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JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH J. ISM.
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VOL. MI XIV.—NO. 98. ‘
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1915._
THE PREFERENTIAL VOTING LAW.
The decision by Justice Bergen, holding that the
preferential voting law for selectlug commissioners In
commission government cities is constitutional, should
not be regarded as more than a perfunctory decision
upon which an appeal might be based.
Preferential voting is a question that lias yet to
be scientifically settled. The present law applies only
to commission government, and Is one of the most
absurd acts ever passed under the label of progress.
The basis of the appeal to the Supreme Court emanat
ed from the recent, election in Bayonne, and if It had
been adversely decided In the court below would have
ousted the newly elected commissioners In Bayonne,
Hoboken and New Brunswick, and It would probably
affect the election a year ago in Jersey City.
It would also have affected the re-election of com
missioners in Trenton. Ocean City and Passaic, to be
held very shortly.
It was contended by those attacking the validity
of the act that the requirement that every voter must
vote for five candidates is contrary to the provision in
the constitution that allows to all male citi*ens the
right to vote for all officers to be elected.
The claim is that the preferential act restricts the
right of suffrage In requiring a vote for five, and that
the second and third choice votes nullify the vote
cast for other candidates in the first choice.
Whether these provisions render the act unconsti
tutional or not, they certainly help to make our elec
tion machinery absurd and have contributed another
element to the comedy of errors that has surrounded
the adoption of and administration under the com
mission government act.
Its provisions have never been invoked except as ;
a means of ousting, and ft has become the evil weapon ;
of designing politicians. Possibly preferential voting ;
under such an act Is In accord with its other fallacies, j
THE MENACE OF THIS RECALL.
The signature of Governor Fielder to House bill
S34, which provides a new method of recall in com
mission government cities, has caused consternation
among the commissioners in commission-ruled muni
cipalities. It is doubtful whether the bill was passed
and signed with a full realisation of its effect. It
would seem that the act was deliberately designed to
deceive both the Legislature and the Governor, and
that in both cases its authors were eminently suc
cessful.
Craftily drawn, the bill has provided, in the first
part, that 25 per cent, of the total vote must sign the
recall petition, thus making it appear that a recall
would be more difficult than under the old law requir
ing 15 per cent. The joker follows.
After an elaborate and remarkable scheme of
petition is provided for, the act requires that the
• ommissioners to be recalled must file an incumbent’s
petition in order to contest his own recall, and that
such incumbent’s petition must contain at least 15
per cent of the total vote.
This is not the worst, by any means. The act pro
vides for a negative vote on the recall. To recall the
vote is "Yes.” not to recall "No,” thus placing what is
always an advantage, the positive vote. In the hands
of those seeking the recall. The act further provides,
and here is the vital part, that below the recall ballot
shall be printed the names of those seeking election
should the commissioner be recalled, such names to
be printed by petition containing 15 per cent, of total
vote.
Thus it is plain that this law allows the opposi
tion, every part of which would nominate candidates,
to concentrate votes against commissioner sought to
be recalled. For instance, if the commissioner be a j
Democrat and a recall petition be filed against him, j
then the Republicans, Prohibitionists, Socialists and
the Democrats of some faction will all file nominating
petitions for their own candidates. These will all
vote to recall in order to improve the chance# of their
own candidate.
This law in all likelihood would oust any com
mission against whom its provisions were invoked,
tt will affect the stability of "government in commis
sion-ruled municipalities and is a pernicious piece of
special legislation. In an effort to oust Mayor Rid
dle of Atlantic City the Legislature and Governor
have struck a blow at commisalon government every
. Where.
f PENNSYLVANIA REJECTS LOCAL OPTION.
The defeat of the Prohibitionists In the Penn
sylvania Legislature yesterday by the adverse vote
/ against the county local option bill marks the re
action from the Billy Sunday campaign in Philadel
phia, Pittsburgh and Scranton and ita sympathetic
wave in other town*.
The enactment of this bill was the principal object
of the 8unday furor, which was promoted in every
way by the Prohibitionist leaders. This was Intended
to be the first step towards State-wide prohibition.
That also was the motive of the local option bill
introduced in the New Jersey Legislature, and it was
in the popular branch of this Legislature, too, that
the bill met a signal defeat. Billy Sunday methods
of influencing legislation were also used in thiB State,
and with the same result.
PAN-AMERICAN FINANCIAL CONFERENCE.
TVhen the first Pan-American Financial Confer
ence meets next month in the city of Washington it
will fairly be expected that a new relationship be
tween the United States and the countries of South
America will begin. It is not likely that all that
should be accomplished in one meeting of this char
acter can be completed, but the fact that the first
meeting is to be undertaken is fraught, with promise
of a new era of trade between the two Americas.
Central America, Mexico and Panama are included in
the conference.
Among the delegates of the Latln-American re
publics are ministers of finance and directors of their
respective national banks. The purposes of the con
ference are a discussion of the financial relations of
the United States with these republics and the forma
tion of some plan for improving those relations and
a practical arrangement for business transactions
that will be for the good of all tbo countries inter
ested. John Barrett, director of the Pan-American
Union, speaks from knowledge of facts when he says
that he does not believe New York financiers and
business men have yet awakened to the importance
of this conference.
It takes but little of the Imaginative faculty to
foresee the possibilities of such a conference. When
seventeen out of twenty Latin-American countries
have decided to send delegates, according to latest
report, they must be very much in earnest. The
breakdown of trade relations with European countries
has turned attention to the United States. That
which has been thought of and desired for a long
time—the closer union of all the Americas in what
| ever tends to their respective national developments
—is about to become a reality.
Travelers returning from South American coun
tries have for some time persisted in saying that
those countries are ready to buy anything the United
States has to sell and to exchange a variety of
products, but are chiefly prevented by lack of proper
banking and shipping facilities and the extension of
such accommodation in the way of credit as the neces
sities of such long-distance trade may require. If this
first financial conference shall devise the way fot
meeting these trade conditions, a big step ahead will
have been made.
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A STATE PENSION SYSTEM.
Pensions for retiring Stnte Bnd municipal officials
and employes will be the subject for investigation by (
a governor’s commission this year, to ascertain the
practicability of establishing a system. The subject
will prove a perplexing one to the investigators,
A general pension system can relate only to those
holding office or Jobs by appointment, and not to
elective officers who are in office for stated terms.
There is now a pension system in municipal police
and fire departments, but the duties of the men thus
employed involve hardships and perils, and it is just
that they should have this benefit. School teachers
have their own pension fund.
Presumably what is in contemplation is some plan 1
of assessment for classes of public employes to make
the system self-supporting. A man holding a perma- i
nent public job at a moderate salary can afford to pay :
a fraction of his salary to a pension fund which in
sures him maintenance in his declining years or when *
he shall be permanently disabled.
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GRADE CROSSING PROBLEM UNSOLVED.
That the grade crossing bill vetoed by the Gov
ernor was not a bill that a Governor should approve
is made evident enough in the reasons given for veto
ing the bill. It is not by such a measure that grade
crossings will be eliminated in New Jersey. The
method of elimination provided insured the indefi
nite continuance of the worst grade crossings, while,
unlike the present law, the bill assessed a large part
of the cost upon the municipality.
It would also be difficult to deal with the railroad
crossings at the seashore, where the people would
most seriously object to track elevation, while it
would be impracticable to depress the tracks. A new
law can also be hung up by the railroad lawyers,
probably for several years in the courts. The prob
lem of getting rid of the death traps must find some
more satisfactory solution.
ELEVEN MILLIONS A DAY AT “MOVIES."’
No recent development of American life Is so
amazing in its proportions as that of the motion
picture. Not even baseball approaches in popularity
or In profit this form of public entertainment and
instruction. An authority says that eleven million
persons, or about one-ninth of the entire population
of the United States, visit the picture shows every
day, and that two years ago the receipts of the busi
ness were $276,000,000. The figure must be much
larger now.
But this enormous sum. although spent upon
recreation, is by no means wasted. Not only are the
films a needed diversion for minds under the strain
of the European war, but a large portion of the
exhibit is distinctly educational. The movies are
teaching history, geography and science to the masses
as no books or lectures can do It.
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES
A Result Without hlfnlHoence
grom the Public.
Because the successful candidate
for the mayoralty of Chicago hap
pened to be running on a ticket
labeled "Republican," and his chief
competitor on a ticket labeled "Demo
cratic," an effort Is being made to
represent the result as having na
tional significance. That it had in
•*aot no such significance Is far from a
comforting reflection. The result was
:ot due even to so much thought on
things worth while as would be re
quired to blame the party in power
for an existing evil, or to expect relief
from the party seeking power. Of
ijWO equally unfit candidates a choice
lias been made. The party label had
nothing to do with the result, except
In so far as some Democrats voted
for Thompson to save their party
from the disgrace of Sullivan domi
nation, or to saddle on the Republican
party the discredit for the kind of ad
mlnietratlon Mr. Thompson may be
reasonably expefcted to give. Many
voters succumbed to an appeal to re
ligious prejudices. A counter-appeal
to nationalist prejudices proved a
boomerang.
The rivalry between the friends of
the candidates to get votes for any
discreditable method was further en
riched through Thompson's resurrec
tion of the fraudulent "full dinner
pall” argument. He was discreet
enough, however, to refrain from
speaking of this when circumstances
made clear that his audience would
resent it as an insult to intelligence.
Most effective of all was the aid more
or less openly given to Thompson by
the adherents of Mayor Harrison. The
vote for Sweltzer was many thou
sands below the total Democratic
primary vote of a few weeks before.
The party has the undeserved good
fortune to escape the calamity which
Sweitzer s election would have
brought upon It. The Republican
party must have fallen to a lower
moral plane than its most bitterest
enemies have hertofore charged if
the Chicago result may be rightly
construed as an Indorsement of Its
policies.
Schoolmen M Statesmen.
From tbe Philadelphia Ledger.
Sam McCall, of Massachusetts—he
Is always "Sam” to his admirers—
who deaUwtt the aieeidoacjr of Dart
mouth College to devote himself to
saving his country, took pains at the
Rotus Club dinner In New York to re
mind the nation that the Republican
party has an actual college president
who could serve it in the presidency
as well, if not better, than the former
president of Princeton is now serving
It. He nominated Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Columbia, as the successor
to Woodrow Wilson.
President Butler agrees with ex
Congressman McCall that a man who
has been at the head of a great col
lege has had training that fits him to
be the head of a great nation. An
drew D. White, former president of
Cornell, and David Starr Jordan,
chancellor of Deland Stanford Uni
versity, and Charles B. Van Hlse, of
the University of Wisconsin, will all
agree with McCall. And every school
man, with any hankering after pub
lic life, stands ready to maintain that
If there were more of hts profession
In public office It would be better for
the country. And there are many
Pennsylvanians who believe that If
all the schoolmen were like Doctor
Brumbaugh the country has made a
mistake in not calling on them oftener
to *»rve jt .. ____
ODDITIES IN
TODAY'S NEWS
Bseapes from Heath Miraculously. ■«
llnm Hie Lite le Charmed.
CONNELJjSYILdjE, Pa., April 22.—
William E. Stewart, a Baltimore ami
Ohio railroad locomotive fireman, be
lieves he possesses a charmed life
Tuesday night Stewart was struck
by llghtninc at his home here and
rendered unconscious for four hours.
He recovered, however, and feeus no
ill effects. Recently ho was hurled
from an engine when It blew up, but
escaped with only a few bruises.
Stewart says he has had seven nar
row escapes from death.
Bldrile-Duke lnvltetlona l.oet by Peet
offlce, GumU Feel Slighted.
PHILADELPHIA, April 22—Hun
dreds of persons prominent In Phila
delphia society who had expected In- ,
vltatlons to the wedding of Cordelia I
Biddle and Angler Buchanan Duke, j
of New York, son of the wealthy to
bacco man, which will take place |
here next Wednesday, felt they had
been alighted when they did not re
ceive the Invitations.
They were reassured yesterday
when they received formal printed
announcements front Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Drexel Biddle, parents of Miss
Biddle, that the Invitations had been
mailed April 2, but that a great num
ber of them had been lost in the
Philadelphia postofflce.
Lost Pair of Legs, Man Held on Theft
Charge.
NEW YORK, April 22—A pair of
legs got James Cassidy, of 1148 Flat
bush avenue, Brooklyn, into serious
trouble yesterday. For their loss he
was held In 21,000 hail by Magistrate
Nolan, in West Side Police Court.
Mrs. Emmy Staggs, of 22 West Six
ty-sxth street, was the complainant.
She is treasurer of the. Aluminum
Rawhide Artificial Limb Company, of
1981 Broadway, and told the court
that more than two week* ago she
gave two legs worth $185 to the pris
oner to show to a prospective cus
tomer.
Cassidy said he had the limbs In
a suitcase, but when he put them
down to talk to a man In Broadway
they walked away. At least, the suit
case had disappeared when he looked
for it. He was afraid to go back
without the legs, he added, and had
been looking for them since.
Death Makes Her a Legal Wife, Court
Holds.
NEW YORK, April 22— How a mar
riage that was void In 1907 became
legal In 1915 by the intervening death
of one of the parties to the tangle
was pointed out yesterday by Justice
Crane, of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn, In an action by Mrs. Clara
W. Muttram for a separation from
Alfred J. Muttram, a coal and Ice
dealer, of 481 Baltic street, Brook
lyn.
The Muttrams were married In
1907. Mrs. Muttram, aboat a year
previous, had divorced her first hus
band. George Dougherty. In the courts
of Ohio. Because Dougherty was a
resident of Brooklyn at the time Jus
tice Crane held that the divorce de
cree was void, but as Mrs. Muttram
continued to live with Muttram after
Dougherty’s death, in 1908, she legal
ized her marriage to him. Justice
Crane held that common law mar
riages are still valid in New York
State.
Mrs. Muttram can now proceed
with her suit for separation from her
former common law husband.
Labor News
A State council has been organized
t>y Texas printing pressmen.
A Western dining-car company has
lubstltuted waitresses for waiters.
Hudson Bay railroad work is ex
pected to give 3,000 men work this
leason.
Pennsylvania restricts the hours of
emale employes In hotels to slxty
ihree a week.
On May 10 at New York, United
Batters of North America will con
vene.
There are at present eight pension
plans for funds for employes of the
pity of New York.
New York State will not allow worn
»n to work more than seventy-two
hours a week In canneries.
The Italian Council of Ministers has
appropriated 13,000,000 to give work to
the unemployed.
It le stated that 62 per cent, of
young criminals of the United States
are due to child labor.
Leaders of the Casa del Obrero
Mundlal—a federation of labor organi
zations formed on Industrial lines
and embracing over SO.OOO '-e work
ers—have established recru g offices
in Calle de San Juan de Lutran, in
Mexico City, and state that they will
enlist 28,000 workers for the ’ Con
stitutionalist government The wives
and daughters of these men have also
formed a corps of nurses for services
in the hospital and field.
The Nsiw York State Federation of
Labor has called upon the local
unions to begin a campaign to secure
the enactment of a law drawn up by
the legislative committee of the fed.
eratlon. This proposed law alms to
have the lnjuncton evil lessened In
that State, and la based upon the
Massachusetts statute. The bill
specifically provides that picketing
Is not to be restrained by injunctions
and that such shall only be granted
when absolute proof Is brought that
unless It was forthcoming property
would be damaged, or ‘"v'h inj»*
stoned for which no adequate remedy
at lew exists.
Evening Star s
Daily Puzzle
What facial expression 7
Answer ^ Testerda*’s PuasW.
MoUadsfe.
.
Baoe l failed?
I have worked and I have won
Certain pleasing victories;
If the thing that I have done
Be not heard of overseas.
Or their merits be denied
, Or unnoticed by the crowd.
Still, to me they have supplied
Moments when my heart wa9 proud
I have loved and I have heard
Her who seemed angelic say
Tenderly the golden word
That swept all my doubts away:
Though the world may never look
For such worth as ! have had.
Or perceive my little nook,
I have filled it and been glad
I have seen her child and mine
Sleeping in her proud embrace:
If my gifts be not divine,
Nor my place a lofty place,
1 have worked and hoped and won
All the love a man may claim.
Have 1 failed if I have done
Naught to bring me wealth or fame?
—-S. E. Kiser, in Leslie’s.
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN 1
APRIL 22
Ada ReHan
coprrfsht, me.
BY JURY MARSHALL.
Ada Rohan, one of the most bril
liant women comediennes ever seen
in this country, was born in Lim
erick, Ireland, fifty-three years ago
today. Her father, an Irishman
named Grehan, came to this country
with his children when Ada was but
five, so to all Intents and purposes
America was her home. Her sisters
went on the stage at an early age
and the opportunity for her to try her
skill came when she was but four
teen. Her sleters’ company was play
ing In Newark, N. J. and, owing to
the absence from the company of one
of the leading women, Ada was given
a chance to appear. So successful
was she that after a family confer
ence In the Oregan family it was de
cided that Ada should take up acting
as a llfework.
Before long Ada Kehan had made a
place for herself, playing with such
stars aB Kdwln Booth and Lawrence
Barrett. During the course of her
stage life she created some forty
characters. That she was a comedi
enne of the first cIbhs no one denied
and many were those who thought
that one had never known her equal
in farce. She possessed a buoyant
and mirthful spirit seldom matched
by any actress. Her most celebrated
role was that of Rosalind, In “As Tou
Like It.”
Billy Sunday’s Methods
ITBOM A LABORING MAN'S VIEWPOINT.
To the Editor of the Evening War:
I have been reading with interest
the many criticisms in the dally news
papers by men of various professional
vocations, even to the ministry, of
Billy Sunday's methods and sayings
in the propagation of the gospel of
Christ that I feel pressed to offer the
views of the laboring man in general
tn connection with these professional
criticisms. These various criticisms
of spiritual men and agencies for the
uplift of the human race towards God
and right living show lack of interest
in our fellowmen for the advancement
of Christian and honest citizenship
and brotherly love, and when Indulged
in by our expected leaders and stand
ardbearers of church and religion
demonstrates nothing else but lack of
spirituality, love and Christian
brotherhood, and no doubt calls forth
the wrath of God in the hindrance
of His most noble work—the advance
ment of the kingdom of righteousness
among men. ' , , ,
The apostles of old no doubt varied
in their methods and speech, yet you
do not And them criticising each
other’s methods, but worked in abso
lute harmony for one common pur
pose of helping humanity towards a
service of God and His Son Jesus
irrespective of nationality, creed or
social standing. „
Whether rich or poor they all heard
the same gospel truths, whether leni
ently or forcibly. This spirit of
Christian unity of purpose alone guar
antees success and the spirit of the
will of God in service. Catholicity Is
not called upon to attack Protestant
ism. nor Methodism to attack Pres
byterianism, etc., but all obeying their
dutv and calling in preaching the true
gospel of Christ, no matter who it
affects. This alone will exemplify
true Christian service and command
the approval of God in His vineyard.
This dilly-dallying In personal dif
ferences of opinion as to the methods
employed in the accomplishment of
the same purpose, with the same ob
ject In view, the uplift of humanity
towards a better life of honesty and
right living, is to the laboring man
one of the greatest hindrances in
the advancement of the Kingdom of
God among our fellowmen, and a:
minister of the gospel who Indulges ,
in the same is fast falling away from
his calling and usefulness and be
comes a self-conceited critic as to
methods of Ood’B work to the detri
ment of gospel work in general.
Who appreciates the straight gospel
truths better than the laborer? None.
He It Is that calls a liar a liar, and a
man who steals tools a plain thief
and a crook, not a kleptomaniac, nor
a drunkard a dipsomaniac, but a plain
rummy. ... , ,.
And because a man with boldness
calls various sins of sinners by their
right names he Is called vulgar. While
the masses of laboring men feel that
there Is one at least who has not
shunned to declare unto us the whole
truth, calling sins and sinners by
their right names, whether a min
ister, lawyer, millionaire or profes
sional man, all being termed the same
If guilty, whether a D. D. or a hod
carrier. It seems the shoe pinches on
the guilty and we hear squealing from
the right place.
Who could denounce sin and hy
pocrisy stronger than Jesus did Him
self? "O generation of vipers." A
beautiful vulgar assertion to make to
sanctimonious scribes and Pharisees
and learned doctors of His day. They
criticized and squealed In His day,
and nothing else can be expected In
this day of pleasure and frivolity.
As to popularity. Who was more
popular among the vast multitudes
than Jesus was In His day? The
multitude followed Him continually
until He hardly knew what rest was.
What was the secret of It all? It was
the preaching of the straight gospel
truth. accompanied by personal
righteous living, that drew the multi
tudes, hungering after truth and not
after cold formality and creeds, but
straight gospel truth.
An ordinary honest man admires
another who has the boldness to ex
press his opinion of you to your fa os, I
whether In rebuke or reproof. A man
who paints you an angel to your face!
and a devil behind your back,
whether true or untrue, Is among ths
most despised.
As to remuneration, commonly
called graft, by some of the critics.
If some of our so-called standard
bearers who think they earn their
large salaries annually and deserve a
fair salary after retirement at early
age for the work they have done to
wards the help of the needy and up
lift of humanity, the preaching of
sermonettes possibly one hundred and
fifty times In a year, and the swell
feeds they enjoy as given by many of
the parishioners, and ■the many easy
days they spend in their library fas
nlng themselves while doping out ear
tickling sermonettes for the man who
gives most for his support.
If they deserve their remuneration,
then I would like to know what a
God-fearing, bold and enthusiastic,
straight gospel preacher, who
preaches twelve to fifteen times a
week, not sermonettes, but real ser
mons backed up with all the physical
power and speech at his command,
with collar, coat and tie off, sweat
ing for God's work and the gospel, is
worth?
I presume if some of our clergy
had to do clerical work on the basis
of piece-work, according to the
amount of good they accomplished,
as we get paid, many of the laboring
men, according to the amount of
work done dally, many of them would
have to send their families to the Sun
day breakfast association for the only
meal they would get on the Sabbath.
As to charity. Our newspapers have
made known some of the substantial
charities Billy has helped. The poor
blind woman in Philadelphia who re
ceived $600 from her Bible leaves as
her daughter read same, through the
visit of Billy and his heartfelt sym
pathy. no doubt would of had to prove
to a band of specialists her blindness,
to numerous charity organizations her
need to numerous financial lords her
ability to handle money, and finally,
after a lot of red tape, pull or sec
tarian influence, she might have re
ceived $60 of the $600 originally given,
after the salaries of the charity rep
resentatives had been paid, and then
attached to the $60 would have been
rules and regulations as to how she
was to spend it.
As to the good accomplished in our
factories and shops. If a man stops
drinking, swearing, etc., and gives
evidence of having changed his mode
of living, from sin to righteousness,
the present common expression for
warded is. "You must have been to
hear Billy Sunday,” or “Have you hit
the trail?” giving cleaT evldenoe of
the work of Billy towards a life of
righteousness and Christian living.
If a critic, skeptic, infidel, back
slider, drunkard, thief, liar, etc., you
will not be credited with having come
in contact with Billy Sunday’s ser
j mons. But at present if you have
! changed noticeably from these vari
ous known circumstances you will
I make others believe bv your actions
that you have been affected by Billy
Sunday’s so-called gospel vulgarities.
God give us more of this so-called
vulgarity, or straight-forwardness,
rather than sanctamonloua formality
and morality, the benefits of which
are only enjoyed by the so-called
upper-crust of society in church and
business life—too high te be attained
by the common laboring etasaes. who,
by their physical strength and lives,
are paving for the pleasures and
enjoyment of the present-day
aristocracy. HARRY W. BTJTZ.
102 Mt. Prospect ave., Newark.
UPLIFT TALKS
BY ORISON SWHJTT HARDEN,
Author of "Pushing to the Front," Etc.
Copyright, 1*16.
THE VALUE OF A “SILVER TONGUE"
The Tale Ten Eyck prize for speak
ing has been awarded to a Chinese
student, Henry Wang, of the class
of 1916.
Think of a foreigner mastering a
language so different from liis native
tongue as English and enunciating
It more clearly and correctly in the
contest than did any of the other par
ticipants, of whom the majority warn
native Americans accustomed to the
use of English from childhood!
It seems strange that we Americans
neglect what should be a fundamental
of our education—complete mastery
of our native tongue. Tet there Is
no other accomplishment that can
profit us more either in business or
in social life than the power of con
versation. Who caui estimate the
charm of a fine diction, the advant
age of the power to talk well!
What accomplishment can for a
moment compare with the ability to
use language in such a way that it
sways our emotions more completely
than does fine music? What charm
of perRon or manner exceeds that of
a powerful and fascinating speaker?
Tet our students learn Latin,
Greek, higher mathematics, and
theories which they may never or
seldom use, but that which Is brought
Into constant exercise almost ever/
minute of their lives they seldom
learn as a fine art. The average per
son's conversation is but an accident.
He has never made it a study. Ha
seems to have picked up his vocabu
lary on the street, in the car, in the
store, everywhere. He has never
made a scientific study of words,
their roots, origin and meanings, or
their synonyms.
It is a rare treat to converse with
persons who are masters of the art
of expression. Their voloes are like
music in our ears, they have the pow
er to charm, to soothe, to satisfy,
like a beautiful face or form. But it
is an art of which anyone who has
mastered the alphabet can make him
self master if he chooses.
Every man, says Lord Chesterfield,
may choose good words instead of,
bad ones and speak properly instead
of improperly; he may have grace in
his motions und gestures, and maj'
be a very agreeable Instead of dis
agreeable speaker If he will take care
and pains.
It is a matter of painstaking and
preparation. There is no royal road
to success in acquiring a fine address
any more than there is to the acqui
sition of other desirable things.
There is nothing that will pay bet- ■*
ter both in self-satisfaction and as a
weapon for forging the way to sue
cess in life than the ability to talk
well.
The reputation of being a good
talker helps one all through life. How
often when a man is wanted for an
Important position some one will say
“Let’s send Mr. Smith, or appoint
him for this or that place. He will
represent us with dignity because he
knows what to say and how to say
it. He always makes a good impres
sion with that silver tongue of his." 4
Whatever other ambition you may
have, resolve that you will become a
specialist in conversational ability
You may not be able to practice law,
medicine, or any other profession, or ,
attend to business, but you have a
chance every day to bring into use
your power of speech. One of the
best possible investments you can
make is to spend time In studying
the thesaurus for synonyms, und
equivalent expressions, in order to
give variety and breadth to your .con
versation, broaden your vocabulary
in every possible way and never fail
to look up the meaning of words that
are new to you. This is an educa
tion in itself; it will mean very* much
to you. You cannot be a good talker
with a narrow vocabulary or a Um~ t
ited knowledge.
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DR. 'LEONARD KEENE HIBSHBKRG.
A. B„ M. A., M. D. (John Hopkins}.
Why Yon Rend Misprints and Never See
the Errors.
Poets hold that It 1b well to trust to
the heart and to what are called illu
sions. Science maintains, however,
that the words which express feelings
are merely flotsam and Jetsam, like
the tossing buoy which may conceal
either an anchorage or a shallow
channel.
Some 'blessed power delivers most
men from the accidents to which Illu
sions lead. The silliest of stuff con
ceals the substance of things, and the
best la but a shadow of the worst,
and the worst Is no worse than Imagi
nation can make It.
Anyone who has never experienced
a fallacy of eyesight is above the
state of mortal error. Illusions are
usually considered to be errors of
vision or of the fleshy structures
which control sight. Professor Arthur
Pierce a short time ago proved that
"proofreaders’ illusion”—that is, the
overlooking of a misprinted word
and reading it as If it were correctly
printed—Is not a fallacy of vision
at all.
Proofreaders’ illusion consists, to be
sure, In the want of correspondence,
between what appears to be really
seen and what Is actually on the
printed page. If you run across the
word mlsprrnt you will be apt to
read It as misprint, and be unaware i
of any difference.
“Itecomillon” of Words.
Professor Pierce says that there
is no proof that you see a cor
rectly printed word. True enough,
you read it truly, but not by way
of vision. It is a matter rather of
articulation, muscular and Imaged,
In part auditory. Ae you read rapidly. 1
only enough of the misprinted word
need be and is seen to call forth
the ueually associated idea. A child
two years old often recognises dis
tinctions between advertisements re- |
peated always In the same conforma
tion of characters without knowing
the letters. If a few letters are
dropped from well-known and
familiar advertisements it makes no
difference in the recognition.
The parts of the word that are ac
tually in the line of vision may re
ceive some help entirely visual. In
these Instances the whole Illusion is
one of sight. This fact and the one
mentioned of my own child seem not
to support the view of Dr. Pierce. It
is this possibility whioh has misled
psychologists Into ths conviction that
all errors of the printed word are
visual ones.
Qrapho-Moter IIlnaloM.
When a letter, syllable or small por
tion of a word Is seen It brings up a
quick association and arouses in the
mind some tyne of non-visual Ideas
which represent immediately the cor
rect word.
These Images—ideas—may be unex
pressed muscular movements of the
articular or auditory organs. That is
to say, the word is either mentally
pronounced or mentally heard as it
should be. There are many other con
ceivable Illusions of words. Been un
consciously as fragments other than
visual muscular movements of the
fingers in the mind, and not as acta.
Grapho-motor Illusion so-called is but
one of these others.
It is partly the existence of fixed
word habits which furnish the pre
vailing conditions tor these illusions.
One Is driven by the momentum of
past habits to take things for granted
and utter the word rather than an
other. The written word is often
different from the other, the only
similarity being something in com- t
mon between them, though it be only
the matter of length. See the pre
ceding word “through" for ''though”
and guard against reading ••parent”
for "present,” “summer reason” In
stead of summer season and others.
Answers to Health Questions
A. C.—Q.—Is the wearing of a heavy
rubber band around the hips Injurious *
to a young woman not overly strong?
A.—Such a band naturally impedes
the flow of blood, movements of bones
and muscles, and causes wasting
away. It Is an enlarged garter and
corBSt, which In some instances may
do great harm.
M. E. M.—Q.—1—Won’t you Irtn-.
give the formula for the henna h-A
stain that you mentioned some weet’
ago that can be used every nigh*
without Injury to the hair? You said
it could be obtained from any drug
gist’s book of formulas, but most of
us do not like to ask the druggist to r
look at his book.
2—Can this be used for dark hair, il
properly prepared, without turning It
red?
A—1—The leaves of the henna, a
southern Asiatic p'ant, have long
been used by Oriental women as a
dye for the hair and linger nails. One
method of using the leaves is to make
a decoction with boiling water In
about the proportion of 1 In 7. and to
apply this uniformly to the hair after
first washtng the latter to remove all '*
grease. Owing to the gummy chAi
acter of the leaves the hair becomes
disagreeably sticky after making the
application. The decoction spoils
readily, but may be preserved for
some time by adding about 20 per
cent, of alcohol, which also pre
cipitates a portion of the gum. The
leaves may also be extracted with
diluted alcohol, and this tincture 1s
also suitable as a dye.
This dye Is entirely harmless, and
may be used In any amount, but must
not be used so freely as to stain the '
skin. It Imparts to the hair a dark
brown or black color which is quite
lasting.
It Is also used In the form of a
powder which Is mixed with water ,
and applied to the hair in the form
of a paste. This Is allpwed to re
main over night, and Is washed off
the next day with water.
Oriental women are said to use
henna leaves In connection with the
leaves of the Indigo plant, known ah
"reng.” The color may be varied by
using different proportions of reng
and henna, the more of the former
that Is used the darker will be the
shade produced.
Cook Was a Linguist
Jack returned home from college,
where he had won high honors as a
student of ancient languages, but he
pleaded ignorance one day when hie
young sister asked him to translate
a sign she had seen of ah optician’s,
which read thus: “Con sultu sabo
utyo urey es.” Jack struggled man
fully with It for several minutes and
gave it up. “It isn’t good Latin,” he
said. "There are some words In It
that are Latin. The others aren't,
anyhow. It doesn’t make sense.'' .
"That is what I said," replied the
sister, "but cook translates it with
out any trouble. She says It means
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