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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
ODDITIES IN TODAYS NEWS

, men, on behalf of their wives and
sweethearts, has been started in this
city.
Just who is furnishing the funds for
it's upkeep has not been disclosed,
but it has been asserted that promi,
nent c1ergymen are looking out for
the welfare of the association.
Those men who are dazzled by the
''gay light way" received dose of
shivers when the plans of the asso-
citation became known.
College Boys Help Solve Servant
Problem for Ranchers' Wives.
SPOKANE, Wash, Oct. 22.-The
wives of ranehers near here have
solved the servant problem.
Many of the young men students
at Washington State College. COM
PEELED to earn their way through
school, hired out as domestics dur
ing the harvest season, washing the
dishes, hopping the floors and even
cooking for their room and board.
1t gives the ranchers' wives plenty
of time for pink teas.
OYSTER Imprisons Fish which Gets
Revenge by Devouring Cnptor.
MIDDLETOWN. Del, Oct. 22,--J.
w. Wilcutts. restaurant proprietor
on opening an oyster Shell, winch
was four inches long and to all out
ward appearances perfectly good, in
side found in place of an oyster a
living fish. which measured four and
a half inches. Apparently there had
been a battle between the oyster and
the fish. the oyster first catching the
fish and the latter. once inside the
she'll devouring the oyster.
Wilcutts placed the fish in dish or
water, where it frisked about for a
time and then pfned away and died,
probably because 1t had no oysters
to feed upon.
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Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.

"AShINUIoN, OcI. %%'
AS a result of vigorous protests
from publishers and business men
throughout the country, the Inter-
state Commerce Commission will
probably go slowly in approving the
plan of Postmaster General Burleson
for including books under the parcel
post rates
Business men protesting against
such action say that the effect of the
proposed order would amount to a
large increase in the present rates
of postage on books and pamphlets.
and would add greatly to the ey-
penses of publishers and mail order
houses which send out large numbers
of catalogs, price lists and other pub
locations which would probably be
considered to be books"
At present books and printed mat
ter are mailable to any part of the
country and to many other countries
at the rate of two ounces for a cent
or eight cents a pound. The proposal
to include such printed matter in the
parcel post would double the present
rate on small publications. A four
ounce parcel of printed matter which
now costs two cents would cost four
cents. On books weighing a pound or
more. the change in classification
would reduce the rate for short dis
tances, but for long distances would
increase the rate from eight cents to
nine, ten, eleven and twelve cents u
pound in the fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth zones.
In petitions filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission that body is
asked to at least refuse to approve
such a change until a hearing can be
given TO the subject. 1t has been
pointed out to the commission that
since they have agreed to postpone
the operation of the new schedule of
express rates, by which rates are gen.
orally reduced, they should go equally
slow in agreeing to an increase in pos
tai rates. especially at this time, when
the tendency is to demand reduction
of rates instead of increases.
The Porto Rico Goyernorship.
District Court Judge Daniel A.
Dugan, of Orange, may be added to
the list of New Jersey Democrats who
oyerrated their influence with the adj
Judge Dugan was a
candidate for governor of Porto Rico.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS
June /, 1908. to May 81. 1913, was
SIG, 650,74S.

June l, 1908. to May 81, 1918, was
$16,650,74S.
According to French law, women
workers may leave their work with
out notice as soon as their pregnacy
becomes visible to others. No woman
may be employed within four weeks
of the confinement.
In order to thwart the movement
on the part of the United Brickyard
Owners in connection with the new
capital of Australia, the (labor) gov
eminent built a large brickyard-
which also supplies private customers
before the last election.
The first Agricultural Workers
Cooperative Society has been recent
ly established in Hungary with the
help of the Socialist party and the
trade unions. Through same the farm
and railway construction workers
will be brought within the fold of
the cooperative movement.
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For That "Morning After" Feeling
ButtermIIk Takes First Prize.


VENICE, Cal, Oct. 22.-Buttermilk
for the morning afteri"
That is the remedy OF captain
Cavanaugh, Of the local police de-
partment
He is going to appeal to the city
fathers for an allowance of butter
milk to administer as a soothing
stimulant to those released from JAN
after "a bad night"
Aged "Newsgirl" Pays Taxes on FIFTY
Thousand-DOIla Property.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22.-"Grand-
ma Jones'" who for twenty years mas
sold newspapers on the streets OF Los
Angeles, wearing an old brown snaWl
and sunbonnet that have made her a
familiar figure, has just paid taxes
on property in Los Angeles county
that is valued at $4,000.
The aged woman, whose exact years
are unknown, arrived at the tax
office early. An ancient black purse
contained a roll of bills which she
distributed as she wandered from
window to window. She paid taxes
on several lots at the harbor ana
Long Beach and In newly-opened
sections. -
she passed almost the entire morn
ing in the tax collectors office. When
the last bill was paid she limped
ont of the hall of records. At the
entrance was a bundle of afternoon
papers she had left on the Sidewalk.
Her first customer was Tax Collector
WEIGH, who was just entering the
building.
Church Society Furnishes Wives and
Fiancees with sleuths.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 22.-An agency
which has for It's purpose the track
- 81 married men and near married
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WASHINGTON LETTER
BY H;B. l!I,a aM STAR STAFF
WALKER 1lffzssasssy2RE SPONDENT

He had the endorsement of the New
Jersey Legislative Correspondence
Club and a host of others, and about
the time Wilson was inaugurated last
winter the betting was so strongly in
Dugan's favor for the place that some
OF his associates among the legislative
correspondents and lawyers in the
State were even planning the date for
a New Jersey day celebration in Porto
Rico. Now the job has gone to a
Kentucky man, and Dugan wasn't
even mentioned.
The Record Letters.
In 1910 George l.. Record wrote a
letter to Woodrow Wilson that was
intended to aid in electing Vivian NJ.
Lewis as governor. Instead Wilson
adopted Records letter as his plat
form and walked into the State House
as the Progressive and New Idea
representative. 1t is believed at the
White House and among Democrats
here that the Record letters to Stok es
will help to do the same trick for
Fielder
Congress Marking Time.
Presumably Congress is in session
Actually there are not enough men,
Washington to do business. And il
doesn't look as If there were going
to be many more here for the next
few weeks. Because Mann, the Re
publican leader, objected, the House
can't adjourn or take a recess, and
so the members are just going to go
home anyway and stay home until
/ next session. The Senate is supposed
! 10 be considering the seaman bill,
which President Taft vetoed, and for
which there has been demand from
sailors for years, but the leaders
can't keep a quorum here to reach a
vote.
There is plenty of work for both
houses. Already there are scores of
important bills introduced which are
to be considered next winter, and
which will have TO be carefully
studied by committees before they
get into the House or Senate. The
present period of marking time while
waiting for the currency bill to get
10 the Senate and passed might very
we'll be utilized in committee work
that would save months of labor and
delay next year. But Congress has
put in a busy summer, and, willy
nilly, the congressman are going tc
have little pla" spell, which they
are now taking.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

pie, would be the history of Rome's
long struggle by colonization and
other expedients, to get rid of Its
human surplus. Flogging loafers is
as futile as "swatting" flies while
the conditions persist that breed flies
or draw great masses of people into
the metropolis. Nor is election from
the cities a cure for idleness and va
grancy; there was a time when Eng
land was full of "broken men," and
laws of a severity which modern hui
manitarian sentiment would not toll
crate could not cope with the evil.
There is seldom a short and easy
solution of complicated social prob
lem.
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THE NATION SHORT OF FIGHTING MEN.

IF THIS country had to go to today would find
both its regular and its peousy
According General Barry, commanding Depart
regular service badly and
same condition prevails in the organized militia Is not this
dangerous situation largely due to the neglect Congress
the enlistment in the army pass
for payment of national guardsmen?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
What Is 1t?

What's that which all love more than
life?
Fear more than death OF mortal
strife?
That which contented men desire,
The poor possess, the rich require?
The miser spends, the spendthrift
saves,
And all men carry to their graves?
The answer is-Nothing.
---Exchange
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THE COMPLETED REGISTRATION

THE REGISTRATION in Essex county for the
dcates interest that will be apparent
returns likelihood the poled county
equal that in the presidential election which only
z334 more poIled for Governor in 1870
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When Bank President Refused Govt Bonds as Security

IN experience the financial world have known Just one in
a
of
matter Yhaf the seclr
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Not Easy of solution.

From the Springfield Republican.
In an address the other day in New
York Rev. Madison c. Peters gave a
short solDtion of the cost Of living
problem:
Our people flock to the cities,
where they would rather stay, starve
and sink than go to the country and
work. New York Is thronged with
men who would rather depend on
charity than help to produce food
stuffs In the uninhabited and unpro-
ductive lands near our city. ! would
rid New York of its loafers by plac-
ing good, healthy work on one side
and a rawhide on the other, and
then give them fifteen minutes to take
their choice.
Rev. Mr.. Peters no doubt has a
library with books in it. He might
spend fifteen minutes in turning up
records of previous efforts to deal
with the pressure of population upon
great cities. Instructive, for exam
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Mhy Men Go 10 collegr.
From the Boston Transcript.

/ l.
That men do not go to college pri-
marily for athletics. but mainly
through the influence of alumni, Is
evinced by statistics collected from
every member of last years fresh
man class at Dartmouth by Professor
+. A. Updyke, of the political science
department The statistics, which
have just beensmade public, also show
that the average man goes to college
with a definite aim as to his work
after graduation.
Information regarding the men in
the entering class was obtained by
Professor Updyke through personal
interviews as class officer with 3S1
men. The primary purpose of the
conferences was to aid the men in
getting the proper attitude toward
college work. but in the course of the
semester statistics were obtained
V hich seemed valuable enough to
tabulation of the replies of the 3S1
men to the question of why they came
to Dartmouth rather than to any
either college follows: Influence of
Dartmouth graduates and undergrad
yates, al: location of the college, 46,
size of the college, as midway be-
tween the small college and the uni
versity, II; influence of relatives In or
out of college, AZ; plan of admission,
Is; reputation and spirit, IL; lower
expense of education at Dartmouth,
10; Thayer School, 10; Tuck School.
IL; athletics, s.; miscellaneous and
combined reasons, 49,
The figures covering thu life plans
Of the men were ascertained to be
these: Business, liz; undetermined,
60; Tuck School, Sc; law, Sc; engineer
ing, 80; chemists, 10; medicine and
teaching, 8: literary work, s.; scientific
agriculture, 4; architect, consular
service, religious work and forestry,
5 each; librarian, 1.
The figures covering both the rea-
sons for entering college and the life
plans of the freshmen were somewhat
surprising. Ia view of the fact that
the tendency to athleticism is so
much deplored by educators of today
the fact that only five men out of
nearly 400 were induced to go to col.
lege by athletic persuation is start
ling. Out of the ISL men but rs had
fathers who were college graduates,
and of these only q graduated from
dartmouth. OF the fathers SO were
professional men, the remainder run
ming the whole gamut of business and
trades. The influence of alumni and
undergraduates is shown to he the
most D, tent influence upon prospec.
tive college men, although the size of
the college and its location play no
inconsiderable part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
FRENCH ENGINEER
LOOKS OVER HUDSON

Charles Denegre, agent for the Hud-
son that is creating a very fine inn
preston here, issued this statement
yesterday in reference to the visit to
America of Charles de Freminyille to
the Hudson plant:
"A distinguished motor car engineer,
Charles de Freminville, technical di-
rector of the panhard-the first car
produced in Francis al present visit
ing the American automobile industry.
lie was met in New York by his
friend, President r. d. Chaplin of the
Hudson Motor Car company and to-
gether they went to Detroit, where the
Hudson factories are located. NJ de
Freminville spent much time inspecting
the Hudson plant, studying deeply the
latter companys methods. He eX-
pressed pleasure at the remarkable six
cylinder automobile which the Hudson
company is able to sell at moderate
price
M. de Freminyille is watching Amer
icas motor car progress. He was sur
prised when told of the large output of
the Hudson plant, for in Europe there
is no quantity production of high class
automobiles. Engineering improve
ments embodied in cars made in this
country also interested him.
"a1. de Freminvil1e's last visit to this
country was 16 years ago, when he
came to inspect the manufacture of
railway cars. At that time he was an
official of the trunk lines of France
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
The Silkworm's Rival


With the increase of the human race
and its many new necessities, there seems
always to arise at just the right time
method of supply. The old way of obtain
ing silk from the silk worm will continue
probably as long as the world shall exist
but to care for the silkworm and to
wind the silk is so slow and tedious pro-
cess that silk must always be high priced
and its use limited to the few. But now
comes the modern invention of viscose or
artificial silk from wood. Just as we had
to abandon flax and cotton for making
paper, and chop down trees to produce
the tons and tons demanded, SO now we
are abandoning the silkworm with its
slow and expensive processes, and are
putting the trees into the mill, grinding
them up, treating them in certain chem
ical manner most of which is secret, so
as to produce not exactly an equivalent
for silk, but In many respects material
that has wider adaptabilty and greater
availability than silk. This new silk is
readily manufactured into a close imita-
tion of human hair, and for the various
intricacies of feminine headgear of puffs
and pads and frills and rats and of other
things, this new silk surely has a decided
advantage. as it does not give the wearer
the feeling that it came from some head
Of uncertain cleanliness or desrability.
The artificial hair is even more cleanly
than the natural because it has gone
through the chemical processes whicn
make it practically pure, literally so In
the sense in which the term is common
ly used.
This new silk has a decided lustre and
gives the fingers a pleasing sensation;
1t is not harsh and irritating as some
forms of silk fabrics are inclined to be.
In lace work beautiful patterns may be
readily formed, and patterns adapted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Ragtime Opens Parliament

London Cable to the New York Times.
Protests have been raised in some
quarters against the inclusion of rag
time in the programme rendered by the
Guards band during the procession OF
the King and Queen at the opening of
parliament The Musical News says:
1--WE have plenty of fine martial mu-
sic, suitable for the occasion, and there
was no need to go to America for in
spiration. Doubtless those clever COM
edans, known as the Two Bobs,' will
feel highly complimented at their pop
ular .Alexander's Ragtime Band being
utilized in a state procession, but to
any one who appreciates the signifi-
canoe in music. this selection was un-
suitable and meaningless. The worst
was to follow, for this was succeeded
by Waiting for Robert f. Lee and
'Hitchykoo.' 1t is truly reign of rag
time.
"We-a are not disputing the popularity
of the above tunes, but both the music
and the words with which they are as
sociated render them unfit for state
pageants, and such items stick in ones
throat even at stately ceremonies such
as the lord mayors show"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
INTERESTING GOSSIP BIRMINGHAM AUTOMOBILISTS

originality in body design is unmarked
characteristic of the new Marmon road
ster bodies which are now being placed
on the market.
"The '32' four cylinder roadster for
two passengers is especially distinctive
in appearance because OF the great
sweeping line of its body. The drivers
seat is set well back from the dash,
and the entire body to the rear of the
seat is declSed over to provide ample
space for gasoline and oil tanks, as
we'll as a large compartment for lug
gage. Two doors are provided on each
side. the entrance door to the seats and
the second door to the rear for access
10 tine luggage compartment The car
is designed to give the snappy appear
once required by motor enthusiasts for
town car and yet to provide ample
CARRYING. space for long tours. Com
bined with the many FEATURES Oh Mar
mon design and it's careful construction
the car is adapted for most strenuous
tests of touring, combined with the
economy of tires, fuel ana upheep SO
desirable in any car
..The roadster type OF the Marmor
.AS, six cylinder car is designed along
the same individual lines to provide
a large car especially suited for tour
inp use While this car has the eX-
trepalv long wheel base of 145 inches,
sneoial features of front axle design
make II possible to turn in as short a
snace as the 120-inch wheel base car.
and provide all easy riding qualities Of
tha long wheel base with the ease of
operation Of the shorter car. One OF
the many special features of this type
is the extra seat in the rear of the
drivers seat which. when not In use,
folds into the body and is covered to
form mart of the decked rear. The top
is n1aced so as to cover both seats,
feature introduced for the first time on
roadster bodies. :.
s.From the demand following the first
showing of these new roadster types
their distinctive body line and their
adaptability for road work as well as
city use, bids fair to make them among
the most popular of the Marmon de-
sign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

uation as it should have been handled.
The observations of the citizens is per-
haps unknown until this time to Mr..
Waldrop as he was interested, at the
time mentioned in directing the traffic,
not smiling at his friends near the En-
pire corner.
Mr.. Waldrop stopped cars while he
waved automobiles and pedestrians to
pass by He stopped pedestrians and
automobiles while he waved the East
Lake cars forward. A Norwood car
started to round the corner into Twen-
tieth street without a signal from the
traffic man. Immediately the motor
man was called" strong and forced to
clear the way for other cars to pass
as directed by Mr.. Waldrop. A bright
automobile driver attempted to cut
the corner from the south on Twentieth
street into First avenue, west. Mr..
Waldrop placed his impressive person
in front of that car and willed the
driver to back up. The driver did so
and went around full strong convinced
no doubt that at least one time he had
been forced to obey traffic regulations.
The manner in which Mr.. Waldrop
handled the street cars, the way he
handled women and children, the ease
with which he stopped lines of auto
mobiles to allow street cars and pc
destrians to pass and his utter absence
of "panic" at crucial times, called forth
from a group of onlookers great praise.
Those who observed the remarkably
satisfying work of Mr.. Waldrop agreed
that If Birmingham possessed ten or
twelve such officers at congested traf
fie points that the situation here would
by that agency become finely arranged
and soon.
In conclusion, Mr.. Waldrop, we salute
you, with admiration and respect. We
are not alone in commencing you to
the attention and careful consideration
of Chief Bodeker and Judge Lane for
lieutenant of the traffic squad. One
must be formed and your unexam-
pied capacity for that very important
position strikes many with great force
May the formation of that squad and
your own promotion come soon and
with all its shades of happiness to you
personally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
LONDON SOCIETY
BY THE LADY MARY MANwARING

simplify the court establishment-so far
as her own immediate encourage is con-
cerned. Some spiteful people attribute
the Kings desire for economy to sug-
gestion by Premier Asquith, instigated Dit
was said) by the premer's brilliant wife,
out of pique for some fancied slight. That
Is quite absurd.
In the matter of Queen Mary's house
hold, the only appointment in which the
prime minister for the time being is con-
suited as of right is that of the mistress
of the robes 1t carries with it a par
liamentary subsidy of $2500 per annum,
and when there is change in the polit-
ical parties the incoming government pos
sesses the technical right of introducing
its own nominee into this office In point
of fact, the late Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman readily aoceded to Queen
Alexandra's wish that the tenure of the
late Duchess of Buccleuch, who had
served under the Salisbury and the Bal
four regimes, should not be disturbed.
So, also, Mr.. Asquith's acceptance of
the Duchess of Devonshre as her sue
cessor, under the present Queen, is a
graceful Acknowledgement of the right
for which Queen Victoria fought in her
early years to keep the ladies of her en-
tourage outside the political arena. Con-
sequently the expectations of the gos-
sips cannot apply to this appointment.
Society generally is much amused over
an incident which occurred in a theatre
last week. A lady occupying a distin-