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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
CITY AND STATE FINANCIALLY SOUND

While Republican spellbnders going about
the State making utterly reckless statements about
the condition of the State treasury and the State
expenditures, which proved absurdly false by
casual inspection of the books and records Mr.. Ray
mond and his supporters doing the thing
in respect to the finances and expenditures of the
city of Newark
The calamity of the European has profoundly
affected neutral country in the world and every
town and village, and no country has been affected
by it to greater extent than the United States AS
a matter of precaution every stock exchange in the
United States is closed the government has issued
enormous amount of emergency money and loans
have gone up to prohibitive interest rates. Few
inequalities borrow money, but because of its
splendid credit Newark is of the few favored
cities able get loans fairly reasonable rates.
Despite the effects of the European State
Is in the best financial condition, fact due to Demo-
cratic legislation last winter The eomptrollers
port October 81 will crafty the people of the
State And for the there should be graft
fcation at the solvent condition of the Newark mu
nicpalty.
Our city officials have not been compelled to shut
down public improvements and throw hundreds of
families into want, and the early and extraordinary
response citizens pay their give the city
the resources it needs shows a general determine
ton to help municipal government to meet all its
problems in the emergency including that of keeping
public improvements going.
Reactionary influences In Newark represented by
the candidacy of Mr.. Raymond for mayor now
trying to make Newark citizens believe that Mayor
Haussngs administration has been extravagant and
wasteful and that this waste must be stopped There
is no explanation how, but the object is not denied
Meadow and harbor Improvement is to be abandoned
and the appropriations for parks and Fairgrounds
and hospitals and public health and the public schools
and for public charity to be sashed This may
suit few purblind and selfish people and will carry
out the wishes of the railroad interests, but how
any progressive or humane citizen stand for'it?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
BY MARY MARSHALL.
OCTOBER "a
Queen Victoria, of Spain
Copyrighted 1914.

Today is the twenty-fifth birthday
of Queen Victoria of Spain, one of the
best beloved queens of Europe. She
is a daughter Of Princess Beatrice, a
daughter of Queen Victoria of Eng
land.
Two famous German women were
born on October "a. One of these,
Anne Amelia, Duchess of Sake
Weimar- Eisenach. was a friend and
patroness of Goethe and Schiller and
it was at her little court at Weimar
that these great poets were most fire.
quently seen. There was probably
never in German history more bril-
liant society than the little group as
sembled at Weimar under the protec-
ton of Anne Amelia. The other
famous German woman born on
August "a is Nine. Won Schlegel, a
daughter of the famous composer.
Mendelssohn. BY her first marriage
she was the mother of Phillip Welt, a
celebrated German painter, and her
second husband was Karl Won
Schlegel, a famous German writer.
famous American woman born on
October "a was Belva Lockwood, who
was born in New York State in 1890
In her early twenties she was left a
widow with one child. 1t was not
hong before Mrs. Lockwood began to
study law, and her greatest work was
the drafting and securing the passage
of a bill. permitting women to prae-
tice law before the Supreme Court of
the United States. She married a
second time, when she was thirty
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

eight, q clergyman named Lockwood.
who died nine years later.
Another famou1 American woman
was Sarah Joseph Buell. Hale, who
was born Ostober "a, 1888. She was
left a widow with five children and
in order to help support them she
turned her attention to writing and
editorial work. She was the editor
of the Ladies' Magazine in Boston in
1928. This was the first periodical
for women published in this country.
She was the originator of the Sea-
mans Aid Society and it was through
her influence and persistent agita-
ton that President Lincoln adopted
Thanksgiving as national holiday
in 1864. She is also responsible for
MARY Had a Little Lamb" which
she published in a book of school
songs.
Marianne North. who was born in
England, October "a, 1880, was an
English woman who gained distinc-
ton as a flower painter before the
days when photography was the
method of reproducing botanical
specimens. She travelled around the
world several times in search of boz
tanical specimens which she repro
duced with perfect exactitude. 1t was
on the suggestion of Darwin that
she studied the flora of Australia.
and at her own initiative she toured
through Japan, China. Borneo, Java,
Ceylon, Jamaica, Brazil and many
other countries. She often spent
weeks in most remote regions and
once carried on her work in a small
hut far removed from any white man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author OF ''Pushing to the Front Etc.
Copyright 1914.
MENTAL VACATIONS

, or annoying the conditions may be
about them, when they get a bit of
leisure they can instantly lift them
selves out of their trouble into a har-
monious and hlissful mental eondi-
ton which nothing material can touch
or mar. They have so educated their
imaginations that they can create
new places, new worlds, people them.
and live in them.
How few of us realize what a great
gift we have in the imagination
that ability to fly away at will from
our harassing, embarrassing, poverty
stricken surroundings, from things
which discourage, disgust, and annoy:
away from grasping. grinding, sick
ening drudgery; away from our
poverty, our worries, and anxieties,
and our physical Ills, into a paradise
of joy, an ideal world, where harmony
and beauty and truth reign.
The great mass of people do not
extract 10 per cent. of the happiness
possible in their everyday life, large
ly because they were never trained
to think of the normal sources of en-
joyment. Their minds are blank, ex-
cept for the little grooves which their
daily routine has stamped in their
brain tissue. They are as ignorant
of the possible mental resources as
the early Indians were of the natur-
al resources of this continent when
the Puritans landed at Plymouth
Rock.
One of the great secrets of those
who surprise everybody by the enor-
nous amount of work they accom-
plish is their ability to take fire.
auent mental reeesses, or little vaca-
tons, their ability to shut all the
doors through which little vexations
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

A sweet old lady who has been an
invalid for many years has rarely
been out of the house, and yet she
says she has the most delightful times
imaginable on her mental vacations.
She travels abroad every day, re-
visits the scenes familiar in her
girlhood, climbs the Alps, walks
through the streets of the cities of
Italy, once so dear to her, and takes
frequent sails on the loved Medl-
terranean. For hours this old lady
not only forgets all aches and pains
which make her an invalid, but for
gets the physical chains which en-
slave her indoors; and she wanders
over the earth at will. She says that
these mental trips are often more en-
joyable than the physical ones, be-
cause she has none of the annoyances
and discomforts of travel and none
of the expense
Many people have acquired. this art
of refreshment through mental tours
They may not be able to go on long
vacations into the country, but they
are able to take many mental excur-
sions there and to go back to the
old house or farm and relieve their
childhood days Mentally, they wade
and fish In the brooks, climb the
mountains, tramp in the forest, and
meander through the meadows.
| know some very busy men and
women SO hemmed in by an iron en-
vironment and so confined to per-
petual hard work, that it is almost
impossible for them to be long away
from their places of business or their
professions, and yet, although they
are subject to rasping vexations and
annoying conditions such as would
worry some people to shadows, they
always seem to be serene, fresh and
buoyant, because they have acquired
the happy art of mental refreshment
and change by taking mental vaca-
these people, and they tell me that,
no matter how trying or how exas-
perating their work, or how vexatious
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Didn't Want to Know

Chief Justice Gummere is a FREE
quent user of figures of speech.
While deciding The referred ballots in
the Lehlbach recount last week, the
chief justice was shown a list con-
tanning the number of ballots re-
ferred for each candidate. AS soon
as he glanced at the list he saw
what it was and pushed it away
from him. I don't want to know
whom the ballots are for or who
will b. affected most by my de-
cisions on these ballots. In other
words, L don't want to know whom
the brick is going to hit when 1
throw f."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

Francis W. Bird was esteemed in
Civil War days worthy to be assoc
ciated with officers in the Union army
who were conspicuously handsome, at
least when arrayed in their uniforms.
Yet when aboy l knew Mr.. Bird
he was a man of no striking personal
pecu1iarities. He seemed to be a
trained, matter-of- fact business man.
My recollection is that he was in the
lumber business when the war began.
His career as soldier furnishes an
other example of which there are so
many ON both sides of the war of
men who suddenly revealed unusual
qualifications for military leadership.
He was a distant relative of the war
governor of Connecticut. William A.
Buckingham, and served upon the
staff of the latter for a year or two
before the war. He was a citizen of
the town of Norwich, Conn, which
was Governor Buckingham home
town. Mr.. Birds home was upon a
plot of ground which adjoined the
birthplace of Benedict Arnold, and he
was accustomed to see strangers who
had visited the town for the purpose
chiefly of seeing the birthplace Of
Arnold.
AS soon as the war began Mr.
Bird was converted into quiet,
methodical business man into a real
soldier He organized the Fourth
Connecticut Regiment of Volun-
teers, and was its major when it was
mustered into the service of the
United States. He was always proud
of the fact that this regiment was
the first of all those that enlisted
for three years to be mustered into
the United States service.
Major Bird was within a short
time promoted to the colonelcy Of
this regiment. In some physical re-
spects he reminded those who had
seen General Hancock of that great
soldier In temperament and in moral
force and influence he also resembled
Hancock, although, of course, he
had not the supreme military quail
fications which distinguished the lat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Mr. Hahn and That Socialist Debate

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir-In reading the record of
why Henry Hahn failed to appear at
the time arranged for the debate
with our comrade, Henry Green. cam
didate for alderman of the Third
ward of the city Newark Monday
night, October 10, he seems to give
as excuse the fact that we charged
admission, and thus made ''vaude-
vile attraction" out of him.
Anyone having attended Socialist
meetings knows that it Is one of the
Socialist methods used at every one
of our meetings to have the public
pay the expense of same, as we are
not a party with funds from other
resources.
We have had debates in this city
before, for which we charged twenty
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
CHITCHAT
Moses,s Telephone Number

A Newark Sunday school teacher
tells a story which, she says. really
happened in her classroom. 1t is only
because of her religious connection
that few are inclined to disbelieve it.
She had been talking about Moses
and had asked when he lived. There
was a silence and when it had be-
come painful, she ordered:
"Open your Bible Histories. What
does it say there?'
One boy answered: Moses, 1000
B. c."
Now" said the teacher, why
didn't you know when Moses lived o.
Well" replied the lad, II thought
1000 b. Q. was his telephone numper.n
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Brothers

Brothers, children of the sons of man,
Valiant fearful naughty fearful cngng close class or
clan
Split sordid nations caught creeds that bless
ban,
But brothers, brothers of the sons of
20 brothers. children of the sons of man.
With step eate the millions march upon the battle
They die like sheep shambles dear peace again.
o brothers, we brothers of the of men?
The fleets Of air that journey fair joyous mission bent
Now fling their death darts flaming from fiery rmament
Where soft the pillows breathe where the breakers
SWELL
Squat their hips the batleshps bayng hounds of hell
brothers, It's the mothers who martyed at the
Europas soul is stricken with the slaughter of her
The world heart heavy dea God send again.
And brothers still be brothers of the of men.
Robert Loveman
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

The determination of the amount of
water flowing in the streams of the
Rio Grande basin, which covers the
greater part of New Mexico, large
areas in Southern Colorado, and 4
considerable territory in Texas and
old Mexico, is of unusual import
ance to that region, which is for the
most part an arid agricultural coun-
try. entirely dependent on its streams
for irrigation.
The data are of international i'm
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Leading Ladies

every show, whether comedy, just
plain drama or tragedy, has to have
q leading lady," said theatrical man
on a Broad street car the other night,
land so it is with the drama of life
But 1t is seldom you see two leading
ladies' in one show, such as Is the
case In the show of which am think
ing"
what dye mean?" asked his
friend.
"I was speaking of the tragedy of
life," replied the theatrical man; "the
war now going on abroad"
II don't get you yet," said his
friend.
why" said the T. NJ, aren't there
two leading ladies in it: Lille and
Nancy?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

five cents (25c) admission, and there
was no objection to admission being
charged from either of the parties
involved.
Mr.. Hahn knew well that Mr..
Scheininger will not appear. as he de-
clared himself not able to participate
in the debate, and Mr.. Hahn agreed
to have it take place without Mr..
Scheininger being present. Also Mr.
Hahn claimed that he will show the
public Mr.. Scheininger's unwillingness
to appear.
1t is funny that Mr.. Hahn, after
agreeing before the campaign and
organization committees of Branch
No. 3 of the Socialist party, of New
ark, N. j.. to the above arrange
ments, saw fit not to put in an
appearance at the above mentioned
debate. Yours very truly.
s. WIENER, Secretary.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
"Watch Your Step"

watch your STEP is applicable
TO certain cities in South America,
judging from a postal card received
by a Montclair girl whose brother
is down there. He writes that in
Ancoa, VIII ch is il the canal zone,
thai little eolored children, sons of
the residents of that place, play at
will around the streets and side
walks rolling around almost under
the feet of passersby. The Mont
clair young m n says that you have
to be careful in walking in order
not to tread on some of the
youngsters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Actual Hero of a FOrIorn Hope

! ter. One of Colonel Birds qualih-
cations was, however, not possessed
by General Hancock, for the former
gained and kept the affection or ms
troops so that he was really idollzeu
by his regiment.
How strong that feeling of respect
and admiration was Is illustrated py
an incident which has become ira
ditional. While the Vicksburg cam
paign was in progress under General
Grant it was deemed offthe utmost
Importance that the strongholu vi
Port Hudson, below Vicksburg, on
the Mississippi, should be captured.
Yet there was no folder VINO ala not
know that this would be desperate
undertaking and would cost many
lives.
Colonel Bird volunteered to or
eanize and lead a command of not
over mn men, who would make di-
rect assault upon Pot Hudson. 1t
was looked upon as 4 forlorn hope.
One Of the officers of his regiment
went to him aid said:
Colonel Bird, YOU don't need TO
look beyond your own regiment.
There isn't a man in the regiment of
all those who are fit for duty who
will not follow you wherever you
lead"
II know it," replied Colonel Bird.
at is a desperate undertaking, and
1 don't order any one to join me. but
I invite all those who are willing.
The regiment prepared for the as
aault. The time was fixed for night
attack. The soldiers were practically
sleeping on their arms when the news
came that Vicksburg had fallen. That
made it unnecessary to assault Port
Hrdson. But the moral victory OF
Colonel Bird and those who were
ready to join him in the assault was
regarded at the time as fully as great
as it would nave been had they ae-
tually made the attack.
copyright, 1914, by E. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Peace Tor .dlAieS.

Peace Tor .dlNieJ.
Buffalo Evening News.
The poor Mexicans must have some
idea of the sufferings of some of the
peoples in Europe and they, there
fore, welcome no doubt, the prospect
Of peace in their own country.
General Villa promises to support
the choice for provisional president Of
the convention soon to be held in the
city of Aguascelientes and, if he car
ries out the promise, Mexico Is at
peace. for he believes, so he declares.
that the people will not elect Car
rama provisional president, since
under the law the provisional presi-
dent is barred from being a candidate
for the full term election TO the same
office.
General Carranza has declared that
he will not be a candidate for the pro-
visional presidency and Villa says he
will support anybody except Car
rama. Just why Villa is ready to
throw down Carranza nobody knows.
After having carried the war to a
successful conclusion in the name OF
Carranza, it would seem as II the
lieutenant would be eager to have his
captain, nominally perhaps. but ac-
cepted as such, become the head of
the Mexican republic.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Some Genius

Physicians have a habit of pre-
senting the bright side Of things. Re-
Gently a Mt. Prospect avenue doctor
called at the home of one of his
patients.
"Oh, doctor, I feel SO discouraged,
the patient complained. i've whoop-
ing cough, rheumatism, lumbago and
headache
"Why, the poor mans a geniusi"
commented the doctor to the patients
wife, who stood anxiously } ear.
"a genius?" she calculated.
yes" reaffirmed the doctor. HE
really has an infinite capacity for
taking pains, you know"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
Last, But Not Leased. "

A Broad street real estate agent
was complaining to a friend recently
about his inability to secure a ten
ant for house.
TITS an excellent location" he
said. There's a whole row Of houses
and every one is occupied but this
one And this" he continued lis the
most desirable of all. It's right on
the end"
Last but not leased,p commented
the witty friend
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

largely due to climatic conditions OBJ
time, coupled with the fact that the
Dutch coast affords an opportunity
for establishing bases and running
for cover, not offered in other
stretches of water.
The thick fogs that are to be ex-
pected at this season in northern
waters, the numerous coastal islands,
with their deep channels affording
easy refuge and hiding places, to-
gether with the perfection which the
submarine bases enjoy through the
extensive mine fields planted by both
sides, make conditions for the sub
marine ideal
In the opinion OF the officers, the
battleship and other surface craft is
still the ideal weapon of the sea.
Apples.
Buffalo Evening Times
The announcement of the fact that
an Eastern firm has just bought ST.
00O. 900 worth OF apples from the West,
puts quite a crimp into the judgment
Of Webster. who stated on one mem
CRADLE occasion that he would not
give dollar for the whole Northwest
Besides illustrating Mr.. Webster's
lack of foresight and the adaptability
Of the West from a Embarrassing
standpoint, this statement calls at
tention to the possibilities in apples.
Many farmers make the mistake
nowadays of believing that a plot of
land, which might easily support
twenty-five trees. is more profitably
utilized in the cultivation of grain.
There are farmers in this State who
buy their own apples.
The quoting Of that big Western
order shows that there must be some
money in apples, if properly culti-
waited, and. the farmers of the We
natchee and North Yamika Valleys
seem to be proving it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24
THE PERIL OF THE UNmGHTED VEHICLE.

Whether all the police chiefs in cities will heed
the admontion by the State motor vehicle commits
sioner to have the law for lights horse drawn
vehicles enforced is problematical AS rule they
will pay little attention to it. In the rural districts
the law is and will remain dead letter
In the we-lighted cities there is little danger to
travel from the unlighted wagon. On the country
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Food for the Beisians.


New Haven Journal Courier.
Germany has consented to the pro-
posal of this government to let sup
plies of food be taken to the stricken
Belgians. The necessary steps are
now being taken to bear the needed
relief to Belgium, and therefore one
of the most creditable incidents of the
war Is offered the world for it's sober
contemplation. The sympathy of this
people has been profound and affec-
tionate for the people of Belgium. A
large sum of money has been raised
by popular subscription for their re-
lief, larger, 1t is said, than the fund
raised for the Red Cross. II is not a
difficult thing to account for. The
experience to which the Belgians
have been subjected has aroused the
sympathy of people of all classes,
while the bravery of her troops has
excited the admiration of Germany
herself. Hers is a stricken condition
which can accept no neutral limita-
tons Through no fault of her own
her lands have been devastated and
her sons killed. The necessity or nom
necessity of violating, her rights of
neutrality need not be discussed here.
We have now merely to deal with
the awful fact that she has been
made the victim of wars passions. 1t
becomes, therefore, a sublime pleas
ure for this country to lead in this
movement of relief, to bear the en-
tire load, If necessary. alone.
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RuRA1 rAIRs As pARoEL POST SCHOOLS.

Exhibits of the parcel post, and how to use it, at
about rs State and county fairs throughout the
country this fall very practical use of these
gatherings educational centres. The results are
already shown in a marked increase of parcel post
shipments of farm products. The rural fairs are
being made schools to teach the people how to re-
duce the of living, and the postmasters peda
gogues find apt and eager pupils.