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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1912
Page
7
A 1912 Long Branch newspaper note argues for a wakeful 1913, urging appreciation of local advantages, improved governance, and collective effort to banish dullness and act for progress, signed by editors of the Daily Record.
State health officers report four thousand one hundred ninety one more births than last year, with a death rate of 4.76 per thousand, the lowest in state history. Officials credit medical knowledge and hygiene laws while urging faster progress and noting Germany’s lower rates as a benchmark.
A year of world changing events and notable incidents. It highlights the founding of a Chinese republic the Balkan wars the Titanic disaster and extraordinary political shifts at home. It also notes murders graft cases dynamite conspiracies strikes assassinations and Lorimer’s Senate expulsion alongside bumper crops and high prices.
A historical call condemns New Year revelry as vulgar excess and gross indulgence while endorsing a movement for safe and sane celebrations. It notes roistering, gluttony and drunken behavior as harmful, urging moderation and public support for healthier festivities.
Health and efficiency efforts in Monmouth schools announce free Saturday examinations and treatment for children at Monmouth Memorial Hospital led by Dr. Joseph T. Welch. The plan includes employing a visiting nurse for schoolchildren, urged by President B. R. Slocum, signaling civic progress and broader community health benefits.
Mrs. Cogrie Catt, a famous suffrage leader, urges women to adopt Chinese dress including trousers and long coats as sanitary and freeing. She says hats are useless and saving on hats could fund suffrage campaigns. She notes Chinese style fits political reform and claims most suffragists will embrace the change.
The Norway lynching of a Black man over a debt is linked to Gov. Cole Blease’s statements praising mob murder of Negroes. A note signed Friends of Gov. Blease was left on the body, echoing his Richmond rallying cry To hell with the Constitution. The New York World quotes his praise of vigilante violence and defiance of law.
The passage laments mob violence and urges restraint while condemning lynching for debt or murder. It argues that when lawful processes fail, chaos follows unless mobs are restrained. It stresses that effort precedes improvement and favors making resolutions. It notes a surplus of potential Cabinet timber within the Democratic party.
A Philadelphia Record remark criticizes suffragettes and cites London tactics of destroying mail with colored fluids to erase Christmas addresses. The piece suggests they could have flung vitriol at Santa Claus, reflecting the era’s hostile reaction to suffrage activists.
J Pierpont Morgan’s testimony before the Pujo committee reveals his views on European publicity rules for promoters and bankers profits. He approves the concept in principle but declines full admission that he endorses it.
The Philadelphia Record outlines Sir Morgan’s views on secrecy in stock flotations, concentrated ownership, and the alleged benevolent despotism of powerful financiers. It notes his preference for large holders over minority voting and his belief that control is essential, though he denies seeking domination. He defends moral responsibility in market actions and warns that abusing power forfeits it.
United States Commissioner Conant says railroads control about ninety percent of U S canals and dominate harbor and coastwise steamships. New Jersey notes railroads have closed many canals, urging resistance to abandonment and calls to regain canal control to keep freight rates down. Historical poem excerpt included from The Earth and Man.
A quote attributed to Dr. Henry VanDyke distinguishes a rut from a grave, praising dream and action over habit. It argues progress comes from imagination and effort, not inertia, urging readers to seize larger aims and use progress as stepping stones to higher pursuits.
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