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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10
How to BE Poor.


From the indianapolis News
Until we get so rich that our wealth
is a bore it is very easy to be poor
comparatively poor, of course, for
that is the way we do it. AS long as
we are a little poorer than somebody
we know, and as long as there are
things that we can not afford we are
poor because we think we are. If you
make 500 a month, you may have to
use a baseburner. Surely II is a poor
man who cannot afford q furnace. If
you make 5000 a month you may not
be able to live in a $50 apartment, and
it is a poor man who has to take care
of his own furnace. If you make $500
a month you may forget about fur
naces, but may still run your own
car. and, of course, 1t is a poor man
who has only one car. Beyond that
estimate we should have to begin to
theorize, but you can probably go a
long way beyond that and still be
poor. Being poor is the easiest thing
we do. We do not need the high cost
of living to help US. All we need is
to think about the things we cannot
afford instead of about the things We
can afford.
OF course, it is difficult not to be
poor, but it is possible. Nobody wants
to eat rice and canned salmon all the
time but mush is good, and soup
bones are still obtainable. If we are
determined not to be poor we must
not only stop thinking of the things
we eat and wear, but we must stop
thinking of the things our friends eat
and wear. Moreover, we must not
care what the neighbors think about
what we eat and wear, and we must
be willing to offer our friends canned
salmon and rice and mush. The high
cost of living has threatened Amer
lean hospitality. We can save it by
feeding our guests mush and milk.
Most of us have been poor long
enough. Why not forget about the
things we cannot afford and so be
rich again?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10
A Paper of other Days.

From the indianapolis News.
All, here's story paper of other
days. The Flag Of the Union, pub
lished by A. Winch, 116 Chestnut
street. Philadelphia, for the week
ending saturday, March -, discover
a literary and miscellaneous family
"-miscellaneous family looks
queer-"eontaining news, wit, humor
and romance" The proprietor is
Frederick Gleason, the editor Maturin
NJ. Ballou. The column editorial ink
drops" has its first item, 1.-The Bank
OF North America, Indiana, has made
failure of it," This was the era
when independent banks in this state
going 10 pieces. This bank was
located at Morocco and has been
mentioned by George AIDE. AIDE said
that this hank. which was -lln by his
father II Z village which possessed
only = country store and a black
Smith shop. was named the Bank of
North America, which showed the
Inherent nioiesty of the family, a
--aa.assSae which had come to him as
81 inheritance
Baz here : the first page story
To ~ continued in our next" 1.-The
Stern Cail6ren; or the Light Keeper
u Ehss Channel a Story of Adventure
Uno1 the Sea and the Shore, by
Austin = Burdick.'
Here Is : sea chase:
Land. ho came at this moment
from The foretopmast crosstrees.
Where away" cried the pirate
captain starting forward.
Three points on the lee bow" re-
piled tae man aloft.
The Scilly Islands" said Pettress.
'Foretop there. Can you make out
a beacon
Think l can"
That's ST. Agnes. BY heavens,
Waffon. we shall pass the island by
noon and before night we shall be
well up on the Cornwall coast. Well
give the war dog the slip yet"
Il is worthy of remark that the
pirates language is not only gram
matically correct, but that his oaths
are much too gentle for the romance
of today-for this pirate was spe-
cially invented for the family circle
and was las mild a hammered man
as ever scuttled ship or cut throat.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10

Radtum
From the New York Mail
The world is echoing just now with
the wonders of radium. So far as
the ordinary mind can measure them,
the powers of this newly discovered
element are miraculous. That the
rays thrown off by a quantity of ra-
dunn that Is too small for the eye
to distinguish should exercise trans
forming effect, even to death, upon
the human tissue. and that the par
ticles which 1t throws off should go
on manifesting their marvellous pow
ers without any diminution for Pc
riod likely to extend to $500 years, is
something that the mind cannot read
lily compass. We seem, in dealing
with radium. to be in the presence
of the supernatural.
But we know that there is moth
ing supernatural about it.. 1t is an
element that can be weighed, meas
ured. handled. dealt in and bought
and sold. From so much pitchblende
we may get so much radium. 1t man.
fests itself according to known rules
though 1t is still so new that no one
termined or all its laws known.
But we know this-that it Is likely
to be of the utmost Importance to the
race. 1t already promises to cure
many of the worst ills of humanity
Cancer. hardening of the arteries and
other cureless evils appear to be
Yielding to it. What wonders 1t may
perform in the preservation of HUI
man life. we do not yet realize.
Radium is now the most expensive
thing on earth. 1t takes a year Il
manufacture single gram of 1t
from pitchblende. and when that tiny
weight of radium is obtained, 1t IL
worth from $4,000 to 100000. 1t is
manifest that If full advantage il
to be taken of the curative effects OF
the element it will have to be pro.
vided in some other way than by pri-
vate means. Either philanthropy
will have to furnish it for hospitals
and laboratories. or the government
of the world will have to. take hole
of 1t. We hear already of a trus
to undertake it's manufacture ant
possibly to corner the worlds supply
That is a possibility that cannot b,
contemplated with much satisfaction
An agency so potent a substance sc
precious to human life. should belong
so far as may be. to all mankind.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10

Locomotive engineers and flremen
on the railroads west of Chicago soon
will ask the railroad companies to
revise their schedule of wages, rep
resentatives of railroad labor organi !,
cations declare. Ninety-flve THOUSAND
men will be affected by the proposed
mOyement
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10

The commission on Uniform State
laws has decided to frame two acts
pensatfon, one compulsory and the
other elective, for selection by the
twenty or more of the States which
emDloyees,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

ber of deaths in the mines of the United
States are unnecessary. We know that
the work of the bureau of mines, has re-
duced this terrible death rate. in the
coal mines. The deaths in 1912 in the
coal mines will be approximately 800 less
than in the year 1907 when this work
was first begun. Practically nothing
has been done by the bureau in regard
to the deaths in metal mines and the
rate is heavier than in the coal mines
Neither has anything been accomplished
in reducing the number of deaths in the
quarries which have a still higher rate
than the metal mines. The work can not
be taken UP until Congress and the peo-
pie of the United States begin to have
some adequate idea of the Importance
of the mining industry.
80 difficult has it been in the past
to obtain appropriations for this humane
work, that those of us who are interested
have learned to be extremely modest in
the appropriation we have asked for.
Only slight increases are asked for the
coming fiscal year. when in fact the bu-
reau on the basis of what it has already
accomplished can well spend two or three
million dollars each year to the benefit
of the entire country, rather than the
one-half million which it now has.
Taking out of consideration the un-
usual hazard of mining and the fact that
we are killing from three to five miners
in this country each year where Euro
pean countries are killing one and two.
there is confronting Congress the ques-
ton weather western mining will be al
lowed TO languish and grow less. with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
TOO LITTLE ATTENTION TO MINING INDUsTRY-By

a diminishing number of men employed
in each state or give to the mining in
dustry that aid which is similarly given
to agriculture to rehabilitate this indus
try and increase the prosperity of the
country. When I say that the western
mining industry is languishing, the sta
tistics bear me out in this.
"In 1906 in the state of Colorado, Mon
tana and Idaho the value of gold, silver
of s29S 174,0o0 In 1910 the value of the
production of the same metals in the
same states was ss51.0000.o0o. a loss of
nearly S50.000,O00. In 1900 Colorado en-
ployed 10000 miners; in 1910 that state
employed 1900 miners. In 1906 Montana
EMPLOYED 15OO0 in 1910, 14,000 miners. In
1906 Idaho employed 1000 miners; in 1910,
COCO miners In Colorado in the year 1900
the precious metal production amounted
to S50OOO,O 600: in 1910 the production was
81. 900. There Is a definite reason for
all this. The days of bonanza mining
are gone and we are now down TO the
treatment of low grades of ore. This
has led to a series of perplexing prob
lems-the treatment of low grade refrao-
tory ores as varying in character as the
faces of the human family We have
millions of tons of these low grade ores
in the Rocky Mountain states contain
ing practically billions of dollars in value.
''The processes by which these ores
may be reduced are more complex than
any of the specialized problems you
have on the farms. Their solution Is
beyond the reach of private capacity ex-
cept in the rarest instances where large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

"All thy garments drip myrrh and aloes
and cassia,
"out of the ivory palaces wherein they
made me glad"
But when you go by the distribution
plant, l advise you not to sniff for
the cassia. You will probably get
typhoid instead, for the air is thick
enough near the distribution plant
tended by hordes of the darkling
gnomes aforementioned, to enable
typhoid germ to walk into your nose
or mouth, leading a whole bevy of
relatives by the tail. 1t would be in
teresting. by the way, to get certified
death rate on the fettered gnomes who
tend the wheel borne distribution plant.
And why should they not die2 Are
there not more where they came froml
Now, why should we make any change
from dirt and dust and CRIME and gar
bage distribution? Are there no throat
specialists who must live by telling
us that we have too long postponed the
removal of dust-inflsmed tonsils and
dust-created adenoids? And il we did
not die fast, what would the under
takers do?
But this is enough of the First Sin,
the eating of dirt, under the diabolical
inspiration that 1t is profitable, peau-
tiful and the fruit of the tree Of
knowledge golden. most profitable
when unwashed, save by tears. | pass
to another civic sin, of which this
Lent Should purge us. II is the sin of
Jeshuran, who, as is reported, "waxed
fat and kicked"
When all is said, this is a beau
tiful, progressive awakening city,
where mere "1icking" or knocking"
of the heels, such as prevails in a
stockade of mules is not less sinful
than physical uncleanliness Indeed, is
not such kicking itself a species OF
dust making? And is not such spirited
rust poisonous and socially disintegrat-
ing and fatal? What is most needed
in community sense of sin which will
share the blame equally, nor put all
the evil of the situation al the doors
of the city hall nor on the fee sys-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

liable information is now in existence
waiting some effective means of getting
it into operation by the farming peo-
pie of the United States. The plea
for the additional 100000 was to take
this information direct to the farmers.
what do we find the situation to be
in regard to mining? The bureau of
mines is getting one-half a million dollars
year about as much money as is
granted to the department of agriculture
for the printing and binding of Its pub
locations. The geological survey, in ex-
istence many years is now getting one
million and a half dollars a year,
considerable part of which is used for
the benefit of agriculture and other in
dustries. This is a total of two mil
lion dollars of federal aid for the great
mining industry with its paramount un-
solved problems-pro that are out
side of solution by private parties.
In agriculture the men work in the
open sunlight with a minimum of hazard
to life. In mining nearly 100000 men work
in the dark cayerns underground with
hazard that is not equalled In any other
industry. The mines and quarries of the
United States have an annual death roll
of more than 1000 men and 600O0 injured
This calamity of death leaves in it's
trail 25O0 or more widows and 1900
fatherless children. Tt places upon the
states the burden of caring for many OF
these widows and orphans, an amount
that must be many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars a year.
I'VE know from experience of foreign
countries that fully one-lalf OF the num-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

tance, one thing stands out pre-enlinently
and that is there can be no great agri-
cultural prosperity without the prosperity
of mines The population that depends
upon the mines and the manufactured
products of the mines supports agricul-
ture.
Just the other day the Senate COM
pleted a piece of legislation which will
give to the various state agricultural
colleges the sum of three million dollars
yearly for the extension of their work
among the farmers. The bill was passed
through both houses with comparative
ease, as every one seems to have a thor
ough knowledge of the needs of agricul-
ture A report which accompanied this
bill shows that the national government
has spent on the agricultural expert
ment colleges and experiment stations
In round figures S70,000000; that it now
spends $3,940,000 in cash annually upon
them: that Congress has appropriated
each year s15,OOo,000 for carrying on the
exclusively agricultural work of the de-
partment of agriculture.
with the additional 100000 each year
Just granted the total federal aid given
agriculture annually will be at least
So 100000. The result of this generous
expenditure of money by the federal gov
ernment for agriculture is seen in the
phenomenal increase in production from
year to year and the final bumper harvest
of last fall.
"These great appropriations for agri-
culture have been continued for years
until today the officers of this depart
ment declare that a vast amount OF val
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

combinations OF capital have succeeded
in perfecting certain processes, which
they keep to themselves.
These problems generally can only be
solved through the aid of the federal
government, and until they are solved
the western mining industry will continue
TO decrease in the value OF production
and the number OF men employed.
1.-THE bureau of mines has asked for
$4,000 to begin work on such problems
and to take care of the safety of the
miners employed in these mines. II past
experience is repeated before Congress,
1t will be with the greatest difficulty
that members can be shown the need
for such an appropriation In fact 1t
will be more difficult TO obtain the $3.50
600 for this great industry than TO OBJ
tain millions for agriculture.
IT do not object TO agriculture OBJ
tanning the increased yearly appropria-
ton of 100000 for the extension of
the work of the agricultural colleges
in the states, but | am anxious to know
why bill introduced by Representative
Foster, chairman of the House COM
mittee of mines and mining, and which
has the approval of the entire commit
tee, calling for an expenditure OF a maxi
mum of s1,2o0,0o0 yearly for mining
schools in the various states, does not
get an opportunity to come before the
House for passage. want to know why
agriculture which has been so adequately
cared for for many years can with such
ease obtain $4,000 additional funds
for its work, while the bill for mining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

schools remains on the calendar. with the
fear among its friends that It may not
obtain sufficient support for its passage.
l want to know how Congress is to
look at the proposed appropriation for
one-ha1f million dollars for buildings for
the bureau of mines at Pittsburgh Pa.
may say that there is no department
or bureau of the federal government
so badly and so inadequately housed as
in Pittsburgh. The work is being con-
Quoted under the greatest difficulties in
buildings belonging to the war depart
mont, some of them nearly 100 years old.
Further the war department is anxious
TO regain possession of its property and
has been continually notifying the bureau
of mines that il must get out. Here IL
an emergency as far tho mining industry
is concerned. What will Congress do7
Il am heartily in favor of the increased
appropriation for agriculture, but mining
also has similar rights and greater needs
There is no industry which adds SO
much per capita wealth TO the country
as the mining industry. There is no
industry that, man for man produces so
much value TO the country as the mining
industry. It is an industry that must go
hand in hand with agriculture The pros
perity of the country depends upon the
success of both. Agriculture can not sue
ceed without mining.
II am at a loss to understand why
mining is so little appreciated in the
United States when il attains such high
commanding places In every other ma
ton of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

to offer 10 Major Screws the snug sum OF
$4,000 70 espouse the cause of that par
tieular wing. and take plausible shelter
beneath the plea OF the necessary de-
velopment of the coal and iron Of Ala
bama. put this he promptly declined.
These are sufficient to show his unseiash-
ness as well as his devotion.
Perhaps more than any other since the
civil wac Major Screws has been instru-
mental IN shapin, and directing the poll
cies of the democratic party in the state
lie was a candidate for office once. when
in 1865 he was elected secretary of state.
and during the first administration OF
Mr. Cleveland he was appointed post
master at Montgomery. These are the
only positions he has ever filled. His
career is an important component of the
forces which have made Alabama great
in the galaxy OF American states.
Major Screws has grown old in years
in the cause Of democratic liberty In
Alabama, Yet in spirit he is as virile
and vigorous as he was in the days gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

tenn, nor on the aforementioned black
scapegoats whom I have twice called
darkling gnomes.
A Just measure OF appreciation is
called for. 1 confess to sympathy with
Judge Lanes appeal for unity, com
mon sense of common tasks, and, above
all the one task of getting into step.
The carpenter may encourage the gold
smith, and he OF the saw may cheer
the hammer artist; but it is not every
journalist who encourages every
sociologist, nor does all the genus
preacher cheer all the police depart
ment carrying clubs. To see the long
climb still ahead of us ought not to
mean contempt for our fellow noun
taineers, nor should the critic be
thrown over the nearest precipice. II
we see what needs to be done; IL we
grow insistent and even imps tient, that
is a civic virtue. But there is greater
power in the encouraging cry of the
leader to the laggards than there could
be If he began from his emmlnence
to roll back the loose boulders upon
them. 1t is a great and dominating
fact that while all men are selfish no
man is wholly selfish, and that much
heroic service awaits The appeal or tho
cunning master of the human heart.
All men intend TO do right. All want
the credit of going forward in the
best possible way. With all the diff
ferenees of Babel tongues, the lam
guage Of the human eye is brother
hood and the heart clutch of aspira-
tion makes all akin. l.enten days
should make us honestly ashamed OF
all contempt and all hate and all des-
pair toward men. If any is sold to the
devil he is most rare. If any is mis-
taken, he is our creditor. we are his
debtor for we both have one ambition.
and the only fighting allowable Is TO
convince him he is wrong. The sin Of
schism is a mortal sin in Birmingham.
whose very life depends on all men
of good win getting into step, heart
and foot keeping time as we go against
the things that divide and destroy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edg

lin his inmost heart there is no human
being who objects to the reality of
what that word means.
What he does object to perhaps is
the way in which the term is used
and the character of some who use it.
In this he is at least partly right
The way to preach goodness is to
live it. That is infinitely better than
all the words about 1t. An ounce Of
good works is better than a ton of
good words. The change of one letter
here means all the difference between
promise and performance.
The trouble with many who talk of
goodness is that they do it in a way
that sounds like a reproach. That is
not goodness. 1t is self righteousness
and condemnation.
Others use the word as a cloak.
They are hypocrites.
Yet let us not make the mistake of
rejecting the right because some hypo-
erite loudly processes 1T. We must
only learn to discriminate between the
genuine and the counterfeit.
Because some one passes a bad coin
on us is no reason that we should
thereafter refuse good money. Be-
cause one chair breaks under us is no
reason that we should resolve never to
sit again. Because one friend proves
false is no reason that we should con-
cllide there is no true friendship BE-
cause there are some hypocrites is no
reason that we should reject truth or
sincere people.
The world Is as fun of goodness
1T is of sunshine. In his heart of hearts
every one wants to be good
| want TO he good and have no
false shame In saying It before the
world. | fall far short of the mark,
but this is only stumbling in the path.
Despite all the missteps. there ever
signs a little song IN hy heart. II
want TO be good | want to be good
So DO you. Now. honor bright. don't
you?
We may not agree in all our STAN
we want TO do the right thing.
or course we do.
Wei. then, let's do it,. Why not?
1'uf let's don't talk about it; let's
live it.
enc being who lives goodness has =
better effect on others than thousand
sermons. ] know this because | have
seen IL work, and yon know it.
The goodness that Is talked about
is often a counterfeit but the good
ness that is lived is the true coin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
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w W4s"'ss5ss s1Tss' february 's: s'.ss s''ss;l @.:
w ing industry of the Uni
ted States employing a million miners
and two million men directly connected
with its work, with an annual produc-
ton of two billion dollars is not un-
derstood and appreciated by the Congress
of the United States and the people of
the country is the claim made by James
G. Gallbreath, secretary of the American
mining congress, who has established
headquarters in Washington to look after
the various legislative needs of the in
dustry.
He makes the statement that agricul-
ture which has been fostered for years by
the federal government has been maxi
ing tremendous gains as result of this
aid and that the western mining in
dustrv with its complex low grade ore
problems unsolved is waning industry
with a constantly decreasing number
of men employed. lie declares that
mining in the western states is prac-
tically at a standstil, and that there is
10 hope for reviving it until Congress
has fairer idea of the great mpor-
tance of mining to the prosperity of the
people.
1.-The two foundation industries of the
United States are agriculture and min
ing" said Mr. Galbreath. Agriculture
is perhaps twice or three times as inn
portant as mining in the number of
men engaged and in the value of its
product.
"Irrespective of their relative impor-