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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON.
HOME BREW

I made a keg of home brewed ale,
with raisins, yeast and water, and
now I'm in the county jail, where
reasons prone to totter. / made five
gallons of the truck to show that 1
could do it; 1 drank three quarts
and ran amuck, and here I am, be-
shrew it! My head is out of shape
on top, my brow is swelled and hilly,
for there the outraged village cop
assailed me with his billy. When I
get out, some five years hence (this
fact 1 put some stress on), I'll try to
brew no Old Stone Fence-I will
have learned my lesson. 1t does not
pay to fool the law, in measure
small or greater, for punishment is
all you draw-it gets you soon OIL
later. A lot of laws give me a pain,
I'm tempted to defy them; but In
the hours when I am ane I guide my
footsteps by them. We cannot pick
ind choose the laws that we'll OBJ
serve and cherish; we can't approve
n with our jaws, and say the next
must perish. We have to take them
as they come, and not behave like
cutters, and IL we find that some
are bum, we bravely take u Bit
ters. The laws against all forms of
booze, and when my stretch is end
ed, I will compound no home made
brews of yeast and raisins blend
ed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
THE corr CLUE.

Asbury Park announces that nine
holes OF the new golf course being
laid out there win be ready for use
by July Is. This reminds us that a
movement was started in this city a
few months ago to organize a country
club. Enterprising men secured an
option on a most attractive piece of
property and were ready to go ahead
once they were assured of the back
ing of a sufficient number OF people
in the city to make the club a sue
cess.
That there is considerable senti-
ment in favor of a golf club here is
evident from remarks heard on all
sides, but there seems to be a hesi-
fancy on the part of men to sign up.
Nothing has been heard about the
project Of late. Unless there is more
enthusiasm shown the movement is
likely to die.
1t cannot be for a lack Of money
that the organization does not make
better progress. Only $4,000 is ask
ed to launch the project. Judging
from the way the city subscribed
500, 900 for the new Y. NJ. H. A.
building recently there are men with
Sufficient means to put up required
amount if they are really interest
ed. Naturally, if more progress is
not made the only inference is that
there is lot sufficient interest. OF
course, if the people of Perth Amboy
do not want a golf club Of their own,
that is all there is to it. It will be a
long time before a better opportunity
is offered.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
EXPRESSION OF GOOD WILL.
The EVENING NEWS has recei

The EVENING NEWS a receive
ed many congratulations and good
wishes since moving into its new
home. but none of the sentiments
thus expressed have been more ap-
preciated than the following from
cur esteemed contemporary up the
river, the New Brunswick Home
News:
1.-THE congratulations of the Daily
Home News are cordially extended to
its contemporary down the river, the
Perth Amboy Evening News. on It's
handsome new quarters and on the
new dress that the publication has
assumed, and best wishes are offered
for q continuance of this progressive
development.
"As a newspaper, the Evening
News has always occupied a leading
position. While it has differed at
times with the policies of the Home
News that difference has been an
honest one on both sides, and the
attitude of the down-river paper has
always been straightforward and
progressive.
with it's new building, the Eve
ming News has still further POSSIBLE
tiles opened up for future develop
ments and accomplishments, and it
has the heartiest wishes of its con
temporary here for continued success
and accomplishment"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
mNApPrN THE WORST.

Since several cases of kidnapping
have been reported in different parts
Of the country recently attention has
been directed to the kind of punish
ment that should be prescribed for
one found guilty of such a crime. A
philadelphia newspaper remarks that
there are degrees of crime, but kid.
l1.apling hits zero" There is no DOUBT
ABOUT this. kidnapping is worse than
E9roer. A par ant would rather know
ne child was dead than to live week
q ec week in the suspense that fol-
lows kidnapping. not knowing what
has befallen the little one
TT is utterly impossible" says the
Elizabeth Journal in commenting on
the matter, for those who have not
passed through the ordeal to realize
the depths of anguish experienced
by parents Of a child that has been
kidnapped" The effect on the child,
too, is terrible to contemplate.
Murder is punishable by death.
Nothing short of death should be the
punishment for a person found guilty
of deliberately stealing another's
child. AS the Elizabeth Journal says,
there would be a less number of
kidnappings. perhaps. If the same
penalty were had for It as for crimes
of manslaughter."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

New York newspapers complain
because the Democratic party in that
<reat state invariably sends the boss
Il Tammany Hall to the national
D~nventions as the spokesman for the
Nv York delegation. Zone would
Ink" says the Evening Post, that
ecent Democrats Of this city would
|4come 30 thoroughly disguised with
continual exhibition of gutter
les that once in four years at
|fhey would rise in their wrath
xrest control of the party ma
1n<ry from the dirty hands that
.dsp It. And what Is the matter with
o-5<ate Democret > Are they so
bcply awed by Tammany's sway
We the metropolis that they cannot
ser1 themselves to save the honor
,f their party7'
Hat what higher standard can the
c1moeracy Of New Jersey show7 The
14f<e4<ion fvom this state at San
r8nelsco j. headed BY none other
~ the unspeakahle Jim Nngent,
<hs Recognized spokesman for
Jersey - Mayor Frank Hague.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Friday, July 2, 1920.
Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
A~strologers read this as a doubt
full day. Saturn and Mars r both
strongly adverse, while Jupiter is In
benefc aspect in the evening.
Through the summe the mortal
ity among the aged will be unus-
ually high. Just as war years call
ed young men, so these months viii
seem to muster out the old.
Although the end OF many lives
that have marked a long span of ex-
perience may come in the next few
months, there will be men and wo-
men past the half century mark who
will seem to take on new youth.
Gradually adjustments to the de-
mands of the new era will be ap-
parent, the fall elections demon
strating national changes and nation
al progress.
Late today there should be a slim
Iulation in the stock market. Jupiter
is in a place that is held to be most
fortunate for business and CONNER
cial interests.
Building and construction OF all
sorts will focus attention at this
time when a new invention or de-
Vlc0 may meet q great need.
There is a sign interpreted as fore
shadowing reactionary tendencies
that seem to fout Mars and the re-
suits of the world war.
Crops will be backward and far
mers' wives will be much con-
cerned over some unusual condition
affecting the home.
Hospitals appear to be under a di-
rection of the stars indicating stress
of work for all connected with them
and need of money for development
or extension efforts. Financial ext
gencies will cause anxiety to noted
surgeons and physicians.
Warning is gwen again that cpl
denies are to be prevented by the
most stringent enforcement of san
ithry laws.
Persons whose birthdate it 10 may
have an unsettled year in which
changes should be made cautiously.
Children born on this day may be
self-willed and hard to manage.
These subjects of Cancer T likely
to be restless and changeable, but
very industrious.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
THE FIRST ENLISTMENT
(From the American Legion
WEALTHY

weekly
1.-The fifty-six Americans who af-
fixed their signatures to the docu-
ment that brought the United States
into being. were not INDUCING In
pretty verbal camoufiage when, in
the climatic last sentence of that
stirring manifesto, they pledged to
each other their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honor in
support of the cause of independ-
ence.
They were not a hot-headed
group of stripping enthusiasts who
had not yet learned to shave. The
youngest among them was a South
Carolina lawyer named Edward
Rutledge, not yet turned twenty
seven, and his immediate senior,
Thomas Lynch, Jr., another South
Carolina lawyer, was a month and
a day behind that same milestone.
Eldest among them all was a be-
nign statesman well on toward sew
enty-one and who had begun life
as a printer-one Benjamin Frank
lin. The average age of all the
signers was more than forty-four,
almost a score of years greater than
the average among Americas sons
of 1918.
And the signers were substantial
citiZens-men to whom an unequiv-
ocal pledge of their fortunes. in the
hard-headed of land and
money, was no idle offer. Twenty
six of them were lawyers. eight
merchants, seven farmers and
planters, six physicians-persons of
parts and of property.
THAT first enlistment did not call
for spiral leggings, gas masks or
reveille. But it did call for the same
essential willingness to bear true
faith and allegiance to the United
States of America which nearly five
million other Americans were to
pledge more than one hundred and
forty years later-and which, out
of uniform though they now are,
their own sacred honor binds them
to maintain"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

OF Jersey CITY. whose biathcrs.siting
speech ii this city last faa drove
some Of his hearers from the hall
Why do not the decent Democrats.
as the Evening Post asks. rise IN
their wrath and wrest control Of the
rarty machinery from the dirty
hands that grasp it?"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
PRIVATE PARTY.

About the funniest thing the cam
paign has yet produced is the first
page editorial in the Hearst news
papers yesterday calling for the de-
feat of Wilson and his private
party" When Hearst becomes in
dignant over what he believes to be
the private party" of any one man
it is to laugh. The only private
party Hearst believes in is his own.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
IN EXCISE BOARD.
Editor EVENING NEWS:

With your permission through
your valuable paper I would ask the
governing body OF u city why the
excise board are not legislated out
of Office since the Volstead act be-
came a law Jan. 16. 1920 and the
Supreme Court of the United States
approved IT, it is now time for the
city fathers to act in this matter.
Surely the voters do not want them
there for the granting OF licenses to
pool parlorE This could be done by
the Board OF Aldermen. Get busy
Mr.. City Attorney. H. K
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Governor Edwards. in explaining
summary removal of the MEM
= Of the State Highway Commits
bn. gives as one of his reasons that
be meetings Of the board have
ZEN frequently given over to poIiti-
animus." Whatever the governor
Jay have thought of the meetings
board the public is pretty
ghly convinced that political
Is what has prompted the
or to act as he has.
n the very outset the over
Eged on at first by his former
al manager, the late George Z.
Flee, has been after the scalp
majority of the commissioners.
eason given is that Blakeslee
Fas also a member of the COM
ns could not dictate the policy
board. The patent pavement
seemed to be particularly
d. especially after the commits
had adopted concrete as the
ard for all highway construc-
o governors fiimsy excuse for
ring until this date his action in
moving the commissioners will not
1nyince those who have been fol-
|wing the matter. He says he was
ring the board time to prove that
y were right and he was wrong in
policy assumed in the matter of
d construction and maintenance.
the governors mind was made
B IN this regard long ago and his
for springing the surprise at
y time may well be questioned.
me public in general has approved
policy of the present highway
adhesion. It has approved con-
|ts as the 5andard for a perma-
kt road bed. 1t has approved open
hpetition in the bidding. At the
n outset the commission won the
pddence OF the people by selecting
neral Goethals. of Panama canal
ia - the state highway engineer.
peral Goethals chose as his first
slant the man who had worked
b him 50 efficiently in building the
al. The state was in a fair way
getting FIRST class service, but
, of the politicians, including
oslee of the Hudson county
Dcratie ring, were disgruntled.
sslee backed Edwards for gov
+ and when Edwards was elect
me of the first attacks was upon
Highway commission, no doubt
by at the instigation of Blake
After Blakeslee's death the gov
% kept up the agitation culminat-
! IA yesterdays dismissal.
are not disputing anything that
~ said as to the fitness of the men
'vernor Edwards has named to
30 place of the commissioners he
. 10 snmmarily dismissed, but the
OF the governor and his
lo1e attitude in the matter is dis
|keful TO people who believe in
%. eficient government. It smacks
the cheapesf Kind of politics. 1t
unfair to those who have served
} state wen without compensa-
That the governor has the power
oust the whole board there is no
ubk. Il his action is allowed to
nd Il will be interesting to note
kind OF material that is hereafter
IN the building of the state
;hsays. The patent pavement men
to pull very strongly with every
her board that has the awarding
paving contracts; the question
v arises whether their popularity
j now increase with the State
ghway Commission.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

The difference between camou-
nage and bunk Is that bunk never
fools anybody.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
History Slightly Jazzed.

King Henry VIII of England was
born 429 years ago. The dope on
Henry is that he was a model youns
man and kept in the straight and
narrow until he was t~hirty-six, when
he suffered an acute attack of Reno
fever, with consequent relapses
from time to time. Whenever he
relapsed his current wife ran into
a spell of hard luck that usually
ended in death. Henry was not as
bad as he might have been. but
where did he spend those thirty-six
years?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

The safest course Is to believe
everything each Of the parties says
about the other.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

In many particulars a political
convention is very like a wake. But
it doesn't shed any tears for the dead
ones.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

The American idea or humor is ex-
aggeration. That explains why the
price Of sugar Is 50 funny.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Too many people think the blare
OF tin horns will put the government
on a sound basis.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

kvENIN0 NEWS Is always glad to
romnunications from its readers.
ttrs intended for publication must
Enable In length and must be signed
name and address OF the writer. II
"a the name will not be published
PERSONALITIES are INDUCED In.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01
Daily cope
Friday. July 2. 1920.

The stars incline, but do not COM
pei"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

"A labor shortage, get that bo %
Said Kansas Jim to One Eyed Joe.
Work can't be Tor too short for
me.
There amt no shortage / kin see,
And If there was. why burn my
ears
1T wouldn't mov me none to tears
Say. Just how short can labor get :?
"B'gosh, / haven't labored yeti"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

It's possibly true in a sort of a way
That Mozo is cannibalistic.
He may eat his fellows. but not ev-
cry day,
And then to an urge dietistie.
But. II on occasion he knocks of
a foe,
Or butchers a baby for food,
Remember and envy, as hot
breezes blow,
That Moor goes perfectly nude.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Other cities may boast of their
population of their industries, their
what-nots. but
Washington, D. c.. brags about
the number OF graveyards.
Washington has 80 cemeteries,'
exnlts the Washington Times.
Not to make mention of the dead
ones stored in the capitol
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Sugar" elucidates an agricultu-
raj expert. els found in the sap of
nearly 200 hundred trees and plants
Magistrate Booth. London, Eng.
fined a young woma for serenading
beneath the window OF her sweet
heart.
1T used to be the troubadour
who did the serenading," he said,
but now the girl does it."
Well, why shouldn't she? Is, or
isn't this the day OF equal rights?
Miss Nyma scabert, pretty dancer
has sued a Hinton. w. Va, hotel
proprietor because she barked her
knee on the elevator. thus making
to be the drawing card II used 10 be.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

But there is a ray of sunshine
hiding back of every cloud even
the housing shortage. All one needs
do is hunt for ii.
Tom Duff found one: ''The
fewer houses the fewer lawns to
NOW in hot weather and the fewer
furnaces to tend in cold weather"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-01

Squire Abner Harpington says
there aren't enough houses for peo-
pie to live in because so many peo-
pie are living in automobiles.
The squire also expresses the
opinion that there'd be a lower cost
Of living if there were more chicken
houses in dwelling houses back
yards.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
NEED HALF BILLION
TO FINANCE ROADS
RAIL HEADS ARE ASKING FOR
IMMENSE SUM TO PURCHASE .
NEW EQUIPMENT.
Serious and General Car Shortage
Exists and Roads Have Been
Unable to Borrow Money on
Their Own Credit.

Washington. Railroad executives
have asked congress for an additional
$500 100000 with which to buy rolling
stock during the coming year.
Appearing before the senate inter.
state commerce committee on May 8
representatives of the railroads de.
clared that serious and general car
shortage existed through the middle
west and that they were unable to
borrow money on their own credit for
freight cars needed to remedy the sit.
uation.
Samuel Rea, president of the Penn
sylyania system, speaking for the
roads, said that the government, il IL
furnished the money, should take
equipment trust certificates for securi-
ty and hold them until they could be
sold advantageously to general inves-
tors.
Some idea Of what the roads needed
In the way of equipment was given
the committee by Il. n. Brown, chair
man of the st. Louis & San Francisco
railroad, who declared the present
shortage amounted to 228,OO0 freight
cars, $3.50 locomotives and 5000 pas
senger cars. He believed they could
get along for a time with 100000
freight cars and 1000 locomotives, the
total cost of which was estimated at
s816,0O0,O00.
Mr.. Brown testified that the car
riers had paid as high as IA per cent
Interest on equipment funds in the
open market and finally had been told
that Sl50,000,0O0 was all that could
be borrowed for that purpose.
Western railroads need an additional
$780,, $685. TO bring their net income
up to the 6 per cent on their prop
erty investment of $S,963, $50, 900 pro-
yided by the transportation act, the
interstate commerce commission was
informed by Samuel NJ. FELTON, of Chi
cago, chairman of the western execu-
tive rate committee
TO provide this sum, freight rates in
the territory west of the Mississippi
must be increased "A per cent, he said
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
MAY FORCE SALE OF
FORMER HUN LINERS
SHIPPING BOARD DENIED DIRECT
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
ENSUING YEAR.
Thls Action OF Congress May Result in
Failure TO Rseondition German
Ships ard Cause Them TO be
Sold at Sacrifice.

Washington BY strict party votes
the house on Alay approved the pro.
vision In the sundry civil appro.
priations bill. which the administra-
ton officials admit win force the sale
Of the former German liners and ships
owned BY the shipping board as soon
as the merchant marine act, now pend
lEg. becomes law.
The bin denies any direct appropri-
atoms FOR the shipping board actiy-
titles during the ensuing fiscal year
and. according 20 the Democrats, au-
ihorlzes the expenditure from receipts
which are entirely inadequate.
The effect Of this, II is believed,
viii be that the German ships cannot
be reconditioned as urged by the ship
ping board and that these vessels, with
many others owned by the board, viii
have 10 be thrown ON the market and
sold al sacrifice prices as soon as au-
thority for the sale is conferred upon
the board
Representative Byrnes. Democrat,
South Carolina. offered two amend
ments designed TO meet this situation.
Both would have appropriated the
amount needed by the shipping board.
$leT loo0,5o0. and required that re-
ceipts Of the board should be paid into
the treasury.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
FRENCH DECIDE TO
ASK HEAVY PENALTY
WOULD FIX SUM OF GERMAN
PREPARATIONS AT NOT LESS ~
THAN 100 BILLION MARKS.
Limit That American Experts Report
ed They Found Germany Able 70
Pay May be Demanded
by France.

Paris.-Premier MilIerand is going
to London to confer with David Lloyd
George, the British prime minister, re-
garding financial questions. 1t is ex-
pected an agreement will be reached
with regard to execution of the repara-
tons clauses of the treaty of Yer
sailles.
The premiers will also agree on the
basis of the discussions to be held with
the German representatives at the Spa
meeting on May %.
The French viewpoint is that they
will not discuss the principle of any
clause of the treaty and will take up
with the Germans only the manner of
applying the treaty's terms. t.
What practically amounts to a modi-
fication of the PREPARATIONS clause will
be discussed in the form of proposed
minimum and maximum totals of re-
parations.
The French probably will not accept
lower minimum than 100000, 100000
marks gold, but are likely to consent
10 Tlxlng the maximum reparatiOn pay
able by Germany at 15O,O00,O0O 900
marks, which was the limit the Amer
lean experts reported they found Ger
many able to pay.
The minimum sum may be divided
into annuities of 3,000,OO0OOO marks,
as discussed at San Reno.
The conference of ambassadors Mon
day morning decided to postpone the
plebiscite in the Teschen district of
Silesia for two months. The balloting
to decide the nationality of the region
will occur on July II.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
League Budget Million and Quarter

Washington. - The budget of ex-
penses of the league of nations from
its organization up to July will total
approximately $1,250,000. The fig,
ures will be presented to the league
council at Rome. This sum includes
both direct and indirect expenditures,
the latter covering preliminary costs
of numerous commissions and other
bodies, and the total represents the
complete organization period of the
league machinery.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-14
Iowa Senator Makes Charges.

Washington. Major General Woods
presidential candidacy was the vehicle
for another shower of fireworks In
the senate, Friday, when Senator Ken
yon, Republican, Iowa. charged that
the DUPONT interest virtually had
threatened to attack the Wood boom
unless Senator Moses of New Hamp-
shire, one Of the generals campaign
managers, desisted in his opposition
to the pending bin to protect the
American dyestuff industry.