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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18

Tax, tax. tax-it is all taxation nowadays. The
1elligerent nations are heaping the tax burdens
md they will soon be crushing. Nations are also
ortgaging posterity for the next fifty years. as we
we're compelled to do during great Civil War We
leaped up a debt of four billions. but with the unex-
anped progress of the nation after the the bur-
len was comparatively light and We have become by
ar the richest of countries
But where is the limit to taxation? AL of the
European countries heavily mortgaged when the
war was begun and all under heavy taxes. Both
the mortgage debts and the taxes have been greatly
Increased and if the is prolonged there will be
more mortgages and more taxes Being a neutral
nation we have not increased debt account of
he war; but have piled a big war tax to make up
the deficiency of the revenue.
As for this country the business and financial skies
are Frightening. President Wilson in his letter to
secretary McAdoo says the future is clear and bright
with promise the best things Let us hope that he
sugurs right It is well to be cheerful in the face of
Iiseouragng conditions the future of this nation
does not depend altogether upon its financial system
its trade prospects
The currency system now in operation in the United
States cannot be more successful than those in
vogue in Europe which also have had highly organ
zed systems of trade and and they did not
avert calamity or save the nations from the addition
Of mountains and debts the aggregate of
which no man would dare compute
Taxes beyond the economical needs of government
IRE virtually coniscation. The sovereign power to
tax is the power to take and to destroy. There is
limit to this power and in the desperation of a
there may be general conhscation and the mort
gaging of nation for all future time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
TraVelette
by TEMPLE MANNING.

To sentimental Americans. the de-
liberate way in which the Japanese
conduct their courtships and mar
and businesslike.
Togo wishes to get married. He is
10, and his education is complete, 80
he speaks to his father about it.
Father, having no particular young
lady in mind, calls on a marriage
broker A few days later the broker
calls on Togo's father and suggests
the name of Miss Chrysanthemum
and if she is acceptable both to faith
er and to Togo he then approaches
the parents of the prospective bride.
Togo being accetable to Miss Chrys-
anthemums parents the first meet
ing Is arranged.
This is called the look-at- each
other-meeting," and it takes place at
the home of the brides father, and
himself. 1t usually takes the form of
a conventional tea party, at which
the prospective bride does the honors.
You can imagine the eager, timid
chances the young people steal at
each other, for they must not speak.
and may only try to discern what
manner of man and woman fate has
ordained for them.
Everything being satisfactory, the
terms of the marriage are ar
ranged, and a lucky day for the
ceremony is chosen, not by the bride,
but by her parents. On that day NJ So
Chrysanthemum is dressed in her
prettiest clothes, completed by the
wedding kimono with sleeves 81
inches long, in contrast to the usual
k mono sleeve of 16 inches, and the
bridal veil, which resembles a tea
caddy. Then the ceremonial obj"
or sash, is donned, and the bride and
her parents go to the bridegroom 8
home, where the wedding ceremony
IS performed.
Miss Chrysanthemum is carried
past a tiny fire kindled at Togo's
door, and in that fire are burned her
dolls and playthings to indicate that
she has passed out of girlhood into
1t also represents the
flame of true love.
Only ten persons are present, in
Guiding the marriage broker and his
wife, who acts as a bridesmaid. and
a butterfly" who serves the cere-
monial saki. The drinking of the
wine is as sacred as communion is
with us, and 1t is over this shared
bowl that the last and most sacred
vow of love and fidelity Is made.
Then the young couple are one, and
let us hope they live happily ever
after.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
Business Chances in Russia and China

Russia and China are awakening;
both are building railways; both
making vast municipal improve
ments; both raising their standards
of living. This means employment
for the people, national progress and
an era of great prosperity. In Rus
sia, contracts have been let during
the past two years which practically
mean a doubling of the railway mile
age. Throughout the larger cities of
Russia modern sewers and water
works and electric light and power
plants are being installed, involving
the expenditure of millions of dollars.
China has granted more concessions
for railway construction in the past
six months than she did during the
previous ten years. Hankow, Nankin,
Canton, Pekin, Ningpo, Sinyang, HUI
nan and a dozen other large cities OF
the republic are to be touched by
these railways and are to be modern
lied and made sanitary.
Neither of these great nations man.
ufactures the things most necessary
for this stage of its development.
They had looked to England, France,
Belgium and Germany to provide roll
ing stock, rails and the other mate
rails. We know that these countries
cannot possibly furnish the goods
needed for this construction work. 1t
seems to me that right here Is an
ideal opportunity for the American
manufacturer to capture these mar
kets, and to introduce modern West
ern methods to these Eastern coun-
tries.
We sell Russia annually about $751;
900 900 worth OF goods. Trade experts
claim that we should export to that
country at least $125,000,000 each year
The total of Russia's imports Is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
MR. WILSON'S OPTIMISM.

President Wilson's open letter to Secretary MeAdoo
was written for the country to read. The optimism
of the letter is well timed at this period in the
worlds affairs optimism is valuable. 1t encourages
those who fear fater strengthens confidence and
courage and helps business enterprise. 1t is the lack
of the spirit of optimism that makes business and
financial troubles.
Mr.. Wilson dwes upon the principal results of
Democratic legislation and compares what is expected
of it with past conditions in the country. He
halls this legislation deliverance for the nation
The installation of the machinery for the bank
ing and currency system especially grathes Mr.. Will
the browning piece of work of his administra-
ton.
All that has been accomplished by the legislation
of the last eighteen months is of experimental
Every American citizen, whatever be his partisan
views will hope that the experiments will prove
eessful though they may share the optimistic faith
of Mr.. Wilson in the efficacy of remedies that
largely of his making
In thing all men agreed, and that is that
country should have the best laws and the best
government that be devised. The differences that
arise originate only in conflict of opinion to what
laws and what kind of government are the best When
governmental system has been tested and found
be all right dispute stops, it will after has been
demonstrated by experience that the legislation of
the last eighteen months has accomplished what was
promised for it,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
Is THE PROGRESSIVE IDEA DEAD?

The slump in the Progressive vote in New Jersey
in the general election this month was little more
than one-half compared with the vote for Colby for
Governor last year. Colby poed 41.132 votes, and
the Progressive vote this year about Fl 225 In
1912 the Roosevelt vote 145,410, the falling
off in two years is more than 1876, 600.
This looks like extinguishment, but is it? Political
parties have up and disappeared with ap-
parent effect upon national policies They one
idea organizations like the Know Nothings the Green
hackers and the Populists. The idea died with the
party
The highest vote for third party candidate prior
to 1912 the 1,04102S polled for Weaver Peoples
party and Popullst. in 1892 The vote for Roosevelt
In 1912 4,119,5O7. The Weaver vote has been
absorbed by the two great parties. Have they
absorbed the Roosevelt vote? Many practical poll
tcans believe that this the end of the Progressive
party; that 1t will not be factor in the pres
Dental election. There many Republican leaders
who believe that in 1916 the greater part of the
welt vote will be counted In the Republican ballot
boxes.
This is assuming that the Progressive idea which
than four million votes, has expired
did the Greenback and Populist doctrines But
may not have to wait at least year to see if it
really dead?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBBRG
4. B., NJ. A., NJ D. Johns Hopkins

telepathist would in such a case
refrain from saying it was now sum-
mer.
The only possible way for mind
readers, spiritistic believers and other
adherents of occultism to come into
court with clean, unprejudiced hands,
is Intentionally to reproduce with
precision, under open conditions
above board, any alleged example of
''mind-reading" or "thought-trans-
ference"
DR.. J. D. Quackenboss and other
believers, such as Camille F'lamma-
rion and Sir William Crookes. say
that "olepathic action is character
istic of animal nature and explains
certain methods of brute commune
cation" This was exploded by Pro-
fessor John 3. Watson, of the johns
Hopkins department of experimental
psychology.
He has proved that, not only with
brutes, but also in men, all so-called
telepathic communication is really
muscular movements caught by the
distant animal. In other words, every
little movement has a mind-meaninS
of its own. Language may be one
way to express thoughts, but the
muscles and activities are equally as
good. If a letter does not come; If
any regular mechanism, started by an
acquaintance ten thousand miles
away is interrupted, you have
transferred thought" that something
is at fault This is the most popular
type of mind reading"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Professor Who Became an Alderman

of that when ward politician was
appointed to fill the vacancy when
he was removed from the force. I
told Prof. Sumner that this ex-police-
bided his time until the next cleo
ton. Then his friends nominated him
for alderman and elected him by
large majority. He was in a position.
therefore, to demand recognition and
got 1t when he was made a member
OF the police board which. nearly q
year earlier, had removed him from
the police force.
PROFESSOR Sumner was intensely
interested in this anecdote. He
said: ",This Illustrated American
politics, especially local politics. The
policeman acted in an honorable way
when he sought vindieation, and he
had good reason to be pleased when
he got it. Yon can imagine his feel
ings when he took his place as q
member of the police board. II is BY
such anecdotes as this that you get
a good idea of what practical politics
is. l should like to know more about
practical politics.
"Why don't you let your friends In
your ward nominate you for alder
man?" 1 asked.
The professor unused for a moment
but l saw by the twinkle in his eye
that the idea appealed to him. He
said to me, do you suppose can
get the nomination" and in reply I
told him there wasn't the slightest
doubt of it. The next day the party
leaders were told that Prof. Sumner
would accept the nomination for
alderman of his ward, and these
leaders we're delighted. They prom
/, u1. ha
would be elected, and this promise
was fulfilled.
So it happened that the most popu-
lar of Yale professors served as a
member of the New Haven board of
aldermen, and afterwards said that
his experience in that body had been
of the greatest value to him in his
study of American political life
Copyright, 1914, by Il. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18

startling. In 1913 Russia bought from
abroad rubber goods to the extent of
SlS,f0O,OOO; paper goods. $17500. 600:
silks, $15,500,000; cotton and cotton
goods, $50, 100000; machinery, S21, $780,
900; metal goods and hardware, S11O.-
1000; chemicals and drugs, $85, 1oe.-
GOO; timed goods and foodstuffs, s75.-
.000, 900. OF foodstuffs And timed
goods England supplied 10 per cent.
and Germany 20 per cent. chemicals
and drugs, England per cent. and
Germany 81 per cent; paper, Eng
,and 16 per cent. and Germany % per
cent; cotton goods, England 80 per
cent; metal goods and hardware,
England Is per cent. and Germany So
per cent.
China consumed in 1918 cotton
goods to the amount Of s1o9 $40;
woolens. s5,9ss,615; hardware and
metal goods, $4,000, 900; cigarettes,
$6,6o0000; COAL $3.50, 900; clothing,
$5,O70,OOO. In the same time she bought
1895 24 pairs of leather shoes and
1,345, 595 dozen pairs of socks. To the
total sum Of her imports the United
States contributed less than per
cent, while the European nations
pow at war exported about So per
cent, and India and Japan the
balance. In 1912, the latest statistics
available on the Importation of rail
way material, the United States sent
China only s47,500 worth of goods, as
against England's $254,000 and Ger
many's 3745,O00.
Last year we sent the celestials
$275,0O0 worth of cigarettes, while In
the same period Europe exported to
the same people over 100000 When
we stop to consider that we are the
largest growers of tobacco in the
world there seems to be no excuse
for allowing Europe to get this trade.
w E. Auginbaugh in Leslie's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
Call to Arms

Hastel Smite them ALL and shed of
blood,
Let's devastate and .ravage-
Gloating of carnage, fields of strife,
And be again the savage.
What need care we of civil ends,
Even though the issues small?
With n1urd' rous. zeal let's smite to
kill
Burn and raze with cannon ball.
Oh, what care we for babes at breast,
The children of either clan?
But that we smite with murd'rous
zeal
Escaping not child or man.
Let's ply the torch. raze every site
That civilizations reared,
Blast blessed work of God and man
Let helrs blighting touch be scared.
Haste! Harken back to darkened
age,
As savages once again,
Let's sInite to kill, thrust cruel steel
Gloat with glee Ger victims paint
Not smite to kill. but helpful hand.
Gathering all from even den
Under sunlit skies-hearts aglow,
peace on earth, good will to men. u
WILLIAM JACOBUS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
BArTLEsH1Ps AND SUBMARINES.

The question of battleships and submarines is
going to divide Congress at the coming session and
cause a prolonged controversy. The success of the
submarine in the present war and the apparent in
activity of the battleship has impressed many con-
eressmen. Even Speaker Clark is in doubt and won't
favor building bsteships until he is satisfied to
their utility
Ever since the era of stee1-clad naTes in there
his been a competition between the gun and the
srmor Every increase in the power of the gun to
pierce armorplate met by greater resisting power
of the armor made And there were many sapient
critics who at various times declared when the gun
had the best of it that armor was mpotent against
gunfire and therefore needless.
1t is the same kind of hasty judgment that
demns batteships useless because a number of
cruisers torpedoed by submarines Therefore
we should build only submarines. Probably the naval
experts who are best qualified to give opinion will
have some weight with Congress in the matter Naval
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
RELIEF FOR THE COTTON GROWER.

The practical completion of the s135, 900, 600 cot
ton loan fund, announced by Secretary McAdoo, is
most gratifying. 1t will result in the withdrawal
about 100000 bales from the market for twelve or
eighteen months, and this is nearly third of the
seasons crop. The relief for the South will great
1t will prevent ruinous slump in prices and
while the rest of the crop will be gradually disposed Of
American cotton is badly needed in Germany Eng
land and France and if can be restored to
anything like normal conditions there should soon be
tremendous demand for the staple, while own
mills will immense quantities The Southern
cotton situation, which threatened a calamity to in
volve the entire business of the country is indeed
frightening up.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18

An Ample Hearing Assured.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Democratic plurality of forty and
Democratic majority of thlrty-one In
the next House of Representatives
are indicated by an unofficial list of
elect compiled by the clerk
OF the House for the government
printer The figures may be changed
by later reports, but they are not
likely to be.
According to the c'erk there will be
233 Democrats in the next House. 1919
Republicans, seven Progressives one
Independent and one Socialist. with
party lines holding intact, this would
give the majority clear margin of
thirty-one; with party lines broken
the majority's margin of control
might go as high as forty-nine. In
either case the margin is nipple. with
ordinarily successful party manage
ment 1t VIII permit the adm nistra ton
during the next two years to put
through any reasonable program.
The situation i'm the Senate is even
more favorable to continued Demo-
cratic control than that in the House.
Latest figures indicate that as a re-
suit of the recent election the admin
istration ma jority in the Senate has
been increased to fourteen or fifteen
and the gain may be greater. This
| assures administration control til
| March, 1917; but the outlook beyond
| that. even on the basis of the show
| ing made at the recent election is ex-
| tremely favorable to the party in
| power
There is reason to suppose that the
= Senate will continue Democratic at
1 lao 90 nrf, MI -
I in accordance with nonpartisan fore
cast published a month and a half
before election and confirmed by tho
| results of the election Itself In D
! word, so large a proportion Of the
Senate seats which will be I'm issue
at the 1916 election are naturally and
normally Democratic that the Re-
publican task of capturing enough
to control the Senate at that time
appears almost impossible.
Failure of the Republicans to win
the Senate in 1916 would mean con-
tinued Democratic dominance in that
chamber at least till March, 1919
quite regardless of what other politi-
cal developments might occur in the
meantime. President Wilson might
be defeated and the House captured
by Republicans, but the Senate
would remain.
Majorities are important only for
what they may accomplish or pre-.
vent. Obviously, Democratic contro
OF the Senate till 1919 would assure
to the Underwood tariff act trial
in operation which, in point of time
has been vouchsafed to few inn
portant tariff laws. The measure is
, not likely to fall victim to a snar
| popular Judgment. And there is rea-
son f9g satisfaction IN that.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
News of the Labor World

A presswoman is employed in the
printing trade at Binghamton. N. Y.
Spain has almost 600 union glass
workers.
There are twenty female factory
inspectors in England.
Tn North Carolina 81, 649 boys under
sixteen are employed in industry.
There are 101 international labor
unions with local branches In Canada.
There are 1,14S,S29 men in this coun-
try employed in clerical occupations
Printers in Germany are paying I'M
employment benefits since the war
started.
pennsylvania coal industry EN-
ploys 365, 232 1879, 924 in the bituminous
region and 175, 1908 in the anthracite.
Shirtmakers in New York city aver
age from 81 to So a week Of so hours.
California State Federation Of Labor
will work for the abolition of capital
punishment.
women's auxiliary to the label
section of the San Francisco Labor
Council has been organized.
Barre, VT, has placed its employees
on the eight-hour basis, with the same
pay as they had for nine hours.
In China beggars are taxed and are
assigned to locations Systematically
by the authorities.
A Cereal Workers Union has been
organized by the organizing commit
tee of the San Fancisco Labor Coun-
Gil.
In Missouri forty-three new local
unions, with membership of 5,457,
have been received by the State Fed
GRAFTON during the past year.
| Cardiff (Wales) Cooperative Whole
sale Society. Ltd, is constructing a
wholesale warehouse at a cost of
nearly 100000.
Almost forty per cent. of New
York's workers are employed In
manufacture.
Differences that bordered almost
on open breaches have been settled
by representatives of the brotherhood
of Operative Potters and the National
Pottery Manufacturers Association
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18

Army in Motor Vehicles,
From the American Review of Reviews
The end of the first month of the
present European war saw approx
mately a quarter of a million motor
vehicles of all types in the service of
the war departments of the belliger-
ent nations. This tremendous total
resulted from the fact that every
continental government involved, i'm
mediately on the outbreak of war,
commandeered practically all the mo-
tor vehicles within its boundaries.
England, on her part, easily acquired
the fifty thousand or so that she
needed.
An extensive and effective use has
been made of the motor vehicle by all
the belligerents ever since the war
began. The first step in the wonder
full advance which carried the Ger
man armies through Belgium and on
to the very gates of Paris involved
an extensive use of automobiles. On
the very heels of the declaration of
war against France, they dashed in
large numbers in Belgium and Lux
emburg, carrying thousands of picked
soldiers. Many small towns fell an
easy prey before their impetuous ad-
vance.
The Germans are making extensive
use of rapid-fire guns mounted on ar
mored motor cars. They have, ac-
cording to one correspondent, thou
sands of these motor guns, which are
of various categories, ranging from
the quick fire of the type of Maxim
to a light field gun with very little
/ less range than the ordinary field ar
/ tillery.
/ It is probable owing largely to the
mobility of these motor guns that
tho allied armies were forced to such
a rapid retirement. After leaving
one position they were not able to
man motor guns and cavalry were
upon them. Thus their retirement
! was practically a continuous rear
! guard action.
The first attack on Liege was
made by German troops riding in au.
tomobiles, the number of which has
been estimated at close to one thou
sand. This was a new Balaklava
charge with the motor vehicle sub
stituted for the horse. At the same
time scores of German scouting par
ties using automobiles crossed into
France at many points along the
frontier. In this work pleasure cars
and light armored motor trucks were
mostly used, and their activities fur.
nished a rather spectacular and
modern feature Of the war. In th'
} French army the horse is being USED
for practically no other purpose thar
as cavalry mount and to a limitcC
} extent in artillery traction. It Il
interesting to note that in the re-
treating movements of the German
armies in France, in the middle o
September, when the guns got stucI
: in the mud after the heavy rains