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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

GOOD REASON TO COMPLAIN

Dispatches from Brussels say the Belgians are dissatis-
fed with the peace conference because the Preparations are be-
ing made so slowly by Germany, and the companies whose
steel mills and factories have been destroyed by the enemy
have SO far not received any payment for the damages.
1t is not surprising that the Belgians are dissatisfied with
The delay in making good the losses caused by the Hun invad-
ernmentaI red tape there is no telling when satisfactory ad-
justments will be made.
The people Of this vocinity can readily understand the
feelings of the Belgians in this matter. Great property dam
age was done by the explosion at Morgan last October. Many
Sf the victims of that explosion were in desperate circum-
stances and were unable to proceed with their reconstruction
until they had been reimbursed by the government. Assur-
ances were given that losses would be made good at once so
that people could get their houses fit for habitation before the
winter set in. That was nearly a year ago. Some of the claims
have not been settled yet and it is impossible to get any salts
faction from Washington.
Some farmers back in the Cheesequake district have lost
Q whole year and have been ruined, practically, because not
only were their houses made unfit to live in, but their cattle
was killed and outbuildings destroyed. Without money to
out credit except possibly enough to fix up the house by as
signing what claim they might have against the government as
security, nothing could be done
Now we are approaching another winter and still govern
ment red tape, or something worse, holds up final adjustment
on some claims. Thanks to the Red Gross, the victims were
able TO patch things up for last winter. 1t would seem that a
year ought to be long enough to settle up this whole affair.
The fact that all the claims have not yet been settled is
the reason why people of this vicinity can s~ympathize with the
people of Belgium in their complaint about the slowness with
which their claims for damages against the Germans are be-
ing paid. Judging from experiences hereabouts the Belgians
are lucky i reparations are completed five years from now.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Rlbbling RhimeS
BY WALT MASON
AN OLD


When I'd impart a moral lesson ]
spring it many times; and so there's
sameness, I'm confessin', in these up
lifting rhymes. The same old tale
must be repeated in Tilt and catch
and rune or my intent would be de-
feated, for men forget so soon. These
repetitions will not hurt you if they
should call to mind some good old
time substantial virtue that you have
left behind. 1t seems to me all men
are wasting, their coin they all I'M
load; with merry steps I see them
hasttng along the poorhouse road. A
year or two, when war was raging,
we sailed wealth away; and talked,
with faces worn and aging, about the
rainy day. But when the beastly war
was over, with all its stress and din,
we kicked around like mules in clov-
-er, and blew our none in. And ever
harder we are blowing our little
shining store; we laugh like chumps
to see it going, and then blow in some
more. And people say that 1 am
raving, and should take in nay sign,
when I insist on weekly saving, on
putting coin in brine. We're spend
ing cash like drunken sailors, our
orgy's q disgrace; and some day we
shall all be walters down at the wall
ing place. Now is the time, while
moneys plenty, to make our assets
thrive; and out of every h-ard-earned
twenty you ought to save a five.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
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INFERIOR RAILROAD SERVICE

Attention is called to the announcement Of the winter
schedule for trains between Perth Amboy and New York which
was published in the EVENING NEWS Monday. While a COM
parison of timetables shows a slight Improvement over the train
schedule for last winter, the service is decidedly inferior to
what we are now getting.
Why should Perth Amboy receive poorer train service in
the winter than in the summer? This is no summer resort.
Traffic here varies but little in season and out. Yet, because we
happen to be on the Long Branch division we are classed with
the Monmouth coast resorts, only we receive great deal worse
treatment.
Express trains with first stop at South Amboy, Matawan
or Red Bank go by in rapid succession, but people bound for
Perth Amboy must take the "locals." Yet Perth Amboy, with
the exception of Newark, Jersey City, Bayonne and Elizabeth,
is the largest city on the line of the Central railroad in this
state.
1t will be noticed that some of the most popular trains for
Perth Amboyans are to be taken off on November 2. Of the
others, we do not know how many are express trains and how
many are "loeals," but, judging from past treatment, it is
mostly locals that stop here.
There is absolutely no legitimate excuse for giving Perth
Amboy an inferior service in winter to what it receives in sum-
mer. The matter ought to be taken up with the railroad Off
Gals in a way that will impress them sufficiently to treat this
city justly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Luke McIuISe Saws,

HeNI
Some men never pay anybody be-
cause they feel that they owe them
selves.
ANY boob can make a woman talk.
But it takes a smart man to make
her say what he wants her to say.
When a man is listening intently TO
you he is merely waiting for you to
run out ST he can start in.
And what has become of the o. (.
ma who rsed to 90 cut between the
acts to See a Man?
There is a good deal of bles sing at
tached to the divorce evil. Some
times a man gets 50 he regards ali
mony as a bargain.
Another good bet is that the cost
OF living will V get so high that
most men won't thing it is worth it.
One thing we like about a man is
that if his wife would let him alone
he would rather stay at home than go
visiting his friends.
The trouble with most of us Is that
when we start saving UP for a rainy
day it rains the next day.
She may not believe it. But it Is
impossible for a girl to eat corn on
the cob and look like a Madonna at
the same time.
There was a time when a nan
owned his wife. But nowadays the
best he can do is get an option on
her for a few years.
There is an old saying about
Laugh and Grow Fat. But we know
a lot of grouches who are not so
blame thin.
1t won't do a man a bit of good to
look like Lincoln unless he possesses
a brain like Lincoln.
And what has become of the o. f.
man who couldn't possibly get along
without a bottle of hair die?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Fire Alarm Boxes

23-Raritan Copper Works.
24-Market and Sheridan Street.
25-Smith Street and Central r. #
26-Market and First Streets.
27-Madison venue and Paterson St.
28-High and Lewis Streets.
S5-Smith and High STREETS.
36-New Brunswick A<c. and New ST.
37-Smith and State Streets.
4z--Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
43-Buckingham Ave. and Hartford st.
45-Commerce and Front Streets.
46-State and Washington Streets.
54-State st. and Buckingham Ave
E5-Parker st. and Pulaski Ave.
b6-Hall Ave. and Charles st.
57-State and Wayne Streets.
6a-Near United Lead Works.
69-Maurer.
62-Washington and First Streets.
,63-New Brunswick Ave. and Elm st
64-SHkfth Street and Watson Ave.
6h-Commerce and State Streets.
72-Front and Smith Streets.
73-Water and Gordon Streets.
74-Kearny Ave. and Gordon Street
Sl-Brace and Hanson Avenues.
82-Smith and Herbert Streets.
S3-Amboy Ave. and Washington ST.
84-Lehigh Ave. and Stanford Street.
S5-Near City Hospital.
86-C1evefand and a Avenues
S7-Amboy and Hall Avenues.
92-Amboy Ave. and Ins1ee Street.
93-Lawrence and Francis Streets.
A-Neville and tombstone Streets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Daily Horoscope
THE stars incline but do not compel
Thursday August IS, 1919.

THE stars incline but do not compel
Thursday August IS, 1919.
Copyright. 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
This should be a fortunate day.
according to astrology, Mars. Venus
and Jupiter are all in benefic aspect.
The stars are especially friendly
to the claims of soldiers during
this sway and there appears to be
the foreshadowing of a movement
that will be of great financial ben
eft to them.
Influences that increase energy and
confidence are strong during this
planetary government, which tends to
give ambition and ability to achieve
personal aims.
The outlook is uncommonly good
for engineers, contractors, structural
iron workers, n contractors when
Mars is friendly.
Lumbermen will benefit greatly in
the next few months, but they are
subject to sinister influences, making
for unwise policies.
Again women are subject to the
most stimulating and encouraging d.
rection of the stars, but all the signs
warn them to recognize the need or
subordinating characteristics that
prevent impersonal relations in BUSH
ness affairs.
IuSdLreS COlil1uuG SupJSEt ID olo
best influences and a season of ex-
traordinary success is presaged.
There nay be a tendency to put too
high a value on youth and beauty
among actresses, the seers forecast.
but they prophecy success and fame
for a woman who will win favor by
brains and talent.
Some sort of a scandal growing
out of a visit of distinguished for
eigners is predicted This May at
fec tdisting uished English guests of
the United States, as Uranus is in a
threatening aspect toward Venus in
the horoscope of the Queen.
Continued manifestations of demo-
cratic tendencies are foreshadowed
for italy . The king will have many
anxieties added to those already
borne.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is have
the promise of an active and success
full year. Money and friends will
greatly increase. The young will
court and marry.
Children born on this day will be
in all probability gifted and gener-
GUS. These subjects of Virgo usually
win the confidence of their fellow
men and rise to high positions.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
BY REV. CHARLEs TELL

"
| Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law on the 'blackside Of
the desert"
Can you imagine a lonlier place?
He had plenty of time to think.
For forty years he had lived in the
nous of Pharaoh, surrounded by the
pomp and glory of the world-power OF
Egypt.
He had been educated in the great
universities of this country and was
probably in line for an important po-
sition in the kingdom.
But n day while he was visiting
his bretheren in the brickyards of
Egypt-where they worked as slaves
he saw an Egyptian peat an Israel
lite, and Moses Killed him.
And Moses fed to the land of Mid
ian, where he married the daughter of
a priest.
And the king of Egypt died, and the
new ruler made the burden of the Is
raelites heavier.
Then GOD determined to call Moses
back to Egypt, so that he might be-
come the deliverer of the Israelites.
And He sent a messenger to Moses
Keeper of Jethro's flock" on the
backside of the DESERT where Mo-
ses had spent another 40 years in the
deepest solitude.
Forty years alonei
Moses had nee been impetuous and
ready to assert himself-but what had
40 years in the wilderness done for
him?
Let's follow the story.
GODS messenger delivered his COM
mission to Moses, and this once proud
dweller in kings palaces replied.
"Who am 1, that I should go unto
Pharaoh. and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?
Lack Of fitness" was Moses first
impulse. And his was a good sign.
Modesty is always a greater grace
than self-praise-in the long run
and this was to be a longtime job
getting these two million Jews out of
Egypt and into the Promised Land.
What shall / say unto them?" I
haven't the words, the ability to make
a speech-was Moses second apology
And this was also to his credit. For
as a rule, most leaders talk too
much.
They will not believe me-" I have
no authority, they will say that You
are not with me-that / have not seen
You-plead Moses to God.
Lack of authority''-and most So
called leaders claim too much au-
thority. They want to boss the whole
job. They don't want anyone to in
terfere with them-they believe that
their way is the best way.
Don't send me-send someone
was Moses final objection.
1t wasn't that he was a coward
this was later proven-he just felt his
own unworthiness-and his is the
first step toward real leadership.
Moses finally went to Egypt-and
God was with him, and He became the
d~eliverer of his race.
He was given personality, and fit
and speech, and authority, and
conference.-the these came to him be-
cause he put God first and he gave
God first place because he had come
know God in the solitude of the
desert.
It's worth while to get alone with
God. |
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
THAT PROPOSAL TO WOODBRIDGE

This is the way the Hudson Dispatch looks upon Per
Amboy's proposal to Woodbridge that both places unite und
one government: sa@t ~T1a&4e s
The ancient city of Perth Amboy wants to get
married and has made a proposal thru the EVENING
NEWS to the pretty adjoining suburb of Woodbridge
to the north.
Woodbridge, showing evidence of nattery, but
eternaly feminine as is usually the custom in pro-
posals for marriage, is esitating---balkin a Bit
anxious, maybe, to be coaxed. s.
But unlike the fair sex, Woodbridge has taken a
chance on asking why South Amboy and some other
nearby girls were not asked. The answer to that
is not difficult, for Perth Amboy has good taste--and
evidently an eye to beauty besides.
Maybe if Woodbridge finally accepts the invitation
to marriage, South Amboy and some of the other
less tidy suburbs might be taken in as adopted chill
dren and cleaned up for membership into the larger
and better family of Perth Amboy. sea.ksw
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
The Honest Baker.

A woman always watches her pur-
chase being weighed so she won't get
the worst of it. But what we started
to say was that Mary T.. Scales is a
baker in Norwood, Ohio.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Our Daily SpeciaI.

Your thoughtlessness gives You a
Lot to Think About After 1t Is Too
Late.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

Huh.
Il suppose o couldn't spare me
about $50 for a few weeks, could
your" asked Smith.
You are the best little supposer
In the United States" replied Jones.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

Lives there a man with soul so dead,
He never to himself hath said:
II hope McGraw will lose and lag,
1 hope the Reds will win the flag?"
Luke McLuke.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Tunf

"A broker I would hate to be-"
Remarked old Peter Ronds,
For he must feed his stock and he
Must go and cut his bonds"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

There livessone man with soul so dead
That he the above hath never said:
The Reds he'd like to chaw and claw
And this mans name is Jawn Nc
Graw.
Ball Crank,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Bits of By PLAY

By LUKE McLUKE
Copyright, 1919. the Cincinnati
Inquirer

Advice.
When the long greer you're pursuing
You should work from sun to sun:
Better to be VI and doing
Than be done and being done.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

Mercy!
A Scotchman who lived on a loch
Would sit all day long on a rock;
But one day a maid trim
Dotted her clothes for a swim.
And the Door fellow died from the
shoch.
h temperamental singer who was
awaiting her urn to go out at the
Benefit Concert was listening to the
piano player who occupied the stage
at the time. Seated near the singer
was a large rough looking person.
ISM that wonderful" said the
Singer. Doesn't the music carry you
away?"
mo, num-. replied the large per-
son. Il carry the music away. I'm
waitin' for the piano."
Helps Some.
OF course the fool men do not care,
And they are th~oughtless brutes;
But you can't see their underwear
Beneath their summer suits.
Things to Worry About.
An adult should have 140, 900 hairs
on his head. Frisk yourself and see
If o are shy.
HOoray /!
We have just learned that Mary
Hattie Lamb lives at Sheepshead Bay
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

Helpi
OF course, we hate to keep anyone
out of the club. But what are we
gonna do with Rev. Cole Black, OF
Pride, Louisiana?
Woman.
The love of dress she'll never lack,
1t is the truth, you'll find,
That though her clothes are on her
back,
They're always on lei mind.
Luke McLuke.
To find the clothes upon her back
Would surely be some stunt;
There are not many there, alack,
Nor yet upon her front.
Newark Advocate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

H. v. G. opines that ever IL yor
should succeed in knocking the HI
out of the H. C. L. the Cost" would
still remain.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

A perfect number is one that is
equal to the sum of all it's factors
plus l. For instance, 2417S5163922-
S15SS37784576, is a perfect number.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27

No Joke.
Nervousness is largely imaginary
announced the Specialist.
Maybe it is" replied the Patient.
But that fact doesn't help you when
YOU can't get to Sleep"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-27
Learn One New Thing Each Day.

We have just learned that Mary
Hattie Lamb lives It Sheepshead Bay
New-York tribune., 1919-06-19
The Coordinator

The Council of National Defence,
composed of designated high officers of
the government and others named to CO.
operate with them, is before Congress
asking for reappropriation of the $780,
600 allotted to it, but not spent, and
$4,000 in additional total of $780,
900.
Behold how great matter little
fire kindleth! Great must have been the
need for the council for it to be able
to achieve all the things in it's record.
The story is remarkable. 1t has fed
Grated and coordinated the work of
nearly $4,000 local units and prevented
an incalculable amount of false motion.
1t has brought together, for the use of
Congress and the departments, an in
credible total of information touching
every phase of the country's life, for
everything bears on national defence.
1t has eXerted steady influence toward
substituting harmonious plans for hit
or-mlss confusion. All this has been
done with no blare of trumpets and
Will q leSt "llCl mas given IdultIllQ-
ing no foothold
The war psychology brought flower
ing of the work-together spirit. 1t would
be a great pity to lose all these gains
and to Slip back to sprawling and mud
ding. The work of the council is as
much needed in peace time as in war
time-in fact, is more needed, for there
is greater danger of neglect when there
is small pressure for unity.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-19

lists recognize the need Of hiring the
skilful at big salaries. They become
useful and necessary workers." Not
the high paid technician, but the CAPT.
italist or investor, is said to be the
game the new socialism Is cunning for.
The function Of the capitalist or investor
Is to own and to invest, and thus he
contributes no useful labor in production
or distribution.
One man raises food, and his product
is to be his to consume or to exchange.
His neighbor, working just as hard,
manufactures tools, and some of his
surplus he rents the next year to those
who prefer renting to buying. The food
raiser is all right, but the toolmaker is
wicked capitalist, lays up accumulated
capital, is an exploiter-"' 'Raus nit
him"
And yet America is land with a
larger school population than any other
country in the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-19
In a Nutshell

Absolutely the only deterrent to a re-
fusal to sign the peace treaty, says a
Weimar dispatch which the German CEN
sor allowed to pass, "is consideration Of
whether the fate Of Germany would be
worse through refusing to sign than
through signing"
This puts the issue plainly. The talk
of justice is of no consequence Ger
many is not concerned about justice, but
about herself. The argument of self
interest is the only one she recognizes.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-19
Our Temperamental Ears

Sundry observant country correspond
ents are writing to the press of the land
to call attention to singular phenome-
non, to wit, that "feathered songsters"
are more numerous than usual and much
more vocal. Bird song is louder and
sweeter than ever before. Extraordinary
and wonderful, remarks this cloud of
witnesses. Blessed is peace. And now
that the subject is mentioned, We recall
that oldest commuters hereabout have
registered similar thought. There has
unquestionably been lot doing in those
early hours when the rural armament is
supposed to be haven of utter quiet and
repose, and when it is really the sound
box of robins, thrashers, Baltimore orioles
and the coffee grinder.
But is it really true? Goodness knows.
Unless, Of course, you adhere to the
theory that things exist only in our
thoughts and that therefore what we
think is the only truth there is! But,
assuming the common notion that there
is world of reality outside ourselves.
such an aesthetic question Of song, it's
beauty, its quantity, is about the most
difficult thing in the world to settle. A
year ago this spring ears were very
feebly interested in bird song. We lis
tened for guns three thousand miles
away. We were not, as was England.
awakened every morning at 3 or o'clock
by the rumble of the opening barrage.
But the battle was near enough to make
orioles a very remote and dull concern.
1t is quite conceivable that the birds
sang just as rapturously last year as this
and that we were not listening.
We are all critics of life, whether we
want to be or not. There is no such
thing as just listening or just reading.
However much we mean to be impartial.
we reject some sounds and thoughts and
accept others; the whole process of di-
gestion is one continuous criticism.
When the job is done the same song is
an utterly different thing as recorded on
AS brain and as recorded on BIS. And
it will be one thing on AS brain if the
market is going his way and quite an
other if it isn't
If Baltimore oriole thinks about
anything when he is singing We'll wager
that it is the stupidity of humans whose
ears seem just as much pleased by the
sound of grinding coffee as by the su-
premest treetop trill. The answer is, Of
course, that we don't listen to the coffee
grinder at all (or, at least, we try not
to listen to it) and do, when we are
happy and it is quite convenient, listen
to birds and enjoy them. Our ears are
not so much stupid as tempcramental.
We like to think Of a prima donna as
our most temperamental creation. But,
really, the product of most great singers
is amazingly uniform--varying within
rather narrow limits. Whereas the ears
II any phlegmatic business man are the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-19
"Compers and
His Gang Traitors''

"There must be no limitation on our
rights" he declared THE real inter-
ests of all labor are the same We can
no longer permit the system by which
part of the workers shall support the
capitalists against another part. We
must all stand together. AS it is we are
divided, and it is not till capital recog-
nizes the complete solidarity of labor
that we will begin to make headway
toward getting our rights"
"Does that mean that you favor
single union for all workers."
Zone Big Union. Yes. We must be
able to make the full power of labor felt
at any time. Now the international
unions"-he is an official Of one of
them-"often prevent US from taking
advantage Of situation. They refuse
us help from the dues we have been
paying because we have agreements, or
they are so slow making up their minds
that we miss our chance. They want us
to move so slowly that capital knows
what is going on and is prepared.
"Take the situation in regard to con-
scription in Canada. We were all against
conscription, but we had no way of
making our power felt at Ottawa. The
heads of the unions were all in the
States. By the time we could get them
to act the wrong against our freedom
had been inflicted and the conscription
act was passed. Our men were dragged