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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13

vited him to enter the cabinet at the
head of the treasury department.
HE said to friend of mine that
one evening his servant told him that
gentleman had called and was In
the library. McCulloch went to the
library and was astonished' as well
as delighted to find that his caller
was none other than the President
of the United States. He had had
considerable experience in admins
tration etiquette, but this was the
first time he had ever known a Presl-
dent to call upon citizen unan-
nounced, exactly as neighbor or q
friend might do.
"He said. however, that he learned
after he entered the cabinet that
President Arthur was the master of a
very happy and very dignified uncon-
ventionality.
"But what was Mr.. McCulloch's
establishment at first seeing the
President in his house in comparison
TO that which followed President Ar
thurs explanation of his CALL For
the President told him in a very
kindly manner as though he were
seeking a favor and not offering a
great compliment, that he had called
to ask him if he would enter his cabi-
net dS secretary Vi Tie tiSdSut y.
There had been no recommendation
to the President of McCulloch; no.
body had even suggested his name.
He was the Presidents own personal
and exclusive choice.
"Of course, there was nothing for
McCulloch to do but to express his
sense of Indebtedness for the compli-
ment and his willingness to serve the
President. He was in good health
and he was so circumstanced in his
business affairs that he could with
out embarrassment return to public
life.
"McCullock had many honors, and
he will pass into history as one of the
best secretaries of the treasury. And
yet am satisfied that no distinction
ever came to him which gave him
such qualification as did the manner
in which President Arthur, in that
unconventional way, offered him the
treasury department portfolio
Copyright, 1914, by e. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
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Playing Bah in Ancient America

play, was not thrown with the hand,
but struck by the hip, around which
the player wore a protecting pad of
leather. AT each end of the court
was a great stone disk with hole in
the centre and through this critics
the ball was driven before a point
was scored. Very naturally lively"
ball was used, since rubber trees
dominated the forests
'Old chroniclers marvel at the skill
and endurance of the players, for a
game was seldom won under four
hours of constant play. Such ex-
hausting contests, with dozen
participants in almost constant
action, were not for amateurs, but
professionals. Thus, from the Aztec
word olli, signifying ball." came the
word mollonqui, 'one who plays ball
for a living"
Another form of ball game is
played by the Indian tribes of the
Cuduiary River region in the wilds
of Brazil A carefully leveled field
communal houses, and daily, at
o'clock, the men returning from the
days fishing or hunting indulge In
tie sport--not a complicated game
like that of the early Mexicans, but
one calling for high degree of skill,
as two balls are used by the players.
who drive them with the hands
toward their opponents. Yellow tail
fcat theirs of the Yapoo bird are affixed
to the rubber balls for accuracy.
1.-THE Araucanian Indians of South-
ern Chile play an ancient game with
wooden balls driven by wooden cubs
lit a clearing. 300x75 yards. inelosed
by cut branches of trees, these In
dams play chueca, which greatly re-
sembles lacrosse on field hockey. The
game is played from childhood and
the players acquire great skill and
the matches draw large crowds. The
game calls for great endurance, and
while generally played in two OF
three hour periods, several days have
been known to pass before decision
was reached. During the play 1t is
not unusual to hear a player cry
Am | not a real oak tree or Is he
not a lions leg2 after brilliant
stroke. Such is American slang
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13
In Land of Jokedom

IF you don't help TO keep down our
expenses" he complained. Il shall be
driven to desperation.
IAN right. dear" she replied, I'm
do my best. I'm going to call up
Aunt Elizabeth and ask her If She
won't take our canary, so that we
shall not have to buy any more bird
seed. Chicago Record Herald
The Luncher-Look here, waiter,
I'm very sorry, but I've only just suf-
ficient money with me to pay the bill
and nothing left for tip for you.
The Waiter (confidentially)-Wo
you mind just letting me ave another
look at the bill, sir?-London Sketch.
Il have come back TO ask for the
hand of your daughter" announced
the young man.
Have chair" said her father,
kindly. 81 presume you have made
an estimate of what it will cost to
keep my daughter in style to which
she has been accustomed?"
II have, SIR"
And the ffgures?"
Ten thousand dollars year"
Pm sorry, my boy" said the older
i
away $1,000 a year. Another sutton
has figured he can do it for $S,000.' -
New York Times.
"Of course, you have made some
promises you didn't keep"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum
But never yet broke a promise to a
man without giving him a better one
in its stead. Washington Star.
rs this train on timer" asked the
restless passenger.
NO" replied the conductor. We're
two hours late
That's good. I'd rather be here
than in the town I'm going to-
Washington Star.
Il see you employ a number Of
girls"
Yes. and they work WELL
Don't watch the clock, them"
Don't even watch the mirror"
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LABOR NOTES

Corsetmakers in Greater New York
are organizing.
France has 5000 local unions of
transport workers.
shingle mills in the State of Wash
ington employ $4,000 men.
Flint glass workers have 127 local
unions and 1929 members
Bricklayers in Sheffield. England,
average nineteen cents an hour.
Funds controlled by trade unions
of the world total more than $780,
100000.
Florida has established a bureau
where minors may register to take
the place Of children displaced under
the workings of the child labor law.
The Danish policemen recently
threatened to strike because the new
women police are started out at a
greater salary than male novices.
Newspaper compositors on day
work increased their wages 81 per
ment issued by the bureau of labor
statistics at Washington.
A board of arbitration has decided
that journeymen painters in San
Francisco are entitled to daily wage
of s4.75, dating from May IA. and
continuing in effect until December
81, when the pay should be IS per day
Chief Magistrate McAdoo, of New
i York city, recommends the establish.
ment of a new departmental court fol-
the handling of cases concerning san.
| itation, tenement houses, fire proven.
| ton and child labor. As many as 30t
cases day have been disposed of
, and magistrates have found it i'm
possible to handle so large a number
dbmpetently. A departmental court i
suggested to remedy this condition
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL
JULY 10
Mary {. Wooley
Copyrighted 1914

Women born on July 10 share the
birthday of a splendid example of
American womanhood-Mary Emma
Woolley, who for fourteen years has
been president of Mount Holyoke
College. Miss Woolley, although
still strikingly youthful in her point
of view, is fifty-one years old today.
Miss Woolley is an encouraging
example of the woman who makes a
rather late start in life and who
nevertheless arrives at success ahead
of her associates. She was born in
South Norwalk, Conn.,, and as the
daughter of a prominent clergyman
and army chaplain she early took an
interest in the important questions
of the day. The first years of her
young womanhood she passed as a
school teacher and it was not until
she was twenty-seven that she de-
termined to go to college. Four years
later, when she was thirty-one, she
received her first college degree
University, in Providence, r. I. After
a years graduate work she went to
Wellesley College as an instructor in
Biblical literature In this position
she made rapid strides and won great
distinction, for it was only five years
later. when she was thirty seven,
that she was elected president of
Mount Holyoke College, one of the
oldest women's colleges in the coun-
try.
Miss Wooleys administration al
Mount Holyoke has been striking in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13

Mexico's Indians present a problem
vastly more difficult and more COM
pick than any the United States Blu
reau of Indian Affairs ever tried to
handle, says the New York Sun. In
the first place. there are more OF
them
There are now $4,000 Indians in the
United States, while there are more
than 100000 pure blood Indians be-
tween the Rio Grande and Guate-
mala, besides larger number OF
mestizos. or mixed bloods.
According to the best figures OBJ
tainable. "a per cent. of the inhabi-
tants of Mexico (about 13,000,OOO
souTs), are wholly or partlyl of In
dian blood This is fifty times as
many Indians as ARE now living in
the United States.
Moreover the Indians of Mexico
have been more conspicuous in pub
lie affairs than the Indians of the
United States. Benito Juarez, the
Mexican patriot who overthrow the
Emperor Macmillan, was pure
Zapotec. Manuel Altamirano, the
Mexican author and critic; eHuerta
and DIR. Urrutia are other Indians.
The prominence which things In
dian have in Mexico is difficult for
the New Yorker who has never trav
eled in that land to comprehend. The
Mexicans hold an annual national
festival in honor of their aboriginal
heroes, despite the fact that the DOM
inant element in the population is the
strain descended from the Spanish
eonquerors. The Mexicans are as
proud of Montezuma and Guatemot-
I'm as the Americans are of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence
Even the national seal comes from
the Aztecs, who, tradition says, were
induced to settle on the marshy islets
which are now the City of Mexico by
sign from their gods, an eagle
perched on a prickly pear strangling
a serpent.
Scholars have declared the Aztec
calendar system was superior to that
in vogue in Europe at the time of
Cortez. The Mayas of Yucatan are
held by some students to have been
even further advanced than the in
habitants of the Valley of Anahuac
or Mexico.
But the intelligence of certain In
dams only emphasizes the complexity
of the Mexican Indian problem One
student of the languages of Mexico.
which correspond pretty we'll with the
tribal divisions, concludes there are
seventeen families of tongues and 1870
dialects These dialects are not slight
variations, however, but present diff
ferences so great that a man knowing
only one dialect probably could not
understand man speaking an allied
dialect The mountainous character
OF the country has kept tribes apart
and emphasized their differences. AS
ISOLATION in Mexico does not always
mean the melting pot, however One
finds sometimes as many as four
tribes in the same village. They live
in different streets, each with its own
language, customs, dress and super
stitions.
In civilization the tribes run from
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13

"Pia-a-a-a-y Baw- aw-aw-F' is not
as new an expression of popular inn
patience to have some one start
something as some people may think.
Neither is playing ball for a living
q strictly modern invention. In fact,
thousands of years ago way down in
Yucatan, impatient crowds sat around
in ball parks, yelled themselves
hoarse, beat one another in the back
and threw their feather headgear into
the arena in the enthusiasm of the
moment, just as we are doing today.
Also there doubtless were Ty Cobbs,
whose skill in batting and field
ing was such that they could afford
to hold up the management occa,-
sionally for q few more hundred ia
guar skins a year by threats to quit
professional ball and go to farming.
\ OF course the game was not exactly
baseball. But the point is that it was
a ball game, that there were regular
ball parks-or courts-and that there
were professionals who played the
game for what there was Sin it, to
them. Mayhap the medium of ex-
change took the form of jaguar skins,
pounds of cacao, fancy feathers, or
what not but it was money all the
same, and 1t passed as currency at
the club, or in the market place, as
the case might be. They had their
peculiar systems of slang" too, at
least in some parts of the Americas,
which, translated into English, means
about as much to us as ours would
to them; all of which is brought out
by Mr.. Franklin Adams in his story,
indigenous Games in Latin Ameri-
ca, in the July number of the Month
ly Bulletin of the Pan American
Union, Washington, d. G. That the
ball game is an ancient institution in
the Americas may be gathered from
the following:
1.-THE ball game is indigenous TO the
Americas. Perhaps the first simian
inhabitants found true sport in catch
ing the cocoanuts tossed from the tall
palms-certain 1t is that several thou
sand years ago the ball game had
reached high state of development
in the seventy cities scattered
throughout Yucatan. On clearing
away the matted forests enveloping
these marvellous ruins ball courts
were disclosed near the most sacred
temples, and, from the elaborate
hieroglyphics and photographs orna-
menting the walls, much was learned
of the complicated character of the
sport. Centuries after the passing of
these ancient Mayans came the first
Spanish explorers who found that a
younger race IN contiguous territory,
the Aztecs, had revived the old pas
time into national game with a
stone God of Sport beaming on
every court.
THE popularity of these early
games was that the ball, when in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13

Buy American Typewriters.
Berlin Correspondence Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
Fresh outcry against the Amer
lean INVASION has been preeipitated
by the action of the Imperial Insur-
ance office in ordering office supplies
from American firms. The insurance
office is an important department of
he German government, employing
vast army of clerks and accountants,
ind its annual expenditures for ma
erials are enormous. Lately 1t pur-
hased quantity of supplies from
America.
The wrath of German competitors
has now been raised to a boiling point
by the announcement that it has or
dered $50 American typewritens. Ger
man firms naturally insist that the
government department patronize
home industry and are demanding
special investigation.
The explanation advanced on be-
half of the officials, who urge that
they bought the American product
simply because they are the best on
the market, naturally has had any
thing but a soothing effect on the
tempers of the irate manufacturers
AS a result the entire transaction is
tt be taken up for investigation at
the next session of the Reichstag,
when the question of the govern
rnent's right to buy materials abroad
will be definitely settled.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

made a daring experiment before its
trial trip. They took it out to deep
water, flooded one-third of its com
partments and let the vessel sink as
far as 1t would. The result was
watched with painful apprehension.
Many protested against such an un-
usual and daring trial, but the yes
sci tioated, and all the available DOW
er pumps in its vicinity We're requisi-
toned before it could be relieved of
the enormous volume of water with
which it had been flooded. Steam
ship builders declare that this was the
|severest test of the kind to which a
modern steamship has ever been sub
mitted The fact that it was so sue
cessful brings an assurance of perfect
safety to the traveller on the high
seas
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13
A GREAT FRUIT YEAR NATIONWIDE.

1t is cheerful that from the United
States Chamber of Commerce, predicting from the
ports of experts record-breakng yield of fruit all
over the country. The only possible exception,
although a very important one, is peaches, a crop
which has suffered severely from the cold early
spring But this does not apply to New Jersey, and
Jersey peaches will contribute gratifying quota
to this great asset of national prosperity. Plenty of
fruit health for the people and decided re-
duction in living cost. well comfortable addi-
ton the bank balance for the army of growers and
lift to railroad finances in the shape of freights
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of more of the vegetables that are
native and which commonly are sold
in market.
There is asparagus, which compare
lively few people, grow, but which
everybody likes and which is exceed
ingly good for us, we are told.
There are onions, which are extern
siyely grown, but which many people
think they do not like, or who have
a prejudice against them because of
the after taste or the effect on the
breath.
There are products like carrots and
turnips. which thousands upon thou
sands of Americans do not like" but
which are wholesome and cheap.
Might not the government experts
devote themselves to the task of
teaching everybody to like onions and
carrots and turnips? Why do they
not do more for the education of
gardeners, professional and amateur,
to induce them to grow asparagus, or
greater quantities of other vegetables
which are seldom seen, as the arti-
choke, or as the enticing head lettuce,
which is generally higher in price
than we like to have it?
There is plenty of work in the de-
velopment of American plants and
appetites without running to the ends
of the earth for exotics and fads.
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Cne on Father.

A young minister preached one Sun
day to a rural congregation and spent
the next day visiting the people 1t
one house the man of the house was
expressing his appreciation of the
sermon in very complimentary terms
while assisting the minister to put UP
his team. His little son had followed
him and, after cycling the minister a
minute or two, exclaimed: 'fWhy,
papa, you said he was one-hoss
preacher, but he's got two hosses,"--
National Monthly.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13
Indian Problem in Mexico

the people of the centraH valleys an
Yucatan, who have readily ta4isaa -
the ways of the white imen, 70 ne
wild cannibal Seri of Tuburo1 taeHtid
in the Gulf of California land The sar-
ages of Lower California. TIC rs
named are among the lowest % ny
human race, nearly. reaching tile &C.
relation of the Andman Islanders
and the African bushnell.
There are fierce Yaquis with theAr
enormous bows and arrows Inese
primitive weapons are even used Dy
irregular bands assisting the COR
stitutionalists.
1t must be remembered, too, that
the punitive expeditions Or Pofhfi9
Diaz were never so extensive or ef-
rective as the expeditions undertaken
in our Indian wars. Had the Indians
stuck together Cortez might never
have conquered them. In Spanish
times the tribes were gradually sub
dued The Maya tribes were beaten
one by one. 1t is significant that a.
late at 1900 there was organized r.
dian opposition to Mexico. In that
year the Mexican troops took the
citadel of Chap Santa Cruz at the end
of long, hard campaign.
President Wilson's hope in. resur
recting the Mexican Indians lies in a
belief that with restoration of their
land their lost quantities Will return.
With his land gone the Indian has
become a peon, a degraded 1aborer.
With land, he is represented to have
been a contented cottager, fairly vir-
tuous and deeply religious.
With a restoration of his lands, how
will it be with the indian? That is
the great riddle of Mexico.
To get an idea of the best that may
be hoped one might turn to the pages
of Diego Duran, the Spanish mission
airy. who wrote sixty years after the
conquest:
There was never a nation in the
world where harmony, order and po-
likeness reigned so supreme as in this
heather nation. In what country of
the globe were there ever So many
laws and regulations of the state at
once so just and so well appointed?
Where have kings ever been so feared
and obeyed. their laws and orders so
well observed as in this land?
lin regard. indeed. TO their laws
and ancient mode of living all is much
changed or wholly lost. Nothing but
a shadow remains now of that good
order. Our admiration is compelled
by the strict account and census
which they kept of all persons in
town or country, who were by this
means to be called upon for help in
anything they might be ordered to
do They had their presidents and
chiefs and lesser authority, TO look
after the old or the mag n
young about to be marriESmR
system and order that k,NDENI
newly-born escaped theNy6MW III
$50 thorough was tlERS
tendence of public worSM N II
man who labored one wBSSSNB
allowed to present himsefNMx III
the next, everybody taking NJ
with much harmony and order to~sl
end that nobody might feel ag>
grieved"
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British Publications.

There are forty daily publications
in London 1873 dailies in the rest of
the kingdom, while British weekly
and monthly publications total 2.64s
and 1852, respectively. England in
Guiding London, has 1888 daily papers
and ! 1865 weekly.
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After Strange Vegetables.
m the DaYfon News.


pUdo" is the name of a Japanese
egetable that the agricultural de-
5artment is introducing to the atten-
ton of American gardeners, it is said
to be as wholesome as celery or as
paragus, but is has pronounced
flavor which requires education for
the palate before it is relished.
Every little while the agricultural
department brings out new products
of this sort. 1t does not appear that
they are at all superior to any that
we have. They require special han
ding and special preparation before
they are ediblS 1t does not appear
that many of them will grow on
ground which is not already in use,
or that they can snbsist on air, after
the fashion of tropical parasites.
1t would be less costly, and perhaps
lust as valuable q service, for this
government to devote its energies to
populaTizing the growing and eating
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and inferorly-equipped shops. And it IS more than
probable that employers will find their action to
be lively promoter of loyalty and efficiency.
The half-hollday department stores has evident
ly come to stay.
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From DeslleS weekly.
The Titanic was lost because of an
extraordinary combination of adverse
circumstances that may never happen
again. An iceberg ripped open its
side in such a way that the water
flooded one compartment after an
other, slowly and gradually, until the
mighty vessel sank. Had the com
partments extended beyond the water
line, running longitudinally, as well
as laterally, as they do in the latest
types of steamships, with double bot
toms, the Titanic would have sur
vived the crash. But we learn by ex-
perience No teacher is more valu-
able. The Vaterland, like the Olym-
pic, the Acquitania and all the great
vessels of recent construction, has a
steel double bottom, extending it's
length, and bulkheads, not only across
the ship but running from end to end.
These bulkheads reach above the
water line and in each a ladder, ex-
tending to the top, offers a chance of
escape for any unfortunate occupant
who may be caught by the hurried
closing of the bulkhead.
The constructors OF the Yaterland