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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
THE CHRISTMAS PARCEL POST.

Last year the parcel post not prepared for
the tremendous holiday business thrust upon it, and
the postoffces were swamped with parcels Neverthe
less considering the imperfect facilities of the de-
partment, the work done surprisingly good. This
with experience and greatly improved facilities
the parcel post will do much better service.
But there will also be greatly increased de-
mand upon it, Fewer parcels for Europe will be sent
by reason the interruptions of the war but these
mailed two three weeks before Christmas they
10 not help to make congestion There will also be
greatly diminished Christmas mail from Europe
But the domestic packages will be greatly increased
and towards the end make congestion.
People importuned to do their Christmas shop
ping early and there is evidence in the stores that
many have already begun. They have the pick of
The Christmas stocks and not crowded in pur-
chasing To supplement this prudent step people
should also mail their packages early. If thousands
send off their Christmas mail early in December they
would only insure its safe arrival but also clear
the way in the postoce and mail for Christ
mail of those who with or without reason are
bound TO late
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war without some word as to the
terms of that peace.
1t may well be that in the remark
ing of the worlds peace, the remark
ing of those great national units
whose interplay directs the future of
the worlds destiny viii depend upon
what we can do.
Are we to go to that worlds peace
conference with nothing behind our
delegates but moral force? A great
force indeed; he is but besotted in
ignorance who would question it's
power; but nations armed and vic
torious have never had the habit of
giving ear in the flush Of their final
victory to those who come unarmed
into their council chamber Belgium
can tell us to what amounts made
quately armed neutrality-even when
solemnly guaranteed.
Before war ever began we were
bullied out of our vital rights in the
great canal we had built by one of
the nations that is most likely to i'm
pose the final terms of peace. and
now our commerce is being harried
and worried from the face of the seas
to suit that same nations necessity.
Contraband lists, prepared in con-
ference before the war broke upon
the world, are changed, without con-
sultation to our loss. While on the
other hand the richest of the South
American nations. our unwilling
wards of the Monroe Doctrine, tells
openly of the realized danger of Ger
man attack. The Monroe Doctrine is
more a scrap of paper" than the
signed guarantee of Belgium neu-
trality, for it bears not even the dis
honored signature of a single great
power besides ourselves. England
Japanese allies see two sides to o
bargain, see aid as well as the giving
of aid in that agreement While II
investments and commercial interests
give rights in foreign lands too weak
to defend themselves, as England
| laid down as law In her seizure of the
Boer republics, the Germans nave
right on their side throughout al
most all the South American conti-
| nent.
| Knowing these facts as we do, what
have we TO hope if we go unarmed to
| the making of the worlds peace
! when the great war endsP
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Answers to Health Questions

p. XII suffer very much with
my eyes, which keep me from sleep
ing during the night. Was told to
have the muscles cut. 1 wear
glasses. Would you advise me to
have this done?
2-Hair is falling very fast VIII
you please tell me of a remedy to
stop this
1-You should go to the eye hos
pital. The operation Is slight, and
you will also get a much needed rest
Massage into the scalp twice a
day small amount of this prepara-
ton: Resorcin, is grains; balsam
peru, cne-half dram; sulphur lott
four drains; castor oil, IA drains; oil
of theobromine, three drains.
A. NJ. G.-My sixteen-year-old boy
is very nervous and blue and nopes
a lot. Can you tell me what to do
for him?
2-Teil me if enemas are injurious.
They bring me about all the relief
/ get.
Most of such troubles are caused
by need of a thorough education.
Send him to some new school where
his interest will be aroused
2-Enemas are al right once in
while, but figs, apples, oranges and
fruits are better to produce results
DIR. Hirshberg will answer questions
for readers Of this paper on medical
ny gienic and sanitation subjects that are
Of general interest. He will not under
take to prescribe or offer advice for in
dividual cases. Where the subject Is not
Of general interest letters will be an
swere0 personally, IL a stamped and ad-
dressed envelope is enclosed. Address all
inquiries to DR.. L. X. Hirshberg. care
this Office.
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Cylinder Press Has Been Used 100 Years

Id NOW
Today the rotary press prints, folds
and counts anywhere from $4,000 to
10000 copies of an eighteen-to-twenty
page newspaper per hour, receiving
great rolls of white paper and turn
ing them out as neatly folded news
papers, which appear at the break
fast table exactly as they leave the
press. Three great inventors have
made this achievement possible. In
1S4S Richard Hoe invented the light
ming press and solved the speed prob
lem. For the first time the type was
set around the cylinders by means Of
turtles" The first typesetting ma
chine was invented in 1882, but 1t
was not until 1886 that "a genuine
labor-saving composing machine was
offered to the printing world. Then,
in 1861, came the curved stereotyping
machines. Within the last twenty
five years the web press, the COM
posing machine and the curved
stereotyping machine have been
brought to perfection. One machine
compositor can do the work of throe
by hand, and with a stereotyping
machine the same page of a news
paper. magazine or book may be
printed at the same time on a score
Of presses.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
NoVEM BER 30
Matilda Heron
Copyrighted 1914.
BIZ MARY MARSHALL

Matilda Heron is one of the many
charming Irish girls who made a
success as an actress in England and
America. She was born In London
derry November 80, 1882, and emil
grated to the United States with her
parents when she was a little girl.
Unlike many a successful actress,
Matilda Heron had many advantages
as a child, and received the best OF
Quotations. Though she did not come
of a dramatic family. it was her am
bition from childhood to become an
actress. She studied diligently and
made her debut at the age of nine
teen. The following year she ap-
peared under New York management
as Lady Macbeth In the old Bowery
Theatre, New York, and was, received
with the greatest enthusiasm. A
year later she appeared in Boston,
and later was seen in San Francisco,
where she became, and always re-
manned, a great favorite.
When Margaret Heron was twenty
two she was secretly married to
Henry Byrne, and the agreement was
that after completing her engage
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30

About three years before the late
c. C. clarke retired from the office of
vice-president of the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn of railroads, he invited me to
drive with him one summer after
noon, promising to show me points of
interest in Tarrytown, N. Y, where
his country home was established, and
particularly those places which were
of historic interest. We drove by the
monument erected to commemorate
the capture of Major Andre in Revo-
lutionary times, and also the Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery and the spots which
Washington Irving made traditional
In his romances. At last, Mr.. Clarke
said that he would take me to place
which, for him, had a pathetic inter-
est, although there is no record of the
Incident which cause that interest
in ang published work. We drove to "a
place near the Philipse manor house,
which is associated with the romance
of Washington's unsuccessful court
ship of the young lady who dwelt In
that house. From that point there
was fine vista of the Tappan Zee,
which Is the name of that broad ex-
pansion of the Hudson river, lake
like in its appearance, whose east
ern front is bounded by the shores
Of Tarrytown.
II will tell you the story of the in
cident which centres in this spot or
near here" Mr.. Clarke said. There
was no more enthusiastic promoter
of the Erie Railroad project than q
man of some capital named Isaac
Brown. think 1t was in great
measure due to his agitation and
perseverance, that the State OF New
York granted the charter for the con-
struction and operation of the rail-
road whose western terminal was to
be at the harbor Of Dunkirk on Lake
Erie and whose eastern terminal was
to be at some convenient point on
the Hudson river. One of the obliga-
tions was that the railroad should
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

battle comes they are in it, full tilt,
on the instant
For Germany to risk a major sea
fight would be a greater disaster than
to lose great land engagement. 1t
would mean the collapse of hat her
war program. 1t would mean that,
even if she should later win on land,
she could not impose terms on Great
Britain. Britain's place as mistress
Of the seas would be secured and her
dominance of world shipping would
be restored. In this war, Germany,
to win, must number Britain among
the definitely defeated opponents.
She can never do that If she suffers
a conclusive naval disaster; nor is
she likely to risk one except in the
last emergency, when the kaiser
faces the necessity of going before
his people with the statement that
the utmost possible has been done.
When Peace shall BE Made How Shall
Our Voice BE Heard?
From the Atlanta Georgian
Not now ernbroiled in the great
war, there is every reason to be-
lieye that the United States will re-
tain that fortunate position to the
end.
Those who believe in a defenseless
nation insist that this probability of
our continued neutrality makes any
special provisions for defense now
needless. They read the history of
nations with scant comprehension
who argue thus.
For, mark you, out of this war will
come some conqueror, some nation
rising high above crushed and hui
inflated Europe. Alone in power, ar
rogant in the hour of triumph, it will
seek reimbursement for all losses OF
the savage struggle, and with interest
compounded to the point of usury
The bubble that denied shylock his
pound of flesh because the shedding
of blood was not nominated in the
bond will have no standing. Many
nations will be robbed that one may
find profit in victory.
But today the interests of nations
commercial and financial, are so in
extricably interviewer that The
United States, however neutral and
aloof, cannot stand off and contem'
plate the e9ce that will close thi'
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ment she would retire to private life
with him. On the day appointed Mr..
and Mrs. Byrne met in Chicago, ap-
parently to take up their married e,
but after a single day spent together
they parted, never again to meet. The
reason for this separation was never
known, but that Matilda Heron was
deeply grieyed by it is certain, for she
always referred in later life to the
even as the first love of her life
After this misfortune Miss Heron
went to England and from there to
Paris, where she saw a famous
French actress playing in Camille"
The play was creating a great senea-
ton in Paris, and the idea came to
Miss Heron that she could make as
great a success with translation of
the play, and the next year she made
her debut in the play in New York.
From this single play she made a
very large fortune. When she was
twenty-five Miss Heron married for
a second time, a musician named
Robert Stoepel, from whom she was
soon separated. Their daughter Bijou,
became a well known actress and Is
now Mrs. Henry Miller.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
By DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. B., M. A., NJ D. Johns Hopkins).

Boil All MIX to Avoid Foot and Mouth
Disease.
The cattle dealers and stock breed
ers may vince, yet cattle infected
with foot and mouth disease must
be destroyed, both for the sake of
economy and safety. Thirteen States.
or nearly one-third of the country,
have already succumbed to this wild
swine to the value of millions Of
dollars have fallen victims to the
contagion.
1t concerns mankind, however, In
a more intimate fashion than even
so salient "a matter as dollars and
cents. In fine, this foot and mouth
malady can be contracted by infants
and grown-ups from the milk of
ailing cows, as we'll as by direct
association with the afflicted ami
mails.
Nearly 200 persons have fallen Ill
with foot and mouth disease Rather,
I might say that many cases have
been recognized by skilled observers.
How many have escaped discovery
the Lord alone knows. Certainly
herdsmen, stock breeders, cowboys,
cowgir.s and others in long and init
mate contact with i'll animals ac-
quire the malady, go to some family
physician and receive an incorrect
diagnosis, instead of the precise
name, foot and mouth disease.
Boil All Milk.
At the recent convention of the
American Association of Clinical Re
search, held in Baltimore, notice was
served on the public the 9Th of Mo-
vember, by the doctors there assem-
bled, to boil all the milk used in the
thirteen States where the foot and
mouth ailment prevails.
If mothers will boil the milk, even
from tuberculin- tested herds or the
milk usually certified and supposed
to be hygienic, they will make no
mistake. This insures protection to
the infant, as well as any others who
may imbibe this snowy, ambrosial
nectar. Very delicate persons and
infants not nursed at the breast are
peculiarly susceptible to this newest
of modern plaques.
In a remote fashion a few of the
various symptoms of this dread cattle
scourge resembled biblical leprosy. 1t
Is, however, more infiammable, de-
cidedly more contagious, and less
chronic in its course. Furthermore,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
THEN

Just 100 years ago yesterday Fred
erick Koenig tried out his cylinder
press for the London Times, the first
printing press run by steam. This
press was first used In the United
States in 1927. The introduction of
the cylinder press in the Times Of
flee caused a great commotion. The
manufacture of the press was car
ried on secretly. One night the press
men of the Times Office waited in
vain for the forms to come down.
They thought that news Of tremend-
Gus Importance must have delayed
the paper. suddenly Mr.. Walter, the
editor, appeared among them and
distributed the first sheets ever
printed upon a cylinder press. 1t
could produce 1000 Impressions an
hour. Up to 1914 all newspapers were
printed on hand presses. George
Bruce, who came to America early in
the last century, described how they
got out the Philadelphia Chronicle.
There were three men to each hand
press, one to pull the lever, one to
ink the forms and one to take away
the papers. They worked desperately
hard for twenty minutes, then rested
twenty minutes. The output was, of
course, very limited-about $50 pa
pers an hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
THE MEN OF OUR NAVY.

OF the 52667 enlisted men in the American navy
the beginning of the present fiscal year, 227S
from New Jersey. In proportion to population New
Jersey is largely represented in the navy than
any other State except perhaps, Massachusetts,. The
idea that the navy is largely recruited from the Mid
die West is erroneous Sixy-sx per cent. of the
listed belong to fifteen States, and these are
mostly seaboard States. 1t is well to know, too that
more than 50 per of sailors native born.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30

English Hopes for sea Fight.
From the Baltimore News.
Plenty of salt may safely be sprin-
kled over the English reports that
the German naval forces are getting
ready for a conclusive naval battle
in the North Sea. The Germans know
their game too we'll. They are max
ing very satisfactory progress thus
far without CHANGING a general en-
sagement of battle fleets.
German naval and military writer's
aid down long before the war the
general scheme of naval operations
hat has been followed thus far.
There is no reason to doubt that
they were reasonably candid in their
statements. They expected that Ger
many would be oYermatched on the
sea, and they recognized that her
method would be to use mines, sub
marines, and the advantage of lying
inside sheltered roads; to wear down
the blockading fleet, and to wait for
opportunity to deal, not a final and
decisive blow, but a series of short
arm jabs, just such as have been
dealt in the cases of the Good Hope,
The Audacious and the commerce
destruction wrought by the Emden,
the Karlsruhe and other cruisers.
So long as the Germans are doing
so well on the sea as now, they need
not be expected to sally forth and
bid for a general battle. For one
reason, the fact stands that a block
AIDED fleet does not sally forth and
win. 1t is doubtful II there Is in
naval history the record of a decisive
victory won in that way
Naval authorities declare that the
chances are with the blockading fleet,
not only because it is necessarily
stronger in units-otherwise it would
not be the blockading fieet-but be-
cause the esprit and general condi-
lion of crews and vessels are kept
ut q better state of instant readiness
in the case of the blockading fleet
il may be hard for men to sleep be-
side their guns for weeks in success
sion; hard for the ships to cruise
back and forth before harbor' S
entrance; but IL keeps ships and
men on the keen edge of anticipation
ard readiness, and when the hour for
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
Newark Taxes and Politics

revenue from time to time. The IL
censes have been greatly increased,
especially those of retail and whole
sale liquor dealers, automobile, and
many other remunerative objects. 1t
is true that the city's expenses have
increased. but what about the popula-
ton increasing? Do they not build
houses to live in? Do they not pay
the good old poll taxi" Why is It
that the people are defraying more
per capita for its municipal govern
ment than many other cities in the
country?
l do not blame politics; its natural
A sensible man should not vote
straight ticket at the polls. He should
vote for the man best qualified, to fill
the position, regardless OF political
machines. I thank you.
J. D. SMITH.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30

Almost one-third of Great Britain's
telegraphers are women,
Philadelphia labor unions have
added $4,000 members in the last
year.
There are more than 10000 clergy
men in the United States.
Honduras has national school FOR
instruction of automobilists.
This country has thirty-one women
blacksmiths.
New York city's police department
employs 10,640 persons.
Union butchers in New York city
have established two cooperative
shops.
Boston (Mass.) Bartenders Union
has raised the wages of its l,Eoo
members SO a week
One of the most common causes
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To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Being a constant reader of the
Newark Star l would like to express
my opinion through its columns on
an article which appeared in one of
the Newark morning papers. entitled
What Our Taxes Pay For"
l agree with the author that New
ark is destined to be a great city.
That does not mean that it is to be
made a prosperous place at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers. 1t is we'll
known that the city has strenuously
increased her park area. magnifi-
Gently built educational institutions,
etc. These improvements, like many
others. are betrayed but once; their
only expense later is to keep them
from depreciating and in repair.
Newark has increased it's inflow of
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News of the Labor World

for accidents in industrial establish
ments is poor lighting.
More than 10000 British postal EN- u
ployes are now serving in the naval
or military forces.
In Great Britain, for the ten Years,
1896 to 1904, the rate of fatal quarry
accidents was 100 for every 1000 men
employed.
The wages paid to the Chinese
cigar-makers in San Francisco, it is
said, are about one-third those paid to
union cigar-makers.
The United States Supreme Couri
has affirmed the decision of court in
Ohio which holds that the Ohio mine
run. or the coal screen law is constil
tutiona1.
A century ago a workman With
tools of that time could make 5000
pins a day. Now, with modern ma
chinery. workman can turn out
100000. :
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From Everywhere

DR.. Doyen, the French surgeon
whose wife has been fired at in her
carriage, is generally considered to
be the wealthiest medical man in the
world He also Is one of the busiest,
and it is proverbial in Paris that no
healthy man can ever get a talk with
him. Patients come from every part
of the world to his private hospital
in the Rue Duret, and in recent
years he has had all his more i'm
portant surgical operations cinemat-
ographed with the object of leaving
exact records of his work for the
aid of other surgeons.
The Chineses were the first people
to issue banknotes. They started in
this bushes about twenty-seven CEN
turtles before the birth of Christ One
of these banknotes may still be seen
in the Asiatic Museum, Petrograd.
1t is printed in blue on white paper
made from mulberry tree fibre. Round
the margin is motto which rather
indicates that the first Chinese bank
er was of Scotch origin. 1t reads:
However much you may possess,
strive to be thrifty"
The Iron Duke, Great Britain's
new superintendent. said to be the
most powerful battleship in the
world, is a costly sort of ornament
for the navy. In action her guns can
use up ammunition at the rate of
$4,000 per minute. This is the first
battleship to be equipped with
specially designed guns for aircraft.
These guns are expected to send a
projectile, made for the purpose, a
height of 10000 feet.
In view of the long-drawn-o out en-
gagements between the Germano-
Austrian army and the allies, the
following, giving the duration of
most of the great battles, may ne
interesting: Waterloo. 6 hours;
Sedan (the big fighting), 121A hours;
Gravelotte, hours; Mars-la-Tour 10
hours; Koeniggratz, hours; Alma,
31@ hours; Leipzig, days: Gettys
burg, days,
1t is said that practically every
body in Berlin is related to some one
killed in the war, and that the vast
amount of mourning exhibited has a
depressing effect on the people.
British India has already contrib
uted over 10000 men to fight for the
empire This includes six native
princes, whose personal fortunes
amount to more than $3.50, 900 900.
Bombay is going to make use of
road mirrors at dangerous turns or
functions Of streets and roads where
traffic is considerable. 1t is expected
that these mirrors will enable motor
lists, when they approach such juno
tions, to determine whether or not
otherwise blinds streets are free from
traffic. One of these mirrors, measur-
| ing by 10 feet, is said to be the larg-
est of its kind in the world.
| For keeping open the postoffice
lobby in Detroit between midnight and
1 ) o'clock in the morning, the govern
ment pays $3.50 for every two-cent
stamp on mail deposited. An average
of only two persons a night deposit
mail between the hours mentioned.
| Chicago is to have ice cold mail
permission to install an icebox having
been requested by the postmaster to
/ help the farm to- consumer move
nent.