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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Poisoned "FIre Water"

Chicago liquor is full of poison, ana
II isn't the word Of woman refor1ners
that has spread the alarm, either. 1t Is
an honest-to-goodness chemist, hired
by a jurist who vas puzzled by the
actions OF the young and old men who
were called drunk" The chemist. aft
er careful analysis Of the fire water,
exclaimed that the drink was the worst
kind af stuff, and nothing short OF poi
son. The report states that the
flicker" contained wood alcohol, fusef
oil, creosote and water, The gin which
is sold extensively in Chicago saloons
contained a concoction composed Of
either oil of juniper berries or the ber-
ries themselves. Another substitute
found to be very popular was "bitters."
which is made largely Of tincture OF
cinchona.
The poisonous drinks i stupefying
and frequently make the drinker
deathly sick.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
BIZ Stan Correspondent.

By STAFF Correspondents
NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. H.
Two runaway boys were picked up by
the New Brunswick police shortly
after / o'clock this morning. They
are both from Woodbridge and give
their names as John Pankan, ten
years old, and Joseph Sur, thirteen
years old. The Woodbridge police
have been notified and the boys will
be held until an officer Is sent for
them. Sur spent some time in the
r~eformatory.
The will of George w. Wester, for
merly of New Brunswick, who died
October 20, was probated in the
office of Surrogate Clayton yesterday
afternoon. Robert, Helen and John
Helm are named as the executors and
six cousins are named in the will,
The executors are finding 1t hard to
ascertain the next of kin.
The certificate of incorporation of
the Lukacs Realty Company, the
principal office of which Is located at
48 Church street, New Brunswick,
was fled In the Office of the county
clerk yesterday. Business will be
started with twenty shares subscribed
for of the five hundred shares au-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
ARMISTICE DAY
BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE.

Armistiee Day when a new sun rose
And the hate and the horror reached a Close
But here is the slave of a crawling crutch,
So~made bv the shrapnel's devilish whIm,
And our ribbons and trinkets don't mean much
To a man torn limb from limb.
Armistiee Day. and a peace proclaimed,
But how is it peace to the halt and malmeu'
Armistiee Day when the curtain dropped
On the tragic field and the strife was stopped.
But there are no fields, nor hills, nor skies
For him whom the MONDAY lends no nght,
For the demon of gas ate out his eyes
And his day is endless night.
Armistice Day, with the war behind!
But how is it ended for one made bllnd2
Armistice Day! and the joy-bells ring
And the children of earth leap up and sing!
But one, who is here, is yet away,
And a maggot is at his festered brain.
He whimpers and whines at his painful play
And he giggles at sores and pain.
Armistice Day, and the world is glad,
But how is it happy for one made madf
Armistice Day and the wild world cheers
And laughs and forgets its foolish fears.
But the wooden crosses stand in hordes
And stretch white arms in an endless prayer, -
For they who have paid for the broken swords
Hold eternal armistice there.
Armistice Day! and a petty pride!
And the war is over-for those who died!
Copyright, 1919, N. E. A.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
BLACKSMITHIN0

GENERAL Blacksmithing; specializing
In automobile springs and automobile
blacksmithing OF any description.
loft 81 Freyer. 14B Jefferson st.
FRANK PETRO. Blacksmith and re0plr
shop, horse shoeing. body building
and auto blacksmithing. 408-10
3 tombstone 81.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Shipping NewS
High Tide Today.

Time of High Tide Today;
Perth Amboy A NJ. p. NJ.
11:01 11:35
Passed City Island.
Schooner Lavolta, Port Reading for
Ellsworth, Ne.
Schooner Nellie Grant, Port Read
ing for Blue Hill, Me.
Arrivals at Perth AmbOy.
Lithopoliax from Tampa arrived
yesterday with cargo OF phosphate
for Leibig's Fertilizer Works,
Carteret.
Snug Harbor due to-day from Boka
Grand with cargo Of phosphate rock
for the Consumers Chemical Co.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
But Father Can't

II has been our observation that
when a holiday comes around every
body takes advantage of 1t except
those who need Ii the most.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Cocoa a "plvIne Plant.N

Cocoa, from the leaves OF which CO.
caine Is produced, was known among
the Incas as the "divine plant" long
before the western world was thought
of In the East.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Sienski is PrOmoted.

The following promotion has been
announced by the Navy recruiting
office in this city: Frank Sienski, 727
Mary street, this city. from appren-
tice seaman to seacan second class.
The office has also received word
that no more enlistments under
eighteen yeans of age a be accepted.
This order does not, however, apply
to those boys who may have made
application for enlistments and which
are still on file in the office.
klndllng Spark Required.
1t axes more than a wooden head
to produce thoughts thot burn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Gan Combat blood poIeon.

Gan Jon1bat bIOOu WOlgoH'
An English scientist asserts he has
perfected a method whoseby metals
that have been absorbed By human
blood can be withdrawn by electrolysiA.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12

MAND, Quit, tenor banjo and Hart
ner's Silent System. No play. no pay;
easy TINS, II. Rogers. care Hahn 4 Co.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
Railroad Toys.

Railroad Toys.
a railroad In England supplies toys
for children taking long journeys, to
relieve the monotony Of riding.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12
PIANOS

q. sTETNHAUSER. Pianos tuned and
repaired. 1875 State ST, Perth Amboy
Tel. 1354-M. First class work.
RRITNTON. Pianos and Player Pianos,
Kranioh & Bach. Hardman Pianos.
Sonora Photographs. Columbia Ora
fonolas. George Post, Manager. 2OA
Smith st. Open Evenings. Phone 10.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12

WOMAN wishes to do busting and
cleaning, or assist with housework.
la william st
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-12

GASOLINE peanut rooster with peanuts
and bags. for sale cheap. 26S WASH
ington St, Telephone 2l29. Perth AM
boy.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

ergency shall have terminated to fur
ther legislate so as to terminate the
effects Of the present law either by the
enactment of further prohibition
statute or by defining the alcoholic
content of the prohibited liquors.
But this has no effect upon the
right which Congress had on November
81, 1918, to specify in the statute under
conside ration the conditions under
which the statute shall cease to have
force
Strictly War Measure
"The present law is not to be held
valid just because it is prohibition
measure.
This law was passed not as an in
ternal revenue measure. but was added
to an appropriation bill -or the De-
partment of Agriculture as war
measure pure and simple.
when it shall cease conditions will
be for time governed by the law as
it was before the war and this condi-
tion will continue until further legis-
lation or until the prohibition amend
ment takes effect. If that be within a
few months. it is because of the adop-
tion of the amendment itself and this
can in no way affect the provisions
which Congress saw fit to enact for
the conduct of The war in the mean
time. Nor can Congress be stopped
from enacting particular law b. the
fact that it has enacted even some con-
Trajectory measure to take effect in
the future"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
M0Onshiners Arrest DRY
Officer as Bootlegger
State Officer Escapes From Jail
and Destroys 5000 Gallons
Of Mash and T,co Stills

HUNTINGTON, W. Va, July %
Seized by gang of alleged moon
sinners, taken before the Greenbrier
County Justice of TIL. Peace and found
guilty on charge of bootlegging, was
the experience of II. R. Ratcliff, Of
Hinton, w. Va, a State prohibition Of
ficer, who returned yesterday from an
investigation tour into the hills.
Ratcliff was sentenced to serve sixty
days in Jail by the justice, but was
rescued by Harry Fitzge raid, a brother
officer, as he was being escorted to
the Jail.
Ratcliff and Fitzgerald went into
the hills of Grcenbrier to investigate a
report that many Illicit stills were in
operation there. The officers found
two stills, and RatcIiff went to the vii
lage of Auto, w. Va, to telephone to
Charleston for additional men to make
the raid. While in Auto, Radcliff was
arrested by the alleged moonshiners at
the point of revolvcrs.
Following the rescue of Ratciff the
prohibition officers destroyed two stills
and more than 5000 gallons of mash,
and swore out nineteen warrants for
Greenbrier County residents who are
charged mith manufacturing moon
shine.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Beats Stork's Time
In AirPIane Race
Father Air-Tasies Home
Ten Minutes ahead OF
Ne,U Daughters Arrival

Byron Brooks, naval architect for
the Downey Shipbuilding Company on
Staten Island, clambered from the air
plane which alighted on the golf links
at East Hampton, L. l., yesterday and
after startled glance skyward sprint
ed for his home.
Ten minutes later perspirinr and
much winded stork, with whom Mr.
Brooks had raced cross country. dc.
livered baby girl and then went off
to brood morbidly on what this world
Is coming to.
1T was 1880 yesterday morning
when Mr.. Brooks received telephone
call from his family physician, telline
him he'd better come home at once
There was no train for East Hampton
until a. The agtated father-to be
call cd up the Curtiss Aeroplane anc
Motor Corporation and asked if the,
had q stork-beating machine on the
reservation. Victor Vernon, in charge
OF flights, and Richard Depew, an avia.
tor, told him they had.
Whereupon Mr.. Brooks hustled owe,
TO Mineola, where he sent the follow.
ing telegram to his wife before the
plane took tho air:
Coming by asr. Will land in whea,
field. Ask Jean to walt Love"
Then the machine drove aloft In t.,
scventy-lnlle fight against time ane
.he stork. To those who waited a
Mlneola came this dispatch two hour,
later:
Landed on golf linkk. Ono hour an,
twenty-five minutes. Baby arrived ter
minutes later. 1t was a girl and hel
name is Jean"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

If private capital is to enter freely
upon the venture of further de-
veloping the railroads, and if railroad
credit is to be reestablished on a solid
basis of genuine confidence, that 6
per cent on the final valuation, plus
q modest share in earnings in excess
Of this percentage, would constitute
the minimum required.
Rule Enacted by Congress
"The plan, therefore, proposes that a
statutory rule be enacted by Congress
requiring that rates and fares to be
established by public authority shall
be designed to yield the railroads of
each traffic section of the United States
revenue sufficient to produce, after
proper provision for renewals and de-
probation, net return available for
interest and dividends of not less than
6 per cent on the aggregate final valua-
tlons of the property of the railroads
devoted to public service in each of the
several sections.
1T is further proposed that each
railroad netting earnings in excess of
per cent on its final valuation shall
turn over one-half of such excess into
contingent fund of its own, and the
other half into a general contingent
fund. until its own contingent fund
amounts to 6 per cent on the fair value
OF its property, after which Gas long
as this company contingent fund is
maintained at per cent? two-thirds
OF the railroad company's earnings in
excess of per cent would go into the
general contingent fund until it
amounts to S75O00O,OO0."
In, concluding his discussion Mr..
Warbburg said: FINALLY, when we re-
member that the annual increase in
return contemplated in our plan equals
wages authorized by the railroads since
the beginning of the war, we cannot
escape the conclusion that the ade-
quate return to be allowed to tho in
vestor plays only a comparatively nm
important part in the whole situation. y
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Judge Chatfield Decides
Against the Connecticut
Liquor Dealers in Test
Action in New Haven
Rules War Still Is On
Purpose of Agricultural
Bill Rider Not Affected
by the 18th Amendment

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 23.-War-
time prohibition is held valid under
the Constitution in decision by Judge
Chatfeld, of Brooklyn, filed in the
United States District Court here to-
day.
Sitting in place of Judge Thomas
Judge Chatfield heard test case pro-
vided by the Connecticut Liquor Deal
ers' Association, which caused Stephen
Minery, a member, to reopen a saloon
in Meriden and sell liquor July 7, d
week after the prohibition law went
into effect. Minery was defended by
Arnold A. Alling, Connecticut state
prosecutor, who entered demurrers on
the ground, among others, that the
wartime prohibition rider to the
agricultural bill of November, 1918,
contravened the police rights guaran-
teed to the states by the national Con-
stitution. Another main ground was
that the war had ended, removing the
conditions that existed when the pro-
hibitory act was passed.
Still at War With Austria
Judge Chatfield's decision overrules
the demurrcrs on all grounds, and or
ders Minery to plead to the Indictment
which charges him with having sold
liquor "unlawfully and knowingly be-
fore the conclusion Of the present war
and before the termination of demobil-
lzatlon, the date Of which is to be de-
termined by the President"
GAS r,affor Of foot MA oro e+;11
at war with AUSTRIA" says Judge Chat
field in his decision, "and the army
which has been conducting the war is
not in fact demobilized."
Continuing, the decision reads:
"Thc question is whether Congress
has the power to continue war meas
ures. and to enact legislation which
shall continue the enforcement of wal
measures until such time as in the dis
cretion of Congress these war measures
are no longer necessary.
Gas a matter Of fact, discretion fol
the termination of this law has beer
vested in the President after certain
fixed conditions shall have happened
Those conditions are within the power
of Congress to describe and to define
1t follows that the courts have NJ
right to interfere with the exercise o.
this discretion by Congress or to at
tempt to say that different condition!
shall have been imposed.
Amendment Not Concerned
"The fourth ground of demurrer i
that Congress was stopped by tn,
adoption of the eighteenth amendment
which is to go into effect in January
1920, from legislating on the subjec
Of prohibition in such manner as t,
enforce prohibition before the prohi
biton amendment itself shall take eff
feet The statement Of this PROPOSE
tion is its own answer, when we con
slider that the present law was adopte,
as a war measure and had no refer
ence to the taking effect Of the prohi
bition amendment itself
"The present war emergency may
and we all hope will, be terminated i
the near future. This law is but TEN
porary in effect, and Congress has tn
power by legislation until the war EN-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Says Government Helped
Block Test on 2.75 Beer
Samuel Untermyer Charges
Cooperation With Drys in
Brief Filed With Senators
.Ne1c York Tribuns
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON July 23.-Co6per-
ating with the Anti-Saloon League the
government had studiously avoided
any test in court that would establish
whether 2.75 beer is Intoxicating and
may therefore be barred under the
prohibition laws, Samuel Untermyer
charged in a brief filed on behalf of
the brewers with the Senate Judiciary
Committee to-day
under consideration the Volstead bill
for the enforcement of wartime and
constitutional prohibition passed by
the House yesterday. Mr.. Untermyer's
brief was aimed to demonstrate to the
committee that 2.75 per cent beer,
which he claimed was Notwithstanding.
could be prohibited under neither the
wartime prohibition act nor the
eighteenth amendment
In the brief Mr.. Untermyer made
these points:
1. The Volstead prohibition bill is
not merely enforcement legislation, but
1T aims to stop the sale Of non-intoxi-
eating beer. If sought to be enforced
against any one who has made such
beer prior to the approval Of the leg
islation, it would be plainly uncon-
| stitutional law.
2. The power claimed for Congress
by the prohibitionists to prohibit the
sale of Misunderstanding beers as a
"war measure" does not exist. The
exercise Of war power depends on the
actual existence of real war emer-
gency or necessity.
3 1t Is better to enact reasonable
| law that will work than to enact rigid
legislation that cannot be enforced and
will therefore cause disregard of law.
d. Since the Eighteenth Amendment
gives the states and the Federal gov
ernment concurrent power to enforce
prohibition, any enforcement legisla-
tion enacted by Congress should be
submitted to the states for their con-
currence. If a state failed to approve
the Federal legislation it should be
allowed to enact its own enforcement
code
In his plea for a reasonable law, Mr.
| Untermyer said
"ln my judgment, and have been
familiar with the problem for MANY
years, you will find that a plan which
allows the manufacture and sale OF
non n-lntoxlcatlng beer under the su-
| pervlsion and control of the internal
revenue department will work infinite
ily better and produce immeasurably
healthier results than any extreme and
drastic measure that will drive men ia
seek illicit channels or drugs to satisfy
an appetite which is common to most
men and women"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Gibbons Says Riots
Prove Prohibition
Is Not Cure-All
Cardinal on 85th Birthday
Prays That Nation May
Be Imbued With Greater
Respect for Authority

WESTMINSTER, Nd, July 23.-As
has been his won't for many years,
Cardinal Gibbons spent his birthday
in seclusion at the home of his inti-
mate FRIEND General T. Herbert Shriv-
er, at Union Mills. The Cardinal, who
is still active at eghty-fve years, arose
early, and at 8 o'clock celebrated mass
in the private chapel on the Shriver
homestead. Bishop O'Connell, of Rich
mond, is also guest.
The Cardinal, in q message to the
American people, recalled that on the
18th of November last he made an ad-
dress to 10000 soldiers at Camp Meade
expressing the hope that "the blessed
sun of peace would soon dawn upon us.
On the afternoon Of the same day." he
added "our prayers were fulfilled"
He continued: eve are now afflicted
with a war of races in the national
capital where much blood has already
been shed and lives sacrificed. Alas!
it is a proof that legislative suppress
sion Of Intoxicating drinks is not as it
would bc-a panacca for all social and
moral evils.
"The war of races is all the more
threatening and ominous, as it is car
ried on IN the very capital of the ma
tion under the eye of the Chief Execu-
tive and Commander in Chief of our
armies in the shadow of the halls of
Congress, whore the National Legisla-
ture is in session. 1t is an act of de-
fance to our national law givers and
an insult to their constituted au-
thority.'
To the inquiry "What do you think
Of the present labor conditions?" he
replied:
"This chronic hostility between la
Dor and capital is to be deplored. The
laborers and the capitalist should be
warm allies instead of enemies. As
their interests are closely intertwinec
and inseparable, some thirty years age
| contended in my feeble way in be-
half of labor when I saw it threatened
with oppression and condemnation
But times have changed. and labor is
now honored and we'll remunerated, as
it should be.
"The prayer that I will offer for my
country in the present emergency is
that the conscience of the people may
be quickened toward the fulfilmcnt OF
all constituted laws of the nation anc
that we may all exhibit a greater rev
crence for all in authority and espe
cially toward the person of ur chief
magistrate"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

any admixture thereof for beverage
purposes when they contain more than
2A per cent of alcohol by weight at
temperature of sixty degrees above
zero Whether such alcoholic contents
as that thus defined is or is not in
toxicating is question of fact as to
which there seems to be some differ
ence of opinion.
"This bill further provides In sub
stance that although beverage with
such an alcoholic content may in fact
be Intoxicating, it shall be considered
non,lntoxicating.' Such a provision
might open very wide door to evasion
of the law. AS the legislation now rap
idly passing through the Federal Con-
gress fixes an alcoholic content very
much less than that prescribed by this
bill, and as the Federal law when
passed Will be supreme, it would be the
limit OF futility for this commonwealth
to put upon its statute books an act
which would be dead letter as soon
as the Federal government shall have
spoken upon the subject"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Pennsylvania Governor
Vet0es 2.75 Beer Bill
SProu1 Says Congress Must De-
eide Question Of AlcohoHc
Content Of Beverages

HARRISBURG, Penn, July 23.-Gov-
ernor Sproul to-day announced his
veto of the bill designed to legalize
2.75 per cent liquors.
'"Ths bill purports to be an act to
enforce the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of tie United States
by prohibiting the manufacture, sale
and transportation within the com
monwealth of intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes and defining the
term Intoxicating liquors for bever-
age purposes" he said. "The Legis-
lature has endeavored to define the
meaning of the words Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes by pro
viding that they mean all vinuous,
| spirituous, malt or brewed liquors or
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
10000 Regulars Entrain
To-day for South

Twenty thousand men Of the 9th d.
vision the first of the regular army
entrained at Camps Mills and Merritt
to-day and transferred to Camp Cor
don, Atlanta. Ga. 1t is said the move
ls being made to have the men closer
to the Mexican border in case of need.
The ultimate destination of the diyi-
sion, however, is the Panama Canal
Zone, to which it expects to be moved
in the autumn. :"
More than 1000 men of the 9TH were
brought IN from Camp Merritt yester-
day and entertained by the War GAVIN
Community Service. A large nurnher
OF them went to Coney Island. Tho
others attended various Broadway
shows va y
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Smith Opposes Federal
Control Of Water Rates

:, ALBANY, N. Y. July 23-Governor
S1nith has sent letters to the New
IorK members Of Congress asking
mem 10 assist in defeating an nttcmpt
nov before the national lepislatnre to
amend the Interstate commerce Inv nv
giving the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission regulation and control of
canal transportation rates.
The Governors action followed the
receipt Of q letter from State Supcrin-
tcndent OF Public Works Edward s
Walsh, pointing out the cfcc, that tho
enactment Of tie legislation would
nave up on the states $l54.00O, 600
canal Investment.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
reading a rug
uouer7 Of grass

tul purpose ior several
an artistic stencil desis
ends Of decoration as
81 p to $|S.24.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-24

should not be interfered with "be-
cause they have reduced the high cost
Of living" ought to "have his head
X-rayed," Senator Kenyon thought.
During the Discussion
Senator Harris, of Georgia, said that
while he was a member of the Federal
Trade Commission, the packers had
conducted "a most powerful lobby in
Washington to prevent any investi-
CATION of the packing industry"