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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
WHAT FoRB1Ds AN OCEAN MARINE.

Scarcity of vessels is great and the freight
charges are so high that American foreign trade is
being seriously handicapped Secretary McAdoo calls
upon shippers send their facts to the treasury de-
partment, which has already received many bitter
complaints.
The woman, the goose and the golden egg appear
many times in the large business policies in this
country. The highly protected trusts pursued that
policy. Railroad enterprise has been disgraced by
the blind and suicidal policy. The nation is
presented with magnificent opportunity TO build up
great ocean marine, but private enterprise fails to
provide the ships and vessel owners make such ex-
orbant freight charges that commerce S discouraged
The government can and should do something to
provide chips and bring down the freight rates The
neptitude of Congress in the matter Is national re-
proach. Our commerce was dislocated Ave months
ago and practically nothing has been done either by
the administration or Congress even to improve the
conditions created There many foreign steamers
lying idle in our ports, and for the few American
steamers available the freight charges almost pro-
hibitory
A vigorous policy by the government would give
ships and with ships to carry goods our fac
tories would get orders and many thousands of people
would have employment while business activities of
all kinds would be stimulated 1t has been said that
the Congress of the United States the least efficient
legislative body in the world, and there reasons
TO believe that reproach Just
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS.

Christmas day in the United States witnessed the
most remarkable celebration in the memory of the
American people. Both In its religious and social
aspects the celebration did infinite credit to the Christ
spirit of the nation and all that 1t implies.
The warmth of feeling evident everywhere the
universal kindly sentiment the general sollcitude for
the unfortunate so splendidy exhibited In
the hundreds of municipal Christmas trees and all
the vast charity and philanthropy that glor
ously action revealed the nature of the Amer
lean people
Our nation has never lacked in any of the virtues
of the Christmas festival The most generous of
nations TO and the stranger, excelled in
unsei6sh and generous thoughts and deeds on this
Christmas In city. and village that spirit
in evidence. II Is interesting know to what extent
the great calamity in Europe had its effect upon
the American Christmas; how much 1t tended to
unite the American people in sympathy and make
them feel their dependence upon each other and upon
the government which is of their free choice
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

Jules Verne's wonderful imagination could con-
eeve voyage under the sea, or a journey to the
moon with the motive force supplied by cannon to
get it beyond the attraction of the EARTH but battle
in the air between men sitting in airshps and firing
upon each other as they cTcled like eagles, with
thousands of spectators frma witnessing was
something beyond his imagination.
And this was witnessed Christmas afternoon by
the people OF a seacoast town in England, German
aviator fighting two English Hviators and finally
speeding out Of sight. When an aeroplane sailed from
Governors Island and crced the Statue of Liberty in
New York harbor a million people looked on amazed
and marveled at the miracle But there were few
indeed who did not share the belief of our unmag-
native Congress- that the aeroplane was merely a
toy The more enlightened few saw in 1t all the possi-
bilties brought out by the epoch-making in
Europe.
And before the war ends in all probability there
will be far more spectacular and tragical battles in
the air to beggar the imagination. Instead of single
sviators there will be fleets of zeppens and aero
planes fighting in the air The year Is to usher
IN q new era in warfare for which the belligerent
nations are preparing. 1t is to be year of the most
startling and wonderful events, and probably the
most tragcsl, in all history.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
YuIetide Effect on Jurors

The 8. p. U. G., or Society for the
Prevention of Useless Giving. almost
secured another member this week
during trial In which the Public
Service Railway Company was the
defendant. A New York woman was
suing to recover q large sum of
money from the company for the
death Of her husband. The latter was
run down and killed by trolley car
early In the year and it was charged
that the accident was due to negli-
gence on the part of the company
Members of the jury seemed to lean
a little toward the complainant, as
evidenced by the questions which
they took upon themselves to ask
witnesses Howard MacSherry, coun-
sci for the traction company, ex-
DRESSED desire to have the trial &c
over TO later date. Finally II was
decided to have the suit adjourned
end Mr.. MacSherry was asked why
he vas so ANXIOUS to have the ad.
ioprnment. He replied:
"It always seems to be bad policy
for MS TO try these accident cases at
his time of the year The Jurors
usually are In a very charitable frame
Of mind, and more often than not
decide to give the plaintiff a verdict
as o Christmas present"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Veteran EmpIoye Of the State Department

his business. l should like to have
you find out in a kindly way who
among the clerks are in sympathy
with the South and let them know
that it is unavoidable that they be
relieved of their duties"
This delicate task Mr.. Hunter per
formed with great skill and In such
kindly manner that no personal
enmities We're made.
Il had in the Postoffice Department.
when I was postfnaster-gener u
clerk who had been there from the
time of Andrew Jaekson's administra-
tion, and I felt sure that he was the
oldest government employe in con
secutive service in one department OF
that or any other time" said Thomas
L. James, who was postmaster-gen-
eral in Garfield's Cabinet, to me just
after he had received call from this
veteran enaploye.
but / found out that I was mis-
taken. / believe 1t TO be a fact that
the man who was longest In the ser
vice of the government In single de-
partment was William Hunter. He
was a splendid type of man. He was
the State Department In the flesh.
He lived and breathed and thought
that department. He knew II In every
keep closer watch upon his tongue
than Hunter. Yet he was appointed
by John Quincy Adams, ! think, In
the year 1925. He was but a clerk,
but was gradually promoted till at
one time he was chief clerk and after
ward became second assistant secre-
tary. lust think OF 1t! He knew John
Quincy Adams and served under
Henry Clay when Clay was secretary
of state! He stayed In the State De-
partment through many administra-
tions and at last became the most
valued of the assistants, SO far as
technical administration of the de-
partment was concerned, to William
H. Seward, and he was still there
when General Grant began his first
administration"
Copyright, 1914, by q. ]. Edwards, All
rights reseryed)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

ten years out in her calculation. She
was born of a respectable but poor
English family and the early years
of her life were fraught with all
sorts of financial difficulties She
served as a governess for several
years and everywhere won for her
self friends because of her bright,
amusing ways. Finally she went on
the stage, where she was successful,
though she showed no great ability.
However, her wit, her graceful dane
ing and her spirited singing brought
her much popularity.
Her first literary efforts were 10
the form of the English words writ
ten to go with old Irish tunes Later
she wrote several successful novels,
one of which, THE Wild Irish Girl
has been called a work OF genius,
though of misguided genius.
Eventually Sidney married an Eng
iishman with title and became Lady
Sidney Morgan. In her old age she
made an effort to gather around her
men of letters and art and sought TO
regain the popularity which had been
hers In her youth. But her days OF
success were gone and she was de-
scrlbed as: "A little hump acked
old woman, absurdly attired, roughed
and wigged, vivacious and some-
what silly. vain. ostentatious and
gossiping. larding her talk win
scraps of French often questionable
in idiom and always dreadfui IN tneiF
accent"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

ment Squads of conviots are being sent to distant
camps and to build roads. They might better be en-
ployed a large prison farm to raise produce for
the public institutions with indoor occupation In the
winter.
Sooner or later the State prison will be removed
from Trenton 1t Is out of place. the location foroids
reforms which all penoogsts advocate. It is in1ur
GUS to the moral welfare of the state and It s
economical and unnecessarily costly. The city of
Trenton will be benefited by getting rid of an nsti-
tuition that houses large population of malsfactors
and witnesses executions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
DEcEM BER 26
Mary SomervilIe
Copyrighted 1914.
by MARY MARSHALL.

THE most remarkable woman Of
her generation"-such Is the unquali-
fed praise given to Mary Somerville,
the scientist. who was born December
2G, 1880. She was the daughter of a
vice admiral In the English navy, and
from her earliest childhood showed
an aptitude for mathematics, She
mastered Latin at an early date 80
that she could read certain disserta-
lions on geometry. When she was
twenty four she married a son of a
Russian admiral and after his death
eight years later she married her
cousin
Mrs, Semerville's attainments In
mathematics have seldom been para
lelled by q woman, but she was not
at all the type of woman usually
associated with profound intellectual
attalnments, She was of exceedingly
fair and delicate features. Her hair
was fair, her complexion delicate, and
her features small. She was known
in her youth as the Rose of jed
burgh," and so far from despising the
usual occupations of women because
of her work in mathematics, she was
actually devotee of needlework and
flower painting
Lady Sidney Morgan, the novelist,
was born December 26, but whether
the year was 1775 or 1888 or 1855 is
still mystery. Lady Sidney said
ii was i7s5. but there is good reason
TO believe that she was eight or even
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A NEW STATE PRISON SITE.

1t expected that local opposition would be
made in Trenton to the removal of the State prison
from that city. The prison is source of commercial
proht to the town For the reason opposition
was made to the building OF second State normal
school al Montelar several years ago, Trenton mer-
chants wanted the Trenton school enlarged, which
would be an enlargement of their trade opportuni-
ties If New Jersey youth wanted normal school
training they travel to Trenton.
But the State prison has outgrown Trenton as
we'll its facilities for housing and caring for
vcts The chief for the wholesale pardons of
convicts is to make for new patches of Grim
inals. The law of the State has been violated for
years in it's principal penal institution The plan on
which the State prison is run is also confessedly a
bad ons, for there means for outdoor employ
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A Prosperity Forecast

THAT prosperity has returned was
made absolutely certain to me dur
ing this week." said Newark mer-
chant today. "Every year I stock W
with Christmas trees. Some years my
entire stock Is bought up, but there
are some years when I am left with
a number on hand. I have always
found that ready market for trees
indicated that the year to follow
would be good one for business.
People will not buy Christmas trees
unless they have money to spare.
"The sale of trees this year wah
bigger than any have known since
! have been in business. Last year
l gave a number of trees away
Christmas eve, just to get rid of them.
Last week | had to replenlsh ms
stock twice. and on Thursday night
my store was swept as clean as a
bone. had to turn a number of my
regular customers away. And I take
year"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

In order deenn: how Of Newark ana Nosrn
Now Jersey extend materials
cheaper than At present M Gardner will make extended tour OF
ing time July August svnhcien time to permit manu-
Southern continent.
STAR M ardnsr VIII seek for them specnc regsTdins
filed at once 80 that Mr. Gardner can aange therefor before he
possibilities product will be gladly furnished request
GARDENERS trip will from time
EVENING STAR further the
gladly places this service their disposal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

homo that he Ia buying by install
ments. IL the freight rate on coal Is
really reduced II ought to mean q
saving of million dollars a year 20
Philadelphia householders, but the
optlmists who really believe that the
consumer will actually profit by the
ruling are very few.
Men who draw wages or salaries
are In an Overwhelming majority, and
they are growing impatient of the
rainbow -hued promises that bring no
real relief 70 the strain of living.
They are not rejoicing over the per
cent. freight increase because they
will foot the bill. What they want is
q strong, consistent and workable
theory OF government that will bring
them some tangible benefit.
Give! GiYot
From the Survey.
Never within living memory has
there been such a need. or rather
such an opportunity, for giving as
there Is In this country today, and
will be to an ever-increasing degree
through the winter that looms ahead
From the far-fiung battle fields OF
Europe, where thousands OF wounded
are waiting for the ministrations OF
surgeon anu nurse, from DciSluHl
France. Prussia, Galicia, where fruit
full fields have been turned into
deserts, and quiet resting places into
haunts Of terror; from refuge camps
of Brittany, Holland and England
where miserable women and children
driven from their homes, stripped Of
, their possessions, robbed of theii
loved ones, are cying out for bread
clothing, shelter, and the sweet sac
rament of consolation" from villages
myrlads will soon be tramping the
streets in quest Of jobs and aims
from all these scattered areas oil
misery goes up a cry for help. In the
first place, we must not desert tbs
Institutions and movements to which
we have been contributing in th'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

No one could have assumed an i'm
portant office with less ceremony or
in a more perfunctory or matter-of-
fact way than that which character
lied William H. Seward when he be-
gan his service as secretary of state
In the administratio ton of President
Lincoln. Mr.. Seward entertained two
or three friends at a family break
fast at his home in Washington and
then, exactly as though he were going
to the Senate chamber, he put on his
hat and oyercoat and started forth
unattended except by his son for the
building in which the State Depart
ment at that time was located.
Mr. Seward walked into his ONCE
with no more embarrassment or hest
tation than he would have shown had
he been secretary of state for years.
He may have been able to do that
because while serving as Senator he
frequently visited the State Depart
ment. He took his seat at his desk
and after a moment or two he called
for william Hunter.
There are still living In Washington
men who undoubtedly remember Will
lam Hunter. He was a man of
medium size, we'll built, with plump
cheeks, a large head, and somewhat
scanty hair. He was smooth shayen
and the shape Of his head and some
of his features occasionally reminded
some of those who knew Stephen A
Douglas of the Little Giant" as
Douglas was often called.
Seward knew Mr.. Hunter well. He
had often met him on his earlier
visits to the State Department. He
sometimes spoke of Hunter as the
cornerstone of the department so far
at least as the technical and office ad-
ministration was concerned.
After greeting Mr.. Hunter cordially,
Seward said: II presume there are in
the department some clerks who
naturally sympathize with the South
They should not be here now. None
should be in this department who Is
not to be trusted with the archives,
the documents and the knowledge OF
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A INDUSTRIOUS WRONG AND NO REDRESS.

The awful responsibility that Juror must feel In
condemning fellow being to long suffering, or per-
haps death, entirely circumstantial evidence is
EN- phasized by the of New Jersey man. John
Edward Schuyler. On evidence of this kind he was
convicted of a murder, although protesting his nno-
cence and condemned to death
Governor Stokes having grave doubts of the YER
dict saved Schuyler from the electric chair by re-
prieve and finally had the commuted to life
imprisonment Since then another man has confessed
the crime, and Schuyler pardoned in time to spend
Christmas with his loved But this man had
been years in prison for a crime committed by
another and there is reparaton for this mon
strous wrong done him by society.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
ARE REVOLVING DOORS A PERIL?

What would happen in case of sudden panic
during the rush hours In the crowded corridor Of
office skyscraper where the only exit is set Of
volving doors? Many people watching the luncheon
time hrong have asked themselves this question The
building commissioner of ST. Louis has ordered this
kind of doors taken out of all buildings in that city.
interpreting State law to forbid them This action
appears be the first of It's kind for the that
the class of business building usually equipped with
revolving doors not the In which FIRE panic
Is likely to occur.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
Life IL very simple 10 the man on q
salary; IL consists of daily, weekly
and monthly economizing In the face
Of a constant and inexorable rise In
The cost of living. I'VE must cut our
Christmas presents this year to have
necessities, things TO wear, that we
should have to buy anyway" he says
to his wife. "All right, dear" she re-
eponds, 81 think can make 1t clear
TO the children" Then he goes to his
work with something Of the spright-
illness missing from his step and q
little self-respect absent from the
Doise of his head. How, where, when
it will end he does not know; but the
average American, working on wage
or salary, is a patient and courageous
man. and he fronts the facts Of life
without hinching.
What ne would like to know is
whether all these government COM
missions and investigations and
long run. Time after time he has
4hrilled to such rhetorical phrases as,
"A Square Deal" THE Full Dinner
Pail" and THE New Freedom" but
the net results in reduced monthly
hills or increased monthly salary
nave certainly not srDstantiated the
glowing prophecy. The magic power
of government Is getting to be a
myth, and the only thing that saves
F our boasted democratic institutions
from reprisals is the genuine sense oil
humor possessed by American citi-
zens.
1t cost the administration millions
to listen for a salute Of twenty-one
guns at Vera Cruz, and no one ever
heard II. The man on salary
must pay that bill in some form OF
taxation. Increased Communication
rates for himself and family will moi
only mean the clipping off of some
pleasures for the family. but de-
preciation in his little suburban
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26

Fireman Rescued ut Blaze Falls Dead
In Sleep walking at Headquarters Later.
BOSTON, Dec. 26.-After he had
narrowly escaped death last night in
f1ghtinE a fire, Thomas w. DEWEY. a
fireman, was killed six hours later by
falling through the sliding pole hole
In his engine house while walking in
his sleep.
He was one of twenty hremen who
were slightly hurt when a floor fell
during a fire on Pearl street earlier IN
the night.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
SOME NECESSARY HEALTH REGULATIONS.

The public drinking cup and the roller towel are
placed under nterdict by the New York State Board
of Health and sanitary rules fixed for barber
shops manicure parors and chiropodists Offices IN
struments and towels used must be sterilized
Public drinking cups outlawed in New Jersey,
but rule attention is paid to the law and little
effort ia made to enforce It, There be no doubt
that diseases communicated by common drinking
cups roller towels and the of unsteriized insru
meuts In barber shops and other places. The dim
Guilty Is to enforce the sanitary rules
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
CAN rHAw DEFEAT THE SUPREME COURT;

CAN THAW DEFEAT THE SUPREME COUNTY
The judgment of the United States Supreme Court
in the of Harry X. Thaw is supposed to be final
There tribunal to appeal to beyond that august
body But Thaw's lawyers to meet at Manchester.
N H.. to consult as how the courts judgment can
be defeated.
The case of Thaw is disgrace to American 1uris-
prudence and the American bar 1t has illustrated
how a criminal of opulent means can make travesty
of the law and a Jest Of justice where the ordinary
man would feel the full rgors of the law. II the
United States Supreme Court be houted In this
what is there left in system of justice that
a criminal like Thaw need fear?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
News of the Labor World

and of the remaining go per cent.
fully 80 per cent. are on half pay.
This proportion is a fair example OF
all other industrial districts.
"Only British BARRIERS employed
here" is a notice to be seen outside
many hairdressers' shops in London.
Tuberculosis caused 143.e00 deaths
In the United States last year and
an economic loss OF about $3.50, 900, 900,
Missouri, Indiana. Pennsyivania,
Delaware, Vermont and Maine, II Is
stated, are working toward compsn-
sation legislation in 1915.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A New profession"

Fifth grade pupils in the public
schools must have some knowledge
about the government schools at An
apolis, West Point and Carlisle. A
Few days ago a teacher gave her
pupils test. Among the questions
vas one asking what was taught at
the three government institutions.
One lad got over the first two all
light. but when he came to Carlisle
he was somewhat In doubt. His
paper afterward showed he had an
5Wered the query this way:
AT Carlisle they teach men to be-
coma Indians"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
A"Cold" Fear

Afraid of receiving a scolding, a
boy who would not go home after he
had fallen through the ice into the
water of Edgemont lake, Montclair,
took q novel way to dry his clothes
He skated up and down at top speed
for about an hour until the wind had
dried out his clothes. Many of the
spectators thought that the lad would
take cold, but the exercise kept his
blood in thorough circulation and the
lad departed home where no one
would be the wiser for his mishap.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-26
CHIT CHAT
Poor Shoppers

A novel sight which attracted much
attention just before Christmas was
the number of men sitting on the
outside window sill of a local depart
ment store, their arms laden with
bundles. and smoking pipes, cigars or
cigarettes. They were evidently tho
husbands, brothers or sweethearts of
women who were In the store shop
ping. Mans natural antlpathy to go
Ing on a shopping tour was evident
from their sitting around In the cold,
rather than risk going through the
crowds in the store, but they did not
object to acting as carriers OF the
parcels purchased.