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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Az EARLY CALL FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD.

The conviction is growing that the National Guard
will soon be called and modified in preparation
for war with Mexico The belated moves BY the
administration show that call by the President may
orome at any time 1t should be understood that the
5War Department has idea of marching the National
Vf,uard into Mexico until the well seasoned.
n THAT would be fool performance. They Will go
Into mobilization camps and stay there for weeks
he physically will be culled out and only those
sho are found able bear the fatigue of hard cam
Rpaign will be sent to the Mexican border. Our gov
Aernment has learned that much by experience Mean
fwhe the regular army will in all the initial
Operations of the war and only regulars and naval
sforce will make the march from Vera Cruz to Mexico
yCty, which every days delay renders more danger
sous.
The New Jersey Brigade may, therefore, expect to
reman at least month in the mobilization camp at
ASea Girt, which has been greatly enlarged Tor the
spurpose The brigade will be thoroughly drilled,
accustomed to long marches and kept under regular
.army discipline The will know that they are
mot out for a frolic but for the grave business
sof war and that their best duty to themselves as
well as to the nation is to be fully prepared
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
UPLIFT TALKS
GET YOUR MIND AWAY FROM SELF
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Author Of ''PushfnR to the Front ETC.
Copyright 1914.

a,.o brave and resoureeful in danger.
who would walk up to cannon's
mouth in battle, but who are towards
in the drawing-room and dare not
express an opinion in the social cir
Gle They are the slaves or a subtle
tyranny. which robs them OF all spop-
taneitv and naturalness. They appear
stiff cold. reserved, and proud when
thei. hearts are full of warm, kindly
feelings. and it is torture to them not
to he able to show what they feel in
an easy, unembarrassed way.
Like MANY of the other evils of life,
sl,vness is born wholly of the imagin-
alton. It is the result of a person
thinking that he is, literally, 1.-THE OBJ
served of all observers" that all eyes
are centred upon him wherever he
appears. that all cars are open to
hear what he says. He thinks that
people are criticising his awkward
ness. wondering why his movements
are so clumsy, specializing as to
where he was brought up and why
his manners are SO uncouth. While
mo- guilty of the fault of the egotist,
he is vet. though in a different way,
So falsely imbued with a sense of his
oWr Importance, that he thinks he
cannot walk the streets without at
tracing the attention of all who see
him.
habit of self-reproaeh, constant
criticism, self-analysis, and self-de-
probation, picking ones words and
actions to pieces in order to find
flaws is a natural accompaniment OF
shyness. There are people who make
themselves so miserable by self-criti-
tism that they can see none of the
beauties of the universe, and expert
ence none of the joy of living.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
THE HARDEST PROBLEM OF OUR SCHOOLS.

More than fifty nationalities are represented in
New Yorks elementary school population, the largest
in the world The course of study adapted to the
American child hard pace for the child of
the immigrant. is the story, only varying in
degree in all large cities. 1t is easy for educa-
tiona experts make bitter attacks upon American
school systems such that of the metropolis is
subjected to, but not as easy to find remedy. How
shall devise a curriculum not too slow for the
American child, born language and institutions
and too fast for the Italian Russian with an
alien speech the additional handicap of retarded
intelligence inherited from generations oppressed
and benighted ancestors?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

Louise Muhlbach, born January 2,
heads the list of the births of distin-
guished persons who made their ad-
vent a century ago. For many years
her novels were among the best
sellers of the age, but today they
are seldom read. The same day gave
to the American portion of the world
John Romeyn Brodhead, the histo-
rian, while succeeding days of Janu
airy furnished us with the anniversa-
ries of Aubrey Thomas De We're d0),
the English poet; Charles Baker
Adams I'D, naturalist and geologist;
Eugene Emanuel Violet lie Due (2O,
great French architect, and Henry N.
Hudson (2S). Protestant Episeopa-
lian clergyman and Shakespearean
scholar, and Sir Andrew Cromb!e
(31. Scotch geologist. But the great
est name on the roll of births for Jan
uary. 1914, is that of David Wilmot,
on January 20, Wilmots ''proviso" of
1876, at the beginning of the war
with Mexico, stipulated that from the
territory which would be gained by
us in that conflict slavery should be
excluded. incidentally this became
the cornerstone in the creed of the
Republican party, born in 1856, the
party of Fremont, Lincoln, Grant and
Taft
George Palmer Putnam (February
y, founder of the great publishing
house of that name; Samuel j. TIL
den CO., politician and lawyer; W. II.
H. G. Kingston (2S), British romance
writer, author of the "Circassian
Chief" and scores of other books,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

One of the first requirements of a
pleasing personality is ease of man
ner and freedom from self-conscious-
ness. Unless you can become uncon-
scious of yourself, you will never
appear at your best or do the best Of
which you are capable.
The humblest day laborer or wash
erwoman, who is easy in manner,
natural. kindly. unembarrassed, is a
more agreeable person to talk to and
more pleasant sight to look upon
than a learned professor or college
graduate who is nervous, bashful and
i'll at ease.
MY old aunt Hannah" said Mrs.
Sangster, "a queenly woman who
might have been cast in bronze, and
who made my bread in brick oven,
basket on her head, in Virginia, after
the Civil War, had the most fault
less manner ! ever saw. She never
thought about herself. The royalty of
her pose was indescribable. but she
did not pose: she simply lived and
'toted' her daily load, and was, in her
way, as great comfort and bless
ing as if she had been a graduate
of later day college. Aunt Han
nah could not read but she bore her
self as If generations of kings were
at her back. I have seen a woman
more than once then who was at
home In several modern languages
and who had been In good society
all her life, who yet blushed and fall
tered and was i'll at case in the ham
pering letters of diffideuce, awkward
for the reason that she thought about
herself
There are many worthy people who
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
New York Has Chinese Daily

New York has another daily paper.
If you should happen on upper Park
Row Cat the point of its junction with
Third avenue) most any afternoon
after o'clock you will hear a lot of
ragged newsies shouting Justify Mon
ice Vat b." That is the name of
Manhattan's latest daily paper, for
it's a Chinese daily, says Popular
Electricity.
Moreover this daily paper is
brought out in the most Ito date
fashion; by the use of electricity.
Electrical dictatirg and addressing
machines are used by the editorial
and circulation departments, respec-
lively, while the presses are all mo-
tor-driven. The print shop, from
which the daily appears every after
noon, at O'Clock, is located in the
fifth story of the more or less modern
office building at So Park street, just
on the outskirts of Chinatown. Tom
Tuy Gum is the managing editor, and
his assistants are Tong Shu San, Mon
Lin Chang, and Mon Jee Vat Bo now
has a larger circulation than the much
older dailies published out on the
coast.
The paper is one of the results of
the undercurrent of progress that has
been in evidence in New York's China
town for some time. 1t is the only
daily publication of its kind east of
| San Francisco, and. though only a
| month old, it already has a circula-
| ton of between 5000 and 10000. This
| circulation is by no means limited ir
| New York. A thousand or more cop,
| les are sold in Chicago, almost as
many go to Buffalo. Canada comes
| in for it's share, too, as we'll as the
Southern States. In fact, the papel
has taken the same place in the Eas
and Middle West as that occupied b.
the Chinese World in the Far Yves
and Southwest. Indeed the Mon va
30 now has a larger circulation thai
the much older dailies published gu
on the coast.
The first issue was printed on De
cember Is, 1873 and, according to tn
custom of the Celestials, it wa
printed in red ink. The initial issu
of any Chinese publication is eithe
printed in red ink or on red paper
Succeeding issues were printed Il
black ink however. The only Englisl
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
SOME OF OUR WASTED ENERGIES.

As evidence Of the lost energy in this country
is declared by the United States commissioner of
education that the school children of the United
States can grow produce worth annually a hundred
million dollars by cutlvating public school gardens.
Incidentally he that the tWo-bllon-dolar public
system of the country is kept idle onequarter
of the year, The commissioner does not suggest how
the labor of the children in large centres of population
could thus be utilized. The cost of ground in most
would exceed the value of the product without
adding the expense for instructors, for seeds and
plants and for upkeep better suggestion is the
utilization of vacant lots in and around cities for small
farming by the poor Our neglect and waste of land
of this character is reproach to the nation. By
proper cultivation it would yield millions of wealth
and be an important help to the cheapenng of food
nrices
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

characters used in the sheet are the
letters in the date line on the first
page. The Chinese characters, each a
complete word, read from top to bot
tom and from left to right, as is usual
with Oriental letters. Between 1900
and 1000 characters are used to print
each issue. 1t is an eight-page pub
LEGATION.
The print shop is like any other
modern print shop, with one eXcep-
ton. Down the centre of the room Is
a huge type case some thirty feet
long In appearance this case is very
similar to the job type case in any
other print shop. 1t contains, how
ever, more than 10000 type compart-
ments, each of which is filled with
slugs of one particular character
Considering this, it is fortunate for
the Chinese comeositor that there are
no lower case and caps in his Ian
guage. Besides the type case, which,
by the way, is built in Shanghai,
where the type is also cast, the print
shop has several fonts of English
type for translation purposes. One
large flat-bed press, driven by an cleo
trio motor, is used to print the sheet,
while two job presses and a folding
machine complete the printing equip
ment
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
War Status of
Panama Canal

| DR.. Vaughan Cornish lectured re-
Gently to a large audience at the
Royal United Service Institution on
| THE Strategic Aspect of the Pan
anna Canal says the London Post.
| Sir George Taubman Goldie occupied
| tho chair. DR.. Cornish paid visits to
| the Panama Isthmus in 1908, 1910 and
1912. and was afforded by the United
| States government facilities for
study on the spot as well as being
supplied with the official publications.
The canal, he said, should insure a
| proper distribution of the American
navy on the eve of the outbreak of
war. If the war be on the Atlantic,
and the fleet be already concentrated
there, the canal would he of no fur
ther use during the war, since the
naval power of the United States is
based upon the Atlantic ports. 1t
would not, therefore, be the principal
object of attack. But in the case of
war on the Pacific it would be the
vulnerable part of the line of COM
muuication. In case of war with
Japan its best protection is its re-
moteness, Panama being 100 miles
from Yokohama.
There are few islands in the east
too far from the present Japanese
possessions to be suitable for per-
manent naval bases for that power,
but the Pearl Islands, forty three
miles from Panama, are quite suit
able for a temporary naval base to
be used in an attack upon the canal.
The strategic purpose of the canal,
however, is not only for the support
of the Monroe policy, the defense of
the Pacific States, and of the Philip
pines. 1t is also to enable the United
States to have a voice in all that re-
lates to the future of China, and for
this her navy must be present in
force on the Asiatic side of the
Pacific.
1t is an obligation of the United
States under the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as well as her manifest inter
est, to keep the canal open during a
war to which she Is not a party, on
the same conditions as those under
which the Sue2 Canal is operated
during hostilities. But it is not part
of the duty of the United States,
even if it were within her power TO
protect the routes of the canal, and
it is therefore important that this
country should at once make every
provision in this respect.
Thus, whereas Guantanamo guards
the windWard passage for American
vessels. it does not for the British,
and the defenses and harbors of
Jamaica now resume much of their
old Importance to US
Moreover, there must be another
position of defense and supplies at
the eastern end Of the Caribbean, c. e.,
at St, Lucia or Trinidad. During war
with a European power the canal will
chiefly be of importance to us as a
route for wheat carrying ships from
the portssof British Columbia, but II
there were trouble between us and
the yellow race at some future time
the canal would be the route for the
naval reinforcement of British Co
lumbia.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
SHORT CUT NOW THROUGH CAPE COD

1t is strange that little attention has been paid
throughout the country TO enterprise just now
consummated, which will not only add an important
link to our chain of inland waterways but save hun
dreds of human lives. The waters of Massachusetts
and Buzzards bays now mingled and Cape Cod
is island. The Cape Cod Canal constructed by
private capital makes short cut for shipping and
obviates the dangerous voyage around the long pro-
lection of the Bay State into the Atlantic But the
new waterway be used only by vessels drawing
less than twelve feet, and in time will probably have
to be deepened, New York found it necessary to
do with the Erie Canal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
NEW JERSEY WOMEN FOR THE WAR.

1t is not improbable that our army in Mexico will
need large supply of and other female auxil-
ares and that the Jersey City sunragettes VINO nave
rendered their services to Governor Fielder as nurses,
stewards cooks and even operators, will be put
to the test But how many Of them have the training
FOR such work. and how many physically fit?
The war department won't take militia or volun-
teers who not physically up to the regular army
standard. and no would women be accepted
unless qualified for the they would have to do
and able to stand the fatigue and incidental
to all war operations. Nurses especially must have
good training be Injured sights of human suffer
ing or they could be of little use in military hos
pita
But the spirit of the New Jersey suffragettes is
admirable. In the Civil War the women throughout
the country banded together provide for the wound
ed sent the bateelds in the South and they did
heroic volunteer service. The women of Newark re-
ceived and cared for hundreds of the wounded, and
there are veterans living who remember with
gratitude the patriotic work of these women.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
MAY IL
Florence Nightingale
Copyrighted 1914.


Every woman whose birthday falls
on May IL must feel a sense of pride
from the fact that she shares the
birthday of Florence Nightingale,
who was probably the most highly
revered English woman of the nine
tenth century. She was born nine
ty-four years ago today.
She was the daughter of an Eng
lishman of means and from her girl
hood she showed a decided interest in
the subject of nursing and in philan-
thropic work of all kinds.
The profession of nursing in Eng
land was at very low ebb at the
time and it was with the hope that
she could improve matters that she
weat abroad to study the conditions
of nursing on the continent. In order
to perfect herself in the practical
side of the work she entered as a
volunteer nurse in society of Ger
man Sisters of Mercy at Keisers-
werth on the Rhine, and inspired by
what she had learned there she came
back to England to put some of her
knowledge to good use.
Soon after her return to England
the English war office called upon her
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Wales Winged Terror

down the street. The strenuous race
continued along several streets, and
when the bird found the man was
slowly gaining upon him it extended
its wings and flew toward the noun
tains.
This midnight adventure is only
sample of what the bird can do. AT
the farmsteads and countryside ham,
let's aWe-struck folk tell you that re-
Gently the winged terror darted from
the blue and gobbled up whole brood
of chickens from a farm in Gwythern1
and after tickling it's hunger with this
dainty meal it flew off with the
mother hen. The loss of a number of
lambs is also attributed to its greed
and temerity.
Even these plunderings do not satis-
fy it. The latest sensational act was
at Trefriw. A Mr.. Howell, of the
Geirronydd Hotel, was sitting in the
hotel grounds when this thief from
| the skies swooped down and snatched
up a pup which was resting within
few yards of Mr.. Howell.
He Immediately threw his stick at
the abductor as the latter was on its
way heavenward, and so startled it
that its hold on the pup relaxed and
the animal fell to the ground badly
! wounded.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

Wales, like Ireland, is the home OF
traditions and superstitions, and the
weirdest sort of creatures constantly
appear and disappear in its mountain
Businesses.
The latest story comes from west
Denbighshire, where "a huge bird of
prey, supposed to be an eagle, seems
to possess particular liking for the
poultry and smaller livestock, says
the New York Tribune.
This. however, is not all the eagle
has done, by any means. Its habits
of devouring lambs and attempting to
kidnap more diminutive members OF
the canine world are bad enough, but
the practise of frightening pedestrians
who plod the lonely way late at night
is especially to be condemned.
There is reported, for instance, the
nerve trying case of a Llanrwst resi-
dent who was walking along de-
serted street after midnight.
He noticed a large bird of a gray
color standing, ghostlke, In the road
way. The pale rays of the moonlight
in which it stood blinking forbidding-
ly added to its sinister appearance.
The man gave chase and the bird
Screaming fiercely,' to quote the IN
trepid pursuer's words. ran swiftly
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
THIS YEARS LOCAL SCHOOL BUDGET

The tentative budget adopted by the Board of
Education last night, amounting in the gross to
ss2 $685. is $71,O1S larger than the budget last
year but as the board has about $4,000 balance
(which deducted the figures of the two budgets
Hpge nearly equal.
n Teachers salaries make the largest item and it
sshows an increase of $108,657. There will be re-
eeyed from the State in railroad taxes and from
other sources $t.61S.0t0, more than one-haf the
amount of the budget, leaving the balance to be met
In the tax levy
Public school expenses are bound to increase every
year for every year adds hundreds of pupils re-
curing schools and sites, teachers and new
equipment As this years budget is really very little
in excess of that 1913 the Board of Education has
done well in its financing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Let $4,000 Work for you.

From the Countryside Magazine.
Not one person out of a thousand
even understands exactly how to
avail himself of the printed informa-
ton the government Is ready to sun
ply. In addition to sending out mat
ter already printed, however the de-
partment holds at the service of the
people some $4,000 employees ready and
anxious to answer individual letters
and give special advice to people how
best to manage their agricultural
activities. The organization of this
vast army of workers is exceedingly
interesting. A brief summary of the
principal bureaus Is given at the end
of this paper. 1t must be remembered
that a specialist with trained staff
of assistants stands at the head of
each bureau and that under each
general head there may be from five
TO twenty sub divisions. Each car
ries on a particular phase of the re-
search.
It makes, therefore, no difference
whether the government has printed
bulletin dealing with the particu-
lar subject that interests you or
whether you know the name or num-
Der of such a bulletin. A letter or
post card making clear your problem
and the matter on which you desire
help if addressed simply to the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, Washington, ID.
g., will at once receive unusual at
tention,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12

Simplicity and sincerity characterized the tribute
o the President the heroic dead who Tell al vera
Cruz. Onr died as they wanted to die lney ulu
mot fail They gave their all cheerfuly in the per-
formauce of their duty.
II But the President tells that we are really en-
gagged in war-a war of service for which there can
be no payment. The cost, he admits, is great We
have been hearing that the sending of our troops to
lslexco was an expedition to remove one man Now
i've are told IT service that one nation must render
10 another in the cause of civilization and humanity,
II war for which the principal victim shall be made to
.feel grateful and thankful
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-12
Fears Of Great Men

The perfume of flowers can make
some people SILVER. A member Of
the London Spiritualist Alliance tells
of a woman friend who breads the
smell of hyacinths. Once at party
the hostess knowing her visitors
horror of the flowers. hid them behind
a screen, yet although they were
concealed from view the woman de-
tected them and tainted shortly after
entering sthe room. The Princess of
Lamballe, a friend of Marie Antoi-
nette, and victim of the French
revolution, would always turn pale at
the sight of violet, and Vincent, the
painter, swooned at the smell of
| roses
Peter the Great. loathed the sight
of water. He could scarcely be per-
suaded to cross bridge. and if COM
PEELED to do so would sit in his car
riage, with closed windows, bathed
in perspiration. Fear of the River
Mosera, which flowed through his
palace garden, prevented him ever
seeing its beauty.
Julius Caesar, to whom the shouts
of thousands of the enemy were but
sweet music. was mortally afraid of
the sound of thunder and always
wanted to hide underground when
ever thunder storm lowered over
! his army,