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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
PASSING OF THE HENNEssY AoT.

With the Hennessy commission act, known as the
"Home Rule Act" finally knocked out, the commits
sion government municipalities relieved of
the disabilities which the Bergen senator devised for
them in his legislative measure. They keep on
which Mr. Hennessy would have forbidden them to do.
Warning given to the introducer of the bill
by Newarks city counsel that it unconstitutional
before the bill was enacted. The advice repeated
TO the Governor before the bill was signed. Even
after lawyer for bond firm in New York had ad-
vised that the law was probably invalid and that it
made city's bonds doubtful the obstinate opinion
was held that there was nothing legally the matter
with the law. Senator Hennessy proix in his
newspaper dissertations to prove that his was
assailable
This careless and incompetent bit of legislation.
put out of existence. first by the decree of the
Supreme Court and again by the final action of the
Court of Errors and Appeals has caused much embar
and little injury to municipalities af-
fected by it, and also considerable cost But the les
it teaches may be worth something at Trenton.
1t will be recalled how sayagey Senator Hen
messy assaled Mr.. Nugent, Newarks city counsel.
for pointing out the fatal defects his homogeneous
bill and the plight in which it would plunge commits
sion-governed municipalities, and how certain
papers, deficient in reasoning powers and blinded
by personal and political prejudice cried me y
and chimed in with Hennessy.
Perhaps it may be in order for Senator
Hennessy to attempt to have enacted law abolish
ing the Supreme Court and the Court of Errors and
Appeals for daring to put damper his diosyn-
crasies and agreeing with the sound views expressed
by Newark's city counsel And it would not be al
together strange the Newark News and the Jersey
Journal would again join hands with Mr.. Hennessy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
UPLIFT TALKS
BUSINESS BUILDS CHARACTER
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the Front Etc.
49, Copyright 1914.

! many moves ahead and checkmate
any possible counter move of his OPP
ponent, all these are absolutely cs-
sential to victory, and these are the
exercises and experiences which
make the tough timber the close
moral fiber ofe the active business
mans character.
| The fact is, an active business life
is really one of the greatest educa-
tors in the world. just think of the
great variety of mental operations
that are brought into play in bust
ness. The business mans faculties
must always be on the alert, his in
genuity and resourcefulness, his
| judgment, his powers of discrimina-
| ton, must always be active He
must be ever progressive, able and
yet prudent. He must not be afraid
| to plunge, and yet he must ever be
cautious. He must be liberal and yet
! economical He must not be small
or mean. He must always be syste-
matte. always know how to make
program.
The business mans daily life forces
| him to be practical He lives in 4
world of realities; whereas the mere
scholar often lives in dreamland The
great merchant, for instance, is com
| PEELED to have q very wide range Of
| knowledge. If he is an importer, nc
| must know a great deal of the
i geographical, social and political con-
| ditions of many men. A really good
business man cannot be very narrow.
A great business establishment,
where everything must be learned at
| first hand by actual contact with the
| things hemselves-multitude of
things gathered from all parts OF
the world-must necessarily be SUI
| perior as an educator in MANY re.
spects to that which comes from the
mere studying of books and listening
to lectures.
Thers is no limit. for instance, to
wha a wide-awake, alert clerk in a
great department store may learn
about the goods he is handling where
they are made how they are made
What chance to study the indus
trial conditions of the countries which
produce the raw material the people
who manufacture or prepare the
goods! What a story of the life and
conditions of people in various parts
of the world there is in the very
patterns and quality of the textiles!
Compare the dry lectures in an I'M
attractive college classroom. the
study of mere books, with the adj
vantages of coming into perpetual
contact with a thousand varieties Of
manufactured articles in a great
storei
And yet the department store clerk
envies the college mani He often
wastes valuable energy, wishing that
they could change places.
A great department store is a per-
petual university. 1t is a perpetual
daily object lesson, where knowledge
is gained, not from books, but from
the actual things themselves. What
romance, what struggles and sacri-
fees and failures and triumphs there
are in the great multiplicity of mer-
chandise in one of these stores! And,
more important yet, what opportu-
nifty for character building, what
school for the making of men"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
THE SHADOW OF STATE SOCIALISM.

Senator Borah, in speaking of the approaching
decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission on
the requested cent. advance of railroad rates,
predicts that within the country will be face
to face with the question of public ownership of rail-
roads He bases this assertion the opinion that
regulation by commission must inevitably fail, as it
satisfy both the people at large and the stock
holders of the common carriers.
1t may be that Senator Borah is a true prophet.
But if this be of the railroads under the present
system of regulation by governmental commission,
what is the outlook for large enterprises of indus
trial nature if the proposed Federal Grade Commits
sion becomes reality?
As the senator states, the powers sought to be
granted the commission go Into every realm
of fancy into which mind may co., and if the fixing
of railroad rates by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission leads to government ownership, why will
not the fixing of prices by trade commission lead to
government ownership of all industries doing inter-
state business?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11

prove to be a loss, he put it on the
market. This book was "Ihe Wide,
Wide World" and was signed by
Susan Warmers assumed name, Eliza
beth Watherall.
For a few months it seemed as il
the. critics whom Mr.. Putnam had
consulted had been right in their con-
demnation of the book, and as if Mrs.
Putnam had been wrong. Then sud-
denly the book began to sell and it
went on selling until over quarter
of a million copies had been sold.
And in this success two women-the
woman who wrote the book and the
woman who had foresight enough to
know that it would sell-had part.
Following THE Wide, Wide World
Susan Warner published "Queechy,"
"Melborne House and Daisy" all
of which gained considerable success.
Today is also the birthday of Prin-
cess Irene, wife of Prince Henry of
Prussia, whose visit to this country
thirteen years ago won for him many
warm friends in America. Prince
Henry is the emperor's eldest brother
and the princess was before her mar
riage Princess of Hesse and is a sis
ter of the Russian empress She was
married in 1888 and has two children.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
LABOR NOTES

Structural ironworkers in San
Francisco get $3.50 day.
There are 10000 licensed chauffeurs
in London.
New York city's brass bed industry
employs $500 workers.
Union horseshoers in Chicago have
a minimum wage of 81 day.
poisoning occurs in seventy
different occupations.
Compositors in Seattle, Wash, are
paid as high as seventy-five cents an
hour.
There are almost $4,000 policemen in
London, England.
There are eight unions of electrical
workers in Boston.
There are $4,000 phone girls in the
United States.
In Europe fourteen of the leading
nations have entirely prohibited the
work of women between certain
periods of night by international
treaty.
Efforts are being made by the Jour
neymen Bakers and Confectionery
Workers International Union to- or
ganize the workers in the bread fac
tories.
Many German cities. led by Cologne,
are starting organizations which will
help the unorganized unemployed as
we'll as the organized.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
BABY CARE IN THE SCHOOLS

Baby care as a part of the instruction in elemen-
tary schools be introduced in the school system
of Philadelphia The is to include infant
hygiene and methods of handling feeding, bathing
and nursing infants The world has always taken it
for granted that knowledge of the handling of infants
came to girls by inheritance mothers and it has
been left this generation to find that the world has
been mistaken.
Undoubtedly there is much ignorance of proper
infant handling as we'll as hygiene among mothers
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11

The education and training which
business houses give the youth is as
valuable as the training in military
schools. Promptness, thoroughness
good manners, efficiency attention
concentration and regularity are daily
inculcated and are of untold ad-
vantage to the man or woman whose
habits are in the making.
What an education the daily bust
ness routine give us in promptnessi 1t
has brought everything to the use OF
a schedule of time. 1t has perfected
the watch. How much we owe to
railroad time-tablesl BY compelling
us to be prompt to the minute they
become habit. The youth learns
the value of even O fraction of a min
ute.
To acquire the habits of a big bust
ness house, the military system, the
thoroughness and accuracy of its
rules and regulations is a splendid
equipment for after life.
We little realize our tremendous
debt to what we often speak OF
slightingly as business routine II
has systematized daily life. which,
without its influence. would have been
little more than a tumble.
Such training has decided moral
influence Good habits lead to right
living; they belong to the same family
and, indeed, are close kin.
In country towns where business is
done in a helter-skelter way, where
everything is slovenly and slipshod,
where ambition is a stranger. the
morals are low, the ideals are low
flying, and life as a whole is not
worth the heritage of mankind.
Accuracy and foresight are very
necessary constituents of q strong
character, and there is nothing which
will develop these qualities like the
constant necessity of looking ahead,
planning for the future emergency,
stretching the mind over possible flu
ture problems and providing for any
emergency that may come.
Comprehensiyeness, breadth of
view, is characteristic of strong
minds, and this quality can only be
developed by the continual effort to
exercise the mind over great prob
lens. Planning for and meeting
emergencies are great stamina-build-
ers. An actual or possible emer-
gency will call out ones inventiveness
and bring into play ones resource
fulness as nothing else will. To have
great responsibility thrust upon us
is a powerful builder.
The educative influence of a tight
financial situation, the problem of
providing ways and means, the con-
slant effort to do the maximum of
business with the least possible cap
ital, the great study of human ma
ture in weighing, estimating, ham
ding men, these are the gymnasia
which train the faculties, build char
acter, help to develop the great men,
tai giants of the race.
In other words, business is like a
great game of chess, in which the
prize winner must have all his fac
ulties alert and active, his ingenuity,
resourcefulness, inventiveness, COM
prehensiveness, his power of making
combinations, his ability to look
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL
JULY II
Susan Warner
Copyrighted 1914.

1t is a significant fact that the two
most widely circulated books ever
written by Americans were written
by women. These two books are
"Uncle Toms Cabin" by Harriet
Beecher Stowe. and THE Wide, Wide
World" by Susan Warner.
Susan Warner was born in New
York ninety-five years ago today.
When she was thirty-fve she sent the
manuscript of a book to George
putnam, the publisher. Mr.. Putnam
read 1t with mild interest. On the
whole, he was not fayorably inn
pressed, although there was some
thing about it that made him think
that it might commend itself to the
public. His favorable opinion was
reversed. however, when he gave the
manuscript to several critics, who
unanimously condemned it as unread
able and unsaleable.
AS good luck would have 1t, how
ever. the condemned manuscript fell
into the hands of Mr.. Putnam
mother. She liked the book and she
knew at once that it possessed quail
tiles which would make 1t popular.
on her advice her son, Mr.. putnam;
published the book and, still half
doubling whether the book would not
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Only democrat in His Family

The late William B. Hornblower,
whose nomination as associate justice
of the Supreme Court at Washington
by President Cleveland, and the re-
fusal of the Senate to approve that
nomination on the ground of SEN
atorial courtesy--the two New York
Senators, David B. Hill and Edward
Murphy beng opposed to it-brought
him before the public, was the only
member of the Hornblower family, of
New Jersey, who was allied to the
Democratic party
Shortly after the Senate had re-
jected Mr. Hornblower's nomination
as associate justice of the Supreme
Court he narrated to me in some de-
tail the manner in which, unknown
to him, President Cleveland was
persuaded to nominate him for the
Supreme Court bench and the per-
sistence of the President in keeping
that nomination before the Senate, al
though Mr.. Hornblower himself had
requested him to withdraw the nomi-
nation.
1t then occurred to me to ask Mr..
Hornblower how it happened that he
had allied himself with the Demo-
cratic party while the other members
of his family, past and present. were
either Republicans, or, earlier, Wings,
or, still earlier, Federalists.
YES, it is true" Mr.. Hornblower
replied, that | am the only member
of the Hornblower family of New
Jersey who has ever been associated
with the Democratic party. 1t does
seem all the more strange that |
should have made this choice in view
of the fact that my great grandfather,
Josiah Hornblower, was one of the
first to develop the natural resources
of New Jersey. He came over from
England in the year 1850, and he went
to New Jersey because information
had been brought to him that if the
right kind of apparatus could be
established at a copper mine in that
State, then that mine could be worked
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS
By MINNIE j. REYNOLDS

month for teachers. The bill was in
troduced and put through by Sena.
tor Helen Ring Robinson, who had
been a teacher before her marriage.
Colorado originated the "contribu-
tory delinquency act, since copied
by many States. Under this act
adults, contributing to the delfp--
quency of a child, can be arrested
and punished by the Juvenile Court
The first Juvenile Court and the first
widows pension act now copied all
over the civilized world, were Sc
cured by the women voters of Aus
tralia.
The equal guardianship law, Civ
ing fathers and mothers the same
legal rights over their children, failed
several times in California, but was
passed the winter after California
women got the vote. The eight
hour law for women failed several
times in Washington, but was passed
the winter after Washington women
got the vote.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
AMERICAN GIRLS FOR TITLES.

The Congressman who introduced bill in the
House of Representatives proposing to put tax on
American girls of opulent parents who become brides
of impecunious foreign noblemen meant it for a
freak" but it represents prevailing popular senti-
ment that has been offended of late years by this
swapping of wealth for titles.
In too many instances the American girl is a
sacrifice the nobleman she is made marry being in
such cases of low caste morally. Exception is made,
course of such marriages the natural result
of association equal social plane in Europe In
not few the American girl has been compelled
to seek divorce from titled mate because of his
utter unworthiness.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Equal Suffrage and Free Love

A sapient spokeswoman of the New
Jersey Anti-Suffrage Society has been
travelling over the State, stating in
every speech that votes for women
means the establishing of free love,
or words to that effect. Three thou
sand delegates at the convention Of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs at Chicago, representing 1,750,-
900 American club women, voted to
endorse votes for women. It is now
up to the "antis" to prove that the
club women of America desire to
abolish marriage and establish free
love in it's place.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11

An Unfortunate No One Wants.
From the New York Times.
Nathan Cohen, thirty-fve years old
born in Russia, is at Ellis Island at
the expense of the Lamport Sc Holt
steamship agents, waiting until the
United States government has decid-
ed what is to be done with him. He
was brought to this country from
Brazil on the steamship Vestris on
March g. 1912, and allowed to land
and proceed to Baltimore, where he
had friends. A year later he devol-
oped insanity, and was ordered to be
deported under the three-year alien
limit, and the Lamport &c Holt line
had to send him back to Brazil. There
the immigration authorities refused
to permit Nathan to land.
On his return to New York in the
fall Nathan was taken to Ellis Island.
and later sent to Russia at the ex-
pense of the Lamport e. Holt line, as
it had brought him to this country in
the first place. The Russian officials
would not allow him to land there as
he had no papers to show that he was
born in that country, so Nathan was
sent back once more to New York
On March of this year he was de-
ported again to Brazil on the steam
er Van Dyck in the hope that he
would be allowed to go to relatives at
Port Alleghe, who would look after
him.
The Brazilian officials were ada
mant in their refusal to allow the
man to land and he arrived back in
New York on the Van Dyck and was
taken to Ellis Island, where he will
stay in the hospital for the rest Of
his days as the guest of the steam
ship company unless the authorities
in Washington take some steps in the
matter to be decided what is to be
done with Nathan Cohen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Mr.. Bradner's Error

Frank e. Bradner represented
Mayor Hauser. Of Bloomfield. in a
libel suit against a newspaper in
Circuit Court last week. In his sum-
ming up Lawyer Bradner told the jury
that newspapers STOOD together"
that one would not publish anything
about libel suit against another.
take this case for instance. You
will notice that the newspapers do
not mention anything about this suit
because newspaper is involved"
81 beg your pardon, Mr.. Bradner,"
interrupted Halsey Barrett, attorney
for the newspaper, "but do you speak
of your own knowledge"
why, yes, ! think So" answered
Mr.. Bradner.
"Well. then" said Mr.. Barrett, adj
dressing the court, 81 will have to
refer my learned friend to last nights
Evening Star, page ten, column six,
where he will find nearly three
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
An EMBRYO Lawyer

A bright-eyed lad entered the office
of one of Newark's lawyers last week.
He passed the young woman steno-
grapher in the outer Office and stood
before the lawyer, hat in hand, await
ing recognition.
"Don't you want an office boy?" he
INQUIRED as the lawyer looked up.
Receiving a negative reply, the
youngster turned as If to go and
then turned back. Excuse me, sir,
but won't you give me a recommended
tion?" he asked. Then seeing the
look of amazement on the lawyer
face. he added: "Well, y'see I've been
in vour office; I'm there now"
"That was too good an oppor-
tunity," said the lawyer afterward
Il couldn't afford to lose the chance
to make a great Chancery solicitor
and i've got the kid in my office now
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Now the FiIipinos

1t is said that bill is in course
of preparation to extend the vote 90
the F'ilipinos. All must have noticed
the wide spread agitation by which
the Filipinos have proved that they
want the vote; the tons of literature
which they have printed and dis
tributed at their own expense, the
thousands of meetings, convention
and professions they have held. All
must have noticed also, how COM
pletely the Filipinos have proved that
they will improve conditions if they
secure the vote. We hope the Head
Hunters of our island possessions are
to be included They will make so
much better voters than American
women
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Can SYnpathize

The Grand Council Of the United
Commercial Travellers at its recent
meeting, in jamestown, N. 2, passed
a resolution endorsing votes for
women. The travelling men said
they could sympathize since, by be-
ing on the road so much, they were
practically disfranchised themselves.
When lovely woman stoops to folly
And asks the State to let her vote
choly
When of these things she makes a
note?
The gentleman in the foolish house,
The convict in the pen,
These are her peers in politics,
Her equals among the men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
Tariff Tear-Ups.
ngheld Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
senator Penrose SCOTS at Mr.
Roosevelts idea of a permanent nom
partisan tariff commission for the fu-
ture revision of the tariff, schedule
by schedule, treating each case on
an intelligent consideration OF its
merits. divorced from favoritism and
the fostering of special interests.
MI. Penrose has a program OF ms
own. I'VE demand Republican ma
iority in the House and Senate, ana
a Republican President at the earliest
opportunity to pass in the course OF
two or three months a tariff Dill
which will afford adequate protec-
ton The Penrose idea is doubtless
the idea of most of the interests that
are still resentful because they have
been deprived of their old high tariff
schedules by the present administra-
ton.
The triumph of Penrose and his
kind in the near future would mean
another tariff tear-up. The country
had one in 1909. 1t had one again IN
1913. Mr. Penrose and the interests
he represents demand third one in
1917. The duties were revised down
ward, Just little, in 1909; they were
revised downward a great deal more
in 1913 But il would be no revision
downward in 1917; on the contrary,
the duties would go humping back to
the good old Dingley basis, in case
Mr.. Penrose and his friends should
have their way. The ups and downs,
or rather, the downs and ups, OF the
tariff within the short space of eight
years would thus compare favorably
with those of the old oaken bucket
that hung in the well.
The Republican does not believe
that Senator Penrose and his Penn
sylvania friends will have an oppor-
tunity in 1917, or at any future time
10 carry out the program they have
in mind The old tariff will never
come back. We have gone perma-
nently to lower level Of duties. and
the chief changes upward which the
future will see will be in spots. as ex-
nerlences may determine the need
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11
At Washington

On the delegation of women to
visit President Wilson recently, to
ask him to use his influence to Sc
cure action by Congress on the suf-
frage resolution, the Women's Po-
litical Union of New Jersey was rep
resented by Mrs. Frances Einstein,
president of it's Pompton Lakes
branch, and Mrs. Axel Beeken, presi-
dent of the Bloomfield branch.