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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
Why Boys Leave School.
From the American Machinist.

At least half of the boys the coun-
try over leave school as soon as the
law allows, which is usually at four
teen years of age But only small
percentage leave through any real
pressure from their parents. That is.
the great majority of parents worship
education per sc and are willing to
make whatever sacrifice is necessary
to continue their children in school.
On the other hand. the majority of
employers who have work to offer
which is fit for these boys do not
want them until they are at least
sixteen years old, and many not until
they are eighteen. The amount of
money which boys up to these ages
can earn is certainly not in any de-
gree an equivalent for the education
which they should obtain in the two
or four-year period. The almost uni
versal plea on the part of the chill
dren is that they hate school and
want to work. What does this mean?
What part of school life do they hate
and what part of shop life do they
crave?
One of our correspondents who has
had abundant opportunity to inves-
tigate these matters holds that the
largest cause of this detection is a
lack of Willingness to think and to
take responsibility. That is, it is a
form of mental laziness. AS he views
the situa ton, a boy feels that he can
dodge responsibility for correct arith-
metic. English and everything else he
Is taught in school by entering a
shop. There, at his age, he is only
allowed to do work which is almost
automatic in its nature, which re-
quires almost no thought and little
attention for its successful compile
ton. He is only given work which
does require thought and attention as
he shows willingness to do it. which
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20

Visitors to this part of Luzon, and
all who reach the Philippines on
United States army transports which
sail past Albay on their way to Ma
Mia, are greatly impressed with
Mount Mayor, considered the most
perfect cone in the world. 1t towers
1898 feet above the plain and is an
active volcano, having been in erup-
ton as late as 1897 The late DR.. Paul
c. Freer, director of the Manila Blu
reau of Science. has written glow
ing account of his ascent of Mayor,
comparing the view from Its summit
with the great ones of the world.
II have been high up on the slopes
of Etna," he says, at the entrance
of the Val del Bove from which many
travellers maintain the finest view in
the world is to be obtained; but I
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
UPLIFT TALKS
THE TRAGEDY OF NOTHING TO DO
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARpFN:
Author Of ''Pushng to the Front Etc.
Copyright. 1918.

somebody else has done ths work fer
them Just as though all that life
meant was to provide for the eating
and drinking, the housing OF our
bodies and indulgence in luxurles'
A steady occupation is mans great
| life preserver, without which II ne II
able to work, he cannot possibly Keep
| from a fatal deterioration.
orr powers were given US for ex-
ercise. for achievement, and II not
used. man cannot long remain man.
He will soon dwindle back to the
Mans chief purpose. in life, the real
object of his existence, Is achieve
ment He was made to do things,
and idleness is fatal paralysis
The moment we divert anythlng'
planned. made to serve a parucuAer
| purpose, we ruin 1t.
A watch was made to Keep time.
That was its sole purpose and object,
and if we attempt TO use it for any
other purpose we rob 1t of its power.
When this woman was asked Why
she stole, she said she had nothing
| else on earth to do. When she was ?
young girl she picked up o ring Oh
! the street and gave 1t to a little boy
with "the most glorious red hair she
said. tsthat ever famed II knew
wbosa ring It was. but made myself
think I didn't know. and then after
ward, when the redhaired boy got
| in trouble. my mother pinned a pla-
card on nv back. and made me. wear
/ n TO school for a whole week OF mis-
ery. The word thief in large letters
was written on the placard, and |
thought I should die before the end
of the week. But / did not die. l
| lived to hate the word thief worse
than any other word in the English
| language" And yet in spite of all
this, a life of idleness induced her to
steal for diversion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
GRAVE OF NATHAN HALE
HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND

tached to the Congregational church,
and in 1897 the citizens formed Hale
Monument Association for the pur-
pose of obtaining sufficient money to
erect a memorial worthy of the young
patriot, In recent years the Sons OF
the Revolution erected a statue OF Ma
than Hale in a corner of the City Hall
Park, in New York city, on the spot
supposed to be hallowed by the last
agonies of the young hero.
A fort in the harbor of New haven
Conn, was named for Hale, and mon
uments in several cities of the country
recall to mind the tragic ending of the
young patriot. Chief among these IS
the monument in his native town,
which stands near the Congregational
church. and within a space inclosed
by a neat iron picketed fence. 1t was
executed under the superintendent OF
the architect of the Bunker Hill mon
ument. -,
The following beautiful lines Of the
death of Hale were written by Presl-
dent Dwight:
Thus while fond Virtue wished In
vain to save,
Hale, bright and generous, found
hapless grave;
with Genius living flame mis- BOSOM
glowed,
And Science lured MIN TO her SWEEP
abode;
In Worth's fair path his feet adven-
tured far, e
The pride of Peace. the rising nope Oh
War;
IN duty firm, in danger calm as even
To friends unchanging, and sincere
to Heaven,
How short his course. the prize how
early won,
While weeping friendship mourns ner
favorite gone.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20

Nathan Hale was one of the pic
turesque characters of the Revolu-
ton. He was also one of the unfor-
tunate ones. He gave his life for his
country as did Major Andre for his
Both in the same way They met
death as spies, says the Detroit Free
Press.
Hale was brave man. When
Washington called for volunteer ia
enter the British lines to procure In
telligence Hale responded. After Sc
curing this information he was about
returning. when apprehended and
taken before Sir William Howe, who,
upon the evidence, found in his shoes,
just as in the instance of Major
Andre. condemned him to be executed
before daybreak the following morn
ing.
Hale's execution took place in
Colonel Henry Rutgers orchard, near
the present junction of Market street
and East Broadway, New York city.
AS he assembled the scaffold he said:
You are shedding the blood of the
innocent. If | had ten thousand lives
I would gladly lay them down in de-
Tense of my injured. bleeding ceun-
try" and his last words were, II only
regret | have but one life to lose for
my country
In all the crowd that witnessed
Hale's execution there was not one
face familiar to him, not one voice to
whisper word of consolation to his
dying agony. When it was all over.
his body was supposedly placed In a
grave nearby. but nobody has ever
been able to locate the spot. An en-
try of his death was made in the
town records of Coventry, Conn,
where he was born, and a rude stone
was erected to his memory by his
fathers grave in the cemetery at
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WITH THE NATIONS Toll ERS

In the boot and shoe business wage
rates per hour in 1912 We're 0.S per
cent higher than in 1911, with a re-
duction in working hours of 1.5 per
cent
The Machinists' Union, of San Fran
cisco, has set aside a certain sum of
money TO be used in providing the
necessities of life for the $50 members
of the union who are at present unem-
ployed.
In the hosiery and knit goods in
dustry wages per hour in 1912 were
5.s per cent. higher than in 1911, de-
spite a reduction of IL per cent. in
the actual time of employment.
An ordinance providing for the PEN
sioning of laborers and mechanics,
irregularly employed by the various
departments of New York city, was
introduced recently.
San Francisco municipal authorities
will afford employment for married
men at 50 for a siX-hour day for three
days a week and for single men at the
same rate for two days a week.
|. In 1900 the total number of estab-
lishments in the Strengthening and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20

Not long ago q rich woman was ar.
rested in Chicago for stealing, anc
this was her excuse: THE mosl
wretched, the most miserable, ths
most absolutely to be pitied human
being on earth is the woman with
nothing to do. | believe I'd steal and
burgie and set FIRE to the police sta-
ton OF do anything else under the
shining sun to keep myself from peins
bored to death.
I'D rather scrub floors for a living
and go home at night SO tired 1 coulc
hardly climb the steps to my attic
with my little dollar and half OF
honest money jingling in my good
red hand than to sit all day long with
the gnawing devil of idleness eating
my heart out and driving me to mad
ness"
Steal? I should think she. would
steal or commit arson, or get up ex-
petitions to the North Pole, or go
down in diving bells or up in bal
looms, or do anything on earth to get
something to think of besides her
own little silly, undressing, useless
self, shouldn't you?
Isn't 1t pitiable to see so many peo-
pie in the most glorious country IN
the world, where ten thousand oppor-
tunities and unlimited resources are
awaiting honest endeavor, resortins
to all sorts of devices for diversion,
just to drive away ennui, just to keep
themselves from going mad?
Think of the rich people giving
monkey dinners and squandering
money like water on all sorts Of fool
ish things, resorting to all sorts of
demoralizing practises, dissipating,
and wasting time, life's most precious
capital, just because they have MOTH
ing to do--just because they do not
have to work for a living, because
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20

meat-packing industry as a whole was
1,641, the number of persons engaged
in the industry 10S,716, of whom So,
72S were wage earners.
A new lawsin Greece stipulates that
all, wages must be paid in cash either
weekly or three times weekly, and
that amounts UP to one-quarter of
the wages only may be deducted in
payment of fines or for other pur-
poses.
The application for membership of
the Amalgamated Glass Workers In
ternational Association to the build
ing trades department of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor was reject
ed on the ground the workers do not
properly come under the head of
building trades.
Mr.. Young, president of the New
Zealand Labor Federation and secre-
tary of the Seamen's Union, has been
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment for melting to violence in con-
nection with the New Zealand dock
strike.
Missouri's new State capitol at JEFF
ferson City will be built by union
labor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
DISCONTINUE FOR THE 'eKNoCKER'

IS. GREAT WOULD have been the rejoicing among tribe
or in Newark if the city yesterday had
proved failure it, instead of getting premium $39152 from
the bonds had sold below had failed
It'd
evident satisfaction of the knockers organ News
experts opinion regarding validity
lie bonds the withdrawal of the accepted bid
and their subsequent sale purchaser willing
legal risk prelude for greater editorial exutation
tond sale yesterday should fail
hopeful expectation disappointed what
will knockers take in their assaults municipal credit
which been shown to be nyulneable to attack?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JANUARY 20
BY MARY MARSHALL.
JANUARY 20
Susanna Wesley
Copyrighted. 1918.


Today is the birthday of one of the
great mothers of the worlds history.
Susanna Wesley, the mother of
Charles Wesley, the founder of Meth
otism. was born on January 20, 1853.
She came of family of virtuous Eng
lish folk. Her grandfather, John
White, has the following line over his
grave: rs#I.
Here lyeth a John. burning shining
light,
Whose name, life. actions all were
White"
Susanna married when she was a
young woman Samuel Wesley. who
was a clergyman in the English
church. He received only thirty
pounds, that is $3.50 a year. He had
some leisure for writing and in this
way managed to earn enough to live
on, but very humbly. The young Mrs.
Wesley must have been very economi-
cal and a good housekeeper, for they
lived in lodgings and managed to keep
free from debt. Later. with added
care of children, their struggle was
sometimes terrific.
Charles, the greatest of all the
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ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

you get the $500 bail, you must get
another pair of trousers before you
leave the Tombs.'
The prisoner was locked up with the
trousers.
Crooks Use Starved Snake rs Aid to Fly
Their Trade.
MUNICH, Jan 20.-Two internal
tional crooks were arrested at a hotel
here for a. peculiar attempt at robbery.
The men had a half-starved python
with which it is alleged they intended
to stampede the guests by turning it
loose in the corridor. They figured
that the excitement which would fol-
low would enable them to ransack the
rooms of guests.
Their hopes apparently focused on
jewelry worth s125,000 which belonged
to an English visitor. 80
"Yorkern Bests a Brindle Bulldog In
Deadly Combat.
BINGHAMTON. N. Y, Jan. 2o.--
Prospect street, Oakland, one of the
principal thoroughfares of the sub
urb, was the scene of one of the most
unusual and exciting fights this
morning, which attracted large
crowd and held up traffic from the
factories for more than an hour. The
fight was between big brindle bull
dog and pig, and the latter. much to
the establishment of the crowd, came
Off the victor.
The pig had escaped from a farmers
rig while being taken to the slaughter
house, The pig,crazed by the efforts
of half a dozen people to capture 1t.
gave battle. The pig finally broke
one of the bulldogs legs between its
jaws just as it was becoming SO ex-
hausted that 1t could not have fought
much longer. The dog was shot. -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
Anthracite Rates Again.


From the Philadelphia Record.
Two facts we're brought out very
clearly in the Federal investiga ton
of anthracite freight rates held in
this city last week by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. One was that
that body has no jurisdiction over
strictly interstate rates, that is, be-
tween the Pennsylvania coal regions
and Philadelphia, and that, therefore.
it can do nothing to correct the
grievances of which this city COM
plains. Such rates come under the
regulation of our Public Service Com
mission, and when that rather pom
derous body overcomes its present
inertia and gets in motion we may
hope that it will take up this sub
ject.
The other interesting outcome was
a statement of the cost of hauling
anthracite over the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey from the Wyoming
region to tidewater at New York. a
distance of $50 miles. This cost was
placed at 1926 cents ton, whereas
the freight rate is S1.5o per ton for
the prepared sizes of anthracite. 1t
would only be fair to add to the cost
figures those Of the return of the
empty CARS, Out II Is SIlll Clear IHdL
the railroad makes a very handsome
profit on the haul. From the Lehigh
region the cost is only 44.S5 cents for
haul of 120 miles, and the profit, of
course, must be still greater. as the
freight rate is the same as for the
longer distance, and there Is no ne
cessity for carrying the coal over a
mountain range, as is done near
Wilkes barre.
The particular application of these
figures lies in q comparison of them
with the rates charged by the Read
ing railway, S1.70 a ton to Philadel-
phia for distances ranging from 80 to
$50 miles. This is practically all on a
descending grade until this city is
reached, where the services of a
pusher engine are required in cross
ing the divide between the Schuylkill
and Delaware rivers. Not only does
the Reading charge more for shorter
haul, but it has the advantage of a
better line than that of the Jersey
Central. Is it any wonder that these
two companies are among the very
best paying railroads in the United
States, and also that Philadelphia
has a right to feel that 1t is con-
tributing an undue share of these
swollen profits? The figures should
prove Interesting and instructive to
the Public Service Commission when
II resumes its probe of the anthra-
cite roads.
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CUTS SHOULD BE CLEANED

their proper treatment. This is ex-
ceedingly simple, calling but for two
things: first, the attainment of clean
Illness in and about the wound; and
second, the maintenance of that
cleanliness. Soap and water are near
ly always at hand. The early use of
these will often render the use of
surgical measures, later unnecessa-
ry. A roll of soft white cloths that
have been washed and ironed should
have a place in every home where
they may be ready for an emergency.
Some pure white soap and water that
has been boiled, and Is still hot, COM
plete a very satisfactory emergency
eQuipment.-Rural New Yorker.
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Che Birthdays

Ny night-light leaps and flares in dying dance;
hear the clock strike FIVE in the town below,
And past my bed there files grisy
Company that mock as they go
Ny years, my misspent years.
Down the old cobbled street, in the stormy dawn,
Stride hulking seamen, faring toward the quay.
The eyes of their bygone years proud and free
In Time Past's misty world they my Company
And walk apart with jeers.
No year of mine looks back with charity.
There is not one that is not crippled, blind or dumb,
Of half century they make the awful sum
miserable ghosts! Why did We come?
Was it TO my tears?
~ New York Times.
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Fruitful.

do you expect this romantic turn
of yours to bear any practical fruits?"
IT do. have now date with a
peach, who is the apple of my eye,
and with whom expect to make a
pair when I have picked few plums,
unless she hands me a lemon in the
meantime Baltimore American.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
LUZON HEMP FIBRE CENTRE.

think the vista from the summit OF
Mayor surpasses the one from its
sister volcano in Sicily"
The ashes and dust of this rnaJes-
tic volcano have formed the soil of
the richest Manila hemp province.
The Philippine Islands have one great
monopoly. In the production of hemp
fibre they rule the world. There are
other varieties of hemp on the mar
ket, but they are all out-distanced by
the Philippine article when strength,
length and lightness are considered.
Attempts to transplant the Abaca, or
Manila hemp plant, to India, Borneo
and the West Indies have resulted IN
failure.
I cannot tell the abaca from the ba-
mana plant, it's near relative. They
both produce a fruit and fibre, but
the abaca fruit is worthless and the
banana fibre lacks strength, so these
two members of the Musa family
achieve distinction on separate lines.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
THE FIRST FULL-PAGE AID.

Frank A. Allen, of the firm of Allen
& Paine, engaged from 1860 to 1863
In the manufacture of women's cloaks
on Devonshire street, Is the oldest
Journal advertiser living today. The
journal was the first paper in New
England to print a full-page adver-
tisement, and this came from Mr.
Allen in 1861
"At that time" Mr.. Allen said a
few days ago, 80 large an ad. was
almost unheard of in a Boston or
New England newspaper With the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20

children, was the eighteenth and was
born eighteen years after his moth
er's marriage. There were nineteen
children in all and besides doing In
cessant Homework Susanna kept a
school for her own children for six
hours of every day with, of course,
numerous Interruptions. She used
the first chapters of Genesis to teach
her children their letters and the very
small words.
Mrs. Wesley was not content to
devote herself to her children when
they were small. She followed them
when they grew UP and encouraged
them in their undertakings, writing
frequently and earnestly to them.
Charles Wesley especially admired
his mother and used TO vow--al-
though he did not keep it-never to
marry because he knew he could
not find another woman the equal OF
his mother.
When Mrs. Wesley died at the age
of seventy-three her last request
was: Children, as soon as I am re-
leased sing a psalm of praise tc
] God"
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exception of Robert Bonner's adver-
tisement of his New York Ledger, ]
do not recollect any other occupying
so large space. ! remember very
we'll some of our friends thought us
foolhardy and on the high road to
ruin because we jumped into the ad-
vertising proposition to such an ex-
tent, and we were accused of throw
ing away money, and particularly
throwing away SO much money fer
one ad., and in a single paper.
1.-THE result, however, proved that
we were not fools. Boston journal.
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The Worst Subsidy.
Iarner,s Weekly

Tue WORST subsidy.
from Harper's Weekly.
Every person who is receiving less
than q subsistence is helping to make
a non-subsistent wage the rule The
department store manager who adver-
tises for girls living at home is ad-
vertising for the non subsistent wage.
The wages of women have not been
fixed by the value of the services rem
dered. nor by what the industry could
afford. They have been fixed by the
unregulated law of supply and de-
mand. That law, in its unregulated
and destructive form, has seen the
end of its career.
IF the bounties are to be paid. let
them be paid in hard cash. We want
no more secretly subsidized industries,
and any industry which pays less
than a living wage is receiving a sub
Sidy of the very worst kind The
minimum wage has been tried since
1895 in Victoria, N. S. W., and for a
shorter time in England, and all the
experience thus far acquired is very
favorable. 1t makes toward indus
trial peace. 1t stimulates the en-
ployer to reduce cost by improvements
in organization and by new inventions
and also to develop and keep the most
eff1cient workers. 1t stimulates the
workers to prove themselves efficient.
1t will be a foundation stone If the
industry of the future.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

means that many never rise at all
and the rest comparatively slowly.
To a boy ten hours day In the
shop spells more liberty than hNe
hours in the schoolroom, because IN
the shop he only does what he can
easily do without mental exertion ana
without worry. In the schoolroom he
Is expected, at least to be constantly
on the alert and strained up to con-
cert pitch.
The Snail's Real Pace.
From the New Castle (o) News
AT a snails pace" is a common
expression and usually signifies very
slow gait, but what do you suppose
is the actual speed made by snail
in travelling?
We can give it to you in accurate
figures.
One foot in four minutes, or at the
rate of one mile in sixteen days, II
travelling continuously.
These are figures given by George
Zahnizer, a civil engineer of this city,
taken from actual observation.
A short time since Mr.. Zahnizer
was standing along the Western New
York and Pennsylvania railroad
waiting for train. He had nothing
in particular to do and killed a little
time by timing a snail which was
creeping along the ground.
That snail Travelled just exactly one
foot in four minutes, Mr.. Zahnizer
says, and, compiling distance at the
rate of travel shown, Mr.. Zahnizer
has figured out that it would require
sixteen days for that snail to move
mile.