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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
Labor News

A union of bootblacks has been
formed at Hoboken, N j.
Coopers at Portsmouth, N. H., have
secured an eight-hour day.
Lincoln, Neb., requires plumbers to
pass an examination.
OF the $4,000 women workers of New
York State belonging to trade unions
all but 6,S16 are in Greater New York.
One of the finest equipped factories
! in the world is comparatively owned
and operated by the labor unions of
Sweden.
Belfast Qreland) Corporation is pro-
noting relief works for the shipyard
laborers and others thrown idle by
the war.
Topeka (Kan.) laundry workers de-
mand a flfty-fourh hour week and a
minimum of 81 week for all women
employees.
The proposed universal eight-hour
law has been unanimously Endorsed
by every labor organization in Cali
fornia.
The New York State Workmen's
Compensation Commission has APP
pointed William c. Archer it's general
manager, at $4,000 year.
A great Australian union federation
with a membership of 10000 was re-
Gently formed, after a conference of
numerous unions held in Sydney.
-
A new Arkansas law provides that
child to work in any occupation.
must have attended school four years
and be more than fourteen years of
age
John Golden, international presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers
Union, has resigned as member Of
the Massachusetts State Board Of
Labor and Industries.
The Dominion Textile Company,
Limited, has reopened its ten cotton
mills in Halifax and other cities of
Eastern Canada. This means employ
ment for 1000 persons.
San Francisco has been, chosen as
the meeting place for the 1915 conven-
tion of the international Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work.
ers.
At. the coming election. the people
of Iowa will be given an opportunity
to pass upon an amendment to the
constitution providing for the initia-
| tive and referendum.
Ninety-three per cent. of work
people engaged in production in Eng
| land are still wholly or partly en-
ployed. and two-thirds of the re-
mainder have left for military, or
! naval service.
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Book Which Was Never Printed

he was writing his recollections, but
because he felt that it was of no
value, but because he was somewhat
hurried in writing the work and
wanted to get through with it as
soon as possible. He wanted to live
long enough to complete the book.
"Some day | hope to collect and
edit this material, with a view to
publishing 1t as a volume supple
nienting my fathers book. Some of
the material | have would throw inn
portant light upon his life in the
army and also in the presidency.
Father would have been dumb
founded If he could have known how
many copies of his book were to be
taken by the American people. He
did not think much of 1t as narra-
tive and did not have the slightest
idea that it would have more than
an ephemeral life.
MANY of the reviews of the book
spoke of the singularly lucid, simple
and dignified style of writing which
characterized It. and there were some
critics who thought that style Of
that kind could not be gained by a
writer until after % long and patient
study.
But everyone who knew my father
and who had opportunity to talk to
him Immediately recognized the style
in which the book was written as one
that was characteristic of him in his
ordinary conversation. He spoke in
formally and with friends exactly as
he wrote that book, and l am certain
that he had no IDEA that the work
would be accepted as a classic and
ranked, as SO many authorities did
rank it, with Caesars Commens
taries."
Copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
Luke McLuke Says

A woman doesn't pay a bit OF atten-
ton to what her husband says all
day. But she Is afraid to close her
ewes at night IL he talks in his sleep.
About the only time "a married man
is right is when he admits he Is
wrong.
The sort of girl who is chummy
with her mother usually manages to
take care of herself without the as
sistance of a chaperone.
When two men are extremely polite
TO each other 1t is a sign that they
don't like each other. But when they
saw: Hello, you ornery old pup!"
and "How's yourself, you porch
climbing old horse theft" they are
good friends.
A girl can make love to a man and
make him imagine that he is doing all
the love-making.
No wonder men are selfish. When
a man gets sick he wants his wife
to be on the go and wait on him four
times a minute. But when woman
gets sick she wants the doors closed
and the shades pulled down and begs
to be left alone.
Let us be fair. If man didn't hog
all his change for his personal com
forts. but went $3.50 with his wife, the
Joke about her frisking his pockets at
night would soon die for want of
nourishment.
IL things keep ON going up, they
may cut out the lingerie shower for
| the bride and substitute a Canned
Pork and Beams Shower. Cincinnati
Enquirer,
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my father could never understand
why everybody seemed to be inter-
ested in whatever could be told about
his personality, his early life, his
peculiarities and particularly about
his fondness for a cigar, said Gen
eraI Fred D. Grant to me just after
he had been appointed colonel of the
Fourteenth New York Regiment,
with which he began his service in
the Spanish war in 1898.
Father appreciated fully the IN
terest and discussion which his cam
paign caused, and he had no fault
to find with those who criticised his
military operations. He was fond of
talking about some features OF his
campaign to intimate friends, es-
pecially after he returned to private
life in 1877. But it was always OBJ
served that he never spoke of any OF
his associates in the army or any of
the officers upon the Confederate side
excepting in the kindest manner,
and even when he criticised them
his comments were of kind which
could have been heard by the per-
son concerned without causing the
slightest ill-feeling.
'At the time when my father was
writing his recollections l sometimes
suggested to him that he put in
some little incident or anecdote, for
I felt that the people would be inter
ested in narratives of that kind.
Father, however, always refused to
do that unless the anecdote served to
illustrate some feature of cam
paign.
"Therefore I made it a point to coll
lect as many of these as / could and
to lot down from time to time various
comments or stories which my father
used in familiar conversation. First
of all. I collected a large mass OF
material which father rejected when
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-With the
anactment of laws by Congress Tor
the upbuilding of the American mer-
chant marine the attention OF the
business men OF this country is turn
ing to the opportunities now await
ing American capital and enterprise
In foreign countries. They are enter
inc with more zest into competi ton
with producers and shippers of other
nations for control of the markets OF
the world.
In this work of analyzing the vari-
Gus factors that have made other
countries supreme in certain lines OF
manufactures, and the means they
have employed to carry their goods to
all parts of the world, the department
of commerce is lending valuable
hand. It's agents are with redoubled
efforts gathering and compiling data.
which the department is issuing In
the form of bulletins, for the use of
manufacturers and exporters of the
country.
One of these bulletins recently
issued by the department is detailed
study of the Japanese cotton indus
try. compiled by commercial agent
of the department. This report re-
views the history of the industry and
trade from the establishment of the
first spinning mill to the present time,
and analyses the kinds of goods the
Japanese are offering, and shows ia
what extent they are cheapened by
the use of inferior cottons, inferior
construction, weighing materials.
with the exception of India, China
is the greatest importer Of cotton
goods in the world, and Manchur1a
! has long been one of the best markets
| for American cotton goods. In re-
cent years. however, Japanese COM
! petition has seriously curtailed Amer
lean sales in that field. The chief
factors in the development Of the cot
ton industry in Japan and that coun-
try's success in the Chinese market
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
WOULD PERMIT SCRUTINY OF RECORDS.

The Democratic candidates for freehoders Louis
Lewis, Angelo r. Bianchi and Michael N. Higgins.
have openly declared that, If elected, they will vote
to permit the Public Welfare Committee to examine
fully and scrutinze freely the records and dongs of
the Board of Freeholders.
They will go further and urge that this permits
sion be granted This privilege has been denied the
committee by the present Republican Board of Free
holders
When the facts and figures bearing upon the
doings of the Board of Freeholders presented by
Mr.. Lewis taken into consideration, the request
of the committee should not be turned down."
The Democratic freebooter candidates have stated
their position in the matter Can the Public Welfare
Committee ask more?
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A NATIONAL NAVAL RESERVE.

The need for a national naval reserve should be
plain to the dullest mind At present there is a
shortage of $4,000 men in the and while many
vessels out of commission because there not
enough sailors to man them, other ships building
and many be built to call for increased
personnel
Trained needed. The small number of
State naval only partially trained There
are thousands of men discharged from the navy and
now in civil life who could be organized into ma
tional reserve which would also absorb the State
organizations.
The expense of the reserves should properly be
borne by the Federal government New Jerseys an
nual appropriation for its naval reserves is about
$26 900. There Is reason why any of the expense
should fall upon the State, since the services TO be
rendered are all for the national government.
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Demand for Leather in West China

With the introduction of foreign
ideas the Chinese are using more
leather goods than ever before. and
there is a constantly Increasing de-
mand for the foreign product. This
is due partly to the adoption of west
ern dress and partly to the increased
military activity which Is noticeable
In every part of China. Foreign shoes
are becoming more and more popular
among the Chinese. and since they
travel about a great deal more than
formerly, they are commencing the
use of leather trunks, suit cases,
handbags and hat boxes to a great
extent. Foreign saddlery of all kinds
is also enjoying wider sale, and
leather belts and straps for wrist
watches are coming more and more
into vogue. Not only are these artl-
cles used by the increasing military
population, but leggings, cartridge
cases and other announcements are
enjoying O wider sale.
American Products Preferred.
Although the Chinese are able to
initiate the leather goods from abroad
the materials which they use are, as
n rule. of very inferior quality. The
native leather Is poorly tanned and is
generally odoriferous. 1t is spongy
and easily affected by moisture. The
wearing quality is poor and 1t gem
orally has a dull and lifeless appear
ance.
The Japanese have 80. been slow to
take advantage of the demand for
| leather goods of foreign manufac-
ture. but the goods which they sell
have not been altogether satisfactory
| to the Chinese. Frequent complaints
are made with regard to the quality,
| durability and the appearance of Their
| products, and the prices, while COM
parativeiy low, do not mean economy
! in the long run.
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Washington Letter
BY VICTOR ELLIOTT.

are summarized in a bulletin issued
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, as follows:
''In the upbuilding of the Japanese
cotton industry the mills have been
greatly hampered by lack of money
and experience, as we'll as by the
lack of skilled operatives and the
difficulty, under their system of
transient girl operatives, of creating
and maintaining trained force. The
first cost of the mills is SO great
that, with high interest charges and
high taxes, which have been greatly
increased since the Russian war, the
manufacturers have resisted all at
tempts by the authorities to enact
regulations that would interfere
with night work.
The mills have been greatly ia
vored by supply of extremely cheap
labor and by freedom from laws
prohibiting long working hours. They
have also been enabled to keep down
the cost Of raw material by varying
the mixings and thus setting off one
cotton against another in way thai
lis not permissible in countries maxi
ing the higher class of goods which
requires a single grade of cotton.
Most of the yarns and cloths pro,
duced by Japanese mills are made
from mixture of Indian, American
and Chinese cotton, and the low cost
of raw material thus obtained seems
to aid the manufacturers in their
struggle for the Chinese market. as
much as does their cheaper labor
especially as the labor Is very in
efficient.s Japan ships cotton yarn.
and cotton goods to many countries.
but its one large market is China.
where 1t finds competition on yarr
from India and cloth from the United
States. The publications of the
japan Cotton Spinners' Association
as we'll as remarks by spinners, In
dictate that they fear the future com
petition of Chinese mills more than
they do the American and the In
dian. The Chinese cotton industry
tariff is raised. as now proposed tho
Chinese may quickly become streny
factor In the situation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. b, NJ A. M D. tJohns Hopklns,.

scho0lrooms Should BE Absolutely Dust
Proof
More interesting, perhaps, from a
mothers point of view than to the
vast number of school children who
have poor hearing, bad eyesight, sore
threats and defects of one sort or an
other, is the desire to learn some way
by which maladies of the schoolhouse
can be frustrated, intercepted or
STAYED off.
DR.. C. Ward Champion, the New
York director of physical training in
the city schools, has developed a
campaign of attack against the dev-
astating influences of measles.
humps, diphtheria, scarlatina,
Gods" and the rest of the Tartar
brood.
The basic principle involved in all
offensive movements against microbic
invasions must be concerned with the
Imprisonment of the infectious ma
terials and the prevention of its ex-
tension to other chi dren by cough
ing and sneezing and the stirring up
of schoolhouse dust. 81
There Will be no one to dispute the
facts that all the ailments to which
childish flesh is liable in the school
is caught and picked up by the spray
from the particles expelled in the acts
of talking singing, kissing, cough
ing, sneezing and the like.
Up and down the world of dirt and
dust there is no better or happier
hunting grounds for the bacilli of
iockjaw, diphtheria. whooping cough,
cold" influenza and the whole legion
of black handed distempers than the
dowdy. turbid. soiled and uncleaned
filth of the schoolroom.
Although sanitary oowstables are
nowadays built with concrete, stone
or marble floors and walls to obviate
the dangers of disease germs class
rooms continue to be constructed of
wood. swept once day at the most.
and scTAbbed once week or less
often.
1, myself, have planted the dust
from the crevices Of comparatively
clean and new school floors to observe
the types of malicious microbes pres
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not because of any failure to do her
duty at the mint, but because of a
daring political speech she made
which offended some of the authori-
ties at the mint.
Turned out of her position. Anna
Dickinson became professional
speaker, and 1t was in the cause OF
abolition that she made many of her
most brilliant speeches. During the
Civil War she took time during the
day to act as nurse for the soldiers,
while she continued to make speeches
at night.
So great was Miss Dickinson's sue
cess as public speaker that she was
engaged by the Republican party N
several States TO Ego on the stump
before elections. At the time of tie
Civil War she was called to Pennsyt-
vania by the Federal government 10
urge, through her powerful speaking,
the enlistment of colored troops for
the army.
IT was rather unfortunate that after
successful career as public
speaker Miss Dickinson should have
gone on the stage. In 1867 she APP
peared in a pay of her own writing,
"A Crown of Thorns.'' and it is not
at all surprising that she did not
meet with success in this undertake
ing Disappointed as she was in this
failure she still had good judgment
enough to return to the field of her
greatest success, public speaking.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
The Next House.


From the Washington Star
All forecasts of the next House
supported by details show material
losses for the Democrats. If they
Gontrol-which now seems probable
il will not be by any such figure as
The present House shows. The hun
dred and forty odd majority which
the President has commanded at will
grew out of condition of affairs
which no longer exists. There is still
d Bull Moose party, but, it Will not
serve the Democrats as valuable IA
purpose as two years ago In some
Of its former stronghoids it has all
but disappeared
But the size of the Democratic
losseg win not tell the story In its
bearing on 1916 so much as the To-
calities where the losses are regis
tered
As usual, the South is counted for
the Democrats In several states
down there resentment toward the
President and his advisers is felt, but
it is not expected TO show itself at
the polls next week. The sugar and
The cotton men are likely to be
good" In one congressional district
ia Louisiana the Bull Moosers are
active and making claims but sue
cess there will count for nothing in
the general equation AS the South
has several times discovered, her
solidarity is not an unmiXed bless
ing. She would be stronger IL IT
yerc not possible to count her in adj
vance OF election day.
Interest attaches to the East, the
near West, the Northwest and the
Middle States What will the re-
turns from those sections be, and
what will they signify? All have felt
The business depression, have noted
the workings of the new tariff, are
liberally assessed in the war tax
schedules. and as there is no one
party domination there, an express
sion al the polls carries information
as TO the state of real public senti-
ment. If in those sections the Demo-
cratic losses are heavy, Democratic
control of the next House will
not be Democratic victory. Anxiety
about 1916 will set in, and may be-
come deep.
But there viii be this blessing for
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
Teachers Training Conference

The United States commissioner of
education has called conference of
specialists in charge of departments
In State universities, normal schools
and other institutions for,the train
ing of teachers for vocational schools,
and presidents or directors of such
institutions, to be held In connection
with the 1914 annual convention of
the National Society for the Promo
ton Of Industrial Education, Rich
mond, Va.
The conference will be held, by in
vitation, in the rooms of the Rich
mond Business Mems Club, Friday
evening, December IL.
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che n1issus

Who is it clears lifes paths for me?
The Missus;
Who's blind to faults that others see?
The Missus;
Who always greets me at the door
When each days BIT of work is DER?
Who laughs at jests she's heard before?
The Mssus;
Who puts the buttons in my shirts?
The Missus;
Who smiles at disappointment's hurts?
The Missus
Who when the children wake at night
Gets up to see that they're all right
And leaves snuglY sleeping tight?
The Missus;
Who fills the house with mrth and song?
The Missus;
Who brayely smiles when things go wrong?
The Missus;
Who knows the very worst of
And yet some good contrives to see?
Who labors most unSelhshy?
The Missus;
Who makes the home a gracious spot?
The Missus;
Who never whimpers at her lot?
The Missus;
Who fills with sunshine every day
Drives all the clouds of care away?
Who gets but very meagre pay?
The Missus;
Edgar A. Guest.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

any community of such proportions
the sordid side of human nature must
be more or less in evidence.
Like Paris, New York has often
presented to it's hordes of visitors
the aspect of a huge Vanity Fair.
where money may be spent not
wisely but too well. But this is u
superficial judgment. In trade and
industry, in the arts and sciences, in
philanthropy and religion, ii has long
been honorably distinguished. And
if Philadelphia has no occasion to
envy her older and larger sister.
since she has so many charms and
virtues OF her own she would not
lose, she is none the less glad TO
offer her congratulations on this
celebration of three hundred years of
useful growth.
The Growth of Our Marine Infant.
From the Cincinnati Tilnes-Star.
Seventy-six ships, aggregating near
ly 275.000 tons, have passed under
American registry since the shipping
act was amended by Congress. II
this keeps up the globe trotting Amer
lean will be able to see the American
flag in other places than in his patri-
otto inside pocket.
1t begins to look as If some of ouI
prodigious foreign commerce would
at last go abroad in our own ships
| But the ideal state will not be reached
until these ships come from American
shipyards and the hands of American
! workmen. Still it is a good begin
! ming, although one which was thrust
| on us by outside events.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
rHE PASSING or rHE swoRp.

Modern warfare has furnished new application
of Bulwer Lytton's lines: Take away the sword;
states be saved without it," From time imme-
mortal "the sword" has been the most commonly
used synonym for war, but the present conflict in
Europe is likely to make that weapon merely ira
ditonal figure of speech In fact 1t was discarded
long ago for American infantry officers except as an
ornament dress parade or other ceremonous oc-
casions.
Germany has clung to the sword, and this Is said
to for the high percentage of casualties among
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28
THE MAYOR AND THE LIBRARY STATIONS.

The Newark public library stations should be kept
up. The city we'll spare the cost of maintenance
of these valuable and almost indispensable of
city library. The stations that it is proposed to
abandon are in factories and churches and other
places convenient to the and it would be
a grave mistake to cut them off
Mayor Haussling has been appealed to in behalf
the people who the thirteen stations announced
to be abandoned and as nobody better appreciates
their value and usefulness, the mayor may be ex-
pected to take action favorable to their retention
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emit only to find that the germs of
tuberculosis, tonsilitis, bronchitis and
the whole host of distempers spread
among children dwell and endure in
the cracks of benches, floors and walls
after the usual cleaning.
The day may come when everything
In the school will be built of cement or
marble. Perchance in the not too dis
tant future some antiseptic oil dress
ing with flash point not above $50
degrees will be used twice day as a
mop on the floors. walls and crevices.
Not only will this destroy contagion,
but 1t will make the life and health
OF teachers, janitors and principals no
less than the children free from some
Affections of the flesh.