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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
War of the Nations

Hank, the sounds of bugles calling;
Forward march, the soldiers go.
Onward to the war to conquer,
There to meet the coming foe.
On the dreadful field of battle
Many a soldiers heart is sore,
Thinking of their homes and kindred
They may never see no more.
Sad the hour when they parted
From their friends and comrades
true;
Many heart is sad and lonely
Since that last and long adieu.
Many a mother. friend or brother
Still keep hoping to the end,
When the cruel war is over
They will meet with joy again.
Marching at the Kings commando;
Sad the scenes of dissolution
Spreading DER the mighty land.
Kings and rulers, think and ponder
On the lives that passed away,
All for sake of land expansion
Countless are the numbers Stayed.
'Tis sad to think Of Christian nations
Going forth in all their might
To wound and STAY their fellow crea-
lures
In dread wars of mortal strife.
We still will hope and keep on praying
For dread war to soon pass DER,
Then mankind will live together
In great peace and joy once more.
JOHN McKENNA. =
Sept Is, 1914.
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and there is increasing demand for American
products. A trade cannot be established in a
day Unfortunately, the short-sighted policy of Con-
gress for many years has been inimca TO the in
terests of American commerce, and we have ships.
If well equipped in that respect Latin
American trade would be flowing into this
country There would be an immense volume Of
orders for goods of all kinds and thousands of fac
tories would be working these orders. And how
soon will the inflow of orders begin?
Not until get the ships under the American
flag Congress, usual is dilatory Many of its
members, like Congressman Kinkead. of this State,
are interested in local political campaigns than
they In legislation TO give ships the nation and
orders and work to the factories They shirk duties
at the most important time in the country's COM
mercial and industrial history. And the hours and
days and months are passing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16

The commonplace gains enormously
in impressiveness when familiar and
long-recognized facts are collected
and tabulated. Fourth of July acct
dents were regarded as inevitable and
of comparatively small Importance
until the Journal of the American
Medical Association undertook the
systematic collection and compilation
OF the statistics. Presented in the
aggregate they shocked the nation.
The American people have long been
accustomed to accounts of railroad
accidents in the public press. 1t Is
only the occasional accident of start
ling character or unusual magnitude
which arouses comment. The public
does not appreciate the enormous toll
which is paid every year in loss of
life and limb because of avoidable
accidents on our railroads.
Accident Bulletin so, just issued by
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
contains a summary of the accidents
resulting in personal injuries caused
in the operation of interstate railways
during the months of October, NO
vember and December 1918. The
if they were found anywhere else
than in government publication
| they would be regarded as extreme
| CONGREGATIONS During these three
! months 2,792 persons were killed and
! So TIC persons were injured In con-
nection with railway operation. OF
! these 1911 were killed and 3,726 injured
| in train accidents; 1876 were killed
and ,769 injured in accidents other
| than train accidents, such as nresi
! foods, landslides and explosions al
/ fecting the right of way, and acct
dents in connection with railroad OPP
GRAFTON other than those OF trains ano
roadway, while III deaths and 29OUi
| injuries were industrial accidents to
| employees working on tracks, bridges
stations, engine houses, shops
wharyes or elsewhere. OF the 2,79.
persons killed 81 were passengers
killed in train accidents and l3' were
employees killed in train accidents.
Eighty-fiv passengers were killed
| from all causes, and 100 employees
from all causes, making a total of 81
| passengers and employees. The 1856
| other persons killed included tres
passers, non-trespassers, and EN-
| ployes not on duty, while III employees
! in addition we're killed in industria
| accidents not connected Win idiio ae
Operations.
I Detailed tables showing the caust
and character of the accidents are
most interesting and illuminating
For instance, of the 21,76s persons in.
jured through train and other acct.
dents, five persons lost their eyesight
ninety lost arms, forty seven persons
| lost their hands, 21S persons lost legs
14S persons lost feet Many of those
crippled will be incapable of support
| ing themselves for the balance of theii
| lives and will consequently become
| dependents. The total loss of working
| time due TO accidents Is not shown
| With over fifty thousand persons in
jured in three months, however, thu
economic loss must be enormous. A
this rate there are probably neari!
twelve thousand persons killed ane
over two hundred thousand persons
injured every year on our railroads
The majority Of these accidents ar
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
THE YEAR OF REACTION.

The second year after Presidential election is
always time of reaction This regular phenomenon
appears in the results of the primaries in two Middle
Western States last week In Illinois on the Repub-
lcan side Mckinley, Cannon and the rest of the old
guard get back into the running for the House. On
the Democratic side Roger c. Sullivan whose plural
ity for the United States Senatorial nomination is
about 10000. stands for practically everything to
which the Wilson administration is claimed to be OPP
posed. In Illinois the LaFolette ticket was showed
under at the primaries. There, as elsewhere, the
Progressves who have returned to the Republican
fold find themselves impotent to check the rising wave
of standpatism
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Mrs. Anna Kingsford, whose name
stands at the head of the women OF
achievement who have been born on
September 16. is an example of a
woman who might have been much
greater if she had not attempted to
do so many things. With more con-
tented disposition and greater powers
OF concentration Mrs. Kingsford might
have become one OF the most notable
women of her age.
Mrs. kingsford was successful in
whatever she undertook. She was a
facile and persuasive speaker She
had personal magnetism to remark
able degree, and she was counted one
of the most beautiful women of Lon
don. For philosophical and religious
questions she had extraordinary in
sight. Her intellect was commanding.
With such endowment all that was
lacking to make her really great was
some dominating interest or ambition.
At twenty-one she married a poor
English vicar and began writing
rather poor copy for the penny
Post" At this time. The oxford move
ment was sweeping over England and
with characteristic enthusiasm Mrs.
kingsford left the English Church. in.
which she had been reared and Z
which her husband had his living, and
embraced Roman Catholicism. She
assumed with her new allegiance the
name Annie Mary Magdalen Maria
Johanna
Not long after this Mrs. Kingsford
got enough money together to buy
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
LEAVING VERA CRUZ.

The evacuation of Vera Cruz by our army will
end it is be hoped, the long-existing and perpex
Ing situation which begun by the assassination of
President Madero Unfortunately for this country
the United States ambassador to Mexico at that time
was man unfit to represent his government. He
not friendly to the government he accredited to-
and he was friendly to the men who overturned the
government and assassnated its two chief magistrates
man of a different type might have averted the
military revolution at least have prevented the
tragedy of Madcros death. This man has gone into
obscurty but what great wrongs and crimes in Mexico
nave followed his retirement 1t is to the credit of
this country that it Indignantly refused to recognize
political regime founded assassination and that
it maintained this attitude uncompromisingy to the
end and until the murderer of Madero finally
PEELED to quit Mexico and let his usurped powers pass
into the hands of the Constitutionasts
With the success of Carranza and the beginning of
peace in Mexico mission there ended, and our
army has fingered too long. With Huerta fled and
his army dissolved there no logical reason for
longer stay The departure of the army from Vera
Cruz therefore gratifying to the American people
as to the Mexicans.
But contrary to the experiences of war, army
leaves Vera Cruz much better city than it when
the sailors and marines of the feet landed. There
sniping of soldiers there by civilians, but
troops committed act of vengeance There were no
burnings of buildings summary executions, no
acquisitions for money. On the contrary army
proceeded to reestablish it released limo
cent men from filthy prisons, it cleaned up city
famous for its filth and insaubrity and reduced the
death rate to the normal; it made Vera Cruz safe
city to live in took of its poor and scrupuousy
paid for all it's supplies.
The record of army in Vera Cruz is respen-
dent And what contrast to the treatment of towns
and villages in Belgium, France, Austria and East
Prussia in the European The tracks of the hos
tile armies marked by wrecked cities burned vii
lagos, destroyed homes and thousands upon thousands
of the dead. Our invasion of Mexico was blessed
visitation compared with the invasion of Belgium and
troops missionaries of civilization.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
What EIIet Did on the Mississippi River

Custavus V. Fox, who was assistant
secretary of the navy at the time os
the Civil War, was a man of excep-
tional industry, energy and judgment,
and these qualities were fully recog
nized and highly priced both by Presi-
dent Lincoln and by the secretary OF
the navy, Gideon Welles. Many of
the achievements of the Federal navy
were the outcome not only of the
counsels. but of the executive action
of Mr.. Fox
After the war was over MIR. Fox
was urged to write not exactly a his
tory of our naval achievements, but
the story of the Federal navy told
from the personal and human side.
He was admirably qualified to do the
work, because he always saw the hu-
man and personal side of various
events, strict disciplinarian and com
pletely absorbed in the duties of his
office as he was.
While chatting with some friends in
New York city shortly after the re-
turn Of peace. Mr.. Fox spoke of one
achievement as being. in his opinion,
as fine as any at least of the minor
successes of the Civil War. He said:
What Charles Ellet did on the
Mississippi River, near Memphis,
should become one of the great events
OF the war, but | presume Mr.. E1let
will be forgotten. Several years be-
fore the war Ellet had worked out a
plan which he believed would be sue
cessfully utilized in naval warfare.
He believed that the best type of ram
would be a vessel not overWeighted
with armament, not too heavy,
strengthened only at the bows, but
so built that very high speed could
be secured. He had satisfied himself
that speed was more efficient in at
lacking an enemy's vessel than great
weight If the attack were to be made
In the form of ramming.
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initiate women into society; to en-
courage them to earn their own liv-
ing by their own work. and to open
schools so that young women may
have an education suited to their
needs. For us of the West this is
what we should classify as common
sense. But in Turkey it runs counter
not merely to tradition, but TO law,
and in some instances to religion.
Yet progress has been made which
shows that the Turkish women have
grasped the essential idea of economic
independence and intellectual train
ing. Medical training is pushing q
wedge into the mass OF ignorance and
benighted custom. The Turco- Balkan
war showed the need of trained
nurses, and the idea is being fostered
for private life. Education in many
ways, both for children and for wom-
en- such as our higher schools and the
Y. w. @. A. give, is getting a start.
Three things remain that are as stone
walls to be broken down before the
Turkish women can win a fair place
, in the world.
One is the change of costume, and
this is the easiest. The organized as
ISOLATION will submit various costumes
to the government free from all OBJ
| 1ectionable features, but without the
VEIL because the Koran does not
require this. Strong prejudice has to
be broken down here, however. Turk
ish men cannot see that the veil is a
lhindrance to women, and even main
tain that IL is an advantage.
The greatest obstacle is polygamy.
This is not merely a custom, but a
part of Koranic law. 1t is not prac-
| ticed among the Mohammedans of
Turkey today beyond a. limited extent.
But ii is backed by the Koran, and
Tits abolition must be left for the flu
ture. To help in this and other
reforms workshops and schools for
women are to be opened. to teach
them trades and obtain employment
for them in commerce and industry.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
A STAMP TAX AGAIN.

The Democratic last night yielded to the
the device of stamp in lieu thereof with taxes
theatre tickets and bowling alleys together with
taxes on certain luxuries. The stamp tax
mercia and other paper will reappear one Of
Americas penalties for in another hemisphere
All taxes finally passed down to the people.
railroad freight tax would be filtered down, too, but
it would involve trouble and expense for the rail-
roads and hence it undesirable. The stamp tax
may be said to be better distributed but in it's nature
it is class tax. Less objection be offered to
taxes uxuries. One escape such tax simply
by eschewing luxuries he doesn't need.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
Wit in a Pinch.

A cadet officer in the Pennsylvania
Military College was reported by a
faculty officer for language
rather a severe mark in that austere
institution. At the time appointed
for the hearing of explanations" of
marks the offending cadet presented
himself before the commandment.
"Well, sir, how did ii happen that
you were guilty of using improper
language while on duty?" the colonel
inquired
why, sir, as officer Of the day I was
inspecting the guard. In handling
one of the rifles the lock snapped
shut on my finger, and it just natu-
rally pinched hell out of me-,
Not only was the mark taken off,
but the colonel gleefully reported to
the entire corps the cadet officers
witty explanation of his offence."-
Lippincott's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
OUGHT TO RAISE All OUR OWN SUGAR

With sugar at ~ cents pound, and threatening to
go to cents the European lasts the year out,
there should be nationwide interest in the assertion
of tho Federal department of agriculture that the
United States ought to produce all the its people
use. Nineteen States, with two million farms and
more than 100000 acres of improved lands have
the proper soil for sugar beets and If onefourth of
the farmers in those States would plant each three
patch with that vegetable this country would not
need to buy pound of foreign sugar.
1t would only require one acre in every $50 of
the improved land in the indicated and there Is
more than that acreage lying idle year. Fifteen
cent sugar will mean war tax of IL cents on each of
the four billions of pounds of raw sugar which we
import yearly, making s44 100000 penalty paid by
the nation for neglecting its soil.
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EARLY LESSONS IN THRIFT.

"The lessons Of thrift and economy
are a capital to the children Of poor
parents. Thirty.
Those who object to school savings
banks it is safe to say, have not
looked thoroughly into the workings
of these splendid agencies of thrift.
One objection raised sometimes Is
that poor children are mortified by the
smallness of their savings as COM
pared with those of the children of
the well-to-do This has little weight,
because 1t is the children of the poor
who are the largest patrons of the
school banks.
Every individual has some hard
knocks coming to him in the course
of his life. The sooner the child
learns to save money the better will he
his chances for success when he be-
gins to work for living. The young
er he learns the lesson of thrift, the
better his start.
In Duluth, Mimi. the school savings
system is o success. One of the banks
placed in the hands of each pupil a
booklet. entitled How Fortunes Be-
gin and How They Grow" 1t is a
text book on thrift, and undoubtedly
1t will inspire the ambitions of many
boys and girls in a way that will
make for their lasting good.
Last spring the first public school
savings bank in Chicago opened at
the Wicker Park School with hun
bred depositors.
At the start of banking hours-e;14
to a. m. and $3.50 to 4:30 n. ma
score of youngsters stood in q , in
order to deposit their marble and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16

LAS soon as the war broke out,
Mr.. Ellet appeared in Washington
with an appeal TO the government to
permit him to buy some steamboats,
and strengthen them to attack the
Confederate gunboats in the Missi5-
sippi River.
cat first Ellet had some difficulty
i'm inducing anybody to listen to him
He was in danger of being consid-
cred a bore. At last he was author
lied to buy some boats at Pittsburg
and Cincinnati and to strengthen
them at the bow in accordance with
his plans. He was overjoyed at the
opportunity. He bought at Pittsburg
five or six river boats. strengthened
them at the bow with heavy tiInbers
and iron, was careful TO see that
their engines were in good working
order. then went with his fleet
through the Ohio to the Mississippi
River at Cairo and then started south
erly.
Somewhere near Memphis he came
within fighting distance of fleet of
Confederate gunboats. That was his
opportunity. He caused steam to be
put on and in that way made for the
gunboats at very high rate of speed.
One of them, when the ram struck
her, crumbled to pieces as If she had
been made of paper. Some of the
others got away, but great damage
had been done.
Now the extraordinary thing about
this brief and successful naval battle
was the fact that the only person in
jured in the fight was Ellet himself.
One of his legs was crushed. I have
been told that he would not permit
the surgeon to amputate 1t and as
a result the wound WAS fatal. Yet
Eilet died rejoicing, for he knew that
he had demonstrated the success of
his plan.''
Copyright. 1914, by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
SEPTEMBER IS
Anna Kingsford
SEiE IWDGH ~
Anna Kingsford
By MARY MARSHALL
copyrighted 1914.

AlAhodAbb
1.-THE Lady's Own Paper a popular
magazine for women. For the next
few years she devoted herself 10
editorial work and the business OF
publishing her own magazine. In 1874
she became deeply interested II the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. movement, and for
this new interest she sighted her for
mer occupations. At twenty eight she
went to Paris to study medicine, being
one of the first women to receive the
degree of doctor of medicine from the
University of Paris. In Paris she be-
came greatly interested in the new
teachings of the vegetarians and for
q time she dropped all other interests
to devote her time to this. She wrote
pamphlet, 1.-THE Perfect Way in
Diet" explaining the theory of vege-
tarianism, which attracted wide atten-
ton.
When Mrs. Kingsford returned 10
London she began her career As q
general practitioner and for saveral
years she was one of the most proni-
nent of London physicians. Her next
interest was theosophy. and with this
new enthusiasm she was elected presi-
dent of the Theosophical Society OF
London. The one interest that Mrs.
Kingsford seemed to have all her life
vas the cause of higher education OF
women. She was pioneer among
English women In this cause, and il Is
here that her most lasting work was
done. 1t was when she was forty-two
that she died from the effects OF a
cold contracted while on her way to
the laboratory of the scientist Paste1r.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16
MEAT TRusT CoNspRAcY.

The evidence obtained in the investigation of meat
prices goes to show that when prices advanced it
is by the arbitrary will of the representatives of the
meat trust and has little reference the supply
of cattle the state of the market The prices
put up to aggrandze few control the peo-
pies meat supply, and who to be above law and
justice and public policy.
The boosting of meat prices is criminal conspiracy.
1t is the act of number of in collision with each
other Ordinary conspirators against the welfare of
their fellow be arrested and punished but all
the government do in the cases of these men to
make faces at them Their organized conspiracy
against the people has existed for years with the
knowledge of government. and it is active and as
powerful now it was.
Apparently matter how much the trust
Expresses the people it will continue to be exempt
from criminal penalties. The people must look to
themselves for their protection against these public
enemies.
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Evening Star Astfologer
Copy right. 1914

sales persons and canvassers S-lio
seek trade by personal sollcita tio.i
should prosper under this rule.
There Is an encoura ging augur5 for
banquets, social entertainments and
public meetings. The stars are propi-
Using TO those who open theatres afld
places of amusement.
London astrologers who prophesied
war and pestilence for Germany,
month ago, read in the stars signs
Of disaster to the empire and danger
to the health and well-being of ths
kaiser.
At the beginning Of the year Mars
in square to the radical Sun, with
Uranus transiting the Suns place at
the rulers birth and Mars passing
over the Ascendant were read as in
dications of disrupted and disastrous
conditions.
There is a prediction that tha
United States will garner great
riches' after the beginning OF the
winter
Persons whose birthdate it is flaN
expect prosperity for the year. The
omen is most promising for women
musicians, actresses and artists,
Children born on this day are
likely to be unusually clever. They
have the prognostication of extraord-
mary gifts. Literary talent Is prob
able.
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1.-THE stars incline, but do not compel
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1914.

This is q day rather fortunate, for
early in the morning both Jupiter and
Venus are in benefic aspect Later
Mars and the Sun exercise helpful
influence. while Mercury and Saturn
are mildly adverse.
The rule should be a favorable one
for soldiers and surgeons. 1t is held
that Mars gives courage, resourceful-
ness and perseverance. This planet
is believed to be especially powerful
as the star of strength and earnest
ness, controlling those who have rea-
son to concentrate their minds on a
task or a purpose.
Under today's signs the best inf,u-
ences are said to govern men and
women who have great missions or
avocations. Those who concern
themselves with altruistic or philan-
tropic movements should benefit.
This is a good day for weddings.
The rule Is also beneflcent in all af-
fairs of love. New acquaintance
made today should be most lucky
Dealings with hotel keepers, man
ayers of restaurants. confectioners,
florists, nlilliners and dressmakers
are subject to a happy omen.
In business life it is held that