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Evening star., 1921-10-21
HIGHER PAY. IS AIM
OF U. S. EMPLOYEES
Federal Workers Union
Plans Aggressive Campaign
This Winter.

Under the leadership of William ].
Hendricks. newly elected president.
Federal Employees Union. No. 2, will
wage an aggressive campaign this
winter for salary readjustments up
ward for government employees, plac-
ing stress on. the. necessity for the
adoption Of recIassification legisla-
tion.
Retention of the bonus now granted
most government workers will be
urged as an alternative to salary re-
adjustments. but only as a secondary
measure following the refusal Of Con-
gress to do anything in the matter
OF reclassification, MIR. Hendricks in
dicated today.
1t will be manifestly unfair for the
government to refuse to readjust SAL
aries and then turn around and take
even the bonus away. the new presi-
dent of the big local union believes.
While workers in general do not ap-
prove of the theory of the bonus. ac-
Evening star., 1921-10-21
INVITATION is DECLINED.
President Tells British He Is Un-
able to Send Bankers to Conference

Invitations to send American repre-
monetary conference called for Decem-
Der 6. at London by British bankers
have been declined by President Hard
Ing. it has become known.
The President is understood to have
informed the British bankers that since
the conference was to be non -otficial in
it's nature he would be unable to desig-
nate representatives from the govern
ment. However. he was said to have
been Of the opinion that financial ex-
perts from private banking institutions
IN this country PROBABLY would be glad
London conference.
Evening star., 1921-10-21
HOUSE DECIDES CONTESTS
Votes Taken on Cases From Penn
sylvania and Missouri,

Without q dissenting vote the House
yesterday threw out the claim of John
P. Bracken Of Pittsburgh, that he
was elected representative at large
seventh Congress.
The House also adopted a resolution
that Representative Harry B. Hawes,
Evening star., 1921-10-21
TAX COLLECTOR RESIGNS.

Receipt of the resignation Of George
F. Crutchley, collector of internal
revenue at Kansas City. Mo-. was an
nopnced today by the internal rev.
enue bureua. No action has been
taken as yet upon the resignation.
officials said.
Evening star., 1921-10-21

democrat. was entitled to retain his
seat az q member of the House from
the eleventh Missouri district.
Evening star., 1921-10-21
RED DANGER LIGHTS
MAY MARK POSTS
D. c. Officials to Make In
quiry Into Safeguarding
viaduct Entrances.

District officials announced today
that they would make inquiry to de-
termine how motorists may be safe
guarded from colliding with the iron
upri ghts of railroad viaducts in va
rious parts of the city.
Capt. John E. Wood. assistant en-
gineer commissioner in charge of the
electrical department. said he would
look into the advisability of placing
small red lights on the posts at the
entrances to these viaducts.
One person was killed about year
ago and number of others have
since been injured as the result of
automobiles colliding with these Via
duct posts.
Posts Painted White.
Following the death, the engineer
department of the District had the
entrance posts painted white. APP
parently there is need for further pro-
lection, since other collisions have
occurred since that action was taken.
Commissioner Oyster. who, as head
of the police department.. supervises
Evening star., 1921-10-21
ORDERED TO ANNAPOLIS.

Lieut.. Commander George s. Gill
lespfe, attached to the U. S. S. Var
nall. has been assigned to duty at the
Naval Academy. Annapolis. 49,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

Jack johnson has come back. looking for
fight. And he'll get 1t. with another knock
out, If he runs afoul OF the law again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
ECONOMY IN BETTER ROADS.

oswego county, New York, announces that
it is now constructing roads which compare
favorably with the recognized excellence of the
state roads. 1t admits that these roads cost q
good deal more than those formerly built. but
the county expects to make up the difference
by saving on maintenance.
The new roads are planned with an eye ahead
TO heavy motor traffic. 1t is expected that they
will stand up under normally increased traffic
and will survive severe winter weather. Only
very slight repairs should be needed for several
years.
Here is wisdom on the part OF both tax
payers and officials. County and municipal gov
ernments all over the country are seeking ways
to curtail expenses. In such times there Is
always the danger that extravaganza will be-
come confused with wise spending, with a con-
seouent loss of true economy. Cheapness and
haste in any sort Of construction, whether OF
roads or buildings or educational work, always
make for extravaganza and waste in the end.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
PAYING THE RAILROADS.

The news that the settlement of the railroad
claims. against the government is near at hand
Il welcome to everyone. The fact that the plan
now under discussion calls for no further con-
gressional appropriation is doubly cheering.
One OF the prime causes for the business
depression has been asserted to be the delay
Of railroads in purchasing needed materials.
This will mean the quickening Of industry in
many lines, the reopening of many closed plants.
The ful-time activity OF many which have been
Oil part time. ,., ~
A certain amount of picking up Is already
noticeable all along the line, but the. improve
ment is not very great or very rapid. The rail-
road payments should do much to accelerate the
upward movement. Even more valuable than
the actual cash in hand, badly as that is needed,
will be the feeling OF confidence inspired by
the fact that the matter Is adjusted, disagree
ments are smoothed out and a definite plan OF
action is adopted. Any person, group or nation
can adjust itself to any concrete. definite order
osSthings. good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant.
II Ii haxiness and indecision which are paralyz'
ing to forward action.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
HOT ENOUGH


It's hot enough for me. my
friends, my once blfthe spirits sag;
my collars wilted at the ends. my
shirt is like q rag; the sun, with
many an angry curve, Is baking land
and set, and I admit. without re-
Serve, it's hot enough for me. Men
see me totter as I walk, all dizzy
with the heat, and they inquire, on
every block. in every glaring street.
u 1t is hot enough for me-they
ask this while I fry: and Pm so
faint / cannot see to make a calm
reply. The mercury is making
flights that cause US much amaze:
the days are torrid and the nights
are hotter than the days; merh wilt
and wither and repeat their prayers
for breezes cold. and he who yearns
for greater heat should have his
head half-soled. Yet ever in the
scorching marts and on the sizzling
plain, bores amble up and break our
hearts with that absurd refrain.
well, is it hot enough?" they ask,
az they go sweating by. and all, it is
q %grievous task to make a calm re-
ply. For in the breast of palsied
age and in the breast Of youth, this
question stirs a Berserk rage. makes
us see red, in sooth. And we would
crush the q~uestioner, expunge him
on the spot and fill his foolish tribe
with fear, but We are too blamed
hot.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
SODA COSTS AND PRICES
BY Frederic j. Haskin.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 25.-The zee
cream soda and nut sundae business 10 very
uncertain these days. Small boys in New YORK
have staged a soda water buyers strike TO 1orce
the return of the hve-cent soda. chicago 's
conducting a campaign to find out the fair rate
for connecting and showing across the counter
one chocolate soda. Providence has already
demanded and obtained reductions on certain
fountain beverages. And If other cities are not
following suit with militant warfare, they are
economizing on drinks to an extent that is being
noticed by the fountain operators.
People are said to be much less reckless TINS
summer in consuming ice cream. That Is. they
are passing up the elaborate connections with
alluring names which a year ago were in great
demand, and are turning to the cheaper drinks.
New York dealers who have been ladling out
5O-cent fountain dishes regularly have had TO
reduce the price of their specials" But even
at fountains where Is and 20 cents Is not dis
dained by the clerks, trade Is said to have
dropped from ten to thirty per cent. this sum-
mer as compared with the same months last
year.
Druggists and confcctioners everywhere are
bordering what to do about fountain prices.
The 10-cent soda is not considered a possiDlhty
by most of them now. 1t is appearing here ana
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

Edward Box is certainly an optimist. He has
offered an annual prize for the citizen doing
the most for Philadelphia. We didn't suppose
anything could be done for Philadelphia.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

A. It Is believed that true por-
celain, as we know it today, appeared
first during the Ming dynasty. This
was established IN the fourteenth
century. but p~orcelains with authen.
tic history probably do not antedate
the fifteenth century.
@. Need a pope be a cardinal
prior to election Pm. e. P.
A. The new pope need not be q
cardinal, he need not be even a priest
but may be q layman. II not already
q bishop he IL ,c%onsecrated and then
comes the great ceremony OF the cor
onation from which he dates his
pontificAte.
@. Was Alexandria. Virginia, ever
part Of the District Of Columbian
c. ID. D.
A. Alexandria, originally called
Bellehaven, wal a part OF the terri
tory coded to the United States in
1889. It was r~etroceded in 1846 and
again became a part OF Virginia In
@. When Is a board a plank? p
A. The Department Of Agricul-
lure QolA1cb u pAdlS dS DOdAu y
inches wide or upwards, having a
thickness between IN inches ana .
inches.
@. What does the expression
ring the bells backward" mean
d. L. s..
A. This refers to an old custom Of
striking chimes in reverSe order as Z
signal OF alarm.
: O.. Can porcupines throw their
quilts and how far?-M. J. D.
A. The quilts ara loosely inserted
in the skin OF a %porcupine and may
upon being violently shaken became
detached but not thrown.
@. What was the name Of the
armed sailing vessel used by the Ma
lay pirates ri. G. X.
A. These. large rowboats, carry
ing two I1asts with high triangular
sails, and armed with q few small
swivel guns. are called gallivats.
@. What IL citronella and from
what is 1t made Pr. T. r.
A. Citronella is the name Of a
fragrant oil imported from Ceylon.
the Malay Peninsula, and Java. A
group Of closely allied grasses pro-
duce this oil. The name Of the grass
Is Andropogen, Nardus. The most Inn
portant ingredients in this oil are
geraniol and. c~itronellal, which to-
gether make up rs much as 93 per
cent OF the oil.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
SEX PREJUDICE.

sex solidarity seems to exist only in imagi-
nation. Take the case of the prominent
murderess who hired assassns to kill her hus-
band.
She insisted on barring all women from the
Jury, and had her way. A disinterested by
stander might suppose that IL men were ever
to hang together, it would be in a case like this,
10 discourage the killing of husbands, ana II
women were ever to hang together, 1t would
be in urging mercy for a In
danger of the death penalty. Yet the women
in that courtroom all had their thumbs down
COR the defendant, just as she knew they would;
and that male jury, finding her guilty because
1t could not do otherwise. saved her life by
recommending mercy. 1t was patent to every
one that the jurors would have sent a man to
the electric chair.
In spite of much opinion to the contrary
are usually men and woman-haters
are usually women. And it's just as we'll, per-
haps, for the progress of the human species.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
THE MESS.

The most obvious thing about the shipping
situation is that the government has lost a lot
of money. Hardly less obvious is the fact that
as long as the government continues in the ship
ping business it is going to keep on losing
money. 1t may lose less than it has been
losing lately, through better management and
better times, but 1t can hardly hope ever to
make the ships pay on the basis of what they
cost, or in fair competition with private enter
prise.
1t is agreed that the government could not
help going into the shipping business, and going
in on a big scale. 1t was one of the necessary
steps to win the war. There had to be a big
fleet of transports and freighters. to take the
American troops across the Atlantic and keep
them supplied, and to replace the heavy war
losses inflicted on allied shipping. Whether 1t
was necessary to pay all that was paid for them
during the war Is now a %proftless question. 1t
Snay be questioned more fairly whether it was
right to continue building and operating ships
long after the armistice, but that. too, is now
past history. and of little profit except as a
lesson for the future.
Downright incompetence is to be exposed and
condemned, wherever 1t may appear. Down.
right crookedness, If any is found, lie to be pun
1shed without mercy. But the outstanding need
Of the present situation Ii to proceed imme-
diately to clean up the whole mess and then
forget It,
Honest debts, whether incurred wisely or un-
wisely, necessarily or unnecessarily, have to be
paid. Let the government pay them. and then
dispose OF the feet on its hands as rapidly as
circumstances permit, merely making sure that
the ships sold will remain under the American
nag Ind that there will be shipbuilding facilities
left II the disposal of the government hereafter
II IL should need them. With all this out of the
way. the government can turn Its attention
probably to things better adapted to govern
c,ental management.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
THE VALUE or TODAY
By DIR. w. e. BARTON

or accelerate the flight of time. The
most he can do is to use well the
time as It IL passing.
Does this sound cheap and plati.
t%udinouB?
It Is platitudinous, It IL common.
place. 1t is something everybody
knows.
Need Repetition
But the things which everybody
knows are the things which need
oftenest to be repeated. They are
the things which we know so we'll
we have half forgotten them.
We all know that the present IL
all the time we have: and most OF
us are using that precious present
in regrets about the past and wor.
ries about the future. !.
Today is the whole OF your life.
Yesterday Is gone and will never
come back. And when tomorrow
comes. 1t will not be tomorrow, but
today.
If you waste today worrying
about tomorrow. you are likely to
waste tomorrow worrying about the
dav after.
Get all the good you can and do
all the good you can today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

Governor Small Of Illinois pleads that the
king can do no wrong" and seems to be getting
away with it. If Kaiser Wilhelm wears out MS
welcome in Holland. he knows now where to 30.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
By DR.. william e. Barton

Fret and worry about 1t as much
Is you like, YOU cannot hasten by
q single second the rise OF tomor-
rows sun.
II worrying, about tomorrow
would bring tomorrow any sooner,
or postpone It, or help to meet it's re-
quirements then 1t would be In Or
der to ask if fretting and worrying
might be worth while.
Even then 1t would have to be
shown that the good done was very
great. for tho cost Of worry 10 large.
1t makes a bad fellow tenant OF
the world. and spoils ones dispose
ton. land deepens the wrinkles that
come soon enough without
Worry hastens wrinkles but does
not hurry the sunrise.
One at a Time
That day. today. the only day we
really have, IL the day we despise.
We are forever discounting the
NOW" for the sake of the "then"
and most OF then" II never"
Every man will do we'll to ramem-
Der that he must take his life one
day at a time. He cannot slacken
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

@. How can a diamond in the
rough be recognized &c. w. B.
A. A diamond in the rough may
be any color, but diamonds in this
state generally have a greasy luster.
Different colors may be seen In the
stone before 1t is polished. II the
stone is fractured, but these colors
are not the colors that are een in
cut and polished stones. The United
States Geological Survey says that a
diamond can only be tested by an ex-
pert.
@. In what English words does
the letter II" have the sound of "v"?
u. J. &.
A. The word "of''~ is the only
English word we f1nd in which "f"'
has the sound OF w."
@. What was the time Of the
Ming dynasty referred to in relation
to g of porcelains?-v. J. c.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25
To QUESTIONS

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington. D.. c. This offer APP
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bureau cannot give advice on legal,
medicinal and financial troubles. II
does not attempt t o settle domestic
troubles. nor to undertake exhaus.
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your question plainly and briefly.
Give tull name int address and en-.
postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

Very likely Brigadier General Dawes got hia
vocabulary from working on family budgets In
the first place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-25

Congress doesn't seem to realize that business
won,t go I'D until federal expenditures and taxel
come down.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Meat Workers Vote Strike 28,796 Favor, 387 Oppose
Walkout Will Await Result Of Conference, However,
 Union Leaders Say.

CHICAGO, March 1S.-Official re- turns in the strike vote of stockyards and packing house workers here and in Omaha. Kansas City and other packing centers of the Middle West show that 2S,796 have voted to walk out unless the packers orders put ting into effect wage reductions and changes in working conditions and hours are rescinded, union officials announced today. Only 3S7 votes against striking were received.
 Union leaders previously had an nounced that no strike would be ordered. however, until the results of a meeting of representatives of employees and packers with Secre tary of Labor James J. Davis at Washington Monday are announced.
 Secretary Davis, who is directing the Governments effort to avert the threatened strike, is understood 70 be working for concessions by each party to the controversy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
NATIONAL UNION BEHIND MINERS
 OF WASHINGTON
United Mine Workers Chief Declares Wage Reduction
 Will Be Resisted.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 1S.-The whole strength of the United Mine Workers of America will be thrown behind the Washington State Coal miners walkout, following wage re- auctions averaging 23 per cent or dered by the operators, John Lewis. president of the mine workers union, declared today.
 Lewis asserted the miners have national contracts which do not ex- pire until next year and that any attempt to reduce miners wages in Washington or elsewhere will meet with the unions most determined resistance.
 Ninety per cent of the commercial production of coal in Washington is said to have stopped as the result of the miners refusal to accept the cut Operators declare cost of op- eratng their mines under present wage scales is prohibitive and they will remain shut down rather than continue it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Hordes Gathering for Rush
 To Fort Norman Oil Fields

EDMONTON. Alberta, March 1S.- Men by the hundreds will be leaving for the new oil fields at Fort Norman soon, according to word received here. Inquiries from all parts of Canada and the United States indi- fields will be one of the heaviest known.
 With the coming of Spring, the Royal Canadian. Mounted Police will drop a barrier they have erected to keep the stampeders off the danger ous winter trails although warning is issued that prospectors must be- ware a shortage of provisions.
 Airplanes, dogs and "Shanks mare are expected to be utilized in win ming a way to the hopedfor riches. Two big all-steel airplanes, fitted with ski-runners as well as wheels. are to be used to transport men and supplies from here to Fort Norman by one company and others are planning similar services. The skis will enable the planes to land on ice and snow.
 Machinery and supplies to be used in half a dozen oil development proj ects in the field are enroute to the end of steel north of here where they will await tn opening of navigation before proceeding farther.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Pioneer Theatrical Man,
 Known Tn Alaska, Dies

VANCOUVER E. C., March IS. George B. Howard, pioneer the atrical man oIi the Pacific Coast, lied here yesterday. Howard was well known in Alaska where he headed a stock company in the early days of the gold rush.
 Old timers now in Juneau, who were in Dawson in the early days, remember Howard as being one of those taking part in the first vaude- vile company to make an appear ance in the Klondike metropolis. Howard also played engagements with his own companies or in in- dividual acts in the vaudeville houses in Juneau, Douglas and Ket- chikan.
 During the past ten years, How ard has been in Vancouver or Seat tie assembling vaudeville acts, prin- cipally girl acts" for road shows, vaudeville circuits or for cafes. Howard, when he worked on the stage, played characters or comedy
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Poles and Lithuanians to
 Confer at Brussels Soon

WASHINGTON. March IS A joiat comittee of Polish and Lithuanian Government delegates under the presidency of M Paul Lyman. rep resenting the League of Nations. will meet at Brussels, mot earlier than one month hence, and endeavor to reach basis of agreement on terri torial, military and economic reid tions between the two Governments, according to announcement by the Lithuanian representative here
 The conference was decided upon. it was said, after abandonment of the plebiseite in the Wilma region and the cancellation of the plan for sending an international party to maintai norder during the ple5is- cite
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Jap Bank in Sacramento
 Closes Without Authority

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18.-- The Nippon Bank of Sacramento, California, owned and managed by Japanese, has closed it's doors with out authority to do so and 2 search ing investigation by state banking officials has be2N started
 Charles Stern. State Superintend- ent of Banks. today declared that the incident is sample of general ,'esults occurring where Japanese have engaged in the banking busi- ness in California"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Lindeberg's Extradition
 Sought by Tacoma Police

TACOMA, Wash, March 1S.-A deputy sheriff today was enroute for San Francisco 10 make demand upon California authorities for the drres: and extradition of Jafet Lindeberg, Alaskan and San Francisco mi:.lne man, on charges contained in tnir- teen indictments returned ill con nection with investigation of ;he affairs of the defunct Scandinavian American Bank, of which Linde5erg was q director. Officials here re- fuse to say what measureo will be taken to secure extradition.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
Spring Rush to Gold Fields
 Of North Will Begin Soon

VANCOUVER, B. C., March 1S-- With prices of all commodities com ing down. great activity in the gold and silver fields of the North this Summer is anticipated Gold min CTS and prospectors already are head Spring rush is expected 10 start within the next two or three weeks
 Many owners of developed or partially developed properties also are here assembling gangs for ship ment to the Northern fields
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-18
SABOTAGE HALTS
 NORTH ARKANSAS RAILWAY SERVICE
Bridges Burned: Distinctions Placed on Tracks-S Strik-
 CTS Blamed by Officials.

HARRISON, Ark, March 1S.- Sabotage against the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad today re- suited in discontinuance of both passenger and freight service.
 Bridges have been burned, tanks drained and Instructions placed on tracks, endangering life and causing heavy property loss, according to company officials.
 A strike is now in progress and strikers or strike symp2thizers are blamed by the management for the sabotage.