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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

| To the Editor of the Evening Star;
Two angles of view, as TO that
Panama canal problem, are so acutely
defined that one is apt to get cross
eyed looking at it, But, | think, If !
were in the Senate, [ would stand, as
MARITIME does, against repeal-just
now. And this. Notwithstanding any
suspicion that the exemption act is
not to be defended.
The big ditch was planned on the
theory that the toll-payments of the
shipping 1t is 10 serve are to provide
the revenue for it's maintenance and
operation. It goes without the saying
that one patron should pay his way
Just the same as the others. There
is special reason for the observance
of this rule of equality for all and
favors for none, in these days, when
the pepole are engaged in the long
deferred effort to root out the cancer
of special privilege that has preyed
so long on their Vitals. AT any rate,
if special privilege is to be granted
anywhere, the shipping trust, whose
vicious rapacity has been notorious
these many years, should be the last
to be made the beneficiary OF II.
This view would be conVinclngly
final if. after we had, in the exercise
of our national sovereignty, commit
ted ourselves to other possibly mis-
taken policy of exemption, there had
not come from across the seas a growl
intended to brighten us into abandon
ing it. 1t is one thing for us, upon
discovering our error. to set about
correcting it--ourSelveS-of our own
volition. But when an outside power
undertakes to bully us into doing it,
OF anything else, one feels as if we
ought to assert our rights to do with
our own as we see fit, and stand right
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
PASsAIC A TYPICAL COUNTY.

In the hasty and interested judgment of the
World, zone strongly Republican New Jersey Con-
district is not the United States of America,
even in off-year election" There were people In
Noahs time who held to the opinion that there
wasn't going to be food, and they persisted. But
the World only pretends it don't believe when in fact
1t is shaking in its editorial boots.
This strongly Republican district contributed to
the election of Hughes for successive terms in Con
gress and gave Roosevelt plurality in 1912. A real
Progressive on his party platform might carry the
district again. Passac county had a Democratic
senator from 1907 to 1910, and it has a Democratic
senator
The Worlds description of the county is as false
is its assumption that the verdict in the Seventh
district was contrary to the sentiment of the country
county like Passaic, which alternates between
Democrat, Republican and Progressive is ideal one
in which to make test of the popular sentiment
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

il all goes We'll with him and his
party between now and nomination
day. He is not pledged on that as
in the case of free tolls.
MIR. Wilson himself recognized the
difference when a candidate. He not
only referred to the tolls question, but
gave unqualified Endorsement with a
pat aud homelY illustration, to the
platform free tolls prOnounCement.
But he observed silence as to the
one-term proposition. and has since
maintained il. And in his course he
Is not only within his rights, but
within the suggestions Of a sound
discretion. Using the Vernacular, he
is playing good politics.
In private conversation the other
day, veteran observer of politics
at this capital made the suggestion
that MIR. Wilson, in case of pro-
nouuced success with his policies
might surprise the country two years
hence by taking himself out of the
equation. With one shining term
to his credit, he might decide not To
tempt fortune by trying u second, IN
which he might fail.
The answer was that. strong as he
has shown himself to be and would
be then, Mr.. Wilson is not super
man. No man, it was commended,
would toreSo Sueh an opportunity TO
hold on to power. He would tempt
fortune at all hazards. The very size
of the stake would make the venture
irresistible.
Another point made in reply was
that in case of remuneration, Mr..
Wilson would be expected to name
the Democratic nominee, that Mr..
Bryan would claim the designation
and that even Mr.. Wilson could not
elect Mr.. Bryan. Although the coun-
try accepted MIR. Wilson. at Mr.. Bry-
ans hands, it would not accept Mr..
Bryan at Mr.. Wilson's hands.
Such speculation. while interesting,
is nothing but speculation. The facts
are that Mr. Wilson will be available
in 1916, and if he stands then crowned
with success, precedent will call for
his reelection. Next after the Civil
War, the greatest misfortune with
the greatest losses this country has
ever sustained was in the defeat for
reelection of Benjamin Harrison,
who had given the people an excel
lent administration. and was in po-
sition to continue his good work.
Mr., Wilsonf,ls playing the game as
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Sentimental Side of the Late George Westinghouse

There was a strong sentimental
side to the character of George West
lnghouse which he rarely revealed
even to his most intimate friends"
said Arthur Warren-who was long
closely associated with Mr.. Westing-
house both in business and in personal
relationship me few days ago after
Mr.. Westinghouse died.
Il will tell you of a little accident
which came under my personal OBJ
servation which revealed his DISPOSE
ton to foster kindly sentiment. There
called upon Mr.. Westinghouse one
day at his office In Pitts
burgh gentleman who was pre-
pairing to negotiate some very i'm
portant and large contracts. In the
course of their conversation, this
gentleman occasionally spoke of the
Westinghouse company having re-
ference to that particular corporation
identified by Mr.. Westinghouse
name with which he expected to enter
into large business relations.
He had thus spoken of the West
inghouse company several times when
at last Mr.. Westinghouse looked up
from the papers he was examining
and. smiling pleasantly and yet
thoughtfully, said: II notice that you
are speaking of the corporation as
the Westinghouse company. You
don't call ii by its right name. There
is only one Westinghouse company
and it isn't located here in Pittsburgh
1t is a company with which you have
had nothing to do, and l can't see
how you will ever have anything to do
with it,
THE gentleman looked inquiringly
at Mr.. Westinghouse, and then VEN
tured to say, If it isn't in Pittsburgh
where is it?'
"'Well, said Mr.. Westinghouse
thoughtfully, since you ask me the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

The person who attributes the
snorting of horse to fear, to dislike
or anger, or in fact to any tense
emotional state, really puts the cart
before the horse and confounds cause
with effect.
The peculiar sound called snorting
is due to deep, forced breathing,
without the aid of the vocal chords.
1t is. in fact, purely nasal sound,
and it is the equivalent of the sniff
fling executed by human beings.
The horse belongs TO that class of
animals. as DIR. Theodore Zells points
out. that trust their scent rather
than their vision. Just as when we
wish to see small object moro
plainly we examine it with micro
scope, so does the horse snort, in or
der to perceive a scent more clearly
When we are not certain whether
food is good, We. sniff because by 50
doing we disturb the air and enable
the particles of matter to which an
odor is due to reach the sensory
nerves of smell, which terminate in
our nostrils, more quickly and sure
ly than if we trust the imperceptible
air currents to perform this task for
US,
In exactly the same way n horse
snorts in order to identify any person
who may be approaching. If the APP
preaching person Is one in whom the
horse it not interested, It will not
sniff. but if it is someone whom il
has reason to fear or to dislike, it
VIII snort in order to make certain
whether his ancient enemy is at
hand.
In this connection it is interesting
TO note that the African elephant is
equipped with enormous ears, while
his brother in India has only small
ears. Both animals have small, in
adequate eyes, and are forced to
trust to scent rather than vision in
the battle of existence. The Indian
elephant lives in the jungle, where
odors are pungent and easily dis
cernible, but the African elephant is
a native of the plains, where the air
is dry and hot and barely circulates.
The heat dries the moisture out of
the tiny hairs in the nostrils which
connect with the sensory nerves. and
it is only through Tapping his enor-
nous ears that he can Great the cur
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

Have you ever stopped to realize
that the most important capital foi
doing business is not money capital
but capital that Is within your own
power, no matter how poor financially
YOU may be? 1t lies in making the
most of the faculties you hove, I'M
folding your own powers, making lhe
most of your manhood in training for
the concentrated service to which you
are likely to devote yourself.
Success in business depends upon
the personal factor. what you are III
yourself. The accumulation of men
tai capital may well be the main Dust
ness of youth at that period of lie
when perhaps they feel unsettled as
to the wisest course for them to pur-
sue in the future in regard to their
individual life's calling.
No man can hope to do anything
above the commonplace who has not
in his youth laid his foundations deep
and sure beyond the peradVenture Oh
failure.
A builder does not lay brick for a
house before a plan is drawn. A rail-
road is not laid down just anywhere
in the general direction desired. A
sculptor doesn't pound away on q
block of marble without knowing
what statue is to come forth. In
short, nothing worth doing Is done
without plan and preparation. DO
you think you are going to carve your
success out of the tangle of circum-
stances in some other way? All his
tory and biography are against such
supposition.
Those who have left their impress:
on the worlds history were, with
few exceptions, men and women who
left nothing undone in life's spring
time to make its autumn yield rich
harvest.
| am constantly in receipt of letters
from middle-aged men, expressing q
regret that they did not have oppor-
tunities to acquire an education II
their youth, or that they failed to use
the opportunities they had. Is it moi
pathetic to witness a man of mature
years, possessed of property and ma
tive talents, but handicapped by illit-
eracy or lack OF sufficient culture tc
enjoy the things that really make life
worth living? Such a person, If SEN
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
UPLIFT TALKS
CAPITAL WITHIN YOUR OWN REACH
Ry oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN
Author of Flushing to the Front ETC.

sitive is in constant fear of being
bumiIiated because of his defects, and
IN most ca SEES he has at times vague
vearning for possibilities that he doef
not know how to crafty.
1t is a sad fact that many OF our
Young men in their eagerness 10 lllaEs
money rush into business wlthout
having received an adequate educa.
ton for special training and growtS
late in life.
For most men education furnishes
the reserve power upon whleh theS
noust re1v To meet the great emer-
.rencies of life. A civil engineer could
do nine-tenths of his work, perhaps
with half his education; but when ne
comes to span Niagara or the Missls.
sippi with q steel bridge, or bullu
q Panama canal, he Will require
every bit of knowledge he can
muster. as we'll as every particle OF
experiences; the entire man and all ms
capital will then be put to the test.
A merchant, perhaps, could get along
without danger in ordinary times Wlln
a small part of his capital, but ns
knows well that he must be pfepareo
for an emergency, for a great panic,
M. for hard times Such emergencies
are what call upon his capital ano
nut his reserve to the test. So it is
with a young man starting out III
life for himself. An average educa-
ton will probably carry him through
ali ordinary experiences, but when
emergencies arise, when his business
expands to enormous proportions, ana
when every faculty he possesses, 10
taxed TO the utmost, then 1t is tnat
his completer education will count.
When other business men, perhaps
without early advantages, go down ~
q panic or an emergency, he VIII
weather the gale because his discl-
plined mind enables him better to
take hold of the situation. Ny advice
to young men who are so anxious to
go to work, or to get into business, IS
to restrain this desire and to add as
much as possible to their success
capital in education and discipline.
prepare for grand career; for never
before did the world call so loudly
for educated trained men, men OF
large, expanded powers, men Of broad
culture, as now.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

/ question I will tell you about it and
explain to you why there is only one
Westinghouse company.
my father established little ma
chine shop a good many years ago.
at Schenectady, New York. When /
was old enough I went to work i'll
that shop as an apprentice. There L
learned about machinery and tools.
There I became greatly interested IN
mechanical appliances. In that little
shop l got my first desire to invent
something myself.
] went out from that shop when
! was 81 boy of seventeen to join the
Union Army. 1t was the recollection of
what / had learned in the shop which
led be TO seek a transfer from the
army to a position as assistant engl-
neer in the navy. When the war was
over ! went back there for a while.
After | started out for myself my
father continued the business. | have
always had the most tender reeollec-
lions of my apprentice days in that
little shop. When I got in position to
do the things that | wanted to do l
decided to establish the Westing-
house company which was to con-
tinue that little machine shop, and III
has been continued till this time. Inc
name | gave to it was the Westing-
house Company. That name 1t still
retains and as long as l live it will
retain it. That is the only Westing-
house Company. My other corpora
lions are known by names which sug-
gest the kind of manufacturing they
are engaged in
THE gentleman was very much I'M
pressed by this narration and espe-
cially bv the revelation it made of the
sentimental side of Mr.. Westing-
houses nature"
Copyright, 1914, by e. ]. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE
Panama Canal Tolls

, there, even if the right there" be the
wrong there
We have the authority of the Presi-
dent himself for ignoring the right or
the wrong of the thing in our proceed
ure. He would have us do even the
wrong thing, if 1t be necessary, to
show the world how enthusiastically
generous we can be-under compul
sion! II seems to me that If We are
to go it blind, patriotism should
prompt us to give our own land the
benefit of the doubt. The nations
would never give us credit for the
generosity" Rather will the enyi-
Gus monarchs of the earth join in o
chorus of shouts that we We're gen
erous" because we didn't dare to be
anything else. They'll be a thousand
times more likely to ieer us for cow
ardice than applaud us for magnan-
unity
So, whether it be wise or otherwise
to reconsider. this does not seem to
be Just the time to do it. There is no
hurry about the reconsideration, any,
way, is there? Isn't it only q matter
of detail in mana cement that can as
we'll be adjusted when the canal is
open and ready for business as now?
Why not wait a bit, then?
Perhaps when he sees that we don't
scare worth a cent the bully will
drop his lash and leave us free to go
about attending to our own business
in our own way and at our own time
like a nation of freemen and not as
one of covered whelps
The surest way for nation to COM
mand the respect of the powers-far
surer than generosity that has the
aspect of hold-up-is for it to let
them see that it doesn't care a -
/ for them.
WILLIAM E. SACKETT.
Newark, April s.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
FOREST NOTES

in the East. In many places this
parasitic growth is responsible, d.
rectly or indirectly, for considera-
BILE loss of timber.
Forest officers in Washington and
Oregon plan to discontinue the use
of barbed wire on their forests This
will affect their own pastures and
public drift fences They say barbed
wire has no advantage over smooth
wire that 1t Injuries stock, and that
it is more likely to be borne down
by soft snow. Stockmen on the
Ochoco forest, in Oregon reecNtly
constructed drift fences of smooth
wire, though with some misgiVings:
now they say they will never use
barbed wire again.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

erection of workmen's dwellings, at
q capital expenditure of about $500.
900.
The 1914 Croatian Trade Union con-
gress will be held in Agram during
Easter.
1t is the reported intention of the
trades and labor congress of Canada
to enter the political arena in a larger
line similar to the British labor party.
London is threatened with another
taXicab strike, differences between the
British Motor Cab Company and
their drivers having caused the dis
pute.
A great demonstration among those
in the employ of the government
works took place in London recently
to emphasize their demands nor a
minimum wage of $3.50 per week Sand
an increase of Is per cent, for gisy
and piece workers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
Economies on the Farm.

hcohOhiits ph lht Farnn.
Lincoln Dispatch to New York Evening
Post.
One of the lessons that has been
we'll learned during the last six
months of business quiet in the West
has been that of utilizing the little
things on the farms. The period of
prosperity in grain production during
the last few years has led the aver
age farmer away from the small
economies, and he has neglected his
dairy and poultry yard in the inter-
est of the wheat and corn tieidE
Lately there has been notable turn
ing toward the smaller things. The
farmer has even learned to lss The
straw that formerly went up in huge
bonfires after thrashing. He finds
that it is, after all, worth saving.
He has also learned that II pays
to test his seed, and every farm
house just now has testing boxes
where the fertility of alfalfa seed,
corn and oats is being established.
The effect of poor seed on the farms
has been to diminish the yields with
out the farmer realizing whence came
The loss. The agricultural colleges
and the government experiment sta
lions have instructed the high schools
and the minor colleges how to test
seed, and farmers may have their
seed tested free of charge. Every
high school in Kansas and many in
this State are doing this work free.
The bankers of Kansas have sent
for large shipment of kaffir from
Africa to be distributed among their
customers, and the Importation will
pay for itself many times. In many
counties there have been secured
farm advisers who give all their time
aiding the agricultural interests. All
this has it's effect in a large efficiency
on the farm, and the income of the
Middle West ought to show the re-
suits of the farms.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
WITH THE WORLDS TOILERs

The postoff1ce department in Canada
is almost closed as an avenue for the
employment of women.
Boston Telephone Operators Union
has succeeded in having operators
and supervisors promoted in the order
of their seniority.
There are engaged in positions of
varying Importance in the German
postoff1ce department no fewer than
166, 900 women.
The Mississippi legislature has
passed a law providing for a factory
inspector to see to the enforcement
of the labor laws.
Including policemen, pressmen,
bakers, postal employees and market
people, at least 10000 people are
working all night in London, Eng.
Greenock. Scotland. corporation
have decided to proceed with the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
SAFE TO KICK THE UNITED STATES

Both factions in Mexico find the United States of
America perfectly safe to kick Spain very naturally
wanted to know what we, the guardians of Euro
pean rights in Mexico, going to do about Villa S
expulsion of the Spaniards from Torreon Our pro-
test is contemptuousy houted by villa through Car
rama. This to be expected, Villa had done
the same thing with the Spanards at Chihuahua, and
Mr.. Bryan could only tell Spain that he sorry
but couldn't help It, Acting Secretary of State Lam
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
NO COMPROMISE ON PANAMA TOLLS.

No compromise the tolls repeal bill In the
Senate to give the President the discretion to abolish
free tolls and thus putting the responsibility upon
him, should be listened to. No such course by the
Senate could deceive the people, The President has
three more to serve, while the whole House and
thirtytwo members of the Senate will be elected next
November. The House has passed the repeater. and
its members cannot their political SKINS the
lamp still holds out to burn for the senators.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09

April ought to be an suspicious
birthday for women of literary taste,
for it is the birthday Of an English
poet and an American novelist. The
poet, Mrs. Adelaide Florence Nichol-
son, was born forty nine years ago
today in England. Her early girlhood,
however, was spent in India, where
her fathers military service called
him and his family to spend many
years. Adelaide married there Col
onel Malcolm Nicholson. of the Bengal
army. and together they settled at
Madras. Here she appears to have
had considerable leisure to devote to
poetry writing and. without the
knowledge of her friends. she pub
lished a volume Of poetry under the
pen name of Laurence Hope" The
book was called THE Garden of Kama
and Other Love Lyrics from India"
IT was received as the work of q man
and attracted a great deal of favora-
hle attention before any one suspected
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
EAST is EAST AND WEST IS WEST"

In Nebraska, where they have local option on
Sunday baseball, the spirit of the West is shown by
the vote of fifteen towns in favor and only five
against. The spirit of the East is different We
have just about much Sunday baseball out this
way but don't dare sanction it through our egis-
latures allow communities decide for them
selves that their young may enjoy the national
game on the first day of the week without breaking
the law 1t looks much better the books
to have our profession puranical and our practise
human.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-09
ONE HOG VS. THREE CHILDREN

Congress cheerfuy voted half million dollars to
fight hog cholera, but the House refused appro-
priation of $4,000 requested by the Children's
Bureau for of the country the subject of
child mortality. 1t allowed the bureau a beggarly
SIG, 1000 to carry its great work of saving the
human child. An effort Is being made in the
Senate to secure the larger sum, but employers who
fatten on child labor resisting it. They are not
even willing to eoncede that hog is worth three
children. For hog, you see, is property.