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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
FIND BLACK SEA FLEET

German Troops Occupying SabastopOl
Locate Ships in Harbor.
BIZ United Press.
ONSTANTINOPLE VIA LONDON
May 6-German troops occupying Sa-
bastopol Gin the Crimean Peninsula)
found in the harbor most of the Rus
sian Black Sea fleet, including cruis-
ers, destroyers, torpedo boats, sub
marines and merchant ships, it was
officially annoupced here today.
The Sultan Selim and the Hamidieh
have arrived there.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
American Casualty List

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Today's
casualty list contained further names
of American soldiers believed to have
been captured in the recent fighting at
Seicheprey. Fifteen are reported
missing" Also included are six
dead in action; three from wounds;
nine of disease; two from accident;
one of other causes; four severely
wounded and forty-eight slightly
wounded, total of eight-eight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
Joseph Kankam Knocked Down Near
His Homo Yesterday Afternoon.

Joseph Kankam, eight years old,
of 437 New Brunswick avenue, was
struck by an automobile near his
home yesterday afternoon. The ma
chine was owned and driven by w. H.
Dunham, of Metuchen. The boy was
picked up and rushed in the car to
the hospital, where it was learned the
accident resulted in the youngster los
ing three teeth and sustaining a Sc
we're cut over the right eye. He was
attended by DR.. Martin S. Meinzer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
Situation Is Improved

WASHINGTON. May 6:-with
French and the fresh British reserves
now available the Allies situation in
France has considerably improved"
although certain to be anxious for
some time yet" the British war mis-
sion here announced today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

1t is understood that a booth is TO
be erected at the corner of Smith
street and New Brunswick avenue for
the sale of the stamps and as this is
the business corner of the city the re-
suits obtained at this booth should
prove to be very successful
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
CHARGED WITH DESERVING
Three Local Boys Overstay Their Time
and Get Into Trouble.

Three local men were arrested here
Saturday night by Detective William
Hartmann charged with being de-
serters from the National Army. After
being given hearing before Recorder
Pickersgill they were locked up until
the arrival here from Camp Dix OF
Sergeant Edward Franzblau, who took
the men back to Wrightstown yester-
day. The men arrested were f. r.
White, thirty lone years old, of 1873
Water street, Lawrence Johnson, twen-
ty-five years old, of III Madison ave-,
and F. johnson, twenty-fo years old,
of 22O Brighton avenue. The men were
away from camp on leaves of absence
and should have returned the middle
of last week. They overstayed their
leaves, however.
pa SIX e ball and dance. YMHA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

GIRLS WANTED. OPERATORS ON
GOVERNMENT SHIRTS. GOOD PAY
APPLY GOODMAN-COHEN Co, 225
SHERIDAN ST. 1SS37-5-6-6t-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06
DRAFT LAW UPHELD

Sumeme Court Says Men May be
Sent Anywhere in World
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 6:-Men
raised under the draft can be sent
anywhere in the world to fight for
the United States, the supreme court
today decided. The action of the
court today upheld the selective
draft law in every particular.
Basketball and dance, YMHA.
1SS43-5-6-1ts
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

Former High School Coach Back.
Harold Evans, former physical di-
rector at the high school is here on a
visit from Camp Dix He spent the
morning watching the gym classes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

Nat Holman at the YMHA.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

Nat Holman at the YMHA.
lSS43-5-6-1ts
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-05-06

WEATHER-Fair to-
night. Tuesday prob
ably occasional show
ers. Moderate SOUTH
erly winds.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27

sitiation of the new Hebrew University
at Jerusalem. 1t remains for the Jew
aish people themselves to raise upon that
foundation a structure of ordered liberty
and moral and material civilization wor-
thy both Of their capacities and aspira-
tions and Of the great traditions Of their
past. In carrying out that task they can
effectively count upon the sympathy both
Of the British Government and of the
British People.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27

Leading members Of the British War
Cabinet and other English Statesmen.
gave expression to their adhesion to the
project on the occasion of the first an
niversary of the British Declaration
made to the Zionists in favor of Jew
ish national homeland in Palestine. We
publish herewith some of these state
ments which appeared originally in the
London Zionist Review
To Convert An Ideal Into Fact.
(Hon. Austin Chamberlain. M. P, Mem
Der of the War Cabinet)
Though not member of the British
War Cabinet at the time when the decla-
ration in favor of the establishment of
Palestine was first published, I am glad
to take the opportunity of the first an
niversary of that declaration to associ-
ate myself with it. I wish all success
to those whose task it now is to con-
vert long cherished ideal into an accom-
plished fact to the advantage, not of the
Jewish race only, but of all the races
which in that fair region of the world
have so long suffered under the deaden-
ing blight of Turkish misrule, now hap
PLY brought to an end by the triumph
of British arms.
1t Rests With The Jews.
(The Earl Curzon of Kedlecton, K. C.
M. L. A., Member of War Cabinet.)
=, Now that the Turk has gone from
Palestine-let us hope forever-it rests
with the Jews to take provident advan-
tage Of the great opportunity which
has been offered to them.
Foundation of International Justice.
General Hon. J. C. SHUTS, K. C. M. L.
A., Member Of the War Cabinet.)
When, at the beginning of November
last year, the British War Cabinet issued
it's historic Declaration recognizing
Palestine as the National Home Of the
Jewish people, their action was an act
of faith, as only a small part of southern
Palestine had been occupied by our
Forces, and not only Jerusalem but most
of Judaea and the whole Of Samaria and
Galilee were still in the possession of
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
A SUPPER FOR ARISTOCRATS
Bu ETHEL TAUROG

Mrs. Fuchsman peered out of the par
lor window at the gathering dusk, and
shrugged her shoulders.
"In such weather go guess if it's
time to light the candles already" she
mumbled to herself. "And there should
be at least in the neighborhood real
Jewish woman by whom you can ask.
NJ, neighborhood they found! My en-
emies should have such a year. Only,
for children, what don't you do for chill
dren?"
She surveyed her surroundings hur-
riedly, rushed into the kitchen and turned
down the gas flame in the range, leav-
ing very small fire, sufficient to keep
a kettle of water hot for the Sabbath
tea. Then she lighted the candles in the
old fashioned candlesticks standing near
the edge on the large dining-room
table.
Just as she had settled herself COM
fortably in large rocker preparatory
to reading a Jewish newspaper the bell
at the back door rang shrilly. AS she
opened the door she was greeted by a
delivery boy with c. O. D. package
for Miss Marcella Fuchsman.
"Not Shabbos," she Informed the de-
livery boy. "You bring the package Mon
day."
She went back into the dining-room
and resumed the reading of the news
paper, but her thoughts wandered away
from the newspaper, back to by-gone
days.
She recalled the small butcher shop
with the two tiny rooms back Of it in
which she and her husband and their
two children Isaac and Masha had lived
And yet. they had been happy, much
happier than they were now For there
had been harmony amongst them, and
contentment. r7o.'
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27

the Turk. Now, year after, we hold
not only all of ancient Palestine from
Ban to Boersheba, but General Allenby's
victorious march has reached and passed
Damascus, which marked the limit of
King David's victories at the most glori-
Gus epoch Of Israel's history. The march
of the years events has therefore given
fresh meaning and added greater force
to our Declaration, which has become the
foundation of great policy Of internation-
al justice.
Great as are the changes wrought by
this war, the great world war of justice
and freedom. I doubt whether any of
these changes surpass in interest the lib
Grafton of Palestine and it's recognition
as the home of Israel. The greatest, most
ancient historic wrong has at last been
undone and the prophecies Of restoration
enshrined in the worlds great poetry
have come true. And we Christians, who
have received from Israel the treasures
of the noblest literature, are at last in
a position to make some small return
for these priceless blessings, and to re-
store Israel to the ancient glorious Home
Land.
For the future our most fervent good
wishes accompany the Land and the Peo-
ple We pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
We trust that she may once more raise
aloft the torch of the Spiritual over a
whole world laid waste by the false wor-
ship of brute force.
Can Count On British Government.
(Hon. Viscount Miner, G. C. B., G. C. M.
G., Secretary of State for War;.
The year which has passed since the
British Government issued it's declaration
in favour of the establishment of a ma
tional home for the Jewish people in
Palestine has already marked great
step forward in the realization of that
ideal 1t has seen, thanks to the mill
tary genius of General Allenby and the
valour of our soldiers, the end of Turkish
misrule in Palestine. 1t has also seen
the foundations of the future economic
and spiritual life Of the Jewish commun-
ity in Palestine soundly laid by the work
of the special commission and by the
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
KEEPING THE FAITH

British Statesmen Reterate Adhesion Jewish Homeland Dec
Its First Anniversary
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24

the ship she is not secured at once, kut heavy rafts called 'canle}S' are dra gged in between her and the pier. Some times the water is not quite deep, enough or else 8 heavy tido requires some sort of protection between the steel monster and the comparatively soft wooden piles.
 I suppose that if I asked you to guess whrs comes next, you would announce proudly that tho sangway was placed. Whereupon I would know i'm m edsatc1y that you are no more than 9 common iandIehher. The, big fiat, bfidge-like walk laid up against the ships side for her passsn- gers to land from is not a gangway but a brow.
 Another item, nearly always nafs- named by the rural tourist, is the uS-. right post on the dock to which is made fast a vessels line. CNotice that l always say line. This is proper rather than rope). Most people, even the sailors, sometimes say post. After little experience the recruit calls it. a pile. Finally, he learns that piles are only those wooden posts driven. into the narbor bottom as part of the docks framework. Any other of the.'
 
 up out of the dock itself, are called 'bollards'
 Then there are spr1r-shores. These have been recommended by conscien- tious people as possibly useful in init igating the obvious impropriety Of modern dancing. Spur-shores are long loss Of wood leaning against the ships side in order to help the cam els hold her out from the dock. The poor old camels, which are the raRs down in the water, are very grateful for their aid and, by it, can sometimes avoid being entirely crushed when the tide hands them a, thirty tho usand dreadnought without so much as a. warning.
 Things like checks and pitts and c1eats I'll leave to your curiosity. They're used to run the lir.es through and around and under-dont forget it's lines!
 And, just to give this paragraph a war like touch, I may remind Sou that there have been times when we killed more men at this tame little job of making fast than we did at really fighting. Men tumble into the water, get caught in winches and dO other foolish things-not frequently but just often enough to remind us that it's not picnic even though 1t does seem pretty tame after a rip snorting gale off Hatteras. So, whether it's a cow or a man of~war to be tied up, take it from your Urcle Bill, who knows, that it's worth while learning how before you try. And, even if you are never going to try. your knowing how enables yo,s to give the fellow doing it the proper kind of appreciation.
 (It pays to advertise )
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
Making Fast.

I once tried to learn to rope and tie up a COW. l got the old lady caught and the pony rumhied her. But when it came to settling up ] found that by the time I had meditated on all the shouted directions that dinned in my ears the cow had taken things into her own 1ands--or noofs-and l was the one upended.
 It's no: so different with q, ship. Any fool can drive her up the chan mel aud get her nose roped from the dock. But if inexperience necess1- tateS instruction at this critical mo- ment, before one can obey all the rules either the dock is smashed into pulp or the vessels nose turns up az if she had just met the true rights from an expert boxer
 A battleship moving through the water has tremendous inertia That is, she's some fat job to stop, except very gradually. Concersely. she's even a fatter job to start. So when she is near the dock, but not quite along side. some of the hardest and most skillful tactics are necessary properly to make her fast.
 At first the great mountainous hulk is eased in very slowly with her bow pointing a little inwards. A light heaving line is thrown. To it's end is made fast the heavy hawser leading out of a hole or hawsepipe we'll for
 ward This is called her bow-line. As
 soon as possible a similar line is got
 out aft, called the stern line.
 Springs come next. Unlike bed or buggy kind these have no spring in them except by virtue of their posi- ton. About every forty feet along the warship's side, lines lead through checks or notches in her deck. They lead in pairs, one tending forward and one aft in each pair. If the ship tries to move ahead all the lines tending aft come taunt and she is swung in. Thus the lines act as if they were real springs and so get their name. All this may seem to have very little to do with warfare and the ef- ficiency of a five-hundred-million dol lar fleet. It may seem anything but step toward blood-drenched victory and all that But remember that
 scouts and fleets and submarines and the little chasers are continually rush. ing in for a bit of coal or a new bot tom or enough ammunition for the next battle. Every minute they are l in the hayward is so much lost to | the next vessel crying for help. In such times the slightest damage to 1 pier or ship or personnel becomes all most criminal.
 l So don't get discouraged if you have never heard of a breast before a ships breast. Besides the springs 1 and end-of-her lines there are several which lead out perpendiculariy to her
 sides and hold her directly on to the dock These are known as breasts After all this gear is draped along
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24
A BOYS DILEMMA.

She lives round the corner from our
 house
 On the right as you go down the In a great big place with a drive And a mat where you wipe your
 feet.
 When you ring the bell. then butler Opens the door, tall and thin, And you tell him who 'tis that's If he likes you he lets you in. Then you can see the old lady
 The one that we boys call Miss Jane Who sits all day by the fireside
 And never goes out in the rain. Some call her an Old Hermit woman And others they just sorter sheer And say she's an old maid and
 whisper
 That something's gone wrong and
 she's queer. But she gives us kids cookies and
 candies
 Whenever we go there to call And tells us about the wild injuns
 Whose pictures are out in the hall And she says how she likes all us
 fellers
 Cause we make her old heart jump
 with joy If there ever was one thing she
 wanted
 She says it is just plain boy. And then I go home to my mother
 And tell her what Miss Jane has And mother says if she had had me
 She reckons Miss Jane'd be dead. And then mother says the old woman
 Is lucky with what she has got, With butler to answer the doorbell,
 And maid, nd cook, md what not; And servants to tend to her wishes,
 And money to pay all tn bills,- While us poor people is poorer Than a nest full of -poor-wil1s. She says Miss Jane should be thankful To the Good Lord that reigns up Cause she ain't got no children to l care for And she don't have bad boy to love. 1 Gee! But it cert nly is funny Bout women, the way they can ] Nd never know just what to want ] for,- l When they're ridin they all want to walk.
 But I guess they're all of 'em foolin'
 And makin' us boys "knuckle down" Cause I've noticed that most of ems | happy l With what they have got in this town. i When I spend the day at Miss Jane $ | house, And don't want to go to no other, 1 She always seems to be anxious 1 For sending me back to my mother. And mother, who says I'm 8 nuisance And that I am right in her way, She cries when I stay at Miss James house,
 Cause she misses me all of the day, JOHN J, DAILY.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24

Britain would start an educational campaign among these people, teach ing them to read and write, to know the laws of our land, and the meth
 ods of government. Because the government of the United States is so
 different from anything most of these
 people have been acquainted with,
 there is great chance of doing good
 work in this field. The percentage
 of illiteracy among those of foreign
 birth who flock to these shores is
 something appalling, and these are the
 people upon whom the schemers and
 designers arc always centering their
 attacks. It is this submerged DOT
 tion of our population that is being ever stirred up by the oratorical ef
 forts of the anarchists and the dis gruntled The present war in Flu
 rope has awakened the sentiment of the nation to the question of immi- grafton and how it should be dealt with. At the next session of Congress it is probable there may be a revi- sieon of some of our immigration laws A hQore stringent method of allow ing Foreigners to enter the country may Ee put in vogue. It is a well known fact that many of those who get by the government inspectors are morally and physically unfit to enter and live among decent people. This is one evil that must be checked. Am other way to aid in the work of making these people fit citizens of the United States is the method suggest ed by Superintendent Holmes. Every man at the head of an educa tional in- stitution should ponder well over what is to be done in New Britain. In ten years the improvement can be made such that those of the present hay would marvel at the great change. More power to MT. Holmes and his real American idea. May it spread over the country like wild fire, envel- oping every American teacher until at last we shall realize what it means to be many in one,-one country, one people, one language.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24
TODAY'S TABLOID TALE
The Bulletin Boarder.
By Joe Blast.


 Pauncefoote Swatts dearly loved to collect a crowd about him in front of a bulletin board and discourse learnedly, dog matically and passionately on vital questions of the day.
 By a strange coincidence, that is precisely what he is doing as our story opens
 ''I tell you, men," he is crying with clenched eyes and spark ling fists, If l had the running of this world things would be different. Things are in q mud dle, men, a nizzerandrious, measely muddle! And why, men, why? I'll tell you why, Because the chuckle headed. chibbenary fools who have things in charge don't know enough to come in out of the rain, that's why!
 Men, listen. If, when the first war clouds began to stoom- CT, Russia had been partiioned off according to races among Snojacks, the SlovwooHes' and the Flingoes, and Austria Hun gary had been divided justly among the Splurks, the Choo- vies and the Gravic peoples-if the Strait of Gratin had been given to Greece, and the Pholick Mountains to Germany and the Stidgie Islands to England, there wouldn't "a been no war, men, there wouldn't "a been no war."
 And, amidst the hearty ap- plause of the intelligent crowd, he stalked off to the next bulle- tin board.
 "Pauncefoote," said his wife when he came home that eve- ming, "I declare l don't know what to do with the children. Their Uncle Wimby gave them a dollar to divide among them, and Harold says he ought to get most because he's the oldest, and Edgar says he ought to get most because he's the youngest, and Evelina says she ought to get most because she's a girl. Won't you arbitrate the thing for them, Pauncefoote?
 T will not" shipped Paunce- foote Swatts. Do you think I'm a public accountant? Why is everything always showed off on me?
 Copyright 1918 by George
 Matthew Adams.)
New Britain herald., 1918-01-24
A Chance for the Imaginative.
Providence Journal.)

This is a time when some peoples imaginations are unusually active. The shortage of fuel, for instance, has set many inventive persons to work won- dering how to secure heat, light and power from other sources than coa, gas old or wood. One of them a writer in the Worcester Telegram, points out that if a pail is filled with water, se- curely covered and set out doors in tha cold, it will be broken open if not en- tirely demolished by the expansive force of its freezing contents. The writer goes on from this modest illus- tration to a, survey of the attendant possibilities, He says:
 Billions upon billions of gallons of water freeze in this country every win ter. If the force of that irresistible power in a gallon of water is equal to the power of five pounds of coal while burning, than 400 gallons of freezing water might be made as usefuul for power purposes as a ton of coal under a boiler. And in 10000, 0,000,0 900 gallons of freezing water We have the power of 25.00O,000 tons of burning coal Then by not making use of that power of freezing waters We must be fos4Fa z the value of at least 500, 900, 900 tans of coal in this country annually, and that is as much coal as we have been mining the past few years"
 This ought to spur up other tenta- tive geniuses to make further inter esting suggestions to the same enu. How about harnessing the tides, or using the solar rays more effectively? :? Let the society of the imaginative get busy. It may at least help them to keep warm during the period of fuel shortage.