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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
The Application of Radium

1t is only thirteen years ago that
the action of radium on human It's
sues became known, owing to the cir
cumstances that Prof. Henri Becque-
rel, of Paris, was incautious enough
to carry a tube of the then newly
discovered substance in his waist1oat
pocket for fourteen days, when a
severe Inflammation of the skin oc-
Cured that became famous to
scientists of the "Becquerel burn. ?"
Radium Is a metallic chemical ele-
ment obtained from pitchblende, a
uranium mineral, by Professors Pierre
Curie and Georges Bemont and Nine.
Curie in 1898 as a sequel to Prof.
BecquereFs observations in 1896 that
certain uranium preparations emitted
a radiation resembling the X-rays
discovered by Roentgen in 1895.
The word radium is derived from
the Latin radius, a ray, and was -
named because of the intensity of the
radioactive emanations 1t yields. Like
the X rays, the Becquerel are in
visible, and both traverse thin sheets
of glass or metal, and cannot be re-
fracted. notwithstanding these re-
semblances, these two sets of rays are
not Identical One of the by-products,
so to speak. of radium is a scientific
standing of woman not hitherto at
tanned, for it was Marie SklodoWska,
Prof Curie's Russian wife, who, re-
garding radioactivity as a property
OF some undiscovered substance, sub
mitted pitchblende to the careful
analysis that resulted in the an
nouncement of the existence of polo
MUM and radium. During the thir-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22

teen years that have elapsed since
Prof. Becquerel burned his learned
cuticle with radium it's value in the
art of healing has been increased by
leaps and bounds, and its limitations
are not yet in sight. 1t was the medi-
cal specialists, in Germany in particu-
lar, who, approaching radium and its
carnations with caution, in view Of
the untoward results of the earlier APP
plication of the Roentgen rays, dis
covered that the ray first observed by
Becquerel was not dangerous when
employed by scientific men. Today
some of the most battling and least
understood diseases are yielding to
treatment of radium through its
emanationS. It's value as a specific
for cancer is yet in doubt, but cases
of govt and muscular rheumatism
and even inflammatory rheumatism
of the joints, in which medical sciences
has hitherto been unable to afford any
relief, have been successfully treated
by radium. The emanations have
also been wonderfully successful in
the treatment of muscular pains and
neuralgia. In many cases of sciatica
not of historical or neurasthenic
origin, and psychologists have used
them with beneficial effect in female
maladies otherwise difficult of control.
Scientists are studying the applica-
ton of radium emanations in the
treatment of internal, especially in
chronic, inflammatory processes that
now balk the skill of the most emil
nent physicians and that, in theih
nature. are beyond the operative field
of surgeons.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
Kindling Boosters

phatically asking such questions as
Have you seen "Kindling?" and
Who is Charles Kenyon" Nobody
could answer the second question, but
several of the other members of this
club had seen the play, and all agreed
that it was a work of unusual sin
certify and extraordinary merit.
'It was then that the novelist sug-
gested that so excellent work must
not be allowed to pass into oblivion
that all the writers present owed a
duty to their unknown fellow crafts
man to bring his play to the notice
of an appreciative public.
Every member of this impromptu
conference pledged himself to take
at least five well-known writer's to
see the play within the next three
days Then, at the conclusion of the
third day q circular letter was print
ed, calling the attention of all people
who were seriously interested in good
art to the exceptional E1erits of this
play, and this letter, signed with
twenty or thirty names of men and
women whose own literary work was
known through the country, was
simultaneously dispatched to every
newspaper in New York.
THE receipt of a communication so
extraordinary as this became at once,
in the parlance of the profession Of
journalism, a good news item" The
letter was printed prominently, and
the occasion received comment in the
editorial columns.
Spurred on by this advantage sew
eral of the 'T<indling Boosters as
they now called themselves, wrote
special articles for the Sunday edi-
lions and gave these stories to the
newspapers free of charge"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22

One strolling into the Players Club
in New York will probably notice one
or two men wearing a tiny gold but
ton in their coat lapels, bearing the
initials *. B." These are the Kind
ling Boosters" and the little badges
were given them by Margaret Filing
ton in graceful recognition of what
they did for the play when 1t seemed
a failure.
'Kindling" has just appeared in
printed form as the first volume of
Doubleday Page & Co.'S new Drama
League Series of Plays"
In the Introduction Mr.. Clayton
Hamilton, the well-known dramatic
critic, tells the interesting history of
the play. Written by Charles Ken
yon, young newspaper man on the
stan of the San Francisco Examiner,
1t was first produced at Days Thea
tire in New York in December, 1911.
For various reasons the play seemed
a failure Clayton Hamilton, in the
introduction to the printed play, tells
how it Caught on"
After the hours of 'Kindling' had
been numbered, and about ten days
before the date when the truckmen
had been ordered to transfer the
scenery to the storehouse, three men,
with nothing better to do happened
to stroll in to see the play. One of
these men was a novelist, another
was playwright and the third was
an author of books about the theatre.
Having received what was to them
an unusual impression, they rushed
back to famous club, of which all
three were members, to disturb the
peace of traditional Preside by en-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
When Hume Was Orthodox.

David Hume. famous for his his
tory, his philosophy and his atheism,
was once reduced to a very humble
and obedient orthodoxy-although
that state of mind did not long en-
dure.
Having fallen into swamp at the
back of Edinburgh Castle, he called
for assistance to a woman who was
passing. At first she took no notice,
but presently she asked:
Are ma we Hume, the atheist?"
"Weel, weel, no matter" Hume
said. christian charity commands
you to do good to every one"
Christian charity here or Christian
charity there" the woman said, "I'lI
do naething for you till we turn a
Christian yourself. Ye maun repeat
the Lords Prayer and the Greed, or
faith, I'll let we CRATE (groveD there
as l found we"
And he had to repeat them.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
THE LEGISLATIVE RECORD COMPLETED.

All the legislative enactments left with the Gov
ernor at adjournment now disposed of, few
being vetoed, and this completes the record of a
session which is anything but creditable The
legislative majority had strong incentive in this
years elections to carry out the program adopted
for the session, but apparently the leaders conf
IDENTIFY relied on past pluralities to the party
through this year with ANY old record" at Trenton
That is often the feeling Of party leaders after
victories. There is a more chastened feeling after
defeat, which teaches wisdom, however much it
is lost after power is regained. The Republicans
have had leisure for repentance for legislative sins
and to form vrtuous resolves OF what they will do if
they should again control the Legislature, and they
will promise much in the campaign this year. How
ever sincere they may be they will at least match
Republican promise with Democratic performance,
and very much to the disadvantage of the latter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22

Booth, Adelaide Nelson and Law
renee Barrett. At the age of eigh.
teen she became leading woman with
Augustin Daily. Since that time she
has been almost constantly before the
public, and has played in all sorts or
parts But she is. above all else, a
Shakespearean coincidence. and in
such parts as Rosalind in "As You
Like 1t" and Catherine in 1.-THE
Tanning of the Shrew" she has seldom
been equaled on the American stage.
Among other famous women born
on April 90 are such widely divergent
characters as Isabelle L. of Spain, the
wife of Ferdinand, the Catholic. She
1t was who pawned her jewels in
order to aid Christopher Columbus in
his first expedition TO the new world.
Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia writer
of popular novels, also came into the
world on April 90 1.-THE Deliverance"
and 1.-THE Miller Of Old Church are
among her most popular works.
Nine. de Stael, the celebrated
French writer, the author of Co
rinne," is still another famous woman
born on April %, and among women
of royal birth there is Princess Fred
erick Charles. sister of the Emperor
of Germany
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
India Makes Best Tents

tours, ETC.; moreover, at times when
any particular important event &C.
ours In city to attract large crowds
of people, tents supplement the or
dinarily very limited accommodations
at hotels.
A notable instance of this latter use
occurred at the Delhi durbar several
years ago. when the great majority of
visitors, including the king emperor
and queen-empress and all the Indian
princes and nobility, occupied tents
just outside the city. It Is said that
never before in any time of peace in
the worlds history had so many tents
been pitched in any one place.
The popular use of tents is due not
merely to the peculiar conditions of
life in India and the more or less
transient character of it's population,
but also to the fact that Indian tents
are so excellently and deliberately
made that, for most purposes for
which they are required they are just
as comfortable, If not more so, than
the average Indian bungalows.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
THE DRAIN TO CANADA CHECKED.

1t is pleasngly evident that the call of the
Canadian wild is not Turing many producers from
American farms Canadian government figures for
the last months of 1913 show decrease of 25,-
600, nearly 20 per cent, in immigration from the
United States as compared with the like period of
the year before On the other hand, the mother
country and the rest of Europe sent largely in
creased number of emigrants to the Dominion Ex-
posures of the Canadian policy of substituting small
country newspaper publishers in the United States
to print glowing boer-plate descriptions of the SUI
perior quality of Canadian soil seem to have had
wholesome effect upon the American farmer. Besides
this decline in emigration from the United States
there is noted large return movement thousands of
American farmers quitting Canada, disappointed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The True Story of Cabinet Appointment

On the eighty-third birthday OF
General Thomas L. James, formerly
postma ster-general in the administra-
tons of Presidents Garfield and Ar
thur, he was invited to be the guest
of some 200 of his friends at q lunch
con. In the course of the informal
speeches over the coffee and cigars,
one of the hosts spoke of the manner
in which General James was selected
by President Garfield for the office of
acknowledgement in the late Febru-
airy of 1881.
81 recommended to Senator Roscoe
Conkling that he cause General Gar
field to be informed that if he We're to
appoint General Thomas l.. James
postmaster-g general, that nomination
would be acceptable to all factions of
the Republican party" he said.
This anecdote was not consistent
with something which [ learned some
years ago respecting the appointment
of General James as postmaSter-gen-
eral | had convenient opportunity
on the following day to ask him II
he were willing to tell me the story
with a view to its publication.
"I don't see now that it will do any
harm to tell about General Garfield's
selection of me as Postmaster-Gen
eral," replied Mr.. James. "There was
one feature of it which l never fully
understood. l have never spoken Of
it before for publication.
Some time early in January, 1881,
Clarkson Mott Potter called upon me
at my office in the postotfice building
in New York City. He asked me II
we could be alone for few moments.
Mr.. Potter was a friend of long stand
ing He was a distinguished lawyer
90 h. 20 IAft nN~
mittee which was appointed to in
Vestigate certain of the election meth
DDS in the campaign of 1876. Although
a Democrat, very intimate personal
relations were established between
Mr. Potter and General Garfield, who
was fellow member with Potter on
the Ways and Means Committee in
1881. l may say incidentally that
many of the closest friendships which
General Garfield made were with
Democrats.
Zone day Mr.. Potter said to me. I
want you to promise to say nothing
to a. living soul, not even within your
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
A NEW MILITIA LAW.

The passage by the Senate of the House militia
bill authorizing the President to send the National
Guard of the United States in of nsures
the necessary authority for the chief executive and
makes him the commander-in-chief of all the militia
well the regular army and navy forces of the
country.
This step has been urged by every secretary of
for years. The general purpose of the bill
passed is to provide for complete organization
of the militia and volunteer force to be called out in
a national emergency and make it available both
within and without the United States.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
SECOND TAKING OF VERA CRUZ.

1t was March 8, 1847, that General Scott
landed Vera Cruz in sixtyseven surf boats holding
ffty-fve hundred men, and without serious oppo-
sition by the Mexicans. In all 10000 men were
finally landed. This the coast outside the
city and the strong castle of San Juan de Ulloa,
which was strongly garrisoned and had formidable
artillery. The wounding of single soldier was the
only casualty. Altogether the Mexican garrison COM
posed $50 troops. The city and castle capitulated
eighteen days later.
Vera Cruz had defenses against Admiral
F1etcher's ships and the city was taken by marines
and sailors. Unfortunately, there casualties,
and of kind to be expected, the snipng of men from
the shelter of houses. With larger force landed
this shooting from ambush will be stopped, the
city will then be cleared and patroled At Vera Cruz
experience the character of warfare may expect
to if troops penetrate the interior, the
kind peculiar to people of the Spanish stock and the
kind that caused the loss of many thousands of
Napoleon's veterans in Spain
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22

, own family, of what l am about to
| tell you | gave the promise, for |
knew Mr.. Potter we'll enough to be
sure he would not ask anything I'M
reasonable. He then said: You are
going to be appointed Postmaster
General in President Garfield's Cab
met. Say nothing of this to any one.
Go right on about your business as
postmaster of New York. exactly as
you would do if Garfield's Cabinet
had all been organized.
Il thought 1t a little strange that
n Democrat should bring me this in
formation. and l didn't place much
reliance upon it. Late in February
Mr.. Potter called again and said:
You have behaved splendidly. There
hasn't been a whisper of you in con-
nection with the postmaster general
ship. All l ask of you is to say moth
ing until you hear, directly or indi-
rectly, from General Garfield him.
self.
ION the first of March / was sum-
moned to Washington to meet Gen.
eral Garfield, and | went over on the
night train. The following morning l
called upon him at the Riggs House
He was very cordial. In a moment
he said: I am going to nominate you
for postmaster general. | want you
10 promise me you VIII accept. L
presume you have had an intimation
of this
II told him that I had. and that I
had been obliged to see Mr.. Blaine,
whom | had already called upon.
"I am glad you did, Garfield re-
piled. You have had talk with him.
That is all right Now I want you to
promise me that you will go back to
New York Immediately and say moth
ing to any one until you hear from
me again
II went back to New York by the
next train. and the following day
was summoned to Washington.
never knew who 1t was who first rec
commended me to General Garfield for
the postmaster generalship, although
Mr.. Potter once intimated to me that
I was Garfields first choice for that
post. Now you have the true story"
Copyright, 1914, by DIR. E. j. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
Rules for Consumptives

Acting under the law of 1912, the
New Jersey State Board of Health
has issued the following rules,
which are to be followed by all con-
sumptives in this State:
1. All persons suffering from pulmo-
nary tuberculosis Consumption shall
effectively destroy their sputum
(spiD.
2. All persons suffering from run
ming sores due to any form of tuber-
culosis shall burn all soiled dressings
Immediately after removal.
8. The room occupied by a tubercu-
losis patient shall have at least one
outside window.
4. No person suffering from pull
monary or other communicable form
of tuberculosis shall handle food de-
signed for the use of others except
when necessary in the performance
of household duties, unless the food
be wrapped in such way as to pro-
tect 1t from contamination or unless
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
\ Zig Problem.

From the Kansas city Times.
In many of the big industries of
the time the personal relation letween
employer and employee is gone
This was forcefully shown in the
testimony of John ID. Rockefeller, jr.,
concerning the industrial troubles in
the Colorado coal fields. Although
the younger Mr.. R)ckefelle~ is 4
director of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, representing his father,
who owns 40 per cent. of the property,
he says he has no time to learn at
first hand the relations of his COM
pany and its employees As he put 1t:
In these days, when business in
terests are so diversified and directors
are members of so many boards, the
best they can do is to appoint officers
and hold them responsible.
Between those who get the profits
and those who get the wages, that is
to say, modern big industry inter
poses men who are not free agents
and who must satisfy the impersonal,
irresponsible demand for a good re-
turn on the Investment.
Here is disclosed certainly one Of
the great problems of tits industrial
age Mr.. Rockefeller, jr.. says his
conscience acquits him Of any neglect
of duty. That may be. Blu. the prob
lem is not one for the individual con-
science to determine. That something
better will have to be substituted for
this prevailing once--or twice-re-
moved responsibility of employers for
the rights and welfare of great bodies
of employees is a certainty. What the
new relation will be Is not so easy to
prophesy. But unsatsfie demands
of workers on the one side and salts
fed conseiences of Instant owners on
the other cannot give the last word in
industry
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
SOME FIGURES FOR THE COAL CONSUMER.

People who burn anthracite coal and pay con-
santly increasing prices for it like to know where
some of their money goes They may be interested in
the that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Coal Company is about to cut a melon in the shape
of a 20 per cent. dividend. This is a sub
sidiary of the enormously opuent railroad similar
name 1t earned last year nearly 80 per cent. It's
capital stock is about $4,000 600 and it has between
SIS 900, 600 and 100000 surplus cash. 1t does
tidy banking business. That's where of the coal
consumers money goes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
OUR CONQUEST OF DISEASE.

There not of cholera in the Philippines
last year. The number of of smallpox and
plague practically negligible. These three dis
eases especially vrulent in those islands
Smallpox alone used to account for 40 900 deaths
year. Intelligent sanitation under American rule has
almost banished these scourges it has wiped out
yellow fever in continental United States and made
it almost unknown in Cuba, and it has made the
isthmus of Panama health resort In ways
than Dewey's victory in Manila bay sixteen years
ago was a gift of life to humanity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22

The use OF tents in India is so ex-
tensive that catering to the demand
has become one of the most interest
ing and important industries IN this
empire, says a cnsular report. The
chief centre of manufacture IS at
Cawnpore, which has the largest tent
factories in the world and not only
does an enormous domestic business,
but also exports very largely to other
countries.
Tents have peculiarly important
uses in India, not only for military
purposes, but for furnishing tenn
porary residence and offices in local-
ties and for occupations in which it
would not be convenient or economical
to construct houses. They are much
employed, especially in the hill sta
lions of India, to furnish anneXes to
private houses which may be too small
to accommodate visitors, and they are
also utilized by officers in charge of
forests. railway and irrigation sur
veys, persons on hunting or exploring
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
Wet Cycle of Years Coming?

1913, may then be not an isolated
phenomena, but merely a striking
feature Of a precipitation epoch.
The rainfall-hoods of recent months
in Texas and acknowledgements
only second in interest to the Central
States food point in the same de
rection.
A repetition of the 1918 floods at the
present time would find the de-
vastated regions just as unprepared
and vulnerable as last year-and the
people of those regions know this.
However, there is every prospect
that the coming season will show
much achievement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-22
THE HYPOCRISY OF A GREAT CITY.

A correspondent of the New York Times wants
to know why opera play cannot be given in
that city on Sunday, while there is ban a
vaudeville burlesque show, which is all right
long as it is advertised a concert" Any man
who expects consistency in the Interpretation en-
forcement of Sunday laws must be similarly puzzled.
The wonder is that the Metropolitan Opera Company
does not try putting a complete performance of
grand opera Sunday night and calling it a
concert. But the time will come when all this sham
and hypocrisy will be done away with in all large
cities and any form respectable entertainment will
be permitted the first day of the week