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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
THE CHILD AND HOME INFLUENCE.

Discussions of sex hygiene the use of narcotics,
the effects of cigarette smoking the young and
kindred subjects all solution of the in
volved problems-the influence of the home, the at
enton of the parent and the interest and regard of
the mother and the father for the child.
If there be evils the first corrective treatment
should be administered home If there be physical
mpediments imperfectons of the body could 1t be
expected that a school teacher, for instance, would
manifest the loving care and deep sympathy of a
mother in the of child in attending to such
matters? 1t would be contrary to nature and to
son to entertain such idea.
The National Board of Education at its session
in st. Paul placed itself squarely record as OPP
posed to the instruction in the schools of matters
pertaining to SEX the speakers being unanimous in
their belief that hygiene is subject which can
only be properly impaired by parents
One with a superficial knowledge of the
minds of children and of their differing
will see in this attitude for commendation The
subject vital and the greatest should be
taken in the imparting of such knowledge. Methods
that might be beneficial in could operate
most harmfuly in others. To be certain of good
results the teacher would require the most intimate
knowledge of the child to be taught. This is i'm
possibility where the instruction must be given to
large classes.
The same logic applies to cigarette smoking and
the use of narcotics In an address before the
Womens Christian Temperance Unions meeting in
Ocean Grove last Tuesday Mrs. M. s. Holmes, of this
city superintendent of the department of ant-nar.
cotics of the w. C. 7. u dwelt at length upon the
habit of cigarette smoking and It's harmful effects
upon the mentality of those induging in the habit
Mrs. Holmes spoke particularly of brand of cigar
cite known as the rope cigarette, said to be com
posed of pieces of rope and cigar butts picked from
the streets She gave statistics which she said show
that if the money spent yearly for cigarettes wa'
formed in chain of silver dollars it would circle the
globe and that the amount spent in four months il
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Roosevelt and Penrose.

From The New York Evening Post.
Senator Penrose's warning gun is
hardly likely to alarm the garrison
at Oyster Bay. The once valued ally
had every motive for opening his am
munition chest in the exchange of
shots two years ago, and he has moth
ing to gain by waiting and threaten
ing what he will do if he is attacked
again. Besides, suppose he should
publish letters that the colonel would
rather not have seen the light. Does
he not know in advance what would
happen? He would simply come in
for vigorous denunciation, and an
enlightened people would be called
upon to say whether an INSCRIPTIONS
boss and a hopeless reactionary was
entitled to the slightest consideration.
| The ground would be shifted from a
field where light might be danger
GUS to one where the senator would
| be without defense. And to think
how easily the old association might
| have been preserved All that would
| have been necessary was for the SEN
ator to allow himself to be inoculated
with the Progressive virus that made
a new man out of William Finn. He
might have gone on holding Penn
sylvania in the hollow of his hand ;
he might have remained a reaction
airy on the tariff and anything else
that he chose. Just a changing of
the banner behind which he marched.
and he would have been eligible for
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see. Perhaps better than all this she
introduced milk punch into England.
Afra was left widow at the age of
twenty-six, and soon after this sor-
row the king honored her by send
ing her to Antwerp as a spy, for there
was Dutch war raging at the time.
In Holland Afra had many suitors,
one of whom she turned to good ac-
count. In a moments of indiscretion
the ardent<woer revealed some plans
of the Dutch navy, which served
Afra in good stead when she had no
further use for the sutton. Another
sutton she promised to marry If he
would return to England with her.
But this lover died of "a fever and
after this disappointment Afra de-
cided, to quote her own words, ITO
dedicate the remainder of her life to
pleasure and poetry"
AS it happened, Afra's rich hus-
band had left her but little money
and the tickle king had failed to pay
her for her services as a spy, so
Mistress Behn had to devise some
way of earning her living. So it was
that she decided to write for a liv-
ing, and in doing so was the first
English woman to take up the calling
of letters as a means of livelihood.
Afra was wise woman, and her
method of beginning this unaccu,s-
toned task was to make herself
known to all the English men of let
tiers of her time. She was a sort of
seventeenth century English George
Sand. Her works include a long list
of plays, poems and romances. Be
sides the famous "Oroonoka" she
wrote such plays as THE Dutch
Lover" 1.-THE Amorous Prince" and
1.-THE Town Fop.'
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PARK SWIMMING SCHOOLS SUGGESTED

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
At this season of the year there are
many fatalities through drowning,
chiefly owing to the lack of means for
the learning of children how to swim,
and to take care of themselves and
Others in an emergency when. in the
water.
In looking at the lakes in the parks
the thought has often occurred to me,
WHY not utilize in a safe and sane
manner these beautiful sheets of
water in behalf of the children, in
swimming instructions and bathing
possibilities? Places could be fenced
off and, if necessary. one or two
charge baths could be provided where
those who want to pay could be ac-
commodated
In speaking to Principal Mcdonald,
of the Hawthorne Avenue Public
School, in regard to the possibility of
swimming pools being installed in the
basement of every public school for
the instruction and physical advan-
tages they would confer on the public
school pupils, Principal Mcdonald
stated that he had already called the
attention of the Board of Education
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Preferred to Deliver 1t.

Henry j. Waters. president OF the
Kansas State Agricultural College,
tells of a young man who was collect
ing funds for benevolent institution
He attempted to collect dollar from
an old man who was noted for his
closeness. The youth approached the
older man and stated his mission, and
asked for dollar, saying he was col
lecting for the Lord.
COLLECTING for the Lord?" asked
the old man. We'll, young man, how
old are your
Il am Twenty-Five" answered the
young man.
We'll, I'm seventy-five years old,
and as you are only twenty-five years
old / think that | will get to see the
Lord sooner than you. l will hand
Him the dollar myself. kansas
City Star.
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CAN THE RAILROADS TRANSPORT THE CROPS

There is much work for the railroads of the coun-
try to do and if they unprepared the fault is
theirs Enormous crops are in sight and be
transported the seaboard. For several months the
railroad companies generally stopped improvements,
neglected tosorder equipment and laid off tens of
thousands hands when they should have been get
ting into shape for moving the years crops In what
condition they now to perform that service?
The question is a national The blessings of
abundant crops should be widely distributed among
the people The railroad is the distributor If it
fails in that duty the result is food
and loss of benefit both to the and the con-
sumner BY railroad neglect the farmers may easily
lose hundreds of millions and the people of the cities
made pay high prices for the kind of food that the
distant farmer lets rot the ground feeds to his
hogs
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
The Home Of Famous Banjo Player

! observed a little, low cottage
standing little back from the road
Swallowed by a grove and said to MIR.
Hicks that this seemed to be the only
house within the vista He spilled
and said:
"That house has a history There
the Sweeney boys were born and
there they were brought up. There
they taught themselves to play the
banjo. ! have no doubt of the truth
of the report that they made their
they learned from the slaves of the
plantations nearby the distinctive
negro melodies, and especially the
'breakdowns' which were so popular
among the negroes before the war,
and which constituted an important
feature of negro minstrelsy in the
war days and afterward.
Zone of the Sweeney boys made
friends somewhere with General
Stuart | think he wandered into
Stuarts camp soon after the war
began He had heard that Stuart
was very fond of the fife and drum,
and especially fond of the banjo
mo sooner had Stuart heard
Sweeney play the banjo than he at
tached him unofficially to his head
quarters Sweeney became very fond
of Stuart and knew almost intuitiye-
ly what kind of banjo music Stuart
liked best 1t was the kind which
had rattle and go in it. and which
set everybody's feet working. Many
times Sweeney's banjo was as good
as rest and refreshment for General
Stuart.
Il. once tried to find out what be-
came of Sweeney after Genera
Stuart's death. but | was unable 10
do SO. | do know that he was re-
garded as the best banjo player in
the South, and it was up in that little
house in front of which Lees army
last stopped that Sweeney. was born
and there he taught himself to play
the banjo"
Copyright, 1914, by E. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
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to the matter School would be more
attractive to the youngsters if they
were allowed the opportunity of learn
ing to swim, and that applies to both
sexes.
Newark is also deficient in public
playground space, and 1t is a disgrace
to any city to have it announced that
there is no money for such purposes
There could be no better investment
by a city than the care of its chill
dren in the matter of play and ply
steal instruction.
Speaking of the public school, it is
not used enough anyhow. Buildings
that cost so much should be used
more than six hours a day. There
are vast possibilities in the line of
public entertainments in the evening
at the schools, singing and dancing
classes for the children, and all sorts
of instructive entertainments for the
parents
Municipal authorities are too much
given to enriching already wealthy
corporations through paying hundreds
of thousands of dollars for needed
protective improvements of vast hem
eft to the roads, such as was done lor
the Pennsylvania and D., L. & W
railroads in the city grade crossing
matter. Very truly yours,
w. ]. MORGAN.
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Origin of Editorials.

May II seems an important ami
versary for the newspaper world, be-
cause some consider that on this date,
in 1871, the London Chronicle first
brought into being the leading article,
1t was merely a short paragraph
which stated that "the great and firm
body of the Wings of England, true
to their principles, had decided in ia
vor of Mr.. Fox as the representative
of the pure doctrines of Whiggery'
and suggesting as result that Burke
should retire from the House of Com
mons. This paragraph was published
in the part of the Chronicle where
leading articles afterward appeared
and for that reason Is reckoned the
forerunner of editorial comments on
topics of the day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10

The president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Supervisors of State
Banks, at gathering of that body
In Atlantic City, a day or two ago, Is
reported in the newspapers as stat
ing in his annual address that bank
officials should not be allowed to en-
gage, directly or indirectly. in outside
business and that no business enter
prise with which an officer was en-
gagged should do business with the
bank in question. An officer of one
of the banks in New Jersey at once
wrote the president Of the association
extracts. with some notifications in
the personal character of the letter
which do not change the sense:
4 regret very much your attitude
on this subject If carried out il
would deprive banks of the best busi-
ness brains and intelligence of tbs
community and confine their man
agement to nondescripts. Nearly
every director of a prosperous bank
is, of course, engaged in outside busi-
ness. That is why they are desired
as directors, because of their sue
cess and experience in community.
To forbid a bank from doing bust
ness with a concern with which its
directors are connected would deprive
the bank of the very advantage it
seeks in making those men directors.
II, when you make man director
of your bank he must take his bust
Ill lao I.oA
the most influential directors of the
community would necessarily have
the least business. Personally, the
writer never borrows of his own
bank nor allows any concerns with
which he is connected to borrow of
his bank. That, however, is not a
matter of business ethics. but grows
out of desire to be entirely disin-
terested in the management of the
institution of which he is the head.
Losses Slight.
The national banking system has
been the best banking system in the
world. The loss it has entailed in de-
posits since its inception has been
fourteenth of one per cent per
annum-less than a mill year upon
a dollar of deposit. No business en-
terprise in the world ever insured
such safety to it's patrons or has had
such a record as the national banking
system of this country. 1t has aided
in building up the prosperity OF our
various communities by financing and
aiding the enterprises of it's citi-
zens, and it has done all this under
a system which you propose to abro-
gate where the officers of banks have
been connected with outside enter
prises in the community, and have
aided by their business judgment and
experience in making the community
prosperous.
II want all the employees in our
bank to become part of the public
life of the community, to be asso-
ciated with the churches and its Y.
M. C. AS, its legitimate sports, It's
business enterprises, and it makes
them better, more faithful and more
conscientious employees, and the bank
gets the better service from their
broadened horizon.
There are many men, indeed, most
men have a brain capacity too large
to be confined to the narrow limita-
lions of a banking proposition. 1t
would be an unjustifiable limitation
of their God given brain capacity to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
REACTIoNaRy CAMP MEETING

The ffty-hfth annual camp meeting of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church of the district of Chicago is
to nnovate 1t is going to discuss oldfashioned
ligion only, and will not have a word to say about
either the tango or women's dress.
Judged by the standard set by other recent church
conventions, the Methodist Church at least be
branded as unorthodox for almost every of them
had some words of condemnation for the modern
dances or the decollete fashions of the day. Old
fashioned religion at church congress! Why, it is
almost unheard of in these progressive days.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
RAnRoAn PAssEs GALoRE.

During 1918 two Kentucky railroads distributed
free passes representing than 900 900 miles
of travel The value of this free transportation was
more than 100000 and the recipients numbered
over $4,000. When Jerseymen learn that every walk
of life is represented IN the long list they may recall
former days in this State when almost anyone pub
lie life had free railroad transportation. Things have
changed The railroads in New Jersey no longer own
the State.
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u. S. Death Rate Increases

cities in the over 100000 class only
twelve showed increased death rates
in 1918 as compared with the aver
age for 1901-05. The five highest
of these were: Omaha, 20 per cent;
Detroit. 1876: Minneapolis. 1877; To-
ledo, 10; st. Paul, 10 per cent. 1t
should be understood that all the
death rates given are crude; that is,
not corrected for disparities in dis
tribution of population by age and
sex.
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m the Chicago Post.

from the Chicago Post.
Steam is rapidly giving place to
electricity as a source of power in the
United States. Although steam had a
start of centuries. already one-fourth
the Industrial power in use comes
from the dynamo, and it is predicted
that In a few years four-fifths of the
work of the nation will derive energy
from this source. 1t is estimated that
fhre is $50. 0o0, 900 horsepower at work
daily In the United States. OF this
100000 is animal, 75,000,0OO steam and
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CENTRE MARKET IDEA INDORSED

market also would be near the. old
market. 1t also would help merchants
now situated on Market street, as this
part of the city has been neglected for
some time. -
| would also suggest the city to own
its own cold storage plant and charge
for same by meter, same as gas and
water. Respectfully yours,
ALLEN s. HAYS.
Is Farley avenue, city.
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Because Cbep Dreamed

Because our mothers dreamed may have hope;
Facing the dawn and pain with lovely eyes,
Seeing the rapture where The Shadow lies
Because our mothers dreamed we may have hope
Because our mothers dreamed we may have love;
Casting their hearts at young things everywhere,
Finding such selfish service all their
Because our mothers dreamed we may have love.
Because our mothers dreamed we may have God;
Exultngly, creation their goal,
Molding out flesh from flesh and soul from soul
Because our mothers dreamed we may have Cod
Glad Malone, in Ainslee's
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

about 81 800, 900 electric. The balance
is divided between gas and water.
Two thirds of the steam power is
employed in operating locomotives,
and it is here that electricity is des-
tined to make its most sweepingcon-
quest.
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Newport Police Chief Finds Way TO sto,
PhOtographing of Society.

Newport Police Chief Finds Way to Sion
Photographing of Society.
NEWPORT. July 1O.-Chief of Po-
lice Crowley has found a way to in
tercept the activities of press photog-
raphers, and yet do no damage either
to the constitutional rights of the
man behind the camera, or to the
camera itself.
His plan is to plant an opaque DO
liceman at the business end of the
machine, between it and the member
of the summer colony desired to be
photographed.
Crowley disclosed his scheme to a
delegation of press photographers fol-
lowing their protests against the adj
verse activity of Mrs. Hermann DEL
-richs the other day in the vicinity of
the Casino. He admitted the consti-
tutional right-of the camera squad to
take pictures on the public streets. of
any one or anything that came their
way, but he insisted that the police
also had an analogous right to stand
on the public streets, in front of
cameras or behind, as they saw fit, or
were ordered to stand.
Policemen had been told off for that
purpose, the chief said. and. when
ever camera man shall try to get a
focus on society leader or debutante
he hereafter shall find the field oc-
cupied by one or more large, thick po-
| licemen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
About to Elope With One. Girl Changes
Mind and WEEDS Real Lover"

STANFORD, Conn, July TO-
Changing her mind at the eleventh
hour, Miss Ruby Moore. pretty stu
dent in a training school for nurses
at Lynchburg, Va, eloped with the
man she really loved and left Fred
erick Paight, Stamford youth,
heartbroken.
Miss Moore and Paight were 10
have been married here yesterday.
Their engagement was announced af
ter he had kept company with her
about three weeks.
Somehow George Kunz, a Lynch
burg youth who had been paying
Miss Moore attentions there. heard of
the prospective marriage. He came
North as fast as the fastest train
could carry him.
Miss Moore telephoned Mrs. Paight.
telling her she was sorry for Fred,
but that she had married the man
she really loved" Mr.. and Mrs.
Kunz then departed on their honey
moon.
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Meanest of All Burglars steals Ring
from Baby's Finger.

NEW YORK, July 1O.-The mean
est man in the world. new 1914 spring
and summer model broke into Her
man J. ,BoeckIins house in Kent,
Westminster county, yesterday.
He stole two watches, a diamond
ring, silverware, brie-a-brac and SIS
which he found under a mattress. He
also took the family revolver But
TO show what he was capable of he
proceeded as follows:
He took a pi<ce of soap and CREASED
fourteen months-old Helen Boecklin's
finger, slipping off her little gold ring.
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Scrub Woman Saves Fortune and Leave.
1t TO Sisters.

serum woman saves Fortune and Leaves
1t TO Sisters.
NEW YORK, July 10.-When YOU
see scrub woman on her knees min
stering to the office floor, do not
pass by her lightly. She may be an
heiress. That sort of story was re-
vealed yesterday in a letter from Ire
land which reached Walton Marshall,
managing director of the Vanderbilt.
Annabel Lee, sister of Susan Lynch,
a scrub woman of the Vanderbilt.
made enough out of scrubbing floors
in New York to return to Ireland, pass
her last years in comparative afflu-
ence and leave to her two sisters an
estate of nearly $1,000.
Susan is about sixty-f1ve and An
mabel was older. The latter who had
worked in New York more than forty
years, much of the time as a servant
at $l4 month, went back to ireland
several years ago. She had told
Susan. according to the latter. that
she was going to leave what she had
saved up to Susan and her other sis
ter, who lives in Brooklyn. Susan
used to work at the Waldorf. but has
scrubbed floors at the Vanderbilt
since its opening
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Prosperity Of the snnth

| continuance of his honors, besides
saving himself no end of abuse.
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Brothers Meet for First Time In Twenty
Ave Years In Passaic Store.

PASSAIC. July To- When Rudolph
Unger, of Sc Lincoln street. was talk
ing to friends in his store at 143 Main
avenue, yesterday, a stranger walked
in and made a purchase, My, but
you look familiar, said Mr. Unger.
Il have seen you somewhere before.
l. Before he could go any further
the stranger said: well, yes. You
ought to know me. I'm your brother
Arnold 1t was the first time they
had met in twenty-five years There
was a celebration last night at the
Unger home
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ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Commerce Department Holds Mimic
ExeeutIon Of Fatal Boiler Plug.

EAecutIon OF FaEaI Boiler PIug.
WASHINGTON. July 10.-On a
miniature mahogany gallows in the
department of commerce yesterday
was hanged" the fusible plug that
failed to operate and caused a boiler
explosion that killed eleven of the
crew of the steamer Jefferson off Cape
Henry. Secretary Redfield acted as
chief executioner at the Hanging
ceremonies, which were intended to
emphasize the necessity for safety
first
New steamboat regulations were
adopted as the result of the explosion
on the Jefferson.
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FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 10, 1914.
JAMES SMITH, JR.
FOUNDED MARCH !. 1889.

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