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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
kindergarten Progress

First there were private kinder
gartens regarded as more or less Of
a luxury for the well-to-do. Next,
good men and women began to pro-
vide charity kindergartens for the
poor and neglected children: churches,
settlements, kindergarten associations
and mill owners gave and continue to
give glad and generous support to
such kindergartens. Then as a direct
outgrowth of the work of the kinder
garten associations, there have
evolved training schools for kinder
garten teachers; the State legislature
has been induced to pass a bill maxi
/ ing it legal to institute public school
Sindergartens; local boards of educa-
| ton have partially, then entirely,
| taken over the care and education OF
| little children, and finally State and
city normal schools have Incorporated
I the kindergarten training schools,
making them into regularly inte-
grated department"
The bureaus bulletin on kinder
gartens gives complete statistics for
private and public kindergartens
| throughout the United States, so far
as these were reported; together with
opinions of superintendent, super
visors and teachers as to the results
of kindergarten training in their COM
| munities The bulletin Is illustrated
with photographs of real kindergarten
children in, real kindergarten activi-
ties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY / 1914
4 .w,TcHING AND WAITING" POLICY
JAMES SMITH. JR
rouNnEp MARen ]. 1883.

Definite news from Mexico and of the Mexican STU
ltion seems to be impossible OF obtanment One day
dispatches contain alleged information as to happen
ng or of something that is scheduled to happen me
ext day The stories Of the preceding day are discount
Il and an entirely fresh morsel Of gossip Is served
The latest dish prepared for mental consumption
4 that Huerta is willing to quit and do almost any
hing else provided the United States will intervene
nd protect himself and his followers from the wrath
nd reprisals of villa and various bandit chieftains
If we decline to extend good Offices 10 him. why
hen Huerts won't quit He will just stick to the war
business and that's all there is to It,
Meanwhile villa is reported 10 be creeping toward
Iexico City. moving down everything before him and
thetting his appetite to gobbe up Huerta and the
khoIe caboodle Of Federalists
4 Rumor continues to give mediation a black eye
nd General Funston has received discretionary pow
from Secretary of War Garrison TO extend his lines
rom Vera Cruz to protect the town from an attack by
GENERAL MASS command.
Taken all in all the anxious reader OF war news
lust perforce content himself by pursuing watch
hg and waiting" policy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07

In ten years kindergartens in the
United States have grown from 3,244
kindergartens with 205,00O children to
1857 kindergartens enrolling 3641S9
children, according to bulletin is
sued by the United States Bureau or
Education.
Notwithstanding this encouraging
increase in schools and pupils, the
great majority of children are still
without the advantages of kinder
earten training. Only nine per cent.
of the children of kindergarten age
4 to 6-were in kindergartens.
much constructive work must be
done" declares Miss Myra Winches-
ter, of the kindergarten division OF
the bureau, reviewing the hgures.
1.-THE child of kindergarten age is so
Young, so impressionable, so incapa-
hle of defending himself against the
faulty words and actions and mental
attitudes of the teacher, that means
must be devised to eliminate or at
least diminish the number of faulty
teachers. Standards of requirements
as to personality and academic and
professional training must be raised
and maintained, for the surest guar
antee of the extension of kinder
gartens is good work done by good
| teachers.
Miss Winchester traces the path OF
progress in kindergartens from priv
ate philanthropy to public support
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
THE UTILITY BOARD EXPLAINS.

1t appears that there some misunderstand-
ing about the permission given by the Public Utility
Commission to the Lackswanna Railroad Company to
place new track at grade at Sanford's crossing in
Kearny to further imperi human life 1t is explained
now, 1t not explained before that the company
would be required to get the consent of the local
authorities.
But this explanation does not explain why the
permission given without any notice to the Hud-
son Freeholders whose first knowledge of the of
the State board when the company sent laborers
to lay the extra track The tragedy of the killing of
three people in auto while trying to avoid a
train at grade crossing short distance away led
to this belated explanation and to the hearing the
board indulgently proposes to give.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
a DEPARTMENT STORE TRANSACTION.

A business transaction of the Dimensions of the
transfer of great department store from one firm to
another is of than passing interest in
community and the interest is enhanced when the
plant which thus changes ownership is an old and
familiar landmark the principal thoroughfare of
the city
For many years the establishment of w v Snyder
& Co. catered to the best trade in Newark Depart
ment store enterprise had not then extended as now
to communities many miles from Newark, and the
trade was mostly local But the proprietor amassed
an honorable fortune and IN retiring turned over the
business to the Goerke Company, which now releases
it to the new
The transaction marks step in the business de-
velopment of Newark. The enterprisng men who will
now run the store have business well practical
experience and energy. The location is admirable,
and it may be question of time when the adjacent
property owned by them will be utilized to make one
of the most imposing marts of retail trade in the
country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
IrHr suBuRRs AND rHr GRApE CROSSINGS.

f New Jersey suburban communities should unite
18th the cities in movement to compel the enactment
legislation for the abolition of railroad grade cross
ags The peris of these crossings in New Jersey are
nown far and wide and they constitute most serious
bjection TO residence in the State by people in New
Iork and Philadelphia who have a deep regard for
aeir lives.
Every Embarrassing fatality in New Jersey is re-
,rded In New York and Philadelphia papers and Is
Aad of by millions of people. Naturally the effect
non them is unfavorabe to the State place of
ssidence People who come into the State to settle in
sburban places usually have children and they want
d settle where there be danger from railroad
aims In addition to that of motorcars.
4 Property interests therefore have large stake
the question of Embarrassing abolition. Under
e present laws there is practically protection for
urnan life at hundreds Of grade crossings many of
hem In suburban towns, and little will be given until
lie Legislature passes a mandatory law. The law
used at the last session merely for protective devices
as mutIated that will be of little benefit to the
late as long as there remains State commission
awilling to use any power TO coerce the railroads
IT the assurance of Embarrassing safety could be
ven to people who want to come to New Jersey to
ge the suburbs would grow maryelously, and real
tate values would increase at the gait. 1t is
mpie business proposition we'll a humane one
] get rid of the grade crossings.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
IMPEACHMENT OF ooLoRADo's GOVERNOR.

Colorado's Governor is justly held responsible for
the deplorabe events in the mining regions in that
State and he is shetering himself from responsibility
to the Legislature and the nations Judgment behind
partisans in the Legislature. He has the powerful
support of the mine including the Rockefeller
interests in whose behalf he countenanced the use of
machine guns by private sodiery in the employ of
the mine owners
What the public judgment is in Colorado does not
yet appear, but there is doubt in regard to the
public sentiment outside of that State. In other
State Governor who should be guilty of the acts of
Coorados Governor would be impeached in office for
high crimes and misdemeanors and removed It is
only necessary to fancy Governor of New Jersey
committing such acts to realize their enormity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07

ten or twenty years ago. With good
management pumping for irrigation
Is now. generally feasible where the
water level stands within % or per
haps 80 feet of the surface, and water
for the irrigation of vegetables and
fruit can be pumped where the depth
TO water is even greater.
Water Does Not Come from Mountains.
1t is well established that the water
supply does not come chiefly from
the mountains, as Is still popularity
believed, but from the rain and snow
that falls on the Great Plains. The
TACT that the source of supply is local
Is not unfaVorable, as is supposed by
many persons, but rather means that
the intake area is extensive and that
therefore the total supply is large,
even though only a small part of the
precipitation percolates to the ground
water level. If only or per cent.
of the precipitation on the Great
Plains joins the ground water, the
supply is sufficient for the annual ir-
rigation of a million acres.
The water in any particular part OF
| the region, however, must be used in
that part and is not available for use
| in some distant area. The supply
that can be utilized in any locality is
thus limited and the development OF
the entire region to It's maximum ca.
pacity requires that the pumping
! plants be widely distributed over the
shallow water areas.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
t.RIPPER" ACT.

The grounds upon which the Hennessy act is con-
tested in the Supreme Court unconstitutional are
so strong and convincing that 1t would be unsafe for
any municipality to act under this piece of legislation
until after all doubts cleared up.
The first criticism of the act related to the power
to issue bonds Trenton discovered when it attempted
to borrow money that bond houses would not lend
under the act, and resort was had to the public
spirit of its citizens for the money needed
Then other defects of Senator Hennessys states
manship were revealed Trenton found that 1t could
not condemn land for harbor and park purposes,
Jersey City learned that departmental powers
cised by 1t taken away In brief, the Hennessy
act appears to be ripper" act
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
Rubaiyat of Road Actor

Awake, Make haste! IT'S almost
half-past one;
To reach the train in time thou needs
must run
Because we're needing sleep. the
trains on time.
Oh, for good nights sleep. Just
one! Just onei
A cup of coffee underneath my vest
A stack of wheat cakes with cream'ry
butter best
Before | catch that train, and I'd re-
jolce;
Nor longer mourn my rudely- broken
rest
Methlnks, sometimes, I'll organize a
strike;
Demanding shorter hours and the
like
No early morning jumps. no matinees.
And no rehesrsals, for tho love of
Mike,
",
Tho booking agent writes, and having
writ,
4
we fit:
Nor all the maps, surveys, and rail
road guides
Enable us to find one trace of it.
And 10, Around some drear, tall
timbered bend,
The all-day journey cometh to an end.
Ten houses and town hall wait us
there.
I wish knew a wealthy widow,
friend!
! Cheer up! BE brave! Poor travel
battered thing!
To yonder boarding house thy bag
gage bring.
| What say? No rooms? No other place
to stay?
All! Woe is me. Oh! Death, where
is thy sting?
The peek-hole showeth many fearful
gaps
That should be tenanted with eager
yaps
Anon, we'll hear some more of this
mishap-
Methinks about next salary day, per-
haps
VIII
one time 1 thought that I had made
a hit
A note [ got in schoolgirl language
writ.
I washed up in haste and hurried
out
Methuselah was not so old as "it."
Each year I swear I'll dodge all sly
decoys
That rob my pocketbook of jingline
noise
Conserve my money till reach New
York;
And fat engagements seek of-officc
boys.
And then. and then comes Lent,
To taunt me with the dollars I have
spent.
| A new spring suit, my carfare home
A seasons Work-and never saved ;
4 cent.
Barry Corners in the May Greer
Magazine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
ROOSEVELT FINDS VOICE.

The Indignation of Roosevelt at the Panama tolls
rrender bill and the Colombia treaty is expressed
an interview with him at Para He will arrive in
ew York late in the present month, and then more
In be heard from him. The terms of the Colombia
eaty especially offensive to Roosevelt He
oks upon the $4,000, 900 to be paid to the little
ate out of the United States treasury sheer black
all wrung from weak secretary of state and adj
Illustration.
There are hidden springs behind the attitude of
lombia that will revealed when the Senate takes
J the treaty 1t will be shown how the Colombian
cias were made tools of by agents of Wall Street in
e effort to defeat the enterprise of canal building
Id why the s10,0OO,0 900 offered by our government
lis refused in the belief inspired by those agents
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07

| In a recent Communication made
by James Bryce for publication, and
bearing the high authority of his dis
| tinguished name and achievements,
he SAID that he regarded Gladstone,
| John Henry Newman and John Rus
kin as the three great masters of the
| English tongue. Mr.. Bryce did not
! include any American in this pre-
| eminent list of masters of English.
Yet the late Senator George F. Hoar
was accustomed to speak of Edward
| Everett as one of the masters of
| English of the nineteenth century.
and to assert that one of the reasons
| why Edward Everett had obtained
| tn mastery was his habit of con-
verting the classics-Latin and Greek
into English, doing that over and
over again.
The late James G. Carter who for
the last twenty years of his life was
regarded by many as the leader OF
the American bar, said TO me q year
or two before his death that the
United States had furnished as many
masters of English in the past fifty
or sixty years as England herself
had done. He called to mind the
statement made by Rufus Choate
many years ago:
THE four great intellects and the
four masters of the English tongue
were Milton. Shakespeare, Bacon and
Edmund Burke"
Mr.. Choate himself, Mr.. Carter said,
was a wonderful master of the Eng
lish tongue. He had not only a ca
pacity for wonderful imagery and for
peculiar and yet singularly appropri-
late metaphors, but he had a unique
gift of so speaking that it seemed as
though speech oozed from every pore
of his body.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
THE NATIONAL PROBLEM OF GOOD ROADS.

With proper amendments the Shackleford post
road bill need not mean automobile bouleyards
or pork-barre distribution of political funds Of
the 2,200 900 miles of public roads in the United
States about one-tenth have been improved To put
the other 100000 miles into the class would
cost ten billions of dollars Why this burden
be distributed along logical lines? Let the federal
government look after the great interstate and
transconnental routes, the State its main highways
linking county seats the county the tributary market
roads, and the township the earth roads leading from
the farms The most travelled roads should have at
tention first In States one-ffth of the mileage
carries nne-tenths of the traffic. The suggested
amendment of the Shackeford bill is apportion the
federal money to the State Highways Commission
instead of parceling it out in trivial the local
authorities.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
UPLIFT TALKS
Copyright 1914.
ARE YOU ASHAMED OF YOUR MOTHER?
BY oRfsON SWEET harden
Author Of Pushing TO the Front Etc

more leisure to practise accomplish
ments. or to have a good time, the
daughter meanwhile gossiping about
the neighborhood, or is at the theatre
or some other place of amusement.
or. perhaps, she sits by reading a
silly story, or stunning on the
piano. Should her mother ask her
| to assist her by washing the dishes
clearing off the table, or doing some
other simple duty, she usually finds
some excuse for getting out of it.
There is always something funda.
mentally wrong with a girl who is
| ungrateful who does not appreciate
the great sacrifices her mother has
made for her, sacrifices which no one
but mother could possibly make.
No movement set on foot in recent
years deserves heartier support than
| that for the establishment of a ma
tional Mothers Day.
The day set apart as Mothers Day
! by those who have inaugurated this
movement is the second Sunday In
| May. Let us unite in doing all we
| can to make il a real Mothers Day.
by especially honoring our mothers.
/ with us; in the spirit, those who are
| not so fortunate.
IL away from her. write a good lows
| ing letter or telephone or telegraph
| to the best mother who ever lived
| your mother. Send her some flowers,
an appropriate present, go and spend
the day with her, or in some other
way make her heart glad. Show her
| that you appreciate her, and that you
give her credit for a large part of
| your success.
Let us do all we can to make up for
past neglect of the Httle-known, half
| appreciated, unheralded mothers who
have had SO little credit in the past,
and are so seldom mentioned among
the worlds achievers, by openly, and
especially in our hearts, paying our
own mothers every tribute of honor.
respect, devotion and gratitude that
| love can suggest. Let us acknowledge
| to the world the great debt we owe
| them by wearing, every one OF US, boy
| and girl, man and woman, on Moth
ers Day, a white carnation-the
| flower chosen as the symbol and en-
blem of motherhood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Two Examples of Oratory Which Will Endure

/ Choate, 1 know, was a diligent stu
dent of the ancient classics. He
never permitted a day to close with
out having read a page or two of the
Latin and Greek authors. Yet the
most careful analysis will not detect
the influence Of these classic writer's
upon Mr.. Choate's speech. His
speech was himself, and that, per
! heps. is the highest test of oratory IL
there be the stimulus of great intel
! lect.
have long regarded Samuel ]. TIL
, den as perhaps our grea test master of
English prose when utilized to ex-
press political thought. His style is
clear and crisp, and 1 never detected
| anything lacking in his written style.
II was, however, a style that would
be attractive to none but lawyers or
students of political institutions.
I was once told by Sydney Webster
that Daniel Webster completely al
tered his style after he had first
served In the lower house of congress.
His earlier style was flowery He
used long words. Subsequently he
abandoned that style, making choice
of the short, Anglo-S Saxon words as
far as possible. Mr.. Webster's model
was the King James translation of
the book of Job.
We have now two examples OF ora
tory by Americans which will become
classic. In fact, they have already be-
come classic. One is the perorat ton of
James G. Blaine's eulogy of James
A. Garfield, and the other is Abra-
ham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
These. l am sure, will be preserved
for future generations, and will be
! road nv them when every VII =
has been written or spoken by Amer
leans Unknown, excepting possibly
to scholars.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
Employer and Employe.

lom the Indianapolis News.
Generally speaking, the condition
the laboring man has been greatly
Iproved during the last ten years.
aere have been wage increases, re-
lctions in the hours Of labor and
tterment of working conditions. 1t
lcertain that these concessions have
tected the incomes Of some COM
nies adversely. Where such re-
nrse is possible the firms have
issed the burden on down TO the
hsuner. But in many cases the
iployers have found II necessary to
bk elsewhere. Naturally the gaze
IS fallen on the men themselves,
ID efforts are being made to Guilt
he a more friendly feeling between
hployer aud employe. The Canadian
lcific railroad has sent an official
known except to a few persons at
adquarters-over the lines TO look,
i for mistakes, but for excellent
tvice. This new kind OF spotter is
liking for employees that do their
hy. that cooperate with the man
ement. His business is not to
ige complaints, but to find the de-
rving and thus hasten their pro-
ption.
direct appeal TO the employees has
IN made by the management of the
Iston Elevated Railway Company
rs corporation recently, under an
bitraion board award, increased
.ges aud improved the working con
ions OF the men. This outlay re-
ced the dividend rate. The rail
" cannot forthwith increase this
res. SO IL is compelled to look with
itself for means for retrenchment
Il president OF the road has causeC
bulletin to be circulated among
men. pointing out what the roat
done for the men. and then ask
that the men do a little Bit NOR
X the road. For example. IL wa
xaested that II conductors could
Tough diligence, save from loss a
lst one fate for each half trip, tn
a1pany at the end of the year woul'
d its revenue increased by s672,
ITO. The average annual los
Rough accident on the Bostol
hvated is s70O,716. The motormel
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07

Z In a seat back of men on a train,
I recently overheard a girl talking
to a friend about her mother
Mothers a nice old thing she
said, but she is so out-of-date that
I am really ashamed to have my
friends meet her. She has never had
the advantages of culture and educa-
ton. She knows nothing of good form,
and 1 should be positively ashamed to
take her to a reception or dinner
where my friends were"
1t is a sorry day for a girl when
she feels herself superior to her
mother, and considers herself called
upon to apologize for her bad gram
mar mispronounced words, foreign
accent, or slips in her speech. When
girl becomes so small and con-
temptibIe that she is ashamed to ap-
pear in public with her mother. be-
cause she is old-fashioned in appear
ance, her hands brawny, her face pre-
maturely wrinkled. and her form bent
by long years of drudgery for her
children, she is indeed to be pitied.
She has fallen below contempt.
What a return to MAKE to the poor
mother for all her self-sacrifice. for
the years of patient trials cheerfully
plodded through that her daughter
might enjoy advantages that she, in
her youth, never dreamed of
The girls who are ashamed of their
Woodworking mothers are few, hap
PLY, compared with the vast number
who appreciate, and endeavor to re-
pay, their mothers sacrifices. Still,
there are too many of them-girls
who do not even darn their own
stockings, mend their own clothing,
or make their own beds.
/ have in mind a mother who Is
constantly making sacrifices in order
that her daughter may make a good
appearance in society. She wears
her old cloak and shabby bonnet an
other year; she remodels for the sec
ond time and tries to freshen up the
gown which should have been dis
carded last year, so that the young
girl may have new ones and appear
tn as good advantage as other girls
of her age. She drudges from morn
ing till night, and often far into the
night, so that her daughter may have