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’ WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1914._ 1
WHAT IS BACK OF THE INSULT?
There would have been no long Senate debate on
the Flood resolution if it had recited as a reason
! for our invasion of Mexico the series of injuries as
well as insults by the Huerta government that pre
ceded the insult to the American flag. The Senate
would have been impelled at once to pass the resolu
tion. But it could not let the proclamation go forth
' to the world that the American government
regarded the murder of its citizens and other out
rages as so trivial that they were not worth men
tioning as national grievances. Senator Root, at the
session of the Senate last night, said as to the justifi
cation of our course:
"Thcro Is matter of justification, it is that lying
behind this insult to our flag by this poor, ignorant j
subordinate are years of violence and anarchy in j
Mexico. Lying behind it are hundreds of American j
lives sacrificed, many millions of American property j
destroyed and thousands of Americans reduced to,
poverty today. Lying back of this Incident is a con- j
dition of things in Mexico which absolutely prevents ;
the protection of American life and property except i
through respect for the American flag, the American
uniform, the American government. It Is that which \
gives significance to the demand that public respect |
be paid to the flag of the United States.”
Fierce criticism has beaten upon the placid state j
department for its Indifference anil Inaction when our
consuls in Mexico reported case after ease of murder
and outrage on American citizens. The cases as they
were reported were Merely placed on tile. Such a
demeanor was never before exhibited by any govern-1
ment capable of protecting Its citizens. And the kill
ing of an obstreperous Englishman who had mixed
up in Mexican politics made more stir In the state
department than the long list of murders of Amer
icans.
Surely if we are to have a war with Mexico the
Indictment we draw against her should Include all her
principal acts, of which the insult to our flag was
the culmination.
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SECOND TAKING OK VERA l RVZ.
It was on March 9, 1847, that General Scott
landed at Vera Cruz in sixty-seven surf boats holding
fifty-live hundred men, and without serious oppo
sition by the Mexicans. In all 12,000 men were «
Dually landed. This was on tho coast outside the j
city and tho strong castle of San Juan de Ulloa,
' ’Vhjc.Ji was strongly garrisoned and had formidable |
artillery. The wounding of a single soldier was the j
only casualty. Altogether the Mexican garrison com
posed 4,390 troops. The city and castle capitulated
eighteen days later.
Vera Cruz had no defenses against Admiral
Fletcher's ships and the city was taken by marines
and sailors. Cnfortunately, there were casualties,
and of a kind to be expected, the sniping of men front
the shelter of houses. With a larger force landed
this shooting front ambush will be slopped, as the
city will then be cleared and patrolled. At Vera Cruz
we experience the character of warfare we may expect
to encounter if our troops penetrate the interior, the
kind peculiar to people of tho Spanish stock and the
kind that caused the loss of so many thousands of
Napoleon’s veterans in Spain.
THE MEANING OF THE FLAG.
It was well said by Senator Shivtjly yesterday in
the Senate debate on the Flood resolution that "the
flag is not a piece of tawdry hunting. The uniform
of our sailors stands for something. It represents
the embattled spirit of their country.” But he might
have said that, it represents the nation. An insult
to the flag is a national one the world over and haB
been for all time. An injury may be done and com
pensated for. An insult must be atoned. A gov
ernment. may accept money damages for an injury
such as the killiug of a citizen or the taking of his
property, but an insult to a nation’s flag must be
apologized for before all the world. The flag is only
a bit of bunting, but it has a tremendous significance
as representing the power and dignity of a nation.
THE LEGISLATIVE RECORD COMPLETED.
All the legislative enactments left with the Gov
ernor at adjournment are now disposed of, a few
being vetoed, and this completes the record of a
session which is anything but a creditable one. The
legislative majority had a strong incentive In this
year’s elections to carry out the program adopted
for the session, hut apparently the leaders confi
dently relied on past pluralities to carry the party
through this year with "any old record” at Trenton.
That is often the feeling of party leaders after
victories. There is a more chastened feeling after
defeat, which teaches some wisdom, however much it
is lost after power is regained. The Republicans
have had leisure for repentance for legislative sins
and to form virtuous resolves of what they will do if
tney should again control the Legislature, and they
will promise much in the campaign this year. How
ever sincere they may be they will at least match
Republican promise with Democratic performance, j
and very much to the disadvantage of the latter.
THE DRAIN TO CANADA CHECKED.
It is pleasingly evident that the call of the
Canadian wild is not luring so many producers from
American farms. Canadian government figures for
the last ten months of 1913 show a decrease of 25,
000, or nearly 20 per cent., in immigration from the
United States as compared with the like period of
the year before. On the other hand, the mother
country and the rest of Europe sent a largely in
creased number of emigrants to the Dominion. Ex
posures of the Canadian policy of subsidizing small
country newspaper publishers in the United States
to print glowing boiler-plate descriptions of the su
perior quality of Canadian soil seem to have had a
wholesome effect upon the American farmer. Besides
this decline in emigration from the United States
there is noted a large return movement, thousands of
American farmers quitting Canada, disappointed.
THE HYPOCRISY OF A GREAT CITY.
A correspondent of the New York Times wants
to know why an opera or play cannot be given in
that city on Sunday, while there is no ban on a
vaudeville or burlesque show, which is all right so
long as it Is advertised as a “concert.” Any man
who expects consistency in the interpretation or en
forcement of Sunday laws must be similarly puzzled.
The wonder is that the Metropolitan Opera Company
does not try putting on a complete performance of
grand opera some Sunday night and calling it a
concert. But the time will come when all this sham
and hypocrisy will be done away with in all large
cities and any form of respectable entertainment will
be permitted on the first day of the week.
\ NEW MILITIA LAW.
The passage by the Senate of the House militia
bill authorizing the President to send the National
Guard out of the I'nited States in case of war insures
the necessary authority for the chief executive and
makes him the commander-in-chief of all the militia
as well as the regular army and navy forces of the
country.
This step has been urged by every secretary of
war for years. The general purpose of the bill
now passed is to provide for a complete organization
of the militia and volunteer force to be called out in
a national emergency and make it available both*
within and without the United States.
OUR CONQUEST OF DISEASE.
There was not a case of cholera in the Philippines
last year. The number of cases of smallpox and
plague was practically negligible. These three dis
eases were once especially virulent in those islands.
Smallpox alone lifted to account for 40,000 deaths a
year. Intelligent sanitation under American rule has
almost banished these scourges, as it has wiped out
yellow fever In continental United States and made
it almost unknown in Cuba, and as it has made the
isthmus of Panama a health resort. In more wayB
than one Dewey’s victory in Manila bay sixteen years
ago was a gift of life to humanity.
SOME FIGURES FOR THE COAL CONSUMER.
People who burn antharcite coal and pay con
stantly increasing prices for it may like to know where
some of their money goes. They may be interested in
tile fact that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Coal Company is about to cut a melon in the shape
of a 20 per cent, dividend. This concern is a sub
sidiary of the enormously opulent railroad of similar
name. It earned last year nearly 22 per cent. Its
capital stock is about $6,600,000 and it lias between
$8,000,000 and $9,000,000 surplus cash. It does a
tidy banking business. That's where some of the coal
consumer's money goes.
| OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES |
\ ItiK Problem.
From the Kansas 1'ity Times.
In many of the big industries of
the time the personal relation between
employer and employe is gone.
This was forcefully shown in the
testimony of John I>. Rockefeller, Jr.,
concerning the industrial troubles in
the Colorado coal Helds. Although
the younger Mr. Rockefeller Is it
director of the i Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, representing his fattier, ,
who owns 40 per cent, of the property,
he says lie has no time to learn at
first hand the relations of hin com
pany and its employes. As he put It:
"In these days, when business in
terests are so diversified and directors
are members of so many boards, the
best they can do is to appoint officers
and hold them responsible.”
Between those who get the profits
and those who get the wages, that is
to say, modern big industry inter
poses men who are not free agents
and who must satisfy the impersonal,
irresponsible demand for a good re
turn on the investment.
Here is disclosed certainly one of
the great problems of tt is Industrial
age. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., says Ills
conscience acquits him of any neglect
of duty. That may be. But the prob
lem is not one for the individual ton
science to determine. That something
better will have to ho substituted for
this prevailing once—or twice—re
moved responsibility of employers for
the rights and welfare of great bodies
of employes Is a certainty. What the
new relation will be ii not so easy to
prophesy. But unsatlsfie 1 demands
of workers on the one aide and satis
fied consciences of distant owners on
the oilier cannot give the last word in
Industry.
Ilritlkh Keformeru.
From the Loudon Sneetntor.
In the course of a speech at Hen
ley, Herbert Samuel said that the
present year would see home rule In
Dublin and religious equality in
Wales, to l>e followed next year by
the abolition of plural voting. "With
in the next year also,” he continued,
I
"the prime minister will lay before
parliament proposals fur the com
plete elimination from parliament of
the hereditary peerage principle and
the thorough democratizing of the
second chamber.” We are unite aware
that there Is nothing Inherently in
compatible between this Interesting
prediction and a statement to the
contrary from some other minister,
with, as its corollary, an explanation
in the radical press proving the two
to be consistent, if not identical. But
as Mr. Samuel does not as a rule deal
In rash statements, we may point out
that his prediction, if wo may assume
that it represents the considered view
of the cabinet, commits them to a
proposal which would stereotype the
most disreputable features of colonial
constitutions. To make the second
chamber an imitation of the Commons
must Inevitably damage the prestige
of the latter and substitute competi
tion for compensation.
A I.omlon l.nre to Cooks.
From the lmltutnipolis News.
The servant question is not a neigh
borhood question, but an interna
tion one. Nowr you have the servant
and nowr you haven't. That is an
elusiveness that is by no means con
tmed to America. Tho high cost of
living and incidentally the high cost
of cooks enter into the question with
most of us. Cash considerations
loosen the hold of many on the slip
pery servants, and the most such em
ployers can hope to do is to make
their homes a kind of training school
from which persons of greater wealth
can pick the graduates. But money
is not the only lure. Diplomacy, tact
and many other forces enter into the
question. A keen appreciation of the
drawing power of location is shown
in an advertisement in The London
Times. The ''Personal" column of that
famous Journal, printed in "want ad"
style on the first page, is a perpetual
fountain of human interest, but sel
dom has anything so broadly appeal
ing appeared there us the following:
A GOOD COOK is offered a magniti
cient view from kitchen window of
main thoroughfare with constant ar
rests, small accidents, ambulance
calls, and other interesting incidents
at all hours of the day and evening.
Address 54. U. 386, The Times Office,
E 0.
How such a place ever came to be
without a cook is a mystery. Many
thousands from whom cooks have
flitted must read such an advertise
ment with a hopeless sense of their
powerlessness to compete In attrac
tions and must rage at this use of an
environment built up by the com
munity as a whole for the individual
benefit of the advertiser. By what
light does the advertiser thus shame
lessly flaunt his unearned increment
of drawing power on cooks?
Class Trust l.rglstation.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
The twenty-five years of struggle
over the Sherman trust act has been
largely contention to get class legis
lation into It, or to keep class legis
lation out of it, and reduce It to the
passionless justice of the common law
against monopolies.
The Supreme Court at last reduced
It to the simple and Just expression
of an equal principle. The contest
now is to keep it there; so that the
repression of every kind of unjust
monopoly that began against the
"rule of renson" may not be checked
by a new storm of litigation over ob
scure and Uoulgful law. This con
tention Is vital to every class: even
to those in whose name demagogues
still try to read class legislation Into
the law.
They wno threaten to defeat any
trust legislation unless It Includes
immunity in restraint of trade,
whether reasonable or not, for or
ganizations of workingmen and farm
ers, unconsciously promise a univer
sal service. If the Sherman law can
be saved from mutilation the pas
sionless justice of the Supreme Court
will protect capital, labor* and farm
' production without a quarter of a
century of litigation first.
It is a plausible guess that the
burden of new litigation might arise
between labor and farm organizations
-if factory workmen were empowered
by law to combine for wages so high
as to create monopoly prices for
clothing to farmers and if farmers
were authorized to combine to create
| monopoly prices for food to workmen.
I Class legislation is a sword of double
I cutting edge. _ _
From $80 to $250 Is Price
Among One Sumatra
Tribe.
Now' that a closer acquaintance
with the Menangkabau (of Sumatra)
is made possible, it is known that
their fundamental institutions belong
to the Matriarchate, or Age of the
Mothers’ Rights, which many socio
logists believe to have been a stage \
through which all races have passed.
They number 1,500,000, and occupy a ■
territory live times the size of the
Netherlands, writes Carrie Chapman i
Catt, in Harper’s Magazine.
The women own the land and !
houses. Family names descend in the |
female line, and mothers are the sole i
guardians of their children. Some of :
the customs of the people have been j
deflected from their normal course of j
development by two powerful patriar- [
ohal influences. At a remote period
of unknown date the Hindus over
ran the chief islands of the archipel
ago.
How long they remained or why
they withdrew, or if they merely in
termarried with the native peoples
they visited and thus lost their iden
tity, are questions that are asked
many times, though never answered;
but they left a permanent impress of
their arts, religion and ideas of caste.
The other external influences came
through Arab traders and priests,
probably about the thirteenth cen
tury, who converted the people to
Mohammedanism and formed a con
nection which has been intermittently
continued until the present day.
.■since Hindus and Mohammedan*
I alike assign women to seclusion and
a position of litter subordination to
men, it is evident that there was
something tremendously* virile in the
“Mothers! Rights” institutions of the
Menangkabau, or something unusual
in their environment, to have with
stood all such dominating forces. The
conclusion becomes the more appar
ent when taken in connection with the
fact that distinct traces of the ma
triareate are to he found throughout
the Malay rare, to which these people
belong, though nearly all tribes have
substituted patriarchate institutions.
Marriage is exogamlc, and before
the days of Mohammedanism all hus
bands doubtless went to live in the
homes of their mothers-in-law, as is
the usual custom under the niatri
archate. The polygamy allowed by
Mohammed Interfered with this prac
tise, and a curious compromise was
effected between these opposing insti
tutions which has permitted both to
exist. The polygamous husband now
remains in the family of his own
mother, and merely visits his wife in
the home of his mother-in-law. If
he takes the four wives authorized
by the Koran, he usually spends a
week with each, or at least he times
ids visits of equal lengths—watchful
mothers-in-law, with an eye to the
family exchequer, see to it that he
does not overstay the prescribed peri
od. Here he eats and sleeps in the
apartment of his wife.
In former times, since the women
controlled the land and carried the
family pocketbook, the husbands
made no contribution toward the
family expenses. Instead, the men
were supported by their wives and
received their pocket money as a gift
from them. Now. many men have
attained “economic independence"
through the opening of new occupa
tions and business opportunities
brought about by the Dutch occu
pancy, and such men are expected to
bring a gift of food, clothing or
money to their wives upon the oeen
sinn of each visit. No law compels
this attention, but popular opinion
has thus far done its perfect w*ork.
and few men avoid the obligation.
As social intercourse is as free as
in America, young people fall in love
in a natural way and make their own
choice of matrimonial partners, hut
when the choice Is made negotiations
between the parents of the young
couple begin and the price which the
bride shall pay for the husband Is
determined.
! LABOR NOTES fl
The number of vacancies filled by
the British labor exchanges during the
year 19K! was 921,853, and, in addition,
20,629 jobs of a more or less casual
nature were found for dock laborers,
cloth porters and cotton porters.
Dutch textile workers have, in ad
dition to the modern trade unions,
special syndicalist, Christian, Catho
lic, etc., organizations, while a new
"central” is now being established.
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The law that provides employers
advertising for workers In strike
times shall state that fact Is not class
legislation, and is, therefore, consti
tutional. is the decalratlon of the Su
preme Judicial Court of Massachu
setts.
tilrl Saves Wounded Fire Hero with
Hosiery Tourniquet.
NEW YORK, April 22.—An invalid
woman and a young man who tried
to save her were burned yesterday
when a fire drove forty families out
of the five-story double tenement
house at 222 East Sixty-fifth street.
Miss Ethel Youngmun, a worker In
the Henry Street Settlement House,
saw the youth collapse, ran to the
roof of the building and carried him
over to 224, where she removed her
stocking, made a tourniquet and then
bound up a gash in his heel, which
the young man had received when he
tried to kick out a square of glass.
Just as Miss Youngman finished her
work Dr. Beard and Dr. Witmarsh
arrived from Flower Hospital with
two ambulances. Both physicians said
the settlement worker had done as
good a job as they could have done.
The young man is Edward Elliott, of
16 North Ninth street, Woodside,
Queens.
Evening Star s
Daily Puzzle
) I'M SICK;
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What animal';
Answer to Yent^nlij'u 1’UKsto;
Green. _
Che modern polonious
It never pays to whine, my son;
The world has little time to hear
Complaints from those who have not won
The prizes that are scarce and dear,
The man who haunts a gloomy nook
Is never cheered and seldom praised:
Assume an air and try to look
As if your pay had just been raised.
It never pays, my son, to let
Your neighbor see your empty purse.
Nor will it help your case to fret
When things have gone from bad to worse;
When luck deserts you, as it will,
Conceal the fact from foe and friend.
And try to look as if you still
Had money that you wished to spend.
It never pays, my son, to show
That fear is lurking in your breast;
When trouble weighs your spirit low
’Tis time to smile your merriest.
I cannot tell you how to strut
With pride when trouble crushes you.
Or how to laugh while grieving, but
I know it is the thing to do.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The True Story of a Cabinet Appointment
On the eighty-third birthday of
General Thomas Ij. James, formerly
postmaster-general in the administra
tions of Presidents Garfleld and Ar
thur, he was invited to be the guest
of some 200 of his friends at a lunch
eon, In the course of the informal
speeches over the coffee and cigars,
one of the hosts spoke of the manner
in which General James was selected
by President Garfleld for the office of
postmaster-general in the lute Febru
ary of 1881.
“I recommended to Senator Roscoe
Conkling that he cause General Gar
fleld to be Informed that if he were to
appoint General Thomas I>. James
postmaster-general, that nomination
would be acceptable to all factions of
the Republican party,” he said.
This anecdote was not consistent
with something which I learned some
years ago respecting the appointment
of General James ns postmaster-gen
eral. I had convenient opportunity
on the following day to ask him if
he were willing to tel! me the story
with a view to its publication.
"I don't see now that it will do any
harm to tell about General Garfield’s
selection of me as Postmaster-Gen
eral,” replied Mr. James. "There was
one feature of it which I never fully
understood. I have never spoken of
it before for publication.
“Some time early in January, 1881,
Clarkson Nott Potter called upon me
at my office in the postofflce building
in New York City. He asked me if
we could be alone for a few moments.
Mr. Potter was a friend of long stand
ing. He was a distinguished lawyer,
chairman of the famous Potter com
mittee which was appointed to in
vestigate certain of the election meth
ods in the campaign of 1876. Although
a Democrat, very intimate, personal
relations were established between
Mr. Potter and General Garfleld, who
was a fellow member with Potter on
the Ways and Means Committee In
1881. I may say incidentally that
many of the closest friendships which
General Garfleld made were with
Democrats.
“One day Mr. Potter said to me. ‘I
want you to promise to say nothing
to a.living soul, not even within your
own family, of what I am about to
tell you.’ I gave the promise, for I
knew Mr. Potter well enough to be
sure he would not ask anything un
reasonable. He then said: ‘You are
going to be appointed Postmaster
General in President Garfield’s Cab
inet. Say nothing of this to any one.
Go right on about your business as
postmaster of New York, exactly as
you would do if Garfield’s Cabinet
had all been organized.
"I thought it a little strange that
a Democrat should bring me this in
formation, and I didn't place much
reliance upon it. Late in February
Mr. Potter called again and said:
'You have behaved splendidly. There
hasn't been a whisper of you in con
nection with the postmaster-general
ship. All I ask of you is to say noth
ing until you hear, directly or indi
rectly, from General Garfield him
self.'
"On the first of March I was sum
moned to Washington to meet Gen
eral Garfield, and t went over on the
night train. The following morning I
called upon him at the Riggs House.
He was very cordial. In a moment
he said: 'I am going to nominate you
for postmaster-general. I want you
to promise me you will accept. I
presume you have had an intimation
of this.’
"I told him that I had, and that I
had been obliged to see Mr. Blaine,
whom 1 had already called upon.
“ ’I am glad you did,’ Garfield re
plied. ’You have had a talk with him.
That is all right. Now I want you to
promise me that you will go back to
New York immediately and say noth
ing to any one until you hear from
me again.’
“I went back to New York by the
next train, and the following day 1
was summoned to Washington. I
never knew who it was who first rec
ommended me to General Garfield for
the postmaster-generalship, although
Mr. Potter once intimated to me that
I was Garfield's first choice for that
post. Now you have the true story."
(Copyright, 1914, by Dr. E. J. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
India Makes Best Tents j
The use of tents in India is so ex- |
tensive that catering to the demand
has become one of the most interest
ing and important industries in this
empire, says a cnsular report. The
chief centre of manufacture 'a at
Cawnpore, which has the largest tent
factories in the world and not only
does an enormous domestic business,
but also exports very largely to other
countries.
Tents have peculiarly important
uses in India, not only for military
purposes, but for furnishing tem
porary residence and offices in locali
ties and for occupations In which it
would not be convenient or economical
to construct houses. They are much
employed, especially in the. hill sta
tions of India, to furnish annexes to
private houses which may be too small
to accommodate visitors, and they are
also utilized by officers in charge of
forests, railway and irrigation sur
veys, persons on hunting or exploring
tours, etc.; moreover, at times when
any particular important event oc
curs in a city to attract large crowds
of people, tents supplement the or
dinarily very limited accommodations
at hotels.
A notable instance of this latter use
occurred at the Delhi durbar several
years ago, when the great majority of
visitors, including the Uing-emperor
and queen-empress and all the Indian
princes and nobility, occupied tents
just outside the city. It is said that
never before in any time of peace in
the world’s history had so many tents
been pitched in any one place.
The popular use of tents is due not
merely to the peculiar conditions of
life in India and the more or less
transient character of its population,
but also to the fact that Indian tents
are so excellently and elaborately
made that, for most purposes for
which they are required they are just
as comfortable, if not more so, than
the average Indian bungalows.
Rules for Consumptives
Acting under the law of 1912, the I
New Jersey State Board of Health
has issued the following rules,
which are to be followed by all con
sumptives in this State:
1. All persons suffering from pulmo
nary tuberculosis (consumption) shall
effectively destroy their sputum
(spit).
2. All persons suffering from run
ning sores due to any form of tuber
culosis shall burn all soiled dressings
Immediately after removal.
3. The room occupied by a tubercu -
losis patient shall have at least one
outside window.
4. No person suffering from pul
monary or other communicable form
of tuberculosis shall handle food de
signed for the use of others except
when necessary in the performance
of household duties, unless the food
be wrapped In such a way as to pro
tect it from contamination or unless
When Hume Was Orthodox.
David Hume, famous for his his
tory, his philosophy and his atheism,
was once reduced to a very humble
and obedient orthodoxy—although
that state of mind did not long en
dure.
Having fallen into a swamp at the
back of Edinburgh Castle, he called
for assistance to a woman who was
passing. At lirst she took no notice,
but presently she asked:
"Are na ye Hume, the atheist?”
"Weel, weel, no matter,” Hume
said. "Christian charity commands
you to do good to every one.”
“Christian charity here or Christian
charity there,” the woman said, "I'll
do naethlng for you till ye turn a
Christian yourself. Ye maun repeat
the Lord's Prayer and the Creed, or
faith, I’ll let ye grafe (grovel) there
as I found we."
And he had to repeat them.—Phila
delphia ledger.
Enough.
"They’re six tine sons ye have,
Casey,” said Dennis Flaherty to his
friend.
“They are," replied Casey.
"Do you have any trouble with
them?” Inquired Dennis.
"Trouble?” repeated Casey, ‘‘I’ve
nlver had to raise my hand to wan lv
thlm. except In self-defense I”—Ex
change. ___
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5. The manufacturing of any kind
of goods for commercial purposes or
the performance of any work known
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
APRIL 22
j Ada Rehan
Copyrighted 1914.
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BY MARY MARSHALL.
Ada Rehan, the famous frish-Amer
ican comedienne, celebrates herforty
tourth birthday today. She was born
in County Limerick and her father’s
name was Crehiyi. For her stage
name she merely dropped the initial
letter. She came to this country with
her family when she was five years
old, and was educated in the public
schools of Brooklyn, N. Y. Her older
sisters became actresses, so Ada's in
clinations were naturally bent in that
direction.
Ada Rehan’s first chance to show
her ability came when she was four
teen years old. Through the absense
of a member of a company in which
one of her sisters was acting she had
a chance to substitute at very short
notice. This performance took place
in Newark, N. J. It proved to be
such a success, as far as the little
fourteen-year-old actress was con
cerned, that it is always regarded as
Miss Rehan’s debut. Before she was
eighteen she had made a great suc
cess in such classic roles as Ophelia,
Desdemona and Olivia, and played
with such famous actors as Kdwin
i Booth, Adelaide Neilson and Law
rence Barrett. At the age of elgh
teen she became leading woman with
Augustin Daly. Since that time she
lias been almost constantly before the
public, and has played In all sorts of
parts. But She is. above all else, a
Shakespearean comedienne, and in
such parts as Rosalind in "As You
Like It" and Catherine in “The
Taming of the Shrew" she has Beldom
been equaled on the American Btage.
Among other famous women born
on April 22 are such widely divergent
characters as Isabelle I. of Spain, the
wife of Ferdinand, the Catholic. She
it was who pawned her jewels in
order to aid Christopher Columbus in
hie first expedition to the new world.
Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia writer
of popular novels, also came into the
world on April 22. "The Deliverance"
and "The Miller of Old Church” are
among her most popular works.
Mme. de Stael, the celebrated
French writer, the author of “Co
rinne,” is still another famous woman
born on April 22, and among women
of royal birth there Is Princess Fred
erick Charles, sister of the Emperor
of Germany.
Kindling Boosters
One strolling into the Players’ Club
in New York will probably notice one
or two men wearing a tiny gold but
ton in their coat lapels, bearing the
initials ’’K. B." These are the "Kind
ling Boosters,” and the little badges
were given them by Margaret Elling
ton in graceful recognition of what
they did for the play when it seemed
a failure.
"Kindling” has Just appeared in
printed form as the first volume of
Doubleday, Page & Co.'s new “Drama
League Series of Plays.”
In the introduction Mr. Clayton
Hamilton, the well-known dramatic
critic, tells the interesting history of
the play. Written by Charles Ken
yon, a young newspaper man on the
staff of the San Francisco Examiner,
it was first produced at Daly's Thea
tre in New York in December, 1911.
For various reasons the play seemed
a failure. Clayton Hamilton, in the
introduction to the printed play, tells
how it “caught on.”
"After the hours of ‘Kindling’ had |
been numbered, and about ten days j
before the date when the truckmen |
had been ordered to transfer the j
scenery to the storehouse, three men,
with nothing better to do, huppened
to stroll in to see the play. One of j
these men was a novelist, another
was a playwright and the third was
an author of books about the theatre.
Having received what was to them
an unusual impression, they rushed
back to a famous club, of which all
three were members, to disturb the
peace of a traditional fireside by em
phatically asking such questions as
'Have you seen "Kindling?" ’ and
‘Who is Charles Kenyon?’ Nobody
could answer the second question, but
several of the other members of this
club had seen the play, and all agreed
that it was a work of unusual sin
cerity and extraordinary merit.
“It was then that the novelist sug
gested that so excellent a work must
not be allowed to pass into oblivion—
that all the writers present owed a
duty to their unknown fellow crafts
man to bring his play to the notice
of an appreciative public.
"Every member of this impromptu
conference pledged himself to take
at least five well-known writers to
see the play within the next three
days. Then, at the conclusion of the
third day a circular letter was print
ed, calling the attention of all people
who were seriously interested in good
art to the exceptional ijjarits of this
play, and this letter, signed with
twenty or thirty names of men and
women whose own literary work was
known through the country, was
simultaneously dispatched to every
newspaper in New York.
"The receipt of a communication so
extraordinary as this became at once,
in the parlance of the profession of
journalism, a "good news item.” The
letter wrus printed prominently, and
the occasion received comment in the
editorial columns.
Spurred on by this advantage sev
eral of the 'Kindling Boosters,’ as
they now called themselves, w'rote
special articles for the Sunday edi
tions and gave these ‘stories to the
newspapers free of charge.”
The Application of Radium
It is only thirteen years ago that
the action of radium on human tis
sues became known, owing to the cir
cumstances that Prof. Henri Becque
rel, of Paris, was incautious en nigh
to carry a tube of the then newly
discovered substance in his waistcoat
pocket for fourteen days, when a
severe inflammation of the skin oc
curred that became famous to
scientists of the “Becquerel burn.”
ltadlum is a metallic chemical ele
ment obtained from pitchblende, a
uranium mineral, by Professors Pierre
Curio and Georges Bemont and Mme.
Curie in 1898 as a sequel to Prof.
Becquerel's observations in 1896 that
certain uranium preparations emitted
a radiation resembling the X-rays
discovered by Roentgen in 1895.
The word radium is derived from
the Latin radius, a ray, and was s>
named because of the Intensity of the
radioactive emanations it yields. Like
the X rays, the Becquerel are in
visible, and both traverse thin sheets
of glass or metal, and cannot be re
fracted. Notwithstanding these re
semblances, these two sets of rays are
not identical. One of the by-products,
so to speak, of radium is a scientific
standing of woman not hitherto at
tained, for it was Marie Sklodowska,
Prof. Curie’s Russian wife, who, re
garding radioactivity as a property
of some undiscovered substahee, sub
mitted pitchblende to the careful
analysis that resulted in the an
nouncement of tile existence of polo
nium and radium. During the thir
teen years that have elapsed since
Prof. Becquerel burned his learned
cuticle with radium its value in the
art of healing has been increased by
leaps anti bounds, and its limitations
are not yet in sight. It was the medi
cal specialists, in Germany in particu
lar, who, approaching radium and Its
emanations with caution, in view of
the untoward results of the earlier ap
plication of the Koentgen rays, dis
covered that the ray first observed by
Becquerel was not dangerous when
employed by scientific men. Today
some of the most baffling and least
understood diseases are yielding to
treatment of radium through its
emanations. Its value as a specific,
for cancer Is yet In doubt, but cases
of gout and muscular rheumatism
and even inflammatory rheumatism
of the joints, in which medical science
has hitherto been unable to afford any
relief, have been successfuly treated
by radium. The emanations have
also been wonderfully successful In
the treatment of muscular pains ami
neuralgia. In many cases of sciatica '
not of hysterical or neurasthenic
origin, and gynecologists have used
them with beneficial effect in female
maladies otherwise difficult of control.
Scientists are studying the applica
tion of radium emanations in the
treatment of internal, especially in
chronic, inflammatory processes that
now balk the skill of the most emi
nent physicians and that, in theis
nature, are beyond the operative field
i of surgeons. .
Wet Cycle of Years Coming? jj
A flood like that which devastated
the Central States about a year ago
is not likely to occur soon—within
half a century or so—or perhaps
within two or three centuries. But
the best we can say is “not likely,”
the possibility, though remote, of a
recurrence cannot be denied. Even
more disastrous floods may occur,
warns the editor of Engineering
News.
Indications are that a wet cyclq
of years is on, or is coming on. The
general course of the rainfall curve
suggests this. The rains of March,
1913, may then be not an isolated
phenomena, but merely a striking
feature of a high-precipitation epoch.
The rainfall-floods of recent months
in Texas and California—themselves
only second in interest to the Central
States flood point in the same di
rection.
A repetition of the 1913 floods at the
present time would lind the de
vastated regions Just as unprepared
and vulnerable as last year—and the
people of those regions know this.
However, there is every prospect
that the coming season will sltoiy
much achievement.
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