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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
UPLIFT TALKS
THE HEALING POWER OF RECREATION
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author OF 'iPushing to the Front" Etc.
Copyright 1914.

that has been released. unstrung
when not in use, will go further and
erect more than many shots from
the bow that Is never unstrung.
The trouble with our American life
Is that it is too tense, too persistent
~ strenuous. Our mental resources
arc too stimulating to ambition; we
work at too high a tension. Our
business life is too intense to be con-
tinuous for any length of time with
out serious deterioration of the men
tai powers. After q. period of such
tension, every sense, every faculty
longs to be "unstrung," aches for the
healing touch of relaxation, change
rest. And the work that follows such
healing is the best work.
There are many of our most DOW
erful business men today who speng
less than the number of hours in
their Office that they or the same
class Of men spent, over twenty-five
years ago. They are learning the
value of "unstringing the bow
Mr.. Ford, founder of the Youths
Companion, would work in his office
as late at night as possible; then he
would carry all the mail home, where
he and his wife would open it and sort
it and get ready for the next day, and
at o'clock Mr.. Ford was in his office
in his office every morning at O'Clock
or before. In those days men seemed
to think that If their employees were
on duty q good many hours, and kept
busy all that time they would accom-
plish a great deal. But there has been
constant tendency of late yearS
toward shorter hours, and statistics
show that there is no appreciable
diminution in the amount of the work
accomplished and the quality of the
work has improved. 1t has been
found that employees will accomplish
more In an eight-hour day, when the
brain is fresh and the mind is alert.
than they used to accomplish in the
ten or twelve-hour day.
The point of the maximum mental
efficiency is the time when the BLOOD
is clearest and cleanest from health
ful, happy recreation and sound
sleep. When there is an accumula
ton OF poison in the brain cells from
fatigue, from long continued, intense
mental activity, the quality and
efficiency begin to deteriorate. | be
lieve the time will come when the
worlds workers win work much
more intensely even than now, ana
far more effectively, because no
longer than few hours daily-per-
haps four or five out of the twenty
four.
We will then not require periodical
'unstringing' to heal warped and
strained faculties but our work and
play will be in such proportion that
our faculties, even the highest, will
always be in condition to do their
best work.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Another horrifying tragedy was enacted in Man
haitian yesterday in the burning of a tenement and
the deaths of many of the tenants the origin of the
fire being attributed to the "Black Hand" AS usual
the maefactors who committed this crime, for there
is evidence that 1t was deliberate had marked COM
patriot for victim disregardful of how many other
lives would be sacrificed.
The New York police department is the largest
and most expensive of any city in the world and it
ought to be the best Its detective force should be
unequaled. For number of years the department
has had opportunity for study of the BLACK Hand
and there has been plenty of time to obtain such
knowledge of this class of alien criminals and of their
methods as would afford means for prompt arrests.
And yet when a bomb outrage an incendiary
fire occurs the police are almost invariably at fault
Out of many such outrages there have been few ar
rests and fewer convictions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
A. B., NJ. A., M D. (Johns Hopkins

Examine Shoulder Aches for Rheumatic"
Causes.
Children held negligently at a WIN
dow have fallen two stories to the
street and hit the peak OF the
shoulder, with only a bruise as pun
ishment, and strong men have merely
combed their hair and Suffered q
wrenched shoulder joint
The crux of the explanation is that
the shoulder Joint. like all other parts
of the anatomy, Is made to do certain
duties and no more. The limits or
elasticity in a rubber band are reach
ed sooner or later. That of the mus
cles, tendons and ligaments OF the
body are reached even sooner. the
shoulder, like the ankle or the wrist,
will bend in and out, forward and
back, and twist and turn within the
arc of it's own magic circle.
Touch but a hair of Its OUTSIDE
limits; force it to go one millimeter
beyond it's final rhythm, and 10! some
thing snaps, pain and damage ensue--
maybe little, maybe much.
An abomination unto man and
beast is the useless name "rheuma-
tism" Every little or big ache, stiff
ness or discomfort of the human
Joints and muscles has been lightly
dubbed rheumatic" whatever that
may mean. The shoulder joint has
not escaped this malevolent destruc-
ton.
Many stiff. painful shoulder joints
are the outcome of boils in the arm
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Politician Who Was Discharged Cured"

able to observe keenly and thorough
ly. so that his great instruction DOCK
was the book of life as he saw IL
daily.
AS Jewell was first brought without
any special activity of his own into
political life, so he afterwards re-
ceived two conspicuous political hon.
ors without any knowledge that they
would come to him until they were
bestowed upon him. He was aston
ished when he learned that he was
to be appointed minister to Russia,
and he was still more astonished
when he was summoned to Washing
ton by President Grant to take the
appointment of postmaster-ge general.
After Jewell retired to private life
he was often urged to become can
didate for one or another public Of
flee. That was especially the case
in 1880. but he always firmly refused.
When at last he was asked why he
disdained all further political activ-
ity as an office-holder he said: Il
have bean discharged cured"
He meant by that that he had seen
and experienced all that was worth
while in political life, and he had
come to believe that much of it was
vanity and vexation of spirit. His
metaphor, however, was due to the
fact that in his home town of Hart
ford there had been established years
ago an insane asylum and he had
vivid recollection of the JOY in some
families when some one in the family
who had been patient In the asylum
was discharged cured"
copyright, 1914, by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. "a
This city will soon be the scene of a
public health conference, whose value
to the growing civic spirit of the
South probably excels that of any
conference held in this section in re-
cent years. On Monday, November 30,
occurs the opening session OF the
American Public Health Association,
and the whole OF that week will be
devoted to sessions of the five sec
tons OF the association and to gem
eral sessions in which gather mem
bers of all sections.
This conference, according to lead
ing southern health workers, will be
more than a gathering of public
health experts. 1t will be a public
health revival with far-reaching eff
fects on the welfare of the South.
Not only will the latest developments
in the campaign against the hook
worm disease, diseases among negroes
and other distinctly Southern prob
lens be placed before the country, but
every effort will be made to stimu-
late public interest in health matters
| throughout the Southern States ir
! the hope that legislative and Other
public action may be taken to place
this section on an equal footing with
the States most advanced in the
work.
4 For example, workers here expect
great benefits to spring from the ad'
dresses by members of the depart
ments of health of New York, Mas
sachusetts and other States, where
model public health and vital stats
ties laws have recently been enacted
The reorganization of the New Yorl
State department Of health Is looked
upon generally as one of the mos
| important public health accomplish
ments of recent years and the work
| ings of the new department will b.
thoroughly presented to the associa
ton in several papers by member
| of that department.
| A most important feature of the con
ference from the standpoint of tbs
Southern States will be the Southern
health exhibition to be held durin.
the meeting of the association. Ma
terial covering a wide range of healtl
subjects will be shown. The exhibit
will comprise the work of State ant
municipal boards of health and o
private and semi-public organization
throughout the South.
For the first time in the histor,
of the South" says an announcement
of the exhibit. will Southern healt
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
HOW RAILROAD TAXES DOUBLED.

Executive Assistant Lee, of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. a recital at New Brunswick of the
sacrifices forced upon the railroad companies in New
Jersey, mentions the great increase in their State
taxes Mr. Lee did not enter into particulars, but he
said that in few years the taxes had been doubled
No doubt his hearers who didn't know the particulars
we're much impressed by the dsingenuous statement.
For more than forty years railroad property in
New Jersey was only nominally taxed on valuations
liked by the companies and absurdy low. In 1884 an
act was passed that made comparatively small in
crease the tax and there was little increase year
after year subsequently until 1906, when the present
law was passed. BY that time the railroad companies
had become convinced that they could not much
longer retain the privilege of taxation at the rate OF
one-half of one per cent. low valuation and they
virtually consented to the law, which doubled the
amount of the tax they paid annually.
And even under the law of sos railroad property
has advantage of private property 1t is the lowest
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
THE FARMER MUST BE CONQUERED.

Representatives of truck farmers have been tour
ing South Jersey get data in regard to prices paid
growers for produce compared with retail prices
in cities and to investigate improved methods of cut
vation At their convention in Philadelphia it was
told how lettuce for which the farmer gets less than
half cent head, is sold in the cities at four and
five cents head; how exorbitant profits are made by
middlemen strawberries and how the consumer
paid from 200 to 300 per cent profit more than the
producers price for all produce, while the farmer
was lucky to get per cent. on his investment
But it is mainly the fault of the average farmer
He is a creature Of routine. and he walks in ruts
He has idea of organized enterprise. 1t is hard
to get him to listen to expert advice how to I'M
prove his farm and his methods He has contempt
for agricultural colleges and scientific farming
The parcel post nothing to the average
farmer. For years he bent on discriminating the
robin his best friend, because the robin ate few
of his cherries. He opposes enlightened methods OF
education because they cost money and sees his sons
and daughters abandon the farm for the city. He
fought against improved roads, because he could not
see their utility. In conquering cheaper prices of
necessares for consumers, the obsnacy, prejudices
and narrowness of the average farmer must be con-
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To Aid Health Work in South

workers have an opportunity to view,
under one roof, the methods and ac-
complishments of their fellows. and
at the same time meet in convention
with the leading sanitarians of the
United States, Canada, Mexico and
Cuba, as comprising the American
Public Health Association"
DIR. C. E. Terry, health officer of
this city, and chairman of the local
committee of arrangements, is most
enthusiastic in discussing the expect
ed benefits of the meeting of the as
ISOLATION.
"Our idea has BEEN" he said today,
"to secure for the city of Jacksonville
and the State of Florida through the
means of the American Public Health
Association as much public health ed
ucation as possible. We realize that
our public needs this and we hope
and expect that the coming conven-
ton will afford powerful stimulus
to health conservation throughout the
South"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
PRISON CAMP ESCAPES.

There have been twenty-eight escapes of conVicts
from the State camps since the inauguration of the
prison camp system the latest being that of Hudson
County convict from the camp in Cumberland County.
The theory of the prison camp is that with the
privilege of living in the with light work and
opportunity for social recreation in his leisure hours
the convict is willing to out his sentence unless
paroed pardoned, and, moreover, that the privi-
lege appeals to his sense of honor.
But the prison camp system has not been long in
operation and there have been twentyeght convcts
who have shown that they have appreciation of a
humane privilege and have sense of honor. When
it becomes apparent that the prison camp merely al
open door for criminal to make off and resume his
evil courses better and safer way to conserve
convcts health and make his daily life pleasante
may be devised
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
By MARY MARSHALL.
NoVEM BER 20
Abigail Adams
Copyrighted 1914.

When John Adams went counting
Abigail Smith people said that he
wasn't good enough for Abigail. She
was the minister's daughter and he
was only a poor farmers son who
had begun to study law and would
probably never amount to anything.
But Abigail had her way, .the minister
gave his consent and they were mar
ried. Then by way OF explaining the
situation to his surprised congrega-
tion the minister chose for his text
on the following Sunday For John
came neither eating bread nor drink
ing wine and yet ye say he hath a
devil" Several years later when Abb
CALLS sister Mary was about to marry
Richard Cranch, who later became a
Judge of some eminence the minister
chose as his text. For Mary hath
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23

For
What wife will do
Thou knowest. IT'S her pleasure to
increase
The riches of the man whom she has
wed.--Homer
She is modest, but not bashful' Tree
and easy, but not bold,
Like an apple ripe and mellow, not
too young, and not too old.
Anonymous.
II to grow old in heaven is to grow
young
CAS- the Seer saw and said, then blest
were he
With youth forevermore, whose
heaven should be
True woman, she whom these weak
notes have sung.--D. G. Rossetti.
Woman! with that word,
Lies dearest hopes and memories
come; Truth, beauty, love, in her
adored,
And earth's lost paradise restored,
In the green bower Of home.-Halleck.
He that a good woman loves is
fenced against all evil.-Italian Prov
erb.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
Labor News

Canadian labor unions have $4,000
members.
Brazil's textile industry employs
| 100000 persons.
Toxic. Japan, has free lodging
| house.
This country's railroads employ
1881 900 persons.
In Malaga, Spain, shoemakers get
Ga to 70 cents a day.
Chicago, ILL.,, has 1900 union steam
filters.
Minneapolis contains 700 union
painters.
Cooks in Lyons. France, average
s12 month.
England's last census reports one
coachWoman.
There are 100000 wage-earners in
Canada.
There are 4S3 iron mines in the
United States, employing 65,176 per
sons.
The Laundry Workers Information
al Union has fifty-one local unions.
There are twenty-six fruit packing
schools in British Columbia.
Recent figures show Japan has over
425 900 female factory workers.
stoneeutters in Portland, Ore, are
now receiving seventy cents an
hour.
over 81, 900 women are in the en-
ploy of the British postoffice de-
partment.
! Oregon claims the distinction of
having been the first state to declare
Labor Day a legal holiday. The law
making it a holiday was passed in
1887.
Between $4,000 and 100000 Shantung
natives migrate to Manchuria each
year for the summer crops, returning
again in the fall or early winter.
There are 1884 children under four
teen employed in the cotton and knit
ting mills of the country, and more
children under fourteen and sixteen
in the textile mills II all kinds than
in any other group of industries.
With the exception Of Massachu-
sets, there is not a single large cot
ton manufacturing State that applies
a fourteen-year age limit without ex
emptions and attempts to limit to
eight hours the working day OF the
older children.
The Amalgamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes of America has PIP agree
ments with as many corporations
The last report of the general execu-
tive board shows that out of II
strikes, only one was lost.
The BARRIERS convention adopted
resolutions providing for an increas,
in the salaries of tHie following gen.
} eral officers of the union: President
: from $500 to 50 600 a year; secretary
49, 500 to $500 a year, and genera
organizer from 81. 500 to $1,000 a year
The offices of editor of the offlcia
journal and the general secretar,
= were combined.
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chosen that good part which shall not
be taken away from her" Apparent
ly the father of Abigail Adams had
goodly share of the sense of humor
and wit which was so characteristic
of the letters written by Abigail to
her husband.
Abigail Adams would always be re-
membered as a wife of one of the
Presidents of the United States, but
she has an additional cause for fame
She was one of the most brilliant and
can fairly be ranked as the most cele-
brated of all American women letter
writers.
Another famous woman born on
November 20 is Charlotte Grace
O'Brien, who was a celebrated Irish
author and reformer of the last cen
fury.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
An Ancient Censor.

From the Providence Bulletin.
Those who may think that the
European censorship of war news is
unduly severe are reminded of Sir
Roger L'Estrange. who, the London
Chronicle declares. was probably the
severest press censor recorded in Eng
iish history. Sir Roger was appointed
10 office in 1868, and he was an en-
husiast in his work. One of his
earliest suggestions was that the
number of master printers in London
oe reduced from sixty to twenty, that
printing offices be subject to inspec-
ion and have no back doors, and that,
in addition to ordinary reasonable
md seditious publications, culprits
onvicted of small infractions Of tbs
dw be condemned to wear some
ssible badge or mark OF infamy, as
.aSLGr instead of a hatband, one
t>cang blue and another red, blue
onnet with a red letter or :
POI q.
Sir Roger was opposed TO news
apers altogether. He said that the
eading of them makes the multitude
90 familiar with the actions anc
ounsels of their superiors, too prag-
nAtical and censorious, and gives
hem not only an itch but a kind o.
01orable right and license to be med
ling with the government" With
ensor o1 this character now in con
rol, there would be not only very
tile war news, but very little OF any
ing else beyond minor police items
tae repoVler would ue more thar
hoagh for any newspaper.
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post-nortem Praise

have noticed when fellow dies no matter he's been,
sanity chap whose life darky stepped in SIM
His forget bitter they spoke but yesterday
And they find multitude of pretty things to say.
| fancy when go to rest, will bring to light
Some kindly word goody long buried out of sight;
But If it's all the you, just give to instead
The bouquets while Pm living and the knocking while I'm dead
Don't your kisses to imprint upon marble brow
While countless maedictons hurled upon now;
Say kindly word while mourn here alone,
And don't save all your eulogy upon stone!
care If, when I'm dead, the Bloomngdae Gazette
Gives a wrteup with in mourning borders SET
II will not hater a bit, what is said,
kindly your and knock when I'm dead
may fine, when is dead have the folks talk So
To have relatives, know
have these things for those leave behind
But Just as far as Pm concerned, really do mind;
Pm quite alive and well today and while inger here,
Lend me helping times, give word of cheer,
lust change the game little Bit just kindly the decks
will Judge of flowers when ve cashed in my checks
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

necessary to wait for months and re-
construct the army before pressing
matters further; military observers
from this country were amazed that
after Sedan the German army was
ready to start for Paris on the same
day. This continuous action, upon
which Moltke's calculations depended,
was made possible by careful de-
velopment of the depot system. Each
division, each battalion had its du-
plicate in reserve, systematically pro-
viding fresh drafts. The normal
wastage for a year Is 40 per cent. for
infantry, 20 per cent for cavalry and
artillery, IL per cent. for the supply
service; thirty days after the troops
marched months draft was sent to
the front, and this system was kept
up with extra men to make good spe-
cial losses in a great battle. Thus
from first to last the machine wac
kept up to it's full efficiency, and this
is one of the factors that made the
Franco Prussian war so rapid. But
it must also make the continuous
lighting very deadly when such an
army is met on equal terms as in the
present war.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
WOMAN Before Her JUDGES

Against
A nice wife and q back door
Do often make rich man poor.
Anonymous.
Now what / love in women is they
won't
Or cant do otherwise than lie, and
do it
With such a grace that truth seems
falsehood to it. Byron.
'Tis not her hair, for sure in that
There's nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat,
Like any other woman.
Whitehead.
Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle
wiles,
Betraying smiles. feign'd tears, in
constancies!
Their painted .outsides, and cor
rupted minds
The sum of all their foilies and their
falsehoods? -Otway.
He that hath a fair wife never
wants trouble.-Old Proverb.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23

Stream of Intoxicants.
FAIRMONT, W. Va. Nov. $50
great has been the accumulation of
intoxicants in barrels, boxes, jugs
and bottles in the court house that
county officials are hampered in the
transaction of business, and it has
been decided to pour the stuff into
the Monongahela river 1t has been
conhscated since the Yost prohibit
ton law went into effect on July l.
1t is predicted that on the day all
this accumulation is poured into the
river the stream will become so
strongly impregnated that q few
drinks of water will be sufficient for
a jag"
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Replacing Fighting Men.

rom the Springfield Republican.
Zone reason why the Germans can
eep up so continuous an offensive
ampaign is to be found In their adj
iirable system for repairing the
astage of war, and thus keeping the
ORGANIZATIONS at the front up to some
sfing like tfeir full strength. In our
'9Sil War after a battle it was often
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Her Deduction.

I'm certain he loves me-" said the
suburban girl.
"HoW's that?"
at is four mile walk to town. He
misses the last car about twice a
week, but he still keeps calling -
Exchange
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assessed property in the State and therefore the
lowest taxed In any appeal to the sympathes of the
public of the State railroad representatives would do
well to avoid the subject of taxation.