Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-31
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

| fervor. It may be admitted, however
as a writer In Harper's Weekly con-
| tends, that we have too many Can
tons. Newports, Toledos and Nine
yebs. to say nothing of Portlands,
| Springfields and Germantowns. The
| tendency to adopt a great name was
rather ludicrously illustrated a few
years ago in the suggestion that an
| illinois village be renamed London.
Former Soldier Was Right
From the Baltimore Sun.
If the ex-solder who has sued a
Washington theatre for oustinE him
| for standing UP when the band
PLAYED THE star Spangled Banner
| has his facts straight he ought to get
either a verdict or an apology. If his
feeling of reverence for the national
anthem was artiflcially stimulated,
and If he created disorder in mani
testing it, the theatrical management
may have been within its legal rights
| In eiecting him. But even if he was
a little noisy and effervescent, much
might well have been pardoned to his
patriotism. Things, to quote part OF
Mr. Watterson's favorite couplet,
| "haye come to a h of pass,
| indeed. when a man can't stand up In
honor of 1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner
4 without being treated as law break
err. Evidently, If everybody else had
stood up, the old soldiers enthusl-
ssn would not have been noticed
Ard the incident seems TO indicate
that. in Washington, at least, audi
ences are not in the habit of paying
This mark of respect to this stirring
and splendid expression of patriotic
sentiment. If the only result OF the
suit is to make this a general Gus
tom. the ex-soldier, no matter what
the source of his inspiration, will
deserve a standing vote of thanks.
A Lesson i'm CBulifiOWers.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Nor all of Long Island has as yet
come under the magic spell of the
home-site developer. Just to show
how important are the agricultural
possibilities of the island comes a re-
mort that the two towns of Riverhead
and Southold shipped last week 10000
barrels of cauliflower to the markets
of New York and other cities. Not
less impressive than the size of this
crop is the fact that by the astute
manipulation of shipments the grow
ers were saved from the unfortunate
consequences that usually followed
large crop in the days of hit-and-miss
In the old days the farmer who
harvested a record crop of any COM
modify was no better off than in the
lean years. for he invariably found
the market glutted and the price
hammered down to an improbable
basis. The modern farmer has found
in cooperation the remedy for this
condition. and in this case the Cauli-
flower Association has so divided the
bots oil
the important cities of the East that
a price averaging somewhat more
than 81 a barrel has been maintained
throughout the big harvest. The APP
plica ton of sound commercial prin-
cples to farming has made the sub
urban farmer business man, who
not only reaps a good crop but also
gets a fair return in the market for
his efforts. The good results of this
method should carry a lesson to
farmers in sections more remote from
1.-THE markets, many Of whom are COM
parative strangers to the commercial
principles of supply and demand.