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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
THE VICTIMS OF THE DRUG HABIT.

Sudden stoppage Of drug supplies for drug VIC
tins has wrought havoc among them. In Philadel-
phia scores of these unfortunates have been placed
in hospitals, and in New York. according to the
police records. as many as Eve hundred have come
into police hands In the last two weeks But COM
paratiyeIy few Of the drug tends have thus disclosed
themselves
In Chicago the hospitals full OF victims, and
score Of suicides are recorded. In ST Louis there
were three hundred admissions at the hospitals in
week
But while the law is drastic, there are many un-
scrupuous dealers who do not hesitate to supply the
drug rurtively to customers whom they can trust
They take their chances for the Illicit profit And
degraded men and women prosecute the nafnc in
bywayB
The Harrison law, passed by Congress, under
which prosecutions are had makes violation punish
able by fine of 1000, or five years imprisonment
or both The requirements of the law safeguard the
public in every possible wey. The terrors of the
federal law are deterrent And this law is general
for the whole country. The criminal who nhcitly
deals in drugs cannot evade punishment by going to
another State, and the victim cannot buy his drug
in another State The arm Of the federal law reaches
from Maine to Texas.
It is police experience that much OF the crime IN
cities is the drug habit Many of the criminals
imprisoned in New York beg for drugs when they are
locked up and watchfuness must be used to keep
them from being supplied from the outside 1t seems
extraordinary that this awful vice should have been
permitted to get such foothold and also that 1t
commanded the interest of the people who, like
the benevolent Mr. Bryan, attribute all the vices and
crimes of civilization to beer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

From the Indianapolis News.
announcement comes from England
Of the continued activity of one Of
the most despicable persons that fol-
lows in wars wake-the war CRATER.
The United States has borne its full
share of suffering from this source.
Many large fortunes of today were
founded during Civil War times,
when, in its hurry to get supplies, the
government sometimes awarded con-
tracts for food and clothing to per-
sons of whom 1t knew little.
According to the London cor
Respondent of the New York Evening
Post, the late General Sir William
Butler, the president of the commit
tee which investigated the Boer war
seandals, says that war cost the Brit
ish people 1920, 100000, OF which 1t
least $500 100000 was flung to the
winds" in bad contracts and other
forms of waste. In the Zulu war,
twenty years before the Boer war, the
English government was also victim
ized by war grafters to the extent OF
many millions of dollars; therefore,
the plea OF ignorance hardly serves
to excuse the gross negligence prac-
ticed in the later wars, including the
present one. Even the vigilence of a
man of Lord Kitchener's ability Is not
enough to stop the Vaccinations OF
the grafters. After the Boer war
scandals were aired certain con-
tractors who bad furnished uniforms
10 the army listed by the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

the tip is for the narcotics. and the
other for the antiseptics.
The drugs are incased in layers of
gelatin, and when the grooves are
filled thin coating of paraffln is
spread over the top.
The paraffin coating is melted by
the friction of the bullet in the
rif1ing of the projecting weapon and
in it's fight through the air, so that
the drugs are ready to begin their
work of healing as soon as the mis-
sile finds its mark.
The small amount of gelatin which
is used to hold the drugs in place
is entirely harmless and is quickly
absorbed by the blood. The anaesthetic
is also absorbed by the system almost
instantly, and in a very short time
produces nearly complete insensibility
to pain. At the same time the anti
septic Is checking the hemorrha ge
and uniting with the blood to soothe
and heal the torn flesh.
There Is wide range OF antiseptics
which are we'll suited to use in the
bullet, and the inventor leaves the
decide to adopt the new invention.
For an anaesthetic he suggests
scopolamin. the same drug which is
being employed with such success in
producing the twilight sleep" But
II is believed that there are a num-
Der of other drugs which will answer
the purpose almost, II not quite, as
well.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Man Who Declined to Be Chief Justice

The late William B. Hornblower.
whom President Cleveland nominated
as associate justice of the Supreme
Court at Washington, but whose nom
ination was rejected by the Senate
in obedience to the unwritten law of
senatorial courtesy in Difference to
the wishes of Senator David B. Hill.
of New York, said to me at a time
when he was discussing his nomina-
ton, that the President regarded
John G. Carlisle of Kentucky, as pre-
eminently fitted for a place upon the
bench Of the Supreme Court at Wash
ington.
Cleveland was always greatly i'm
pressed with Carlisle's intellectual
ability said Judge Hornblower.
He was thrown into intimate asso-
citation with Carlisle when the latter
was speaker of the House. He great
ly admired the clearneSs of Carlisle's 5
mental equipment and he believed
him to have as profound a knowledge
of the law as any man then in public
life.
"I suppose 1t was not generally
known that If Carlisle had been will
ing to accept the nomination Cleve-
land would have named him as the
successor of Chief Justice Waite. For
reasons best known to himself, Car
Isle caused 1t to be known to Cleve-
land that he could not accept such ap-
pointment.
"Some of Cleveland's friends were
inclined to suspect that one of the
reasons why Carlisle preferred to re-
main in public life was due to his
ambition for the Presidency. I don't
know how true that is, but I do know
that Cleveland would have been very
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Missile Carries First Aid Kit

A new bullet that carries In its
nickel jacket first aid kits, filled with
narcotics to deaden pain, and with
sntiseptics to heal the wound 1t
makes, has been invented by Alex
ander Foster Humphrey, of Pittsburg
who has submitted blue prints and
specifications for casting this humane
missile to the war offices Of oil the
nations now at war, as we'll as to the
United States government. He gem
erously offers to allow any nation
to manufacture and use the bullet
without any compensation whatever
to him.
Mr.. Humphrey got his idea for the
new first-aid bullet from the famous
narcotic bullet which he also in
vented. The latter is now widely used
by taxidermists, naturalists and
hunters of big game, who wish to do
their killing with as little suffering
to the animal as possible.
The new anaesthetic, antiseptic bull
let contains both narcotic end anti
septic drugs. There are enough OF
the former so that a wound even In
a vital part will cause little pain or
shock to the nervous system. And
while the narcotics are bringing re-
lief to the wounded men the anti
septic preparations are cleansing the
torn tissues and checking the flow
of blood.
The Humphrey bullet Is exceedingly
simple in construction. 1t looks ex-
actly like any bullet at first glance.
but a closer inspection will reveal
two annular grooves pressed into it's
nickel jacket.
The grooves are where the first aid
drugs are stored. The one nearest
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
THE FARMER AND THE STOCK MARKET.

The great bull movement in Wall Street which
the days transactions yesterday above the mil
lon-share mark, started by the remarkable aero
batic feats of Bethlehem Steel, which seems to have
been the inspiration that brought the public into the
stock market. The general advance in prices shows
that the is not altogether speculative that
people buying for investment, tempted by the low
prices that have ruled in the stock market
1t will not be forgotten that the farmers of the
country have made billions of dollars by the sale of
their crops. The phenomenal rise in the prices of
cereals put extra millions into their pockets large
part of these earnings bound to go into invest
ments, and the financial skies began to
clear the shrewd farmer into the market to buy
good securities at bargain-counter prices
There the opportunities and there the
wealth. Naturally, sought the other. 1t has
been lucky sequence for the tller of the soilfrst
phenomenal crops with phenomenal prices, and
lastly substantial securities that begging in the
market for purchasers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

government, but in the present war
the great need for clothing has COM
PEELED the government to reinstate
them, and in some quarters this move
is thought to have emboldened the
grafters TO attempt schemes which in
many cases amount to downright
robbery.
Soldiers leaving London resplen-
dent in their new khaki uniforms
present an inspiring spectacle, but
when, after three weeks in the
trenches, these same soldiers alight
from hospital trains in rotting tat
ters, the spectacle does not tend to
win over the hesitating recruit. An
investigation disclosed that the
khaki was made Of the cheapest
material obtainable, and that it had
been sold TO the government and
paid for as the best obtainable. Fur
thermore, the material had never
been inspected by a competent Judge
of cloth Much of the rheumatism
in the trenches has been traced to
shoes of which the soles were made
of composition which absorbed and
retained water, instead of resisting
it, as was guaranteed. After a half
day of marching, the heels came off
some of the regulation army boots.
and the soldiers limped along at a
great disadvantage. Corrugated
sheet iron and lumber used in the
construction of huts, which the rig
ors of a winter campaign demanded,
were purchased from a hastily
formed combination of jobbers at
prices which We're so exorbitant that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

glad II Carlisle had been nominated
at the Democratic convention of 1895.
1T Is strange fact that Carlisle
lacked the peculiar qualification which
persuaded Cleveland to nominate Mel
Vile p. Fuller, of Chicago, for chief
Justice. Carlisle had, with all his
great intellectual ability, no CORE.
spending business capacity. Cleye-
land, after Carlisle had caused him to
know that he could not accept the
nomination. for chief justice, thought
It the better part for him to consult
with some who were familiar with
practice In the Supreme Court and
with the methods adopted by the
bench so far as the business of that
court is concerned.
He learned to his astonishment
that 1t was essential, if he were to
make an appointment which would be
admirably adapted to the position,
that he select not only great
lawyer, but also man who possessed
unusual business ability, that Is to
say, executive ability. For lack OF
that, business in the Supreme Court
had dragged somewhat.
Some of those who knew Fuller
we'll spoke of him to Cleveland as a
great lawyer, who also possessed
great executive capacity, and it was
due to the combination of these quail
ties in Judge Fuller that Cleveland
nominated him for chief justice
Afterward Cleveland was gratified to
learn that Justice Fullers executive
ability had served greatly to facilitate
Supreme Court business"
Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
By DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A B., M. A., NJ. D. John Hopkins).

How to Balance Diet With the Work
You Do.
II Won know a bank where the Wild
thvme blows, where the cowslip and
the nodding violet grows, HE you TO
it and save yourself disorders OF d.
gestion. Muscular activity, fragrant
flowers and fresh air will save you
the horrors OF living on a diet In
other words, an outdoor life, correctly
lived, will aid the most sickly stom-
ach to complete recovery.
Such as have need of milk and not
of strong meat are those with puny,
indoor, indolent flesh. Many nappy,
uoney-mad man, when his stomach
asks for bread, gives 1t cake, lopster,
SQUADS and other iniquities. When II
asks for fish he gives 1t eels and SER
pents.
The stay and the staff, and the
whole prop of life is temperance IN
eating and drinking, Brown bread
and the gospel is good fare If modi-
cum of other food is mixed with IL.
Humor at table is additional meat
and drink, for q hearty laugh Will
masticate hard tack.
The "Quiet Diet"
A man may eat little moro food
than his energy, waste and growth
calls for. Usual muscular effort de-
mands a little over 5000 units or
calories of pabulum each day. In
market and kitchen terms this means
a quarter of pound OF alDumens
and other proteins, quarter or a
pound of sugars and starchy food,
with a couple of quarts of good
drinking water or milk.
Unhappily for physiologically stand
ard rations, the merchant, bookkeep-
or, writer, typist, clergyman, lawyer,
doctor bartender, and those who have
little physical exercise eat egTegious-
ly more fat, protein, sugars and min
erals than this. Instead of an al
lowance of $500 calories, liberal diet
for quiet workers, this gentry eat as
much as half pound of meat, even
more fat, and often a pound and a
half of sugars and starches. M 4
The Workman's Allowance. q.
The mechanic, day laborer, and
those exposed to cold and undue ef-
fort may balance their rations in
some such fashion as this in order to
obtain a quarter Of a pound of fat,
arbohydrates-sugar and starches-
and proteins from each kind. Meat
from a quarter to three-quarters of
a pound to yield a. quarter OF a pound
of protein. Bread from one-half to
pound to give half q pound of
starch. Butter from an eighth
to third of O pound of fat.
Sugar the same as butter to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Taxing Explanation From
A Manhattan Authority

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Dear Sir-My attention has just
been called to an editorial in your
paper of March 81. You say that the
assessment of the Bush terminal, in
Brooklyn, is an illustration of how
large properties are under-assessed.
You report that it is assessed for
S180.000 and that 1t could not be pur-
chased for $3.50, 900. find that real
property Is assessed In the name of
the Bush company In South Brook
lyn in the blocks lying along the
waterfront for more than $4,500 000
[ do not find any single parcel which
is assessed at $1S0.0O0. have tried
to find some foundation for the
statement in your paper, but have
been unable to do so. You must
have been 1nisled by some foolish
statement.
The Bush company may own much
more property, which l have said is
assessed for more than 81 500, 900. Our
assessments are maze against the
parcels of property and we can't al
ways be sure that the name is cor
rect as the tax is good whether the
name is correctly stated or not.
Every year We tabulate very care
fully all the sales of real estate
where the consideration Is obtain
able. The aggregate of the assessed
values of the property sold during
1914 exceeded the aggregate of the
considerations. 1t Is very unlikely
that the average assessment
throughout the city is below full
value.
Our methods of assessment are
similar to the admirable methods
employed In Newark, and we think
there are few cases where the as
sessments vary widely from full
value.
You say: 1.-THE personal estate of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
BEER AND SPIRITS IN ENGLAND.

One principal for the newly-discoyered In
temperance among the laboring classes in England
the heavy duty placed by the government beer
This four months ago, and the effect to make
very great increase in the consumption OF spirits
This result might have been expected.
In American cities before the general introduction
of the German beers the drinking of spirituous
liquors we'll nigh universal and habitua
drunkenness common. Inebriation in ev1-
dence all the streets AS the German beers be.
popular the of spirits declined and beer
came to be the ordinary American beverage.
The why In cities of prohibition States
prohibition does not prohibit but, rather tends to
greater ntempsrance, Is well known. Beer is bulky,
and be sold without detection But sprituous
liquors in small containers easily concealed
carried about the person. comparison of the police
records of Newark and Portland, Me-. will show that
by the greater number of arrests for drunkenness
made in Portland than in Newark.
In putting heavy tax on the beer of the English
Aborer the British government simply drove him to
spirits and created aggravated condition with
whrch the government is dealing The question
has been left to Parliament, and the probability is
government monopoly and the brewing of light beer
similar to that which has largely taken the place of
spirits in the United States
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
WORLDWIDE BOY SCOUT BRoTHERHooD.

An instance of building better than they knew is
found in Boys Life, the monthly magazine of the
Boy Scouts of America. Three four boys had writ
ten that they would like to correspond with other
boys, and department known 1.-THE Lonesome
Corner started to furnish names and addresses
for correspondence The list of boys exchanging let
ters through this medium has grown to thou
sands, taking in several foreign lands, and scout
masters parents and teachers agree that this creation
of friendships will do r"-h to bring about better
understanding and goodwill between the future
of this and other countries. It Is moral influence
that will do than all the peace and disarmament
literature to promote amity between the nations of
the earth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Holmes
Appears on Scene

After ten years of silence Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle turns his attention
again to the exploits of sherlock
Holmes and has written book en-
titled sherlock Holmes in the Valley
of Fear" At the present time the
author is interested in writing on sub
iects connected with the war and in
aid OF England. His return to Sher-
lock Holmes after SO long time VIII
find many readers who have been
wondering for some time what that
intuitive detective has been doing
meanwhile. The book opens with the
tragedy of Birlstone, which baffled
the Scotland Yard men, but the mys-
terry of which is solved by the astute
observations and discoveries or
Holmes. The interest of the reader
will begin with the warning which ap-
pears in the cipher code which falls
in the hands of Holmes, who reads 1t
with the aid of a year-old Whitakers
Almanac sufficiently to get clue.
The first part Of the story relates
the effort of the detectives to discover
the murderer, which is, Of course
Quickly done by Holmes. But the his
tory of the murderer causes the story
Ia be transported to the western min
ing region Of the United States. Here
is found the valley of Death" where
a, gang of desperate men were bound
together in a secret society with the
object of murder. If necessary, in their
general work of terrorization.
Two-thirds Of the action of the story
takes place in this country and Sher-
lock Holmes does not appear. The
second part relates the circumstances
and incidents of the valley Of Fear
A history of crime, intrigue ana mur-
der, rivaling that of an old-fashioned
dime novel, is characteristic of the
second part The gang is finally
broken up by the work of a Pinkerton
detective, but, as the result of the
trial, those who were given only
prison sentences determined to get
the Pinkerton. Through connection
with a similar body in England an
effort is made to reach him there,
where he had gone. 1t turns out that
the man found to be the murderer in
the Birlstone mystery is an American
and Pinkerton detective and that
the man he killed is one of the West
ern American gang, who had got on
his track. A great part Of the book
is written to provide substance for
the small part that actually has
something to do with Sherlock
Holmes, $50 pages out Of 800, which
would make a respectable tract if
printed alone. What the purpose of
this book is, besides the narration OF
the methods of murder and other
crime, is difficult to discover. 1t car
hardly be said to equal previous
books by the same author. The illus
trations by Arthur I. Keller do much
to make attractive the book. The
publishers are the George H. Doran
Company, New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

Newark has attained place in major baseball
league. 1t has been placed the national map as
one of the principal cities of the land. And It has
major league team that the Newark community will
have faith IN and will support IN good evil for
tune baseball In the nal analysis the nrst may
be last or the last FIRST In any event. the team that
plays It's initial game today Federal League Park
In Harrison has already given evidence Of good metal
Let's give the boys royal welcome homo
Away back In Newark baseball annals, when a
lively ball was played, Newark had dne amateur
team, the Rurekas. With that team games were
played by crack professional clubs like the then
Athletics, OF Philadelphia, and the Atantics
of Brooklyn But professional baseball in those days
was altogether unlike what professional baseball is
today, and the cracks of forty years ago would be
noviees at the game 1t is now.
The management of the club made wise
move in providing for permanent arena. and 1t is
well located. Harrison is virtually part OF Newark
and the park there is accessible 1t would be In
any other location in the city's outskirts Moreover
IT Is convenient also to thousands of Hudson County
fans. To Harrison the park will be something of a
boon, for crowds make business.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
CITY FACTORIES FOR THE JoBLEss.

Reasonable, sanitary work at living wage ia
what the majority of the obless want, and IL they
can't find it the city should find it for them. This Is
the way in which the is put by assistant dis
trict attorney of Brooklyn arguing for bill before
the New York Legislature which would authorize the
municipality of New York to go into the manufac-
turing business to provide work and wages for the
unemployed This argument is backed up by the fact
that private charity organizations have found them
selves unable to cope with the present situation and
public employment agencies have found work for only
about in twenty of the jobess What alternative
then, is there but the municipal workshop?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

Greater New York is not more than
a fourth of the tax assessment, while
1t probably exceeds real estate in
actual value. The personal estate
assessed under the general property
tax far from being 25 per cent. OF
the aggregate assessment is less than
5 per cent, but personal estate sub
ject to the general property tax Is
only a fraction OF all personal prop
erty and from the value of personal
estate of all kinds may be deducted
the debts of the owner.
In this State the only personal
property subject to the general prop
erty tax consists of goods, wares and
merchandise, household goods in ex-
cess of $1,000, mercantile credits and
bank balances. A very large pro-
portion of the Weather merchants
own their own real estate, but have
1t mortgaged for three-fourths Of its
value. 1t Is common that the in
debtedness secured by real estate
mortgage exceeds the value of the
owners merchandise Yours truly,
LAWSON PURDY.
President Department of Taxes and
Assessments, Borough of Manhat-
tan.
New York, April 10, 1916
tine statements concerning props
erty valuations, assessments and
other material matter upon which
the Evening Stars editorial was
based were taken from reports pur-
porting to represent the investigating
work of a Brooklyn improvement as
ISOLATION, and were widely published
and discussed in metropolitan news
papers. This was sometime ago and
there were no contradictions coming
until now. How the Improvement
association reached conclusions Is
one thing, Mr.. Purdys explanation
is another story Ed