were protected by the statute. One juryman stood out
for unqualified guilt, and hence the disagreement. That one man
represented the great public conscience and the others a legal
technicahty. But the action by the jury as a whole was an i'm
plication of actual guilt 1t was in the belief only that the statute
of limitations interviewed to protect the defendants that the eleven
Jurors refused to record a verdict of guilty. This outcome of the
trial, disappointing as it is and yet anticipated, will still have it's
moral effect. The alleged sugar trust consprators have not been
acquitted. The prosecution in the case was singularly able and
there was found a jury, unlike the one in the meat trust trial,
that had a sense of duty and did not incline altogether to the side
of the defendants. The public may hope for better results from
unscathed.
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money which they would have to spend
in joining the Passaic valley
project. And to save this money they
would unload their filth or other
smaller municipalities without even Sc
curing the permission OF the latter.
What a nice thing Tor the Governor to
uphold and sanction by his vetol But
the work Governor Wilson expected to
accomplish by his veto will never be
realized. BELLEVILLEITE.
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The Reard nlII Veto.

The Beard Bill veto.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Governor wilson's reasons for veto
ing the Beard bill, which would pre-
vent Montclair, Orange and East Or
ange from dumping their sewage into
Belleville without consent from the lat
ter town, plainly shows that he is
again playing to the gallery" The
Beard bin in substance was a petition
asking the Governor and Legislature
to protect Belleville n other smaller
communities nearby from s~elfishness of
their neighbors.
The Legislature passed the bill be-
cause no sensible body OF men could
do otherwise and pretend to have an
interest in the welfare of the petition
ing people. Montclair, Orange and
East Orange propose to save a lot of
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April fool days In
the history of the
United States, for
then Congress as
sembfed for the first
time under the con-
~stitution. We still
have the constitution
and we still have
Congress, but We
look at them some-
What differently now.
THEN we called
them the bulwarksc Of
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DINNER STORIES.


The fair Gaby Deslys. the French
actress, was talking to a critic at a
supper in New York.
Your critics have bee very kind"
she said, "but are you often not I'M
Observation-Disclosures at n cost to
make your point-deter ined to make
your point even when it's quite outside
the questions?"
mo, we're not" said t. critic.
"Ah, YOU are" cried Mile. Deslvs.
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THE LEGISLATURE N THE BEARD H.

1TTa HE Legislature will act upon the veto of the Beard bill after
it reassembles next week. The Legislature passed the bill
after public hearings thar satisfied the majority of both
houses that it was just and necessary. Theresis nothing in the
Governors veto message to affect that deliberate judgment The
question of the bill is precisely what it was when the Legislature
voted upon it, and there would be qualification. of the legislative
judgment if the veto should be sustained and a gross wrong
ipoalized