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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
Was Too Simple

George Robey, the English come
dian, tells a story of a Scottish min
lister. new to his kirk, who was told
that his predecessor always put a
shilling in the collection plate to give
the congregation good example.
Being very conscientious. on his
first Sunday he placed a half-crown
in the plate, but, unfortunately. not
only did the collection produce a
smaller amount than usual, but some
nimble- fingered worshiper managed
to annex the new minister's half
crown.
In dire distress, the minister went
to his elder.
AN what could you expect: ex-
claimed the elder "Ye've no know
ledge of the world. Ne should have
glued the money to the plate, as the
auld meenister did!"-P Philadelphia
Len6sls -..-----.---.----A.---.---4---
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
OF Course He Did

The superintendent was examining
the school. who wrote Hamlet? =
he asked. A very frightened little boy
rose and saids
please, sir. didn't"
The superintendent was afterward
relating the incident to tho school
board.
"Haw, haw." guffawed one. Il bet
the little rascal did, all tho same
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
Hands of Granite Cutter
Always Work in Unison

Axel Swanson, of West Concord.
\. H. a granite cutter, possesses
two peculiar characteristics.
His hands work in unison, that Is.
a movement OF one involuntarily
causes the other hand 70 perform the
same motions. and although he has
an abundance Of hair upon his head,
he has never had to use a razor on
his fare
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
Write to Junior Star
By Myer

Dear Children:
The Junior Evening Star win
print bright. interesting letters and
original short stories not exceed
ing $50 words in length Write in
ink and on one side OF the paper
only.
EDITOR JUNIOR STAR.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
Facial contortionist

Mrs. Wunder- Washington was a
versatile man.
Mr. Wunder-He had TO be to- look
like all his pictures.-Baltinor
American.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12

Maud spends an awful los of
money for complexion powder"
Naturally, the two-faced thing"
Boston Transcript. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
The Fire Drills Value.

Whether or not the recent sensational charges that
many city schools iretraps be true, it will be
great satisfaction to this community to know that
the school fire drill is in good working order In
two minutes after the "hasty exit alarm had
sounded in Public School 10 yesterday the three
thousand pupils were in the street There was
more confusion by far outside the building, where
mothers Of pupils cOngregated, attracted by the
smoke pouring from the school windows. than in
the rooms where the children themselves were form
ing into line for the march TO safety.
This is not the first time the fire drill has worked
to perfection in emptying public school. It ought
TO work as well in factory buildings. The Joint
Board of Sanitary Control in the garment trades ia
its official bulletin recently declared that the law for
factory fire drills those conducted by the board
itself was more hOnOred in the breach than in the
observance. When the value of the fire drill can
be so conclusively demonstrated as in the present
instance and the terrible result of not having one he
still fresh in mind, as in the Triangle disaster the
authorities should need no further urging to force
a rigid obedience to the law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
Daniel f, Sickles.

The death OF Major General Daniel i. Sickles VIII
probably revive for time the controversy which
has given him his securest place in history. lie
Of the leading figures In the most decisive
battle ever fought this continent-one OF the
really decisive battles OF the world. The weight oil
military opinion is that he erred in pushing his corps
forward out OF line in the second days Datue at
Gettysburg His indiscretion invited crushing
counter attack by Longstreet His forces were SHAT
tered and he was carried from the field badV
wounded. But the Union position was saved at
last and the loss 10 Lees army was fully equal 10
the loss TO Meades Sickles will therefore always
have his defenders and his name will always De
associated with the field which he contributed so
largely to develop into unique historical and mill
tary park.
Sickes was not soldier by instinct or training
but he had great personal courage, and because
of his political associations was especially hepfui
to the Union cause in the earlier stages OF the CiVl
War New York City owes him debt OF gratitude
for HIS activities in securing for public use the area
now covered by Central Park In his nature there
was q mixture OF cruder and finer textures. Much
that he did was deplorable but in his long career
he also often worked IN good causes and achieved
admirable results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
The Federal Reserve Board.

President Wilson's appointments to the federai
Reserve Board viii so far to remove the Dau AnpleS
sion created by the selection of the reserve cles'
II the board will revise the list of these cities reduce
their number and divide the country into new us
tricts following the lines Of business 1t VIII greatly
improve the prospects Of success of the new oanks
system The only obstacle to its doing so Is the
presence In its membership, er-ohco, OF secretary
McAdoo and John shelton Williams, two or the men
responsible for the political start the new banking
system got when the reserve cities were selected
The influence of Mr.. McAdOo and Mt Williams may
be enough TO prevent the upsetting OF their schene
hut it is hardly conceivable that men like Mr. olney
and Mr. Warburg, the two best known members OF
the Federal Reserve Board would approve It's lniqul
tics The other appointees are less well known, but
r. soems safe 70 say that politics had little nothing
IN do with their selection The board will begin well,
with 4 good representation of practical bankers in
it and with man of high character and wide eX-
nerience of affairs at its head Mr.. Denman, the
only appointee outside of Mr.. Olney who is not
banker. is a lawyer. who has been actively identified
with nonpartsan movements in San Francisco.
Mr. Olney has not yet accepted the appointment,
hut it is sincerely be hoped that he will do So lie
has all the qualities TO inspire the confidence when
is so necessary TO the new banking system at the
outset Surprise is expressed in some quarters tat
the President did not choose banker as head OF the
new board. But considering the distrust of bankers
which unfortunately had much to do with shaping
the new law. Mr. Wilson, wishing TO commend his
Federal Board TO the nation at large, has wisely
chosen man Of affairs rather than a banker a
public man who is universally esteemed Mr. Olney
is advanced in years. but is in full vigor Of mind
and body. When he declined last year an appoint
ment TO the Court of St Jamess 1t was not for want
OF health and we hope that the considerations which
kept him from accepting that post will not interfere
with his taking this one.
Mr. Warburg will bring to the new board wider
banking experience than will any of his banker
associates upon it, especially in the field of nterna
tional finance. Moreover, he has thought deeply
upon the problems which will be before the board.
He had much TO do with framing the Aldrich plan Of
banking and currency reform, from which the best
features in the administration plan were borrowed.
His selection and that of Mr. Oney could not be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
Muckrake the Coroners.

Undiscouraged by the defeat Of its scheme TO
abolish the cOrOners the Short Ballot Organization
announces in its current bulletin that the fight will
continue Moreover, it promises that within
very few weeks the public will know much more
about the inner workings of the coroners office than
at the present time" With this knowledge the short
ballOters sure, will come a determination to
eliminate the coroner.
1t seems likely. The general public knows enough
about the corOners to feel sure that the medical
examiners suggested TO take their place would be
great improvement the present illogical, out-ot-
date system. Any increase of knowledge which
would come from a systematic investigation of the
coroners' handling of cases and intelligent reports
on their work would he welcome. The Short Ballot
Organization could not go wrong in conducting its
campaign along that line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
London as a Health Resort.

Before New York as a Summer Resort resumes
its prominence among topics let lis remark upon
London as a health resort an arresting notion pro-
mugated by no less an authority than The London
Times"
Horace Walpole wrote long ago, when London
calm and mellow spot: Were / a physician
could prescribe nothing better than Recipe ccclxv
drach. London. per annum.'" This dosing now re-
ceiveS approval at the hands both Of The Times"
and of a London physician, Dr. Clippngdale, who
is of the twelfth generation OF family living in
London since the days Of Queen Elizabeth In a
paper read before the Royal Society of Medicine ne
points TO the low death rate, 14.2 per 1000, and
explains It by the fortunate climate and site OF the
city. The air is drawn straight from the North
Pole where It has been purified by contact with the
ice and drawn south by the vacuum created in the
aquatic region" Provided you add that this Arctic
air has been saturated with fog the way down.
this description may pass. Also DR.. Clippingdala
brags of the clay upon which London sitS-notwitn-
standing the popular preference for sand gravel
As for the excitement and pers of modern Lon
don. alive with taxicabs and more or less ablaze
with lights the doctor not only accepts il all as
healthful but assigns II positive curative power
I'm the case Of neurasthenia tour round the city
will free patient from morbid anxietes and brood
ings. if anything can, he asserts. And The Times"
thoroughly agrees.
This is interesting pleading; but by the same
token il would be easy TO prove that Paris IS even
better health resort than London and New York
the most wonderful sanatorium in all the world
Personally we reserve our doubts 10 all cities
And IL consulted by any prospective patient we
should assert that any city was place TO spend
your life not TO save It.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
No Truce for Carranza.

General Carranzas unwngness to consent to
an armistice with the Huerta government pending
mediation is entirely natural. He has everything TO
lose and nothing TO gain by an interruption Of hos
tilities. Every day the which he
claims jurisdiction extended and his civil govern
ment more firmly established. If, as he says, 1.-The
sovereign citizenship is in with all activity 30
establish as soon possible the constitutional
order which will produce peace then from the
revolutions point of view It would be most mad
visabe to check the zeal Of the liberty and order
loving Northern insurrectOs. The more territory
Carranza organizes while the mediators mediate the
up as the representative Of the forces of stable
self-government in Mexico
The Wilson administration cannot justly criticiSc
Carranzas refusal to sanction a truce. 1t has en-
hopefully transferring to him and Villa responsibility
for Huerta's 'crumbling" IT, as our good neighbor
THE World insists, the President intends to
place the present peOnage and large land holdings
to give each peon at least three acres and a cow
Carranza and Villa are the most useful advance
agents of that propaganda They claim to represent
the poems and to know their needs. The spreading
down as far as San Luis PotOs and Zacatecas would
be a step in the direction of three acres and
cow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
IN REPLY TO THE MAYOR
Mrs. Whitehouse Offers a Few Friend
" Words" Of Comment.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In view OF the criticism on the
mart of many suffragists in to-days
papers Of Mayor Mitchell and his speech
at the woman suffrage meeting at Car
negie Hall last Saturday evening, | should
like 10 say in your columns few friendly
words in his defence. The Mayor came
willingly, as our guest, to welcome the
visiting suffragists from all over the STATE
The offence which his remarks most APP
parently gave TO the audience must natu-
rally have been unintentional and must
have sprung merely from his ignorance OF
the position of the woman suffrage move
ment and of the ideals It represents. his
speech shows that not only has he tailed
fully TO grasp the meaning Of woman sur
frage. but also the true meaning OF de-
rnocracy itself. He said, for instance ne
was convinced that women do not require
the suffrage TO achieve entrance into pup
lie life" Entrance into public life for
women Is not the aim OF the suffrage
movement. We are asking for the ballot
primarily as matter of justice in order
that the interests and the opinions OF
eminent
He also said that when women show
an equal capacity with mem for public
service and leadership there will be an
end to the equal suffrage demands But
when. may I ask, has capacity for pubic
service and leadership equal TO that OF
previously established electorate ever been
demanded Of any class of men about to be
enfranchised? IL was surely not demand
ei or expected Of the millions OF negroes
who were admitted TO full citizenship In
this country In 1870. Nor IS II the inten-
ton OF democracy 20 give only 10 those
who have shown themselves fit for public
service and leadership the right TO vote
He saws also that when enough women
want IL and want II enough they Will get
II. Until then my experience does not
lead me 70 believe that they Will suffer
materially for lack OF IT," Large classes
Of women. however. are now suffering Tor
lack Of II. Mayor Mitchell himself has
given us evidence OF the discrimination
that is so subtly and unconsciously exer-
cised against the voteless working women.
As 10 the numbers Of women who want the
vote, there has never been so large
class Of any people before in the history
of the world asking 10 be enfranchised. or
asking so earnestly and persistently.
Therefore. in view OF the ignorance that
our kindly disposed but very busy young
Mayor displayed on every point upon
which he touched Saturday night, | ask
the suffragists OF this city 10 cease their
IL kafr oil nd q
fore passing Judgment upon him. at least
until he has had time and opportunity 10
look intelligently into this greatest Of all
political movements.
VIRA BOARMAN WHITEHOUSE
(Mrs. Norman de r. Whtehouse).
New York. May 4. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
FROM A HARRIED MALE
In Seattle, in Colorado and in the Sub
way He Finds Anti-Suffrage Arguments.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Need We be put 10 the trouble and
expense OF a referendum on woman SUI
frage? The question seems 20 me TO have
settled itself. not by rival propaganda,
but by the logic OF facts. The Mayor %
Seattle, whom the women in their frs,
burst Of sentimentality recalled. is now
comfortably back in Office by their votes
Some sufragists collected together in
Cooper Union and, after war with Huerta
was an accomplished fact, sent a reso-
luton TO the President asking him 10 de-
sist. At that meeting the very purpose
for which il was called became obscured
by enthusiastic socialists who wanted 20
protest against the condition OF affairs IN
of all places-Colorado, the model SUI
frage state
What has happened in Colorado. where
women have voted for generation?
Resting not alone on male physical force
but on the sentmentality Of the female,
the state has become so weakened in It's
fabric that il cannot keep its own order.
but has to call TO the President. Come
over into Macedonia and help US
~ - ilol oiiS INC SUM- dS'''S "''' "'''''i'
voters who have demonstrated the un-
fitness of women for the ballot but the
anti-wcmen whose opinion has never
been asked. and who sensibiy agree that
IL never should be asked.
Every day IN the subway some woman
either jabs me with her hatpin or pushes
a wired ribbon or plume into my face.
This is Just how women are treating the
President. II. c. WEST.
las Waverley Place. New York, May 4.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

Sherman antitrust law OF organizations OF farmers
or union laborers intended to force increases Ia
prices wages But Congress is anxious for cam
paIgn effect 10 placate Mr. Gompers and the Fed
Grafton Of Labor and II they not TO he placaten
most Of the Democrats in the House and Senale
would prefer to let antitrust legislation of any
sort go until the next session
The only feasible thing about the Wilson-under-
wood programme Is adjournment on July ]. mat
may be brought about, but only AT the sacr'nce OF
most, If not all, Of the legislation put into yester
days order OF the day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
An Overloaded Programme.

In the new tent on the White House lawn Presl-
dent Wilson delivered to House Leader Underwood
yesterday a little memorandum of what he expects
Congress to do between now and July l. To the
Democratic leaders Capitol Hill hiking from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City will seem like picnic jaunt
compared with the execution OF Mr.. Wilson's latest
legislative order. All that the President asks Con
gress to do is TO pass omnibus anti trust act a
separate interstate trade commission act an act.
still undrawn. giving the Interstate Commerce Com
mission power to regulate the issuance Of railroad
stocks and bonds. and an act establishing brand
new system Of agricultural credits. After thus ex-
tending itself in the public interest Congress is 10
begin a well-earned vacation eight weeks from to-
morrow.
1t is beautiful dream, in which the President
forgets entirely to reckon with the lethargy of law
making body weary of labor and now sharply resent
u of outside prodding Moreover, since this session
began there has been great alteration in the point
Of view of the two houses. The domestic policies Of
the administration have been overshadowed by its
foreign policies. and party in Congress which
plainly followed the Presidents lead on the tariff
ana currency issues has TO accept his guidance
in foreign affairs with miSgving and reluctance.
The country and Congress are much more interested
lust now in the Mexican situation than they are in
further business or anti-buSiness legislation. The
Mexican problem holds the centre of the stage and
it cannot be crowded off 10y order from the tent
on the White House lawn to forget external rela-
tions and push ahead with problems of internal
economy.
It will take the Senate two or three weeks, az
least TO dispose of the canal tolls bill What chance
is there then Of getting through before July an
antitrust bill about whose provisions there is no
agreement in either party and on one essential point
Of which the President has put himself on record
as opposed TO the prevailing view in Congress? Mr.
Wilson has said that he considers vicious in prin
chile any exemption from the application OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
WON'T SOME "ANTP PLEASE AN
SWER?
Is Ii True That 80 Per Cent Of Women
Do Not Want the Vote?
.ditor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Some time ago you published a
letter from an anti-suffragist which con-
tanned a statement that go per cent Of
women do not want the vote. The writer
made a request through your columns
for the statistics upon which this as
sertion was based. There was no an
swer.
In your issue OF to-day there is let
ter signed "A Woman Not a Stenog-
rapher" in which IL IS stated that 50
per cent Of the women of New York
State do not wish the ballot. / note
with pleasure this indication of the
growth Of the suffrage cause. and for
that reason 7 am more than ever anxious
to learn the source Of these figures.
H. +. T.
Port Washington. Long Island. May 4,
1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
THE CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR
A Reader Asserts That Ii Has Lessened
Despite the Figures of Production.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning the alleged increase in
the use OF alcoholic liquors. a Chicago
daily paper says there was such over
production OF distilled spirits in 1911. 1912
and 1918 that the liquor trade OF the coun-
try is alarmed. AS result there remains
in the bonded warehouses Of the United
States 275,0o0.0o0 gallons. These figures are
exceedingly interesting, for they explain
a condition that has distressed many good
temperance people. A statistician In the
employ OF the government has constantly
been asserting that there was q steady
increase In the per capita consumption Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
The City Hall Park Dis turbers.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir Why are these disturbers in City
Hall Park given such newspaper notice?
All they want is no,oriety. and they get
too much OF II. II their threats 10 kill
and their announcement Of everything
decent was not all published In the papers
every day they would soon give UP. For
PHYS sake. let our city have rest O,
hystricai nonsense and get back to real
living again AN AMERICAN
New York Nav 4 1874
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
An Forum for
LIE AOAON11~ Public Debate.

! intoxicating liquors in spite OF the prog
ress OF the temperance movement
From the foregoing figures 1t appears
that there has been an increase in the
production of whiskey. but not in the con-
sumption 1t is being stored In bonded
warehouses because of the advance or
temperance and the lessened demand for
IT, c. II. BARNES.
Woodcliff. y. j.. May 8, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

MANY contribs,' writes Gabriel Oak. have u
fellow feeling for Euripldes's Electra, who bewais
your timing proclivties. thus:
Cruel vast thou in thine hour.
And. like a tower. firm in thy beauty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

Complete letter-writing from Brooklyn cothier
This change Of location has been necessitated by
our constantly increasing business. and finding our
former establishment growing too small for our needs
we decided to make same"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

Mr. Samuel Untermyer is considerable satriSt
take il from the cards that he incosed with the in
vltation to members of the Poetry Society. 1t tells
how to get to Greystone by automobile
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

The Tribune uses its endeavcrs 70 insure tns
tr1lsfworthiness Of every advertisement II prints anu
TO avoid the publication Of all advertisements CONTAIN
ing misleading statements or claims
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

The Mayor is on record with the remark that If
the issue could be submitted to women and the
suit showed that they wanted the ballot, he would
favor 1t. Most persons, His Honor may recall,
weren't in favor of the steamboat or the telephone
either.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

The next ball game reported for the Tower will
be covered by Our Own William De Morgan or Our
own Eleanor Haowe Abbott, we can't decide
which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05

Chick has suggestion for baseball writer's "Why
not" he hints. lin speaking of the Red Sox mention
iris Speakers salary, and figure out the value of
afternoons labor or safe hit?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-05
TUESDAY. MAY 3. t8nA.

Owned published daily by Tho Tribune tss"oa''o
q New corporation. Ogd-n NJ. Rei6. Presidents ="
Vernon Rogers Secretary Address tribune
Building No. Nassau street. New York.