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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Senator Hoar Came to the Rescue

however firmly declined to take any
part in this ceremony. He was will
ing to step aside and, in fact, in
sisted upon stepping aside. His
friends felt that the Senator realized
that it would be unbearable for him
to sit upon the platform and take
part in ceremony in which Cover
no" Butler was to be the central
feature.
The difficulty was bridged over.
however, when Joseph Choate. him
self a distinguished graduate of Har-
ward, promised to take the place of
senator Hoar in the commencement
day exercises. 1t became Mr.. Choate's
duty to introduce the Governor Of
Massachusetts to that great Harvard
audience. He did it with singular
felicity, not in any way wounding
the sentiments of the Harvard men
VINO heard him, and yet not in any
way embarrassing Governor Butler.
Mr.. Choate introduced BENJAMIN r.
Butler, not as the individual, but as
the Governor of the great State of
Massachusetts,, and as such worthy
of distinguished consideration. Gov
ernor Butler rose to reply and he
was visibly affected. He must have
prepared his brief speech upon the
spur vi the moment, Shaping 1t to the
dlscreet and tactful words of intro
duction which Mr.. Choate used. The
speech revealed Benjamin f. Butler
at his best, and the occasion ended
happily for all who took part in it.
Yet there were friends of Governor
Butler who knew that he had pre-
pared very different address to he
delivered in case he had not been
received with the distinction and
kindly consideration to which his no.
sition as Governor of Massachusetts
entitled him. That prepared address
was destroyed, but a little later SEN
ator Hoar was Informed that had he
made the occasion an opportunity to
indulge in satirica1 language, the
Governor had prepared an answer
which would have returned the shaft
fully charged with vitriol."
Copyright, 1914, by e. J. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
No Such Name

Former Governor Fort tells of a
friend of his, an exceedingly deaf
man, who was being introduced to
a young woman. She was distract
ingly pretty, but she had a strange
name. Her name was Dinglefungle.
''Mr. Smith, said the mutual
friend this is Miss Dinglefungle."
The deaf man cupped his hand be-
hind his ear.
s'Please pardon me-" he said, "but
I'm hard OF hearing. What did you
say the name was?'
miss Dinglefungle."
"I'm awfully sorry" murmured
the afflicted one. with strained and
puzzled look in his eye; but 1
haven't caught IL yet"
The other man raised his voice to
q shout.
Miss Dinglefungle!" he blared.
Resignedly, hopelessly, the deaf
man shook his head.
cts no use;'' he said; sounds like
pinglefungle to me-"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
THE KNOCKERS, CANDIDATE.

The knockers are all arrayed under the banner OF
Mayoraty Candidate Raymond. And who are the
knockers?
They compose that faction of men in a community
which exists to depreciate the efforts and work of
live and progressive citizens to block public improve
ment and hold up the city to the contempt of out
siders.
The knocker never recognizes public benefit nor
acknowledges virtue in anything proposed or &C
complished He always standing in the light with
his baleful shadow. He is the enemy of public i'm
proyement and municipal progress. The welfare of
humanity is nothing to him, while the tax rate is
everything Let it go down ten points and he gives
no credit Let 1t go up point and he emits hoWs
Newark has always had its tribe of knockers, but
1t is not numerous or influential as 1t was when
the city did not single decently paved street,
when its sewerage system was an utter abomination;
when its public schools few and dingy and in
sanitary and badly managed; when Newark did not
have a public hospital, or library or decent city
hail. and when the city took its water from the Pas
sale at Belleville
It was only when the tribe of knockers began to
decrease that improvements, fereely fought by the
Knockers were introduced. The favorite weapon OF
the knocker was the tax rate the weapon that Can
ddate Raymond is hourishing in his campaign. When
the Peduannock water supply contract was under
consideration the nocker vainly used this weapon to
knock it out. It was nothing to him that the com
munty full Of typhoid caused by polluted water
supply What was that to possible increase in the
tax rate! Newark has acquired all the great adj
vantages it now enjoys only by knocking out the
knocker and the knocker delayed meadow and harbor
Improvement nearly four years by giving his aid to
the opposing railroad interests
Newark does not want knocker mayor in office
during the next two years. In 1915 the city is to
celebrate its 250th anniversary, and the mayor who
is to be installed in Office next January will be mayor
IN 10 xuiJi in tbp m
influence in helping retarding the citys develop
ment and will have much to do with the preparations
for the celebration Mr.. Raymond, the candidate Of
the Knockers is the to place in the mayoralty
office for the two most important years in Newarks
history.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17

THE NUISANCE OF THE DISPOSAL PLANT.
The decision by the Errors Court unfolding the
conviction of the Collingswood Sewage Company for
maintaining a nuisance in its disposal plant at Col
lingswood by permitting the generation of noxious
odors to the injury and discomfort of the community
has interest for the Passaic valley.
All local disposal plants for sewage are objection
able They injure neighborhood prop
erty and they create offensive odors. Agents and
contractors looking contracts and others inter-
esed have maintained otherwise and have succeeded
in influencing the authorities of several Essex county
municipalities the statement is nevertheless true
Collingswood is a residential community in Cam
den county. The people assured when the dis
posal plant was located that there would be no
nuisance and they believed the companys representa-
tives When they realized that they had been duped
they at first demanded that the nuisance should be
stopped and failing to get relief, they went to the
Camden grand jury and got the company indicted
Bloomfield Bellevie and Nutley than
justified in their opposition to the location in their
neighborhoods of disposal plant for several other
municipalities and their strengthened by
the decision of the Errors Court. The Collingswood
disposal plant is situated in Collingswood. Other
wise it would have been neighbor municipality
that would have to endure the smells and suffer the
property loss. The ingenious idea of making NAL
odorous back door of neghbor does not seem to
have occurred to the South Jersey town.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
Four .Irishmen or $50 Germans

John b. Scarlett, real estate
operator, is known to keep his sense
of humor uppermost. despite his re-
cent difficulties resulting from
financial reverses. He was waiting
to take the stand in Bankruptcy
Court the other day to explain GER
tain transactions concerning his real
estate dealings when he told the fol-
lowing:
"a well-known German saloon
keeper here was considerably puz-
zled recently when he received a tele-
gram signed Wilhelm the Second
which read: Get together $50 Ger
mans and send them over at once.
We need them
1.-THE patriotic German at once set
about enlisting as many of his Ger
man acquaintance as he could in
duce to join the prospective body of
fighters. He did not meet with much
success, however, and about a week
later received another telegram, APP
parently from the same source. This
one said: What's the matter with
those $50 Germans? If you can't get
them, four Irishmen will do!
Then a court attache called Mr..
Scarlett's attention to sign with the
warning. mix on the war talk; we're
NEUTRAL
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17

its component parts The Boston and Maine Rail-
road wifi go the hands of trustees and the trolley
lines will be similarly disposed Of The Interstate
Commerce Commission is to deal with the New Haven
steamship lines.
AS the decree was accepted by the New Haven
directors-under compusion-there will be no liti-
cation. And as far the government is concerned
there evidently will be criminal prosecution The
tremendous footing of the New Haven by few in
huential men, which nearly destroyed the value OF
the stock and impoverished many thousands of peo-
pie is to go UNPUBLISHED and the wrongs they porpe
trated unredressed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
OCTOBER II
Helen Hunt jackson, Mrs. Rorer

Two well-known women whose
birthday is celebrated on October IS
turned their attention to the work
which brought them fame in the
early days of their widowhood. Mrs.
Jackson took up writing as a means
of forgetting her unhappiness and
Mrs. Rorer turned her attention to
the work of a domestic science
teacher as a means of self-support.
Helen Hunt JaclSson's life was filled
with disappointments. Her husband,
a young army officer, left her widow
when she was barely thirty. Her
eldest child died when he was eleven
months old and her second child died
two years after her husband. When
Mrs. Jackson realized that the last
child was about to die her grief was
so sharp that she threatened to take
her own life. Then the eleven-year-
old son whom she loved so dearly
made her promise for his sake to be
brave.
: Mrs. Jackson spent many years in
her home in Newport, r.. l., and it
was there that after she had endured
the first years of her loneliness she
turned her thoughts to writing and
almost from the first she was sue
cessful. Her best known books are
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBE re.
A. B., NJ. A., M D. Johns Hopkins).

self Control May Prevent and Often Cure
Goitre.
In the first Corinthians there is one
of the truest of the flock of true
things in the New Testament: God
hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise. and God
hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things that are
mighty" Montaigne paraphrased this
in his Apology for RAYMOND Sc
bond" when he wrote: 1.-THE souls of
emperors and cobblers are cast In the
same mould. The same rea-
son that makes you gossip a bit of
scandal or wrangle with a neighbor
causes a, war betwixt princes"
When Jeshurun wakes fat 1t may be
leaven in his thyroid, which fails to
invoke the fluid of that gland SO
necessary for stability and balance,
between food that is coming in and
waste which is going out. When some
medical man first discovered this fact
he announced, with a flourish of medi-
cal dogmatism, that the thyroid gland
-fiattened out cactus or mushroom
in front of your Adams apple and
windpipe-had everything to do with
obesity and emaciation.
1t was not long, though, before
others discovered not only that many
other glands and tissues of the
anatomy had much to do with fat
destruction or fat accumulation in
your physical parts, but also that the
thyroid gland had a legion of Won
ders to perform.
Plaques, murrains and anginas of
this bunch of neck tissues range from
trivial sores and irritations, more or
less analogous to scratched fingers or
a sick stomach, up to serums and en-
during festerings and swellings.
Goitre in Women.
To say that Jane or Mary has a
"goitre'' may mean that the forepart
of the neck is bulged out in harm
less cantalouped tumor OF no mo-
ment. or it may mean that she has
bulged eyes, a rapid heart, tremors
and tremblings, nervousness and anx-
iety emaciation and palpatation, in
somnia and excitability.
When in any fashion, fashionable
or unfathomable, the thyroid becomes
large and perceptible, it is called a
goitre. Goitres occur in one young
woman out of every three or four.
1t seems in a manner to be necessary
before marriage or childbirth. The
Juices of the thyroid are then neces-
sary to help the mother remain in
health before the new life arrives on
earth. This, perhaps, explains the
large number of so-called goitres in
women.
In Switzerland and some portions
of our own Northwest nearly every
woman has a goitre of more than
average size. DR. Charles Repin, of
Paris, recently revived the proofs
that these goitres and perhaps others
in neighborhoods where only few
persons are so affected, are due to
the drinking water.
His researches show that there is
present in some waters mineral SUBJ
stances which even the strongest and
longest boiling will not remove that
seem to cause goitres. Professor
Repin supplied several filters of white
rats with fresh water from wells near
those places where everybody had
goitre. After ten months of such
water boiled the thyroid glands of
the rats were found to be ten times
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
DEPENDENTS sADD1ED UPON THE PUBLIC.

Governor Stokes when in office called the atten-
ton of the Legislature the expense shouldered
by the State and counties for the maintenance of in
sane persons in the State and county institutions
whose relatives able to pay for their housing
and care No attention was paid by the Legislators
to the Governors recommendations. The Mercer
county freeholders have now brought suit against
nearly a hundred residents of the county who have
relatives in the State Hospital at Trenton and at the
cost of the county
The expense of the State and county insane hos
pitfalls has grown to be enormous Last year the
cost of the two State hospitals S1,150, 49584,
while the State paid 1926 for the maintenance
of patients in the county hospitals. In addition to
this cost the counties make large appro-
priations. Essex county maintains an immense hos
pital plant at Overlook and its insane population is
nearly equal to that of Morris Plains
If there are hundred Mercer county patients
in the Trenton State Hospital who properly
chargeable to their relatives how many there be
at Morris Plains and at Overlook? And what are
the influences that keep the cost of these patients
saddled upon State and county?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

taken up by the Senate until next
winter. What the debate there shows
will depend somewhat on what the
situation in the Far East may then
be. If the war has not spread in
that quarter and does not threaten
to do so, the Senate may confirm
what the House has just done. As
the administration is behind the
measure, the pressure in the Senate
will probably be as strong as 1t was
in the House.
The bill as it stands lacks the fea-
ture which Senator Quezon and the
Aguinaldo Aid Society most declared
fixing the time for the withdrawal
of the Aerican forces in the archi-
pelago and the establishment of an
pinos. Report is that the President
would not go that far, and his wishes
had to be met.
What the bill promises on that
score is independence as soon as a
stable government can be estab-
lished' in the islands by the natives.
What is to be proof of a stable
government" And who are to or
ganize such a government? 1t must
be considered that there is no such
thing as a Filipino nation with q
national spirit. Inere are tribes ana
dialects and customs galore, but no
nation in the proper sense. Some
tribes are more advanced than
others, but the most advanced, ac-
cording to the appraisement of
American officials who have served
in the islands, are far from being
competent to organize and conduct
government. Mr.. Taft, who
speaks with much knowledge, thinks
that years of tutelage will be neces-
sary.
Another point OF Importance Is
that not all the Filipinos are clamor-
is for early independence. Some are
satisfied with the American conduct
of affairs and their own progress
under 1t, and are willing, even de-
sirous, that time shall be factor In
determining the further course OF
this government. They are not under
the sway of native orators and agi-
tators playing for personal prefer
ment and power.
We have done in the Philippines
what the Aguinaldians declared we
could not do and had no purpose of
ng-administered affairs i'm the in
terests and for the Advancement OF
the people. In eighteen years they
have made more progress than their
forbears did in all the years of Span
ish rule. and more than ANY qther
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
Fun for the Hunters

One of Newark's mighty hunters
stood on Broad street yesterday and
looked at the sky with shining eyes.
The rain was coming down and the
clouds were leaden. 1t promised a
long, long storm and most other peo-
pie in the street looked miserable and
uncomfortable. But not the sport.
He was perfectly happy.
1.-THE hunting season is coming on
and It would not be any good If it
wasn't for this rain. No real hunter
Is going to find any fun in the game
unless he gets his feet soaked and his
trousers thoroughly wet travelling
through swamps and woods. I don't
care whether this ever let's up. I'm
going out to find 'possum tomorrow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
Consolidated Schools.

COnsondateu SCHOOLS.
From the Baltimore American.
A writer in one of the popular
magazines boldly advances the
theory that the little red--or white
schoolhouse along the roadside is not
the sign of the up-to-dat civilization
of the rural community in which 1t is
located, but, on the contrary, a sign
OF backwardness and indifference in
educational matters. He would have
instead, fewer rural schoolhouses and
larger ones; the concentration of edu-
cational effort and the grading OF
classes In country schools upon the
plans provided under the best city
school systems. The idea is not a
new one. There are now in the
United States about 1000 of these con-
solidated rural schools. The scheme
necessltates the providing of convey
ances for the children to and from
the schools, as such schools generally
serve communities that have a range
of six or seven miles in distance from
the school centers. Perhaps this
scheme, in the long run, would effect
economies. 1t is apparent, anyhow,
that It must make for better grading
and classification of students and for
more effective arrangement of teach
ing service.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
CHITCHAT
Father Talks of the War

The little master of a Mt Prospect
avenue home was just at an age
when such things as wars begin to
interest little fellows. He had busted
himself in the newspaper reports of
the European conflict, but unable to
get any satisfaction as to the cause
of the war he appealed to his father.
Father, will you tell me about the
war;"
Father, who was reading his eve
ming newspaper, was greatly pleased.
That's the way l like to hear you
talk. George" he said. Few boys of
your age take the trouble of asking
questions. Anything you want to
know about the war ask pop. Now,
fire away"
well, first. father" the little fell
low began, what started the war;"
WELL" said the parent, rejecting,
you see--that is--er, Russia was mo-
bilizing. Yes. that was 1t. Russia
was modifying"
well, why was Russia mobllizingi
father?" the lad came back.
'They We're afraid of Austria"
why should they be afraid of Aus
tria? Had Austria done anything"
little George queried.
mo, they weren't afraid of Aus
tria; but you see, son. the Austrian
prince or archduke, or something,
had been assassinated near Servia,
and Austria wanted to get even with
Servia. See?"
Still George didn't "see."
"But what had Servia to do with
England, France Germany, Belgium
and them all?" George pressed, still
trying to get the matter clear. why
did Germany wreck those Belgian
towns? Because Russia was afraid of
Servia? %
Georgia" pleaded the parent, II
wish you wouldn't bother father to-
night. Really, I'm awfully busy. Now
run off and ask mother to put You
to bed. Good night, George"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author Of pushing to the Front Etc.
Copyright 1914.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN

made of mankind but for the misfor-
tunes and disasters that have be-
fallen humanity, the EARTHQUAKES,
shipwreeks, fires and railway dis
asters that have softened mems
hearts and warmed their brotherly
love? Such disasters have revealed
manliness and womanliness in the
most repelling character.
Some of my readers may have heard
the story Of John the Nurse
During an epidemic of yellow fever
in one of our Southern cities 1t was
almost impossible to get enough
watchers and nurses to attend the
stricken. One day man with coarse
features, closely cropped hair and
shuffllng gait, went to one of the
attending physicians, and said:
II want to nurse"
The doctor, looking him over criti-
cally, said CURLY:
you are not needed"
But wish to nurse persisted the
man. TRY me for a week. II you
don't like me then, dismiss me; z
you do, pay me my wages
VERY WELL" said the doctor, 'I'll
take you, adding. mentally, I'll
keep my eye on you
The uncouth volunteer became one
of the most valuable nurses. He was
tireless and self-denying. Wherever
the pestilence ragged most fiercely he
was also, and worked the hardest
The sufferers adored him. Not only
did he nurse them with care and de-
votion, but 1t was found afterward
he also put every cent of his earn
ings into relief box for the benefit
of the plague-stricken.
When John the Nurse" the name
he was known by, later sickened and
died of the fever. those who prepared
him for burial found on his body a
livid mark--the brand of a convicted
felonl
mo man has come to true great
ness" says Phillips Brooks, who has
not felt in some degree that his life
belongs to his race. and that what
God gives him, He gives him for
mankind"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
Fare or Unfair

A woman of exceptionally large
proportions was about to board a
crowded Broad street car yesterday.
In the rear was another car of the
same line. The conductor, realizing
the crowded conditions of the car, and
seeing another coming. slammed the
gate. at the same time shouting:
BROAD in the rear, madam"
at know it, replied the woman.
"But you don't have to tell the whole
,aiot, hnrhnod "