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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
u. LXxxIn.-NO. BOZ.
TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER %. 1914.
A PROTEST TO GREAT BRITAIN.

me comprehensive note TO Great Britain by our
state department IN protest against the injury done to
American trade commerce and industry by the hold
ing up of American merchant ships the high seas
by British ships Of war somewhat belated. but il
satisfies the irritated sentiment of this country.
The American note is courteous while being per-
fectly frank Il is certainly not in any unfriendly
spirit that our government would address Of
the belligerent powers and If Germany and Austria
had command of the and unduly nterfered with
American commerce note of protest to these powers
would be couched in similar terms
This is not new position for our government to
take and, in fact, it has the Endorsement of Lord
Salisbury when British premier far foodstuhs
are concerned The declaration of Lord Salisbury on
behalf of England was that "Foodstuhs, with a hos
tile destination, be considered contraband of
only II they supplies for the enemys forces II Is
not sufficient that they capable of being used;
il must shown that this In fact their destina-
ton at the time Of seizure"
Neutral countries must bear with patience such
injuries by a war of other nations inevitable,
that are done without hostile intent and within
international law and usage but neutrals in this
have suffered many unjust injuries Their ships have
been detained, they have been blown up by mines,
cargoes been seized and neutral ports have been
virtually blockaded It is for the neutral assert
his rights as the state department has last been
compelled to do.
It is evident also that our government has some
understanding with other neutral powers, such as
Italy and the Latin-American states, all OF which
less suffer from the great dislocation Of
commerce and industry in consequence OF the war.
Naturally 1t for the American government to be
the spokesman for all neutral interests
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Converting the ssnetuaries Into Soldiers
Barracks.
from the philadelphia Ledger.
II seems the Middle Ages come 20
earth again, IN the description given
BY correspondent OF the Church Of
81, Nicholas at Furnes, in Flanders,
with it's vgorn-out soldiers prone in
the straw, while elsewhere In the
vast edilce the funeral mass for a
child is intoned and the reverberant
notes Of the great organ cannot rouse
the warriors from their exhausted
sleep. Through the dim aisles where
IN other days chanting, white-stolea
professionals were seen, with AGO.
lytes and censers, the rows OF ma
chimes of the cyclist corps are
stacked. and the thinking tools are
heard where the bold riders kneel TO
repair them. 1t is such a scene AS
one might have witnessed in oldep
Zines, when the churches were the
last refuge of fugitive despair, ana
the history of. certain old cathedrais
shows that often the money changers
in times of peace invaded the tenn
pie, and peddlers hawked their wares,
where ogling gallants and ladies fair
paraded and found rendezvous.
Even while the guns of the German
invaders roared their defiance afresn
10 a neighboring town. we are told,
the priest in another part of the
Church Of st. Nicholas chanted the
Christmas mass in the presence OF
kneeling soldiers, and the altar bore
a representation of the Christ Child
in the manager, such as might be seen
IN a Moravian church In Pennsyl-
vania. Into such close proximity
nave come war and religion, soldier
and saint. all that makes for carnage
and destruction on the one hand, for
an7ity and peace on the other,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
MAYORS VETO ovERRIDpEN.

Mayor Haussling's for his veto OF the new
market resolution, which was overridden by the coun-
ell last night, was honorable to himself He was
about to retire from Office and it proper that the
matter should go to the council in January.
The action by the council was just consistent.
The subject had been pending a long period, 70
the great Inconvenience of the public; much money
had been spent; the workingmen Of the city wanted
the improvement made planned and longer delay
meant chaos. Taking this point of view the council
majority for the first time differed with the mayor
and OVERRIDE his veto
But still the question will come before the new
council and mayor, and it will then rest with Mayor
Raymond to say whether the improvement shall be
abandoned as the council will not have two-hirds
Democratic majority and the mayoraly veto il sent to
the council will stand. 1t is unfortunate that
venience necessary should be denied TO the com.
munity by long delays and uncertainty and that this
condition should be extended into the year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
RESTRICTED MUNICIPAL CHARITY.

great and opulent city like New York should
have enough municipal lodging houses to shelter all
who might apply for shelter In time of stress. Public
charity is always concerned about keeping out
the unworthy than In letting in the worthy. Where
there unemployment for thousands and great need,
allowances must be made and given to all
who apply for temporary food and shelter.
1t ls true that generous public charity in city is
magnet to attract to 1t the Idle and vicious we'll
the necesstous of other places That consideration
has been check upon municipal philanthropy, but in
times like these it should be put aside. There is
opulence enough in New York to take these risks
which only involve comparatively small extra ex-
pense For the sake of giving relief to worthy man
woman in desperate straits city could afford to
harbor dozen of the idle and worthless.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

would injure his party far mora than
II would him. And not only should
he have another term, but the full
power Of the speakership should be
restored. Presiding over the debates
he performs easily and we'll; but a
man of his gifts should have a large
voice in legislation. He Is, with OPP
portunity, a master hand at the busi-
ness.
There Is Mr.. Kitchiu He liz in line
for the floor leadership. and also in
line with his party's accepted poll
cies. Why should he not succeed Mr..
Underwood? Unlike the Albanian
in temperament, he has yet observed
Mr.. Underwood's methods OF manage
ment, and could probably employ
them successfully. himself. At any
rate. TO turn him down would cause
much bad feeling
Mr.. Fitzgerald may have made
some enemies as chairman of appro-
priations. tst
As to Mr.. Henry and the rules
committee, he has done as chairman
only what the majority in the open
House has ratified. The majority
when 1t cares to be, is always the
master of the situation. The rules
committee could not of Itself at any
time impose a gag on the House
Whenever gagged, the House gags
itself.
The next House will be legislatine
on the eve of presidential election
and on that account should watch
the corners. Well led. the opposi-
ton win be alert, and improve every
opportunity to make campaign CAPT
tai. If the majority does not stant
| together and under the most com
petent leadership available 1t. will
seriously injure its candidate fol
President.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
A BOWL FOR BASEBALL. TOO.

The way in which the victory of the Boston Braves
in the worlds championship series has stimulated
baseball interest in that city appears in the plans
adopted for the new home of the Boston National
League club Sunk fifteen feet below the street level
after the fashion of Yale's Bowl, the grounds
will represent the last word in accommodations for
the national game, but the seating capacity, little
than 5000, will fall far short of that provided
for the crowds who see football games Ysles stands
having for 10000
It is strange that with the growing and long
sustained popular interest in baseball and the fact
that thousands turned away from every worlds
SERIES the Boston management did not look further
into the future and make II possible for people
enjoy under modern conditions the favorte of all
sports.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIEsHBERG
A. B.. M. A, NJ d. Gohn Hopkins.

Beware Of Csrbonlc Acid Vnpors from
Fresh Paint.
Each morning as you seize your
daily paper in search of fresh sue
cesses of the allies or the Teuto-
Turlso-Austro- Hungarians, as the
preference may be, you discover
new report of someone's death by an
original poison. II 1t ig not lead, II
is alcohol or coal gas, illuminating
gas, marsh gas, nay, even the vapors
in silo fatally poisoned four men
the other day within five minutes
after they began to stamp down the
contents.
Tho evidence that paints, oils, var
nishes and related substances cause
serious poisoning Is undoubted. In
deed, there is no one who VIII ais
pute this. Frequently, though. some
metallic or aniline-like constituent Is
hastily made the chemical goat of
the situation. Curiously enough, med
ical men usually think last or not at
all of the vapors of oil paints as
poison5
DIR. Henry A. Gardner, the distin-
guished assistant director OF the In
stitute of Industrial Research, Wash
ington, D. c., has just brought an
elaborate and detailed series Of re-
searches upon this point to the at
tention of the scientific and industrial
world. He has scored many new and
valuable points.
DR.. GARDENERS Experiments.
DR.. Gardner has made known for
the first time that carbon monoxide,
one of the most poisonous gases. is
given off in the vapors of paints as
they dry. To inhale it in lily VEN
yaatT ataA
produces the rheumatism" "anae-
MAS" and other carelessly named
excuses for the ailments OF painters.
It is easy to confirm DR.. Gardeners
experiments. He, like the other
great contributors to medical science,
Pasteur, Muller, Harrison and Ehr.
Itch, Is without medical training or
medical degrees. His experiments
were first carried out with all sorts
of oil paints, oils and varnishes.
painted on the inside OF cylinders,
The air which entered these glass
ana metal receptacles was OF known
purity. After the lapse of a short
interval this air was withdrawn and
again analysed. 1t was found to be
short in oxygen, no doubt absorbed
by the paints. and rich in carbon
monoxide. Even metallic paints OF
lead, zinc and the like, emitted no
metallic particles, an error taught to
all medical students, and believed by
physicians.
In the vapors sent forth in the doors
Of all fresh paints he finds that there
is present not only this toxic carbon
rnonoxide, but that asphyxiating
abonination of bad air. carbonic acid
gas. Thirty-eight per cent. of this
in any atmosphere causes almost In
Simultaneous, suffocating death be-
You'd the power Of recovery.
Carbon Monoxide Dangers.
-Four strong men were thus killed
very lately in a farm silo, and posi-
bly, the supposed heart disease" of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
WARS EFFECT ON RELIGIOUS MISSIONS.

When It is stated that about rs per cent. Of the
money given for European relief comes from sup
porters of churches and church missions is to
understand why the finances Of national and nterns-
tional missionary societies in this country
off than in any year since Civil War times, and
several Of the leading organizations running
heavily debt and have had TO curta their activi
ties But is not the bounty which the church people
are pouring out to aid the destitute in the zone
good missionary work and practical Christianity
in itself? Religion is really not less active If
cept the definition given by the Apostle James,
pure religion and undehled before God and the
Father is this TO visit the fatheress and widows
their afliction"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
Never Substitute.
South American Trade Service for Manufacturers

order to determine how Of Newark and morneFn
cheaper than At present Mr. Gardner will make an EXTENDED tour
ing some time in July August sufficient time to permit manu-
STAR Mr. Gardner win seek for them specific regadps
filed that Mr. Gardner before ne
showing the
product will be gladly furnished request
obligation IN
Of the results of Mr. Gardeners will from time
in
is STAR further in the
gladly this their disposal
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
DECEMBER 20
carman Sylvia, Margaret 6ottome
CopyTgh
BY MARY MARSHALL.
DECEMBER 2e
Copyrighted 1919.

One of the best known women ever
born on December 20 is Elizabeth,
queen Of Roumania, better known by
her pen name, Carmen Sylvia"
Queen Elizabeth is one of the most
versatile of all European queens.
She is interested in every phase of
Roumanian life, and is especially ac-
tive in all national industries and oc-
equations. She herself delights to
dress in the peasant costume Of the
Roumanians and engage in their
various sorts of national needlework
and lace-making.
Margaret Bottome is we'll known to
every one of the $4,000 members Of the
International Order of Kings Daugh-
tiers and Sons. She was born in Brook
Ign In 1921 and as the daughter of a
public-spirited philanthropist and
physician she spent much time as a
young girl in accompanying him to
the homes of the poor and afflicted.
This greatly stimulated her naturally
religious and charitable nature, and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
che HnsWer

Life Death and Love once stood before field
Where had fought with sword, and gun and shield
And they stood Life spoke with bated breath
And said 81 wonder when the foes will yield?"
Then Death with hollow eyes looked at the
Who gaspng lay about his feet and then
II think he said when all the world is drenched
In blood, the strife will hnsh-only thenp'
But Love looked far away with tear-hled EYES.
my friends, he said, beyond the there lies
A land where flowers bloom with perfume sweet,
Where one suffers pain, and no dies.
"And in this country at the rainbow's end
= There lives King who is Helper Friend;
Who pardons sins and washes guilt away,
And when men know His Love- the war will end
BY Margaret E. Sangster, jr.
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her great interest as a. young woman
was in work among the almshouses
and prisons Of the city. When she
was twenty-three she married Rev.
Frank Bottome, and with him she
continued the good work that she had
previously done with her father. Soon
after her marriage she began a series
of Bible talks in the homes of New
York society women, and these she
continued without interruption for
twenty-five years.
1t wae on January Is, 1886, just
after her f1fty-ninth birthday, that
the first ten" of Kings Daughters
was organized, with Mrs. Bottome as
organizer and first president.
This organization has been very
successful. 1t is an undenominationa1
religious and philanthropic society,
composed of chapters of both men
and women, and has for its official
object the development of spiritual
life and the stimulation Of Christian
activities"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
Metric System Prevails.

All merchandise must be reckoned
in the metric system. The Importance
of this cannot be put too strongly.
There is a certain shirt and collar
manufacturer in this country, whose
name is a byword in the trade, who
had a promising trade held out to
him in Buenos Ayres, for American
shirts and collars are well liked in
South America and are considered
superior to the European article. The
importer instructed the shirtmaher to
mark all shirts and collars in the
metric system, centimeters. The in
structions were ignored and the
measurements indicated American
styles. You can imagine the despair
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
Importance of Detail.

James Davenport Whelpley tells the
story of a Central American general
merchant whom he encountered in the
tropics. He entered his store and
found a score or more of girls busy
wrapping candles in blue paper, al
though no customers were in sight
buying them. Upon inquiry the mer-
chant said, with tone of despair
in his voice:
For years I have had a big trade
in candles. They have always come
to me done up in blue paper The
last shipment arrived with yellow
coverings, and although they were
the same goods my customers would
have none of them / got some blue
paper, rewrapped the candles, and
now they're going like hot cakes. l
wrote to the firm that they must
send me candles wrapped in blue
paper. They replied very much to
the effect that I was a fool BECAUSE
the candles were the same as before
and for reasons of their own they
had decided to change the color of
the wrappers, and yellow 1t would
have to be hereafter This mans
customers, satisfied with their cam
dies, did not believe they were the
same candles because they had been
purchasing them for years in blue
wrappers. Now, that doesn't seem
so very far-fetched for an illiterate
Central American. A wise business
man in this country would refuse to
accept a well-known shaving soap IL
it came in e container different from
what he had been accustomed to
getting, simply upon the word OF the
dealer.
Another story is told of American
locomotives in Argentine. The gen
eral manager Of q railroad owned
and managed by British capital per-
suaded the board of directors, all
British, that American locomotives
would be better than the English
type they he'd been Using, so they
finally gave their consent to the pur-
chase, prices being equal. The loco
motives were bought and when the
order went out, specific instructions
we're given in regard to certain APP
parently trivial changes in the ar
rangement Of the firebcxes, so as to
suit Argentine conditions. The en-
gines arrived and went into commits
sion, which was about as far as
they did get for a while. It was dis
covered that the instructions had
been absolutely ignored and the en-
gines were valueless until the
changes had been made. The British
directors were delighted with the
chagrin Of the general manager, for
no matter how cheap the price may
be, their locomotives will be bought
in England hereafter. 1t must be
remembered the American manufac-
turer will be In direct competition
with every European country and
every talking point in his article will
be deprecated while every weak
point will be magnif1ed by a score
of calamity howlers skilled In de-
predatory work. If the American
manufacturer cares to boast that his
product is sold to every country on
the globe, he must give every coun-
try exactly what it wants.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
A PHENOMENON OF WAR TIME.

Something like carrying Goals to Newcastle is an
order for an American shpyard to build steamship
for a British firm. The contract placed with Will
mington concern to construct S,oo0-ton tanker
for an English oil company is said to be the first
stance in the history of the American industry and
other orders are in sight The whirlgig Of war times
is bringing in its revenges.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29

cant collect any money" The experience of Chi
cago of lawyers may be taken typical for the
whole country This concern has list Of individuals
and corporations normally considered high class, in
arrears for fees amounting years average income
for the firm. The lawyer is the last creditor whom
people think of paying in hard times-with one i'm
portant exception The doctor has not been heard
from He is used waiting for his fees, in all sorts
of times
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29

Prayer and worship shall not cease
among us, though rose windows are
broken, altar screens torn by shot
and she'll the temples turned into
barracks, hospitals or stables. For
all the mournful ruin that the guns
have wrought amid the stone me
MORALS of bygone ages, anthems de-
vout and penitential psalms still rise
from multitudes whom hardship has
not made indifferent to the solace of
religion.
II Is true the combined influence
Of the churches did not prevent the
war Yet because Of the war their
unceaaing spiritual nlinistration
means more than ever before, and
when tho weapons at last are re-
linquished and peace once more pre-
walls, beauty and truth and goodness
must enter on their reign with q
homage gratefully accorded by q
world sick Of the misery and horror
OF all that has been.
The Next House.
From the Washington Star. ,,.,..
Now and then bit Of gossip starts
about the organization Of the next
House, giving out that the Democrats
are developing some husky factional
uuarrels on the subject. Surely it
must be only gossip. Too much is at
stake and the situation too delicate
for an indulgence IN that sort of
thing.
Moreover, the duty is very plain. At
such a time experience counts for
much; and the Democrats have expe-
rienced men for the leading places.
i Why not assign them 80 as to utilizs
their best gifts?
There Ia MIR. Clark. He is so pre-
en1inently the man for speaker, the
failure to give him another term
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The wealth of Argentine is in her
agricultural possibilities, with which
nature has richly endowed her. The
craze for land ownership became so
great few years back that the
speculation became a madness. from
which the nation IS now recovering.
Huge estancias were cut up, and
parcels of property changed hands
rapidly, three and four times within
a month the same parcel changed
hands, the price advancing at every
sale. The result was certain, for the
values were fictitious, based upon pre-
yious sales built pyramidlilSe. When
the crash came many became poor
who thought themselves rich, and
one big bank went by the board with
liabilities of millions. But all that
has passed, and Argentine, having
learned her lesson, is on the con-
sentative road to success, guided by
strict commercial laws
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many a painter has been caused by
the same thing. There is rarely
half q per cent. of carbonio acid gas
IN fresh air. Ten per cent. is said
to cause death.
In a large linoleun factory, where
strip Of many thousands of yards
of cotton scrim are swung from wash
lines for repeated coatings with lin
seed OIL. DR.. Gardner has conducted
additional researches upon the sisni-
f1canS yssssaen problem. In one OF the
"scrirn" roorns he left q pail of water
for one week. When this was
analysed evidence of carbonic acid
gas, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde
and several other acids were discov~
cred.
Or. Gardner has shot the medical
''authorities'' once again full of holes
All the malaria experts, clinical pro-
fessors and honest medical convictions
accept everywhere as a settled fact
that lead paints cause the plumb
ism," collie, sallow complexion, generay
lassitude, cancellation seen in painters,
Lead" Is found on the gums In .
lead black line; collie is blamed on
the metallic vapors OF lead. and all
the ills of painters have been charged
to its malicious metallic Vaccinations.
Yet, according 70 DR.. Gardner. lead
poisoning may only occur through the
Inhalation Of dry pigments, as In the
careless handling and handwriting OF
paints. Machine and factory mixing,
with hygienic observance Of all SAM
tary rules, will even do away with
this.
The real danger to health and life
in oil paints, varnishes and oils comes
from the evolution OF the poisonous
vapors of carbon monoxide and car
bonic acid gas.