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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
TIE cnesc! Which. Made Cnnkl;ng's Ranntatinn

and sound basis for the currency sys-
tom of any country, and that was
coin.
IT sometimes wish that those who
In recent years have been studying
this money question would read the
speech that Conkling delivered at the
time Congress was engaged In con-
sidering a bill for the establishment
of a national bank which was to be
privileged to issue currency whose Sc
curities were bonds of the United
States.
"He was then only little
past thirty years of age-pos
sibly thirty-three, and SPLEEN
did type of American man
hood. think that at the time of the
delivery of the speech it caused more
attention by reason of his splendid
diction and his capacity to discuss an
abstruse and somewhat dry subject
in such manner as to make what he
said of utmost interest than for any
other reason.
He was absolutely opposed to the
issue of paper money, unless behind 1T
stood coin for It's redemption. he ar
gued that the government could easily
maintain specie payments. He traced
the moveemnts of coin to and from
the treasury. He showed how it could
De uLlllZeQ over anu oNci dSdih-
think 1 am safe In saying that there
was not a citizen of Utica who was
of intelligence enough to comprehend
a speech delivered by a member of
Congress, who did not read the YER
batim report of Conkling's speech and
who did not regard his demonstration
as perfect.
well, that speech established
Conkling's reputation in Congress.
He was after that recognized as one
of the leading men of that body. But
it has been forgotten, and in the ex-
citing events of Conkling's later ca
reer the fact was overlooked, that he
became the champion of hard money
at a time when Congress was preparing
to adopt the national banking system
which permitted issues of national
bank currency that were based upon
United States bonds.
Occasionally / read my copy of
Conkling's speech, recalling what rep
utation 1t gave him, but especially
for the wonderful charm of Its liter
airy style. which is illustrated perhaps
as we'll by this speech as by any other
which he ever made"
Copyright, 1914, by f.. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
EDITORIALS OF NEARBY NEWARK

The committee, which is guided by expert from the
Bureau of Municipal Research in New York Miss
Hall gave Orange folk instructive exhibit last year
and awakened active interest in municipal ques-
tons on the part of the general public. This year
the women are disclosing information more closely
identified with the influential sphere of their sex, and
the enthusiasm manifested by health officials and
others in the efforts to the lives OF infants
and to compel dealers to furnish milk supply that
will be above suspicion, provides some compensation
to the earnest women who laboring to educate
their fellows to study closely matters of immediate
concern to the holsekeeper and her family.
The splendid activities of the Woman's Club in
this and other campaigns is an answer to carpng
critics who bemoan indifference of society
and club enthusiasts to serious matters of public
interest. .,.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
CoNp1rIoNs cREArEp BY NoN.yorERs.

significant feature of the examination by City
Clerk Minnihan of Orange names signed to the COM
mission government petition was the discovery that
nearly twenty-five per cent of the sgners who asked
the special election did not take the trouble to vote
last November. The Indifference to their duties as
citizens, by who have the sacred privilege of the
ballot for correction of governmental Ills has created
most of the Objectionable conditions existing In Amer
lean municipalities and it is matter for qualification
that some negligent voters in Orange be aroused
to take an interest in their affairs
If Orange folks had attended to their charter,
which has been shufled along by committees, but
never improved, although group of distinguished
citizens had the task in charge, and made 1t modern
instrument, Improvement to their government would
have been result But officials and citizens who
anxious to retire the present administration have
not the patience to tackle the JOB of correcting the
ancient charter and some of them are willing to
accept the statements of ambitious orators that the
commission plan, overnight, Will panacea for
the ills Of the city. ei.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
THE STATES EXPENDITURES.

Governor Fielder Is right in saying that there has
been no extravaganza In the annual State appro-
priatlons The increase in the expenditures has been
material and inevitable The truth is that the annual
appropriations stinted. The supplemental bill
bears evidence of that fact for 1t is mainly Intended
to make up the deficiencies Of the annual budget.
The State could at this time appropriate extra
ten millions and the amount would do than
to meet pressing needs There is hardly State
department institution that does not feel the need
of money and some of State institutions In
critical condition. The State Hospital at Morris
Plains is melancholy example.
But there are extravagances of administration.
The State is supporting too many salaried commits
slons and other officials who the substance that
should be given for the maintenance of the nsttu-
by the States ridiculously unbusnesslike methods,
which the bureaucracy of the State obstinately
fuses to have reformed and which the Legislature
does not reform.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
THE DEFECT IN THE INHERITANCE TAX LAW.

Governor Fielders message to the Legislature
pointing out the defect In the Inheritance law re-
Gently passed and recommending that the doubt
about the law "be removed beyond all peradyenture
confirms the statement in The Star that the law
defective Governor Fielder In his message referring
to the matter says:
IF such might be the construction OF the act 1t
has escaped the notice of the attorneygeneras office,
where it prepared, of all the lawyers who have
examined 1t on behalf of the banks safe deposits and
trust companies and of every member of the Legis-
laure well mine. 1t hardly necessary to say
that it not the intention of anyone that such a
tax should be imposed" 49,.
faulty inheritance tax passed few years ago
cost the State 100000, which had to be repaid to
estates A doubt in the law might be resolved
in the courts at the penalty of much greater loss
the State Governor Fielder did well to refer the
matter to the Legislature, notwithstanding the
opinion of the attorney general and the Legislature
was quick to act.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
VOLUME LxxxHI.-NO. 81.
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1914.
GODFREY.
JAMES SMITH, JR.

For consummate indifference to the general III
terest in important legislation as that emoodeo
I'm the Morris Canal Abandonment BILL and the 1nutia-
fion of a measure involving peoples rights and the
rights of municipalities, the attitude OF AssemDlymah
Carlton Godfrey, of Atlantic county represents su-
preme aplomb If audacity and contempt for public
opinion.
It was Godfrey who stood for the abandonment
bill and as is member of the Morris Canal lnVes-
tigation Committee which submitted the artistic and
elaborate report that has met with such criticism,
the presumption is that Godfrey more than on any
other person. colleagues relied for digent super
vision of and surveillance over the act
How faithfully Godfrey fulfilled the trust thus
reposed him is matter of history, to put IL that
way The BILL as appeared in the report of the com
mission and recommended for enactment into law, Is
not the bill introduced in the Assembly
The original draft was altered as to bestow
nearly $ 900 900 of State the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company The Newark Star detected the
dangerous alteration apparent cheat the people
and promptly exposed the deception
One of the results Is that Morris canal abandon
ment is dead for this year at least
But what of Godfrey What do his colleagues
think of him? DO they relish the action that led
Governor Fielder to remark that the commissioners
should displayed sufficient interest in their work
TO know the kind OF bill that introduced?
Godfrey In a talk yesterday, going to probe
deep into that resulted in the unauthorized
alteration the BILL and place the blame and respon
sbility where 1t belonged.
Now he says it just printers mistake and
brushes the incident aside Is the investigation,
proclaimed intention to investigate this ofense
TO be permitted to def
Is Godfrey willing to pass the matter up
of let bygones be bygones? Are the printers ready
10 submit to the reflection their ability good
antent? Does Godfrey desire investigation?
Godfrey has proved many occasions that he is
frivolous person. by far too vapid to be entrusted
9th tha dufia of law akar
He should retire from the office of Assemblyman
and step down out of public life
AS a private citizen he may be all that could be
desired.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
ADJOURNMENT AT NOON THURSDAY.

The hour set for adjournment of the Legislature
is at noon on Thursday but the session will be pro-
longed at least to midnight by the simple device of
turning back the hands of the clock. For egisa-
tive clock is infallible, if it does say while
the members watches, the position of the and
the tranquil henroosts say it is midnight
What can be accomplished before the legislative
hour for adjournment is probematica The calen-
dars of the two houses crowded and the business
to be considered includes OF the most important
bills of the session. The work accomplished last night
disappointingy small, and IL this gait Is kept up
there will be slaughter of bills at the close.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
UPLIFT TALKS
ROUND PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES
BY ORISON SWEET MARDEN,
Author Of Pushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright 1914

one-sided, incomplete, without poiss
or true symmetry. Harmonious, all.
round development cannot be at
tanned without fostering the tenderer
elements of our nature, the affections,
the sympathies, the domestic ties of
home life. 1t is the cultivation of
these that gives strength and dignity
and sweetness to character.
This unnatural straining to do great
things, often without even the germ OF
the talent or ability requisite, not only
ends In failure, as a rule, but also
brings dissatisfaction, unhappiness
and lasting discomfort. 1t is false in
principle, mischieVous in results and
fatal to the attainment of the one
thing worth striving fora perfect
character.
The young man who mistakes
false ambition for ability, failing as q
lawyer when he might succeed as
mechanic; the girl whom nature in
tended for model housekeeper trying
to earn a living. on the stage or by
writing, and vice versa; the born
orator making poor shoes; the ma
tural singer selling laces and rib
bons-these are some of the instances
of people trying to fit square pegs
into round holes,
You may be very sure, my young
lilCllOg lhdI IL SOQ w IlOl 1tti YOUR
self growing in your work and your
life broadening and deepening, IL
your task is not perpetual tonic to
you, you have not found your place.
When you have found your true call
ing, nature will not oppose your prog
ress with barriers. There will be no
straining or pulling against your in
clinations Hardships and difficult
ties will be powerless to hold you
back from the success that Is to be
yours by divine right
II your work is drudgery to you, II
you are always longing for the lunch
hour or the closing hour to release
you from the work that bores you you
may be sure that you have not found
your niche. Unless you go to your
task with greater delight than you
leave it, it belongs to some other
man.
When you have found your place,
you will know 1t. There will be no
doubt about 1t. If you are where you
belong you will be strong, resource
full, original. You will not be won.
dering all the time whether you have
found your proper sphere; you will
be sure OF it, and everybody else will
know 1t. If you are in the right
place you will be contented and hap
Ply, and at least comparatively sue.
cessful.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07

Roscoe Conkling and were sc
nearly of an age that 1t is not far
from the truth to say that we were
boys together in Utica, New York.
said the late Commodore Van SAINT
voord to me a year or two before his
death in 1901 He had been speaking
to me of the adoption OF the gold
standard by Congress in President
McKinleys administration, and the
fact that this had been done brought
to the commodore vivid recollection
of an incident in the early career
of Conkling, shortly after he entered
public life at Washington.
although our lives drifted apart"
continued the commodore, IT going
into the transportation business on
the Erie canal and the Hudson river,
and Conkling building up q law prac-
tise at Utica under the eye of Francis
Herman, who was afterward col
league of Conkling in the United
States Senate, yet we kept in some
what close personal touch. Like al
most all the citizens of Utica, l was
very proud of Conkling, and ! re-
member well the compliments which
he received for a speech which he de-
llvered when a member of the lower
house of Congress in the early years
of the Civil War.
There had been a great deal OF
discussion at that time over the cur
rency question. Specie payments had
been suspended, and the people were
trying to get along with any kind OF
currency, some of it made up Of milk
tickets or postage stamps or street.
car tickets. The people were about
ready to accept anything that would
pass current for money.
"Conkling told some of his friends
in Utica that he was apprehensive
that the government would issue pa
per currency, possibly in large
amounts, and that it was his pur-
pose to speak in opposition to the
plan at the first opportunity he had
at the next session of Congress.
only O few of Conkling's Intimate
friends knew how patient and thor
ough student he was. He was &C.
cupied every minute that he could
spare from his other duties in study
ing the currency question, both from
its historical and It's economic points
of view. He told me later that the
more he studied the question the
more convinced he became that there
was only one substantial, permanent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07

A wealthy graduate of an American
college went to Paris to study art.
After three years of hard work he
discovered that he would never make
q great artist, and then and there
made up his mind that he would
rather be a successful farmer than an
Indifferent painter. He returned to
America, and is now the happy owner
of an ideal farm of 10000 acres in
Illinois.
As truly as the key is made for the
lock, and the pillar prepared for the
socket, so has everyone been sent
into this world for a special purpose;
and our first business Is to find out
the groove we are intended to fill.
There are men trying to paint land
scapes upon canvas whose souls have
never caught the divine sense of
beauty, and who should be white
washing board fences. Many a bust
ness man detests figures, and wants
to live on q farm, while many a
farmer would give him fertile acres
gladly for the chance of the mer-
chant.
Very few people fail in life when
in the right places. The trouble
is that comparatively few people
ever find their proper inches.
There is such feverish haste to
get on in the world, such an
ambition to get rich, and that quickly,
that there is a constant temptation
and effort to keep out of one legiti-
mate sphere and to go into some
thing for which one is totally I'M
fitted A fine mechanic, for instance,
fired by some lecturer, made dissatis-
fed with his lot by the adage that
'Where there's a will there's a way
or Nothing is impossible to the man
that Wills" leaves his trade to study
law or theology, and, of course, fails.
We see people in nisfit occupations
everywhere, unhappy. Disconnected,
out of sorts with themselves and the
world, simply because they have not
found their proper spheres.
There is nothing more disastrous to
success than the wrong choice of a
life work, and yet there is a growing
tendency among youth in spite of
their frequent unfitness to enter pro-
LESSONS which the world regards with
great respect
There are some relations in life
which are dearer and more precious
than a great career. There are senti-
ments in our lives which we have no
more right to sacrifice than we have
to trample upon any of our practical
faculties. The wholly intellectual man
or woman is monstrosity, hard, cold,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
APRIL J
Stella Gilman
Copyrighted 1914.

BY MARI
The woman who opened Harvard
Irniversity to women was Steila Gll-
on She was born at Tuscaloosa,
Ala. in 1874. Her father was DaVlu
Scott, who had made large lortuhe
In the manufactures of Alabama ano
who had founded there town named
Scottsville. At the time that stella
was a girl Tuscaloosa had ALREADY De-
come the centre of an intellectual So
ciev and the seat of the State uni
versity. SO that the atmosphere III
which she was brought up was one
which prepared her for the work she
later undertook. Two of her sisters
married professors in the college
there. One of them Bishop HargroVe'
later became president OF Wander
bilt University. When Stella got 10
the college age herself she was sent
North to Ingham University, at Lee
row. N. Y, but she stayed there only
for q short time, for when the Civil
war broke out she was called home,
n remain there until it's close In 1864.
Then she went North again to take
charge of the English department in
Bradford Academy, In Massachu-
sets.
When Stella Scott was thirty-two
years old she married Arthur Gilman,
a retired New York banker, who was
interested in the subject of education
of women. Mrs. Gilman had for years
been studying the subject of collegiate
education of women. She was only
one of many who had lamented the
fact that the advantages of Harvard
University were restricted to men.
But she and her husband We're the
only ones of all these who took upon
their shoulders the responsibility of
changing the conditions. They or
ganized the Society for the Collegiate
instruction of Women--the members
of which received instruction from
the Harvard faculty. The society
was soon dubbed the Harvard annex,
and later became known as Radcliffe
College.
Mrs. Gilman. as chairman of the
students committee of the new or
ggnization. came. into close relation
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
JUSTICE pIrNEy RIGHT, BUT oyERRuLEp.

woman had about $4,000 worth of baggage
burned up in New England railroad station and a
Massachusetts, court allowed her judgment for the
full value but the United States Supreme Court says
she is entitled to only 500 because that the
panys liability limit, and 1t makes difference
whether she knew anything about the rule. This de-
cison flies directly In the face of just rendered
by the New York Court OF Appeals, but the righteous
finding Is merely the law of State and the un-
righteous one is the law of the land 1t is matter of
pride for Jerseymen that Justice Pitney, in dissent
ing opinion, makes the singing remark that this
decision varies much from anything of the kind
ever decided by this court any other court"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
Much Married Nat Goodwin Confesses
That Wives Choose Him.

DETROIT, April IA reporter, who
wanted to know the why's and why
nots OF marriage, found out yesterday
that Nat Goodwin Is in town, and he
aroused that experienced man from
his early noon slumber at the Pont-
chartrain. The actor was sleepy and
tried to change the subject, but he
finally thus held forth:
Marriages are not all alike any
more than faces are. No man can
offer anybody else any advice. A per-
son oughtnt to tell anyone how to get
married any more than an inexperi-
enced person ought to be instructed
in the way to eat an oyster. Both
matrimony and oysters are liable to
prove hard to digest.
Its no crime trying to establish a
home. Anyway, you don't pick a wife
at all. She picks you. AT least that's
what happened to me generally. The
best way to manage women, If you
ask me, is to let 'em alone"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
CbinSs IRE Gpell

You've heard men say that women folks
Should keep themselves at home.
They're meant to get the suppers, and
They have no right to roam"
The men will push the baking
And the cooking on their wives,
And some would even have them spend,
At home, their whole long lives.
OF course, exaggeration has
Crept into this bit.
But how some men feel czarlike
Is the point I'm trying to hit,
They'll claim they do the hardest work,
While wife cleans pans and lids,
Perhaps the man is dining out,
While wife tends the kids.
The whole thing in nutshell, then,
And this It's true enough,
Is that the women do their share
To keep things up to snuff.
For work is work-its sometimes nard,
But home, sweet home, is play.
What-would men do without it
When they're finished for the day?
H. M. Cochl
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
WOMEN ACTIVE IN A GOOD CAUSE.

The Civic Committee of the Woman's Club of
Orange is one of the active agencies working for
betterment of conditions in the Oranges and its
newest plan accelerate public interest in vital ques
lions is the movement to improve the milk supplies
of the community.
Supplementing its plan to bring to higher degree
of efficiency the cooperation of mothers in combat
ing infant mortality the women have also arranged
an exhibit which will be held next week in Brick
Church store and the powerful organization OF women
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07
DALLAS TO BE WORLD CITY

"Kipllng said: There is no East,
there is no West and that is Just the
way we feel in Dallas. The city of
Dallas has arisen to meet the de-
mands of a great section of growing
country. 1t is not generally known,
perhaps. that Dallas is the largest
distributing centre of agricultural
implements In the whole world; also
1t is the greatest distributing point
for saddle and leather goods in the
United states.
"Great industries are springing up
all through Texas, and Dallas is the
point to which all roads lead In
Dallas we have one of the biggest
mail order houses in this country
This house spends more than $25, 00C
month In postage. Washington
Post
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07

"rhere is city In the southwest
ern part of the United States that In
less than a generation will be one of
the largest and most important mu-
inequalities in the world" remarked
Blair Miller, a prominent lawyer of
Dallas, Tex, at the Raleigh. You
NAV guess that refer to Dallas. 1t
is a fact that since the last census
was taken Dallas has grown in popu-
lation at a greater rate than any
other city in this country. | do not
know the exact population, but 1t is
close to $4,000, and in ten years we
shall have more than 100000 This 10
not strange. Dallas, Tex, Is city
that is meeting the demands of a
great and growing section.