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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
HoLDs AMERICAN LIFE CHEAP.


our patient and forgiving and highly benevolent
state department is to be disturbed in its peace
of mind by the complaints from the Mexican border
of the Killing and woundng of American citizens on
American soil by bullets fred across the border by
Mexican soldiers.
At Naco Arizona, alone five American residents
have been killed and fortytwo wounded in this way
Appeals have been made to Washington for pro-
lection, but Mr.. Bryan has been so engrossed with
the doctrine of peace and love that he does not heed
these appeals.
For Gods sake help us!s is one message sent
to the senators at Washington by the chairman of
citizens meeting at Naco. I'VE have appealed to
Washington in vain for some relief There is no
safety in the streets day night and very little in
the houses and the end is not yet"
More than a hundred Americans have been killed
in Mexico and there has been nothing done to show
that this government resented the slaughter of its
citizens. When there report Of the killing OF
one obstreperous Englishman in Mexico the state
department was full of excitement and anxiety. AS
for the many murders of Americans the assurance
has been given that Washington will have no claims
to present to Mexico
What other government would preserve this atti-
tude of caous Indifference to the lives of its own
citizens? What other government would tolerate
deadly fusiades its borders to kill people in
their own dwellings?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
rHE APPROPRIATIONS ESTIMATES.

whether Congress viii stick TO the carefully
trimmed estimates of appropriations for the next
fiscal year which are accepted rejecting the de-
sfres Of the administration is exceedingly doubtful
rbe army and navy estimates far below expeota-
tons and evidently we're made to correspond TO the
attitude of the administration in respect to the ma
tioual defense.
The total budget is s1,OsO,7551S4 which is
SO s92 962 less than the appropriations for the pres
ent fiscal year and nearly eighteen millions less than
the 1914 estimates. The increase for the army is
less than five millions while the navy gets s1215,s16
more than for the present year. If the aroused sent
nent of the country prevail in Congress these
army and navy figures viii not stand.
An adequate appropriation for militia maneuvers
was asked. It was cut down million dollars to
only s250O00 There is slight increase for fortif
cations over the present year. Only 100000 is
provided for army aviation, but the appropriation
OF $3.50 600 for armng the naval militia is doubled
On the other hand, the amount asked for rivers
and harbors is $53 100000 for the next fiscal year,
an increase of about $SOOOOOO0 this years ap-
preparation. In the estimate only $155,000 is al
lowed for the Passaic River. The Mississippi gets
$40, 600, the Ohio $9SS4 900, the Hudson
s367O 900 the Delaware 81 100000 and the Column
bia and Missouri s2,5O0O00 each. Who cannot
oresee in this proposed appropriation issue that
nay deadlock Congress for weeks and have its effect
upon other important legislation?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07

then she moved from Philadelphia to
New York, where, in spite of the
fact that she had six children, she
managed to devote five days of the
week for fifty years to works of
charity and philanthropy. She made
it a habit to visit the Tombs weekly,
at time when there was very little
thought. or care given to the plight of
the prisoners in New York. In
memory of her father she established
the Isaac I. Hopper Home for dis
charged women prisoners in New
York, providing thereby a place
where women who had been in prison
might get their bearings and be
shielded from temptation when they
first faced the world after the ex-
piration Of their sentence. Mrs. Glib
hons was very much interested in in
dustrial schools, and was one of the
first to realize the value of this kind
of education. Her work among pris-
oners led her to the conclusion that
education, and especially industrial
education, is the best preventive of
crime and lawlessness. When the
Civil War broke out Mrs. Gibbons
was past sixty, but with her daugh-
ter she volunteered her services as
nurse and was among the most in
defatigaple nurses who worked at the
front. She established diet Kitchens
and greatly improved hospital con-
ditions wherever she went.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
The Bugbear of Zeppelins

AS insurance against damage from
Zeppelins is being placed at Lloyd's
at one per cent, American capital
might find a first-class speculation,
says the Wall Street Journal. Any
Body who has been up in the air or
seen a Zeppelin run out from the
"luftschiffhalle' we'll understands
what an unmanageable animal real
German airship Is in wintry weather.
In the first. place q German airship
requires garage longer than an ordi-
nary city block, for the Zeppelins
average about 500 feet in length, and
must be housed in the most substan-
tial manner. inside the garage It Is
real ship on rails-rails pro1ectine
some distance into the field beyond.
The shin passes in and out, secured
nv guys to these floor rails. From
twenty to forty men on the ground
are required at the ropes in addition
| TO the crew within the ship. 1t Will
| he readily seen that the stabling OF
| this monster is no small matter.
The structure within is coliseum,
with shipping tackle and machinery.
II must have it's outside accompani-
ments of machine shop, gas general
/ ing works, etc, all built in the most
substantial manner. Indeed, Aeo-
nejin raraee-for a single airship--
must represent from 100000 TO $500, 900
of investment, and 1t cannot well be
! constructed under a year.
There are said to be twenty-eight
of these Zeppelin garages in Ger
many. but very few. IL any, of them
are available for housing ships that
might attempt raid upon England.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
Lessons of the Election

That political migrate has few
supporters and less friends.
That the first gun for returning
prosperity has been fired.
That capital will once more begin
to seek investment.
That the people prefer prosperity
to partisanship, and the statesman
to the demagogue.
That business men have discovered
that they have real interest In
politics.
That the era Of trust busting and
railroad smashing is approaching its
end.
That the workmen of Pennsylvania,
New York, Connecticut, Ohio, New
Jersey and all the other great in
dustrial States, know who fills the
dinner pail and the pay envelope and
who keeps them full.
That the people are not eager TO
pay an income tax and also hum
dred millions in war taxes in time Of
peace.
That the people are opposed to a
Congress that sat longer and spent
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07

collectively or individually, can pos
sibly entertain a thought of meddling
with this country, but there is con-
stant talk In some quarters of the
German PERIL We find in the New
York Journal OF Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin an editorial article
on this subject from which we quote
the following:
Suppose, it is said, Germany should
win,. destroy the power of Great
Britain and set out to invade Canada
by way of the United States: or sup
pose Japan, which is on the side of
the allies against Germany, should
take a notion to cross the broad
Pacific and attack our western coast.
1t seems to us that 1t would have been
quite as rational to raise that sup
position a year ago as now, and il it
had been raised then II could only
have excited ridicule. This war in
Europe is going TO end apparently
only with the depletion of the armies
and the exhaustion of the resources
of those engaged in it to a degree that
will leave them with little stomach
for adventure across the seas This
is certain to be the case with Ger
many, and it does not come within
the range of human probability that
| 1t can defeat the powerful allies ar
rayed aga nst it, trampIe over Great
Britain, destroy its navy and bring
an army over to occupy Canada,
smashing its way through the United
States
1t may be the part of prudence for
| this nation to continue to prepare, as
! it always has done, for its own pro-
( lection, but there does not seem to
( be at this time, of all times, the
slightest danger that any foreign
power will so threaten it as to ate
a necessity for war preparation re-
I qairing the services of a special com.
mission to attend to it. The jingoes
should try to calm themselves. Al
any rate, 1t will be long time before
Germany, a very cool-headed nation
/ attempts to bring an army over tc
occupy Canada, smashing 1t way
through the United States.'' That
would surely be a stupendous enter.
! prise, and Germany is going TO have
trouble enough in Europe for a Ions
J time - come.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07

While I was on a visit to Con-
cord, Mass, some ten years ago, !
met a citizen, James Gull, who had
made a study of the interesting
events associated with Concord and
who had become familiar with certain
incidents associated with the men and
women of national, even international,
reputation whose homes were there,
as, for instance, Emerson, hawthorne,
Louisa Alcott and her father; Eliza
beth Peabody, who founded the
American kindergarten system, ana
Henry D. Thoreau.
Mr.. Gull invited me to go with him
to Walden, saying that he would show
me some of Thoreau's walks and
would point out to me the bean field
whose cultivation Thoreau so graph
ically describes in his book, WAL
den," which has now become classic.
/ asked Mr.. Gull if he would also
show me the place where Thoreau
built his hut, or what James Russell
Lowell called his "shanty," in which
he lived for two years alone.
Mr.. Gull laughted heartily, saying,
"Oh, you would find that place with
out any difficulty even IL you went
alone to Walden, because everybody
who visits Walden has joined in rais-
ing a monument for Thoreau there
and you can't miss it"
1t at once occurred to me that Mr..
Gull referred to a cairn which had
heard had been set up stone by stone
by different hands upon the side of
Thoreau's hut
We entered the woods from the
highway which in q little over
miles distance passes near the home
Of Emerson, and which also fianks
Tanglewood, where Hawthorne used
to wander and mediate upon what
became his 'fTanglewood Tales"
l said to Mr.. Gull that there seemed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07


more money than any. other Congress
ever assembled in this country.
That the policy OF watchful waiting
in Mexico, costing SIC, 0,O00,o and sew
enteen precious lives, Is not enthus-
iastically approved In view of the
fact that it's tremendous cost could
have been avoided IL this country
had followed the example promptly
of other first class powers and recos-
nized the Huerta government.
That President Wilson's absolute
domination of Congress has ended.
Defeated members will not feel in
the mood to take further orders.
That the Interstate Commerce
Commission will concede fair treat
ment to the railroads or be retired
from the public service.
That IL Charles s. Whitman makes
as good a governor of New York as
he has made district attorney of
New York county, he will be the
Republican candidate from New
York for President in 1916 with a
united party behind him.
That the thinking people ruiei
Onward, Christian Soldiers Les
u6 y.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

criticism that Dickens could walk up
one side of a long, busy street and
down the other, and then tell you In
their order the names on all the shop
signs; the fact was alleged as an Illus
tration Of his great powers of obser-
walton. Dickens was a great observer,
but he would assuredly have been a
still greater observer had he been a
little less preoccupied with trivial and
uncoordinated details
Too many people regard this trick
of gathering a multitude of fact inn
pressions the whole of observation
But the skilled observer like Arnold
Bennett or any other who attracts
an audience to see what he sees Is a
man who is able to unity his impress
sions into a comprehensive and sig
nificant whole. The trained observer
selects and relates. He sees some
thing more than the mere detached
detail
Observations that mean much is
the sort that comprehends the fun
damental and universal A detail be-
comes worth while in just the pro-
| portion that 1t may be correlated,
/ that it may attach itself to another
/ basic fact or collection of facts, that
| 1t may be seen in its relative i'm
portance. Great observers appreciate
| this. And the world is rich and
meaningful for any of us very largely
according to our ability to observe
discerningly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
From Everywhere

Here are some figures showing the
number of combatants that took
part In some OF the most important
epoch making fishts OF the past:
Mukden, in the Russo-Japanese
war, heads the list with total Of
more than 7o1 900 men in battle array.
Leipsic C'The Battle of the Ma
tions'), October 16 to 1s, 1919
French, 10000; Austrians. Russians
and Prussians, 100000. Total,
1000.
Waterloo, June 1S, 1s15-Freneh,
71,s47; British and allies. e7.eei. To-
tai, 139, sos.
Gettysburg, July i to 8, 1seS--Fed-
erals, $4,000; Confederates, $4,000.
Total. 100000.
Sedan, August 2 to September 1,
1S70-French, 100000; Germans, $780,
900 Total, 1000.
Mukden, March l to 10, 1905--Rus-
SLAMS, 10000; Japanese, soi 300.
Total. 701 600 p
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
THREE E-MINUTE
JOURNEYS
"a
Uhere Foundetions Yield Bricks.
BY TEMPLE MANNING.


In practically the centre of the Des-
ert Of Sahara lies the oasis OF 1nsa-
lah. AS you come across the blazing
sands the cool palms that you first
saw swimming in the heat waves
on the far horizon appear like angel
hands beckoning to a veritable land
of promise, and camels and men pick
up heart and urge the pace a bit.
Down one OF the many caravan routes
that radiate from Insalah our little
party rode into the town.
1t is a small village made UP OF a
few houses built of mud bricks, and,
tired as l was, found myself Won
dering where the bricks had come
from. Were they carried across the
burnt-up desert along the hundreds
of weary miles we had come, or was
there a supply to be found nearer at
hand? | soon found out. for the next
morning | saw sonle' of the natives
building a house.
The upper layer of desert sand had
been dug away, and underneath a
laver of clay was disclosed. Into this
clay stratum the foundation had been
sunk, and the clay that had been
taken out nad Deen lnade lEhlo DTlchS.
The brick making process was very
simple. There was not even the
simplest brick machinery OF the kind
we know employed. All these desert
brickmakers needed was the mud
like clay and some waste straw.
With their hands they moulded the
bricks into the desired shape, and
then they spread them out in the
sun to dry.
The speed with which the house
went up under my eyes was truly
amazing. but it is lucky thing that
these CLAW houses take only a short
time to build. otherwise the desert
builders might become discouraged.
For every once in long while there
comes a heavy sand storm and the
swir1ing grit, grinding into the half
baked clay bricks. wears them
through and if that rarest of desert
things a rain storm. follows. down
crumbles the clay house into the
earth again. But the desert builder
| is happy fellow. and he sings as he
| starts building once more.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
Why Some Races of Men Have Tangled
Kinky Hair.

Why Some Races of Men Have Tangled
Klnky Hair.
It would be almost as easy to num-
Der the hairs of your head as to ex-
plain why one race has smooth nalr,
another has straight hair, a third has
curly hair and others have crinkled
tresaes.
whether your knotted and combed
locks part or each particular halr
stands on end; whether you are able
to shake arnbrosial curls or give put
a mockery OF a twist to crinkly
kinks In your tresses, may seem
often to be wholly matter Of m
heritanee, sex or race. Notwith-
standing the large role apparently
played by heredity, there is more
fundamental explanation possible.
Ere the laws of Inheritance, be
they Lamarckian, Darwinian, Men,
delIan or those of De Vries, begin
to operate there must have assuredly
been some fountain head and incl
dental origin OF the condition, which
later becomes a factor in heredity
Briefly, the k'nky hair of the negro,
admitted to be an essential as well
as inherited characteristic or the
black man, started some time, some-
where, somehow. 1t has become. true
H.
the African general tions, but that is
an assertion which fails to explain.
The American negro is removed by
only three or four generations from
the wilds Of tropical Africa. There he
roamed the forests with the torrid
sun of day and the cool, moist atmos-
phere of the night, and the woods as
saulting his tangled knots. The fierce,
continuous heat of Old Sol naturally
kept the oils, wakes and natural lupri-
cants of the hair and scalp in fiuid
state. The ultra-vtolet-cnemicai
rays--of the equatorial sun also tend
to dry up the hair exposed to it's rays,
as we'll as to set free all sorts of ac-
tive chemicals from the jungle atmos-
phere.
Moreover, the powerful invisible
radiations from the sun at the tropics
liberate ozone, active oxygen, hydro
gen. active nitrogen and a legion OF
other agents almost unknown in tenn
perature and Arctic neighborhoods.
The contamination of these alter
nate solar assaults and nocturnal
baths is TO cause shrinkage Of the
hair shafts on the scalp and skin OF
native African peoples. The little
band of fibre of muscle tissue with
which each particular hair-root is
connected, drags upon the hair and
the upslaot is q condensation, dwin-
ding and corrugation Of the hairs.
The exposure of the negro's flesh
with its implanted hairs through
milienniums to the ultraviolet rays
of the equatorial sun, moon aud
stars; the rapid evaporation at night,
the myriad of chemical effects by day,
instigated so much, physical nagging
of the wizened hair that they neces-
sarily shrivelled. withered and be-
came twisted into little spirals called
kinks"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Novel Monument to a Literary Genius

to be a well-beaten. path from the
highway through the woods
"That's easy to explain" he re-
piled. 1T has been made by thou-
sands who in recent years have
visited the site of Thoreau's hut.
In a few moments l came within
sight of the cairn, and was aston
ished TO see how large 1t was. 1t
must have been between twelve and
fifteen feet broad at the base ana
possibly eight feet from the top TO
the bottom row of stones, Ii was IN
the shape of a pyramid. OF all the
stones which composed ii none Was
too big for a single pair Of hands to
carry. Each stone was a silent
tribute to ThoFeau.
"I have been told,'' said Mr.. Gull,
that there is nothing like this mon
ument to be found anywhere IN the
United Ststes. There must have
been several thousand deposits OF
stones, pebbles and bits of rock. The
monument has been gradually grow
ing. 1t increases from year to year.
When people come to Concord, IS
hundreds do in the course of q sum-
mer, the first thing they want TO see
is the Concord battle-ground Of the
Revolution, and, the next thing Ia
Walden and the place where Thoreau
lived for two years. Never a day
passes that you don't see anywhere
from ten to twenty visitors lowering
around this spot. They come from
all parts of the United States and
occasionally from England. Every
one deposits a stone here, but in so
doing they have practically cleared
the woods and fields Of loose stones,
and now they have to go quite a
bit along the shore OF Walden In
order to find any,"
q go
Copyright. 1914, by =. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
MUST PAY COST OF FIRE SERVICE.

Hereafter people in New York whose premises
fires originated through their culpable careless
ness will have pay the fire department cost of
tinguishing the fire A factory ordered to
install automatic sprinklers. He neglected to do So
fire occurred in the factory, and it cost the depart
ment 81 800 to extinguish it. The Appellate Court
has now decided that the factory owner must pay
this cost.
The decision is equitable. The owner got his in-
surance to recompense him for the loss, and the de-
partment was penazed 500 trying to give salvage
to the insurance man. Should not the careless and
negligent tenant owner of property damaged
by fire for which he is responsible be compelled to
pay for his negligence?
Incendarsm is criminay punished. The man
who deliberately fires his premises or hires somebody
else to commit the crime be sent to prison The
negligent should be responsible TO the civil law
at least the extent of paying the cost to the fire
department of extinguishng the fire.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. b.. NJ A., NJ d. (John Hopkins).

How many future generations arc
required to live in sub-tropical an
temperate zones--if these researehes
are correct-to restore straieht -
smooth hair to the negro, 1t is no.
for science to say. It is no de1,hi
possible that some sudden "rnntas
ton" in the form of straight-hairea
negroes may suddenly appear and a.
any moment be the source Of Amer
lean negro generations with hair the,
same as whites.
Certain 1t is that there is no known
mixture or drug which win either
turn the white mans hair int
crinkly kind, nor is there any com
bination that will make the neeno' .
hair smooth and straight. The sale
of such compounds is an imposition
upon external human ignorance and
credulity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07

To lessen unemployment the meni-
bers Of the British Amalgamated So
ciety OF Carpenters and Joiners at
several centres have agreed to sub
stantial reductions in working hours.
The incoming Tennessee Legisla-
ture will consider mothers pensions,
a compensation act, minimum wage
for female employees and the abol-
ishment of convict labor in compe-
tition with free labor.
A city trade and labor Cancellation
board has been formed at Cleveland,
composed of the City Council COM
mittee on labor, one delegate from
the Cleveland Federation Of Labor
and representative of city en-
ployers.
More than 100 locals affiliated with
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
RockEFELLER AND HOME CHARITY.

Out of its abundance the Rockefeller Foundation
contributes $4,000 to the relief of the Of New
York city, realizing that the and the indus
trial depression have created great want at home.
But why NeweYork city only?
In all the large cities of the country and in many
OF the smaller ones the same conditions exist and
the pressure for relief is oyertaxng all the resources
OF the charitable and benevolent societies. Every
dollar of the colossal fortune of John D. Rockefeller
came from the people, and that fortune has not been
impaired by Mr. Rockefeller's vast contributions to
specific objects
The promise has been given by the managers of
the foundation of millions TO continue the work of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
rnE ourLooK FOR sTATE REFoRMs.

The program of retrenchment and efficiency in the
State government prepared by Senator Edge and his
economy and efficiency commission is attractive
and promising one but contains all the elements of
trouble It is by no means certain that the Repub-
can leaders will be able to control all the majority
if they make the program partisan one.
And yet the Democratic joint appropriations
committee of this year has a retrenchment program,
too as result of its Investigations In purpose the
two programs should harmonize, and we might be-
hold legislation based on the findings of two sets of
investigators and fully carrying out their recon-
mendations Will there be harmony? Are on
the eve of series of genuine reforms in the govern
ment of this State?