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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-20
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN:
Author Of Pushing to the Front, hso'
Copyright. 1918.
INITIATIVE

yourself during the day, to waver,
or wait for somebody to start things
and show you the way. Resolve that
during that day you are going to be
a pusher, a leader; that you are not
going to be a trailer, not going to
wait for somebody else to tell you
what to do and how to do it. You
are going to take the initiative, start
things yourself, and put them
through without advice.
We all know how quickly every now
and then a young man energies from
obscurity and FORCES to the front
after he has had some great respon-
sibility thrust upon him. Perhaps 1t
was the death of the superior man
aeer or proprietor which thrust him
into a position of great responsibility.
Previous to this he had, probably,
never shown any very marked ability
excepting the fact that he was always
on the Job, that he was Industrious
and was always trying to improve
something somewhere; but as his
faculties were to have greater respon-
sibility they developed wonderful
strength.
When he began to depend upon his
Judgment and to trust it it improved
rapidIy. He quickly developed a Wig
orous initiative and although, per-
haps, he only stepped into the gap
temporarily, only until some one
could be found to fill it, the respon-
sibility called out unexpected reserve
The work did not sag as was expect
ed. there were no evidences OF breaks
along the line and he was made the
permanent head Those things are
occurring all the time.
There is nothing like responsibility
onfiUn-
ness. What a pity that every young
nerson could not have the opportunity
To see what a great responsibility
would bring out of him. How often
we see young men who have never
shown any very marked ability start
ing out in business for themselves,
without capital, when everybody ex-
meets they are going to fail, and the
f1rst thing we know they have estab-
lished themselves for life. The very
fact that they had committed them
selves before everybody they knew,
so that failure would be disgrace.
helped them to self-discovery and
tended to call out reserve powers
which they never used before and
probably never knew they possessed
and in little while they became sue
cessfully equipped men.
There is no mental faculty which
is not susceptible to every great de-
velopment, enlargement or shrinkage
and every faculty must be expanded
by vigorous exercise or 1t will shrivel
from inaction. -;
It is only the strong, resourceful,
absorbing. unwavering aim that wins.
IT is the vigorous initiative, the faith
full resolution, the determined charac-
ter that succeeds.
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Death-Rate of Germany in 1912

The Imperial Health Office has pub
lished the following statistics bear
ing on the frequency of certain I'M
portant causes of death from about
400 urban communities. The num-
Der born living increased by OIL per
cent. The increase. however, Is found
only among illegitimate births, which
amounted to 5000, while the number
of legitimate children born was 2,6I7
less. The number of stillbirths also
increased by 100, which was wholly
attributable to the illegitimate chill
dren. On the other hand, the birth
rate has fallen from 1865 per 10000 In
the previous year to 251.2. As fur
Their unsatisfactory circumstance the
number of stillbirths per 10000 chill
dren born living amounted in the pre-
vious year to 1922 but in 1912 to 324.
The death-rate has fallen about S.4
per cent, or 33,178, in contrast to 1911,
which was very unfavorable In this
respect The death-rate sank from
1882 to 1850 per 1000 Of population.
Especially the number of deaths in
the first year of life was markedly
reduced, compared with the previous
year, by about 25.2 per cent. As
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have retired while their voices were
still at the best, because they did not
want to wait so long as to compel the
public to say that the singer had out
lived the voice.
Il was chatting to General Gar
field one day about oratory and ne
said to me: There is always the
grayest danger that man who has
gained very high reputation as an
orator will forfeit that reputation
The public is very tickle. No matter
how fascinating q public speaker
may have been, If he makes one mis-
take, II he does not maintain his
high reputation, if he shows in a
single instance a tendency to funk.
then the public has had enough of
him. All that he has done will be
forgotten. His high reputation may
be destroyed in a single moment
Garfield further intimated to me
that in his own case he felt that this
rule should apply and that the time
was near at hand when he would
make an end of formal speaking, of
the set or polished address, and
would confine himself. when neces-
sary to speak at ALL to simple, I'M
| assuming, quiet and conversational
| methods"
| Senator Depew was also inclined
| to agree with General James in the
| opinion that General Garfield con-
| templated devoting himself to lit
erary pursuits on historical subjects
as soon as his public life ended--an
end which in any event would come
when he was only fifty-seven years
of age, for If he We're elected to q
second term and served out the term
he would be upon his retirement nc
more than fifty-seven years of age
in other words, a sage before he was
sixty.
Copyright, 1918. by z. ]. Edwards
| All rights reserved)
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not advanced enough--are inherent in
a system of one-room country schools,
and that the way to remedy the
situation Is to have fewer and better
schools, with transportation furnished
to pupils living at distance.
1t is pointed out that the rural
school conditions found In this Mary
land county are by no means peculiar
to Ii. but are typical of what is still
found In country districts elsewhere.
In several respects Montgomery
county Is superior to other rural To-
calities In its educational facilities.
It has, for instance, school year
of $50 days. as compared to terms as
low as forty days in parts of some
States, and, like every other Mary
land county, II has county supervision
of schools, which educators consider
the most effective means of building
up rural education.
To make the one-room rural schools
as efficient as possible, but to do
away with them by consolidation
wherever practicable, is the motto the
rural school improvers have adopted.
Constant improvement is reported in
the facilities offered by the one-room
rural school, particularly in relating
school work to farm needs, but side
by side with this Improvement has
gone the movement for consolidation
until there are now several thousand
consolidated schools in the United
States,
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Garment Makers Seek Export Trade.

Garment Makers Seek Export Trade.
From the New York Times.
The latest American commercial OF
ganization to show desire to capture
foreign trade is the Cotton Garment
Manufacturers Association. This or
ganization has appointed an explolta-
tion committee to study conditions IN
he markets of South America, Aus
tralia and South Africa. According
TO Manager Jacob Schapiro, of the
association, the committee will en-
gage an expert on matters OF export
trade to study these conditions at
first hand. 1t is expected that TINS
man. who will be chosen in the near
future. will leave New York for TINS
purpose about January 10. He Will
arrange banking facilities for the
members who want to send their
goods abroad, and will see that proper
arrangements are made for receiving
these goods in foreign markets. Pref
erential tariffs favoring British goods
will be one of the main points con-
sidered in studying the Australian and
South African markets. Because or
the nearness of the opening of the
Panama Canal particular attention
will be paid to the countries along the
west coast of South America 1t Is
expected that the advantages Ameri-
can manufacturers will derive from
lower freights will more than offset
the advantages of the English and
German manufacturers on the score
of lower wages and production costs,
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Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Heaven never helps the man who
will not act"
When General Leonard Wood, the
head OF the United States army, was
an inferno in the City Hospital OF
Boston a child was brought into the
hospital who was in great danger OF
choking to death. For an inferno to
perform an operation without the
consent of the house surgeon was
against the hospital rules, but young
Wood did not wait for the usual red
tape. He made an incision in the
child's windpipe and inserted
breathing tube quickly and saved the
child. He was severely reprimanded
for not observing the usual red tape
routine and, IL / remember correctly,
expelled for this violation OF rules,
but his prompt action saved the
.child's life and showed that the
young physician had initiative which
could act in an emergency. 1t was
this very ability to act quickly in an
emergency which attracted the atten-
ton of President Roosevelt, who
helped him in his unprecedented rise
from an assistant army surgeon IN
Western military camp to the head
OF the Un1IeQ bIdLe5 ARMY
One OF the best surgeons / ever
knew. in an emergency case in italy,
in a remote part of the country where
he could not get any instruments, per-
formed O delicate operation with an
instrument which he manufactured
himself in a blacksmith shop. II only
an ordinary surgeon had been pres
ent the probabilities are that the
woman would have died before they
could have got her back to civiliza-
ton.
A poor workman is always excus-
ing his poor work and his lack OF
skill as due to poor tools, while the
really skilled workman would do good
work with almost any kind of tools.
II is the resourceful man that is In
demand everywhere, the man who
can see a way out in an emergency
or in q critical situation when others
stand dumb and paralyzed. l have
been present when an accident mas
occurred in the streets OF great CITY
when hundreds Of human beings
would crowd about and stare, help
less and powerless to act, Wnen per
hans there was only one man in the
whole crowd who was equal to the
emergency and who knew what to do.
IF procrastination and vacillation
run in your blood, If you are always
waiting for somebody to start things,
to begin things for you, If you feel
paralyzed by the very responsibility
Of deciding things, beginning things
of your own accord, just make up
your mind that II you ever are to
amount to anything in the world you
must strangle this habit. The only
way TO do this is to form the counter
habit of starting out every morning
with the grim resolution not to allow
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result the death-rate compared with
100 born living fell from 1879 to AL.
AS to the causes of death, an In
crease was observed in deaths from
whooping cough of 1856, or 226 per
cent; from measles and rotheln of
$50. or 4,8 per cent; from diseases of
the respiratory tract of 562, or IL per
cent; from murder and manslaught-
er of 116. or 24.5 per cent; from sui
eide of 443, or SO per cent, and as
result of accident of 800. or Az per
cent. On the other hand, there was
a reduction in the number of deaths
from gastro-intestinal catarrh and
diarrhea of 30,346, or 51.S per cent.
from typhoid of 5S5, or 1878 per cent;
from diphtheria and Group of 1,123,
or 1876 per cent; from scarlet fever
of 259, or "a per cent; from puerpal
fever of SO, or SIS per cent, and from
tuberculosis of 725, or 1T per cent.
The number of deaths from CASTRO
intestinal catarrh and diarrhea in
children under a year old diminished
more than a half, from 49,409 in the
previous year to 24,129. The excess of
births over deaths rose from 935 in
1911, to 1851 in the year of this re-
port.
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A Quick Growing Pig.

l bought a Duroc Jersey pig on
March 1, 1913. The pig was two and
one-half months old and weighed
twenty pounds, writes a Louisiana
farmer In the Farm and Home
The first month / fed one pint OF
chops mixed with the same amount of
wheat shorts and half a gallon of
swill three times day. The second
month added one pint Of chops and
a quart of swill making six pints of
chops, three pints of shorts and nine
quarts of swill per day. 1 fed the
same amount of food up till May 49,.
Then I began feeding two pints of
both chops and shorts and gallon
of swill three times per day. My pig
stays in Bermuda grass pasture all
the time and has plenty of fresh
water. The first two weeks my pig
gained fifteen pounds. April IA he
weighed sixty pounds, April 20 he
weighed ninety pounds, on July IL he
weighed 225 pounds, a gain of POS
pounds since March 1 August 20
Prince weighed $40 pounds and on
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-20
BLooMFIELD's NEW POSTMASTER.

GRATIFYING BEYOND measure is the conclusion of the
controversy the Bloomfield postmastehp
he appointment Edward Higgins generally acknowledged
fitting with difference others who
sought they all hghcass is the pleas
ing by the postmases genial disposition popularity
with old and young and other characteristics that made him
Bloomfield favorte since boyhood.
Bright capable with excellent family connections,
his and familiar with conditions and require
confidence unhesangy expressed that the admnstra
Higgins will be emnenty successful
and the Evening Star having long predicted that Mr. Higgins
apponee cordial congratulations and with
these congratulations hope that the administration of
Higgins will continue long he may wish it to last
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CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR THOSE WHO NEED TT

THE WEEK of Christmas beginning Monday should be ded
Gated chiefly the Christmas spirit which does not simply the
celebration but thought and for the owy the unfou
and stricken Christmas for the family and children
alone That selfish spirit Its cheer must be
all neghborhoods and homes and all children The
Christmas festival time for the assertion of
humanity The who helps Christmas cheer
humble abode may we'll believe that there will be
creased pleasure in their domestic circles and that their chill
will blessed the The contribution that may be made
Christmas celebration in the Fairgrounds institutions for the
sick and dependent cannot fail to bless the gver.
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

DR.. de Man reports that he has dis
covered and classified the peculiar
nematode which inhabits the felt beer
mats on which the Germans set their
stems.
1t has been suggested here that DR..
de Man should name his new variety
the drink nematode."
Hundreds Pass $1,000 Bracelet Lying
on Doorstep, Taxi Driver Finds 1t.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-For an hour
on Tuesday night diamond-studded
bracelet valued at $4,000 lay on the
doorstep at the main entrance of the
Plaza Hotel A hundred persons
walked past 1t before 1t was dis
covered by William Rowan, a taxicab
driver, who put 1t In his pocket and
said nothing.
Shortly after midnight Rowan
picked up a paper and read that the
bracelet belonged to Mrs. C. D. Simp-
son, of East Forty-fifth street. He
went to her house with 1t and got
$500 reward.
Before breakfast he had booked
passage for Lemonsf1eld, Limerick
county, Ireland, where his mother
lives.
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THE MASTER BECOMES THE SERVANT.

ATTORNEY GENERAL WICKERSHAM is no longer in Office
position institute sham prosecutions of trusts and
protection and enrichment of trusts else contem
history would read differently For example, the Amer
lean telephone and telegraph monopoly would not be voun
tary offering the government make genuine pre-
tended dissolution of the connection between the telephone and
telegraph separate services entirely independent
of each other.
government ownership evidently inspired this offer
There would be the shadow of such fear under Taft ad
minsraton and the monopoly might gathering in indie
telephone lines and watering its stock without let him
dane But conditions changed From the proud position of
the telephone and telegraph monopoly has down
discovered last that there
government simple and effective in operation that it
out of business within month.
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IT,p Old yeIIolU Rocker

I'm a-sail on the sea with never q fear
What contrary winds may concenter
Now I've learned of a truster ship by far
Than that of the old Defender.
No luggage need, travellers cheque,
Nor fear | Davy Joness locker,
For I'm always at with the winds and the tides,
While sail in my Old Yellow Rocker
Out there on the porch In the shade OF the vines
| sail at will on the ocean,
Or along the blue Nile past its Ethiope signs,
With a fear of commotion.
sail on the river, famed of DID,
Past the Orient palms and the glory
OF pinnacled mosques and Orient shrines
And Egypts splendors hoary
On, on sail where the red lights CLEAN
OF Idas mount the peerless,
To the golden gates of the city fair,
Constanta's walls, the peerless
Oh, sail and sail, as a bird of the air.
Nor fear Davy Jones's locker,
For sail in the berth of staid old ship,
While | sail In My Old Yellow Rocker.
Mary J. weatherbee Rice.
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WITH THE NATIONS. TOILERS

The city OF San Antonio, Tex, has
raised the rate of pay for street labor
ers from $3.50 to $175, and the team
sters from 1925 to $3.50 per day.
The campaign among New York fac
tory workers for the enforcement of
the fire and labor laws is being vigor-
ously prosecuted by the Women's
Trade Union League.
Increased wages granted by many
British railway companies in 1911
were followed by similar increases in
1912, with the result that the rise or
22h cents a week in 1911 was fol-
lowed by further rise of 1871 cents
in 1912.
An entire corps of secret police
keeps a strict surveillance over the
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A RECORD MELON-CUT FOR NEW YEARS.

QUARTER of billion dollars will be the comfortable
gift bondhoders stockholders from American
corporations including the national and the city off
In dividends and interest the railroads will Distribute
approximately $l33O00000 industrial mining $751;
OOOOOO companies 500000 railways
S20OO0O0O government $275000 the municipality of
$95O0000 While dividend payments will be
duced slightly from this year. the grand total will new
The grand of New Years always watched for
indicating conditions of trade and these figures
teiny service the pessimst and the croaksr
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A New Weapon.

The Irishman in France had been
challenged to a duel.
"shure," he cried, wen fight wild
shillalahs.''
THAT won't do" said his second.
"As the challenged party you have
the right to choose the arms, but
chivalry demands that you should de-
eide upon weapon with which
Frenchmen are familiar"
rs that so, indade." returned the
generous Irishman. Then we'll
foight 1t cut wild guillotines." ELK
ehanssH
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Lord KeIvin's Joke.

Though the late Lord Kelvin had
his merry moods. according to an ex-
change, he was not very much of a
wit. However, he once made a joke
that was very characteristic in its
completeness. While he was working
at his deep-sea sounding apparatus a
brother scientist asked him the use
of a big coil of plano wire he was
carrying with him.
"It is for sounding" was the reply.
what note?" asked the ques-
toner.
"The deep c." came the answer
Public Ledger.
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labor movement in Argentina and I'M
der the law any foreigner can be
seized on the street and forced to
leave the country without any judi
cial proceedings.
A petition signed by 624 park en-
ployees. asking for minimum wage
of 1920 week, and for considera-
ton of the question of overtime, was
referred to the parks committee of
the London, England, county coun-
Gil.
In the Federation of Labor the
cigarmakers head the list of financial
benefits with s562,271 paid out: car
penters ranked second with $342, 1859
and the Typographical Union third
with $234,457. In this last sum the
annual expense of the Union Print
ers' Home is not included.
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A bashful man who visited a girls
school was asked by the mistress TO
say a few words to the pupils.
Scholars" he said. ST hope you
will always love your school and your
teacher as much as I do
Tableau-Giggling pupils and
blushing teacher.-London Telegraph.
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Cienas Trousers with GasoIenes
Lighted Cigarette, Explosion.

LAUREL, Del, Dec. 2O.-Merrill
Thompson, clerk. met with an UNI
usual accident yesterday.
He cleaned his trousers with gaso-
line, put them on. sat down and
dropped a lighted cigarette on his
knee. There was an explosion and
he was instantly enveloped in flames
and badly burned. DR.. Barlow thinks
he will recover.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

medical men in boisterous conven-
ton assembled last Saturday seem to
have been about equally divided be-
tween laughter and indignation over
this rather exceptional legislative
freak from the oranks' paradise at
Madison.
However, the law was quickly shot
to pieces as a moral, scientific and
economic monstrosity by the organ
lied practitioners.
The climax of the evenings grid
iron entertainment came when the
redoubtable DR.. H. M. Brown, gem
tleman favorably known for the valu-
able faculty of calling a spade a
spade at the psychological moment,
proposed a strike against the statu-
tory medical incarnation over pros
pective bridegrooms at SO a throw
Now that the fool bill Is become
law on the eve of enforcement every
competent authority rushes to the
attack-a little late. Clergymen, doc
tors. lawyers proceed to tear 1t to
rags as abortive, running counter in
operation to public policy and good
morals, and probably unconstitu-
tional.
For one point, what must be
Thought of a statute that actually
makes going to another State to get
married. in order to avoid the in
nuisitorial preliminaries to getting
married in this State, punishable by
thirty days in Jail, unless certain
formalities are complied
with when they get backl
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Leaves Divorce Court to shop with
Husband and Son.

Leaves divorce court 10 onOp WIZ"
Husband and Son.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-The mere
fact that they were principals In an
action for separation didn't hinder
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Levens from
going on a Christmas shopping trip
vest erday with their six-year-o son,
Sydney. Mrs. Levene Is suing her
husband, an automobile salesman, in
the Supreme Court for separation
on charges that he was cruel to her.
When recess was called Mrs. Lee
vene left the court room with the boy.
He found his father In the hall, and
grasping his arm, childishly re-
marked, Lots of boys are going to
see Santa Claus this year, but I
guess I won't"
The parents looked at each other
and after moment of silence took
the boy from the building. After
buying Sydney a train of cars and
OF her toys, they went back to court
and the trial was resumed