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VOIi. I,XXXIV.—NO. Jf>8.
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 191*5.
THREE IN A CELL.
In a cell of tlie New Jersey State PrlBon yester
day two convicts fought a duel to their (Joaths while
a third cowered in terror at the hideous spectacle.
The desperadoes had brought the weapons from the
workshop and hidden them in the bed clothing. This
1b an arraignment of the prison discipline. The fact
that there were three convicts in a cell Is an arraign
ment of successive legislatures of New Jersey, which,
In spite of repeated official warnings have neglected
to provide for the safe and decent houaing of the
State’s criminal wards and permitted the prison to
be dangerously overcrowded. The same legislative
apathy is responsible for the menacing congestion of,
the two State hospitals for the insane, either of which
any day or night may be the scene of a tragedy such
as that In the State Prison which has shocked and ,
shamed the State.
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GEORGIA’S TENDERNESS FOR WOMANHOOD, j
While Governor Harris, of Georgia, denounces
the lynching of Frank and offers rewards for the ar- j
rest of the murderers he spoils the moral effect of
his official utterance hy something very like an at-[
tempt to apologize for the infamy. He slurs his
predecessor, Mr. Slaton, whose act In commuting
Frank’s sentence appears to Mr. Harris to have been
popularly "accepted as proof that money means more
in Georgia than a woman's honor." Governor Har
ris further reminds an Interviewer that "there Is
something that unbalances men here In the South 1
where women are concerned. If a woman Is the vie- 1
tim of a crime a fury seizes upon our men.” I1
Oh, yes, Georgia chivalry is very solicitous for
the honor of young womanhood. It holds a girl of 1
ten years legally responsible to protect her virtue, for 1
that Is the age of consent In Georgia. It allows her 1
to work in a factory at that age if she is an orphan or I
the daughter of dependent parents. Girls not in 1
either of these classes are not supposed to toll in fac- 1
torles until they are fourteen, but there are no in- 1
spectors to enforce the age limit, and more than one-1
third of all the factory children In that State by the {
latest census returns were from ten to thirteen years
old. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the Na
tional Woman Suffrage Association, points out these
(Vndltions as a sufficient commentary upon the
Georgia ideal of what Is due to womanhood But Dr.
Shaw’s attempt to turn her retort Into an argument
for woman suffrage is decidedly far fetched.
THE BUDGET SYSTEM TS COMING.
Mr. Taft, when president, repeatedly urged the
budge* system of national expenditures in the place
of the present method of appropriations made up in
committees of Congress, with its sharp contrasts of
extravagance and cheese-paring, its log-rolling and
pork-barrel scandals. Ours is the only great nation
which has not the budget plan, and our richest and
most populous State bids fair to be the first to adopt
that system.
After three weeks of debate the New York Constl-1
tutional convention has passed almost unanimously a
provision that the budget of the State shall be pre
pared by the governor and heads of departments. The
Legislature may cut down the amounts, but may not
Increase them. It may pass its own appropriation
bills for legislative and judicial expenses, but may;
not otherwise originate appropriations. The respon-1
slbllity for the great bulk of public expenditures will
be upon the governor and his cabinet, consisting of
department, heads appointed by himself, the single
headed system taking the place of the present com
missions, with their divided authority and notorious
wastefulness. New Jersey and all the other States
will eventually come to this common-sense method,
and the nation, as great bodies move slowly, perhaps,
last of all.
GOTKRNMKNT RAILROAD BUILDING.
i A Canadian experiment with government con
BtrticCfon of railroads, to be leased to private man
agement, has not turned out well for the advocates
of that idea. The Dominion government has been
building a line from Winnipeg to Moncton, more than
1400 miles and representing a total Investment of
1176,000,000. It was supposed that the government
otnuld get money more easily than private enterprise,
and so construct the road at a cost of $30,000 to $36,- 1
000 per mile, but the real expenditure has ranged
from $60,000 to $98,000 per mile, without taking into
aocount the interest on the outlay. And now the
Grand Trunk cannot see a profit, in the road at a 3
per cent, rental and refuses to take a lease on thoso
terms.
A government commission has reported that $40,
000,000 of the money spent in building this line was
bo much waste. It is to be hoped that the United
States Government will be able to make a better
Showing with the railroad It is building in Alaska.
| LETS OUT SENATOR COCHINS,
i After Interstate vacation tourists for several
Weeks have been abusing Senator Cummins to their
hearts' content for the vexatious new baggage regula- j
lions the Interstate Commerce Commission comes I
along with the statement that: "There is no pro
vision In the act to regulate commerce, including the |
Cummins amendment, that requires declaration as to
Value of property shipped in Interstate commerce, nor
has the commission issued any ruling that requires
fnich declaration.”
Baggage rates in the past have been graded by
weight. It now appears that the law as amended re
fers only to rates graded by value, and it is for the
railroad, If It chooses, to require the shipper to state
the value of goods which cannot be examined. The
penalty applies only when there is an attempt to evade
fates so based. The railroads can continue to carry
costly goods at the same rate as cheap ones if they
want to.
The explanation of the Commerce Commission ap
pears to corroborate Senator Cummins’s assertion
that his amendment was not intended to apply to bag
gage at all. and that It was another senator’s amend
ment which made a muddle of the whole business.
LITHUANIANS OVERLOOKED IN RELIEF.
Some of the fiercest fighting between the Teutonic
and Russian armies has been and is in the Nlemen
region and the Baltic provinces inhabited by the
Lithuanians, and vast areas In the governments of
Suwalki and Kovno have been laid waste. Once
flourishing cities and villages are now heaps of ruins;
for miles not even a hut is left standing, and even
the trees have been cut down by shell fire as by a
tornado. Of course the crops have disappeared, and
in some parts of this devastated territory the people
are subsisting on a few spoonfuls of soaked grain;
others are absolutely starving.
The Lithuanian-American Relief Committee, with
headquarters at 37 East Twenty-eighth street. New
York, which is trying to secure some aid for these
homeless and famishing non-combatants, calls atten
tion to the fact that Americans often confuse Lithu
anians with Germans, Russians or Poles; but they
are Indo-Aryans, related neither to Slav or Teuton.
In the middle ages their kingdom stretched from the
Baltic to the Black Sea. One of their kings in the
fifteenth century helped Russia to get free from the
Tartar yoke and checked the Tartar invasion of
Western Europe. The famous Kosciusko, at whose
fall “freedom shrieked,” was not a Pole, but a Lithu
anian. It is asserted that none of the Polish relief
organizations has aided Lithuanian refugees. Here
is another plain case for American charity.
TRAINING FOR LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE.
A New York bank which has established branches
In several South American cities maintains a training
Bchool where young men are taught not only banking,
but the Spanish, Portuguese and French languages
and the business practices of Latln-American coun
tries. The first class numbers twenty, every one a
college graduate who has already specialized in
finance and economics. It is getting now to be pretty
well understood that the United States has failed to
get its proper share of South American markets be
cause our manufacturers, merchants and bankers
have Ignored the customs of Latin-Americans and In
sisted upon trying to do business according to our
ideas and not to theirs, while our European rivals
have been wise enough to cater to the ways and the
speech of their customers. This New York bank is
showing the better way.
FREAKS OF AVAR ORDER RUMORS.
A story which goes to show how people are
smitten with the craze for investment in “war order”
enterprises comes from Indiana. The owner of a
small machine shop had closed up because times were
hard and he had no money to replace his rusty old
outfit with modern machinery. Along came a war
agent and bought up the plant at 60 per cent, over
the original cost. All over the country inoffensive
paint shops have been converted by rumor into am
munition factories; typewriter companies are de
scribed as making shell fuses, and wagon shops as
turning out projectiles. A company organized to sup
ply heat and light got Into Wall Street gossip this
week as making automobile accessories for the war
ring powers. It is certainly the silly season.
DINING CARS LOSE MONEY.
At a recent hearing before the Interstate Com
merce Commission It was disclosed that there is one
modern detail of railroading which Is run at a loss,
and yet there Is no disposition to give it up. This Is
the dining car service. All the roads last year lost
money on the cars with a negligible exception, the
Illinois Central reporting a profit of $48, while the
Missouri Pacific lost $42,000.
A generation ago restaurants were maintained at
stations for the accommodation of passengers. Twenty
minutes, usually, were allowed for dinner, but delays
were unavoidable and passengers had to bolt their
food or miss their trains. When the railroad station
counter, with Its Jam of elbows and Its perils to diges
tion, was superseded by the comfortable and leisurely
dining car, the public took kindly to the change. The
railroads understand that a part of their duty is to see
that people are enabled to get satisfactory meals dur
ing long journeys, and the dining car, while It may
show a loss on the books, is something the roads can
not afford to do without.
MASSACHUSETTS MOOSE RELICS.
Roosevelt got 142,228 Progressive votes In Massa
chusetts for president In 1912, and Bird, for gov
ernor, 122,602. The next year Bird received 127,766,
leading Gardner, Republican, by more than 12,000.
Last year Walker, Progressive, for governor, polled
only 82,146, just about one-sixth of the vote for Mc
Call, Republican. To get his name on the official bal
lots in Massachusetts a candidate for a State office
must secure 200 signatures in at least four counties.
Clark, who wants to head the Bull Moose ticket, 1b
the only Bull Moose aspirant this year who managed
to make good, the Progressive candidates for the five
other State offices falling short about fifty votes.
Messrs. Record, Blauvelt and Osborne, of New Jersey,
may well point to the Bay State for proof of their as
sertion that the Progressive party has ceased to be.
OUR NATIONAL HABIT OF WASTE.
How many Americans realize that the upbuild
ing of the German army, which so far has put some
thing like five millions of men Into the field for the
present war, and which is a wonder of the ages In
Its equipment and efficiency, was costing Germany
during years of peace and preparation less than
twice the amount spent upon the United States
army?
Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of war,
tells the reason. The appropriations have been
wasted for want of a budget system. They have
been squandered upon unnecessary army posts In
the districts of influential congressmen. It Is the
same way with the navy. Money that would have
built dreadnoughts has been thrown away upon
navy yards in favored localities. Mr. Stimson, as
chairman of the finance committee of the New York
constitutional convention, uses these facts to
strengthen the argument for a budget system in that
j State, but they have their moral nation-wide.
PROMOTING TRADE HONESTY.
A novel campaign of education for consumers has
been Inaugurated by the Bilk Association of America
It proposes to furnish manufacturers of clothing,
shoes and other articles with tags representing spools
of machine twist, as a guarantee to the purchaser that
| the article has silk-sewed seams. This will enable the
! public to select more durable articles of wear. It Is
the intention of the association to prosecute any
wrongful use of the device, and buyers are asked to
notify it If any of these tags are found on garments
not sewed with silk thread. Such organized efforts
to promote business honesty call for high praise.
J CHIT CHAT ^
Sowing the Good Seed
There are many stories told of th
multitudinous good effects of the an
nual outing tendered to the orphan
of Newark by the automobile organ
Izatlon. Eddie Korbell, an auto pres
agent of wide acquaintance, tells o
what Orphans’ Day did to two chll
dren.
One of tho children was a hosplta
patient. He was afflicted with a mal
ady pronounced Incurable by the spe
cialists of the Institution. The bo;
was an "automaniac.” Every day hi
would gaze wistfully out of the win
dow near which his bed was sta
tloned at the endless stream of can
that passed by and every now anc
them would sigh, “Gee, X wish 1
owned an automobile." Auto Daj
came along. "Senator” Morgan ant
his band of indefatigable worker!
took the children out for a day ol
pleasure. There was the erhilaratin*
ride In the machines out into thf
country. Then came the store ol
goodies and the animnl show and
the moving pictures, and other pleas
ures. The little boy went back to tht
hospital with the vivid picture of the
great time indelibly Impressed on hit
mind. The next day when the doctor
came around he was amazed. The
child seemed reincarnated. The dread
disease that had been a torture was
overcome by the child’s determination
to be ready for another ride. Today
he is slowly moving on the path to
health, and the physicians say he will
finally be well. The needed stimulus
had been given to the boy's will.
Another child was inexpressibly
fond of baseball. Though he had
never played, 'he would stand and
gaze for hours at a game. When auto
Day came the children were trans
ported to a grove to cavort to their
hearts’ content. This was the little
fellow’s debut as a baseball player.
When he returned home he had a
ball stowed away In his blouse, and
from that time until weeks afterward
he rebelled absolutely against any at
tempt to take the ball away from him.
His devotion to the spheroid was fet
tish-llke, but, according to his mother
It was the "best thing ever." When
ever she wanted him to go to the
store, or to chop some wood or to
perform any of the chores about the
riouse, a mere mention of separating
tiim from the ball would turn the
rick. "So you can see," said Korbell,
'that Auto Day does a good deal of
food.”
A Question Often Asked
A patient went into the office of a
well-known physician on Central
avenue the other evening to make a
call which was half and half—he was
combining a call for treatment with
a social call on the doctor.
The office was partly filled with pa
tients and the last comer went over
to the table, picked up a magazine
and sat down to kill time until the
doctor had finished with the patients
who were In the office before him.
He became deeply Interested In a
story which he was reading, which
seemed to be very familiar, and when
he got half through he recognized it
ns one that he had read sometime
before. A glance at the outside of
the magazine showed that It was a
couple of years old.
About this time the doctor Deca
oned him to enter the Inner sanctum
and ns the door closed behind him
he asked the one question that was
uppermost In his mind and one that
has bothered callers at physicians'
offices from time Immemorial.
"Doc,” he said, "how Is it that the
only magazines that you find In doc
tors' offices are all about half a dozen
years old? Why don't they have
magazines that are up to date?”
“That question has been asked me
a hundred times,” said the doctor,
"and It is easily answered. If I
should happen to put copies of the
latest magazines on the table out In
that office they would not be there
twenty-four hours.
"Not that my patients take the
magazines with any deliberate Idea
of stealing them, but they start read
ing a story, become Interested and
rather than lay the magazines down
when they are called Into the Inner
office they bring It in with them, and
when they go out they never stop to
put down the magazine.
"If I attempted to keep up-to-date
with the current magazines for the
benefit of my office patients,” said the
doctor," It wluld cost me a small for
tune."
“Don’t they ever get Interested In
the stories In the old magazines and
take them?" asked the visitor.
"Oh, that's another story,” said the
doctor, with a smile, as he ushered
the caller out of the office.
One Costemonger Silenced
There Is, unknown to many, a per
fectly good city ordinance In this
town that prohibits hucksters or ven
ders from disturbing the peace by
crying their hundred and one wares.
Everyone is familiar with the comedy
of settling down somfortably to pe
ruse the paper or to take a nap, and
be startled to hear the stertorian
tones of one of these cheap Jacks
lustily telling to the world the prices
of his entire stock.
The other day one of these self
elected criers met his Waterloo in the
person of Captain Sam Brown, of the
Sixth Precinct, and the manner of the
rebuke was in this wise:
The captain was busily engaged in
writing when, almost under his win
dow, he heard a roar of "Potatoes!'’
that almost took his breath away.
"I’ll give you potatoes!” said Cap
tain Brown, and straightway he dis
patched an officer who haled the cul
prit before him.
"What do you mean by that noise?”
began the captain angrily.
Fairly pale from the captain’s vig
orous onslaught, the man stammered
out, “The woman is deaf (he said
“deef”) and I have to yell to make
her understand. I wouldn’t do it but
I need the money. I’ll do better here
after.”
The captain decided to read the
riot act to him and let It go, with
the admonition:
“And if I hear you chirping again
about your potatoes anywhere along
this block, you won’t see a potato
again for a week.’*
Drop by Drop
"Will it do any good?’’ Bald Ser
geant W. P. Ryan, who was perform
ing the duties of a traffic officer at
Market and Halsey streets one after
noon this week. He had Just In
structed a driver to keep on Halsey
street and not attempt to turn Into
’’That Is about the four hundred
and fifth man who has attempted
that, and tomorrow there will be
four hundred more. Tou might sup
pose that with newspapers spreading
the Information and police rules and
squads out to enforce them, that the
driving public would soon learn what
they must do. But they don’t. I've
had to warn some drivers three and
four times, and threaten them with
arrest to make them obey. If I could
separate the drivers who are Ignorant
of the traffic law from those who
know and won’t pay attention, the
bulk of the offenders would be found
In the latter class.
"But the public Is coming around
slowly. Remember, when trolley cars
were first Introduced, there were per
sons killed every day all over the
country? The first year’s death total
was heavy. Nowadays even the chil
dren playing in the street seldom get
hit. Everybody has learned to dodge.
It will be the same with traffic.
Some day everybody will keep the
rules.
“When that happens I’m going to
take a day off and go fishing.”
_THE EVENING BUGLE_
Vo!. 1, No. 8. Saturday, Aag. 81, 1915
Dally except Sunday, Monday, Tues
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Our editorial policy, advertising: rate;
and circulation are nobody's business.
S. M. Emery, editor.
Park Place Traffic
The one great problem now con
i fronting Newark Is that of traffic
| regulation at the various points of
I congestion in the city. Through the
| suggestions of the Bugle a way has
been opened for the solution of the
Jitney question as it affects the Four
Corners, but there is still another
spot where a second and wholly dis
tinct phase of the traffic situation
is the cause of much anxiety to the
Hoard of Works and the Police Com
missioners.
The condition at Park place Is
without palliation. A long line of
jitneys stalled by the curb waiting
for paswngers cuts off half the high
way while other cars make their en
trances and exits In different direc
tions at the same time. The pro
posal to eliminate this objectionable
congestion by turning Park place
Into a one-way street meets with the
hearty approval of the Bugle. There
are certain details of the proposition
which, when worked out and elab
orated on, would settle the problem
for all time.
| Traffic should be permitted only In
; a northerly direction on Park place
[ and all commercial and pleasure ve
i hides patronizing the thoroughfare
! should be made to keep straight on
i through Saybrook place to Mulberry
] street at the Pennsylvania bridge.
| If this course should take the various
i units of traffic several blocks out of
j their way the responsibility would lie I
! with the drivers for choosing that
particular route.
Jitneys on entering the southern
end of Park place should be held up
by a detail of officers and forced to
present passports vised by the Board
of Works, the Board of Police Com
missioners and the Board of Educa
tion. Drivers not possessing the
proper documents would be forbidden
the use of the street. These creden
tials should be good for two hours
only and should then be renewed at
the city hall. Presentation of fraud
ulent passports should be punished
by three months' imprisonment.
When the jitneys reach the tube
proceeding north, a second contin
gent of policemen would again ex
amine the passports, referring them
to a special commissioner for his
vise, the drivers being then per
mitted to solicit fares for five min
utes. On obtaining a full quota of
passengers? each Jitneyman should
present himself to the commissioner
to be checked off and the names and
addresses of his fares would be
taken. By this means a full check
ing-system of the Park place traffic
would be put Into active operation.
It Is, of course, highly probable
that the employment of this means
of traffic regulation at Park place
would result in the abandonment of
the thoroughfare by the Jltneymen
and the drivers of vehicles. Should
this be the case Immediate solution
of the question of congestion at that
point In the city would be brought
about.
I BROAD ST BRIEFS
The shaves the jitney drivers take.
Says Gillen, are disgraces;
For something's very apt to break
In Broad street's hourly races.
Although he asks for neatness sake”
They take them on their faces.
Doc Ray Mullln, after careful treat
ment of his roadster for two months,
announces that it is convalescing and
will soon be well enough to take him
OBtending to Long Beach.
City Counsel Spaulding Frazer Read
ing Up On a Knotty
Legal Point
After Inspecting the New York
methods of handling traffic at Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street early
in the week, Mayor Raymond, Acting
Inspector John E. Brown and Police
Commissioners Fred Breldenbach,
Jack Donnelly and Fred Bigelow re
turned home, avowing that they saw
nothing by which Newark could bene
fit, not even the masterly way In
which Pomeranians were protected
during the tea hour rush.
Sheriff Ralph B. Schmidt hasn’t
posed for any symbolical tableaux
vivants since the day of the Baumaun
outing, when Just as the photog
rapher got ready to shoot Mayor Ray
mond asked him to come over and
stand beside him, representing the
Raymond-Schmidt Club once more
Which Shrleve Ralph did, and they
had their picture taken shoulder to
shoulder, just as in the old days when
nothing but a hyphen came between
them.
Sergeant Dave Banta, the emperor
of the Four Corners, is being boosted
for a position on the Newark police
baseball team. Those who have seen
Dave using his nightstick to knock
a slow trolley forty feet on its way
or bunting brewery trucks with it,
claim that he’d be valuable as a
clean-up man, while those who have
observed him cowing obstreperous
evildoers with his locust while wait
: --*1
ing for the patrol say that he ■would
be fine In the pinches. _
Emil Fiedler, a local Jitney pilot,
bought himself a $6 lesson in traffic
rules early in the week by holding up
a South Orange trolley car for four
minutes, but when Emil was rolling
along the tracks ahead of the Public
Service barge, how was he to guess
it had a faster engine than his Jit.
Roj Young is back In town from
Maine, or some such State, where it
rains all the time and the fishing,
which he has been doing a bit of, is
always fine. Roj breezed In with a
tan that would make a mahogany
sideboard turn green with envy.
__
Joe Smith, the young barrister, who
has Just returned to town from the
Summer School of Surgery, at
Wheaton, 111., is not giving out any
thing on his vacation days, but
rumors are extant to the effect that
his green sport coat (cf.Will Krueger,
of Allenhurst,) and his introduction
of microscopic phonograph records as
an innovation will never be forgot
ten in the little hamlet that he graced
while away from Newark.
It’s Just as well for a certain un
known miscreant that A1 Nowakoskl
was not in his Walnut street flat at
the time he burgled the apartment.
Two minutes before A1 returned from
the Essex Troop armory, where he had
rung six bull’s-eyes out of six to show
George Wilkinson what he could do
with a revolver, said malefactor made
his getaway by the fire-escape with
out A1 having a chance to try out
his howitzer on a target really worth
his skill. Al, who Is some marksman,
shoots both right and left handed
for his points.
Jess Willard, the well-known world's
flstic champion, was In town Thurs
day, that being Newark's biggest day
In the celebrity line since Harry Thaw
knocked over a slice of watermelon
in a Market street restaurant. A lot
of people crowded up to see Jess per
form his act In the circus, and would
give a good deal to meet him, es
pecially Charley Weinert.
Gene Farrell, who Is prominently
mentioned for county register, says
he is not in the ring this fall for any
patting of babies’ heads and telling
their mothers how he hopes they’ll
grow up to be good Democratic voters.
Bob Stoutenburgh, the local real
estate dealer who has hired a hotel
at Asbury so as to be sure of his sum
mer vacation, is not finding the bonl
face act as pleasant *as might be.
Bob has but one bellhop in his cara
vansary, and as the hop averages
from 100 to 101 calls for ice-water be
tween 8 and 9, he's afraid the lad
may drop dead and he’ll have to go
on the shift himself.
It Is expected that Secretary Will
iam McAdoo, of the treasury depart
ment, will soon visit our local city to
study the problems Incidental to the
new postofflce project. While he is
here It should be a pleasure to show
him Newark’s splendid equipment and
facilities, not forgetting the Hudson
tube
''f
'
George L. Record and William P.
Verdon are having a splendid time
over in Jersey City writing open let
ters to each other, George going on
record concerning Verdon and Verdon ,
coming back with a "Billy doux” and
vice versa.
James N. Jarvie, of Montclair, is
pretty proud of the cow at his Beem
erville farm that just broke the
world's record for a week’s produc
tion of milk. Jim is said to be
thinking of incorporating the valu
able animal and selling stock in it
Eddie Hanley, of Asbury Park, the
anti-suffragists’ advertising counsel,
is rather wroth at the wild charge
that "he and his gunmen’’- lifted the
suffrage torch. Eddie says that he
not only hasn't any gunmen, but
when it comes to that old proverb
about the pen and the sword, a
trained typewriter has killed more
causes than a howizter any day.
Major League Sports In Secaueus
Town Treasurer Charlie Steele, of
Newton, Is going out for re-eleotton ‘
as a Republican town committeeman.
Charlie has a record that nobody can
find fault with, as he helped to In
stall the municipal water system,
and If opponents orab about that ha
can show'he was largely responsible
for putting In the drainage system
that carries the water off.
Colonel John W. Aymar will be the
busiest man In Jersey next week, t
with attending to all the details of
the baby parade and being Aimed
while he does It. The movies of the
procession wouldn’t be complete with
out showing him in all kinds of
poses, and every year the big com
panies send down operators who are
stars at the panorama-tng end of the
business, so as to be sure to get all
of the colonel in all right.
A second "dollar day” Is to be held
In Orange, as It has been discovered
by the merchants that a number of
citizens have another dollar left.
The police of Roselle Park are
nettled because there’s no room for
an advertisement of their department
on the new town hall, which is already
plastered all over with signs. They’re
wondering how they are going to let
people know they’re in town.
Co the l?eu) Band on the Job
Come, my lad, ’tis daytime:
Do not lurk
In the shades of playtime,
Get to work!
Hard things lie before you,
Things to tire and bore you,
Things to triumph o’er you,
If you shirk.
Don’t be gruff or grouchy;
That won’t do.
Don’t be slack or slouchy,
Just be true
To the best within you.
And amid the din, you
Won’t let evil win you,
There’s your cue!
Choose your field and till it,
Have a plan.
Take your place and fill it
As you can.
Don’t let dreamings hazy
Come to make you lazy,
Cranky, cross or crazy;
Be a man!
—Denis A. McCarthy.
| The Junior High School
Reorganization of education under
the Junior high school plan or some
thing similar is definitely under way,
according to Professor T. H. Briggs,
whose review of secondary education
has Just been issued by the United
States Bureau of Education.
The Junior high school has been
defined "as an organization of grades
seven and eight or seven and nine to
provide means for individual differ
ences, especially by an earlier intro
duction of prevocational work and of
subjects usually taught in the high
school.” There are now fifty-seven
cities In the United States where
Junior high schools are organized in
unmistakable form.
"One idvantage claimed for the
Junior high school," declares Dr.
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Briggs, 'Is that It groups children so
that subjects seldom taught in the
grammar grades may be Introduced,
thereby giving each pupil a more In
telligent understanding of the work
of the world, of the possibilities in the
subject and in the pupil himself.
"The junior high school also makes
easier the transition of pupils to the
high school. That the change between
the elementary and the high school
should be so sharp permits no justifi
cation. To bridge this gap by earlier
introduction to high school subjects
and methods of leaching has greatly
Improved results, it is claimed.
“The Junior high school has, fur
thermore, greatly decreased elimina
tion of pupils from school. This elim
ination after the seventh, eighth and
ninth grades has been one of the
greatest reproaches to our educational
system. Any plan that promises to
retain children in school beyond these
grades is worthy of the most careful
consideration.”
The statistics given by Dr. Briggs
show that a much larger per cent, of
students enter high school where
junior high schools exist than before
they were organized.
That the Junior high school fur
nishes an opportunity for various
needed reforms In instruction is the
final claim of the new movement, ac
cording to Dr. Briggs. He points out
that in the junior high school a course
of study based on the newer prin
ciples of psychology, sociology and
economics, various provisions for in
dividual differences, and especially an
improved method of teaching, can
now be introduced.
Los Angeles High School, Butte
(Mont.) High School, Wisconsin High
School, Madison, Wls., and Horace
Mann School, New York city, are
cited as successfully organized Junior
high schools, Los Angeles having far
outstripped all other cities in develop
ing them.
Needed On*.
Brown—“Did I leave an umbrella
here yesterday?”
Barber — "What kind of an um
brella?”
Brown—“Oh, any kind at all. I’m
not fussy.”
Even Up.
“Until now, sir, I have never been
forced to ask for a loan.”
“Until now, sir, I have , never been
forced to refuse you.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
AUGUST 21
Dorothea Klumpke, Bessie Vonnoh
Copyright, 1816.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
Bessie Onaholema Vonnoh, who was
I born August 21, 1872, in St. Louis, was
educated in the public schools of Chi
cago, and when she was only twenty
three years old she had gained such
distinction as a sculptor that she was
given a commission to make a statue
of art for the Columbian Exposition.
This passed the approval of the pub
lic at the time, but Bessie Vonnoh
was not especially distinguished from
other sculptors of her time till three
years later, when she began a series
of portrait statues of contemporaries,
which, likened as they have been to
the Tanagra figurines, are still In
tensely modern in their spirit and
portry truthfully and cleverly the
traits of those whom they represent.
In 1899 she was married to Mr. Rob
ert William Vonnoh, a distinguished
painter.
Dorothea Kiumpke, one of our most
distinguished women astronomers,
was the daughter of German parents.
Her father was one of the "forty
niners" in San Francisco, and her
mother was a woman of unusually
advanced Ideas, who determined that
the four daughters of her large fam
ily should be given equal opportuni
ties with the boys. Her efforts bore
fruit, for Anna Elizabeth, the eldest
daughter, gained fame ns an artist.
She was Rosa Bonheur’s nearest
friend, and on the death of the lat
ter received the celebrated French
artist's fortune and estate in Franca
Augusta, the second daughter, mar
ried a professor of medicine in Paris,
and herself gained distinction as a
physician. Julia was a violinist of
unusual powers, and Dorothea was
the first woman to gain the degree
of doctor of mathematics at the Paris
Academy of Science, where she
studied for many years. She obtained
the post of assistant at the Paris Ob-‘
servatory, though appointment was
awarded by competitive examination
and there were fifty Frenchmen com
peting with her. She gained distinc
tion in photographing the stars and
made several successful balloon as
censions. She was considered the
foremost woman aeronaut for several
years.
News of the Labor World
Since 1903, from the beginning of
its organization, the National
Women's Trade Union League of
America has stood for full citizenship
for women.
It has been decided to hold all
future conventions of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers in the
headquarters building of the organi
zation in Cleveland.
Sir John Ure Primrose, Bart., pre
sided over a recent meeting of Glas
gow (Scotland) license holders and
their employes to further the in
terests of recruiting.
Much has been done in England in
the way of replacing men clerks in
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banks and other large Institution*
with women, and much more will no
doubt be done in the near future.
There are 1,916 women patrols or
ganized by the National Union of
Women Workers, operating in the
neighborhood of camps in different
parts of England.
Approximately 27,000 of the 35,500
minors employed in the industries of
Pennsylvania will be legislated out of
work by the child labor law, which
goes Into effeot the first of next
year.
Prisoners at Pentonville (England)
Jail have been put to work on armf
supplies.
EMERSON said: “We do not count
a man’s years until he has nothing
else to count.”
The man who begins in his youth to
lay by a competence for himself through
Life Insurance need not worry about
what old age may do to his earning
powers.
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