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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
s,,r.rocote,s Court Business

NEW BRUNSWICK. April 80
Letters of administration have been
issued TO william j. j. Edgar OF
~Jamesburg on the estate of his wife
Lucy l.. Edgar. Besides the appli-
cant there arc three sons, William
j.. Malcolm s., and Marshall L.. and
two daughters. Lois and Gertrude
surviving. The personal estate is es-
.timated at $1,000.
The will of Rebella Kellett of New
Brunswick who died on November IS
was probated today. Mary f.. Nc
Deed Is the executrix and sole bene-
6ciary of the estate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Approve Accountings.

~ NFuU tUTTNSUUNutHT
NEW BRUNSWICK, April so. =
Two accountings We're approved by
Judge DAILY In the Orphans court this
morning.
The first that of Robert Higgins ad-
Iministrator on the estate of Mary e
lBerley Of Matawan was approved. Tit
total receipts are $4209.15, expenses
~S2S23.30 leaving a balance OF ~s1S75.S5
The accounting of Fred r. Harmed
Iof Woodbridge was also approved
This applicant is the administrator oil
the estate of Martha A. Harmed. Thii
estate showed receipts amounting to
'~s3230S.66. expenditures. $1436.9O ant
/ balance of 30,S71.76.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30

NEW BRUNSWICK, April 30:-
Letters OF administration were issued
this morning to Michael Zylka, OF
Perth Amboy, on the estate of Stan
islaw S~okolowski, of Perth Amboy,
who died February o.. Zylka is q
creditor of this estate to the amount
of $3.50 for funeral expenses and the
only next of kin known to him is al
uncle of the deceased living in Can
ada The value of the personal estate
is given at $500.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
HOUSE BROKEN INTO
HERE BY ROBBERS

When Mrs. Andrew Hansen return
ed to her home at 1852 Washington
street about noon yesterday. she found
that her residence had been entered
by breaking open the front door with
q chisel. About SAG in money and
a quantity of valued jewelry was taken
including a heavy 20 karat wedding
ring.
The woman claimed to have left the
house about s O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. Detective Huff and Gutowski are
working on the case.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Action on Mechanics Lien.

NEW BRUNSWICK, March 30. -
Papers are being served today in the
circuit court action of Abraham e.
Mason. of Perth Amboy, against
George Hoagland and Thomas +.
DUNCAN in a mechanics lien case for
$557.50. 1t is the contention of the
complainant that Hoagland verbally
contracted with him to do certain
ceiling work in The home of
DUNCAN for which he did not receive
payment.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Labor Party Meets July If

CHICAGO, April 30.-The National
Labor Party Convention will be held
in Chicago July IL. IL and 10 to nom
mate candidates for President and
Vice President and draft a platform,
It was announced today by Frank.
Esper national secretary. Every labor
and farm organization I'm the country
will be invited to send one delegate
for each 500 members. Max S. Hayes
of Cleveland is national chairman.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
MANY APPLICATIONS BY
TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS

Twenty-three applications in March
and twenty applications this month
have been sent in by the Middlesex
County Anti-Tuberculosis League for
the admittance OF patients to the
Bonnie Burn sanatorium. Most of the
applications are from children be-
tween the ages of six and fourteen
years. This makes a total of forty
three applications made by the
league within the past two months.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Held for DESERVING Wife

NEW BRUNSWICK. April 30:-
Charged with deserving his wife
Marian, Frank Rauman of New
Brunswick Is held in the county jail
to await the action of the grand jury.
The charges made by the wife are
that she and an infant child We're
deserted on April 26 and he refuses
to support them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Auti-.Jewish Trouble Grows.

VIENNA. April 27-Anti-Jewish
demonstrations by German students
continued in a more serious form
and were also directed against other
students recognized as socialists.
Cries of down with Jews" mingled
with down with the Reds"
Student leaders declared they VIII
continue their demonstrations with
increased emphasis and the govern
ment is considering closing In the
University of Vienna unless the situa-
ton improves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Manufacturers TO Meet

industries left today for Atlantic City
TO attend the annual meeting and
banquet of the New Jersey Manufac-
turers Association which Is being held
at the Traymore Hotel today and to-
morrow. Among those who are at
tending from this city r Jean Du-
Bots, Senator Thomas Brown and
Frank II. Valentine of Woodbridge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Slnyer Fights Police

LEXINGTON, Ky, April 3O.-After
shooting and killing Edward H.. Wise,
a farmer, during an alteration,
Thomas Mitchell exchanged shots
with the police and escaped.
The police later surrounded a house
in which Mitchell had barricaded him.
self but were held off for a half hout
He was finally captured as he at
tempted to escape through a back
door.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Appeal on compensation.

BD Staf Correspondent.
= NEW BRUNSWICK. April 30-An
appeal on a compensation action
against the Public Service Electric
Company on account of a death of a
former employe, vas ordered discon-
tinued in court this morning, the case
having beer settled. This action was
started by Alaida Smalley. Of Metu-
chen. on account of the death OF her
son. August. who was killed while In
the employ of the company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Ordered to Reformatory.

% StuH COfF6SVOId6Ht.
NEW BRUNSWICK, April 30
George Stone who signed an allegation
for breaking, entering and larceny,
was before Judge DAILY this morning
and put on probation for the full term
and ordered to report to DIR. Moore
at h Railway ~reformatory. At the
time he entered and robbed the last
time he was on parole from the re-
fOrmatory.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Try TO End Shore Strike.

NEW YORK. April 30-At the re-
quest of c. b.. Ames. federal ~fnvcsti-
gator into the transportation situation
vt this port. civic and business or
CARNATIONS named a committee yes
|terday to attempt to effect a settle
ment of the coastwise longshoremen's
strike.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Coroner Gives Verdict In Ireland

DUNDALK, ireland, April 80
The coroner's jury conducting inquest
into the death OF Thomas Mulholland
who was shot on a street April 16,
returned a verdict that death was
due to a bullet fired without justiflca-
ton and with intent to kill by Ser
geant BASTARD"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Pole Occ,,pv Zhitonnir.

LONDON, April 80. The loss of
Zhitomir so miles southwest of kiev,
to the Poles is admitted in an official
statement sent out by the soviet gov
eminent at Moscow. The message also
refers to a Polish threat against kieV.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-30
Report

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tato, who
have been residing on Third street,
have taken rooms vacated by MI. anu
Mrs. Milton Mccullough on Second
street.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
Autocracy' S Last Stand
Professor McGovern Says Mikado's Empire Is
Stronghold of Reaction

other day of the Japanese occupation of
Vladivostok.
In tracing the political development
OF Japan the author points out again
and again how the autocratic governing
class has consistently managed to keep
the power in its hands. Though Japan
has Parliament, or Diet, which, at
first glance, looks like the legislative
bodies of democratic lands, the bureau
cratic rulers of the country have so
manipulated matters, according to Pro-
fessor McGovern, that they are prac-
tically Independent of the Diet.
"a large section of the work Of gov
ernment," he writes, "is carried on even
without the knowledge of the houses;
the government may not be .embar-
rassed, owing to trouble with the Diet,
by the inability of paying all none
tary obligations, and, finally, should
the Diet prove entirely obstreperous
the government is in position to COM
pletely ignore it,"
The Japanese governing class, con-
tinues the professor, has maintained its
autocratlc sway over Japan most effec-
lively by three phases of policy, viz !:
lnculcating in the people deep rever-
ence for the Emperor teaching history
IN such a way as to emphasize the value
OF autocracy (Which, says tho writer,
has amounted to historical falsiflcation)
and imbuing the Japanese with the
strongest possible belief In nationalism
Most important of all these, according
to him, is the reverence taught for the
Emperor, who is believed BY the Jap
anese to be of divine origin. So deep
rooted is this veneration that Japanese
is horrified at the thought Of anybody
gazing at tho Emperor from an elevated
position, an attitude which has led to
the arrest Of many foreigners who have
innocently looked out from an upper
story window as the Emperor was pass
ing in procession. Likewise, Japanese
never call their Emperor by his real
name, so sacred Is 1t; they invent some
other name, by which it is permissible
to allude to him, shrouding the real
name in holy silence. All of which, says
the professor, is part and parcel of a
deep-laid plot on the part Of the govern
ing class to keep its hold on. the reins
Of government.
In other chapters Professor McGovern
takes up the development Of Japan along
many lines, the amazing manner in
which she has adapted herself to pres
ent-day requirements and entered al.
most at one bound into the inner circle
Of great powers. He tries also to COR
rect certain widespread impressions
about the Japanese character. All in
all, he has produced a conscientious and
readable book, the motto Of which might
be-: "The Japanese are all right, but
they'll bear watching!"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
English Literary News
Arnold Bennett Defends Popular Novels-The
Late Mrs. Hurnphry Ward-Other Gossip

country. In that period she produced
twenty-odd novels, her last, Harvest" j"
coming from the press this week. "Rob-
ert Elsmere" came at a time when Eu-
rope was being shaken by great re-
ligious debate. Gladstone proclaimed
the novel cardinal document in the
crisis of belief" and its success was
instantaneous.
There is no criticism Of Robert Els
mere; it is Mrs. Wards description of
English life in "The Marriage of Will
liam Ashe" which displeases many of
her readers. They hold that she has
not given an accurate report of condi-
tions. Some of her critics believe "Rob-
ert Elsmere" is the only one of Mrs.
Wards books which will live; others
think some of her other novels will
furnish material for those fifty or hun
dred years hence who desire students
to gain information on English life in
the late Victorian period.
The rate of exchange has its effect
on the sale of books. A scheme was de-
vised by the London School Of Eco
nomics to enable German and Austrian
universities to obtain English books,
but it is far from satisfactory, because
the value of the mark is so low that an
English book in Germany is worth a
small fortune. There are many reasons
why the English are anxious to have
their literature read in Germany and
Austria, not to mention Belgium, France
and Italy, but unless remedy is found
for raising the value of the mark, franc
and Ira, the sale Of English books must
be limited. To-day an English book
selling at 20 shillings in London
costs 20 shillings in Brussels and Paris,
30 shillings in Rome and approximately
IS shillings in Berlin, prohibitive
price in these times, when most people
are worrying about the cost Of pound
Of beef or a slice Of ham.
Leo j. Maxse, editor of "The National
Review" uses a pencil almost as thick
as the handle of baseball bat, and he
hits as hard as "Babe" Ruth with the
bases full and his team three runs in
arrears. Mr.. Maxse suffers from writ
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
ARLIAMENT AND REVO-
LUTON" by ]. Ramsay
II Macdonald, which is pub


lished by Scott & Seltzsr
in series entitled 1.-THE New Library
Of Social Science" is.a clear-cut indict-
ment Of Bolshevism from the stand
point Of a democratic Socialist The
genuine quality Of the authors radi-
calism can scarcely be called into ques-
ton. He Is q veteran leader of the
Independent Labor party, which serves
as Socialist left wing to the regular
British Labor party. During the war
he was q most outspoken pacifist, and
many Of his utterances would certainly
have exposed him to long prison sem
tence under the terms Of our own
espionage law.
But the pacifist instinct which i'm
PEELED Mr.. Macdonald to take such an
intransigeant position toward the war
furnishes the psychological explana-
tion OF his antipathy to Bolshevism.
For Bolshevism and pacifism. often
Jumped together in denunciation by
indignant patriots during the war, rest
upon fundamentally different bases.
The pacifist is opposed to the use of
iorce at any time for any purpose.
Tho Bolshevist Is heartily in favor Of
1orce TO achieve his own particular OBJ
Jec': tho overthrow of existing govern
ment and the substitution of the die
tatorship Of the proetariat.
Mr.. Macdonald is a democrat as we'll
as pacifst. He does not believe in
the divine right of revolutionary mi
norlty any more than in the divine
f'snt OF feudal or capitalist minor
lty. he comedies, rather reluctantly.
.has certain measure Of minority
domination is inevitable in any time Of
cataciysmic social and political up-
heaval. But he objects strenuously to
Lenine's theory of transitional period
during which democratic rights ara
suspended and power is vested exclu.
siyely In the hands Of the proletariat
Taxing up the outstanding features
OF the Soviet regime, the author criti
c1zes them by various canons Of polit
ical science and morality. He con-
dcrnns the exclusion Of the non-pro-
ducing classes from the franchise on
the ground that all class strata arc OBJ
liberated by q revolution, and that the
disfranchisement Of an entire class
robs the movement Of many willing
supporters. lie takes exception to tho
principle Of representation along occu-
pational rather than geographical lines,
contending that representatives Of spe-
cla1 trade interests cannot constitute
an effective national governing body.
He also condemns the system OF indi-
rect elections. BY which tho highest
Russian Soviet IL removed several
times from the original voters.
, On the whole, however, Mr.. Macdon-
aid IL moro opposed 70 Dolsh evism In
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
rtish Writer Accuses japan of Secret German Frendshn

work, having been for many year. :.
close friend Of Mr.. Chamberlain,s :, !,
one of his stanchest supporters in ~.
press. Mr.. Garvin is the author -.
Imperial Reciprocity" and "Tarif ~
Budget" both with prefaces by M
Chamberlain.
Novels are always in great demana
at the Easter holiday season, the Thpr.
day to Tuesday week end Offering .
fine opportunity for reading. ooe -
the largest Ficcadil,E aoosssop, ,.
ports that ..sane novels most in demara
this Easter are W. J. Locke's "Ths
House of Baltazar." John Galsworthv's
"Tatterdemalion," Sir Henry john.
ston's "Mrs. Warren's Daughter =
II. A. Vachell's "Whitewash" and Ivor
Browns Lighting Up Time
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
By T. r. Ybarra

F PROFESSOR M'GOVERN were q
Californian, imbued with the views
regarding Japan and the Japanese
which flourish on our Pacific
Coast, one would not be surprised at
some Of the things he has to say about
them. His being an Englishman and
presumably n solemn professor
ling, all the more so as they
crop out Of a book that appears, at
first sight, to be no more than an at
tempt to give an idea of how Japan
chronological and geographical back
ground, her language, literature, art
and religion, her industrial and COM
mercial development.
"Modern Japan" published by Scrib-
ners) Is ostensibly study of ats po-
litical, military and industrial organ-
zation."
But, tucked away amid q mass of
purely informative matter, are obser-
vations that prove Professor McGovern
to be among those who look upon
Japan as a menace, as a nation whose
professions of friendship for the Occi-
dent are scarcely to be taken at their
face value. His most startling conten-
ton is that the Japanese governing
class, despite the fact that Japan was
one of the Allies, looked with favor on
the Central Powers during the war.
"The result of the war was entirely
unexpected" he says, "and may be said
to have come as a severe shock to the
nation. From this she has not yet re-
covered, and 1t may be that as q result
of 1t she will yet swing into tho stream
Of democracy. At present, however, she
is the last stronghold of bureaucracy
and autocracy, and as such must be care
fully observed"
And he holds that these words of
James W. Gerard, referring to Germany,
are even truer of present-day Japan:
"Autocracy saw that, If it were to re-
tain its hold on Germany, 1t must lead
the nation into short and successful
war. This Is no new trick Of q ruling
and autocratic class. Whenever
the people showed a disposition to de-
mapd their rights, autocracies have al
ways turned to war as the best antidote
against the spirit Of democracy"
This Is what the Japanese autocracy
has done, declares Professor McGovern,
on several occasions: When Japan went
to war with China in 1894; when she
embarked on the Russo-Japanese War
IN 1904, when she annexed Corea in
1910; when she launched her drastic de-
mands on China in 1915, and when she
undertook her Siberian expedition in
1917. One can imagine Professor Nc
Govern shaking his head and murmur-
ing, ~ told you So" when he read the
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25

From The Tribune's European Buredn
wv 7HEN Charles Garvice died in
AA/ the last winter H. W. Mas
singham, the editor of "The
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25

the beautiful heroine and her son will
fall victims to the insenate rage of the
monster Vorski, Arsene Lupin, the
French Sherlock Holmes, appears upon
the scene. Then, presto, all Vorski's
infamous schemes are forthwith con-
founded. The villain loses all his ter
rible and awe inspiring qualities and
falls into Lupin's nets with pathetic
ease.
"The Secret Of Sarek" is too highly
imaginative, too devoid Of all basis in
fact to be detective story Of the first
order. 1t Is, however, a weird and fas-
cinating tale in its own way, and read
ers who have followed Arsene Lupin in
his earlier explolrs VIII doubtless be
delighted to meet him again in the re.
cesses of Coffin Island.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
A Radical Attacks Bolshevism
J. Ramsay Macdonald Condemns Sovietisn in
the Name of Democracy

England than in Russia. He asserts
that the Russian revolution has right
to pursue It's own course of develop
ment and denounces the Allied policy
of supporting Kolchak and Denikin.
But he Is convinced that Bolshevism is
essentially a national Russian product.
Any attempt to reproduce it in Eng
land, he believes. would be disastrous.
Violence, in the authors opinion, is a
stupid and indefensible weapon in a
country where the ballot box offers a
simple and orderly means of effectine
the most drastic changes in the govern
mental structure. Inasmuch as Eng
land does not seem to be blessed with
any Speaker Sweets, Mr.. Macdonald's
logic on this point seems sound.
The author defines revolution as "the
result Of resistance offered to move
ments that cannot be resisted, not an
upset deliberately arranged for by the
exponents of some new ideas" He is
willing to make haste slowly, and EN-.
phatically rejects the theory that the
political development of tho masses
can be accelerated by the use Of VIC
lent and unconstitutional means by an
extremist minority.
1t may be predicted that Mr.. Macdon.
AIDS book will prove equally objec.
tionable to advocates Of Bolshevism
and to conservative upholders Of the
established order. Even it's critics
however, will be compelled to admit
that 1t Is a remarkably keen and vigor-
GUS piece Of political and economic
thinking
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
By Arthur s. Draper

From, The Tribune's European Bureau
wv 7HEN Charles Garvice died in
M the last winter H. W. Mas
singham the editor of "The
Nation" published a para
graph in which he deplored the fact
that Garvice's novels, such as "a Coro-
net of Shame" "Queen Kate" "Nance"
and "In Cupids Chains" were infinitely
more popular than Dickens, Thackeray
or Scott. Mr.. Massngham admitted that
he had never read any of these novels;
he condemned them because Of their lack
Of literary merit
Arnold Bennett was quick to rush to
the defense of Garvice, accusing Mr..
Massingham of adopting superior
attitude" J. Middleton Murry, editor of
"The Athenaum," interviewed. His point
was that Garvice's novels were "artis-
tically worthless" and consequently not
worth while. Garvice's champion coun-
tered with the remark that they were
worth while" because of the pleasure
given to naive millions" Mr.. Murry re-
fused to admit that that was sufficient
excuse, contending "that the most popu-
lar writer's of the early nineteenth GEN.
tury had other and better aims than
those who hold relatively the same
position to-day, whose deliberate pur-
pose seems to be to provide those
naive millions with a pleasure strictly
analogous to that so many Of Mr.. Gar
vices readers find in eating chocolate
creams"
The controversy is far from finished;
Mr.. Bennett has more to say. Mean
while Garvice's works are being read by
class Of readers who would have
passed them by had Mr.. Massingham
written the usual pleasant paragraph
when an author "goes west" But Mr
Massingham never does.
Mrs. Humphry Wards death has
started another controversy, nailder, il
is true, but mono the less interesting
For forty years she was an indefati.
gable worker and welded tremendous
influence over a large part Of the
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
Coffin Island
French Mystery Tale Full
Of Horrors

7 Is difficult to imagine story more
crowded with horrors than "The
Secret Of Sarek," by Maurice Le-
blanc (Macaulay). During the greater
part of the book villain whose char
acter represents a happy compound Of
criminality and lunacy holds full sway.
A little island off the coast of France
is thrown into an ecstasy of terror;
people are shot and drowned; women
are crucified by agents who seem to
como from the devil himself.
And then, just when it seems as if
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25
For the Spenser Reader

Speaking of "a Subject Index to
the Poems of Edmund Spenser" (Yale
University Press), by DR.. c. H. Wbi..
man, George F. Eaton, secretary of
the Connecticut Academy of Arts and
Sciences, says: ITO casual reader
Of Spenser, like myself, the work has
real value"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-25

er's cramp, but in his book "Politicians
on the War Path" there are no evil
dences Of his ailment He has a dis
concerting way Of digging into his files
and reproducing some quotation to
confound the statesmen of Britain.
Though he has few kind things to say
Of Lloyd Georges handling of Bit
ish interests at the Peace Conference,
his greatest criticism is Of the Liberal
government at the. outbreak of the war,
when Mr.. Asquith kept Lord Haldane at
the War Office though Lord Kitchener
was available. Mr.. Maxse is a vigoruos
opponent Of political claptrap, sharp,
but friendly critic of America and q
consistent supporter Of Anglo-French
relations.
Philip Gibbs, whose correspondence
from the British front won him a
knighthood, is one of the most popular
Of the many war writers. His latest
war book ranks high among the best
sellers.
j. L. Garvin, the editor of "The OBJ
server" has undertaken the heavy task
of writing the life of Joseph Chamber
lain. He is we'll qualified to handle this