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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
WAS DIR. BALLARD AGAIN MIsLED?

THE VENERABLE Dr. A. E. Ballard of the Ocean Grove
Cpmeeng Association entitled the regard and onsdera
justly of the cloth the generally
paid followers of his holy calling But the turmoil of excite
cegmen have been known to lose their bearings and per-
their temper oversep and influence their usual calm Judgment
and ignore facts plainly apparent situation In public state
bearing upon the legislative bill Ga referendum measure TO
Ocean Grove borough the DOCTOR after seeking
SHOW that various State had broken faith with him at
least had extended misleading and rejecting upon the
motives Governor Fielder signing the trains his
aes Nugent city of Newark Mr. Nugent of New
ark county, responsible for the law that applies to section
Monmouth county, Dr. Ballard and proceeds many
other things hardly relevant to the subject.
Has Ballard again msed pray has deceived
him this time? Some of Mr. Nugent political enemies? Here are
the facts
Assembyman William Winans Asbury Park, introduced
the Ocean borough Asbuy and Ocean Grove
twin communities
Grove borough proposition has been Monmouth
county issue for years.
Wnans elected by Monmouth county voters the
issue.
Of the county record favorng the
borough plan
1t not an attempt to check religious
give people of Ocean Grove the American privilege of
having voice in the government under which they live
President John W. Socum, OF the Senate who represents
county the upper house. renqushed the chair
urge passage the bill when reached the Senate Governor
Fielder granted public hearing the before attaching
his signature TO it.
Yet Dr. Ballard blames James Nugent of Newark for all
that has pass Here is chance for reflection.
Internationally perhaps the reverend gentleman has paid
Mr. Nugent high compliment while in the heat of the moment
doing him an injustice.
quarters Mr. Nugent possesses pol
cal influence that he graa with leaders who control
the larger number of the Legislature and with Governor
Fielder himself.
Notwithstanding all this Dr. Ballard credits Mr. Nugen with
extraordinary powers for bringing about results.
1t may not be amss to call attention the biblical admon
ton Judge not, lest ye be judged"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
OPINIONS AND wits FROM
THE EXCHANGES

, its stockholders might subscribe to
railroad holdings in the stock of this
new corporation, and that his share
of the $4,000, 600 could be used in pay
ing for such stock. This the pros
cutting authorities now hold consti-
tuted a "commingling of affairs" re-
pugnant to the law, and to the Su-
preme Courts Interpretation of the
law. There are other complaints, the
exclusive sales contract with the
Markle company, the Temple Iron
Company expedient to prevent the
construction of a competing railroad;
stock ownership in Delaware, Sus-
quehanna and Schuylkill road, stock
ownership in Coke Bros. g. Co., stock
ownership in the New York and Mid
die Coal Field Railroad and Coal
Company. The net effect is that the
Lehigh Valley transports annually H.
600, 900 tons of anthracite, and abso-
lutely fixes prices in territory not
reached by other roads.
The law principle that no person
can legally do indirectly what he is
legally prohibited from doing directly
applies to corporations as much as to
individuals. The Lenign Valleys law
yers knew this. But if their friends
had continued on the inside in the
attorney-generars office the principle
would not have mattered much. 9he
victory of Wilson made all the differ
ence in the world in the coal monopoly
situation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
Great Salt Lake Preserves Timbers

In, replacing O railroad trestle re-
Gently burned along the north shore
of Great Salt Lake, engineers have
just found that the piles are still per-
fectly sound after forty-three years
Of service. Looking for the cause,
since these were only of local pine
and fir, they found the timbers were
impregnated throughout with salt
from the lake.
At another point on the lake,
eighteen-inch piles. set twenty-nine
years, are similarly preserved with
salt which has penetrated to their
very centre Timbers in the Southern
Pacific trestles across Salt Lake.
placed i'll 1902, appear to be as good
as on the day when the piles were
driven. They have been preserved
well above water line by the salt
dashed on to them by the waves, a
fact apparently anticipated by the
engineers who built the trestles.
The first transcontinental telegraph
line, built before the railroad, ex-
tended west from Salt Lake City
through the prosperous mining camps
of Eureka, Austin and Virginia City.
When the railroad was built, the tele-
graph line was transferred to follow
it's right of way and the old poles
sawed off at the ground. An engi-
neer who recently examined the butts
left in the ground in the salt desert
near Fish Springs found that. al
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
BY HERBERT QUICK.

[ think it was Samuel Johnson who
made fishwife fighting mad by call
ing her a ''parallelopiped." A fac
tory owner once in an Irishman's
hearing called him his general
utility"
II want my time," said the Hi
bernian. 'I don't know what thin
words names, but I'll go bail man
couldn't lay his tongue to anything
worse: an I'll stand abuse from no
mani"
If I stepped up to the first man in
the street and called him o sym
biote" should feel 1t safer to smile.
We all of us are apt to take offense
at the term we don't understand.
All animals and plants, including
man, live either for or upon one an
other. Symbolic organisms live with
and for others. The nodules on the
roots of plants belong to the clover
family-alfalfa, vetch, clover, sweet
clover, beans, peas, and the rest of
the pod bearers-are little white balls
filed with microscopic plants which
are symbiotes. That is, they live with
and for the legume on whose roots
they have settled. The legume could
not get along without these bacteria,
and the bacteria could not succeed
without the legume
mo man liveth unto himself. nor
dieth unto himself" The text is true
of mans cousins, the plants and ami
mails.
The half-blind rhinoceros has SEN
tinel bird with sharp eyes which gives
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
Little Stories of New Jersey
BY ARTHUR e. WARNER

Among the many French noblemen
who figure in the history of Eliza
beth during the Revolutionary times
was Count d Anterroches whose
great grandson, Warren r. Dix, is
still living in that city The count,
in his early years stud ed for the
Church of France under his uncle.
the Bishop of Condor. However, he
preferred the army to Holy orders
and running away, went to England
where he enlisted and was made an
ensign of one of the regiments sent
to America to join General Burgoyne's
army He was captured by the
colonial forces just before the Battle
of Saratoga.
Soon after being taken prisoner,
he wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette,
a kinsman, who had been sent over
with the French troops to help the
struggling Amer cans. The marquis
FASTENED to see him and soon the two
were embraced in each others arms.
Shortly afterward, he was paroled
and remained within the American
Zines during the remainder of the war.
He was placed in the embarrassing
position of being an officer of the
British army VIII lie his kinsman,
MARQUIS de Lafayette, and his coun-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MARCH %
Margaret of Anou, Marie Krauss
BY MARY MARSHALL.
MARCH %
Copyrighted 1914.

The names of two singers and q
queen mark today on the birthday
calendar. Elizabeth Inverarity, a
Scottish singer, was born a hundred
and one years ago, and Marie Ga
brielle Grauss, the celebrated German
soprano, was born seventy-two years
ago.
If any woman ever wished to be a
queen she ought to read the life OF
Margaret of Anjou to rid herself OF
that ambition. for poor Margaret's
life was one long series of d.sappoint-
ments, struggles against poverty,
battles, murder and false accusations.
She was born 4S4 years ago today,
and was brought up in Anjou. She
was the daughter of Rene, the titular
King of Naples, and her early life was
filled with romantic dreams, sunshine
and bright prospects. From her birth
began a series of proposals of mar
riage When she was five she came
near to being married to the one
year-old prince who later became
Charles the Bold, but the project fell
through. About the time the Hundred
Years War between France and Eng
land was drawing to a close, in an
effort to end it, the statesmen of
France and England were in favor Of
choosing a French wife for their
King. So Margaret, then cookbook
ing, well-grown girl of fifteen, was
chosen, and after many delays and no
end of public rejoicing, festivities,
jousting and feasting, she was car
ried away to England to wed the
young King whom she had never
seen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23

1t was no wonder that after war
with France that had lasted hum
dred years the English were not in
clined to their lew queen, eIIIo Ii the
truth must be told the new queVi
didn't do much to win. their love. But
from the first she took a remarkably
clear interest in public affairs and
proved herself to be more capable
Of administering the government than
the king, who before many years
was stricken with fits of temporary
il sanity The wars that broke out
between the two factions who aspired
to the regency-those who wanted
Margaret for regent and those who
wanted the Duke OF York-are a mat
ter of history. In the meantime
Margaret suffered the extremes of
poverty and priyation. For five days
at time she was once forced TO feed
herself and her little son on "her-
rings without any bread" and one
day when attending mass she hadn't
a farthing for the offertory. So she
had to borrow a few coins from a
Scottish archer who stood by. Finally
she lost out in the long struggle, and
her husband was cruelty murdered
in the Tower of London, and her
young son lost his life in battle. She
herself suffered five years of cap
tivity.
At the end of that time, when she
was forty-six, the French king took
pity on her AMI redeemed her for &c.
900 crowns and the promise that she
would never lay claim to the English
CT own. She retii ed to her old home
in Anjou, where she spent the last
six years of her life in peace and
meditation
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
Lehigh valley Took Chances.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The announcement of a government
prosecution of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company has not been unex-
pected in Wall street, where q brisk
selling movement in the company s
stock has been going on for several
days, In 1911, when the plan to evade
the operation of the United States
law prohibiting the intermingling OF
mine and transportation interests was
evolved, the railroads directors had no
reason to believe that fairly friendly
forces would not remain in control of
the national administration. They
took chances. Ever since the election
of Wilson it has been clear that the
risk was unwise. Since Wilson'S in
auguration the question has been
how soon the blow would fall, not
whether it would fall at all.
The lawmakers of the nation have
decided that anthracite coal monop-
oily is intolerable, in view of the bur-
den 1t puts on the ultimate consumers
of the fuel Finding that such mu-
nopoly sprang chiefly from railroad
ownership of mines, direct or indirect,
they have enacted that no Interstate
railroad shall transport coal belong
ing to a corporation the stock OF
which 1t owns. and the affairs of
which are commingled with its own. "
The Lehigh Valley was barred from
CARRYING the product of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company. 1t decided to
form an intermediary company, the
I.ehigh Valley Coal Sales Company
to buy its subsidiary's mine products
and ship them over its own road. To
make sure of identical control with
out stock ownership 1t declared a
Sc, 900, 900 dividend out of the railroads
surplus, and announced that each of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
ToMORROW's nth DISTRICT PRIMARIES.

NEW JERSEY political interest will focus Pat
eon Passac the southern townships of Passac county,
will be decided what four political parties
April for the Congress from the Seventh
district Robert Bremner So far
lie Progressive and Socialist parties concerned the choice is
already made there is but the primary ballot of
parties eleven Republicans and FIVE
Democrats aspiring for the making unprecedented
candidates primary election for this State
The wealth of Republican ambitions shows the bright hope
gaining the realized the
Wilson administration policies
politicians will watch struggle with interest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23

"As I recall the many friends and
the pleasant acquaintance whom 1t
was my good fortune to know while
| was in public life at Washington in
the cabinets of Presidents Garfield
and Arthur, it seems to me that on
the whole the one whose memory |
cherish most is Samuel j. Kirkwood,"
said eX-Postmaster-G General Thomas
L. James to me recently when recall
ing some OF the incidents of his pub
lie life.
| had had some experience with
Kirkwood while I was postmaster OF
New York city, he at that time being
United States senator from Iowa.
continued Mr.. James. There was
something about the man that made
me think of Abraham Lincoln. 1t
was not anything in his personal APP
pearance. Kirkwood was a man of
rugged personality. His speech was as
plain as We're his features and fur
nished the same sense of strong in
dividuality. He had great mass of
ron-gray hair, heavy eyebrows and
large and at times luminous eyes.
His mouth revealed a sensitiveness
and refinement of character such as
was characteristic of Lincoln, and
there played about his lips frequently
an expression which made it clear
that he had very strong sense of
humor.
"Kirkwood could compact more
common sense and more soundness
of Judgment into a single sentence
than could any other man Of whom
ever had knowledge excepting Lin
coin. They were both sons of the prai-
ries and of the pioneers, and both had
a profound understanding and sym
pathy with the prevailing opinion of
those whom Lincoln called the plain
people,
81 did not know until the morning
of the day after Garfeld's Inaugural
ton that he intended to ask Senator
Kirkwood to enter his cabinet as sec
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
WITH THE WORLDS TOLERS

At the end of the year 1912 there
existed BIAS cooperative societies in
France.
There are 260 locals and fifteen CEN
trail bodies affiliated to the State Fed
Grafton of Missouri.
Within the last two years agricul-
tural wages in Scotland have risen
at least $50 year.
Galveston, Texas, county commits
sioners have voted in favor of EN-
ploying only union labor.
The right to strike will be taken
from the railway men of Greece I'M
der a new law.
A daily labor paper will be pub
lished by labor unions in Porto Rico.
Germany postofflce general decided
to give 5000 minor postotfices to girls.
Practically every bricklayer In
Minnesota is member of the union.
In his first annual report, Secretary
Of Labor Wilson asks Congress to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23

In the strenuous days in which we
are living, do we take time to cultl-
vate friendship?
Would we feel it a privilege to help
nurse a sick child through a long
siege of fever because the mother s
our friend, or would we save our
consciences by saying that we kno"
nothing about nursing?
The gentle sage of Concord SAID:
..The end of friendship is for aid and
comfort through all the passages Oh
life and death. 1t is fit for serene
DAYS and graceful gifts, but also for
rough roads and hard fare, poverty
and persecution"
Look about among your acqualnt-
ances and see if W tn any of them you
would be able to endure rough
roads and hard fare. poverty and per
secution.' .,.t.
If you can find one who means TINS
much to you, you are fortunate, m
deed, You not only have FRIEND,
hut you have a mind broad enough
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23

though fifty years had passed since
the poles were cut off, the old butts
were perfectly sound.
Telephone and electric companies in
the Salt Lake Valley have used the
local salt for preserving poles. When
set up, about seventy five pounds OF
salt is placed around the pole on the
ground. This method cannot be used,
however, when the pole Is on or near
lawn, or in any place where vege.
tation is desired.
1t is pointed out that the reason
why the waters of Salt Lake act as
strong preservative. as distinguished
from ocean waters, is because the lake
water is so much saltier being prac-
tically saturate solution. Preserva-
ton with salt Is of no use in ocean
piling against the attack of teredos
and other marine borers.
Experts in the forest service who
have been investigating the preserves
tive treatment of timber offer the sug-
gestion that ties and poles which
have been immersed for some time in
the waters of the lake ought to be
imperyious to decay If the salt is
not leached out by the action OF the
elements. It has been suggested that
this can be guarded against, for ex-
ample. by painting the butt of the
pole with q coat of creosote, which
will keep out the moisture and keep
in the salt
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23

pass legislation that will prevent the
interstate transportation of armed
guards in times of strikes.
On December last, the first old
age pensions, amounting to two gull
den n week, were paid by the Dutch
government to about $4,000 persons
who had reached the age of seventy
After remaining an independent or
ganization for years, the 'Longshore-
mems Union, of Portland, Me, has
voted to join the International Long
shoremen's Union affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor.
About two hundred nurserymen
employed at the two principal nur-
series in Woking, England, are on
strike for an increase of 72 cents per
week in their wages, which averages
about $40.
Houston, Texas, electrical workers
have signed a two-years' agreement
with their employers that calls for an
Immediate increase of % cents a day,
and another increase of 20 cents a
day in six months.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
Be a Symbolic, Not Parasite

the alarm when danger approaches.
The oak has fungus on its roots
which cannot take nutriment from
the soil, but 1t can take up water for
the oaks roots to drink.
The parasite is a different sort of
creature. In the flesh of man 1t
causes itch or ringworm. In the
bowles the parasite is hookworm or
tape worm. In the oak tree which has
the aid of the fungus on It's roots,
there may be mistIetoe, an unwhole-
some-looking plant with white ber-
ries. Its roots run into the oak and
such its life.
The mistletoe was q fit object of
the reverence of the parasitic Druid
priesthood, and the "love-vine" is
well named after some sorts OF love.
Are you a parasite or a symbolic?
One or the other you surely are
perhaps, in this complex life you are
both. Look society over. Try to
divide the people into parasites and
symbiotes, and help get rid of the
former-even though you be one. For
by trying to get rid of your own
parasitism you thereby become a
symbolic.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
An Unciyil War.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Ulster will fight is the cry at Bel
fast. But whom will the Ulster vol
unteers" attack? Even after the pas
| sage of the home rule bill nothing
will be changed in the political condi-
lions now prevailing. The law would
not go into effect for q year, and
meanwhile the supreme authority in
| Ulster would continue to be, as il
now, the Parliament of West
minister. A new law would be on the
statute books; but an act of Parlia-
ment cannot be fought with arms in
| hand. Physical force will not erase
| it; nor can physical force be en-
| ployed until body of men, calling
itself the government of Ireland.
| should endeavor to put the act in
effect. Such a government does not
yet exist There is nothing in sight
| for the volunteers" to fight except
the government of the United King
dom; and men who claim a mon
opoly of loyalty to the union would
surely not be guilty of treason and
rebellion.
The time for war 0f civil war could
ever be considered timely would
come only when the choice should be
| presented to Ulster of continuing in
direct allegiance to the existing
sovereignty or of submitting to what
a part of the inhabitants Of the
province would regard as an alien
government. To revolt now would be
to secede from the union. not to fight
| for it: and secession is a word of
which the Obstetrics profess to stand
| in horror. By their own account they
have been combating secession for
| thirty years. 1t IS hard to believe
that Sir Edward Carson rushed out
of the Parliament House straight TO
| Belfast for the purpose of issuing a
call to arms; it would be a more rea-
sonable assumption that he has g )ne
to call q convention, where there
| would be an opportunity to blow off
steam In an uncivil war of hot aud
Short and ugly" words; and more
liberty than could be obtained under
the rules of decorum in the House of
Commons.
This course would accord better
with the logic of the situation. Until
a year after its passage the home
rule bill would be a resolution only
and resolution would be more APP
nropriately combated with resolutions
| than with shillalahs. broomsticks or
even real guns. OF course, gore
sometimes flows at conventions; out
real rebellion in Ulster must walt
until there is a policy there from
| which the Un.onists can consistently
revolt. Until the contrary shall be
| demonstrated by actual occurrences
eae'-hoaded observers from afar may
persist in the conviction that the
threatened bloodshed in Ulster will
be nothing more than the tricklings
from broken noses and cracked heals.