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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
THE ISSUES IN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Interest in the election in the Seventh Congress
district tomorrow is much greater than that which
attended the special election in the Sixth district be-
cause of its national significance. The Sixth district
takes in Sussex and Warren two agricultural coun-
ties that strongly Democratic, and Bergen, which
is populated mostly by commuters Passaic county,
which, with the exception of two townships, COM
prises the Seventh district manufacturing and of its
population. of 215902 less than 1S0373 live in the
two manufacturing cities 1t is in Paterson and Pas
sale, and mostly by the workngmen, that the contest
tomorrow will be decided.
Hughes always catered to the labor element until
he was boosted into the senatorship In his first
Congress campaign he made Socialist speeches. Pros
perity and the associations of Washington divorced
him from the workngmans interests and his oppo-
sition to a government railroad to develop Alaska
and other popular measures his vote for Daniels for
the Interstate Commerce Commission and his con-
tempated vote for surrender of free tolls to Great
Britain indicate well enough that having been
hoisted by the labor vote the senatorshp, he has
Joined the railroad brigade in Congress-
But Hughes has not given up his pretensions, at
election time, be the workingmans friend and he
has been stumping the district, appealing to these
voters for his hand-picked candidate One result of
the election, therefore, will be TO show whether he
hold the labor vote, which he has learned to
despise between elections whether the influence he
worked up among the mhands when he was a mill
hand has survived his transformation into railroad
senator.
But this is the least of tests of the election. The
candidate put up by Hughes represents in his candi-
dacy all that has made discomfort in the district,
and that his duly instructed candidate has last
avowed that his candidacy means Endorsement of
Panama canal tolls surrender that question will have
a predominant influence in the election. Mr.. Byran's
appearance in the district the very of the
ton to make speeches is indication enough of the
sense of fear at Washington. And indeed, the re-
suit of the election determine the action of the
Senate Panama tolls repeal.
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At the present time there is con-
troversy raging in England over some
old shin timbers One party contends
that the remains are those of a war
shin of the time Of Henry VIII, the
Henri Grace a Dieu; while the other
believes them to be portions or Sir
Francis brakes famous flagship, the
Golden Hind.
]. seymour Lucas, Royal Academy,
the British artist, after seeing the
relics, has come to the conclusion tnat
they are those of a sixteenth century
vessel, possibly the famous Henri
Grace a. Dieu. This craft was burned
az Woolwich in 1858. 1t was little
more than twelve months ago that
the borough council of Woolwich, in
preparing a site for a new electricity
station on the south bank Of the
Thames, 1irst unearthed the timbers
of this old ship. The late Sir William
White then inspected them ana was
of the opinion that they.came from an
eighteenth century merchant vessel.
The authorities were not very keen,
II this was so, to preserve the re-
mains.
The theory of Mr. Lucas, the artist,
who painted 1.-The Armada in Sight,
has put quite a new aspect on the
matter. He considers that the close
ness of the ribs and size of the keelson
are irrefutable evidence of the date
Of the hull In addition he has seen
two wheels. evidently from a gun car
rage of the time of Henri VIII; some
stone cannon balls and pieces OF Eliz-
abethan pottery, all taken out of the
hull. The theory that the vessel is
he Henri Grace a Dieu is put forward
hy the Woolwich Antiquarian Society.
There was a dock built at Woolwich
in 1921, to which the huh of the Henri
Grace a Dieu was taken after the fire
which destroyed her upper works and
rigging. The question then arises,
How came the hull to be buried? 1t
is believed that after the hull had
been placed in the dock something in
the nature of a landslip occurred
which removed both ship and dock
bodily. This, at any rate, is held to
explain the circumstance that part of
timbers are still sunk beneath an old
house. Very little is known concern
ing the methods of ship construction
In vogue in the reign of Henry VIII.
and it is not surprising that expert
opinion is divided as to whether the
Woolwich wreck may be taken to be
that of the Henri Grace a Dieu.
It was the Henri Grace a Dieu
which Henry VIII. built in 1916 that
was burned at Woolwich in 1853. In
this vessel Henry VIII. embarked at
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Like a surprisingly large number
of women of distinction Mary Sewell
was a Quaker. At least she was
brought up in the simple traditions
and piety of Quaker family, though
she later broke away from the So
ciety herself She was born on April
s, 1897, the daughter of prosperous
farmer in England. When she was
twenty-five she married young Sewel,
who had been Counting her for five
years. She followed him dutifully
through his later unsuccessful career.
At first he tried to keep a small
shop IN London. Then he Travelled for
an English lace factory. Later he
worked as a banker and the most
successful period of his life seems to
have been spent when he had retired
from active business of any Sort
Mrs. Sewell was brave under many
misfortunes, for besides her husbands
inability to earn good living her
daughter Anne, when still a LITTLE
child, sprained both her ankles so
that throughout her life she was
always in a state of invalidism. II
was for this little daughter ana her
only son that Mrs. Sewell first began
to write. The first published volume
appeared under the title of Walks
With Mama" 1t consisted Of moral
izing childrens stories written in
words of one syllable.
1t was not till Mrs. Sewell was
past sixty that she had any idea of
being famous. Then she seriously
turned her attention to writing. Her
first publication in this period was
called "Homely Ballads" and her
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
by HERBERT QUICK

Political conditions in Wisconsin
are more critical than in Mexico.
What happens in Mexico will
neither redeem nor enslave the Next
cans. But in Wisconsin the politi-
cal banditti which have so often
been whipped by the La Toilette
forces have rallied again, and the
fight is close, tense and doubtful.
Faxes have increased. Good gov
eminent, good schools, good educa-
ton generally, good health good
corporation management, good terms
to injured worllingmen, and the like,
are not to be had for nothing. They
cost money. Taxes have risen every
where else; but the rurales heading
the Wisconsin uprising are laying
every increase TO the cost of pro
gressivism." The 1913 taxes We're for
special reasons two millions higher
than they will be In 1914. The State
taxes have increased no faster than
have those levied upon themselves
by the counties and cities-but when
the corporation lawyers and political
managers essay the role of dema-
gogues and seek to lead ignorance
and anger against good government
temporarily at disadvantage they
are very dangerous demagogues, in
deed.
Therefore, the crisis in Wisconsin
is so important that progressives OF
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WEST HUDSON AND THE MERGER BILL.

The effect of the Branegan municipal merging bill,
now in third reading in the Assembly, on the poti-
cal destnies of the West Hudson municipalities Is
made plain by examination of the bill 1t means
the eventual absorption of all of West Hudson by
Jersey City.
The bill provides that contiguous municipalities
may consolidate. Kearny is contiguous to Jersey
City and also to Harrison and East Newark. II
Kearny should become part of Jersey City, then
Harrison and East Newark would become contiguous
Jersey City and the latter city would be in position
to swallow up all of West Hudson.
Now, these municipalities are really the outskirts
of Newark. They allied to Newark in every way
except by government. They do their banking their
shopping, in Newark. They closely related socially
and industrially and they of their popu
ation and wealth increase from Newark. On the other
hand they have little to do with the county seat The
sentiment of the people of West Hudson looks towards
Newark for consolidation. Bills introduced in the
Legislature in former for annexation to Newark
defeated by Jersey City representatives and in
auences The Branegan bill is plainly meant to drag
West Hudson into Jersey City by the back door.
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| to communicate. He stood it about
as long as he could and then one day,
having become especially impatient
because of long delay, he made up
his mind that he could invent an APP
paratus which would make it I'M
necessary to employ what are called
'centrals. After little study he was
convinced that he could perfect
mechanism by means of which a call
would be automatically received and
obeyed
Mr.. Westinghouse spent good
deal of his spare time in the early
eighties perfecting a mechanism of
this kind. He put it to pretty thor
ough test in his own yard and offices,
and when he was satisfied that the
switchboard would do automatically
what the central office, by means of
human agencies did, he patented the
apparatus.
Then followed something that to
my thinking is very queer When he
submitted his automatic switchboard
to the people who controlled the Vari-
GUS telephone companies of that day
they all turned their backs upon it,
They said it was ineonceivable that
an apparatus could do automatically
what the central office of a telephone
company does for that imperatively
required human intelligence
"At last Mr.. Westinghouse gave up
the attempt to persuade the telephone
people of the utility of his apparatus.
Other and more important matters
began to occupy his attention. His
patent was ignored and then forgot
ten. The patent expired and was not
renewed, and it was not until some
twenty years later that science began
to show the way by which an auto
matte switchboard could be construc-
ted and utilized. Yet what science at
this later date demonstrated Mr..
Westinghouse had, years earlier, visi-
bly, demonstrated and then forgotten"
Copyrighted 1914, by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
UPLIFT TALKS
Ry oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,
Anthor of FLUSHING to the Front, ETC
GETTING TO THE POINT

IIa naver hores YOU, never tires you.
7 never see this friend without feeling
great admiration for his mental alerl-
ness, prompt decision ana eInclehey
This executive quality is not dlincuil
10 cultivate if one begins early ana
irnows his defects. One should train
himself constantly to concentrate ms
thoughts to crystalline his business
into concise, clean-cut sentences
When bows and young men ask my
oninion about their ability to succeed
in business, | try to find out whethet
they have this power of directness, Oh
coming to the point clearly squarely
and forcibly without indirection,
without parleying, without useless
words. If they lack this quallty, ap-
parently there is little chance OF their
succeeding in a large way, Tor TINS
is characteristic of men OF aHaifs
who achieve great things me IN
direct man is always working to dis
advantage. He Iabors hard. but never
gets anywhere, 1t is the direct maA.
who strikes sledge-h hammer blows, the
man who can penetrate the very mar.
row of subject at every stroke, ana
get the meat out of q propositions
who does things.
In no other way will man betray
lack of the quality of dispatch SO
much as in his correspondence. Bust
ness letters should be models of con-
densation, crystallized into a few
sentences. Compactness, comprehen-
siveness and pointedness are charae-
teristics of the letters of successful
man of affairs, who will say more IN
dozen lines than another can write
on two pages. A single letter from q
man we have not seen betrays the
whole structure of his mind, gives a
cross section of him, as 1t were.
Many a boy has failed to obtain
good situation by answering an ad-
vertisement with a sprawling, Slip
shod letter, and many man owes his
success to a concise application for
position. | have seen business men,
in looking over large number or
applications for situation, set aside
a single letter because of its neatness,
compactness and brevity of. state
ment. The practised eye of the en-
ployer saw in that letter that its au-
thor was young man of executive
promise although he had never seen
him, while a long drawn-out letter.
covering pages of self-laudation. did
not attract him. He knew that the
boy would correspond with his let
ter and the letter of few lines.
which said a great deal. made
strong and favorble impression.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Forgotten Invention of the Late George Westinghouse

"One of the strangest of the many
strange incidents associated with in
yention is the fact that frequently
inventors are years ahead of their
time" said the late James Laying to
me at a time shortly after he had
been reading of perfected inven-
ton which would make 1t possible to
establish in Chicago q gigantic au-
tomato switch for use in the CEN
trail office of the telephone company
and also to establish q like appara-
tus in other cities.
Mr.. Laying, who for many years
was one of the leading railway ex-
ecutives of the United States. formed
an acquaintance in the mid-sixties
with the late George Westinghouse,
which ripened into intimate friend
ship and close business as well as
personal relations.
Il thought the other DAY when
was reading a description of an au-
tomato switch for use in the CEN
trail Office of the telephone companies
of something that Mr.. Westinghouse
did in the early eighties" continued
Mr. Laying. Very few of his friends
knew what he had done. but he had,
in fact. invented an automatic tele-
phone switchboard.
There is very interesting story
associated with this invention. Mr..
WESTINGHOUSE was one of the first to
install the telephone apparatus after
its commercial practicabiiity had
been demonstrated. He was one Of
the earliest TO predict that the tele-
phone would ultimately go hand in
hand with the telegraph as a means
of swift communication of intelll
gence.
HE found, however, that there were
some things about the telephone of
those early days which were far from
What especially annoyed
him was the time which elapsed after
he called up central before connec-
ton was made so that he could speak
to the person with whom he wished
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
THE MORRIS CANAL BILLS JOKER.

= If the changes and Interpolation OF paragraph
~-trr the canal bill introduced in the Legislature had
been intended merely to correct errors in the care
fully and shrewdly prepared bill printed in the Canal
Commissions report there would be no criticism But
the changes made give the bill another meaning and
vitality the objects of the measure They are in
the interest of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company,
and their effect is to make the sale of the canal prop
erty pay the 81 900 600 which the public had been led
TO believe would be paid in cash by the railroad COM
the proceeds of the property sales to go to the
State
IT took two years for the commission to do its
appointed work and prepare its report, which was
held until ten weeks of the session had elapsed
The bill introduced at this late day near the close of
the session. was not the bill which the commission
It's report had been prepared to be introduced
The report itself submitted plan of disposing of the
canal ranky unjust to the State and its municipa-
ties that there cutlery, and the bill was sheved
in committee, and there audacious bats in the
bill for the votes of South Jersey members of the
Legislature.
Half million of the million dollars which the
report said would be paid in cash by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company but was really to be taken
from the proceeds of the sale of the canal property
to be given to the South Jersey counties for an
ocean boulevard and a Delaware river highway, the
sher half to for canal parkway west of Paterson
South Jersey has claim the property of
the Morris canal than New York city, and, to make
this arrangement the more grotesque Jersey City,
which has the invaluable canal terminal, and there
fore the principal interest in the property ignored
altogether, while Newark robbed of its preferen-
tia right to the canal property between Newark and
Paterson which had been allowed by the Canal Com
mission plan of 1911.
But there be gainsaying thing, and that
Is that full free and thorough investigation should
be made into the change in the phraseology of para
graph in the bill which drastically alters the pur
port, interest and Effect of the instrument.
Who transformed the language of the act and
why? This deed should be traced to its source.
The commissioners hold that the matter passed
of their hands with the presentation of their
port and into the custody and possession of others
With subsequent happenings they had nothing to do,
II is claimed
Now the probe could easily reveal the cuprit Is
1t another of printers mistake such aroused
the ire of Senator Ramsay when of his committee
bills tempered with?
Who had the canal bill in charge after ii passed
of the hands of the commission? Who had author
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There is nothing that exasperates
a business man more than to try 10
do business with men who never get
anywhere, who never come to the
point, who beat about the bush
with long introductions and meaning
less verbiage. Like q dog which
turns around a half dozen times and
then lies down where he was in the
first place, they tire one out With
useless explanations. introductlons
and apologies, and talk about all
sorts of things but the business OF
the moment.
Modern business is touch-and-go,
take it or leave it, if you don't want
ii somebody else does. Every moment
of a business interview should be
applied to the object in hand, the
matter under consideration. Some
people, however, do not seem to have
the ability to come right squarely
I'D to the point at issue. Judges ana
lawyers say that it Is practically I'M
possible to get from some witnesses
the information wanted on certain
point Though the attorney may re-
sort to all sorts of ingenious meth
DDS to get O direct answer, the VII
nesses will not commit themselves.
They talk all around the point, go
almost up to 1t on every side, out
stop Just short of it or avoid 1t.
I know a business man who is SO
indirect and long drawn-out in his
conversation that l almost always
get out of patience while doing bust
ness with him and wondering II he is
ever going to finish, and can hardly
resist constant reference to my watch.
When he calls me by telephone l feel
like leaning back in my chair and
elevating my feet, because | know
/ must sacrifice at least quarter or
an hour of valuable time right in the
midst of business hours. Such people
are nuisances. More or less of this
long drawn-out quality, lack of direct
ness and pointedness, is to be eX-
pected in professional men and women,
but it is a fatal quality for an ambi-
tious young business man. 1t Is a
success killer Men who get through
a large amount of work, men of great
executive ability, are quick, concise,
accurate, pointed.
| have another business friend, very
successful, who calls me by telephone,
and, without any preliminaries, pro-
ceeds right to the subject, states his
proposition and, almost before | can
think that he has said. says Good
by" and is gone 1t is a perfect lux
ury to do business with such a man.
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quence. Mexico is in a state of an
archy and exploited by bandits and
military satraps. The Spanish troops
in Morocco are busy suppressing the
Moors and the mongrel tribes who
object to the rule OF the civilized
nations. France still maintains and
employs a large military force in
Algiers Italy has not yet finished
the conquest ana the thorough polio
ing of Tripoli.
Many a bloody foray and isolated
battle mark the progress of peace"
and the triumph of Christendom In
the Balkans. The republic of China
is suppressing bands of outlaws in
several of its provinces. There is
civil war in Ecuador. Haiti is in it's
normal state of unrest. Revolution
more or less violent has, we hear,
been started in Brazil. Peru has
overturned a government with a riot
or two.
So, despite the fact that the Eng
speaking papers devote the spare
time of their war correspondents TO
the pulling efforts of the British suf-
fragettes and the American papers
seethe with the paltry mouthings of
the church raiding demagogues, while
the diplomatic side of the Mexican
trouble proVolIes the most discussion,
there is little doubt that the biggest
news is the least noticed and is made
in the countries off the beaten track
Romance, mystery, fighting, muir
der, battle and bloodshed, the law
that man must live and strive for
his place in the sun by destroying
his fellow man. All these things are
transpiring, despite the fact that the
world is growing better or at least
smaller on account of better and
quicker transportation and news ia
cilities.
Formal declarations of war usually
follow the event itself, and one is
moved TO wonder which of the little
fires which are now blazing will some
day strike the big powder magazines
of the greater nations and result in
an explosion.
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BY MARY MARSHALL.
APRIL 6
Mary Sewell
CopYrighted 1914.


next attempt was Mothers Last
Words" a famous ballad which sold
to the extent of a million and eighty
eight thousand copies.
This ballad tells the story of two
poor little chimney sweepers whose
mother dies leaving them nothing but
some good advice. The ballad fol-
lows the two boys through their SUBJ
sequent life, showing how they were
always wrested from every tempta-
ton by the recollection of mother'a
last words. The story starts out with
this well-kuown stanza:
THE yellow fog lay thick and dim,
Ger London city far and wide.
1t filled the spacious parks and squares
Where noble lords and ladies ride :
IT ends with these words:
Dear boys who read this simple tale
OF these poor sweepers in the street,
The gracious God who cared for them
VIII also guide your willing feet
1t is plain to see that there was
nothing very remarkable about this
ballad from the poetic point of view.
and yet II met with popularity and
success such as has been seldom.
equaled by any other piece of English
Verse. After this masterpiece Mrs.
Sewell published Our Fathers Care
and a novel entitled Patience Harris
In the mean time Mrs. Sewell's lit
tie lame daughter had also tried her
skill at writing, and the biography OF
q horse published under the title
" Black Beauty" was the result This
novel We'd with her mothers ballads
for popularity.