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TAMMANY GRAFT AND PERTH AMBOY DEVELOPMENT
Mayor Hylan's narrow policy regarding tlie develop
ment of the Port of New York ns planned by the Port of New
York Authority is not hard to understand. Mayor Hylan is
a creature of Tammany Hall: Tammany Hall lives on graft
obtained at the expense of the taxpayers of the City of New
York. One of the greatest sources of graft for Tammany, as
has been shown by recent investigations, is the leasing and
control of the piers along New Y’ork's waterfront. Should
Ihe countrol of the Port of New York be placed in the hands
of a bi-state commission such, as the Port of New Y'ork Au
thority, the control of the piers along New York’s water
front would to a large extent be turned over to this
commission. This would he a hard blow lo Tammany,
hence Tammany's opposition to the scheme. Hence Mayor
ilylan's opposition.
Mayor Hylan opposes the bi-slale development scherhe on
Ihe ground that it is mainly for the benefit of New Jersey.
\Ve fear the mayor is afflicted with near-sightedness so
that he is unable lo see across Ihe Hudson river. He is like
so many oilier New Workers who think I lie sun. rises in the
Cast river and sets in Hie Hudson. That Manhattan island—
and possibly Brooklyn since mayor lives in Brooklyn—is all
there is to the world.
If the mayor could only increase his vision lie jyould
lie able to see those great railroad terminals on the New
Jersey shore that connect New York harbor with all the rest
of the continent. Of course, the mayor, in his present delu
sion, does not know that there is any more to Ihe continent
beyond Manhattan, but he has a rude awakening coming.
Nature has given the New Jersey shore a decided ad
vantage as far as shipping terminals are concerned. If New
York decides to play a lone hand in this port development
scheme New Jersey can take Ihe money that she otherwise
would have put-into Ihe bi-slate proposition, most of which
would have been used in helping to relieve Manhattan, and
spend it on her own waterfront. She can build great termi
nals where steamships can run up along side ihe railroad
sidings leaving the greater part of the New ^ ork side ol Hie
harbor to struggle along the lie-1 way it can.
It stands to reason, if Mayor llylan is willing to listen
to reason, that it is decidedly more advantageous and more
^economical to bring the steamships up to Hie railroads on Hie
f fs>Vv Jersey side of the harbor than to build elaborate fun-1
nets under Hie hay in order to enable Hie railroads to reach
Hie New York side to meet the vessels. Except for Ihe par
licular benefit of New York, and especially Brooklyn, there
is no present need for any tunnel under the, hay whatever.
The money that such a tunnel would cost might belter he
spent building up Hie New Jersey shore where the railroads
already are and where the steamships could easily come—
much more easily than Hie railroads could he carried to the
-teamship piers on the Brooklyn side. II seems like a great
waste of money to develop Long Island al Ihe expense of Hie
port as a whole when it would lie so much simpler to put
the terminals on Hie New Jersey side where Hie railroads
already are.
.New jersey, now ever, is inclined iu iuuk wmi m\ur uu
tlie port pro ject as a whole, being willing to boar her share of
the development on both sides in spile of the economic ad
vantage that she has. Yet. if New York should choose to
follow Mayor Hylan's lead and continue to go it alone New
Jersey certainly cannot complain. Within a few years the
terminals that can be built along the New Jersey shore
with direct rail connection would afford ample facilities for
shipping without any elaborate tunnel system, the construc
tion of which will take so many millions of dollars.
Of course, no one expects that New Jersey will ever put
New York out of business as far as the port is concerned, hut
if the bi-state plan is to t»e rejected and it is a case of each
state for itself. New Jersey is in-a much more strategic posi
tion than is New York. As a matter of fact, as far as the
Raritan section of the port i> concerned, there is reason to
believe that it would he better off to go it alone. Shipping
would naturally come here with the right kind of water
front development.
Realizing, however, the underlying motive of Mayor
Hylan in opposing the port development scheme as planned
by the Port of New York Authority it is to be hoped that the
project in its comprehensive >tate will go through. Nature
has made this particular part of the Atlantic coast ideal for
shipping. After all, all sections of the harbor are inter-de
pendent and there is no doubt that the greatest good can be
accomplished by co-operation.
v\ mi eacn section ueveiopmg own waierirom local
ly, just as Perth Amboy is planning to do with its million!
dollar project on the Raritan river front, and with all of these
local developments knit together by the belt lines, tunnels j
and the big distributing yards, the Port of New York regard
less of imaginary state boundary lines will easily rang first
among the great harbors of the world. >
fe* HmSe _ '
RURAL
Only seven out of every 100 Americuu furms now have I
gas or electric lights. Ohio ranks first on Hie list.
Progress still has a long way to go before the farmer has'
as many conveniences and comforts as the city chap.
What is he getting to compensate him for the handicap? I
Not much, at present prices. But life down on the farm'
grows more attractive each year. Old-time farmers will]
agree.
“Back to the land ’ movement w ill not gain much head
way until rural life becomes as attractive as living in cities.^
^ . factULt^T CO-OPERATiON
^ " <- of. SMITH AMO HlS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR
WHO HAD BETWEEN THEM 3e>/tH YoUNGSTCKS
To BE TAKBN PoWN ToWM AND HttD OP IN
promt op rue. ToY W/NDOWS. iS
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HASKIN TELLS OF LAWS ABOUT WOMEN
Dally Letter by Fredcrit* .1. Iluskln
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The
searchlight is being turned, perhaps
mere thoroughly than ever before,
On the is'.' which sheet • omen.
The National Woman s I’arty is go
ing systems tieally i'rcm state to state
making surveys ol these laws. Then,
when legislatures inquire Innocently
in what wav wemen are bound un
fair,} by their statutes, the feminists
arc ready with a icport showing
concisely the stater, legal attitude
toward women.
Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and :
Alabama ate the f"ur states which
so far hare been studied. These
states were taken first because the
state legislatures wire to meet there.
Now. Hi woman's party workers are
going on to c-oHen evidence on nine
more states where the legislatures
cflnveno early in the coming year.
Tliis is a part of the campaign to
get each state to pass a blanket hill
removing all legal disabilities of wo
men Wist, .nsin is so far, the only
staee to adopt such a measure.
Fast sfiiing. in a nine weeks’ cam
paign, Wisconsin put through a bill
which cat; the women of the state
tin same lights ar.d privileges be
fore tile law as the men hold. The
bill instructed the courts to take the
words, he, his. him, and similar
words indicating the masculine gen
der in the state laws to include also
the feminin- equivalents. One ex
i option t" this was provided: the
laws are not to be so read where the
construction would “deny to females
the special protection and privileges
which they now enjoy for the gen
eral welfare.”
This rifers. in part, to the laws
protecting women in industry.
change without much ado. But when
tli*- proposal came to the four south- i
ern legislatures that met a little lat
er, if was given a chilling reception.!
Louisiana, it i» true, did take ac
tion to the extent of repealing nine
specific disc iminr.tions against wo
rn n. As one result all political and
civil offices in the state are now' open
to women. Another reform achiev
ed by Louisiana compels a husband
to obtain consent of his wife before
he can sell or mortgage the home.
The rest of the family property re
mains under control of the husband
as befor . But the wife is assured ;
that the roof over her head will not I
be sold without any reference to her i
wishes or Interests.
Louisian; agree i to nine changes,
but the radical id. a of absolute legal
equality foe women was turned
down flatly The other three state
legislatures to which the measure
was submitted also rejected it. And
yet tha feminists point out. these'
states, progressive in many ways, j
ar“ far behind some other states in .
their le»al trevm.ent of women.
.Marriage ill Mississippi
The survey of the state laws show
ed many cases where the old com- i
mon law holds. Kot instance, a wife !
in Mississippi was lefused the right j
to sue for damages for the aliena- !
tion of hei Husband s affections. The ,
lawn of the state give the husband j
control u the wile s personal prop- !
erty and the court held that in these |
circumstances if the wife won the
suit, the err.ng husband would ben- |
efit by it its he could appropriate
the money
In this state, which is not the most
backward of the 48, a woman prac
tically leases herself out to her hus
band for i‘fe. In* return for her
services she receives her bourd and
keep. But she cannot require her
husband tt pay ncr anything. She
has no right to any part of the fam
ily income and sae has no interest ■
in her husband's property unless he j
dies and leaves it.
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by fall or ;.n exposed gas pipe, the I
wife received damages for her per- ;
sonal injury, but the husband was |
allowed by the court U> collect the
amount awarded as tile loss of her j
services in the home.
According to the report from Flor- |
ida. the women of that state are ur.- i
dec the domination of the old Eng
lish common law to a greater ex
tent'thin perhaps any other state In
the union. According to the com
mon law a married woman “could
mane no contract of any kind." This. 1
the report shows, i“ true In Florida
today with a few exceptions. Unless ,
her husband has been pronounced
insane and has been insane for a j
year, ; married woman may not j
rent, mortgage, or sell even prop- I
erty given or willed to her without I
his consent. If the husband is a
criminal he still has this control
over his wife's property.
A husban l in this state may do as I
he likes with the proceeds from his
wife’s separate property and she
may not suj him even to secure an
accounting of what he has done
with her own money. The report
points out that a court decision ex
tended the husband's authority even
to ownership of bis wife’s clothes.
And in another case a court ruled
that a married woman did not have
titty right to hire domestic servants.
In this day when so many married
women pi el .-r work in an office or
shop to work in a kitchen it is inter
esting to note that in Alabama the
husband generally has authority,
backed up by law, to say whether
or ; ot his wife may work outside
tlte home. To quote u court decision
tltc litisLt.net is entitled to his wife's
services to the extent that she is
in this respect ’’merely a servant,”
So a court in 1D14 decided that if
outside work would interfere with
her domestic duties a husband could
legally prevent h s wife from enter
ing paid employment.
So many women have business ex
pemnees before marriage that the
home standards hate been (advanc
ing mere rapidly ti.an the laws. The
modern woman knows the unit of
labor which earned a dollar in the
store or office and she compares that
with her Work about the house, bite
figures that she is putting her share
into a business partnership and that
whatever ii saved or acquired is in
part l-.ers
There at< Severni theories, with
which the modern domestic estab
lishment is experimenting. One is
to make the home a partnership and
to have everything about the home
held jointly. Another idea is for
each of tlm ccn'r.scting parties to
hold his or ner own share separately.
In this plat the wife might receive a
fixed salar; for housework besides
money set aside for her to pay cer
tain of the bills. What she can save
out of her salary and expenses she
puts away or spends to suit herself
and the husband does likewise with
his share of the budget.
— “What’s Yours is Mine”
By some such scheme the home of
th" business woman is apt to lie run
' after marriage. But in many states
it is only i ourtesy arrangement by
which th" husband does not demand
his legal rights And in event of a
disagreement or divorce, the wife
finds that she has very little that her
husband cannot control or in some
states even dispose of. So. the fem
inine lawyets contend that the mod
ern wife’s scientific menage is built
on shifting sand.
It is difficult to get a good many
of the stares to tr.akc sweeping
changes in the old fashioned, dis
criminating laws, women campaign
ers have found.
Miss N^laud Younger, legislative
..chairman of the woman's party has
said, “in some states, like Louisiana
and Alabama which have just taken
adverse action, it has already been
shown to be practically impossible to
secure state laws. Further, state
laws arc never permanent. The next
state legislature may repeal the
measure passed by its predecessor.”
Because of these facts, the wom
an’s party is also working to have a
constitutional amendment adopted
giving women of the country legal
equality with men. This amendment
is still in process of evolution. The
party wants it to be worded so that it
is foolproof and so that it complete
ly covers the case. Lawyers are
now working on the amendment so
that it can Lt introduced before Con
gress shortly.
The state bills and the amendment
arc intended to make secure wo
men’s rights in such matters as own
ership and control of earnings, of
fice holdings, jury service, control of
children, choice of domicile and the
name. The law of Louisiana pro
vides that a wife must live where
her -husband decrees even if she
supports him.
It is interesting to note that in the
states where surveys have been made
no statute provides that a woman
must take the name of her husband.
Here is a "right” cf which womtm
might have availed themselves for
generations perhatis, yet few have
done so. Ti.oso who went to law for
their rights have, it seems, been
concerned with more vital affairs.
CHRISTMAS SEALS
COMMON SENSE WAVS TO KEEP WELL
BY DU. It. II. BISHOP
Countless millions of tiny Christ
mas Seals are now making their
annual appearance They remind us
once more that-heroic efforts are be
ing made to conquer the great anu
dnad disease that may bu waiting
in ambush fen- any one of us.
They arre the symbol of a great
national crusade against* tuberculo
sis, and the little double-barred Bed
Cross upon their face has become
internationally recognized as the
sign of anti-tuberculosis activity.
The fact that tuberculosis directly
affects every individual in every
community because its/germ lurks
in all of us makes it impossible for
a single one of us to be indifferent
to the great appeal.
It may seem a startling statement
to say that you cannot afford to be
indifferent to the appeal or the dis
ease because you do not know
whether you have it or not. Yet this
is the case. There are thousands of
people walking the streets who har
bor the germ and never suspect it.
Furthermore, there are many who
are infected with tuberculosis n
childhood. In them the germs He
dormant and unsuspected for years
until with the strain and stress of
life, or because of self-indulgence
or overwork, the bodily resistance
is lowered and the Inactive energy
begins an assault upon the lungs or
some other bodily tissues.
The best method to avoid tuber
culosis is to keep the body always
in "fighting trim.” The healthier
your body, the more difficult for the
germs of tuberculosis to grow there
in. This is the point the National
Tuberculosis Association tried to
drive home every day. ■
To keep healthy observe the fol
lowing rules:
Live, study, work and sleep in
rooms where there is plenty of fresh
air. Fresh air and sunlight render
the activity of the tubercle bacilli
ha rmless.
Don’t live in dusty air. Damp
cloths, brooms and mops should be
used to clean rooms of dust.
Keep at least one window open In
your bedroom at night and air the
room two or three times daily.
Wash the hands before ^eating a
meal.
Don’t put your hands, pencils or
other things into your mouth.
Don’t keep soiled handkerchiefs in
your pockets.
Take a warm bath with soap at
least once a week.
Don’t neglect a cold or cough but
consult a physician at once.
To Stop Coughing at Night.
When anyone is suffering from a
bronchial affliction or has a cough
that lingers on and grows worse at
night, the loss of sleep tends to
weaken the suffere.- and grows more
serious the longer it is neglected.
Mrs. M. Suter, 647 Dongbrook ave.,
Stratford Conn., writes: ‘‘Foley's
Honey and Tar has given me great
relief from a severe attack of bron
chitis." No medicine stands higher
throughout the nation as a family
remedy for colds, coughs and croup.
Sold everywhere.—Adv.
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IMA SMITH ST. TED. MS-IV
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. FEELING RICH
BY DR. W. E. BARTON
11
Mr. Dooley announced that »th«
men who name brands of collars and
Pullman oars are the greatest liv
ing poet*. 1 have sometimes thought
that we ought to consider the Pull
man company the founders of a
school of philosophy.
Dost week I rode upon a train, and
rising In the morning after a good
night. I ask-d the porter:
'How do you feel this morning?”
He answered. “Ah feels lack a man
dat -as money."
I asked him krhether that feeling
wa3 based upon actual possession or
inward satisfaction. He replied—
"No. sah. Ah don t have de money
dat is to say Ah ain't got much. Ah
could have money < t Ah didn’t have
t^eat and to wah clothes, but el Ah
didn't do dem things dey wouldn’t
be no good In livin’ money. But ef
Ah don’t have money. Ah kin have
de feelin' and Ah reckon hit's better
to have de feelin' an’ not have de
money dan to have de money and
not have d^ feelin’.”
He was a very wire man. Diogenes
himself cou d hard'.y have said It bet- |
ter and he would have said It less
cheerfully.
If one has money enough to pay
his hrnest debts what more had
CroFsu.%? If a mar has bread and a
coat and a Job and a home, and peo
ple who Iov- hlr nnd Inspire him to
do his beat, what difference can It
make whether h' dies worth a hun
dred dollars or a hundred millions?
One of the poorest men I know
owns a railroad and wants another.
The Arabs have a proverb which
Is a sort of conundrum—
"Which la the richer man. he who
hath ten thousand shekels or he that
hath seven daughters?
The answt-r la. "He that hath seven
daurhters Is the richer, for he de
sireth no more.1'
That man is rich who has the feel
ing of wealth and the Joy of wealth.
That feeling Is not wholly indepen
dent of money but money Is far from
being the whole of It. The porter
was right. It is better to have
the feeling of wealth without money
than to have the money and to feel
poor.
Learn One New Thing Every Day
' BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
MOUNT UANE
Announcement that the U. S. Ge
ographic Board has decided to name
peak in Mount Rainier National
Park tor the late Franklin K. Lane
lends Interest to a communication
written by the former secretary of
tho Interior concerning the physical
features of Washington state io the
National Geographic Society, of
which he was a trustee.
This extract, from an article "A
Mind’s Eye Map of America" which
was among the last published writ
ings of Mr. Lane, follows:
“You come on down the const to
tho State of Washington. There
we have at one point the largest
rainfall of any point in the United
States—150 inches. And on the
other side of the State is or was a
great desert. Land that I could
have bought for $1.25 an acre is to
day selling at $1,000 an acre. Why?
Becauso a little money has been
Invested in turning waters upon that
tand and planting apples. One of
the apples planted here come from
the Hudsor] river. The people of
New York state did pot care for and
love this fruit as those people did
out there. They have taken the de
licious apple as you know it, prun
ed it .watered it, sorted it. cared
for It, until now It makes that land
worth $1,500 to $2,000 an acre.
Tacoma, "The Feeding Breast"
"The dominant feature In the
landscape in the Slate of Washing-j
ton is Mount Rainier. I like the|
name Tacoma because it is an ln-j
dian name. Rainier was Ihe name
of an admiral who saw this splen
did place. Tacoma was the Indian
name and means ’The feeding
breast;’ and when you see the moun
tain you will (realise where (he In
dians got that name, because from
every side come down rivers which
make for the strength, the beauty,
and the wealth of the country.
•'Hero is one of our groat parks;
and I have stood therein with the
snow of the glacier in one hand,
and touched with the other the
blossoming wild flowers.
"That state is rich in mines, rich
in agricultural land, rich In power
possibilities. It has hundreds of
thousands of acres of land that are
practically desert and that can be
reclaimed and brought into useful
ness by use of the water of the Co
lumbia riveP.
Frontier Town Mow University
City
"Arfd yet the most significant
thing in that state is the State Uni
versity. I saw Seattlo when it was
a frontier town, and there was
little thought then of its possessing
a great university; but there are
ti.000 students in the University of
Washington today, and that state
iu only SO years old. This fact in
dicates better than anything else
can the trend of American life.
America has in hdr mind the pur
pose to do things that make for
a richer country not only materially
but also intellectually.
“You come down from Wasnlng
lon to Oregon, with its long line .
mountains, its majestic river, its
vast forests. There is one out
standing scenic feature of novelty,
Orator Lake. The top was blown
off a volcano, and in the center of
that crater we tind the most exquis
ite bit of water—a thing without
parallel in color in this country,
perhaps in the world.
"And there Is abundant land yet
to be had ‘where rolls the Oregon.’
We have recently brought back to
the United States a strip of land ten
miles wido and 300 miles long
which was granted to the Oregon
and California railroad, and that
land has been thrown open to home
steaders.”
All's well that ends swell.
All's fair in love and war because
what's tlie difference?
We need street cars that can de
tour around autos.
Procrastination is one thief never
stopped.
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Q. What powers are participate
Ing In the Disarmament policy?—■
J. W. C.
A. The nations participating in
the Conference for Limitation of
Armament Groat Britain, France,
Italy, Japan Netherlands, Belgium
China, Portugal and the United
States.
Q. How old Is Arthur Brisbane?
—J. W. J.
A. Arthur Brisbane wa* born De
cember 12, 1864, so will be 57 year*
old next month.
Q. How can the sand in glass lie
separated from the glass?—\V. F.
A. The Eureau of Standards says
after glass has once been made,
the sand has been so used as Bo
make it Impossible to change It
back to Its original state.
Q, What was the specific charge
placed against Captain Fryatt who
was shot by the Germans during
the war? It was an odd word that
I cannot remember.—G. J. H. J
A, Captain Fryatt of the British I
ship •'Brussels" was executed by
the Germans on the charge of be
ing a Franc-tlreur. Literally trans
lated this means a "sharpshooter."
The word was first ihtroduced into
international law as a result of *.ho
organization of bands of irregulars
or Frane-tlreurs during the Franco—
Prussian war. -n
Q. Wtmt m the largest pgrk in
the Unite'll States within a city?—
J. E. N.
has an area of 3,242 acres. This i
probably the largest park within
the limits of any city In the coun
try.
Q. Wlmt is used in the manufac
ture of fiber phonograph needles?
—W. H. V. S.
A. Tne Forest Service says tha*
in most cases fiber needles art
manufactured from foreign tropical
woods which are closely associated
with bamboo.
Q. What is Basil King's real name
—H 11.
A.Basil King is listed in Who':
who as "King (William Benjamin)
Basil."
Q. Did the "knights of old" went
both chain and plate armor?—D. II
H.
A. Plate armor was worn In bat
tle and tournament while chain ar
mor was worn at times when then
was possibility of chance encoun
ters and to prevent assassination.
Q- Were pyramids ftuilt as torn);:
hy any other ancient people than
the Egyptians?—H. W. S.
A. Outside of Egypt, the pyramid
did not assume the national import,
nnce that it had there, but a sort ol
pyramid was built in the early civ
ilization of Central and Sour'
America. There were also some py_ jm
ramids In Greece, Assyria and KomrM
Q. What is brimstone?—A. D. L.”
A. TTrin*stono was a name giver
to sulphur. It was literally "burn
ing stone,” sulphur haying been
considered by the alchemists us tht
principle of combustibility.
Q. Are there diphthongs lr
Trench?—D. S.
A. There are no true diphthong
in French. There are combinations
of semi-consonants and voyvels.
When wo get a new year let'a
take better care of It than we did of
our old one.
A present in hand is worth two in
the mail.
Get an auto or be gotten by one.
______ •
Some people can give until it hurts
without giving much.
William Hart married the first
part of this month. His wifo must
call him "Bill." ^
After Dempsey's vaudeville act™
lots of people want to fight him.
Congress will adjourn for Christ
mas. Wish every day was Christmas.
Chewing gum keeps a lot of use
less things from being said.
"Men after my own heart,’’ says
lister, as she looks at her presents.
- tf.W
I’ndertakers are not for the Irish
free State.
Better come back than talk back.
A good looking girl who can cook
ioesn’t have to pick a career.
Maybe the two parties starting for
the North Pole are hunting a place
to practice on saxophones.
Igive Is easy to make, but hard to
keep.
Wonder how people who don’t like
movies keep awny from home?
We have no big-kneed for short ^
skirts. <j|
Live so you can write a IS check
without worrying.
/ _ —
A nice thing about freckles la you
(now they are real.
"Uncle Mart” of Arkansas is 101
ind cutting new teeth. The first 1UO
.ears, etc.
The man who figures figures never
le doesn’t figure on price tags left
>n Christmas gifts.
When some girls get all dressed up
hey usually have a place to go—but
o bed is the proper’place.
Five months until light under
wear.
The Indians have named Fooh
'Charging Like Thunder” < even
hough he doesn’t resemble a rtfil
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ire new but very popular as a^P
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