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The Washington times., 1914-11-04
LASKEY SWORN IN AS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Oath Administered by Justice
Covington - Receives Con-
gratuIations.

John +. Laskey today took the oath
of office and assumed the duties of
United States Attorney for the District.
his induction into office being before
the District supreme Court in general
term.
Clarence r. Wilson. the retiring Dis
trlct Attorney, presented Mr.. Laskey
to the court. declaring that he had the
'honor and pleasure Of announcing that
MS successor was present with his COM
mission. Chief Justice COvinston ad-
mlnistefed the oath of office and then
spicuous career" in ffice. Mr. Laskey
would have ''an auspicious and CON
spicuous career in office. Mr. Laskey
thanked the court for the expression
of confidence and then received the
congratulations of members of the bar
who thronged about him.
Mr.. Laskey had no changes in the
personnel of the staff in the District
Attorney $ office to anonunce today
The Washington times., 1914-11-04

Flowers for Weddings.
Consult Guide about the Flowers and
Decorations for your wedding, 1914 F st
-Advt.
The Washington times., 1914-11-04
Cooperation of Parents
And Teachers Is Urged

That there is a crying need for a
closer association between parents and
teachers, and the way in which such
association might be encouraged was
brou"2t out in \ meeting in the Public
Library yesterday afternoon of the
District Parent-Teach chers' Association
and the District of Columbia Congress
of Mothers.
IF the parents do not keep alert. and
march step to step with the teachers of
the public schools in the matter of child
training and moral discipline, the
schools will take everything away from
The Washington times., 1914-11-04
Presses Busy Printing
New Revenue Stamps

With an issue of 400 100000 internal
revenue stamps, required as the result
Of the new war tax, the government
presses are running at their highest
speed. Dealers and manufacturers Of
tobacco will have the month of No
vember to obtain the necessary revenue
stamps, although the law became ef-
fective yesterday.
Small quantities of the stamps already
have been received by the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
The Washington times., 1914-11-04
Pioneers to Meet.

Members of the Association of Oldest
Inhabitants of the District will assemble
at the headquarters Of the organization
In the Old Volunteer Fire Company
Hall. Nineteenth and III streets north
west. this evening for the monthly
meeting Of the association. The meet
ing will he calico promptly at 7:3O
O'Clock.
The Washington times., 1914-11-04
Two Bows Injured.

Wright Hamel. Xteen years old 10il
NJ street southeast, and his brother,
Joseph, were slightly hurt late yester-
day when a wagon of the B. B. Earn
shaw Company, wholesale grocers, IN
which they were riding collided at Sixth
and c streets southwest with a wagon
of Littlefeld. Afford & Co. The boys
had their injuries dressed at Emergency
Hospital
The Washington times., 1914-11-04

utilities committee, presented a report
recommending the calling of a special
meeting to discuss the Crosser bill for
public ownership Of utilities in the Dis
trict The proposition. however, was
voted down. the association deciding to
invite Nj. Crosser to address the mem
bers at the December meeting.
The Washington times., 1914-11-04

the mother. 1t is the duty OF the
mother to study out me '3Gst ethcient
andaaTor to MAKE her home so attraC-
tive that her bows ard girls win find
most nF their recreation at home ami
not at the theater. the motion pictur"
show. or in the dance hall said Mrs.
q. S. Rafter. president Oh poth oEGani-
cations.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
A STATE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.

1T is not improbable that with the present organized ma
cnery Jersey State government the pressure OF
increasing expenditure the Legislature at an
early day will brought face financial situation not unlike
that which the York Legislature confronting
Jersey had direct by the State on the people
unnecessary that the imposition OF
extremely unpopular There danger OF one IN
but averted by diversion OF railroad tax IN
the general OF the State Inc
schools every dollar of their present income and that bit
financing repeated AS for sources OF income
ii would be hard to suggest
in the way of cutting off useless expense OF
administration annually and ways and
recommended by the Economy and Efficiency Com
mission in report this month but it is question to the
recommend reforms and also to how far the
Legislature recommendations Everybody knows
legislative inclination in matters of economy Nece
sary appropriations the bone public departments and
starved Improvements denied and the ex
pensve machinery with its useless parts kept up IN
difference the place holders and their interests
administration strictly business basis and
conducted with economy and efficiency its guild
ing principles would be little apprehension of State fax
the people purchase of supplies alone there would be
saving $150O00 annually And there would be
necessity starving the State institutions and abandoning
needed improvements
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08

After the American Civil War Gen
eral Grant urged the Washington
government to send an army across
the Rio Grande to drive Macmillan
and the French forces out of Mexico,
says the springfield Republican. 1t
would have been a holiday COM
paign for the seasoned soldiers of
Grants ard Sherman's legions. All
that was done, however, toward car
rying out General Grants idea of
forcible intervention was to station
about $4,000 men under General Sheri-
dan within easy marching distance
of the Mexican frontier.
Secretary Seward had another plan.
He opposed a military campaign. 1t is
much to his credit in history that the
ceived no encouragement from him.
Yet the Mexican situation seemed
hopeless. Our minister, accredited to
Juarez, could find no republic" not
even it's presiN lent, in the mountains
of northern Mexico, and he returned
home in disgust Every Mexican city
of the slightest Importance was in
the possession of the forces of Maxi
milan. European governments recog-
nized him, ours did not.
Stewards policy was simply a de.
mana on emperor Napoleon III. tC
withdraw the French forces ~sus.
tanning Miximilian's government
Frances troubles at home were then
accommodating owing to the rise of
Prussia under Bismarks direction,
and Napoleon himself had bet or
the wrong horse" in our own civil
war. His Mexican adventure was
already seen to be a losing one.
AS soon as the French troops were
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
FINANCING A HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE.

UNTIL THE prohibition of the creation of State
debt above 100000 of the State Conu
proposition for interstate bridge the Hudson
may regarded pipe dream, for the legislative
interior South Jersey counties will obsnatey refuse
permit question of issuing bonds be submitted refer
endum.
Senator Johnson of Bergen county, who has prepared
bridge Legislature estimates New Jerseys share of the
100000 parayze the Middle and South Jersey
legislators convinced that all this
outlay would exclusively for the benefit of Essex Hudson
Bergen But the outgoing Bergen has
proposition He believes that the four counties would
cooperate pay the $21 100000.
1t true that bridge Hudson, with terminal
side either North Hudson Bergen county, would be
mostly of Bergen and Hudson
There doubt that it would
increased values equal the of the structure
But he sangune indeed who thinks that the taxpayers
the counties could be induced such financial
obligation addition what they bear in their local gov
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08

1t has often been rumored that the
king was jealous of his wife, though
always without the least excuse. 1t
was said a few years ago that he
would have no unmarried gentle
men-in- waiting and that the married
ones had few opportunities of talk
ing with the queen. 1t has often
been remarked that the queen shows
the utmost constraint and diffidence
when talking to men, because of her
desire not to offend her royal hus-
band. But on the whole it would be
hard to find a more devoted, happy,
royal family in Europe or one mora
beloved by their subjects. No one
will ever forget the heroic part the
Italian queen played at the time OF
the frightful Messina disaster. The
king and the queen were among the
first to arrive on the scene of dis
aster and it is said that the queen
cast a spell of quiet upon the terror
stricken natives. People wept from
emotion when they saw her and the
dying victims threw kisses at the
beautiful queen as she passed. While
the king headed rescuing party, the
queen devoted her time to the suffer
ing children of the city. She went
unescorted to one ruin and rescued
a boy from falling walls.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08

Spartan mothers, in order to stimu-
late their ambition, used to take
their boys to the Pantheon in Athens
where their young imaginations
would be fired by the sight of the
statues of the nations gods and
heroes. Standing before one of those
heroic marble figures, the mother
would tell the story of the original,
while boyish hearts would glow and
young eyes would sparkle with
awakened ambition under the inspi-
ration of her words. Many a young
mind was thus fired to emulate the
hero that particularly appealed to
him.
No other one thing is of such
precious help to a youth as to be
constantly stimulated along the line
of his career, and nothing else will dc
this so effectively, nothing else will
give him such inspiration, nothing
else is so ambitious-rousing as the
life-stories of those who have &C
complished things under great diff
culties.
Emerson says Il cannot even heal
of personal vigor of any kind, great
power of performances, without
fresh resolution. This is the
moral of biography"
Great inspiring life-stories of those
who have won and pushed their way
to the front against all sorts of OBJ
stacles have proved the turning
point in tens of thousands of careers.
They have encouraged the disheart-
ened to hold on when they were
ready to let go; they have induced
them to persevere when they had de-
cided to turn back. They have given
them fresh hope and renewed conf
dences in themselves when those
dearest to them even had predicted
failure and had told them that to
continue would be to waste their
time.
Smiles's self Help was wonder
full stimulus to me, and l believe it
has proved the turning-point in the
careers of tens of thousands OF
youths. Nothing else is more fasci-
mating than the romance of achieve
ment under difficulties. The youth
full of hope. bubbling over with en-
thusiasm, reads the life-stories of
men and women who have succeeded
under difficulties, and he says to him
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
THE GRADE CROSSINGS ANNUAL TOLL.

GRADE CROSSINGS of railroads took toll of fifty
lives in New Jersey last year. against xyone the
before and the slight decrease be credited good
pluck rather than any progress the elimination of these death
traps New York grade crossings last year accounted for 24
the before is
mainly due the larger number of automobiles struck by trains
New York has four times the population of New Jersey
The National Highways Protective Society calls attention
that occupant of trolley killed grade
crossing New York New Jersey last year. Both States have
laws compelling trolley at railroad crossing
until the assured the way clear and the society
argues that similar law enforced automobiles and
would than fifty lives annually in the States But
enforce such law? The trolley obey the
companies The needless driver in his
responsible only himself and the unguarded grade
crossing is trap for the unwary.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BIZ MARY MARSHALL.
JANUARY 8
Queen Helene of Italy
Copyrighted. 1918.

King Victor. Emmanuel of Italy fell
in love with his future wife, the
Princess Helene of Montenegro, at
funeral. He had been sent to Peters
burg to represent his family at the
obsequies of Alexander III. of Rus
STA, and there he met the charming
Montenegro princess, who made
made such an impression upon him
that when it came time for him to
chose a wife he thought first of her.
They were married seventeen years
ago and have been blessed with four
charming CHI ldren-three of the pref
tiest little princesses of Europe and
the en-year-old Humbert, heir to
the throne of Italy. The king was
twenty eight at the time of his mar
riage and Helene was twenty three.
1t is said that they are Numerically
opposite in appearance. He is short
and SLENDER while she is tall and
plump He is somewhat quiet and
serious, while she is gay and full of
high animal spirits. 1t is said that
before his marriage he was fond of
society, Of beautiful and clever wom-
en-, and it was therefore his great
good fortune to find a wife who pos
sessed such marked beauty and
cleverness as everyone comedies to
the Italian queen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRfSoN SWEET MARDrN.
Author of Pushing to the Front" Etc
WHY CAN'T / DO IT?
! Copyright. 1918.

self. why cant | do it?" To which
something within him replies, Il can
and | will"
Ambition requires a great deal and
great variety of food to keep 1t
vigorous. An ambition must be
backed by a robust will power, stern
resolve, physical energy, powers of
endurance, to be effective.
The fact that you have an almost
uncomfortable impulse, great abb
sorbing ambition to do thing which
meets with the approval of your
judgment and your better self, Is a
notice served upon you that you can
do the thing, and should do it at
once.
There are tens of thousands of day
laborers in this country-common
workmen-putting their lives into
drudgery, who, if they had only been
aroused to their possibilities, would
have been employers themselves
would have been men of force, of
standing in their communicative
they have been held down by their
ignorance of their own power. They
have never discovered themselves,
and so they must be "hewers of wood
and drawers of water" We see
them verywhere-splendid men and
women, who impress us as giants in
possibility, but who are totally ig-
norant of the great forces that are
sleeping within them.
Why not take an inventory of your
self at the beginning of this new
year? If you are dissatisfied with
what you are doing and think you
ought to do better, try to discover,
no matter how long it takes you.
just where your trouble lies. Find
out the things that keep you back.
Make long searching tours of dis
covery in your own consciousness.
Say to yourself over and over again,
why can others do such remark
able things while / do ordinary, COM
mon things? Constantly ask your
self, '"If others can do them, why
cannot II"
You may find some great nuggets
CT god In these tours of self-discov-
cry which you never dreamed you
possessed-great possibilities of pow
err which you never uncovered be-
fore. and which may, if developed,
revolutionize your life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08

form, and Mr.. Reed, thoroughly bun
died up, came to the rear platform
of his private car and held brief con-
versation with Mr.. Mills.
OF the two men Mr.. Mills seemed
the more deeply concerned He tried
to smile, but it was plaintive, forced
smile, and he was very much affected
when he reached over the railing OF
the vestibule and shook MI. Reds
hand.
The train rolled on out of the sta
ton. Mr.. Mills stood watching until
at last the train had passed out OF
sight. He still stood looking intently
in the direction In which the train
had gone. Then at last observing me
he said:
II hope MIR. Reid will find abun-
dant health in Arizona. | hope that
it is as the doctors say, purely an
acute and local trouble which will
speedily yield to the healthful in
fiuences of the Arizona climate. We
all think he will recover his health
but there is something very sad in
saying goodbye to very dear
member of your family who is going
upon long journey in search OF
| health, for you cannot help thinking
that possibly he may not return tc
greet you"
Then Mr.. Mills walked slowly away
with heavy step and. entering his
carriage, was driven to his home.
And when some months later thu
report came from Arizona that thu
climate had proved perfect toni'
and curative so that Mr.. Reid would
be able to return thoroughly restored
in health, / did not fail to think tina
Mr. Mills must have rejoiced whei
he learned that the member of hi
family from whom he parted will
suclr deep concern was to be re
stored to his home exactly as Mr.
Mills had hoped he would.
| Copyright, 1914, by Z. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell o
-Four Nineteenth Century American
! Woman Novelists"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Anecdote of Sympathetic Father-in-Law

Not the least of the many charming
personal attributes of the late Darius
o. Mills was his devotion to his fam
lily In his domestic relations Mr..
Mills was ideal. This characteristic
was one in which his son-in-law, the
late Whitelaw Reid, fully shared. Mr.
Mills not only received Mr.. Reid into
the most intimate of his family rela
tionships, but in addition to that he
constantly revealed his profound ad-
miration of the intellectual and per-
sonal character of his son-in-law.
A year or two after Mr.. Reds re-
turn from France. where he served
four years as minister in the admin
istration of President Harrison, and
possibly a year after his defeat for
the presidency on the ticket, at
the head of which was General Har-
rison, Mr.. Reid suffered at times in
tensely from a somewhat mysterious
and acute trouble with his throat.
He said one day to me, with a very
hoarse voice. his throat all muffled
up, his eyes heavy, that his physi-
clans had recommended that he So
journ for six months in Arizona, say
ing that medical treatment could not
begin to do for him what the wonder
fulIy dry climate OF Arizona would
be able to accomplish. He said, fur
thermore that he had made arrange
ments to go to Arizona and would
leave by certain train at noon two
days later.
l was able to meet Mr.. Reid for a
moment in his private car. He was
very cordial, but he was also very
hoarse. Members of his family were
with him.
| observed Mr. Mills standing al
one side. looking almost plaintively
certainly anxiously, at Mr.. Reid. He
cautioned Mr.. Reid against exposing
| himself to draughts, and he said tc
| him as he went out of the car:
you must stay in Arizona unit
| you have completely recovered youi
| health That is the only thing you
are to concern yourself about now"
| Then Mr.. Mills went to the plat.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
General Seward and Intervention

withdrawn from Mexico the Mexican
Republicans under Juarez, with the
moral support of the United States,
did the rest. Our government even
refused to heed the request of one or
two European powers that 1T use its
influence to prevent the execution of
Macmillan. Stewards policy, in brief,
consisted in forcing the withdrawal
of European influence and leaving the
Mexicans to stew in their own Juice
until they could thresh out of their
chaos a stable government.
Conditions are not the same today.
But President Wilson might find in
structive at some points the policy
of the Johnson administration, when
military Intervention talk gets loud
est. He has an alternative govern
ment to recognize in that of the Con-
stitutionalists of the North, much
more substantial than that of Juarez,
which the American minister OF
1866 could not locate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
Navigation of the Mississippi.

From Letter in New York Times.
The Times recently referred to the
proposed Mississippi spillway and
some of its ramifications, stating that
five locks, properly placed, will per-
nit steamers as large as the Maure-
tanian to ascend the Mississippi River
to Cairo The Springfield (Mass)
Republican, in very friendly edi-
torial article, has reduced that num-
Der to three. Fearing these errors, If
not corrected, might cause just criti-
cism of the project. please Permit me
to state that the elevation of the
canalized Mississippi at Cairo would
be a little more than 300 feet above
the Gulf of Mexico. 1t WOULD require
twelve dams with locks having an
average lift of about twenty-three
feet each to afford ample facilities
for any of our coastwise steamers to
navigate the river at full speed to
Cairo, and with slight dredging below
some of the dams that would prob
ably never need to be repeated the
Mauretania's speed need only be linz
tied to her control. irrespective of
depth of water.
The number of dams could be re-
duced to nine. with increased lift and
height, but this would entail much
dredging below these dams in order
to secure the depth of water needed
for such large vessels there. The
average depth of water in either in
stanace would be more than forty
feet. 1t would be entirely without
shifting bars or other formations and
average more than half a mile wide
from the Gulf of Mexico through the
South Pass to Cairo.
The Mauritania could then not only
reach Cairo, but easily reach Padu-
cab, forty-five miles above Cairo, on
the Ohio River. and by reason of the
other two dams in the Mississippi
River above Cairo she would be en-
abled to reach Crystal City, ten miles
below the city hall of st. Louis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
AN EAST ORANGE ASSESSMENT QUESTION.

.s BROAD STREET Newark is main thoroughfare. So is
paving AUDITING prop
pay the In East Orange city 43
the epayng Main upon the general
only 81 per the abuttng propery-owne the
ground that Main a thoroughare.
All the paved streets of city general public benefit
principal thoroughfare makes valuable
use wholly expense
of the property fronting them 1t poor
not work ways Why property
help pay the of improving other public
of? But that the Main property
special consideration in such matters from the
erning authorities.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08
"PIDGIN ENGLISH OF ORIENT

Americans and Europeans who live
in the Orient must learn a queer
language if they expect to talk much
with natives. 1t is ''pidgin English,
congrameration of all languages
under the sun, but more especially a
strictly idiomatic translation OF
Chinese into English. using the
Chinese pronunciation, Amy w.
Hotchkiss tells some amusing stories
of this lingua Franco of the East in
the National Magazine for October.
1t is difficult for a Chinaman to
master the English pronunciation,
and this accounts in great measure
for the prevalence of "pidgin Eng
lish." The letter is almost always
sounded like !, so we have KILN or
kleen for green and lain for rain.
TOO muehee lain just now" is often
heard, Just now" being a favorite
expression to denote the immediate
present In calling upon woman
one says to the boy (house servant
of any age from is to 60), "Missee
have got?" and the answer comes,
Have got" or mo have got, accord
ing to whether she is in or out This
recalls the time -honored, true story
of the woman who called and the
boy reported to his mistress of the
house: "One piece man, down side,
b'long missus." Scarcely compli-
mentary to the ..piecee mani"
An officer of British regiment
stationed in China called upon a
friend who was in very moderate
circumstances. According to the
custom, the host asked the visitor
what he would drink, expecting him
to say beer, but when he specified
wine the host called his boy, saying.
go catchee some hook and seltzer
for this gentleman" 1t was not long
before the servant returned with 1t,
and after the guests departure the
boy was questioned by his master:
what side you catehee that hook
and setzer?" The boy smiled and