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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
Schools and Epidemics

Doubt as to the wisdom of closing
schools in epidemics of contagious
disease Is expressed by DR.. Francis
George Curtis, of Newton, Mass, in
bulletin on the Health of School
Children" just issued by the Bureau
of Education He says: IF the
schools are closed when an outbreak
occurs the children are turned loose
from supervision; they mingle freely
with one another in the streets, on
Fairgrounds, and in each others
houses. They are having an extra
vacation and enjoying themselves
thoroughly and are unwilling to adj
nit that they feel i'll, lest they be
kept at home and prevented from
having O. good time. For this reason
they with not say they feel i'll until
the disease is we'll advanced, and
they may be active sources of infec-
ton for some time before it Is dis
covered that they are i'll.
''If the schools are kept open and
the children continue in the class
rooms as usual, they are under strict
observation and examined daily by
the school physician, suspicious and
infected cases being sent home for
observation or treatment.
"In this way many children. are
sent home before they have had an
opportunity to infect others, thus re-
ducing the probability of spreading
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
The Original Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner," the familiar
nursery rhyme, had its origin in q
real tragedy, according to the story
that the London correspondent of the
New York Sun tells.
During the Reformation, the head
of Glastonbury Abbey in the west Of
England resolved to make his peace
with Henry VIII, and, in token
thereof, sent certain title-deeds Of
abbey property to the king at White
hall. For security's sake, the abbot
placed the documents in pie dish.
and covered them with crust. The
dish he gave to a rustic lout, named
Jack Horner, and he told him to
carry 1t by the highroad to the king
in London
On the road, Jack Horner became
hungry, and came to the conclusion
that it would be foolish to starve
while he had pie in his hands. So
he broke the crust and put in his
thumb and pulled out a roll OF parch-
ment. The disgusted and disap-
pointed fellow threw both pie and
parchment into n nearby brook.
When the deeds did not appear, the
king charged the abbot with contu-
macy, and commanded that the un-
frotunate cleric should be hanged.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
THE RocKAwAY AND THE PEQuANNooK.

Jersey City discovers that If the Rockaway water
shed is to be rldded its sewage contamination the
city must pay the Newark realized long ago
that the Pequannock watershed which is far superior
must be relieved of its nusances at municipal ex-
pense, and the city has since bought thousands of
acres of land and abolished many of pollution.
Only recently the Newark Board OF Works acquired
the ownership of extensive tracts at New Foundland
and will raze the buildings thereon.
In the Pequannock Valley there were less than
half a dozen small industries when the water con-
tract made and these finally disappeared Jersey
City, the other hand has to deal with the town of
Dover and several other manufacturing centres in its
watershed, which turned over to the city with
all its sources of pollution untouched
For Dover, which naturally slopes and sewers into
the Rockaway the only remedy is diyertng sewer
and disposal works, and Dover won't pay the cost,
while the court decided that the town cannot be
compelled to pay the problem is for Jersey City
to solve Nor is Dover, by reason Of its location,
the only problem in a watershed that has many
sources of pollution and is likely to be increasingly
contaminated.
Jersey City paid much for its Rockaway
water supply plant than Newark paid for the Pequan-
delay and litigation and in the end Jersey City will
pay much more for the abolition of it's watershed
nusances than the large amount this city has already
spent in making the water supply secure from pol
luton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
BILLY" SUNDAY in PATTERSON.

The redoubtable Billy Sunday having completed
his two weeks rest from his work in the
Quaker City, will Sunday next begin a six weeks
revival campaign in the SILK City where next satur
day he will be met by four brass bands and drum
corps heading a procession of the congregations of
various churches Mr.. Sunday is to arrive in Newark
his way Paterson and will doubtless be greeted
by large crowd, attracted by well-earned celebrity
Paterson has a character of its own. manufac-
turing town. its population is largely foreign-born.
With total population Of 1875 900, the city had at
the time of the last only 1882 inhabitants of
native parentage, 5O,179 of foreign birth and
45,ssS were OF foreign or mixed parentage. OF the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
The Southern Clean-Up

Ever since the womenfolk set about
house cleaning the city of New Or
leans, years ago, other cities of the
South have developed a passion for
good drainage, pure water, the de-
struction of flies, mosquitoes and rats
and for sanitary conditions generally.
The Boards of Health of some of
out Northeastern cities would have
rubbed their eyes could they have
seen a recent health exhibition in
Jacksonville-the showing made. for
example, by the Carolinas, Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana, says tho
Delineator.
Take, for instance, the small city
of Greenville, s. c., in some respects
a model, being progressive and sani-
tary, and this mainly through the
vigorous work of a young doctor The
fine old city of Mobile is hotfoot in
pursuit of microbes The State of
North Carolina is in full cry after
patent medicines. And these are by
no means the only cases of marked
activity.
We of the North have the powerful
cooperation of Doctor Jack Frost
But some of us need to be stung by
him to greater energy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01

Short Work Hours Best Both for You
and Business.
All play and no work makes Jack
| almost as dull a boy as no play and
all work. 1t is truly fiabbergasting
to an experimental psychologist, as
well as to a practical physiologlst, to
! note the descent of man. Go to the
Indian schools and colleges. Observe
| the dapper, effete, well-dressed,
effeminate-looking Mohican or Sioux
There he sits as foppish as Louis
XIV. or Charles I.
Conjure up beside him in your
minds eye the vigorous, manly, agile,
strong man in war paint. feathers
and little else. There he sits astride
his bareback mount. They leap
across chasms and dash about the
plains. You'll never look upon his
like again. He was man.
Civilized man rides in comfort and
luxury in elevators, subways, surface
cars, automobiles, motor boats,
cycles; he sits In upholstered chairs
when he eats, shops and works. Even
the farmer reads the latest expert
mental station report while astride of
his plough or reaper.
Observation-Disclosures Crime.
Nay, even hunting, fishing, farm
ing and boating are lackadaisical, in
dolent pleasures, safeguarded from
almost all danger or exertion. In
door life enervates even the agricul-
turist and the hunter.
Should you ask me what is the
greatest felony to be laid at the door
of civilization, I should answer with
out hesitation, the humdrum monot-
ony of the days work. Should you
ask also what is the greatest weak
ness in the rational animal man, ]
should say his cadency to acQuiesce
in monotony.
That is to say, the ease with which
industrial workers no less than mer-
chant princes succumb to habit, rou-
tine and monotony is poisoned dart
in the balance of health-physical and
intellectual
Variety is more than a dash of red
pepper to vitality. Efficiency, initia-
tive, earning power. creative ingenu-
ity and the capacity to resist acci-
dents and disease depend upon 1t.
The slow, steady grind should never
be maintained for more than a few
hours. Physical equilibrium is a
greater argument against excessive
hours of work than is trades union
ism. The tissue waste and muscular
debris which collects from many
labor hours invites disaster. The
maladies misnamed rheumatism,
indigestion, nervousness and
''hver trouble are the smallest price,
years of invalidism in bed among the
greatest prices, to be paid for steady
machine-like routine.
Child Labor wastefui.
Visit the wards in any hospital and
you will almost unconsciously point
out those most injured by the illnesses
OF long hours. The pinched and hag-
gard faces of the seamstress, the
housemaid, the cook, the jog-trotting
piece maker of the factory which
does not provide relaxation, novelty
and light, will make you, more hap
PLY situated, feel the qualms of con-
science.
The reason some factory workers
succeed and some manufacturers rule
their fields of endeavor Is to be found
in the amount of sunlight, fresh air
sanitary arrangements, surrounding
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
BIsMARCK's BIRTHDAY.

This is Bismareks birthday, the one hundredth
anniversary of the nativity of the Iron Chancellor,
and no one Teuton born of Teutonc descent need
be reminded the fact for Germans forget ira
ditions incidents dates that in any interest the
race.
And Bismarck, his personality. his achievements
and his wonderful craftsmanship unfading mem-
ories They revived and vivifed by the great
struggle engrossng all Europe and threatening
to involve neutral nations elsewhere Today the Teu-
soldier in the trenches, the in the open
battles land will fight the harder to the
empire that builded upon the Bismarck states
manship.
And today the world has its eyes the kaiser
If he loses in the stupendous now in progress
blame will to him; if successful the world will
proclaim him greater man than Bismarck.
But whatever the outcome of the war, the name
Bismarck will always be cherished for what he ac-
complished for Germany, and deservedly so.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01

clothes and to amuse themselves
without any serious purpose, came t0
its logical and proper fruition yester-
day, when Judge Roy sentenced
Alfred Assman to two and one-half
gears in Sing Sing.
Assman was the perfect type OF
that kind OF well-dressed loafer who
despises work and imagines he can
live by his wits. He Is only twenty
one, yet he admitted six burglaries
in court, and the police accused him
of nearly thirty-one. He came from
good neighborhood on the Park
slope, and when his family got tired
of his ways he took a room at the
Waldorf Astoria and conducted a
series of burglaries to get the money
to maintain his life of well-dressed
idleness. He seemed, too, to have
had some kind of notion that the
criminal law was not made for we'll
dressed fellows of good family con-
nections, for he pleaded for leniency
on the ground that he had made
restitution for his thefts.
Judge Roy wisely refused to see
the matter in that light There are
altogether too many boys who have
started along the road that leads to
Assman's end. Most of them have
| not got further than charging up
bills to their fathers, or begging or
pilfering from their families, but un-
less they can be made ambitious to
| do some real work IN the world in
stead OF living without work, they will
either go as Assman has gone or else
end in the gutter. 1t is a wholesome
thing to make them see the whole
of the road on which they have
ntered. and this case opens it be.
| fore them
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
SECRETARY GARRIsoN's PREPAREDNESS.

That the translation of Secretary Garrison from
the war department at Washington TO a New Jersey
judgeship would simply be out of all question is the
emphatic judgment of every American citizen who has
observed the course Of Mr. Garrison secretary who
understands the great and vital demands upon the
war department and the paramount necessity of
having at its head of Mr.. Garrisons oalibre.
Three years ago the general staff of the army
elaborated plan for the development of a sound
military policy for this nation. The plan pigeon
noled by Congress- Secretary Garrison does not pro-
pose to have this plan adopted III the last three
years much has happened in the world to make it
obsolete and since last August tremendous lessons
been taught by the war in Europe both for our
army and navy. Secretary Garrison proposes a new
study by the general staff and the principal army
officers for statement of policy for the military
defenses of the nation in time of peace, looking to
rapid and efficient development" TO the necessary
extent in case of war.
In other words, preparedness, which means insur-
ance The nation in its defenses is utterly unpre-
pared fact that has been forced upon the mind
of Congress Secretary Garrison would have the sub
ct presented to Congress and the country that 1t
could be clearly understood and without any coorng
nation cannot be prepared in week or month
or year in the essentials for its defense, which also
include the means for ofense 1t will take several
years and great efforts place this country in
dtion to repe foreign attack and when the country
in that condition it will be free from any attack.
When the consequences of considered who
would be foolish to oppose the very means to be
adopted to avert war?
Secretary Garrison Is the first war secretary to
compel the attention of Congress to the of
land defenses. He has the confidence of the
American people. He is the first secretary in many
years to have a grasp OF the situation and to know
how to apply the remedy. 1t is pity that this
patriotic and capable Jerseyman not the secre-
tary during the Spanish American War. II he had
been the nation would probably be well prepared
today
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01

.Since I have been 6, member OF
Congress In both the lower and the
upper houses I have been close
student of the personal character
of members, and have learned many
things about one and another which
have been very interesting and OF
which the public have had no knowl-
edge" This statement was made to
me by the late William P. Frye, OF
Maine, whose service in Congress was
for almost generation Of time. be-
ginning few years after the close
of the Civil War.
Senator Frye was probably one or
the best liked members of Congress
who ever sat in either the upper or
lower house Some of his colleagues
were sometimes Of the opinion that II
he had devoted less time to the gain
ing and maintaining of friendship and
more to the preparation of speeches
he would have gained higher ma
tional reputation than he did possess.
When he first went to Congress he
early gained q fine reputation as a
speaker. He was of dignified presence;
he possessed a voice wonderfully Mt
ted for public speaking, of a musi'
cal, but not monotonous quality, and
was able distinctly to enunciate with
out straining his voice. The cordial
ity of his nature and his willingness
to overlook some intellectual or tenn
peramental weakness and to regard
only those qualities as worthy of at
| tention which revealed the better side
! of a members intellect or tempera-
ment made 1t possible for him to
maintain friendships which other
Senators found difficult to establish.
Senator Frye spoke to me of his re-
lations with the late Isham G.. Har-
ris. who was for nearly a quarter OF
a. century a representative of Ten
/ nessee in the United States Senate.
"I learned early in life, and my
knowledge was afterward confirmed
by my experience in Congress, that
| the man to beware of was the one
who had a constant smile, con-
tinuous display of his teeth. He was
the man to be dreaded and constantly
to guard oneself against" said SEN
| ator Frye.
! "On the other hand, the member OF
Congress who was peppery, who few
off the handle at the slightest pretext
who seemed to revel in Indignation
was likely to be man of kindness
at heart and worthy to establish cor
dial friendship with. This was espe-
cially true of Senator Harris, of Ten.
nessee. There were times when
could not keep my eyes off his face az
he sat at his desk in the Senate cham
ber. with his sallow complexion, hii
bright, small eyes and his fierce mus
tache standing out at an angle will
his cheeks, which made me think o.
a Chinese mandarin. He was ths
most peppery man in the Senate
Sometimes those on our side of thi
chamber who we're mischievously dis
posed designedly stirred him up 81
THAT we might enjoy his display O
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
UPLIFT TALKS
STARTING SUCCESS CURRENTS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author Of ''Pushing TO the Front" Etc
Copyright 1916.

Water cannot help seeking lower
level. It is always trying to find its
centre. Everything gravitates as
the largest mass.
The water in the river feels the pull
of the ocean; the ocean feels the pull
of gravitation from the centre of the
earth. If you throw a stick OF
stone into the air 1t comes down be-
cause 1t feels the pull of grayitation
Everything tends toward it's affinity
When you catch ball which is trying
to get to the earth you merely in
terfere with the force of gravitation.
The ball cannot get to the ground un-
til you release 1t.
If you are not gravitating toward
the goal of your ambition you have
somehow interfered with the law
Your course has been arrested by
something in yourself. You are OBJ
structing the law of gravitation. The
law is there always ready to act as
soon as you remove the obstruction
IN its way; 1t will work unerringly.
If you feel discouraged because you
are not getting on, you will find you
are not making a proper effort to get
on. This is the reason why the force
which should pull you to your goal
cannot act. Something has arrested
your progress, and that something is
mental stumbling block which you
yourself put in your path. You are
not thinking yourself on, you are not
putting yourself into the getting on
current. Discouragement and doubt
are the stumbling blocks which are
neutralizing the pulling force which
would naturally take you to your
goal
Unless you aspire to higher place
than you are now filling, to something
beyond, something little above you
and little farther on, unless you
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A B., NJ. A., NJ. d. (John Hopkins).

shrubbery, and hygienic plumbing
obtained by the one and supplied by
the other.
Men who must work under artificial
light, poor daylight or with gas illu-
mination will earn less and spend
much on doctors and drugs. The
owner of such a factory is as unwise
as he who compels a race horse to
carry overweight. He obtains In labor
less than he pays for and is destined
10 receive ultimately less and less.
If this much may be said of full
blown workers, what must be told oil
children with their undeveloped tex
lures, their putty-like bones, their
uncovered nerves and barely born
reason? Any manufacturer who suf-
fers little children to come to work
for him Is wofully deluded as to the
cheapness Of child labor. 1t Is costly
in health and strength to them; it is
much more costly in income. dollars,
cents and efficiency to him. Mill
cities, where children are employed,
have a lesser output and a more de-
fective product than other places
under equal conditions where laws
forbid child labor.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01

picture yourself as forging ahead to
that place, or actually in it, you are
killing the forces which would pun
| you there.
If you cultivate positive thoughts
positive qualities by perpetuaily af-
firming the thing you long for and
everlastingly struggling toward It
with all your might, you are strength
ening the current that will pull you
| toward your hearts desire.
Things of kind pull together, and
| If you assemble a lot of negative
thoughts, doubts, fears and cowardice
you are creating a counter-current
which is taking you right away from
the things you desire.
You must see yourself above
clerkship or you will never be any
thing higher than clerk. You must
vizualize yourself in a better position
and hold constantly grim determi-
nation to reach it or you will never
get there.
If Marshall Field had stopped think
ing himself higher up when the man
| he worked for in the little Springfield
store predicted that he would never
succeed as a merchant. he never
would have been heard from. But
Deacon Davis's telling Marshall
Fields father that the boy would not
make a salesman IN a thousand years
did not stop him thinking himself
ahead. ION to Chicago" he said to
| himself, 'the city of opportunity"
and on and up he went, until the
provincial merchant who had pre-
dicted his failure was a Lilliputian
| In comparison.
II young Field had been satisfied
with himself at the start he never
could have become one of the greatest
merchants the world has seen. And
you will stay forever in q little
picayune job If you don't think and
! work yourself above It.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01

infection. Further than this, the at
tention of the parents is called to the
fact that the child Is feeling Ill and
he Is brought under treatment earlier.
"It seems, therefore, that keeping
the schools open offers the best
chance of safety for the pupils, both
collectively and individually.
Instead of closing the schools and
allowing the children to be scat
tered and removed from supervision
when an outbreak appears the schools
should be kept open as usual and the
children urged to attend. The school
physician and nurse should be de-
tailed to the school where the OUT.
break has appeared and instructed
to examine every child daily, exclud-
ing such as appear ill or suspicious
This can be done with very little dis
turbance of the school work A note
must be sent to the parent stating
that the child seems, OF is, Ill and
must be seen by the family physi-
clan. Suspicious cases must be or
dered to remain at home until fur
ther notice, and, if necessary, must
be visited in order to settle the dag
nosis. Absentees must be rounded
up and examined In order to find out
why they have. been kept at homes
If they are Ill they must be isolated
and il well urged to return to
school"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY

irritation. One time he caught me at
this and he aimed at me a perfect
volley of verbal fireworks. He did
not realize how many Of us were
slyly chuckling. Any one would have
thought that we were to be forever
enemies, but knew that after he
finished his remarks he would become
the gentlest OF men and would have
no anlmosity for me. In fact, an
hour or two after this attack met
him in the cloakroom. He put his
arm around me and said kind things
and you would have thought that
never since our acquaintance be-
gan had there been the slightest cause
for irritation on the part of either
one of us toward the other.
81 think the senators recognized
that Harris's display of pepper was a
purely superficial attribute, for don't
know of any Senator for whom a
more sincere regard was felt by all
the Senators than for him. There
were others who never got angry, who
were always placid apparently, who
nevertheless could not count many of
the Senators as their stanch friends" !"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
Mr.. Carr to Senator Colgate

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir:-Will you please allow me
space in your paper to say that I
mailed to Senator Austen Colgate a
sheet of the Evening Star on which
was, printed my open letter asking
him:
"Will you vote for or against the
State constabulary bill in the Senate,
No. 163. If it comes to vote in the
Senator"
In justice to Senator Colgate l
think that the citizens interested in
that bill should know that I have rer
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-01
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
BY MARY MARSHALL.
APRIL
Agnes Reppiier
Copyright. 1915.

"One of the pleasant characteristics
of Miss Repplier's books is her lively
interest In children. This she has
drawn from recollections of her
youth, and indeed so vivid a memory
has she always been blessed with
that even the droll incidents of her
babyhood are woven into her
sprightly talk as they have fire.
quently been in her written pages"
In these words speaks an admirer OF
the well-known writer, Miss Agnes
Repplier, whose birthday falls on
April /. She was born in 1859 in
Philadelphia, being of French descent.
She was not In the least precocious