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The Delta independent., 1921-02-25

Christian Science Society.
The subject for Sunday, February
9th will be Christ Jesus"
The Delta independent., 1921-02-25

Haptt8t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21

Can a mar love two women al
the same timer" asks a writer. Not
if they find it out.
A seventy-year-old fellow name
"Braverman" saves three from ~
burning building. First name ought
to be Some"
Come on back, summer. We didn't
mean what we said about YOU.
1t is too easy to feel rich on Dor
rowed. money.
Let's make the naval holiday safe
and sane-no fireworks.
Hardly any of these rocks on the
matrimonial sea are cradle rocks.
A little kindness has to so a lone
ways because the supply is short.
Only eight months since June and
some of the young couples are
nearly out of debt.
Best way to get rid of your duties
is to discharge them.
We are working our heads off for
posterity' and posterity hasn't done
a thing for us.
If that, expedition finds the top OF
Mt. Everest it will be. a fine placef4T
put the Arbuckle case. Y
Increase in Russian poetry shox
she goes from bad to verse.
Congressman ought to make Swell
movie comedies; they go through
lots of foolish motions.
Wish Ford was more numerous.
Mexico reports a big volcano erup-
ton. At first it was thought to be
an old-time election.
One reason o sons don't re-
turn TO the old homestead is they
can't lift the mortgage, father.
The longest and shortest day we
have is the one before payday.
If some people could be two
places at once. both places would
be picture shows.
Do your ~resoluting early.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
NEW JERSEY AS a MANUFACTURING STATE

New jerseys greatness as a manufacturing state i
emphasized in a booklet just published by the Stale Depart
ment of conservation and development. While known as
the 'Garden State, New Jersey has become a great hive oil
industry. The state ranks first in railroad mileage in pro-
portion to land area. 1t carries two and one-half times as
much invested capital per square mile as New York which
is the leading industrial state in total values.
1.-THE presentation of these facts and comparisons,
the department says, SIS made for the purpose of exhibiting
New Jerseys unequalled advantages for many kinds of in
dustries." 1t suggests as a slogan: when establishing a
factory, think of New Jersey"
New Jersey has reason TO be proud of its standing as a
manufacturing state, but it must look to its laurels if it
Would uphold its record. To go on attracting new industries
The states system of taxation has got to be re-organlzed.
To continue the present practice of furnishing industry
through increased taxes every time it desires o grow, and
jumping assessments on its productivity every year or two,
is bound to have its effect to the detriment of the state.
The new methods of taxing industries that have been
adopted in some cities in Pennsylvania and that are in vogue
in Baltimore and in several other places throughout the
country, are not only winning the new industries, but are
even drawing away from New Jersey some of those that have
been established here.
Under the Baltimore method, for instance, factory
buildings and machinery are exempt from taxation and the
burden is placed on the land. Thus the man who put up a
factory building on his land is not Immediately penalized
for so doing. The benefit that he is doing the community
is recognized. But the tax on his land is the same as before
he built. Likewise, the fellow who permits his land to lie
idle and unproductive is assessed the same as the man who
has a factory on his land. Thus it becomes advantageous
for the man with the idle land to erect a factory building also
so that he may have an income therefrom.
Naturally, industries are attracted by such a proposition
because once their land is secured they can go on building
and enlarging to their hearts content. New machinery and
everything else may be added without increasing the taxes,
is based entirely on the land.
The success of this method of taxation in many of the
fastest growing cities is well worthy of consideration by
New Jersey. 1t is apparent that the states standing as a
manufacturing center depends large on what attitude the
state assumes on this matter within the next few years.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
cIry,s CONTRIBUTION FOB U SERVICE

There are many interesting items in the proposed tax
budget both as to resources of the city for the coming year
and the expenditures. One of the most interesting is that in
reference to the auto buses. We find among the anticipated
resources for the coming year 1000 which the city ex-
poets to receive from "bus receipts presumably in the way
of the percentage of fares collected by the buses.
Among the appropriations, however, we find 81, 600 for
auto buses for the coming year. This evidently, is to pay the
salaries of the starters and other expenses in connection with
seeing that the buses are operated properly.
1t is evident, therefore, that besides helping to longest
traffic on our streets and wearing out our pavements, the
buses are costing the taxpayers 5000 a year more than is
derived from them, although it may be that a part of the
$500 that the city expects to receive from miscellaneous
licenses comes from the buses. But even granting this it is
no wonder that the buses can operate with a five cent fare
when the public maintains their right Of way for them and
paws ST, 600 in addition to see that they are properly opera
led. If the buses were compelled to pay all these expenses
themselves and pay the city for the privilege of operating in
The bargain there might be a different story to tell.
1t is significant that the second largest income for the
CITY among the resources for the coming year is $4,000 in
The way of a franchise tax. This tax is revenue received by
the city from the various public utility concerns operating
here, including the trolley lines. Not only do the trolley com
panies contribute a large share Of this $685. 900 to the city
treasury, but they also have to pave between the rails and
FOR eighteen inches outside of the rails on all streets where
trolley cars operate.
The facts thus brought out by the proposed city budget
emphasizes the partially shown by the municipalities IN
favor of the buses. 1t helps to explain why the buses can
successfully compete with the trolleys, charging only a five
cent fare while the trolleys charge eight cents.
The Evening News hold no brief for the trolley COM
panies, but it cannot understand why the taxpayers should
contribute so largely out Of their own pockets to maintain
a bus service when they not only contribute nothing to the
trolley companies, but expect the troleys, in addition to
paying their franchise tax, to help maintain the pavement on
The streets on which they operate and also sprinkle the
streets in the summer time as well. 1t is entirely too much
Of a one-sided proposition for anyone who desires to be fair
in the matter
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
PUBLIC OPINION
WHAT is WRONG WITH THE
WORLD? y

EDITOR EVENING NEWS,
The above is a question the solu-
ton of which has occupied the
minds of the greatest men of every
age. Casually speaking there IS
nothing at al wrong with the woric,
but there is a something radically
wrong with "a great many of the peo-
pie in the world today. as well as in
past generations.
We have had strife and warfare
from the lightning and all signs
point to the same probability as re-
CARDS the Suture. Universal Justice
is something almost beyond human
comprehension ana without this
farmula it seems apparent thar
strife and warfare will ever be the
lot If mankind.
Take for Instance the late horrible
war. What caused it? Simply an
imperialistic desire for power to
dominate the trade on land and sea.
Nations were allied in leagues to
further thor interests. All Europe
was armed 10 the teeth years before
the match was struck and 1t mat
tered little who struck the match
hat was to set the world ahame.
We were dragged into the affair, lead
10 believe il was a fight fof humanity
for democracy. 1t was bad enough
to be fooled. but rather more sur
prising to Know that a large number
of our people st:ll think that the
late diabolical slaughter was really
staged in the interest of democracy
and fer humanity.
Nations are ever now repairing
their fences. The League of Ma
tions purely a Wilson nostrum was
killed in the senate and repudiated
by American manhood and Amerl-
. can womanhood at-the polls by a
majority that left no room for doubt
as to where the peoplt stand as re-
CARDS entangling alliances. The
League of Nations is a mere joke.
1t has existed for " years and has
accomplished nothing as is shown by
the present G.sarms ment conference
which is rothing more than a re-
viva of DR.. Wilson'S scheme under
The innocent guise Of an association
Of nations as propounded by the
adroit Mr.. Hughes. Neither of these
prescriptiors will rid the world OF
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
BLOOD PRESSURE
COMMON SENSE WAYS TO KEEP WE'LL

The blood pressure of a baby I'M
der n year is about 20. 1t rises a
few points each year and reaches
100 at about ten years.
There are some who have a low
blood pressure as a normal condi-
ton. Such are in a state hypnoten-
sion.
In tuberculosis blood pressure is
low. Those with great experience
say that a low blood pressure is an
early symptom of tuberculosis and
mat often the pressure rises and not
until 1T rises is the disease arrested.
Further, they say that tuberculosis
is prone to develop in people with
low pressure and that it rarely de-
veiops in those with high pressure.
In typhoid fever blood pressure is
dow. 1t falls a little each week. This
tendency is especially noted in those
who are going into the typhoid state
the stage of low muttering, de-
lirium and feeble vitality. If dur
ing the course of the disease the
pressure dSops suddenly, look out
for internal hemorrhage.
During a hemorrhage, internal or
external. in which a pint or more of
blood is lost, the blood pressure
drops sharply 80 TO 40 points. At
once the fluids begin to drain into
the blood and the pressure is re-
stored within a few hours.
In apopleXy the amount of blood
escaping into the brain is never
large. and in consequence the blood
pressure does not drop.
We have had inquiries as to how
the asthma of heart disease and
Bright's can be distinguished from
hay fever. Among other differences
is the difference in blood pressure.
In heart and kidney asthma the
blood pressure is about right for the
age of the sufferer. In profound ane-
mia the blood pressure is low. a
moderate dose of toxins will cause
a lowering of tension.
Amy condition which dilates the
blood vessels in the abdomen and
thus depletes those in the arms and
legs will lower blood pressure.
Taught says:
I'm general 1t may be said that
lowered blood pressure is of little
significance except after hemorrhage
or during surgical shock"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
MONT BLANC: APEX OF EUROPE

Mont Blanc undoubtedly remains
the apex of Europe in spite of the
loss of a part of it's top in a gigantic
snow and land slide as reported in
press dispatches" say a bulletin is
sued by the National Geographic
Society. This great mountain led
it's nearest European competitor for
altitude, Monte Rosa, by So feet.
Though actual measurements of the
loss in height by Mont Blanc may
not be made for some time, esti-
mates so far are that it has lost only
some scores of feet a loss which
still permits it proudly to rear its
head far above all other pinnacles OF
the earth's crust west of the Cauca-
Sus.
Mont Blanc, the White Noun
tain is the westernmost of the great
peaks that form the Pennine Alps,
which include in their length of
about fifty miles such well known
features as Monte Rosa, the Matter
horn, the Great st. Bernard Pass,
and Mont Blanc itself. Mont Blanc
lies on the border between Italy and
France. About ten miles to the
northeast. also on the crest of the
PENNIES, is the common corner Of
France, ItaN and Switzerland. The
towering White Mountain is easily
visible in fair weather from Geneva,
seat of the League of Nations, sixty
miles to the west.
A Mountain of Variable Height
Mont Blanc has beer accepted as
extending 1912 feet above sea level
Just SIS feet short of three miles.
AS a matter of fact its height has
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
THE REsOURCEFUL SHOPPER DESCRIBED

street. The eason for this is thai
a woman about to make a purchase
will usually price the desired article
in at least three places and then buy
in the cheapest market, whereas the
man will probably buy in the first
place he enters if the salesman there
knows his business a all.
1t is also easy to see that a woman
will take more trouble to make her
purchases. In department stores the
mems furnishings are always on the
first floor. They have to be. Men
will not sc TO an upper floor in
search OF Wnat they want. But the
women's furnishings are always or
an upper floor, while the first floor
is devoted to a lot of small articles
that every woman needs. SO hat she
will see thea and buy them in pass
ing.
Despite her greater determination
and resourcefulnesJ as a shopp< it
cannot be said that the woman comes
off much letter than the man in
the buying If ready -to-wear clothes.
On the other hand Vcmen's CT hes
generally seem TO be a little higher
than mems. There are two principal
reasons for this. In the first place,
woman is a gooI deal more a slave
to fashion than man. She must have
the latest thing right away. no mat
ter what it costs. Likewise the mer-
chant must sell the latest thing
while it is still late. or never. What
is left oyer is mostly loss. So he
has to charge a high price.
Mems styles in suits change every
year, but there ara few men who
hesitate to wear a suit three years
old if it is still in passably good con-
dition. Men who buy tailored
clo'hes usually have them cut by
the same patterns year after year.
The tailor may introduce some min
or changes as a concession to fash
ion. but the average man is conser
vative in that matter. Furthermore,
if the price is too high, a man will
not buy at all. He will make the old
suit do. But not SO woman. She
must have a new me-.
There are many different factors
in the making OF high retail prices,
but mans laziness and woman's
vanity are undoubtedly two constant
ones.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21

WASHINGTON Dec. 21.-The
| outstanding fact about the retail
market these days is the variation
YOU can discover in the price asked
| for exactly the same article in dli-
ferent stores.
Some retailers are apparently try
ing to stand pat on war time prices
while others are trying TO build up
their trade and hasten the turnover
by selling at the lowest prices they
can. No doubt, too, the retail price
varies wide;y because the Wholesale
prices, at which goods now in stores
were bought. also vary. Some re-
tailers have goods in stock bought
at war TINS wholesale prices, ana
they are holding them for a price
that will give them at least thelf
money back. Others. who bought
more cautiously, haze the same ar
I ticles purchased a some lower rate.
Whatever the reasons for this va
| riety of prices or the same article
it certainly exists and 1t creates an
unusual opportunity for the re-
sourceful and determined shopper TO
lind what ne is locking for at a low
price. incidentally the fact that in
the same town the same article IS
sold for three or four different prices
shows thai most people are not re-
%sourceful and determined shoppers.
While constantly protesting against
hign prices, they. as a rule, taIneiy
nav WhatCVtr the retailer demands,
and they make no special effort TO
%DatroniZe the man who offers goods
at a low price They buy where
they are accustomed to buying, and
would rather pay ? few cents or dol
lars more than walk a few blocks
farther. This rs undoubtedly much
more true OF men than of women.
Cigare,tes at Three Prices
Take for example. such a pre-
ponderantly male trade as that IN
tobacco. The most surprising var
iation in the prices charged for the
the same article is observable. In
this city, for example there is a GER
tain brand Of cigarettes which may
be purchased at II. is or 20 cents
a box. TEe-e are just about as many
places selling them a. n price as
at either of the others But all the
places seem TO be doing an equally
good business in them. 1t would
seem that TIE cigarette smoker buys
where he is accustomed to buying
and that a saving of Is per cent is
not enough to induce him to change
his habits. In this case. there is
not much to induce the retailer to
lower his price. If a low price
brought a flood of trade and a high
price produced a prompt boycott, it
is extremely probable that the ave-
rage of retail prices would fall.
In another case a brand of trade
marked ana nationally advertised
khaki trousers, widely used by
spOrtsmen, was priced at three diff
ferent stores. The prices were $3.50,
$6.25, and $500. Likewise, a large
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Haskin

: hardware store wanted $3.50 for a
certain hand-ax. which is trade
marked. a smalle~ place sold the
same tool for S1.65. 1t is safe to
say that many more of them are
sold at the higher price than at the
lower.
Sporting goods II an instructive
illustration 0. the shopping habits OF
men, These goods are bought al
most exclusively by men. There are
about 5000 900 such men in ms
country who go aiield, and the in
dustry which caters to their wants is
a large ona. 1t supports, in a typical
city of half a mil';cn people, five or
six stores GeV Qted exclusively to such
goods. The prices charged for these
goods vary from 10 t. so per cent.
The leading store on the principal
retail street always gets more for
exactly the same article than the lit
tie store up a side street. Further
more, a reel which sells for $500 in
the spring is only $3.50 in the fall.
but very few are sold in the fall.
The average sportsman spends
probably al Least half again as much
as he need spend fer his equiv z mt.
He is, in fact. about as careful as a
small boy in q candy store. HIS out
door life represents the kid side of
his nature anyway. When he sees
some shining bit OF equipment that
he likes in a window he runs in and
buys it without question, though he
may pay so per cen more than is
necessary. But a rise of one cent in
the price of gasoline will always get
a howl of rage out OF him, wife to
mention the prices women pay for
clothes IL mis- presence is to inspire
a.phillipic.
The veneer as a matter of fact
are much better shoppers than the
men, and as a result the prices
charged for the things they buy eX-
clusively are much more uniform
than those charged for strictly mas
culine goods. 1t has been noted
that stores catering TO women us
ually run in groups of three. That
is. there alp usually at least three
stores in a city which carry women's
cloaks, and large places are likely to
have three stores Of each distinctive
class, or cn each principal retail
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21

We have been hearing much for
the last year or more about the Pill
grim fathers. The world has heard
orc or less about them for soc
years.
Well. this is the anniversary of the
day on which they landed at Ply
mouth Rock. 1t vas Monday. De-
cember IL. as they reckoned it, but
December 10. according to our cor
rected chronology when the shallop
tied up at the rock.
The first landing had been at
what is now Provincetown, cat the
tip of Cape Cod, on Saturday, No
vember IL, exactly a month before.
The earlier days of the intervening
month they spent in explorations on
foot, while the ships carpenter was
getting the shallop ready for them
to make their longer exploration
along the shore.
The first great American festival
day was established at P~rovincetown
on Monday. Nov. 13. That was
Washing Day. The men wanted to
go hunting and exploring, but the
women determined that there should
be clean clothing on the Mayflower
and they compelled the men to cut
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21
PLYMOUTH ROCK
BY DIR. W. T.. BARTON

erotches and plant them in the
ground and then chop wood and
draw water while the women washed
the clothes.
A weekly washday had not been
known to them either in England or
Holland. washing there was done at
long intervals. But in the ley world
it was not to be So.
But there were no women In the
shaIlop when she landed at Ply
mouth on this day 301 years ago.
They were all left behind.
A few days later the Mayflower
camo to Plymouth; for the men in
the smaller boa returned TO Cape
Cod and told hat they had found a
place of springs and cleared land,
and a sweet brook" flowing into a
convenient harbor, and h May
flower weighed anchor and set sail
for her last trip before the Pilgrims
found their home.
But this day, Dec. 81. 1920. was
that on which the nose of the shallop
bumped against Plymouth Rock and
the first pilgrims set foot upon that
interesting boulder which President
Harding helped to replace last sum-
mer in its original location.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-21

@. When was Christmas first ceie-
brated? G.. $. +.
A.. The beginning of the celcbra-
ton of Christmas as a Christian an
niversary cannot be dated exactly.
The first certain mention of the fes-
| tival is in the reign of the Emperor
Commodus "a. ID. ~1S0-192). Thu
festival is also spoken of in the third
century by Clement of Alexandria.
1t a of course, a celebration COM
memorating the birth of the Son of
God, and was participated in by the
little groups who recognized Christ
as such.
@. Have as many immigrants arr
rived from any country as The law
allows to enter? G.. 7.
a. The years quotas for Greece.
Spain, Jugoslavia, Palestine, Turkey,
Syria and Smyrna are already ex-
hausted.
O.. Please tell me the names of
the different kinds of dogs. J.. N. +.
A. Breeds of dogs rave been va\
riously classified. Modern natural
lists have substantially agreed upon
six groups The latest arrangement
is hat by Windle, based upon the
| shape of the skull and other fea-
, lures. rather than upon form and
function. 1t is as follows: Wolflike
dogs, Greyhounds, Spaniels, Hounds,
J Mastiffs and Terriers.
@. Explain the Six and Six Plan
of school organization. b. o.. Il.
A. The Six and Six Plan of. school
organization is a plan whereby the
education of a child shall be divided
into six years of graded school work,
two years of junior high, and four
q Lit 49, .w~-I -.-1s~.
six of graded work and six of high
rather than eight grades and fou
years in high school.
@. Which is carried on more X
tensiveIy in the West, cattle raising.
or sheep raising? l.. X. /.
A. The cattle industry is more ex-
tensive in the West that sheep ranch
ing. The total farm value of cattle
in the United States for the present
year is estimated at $1.846, 665 900,
| while the total value OF sheep and
wool is estimated at $2SS, $4,000.
@. What was the Battle of the
Rosebud?
A. THE Battle of the Rosebud was
a battle between Federal troops anc
the Indians, fought shortly before
the Custer Massacre. The Sioux,
! were victorious in this encounter
which occurred July Il, 1876 on the
banks of the Rosebud River.
@. What is the typewriting rec
ord? d. G.. w.
A. In a recent typewriting speed
| contest held in New York City,
| George HossfeM made a record OF
131 words per mir. tie for one hour
on an Underwood typewriter. While
other persons have held records OF
a greater number of words per min
ute, the matter which Hossfeld cop&
led was very difficult and more
words were deducted for each error
than in former contests. He is there
fore considered to hold the worlds
speed record in typewriting.
Q. How does the great japanese
battleship Kaga compare with our
U. S. S. Maryland? d. W.sK.
A. The Kaga is unofiicially report
ed to have a length of 700 feet, and
will have a main battery of eight or
ten 16-inch guns. 1t is estimated that
her turbine engines will drive her at
"a knots. The L. S. S. Maryland,
which has been undergoing trial.
carriers eight 16-inch guns in her
main battery. has a length of 624
feet and'a full load displacement OF
8 1850 tons. Her best speed ON tria
was 22.49 knots.