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New-York tribune., 1919-08-19

Question Would you be kind enough
to inform me where I would get an
approximate idea of what brokers'
loans are at all times. The weekly
bank statement shows Loans. Dis
counts, Investments, etc." all punched
together, so that it is impossible 10
gather from this what brokers' loans
amount to. 5. l..
Answer-The figures are not avail
able. Occasionally the financial re-
porter is able to obtain an estimated
figure of more or less value. but the
actual figures remain an TX" quantity.
Question VIII you please name a
broker with whom | may entrust my
investment funds with assurance of an
absolute square deal? II. r. S.
Answer-We cannot make a recon-
mcndation such as you request, as it
would be unfair to name a single house
when there are so many thoroughly
reputable ones. We believe, however,
that you may safely entrust your ac-
count TO any New York Stock Exchange
house. The Exchange has thrown
greater safeguards around investors
than any other institution in this
country.
Question-Do you think this is a
good time 30 invest in industrial pre-
ferred stocks? q. P.
Answer-Many of these issues COM
bine a high degree Of safety with a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
PUSH THE NEW FERRY

With the agitation for the new ferry between this city
and Tottenville renewed there is a chance that united effort ON
the part of the people of the two places will put it across
Perth Amboy has been ready and waiting for some time. The
ferry company has its franchise as far as this city is concerned
and labor and material are ready to begin work as soon as the
right to operate a ferry on the Staten Island slte is granted.
The fact that there is a different dock commissioners IN
New York now and with more people interested on account of
the congestion of automobile traffic, the chances for success
are brighter. The many companies operating auto trucks be-
tween New York and the cities of Pennsylvania and Maryland
ought to be interested in this project. Many of these trucks
use the Staten Island route and they frequently encounter long
delays at the ferry here. Another ferry would do much to
overcome this difficulty. +.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit has absolutely ignored
the requests of the people for decent service between this
city and Tottenvile. Boats are run more to suit the automo-
biles than the trains, even. With hundreds of people living
on Staten Island and working in the numerous industries in
this city the matter of adequate service across the sound is
OF utmost Importance. The Rapid Transit has played the dog
in the manager policy long enough. 1t may continue to refuse
to better its own service, but it should not be allowed to block
q movement for another ferry that will give the acommoda-
tons the people require. Now is the time to get behind this
project and see it through to a successful conclusion
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Daily H07 0ScObe

THE stars incline but do not compel"
Saturday, june IA, 1919.
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper S~yndicate.)
This is a fortunate day, according
to astrology. Uranus and Venus rule
strongly for good.
The stars smile on dur
ing this sway and all love affairs are
believed 10 be happily directed while
1t prevails.
1t is q lucky time to meet new
friends or to renew association with
old ones
Weddings are subject to the best
possible planetary government under
this rule, which makes for congenial
companionship, constancy and long
life.
Engagements made today should be
exceptionally lucky. since the stars
forecast prosperity, congeniality and
general good fortune.
The planetary rule seems to presage
a clearing of doubts and misgivings
from the human mind inc the gradual
acceptance of new conditions of life.
! Hotels should benefit greatly from
There will be increased patronage
everywhere, it is prophesied.
AS an offset to the tendency to live
in hotels great interest will be mani
Tested in homecoming and home
building. The mex few months will
be marked by strange contrasts in the
readjustment of domestic life.
Divorces will multiply, according to
the seers, and many discussions OF
marriage safeguards will take place,
If the stars are read Alright.
The stars are most promising fol
all who are engaged in educationa.
work. Professors and teachers will
benefit financially.
Courts win be crowded and judges
overworked, the seers declare. Many
unusual cases will be heard.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is will
probably travel and change. They
may expect small anxieties and an,
noyances.
Children born on this day are likely
to be original n clever, but dis,
contented and unsettled. Their prin.
cipal ruling planet is Mercury.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

When a fellow gets the idea into
his head hat he is a rare man other
men are likely to think that he Is
merely raw.
A Princess often imagines that she
has the Artistic Temperament when
she really needs something for her
liver.
After his wife's forty-second cousins
have visited a mans home for a while
he often wonders why any body goes
to the trouble of advertising for lost
relatives. :.
A travelling man who makes small
towns can tell you that when you put
up at some hotels you also put up
with them.
There are a lot of cynics in this
world. But we never knew a woman
| hater who wouldn't trail a cookbook
| ing Corn Fed for a mile if she CAV
| him a smile of encouragement.
A man hasn't sense. He would
| rather have something to eat on the
| table than have the table dolled UT
with ferns, carnations and real liner
napkins.
Republics are forgetful. Ten years
| from now if a hero of the world wal
wears his Distinguished Service Media
| or his Croix deGuerre with his civil
ian clothes, other men will think tina
he is a delegate to a convention.
ANY boob a guessnnatDshrdlu
Any boob can grasp an oppoftunit,
But it takes a hustler to hold onto 1t
They claim hat a steady worker
would soon tire of loaing. But there il
many a weary plodder who would Ike
to make the experiment
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Fire Alarm Boxes

23+Raritan Copper Works.
and Sheridan Street.
25-Smith Street and Central r.. r
26-Market and First Streets.
27-Madison Avenue and Paterson st.
2S-High and Lewis Streets
35-Smith and High Streets.
36-New Brunswick Ave. and New St
37-Smith and State Streets.
42-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
43-Buckingham " and Hartford st.
45-Commerce and Front Streets.
46-State and Washington Streets.
54+State ST. and Buckingham Ave.
55-Parker st. and Pulaski Ave.
56-Hall Ave. and Charles ST.
57-State and Wayne Streets.
5S-Near United Lead Works.
59-Maurer.
62-Washington and First Streets.
63-Naw Brunswick Ave. and Elm st.
e4-ScAith Street and Watson Ave.
6l-Commerce and State Streets.
72-Front and Smith Streets.
73-Water and Gordon Streets.
74-Kearny Ave. and Gordon Street.
s1-Brace and Hanson Avenues.
g2-Smith n Herbert Streets.
S3-Amboy Ave. and Washington st.
s4-Lehigh W. and Stanford Street.
s5-Near City Hospital
s6-ClevelAnd and Avenues.
s7-Amboy and Hall Avenues.
92-AmboY Ave and Inslee Street.
93-Lawrence and Francis Streets
e4-Neviile and tombstone Streets
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
DIR. STEELE SAYS:

ART a rock" said Jesus to Peter--pW LrISsa> because he was
anvthfnp IN a rock in he estimation OF MS
so mpetnous M so easily moved by emotion AAu ais, ". Peter knew
But Jesus saw something in Peter that hWO OND5ven n chance to use
that IL hd Qualities If strength-if only NJ were So mirht nunhy his
them-but az also knew that he had weaknesses which
strength. - .rho5 of J@us in deanns
And Jesus m his weaknesses, too, but the menoe b % had any-so as
with lei a to remind them oil ther oou PV"S
He fo1oved tMz rin5pie h he selected his - core great
theno did nt come nm to his xpectations but undcubteuy - IN them.
" enrthen berause they new that their leads co UnSrt Imagine that
And that's h to gt the most out Of people. II W gno that ath-
we do NOT bo9a for mucb from hem. they'll get their cue ITO"
tude Fhav1I strain
If they feel that they're being counted IN to make sOoo' W'
every nerve to live u p to their regulations -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
FLIES

Tbev SAY that everything o n earth was made for purpose wise;
there's nothin hats devoid of worth-but what's the good II flies?
Tbev keen their merit sc concealed w can't discern the same, h
while mn swattng stick we WELD, and cuss the endless game. All,
hannv NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the flies were dumped upon the land
we might have some exercise, a swatter in each hand That may
exnlafn it in which case, let's make the combat hot; enjoy the
Measure OF the chase, and swat and swat, and swat! Now is n
time Il swat them hard, before they get too thick; pursue them
through the house and yard, and soak them with a brick. h II y
that now escapes its doom will ear a countless brood; So let n 10 ny
sidestep the tomb-on with the deadly feud! Rise, then, o suggard'
from u chair, from lounge and downy cot! Go FORTH, all raw
and debonair, grid up your loins and swat! Let no foul fly escape
your searcbI If ones left on the floor. that fly will lead a bride to
church. and raise ten million more. So take your hauberk and your
helm. and like a knight arise: put 0 n your greaves and overwhelm
about tel thousand flies. -f1 G 81
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
The OId-Time Religion.

The other day Luke sighed for the
old -fashioned preacher who preached
the Word of God and let politics alone
Bunyan stephens Dudley tells us h a
his grandfather, DR.. j. Bunyan Ste
phens has been pastor of the Third
Avenue Primitive Baptist church in
Nashville, Tenn. ffty-four years and
still occupies the pulpit. Says Mr.
Dudley:
IT have attended this church for 80
years, and / have never heard my
grandfather, the pastor ever mention
races, cigarettes, politics, Sunday base
ball or other sports in his sermons
I also know it to be a fact hat he
| never voted the Prohibition ticket, and
he is eighty-four years of age"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Hsre,s a CHEEKY Char.

The man who has enemies amounts
TO something. He Is a live man. He IL
a fighter. People don't kick a corpse.
A live man can swim against the
current; a corpse floats down without
hindrance. God bless our enemiesl We
love them They are making life worth
while.-Boston Transcript.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

Marion Reedy has a great scheme.
He thinks that the bartenders of the
United States are entitled to jobs in
lieu of the ones taken away from
them, and he suggests h Associa-
ton for the Relief of Disengaged Bar
tenders through their Employment in
Government Service in the Enforce
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Watch Us Grow!

At the annual meeting OF the
Springfield, Ohio, branch of the Club,
the following officers were elected:
President, Rhoda Ford; vice president,
I. B.. Papageorge; secretary, Manila
Bay; treasurer, Lolita Ladder; direc-
tors, I. Washway and Helen Hunt
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

Dear Luke: If the Cincinnati tele-
phone operators go on a strike. as l
hear they intend to do, how will we
telephone users be able to tell when
they are on the strike and whe they
are back on the Job "A. T. A.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

mani of Prohibition. He thinks 1t
only fair to let them enforce the pro
hibition that enforced their
The slogan of the new drive is TO pc;
stand by the fellows VINO oIten sso1 ~,
ourselves"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

Rummy as he gazed sadly at the glass
of lemon soda in front of him.
You wonder il you could what?'
demanded the Barkeep, as he grabbed
a cider bottle.
why, 1 wonder if you could say
that aSman who has a great head for
figures is a fgurehead?" replied the
Rummy, as he headed for the door,.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
HaW- HaWi

"Do you know that l am the father
of fourteen children ?" remarked the
Thin Man, proudly.
Jaw, quit your kidding!" replied
the Fat Man.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Little Things.

"You should not let little things an
noy you," remarked the Old Fogy.
'Huh!" growled the Crouch, You
never lived in a tissue paper fiat build
ing in which the family next to you
was trying TO raise twin babies, did
you?"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

We suppose the use OF the phrase.
wine. Woman and Song" will be
barred in the near future, and we
might as well get ready to substitute
"Grape Juice, Suffrage and Hymns.'-
Luke McLuke.
Or "Ginseng. Gargoyles. and
Groans."-New York Evening Tele-
gram.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
HOOraYt

These auto tires are very high,
They cost a fellow quite a heap;
But do not kick, and do not sigh,
The air you use is just as cheap.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Aw, Let Him Go!

We don't know whether they keep
him locked up or chained most OF the
time, but Seldom Luce is a mai car
rier in Lebanon, Ohio.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Bits of By-Pldy
A Head.
BY LUKE McLUKE
Copyright, 1919. the Cincinnati
Inquirer.

Here is one thing that makes me
frown,
1 think the Drys have been misled;
They claim booZe keeps a fellow down,
Yet every drinker gets a head.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And L will pledge with mine:
And then the Prohibition spies
VIII send us up the line.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Bang!

He went down cellar with a light,
To hunt a gas leak there
How calm and peaceful is the night!
Harp music fills the airi
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Our Daily SpeciaI.
Jmke McImke Saws.

Few Men Can Freeze on to Cold
Cash.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
Ever Notice 1t?

Ever NOuce II.
He brags about his wealth so much,
He makes you tired that's sure;
But if you try to make a touch
You'll learn that he is poor.
Luke McLuke.
He'll brag about his wealth to the
Dun man and Bradstreet gent;
But when the assessor comes then he
Is hardly worth a cent.
Newark Advocate.
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BRITISH LABOR PARTY
HISTORY NEEDED HERE
Continued from Third Page)

wage scales were uniformly double to
treble. those of Great Britain. The
general rates of wages in Great
Britain are yet today below
for much of the population far be-
low-rates in the. United States For
several years the cost of living, stand
ard for standard, has been higher.
with the single exception of bread.
The British wage worker may live the
cheaper through dping without what
American wage workers. regard as
dear he constantly shifted his con-
sumption from the higher to the lower
cost commodities. and as to habita-
ton and the comforts of life. he never
enjoyed the space and facilities COM
mon to laborers in American COM
munitieS. AS a citizen. his desired po-
1itical reforms are but the rights usu-
ally long exercised freely by Amefi-
cans The recent. notable extension of
t. e suffrage in Great Britain leaves
the voters there short of the franchise
powers of Americans. who elect not
only the members of city councils and
the national legislature, to which the
vote in Great Britain is practically
confined. but also other classifcations
of the peoples servants, including
judges.
tient tolerance of successive shoals Of
screaming social subverters. have put
up bars stronger than steel against
them, in local unions, in national I'M
ions and in the great union of unions
For nearly forty years the American
Federation of Labor has rejected
every plan for socialism proposed at
its conventions. In it's judgment there
has never been before it scheme for
socialism that would not begin with
gross injnstice and end in social ruin
because unavoidable.
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Two GREAT ALLIANCES
IN EUROPE PREDICTED
Continued from Third Page)

CONTINUED from Third Page)
y adherence of Rumania to the French
group, both as matter of sentiment
@ nd as a matter of policy, seemed as
eured q few months ago. Hungary
was Rumania's traditional enemy.
from Hungary Rumania had taken
very large areas of territory which,
although populated by a Rumanian
majority. contained a large Hunga-
rian minority. Here was the basis
for permanent hostility between the
Hungarian and the Rumanian peoples,
and in the nature of things Hungary
Rumania has been so treated in the
peace conference and by her allies
that there is every possibility, not
alone that she will remain outside
the French group. thus depriving
France of a new ally. but that in the
end she will be drawn into the Ger
man group.
The same situation has been Great
ed in Greece in recent days. Ameri-
can championship of Bulgaria against
Greece has reused the indignant pro-
like Rumania. was a natural ally Of
France. Her differences with Bull
garia and with Italy insured that
100000 or 100000 of Greeks in
the new Hellenic state would have
promptly joined the French group in
any new clash. But, dragging the
French along with us. we have at
claims. recognized Bulgarian demands
which were hardly worth notice. and
the result has been the Alienation
q Aakkos QoEtianA f.eho. Greek popa
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

CHICAGO, September 6.-Hogs--Re-
|ceipts. 1000 head: strong; mostly. 70
to so higher than yesterdays average.
Heavy 1soo,,sss; medium R5t 1 1sISt
smooth. is.75alz75; packing sows,
rough. 1S.0oa16.75: pigs. 1S.75a1s.oo.
Cattle-Receipts. 2.ooe head; com
weak: good and choice. light and
handy weight. steers and better grade
h eifers, IS to SO higher: Gamers, Is
to o5 higher; bulls. IS higher; west
ems mostly. Is lower; feeders. steady
sheepsReceipts, 1000 head; COM
pared with week ago. native lambs.
steady to rs higher; westerns, mostly
steady: fat ewes. unchanged; yearHng
wetAers, strong to so. higher; feeder
lambs mostly Is to 50 iow st,nn feeders fsw
choice breeding ewes. strong; others
weak to so lower.
NEW YORK, September Sleeves
Receipts. SIS head: no trading.
Calves-Receipts, $50 head; steady;
Sheep and lambs-Receipts. 1870
head; steady: sheep and yearlings,
1. 90; lambs, 1S.O0a17.50: culls, HOO.
Hogs-Receipts. 1890 head; no trad
ing.
bALI1mOfSc, MI, socPlchOSI
In the live stock market wharf re-
ceipts continue light Of top grade cat
tie, but of ordinary grades the supply
is ample. Prices today at Light street
wharf: Beef cattle. first quality. per
pound. II to IL; medium. per pound.
8 to 10; bulls. as to quality. per pound.
6 to 9; thin steers and cows. per
pound, to 8; oxen, as to quality.
per pound, 6 to 3: milk cows. choice
to fancy. per head. 5000 to SO 5000;
5000; calves veal, choice. by express.
per pound, 20 to 81; by boat. per
pound, 20 to 81; light, ordinary. per
pound, Is to 10; heavy, smooth. fat.
per head. 5000 to $500: rough. per
head, 1900 to $500; small, thin, per
head 1000 to 1900.
Sheep, No: 1: per pound, to 8;
old bucks, as to quality. per pound,
6 to Z; common. per pound. 4 to S.
Lambs. spring, choice. per pound,
Is; fair to good, per pound, IA.
Hogs, straight, per pound, 10 to 20;
sows. as to quality. per pound. II to
16; stays and boars, per pound. 8 to
10. Live pigs per pound. 1910 10;
shoats. per pound, Is to Is.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, September 6.-The cot
ton market showed renewed weakness
today, with January and later months
making new low ground for the
movement, while December sold back
to 1855, or even with the lowest level
of yesterday. Closing prices were at
the lowest point with the tone easy at
a net decline Of 81 to IS points.
There was some irregularity at the
start as a result Of covering for over
the week end. The opening was steady
at an advance of to IL points on the
near months, but later deliveries were
unchanged to points lower and
prices weakened right after the call.
There may have been a little trade
buying. for except for the covering it
was very little support. while the
south was moderate seller. and later
in the morning there. was considerable
pressure from houses with Liverpool
and Wall street connections. Octo-
Der broke from 1888 to 1880, and
January from 2s.15 to 2S.42, reaching
the lowest levels Of the day late in
the morning. -. - -
The market was weak later in the
under southern liverpool
and Wall street selling, which was
promoted by the weakness Of foreign
exchange and the absence Of any inn
portant support. December broke to
29.55, and the close was easy at the
lowest point Of the day, shoH3uE ESE
"a IA -. md ~ Ak1l
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ulation, not all Of which by any means
was pro-ally.
The Frenchman, sees then that. as
result of American intermixture
in European affairs. as q result of
American effort to impose a league
Of nations upon the world as a con-
sequence Of French association with
the United States, France finds her
self today on the continent opposed,
not merely by a group Of powers
urai, but threatened with a coalition
between these powers and three
states who in the nature of things
would have been attached to the
French group had America not pur-
sued the course she did at Paris. The
his friends. he will number only
95.000.0oo on the continent. while the
German Italian group will number
120. 100000, and he sees that 25.0e0. 900
OF Greeks and Rumanians. who. as
ISOLATED with him. might have pre-
driven over to the German camp by
the American course.
Now, the Frenchman has in addition
an alliance with America and with
Great Britain, which has been, accept
ed by the British and is still under
debate in America. II it Is adopted by
the United States. as It has been by
Great Britain, the French position, IL
still difficult and perilous. would be
Infinitely better. OF British support he
could be reasonably sure since Great
Britain can never afford to have
France conquered again by Germany,
and the arrival Of German armies at
the channel would be Q deadly menace,
But Great Britain and France, With
their smaller allies separated from
them by the group Of hostile enemy
powers. could hardly expect victory in
another war unless the United States
or Russia stood with them, and for the
Russia wheth.r boI.hsvist ~ - sns.
tionary, would stand with the Ger
mans. -
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ALT|M0RE. GET'H|RST
MARYLAND:0YSTERS

BALTIMORE. SEPTEMBER s.-Mary-
lands first oysters Of the 1s1s-1sso
season arrived in the city this morn
ing. less than ten hours after the
longing season opened. The first yield
indicates that the preseht:season will
be one of the best on record. though
prices will probably ,be' kept high be-
cause of the shortage of labor.
The oysters arriving today were of
the cultivated variety .ahd showed
good size. Tomorrow morning the FIRST
Of the ''rocks"-which means those
that grow naturally in the deeper
waters-should cpme in and these
also are expected to show. large size.
The prices quoted thisstporning were
but few cents higher than those Of
last year. For shucked: oysters, Its
to 2.25 were being asked for a gallon
at wholesale. On, the docks the price
was so cents a bushe These prices,
1t Is expected. will 20 much lower as
the season develops and the bay
steamers begin to- bring In barreled
oysters from the lower bay.