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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
BY HERBERT QUICK
Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper III
terprise Associstion.)

terprise Associatlon)
There are still people who think
that folks working for wages are bet
ter off now than ever before In the
worlds history!
I found one of them the other day.
He is the editor of paper in New
York which Is devoted - the discus
sion of economic and industrial mat
tiers.
As he is specialist die not argue
with him. I merely said I didn't be-
lieve him.
The cost of living Is going up all
over the world 1t halted in free
trade England in October, and, In
fact, fell off 2 or per cent, but no
body expects 1t to continue to fall off
In England or anywhere else until 1t
falls off everywhere. The cause OF
the rise is worldwide, and The Cause
for the fall, If II ever comes, must
be worldwide
Says my editorial friend: Wages
should not be measured In money. A
man who gets IS day makes as good
a living after food prices have
doubled as he did when he got $3.50
on the old basis-a.nd, If he saves, he
can save faster on the high-wage
basis and he can pay off faster debts
he made on the low-wage basis. So
he is really better off on the high
wage, high-cost-of-living basis"
This Is true: but 1t isn't SO. Let's
have the real facts as TO wages. We
can't take all wages. but l happen
to have a diagram of the wages IN
the cotton. silk and wooden industries.
Calling the wages In 1890 a 100 per
cent, and along about 1896 they
reached 1914; since which time they
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26

Wicker traps for crabs seem to nave
aided prehistoric man In FORMING MS
menu some 10000 years ago. import
ant discoveries which, 1t Is belieVeo'
nav solve the problem of chronology
cal valuation, have been made on the
island of Oronsay. off the coast OF
Scotland. by an expedition OF Glas-
gov antiquarians.
A large quantity Of material taken
from the sites on which the party
,,,orlsed has been delivered at the
south Kensington Natural History
Museum, and experts there are lnVes-
tieating the discoveries. The eXpedt-
lion was under the leadership or ~
IT Rishop and Ludovic Mann, and
tie rnembers received permission from
Lord Strathcona to carry out opera
lions on the island.
As a result of the expedition it has
been proved that there existed at one
tinne-about 10000 years ago-on the
shores of Scotland prehistoric shore
dIyeIIers, who had method of con-
structing traps, perhaps of wicker
york which they sunk In deep water
10 catch crabs. The man of that re-
mote period had already learned the
value of the deep-sea crab, and the
remains found on the island have
moved the existence of man some
where between the later phases of the
older stone age and the earlier phases
of the younger stone age. or, in other
words. between the Palechlithic and
Neolithic ages.
His diet was more varied than is
that of the average Englishman to-
day. He ate hazel nuts chiefly. In
the refuse of his kitchens there have
been discovered many evidences OF
this. but he had also some two dozer
specjnens of rnolluscs from which tc
| select. and In his larder have beer
found several dozen specimens of fish
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Eccentric Railroad Promoter of the South

He was so universally known in
railroad circles as 'Wheelbarrow and
Spade Machin that never thought to
ask anyone what his first name was.
l know that he pronounced his last
name with the soft sound of CHI eX-
actly as though it were spelled
Matchin.'
In this way Charles Finuey Cox,
who was for many years treasurer of
the Vanderbilt lines west of Buffalo,
began TO tell me a story OF a man
who was perhaps the most eccentric
of all those who have undertaken
railroad development in the United
States.
u heard the particular story which
| am now about TO tell you from a
Boston banker, who was a personal
friend of Machin," continued Mr.. Cox.
The banker knew that l had heard
MANY things about the eccentric ca
recr of Machin, and the anecdote
which he told me only emphasized the
individual and characteristic quality
of the man.
He was a native. | think of one of
the gulf States. He was a tall SlneWy
and very slender man. He was per-
suaded that he had special ability for
the promotion OF tallfoddlnG IN Ger
tain parts of the South. His last pro
motion was railroad stretching
from Birmingham, Ala, to Bruins
wick, Ga.
He was called 'Wheelbarrow and
shade Machin, because these con-
struction implements symboljzed his
nronotion work He was able to gel
a charter at one time or another from
some legislature without II having
cost him a penny except his hotel eX.
penses, which were light Having {
charter, he would go to a town ant
tell the people that he had a charter
for a railroad which would connect
their town with another one, perhaps
fftv miles away. Then he would per
suade some of the people, or possibly
the town authorities to let him hav'
some money, and he was never dis
honest In any of his dealings, but HI
was an enthusiast.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
PROTECTION AT ALL GRADE CROSSINGS.

SENATOR EDGES bill the Senate providing that every rail
road shall within months properly safeguard the
travelling public every public road crossing at grade
making the Public Utility Commission responsible for enforce
ing the will the public interest this session.
The list of railroad grade crossings in New Jersey that
any protection startling and also is the toll
The Legislature has the
compel the railroads safeguard their crossings and
neglect that power the has hundreds of
Since the introduction of the travel New Jersey
has greatly increased and increasing and the death list
grows longer,
In time these death traps will be abolished Until they
done with every reasonable precauton against injury
death should be adopted duty of the State to
unguaded and unprotected grade crossings
IN Jersey.
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of such a nation. I was alarmed al
times for fear that the people woulo
be crushed and squeezed on account
of the tremendous rush and pressure.
l reached the Abbey amid deafen-
ing cheers at little after 1l:So.
Then followed all the various
ceremonies. and last of all the crown
was placed on my head. which was
/ must own, a most beautiful and I'M
pressive moment.
She was deeply impressed with the
ceremony, but il was done somewhat
awkwardly. 1.-THE archbishop had
put the ring on the wrong finger, ana
the consequence was that | had the
greatest difficulty to get it off again.
which at last l did with great pain.
After descending from the throne
the queen proceeded TO st. Edwards
Chapel, where Lord Melbourne OBJ
served that what was called the
altar was covered with sandwiches
and bottles of wine. The archbishop
came in and ought to have delivered
the orb, but the queen had already
got it. She said that the crown hurt
her good deal, but nevertheless she
set IT down that the day was the
proudest of my life
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
LIGHT ON OIL PIPE LINES.

FEDERAL inquiry into the plan of government oil fields
pipe lines supply fuel for the will incidentally throw
light important phase of the trust question 1t is
possession this immense system of pipe lines has been
Commerce Commission that enables
Standard Oil Company control the of crude petroleum
attempt commission jurisdiction
pipe lines carriers held by injunction
malodorous and defunc Commerce Court and the
pending the Supreme Court appeal An
esgaon the federal oil proposition bring important
the ownership and control Of lines strength
en- the governments position in court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26

The average number Of persons en-
gagged in the cotton manufacturing
Industry as a whole during 1903 was
3S7. I'll, of whom 37S,ssO. or BIZ per
cent. were wage earners. OF the to-
tai number. 221, 299, or 81 per cent.
were males, and 16s,472 or 42.e per
cent, were females.
The legislative assembly Of West
Australia has added g. new clause to
the criminal code bill, providing that
any person or corporation prohibiting
under threat Of dismissal the marry
ing of an employee over twenty-one
years of age shall be liable to three
months imprisonment
According to the report Issued by
LA Swias arnslpSsxs organization In
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The Single Tax In Oregon.
From the Portland oregonian.
The Fels Fund Commission. If il
actually intends to finance another
single tax effort in Oregon, is either
surprisingly hopeful or Interestingly
guiliblc. In spite of the expenditure
of almost unlimited sums In propa-
ganda single tax has gone backward
Ia Oregon in the last four years.
In 1908 an initiative single tax
measure received 32,066 affirmative
votes, but was defeated more than
two to one. In 1912 a single tax in
tia tive amendment received $50 fewer
affirmative votes than the single tax
amendment had received four years
previously.
This falling off in single tax sent-
ment is emphasized by the fact that
81 500 more voters went to the polls
in 1912 than IN 1908. Thus. although
the voting population increased more
than IS per cent. in the four years,
single tax could not even retain its
original hold on the sentiment of the
com immunity.
Oregon advocates Of single tax. It
is stated In the news dispatches. are
not inclined to spend their own
money. A few Of them, however, are
perfectly willing 10 spend somebody
else's money, whether or not any
thing can be accomplished by the eX-
penditure except replenishing their
own iarder.
We shall await with interest a more
definite report as to what the form
of blessing the Fels Fund contrib
utors of Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan
and elsewhere plan to confer on a
community not intelligent enough TO
select its own benefits. Is II straight
single tax this time. the $500 exemp-
ton. or merely the election of the
docile C'Ren? The people of Oregon
await with pleasurable expectancy
word from Philadelphia as to just
what question shall, by the power of
foreign money and influence, be made
the paramount issue in the coming
election,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
ENGLAND'S BABY SHORTAGE

their ultimate importance in industry
and war.
But what had that to do with the
case? Such babies are barred by the
accident of birth from proving the
theory of eugenics, and their pract!-
cal use to the world is not under
consideration The f1oriculturist takes
no thought of the roses sacrificed to
make the perfect rose. and why
should the eugenist concern himself
with the number of babies that re-
main unborn pending the time the
awaited eugenics baby appears? >
Doubtless the world will have 20
worry along with the best kind OF
babies it can get and be satisfied
IL there are enough of them to carry
on its work. They are the substance
of things hoped for, on which It must
rely until the promise of racial i'm.
provement is more nearly realized.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26

Lord Rosebery, deploring the
Shortage of 100000 babies" in Eng
land. extracts no comfort from the
prospective birth of an eugenic baby,
says the New York World. He
would rather see babies produced
under ordinary circumstances than
rejoice at the advent of this one
miraculous child" whose birth will
leave the country far short of the
number II should have.
This is of course, heresy, all the
more regrettable because manifested
in high places. Lord Rosebery well
understands that the ideal of eugenics
is quality and not quantity. There
are possibilities, to be sure, in half
million inferior babies; they may
be counted on to produce statesmen,
philosophers or poets, and they have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
Charles X. Hamilton's Career

tnafics IA Hamiltons career.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Martyrs to science by the score
have been sacrificed In the long
struggle OF mankind to master avia-
ton. Most of his friends expected
that the name of Charles X. Hamil
ton would. sooner or later. be added
to the list. He died a natural death
at tventy-nine. after a career rank
ing with the most adventurous in
his chosen field.
The tradition is that Hamilton as
small boy began with the Darius
Green stunt by jumping off barn,
using lis mothers umbrella as a
parachute. He was not much hurt.
His later exploits are historic He
seemed TO bear charmed life. AT
Paterson n. J.. he tried a balloon
fight and was carried up $4,000 feet.
Then the balloon burst. But in fall
ing it made a sort of parachute and
Hamilton was saved He took to
riding high flying kites. One fell
with him at Ormond. Fla, 600 feet.
But before il reached the earth he
had climbed to the top of 1t and was
saved. At Garden City, in an aero
plane, he dropped perpendicuarly
400 feet but righted the machine close
to the ground and was unhurt. His
fame was international On his visit
to japan he was rightly honored by
the AIikado. Few men of his age
had accomplished more. had risked
their lives oftener. or had secured
more of reputation for fearlessness.
1t may be true that the eXcitements
which belonged to Hamilton's daily
life FASTENED his death from hemor-
rhages. That cannot be told with
any accuracy. His rivals knew him
as a fair competitor, and envied only
his luck. He never baked at any
thing that mortal man had ATTEMPT
ed in aviation His passing is a dis
tinct loss TO the newest of al the
hazardous professions
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
The Scotch in Carnegie.
n, tba popttl.r NFag,-ine

From the Popular Magazine
Andrew Carnegie started In With
a one-horse blast furnace outfit and
built up the greatest steel business in
the world ShreWdness. that peculiar
trait prominent i'm so many of his
countrymen. played the important part
of that great achievement Later. he
sold out his business to the steel trust
for the sum of three hundred million
dollars. STIMULATING that one hundred
million should be cash and two hun
dred million in first mortgage per
cent bonds; that the bonds should be
guaranteed against any future State
or national tax. Again that shreUd
foresight. Now comes the so-called
income tax; but instead of Mr.. Carne
gle contributing on the income
of those two-hundred million dollar
bonds, the government will have to
look to the United States Steel Cor
poration.
The old ironmaster uses the same
methods in his present vocation of
giving away money as he did in the
early days of accumulation. Fie
makes sure that each contribution Is
going to serve a. proper cause, whether
it be ten dollars or ten millions.
Some time ago a delegation from
small CHURCH IN a pennsylvania town,
where Carnegie once lived, called upon
the philanthropist.
Mr.. Carnegie" said the chairman,
I'VE have come to ask your help in
the purchase of a pipe organ. We
need it badly, and, knowing that you
once attended our church, thought
possibly you would be interested"
How much do You want" asked
Carnegie
We'll" answered the chairman.
I'VE have figured on twenty thousand
dollars
Go back. and raise ten thousand
dollars. and I'll talk with you" COM
lnanded the old fellow
A month or so later the delegation
returned, and with a twinkle in his
eye. the chairman explained that the
ten thousand dollars was in hand.
We'll" said Carnegie. that's enough
for nay organ. I'll not contribute a
cent.
Two or three weeks later. however.
the chairman received Carnegie's
check for fifty thousand dollars
toward building new church.
Keeping Young
From Golfers Weekly.
We have been talking Of late on the
advantages Of keeping young. We have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26

loudest of the shouters at one Of the
SHOWS until certain file of soldiers
went charging up a hin into a. rain
OF Turkish bullets. "Constantine.'
cried Dimitrf loudly to one of them,
as he recognized his brother private
or the Euzones. The ranks went on
and Dimitri watched Constantine as
long as he could see him, firing at the
enemy and pressing to the front.
Finally. near the end of tho film, the
brother disappeared. Then Dinnitri
tainted
This Canary Bird Can Talk English--and
Talk About Itself.
WORCESTER, Mass, Jan. IS. Miss
Nellie Burrell, of Worcester, owns 4
talking canary, the only bird Of its
breed to speak the English language,
SO far as is known here Twinkle.
as the bird is called, can say, Pretty,
pretty, pretty little Twinkle"
Fisherman Reports Strange Antics Of
Two Squirrels Who Got Drunk.
TARRYTOWN.f ". Y, JAM Co.
When Bud Weeks goes fishing he
always comes back with good catch
or a good story. This time he brought
bach both. +"
"As I was going over this morning
| on the lake road he said, 81 saw two
gray sqirrels eating out of a small.
pasteboard box. When I approached
| they staggered away like drunken
men. 1 looked at the box and saw the
| reason why. It was labeled 'choco-,s
late cocktails 1t had probably fallen.
from an automobile. I watched those
squirrels as they tried to climb the.
tree and get in their hole. They We're
just like drunken man trying to
put a key In the keyhole and had
about as much success. i went on
| fishing. and as | was coming homes
what do you suppose | saw" I.
Saw them signing the pledge" sug-s
gested Jim Graveson, president of the,
Roslyn Wheel Club.
No" said Weeks, they were both
sitting on the side of the lake holding
cake of ice on their heads. They
were sick looking pair, tell you."f
| Gets First Haircut and Shave In ~
Years.
LEAD HILL. Ark, Jan. 26.--In 1871
James Moriarity vowed he would
neither shave nor have his hair cut
until Arkansas went dry. The Going
| anti-liquor law has been in force for
nearly month, and yesterday
Moriarity went to a barber shop here
| at a. m. He came out shortly az
| ter noon changed man, leaving
| SO 60 with the barber.
AS Moriarity walked home several
| friends passed him without recognize
| ing him His wife screamed when
he spoke to her. and 1t took him sew
| eral hours to prove that he was really
himself.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
NEW JERSEY AN THE SAN FRANCISCO FAIR

HOW MUCH OF showing shall New Jersey make the
Exposition San Francisco year Last
Legislature thought 100000 would be right appropriated
only and the action of that body does bind
grant the other 100000 OF the already
ne oadng commission will take about SOS
100000 appropriated this there would
If the commission convince the Legislature that this
1un necessary for New Jersey make exhibit that will
compare fayoraby States
provide the The has large meaning
New Jerseys manufacturing and commercial interests and
faoe important State than all the former
combined.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

urged youth TO go ahead and be itself,
although it needs no urging. But how
can we prolong that youth? Is there
set age when ii must disappear? Need
il vanish at say thirty years? It is
only the dawn flush. There is a way
provided by which the sun may be
hidden to stand still That way was
long ago shown US by the noblest OF
our New Englanders. Books, travel,
society, solitude-these will keep a
man young, because they feed the
sources of life. They replenish the
we'll prings. Ignorance. cowardice,
drudgery of spirit-these dry him up
before his time.
Back-Number Theories Of Children.
From the New York World.
It was bad enough for ex-President
Taft in his Philadelphia address to
allude to social Justice legislation and
other policital panaceas as no
strums" It was rank heresy to the
principles of modern education for
him to say that the teaching of sex
hygiene in the public schools is
dangerous and the use of vice films
to convey moral lessons" of dues-
tiona BILE benefit. But his statement
that school children are allowed too
much freedom passes the bounds of
rea son. Is IL possible to allow school
children enough liberty under the
new educational dispensation, let
alone too much? Such views stamp
the ex-President as a hopeless re-
dictionary. vilfully blind TO progress
i've ideas
Mr.. Taft says that II the school
children of his day had attempted tp
strike they would have been properly
treated with a spanking and that
would have brought TO them sense
OF proportion
L is Just that sense Of proportion
that modern schemes of education
have fnstilled in children. They have
been made to know that they are the
heirs of the ages. that the schools
exist for them, and that parental con-
troll and the control OF teachers and
school boards is such a 5 they choose
TO regard it. They are Junior citizens
of the republic. with the same rights
as their elders as to going on strike
and organizing to initiate reforms or
resist authority.
Mr. Taft forsets that when he was
. boy children were only in a con-
dition of tutelage Their development
under the higher pedagogical and
sociological trea tment had not begun.
The accepted theory now is that they
should be allowed to do anything they
please. and any suggestion of a cur
tailment of their freedom or of
spanking spells ruin TO a prospective
race of supermen.
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His Manifold Asnact.

Small Boy-Mamma. is 1t really true
that the devil has horns and a club
foot?
The Mother-Ah, my dear some
times the devil appears in the shape
of very handsome and charming
young man.
Small Boy (pityingly)-o nanny
you're thinking of Cupid London
Punch.
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WITH THE, NATIONS TOILERS

the metal trades. in connection with
which about $4,000 workers are EN-
ployed, the average yearly wage OF
(employed) workers apprentices and
female workers included was 5000 for
1910. S304 in 1911. and $40 In 1912
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
Dear for Slate,

If Congress is going to investigate
the Coal Trust, we hope it will try to
discover why it is necessary for the
anthracite interests to sell us so much
slate at $3.50 ton,-Rochester Her
aid.
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nopinS Dap

Upon the step the house aeg sits,
The cat is Sliuking - and ffe,
As up and down the stairway fits
gang of men they Dc act kne@.
The goldfish on the pavement he,
Smashed is their domlelle Sc CAV,
And everywhere you hear the sigh,
ITS moving davl It's moving dayl"
The parrot voices IFS despair
In tones which bring greNSome thrill,
The clock that stood beside the stair
Chimes on, with frenzy never still.
The cut glass and the kitchen ware
Together rattle in dismay.
And father signs, while shuddering there,
Its moving dayl Its moving day!"
philadelphia Record
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Sees Brother Charging Enemy In War
Film, Faints.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Thousands
of Greeks in Weber's Theatre, at
Twenty-ninth street and Broadway,
last night stood In their seats and
yelled "Zito!" which is like our "Hur-
rah, when the Euzones, the crack
regiment of Greek infantry, went
marching by in Robert Schwobthaler's
stirring movies, with the Greeks on
the Firing Line
Dimitri Orfanes was among the