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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

therefore make such trading come
within the law against trading with
the enemy"
Relation With Parent Houses Severed.
To avoid this the Hongkong ordi-
nance just passed provides that Ger
man and Austro- Hungarian firms in
Hongkong with German or Austrian
branches or parent houses may con-
tinue to do business if they so reor-
ganize as to separate their Hong
kong business from the German or
Austrian house. and also if they pay
all money received in trading and
make all remittances through British
banks in Hongkong.
This separation of the Hongkong
houses from those in Europe is, Of
course. very difficult matter, since
the capital invested in the concerns
usually is capital in common with all
the branches, since the partners in all
the. branches are the same or sub
stantially the same, and since credits
in Hongkong are based upon credits
granted the firm as. a whole. 1t Is an
nounced, however, that Hongkong
banks are in position in most cases
to grant the reorganized Hongkong
concerns credits upon the basis of the
general credits granted the original
firm. Most of the German and Aus
trian houses in Hongkong, therefore,
are recognizing and preparing to do
business as usual. changing the orig
inal name enough to indicate that
the firm is trading as a separate con-
Germ but at the same time not enough
to destroy it's good will and credit.
The United States is especially in
terested In the matter since the prin-
cipal American agencies, aside from
Il F,f,lax 40
here, are held by German firms, and
American business has already been
seriously affected by the inability of
these firms to continue business in
the usual way Under the new ar
rangement there seems to be no rea-
son why business in volume COM
mensurate with demand here for
American goods should not be main
tanned AS matter of fact, trade
with the United States only is likely
to be possible for German and Aus
TRAN firms for some time to come.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

In a report recently issued by the
United States Geological Survey on
the source. manufacture and use of
lime, some very interesting and edu-
cationai data is given on the use of
lime as L fertilizer which embody the
views on this subject of a number OF
our most prominent agriculturists.
The report dealing with the subject
of agricultural lime states that the
use of lime an a fertilizer dates from
the inception OF modern scientific
farming. Agricultural chemists have
shown that there are five or six dit
ferent functions which lime may
perform to benefit a soil, which may
be summarized briefly as follows:
1. It Is an essential element OF plant
food. 2. It aids in the conversion Of
decayinK organic matter into humus.
3. It forms compounds with the humic
acids which tend to prevent their
being ieached out of the soil and lost.
4. BY producing proper sanitary con-
ditions the growth OF injurious bac-
terra is largely prevented. while the
growth of nitrifying bacteria is en-
Outraged. These nitrifying bacteria
convert the nitrogen of the humus
into q form such that it tis available
as a plant food. 8. Lime aids in the
liberation of potash and phosphorus
from inert compounds. 6. 1t tends to
fiocoulate clay soils, rendering them
granular and more porous.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
THE PEOPLES INVESTMENTS AND MONEY.

a most encouraging evidence that the people of
New Jersey stand solid ground financially and are
prepared to utilize the opportunities that the
year is bound to bring them in the of restored
business and industrial activities is the remarkable
annual report building and loan investments by
State Commissioner LaMonte.
During the past year the assets of the building
and loan associations showed an increase of $13,-
$4,000. The average for previous years was about
one-haH of that The increase in membership
also exceeded that of former years and there
upward of 265 900 investors in the associations Only
other States exceed these figures, and, popula-
ton considered New Jersey stands first.
With upward of s135 900 600 of deposits in the
savings banks of the State, with the increasing
in the postal savings banks added, the people
have in reserve another enormous resource. But
these items do not represent all the Immediately
available wealth of the people of New Jersey, and
mostly Of the wage-earners, for millions Of their
money held by other banking institutions How
much wealth is hidden in old stockings is shrewdly
coniectured to be considerable at this time, but it
belongs to the general Of the great financial
sources Of the thrifty population of the State.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
A,mR1oAN sENr1MENr ANp AMERIcAN ARMS.

According to Secretary Redheld, of the depart
ment of commerce. there are about $1,000 factories
"a the United States that manufacture munitions
Of All of these establishments be greatly
enlarged that their productive capacity may be
doubled trebled
The European nations at had full sup
plies OF munitions when the began and they pos
the means of manufacturing material, but
the enormous waste is too much of a tax their
own resources and it is that immense orders have
TO this country. These orders will keep in
oreasing, for the proceeds the arms factories
of Europe will for various causes diminish their
output.
Germany and Austria, isolated, can have no re-
course to a foreign supply and therefore must de-
pend domestic supply. Except in those countries
the munitions of war branded Made in America"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
BARRED FROM A HIGH CALLING.

The official report that than hundred
would-be students turned away from the State
Normal School at Trenton last year because there
was no room for them emphasizes the plea made re-
Gently by State Commissioner Kendall for another
normal school in South Jersey. 1t is a shame the
that many young people in this State mostly
girls anxious TO fit themselves for earning living
in the high calling of education, should be deprived
of the opportunity because Legislature after an
other shuts the door of hope in their faces.
The State commissioner of education has shown
New Jerseys great deficiency in normal school facli-
ties and the fact that the school districts have to
largely depend annual supply of teachers from
other States.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
RICHARD cANFIELD's WILL.

The estate of Richard Garfield, the noted New
York gambler is shown by his will, probated yester-
day, to amount to million dollars, the winnings" of
his gambling places. 1t represents the profits of
the two paatal gambling resorts conducted By Can
field and the increase from their Investments. And
the of this wealth left no public requests.
Many a man was beggared at Canfelds gambling
tables. Probably not a few who today destitute
were victims of the destinations with which Garfield
invested his palaces. Garfield forgot these victims
of passion he catered to. He obvious of the
fact that he owed some PREPARATION to society. He
left no public requests out of his million of estate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Confederate General Saw the Truth

dence to take them across
New York city as speedily
and secretly as possible, SO that
they might be safely placed in the
through train for Boston. No one.
suspected that the two officers
placed aboard the train had recently
served in the Confederate army. Al
the various stopping places between
New York and Boston General Ker-
shaw and his son saw great thrOngs
assembled at the railway stations and
in the streets. At Bridgeport, at
New Haven, at Hartford and al
Springfield throngs were gathered
and conspicuous among them were
young men of military age, but who
appeared to be clerks or in civil life
some OF them mechanics. They were
waiting to learn any additional news
about the assassination
After the train left Springfield Gem
eral Kershaw said to his son: 81
have been observing very strange
thing from the car window. l have
seen thousands of young men at the
various railroad stations. l have sesn
smoke rising from the factory chirn-
nsys, indicating that manufacturing
is in progress everywhere. / have
seen busy streets, 50 far as that has
been possible from the car window.
All this has been a revelation to me.
Ny son, we were often told-and most
OF us believed the report--sthat In the
North there was as great exhRng
ton 80 that we are familiar with sn
the South. For that reason We were
persuaded that the North could nog
carry on the war much longer. But
what have l seen? have seen young
men In great numbers at the stations
and on the public streets. We haven't
seen anything of that kind in th~
South. have seen industry and buei-
ness In progress everywhere. I hayen,e
seen anything to indicate that a sreas
war has been in progress. 1t occurs
to me that we were all mistaken. ]
now see that this war, 80 far as the
North was concerned, could have been
continued for years, and I Will say
to you that, not from a military point
of view, but from the point OF view
of resources. the Confederacy wzs
doomed at least two years ago."
copyright, 1914, by r. J. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
Two Kinds of Camps.

From the Cleveland Leader.
I'VE shall not turn America into
an armed camp" That is one of the
striking declarations in President Will
sons latest message TO Congress. Mr..
Wilson, in what seems a half-heart-
ed defense of the ultra-extreme anti
militarism of some Of his administra-
tion officials, has here betrayed him
self into an unfairness not character
istic of him. Nobody wants to turn
America into an armed camp in the
sense obviously intended by him. But
in the case Of an attempted invasion
of this country by one or more ma
tons strong in regiments and war
ships, we should be prepared to turn
it into an armed camp if need be. And
those who protest the most vehement
ly that there never can be such an
invasion We're equally positive not
many weeks ago that the present Eu-
ropean war was impossible. Wars
spring out of conditions which ~are
sometimes uncomfortable and created
with lightning suddenness, and
all the theories, convictions and senti-
ment in the world can't change those
conditions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

That the Danish folk high schools
for "grownups," which have made
possible the recent wonderful develop
ment in rural Denmark, can be sue
cessfully transplanted in modified
form to the United States, is the con-
clusion reached by II. w. Foght, of
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton, In a bulletin just Issued Mr..
Foght has studied both the Danish
schools and American rural conditions
at first hand, and he believes that
what the folk high schools have done
for rural civilization in Denmark they
can do for the United States.
The place to introduce the new type
of school Is the region known as the
South Atlantic Highland, according
to Mr., Foght, embracing all of West
Virginia. AZ counties in western Vir-
ginia; % in western North Carolina,
and in western South Carolina; 20 in
northern Georgia, II in northeastern
Alabama, As in eastern Tennessee, and
SO in eastern Kentucky. 1t is not that
these sections are necessarily behind
other parts of the country in educa-
ton, though much ilhteracy preValls,
hut that the peculiar local conditions
demand some institution like the
Danish schools.
There are already a few folk high
schools in the United States, estab-
lished by Danish immigrants. While
grave difficulties have been expert
enced by these schools, Mr.. Foght is
of the opinion that they are due to
certain special causes that could
easily be overcome in real attempt
to adopt the folk high school to Amer
lean life In the mountains.
'sThe folk high school spirit has
emancipated the agricultural popula-
ton of Denmark" declares Mr.. Foght
"It has at least made country people
the peers of their city brethren. They
have become leaders in affairs, in pro-
duction, In distribution, in politics
chiefly because they have learned tc
think for themselves and to act indie
pendently of the industrial classes.
"In the United States there is grea'
danger of going to the extreme in the
| Immediately practical and technical
The work of special schools is in dan
ger of focusing too much on making
two blades of grass grow where one
grew before, on teaching girls to cool
and keep house, according to sanitar!
regulations and the like.
These things are all necessary ant
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

Rev. Dr.. John Kershaw, who Is
now the rector of the venerable St.
Michaels Church at Charleston, S.
C.. church around which are ASSOC
ciated many traditions of romantic
interest, is a son of General Joseph
b. Kershaw, who was one OF the
highly distinguished officers of the
Confederate army. Not until he was
about sixteen years OF age was ne
able to take service under the Con-
federate flag He was sixteen years
of age about four or five months De-
fore the close of the war, and, young
as he was, he was then= accepted as
a soldier. He was assigned to a ,po-
sition upon the staff of his father,
and was in that service during the
siege of Richmond, and was with his
father when the retreat from Rich
mond began. With his father, he was
captured at the battle of Sailors
creek on April 6, three days before
Appomattox. He and his father
were brought as prisoners to Gen.
eral Custer, who was in command
of the troops that had made the
capture. In fact, General Custer
caused search to be made for the
son, who in some way had been sep
araIeQ from MS Iatnef. az tue tnho
both were made prisoners, and 1t
was General Custer who restored the
son TO the father
A few days after Grant and Lee
met at Appamattox Court House VII
lRge General Kershaw and his son
were sent North for the purpose of
holding them as prisoners Of war at
Fort Warren, in Boston harbor. Thcy
parted from General Custer as
though the relation WIS one OF
friendship not msrred in any way by
military differences.
When the train arrived in Jersey
City, General Kershaw heard great
shouting, and, looking from the car
window, he saw o large company of
excited men and boys. Newsboys
were running hither and thither, and
from one of them General Kershaw
bought paper and learned that
President Lincoln had been assassi-
mated tho night before at Washing
ton.
The soldiers who had General Ksr-
shaw and his son III charge were con-
vinced that &c was the part of pri-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HHRsHBERe.
A. B., NJ A., NJ. D. (yohn Hopkins

thoric condition, OF an excess OF
blood either in quality or quantity.
are constantly covered with bushes
without cause. Men and women of
middle life who eat too heartily day
and night are usually so supersatu
rated with rich blood that they blush
day and night like an Americans
Beauty. Such individuals are ever
in danger of apoplexy from too high
a blood pressure.
why Anizaals psu't niush.
Men blush less for their crimes
than for their follies. Bushes aFa
apt to be for sins or the knowledge
Of what Is sinful.
The physiologic mechanism 81
blushing means that the fiesh, tks
senses, the blood, the nerves, the
channels, the muscles. tho tendons
and the other structures of the anat-
onny must be in perfect balance ana
health in order to transmit the mes-
sages which give rise to blushing.
Animals do not blush because they
are not conscious either OF their APP
petites or of their knowledge. In
short, the brute world lacks the self
consciousness and internal discipline
of the intellect and the will, there
fore they cannot blush.
Or. HirshberE will saswer ausstlsas
for readers of this paper On medical.
hyslenic and sanitation subjects that efs
Of general interest. He will not undcF-
take TO prescribe or ozfsr advice for In
dividual cases. Where the subject h not
of general interest letters will he an
swersd personally, IL = stamped and adj
dressed envelope IL enclosed. Address -
Inquiries TO Or. L. n. HirshbeRs, care
this once. y
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
Wanted; Trade Commission Of Highest

Whhteds Ifhde NohInlbsioh ot hHncet
CaIibre.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The Interstate Trade Commission
will have enormous powers. Into
every business of considerable size
this body of five men can pry at will.
1t can examine every book,
scrutinize every purchase, examine
every sale, and investigate every is
sue Of new capital
There will be no business secrets
TOO sacred for the gaze Of these gov
eminent employees. Payrolls, sal
aries, methods of obtaining custom
ers, means of outwitting compeu
tors, and every trade method viii be
open for inspection.
But the Trade Commission can go
much further than penetrate into
into every business mans office and
demand the fullest details Of every
conceivable transaction. 1t can COM
pei obedience to its orders; it can
overrule, veto and upset.
Possessing powers of inquisition
that would have struck dumb with
horror the freedom-loving fathers of
our country, the Trade Commission
should at least be composed of men
Of the greatest integrity, the sound
est Judgment and the highest moral
courage. Here is no place for
political tricksters and demagogues.
These five men must be big and
broad-guage enough to regard them
selves not as executioners whose
chief duty is to punish, but as adj
ministrators whose aim is to help.
Five men Of United States Supreme
Court calibre and courage should
comprise that commission. Presi-
dent Wilson can, during the re-
mainder of his administration, per-
form no other service more import
ant than that of making the first
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

Laura was precocious and as soon
as a little advance was made in in
structing her she seemed to be abso-
lutely transformed. She became bet
ter in spirits and health and learned
more rapidly than any of the other
blind children in the school, In spite
of her double misfortune.
One of the most wonderful things
about Laura Bridgman was her
dreams which used to so on inceS-
sanity throughout her sleep. She was
wildly aware of these dreams and
as soon as she had learned to use
the sign language with her fingers
she used to spell these dreams on her
fingers as she slept.
Laura Bridgman lived life full Of
usefulness in spite of her misfortune
and became one of the most success
full teachers at the Perkins Institu-
ton for the Blind.
Another well-known woman born
on December 81 is Marion Harland.
whose real name is Mary Virginia
Terhune. She was born in Virginia
in 1881 and aside from her cook
books for which she is best known
has written several very successful
works of fiction, including Alone"
which sold to the extent of 100000
copies.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
Schools Like Denmark's for the United States

must be taught in the schools, but
they are utterly insufficient to make
us really great agricultural nation.
1t was not the local agricultural
schools and household economics
schools that primarily made Denmark
a great scientific agricultural nation,
but the folk high schools. We need
such schools in the United States;
schools that would teach greater
love for the soil; that would help US to
measure the good life by spiritual
standards, and not by man-made
rules; schools that would help us TO
rise above the limitations of locality
and state, and teach an understand
ing of the national and even universal
in the United States
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
DECEMBER II
Laura Bridgnan
Copyrighted 1914.
By MARY MARSHALL.

Next 10 Helen Keller there was
never a more interesting example OF
the person handicapped by being at
the same time deaf, dumb and blind
than Laura BidgmRn. She was born
In 1929, four days before Christmas
Day, and when she was two years old
occurred the fever which left her de-
prived of the three senses of speech,
sight and hearing. For several years
the child learned nothing and ap-
parently knew nothing of the outside
world. She had a wonderful faculty
of imitation and managed to become
very clever at knitting. But she
dwelt in a world of darkness and
silence and might have continued in
that plight had it not been for the
fact that she was sent to Perkins
Institution for the Blind, in Boston
She was eight when she was sent
to this school, and almost from the
first she attracted the interest and
attention of DR.. Howe, who since be-
came celebrated as the teacher OF
Laura BridgTnan. 1t has often been
said that he was one Of the most
wonderful instructors of all times
because of the marvellous work he
did with this helpless, untutored
child
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

Trade Commission of such command
ing ability that it will set a high
precedent for all time to come.
Neutrality and the Sale Of Arms,
From the Springfield Republican.
The sale for use abroad of num-
tons of war is troubling the con-
sciences of some people for various
reasons, some of which are based on
misrepresentation. Those whose oppo-
sition to war on general principles
takes the form of regarding as essen
tally wicked any traffic in weapons
or other supplies for carrying 1t on,
are logical enough in their disappro
baton now, but their logic oblges
them to go further and denounce all
ornaments, the abolition Of which
would rejoice many who do not con-
ceive it to be possible at the present
time. individuals who regard tho
manufacture and sale of weapons as
under no circumstances justified, of
course, win not participate in 1t
themselves, but neither have they
any ground for interfering with 9TH
ers who see duty differently and hold
that the world still has need of gun
makers.
Possibly larger NUMBER or per-
sons are affected by the mistaken be-
lief that it is contrary to interna-
tional law for neutral states to per-
nit their citizens to trade in war
material destined for the use OF bel
ligerents. This confusion is natural
| enough, because for a neutral gov
eminent itself to SELL lend or give
weapons or money to belligerent
power would be an unneutral act
But this does not impose upon a neu-
trial government the duty of pre-
venting it's citizens from making and
! selling munitions of war.
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IS Fourteenth avenue.
o the Editor of the Evening Star:

TO the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir: Among the political
events of the day, chronicled in your
newspaper. I was pleased to note the
appointment of Themistocles Man
-Ungaro as police magistrate of
the city of Newark by Mayor-elect
Thomas L. Raymond.
This Is an appointment which
cannot too highly commend. In 1t
Judge Raymond has conferred recog-
milton upon very important element
III this community, the Italian. In
addition to this fact, and what is far
more important, the appointee pos
sesses all the qualifications necessary
to fill the position for which he has
been selected with credit and dis
tinction. He is q man OF unsullied
integrity and one who is endowed
with a marked degree of common
sense, legal knowledge, and, above
all, a kindly heart, which, to my
mind, is much to be desired in the
performance of the duties which will
be assigned to him.
have no doubt that, in his judi
cial department, Mr.. Mancusi- Ungaro
viii reflect credit upon himself and
upon the mayor-elect. Yours truly,
NICHOLAS ALBANO.
December 49, 1914.