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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
Chief Long and the movies
To the Editor of the Evening Star:

10 the EdltOr OF the EVENING 6ldfs
Chief of Police Long Is to be warmly
commended for ending the vice show
at one of our most popular play
houses. He can prof1tably carry MS
censorship O. good deal further, and
stamp out the equally demoralizing
exhibitions with which the morale of
the people is being vitiated at thou
sand holes in the wall scattered all
over the city.
The educational possibilities Of the
moving picture are enormous. 1t can
be made a splendid agent in upllft
movements. But we are seeing 1t ex-
plotted today only for the demoraliza-
ton of the people An army or con-
scienceless spectators are treating the
youth of the city to visions of bur
glaries, glimpses into brothels and ad-
ventures of ragamuffins that are
making them thousand times better
acquainted with the jimmy and the
stiletto than the schools can ever
make them with the spelling-book
and the pen.
Nor is one surprised to see the
devotees of the eugenics .nastiness
spring to the defense of these unholy
shows Those who proclaim that the
protection of the youth against the
pitfalls of life demands that topics
their elders avoid shall be woven into
the prattle of the nurseries are
forced, by consistency, to stand out IN
advocacy of picture plays that put
the thing right under their eyes:
And vet. do you know, | do not I'M
agine that they themselves believe
what they preach. An awful anxiety
to "be in the fashion" accounts for
whole lot of the tomfoolery that is
imnosed on the State. And, so, the
eagerness Of these people to be
counted among the smart set'-the
fear that some one may set them
down as "old fogies," mot aoreast
with the times, unacqualnted Win
the new thought" Of the age, ana al
that kind OF highfalutin nonsense-iis
more likely to be the father OF their
thought than the conVictlon tEal Saoii
thought Is the right or the safe one.
FOR even they must know that
Vice ia today no less a monster OF
bideous mien that to be feared needs
hut to be seen; but, seen too OFT, Ia
miliar with his face, we first pity
then endure and in the end embrace
than he was in the day when Pope
caught his famous glimpse OF MIN.
And indeed. II is still as true as IN
the DAYS of the prophets, that 'eVll
communications corrupt good NOR
ais ,.s
The community is to be felicitated
that il has stalwart puttress
against the intrusion of these vicious
and dangerous follies In the resoiute-
ness with which the Catholic Church
and its clergy set face against them.
The high dignitarles Of that church
have declared against the corrupt Ion
OF the young mind with the eugenlcs
determination an innovation that has
been advised for the public schools
here and which is so out Of accord with
the clean, orderly and wholesome at
mosphere of the parochial schools
that its liberation there is beyond the
reach of the possible In the same
spirit the late Father o'Connorr, OF
Harrison, stood guard at the gates or
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

One very beautiful June morning,
in 1882, / was passing through jack
son Square, which faces the White
House. at Washington, taking spe-
DIAL heed OF the shrubbery and trees
and, of the Identifying labels which
the superintendent of the botanical
gardens, Mr. Smith. had attached to
every plant, shrub or tree. ] was, IN
fact, SO greatly occupied with this
study that did not at first notice
that two men were coming along the
patch which crosses the garden
diagonally from northeast to south
west.
My attention was soon attracted
to them, however, for they of sud
den stopped in front of the Jackson
statue. Their conversation became
animated. One of them, the larger
man of the two, pointed to the hind
legs of the horse which rest upon the
pedestal.
These two men were General Sher-
man and General Rosecrans. I had
never seen them together before.
General Sherman was still the head
of the army, for he was not succeed
ed In that office by General Sheridan
until perhaps a year or two later,
General Rosecrans was serving his
first term as O. member Of Congress
He was one of the distinguished
members of that body. Strangers In
the gallery always requested that he
be pointed out to them.
Both men were of utterly inconsplc-
uous demeanor. There was nothing
typical or suggestive of the soldier in
either of them. General Sherman
wore a thin black alpaca coat. Gen.
eral Rosecrans's trousers were baggy
at the knees. Both wore grizzly
boards. Rosecrans's was of sandy tint
suggesting his Teutonic origin. After
standing in front of the jackson
tatue a few moments, evidently oc-
cupied in some earnest discussion
about some feature of the work, the
two men went on. They entered the
war department together and / pre-
sumo that General Rosecrans was
paying an early visit to General Sher.
man because of some business and
that he had met the senior general al
his house so that he might walk witt
him across the park to the war Of
flee.
A day or two later l met Genera.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
UPLIFT TALKS
THE REFINING INFLUENCE OF BEAUTY
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN
Author Of Pushing to the Front nso-
rsopx,,iobt 1918.

lance up the Hudson.
Our American life tends to kill the
finer sentiments, TO discourage the
cultivation of the beautiful; 1t over
emphasizes the value of material
things and underestimate that e
esthetic things, which are far moEa
developed In countries where the dol
lar is not the God.
AS long as we persist in sending
all the sap and energy of our beings
into the money making gland and let
the esthetic faculties and the social
faculties lie dormant, and even die
out. we certainly cannot expect a
well-rounded and symmetrical life,
for only faculties that are used, brain
cells that are exercised, grow; all
others atrophy. The love of beauty
plays very important part in the
poised, symmetrical life. We little
realize how much We are influenced
by beautiful people and beautiful
things. We may see them so often
that they become common in our ex-
perience and fail to attract much of
our conscious attention; but every
beautiful picture, every sunset and
bit of landscape, every beautiful face
and form and flower-beauty in any
guise, wherever we encounter it,
ennobles and elevates character.
There is everything in keeping the
soul and mind responsive to beauty.
1t is a great refreshener, recuperator,
life-giver, health-promoter.
The late Professor Charles Eliot
Norton. of Harvard University, one
of the finest thinkers of his day, said
that beauty had played an immense
part in the development of the high
est qualities in human beings, and
that civilization could be measured
by its architecture, sculpture and
painting.
There is no doubt that in the future
beauty will play an infinitely greater
part in life than 1t has thus far. Sad
to say, life today is becoming COM
mercialized everywhere. The trouble
with us is that the tremendous ma
terial prizes in this land of oppor-
tunity are so tempting that we have
lost sight of the higher man. We have
developed ourselves along the animal
side of our nature; the greedy, grasp
ing side. The great majority of us
are still living in the basement OF
our beings. Now and then one as
cends to the upper stories and gets a
glimpse of the life beautiful, the life
worth while.
1t is as essential to cultivate the
esthetic faculties and the heart quail.
tiles as to cultivate what we call the
intellect The time will come when
our children will be taught, both at
home and in school, to consider
beauty as most precious gift, which
must be preserved in purity, sweet
ness and cleanliness, and regarded as
a divine instrument of education.
One can make no better investment
than the cultivation of a taste for
the beautiful, for it will bring rain
bow hues and enduring joys to the
whole life. 1t will not only greatly
increase ones capacity for happiness,
but also ones efficiency.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Two Civil War Generals and the Statue

Rosecrans and I ventured to say
to him that | CHANGED to be in the
park the morning of the day he
walked through with General Sher-
Nman and that my curiosity was nat
urally excited as l saw the two dis
tinguished generals of the civil war,
both in citizens dress, stop before
the Jackson statue and enter into con-
versation apparently concerning 1t.
General Rosecrans smiled. He re-
called the incident perfectly, He
story which l had heard that
the hind legs of the Jackson
statue are not fastened to the
pedestal General Sherman was
inclined to think that it was impos-
sible for. that horse to take and main
tain the leaping posture which the
sculptor had given to him unless the
hind legs were fastened to the
pedestal He told me 1t was violation
of the laws of physics. / told him
that | had made some inquiry and
had been told that the statue had
been erected following the same law
of physics as that which is used by
makers of toy which balances itself
perfectly without seeming to have any
support except single slight clutch
told General Sherman that the
sculptor had been obedient to the
physical laws, for the hind quarters of
the bronze horse and the legs We're
very heavy, whereas the forward
parts of the animal were relatively
light. Furthermore, / told him that
the horse had been placed upon the
pedestal in such way that the centre
of gravity passed through the hips
and launches just in front of the fet-
locks and through the hoofs to the
pedestal, and that the great weight of
the bronze aided in keeping the ami
NAL In perfect position.
81 rather think said General
Rosecrans, that General Sherman
was astonished. but l am certain that
he accepted my explanation as cor
rect. / don't think he thought much
of the statue as a work of art
Copyright, 1918, by e. j. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell OF
| THE Loneliness of the American ex-
Presidents"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
A Beneflcent Christmas Present
December 20, 1913.

December ~, 1913.
To the Editor OF the Newark Star:
Dear Sir-Your city seems to be at
the threshold of q great development
of a system OF public baths, beginning
with the beautiful one opened last
September. The great sanitary and
recreational value of bathing is be-
coming better appreciated through
out the world, as witness the Inter
national Conference on Public Baths,
held at The Hague in August, 1912,
and the organization in New York
city in May of the same year of the
American Association for Promoting
Hygiene and Public Baths This is to
meet In Newark on May IL, 1914, and
1t is highly desirable as a stimulus to
extending the system of baths that
a large local membership should be
enrolled as speedily as possible. To
secure popular support dues have
been placed at the nominal rate of
one dollar a year.
This great public benefaction would
be strengthened by immediate appll-
cations for membership, which may
be made, inclosing one dollar for
dues, to the treasurer, A. p. Win
dolph, 81 West Thirty-third street,
New York city, or to any officer, of
whom two, Mrs. Mary A. jacobson
and J. L. Mason, reside In Newark
At this time, when open-handed
giving is so much in vogue, what can
be more timely and helpful than such
a gift to this beneficial association?
Germany has very large and strong
Public Bath Association. Why should
not we?
Swimming Is admittedly the most
desirable form of exercise. Swimming
pools have increased in number in
this country far beyond the knowl-
edge of people who have, not studied
statistics. In preparation of paper
read at the Baltimore meeting last
May. one speaker correspondent with
nearly 700 such pools, among them be-
ing nearly 400 of Y. M. c. AS.
Recent progress In sanitation en-
sures absolute sanitation in these
pools, and the influence of such an
association as ours is most potent
factor of progress. Yours truly,
WILLIAM II. HALE,
Permanent secretary of the American
Association for Promoting Hygiene
and Public Baths.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
81. AYES OF ANCIENT GREECE

dustrial work, leaving the citizen
owners to spend their time in idleness
and luxury. 1t was for this reason
that nearly all Greeks maintained an
aristocratic attitude toward life.
The prevailing economic conditions
and customs tended to lower the
morale of families and reduce their
numbers. Enriched by slave labor.
and entertained by the doings of men
and women purchased from abroad.
the Greeks became spectators of life
and practically renounced the raising
OF children.
From the facts and statistics fur
nished by the author. one can readily
find useful standard for comparison
with the social phenomena of today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

'There are no ugly women. There
are only women who do not know how
to look pretty
To be beautiful Is a desire possessed
by every woman, and any man would
rejoice to have his body moulded
along such lines as Angelo carved.
Beauty of soul, charm OF manner, at
Effectiveness and graciousness OF ex-
preston, godlike bearing, are our
birthrights. Yet how ugly, stiff,
coarse and harsh in appearance and
bearing many of us are!
Just in proportion to your love for
the beautiful will you acquire us
charms and develop Its graces IN
yourself. The beauty thought, the
beauty ideal, will outpicture them
selves in the face and manner. But
il we wish to beautify the outer, We
must first beautify the inner, for
every thought and every motion
shapes the delicate tracings OF our
face for ugliness or beauty. Inhar-
moniousness and destructive attitudes
of mind will warp and mar the most
beautiful features. Shakespeare says:
"God has given you one face and
YOU make yourselves another" The
mind can make beauty or ugliness at
will
Il
vate a gracious mentality, not only
would what we expressed be artisti-
cally beautiful, but his y would
also be beautiful. There ould In
deed be grace and charm superb
GRITTY about him, which would be even
greater than mere physical beauty.
We have all seen very plain women
who, because of the charm of their
personality. impressed us as beauti-
full. The exquisite soul qualities ex-
pressed through the body transformed
it into their likeness. A fine spirit
speaking through the plainest body
will make it beautiful.
Someone speaking Of Fanny Kemble
said: Although she was very stout
and short and had a very red face,
yet she impressed me as the supreme
embodiment of majestic attributes. [
never saw SO commanding a per-
sonallty in feminine form. And type
of mere physical beauty would have
paled to insignificance by her side
The japanese are a pagan people,
yet they cultivate the perception of
beauty from infancy; their aesthetic
sense is so delicate that even the
blossoming of q cherry tree gives
them supreme delight. The whole
population makes festival of 1t and
turns out to enjoy the new season
miracle. Work is deserted, shops are
closed, everything laid aside to enjoy
the brief beauty of the cherry tree in
bloom.
At the time of the Hudson Fulton
celebration Japan honored the occa-
sion by offering the city of New York
many hundred cherry trees to be
planted along Riverside Drive. She
could hardly have suggested a gift
more delicate, nor one which, in her
eyes. could have yielded greater
pleasure in the poisoning season.
But New York turned 1t down with
the argument that it would not pay
to plant so many trees such a dis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

THE SCENES the Newark postofHce this week are I'M
recedened Although thousands of people needed the warning
parcel post early order to insure the receipt OF their
parcels the congestion of people and parcels since
Monday morning all the OF the office But
y in large city like Newark should all the parcel post bust
be done a single office?
parcel post primarily for the convenience of the
people, city like Newark there should be at least haf
dozen receiving the splendid of the system
has beggared of the should
now insure ample machinery take of the
traffic which greater with the contemplated increase
of the weight limit and a reduction of the rates
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
CARE OF THE SOLDIERS, HOME VETERANS.

1T HAS the imperative duty of the Legislature to
change system of the Soldiers Home at Kearn
which age and nhrmtles of the veteran in
mates character of the hospital When
the home was established planned that the inmates should
home the In active service they per-
necessary duties of the and barracks They were
comparatively young then and had the vgo necessary they
are old the duties assigned them oneous
and bevond their strength The has virtually become the
hospital
necessary therefore provide sufficient hospital and
medical facilities and employ outside help to do the principal
recommended that electric passenger elevator
the fatigue for the most feeble the inmates
of using There should also be Improvement IN
the dietary food adapted for the OF middle age may be
unfit digestion of old An improper diet may be
the active cause of death Soldiers Home
will be presented Legislature this winter and any plea OF
economy denying appropriation asked will be an nhuman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
Our 5000 Island Possessions.

From the Boston Transcript.
The development Of the island pos
sessions Of the United States since
the unfurling of the American flag
over them was recently described by
o. P. Austin, secretary of the Ma
tional Geographic Society, in an ad-
dress on Our Islands Through Mo-
ton Picture Camera" He estimated
the number of islands under the Stars
and Stripes at 5000.
They now support population of
10,000,0 900, or more than that of the
entire United States century ago"
said Mr.. Austin. Their commerce
exceeds $500, 900, 900. or more than that
of the United States in any year prior
to 1850; the American capital invest
ed in them aggregates approximately
$400, 900 900; they send us $l00,000,00O
worth of their products each year and
take in exchange nearly S100,0O0,000
THE island of LuZon, In the Philip
pines, is as large as Belgium, Hol-
land and Denmark, which support a
population of 15,000,00O; Mindanao Is
as big as Indiana, Hawaii is as large
as Connecticut, and Porto Rico is
larger than Delaware and Rhode
Island put together. When the United
States took hold of Porto Rico, fifteen
years ago, there was but one build
ing In the entire island which had
been erected for school purposes; to-
day there are 1900 buildings erected
for school purposes. There were 25,-
900 pupils enrolled in the public
schools in the first year of the Amer
lean administration; now the total is
It's, 900. The island then had one we'll
constructed road of forty miles, con-
Meeting its two principal cities; now
there are nearly 1000 miles of road
suitable for motor vehicles
Hawaii has been extremely pros
porous since 1t came permanently
under the American flag in 1900. The
assessed value of property has in
creased one-half in that time, the
value of the sugar crop has more
than doubled, the deposits in the
banks have trebled, and the deposits
in savings banks have quadrupled.
The irrigation system is the marvel
Of the engineering world, and the
quantity of sugar produced per acre
is far in excess of that of any other
spot on the globe. The Alaskan
islands and mainland cost us $780,
900, an expenditure that many be-
lieved to be quite unJustihable; yet
for many years the annual value of
the sealskins alone Appropriated the
cost of the entire area, while at pres
ent the value of the canned salmon
sent US from Alaska In a single
year is twice as much as the entire
possession cost"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER %
DECEM Der %
Alexandra Sutherland Orr
Copyrighted, 1918.

MARSHALL.
, and affairs. BY the time she was
forty-one she settled permanently in
London, and it was at this time that
she became close friend of Robert
Browning, whom she had met before
as q boyhood friend of her brother
The poet was at the time well toward
sixty, the death of his wife, Elizabeth
Barrett, having occurred several years
before.
The friendship of Mrs. Orr and the
poet was one of mutual enjoyment.
For years Browning made habit or
reading aloud to Mrs. Orr two eve
nings a week, and she in, turn gave
him the sympathy and understand
ing of q woman of rare literary per-
ception and charm of personality. 1t
was during these evenings that she
gained the material which she later
worked into her biography of the
poet, which will always remain the
most valuable light on the life of the
great poet. But neither Browning nor
Mrs. Orr were ever inclined to spoil
their friendship by familiarity.
Mrs. Orr died only ten years ago.
and she was until her death one of
the most authoritative Browning
critics in England. Next to Browning
there was nothing that interested her
SO much as the question of suffrage
not because she favored 1t, but be-
cause she opposed it consistently and
sincerely.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN THE MOVIES.

MOTION PICTURES showing the camp and field work of
the United soldier which be shown all the
country delight but educate the American boy and
hn popuarze the army films fakes posed by
actors up uniforms but genuine of military life
and have the approval the department They be
scenes of violence for they depict not war; but the
preparation which the proper business of the whole
youth and manhood They will
elementary training military duty 1t is seldom in the United
soldier uniform and OF
thing pertains army the military defenses of the
country is we'll nigh universal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
EFFECT OF THE NEW CURRENCY ACT.

IT WILL be admitted by those Republicans in Con-
opposed the bill to the last and made dire
predictions effect that law it much better and
the present law and this law has been
rermtted Republican Congresses unchanged for
many years until il proposed establish central bank
which would nfalbly have under control of financial
oigarchy in New York. intended The prediction by
Republican Mann that the Congress will have
nwieldy Republican majority will upon There
tainy premonon of change this elections
give color this hopeful prophecy
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

Professor S. ZubrowslSi, Of the
School of Anthropology in Paris, has
an interesting article in the Smith
sonian Report for 1912 on the slave
population in ancient Greece. From
it one is enabled to obtain very
good idea of the social and econom-
ioal conditions which prevailed In
ancient Greece during the height OF
the slave traffic. which was instru-
mental in effecting a decline in the
efficiency and productiveness of her
citizens. Slaves were employed at
such low rates and were procured in
so many ways, that everyone owned
at least one or two. who were made
to perform all the household and in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23
NEW JERSEYS INDUSTRIES HER OWN.

BY federal bulletin two large manufacturing dis
cs Jersey grouped in with New York and Phia
eepha as parts metropolitan manufacturing districts
Newark Jersey City, Paac Hoboken and other manu-
featuring cities credited New York and Camden and four
boroughs and seventeen townships in
Jersey Philadelphia AS manufacturing centre Newark
in by the may be said of Paterson which
has industries that are peculiar itself In is city in
New Jersey with exception perhaps of those on the west
Hudson dependent Manhattan whatever may be
Philadelphia the industries IN South jersey that
ere embraced in her metropolitan district