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THE NINETEENTH ON ROLL OF HEROES.

Lieutenant Gerstner, of the army aviation corps,
who perished in a gale while competing for the
Mackay trophy the California cost Monday is the
nineteenth to give his life in the interests
government aviation since the beginnings of the
science seven years ago. The list comprises ff-
teen army and two navy officers and two civilian In
structors and is of heroes renowned as those
of war, for this is the aspect of the game of
preparation which is almost perious as the real
thing 1t is pity, too that with all this sacrifice
life the nation should still be far behind all other
great powers in its equipment for air-fghting.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

consistently do so. All that we need
TO do in the way of regulation of i'm
migration is to require that immi-
grants shall be unobjectional morally
and physically. That covers the
whole case. The right to enter the
country Is quite a different thing
from the right to participate in it's
government. The voter must know
certain things that are needful as a.
means of enabling him to exercise
his right intelligently There is no
reason why this should be demanded
as qualification for mere admission
into the country.
On this point the New York Com
mercial Bulletin says: THE desira-
biity of immigrants depends upon
their industrial capacity. their use
fulness for the work of the country
and their behavior as subjects of the
law. The most troublesome and OBJ
jectionable are not those who have
passed the age of sixteen without
learning to read, most of whom have
been Injured to labor and become
peaceable and useful Inhabitants of
this country. No doubt education ie
desirable and every opportunity
should be provided for acquiring it
but lack of II is not disability which
should exclude from the country
those who seek it as a place in which
to make a comfortable living. Presi-
1 dent Wilson has let 1t be known ir
advance that he does not approve OF
the literacy test, and it is to be hoped
that he will show the courage of his
conviction If the bill reaches hin
with this provision in it,"
The President has the support, w,
think, of a great majority of tn,
! American people in his attitude OF
this subject. The literacy test is con
trary to the spirit of our institution
and will serve no useful end. More
over, we are likely to want more i'm
migrants than we shall get durini
the next few years.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

! while in jamaica" London nos
pital physician says, "I knew young
lady who had for many months been
confined to her bed, unable to walk a
STEP from what seemed to be paraly-
sis of the lower extremities. me
trouble did not respond to any meo-
ical treatment. The case seemed
hopeless. One morning, however, she
received sudden news that her FAVOR
ite brother had fallen from his horse
and was lying in a very critical con-
dition miles away in the mountains.
This chronic invalid Immediately got
up without assistance, helped to put
the saddle on her horse, rode to her
brother and nursed him night ana
day for weeks. She was completely
cured. Her trouble proved to be
purely mental, and really came from
mental hysteria."
Physicians are rapidly discovering
that we are mental creatures; that
mind is the origin and the basis or
everything; that the body is merely
an objectfied expression of mind, and
that harmony or discord, health or
disease, depend upon the condition or
the mind.
Whatever impairs the mental pow
er, the brain cells, impairs the cell OF
life all through the body. All vicious
emotion, worry, fear chronic anxiety,
jealousy, hatred, revenge, SO poison
the cells of the nervous system as
seriously to interfere with and impair
the processes in all the bodily organs.
Their functions are impaired, their
vitality depleted. Just here Is the
origin of disease-in the impaired cell
life, the persistent lowering of the
vitality of the individual cells, the
cutting off of nutrition, the lessening
of the disease-resisting power of the
cells. The disease germs which are
lurking in the body take advantage of
this wered vitality and become ac-
tive. They thrive upon the poisons,
the broken-down tissues that are i'm
paired by vicious thoughts and emo
tions and, when the resisting power
of the body becomes very low, these
germs increase tremendously and
play terrible havoc, as illustrated in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

Poverty Due to Neglectins Life's Big
Little Things.
Poverty is a malady usually and
wantonly neglected by physicians,
medical and sociological. To give
aims, to attempt to help the poor as
organized charity seeks to do, to re-
lieve distress in the multitude of phil
anthropic ways, is not by any means
to uproot the evil.
To be lacking in this worlds goods
is an evil with physical and psyche
logical causes which should be open
to cure. People are beaten to pieces
in the ruck of pauperism, and the
health and well-being of the poor are
ground down, because the waste of SO
many things makes it utterly impos-
sible to catch up.
Piety is often paramount among the
poor, but the cleanliness which goes
with godliness is often lacking. Pow
erty is perhaps a source of the pain
ter's art and the poets song, but even
this Is doubtful. If, however, it has a
practical value. no one has fathomed
1t. Few men are as patient as was
Job, but legions are as poor.
Tho Body's Wealth.
Why are some people out at the
elbows; or stepped in poverty to their
very lips? Look about you and learn.
To find the causes of their distressing
privations, you need only observe and
mark their habits.
Hosts of such bereft persons see
fewer things, feel less, grasp bodily,
eli iprk1f n
edge to their tissues, muscles and
sense organs.
In the contest between fish, fowl
and the flesh, the creature whose
senses are sharpest will gather sus-
tenance successfully. His trtumphs
against the world will succeed. The
physically inferior one will always
lose more to his environment than he
can capture.
Notwithstanding these truths, most
poor and relatively INDECENT individu-
ais are thoroughly equipped with a
complete fabric for fighting their way
to fortune.
Faulty practice with their tissues;
worn-like habits in their self-imposed
houses and neighborhoods; insular-
ism, restricted thoughts; superstition,
tradition, and sheer laziness, are only
few Of the things responsible for
light purses and unsatisfied appetites.
The Minds Poverty.
A wise man poor is like a sacred
book that's never read-he lives to
himself and sees, hears and feels
nothing round him that is alive You
may safely think better of a gilded
fool than Of a thread-bare schoolman.
The waste of plenty, no doubt is
the resource of scarcity. Philan-
thropists, charity organization socie-
| ties, lms-givers, all serve an emer-
sency purpose when they tide in
disent ones over acutely distressing
and urgent places. Nothing need be
preached against these or even the
organized charity, which gives 70 to
so per cent. of its earnings for sal
aries. What would prove, however,
to be the actual health. happiness.
and wealth of the poor. would be a
systematic, detailed method to teach
them psychological facts; that their
personal carelessness, the neglect of
itemized attention to themselves and
their surroundings, spells economic
| disaster
The rude inelegance OF poverty is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
PROHIBITION PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.

Representative Morrison, of Indiana injected
humor into the prohibition debate in the House
yesterday when he asserted that thirteen men in his
State delegation would vote against the Hobson reso-
luton and that he could point out one who would
support the amendment and who drinks more liquor
in twelve days than the thirteen do in twelve years
Mr.. Morrison probably had mind the proverbial in
divdual who I'm favor of the Maine liquor law
but agn' its enforcement, and 1t is noticeable that
nobody either questioned the accuracy of his statistics
called for Names
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4 TON tne H1ilduelpQld inquirer
President James, of the University
of Illinois long a professor at our
own university, wants Congress to
stimulate military training and mill
tary study in the colleges and univer-
stiles of the country, especially in the
direction of educating a lot of young
men for officers. 1t is we'll known that
even the National Guard of the coun-
try is badly officered in most States.
In only a few like Pennsylvania.
are there schools of instruction for
xne serious purpose of warfare. Most
officers of the uniformed militia
know little more than how to drill
their organizations, which is small
part of preparation for modern war
fare.
There are over 200, 900 young men
in our colleges and over 10000 in our
high schools, nearly all of whom are
fit for military duty. 1t may be that
in the high school it would be diff
cult to establish military training,
but it would be easy in the colleges,
where already there are a number
which give this kind of instruction.
At a time when all college men are
going wild over athletics it would be
an excellent thing to give them
something pTaCllcdI III bllS way VI
military training, which would be
useful not only in case Of war, but
which meanwhile is of excellent
moral and physical advantage to any
young man.
DR.. James thinks it would be good
idea for the government to offer
under proper restrictions, $3.50 yeal
to each cadet who would devote his
spare time to military study and II
himself to become an officer. One car
imagine that ten thousand young mel
would eagerly grasp such an oppor
tunity and that in case Of demant
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
DECEMBER %
Alexandra Sutherland Orr
BY MARY MARSHALL
Copyrighted 1914.

Alexandra Orr, who is remembered
as the friend and biographer of the
great poet, Robert Browning, was
born December %, 1926. Her grand
father had been court physician to
the Russian imperial family, and AL
eXandra was born in st. Petersburg,
her godmother being the Empress AL
eXandra of Russia.
AS child Alexandra suffered much
from defective eyesight. and for that
reason systematic study was out OF
the question. To make up for this the
members Of her family read frequent
~ to her and her parents gave her
every advantage of travel. When she
was twenty-one she married an Eng
lish army officer, and with him went
to India. They were there during the
famous India mutiny, and, though
Mrs. Orr was herself saved by the
timely action of friendly sheikh, her
husband died from the effects of the
mutiny, being gazetted captain and
brevetted major on his deathbed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

After her husbands death, Mrs. Orr
settled in London with her father.
She became greatly interested in art
and letters and her greatest happf-
ness was in the company of artists
and men of letters. 1t was when she
was thirty years old that she first met
the poet Browning, who was q close
friend of her brother. After the death
of her husband she became a very
good friend of the poet, who had been
left a wldower not long before For
many years Browning made it a habit
to spend two evenings a week with
Mrs. Orr, reading to her on these
occasions and talking over his work.
When the Browning Society of Lon
don was established. Mrs. Orr was one
of it's most valuable members. and
after the poets death she was better
able than any one else to undertake
his Life and Letters" This she ac-
complished with the aid of Browning's
sister and her own intimate knowledge
of his literary works.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
Christmas ComlnS
BY e. j. sTURTZEL.

Christmas coming. hear the clatter
OF the children; what's the matter?
Why this pent expectancy?
Goodness me, what can it be?
Christmas coming, sleigh bells jim
Cling,
Frost and cold set blood tingling;
Christmas coming Old Kris Kringle
With his pack and reindeer jingle,
Down the chimney soon will
come
with the doll and sled and
drum.
Christmas coming! old folks blink
ing
At the children's chatter winking;
Kindly hands and watchful eyes,
Fixing up glad surprise.
Christmas coming Oh, what Joy,
Little girl and little boy,
Hide the toys and trim the tree.
Soon we'll hear the shouts of glee.
Christmas coming snow and
weather
Young and old are young to-
gether,
III.
Christmas coming! you remember
What that meant long gone Decem-
Der;
Years may pass, but still tits
true,
At the thought youth springs
anew.
Christmas coming magic season:
why is it-what is the reason?
Why is grandpa growing young?
Why the songs so long unsung?
Christmas coming - Christmas
here!
With its Joy, Its laugh-lts tear.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
NEXT YEARS SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN,

The coming year will be momentous one for
woman suffrage, it will probably bring the ques-
tion for the first time before the the Eastern
States. Legislatures of New York Pennsylvania
New Jersey and Massachusetts have all passed the
equal franchise amendment and it is reasonable
TO expect that the incoming Legislatures will send the
matter to the electorate for decision next fall ANY
of these big States by the sufragists would
be worth more to their cause than the two Montana
and Nevada, which they carried this year
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

for a large army. Mr.. Bryan's one
million men, for instance, there
would at least be some officers with
a little knowledge. At present we
have neither equipment nor officers
for any such army. We have not
even enough officers for our little reg
ular army of less than 100000 men.
We ought to have a standing army
of 100000 men, a reserve of 300, 900
men-all trained and equipped, all
organized and ready for service, so
that when the hour of danger comes,
as come it must, we shall not be
wholly unprepared. The colleges offer
an excellent class Of material for
young officers of a reserve army. The
navy is another consideration. We
need bigger navy, kept always at
the highest state of efficiency. This
is not militarism; it is common sense.
The Litersoy Test in the IMMIGRATION
Bill.
| Rochester Union and Advertiser.
The immigration bill which passed
the House at the last session and was
held up in the Senate Is again under
| discussion and may be passed in some
form before long. The literacy test
| for which 1t provides is the principal
obstacle to its passage. The Presi-
dent opposes this feature Of the meas
ure and 1t is also opposed by many
leading members Of his party. There
does not at present seem to be any
I urgent need of legislation in regard
to immigration. The war in Europe
is sure to cause a large falling off in
the number of Europeans coming to
our shores. Not only are they wanted
In the fighting ranks of their respec-
tive countries, but they are wanted
to do the work that must be done
now and for many years to come ir
repairing the waste of the war.
But in any case we do not need tC
establish = Htsracy test and cannot
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Visitor to New York Left Leg In Hotel

Visitor to Now York Left Leg In Hotel
| Room.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2s-while
Strengthening up a bedroom at the
Martinique the other day a cham
bermaid, opening a bureau drawer,
came upon what at first seemed a
gruesome mystery. In the drawer
lay mans leg.
True, 1t proved to be an artificial
limb, but who the chambermaid re-
fiected, having come to the hotel on
two legs, could have gone away on
one, and not missed 1t?
The day before c. L. Ellison, of
Birmingham, Ala. arrived at the
hotel for a short visit to New York.
On his first day and evening he did
lot of sightseeing, mainly on foot,
and the wooden leg got a lot of eXer-
else. When this happens the portion
of natural limb that fits into the
socket at the top of it is apt to be-
come chafed. Anticipating this, the
owner of the removable member had
brought along a crutch, and when
he went downtown the next morn
ing it was with the aid of the
crutch that he left the hotel.
He telephoned the hotel and asked
that his leg be found and sent him
by special messenger. The messenger
got $40 from the grateful owner.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
ENGLAND AT THE VATICAN.

The voice of the bigot in England has not been
stlled by the great in which England is now en-
gagged While of all creeds going to the front
the couutrys call the bgot at home unmindful of
events that may in the end engulf his nation and
mindful only of his narrow prejudces makes camor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
Mall Carrier swamped With Load of
Wheat Sent bx Parcel Post.

SAN BERNARDINo. Cal. Dec. 90.
"A shipment via parcel post of 2,Se0
pounds OF wheat from the Globe Mills
at Cotton to Skidoo, Cal, will swamp
the carrier who has the contract for
transporting the mail from the Tono-
pah and Tidewater railroad station to
the mining camp, several miles from
the railroad in Inyo county
The grain, In fifty-six fifty pound
sacks, was transferred at the local
postoffice yesterday and started on the
trip to SlSidoo. Il cost S29.24 to send
the grain, and the postman who must
haul the bulky shipment Of more than
a ton will receive no extra compensa-
tion for the trip into the mountains 10
SkidoO
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HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsRBERG.
A B., NJ. A, NJ. D. John Hopkns).

Its real cause. Chill penury freezes
the genial current of the soul by vir-
tue of the frazzled ends and loose
fringe, the easily movable dirt, and
slavery to slovenly habits.
On the whole, therefore, to be poor
may be translated literally as being
unobservant and untaught That is
TO say, the persons whose pockets
yawn with an aching void, falls to
realize that it is the trivial, little.
seemingly unimportant things, which
really cause the leakage of what
would accumulate into wealth and
comforts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
Dog Which Saved Town In Fire Peri
Has Big Funeral


Has Big Funeral.
ST PAUL. Ind, Dec. 22.-Big John
is dead. These words passed over st.
Paul like wildf1re when 1t was learned
that the dog which had saved the
town from destruction by fire had
been struck and killed by an automo-
bile. The dog was only a common
tramp dog, but he was loved by all
who knew him. and that includes
every man, woman and child in the
town.
Three years ago fire broke out
during the night and Big John ran
from house to house barking and
scratching on the doors until he
raised help, From that time on he
has been the idol of the townspeople,
and purse was collected with which
to buy him a collar, on which was
engraved his name.
Big John was buried with all the
pomp and glory of a dog funeral. A
marker will be put over Big Johns
grave in memory of the animal for
whom all St Paul mourns.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
The Vote on the Crossman Case

crossed and sent to Commissioner
Burke. DE F. P. LOZIER.
Newark, N. j., Dec. %, 1914.
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instinct

He-Whenever sing the dog howls.
She-The instinct of imitation, I
suppose.-New Orleans Times Picay-
une.
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Answers to Health Questions

Answers to Health Questions
NJ. o., Newark
Q-After lunch, if followed by a
walk, l am troubled with pain in
my groin on the left side. 1t Is some
times so severe that l am unable to
proceed until stop for breath.
A-There is so much blood and
lymph drawn upon by the stomach
that any other demand, such as mus
cular movements, Is an extra call
upon the body fluids. 1t is better to
walk before meals and allow the
muscles no action afterwards. 1t is
for the same reason that bathing and
swimming after eating sometimes
cause death.
L. WORREIL, Haddonf1eld.
OIL. What can I do for my knee,
which is much swollen? 1t does not
pain, but Is puffed and tender to the
touch.
2. What shall l do for a little swell
ing back of the ear caused by spec
tacles?
Al. Use an electric battery "a
small one) on this swelling. Also ap-
ply hot cloths to it three times a day
2. Wear eyeglasses for few months;
this discontinues the irritation.
G. B., Newark.
Q-What will remove superfiuous
hair from the face?
Amy druggist will mix the fol
lowing for you
Calcium sulphide ...........2 parts
Zinc oxide ............... ......1 part
oLdTCl Il part
Apply 1t to the face about once a
week and allow it to remain for ten
minutes. In using this mixture make
1t into a paste with water.
A READER, Palmyra.
Q.-What shall l do for a cold in
the head? I have it most of the time
A.-Take five grains each of hex
amethylenamln and citrate of soda in
a glassful Of water every four hours.
A READER, Nutley.
OIL have pains between and below
my shoulders, sometimes on my chest
] have a cough, and when I wake in
the morning I spit, and IL I take
deep breath with my mouth open
feel pain in my back. What shalr
I do?
A.-Go at once to the largest hos
pital in either Newark or Philadel-s
phia and be examined thoroughly.
Dr. Hirshberg will answer questions
for readers of this paper on medical.
ny gienic and sanitation subjects that are
of general interest. He will not under
| take to prescribe or offer advice for in
dividual cases. Where the subject Is moi
of general interest letters will be an
| swered personally, II a stamped and adj
| dressed envelope is enclosed. Address all
| inquiries to DR.. L. X. HirshberE, care
| this once.
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Pointed Paragraphs

The early maid catches the bridal
train.
sweethearts oft rush in where hus-
bands fear to tread.
One way to sidetrack bad luck is
to be prepared for 1t.
A man would rather have fortune
smile on him than give him the laugh.
Occasionally one meets man whose
relatives use him for doormat.
Politeness is all right to a certain
extent, but some people overdo It,
The man who has a jolt coming to
him seldom realizes it until he strikes
out.
When the right girl meets the right
young man the parsons wife gets a
chance to go buying instead of shop
ping.
What the average woman thinks she
would do If she had plenty of money
is nothing in comparison to what she
does do because she hasn't got It.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
Jury Acquits Man Charged with Killing
of his Brother twenty-five Years Ago.

OF hls Brother Twenty-Five Years Ago.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. Exchanged
with the murder of his brother Frank,
twenty-five years ago, Joseph NJ.
CAN'T, after a trial lasting but a few
hours, was acquitted by a jury yes
terday.
The killing Of Frank CAN'T occurred
here September L, 1892, during a fight
between him and his brother. Under
the name of Joseph NJ. Clark, CAN'T
located in Chicago and married there.
Shortly after the tragedy an indict-
ment was returned against him,
charging murder.
Nothing was heard of CAN'T or the
crime until few months ago, when
an old desk was pulled from its rest
ing place in a corner of the district
attorneys office and in a secret
drawer was found the indictment.
CAN'T was brought here for trial.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

Occasionally one meets man whose
relatives use him for a doormat.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

Politeness is all right to a certain
extent, but some people overdo 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

A man would rather have fortune
smile on him than give him the laugh.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

The early maid catches the bridal
train.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

One way to sidetrack bad luck il
to be prepared for 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

The man who has a jolt coming to
him seldom realizes 1t until he strikes
out.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23

sweethearts oft rush in where hus
bands fear to tread.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
Newark Guenlrlo Star
JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH 1. 1882.

Published every afternoon excepted. by tho
Newark Daily Advertiser Publishing Company.