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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

What are called "Pluvius policies
came into operation this month This
is an ingenius method of insurance
devised to indemnify holiday makers
for loss or disappointment due to wet
weather during the summer.
Thousands of holiday makers took
advantage of the scheme last sum-
mer. Almost every seaside resort in
the country comes within the scope
of the policy.
Any sum per day or week may be
insured in proportion to the premium
paid There are four forms of policy:
Policy A-To pay for each separate
week in which there are three or more
DAYS of rain amounting on each day
to more than 20 of an inch.
Policy BIO pay for every day on
which the rainfall amounts to more
than 20 of an inch.
Policy C-To pay for the second and
every additional rainy day in each
week or in every separate week, on
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
Millions Feel Rice Failure

munication on the main line Of travel
and blocking UP traffic for days at a
time. Spring does not begin to open
up in Toxic till April.
Before the general unaffected pub
lie knew there were even possible
famine conditions in the north, men
in Toxic and other large cities, who
deal in humanity, were already in the
districts that were beginning to feel
the pinch, gathering young girls to
fill the resorts and factories of the
cities. Girls from fifteen to twenty
have been arriving in large numbers
at the terminal station in Toxic for
the northern railroad lines. The par
ents often give their consent to the
sale of the girl. They are so reduced
that anything seems better than just
starving to death. The girls will
ingly go with their new masters, be-
cause it is the duty of Japanese
child to do anything that may be
necessary to support the parents.
A former resident in the faminel
district tells how the houses are
being gradually demolished in places
in order to provide fuel. One large
house, covering 500 square feet, was
offered for sale at $3.50, and. no one
having enough money to buy 1t, was
gradually taken apart and used as
fire wood. Many persons are found
living on grass seeds, animal entrails
and decomposed food that dogs would
not touch. A fish's head rescued from
the refuse of fish shop. in a pot of
water with a little grass seed was
found in one hut on which the family
hoped to make three meals. A boy
who was suffering severely, after be-
ing examined by two doctors, was
found to have a great wad of straw
In his stomach. which he had swal-
lowed in an effort to appease the
gnawing of hunger.
Children in many places have be-
come too weak to go to school. Their
teachers, who receive from $3.50 to
$3.50 a month, belong to the class
who are too proud to receive help.
Many of these teachers are suffering
because their salaries have not been
paid. The fact that there are several
classes who are too proud to tell OF
their own sufferings makes 1t very,
difficult to deal with those in need.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

With more than 100000 persons in
actual want and more than 100000
feeling the touch of famine in the
Tonhoku and Hokaido districts, the
government officials and charitable
organizations of Japan are straining
every measure to meet the situation,
according to the Baltimore News.
The wants in these districts is caused
by the dual failure of the rice crops
and the fisheries, both due to the I'M
seasonably cold weather of last sum-
mer.
Because of the cold the rice did not
head, and proved the worst failure in
100 years. This cool weather was
largely due to the strength of the
cold currents in the ocean, which
kept the fish from arriving in the
fishing grounds, as they usually DO
with the warmer waters from the
south. These two failures left the
thickly populated sections virtually
without anything to eat, rice and fish
being the staple diet, and with
nothing at all to sell. The famine
conditions are declared to be the most
severe any section of Japan has
known for more than 100 years.
The earthquake and volcanic disas-
tiers that have visited Japan this
winter have made great demands
upon the wealthy classes and the
government appeals have been reach
ing the government at Toxic and the
charity organizations since the first
of the year. At first they reported
hunger then illness; now they tell of
starvation and death.
1t seems to be the general opinion
among Americans who have taken
their knowledge on hearsay that
Japan is a country of perpetual
cherry blossoms, sbalmy air and
pretty almond-eyed maidens in gala
colored kimonos. On the contrary,
much cold and disagreeable weather
Is found there; the cherry trees only
blossom for two or three weeks in
April. In less than 100 miles north of
Toxic you get into a country with
winter climate about like northern
Ohio. Continuing north, increasing
cold is found, and in Hokkaido there
is a large amount of snow during the
| winter months, often cutting off COM
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
Insurance for Rainy Days

which the rainfall amounts to more
than Is of an inch.
Policy d Short periods of four con-
secutive days)-To pay for every day
on which the rainfall amounts to
more than 20 of an inch. "a week.
end policy.
The premiums vary from los. to e.
$3.50 to $3.50, the former securing f6
$500 a week, and the latter f24 S120)
a week under policy A, in which rain
of the amount stipulated falls. OF
course, large assurances can be ar
ranged. The rates for the other
policies vary only slightly.
1t is also possible for persons CIV
ing private garden parties and other
outdoor functions where no money is
taken to obtain a wet-weather in
surance for amounts to be mutually
agreed upon, to arrange compensa-
ton for certain specified amounts of
rainfull within "a or IL hours, as they
desire.-London Correspondent New
York Sun.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
SHALL THE INQUIRY BE cHoKED OFF?

1t is no longer denied at Washington that it is the
desire and purpose of the administration to If possible
put stop to the probe of Counsel Folk of the Inter
state Commerce Commission into the secret affairs of
the great railroads Even the New York Evening
Post confirms the statement that the President is in
accord with Attorney-General McReynolds who
Rainly attempted to choke off the Mellen disclosures
az But Congress has a say in the matter and the
Interstate Commerce Commission is judicial body
Independent of the executive The commission could
be controlled only through the Presidents appointees
on the board Congress order the investigation to
proceed without let hindrance by the President
And the signs are that Congress will in sist having
all the facts brought out
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

Two very remarkable American
women celebrated their birthdays on
May q. They were Julia Howe, who
was born ninety-five years ago today,
and Amelia jerks Boomer, who was
just one year her senior.
Julia Ward Howe was prominent in
social and literary society during the
middle of the last century but it is
chiefly as author of the famous BAT
tie Hymn of the Republic" that she is
remembered by the present genera
ton.
Amelia Bloomer was one of the
most indefatigable workers for the
cause of temperance and woman's
rights during the same period, but,
such tricks does fame play, she is
remembered by the present generation
only because of the garment of femi-
nine apparel which she advocated.
Amelia Bloomer was a native OF
New York State, and when she was
a young woman married an editor
named Dexter Bloomer, who little
dreamed at the time to what fame she
was raising the family name of
Bloomer. Mr.. Bloomer served as local
postmaster for a while and in this
work Mrs. Bloomer proved herself to
be an excellent assistant Before long
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
A RIVER PARKWAY.

The original plans of the Essex Park Commission
included the Passaic feature, the river to be
skirted by a parkway far the Passaic County
line. Unfortunately, the polluted condition of the
stream forbade and the river eliminated.
What could not be done with the Passaic is about
to be done with the Bronx river. Property-owners
along the Bronx have donated tracts of land and
others have offered their land at low prices for the
sake of a parkway. Four millions will probably be
appropriated by the city for cleaning the river and
laying out the park, which when completed will be
one of the finest in the world.
The Bronx like the Passaic, is winding and has
striking scenic features 1t may yet be possible after
the trunk sewer has been built and the Passaic is
stored to its normal condition to out the park
way idea above Woodsde
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
ALL QUIET IN ULSTER,

Ulster is calm on the surface, but it seems an
ominous calm like the stiffness in the air that often
precedes the tempest. This be the effect of the
drilling that has been going in Ulster for several
months Ulster is disciplined and awaits orders
In former years, when there military or
ganization the receipt of like that of the pas
sage of the home rule bill would have been sgnazed
by wild rioting in the north of Ireland But the mob
Esprit is quelled by the military discipline Ulster
will rise when its leaders give the signal
Nor has the time come yet for the home rule bill is
10 be amended by another bill which is expected to
partly eoncate Ulster. The hope seems vain one.
aHhe irreconcable men of that province home
rule in any shape that will subject them to Parlia-
ment at Dublin They would much rather lift Ulster
bodily out of ireland and attach it to England
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
Teaching Boys How to Live

liant students who have just become
aware of the human situation, but
who have had no systematic train
ing in dealing with it. Such boys,
he says, are dangerous to themselves,
and to society as well. 1t will take
them much longer to work out
method of dealing with human prob
lens out of college and to get the
proper point of view than If they
had had the way pointed out by ex-
perienced minds at the beginning
of their collegiate studies. If they
have the proper kind of teaching
they will see clearly at the end of
their freshmen year what they must
do in the three remaining years of
their course.
It has not been possible to arrange
any such course in the past because
there has been no humanistic
sciences. "Our direct understanding
of human experience" says DR.. Mel
hand, through the appropriations and
concrete representations of ltera-
ture, and, on the other, through the
relatively inaccurate applications of
philosophy and history. But, how
ever unwilling we may be to rec
ognize it, 1t is clear that the new
studies of human experience and
activity are now achieving In some
measure the character of science. In
the beginnings of the intellectual life
If Europe our first discovery was
that certain quantitative aspects of
nature, admitting of mathematical
expression, may thereby be brought
into order. subjected to the intel
lectual law. 1t is not long since the
living organisms seemed hopelessly
incoherent and unorderable, but we
have succeeded and we are succeed
ing in dealing with them. And now
still later the processes and condi-
tons of individual and social exper-
fence are being brought into some
sort of conference and understand
ing. It Is true that the work has
only just begun, but it has been
begun, and no one can pretend to
understand the thought of his time
who does not know what is being
done and what remains to be done
in this field If the college cannot
give our boys an acquaintance with
this task and these achievements, if
IL cannot arouse a vital interest in
the intellectual struggle upon which
we have entered, 1t will fail in one
of it's most obvious and compelling
duties"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

there was also large increase of the army, which
was then sufficient bring the military force
up to the required strength Evidently the progress
made by Russia in reorganizing and strengthening
her ornaments inspires these new demands. The
naval increase is intended to match Russia and France
combined.
Germany wants peace. for in the years of peace
under Emperor William she has enjoyed degree of
prosperity that world marvel 1t is to insure
peace not to provoke that German policy
creates and maintains immense army and is build
ing big navy She has had peace for quarter of a
century because she has been prepared for and
she must add to her insurance the risks of war
increase
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

General Grant and the leaders of the
Civil War period was setting. All
of these and scores of other public
men hardly less prominent were long
since gathered to their fathers.
But Theodore Roosevelt, their con-
temporary in political activity, still
lives and flourishes, and the elder
statesmen of the G. o. P, who were
little more than schoolboys when he
was doing a mans work, are flirting
with him over 1916 They are pre-
pairing to take him up into a high
mountain and show him the promised
land and a Presidential nomination
if he viii only be good and let Re-
publicans and Progressives come to-
gether again. Do they imagine that
there are any tricks in the game that
Theodore does not understand since
he began playing it in the New York
Legislature over thirty years ago?
We shall see what we shall see.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
mo INTERMEDIATES"

It is now definitely announced that Great Britain
will not participate in the PanamaPaefc Exposition
at San Francisco As she is expected to be given by
the President and Congress quasisovereignty in the
canal for which she did not expend a penny, this
action is more than churlish. In common parance it
is rubbing it in. And it doesn't sweeten the dose
which President Wilson has prescribed for the Amer
lean nation
There is, as the British premier told the Commons
yesterday mo unfriendliness," whatever. Which
is reminder of the paintive query of the rueful
swain perhaps it well to dissembe your love,
but why did you kick downstars?'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
SEED FOR MORE REVOLUTIONS.

Mexican revolutions until the Madero uprising
we're always military Madero represented the
progressves and the poems. He was not a military
chief But his government overturned by mill
tary plot The Carranza revolution is that of the
masses against the military.
The logic of this history is that the less Mexico
has to do with regular army the better, after she
has succeeded in getting stable government But the
rebel leaders are already talking of organizing an
army of so 600 If they out this purpose
they will plant the seed for other military revolutions
and more drenchng of the land with Mexican blood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
See YOU at four BELLS

"See you at four bells"
You've heard that expression! And
chances are, you've thought of 4
o'clock.
Wrong! Four bells may mean :
o'clock, or o'clock or 10 O'CLOCK
either round of the clock; but never
o'clock.
Time at sea is yet announced in the
ancient way of striking bells. the
day is divided into six watches. The
bells in each watch begin at one and
run to eight. Thus each number OF
bells at sea occurs six times day,
instead of twice, as the hours do on
a clock.
The first watch is from s o'clock to
midnight; mid watch. midnight, to .
o'clock; morning watch, o'clock to 8
O'Clock; fore watch, o'clock to noon;
after watch, noon to 4 o'clock; dog
watch, 4 o'clock to s o'clock
The first bell of each watch is
struck on the half hour. Thus one
bell might be 1890 o'clock, 4:SO
o'clock or $3.50 o'clock. Two bells
would be / o'clock, 5 O'Clock or 8
O'Clock, and so on, the odd numbered
bells meaning the half hours and
even numbered bells the hours until
eight bells moon, o'clock, s o'clock
or midnighD are struck, when the
order begins over again.
Ordinarily time is merely expressed
as six bells" or whatever bell 1t
happens to be. If one wishes to be
more explicit "Six bells by the mid
watch" is the expression. Trans
lated into land time that would be
8 o'clock in the morning.
A sailor would announce the time
as -Four bells have gone" not
-Four bells have been struck, or
sounded" If he wanted to indicate
a quarter hour he would say Half
after three bells" When the time
approaches nearly to an hour or halt
hour mark a sailor would say, -Four
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
FLAGS ON DECORATION DAY.

There should be a general display of the national
flag on Decoration Day in Newark. No man is so
poor that he cannot afford to buy flag of some size
to adorn his dwelling, and every citizen should regard
it as patriotic duty not only to float Old Glory from
his window roof, but to help his neighbor to do
the same thing.
Our city, bathed in patriotic bunting, will be an
inspiring spectacle heightened by the parade of the
organizations and the crowds the street. And the
Civil War veterans who march in the parade will be
all agow with patriotic pride when they pass through
streets afame with the national coors
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
NE,y JERSEYS LOST STURGEON.

The sturgeon was common food fish in New
Jersey waters years ago Now it is rare and in
eager demand for it's large specimen was
caught in South Jersey waters last week and its
brought $3.50 in the market. Modern methods of
fishing made the sturgeon almost extinct An intelli-
gent conservation policy could bring these valuable
fish back again and maybe the State will get such
policy when governor and legislature are elected
capable of formulating
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
PITT. Chamberlain. Wilson
From London Letter to the Cincinna
Enquirer.

From london Letter 20 the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
An interesting comparison of the
striking facial resemblance between
three prominent public men. two of
whom are still living, though one is
hors de combat so far as public
life is concerned is going the rounds
now
The three men are England's great
est statesmen, William Pitt and Jo-
seph Chamberlain. and President Will
son. If, for example, you place a
monOcle on the left eye of the
Pitt statue, which stands at the en-
trance to the House Of Parliament,
you have the immortal Joe" to the
life. The same result would follow if
you should substitute the Wilson
pinee-nez for a monocle.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

eminent the practical arbiter
of the operations of the new
banking system-a role which
under the circumstances it
could perform. 1t would be we'll if
the banking community would openly
take from the very outset the posi-
ton that the new Institutions are pri-
vGte enterprises and that the govern
ment is interested n their manage
ment only in Il general supervisory
manner. The question whether they
We're to be government banks was
answered IN the negative during last
years discussion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
GERMAN WAR PREPARATIONS.

r. Germany, according to high authority, is again to
make increases in her already huge ornaments The
navy be twice the strength of that of France and
the army is to be enlarged by at least $4,000 men, in
view of Russian military preparations
Emperor William secured from the Reiehstag last
year tax law provide for a huge fund, and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
SprillS

Don't talk to me of poets!
The poets make me sick,
Especially in the springtime,
When they lay it on thick
About the joys of Mayng,
And the. flowers, and the breeze.
I've got to get to scrubbing
Cold bare floors upon my knees,
While those sweet caressng zephyrs
Make me sneeze and sneeze and sneeze.
"Out-of-doors the Spring is dancing
My wish she'd come inside
And dance upstairs with mop pals
And scrubbing brush beside.
Or, if she's so very timid
She can stay out in the yard
And string mile o clothes line
And beat carpets good and hard
While darn Jim's winter fannes
And rub his chest with lard.
They talk of hunting flowers;
Do they think when ceanng's done,
Great tracks of muddy rubbers
Woud add any to my fun?
Don't they know I've got to paper?
Paint too, likely? Can't they see
That spring sewing piled in baskets
Till ought to have a bee?
could just let GO and holler-
Springtime amt no treat to me-"
Truth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
An Ola stager at the Gams


From the Philadelphia Record.
Theodore Roosevelt is blessed with
such a superabundant vitality and
retains in such a remarkable degree
certain boyish ouoyancy that it is
generally overlooked that in expe-
rience, if not in actual years. he is
one of the Oldest, as well as one OF
the shrewdest politicians in the
United States, 1t was Just thirty
years ago, in 1854 that he jumped
into prominence as one of the most
active participants in the Repub-
lican national convention that nom
mated James G. Blaine for President.
To the generation now occupying the
stage that period seems almost pre-
historic. Chester A. Arthur was
President, and in Pennsylvania Rob
ert A. Pattison was Governor Mat
thew Stanley Quay was a Cameron
lieutenant, and his reputation had
not yet passed the State line. Tom
Plat had not started upon his long
career as a boss in New York and
Mark Hanna was a plain business
man in Cleveland. Grover Cleve-
lands star was rising, and that of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
Repdrtee.

do you know, John, there are
times when you show signs of actual
human intelligence"
That's all right, Charles. If you
knew twice as much as you do now,
you'd be half-witted. minnesota
Minnehaha,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
Only Married Week, Bride Forgets
Last Name.

Only Married Week. Bride Forgets
Last Name.
NEW YORK, May H.-Bride for
week. Mrs Anna Katamachka could
not remember her last name when.
she appeared before the Court of
Special Sessions at Jamaica yester-
day to testify in a case.
'Your name?" asked the clerk
when the woman took the stand.
Anna"
Last name?'
81 can't remember, l have only
been married a week.
"Katamachka," prompted Husband
Joseph.
The Katamachkas appeared against
Michael Conner, a former admirer OF
the bride, who got twenty days for
hitting the bridegroom with soda
bottle at the wedding feast.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

There are 5000, 900 cases of prevent
able industrial illness in this coun-
try, costing $4,000 900 IN wages an
nuallY.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27

Three thousand employees of the
New York city health department are
to be physically examined, the women
by women physicians, the men by men
physicians, so that the department.
may have card index of the physical
status of each employee.