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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
SOME EVILS BEYOND LEGISLATION.

In vetoing bill aimed at the tipping practice the
governor of Alabama takes the ground that such an
act would be not only unconstitutional but unen-
forceable The experience of the State of Wisconsin
this respect is Illuminating More than ten years
ago law passed prescribing severe penalties for
giving receiving gratuities. 1t had been on the
statute books few days when traveller said to the
sleeping car porter who brushing him off
well, I would like to give you quarter, but I
suppose l cant do 1t without getting into
trouble"
"Oh, yes sab" was the response; you make
a present of anything you like as long as it ism
for brushing you off
So the customary coin changed hands with this
distinct understanding and it has been the old
story in Wisconsin since
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
UPLIFT TALKS
HOLD YOUR PACE OR LOSE YOUR PLACE
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the Front" Etc
Copyrighted 1915.

more than a drudge, an underllng.
In dull times, or in a business crisis,
he will be the first to be fired.
There is nothing an employer de-
tests more than the dragging around,
the moping of employees, who look as
though they had no interest in lies
and were just working against time,
If one is positively bad, there is
good excuse for discharging him, but
if he is simply Indifferent, without
spirit or energy, 1t is harder for an
employer to handle him.
No one likes to be served by clerks
who act as though they were doing a
customer a real favor by waiting on
him. Alertness courtesy, enthusiasm
these are the things that count with
a customer as we'll as with an en-
ployer. Yet how often we go into a
store where clerks continue chatting
with one another while customers are
coming in and standing in front of.
the counter waiting for some one to
attend to them. The same is true in
all sorts of business houses.
Alertness, interest, enthusiasm are
what every progressive employer is
looking for No one wants the inert,
Indifferent dawdler Every one is
looking for an employe who is eager
to forge ahead; who keeps up the
modern pace.
There never was such a superb op-
portunity in the history of the world
for those who bring to their tasks
enthusiasm, energy and grit. Never
before were there SO many openings
for the youth who is made of the stuff
that wins. His chance is everywhere.
No doors are closed to him. Every
occupation is crying out for him.
There is an advertisement up at
the door of every line of endeavor
for the man who can make good, the
man who can do the trick, the man
who can get The order, the man who
can take Message to Garcia"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
DEATH TRAP ELIMINATION DELAYED.

Delay is the consistent policy of the railroads in
dealing with the grade crossing iniquity in this State
When the State Utility Commission ordered the Erie
to eliminate the majority of its death traps In Pater
the company presented alternative plan by
its engineers which preposterous. 1t pro-
posed to switch trains from the main line to the
Susquehanna tracks, merely transferring the peril
to equal number of crossings in another sec
ton. The State board and the Paterson authorities
having turned down this ridiculous proposition,
which, it is shrewdly suspected merely device
to gain time, the Erie ties up the matter for
tell how many months longer by securing a
writ of certiorar to the Supreme Court. Pending
the decision, how many victims of Erie grade
crossings may be recorded in Paterson?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27

Henry B, Stanton, who died in 1887
when in his eighty-fourth year. was
the husband of Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, and was always proud of the
fact, never objecting to anyone who
alluded to him in that way. Mr.. STAN
ton, however, was himself man of
great influence. especially In the early
days of the Republican party. He
was an attractive public speaker, and
in England he gained a high reputa-
tion as an orator who pleaded for the
abolition of slavery in terms of real
eloquence and congratulated Great
Britain that she had Wilberforce and
Zachary Macauley, who had led sue
cessflllly the movement for the aboli-
ton of slavery wherever the English
flag f1oated.
Mr.. Stanton was one of that group
of influential and brilliant editors OF
the early days of the Republican
party of whom Horace Greely, Charles
A. Dana and Henry J. Raymond were
conspicuous types. Mr.. Dana esteem
ed Mr. Stanton as a man especially
qualified for editorial writing, and he
called Mr.. Stanton to the New York
Sun as one of the associate editors
soon after the Sun passed into Mr..
DaIld y pObSCbSlOis toAh tiAelS NAsA4S
until his death in 1887 Mr.. Stanton
maintained editorial associations with
the New York Sun.
Mr.. Stanton and / roomed together
at hotel in Trenton at the time of
the Democratic State convention in
1877, at which General George B. Nc
Clellan was nominated by the DEM
ocracy for governor. General NC
Clellan was elected governor a few
weeks later by good majority. Mr..
Stanton was preparing an editorial
article for the Sun while I was writ
ing my report of the convention.
After our work was finished we
chatted until nearly midnight and 1t
was in the course of this conversation
that I learned how and why Gerrit
mith became one of the bondsnen
for Jefferson Davis when Mr.. Davis
was brought before the United States
Court at Richmond for trial.
"Gerrit Smith, said Mr.. Stanton,
was perhaps the noblest man with
whom 1t was my privilege ever to be-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
oH1o's COMPENSATION LAW.

Ohio is we'll satisfied with the operation OF it's
workmens compensation law, which differs widely
from that of New Jersey In Ohio the benefit to vic
tins of accident In the Industrial world is COM
munity charge The funds come from levy en-
ployers generally and administered by the State.
OF course the ultimate consumer pays the tax in the
price of the manufactured product, as 1t becomes
item in labor cost. But the burden is distributed.
Since Ohio adopted this law it has disposed Of
than 10000 cases of injury or death, and dis
tributed to the disabled the survivors of the killed
about $3,400,000 The practical working of such a
system is to help maintain homes that otherwise
might have been broken up, and to prevent persons
injured in industrial life from being compelled to
depend upon public charity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
Laughter Healing Balm Greater Than
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Laughter q Healing Balm Greater Thar
That of Gilead.
Laughter may, as both Sir Phillip
Sidney and Prof. Henri Bergson have
said, arrive from things that appear
out of proportion to nature and to
tsynmetry. The writer's of motion
picture scenarios are only in part
alive to such delight-inciting situa-
tions. Those who have successfully
seized this Que have not only been
themselves we'll rewarded, but they
have spread the gospel OF happiness
and health to the multitudes who have
bathed their eyes in laughing tears.
The medical value of laughter cuts
many an ailment short; the case
breaks down. the defendant leaves the
court. To laugh, If but for an instant
only. take my word for it, is a balm
to the souls greater than was ever in
Gilead.
No better recipe to make sorrow
sink has ever been known than the
one that any person with nickel may
now have at the movies" 1t Is all
very we'll for a clown to be funny, or a
low comedian in a musical show to
excite the risibilities. Even the side
splitting monologues of the most pop
ular stars reach only a few more than
a handful of people.
Their best endeavors will but pro-
woke some few to side shaking mirth,
SO that they laugh like parrots at a
bagpiper, while others will remain or
such vinegar aspect that they'll not
show their teeth in way of smile,
though Nestor swear the jest be
laughable. Yet the infectiousness of
Jolly motion series thrown upon the
movie screen is so overpowering that
even tho most embittered parsonage
must needs suocumb to this triumph
ant peal of vitality.
Laughter and tears are really the
steering gear of the same delicate
soul-mechanism. They are the mus
cular fuel and water vapor that keep
the chassis of life strong and for
ward looking. Manliness and dignity
are never hurt by laughter.
Actually an Exercise.
Sport that wrinkled care derldes,
With laughter holding both It's sides,
is exercise equal to swimming, plough
ing or tennis playing. 1t is therefore
a silly objection of the backward look
ers and downlifters to object to the
movies upon the remote moral ground
that, as you sit quietly before the
far-from fiickering screen you pc
come fiabby and indolent, also lacka-
daiscal
Nothing could be farther from the
truth Physiologically 1t Is now
known that there can be no laughter
nay, not even a smfle-wtthout
sound muscles. To rejoice, to dance,
to sport, to romp, gambol or play
practical joke means to bring the
Drawn into play. So with merriment,
laughter, fun and frolic each of these
involves a movement of the fieshy
textile equivalent to the throwing OF
a. discus, catching a ball. making
stroke, batting with racquet or till
ing the soil
Laughter and Tears.
Ergo. when you ostensibly sit at
your ease at a place of amusement
and laugh to your hearts content,
YOU are really at muscular practice.
This type of physical culture and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Why Gerrit Smith Signed the Bond

come acquainted. l heard him speal
when 1 was young man just beg
ming to practice at Seneca Falls
Y. | thought he had the finest s.
in voice that / had ever hear
had wonderful organ-like tor
was just the kind of voice you
expect to hear in a man of
Smiths remarkable physical
He was a man of powerful phys.
He had the largest head l ever saw
upon the shoulders of any man. His
beard was like the beard of a prophet
and his hair fell In long, graceful
ringlet-like waves down to his Shout
ders. Mr. Simth inherited riches. /
believe he was the largest land
owner of any man in Central New
York State, but he poured out his
wealth like water in aid of philan-
thropy and humanity. He was
noted as ar tbolitionist, although I
do not think that word properly de-
scribed his attitude toward the slav-
cry issue. He wanted to see slavery
abolished, but he was very just in his
estimate of the opinion and attitude
of the people of the South upon this
issue.
when Jefferson Davis was brought
to Richmond in proceedings before
the United States Court two men OF
the North, who had been conspicuou
for their opposition to slavery, volun
teered to sign his bail bond. One wa
Horace Greely and the other wa
Gerrit Smith. y know the reason
why Mr.. Smith gladly signed that
bail bond. He always felt that the
North was almost as much to blamo
for the maintenance of the institution
of slavery as the South. Further
moro, he knew the people of the
South and he believed that after the
war was ended there should be no
other sentiment manifested by the
North than one of kindness. 1t was
for those two reasons, first, that the
North was not blameless so far as
slavery was concerned, and second,
that with the closing of the war
there should be manifested the kind,
est feelings, that he put his name TO
that bail bond, and in that act you
find the true nature of Gerrit Smith
revealed"
Copyright, 1915, by e. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 27, 1915.
THE WIDE REACH OF GREAT CALAMITY

If there ever disaster the effect of which
should be peculiarly local. it the Eastland
calamity at Chicago. Most of the victims were en-
poyes of industrial concern members of their
families. The majority of them lived in section
the CITY, where block after block with crepe the
doors of whole of dwellings attest that the con-
centrated woe of the catastrophe is largely a
neighbor affair.
And yet there homes here In New Jersey
IN Newark Jersey City, Hoboken-where there is
mourning for kinsfok who perished when the East
land overturned Americas tong population is
largely migratory. Men must work where they can
find jobs They their bread in the West for
their wives and children in the East disaster
taking hundreds of lives is bound to have its need
of sorrow for households In scores of cities and
hamlets far and wide In times like these there is
sorrowful import in a trte saying often heard a
pleasant greeting between friends who met in unex
pected quarters-"the world is small place after
ALL"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. g., NJ. A, NJ. D. John Hopkins).

gymnastics is as good as dumb-bells
and Indian clubs or other indoor ex-
ercise.
Before the recent psychological
physiological discovery that laughter
is a muscular affair purely and sim
ply, the leaders of the anti-playhouse
crusades may have gone unchallenged
as far as the "want-of- exercise" mat
ter is concerned. But no more.
Care to the coffin adds nail, with
out doubt, and every smile, so merry,
draws one out. Even the laughing
devil in play villains sneer, which
raises emotions both of fear and
rage, works its value upon the spec
tator's muscles. Laughter Is the
cipher wherewith to decipher the
basic principles of health in man.
A sight upon the stage movie screen
to shake the midriff of despair with
laughter, may mean rejuvenation
o the fiaccid, fat AMI lazy tissues of
many who view the sight.
Just as q smile is ever most bright
and beautiful with tear upon 1t, and
the opening buds of dawn prettiest
with the dew upon them, so the tears
amidst a smile are precious over and
above the tears. Thus with the little
and big dramas and the photo-plays.
Sadness intermixed with a dash of
peppery laughter gives a tang and
zest to the comfortably seated vision
that spells health and content, growth
and strength.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27

The United States Bureau of LABOR
Statistics has just issued its annual
review of court decisions aHectlnS
labor as its Bulletin No. 1853. Ap-
proximately 2s5 decisions are sum
married., dealing with the application
and construction of the laws, or with
the application of the principles OF
the common law to the rights and
relations of tho worker.
Decisions of outstanding importance
which are reviewed in this bulletin
include the final opinions of the APP
pellate and Supreme courts OF the
United States in the famous Danpury
hatters' case, holding members OIL
unions personally liable for damage
from bovcotts; the dissolution of the
famous Injunction in the case of John
Mitchell against the Hitchman Coal
and Coke Company, of West Virginia,
and holding labor unions legal, and
the Supreme Courts opinion in the
Coppage case, overthrowing the laws
~ Kansas. which undertook to pro-
tect workmen in their membership in
labor organizations. In the last named
case the dissenting opinion, which de-
tended the constitutionality of the act,
is also given.
The largest group of cases on a sin
gle subject is that relating to the new
form of legislation known as work
mems compensation laws. The decl-
sions on this subject range from ques-
tions of constitutionality, decided ad-
versely in the case of the Kentucky
| statute and favorably in other State
| courts. to the determination of deh-
| nitions or of single points of dispute
| In considering occupational diseases
for instance, the Massachusetts courts
| hold lead poisoning to be within th'
State act, providing for compensation
for personal injuries arising out o
| and in the course Of employment,
while the Michigan courts, under tn
provisions of State law similarl!
EXPRESSED, hold that a case of lea'
poisoning is not entitled to compen
sation, An optic neuritis induced b,
;nhaIins poisonous gases was ais
compensated in Massachusetts,, wnil
in New Jersey the court disallowe'
, a claim on account Of eczema, said t
; be caused by acids used in bleach
! ery. Other decisions relate to tn
mode of computing benefits. the def
milton of the term casual employ
ment," what constitutes dependency
wflful act, incapacity, etc. Taken i
connection with an earlier bulleti
on the same general subject, tn
bureau of labor statistics has her
presented one of the most complet
collections of cases on American com
pensation laws in existence.
Another important group of de
cisions in a related field is of thos
determining the application of tn
, Federal liability. statute to differen
classes of railroad employments. Sew
eral cases are found which turn OF
the nature of the employment of tn
: injured person, |. e., whether In inter
, state commerce or not. The court
are not uniform in their construction
, of this statute, but among the EN-
ployments found to be within the &C
were those of blacksmith repairin
!, cars used in Interstate commerce,
telegraph lineman engaged in repai
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
THE PROBLEM OF RURAL CREDITS.

This country may have to do a lot of debating
before reaches definite solution of the problem of
rural credits legislation and prospects for anything
being done during the coming session of Congress
are far from bright The question may cut figure
in the national party platforms next year Myron T.
Herrick who has been studying rural credit systems
in Europe declares that government aid is the rock
against which the rural credits movement is in danger
of being smashed" On the other hand, there
close students of the problem who assert with
equal emphasis that any plan which ignores the prin
cipe of government aid is bound to be failure.
series of test votes during the closing hours of
the last session of the House of Representatives
showed that body than three to in favor of
government aided rural credits The great orsaniza
tions of farmers are the side and deny that
they seeking any special privilege. Important
reforms in the economic fabric of the nation come
slowly and this one will prove exception.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
Labor News

There are about 10000 Industrial in
surance agents in Greater New York.
Within a radius of five miles of
Bolton, England. 5000 coal miners
have enlisted.
Edinburgh (Scotland) Trades Coun-
ell has passed a resolution in favor
of conscription.
All the steam railways In New
Zealand are owned and operated by
the government.
Ireland's police system, the Royal
Irish Constabulary, number more
than II, 900 men and officers.
The South has approximately 240,-
000, 900 acres of undeveloped land, and
Is clamoring loudly for immigration.
The average annual waste of labor
from unemployment Is estimated at
IS, ,o00, ,o00, ,000
st. Louis (Mo.) organized car
penters will inaugurate a trade union
campaign among mill workers
| WdktS dL' tAlC IolS VI OllC-ilciii
penny, or one cent, an hour are paid
| to many women workers in the Bel
| fast linen factories.
| La Guerre Social edited by Gus
/ tave Herve, and La Bataille Syndi
calliste are two of the leading daily
labor newspapers of France.
A warning to stay away from Can
ada has been issued by the Interna
tional Union of United Brewer.
Workmen of America.
In Joplin, Mo-, some mine worker
are now making as much as $50
week. The general scale for day work
men was recently advanced to $42;
Railway men of England are de
manding equal pay for equal work il
their own interest and in that of thei
new female fellow workers.
Arizona unicnists are urging tn
Legislature to adopt House bill No. Il
which provides for a miners hospita
and home.
There is a constant factor of unem
ployment among the skilled trades o
England and America, amounting t
a little over two per cent. -
Frisco Walters Union has resolve
to wage a campaign to eliminate al
Asiatic employees from local cafes
restaurants, hotels and saloons.
At a large meeting of Edinbug
(Scotland) street railway employees |
was decided that the employment Q
women on the cars be opposed.
:. Bunji Suzuki is president of tn
Yu-Ai-Kai, or Friendship Associ
alton, the only labor organization i
Toxic, and at his own expense, pub
fishes twice q month a labor report.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
Retrospectionl

When but a small mischievous lad.
So many escapades I had,
That often times my angry dad
Would drive me from the place.
Then ! would seek some shady nook.
Beside the ripping, babbling brook;
Where patiently I'd sit and hook
The sunfish, club, and dace.
Twas there l had such care-free
times,
Away from cities noise and crimes,
While dreaming dreams, which now
in rhyms,
l help to fill up space.
And so Ioften wish again .
That l was back in Michigan,
\ catching little fish again
Down By the old mill race.
E. X. DAVIES.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
JULY 27
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Charlotte Corday
Copyright. 1915.

into her confidence. She wrote a let
ter to Marat asking for an interview,
giving as her excuse that she was in
a position to give him valuable po-
litical assistance. But Marat was
wary and refused to see her. sec
end time she called, only to be turned
away, and it was not till she had
gone the third time that Marat, hear
ing her voice in the antechamber,
gave the word that let her into his
presence. The scene that followed
does not need repetition. Marat was
in his bath wrapped with towels, part
of the trea tment for a disease from
which he suffered. Charlotte spoke
few words and then, taking dinner
knife from her bodice, thrust ii into
Marat's side with fatal precision. He
expired in a few minutes and Char
lotte would have escaped had she not
been held back by two women who
rushed into the room.
Charlotte probably did not lcok
upon her act as a crime. When the
president of the tribunal. after her
Indictment, asked her what she hao
to say, she replied: Nothing eXcep'
that I have succeeded"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27

Charlotte Corday, who was born
July 27, 176S in Normany, is one of
the most noted, and if such word
may be applied, one of the most
heroic assassins of history.
One might suppose that the woman
who accomplished the overthrow of
the revolutionist Marat was a woman
of the people, of low birth and
thwarted ambitions. But such was
not the case, for Marie -Anne-Char-
lotte Corday d'Armans was born of
a noble line and counted the dram
atist Corneille among her ancestors.
She was carefully reared, having re-
ceived large share of her education
in a convent.
The story of Charlotte Corday's ia
nous crime is we'll known to every
one. At the time that she went to
Paris on her fatal mission the usual
passport was issued to her. 1t bore
the following description: Marie
Corday, aged "a years, height feet
inch, hair and eyebrows brown, gray
eyes, high forehead, long nose, visage
oval"
All her movements were very de-
llberate, though she had taken no one
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27
THE PREVALENT WAR STRIKES.

Strikes prevalent among employees of plants
making munitions or indirect accessories of warfare
on both sides of the Atlantic and the motive is the
same. The take the position that their
poyers receiving than the normal prices for
their products, and this, coupled with the prodigious
size of the orders has poured huge profits into the
pockets of the factory owners
The laboring people, when they see this vastly in
creased prosperity, think little of 1t ought to come
their way and they demand their share in the shape
of higher wages. 1t is not only human nature, but
simple justice.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-27

Canal in seventy-three days. The Mississippi River
alone is dumping into the Gulf of Mexico eleven tons
of soil every second, 346OO0,oOO tons year,
which is the equivalent of scraping off 900
TO a depth of six and two-thirds inches.
This tremendous process of waste is going
while millions of dollars are spent annually on art
fetal fertilizers and the soil carried off by the rivers
is the best part in fertility. Scientific forestation
along rivers and smaller streams will not only reduce
the danger of floods and drouth but check the wash
ing of the farmers land into the watercourses and