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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
ny HERBERT QUICK

/. It was only yesterday, as it seems
three or four years--when the world
screamed with laughter at the an
nouncement that q surgeon of the
United States Marine Hospital corps
had discovered the reason of the in
dolence and bloodlessness of millions
of people in the south.
He had discovered "the germ of
laziness," declared the jokers. The
"lazy bug was recommended for
busybodies. The newspaper-Latin for
the new germ was "Manana Dolce
farnientibus." practical men with
no nonsense about them turned over
to the baseball page, saying What
darned fools some well-educated men
are, Germ of laziness-bosh :.
Dr. Stiles, however, was not over
Whelmed by ridicule. He knew he
was right. While he had not discov-
cred the germ of laziness, he had
| found out that millions OF people in
warm climates, who were supposed TO
! be lazy, were merely sick. They had
! blood-sucking worms chewing the
! coats of their bowels.
The Rockefeller sanitary commits
sion, with headquarters at Washing
ton. was organized for the purpose OF
curing people by education first, and
second by helping them to get treat
ment by the very simple and mex
pensiVe remedy discovered by the
much -laughed-at DR. Stiles.
The results have been amazing. Al
through the year 1918 people in our
| Southern states were examined at tho
rate of 1.500 a day Over 900 day
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
A Bad Trust Dead.

From the New York Times.
1t is our pleasure and duty to an
nounce the death of a trust by nat
ural means. 1t is unnecessary to say
why it is a pleasure, for all rejoice at
the death of a combination in re
straint of trade. 1t is our duty be-
cause it is such little while ago that
we gave publicity to the henious
doings of this particular trust. and
called the attention of the Washing
ton prosecutors to their duty to slay
it.
Its name is the Southern States Cot
ton Corporation. It's purpose was to
raise the cotton to Is cents by holding
ii at the fixed price until ready to
sell it. Nothing could be palmer than
the intention to restrain commerce by
starving the mills into the necessity
of paying what the owners OF the
property demanded. Only such
short time ago, and now what diff
ference! The corporation alleged that
it had unlimited resources to support
the combination of the planters in
their benevolent purpose to line their
pockets by making cotton too dear to
spin or to wear except by the wealthy.
But it did not pay for the cotton
which it bought under pretext OF hold
ing it for the conspirator planters.
and now it has been petitioned into
involuntary bankruptcy.
After all, that is one way with. a
trust, and not so bad a one. There
are those who contend that under
modern conditions the trusts must be
good to survive, and that bad trusts
die, like this one, by natural process.
1t is not necessary to place too much
reliance upon this theory. but it is
Dlain that those which die in this way
are very dead, and not such lively
corpses as those trusts which undergo
dissolution in the Washington man
Dpr
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Curious New England Financial Transaction

post to his credit, so that he could
check against it, what good would
the loan do him if he was unable to
make use of these bank bills for
three months?
1.-THE bank officer told him Just
what could be done. He said: You
take the bills of this bank. amount
ing to $4,000, to Boston and then go
to certain note broker whose name
] will give YOU, and ask him if he
will discount your note for 1000
provided you offer him as security
the $4,000 in the bills of our bank
"Well. the merchant did this. He
took the $4,000 in bills of that bank
to Boston and put up the money as
, security for loan of &c. 900 made by
the note broker.
Furthermore. tho broker told him
that he needn't bother about paying
the note when it became due. because
the ten thousand dollars which had
been deposited with him as security
would he sufficient to pay off the
notes OF course, he would have to
| take up the note which he gave to his
bank.
After the negotiation was finished
and he got his money from the broker
| he asked for an explanation of that
very peculiar transaction. I want to
say to you, Mr.. Scranton said. that
this was before the national banks
were established. The broker said 1t
was all very simple. The bank in
Maine had issued to him ten thousand
dollars of it's own bills II those bills
went Immediately into circulation
! they would be presented for redemp-
| ton within n few days at the central
redemption bank at Boston, in which
the New England State bank notes
We're redeemed. But IL these bank
! bills could be kept out of circulation
during the life of the note drawn by
/ the merchant for discount that would
he so much to the advantage of the
bank in Maine. For il would not need
TO furnish the specie for the redenlp-
ton of these bills. amounting to ter
thousand dollars, until three months
had passed.
81 was told that after this transac-
ton other banks in Maine OCCASIONAL
ly followed the very shrewd method
adopted in the case I have just de-
scribed to YOU
Copyright. 1914, by e. j. Edwards
All rights rcserNed.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
KING FOUGHT HIGH PRICES

Much interesting data of the cost OF
living in olden times are availaole IN
an ancient volume, "Chron1con FREE
ciosIm. or An Account of English
money. the Price of Corn and other
Commodities for the Last 800 Years.
THE book was published in lI01 al
London, having been Printed TOT
Charles Harper, at the FIower-de-
luce, over against Saint Dunstans
church in Fleet street"
THE writer recites that in the early
part of the twelfth century the king
made tributes optional with his sub
iects and, instead of stalled OK as
specified in leases to tenantry, the
farmer might pay one shilling ana
the debt would be adjusted In the
same century hens are quoted at SIX
pence a dozen.
Money was scarce in 1886 and bears
on the English grain market beat the
price down to three pence bushel
Twelve years later pestilence came
and horses sold for six or seven shil-
lings, while good OK could be had TOT
four shillings.
Labor as an item of cost is not en-
tered until the fifteenth century. In
1425 it appears that man plowlng
twelve days received wage OF one
shilling for the whole service.
Stonecutters were better paid, ana
in four DAYS a craftsman earned the
more munificent sum of one shilling
and four hence. OF this period the
author writes: "You may, therefore,
very reasonably conclude that about
that time O. single man might 1--we
cleanly and decently, with good mans
apement, with five pounds per an
num-" about $25.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09

At the time of the financial and
banking panic in the fall of 1873
was chatting one afternoon with Il.
S. Scranton, banker of New Haven,
Conn, and u member of a family
distinguished as ftnanciers, industrial
leaders and railroad authorities. One
of that family built and for years
operated what is now a vital part of
the New Haven railroad system,
stretching from New Haven to New
London, Conn.
Another was for many years presi-
dent of the New York. New Haven
and Hartford railroad, and it was
due to the energy and business
craftsmanship of another member OF
the family that the industrial COM
munity which received its name
Scranton-from the founder was in
stituted and developed.
Mr.. scranton was speaking TO me
of the queer shifts men who wanted
10 borrow money at a time of panic
sometimes make in the way of offer
ing collateral security for loans.
We're the securities to be accepted, he
said. many of the banks would have
the appearance OF pawnbrokers
shops.
II was told recently" MIR. Scranton
continued, "of what / think was the
most remarkable security ever offered
for loan. 1t was absolutely perfect
security. It's value could not ot
questioned. and there was no need
of giving expert opinion about the
Inherent value of the security. 1t told
the story of that value on its face
and the man who offered the security
got the loan without question
81 will repeat the story to you ms
nearly as | recollect it. A manufac-
turer in a town near Lewiston, Me-
went to his bank and asked for q dis
count of a note OF $4,000. The mans
credit was excellent and his business
was of good repu-, The bank Off
GERS said 20 aim:
1--WE will discount YOUR note upor
two conditlons-first, that you accept
the money in the form of the notes
of this bank and withdraw 1T all i'm
mediately. and. second, that you dc
not use these notes until the life OF
YOUR own note has expired
''That seemed 10 be a queer sort oil
offer, for even though he took the
money in cash from the bank in
stead OF allowing it to remain on de
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Magdalena Bay Is Only a Bogie

and even the opportunity of setting
up in business.
This is not political scheming aimed
to the undoing of other nations; it is
the natural working out of the fun
damental idea of social and govern
mental organization. From this point
of view, 1t is as natural that the
Japanese government should be in
terested in its shipping enterprises
as in any other branch of national
development. Only g complete ignor-
ance of the fundamentals of domestic
civilization can excuse writer or q
public speaker for considering this
interest in shipping to be hostile
political plotting directed against the
United States. Japan has a perfect
right to her system, and curiously
enough the whole trend of the blind
movements taking place in Europe
and America is actually in the direct.
ton of this system!
Magdalena Bay is NOT a menace!
Japanese shipping lines have a per-
feet right to terminal facilities. Few
Americans realize that Japan is one
of the greatest commercial nations In
the world; her lines of steamers are
surpassed only by those of England
and Germany And it is as natural
that Japan, an island empire, should
be a great shipping nation as it is
that Great Britain, an island king
dom, should be so.
Japan is driven to manufactures
trade, and shipping as inevitably
as Great Britain was. The fact that
the Japanes government is interested
in the shipping lines does not make
their efforts to secure terminal con-
veniences a political plotting.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
BY PROFESSORS FREDERICK STARR

BY PROFESSOR FREDERICK STARR
We have heard great deal about
Japanese plotting with Mexico in
connection with Magdalena Bay
Senator Lodge and others turned
suspicion into accusation, and states
men of the Hobson type talked about
our unpreparedness for war and
made desperate appeals for great
army. Undoubtedly the Japanese
steamship company wanted footing
in Magdalena Bay, but the delicate
point of course is the fact that the
Japanese government is said to be a
partner in the shipping company.
There is a certain amount of truth in
the claim. but 1t counts for little.
Japan and China are domestic"
civilizations. The fact that they are
such is the secret of their long ex-
istence. The fundamental idea of
domestic civilization" is the subor-
dination of the individual to the
group; Japan and China have existed
with their teeming populations only
because of this altruistic principle.
In Japan the people endure what
we would consider a heavy weight of
taxation, not only without outbreak,
but without suffering, because their
government returns to the taxed pop
ulation far more than ours does. 1t
carries nails for the citizens. 1t
conducts the telegraph and tele-
phones, the railways and irrigation
systems and other enterprises; it en-
courages emigration from crowded
districts into scantily settled ones,
and supplies the emigrant not only
with transportation, but with tools.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
TAXING THE CABARET SHOW.

CABARET AND vaudeville shows in restaurants taking
patronage from the regular show The latter
licenses for the privilege while cabaret and vaudeville
These entertainments platforms and in
of the the performances complete the
regular shows Wherefore the city of Philadelphia has
license fee of $780,
the the regulars
This step alike just and busncsslke. If ii fair to
devoted only vaudeville tax it certainly
unfair also place which combines the and
gives kind of entertainment and gets its
from the diners attracted to
place There is little of this business in Newark
great deal Of in New York that be made 10
contribute the ctys
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Bright Outlook for Maple sugar.

Bright Outlook for Maple sugar.
From the Boston Transcript.
This is the time when the fortunate
possessors of sugar maple orchards
are marshalling them into service.
The season for this industry is said to
be opening auspiciously. 1t has been
languishing somewhat in recent years,
primarily because so many of the
stalwart trees have gone into wood
and charcoal, and incidentally because
the developments Of spring have un-
dergone an apparent change. We do
not seem to enter upon it by the same
regular gradationS as formerly. A
mild March in which the sap dries up
may be succeeded by a boisteTous
April. but the conditions at present
are more promising. The frost has
gone deep into the ground, and a
gradual release of the sweet blood of
the maple will give us a compare
lively bountiful crop. The nightly
stiffening of the ground, followed by
the days thaW. means a free flow,
and the sugar bushes will be inter-
esting camps for the next three or
four weeks. This will be especially
true of Maine, Vermont and New
Hampshire, and to a less degree of
though there was q
time when the western part of the
state flowed with this delectable sweet
in quantities that were very appre-
ciable factors In rural incomes. Once
maple sugar and maple syrup made
the farmer independent of the grocer
for his domestic sweetening. Now it
has become more or less a luxury for
all classes. 1t is. getting about as
scarce as the real old fashioned buck
wheat cakes, such as our mothers
used to make.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

in effect in forty states the District
of Columbia and Porto Rico.
; The average weekly pay of the
American worker is about $40.
Stone Mounters' International
Union pays its president 50, 700 a year.
In every German city of $4,000 IN
habitants there Is established a work
ing mans hotel, or exchange, where
he can make himself at home. and
where, when he is out of employment,
ho can register for a position. These
headquarters are in constant COM
municatioE with other such institu-
tons and with firms and manufactur-
ing plants, who, when they are in
need OF hands, make application TO
han
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09

From Engineering and Mining Journal.
There are now distinct signs of re-
vival in business and in confidence In
this country. Money has become re-
markably easier and railway and IN
dustrial companies are able to do the
financing that they need to- The
steel corporal ton is once more show
ing increases in untitled orders. The
number of iron furnaces in blast is
increasing. The number of idle rail-
way cars is decreasing. Even the
copper manufacturers are talking
with more optimism.
With regard to the prospects for
copper, we have repeatedly seen the
market to move just opposite to what
the statistics have indicated it ought
to do. About the end of 1911 the price
rose when the statistics were bad.
In 1918 it fell when the statistics
were good. The explanation of these
paradoxes is that when statistics and
sentiment are opposed, the wisest
traders disregard the statistics and
act according to the trend of senti-
ment. In 1918 statistics were good,
but sentiment was bad. In 1914 sta
tistics are still good, and sentiment
appears to be becoming good. Hence.
the expectation of rise in the metal
that is entertained in well informed
quarters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Argument for Social Centre

The speaker was John L. Sullivan,
the greatest fighting man that ever
lived-"Sully at fifty-five. with the
healthy look of a three-year-old baby,
the result of exercise, simple food,
early to bed and nine years freedom
from booze
Drinking is all right in it's place,
understand, I'm no moralizer. But
the young fellow that passes it up
he's the guy that gets along"
Take it from yours truly, John
L." he knows. John Barleycorn is
the only fighter who ever came near
getting the decision over him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
EXPRESS COMPANY WIDOWS AND ORPHANS

LARGE majority stock interest in the United States Ex
Company by the Hartman Mrs Hartman
the of this $S0000O00 widow and has children
Therefore the plea be teauly that the parcels
forcing the express company liquidation compelling the
stockholders sacrifice their stock price 20
than bitter wrong the widows and orphans
How this large of stock acquired by Hartman
who railroad wizard held the express interests his mercy
and how much of the profits included the
Hartman estate tell. All the
of the company interests stand and shed real
in telling of the the express company and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09

Lotteries were not always consid-
cred as an evil in this State, and the
time was when both churches and the
resorted to games of
chance to raise the funds to erect
and maintain buildings. In 1885,
the House of Assembly authorized the
Elizabeth Town and New Brunswick
church lottery to secure funds to
ward finishing "a building erected by
the PRESBYTERIAN congregation III
Elizabeth Town" The project was
launched and in three years 1885 had
been raised This amount was re-
garded as very satisfactory. In fact,
the success of the plan led the Bor-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Little Stories of New Jersey
BY ARTHUR e. WARNER.

ough Corporation of Elizabeth Town
to obtain a grant to raise $500 pounds
for rebuilding the courthouse and
gaol and finishing the academy"
which had been used by the United
States troops during the war and
later burned by the British when they
raided that city.
The lottery was organized in $780,
and 1890 tickets being issued. OF
this number, 7,472 were to draw prizes
which ranged from 80 to $780, Con-
siderable money was raised, but II
was evidently not as satisfactorily
conducted as the church lottery, for
there were many disputes regarding
the awar ling of prizes.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09

Then there's RUDE Waddell, with q
wing once as cunning as Sully's fist
He, "broke" and dying at an age
when most men are just beginning to
live, utters the same expert counsel;
Keep away from it; the boozell get
you if you don't watch OUT
The other day the boss of San
Francisco's down and out" wood
yard. before whom 1900 homeless sim.
gle men had at one time or another
passed in review, told an unemploy-
ment conference the result of his
studies.
Another argument for the social
centre.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09

Tennessee will amend the child la
nor law so as 10 prohibit night work.
Railway employees throughout Italy
are demanding substantial wage in
crease.
Powder and High Explosive Work
ers' International issued almost 2,000,-
900 union labels last year.
Nearly 80 per cent. of the factory
employees of New York city work I'M
der an hight hour schedule.
Spain has but four trade unionists
to every thousand Inhabitants.
The fourteen-year age limit for the
employment Of children in factories Is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
TIME TO WRITE TO THE CONGRESSMAN

IF EVER a time when every American citizen
should write his congressman The
Washington living in tainted atmosphere He has lost much of
his touch with the people he He is amid influences
that impair his of duty He pays attention the sent
his district unless it is sharply thrust upon him. He
oge that he merely representative of the wishes of those
The daily mails of congressman should
Meighty with letters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

desire to show an interesting sen
sitiveness and timidity and to give
rescuing man a chance To- show his
superiority. There must be something
more to it than that, however, for
not a few women, even when quite
alone as this one was, manifest al
most convincing indication of this
fear. perhaps not the less real be-
cause so unnecessary,
Apparently the fear is instructive.
but nothing in ancestral history ex-
plains the instinct, since in the line
of mothers running back through the
troglodytes to merely anthropoid
forebears, never a one was devoured
by a mouse, and not more than half q
dozen in all can have been bitten by
one And instincts are not so easily
made.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Too Many Books Published.
the Rochester Post Express.

rom the Rochester GOSI- Express
The head of the firm of Doubleday.
Page d Co, New York publishers, re-
Gently announced that he was plan
ming to secure the cooperation of all
American publishers in a movement
to reduce the number of books
brought out every year. He declared
that the reading public was confused
by the choice of so many books. most
of which they were able to judge only
by the titles, while the publishers
were put to large expense in bringing
out a score or more of books of which
not more than two or three prove
successful enough to pay for the cost
of production. On this subject George
P. Brett. the head of Macmillan Com
pany, adds a few authoritative words
He says that, although the number of
novels issued every year by American
publishers is constantly increasing,
there is no appreciable increase in
the number of readers of fiction. He
attributes this largely to the fact that
in recent years books have ceased to
occupy any material part in conversa-
ton among cultivated persons. On
this point he says:
Some years ago the publishers
task was happier and easier one. for
then there were, in considerable num-
bers, among the general public, book
lovers whose chief delight consisted
in the discovery of the new author
and the new book of merit. The dis
coverer would tell all his friends of
his find to the great advantage of
the publisher and author. Many a
dinner table in those days was made
pleasant by such bookish talk. 1t is,
alas, very rare today. The late Gold
win smith. the last time the writer
saw him in New York, remarked that
he had not heard a book mentioned
at dinner table for several years"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Feminine Fear of Mice.
Tho Nav York Times


Once more there is excuse for ask
ing how much of sincerity there is
in the fear of mice to which so many
women give such vehement express
sion. A night telephone operator over
in New Jersey saw one of the little
creatures steal out on the floor of the
room in which she was keeping her
lonely vigil, and, though his attack
was not on her, but on the crumbs
of her luncheon. she promptly faint
ed. On recovery she rushed into a
closet, where she was imprisoned till
morning by the spring catch on the
hastily slammed door. Meanwhile all
efforts to call central were vain,
and the snow storm received many
undeserved objurgations.
Yet this young woman. like all
others, knows that mice are perfect
ly harmless-that they never did hurt
anybody and never will.
The wicked suggestion has been
made that feminine outeries on the
appearance of mice are mere
fashion or habit, inveterate now, but
originating in nothing better than q