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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
CONTROL OF THE NATIONS RADIUM SUPPLY.

REPRESENTATIVE BREMNER too far gone for 1t to
be possible to effect by radum in his but the treat
men ne received the attention of the country and en-
lghtened if curative value well the scarcity OF
@ and the necessity for ownership of the beds
ore from which extracted 1t proposed IN Congress
that the government control the supply And here
commercaism steps and would forbid 1t puts up Specous
arguments prove ownership of the lands now
de government control better and safer policy
The question Congress between human welfare
and selfish and gaspng private interests which would they
could secure the power all adum lands capitalize them
a the Standard Oil did the oil lands establish monopoly charge
the highest pay themselves immense dividends Only
Congress- would TO the greed OF
the men who privately control the radum supply of this
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
SERIOUS Loss TO NEW JERSEY HISTORY.

THE MORRISTOWN public library had unusually good
New Jersey historical data and the loss by the burn
the be measured in money The
in the building when the fire started suggests
Negligence for certainly there ought be Waterman duty
historical value stake The swift desruc-
building also emphasizes the need of freproo public
bra4ies where owournng construction would afford time
of historical material replaced
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
PUBLIC PRECEPT AND PRIVATE PRACTISE.

THE PATERSON Board of Trade, with proper spirit, has
police neglect that the ordinance for clean
g snow the obeyed On Saturday the pesi
hailed before the police for violation
the ordinance property which he is the custodian Prob
police had looked further they would have found other
Trade denquents But municipal officers and de-
parmens the ordinances city property We have had
many examples of this official delinquency Newark in the past
There difference precep and practise
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
THIS WOULD BE A FUNNY SUIT

THE STORY that the Pennsylvania railroad thinks of bring
ing against State officials holding the amount
the fact that the taking
tourists resisting the attempt revoke their dead
privileges Such action would have rather humorous
Favor 81 way testing the right of the
carried free The railroads of New Jersey
busy the character of defend
To have them figuring plaintiffs might be refreshing
change.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
Resistance to Cold.
ON the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
your face. it gets cold?" asked an
Indian of white man, who had re-
marked upon the redskins ability to
endure freezing temperature. Not a
bit" answered the white well, in
jun all face said the Indian.
From the account of sea bathing at
Coney Island, it appears that more
than a hundred Caucasian residents of
New York had become AL face"
They were able to paddle round in the
water, stand the blows of the surf and
lounge on the beach, though all they
had between their skins and the ele
ments We're bathing clothes.
Possibly only a comparatively small
number of persons can make a show
of enjoying a combination of ice
water and icy air in contact with
their flesh. But it is altogether likely
that there is too much In the way of
heated rooms and thick clothes for the
good of most of us. 1t has softened
us and laid us open to the attacks of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
THEIR LAST STAND FOR ALASKA.

THE PROVISION in the House Alaskan bill for the
killed because the enemies of the bill knew that
future they might succeed blocking the appropriations
the the road be paid of the
{ Senate provides S40O00O00 bond this
provision adhered conference The last hold of
the predatory interests on Alaska should be broken
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24


out in a little town in Missouri
there is published a little paper called
The Menace. The paper is little not
only in size and makeup but also in
spirit. Ii is a self-appointed critic
of Catholicism and as such f1aunts
itself very Justify under the noses OF
people who are not in sympathy with
that sort of thing. We hold no brief
for Catholicism, Professionalism or any
other denomination. We approve
them all to the extent that they are
doing their duty conscientiously and
helpfully and are letting others alone.
We resent any attack upon any de-
nomination on the ground of its I'M
Americanism. There is un-Amerlcan-
ism in all denominations because they
are composed of men not yet perfect
or thoroughly American. There are
Catholics good and bad as is true of
other denominations. Why should
other denominations monopolZe
either the good or the bad? Certain
IL the Catholics do not monopolize the
bad.
We have no doubt that there are
Catholics who think more Of their
church than they do of their coun-
try. We have met some Protestants
who may be similarly characterized
There are some Jews who may pos
siblv he so delineated. The real men
ace in this country is the isms that
root in prejudice, personal spite, per
verified patriotism and the like. The
certain remedy and preventive OF
such is the only ism that true Amerl-
cans of all creeds and colors will up
hold and that stands for our highest
duty and possibility, and that is
Americanism.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

The rest We're killed. His head was
injured at the time
Washington Said 'Damncd,p and Taft
Knows Why. lie Did 1t.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Feb "a
Former President William III. Taft,
in an address before 1,500 Smith Col
lege girls yesterday, said: Washing,
ton looked into life's problems with
red blood in his veins. He had self
restraint, and it is not best to en-
phasize the fact that at times he
might have used profanity. He may
have said things that would not look
well in a public address, and in this
respect 1 feel profoundly for, him.
Perhaps you would understand bet
ter what l mean if you had been
President. You would know surely
If you had tried to convince a Senate.
Washington talked over a treaty with
these twenty-six Senators and they
suggested this and that amendment
and pointed out this, that and the
other defect, and finally Washington
said: I will be damned if I ever go
to the Senate again,
Camera Cupid Declares That Japanese
Photo Weddings Hold.
NEW YORK, Feb 24-Here is the
psychology of Japanese marriage by
photograph" explained yesterday by
one of the dry-plate cupids himself
who has had a lot to do with pro-
noting that kind of happy union for
his countrymen here in New York.
You know, Commissioner-Gen
Caminetti, of the Bureau of Immi-
grafton, sought the other day to cast
some doubt on the obligation of the
United States, under the treaty with
Japan, to recognize photograph mar
riages, even though they do fit in
with the Japanese idea of matrimony.
AS matters now stand, if a Japan
ese woman, who is ineligible to enter
the United States under the exclusion
laws, wants to get in, all that is
necessary for her to do is to have
some Japanese already here send her
his photograph. Then she goes through
a marriage ceremony in Japan, with
some one to stand proxy for the
happy bridegroom shown in the pho
tograph After that, under the pres
ent Interpretation of the law, moth
ing can stop her from entering this
country. A japanese photographer in
New York declared this is q common
occurrence in japan, as the girl has
little to say about choosing hus-
band.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

in 1912. This is the lowest proper
ton since 1899. when 3.07 men were
killed out of each thousand.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
Distinguished .peteetives.s

From the London Saturday Review.
Most of the talk at conferences of
doctors. sanitary experts" eugenic
enthusiasts. lunaey specialists and
others is wildly and obviously fabu-
lous, though rich in apparently unim-
peachable figures. 1t is fiction. differ
ing only from Mr.. Wells's in being
mainly unreliable. All these appal-
ling percentages as to the physically
defective" the morally irresponsi-
ble,'' the feeble minded" what do
they mean?
One must first have some definition
OF physical defect, moral f1ightiness,
weakness of intellect. Almost every
great man one can think of would be
condemned by some congress or other.
johnson, Byron, Pope, Napoleon.
Caesar, Luxembourg, Give, Pitt. Peter
the Great-the list could be prolonged
acknowledgements all defective in
some way. Few men or women go
through life without a sharp con-
seriousness of bodily imperfection.
They are either very happy or very
stupid who are perfectly satisfied with
the quality Of their wits; and the hui
man being who has never felt himself
a sorry caitiff must assuTedly be one.
OF course, figures come to the aid of
the optimist lust as efficiently as they
subserve the purpose of a settled
gloom. Every one is familiar with the
formula THE statistics might seem
at first sight to provide food for re-
Elections of a disquieting character
but when it is remembered that before
1902 it was not incumbent on practi-
TONERS to notify" etc, etc.
In short, it is just as easy to prove
steady advance in physique, intel
leet and character as it is to satisfy
the nation that it is chiefly made up
Of puny and vicious imbeciles.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
Farmer Confesses Sending Himself Black
Hand Letters and Turning Barn.

Farmer Confesses Sending Himself Black
Hand Letters and Burning Barn.
LYONS, N. Y, Feb. 24.-Leslie A.
Riggs, an Alton farmer, twenty-five
years old and married, was arrested
and confessed yesterday to sending
Black Hand letters to himself, put
ting poison in his hogs feed and
burning his barns Friday night.
Riggs announced recently that he
had been receiving the Black Hand
letters. On Monday last he insured
his property for $4,000 On Friday
night his barns burned. Two years
ago Riggs, with his father, mother
and brother, were struck by a passen-
ger train near Alton. He escaped.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

Heirloom Prevents Brother Marrying
Sister on Eve of the Nuptials.
GREELEY, Col, Feb. 24.-Just as
they were leaving to procure a mar
riage license and have the nuptial
knot tied by justice of the peace,
Miss Mary Hardy, a homesteader,
near Buckingham, Weld county, dis
covered that Frank Cameron, a
neighboring homesteader, to whom
she was engaged, was her brother.
The discovery of the relationship
between Miss Hardy and Cameron,
the real name of both being How
ard, was brought about through Cam
eron wearing for the first time in her
presence a small gold ring with a
peculiar button setting as a fob for
his watch chain.
where did you get that ring?"
faltered Miss Hardy
my sister gave me that to remem-
Der her by the last time ! saw her
twenty-three years ago. answered
Cameron.
Then you are my brother" ex-
claimed Miss Hardy and tainted.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
Health of the Army.

/ From the outlook.
The record of the army medical
corps for the last decade, and partic-
ularly for the last five years, has been
one of consistent and rapid progress
one of which the men who made 1t
may well be proud.
Yellow fever was robbed of its ter
rors TO the soldier by the investiga-
| ton carried on after the Spanish
American war, and now typhoid,
which has been the dread guest at SO
many camps, has been reduced
to negligible factor in the
army mortality rate. 1909, the year
that incubation was introduced into
the army as a preventive for this dis
ease, there were 173 cases of typhoid,
with a death rate of little more than
one man to every four thousand.
During 1913 there were two cases,
with no deaths.
An objection that has been alleged
against typhoid incubation, which an
American soldier must now undergo
once every four years, is that it in
creases the subjects susceptibility to
tuberculosis. This theory has been
held by few reputable physicians, and
it is not borne out by figures which
show that during the same five years
in which typhoid has been practically
wiped out of our soldiery, the hospital
admission rate for each thousand men
for tuberculosis has decreased from
439 to 3.49,
Among the other ills to which the
fighting man is heir, venereal disease,
alcoholism and malarial fever are the
most troublesome. Statistics on these
diseases for 1918 are not yet available,
but in the period from 1908 to 1912,
inclusive, the admission rate for ven
ereal diseases was reduced from 1855
men out of each thousand to 116; for
alcoholism, from 80 to II, and from
malarial fever, from "a to IA. Such
figures Speak for themselves.
Since typhoid incubation and other
prophylactie measures have succeeded
in the army, they might we'll be
adopted generally by the vast private
corporations whose employees are
! legion. The increased efficiency and
the money saving that would be sure
to result are incalculable.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
Forty-foot Whale Cast Ashore by storm
ON Atlantic Coast.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 24.-Observer
Nelson at Cape Henry reports today
that on Sunday he saw three
whales battling with the severe storm
that has been sweeping the coast for
a week. They We're last seen trying
to make their way in past the capes
One of them was cast up on the
beach near Lynnhaven, about six
miles from Cape Henry, and was half
buried in the sand when found by a
fisherman. The whale is about forty
feet long and has a wound on its right
side.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

many ailments Until it is fashion
able to go quite naked We cannot
have the "all face" resistance of the
Indian. Still, by cutting down the
heat of homes a few degrees and re-
moving some of the unnecessary
swathings. we can train ourselves to
endure easily far lower temperatures
than those at which our teeth chatter
and our backs feel as if blown upon
by blasts from an iceberg.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

Copyright, 1914, by e. J. Edwards
All rights reseryedl.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

Japanese maid servants in Dare
Manchuria, are paid $3.50 month
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

One male of every four IN Se ~
e employed in a factory.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

panermakers pay the president OF
the International union S2,1oo ye"i'
hungary has six trade unionists 10
every thousand inhabitants.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

Glove workers international ISSUED
over 100000 labels last year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

For each 1000 men engaged in min
ing in this county, 2S.l5 were killed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

Derbyshire. Eng ;,ni has is5 nad with fhre a
oss Of seventy eight lives.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
Daddy sBedtirn!e
q. The Ants
lOV Build
Summer Hotel
Summer Hotel.


working
IL y over homes an children
So old he
finished building
The
the heSl title housed
cTckes ,,
thought This excellent scheme Of
folks wanted fashionable always willing
for-well just be fashionable
their
Black had told
magnificent The built In than
afraid
- it.
little
mai led In the cities"
a
cerniny replied daddy Their the
addressed
They
said:
This something this has always needed"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14

The country is SO vast and the need
of the medical men so extensive that
all the doctors and surgeons in Ameri-
ca could be utilized in China. Such
great invasion, or even enough to
make any wide impression, Is imprac-
ticable The solution must be the
training of the Chinese doctors. At
present there are only a few score OF
them trained along modern lines, and
these have difficulty in making a liv-
ing. The Chinaman is suspicious of
the second hand training of the mod
ernizeds- Chinese doctor, and If he rs
moved to resort to foreign treatment
he prefers to go direct to the foreign
doctor.
The commission, which is represent
ed by DR.. Harry Pratt Judson, presi-
dent of Chicago university, and DR..
Francis w. Peabody of Boston, has
not gone far enough to commit itself
to any definite plan, but it's report un-
doubtedly will be largely concerned
with the problem of making the for
eign trained native doctor respected
In China.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
COUNTRIES MAY UNITE.

The campaign for an alliance be-
tween Norway and Sweden continues
without dissenting note. Prominent
politicians of all parties are advocat-
ing such course on the public plat
forms, and in the newspapers. The
movement, however, still lacks any
official action.
Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer.
and Siguid Isben, have exchanged
visits between Stockholm and Christ
iania, and each has found public senti-
ment agreeable to the proposed alli-
ance. The irreconcilable differences
which led to the disruption of the
union between the two countries in
1905, and which barely escaped caus-
ing war, seem to have smoothed out
to the extent at least that both peoples
desire to unite in defensive alliance
against possible Russian aggression.
The increase in the army and navy
of Sweden, instead of exciting the con.
Germ of Norway, Is greeted there with
the utmost satisfaction, 1t is said, and
Norway itself has strong movement
under way for an increase In arma-
ments. Isben, in his lectures here, has
argued that the two foreign offices and
the general stats should have some
formal arrangement for working to-
gether in case Of war.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
TRYING TO SOLVE WHY
LEAVE SCHOOL

Iowa City, July 11.-Why does boy
leave school without completing his
high school education?
This is the question which Professor
Robert E. Reinow of the University of
Iowa, will attempt TO solve this sum-
mer in an exhaustive investigation,
conducted under the direction of the
extension division Of the state uni
versity.
Professor Rienow, who is assistant
dean of men in the university, will
gather data concerning 1000 individ-
ual cases of youths in Iowa from the
ages of ~ to 20 who left the class room
before receiving diploma from the
high school.
The complete vocational history of
each case will be compiled by Profes-
sor Rienow. He will trace the record
Of the boy from the time he left school
to the present day, in an effort to as
certain the cause which led to the de.
sertion of scholastic instruction, and
also to find out how successful the boy
has been in subsequent work.
Professor Rienow will concentrate
on the larger cities, and assistants
will be appointed to gather data in
the smaller towns of the state.
The collected data will be published
in bulletin form under the direction OF
O. E. klingaman, head of the extern
sion division.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
Little Benny's Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Yes, but he's tuffer than you. l sed.
The heck he is, sed Reddy Merry.
hes smallir and hes no tufrir, eethir. III
tell you wat, You lick him, hes moar
yure size.
Hes tuffir than am, anyway, | sed
WITCH he was, hole lot.
You lick him or I'll lick YOU. sed
Reddy Merry.
G WIZ, got nuthing agenst him, I
sed.
Give him sumthing agenst you, ssd
Reddy to the kid.
Sure, sed the kid. And he gave me Z
fearse krack avn the Ease.
Now lick him or I'll lick you, sed
Reddy Merry.
WITCH the kid and me startid to fite
avn akkount Of me having sumthing
agenst him, beeing krack avn the
Ease, and avn akkount of me noing
Reddy Merry Good lick me but not no.
ing weathir the little kid Good or. not,
witch 1t was a pritty good fite but prttty
panefill and I went hoam with a blud.,
dy noze and pritty near a black eye,
but Reddy Merry sed the littel kid
looked worse than did. WITCH is he
did it proved licked him. ao
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
S|COURNEY MAN
HEADS SHER|FF5'.
J. GRIMES PRESIDENT; GUTH
HEADS RECORDERS, AND
soPER CLERKS. qa /.

Oskaloosa, July 11.--Friday marked
convention of the State Associations OF
Sheriffs, Clerks and Recorders. Clear
Lake was chosen as the place of hold
ing the 1915 convention by committees
of three selected by each of the three
associations.
Sheriff's Meeting.
Officers were elected by the sher1ffs
as follows:
President-E. J. Grimes, Sigourney,
Vice president-Leo Kaufman, Mt
Pleasant.
Secretary-treasurer-N. S. Peter.
man, Toledo.
S. E. Cronkhite of Knoxville, presi-
dent of the association for the past
year. was honored by the members In
being presented with gold headed
umbrella, and J. F. Griffin of Des
Moines, secretary and treasurer for the
past year, was honored in the presen'
tation of a gold headed cane.
An informal discussion of horse
thieves in general and more particu
larly, the notorious thief, Thomas
Dickson, who is now serving a ten
year term in the penitentiary at Fort
Madison, was also big feature of the
session. The sheriffs are determined
to break up the Dickson gang and they
are making strenuous efforts to do so
A committee of five was appointed to
make an investigation into Dickson's
past life with view towards getting
uold of other members OF his clique
They are: E. ]. Grimes, chairman
w. S. Peterman, r. H. McCarty, Geo
Ross, John Reid, Jr.
The Recorders association elected
officers Friday morning as follows:
President - Charles Guth, Des
Moines.
First vice president Grace E
Dreher, Allison.
Second vice president-Ernest c.
Youngstown, Burlington.
Secretary and treasurer B
Denzler, Marengo.
The Clerks association finished its
business in a hurry. Officers for the
ensuing year were elected as follows:
President-B. M. Soper, Nevada.
First vice PRESIDENT. F. Rut
ledge, Emmetsburg.
Second vice president-W. F. Har
per, Vinton.
Secretary and treasurer. U. Con.
we'll, Abba.
Executive committee-Fred D. Blake
Mason City, G. G. Utterback, Sigour
ney, H. G. Hustled, Winterset.
Legislative committee-Fred 8.
Petit, Waterloo; d. B. Ashenfelter
Boone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14
CONSERVATION.

Certain TRADES of those who would
destroy industrial and sociological
progress by preventing the develop
ment of water powers are ludicrous.
No water power is truly conserved"
until 1t has been put to work. The
power of regulation over public util-
ities-over any business, for that mat
tef-has been developed to point
where no one seriously questions the
power or authority OF the states and
nation. The all-important point In
treating water powers is to make them
of economic value as quickly as posi-
BILE.
There are good many people who
are not able to see the difference be-
tween conservation for use'' and con
servation from USE" To let water
power go to waste year after year, Is
waste, not conservation.