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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13


Editor Evening News:
The appearance last evening OF the
Home Guard with Its band, was q
very pleasant surprise.
h members of the guard have
improved distinctly in military bear
ing and their marching is very good.
But the band Is certainly n revela-
ton. After a few months practice
Mr.. Burke has surrounded himself
with a corps OF more or les musical
members. and in that short space of
time has created a band that within
n years time. / prophesise. will be
the leading band of New Jersey.
The hand played excellently and
Mr.. Burke's work has shown a won
derful result.
In connection with the appearance
OF the Home Guard. I just come Il
think OF the sneering remarks about
II by Alderman Clark some time ago
In the city council. when also he paid
a disrespectful alfusion to our dear
veteransi
Well. the Home Guard Is here and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Public Opinion
SUNDAY MOVIES

lEDITOR EVENING NEWS:
I note with considerable pride and
pleasure the great amount of work
THAT is now being spent by the patri-
otto men and women of this CITY 70
provide amusement for our fighting
boys" while in town.
How about those munition workers,
mechanics, shipbuflders. an etc. who
have come to our city. or who are
living nearby? Are they not doing
patriotic work? Why shouldn't we
provide them with some amusement.
so as to make their stay here a most
pleasant one2 Many will learn to like
this city and win undoubtedly make
Perth Amboy their permanent home.
What are we doing for them?
They work hard all day and very
often late into the night. Their time
for pleasure Is limited. Why can't
our movies be opened on Sundays?
Surely there can be found no cleaner
and more pleasing amusement. SIM
day is the worlingman's day of rest
land pleasure and il we deny them the
movies on Sundays. we are taking
from them the only source of pleas
ure open to them.
Those who own automobiles have
no trouble enjoying their Sunday Rf-
ternoons or evenings. In less than
one hour they are in Newark. where
not only the moving picture houses
are open, but even the vaudeville
THEATRES. Let us not hope hat tbs
people of Newark are not less God
loving than our own selves.
Just a ferry trip across the river
into Tottenville and the movie thea
tire" is open. Can it be said hat Tot
tenville is more progressive than we7
Upon urgent request of the work
ingmen of New Brunswick the thea
tres were open TO them on Sundays
What applies to New Brunswick
ought to be applied TO Perth Amboy.
Come now. let MS play fair with
ourselves. If the automobile owners
and the ferry patronizers can nave
their Sunday movies" why can't
we?
Yours very truly.
FAIR PLAY.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Is This Personal. Biue

We have received an invitation
from u old pal Judge Lueders to at
tend h annual hunt for tin caps off
beer bottles to boost Judge CaldweTrs
Iund for Aged and INDECENT Hobby
Horse Manufacturers. The hunt will
be staged by the Cincinnati Fishing
Club at Muskegon. Mich. and we find.
this line in the invitation;
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Fire Alarm Boxes

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and sheridan SfrNef2
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ana FIRST etreela
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and Lewia Streets.
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18-Water ana Gordon Streets.
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1l-Lsh4gh Ave and Stanford afrssl
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

so is the splendid band, and the peo-
PIE of Perth Amboy will ave good
cause to Congratulate themselves for
this patriotic movement.
Very truly yours.
A. KRINGELBACH.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
He Can SIecp soundIy Now.

i A reader wants to know what has
become of the old-fashioned hotel
hBgnr clerk who used to have Il
"gum-shoe" around the halls looking
for trouble?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

We said the other day that the
Kaiser can so to Hell and roast, but
he can go to Helen Boyle in Cincin-
natl. And a smart reader wants to
know if we would let the Kaiser go TO
Helen Kuhloff In st. Louis?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes

hewng WIN Alarm
Iheres always IA one going round with weird predlctiouz
dark and grim: his accents have q doleful sound fhe 4rnre a.
nSs . him. IL vets the landscape with his tears and says wen
never WHIP the = n So than forty-seven years and wen be
oroks when Il 4. done He hears OF victory and scowis: -the
worst a Is yet 70 come; your loud hurrahs WI change 10
hewlsi me news wsl soon be hsrce and bum I've seen himsSnn-
der down the street and queer the town In half an hour WITH tales
o. ran and defeat. and forecasts drivelng and donr- No DOUBT
some one said 1Od scout does Wilhelm pay you for this gran rs
his rAs would tnrn him inside out-hed act Like some one going
a4th Ae Is q patriot gon bett For Uncle sam he'd lose = imbr
as Just his way TO seold and fret and show that things look black
q h@ n times of peace he used 20 show how government "a
shppns eogs and pointed out m GRIEF and woe. that we were going
70 ne oeEA N umes o. peace he ent n grass his dodderdngs could
work no ~ but nov that war las come % pass he s = help 10
n@ a1 hn- ~ you're nchne1 70 scod ana nope Just can that sfuN
a niee while and hand or Packages OF hope. All decorated wnh i
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

On h v OF his journey Oyer
There. John Callahan. Company A.
Three Hundred md Twenty-ffth Ma
chine Gun. Camp Minus. Long island.
writes W r going W. and get
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
But whv Ruin a CHearctte7

kHouSton Post.1
Luke McLnke tells of a meanset
man who Is feeding the goldfish on
cigarette papers while his Wits Is alb
sent. Mat man isn't so lean: he's a
nut. II he wants to XIII the goldfish
why doesn't he just drop a cigarette
IN the water7
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
MOI

the Huns. Then we are coming back
and get the Drys."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Bits of By-PLay


By LUKE McLUKE.<
Copyright 1918, the Cincinnati
Enquirer.


Enquirer.
Aw, Gwant
A jolly blind man is Bill Bind,
Said he: Il have few cares
I walk around with ease but find
1t hard to get up stares."
Then 1t Happened.
Il gness you could" unused the
Rummy, as he picked up his change.
You guess you could what?' de-
manded the Barkeep. as he grabbed a
bottle.
why, IL an American suffers,
guess you could say that he speaks
broken English" replied the Rummy
as he headed for the door.
Advice.
Fair warning 1 bring
In this song hat l sing,
1t may save you worry and strife;
If you have a sweet smile
Some female TO beguile,
My friend. take 1t home to your
wife.
Though I may seem rude,
My advice Is sure good,
fontn thank ms some day of your
life:
II o hav any dough
On some female to blow. \
My friend take It home to your
wife.
Paw Knows Everything.
Whlie-Paw. what is a necessary
evil?
Pawn alarm clock. my son.
Wuni
A lot OF newborn fieas rve met,
And heard their monologues:
Said they: I'VE do not drink, and yet
We're going to the dogs"
Correct.
81 am going out into the world TO
acquire wealth and experience" brag-
ged the Youth.
We'll" replied the Old Man, at is
a cinch that you'll get the expert
ence."
First Call.
-Cut this out" said
Old man Hurley.
"Dou -FOUR Christmas
Shopping eariy!"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Healthy and happy
A cause and effect as necessary
to cows as to humans.
r. .nxw xnu~k

to COWS as 70 humans.
For a COW must
be wen
be well fed
be wen treated to
be happy = And only happy
cows give good milk.
There's q happy herd at Wood
Brook Farms and the good milk
Is collected in the most ap-
proved scientific and sanitary
way.
Everything being rs 1t should
bs-Wcod Brook milk is GER
Titled MILK.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

Aw, Gwani
A jolly blind man is Bill Bind,
Said he: II have few cares
l walk around with ease, but find
1t hard to get up stares."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

Paw Knows Everything,
Willie-Paw. what is a necessary
evil?
Pawn alarm clock. my SON.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

Visitors Always welcomsu
WOOD BROOK FARMS
METUCHEE. N. j.
or1ers received At Seaman's
Pharmacy. Phone Perth Am
boy 200 or Thone direct 70 The
farm.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13

First Call.
-cut this out" said
Old man Hurley.
"Dou your Christmas
Shopping eariy."
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
FRENCH FIGHTING HEAVILY BUT TO
 FINE ADVANTAGE
Poilus and British in Fierce Combat With the Huns in Plessiere Wood but Make Progress

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 1, (By the Associated Press. .)-General Mangin, with the French and British troops of his com man6 is fighting a severe battle north of the Ourcq river and is making con siderable progress.
 After taking the village of Grand Rozoy, northwest of Fere En Tarde- nois, the allied troops advanced to the Plessiere wood, where the combatants are in the closest of grips and the combat is extraordinarily fierce. The heights north of Grand RoZoy have fallen into the hands of the allies and at several points the allied troops have approached within five miles of the railroad leading to Bazoches, which is the only railroad that can be used by the Germans for maintaining cOmmun- ications.
 With the fall of darkness tonight fighting continued between the allies and the Germans on the western side of SOissOns-Rheims salient Allied ob- servers reported that bodies of Ger mans were fleeing precipitately north ward along the road leading from Lau- noy, which lies about midway between Soissons and Fere En Tardenois.
 The attack by the allied forces which brought them such good results during the day, started at 4 o'clock this morning with the aid of tanks.
 The British joined with the French in attacking the woods, thickets and villages, each of which had been trans formed into a fortress, with the aid of machine guns.
 By o'clock hill POS and the villages of CourdouX. Servenay and Cramoisel- les had fallen before the determiend assaults and prisoners were coming in. By o'clock the advance was so mark ed that the British and French bat- teries were able to go forward to new positions. The German guns replied feebly. but their mitrailleuses were very numerous.
 The enemy counter attacked furious ly from Buzancy and Eveque wood. but their efforts were splendidly held up by the allied infantry.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COM MITTEE SPENDS BUSY DAY CON- slDERING CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH EIGHT BILLION DOL LARS BE DRAWN TO NATioN
AMUSEMENT HIGHER
MOVING PICTURE HOUSES, BRoK- FRS, MAIL ORDER HOUSES, POOL PAaLoRs, BOWLING AL LEYs, CORPORATION CAPITAL RATION IN LIST
By Review Leased IYirel

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-DOubling of the present taxes on manufacturers of tobacco. cigars and cigarettes and in creased taxation of brokers, theaters and other amusements, billiard and pool PaIlors, bowling alleys and capitaliza- tion of corporations, were agreed on by the house ways and means com mittee today in framing the $S,O00,- 100000 revenue bill. A new tax of one per cent. Stamp taxes were undis- houses doing more than S100O00 an- nual business was adopted Pullman seats and berths and passenger rates will be subject to a uniform tax Of s per cent. Stamp taxes wre undis- turbed.
 Chairman Kitchen, after the commit tee adjourned. summarized the situa- tion as follows:
 We have put a tax Of 1 per cent on retail sales of mail order houses that have above $1OO.OO0 annual busi- ness. We have ineres,sed the special taxes. Brokers now under a special tax of $50, will pay an annual tax of S100 and if they are members of a stock exchange, or board of trade en- gagged in buying and selling. will pay an annual tax of S250 We have in creased the tax on pawnbrokers from $50 to S100; ship brokers from S20 to $50; custom house brokers from S1O to $50.
 "Theaters, including moving pie ture shows, museums, and concert halls having a steady capacity of not over 250 people, will pay an annual tax increased from $25 to $50; seat ing capacity between 250 and 500, in creased from $50 to $100: 800 to 800 seating capacity. increased from $75 to S15O and all over 500 capacity in- creased from S100 to S200 annual tax We have doubled the present special taxes on theaters. circuses, bowling alleys, billiard and pool parlOrs and on manufacturers of tobaccos, cigars and cigarettes.
 We have put new special tax on sales of seats on stock and produce exchanges of 10 per cent on the sale price of the seats and on annual dues of these exchanges a tax of 20 per cent on the amour. of dues. This is to put them on the same basis as clubs and other organizations already put under tax.
 Pullman seats and berths are under present law tax of 10 per cent and passenger rates per cent of the amoynts paid for tickets or coupons. We today agreed to make the tax on both of these per cent. This was
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
HAD RATHER GO UP
RELUCTANCE SEEN ON PART OF MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO GO BELOW 21 BUT NUMBER FAVOR INCREASING UPPER LIMIT TO AS YEARS
lRy Review Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON. Aug. War de- partment recommendations for enlars- ing the army and for the extension of draft age limitations to provide greater man power will be laid before two military committees have been recalled to Washington by the chair man to expedite the bill.
 In announcing. following a confer ence with Chairman Dent of the house committee, that his increased army project was virtually ready, Secretary Baker would not say what age limits had been settled upon. nor indicate iE any way the size of the army which he is planning
 "l do not want to say what the ages will be" he said, because the concur rent action of the two houses is neces- saTy to secure assent to them.
 Any suggestion to extend the draft ages is to produce in class one an ade- quate number of men for the enlarged military program. If the ages are re- vised. they will have to be either be- low 21 or above 3l, or both I think it will be both"
 AndAA OGul was even ticent but said he was willing to go either up or down in extending age limits of the draft to win the war.
 My personal preference is to go up first" he added.
 The only specific information re- garding the new age limits to be drawn from Mir. Baker was a state ment that the limits of 19 to 40 had been among the suggestions canvasse6 but rejected. In many quarters it is believed extension to the ages of 19 and 36 will be recommended.
 In presenting the original selective service bill, Secretary Baker and his advisors fixed 19 as the proper mini mum. and Mr. Baker has said repeat edly since then that he has seen m reason to change his opinion in that regard.
 Congress, however. ruled against taking men below the voting age O. 21 years
 The reluctance of many members O. congress to go lower than the 21 limit
 Continued on Page Two)
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
Electric Plant
 Workers PrOUe
 Up Patriotism

LYNN. Mass, Aug. 1.-The strike of nearly ten thousand em- ployes of the two local plants of the General Electric company was ended tonight by vote of the strik- CTS. At a mass meeting they de- cided to return to work tomorrow and await adjustment of their wage demands by the federal war labor board
 Assurance that the war labor board would act immediately was brought from Washington by h. ternational Organizer Chas. D. Keavney of the Electrical Work CTS union. When the announce ment was made at the meeting there were cheers for President Wilson, the war labor board and the strike leaders.
 The strike began three weeks ago. In addition to a heavy loss in wages, it has involved a great curtailment of production of i'm portant war supplies.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
HARRY WHEELER REACHES HOME
 WHILE ON LEAVE
Former Sheriff Arrives to AL low Service of Warrants and Suits; Tells Conditions at Front

Capt Harry Wheeler has arrived in Tombstone and will arrive in Bisbee this morning from the county seat to spend the day here. He arrived in Tombstone at a late hour Wednesday night coming from Alamagordo, N. M.. where he had been with Mrs. Wheeler for the past few days.
 He is here on a short leave of ab- sence and expects to return to Wash ington to report for duty again as soon as his leave is up. He was seen at Douglas and Osborn Wednesday night when he went through and those who saw him report that he is con siderably fleshier than when he went away. and he said he had gained about twenty pounds in weight.
 His sole object in coming back to the United States at this time was that he might submit himself to the serv- ing of the warrant charging him with being involved in the deportation of l. w w and their sympathizers from Bisbee, as his friends had been. He also wished to be served with the papers in the damage suit filed by deportees. as he did not want to have the impression get out that he was re. maining lover there" in the service of the government to avoid legal com plications. As soon as he gets these matters strengthened out he will re- port for duty to the war department at Washington.
 Captain Wheeler since he went to France has been in charge of a squad ron of men in the air service and has been drilling them. He had command of $50 men. He made a request for transfer to the infantry in order that he might get into action at the front and just before he left France he was given the following message:
 You have been designated by the commander in chief for duty with the front corps. This was based on your application and on the recommenda- tion of the chief of air service, due to your special qualifications for service with combat troops at front. The chief of the air service hopes that you will soon be able to complete the duty for which you are ordered to Washington and that the war depart ment may see fit to expedite your re- turn to France for service at the front.
 Signed: WHITEHEAD.'
 When asked about the American troops in France he said:
 You can tell the wives, sweet hearts, mothers and all realtives of the boys that their morale is of the best. They are living cleanly and morally and any report to the contrary is the rankest lie that could be circulated speak from observation of my own squadron of $50 men. For clean liv- ing and morals there could not be better bunch of boys. Being with them all the time know of what 1 speak for 1 ate and slept with them all the time
 We are all we'll fed and the food is the best but there is no waste. The men over there appreciate the manner in which the people of the United States are backing them up in the matter of food and their going on ra-
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
YANKS PUSH ON
 DESPITE HUNS
 RESISTING HARD
Germans Rushing Up Addi- tional Reserves Together With Tanks, Indicatin g Great Battle Opening

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
 ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT.
 Aug. l (By the Associated PPress)
 s p. m-The American troops
 pushed forward their lines at cer-
 tain points Thursday on the cen
 ter of the Rheims-Soissons sali-
 ent, notwithstanding the resist
 ance of the Germans, who did not
 give ground on some sectors un-
 til they actually had been shot
 from their positions.
 The Germans are desperately cling. ing to their strongholds at Nesles and in the Bois Merniere, northeast of Roncheres, but the Americans have gained a hold on the northern edge of the Meuniere wood The Nesles for est is under the range of the Ameri can heavy guns.
 Ayiators report that the Ger
 mans are rushing up reinforce
 ments, including tanks. The en-
 emy's heavy guns are pounding
 the Nesles and Meuniere woods
 unmercifully.
 Observers and prisoners who
 had been brought behind the lines
 previously reported the forests as
 having been jammed with Ger
 man troops and also with large
 quantities of supplies. The Ger
 man losses in men therefore must
 have been very great as the heavy
 guns started shelling the woods
 several days ago,
 The allied troops continued today to encounterf barOed wires. Between Seringes and Sergy there were woven fields of wire entanglements. At the creek crossings and in the valleys the German machine gunners held their commanding positions until the heavy guns of the French and Americans blasted away through the wire and busted the enemy from his positions Some of the enemy machine gunners stuck to their post under terrific fire till they were killed.
 The American heavy artillery com msnds the village of Chamery, north east of Sergy, the Americans having wrested the hill beyond the last named village from the Germans in battle lasting for hours. The lines swayed back and forth many times but the Americans eventually pushed the Ger mans back This fighting was in the open and the American infantrymen showed great courage.
 To the north of Cierges the Ameri- cans also advanced their line. Tn fight began early Thursday for the of a farm from which the Americans swept away the Germans. North of Sergy the Americans crossed wheat fields that had been planted by French peasants, the crop of which had been partially garnered by the Germans. What remained of the wheat was recovered by the Ameri- cans.
 There was much aerial activity throughout Thursday. The Germans sent out large numbers of aviators, who appeared to be determined to pro- tect the forests from the allied air
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-02
Ally ReSerUe Is
 Larger Than
 Hun Command
CBy Review Leased wire)

LONDON. Aug. For the first time since the opening of this years campaign, March 21, fresh reserves at the disposal of the all lies considerably Outnumber the fresh reserves at the disposal of the enemy. notwithstanding the fact that the enemy still holds a substantial numerical superiority on the whole of the front. accord ing to the view in military circles here.
 The booty captured by the French in following up the Ger man retreat from the Marne in- cluded a large amount of bridging material which the Germans had collected just north of the Marne.
 It is pointed out that the inten- tion of the Germans to effect the passage of the river in great strength and drive in the direction of Paris is thus indicated.