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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
Mr.. McDOugall's Protest

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
/ beg space in your columns to
protest against the dragging in of
the name of the Bureau of Asso-
ciated Charities in the attack upon
the Commission Government League.
The Bureau of Associated Charities
has had no more to do with the Com
mission Government League than it
had to do with Whitehead & Hoag
or any other of the firms or organiza-
tons to which it supplied unem-
ployed men on request.
In February of this last winter the
bureau undertook to meet the unem-
ployment situation by providing
work for such of the bonafide unem-
ployed with families as were in real
need. 1t accomplished this by pro-
viding days work at a wood yard
saving wood, by sending these I'M
employed men to the various char
table institutions of the city which
needed work done for which they
were not able to pay. and by finding
jobs at regular employment for the
men.
Among the unemployed men was
William Lay, who had acted as sec
rotary of the committee that called
upon the Mayor. The bureau en-
pioyed Lay at the same compensa-
ton, $3.50 a day, that it was paying
the other men at the wood yard, and
started him out canvassing for reg
ular jobs for the men. He did splen-
did work, finding good employment
at regular market rates during the
three months for more than sixty
men. An instance-he found that the
new building of Whitehead & Hoag
was just finishing and would have to
be cleaned and put in shape before
it could be occupied. He applied to
the firm and secured employment for
ten men for a period of two or three
weeks doing this work. In the same
way the Commission Government
League applied for two or three re-
liable men.
Let me state clearly here that these
unemployed men with whom the
bureau was dealing were not its reg
ular applicants, but self-respecting
men, whose references had been
looked up, who had never applied to
the Bureau of Associated Charities
and whom the bureau did not treat
as applicants This work is all over
now and the names of these men
have not been put on the regular
lists of the bureau and have not re-
NAMED as beneficiaries. Further
more. in justice to the Commission
Government League, I may say that
the understanding was that the men
were to be selected with great care
and were to be SO reliable that there
would be no danger of bogus sigma
lures. AS a matter of fact, only
four men were used, and as / remem-
her, these did not earn their salt and
gave 1t up.
| trust you will give this prom
inence and that you will clear the
Bureau of Associated Charities of
any connection with the whole mat
ter other than the purely incidental
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
THE OUTCOME IN ORANGE.

Once more the falacy of the preferential-voting
law operative proposition has been demon
strated Like the election in Irvingon, where none
of the five successful candidates received majority
of the votes cast counting rst-choice, secondchoce
yesterday had a similar result Not one of the five
successful candidates secured majority of the total
votes cast, with the aggregate of frst-choice
Becond-choice third-choice and all other choices
The total vote cast 4394.
Daniel F. Minahan received zoos votes all told
The lowest of the FIVE winners, Harry T. Wethling,
scored 1912. There were 164 ballots rejected.
The Orange election in itself a spirited affair
and there not let-up in hustling tactics from 6
O'Clock in the morning until the close of the polls at
7 in the evening.
have in the themselves told in the victory of the
winning FIVE.
Daniel F. Minahan will. in the very nature of
things become the titular mayor of the city next
Tuesday when the new form of government will be
Installed He is the present efficient city clerk of
Orange and besides the distinction of being high
man in the popular There is another advantage
that would reasonably fall Mr. Minahans lot in the
event of partisan division. He like William F.
Kearney and Harry T. Wethling, is Democrat, while
Mayor Frank ]. Murray and William A. Calhoun are
Republicans.
Minahan Kearney and Wethling open oppo-
nents of the plan to adopt the commission form of
government.
Surrogate Isaac Shoenthal found to be sixth
man when the returns were canvassed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
The Catastrophe Hazard.
New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial
Because of the frightful disaster in
o coal mine at Eccles, w. Va, the
State workmen's compensation fund
which started business last October
finds itself staggering under the ne
cessity of paying large sum to
widows and orphans of the 100 vic
TINS The scheme under which the
State Is operating cOntemplates the
division of industries into twenty
three separate groups which are as
xessed according to the seriousness
Of the hazards involved. The en-
ployers pay 80 per cent. while the en-
ployes pay 10 per cent. Of these as
seSsmentS.
when the plan was originated no
provision was made for catastrophe
of such proportions as that at Eccles.
Tho money is paid into a general fund
and the losses are settled as they oc-
cur. Now the Public Service Com
mission proposes to ask the legisla-
ture to authorize 1t to tax each Indus
try separately in case of similar dis
asters. This proposition appears fair
on its face, but there are objections,
tions.
Washington has a State assessment
scheme for the settlement of work
mems compensation losses, and each
industry in the State not only pays
it's assessment separately, but also
pays for it's own losses. The scheme
out there had not been in force very
lcngY before there was an explosion
in a powder mill at Chehalis, which
killed number of girls and made
the payment of between $4,000 and
"a 200 Imperative. Powder mills IT
Washington were assessed at 10 per
f.of,4 10
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE

| connection of supplying men. 1t
| would most certainly have supplied
men in the same way to a Demo-
cratic league, Republican league or
a league of any other political COM
plexion. Sincerely,
A. W. M'DOUGALL,
Secretary Bureau of Associated
Charities.
Newark, May IS.
(Mr McDougall is heartily welcome
to the space he seeks for the publica-
ton of his letter The letter, how
ever, must speak for itself, whether
as a measure of attack or defense
Mr.. McDougall protests against the
use of the name of the Bureau of AS
ISOLATED Charities in the "attack" up
on the Commission Government
League. What attack? When and
where does an attack appear?
1t is certainly regrettable that the
Bureau of Associated Charities, rr
any organizati ton with laudable aims
ard purposes, should be involved in
a movement positively political. But
who, pray, is responsible for drag
ging" in the name of the bureau?
Surely not the newspapers, for the
latter merely presented stories of
conditions and doings to their read
ers. That is the province and the
duty of newspaper; to tell of facts,
whether it pleaSeS some persons or
incurs the d spleaSure of others.
No organization, whether charitable
or otherwise, possesses or is endowed
with the divine right or privilege to
do that which is not contained in its
declared objects, and expect immun-
ity from publicity.
Mr.. McDougalls statement as to
men employed to obtain signatures to
commission government petitions, are
couched in terms decidedly d fferent
from Theodore S. Fettinger's printed
views on the same subject.
Mr.. McDougalls "disinterested" in
terest in commission government g
clearly shown in the communication
he asks to have published His COM
parison between a private CONNER
cial proposition, like the building OF
the Whitehead g. Hoag structure,
and the soliciting of signatures to a
political petition, is so irrelevant that
comment would be superfiuous.
The cold, bare facts of the direct
situation are that Lay or Lau or
Laying, whom Mr.. McDougall eulo-
gizes so highly, acting in the name
of the Bureau of Associated Chari-
ties. procured men from the waitin &
list of the Municipal Employment
Bureau and turned them over to the
Commission Government League to
perform the work of obtaining names
to petitions for commission form of
government, at a fixed compensation.
The men so employed, not only
freely admit this (their names and
addresses having been publishedD,
/ but explain in detail their expert
ences as canvassers.
On the whole. 1t would seem that,
! had Mr. McDougan exercised more
! care and caution, the name of the
Bureau of Associa ted Charities would
( not have been dragged" into the
controVerSy,-Ed)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
A Prediction for 1916

Over 14,157OS2 women may be able
to vote for President in 1915. In the
whole United States the number OF
women twenty-one years and over
was in 1910, "a, $50 754; the number of
women twenty-one and over in the
nine fun suffrage States Is more than
1,99S,073, while in Illinois the number
is over 1861, 491, making total of
more than 3,565.564 women over
twenty-one in States where women
are now entitled to vote for President.
IAe Ay.4 proDao ties (Which include
the States where the amendment has
already been submitted by the initla-
tive petition) should add 1906 2O1
women over twenty-one, and the 1915
probabilities shou d add approximate
ly 7,2s6,317, making a total of over
100000 a sufficient formidable num-
Der to receive the. consideration of
every political party. BY the same
forecast 290 out of a total of 531 e-ec-
torai votes will in 1916 be cast from
equal suffrage States.-New York
Evening Post.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20

The very size of the Central army
has made it necessary for Villa to as
sociate with himself several other Of
ficers, all acknowledging their al
legiance to Carranza as the chief of
the revolution, says Harper's Week
". First among these is General
Felipe Angeles, the noted artillery
commander He was for many years
superintendent of the Military School
at Chapultepec, is the idol of the Of
ficers of the army, and beloved by
the people, who pc mt to the fact that
he is a poor man, though for so long
an army officer in proof that he is
honest. He was educated in Europe
and is we'll known In the United
States among military and civil off,
Gals who have been stationed at
Mexico City. During the lombard
ment of the capital in the uprising
against Madero. Angeles realized that
Huerta was not making the proper
effort to take the citadel, held by
Felix Diaz and offered to take it
himself, if Madero would furnish him
the soldiers and cannon; but Madero
was unable or unwilling to distrust
Huerta.
After the assassina ton of Madero
General Angeles went to Europe,
where he left his family, and, re-
turning to America offered his SER
vices to Carranza. 1t will be well to
bear his name in mind. Some OBJ
servers who doubt the ability of
Carranza to rule Mexico consider
General Angeles the strong man of
the revolution. 1t was doubtless
through his influence as Villas chief
of staff and artillery commander at
Torreon, that the rules of civilized
warfare were regarded in the assault
upon that city Another of Villas Of
fieers at Torreon was General Ma
clovio Herrar, one of the natural
born soldiers developed by the revo-
luton. He was. formerly a quiet
business man of Chihuahua City, who
espoused the cause of the revolution
under Madero.
Another is General Torribio Or
tega, also of Chihuahua, who won a
captainship during the Madero revo-
lufion Still another is General
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20

In the early spring Of 1884, John H.
Reagan spent a week at Old Point
Comfort, Va. He was worn out with
his long-continued labors in Congress
and with the work which he had un-
dertaken for perfecting the legisla-
| ton which at last was embodied In
the interstate commerce act. So
thoroughly was Mr. Reagan identified
with the work that for a long time
the law was known as the Reagan
| interstate commerce law. Mr. Rea-
gan, two or three years later, was
| elected senator from Texas, but 1t
was never my privilege to meet him
| after he entered the United States
! Senate. In fact, he did not serve
out his term, but resigned some three
years after he took his seat for the
purpose of accepting the chairman
ship of the Texas State Railroad
| Commission.
Reagan was a man who possessed
an extraordinary gift of attracting
everyone with whom he came in con-
| tact by his personality, his intelli-
gence and a certain indescribable
charm of speech and manner. HIS
! fine physique may have been in part
the cause of the favorable impression
which he made upon all with whom
he was brought In touch.
1t seemed to me that Mr.. Reagan
was not especially fond Of speaking
In a reminiscent way of his expert
ence while serving as a member of
Jefferson Davis's cabinet during the
entire life of the Confederacy. This
reticence, however, was due exclu-
sively TO the fact that Mr. Reagan
looted to the future and was pro-
foundly concerned with affairs of the
present. The past for HIM was
Gle sed book.
One day l asked him il he had not
served for a time as secretary of the
treasury in the cabinet of Jefferson
| Davis. 1t was my impression that l
had heard from distinguished men,
Der OF Congress from Arkansas, Cliff
| ford Breckenridge, who was the son
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
MAY 20
Dolly Madison
coprigh ted z
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Copyrighted 1914.

Two very different but very admir-
able American women are the BIRTH
DAY patrons of May 20. These are
Dolly Madison, wife of the fourth
President OF the United States, and
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, now known
as Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop.
Dolly Madison is without doubt the
most charming of the women who
have occupied the position of first
lady of the land. BY birth and educa-
tion she was a Quakeress, and little
dreamed in her girlhood that a brill
liant life awaited her She was nine
teen years old when she was married
to John Todd, who died of yellow
fever three years later. The next
year the beautiful young widow met
James Madison and two years after
that they were married.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, who was
the younger daughter of the famous
novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was
born sixty-three years ago today. AS
baby she was the delight of her
parents life. In one of her mothers
letters we read these words referring
to BABY Rose: she is the very little
blue-eyed daughter l prayed for in
every respect, except that | thought
of yellow hair. / do not know whether
she has the philosophic temperament
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
MORGAN PRE.EMINENT.

That the late John Pierpont Morgan was mas
terful man is known of all the world. striking
tribute to his superiority other men of high mental
power was the statement by former President Mel
len of the New Haven, in his testimony yesterday
before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Morgan dominated Wall Street. He incarnated
the money power The great corporations and trusts
were his paythings and the railroads of the country
his servants His nod settled transactions involving
many millions. Ia his hands the financial credit
of the country.
Men there were, the heads Of great financial, in
dustrlal and transportation interests who were kings
in their spheres but they all humbly bowed to j. p
Morgan. The Difference paid to him by Mellen was
also the tribute of all others None presumed to be
the equal of the great lord of finance who divided his
time between heaping up enormous riches. asserting
his sway combined interests represented in bill
lions and collecting treasures that are the wonder
of the world
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
ROosEVELT'S BRAZILIAN RIVER.

Whether Roosevelt discovered in the recesses of
Brazil river a large the Rhine which is I'M
known on any map of the country and was I'M
suspected by geographers will be settled by him
to the satisfaction of the scientific world. Those
malignant American newspapers that seized upon the
denial of a jealous Englishman to discredt the dis
eovery of an American explorer because he was
Roosevelt will be compelled to make amends.
1t is something to penetrate a vast wilderness,
for thousands of miles amid constant dangers
enduring great fatigue and give to the world impor-
tant geographical knowledge. 1t is something more
when man gives up elegant leisure and home COM
forts at call of the wild to undergo these peris
and fatigues for the sake of the worlds enlighten-
ment. How contemplate by comparison are those
who would deny this credit for what he has done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
DEBATE ON TRUST BILLS LIMITED.

The rule to limit debate in the House on the anti
trust bills which passed by the House yesterday,
will avail to expedite the passage of the bills through
that body, but the Senate is to be reckoned with.
The House put the tolls surrender bill through in
onetwohree order but the Senate is still deliberat
ing on the bill and the deberation is likely to ex-
tend into June. The Senate is deliberative body.
How the Senate will take up the House trust
bills after they are received by the Senate committee
nobody can tell Debate on the bills may not begin
until early in July And the committee is likely to
report different bills such amendments as will
completely change the character of the House bills
With the long debate and the differences to be set
tied conference the session be prolonged into
August unless legislation is abandoned for this
session and agreement is made to resort to the
device of a commission.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNoCENTs.

The report of the Public Welfare Committee to
the Board of Health is statement of extraordinary
importance Signed by physicians of high standing
and fortified by facts and figures obtained by nvesti-
CATION the report appeals to the conscience of the
Newark community. 1t reveals social conditions that
have heretofore received little attention but not
new, and doubt they exist in all large communi-
ties
The report, of which careful synopsis appears
in The Stars local pages today, is outspoken. 1t
tells story of infantcide that seems incredible. The
statement by reputable physicians that the pre-
natal mortality in Newark is not less than 900 in
year and that about 1000 of these due to
criminaty is startling. But what agencies be
created to deal with this great evil? What gov
eminent do?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
PENRosE RENoMNATED.

The denomination of Senator Boies Penrose in the
direct primaries in Pennsylvania yesterday ex-
pected This the first direct Senatorial primary
held in that State Penrose having received his former
elections as Senator from the Legislature which he
controlled This time he is the party choice and will
submit his candidacy to the people
It is a triumph for Penrose that he the nomi-
nation. When the Republican party went to pieces
in 1912 State control seized by the Progressyes
and the career of Penrose seemed to be ended. His
own partisans turned against him. But Penrose
bded his time he secured control of the State organ
ization and is candidate before the people with
good prospects of going back to the Senate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20

Every woman who does her own
homework" explained the stranger,
knows what a nuisance the old
fashioned clothesline is. It's gener-
ally too loose, and says down to the
ground, and when it isn't loose it's
so high a woman can't reach it with
out a stepladder Consequently she
has to be forever calling upon her
husband to readjust the wretched
thing, and if there's anything a hard
working husband hates it's tinkering
with a clothesline.
Darwin and Huxley and other
great authorities say that most of the
men who forsake their homes and
families are driven to it by the con-
slant fixing of clotheslines. They
feel, when they return home from
their 1abors, that they are entitled to
repose instead of which they have
to go out and climb trees and shin up
poles, to do a job that is entirely UNI
necessary"
THAT shows all you know about
it," said Mrs. Curfew. Husbands
are not asked to fix the clotheslines
when they return home from their
labors. but early in the morning,
usually DSlOI6 pItdhldol, anu iiiS
married man who would object to do
ing such a chore can forsake his fam
lily and welcome. and the more he
forsakes them the better for all con-
cerned. A husband is getting his
laundry work done pretty cheap
when all he has to do for it is to tie
rope to a tree once in while.
I'd just like to hear Mr.. Curfew max
ing any invidious remarks touching
and appertaining to the clothesline.
II suppose you have some sort of a
patent safety clothesline in your
valise, but you don't need to produce
it, for l am not in the market for
anything of the kind. Our old
clothesline is good enough for me, and
IL 1 am satisfied I'm sure you ought
to be. although l must say that sell
ing clotheslines Is poor business for
a man o. your years and healthy APP
pearance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20

of the other children, but she has
vivid perceptions and sees things pic
turesquely. When she looks at a pic
ture she acts it at once. She has
an air of command which is very
funny"
When Rose Hawthorne was twenty
she married George Parsons Lathrop
in London, and with him she was
associated in literary work, as she
had been before with her father. But
as time passed Mrs. Lathrop realized
that her life was not to be spent in
pursuit of literature or of her own
pleasure. Her naturally sympathetic
and religious nature was stimulated
by the suffering she saw about her,
and in 1896 she decided to give her
life to the poor cancer victims of New
York city.
From a room in a crowded house
where she personally nursed a few
patients her work has grown till now
it is one of the most farreaching
works for cancer sufferers in New
York. At first Mrs. Lathrop worked
independently of any organization,
but a few years ago she entered the
Dominican order and became the SUI
perioress of her little home known
as "St. Roses Free Home for Can
GER
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
Bunion Causes 5000 Damage Suit
Against Public Service.

PASSAIC, May 2O.-A bunion on the
left foot of Asa IIilder, of q East
Twentieth street Paterson was the
cause of a $4,000 damage suit filed by
Hilder in the New Jersey Supreme
Court yesterday against the Public
Service Railway Company.
Boarding a Haledon trolley several
months ago, Hilder found every seat
occupied. He had to stand. When
the car started with a jerk very
stout woman stepped on Hilder' S
bunion, injuring it so he had to be
carried home Blood poisoning set in.
Hilder was then taken to a hospital.
He narrowly escaped death.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20

there The Star has consistently predicted the fall of
Huerta before the advancing hosts of Villa and Car
ranga The end of the dctator's reign appears to be
approaching rapidly. There to be little left for
the medators to do in the of Huerta. Huerta
doesn't Villa to catch him and kill him Huerta
killed Madero does Huerta take kindly to suicide
1t is said that Huerta is ready to jump.
In this connection it might not be bad sugges-
ton to the mediators invite the dictator to Niagara
put the situation clearly up him and give him full
and free opportunity to jump-oyer the falls and let
him take his chances with the elements