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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
THE CASE OF NUTTING.

To the aspiring and ambitious young man who
takes to political life for Advancement toward the goal
of pecuniary gain, sought by and reached by
SO few the policy of Assembyman Charles A. Nuttng
is commended, not just the notion strikes the
asplrant. Twice has the Caldwell genius been helped
Ito seat in the lower house of the Legislature while
battling under the of the organization wing of
the Essex county democracy He of the
preferred candidates it seems
Last year, he was the beiligerent, uncompromising
and persistent foe of John A. Matthews, who had
also been elevated to fame by regular organization
support, but who, Nuttng himself forcibly ex-
pressed various occasions "back-sd" in expec-
tation promise of reward. II a of won
der how Nutting restrained from demolishing
Matthewss anatomy and making meal Of 1t.
That will suffice for the condition of short year
ago. This year Nutting changed his tactics. He
seemed to have reason. At every opportunity he
displayed eagerness break from the old fold and
to "cudde up" to Governor Fielder. particularly
the bank tax bill On turning tail, he lamented that
concerned, was sealed and kept whining about
the sacrifice he making in deserving his former
friends That there deep purpose in his thus
emphasizing his self-sacrifce apparent
Nutting finds that II republics ungratefu,
governors not.
Nutting yesterday named as riparian commits
sioner for fve-year term at $500 annual salary
There is balm and panacea for his lacerated
feelings the great sacrifice he made. He gets good
job and has the qualification of beating his quondam
arch enemy Matthews to reward for faithfuness to
the reward-giving power.
OF Nutting will not be candidate for State
Senator that he is placed.
what does all this mean?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
Little Editorials
by the People
Choice of Winthrop NJ. Daniels

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir-As former resident of
Newark. I sometimes see copies of
The Star. In one of your recent issues
you have an article headed, wide
Criticism of the Choice of Mr.. DAN
lels." l have nothing to say as re-
CARDS the politics" of this article,
but know you will be glad to be cor
rected on a false impression which
think is conveyed by one statement
you made.
In the sixth paragraph you refer to
the application of the railroads In the
official classification territory (gener-
ally speaking, east of the Mississippi
and north of the Potomac and Ohio
rlvers) for a per cent increase in
freight rates. In the next paragraph
you speak of admissions wrung from
the leading railroad presidents of the
country that the year 1918 was the
most prosperous year in railroad his
tory, except 1910. If you will check
up the Interstate Commerce Com
mission records in the matter, | be-
lieve you will find that the per cent
of dividends paid in 1913 was less
than In 1912.
Yours very truly,
r. M. VAN SAINT.
Baltimore. Md, April s, 1914.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
Irrigation Development at Standstill in 1913

The year 1918 was a period of al
most complete stagnation In irriga-
ton development" No new works of
any size have been begun, and of
those already under way only such as
are completely financed have been
carried forward. SO we are told by
George G.. Anderson, the Denver en-
gineer, in an article on the Status
of Irrigation Development contr.but-
ed to the Engineering Record. New
York, The reasons for this stagna-
ton, he says, are general hesitation
to embark in any new industrial en-
terprise and distrust OF irrigation Sc
curities in particular, due to an inc
vitable reaction. This reaction, after
a full. decade of feverish activity"
has now set in with vengeance, be-
ginning really in the latter part of
1912, and assuming full sway in the
twe.Yemonth Just past. The situa-
ton, we are told demands "readjust-
ments in the arid regions, legislation
to prevent unsound ventures and set
tlement of pending water right con-
troversies. We read:
THE present conditions are not due
solely 10 the pricked bubble of imma-
ture or impossible enterprises. much
as they have contributed to the re-
all efforts at reclamation by irrigation
or even the most attractive and COM
mercially sound enterprises, there
must come non-reVenue- producing
or insufficient-r producing pc
rod, consequent upon the necessarily
large expenditures. In fact, the COM
mercially sound enterprises are, per-
haps, most acutely affected.
This is no new condition Every
preceding effort at the agricultural
development of the West, extending
over fully fifty years, encountered 1t,
and conquered it, If at all, by the slow
process of the years and the gradual
evolution of special farming class.
= In this, as in other relations
of life, the new generation has been
prone either to ignore or to despise
the experience of the past, only to
find itself compelled to retrace its
steps much in the same line as did its
predecessors.
"A generation ago that meant al
most complete reorganization, q re-
duction of capital investment and.
reimbursement of the enterprises them
selves to the actual growth of rural
population and. to the requirements
of these new communities. 1t would
seem that similar policies must be
pursued at the present time for fur
ther advancement in irrigation de-
velopment
1.-The experience of the United
states reclamation service amply in
dicates that such reorganization and
readjustment are inevitable. Initiated
ten years ago on a program that su-
perfcially indicated the return of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
GRANGER PREACHING AND PRACTISE.

How to Keep the Boys and Girls the Farm
Is the topic for discussion at the spring meeting of
the Gloucester Changers One way is to that the
school hours spent in modern, attractive and
welventilated schoohouse such their city
enjoy But that Is not the kind of schoolhouse which
South Jersey granger parsmony is willing to pay for,
and Gloucester county continues to send to the Legs
lature who stand for the little red schoohouse
The grangers. with their horny hands In their pockets
may continue indefinitely debating ways to keep the
boys and girls the FARMS but they will fit to the
cities Just the get educational advantages as
long the farmers persist in their hostility to decent
school facilities in their sections
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10

moneys expended within a period of
ten years, thus creating a 'revolv-
ing fund making possible the con-
tinued extension of governmental aid
IN reclamation by use of distinctly
limited expenditure, the returns so
far have been entirely negligible.
Apart altogether from the considera-
ton of some injudicious expenditures
and expenditures on single enter
prlses greater than could possibly
nave been returned within q specified
time, the serious difficulties confront.
ing the operations Of the reclamation
service are the sparse settlement If
completed enterprises, the inability OF
these to meet the expenses of oper-
atlon and maintenance-to say moth
ing OF returning the capital expen+
diture-and, as serious as any other
feature, the ignorance of such seta
tiers of all the conditions of irriga-
ton farming"
But this is not all The "back-to-
the-land movement" has had a set
back, Mr.. Anderson thinks There
is, ne says, Strongly marked de-
cine IN the movement to the land"
attributable largely to the general re-
luctance to embark on new ventures.
The immediate result will probably
involve heavy loss of investments al
ready made, postponement of further
Investment and increased caution in
thoroughly legitimate enterprises.
Inc writer, as quoted by the Literary
Digest, goes on to. say:
TO better insure the capitalist and
home-builder alike many conditions
can be materially improved in the
period of inactivity in construction
which has set in. Legislation clear
ing away most of the anomalies sur
rounding the business, both for can
ltailst and homeseeker, Is urgently re-
CURED throughout the arid region.
not the least important of which
should be the rigid regulation and
control by State authorities of at
tempts to build up such enterprises
IN districts wherein there are no adj
equate waters, even though that may
seem TO be tardy closing of the
door after the horse has been stolen.
More extended and accurate n.y.
geographic information Is essential
TO further development, and should
be secured alike by national and State
bureaus. Increasingly better meth
ods IN the use of water by the con-
sumer have to be evolved, even IL
carried TO the extent of reducing
rights now apparently vested but not
adequately used or actually benefi-
ciaL
Most important of all. perhaps,
Is the speedy, satisfactory and decis-
i've termination of all disputes among
states over the use of water. In the
States themselves controversies be-
tween the government and the water
user must be terminated"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
Where Days Are Unbearably
Hot, and Nights Freezing

That distinguished astronomer, the
Able Moreaux, director of the obser-
vatory of Bourges, France, has pub
lished an intensely interesting book
called "A Day on the Moon" In this
he describes in the light of the latest
astronomical research just what a
man would see on the moon, says the
Salt Lake Tribune. He states that
il ever~there should be a man on the
moon he would have a very hard
life.
If you be an airman flying, say,
sixtytwo and a half miles an hour,
you could cover the 23S,s3 miles in
about 100 days of nonstop flight. ION
the day when men have at their dis
posal an explosive material powerful
enough to give to a shell an initial
velocity OF twelve kilometers (seven
and one-half miles per second) the
shell shot into the air would never
come back to earth. The so-called
civilized nations could then find in
the exercise of shooting the moon,
strong counter attraction to the
folly of mutually bombarding each
other"
AS to mans progress toward his
planets suburban neighbor. there are
many obstacles. "At about six miles
above the surface of the earth respi-
ration becomes painful; at about
twelve miles the air is so rarified that
no animal worthy of the name could
live there, even for the briefest mo-
ment."
Even suppose the Journey were pos
sible, what would be the reward?
Things strange, certainly, but insup-
portable. There is no dawn to herald
sunrise on the moon, but there is the
zodiacal light, ten times more bril-
liant than with us. ''For a few min
utes the chromosphere is in sight.
Then, all of a sudden, blue
rays of light, so strong that the eye
| cannot endure them, dart from the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1914
THE RECORD OF THE SESSION.

Tho one hundred and thirty-eighth Legislature of
New Jersey adjourned yesterday after session
which was productive of only one scandal of Which
the Legislature was innocent the attempt to effect
n wholesale swinde of the State by forgery In the
Morris canal bill The prompt extingushment OF the
bill introduced showed the sense OF the Legislature
of this criminal we'll its estimate OF the nVes
eating committee which protested It's ignorance OF the
character of a bill the committee had indorsed ana
championed
The session was remarkable for what II did
not do than for actual performance II did not pass
the economy and efficiency bills that would have
saved the State at least $4,000 annually. For this
failure the Republican minority was mainly respon-
sible and cannot shirk the blame by any specious
pretexts Only revenue bill was passed. but the
proposition to make second raid on the public school
moneys Of the counties was defeated, and for tnat
much thanks The passage OF the bill compelling the
safeguarding of the hundreds of exposed railroad
grade crossings in the State was alone worth the
whole session. The inheritance tax law was another
great gift the State. The new law will be one OF
the most important sources of treasury income ana
1t has come to stay.
The bank bill is revenue measure for the coun-
ties and municipalities only, and 1t Is an experiment
as yet doubtful to the future income under the
act The North Jersey counties were shielded from
the absurd bridge commission plan for grossly IN
equitable tax their ratables to pay for Hudson
river bridge Governor Fielder will say in his state
ment that no bad bills his knowledge, were passed
during the session, but If executive interest and
energy had been put behind one good bill 1t might
not have been srangled in the Senate The fish bill,
introduced by Assemblyman Byrne was both con-
servation and revenue measure of the greatest I'M
portance. 1t proposed to give the State splendid
annual revenue and at the same time give cheaper
fish to the people. governor who should procure
the enactment of such bill would be remembered
gratefully when he died public benefactor
But the legislative record is made up and the
Democratic party will go before the people with 1t In
the fall campaign. II would be we'll If 1t better,
but 1t is gratifying know that, while there were
sins of omission, there sins of commission
and no bad laws for the State to regret
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
m APPREHENSION OF RoosEyELrs RETURN.

One great for the precipitate haste of the
administration to jam the canal tolls repeal
through the Senate apprehension of the return of
Roosevelt the United States and the ringing call to
the nation which he would send out soon as he
lands.
Late dispatches say that the former President will
sa in May for home. He may then reach New York
early in June The hearings by the Senate committee
will last fifteen days, and the committee will take
several days to report
Probably the Senate debate will not begin before
May l. and it cannot be strangled into twenty hours
or twenty days There will be time for the bugle
blast of the man who made the Panama canal pos
sib1e to be heard.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10

BY MARY
April 10 is remarkable as the birth
day of three famous women, Eliza
beth Moulton, Fanny Davenport and
Hortense, the daughter by her first
husband of Empress Josephine, the
wife of Napoleon. Hortense spent her
girlhood at the court Of her great
stepfather, the Emperor. and here she
was the object of great admiration.
She is described as beautiful, in spite
of her long, protruding teeth, which
rather spoiled the shape of her
mouth. Such imperfections of fea-
lures as this some time make a face
more attractive in the eyes of the dis
eliminating French, and apparently
this was the case with Hortense. She
had lovely blue eyes and light hair,
with matchless complexion. She
was married when she was nineteen
to Louis Bonaparte. q brother of her
stepfather, who later became King
CT Holland. Hortense heartily de-
spised her husband and wept through
the marriage ceremony. Later, when
she was forced to leave her beloved
Paris to go to Holland to be Queen,
she was utterly miserable. and lived
in state of detection on account of
the IOHS Ol the country over WHICH
her husband had been appointed to
be King. She left her husband after
eight years of unhappiness and went
back to Paris.
Fanny Davenport was born in Lon
don, opposite the British Museum,
siXty-four years ago today. She was
brought to this country when she was
four years old, and made her first
appearance four years later with her
father and mother. On this occasion
the whole cast sang THE Star Span
gled Banner and she stood beside
her father and mother and held the
American nag. From that day forth
her career as successful actress
seemed to be assured.
Elizabeth Moulton, the American
writer. is noted chiefly for her
book of sketches and essays,
called This, That and the Other
Thing" which sold to the extent OF
10000 copies, and for her Bedtime
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10


Finding Jobs for the Unemployed.
From the Review OF Reviews.
Germany, with her well-organized
system of labor exchanges. Is bring
ing the manless job and the jobless
man together Likewise England,
with her more recently established
chain Of labor exchanges is acquiring
a fairly definite knowledge of the
number of jobs available: of their
nature and their location; of the num-
Der of men out of work; of the kind
of work they can perform. Not only
is this information published. but
England is advancing the transporta-
ton of the jobless man to the man
less job. Likewise other foreign ooun-
tries have provided systems of insur-
ance against unemployment.
Denmark has worked out a very
successful system on the contributory
basis, the members of the union, the
community and the State contributing
to the fund. This plan is now beyond
the experimental stage and has been
developed according to scientific prin-
ciples, Similar progress has been
made looking toward the regulariza-
ton of employment in certain So
called seasonal industries. In Eng
land one of the most irregular of &C.
equations, that of the 'longshoreman,
has been converted into a fairly reg
ular employment. Some progress In
this direction has been made in the
United States
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
ODD FOREST CREATURES

san Francisco and was quite plenti-
"1rhe California woodchuck has been
traced by the museum to Mount Whit
ney, the highest altitude at which
evidence has been found of any wild
animal.
"a curious creature is the mountain
beaver. 1t has changed little. in the
i 600. 600 years that the horse has
developed from small three-toed
animal. This beaver is related to no
other living animal in any close sense.
1t is itself fast on the way to ex-
tinction. The coney has a similar
history 1t lives in almost iIiaccessi-
BILE heights of the Sierras and collects
heritage, which it dries for winter
food. It, too, has been outdistanced
in the evolutionary course, being
crowded to the high mountain tops.
1.-THE big-horned sheep of the desert
is likewise a strange beast. 1t feeds
on dry twigs and does not need water.
If spring is handy. it drinks. If not
convenient, it gets along on three
drinks a month. 1t can go on with
out d. linking water at all. An exl
petition from the museum discovered
an entirely new species of sheep OF
the eastern Sierras some time ago.
1.-THE prong-horned antelope sup
piled the cheapest meat to San Fran.
cisco in 1857. Now it is nearly gone
1.-THE skunk is supposed to be harm
full, but government figures show 1t
is valuable animal to the farmer as
we'll as to the furrier.
"The bat also does great good In
devouring insects. The mastiff bat,
found south of Fresno, Is four to six
inches long" 5a-
The speaker also dwelt at some
length on the kangaroo rat, which
builds its nest of sticks, stones, bones
seed pods, or whatever else may be
found, calling attention to the fact
that one of the distinctive features
Of the animal was that 1t never
drinks water, Its sole food being dry
weed seeds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10

positions of national distinction" So
asserts DR.. Frederick Adams Woods,
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, In the latest Popular Sci
ence Monthly. His method of arriv-
ing at the conclusion may be Illus
trated by its application to this city.
If the fifty commonest names In New
York are arranged in the order In
which they are most common on the
other side of the Atlantic, he ex-
plains, 10 of them will fall to Eng
land and Wales, s to Scotland and is
to Ireland, while are characteristic
cally German or Jewish" Now these
10 English or Welsh furnish 16S names
in who's Who" The 8 Scotch fur
nish 81, the Is Irish 81 the 8 German
or Jewish only IL. THUS it appears, F."
comments DIR. Woods, that while
the Irish and Jewish element in New
York may control politics and the
wholesale and retail trade, they have
not often risen to high positions"
In Chicago, eighteen English names
furnish fifty-nine distinguished indi-
viduals, seven Scotch names twenty
four and eleven Irish names eleven.
The twelve German, Jewish, Scandi-
navian or other common names fur
nish none One Is not surprised to
iulu bIldI OF the nIty cOmmOneSt
names In Philadelphia the thirty-two
characteristically English have q to-
tai of eighty-six distinguished per-
sons, while the eighteen non English
muster but seven. For Boston, how
ever, "the facts are a little startling.
1t seems almost unbelievable that
tho Irish, making up more than half
the population of the city, many of
whom represent the second and third
generation can furnish only
about two dozen persons entitled to
national recognition" Yet, of the
fifty commonest names in Boston
found in who's Who" those of
Anglo-Saxon origin total sixty-four
distinguished representatives. those
of Celtic origin only five DR.. Woods
recognizes that Anglicization some
times changes names of nom English
origin, but does not believe that 1t
materially affects his conclusion. He
may be overconfident upon this point,
and in any case 1t is to be noted that
his method of limiting himself to the
fifty commonest names results In the
omission OF man like Rabbi Hlrsch,
az Chicago.
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Booze and the Muse.

From the Indianapolis News.
1t was a punster of half century
ago who announced the discovery
that 1t was not strong drink, but 1T y
that made Poe a poet. While this
little pleasantly was accepted with
out serious opposition, the opinion
was vet held by some that a stronger
libation was required to rouse the
dormant muse and give 1t proper ac-
ton. But that this belief was errone-
Gus, as far as this country Is con-
cerned, was made evident by the fact
that all our truly great poets have
been sober, practical persons who
were altogether above reproof as to
their everyday conduct, no matter
how wild and unconventional their
muse might at times become. In
confirmation of this, it is only neces-
sary to name Longfellow, Whittier,
Lowell, Bryant, Holmes. Stoddard,
Aldrich and so on, including Walt
Whitman and many who have since
achieved fame. Few, il any, of these
needed to suffer the pangs Of unre-
quilted love in order to write thoughts
to awaken our sympathies and stir
our souls to their profoundest depths.
The notion that the poet must be
something quite different prevails
abroad, in France and even in Great
Britain. "Some years ago." says a
writer in London opinion, II knew
a poet who was desperately in love.
The young woman preferred an in
surance clerk, and did not return the
poets affection. SO he took to drink.
Nevertheless, he wrote very fine
poetry. l met him, after long years,
again the other day l asked him
how the emotional affairs of life were
progressing, and he told me he had
forgotten all about love and drink.
He had taken to golf and was lead
ing the healthy life. Yet his poetry
has steadily deteriorated. This re-
minds me OF view once advanced
by Mr.. Max Beerbohm. In quite q
learned treatise he attempted to
prove that the art OF acting had de-
Perforated since actors had taken to
Staying cricket and golf. In the old