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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

BARTON
Compared with the next war, the
one just closed will have been a very
tame and lady-like affair. The next
war will begin where this one left
off.
We shall have no illusions about
it. We shall begin with poison gas
that may wipe out a city in a single
night, and we shall not have any
conjunction about dropping it
where it will kill women and child
rem.
Make no mistake. IL a war is to
occur in the present unsettled state
OF world opinion, it will very nearly
~obliterate civilization.
1t is not possible to conceive of
horrors SO great as are likely to be
perpetrated in the next war.
Before the last war ended, all the
armies were doing deeds which at
the outset they condemned Germany
for doing. America was making poi
son gas as fast as its chemical re-
.sources would enable it to do so.
America is now experimenting
with poison gas more deadly than
any yet used upon the battlefield.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
WATCH THE PORT Development

1t is absolutely essential that the Port of New York Au-
thority place all its cards on the table, taking the people
fully into its confidence as to just what it proposes to do in
the way of developing the Port of New York. 1t is especially
desirable that Middlesex and Monmouth counties know what
they may expect from the plan before they assent to having
a part in it.
Of course, it may be said that this section can be forced
into the project whether it approves or not. The fact re-
mains. however, that before it can be finally adopted 1T has
got to be accepted by the legislature and in that body Middle
sex and Monmouth together have five votes in the assembly
the balance of power.
Perth Amboy is now planning her own waterfront de-
velopment which can proceed whether the scheme for the
development of the Port of New York is adopted or not. Co
operation is desirable, always, but we want to be sure that 1t
is real cooperation on the part of the port authority toward
the Raritan bay district as well as cooperation by the Rari-
tan district in the development of the rest of the port. There
is a whole lot yet TO be learned on this port development plan.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
HEALTH TALKS
BY DIR. r.. ii. BISHOP

Healthy living is cheap. Lots of
people believe they cannot be
healthy because they are not
wealthy. This is wrong. 1t is true
that rich people can do some things
for their health hat others cannot,
but many rich people live unhealthy
lives because they buy things which
are not good for them. You may
not be able to have the kind of a
house you would like to live in. You
NAV not be able to work in the fac
tory or store or Office you would
like. You may not be able to do the
kind of work you would like best
but you can make all these things
healthier.
You can keep more windows open
in your home: you can often get the
boss to keep more windows open
in the factory or store; you may be
able to move farther out of the city
where it costs no o to live; you
may be able to get another job.
Even If you cannot do these things
YOU can do others that cost nothing.
1t costs you nothing to wear your
clothes loose. 1t costs You nothing,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The
numerous organizations that are
working for the reduction of arma-
ments are going to concentrate their
efforts at Washington during the
conference.
A national council for limitation
of ornaments has been formed, with
twenty-nine of the seventy-odd
peace-advocating organizations al
ready enrolled as active or co-opera-
ting members.
Such well known organizations as
the American Federation of Labor,
the National Grange, and National
Women's Trade Union League, and
the American Union Against Mill
tarism are among the members of
the new council. The ideas of the
organizations as regards peace pos
sibilities range from the firm be-
lief that absolute disarmament could
be safely achieved to moderate views
on limitation of ship building. For
the first time. they are getting to-
gether on their common interest
the promotion of peace-regardless
of their differences of opinion as to
how peace should be brought about.
The national council which repre-
sents these organizations as a clear
ing house for their peace interests
has taken a house and mapped out
a campaign for the conference sea-
son.
The house is strategically situated
across the street from the State War
and Navy Building, with the Pan
American Building, where confer
ence meetings will be held, only two
blocks away. 1t is an old historic
residence. In early Presidential ad-
ministrations its high-ceilinged par
lors must have seen formal balls and
dinners of the official set. But like
many other old residences in Wash
ington, it has been stranded, as the
fashionable section of the city wan
dered away from the neighborhood
of the Executive Mansion. After
these dignified homes begin to look
a little seedy and stand vacant a
while they meet n of two fates:
either they become boarding houses,
or else office rooms.
The new councils headquarters,
1872 Seventeenth street, became a
government Office as far back as
1860. General Grand had his head
quarters there, convenient to the
War Department, during the Civil
War. After. it became a depot
auartermaster's Office, and was used
for this purpose through the recent
war.
The Peace House.
Now, after being the scent of war
preparations for so long the old
white brick residence is to furnish a
setting for discussions of peace. The
national council expects to keep only
a room or two for it's offices. The
rest of the lower floor will be made
into reception rooms, library and
writing rooms, and perhaps a tea
room. 1t hopes that guests of the
city and all who are interested in a
lasting peace will drop in at this
headquarters, and a cup of tea or a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
BY MILTON

LONDON, Nov. 1S-while the
diaarmament conference at Wash-
ipgton is still in session, another
great international conference will
open here in London, December 6,
to tackle another ang1e-the money
angle-of world problems.
The Sound Currency Association,
which has called for a great inter-
national monetary conference, on
Dec. 6 and z. was formed for the
primary purpose Of restoring Great
Britain to a good basis in it's cur
fency and to cut out the flood of pa
per money.
Feeling that the absence of a gold
standard and the flooding of the
markets with paper money was one
of the main ailments of the entire
world, it has now undertaken to get
the experts together to see what can
be done about it.
The sessions will be held in the
historic Mansion House, the offices
or the lord mayor of old London.
The first meeting will be called to
order by the lord mayor, and Earl
Beauchamp, president of the Sound
Currency Association. will be the
first chairman. Invitations have
been sent out to all the leading ma
lions of the world. Most of them
have responded f%avorably. France,
Italy, Greece and Mexico are send
ing official government delegates.
Other countries, notably Norway,
Denmark, Sweden, China, Japan,
the United States Austria and Hol-
land are sending delegates who will
represent not their governments,
but great banking associations.
A significant exception is Ger
many. The Central Association of
German banks and Banking Indus
try refused to send delegates be.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

Nome, Alaska, has gone into it's
annual winter Information, accord
ing to newspaper dispatches, and is
expected to return to life with but
little vitality next spring. This re-
mote mining camp, which, after a
meteoric career and growth into a
city, threatens practically to pass
out of existence, is described in the
following bulletin issued by the Ma
tional Geographic Society:
Nome is a town which always
hibernates in winter. Situated on
the bleak north coast of the icy,
storm-swept Boring Sea, close to the
Arctic Circle. it is frozen in and
showed in for about sever months
of the year. Its chief industry, pla-
Ger gold mining, depends upon the
use of running water, therefore
the activities must stop when the
water congeals. Rather than spend
the long winter in the extreme
cold waiting for the return of mild
weather, a large part of ne popu-
laion of Nome las always returned
to the states in the fall making the
journey back to the north in June,
when navigation opens.
A Beach of Golden Sands
'"The overnight creature of an
unusual gold discovery. the town
grew up on a site that probably
could not have been worse fitted
for a community of human habita-
ton. 1t is open to the full sweep
of the violent storms and the heavy
waves often beat in from the sea.
1t has a relatively narrow beach and
Immediately within is a strip of tun-
dra, frozen solid in winter, but a
sea of mud during the open season.
In this morass the town grew up.
In the early days men and animals
hounderei through streets thai we're
knee-deep in mud. Later the prin-
cipal thoroughfares were boarded
over. Each summer foolhardy new
fcomers built structures on the
beach only to have them wholly
destroyed by the blasts of Sep
tember when, almost without warm
ing, huge waves sweep to the edge
of the tundra and often into the
town itself.
Gold was first discovered near
Nome in 1898, in one of-the numer-
Gus creeks that rise in the hills back
of the town and across the tundra
to the sea. This discovery was
widely heralded through Alaska
and the western states. Thousands
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

will regard it as a decision for war.
1t will mean that we shall so at our
present rate, competing in ship
building program and war inVen-
tons, and the next war will be ten
times worse than the last with its
seven and a half million lives lost
and it's staggering effect on the i
ilized word.
1T is possible to prevent this next
war, if the people will cooperate
intellectually. Most of the import
ant labor groups, led by Mr.. Com
pers, approve reduction of arma-
ments. And besides these, organiza-
tons of farmers and women, relS-
ious bodies, and educational organ
izations have Joined with the socle-
ties that work only for the advance
ment of peace to make up the u
ell. Allowing for members of one
organization belonging to others as
well, we have at the least count, u
OOO, 900 people back Of us. We need
their support and the support OF otn-
err millions of Americans as WE'LL"
Mr.. Libby pointed OUT that the
president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs-one OF the CO.
operating organizations in the coun-
ell said: "All the things that we
club women work for-citizenshlp,
education, public health, good insti-
tutions, conservation. home me-
child welfare, art, music. literature
are arts and activities Of peace. war
sweeps them into the dust heap
Other member organizations nave
expressed similarly despair at max
ing progress in their constructive
programs so long as war looms
ahead to destroy their work.
Besides furnishing information
and encouraging people to come n
talk over the conference at its mead
quarters, the council is to try to
eliminate duplication of effort be-
tween it's member organizations so
far as their interest in peace PROB
lens is concerned. Besides the nu-
merous organizations interested IN
Limitation of armament among otn-
err things, there are on an incomplete
list. sixteen organizations whose soie
aim is to work for world peace. Ger
tainly some of these organizations
spend time and money collecting
similar statistics and appealing 10
the same people whereas they mignt
TO advantage cooperate more otn
in sharing data and in outlining their
field work.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
NATIONS OF WORLD WILL
DISCUSS MONEY PROBLEM

cause 1t thought such a conference
useless unless there was some guar
antee that the decisions of the ex-
perts would receive the necessary
attention from the various govern
ments.
This has caused a storm of criti-
cism in Germany, and unless some-
thing prevents Germany will be
represented by big men. among
them being Walter R~athenau, re-
Gently minister of reconstruction.
Other prominent men expected to
attend are Professor Irving Fischer
of Yale University. DR.. Ludwig Won
Misses and Professor Schumpter of
Austria, George Raphael Levy.
member of the French senate: DR..
official representative of the Mex
lean government.
The Secretary of State OF India
has officially designated II. +. How
ard controller CT finance and G.. H.
Kisch, financial secretary, to repre-
sent India. The International Cham
Ter of Commerce is sending three
delegates and the great British Ma
ticnal Union of Merchants and Man.
ufacturers has nominated Lord
Cowdray and Lord Emmott. two of
the biggest business men of Great
Britain.
Besides Professor Fisher, other
Americans are expected .
The mometous subjects to be dis
cussed will be the deflation of ma
tional c~urrencies: methods designed
to rehabilitate currencies and re-
store the gold basis; international
loans, credits, debts, reparations;
international exchange and the de-
probation Of ~currencies in the
money markets of the world; infla-
ton as a factor in the unemploy-
ment crisis WHICH is affecting the
whole world.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

hot lunch is a strong drawing card.
College girls who are anxious to raise
money for a fund nay take charge
of this tea room.
The residence is being furnished
by women of Washington. They are
lending furniture, pictures. and
hangings to make the rooms attrac-
tive, hoping that the council head
quarters will become a popular meet
ing place. .
Forums are to be held there at
which visitors from different coun-
tries will be invited to explain sit
uations and talk over conditions in
formally. Press representatives are
to be assisted by the council, which
will furnish information on the side
lights of armament questions.
The secretary of the national
council for Limitation of armament is
Frederick j. Libby. Mr.. Libby re-
Gently travelled for six years in four
teen countries studying conditions.
Until a few months ago he was Eu-
ropean Commissioner for the Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee, do
ing rehabilitation work in Russia,
France, Germany, Poland, Austria,
Serbia and Esthonia. He is an OK
ford man and has udie at Ger
man universities and taught at Phil
lips Exeter Academy in this country.
From these varied contacts, Mr..
Libby has gained an understanding
of economic and militaristic condi-
tions abroad. He has seen the e1-
fects of the burden of militarism IN
Germany in the years of preparation,
and the terrible after-effects. of war.
He says with conviction that we
must either trend toward a mllitar-
istic regime or further away from
one. We cannot stand still.
ut seems to us" says Mr.. Libby,
that our first task is to arouse peo-
pie to their vital interest in the pur-
poses of the conference. They STAND
at the parting of the ways, but WITH
out being fully aware of it.
Popular Demand for Peace.
1.-THE organizations that are work
ing for limitation of ornaments
write us that everywhere there is a
growing demand for a Tightening OIL
the heavy burden that the past war
has left on the people. They say
that the people of America are
ting on the conference. and Will pc
overwhelmingly disappointed If the
meeting comes to nothing. They
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

@. What will the official language
be for the disarmament conference?
L. Il.
A. The State Department say
that English and French will be the
Official languages Of the conference
or limitation of armament.
@. How man. unknown dead"
have we in Europe?-A. F. G.
A.. The War Department says
that the unknown soldier buried in
Arlington on Armistice Day repre-
sents approximately 1000 soldiers
who died abroad during the war and
could not be identified.
Q. What kind OF apparatus does
the Arlington Wireless Station use?
IS. A.
A. The Arlington Station uses a
Federal arc transmitter and the
Celefunken spark apparatus. This
number of X. w. 1t uses is 100.
Messages are sent cut at all times.
The meter on the arc transmitter is
1000, 5000 and 1900, on the spark,
$500.
Q. What are the Lost Artist
]. G. w. \
A. Tyrian purple. Damascus steel
and malleable glass are spoken of as
the lost arts. All three have, how
ever, been approached Or paralleled
by modern science.
O. What is the so-called whit
ley Plan" of industrial relations?
A. The Whitley Plan (England)
contemplates the establishment OF
joint industrial boards to determine
wages, working conditions, etc In
those industries in which there is an
effective organization among both
employers and employees. Member
Ship in such councils Is equally d.
vided between representatives OF the
employers associations and repre-
sentatives of the trade unions.
O. When was the first savingi
bank opened?-F. L. o.
A. Savings banks originated In
the philanthropic movement at h
close of the eighteenth century.
Such a bank was opened in Hamburg
in 177S; another in Oldenburg in
1886; and one in London in 1898.
In the United States the first savings
bank was founded in Philadelphia
in 1916.
@. Could a pitcher deliver four
balls to first. second or third base
and thus walk a batter?-J. B.
A. We are informed that a pitch
er cannot pitch the ball to first. Sec
| ond or third bases. He throws the
ball to the bases.
@. What proportion of the firms
| that fail, do not advertise Pr. d. l..
A. Bradstreet's Commercial Ag-
| ency says that 81 per cen of the
| business failures of the past year
occurred among firms which did not
advertise.
Q. What is the meaning of the
word hurley as associated with to-
bacco?-F. d. A.
A. The Department of AgriculT
ture says that while there is no posiA
| tive proof available. 1t seems highly
probable that the word is derived
from the name of one of the C
cessful tobacco growers of the early
colonists. The term hurley" was
| applied to certain varieties long be-
lore the well known Burley tobacco
was originated in southern Ohio.
The name Burnley" is found among
the names of the early settlers of
Virginia, and there is every reason
to suppose that the name was first
applied to q successful type of to-
bacco grown by a man named Bur-
ley.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
Learn One New Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY THE
NOME. A CITY THAT HIBERNATEs

flocked to the neighborhood in the
summer of 1899 and the town was
born. That season the remarkable
discovery was made that the sand
OF he beach at the edge of the town
vas rich in gold, and thousands of
~prospectors with crude equipment
took out respectable fortunes. The
beach could not be filed upon but
anyone was permitted to dig there.
This unique feature of the Nome
gold fields drew more than 10000
people to the region the following
summer and the town grew into a
thriving city. Placer miners bur-
.rowed into the sand like moles for
thirty miles or more up and down
the beach.
Use of Machinery Reduced Town
by the end Of the 1900 season
the be>ch was exhausted of its
easily obtainable gold and a large
part of the mushroom population
turned away from the community
permanently. Development of the
gold deposits in the creeks back
of Nome continued however, and
the town settled to n permanent
population Of several thousand, with
a municipal government. water
works. electric lights, and other
conventnces of civilization. In the
! years between 1910 and the out
break of the world war there was a
marked development in the use of
dredges and other machinery in the
| exploitation of the creek deposits.
This lessened the number CT miners
employed by the large companies
and still further restricted the pop
ulation of Nome, though It remain
ed important as a gold field.
with the disturbed conditions
arising from the war Nome has
been threatened with economic dis
aster. The country is still rich in
| gold but the high cost Of opera
lion has brought about the closing
of many mining activities.
Nome TOOK its name from Cape
Nome nearby, which was named as
the result of a misunderstanding.
1t means nothing unless it can be
construed to signify h nameless.'
1t was discovered in the examina-
ton of an early chart that when
the physical features of north
western Alaska were named M
| cape had been verlooke The
renciled query 'name?' was made
beside it. A copyist transcribed the
,scrawled question as Nome and the
name has stuck"
to have your windows open when
you sleep. 1t costs you nothing 20
take breathing exercises or to stand,
sit and walk erect. 1t costs you
nothing to have your bowels move
each day. 1t costs nothing to clean
the teeth-twice a day.
Almost all of us can take enough
time to eat u meals slowly. The
foods that make us most healthy are
often the cheapest foods. Expensive
foods. like meats, may be less
healthful.
Remember hat we can enjoy
cheap food and grow healthy from
: eating it. Here is the list of foods
in which the cheapest are given first
and the dearest last: Glucose. corn
meal. wheat flour. oat meal, cane
sugar, salt pork. rice, wheat bread,
oleomargarine, beans, peas, pota-
toes, butter, milk, cheese, beef stew,
ham. mutton chops, beef, eggs, oys-
| tiers.
Cheap foods that contain protein,
or repair foods are skim milk,
beans, cheese and peanuts.
Cheap foods that contain protein
starch or sugar are bread, bananas,
| glucose and common sugar. Other
cheap fuel foods that contain fats
are oleomargarine and ~cottonseed
oil
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
THE NEXT WAR
BY DIR. W. r. BARTON

And SO is Great Britain and
France.
And so is Germany.
And so is Japan.
The conference OF reduction OF
ornaments has been in session a
week:
I am not q delegate, and neither
are you who read this article. But
l am one of the hundred million folk
in this country who help to make
public sentiment, and l intend that
all the public sentiment l make shall
be in favor Of peace.
If the nations do not disarm. the
nations will perish. The nations
that take up the sword will perish
by the sword.
Now is the time for every loyal
American to stand for peace as this
nation has always stood for peace.
One nation cannot disarm unless
the rest do so. We al only disarm
by mutual consent. Let us all help
the world to lay down this crushing
burden of preparation for war.
One more war will be the death
of civilization.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

Hush, little business, don't you
cry; you'll be bigger-buy and buy.
By model woman" most of us
mean 1890 model.
The real turkey raiser is the mar
who sets the price.
You can't keep a good man down
or a bad one Ut. 4
Paul Revere with his ITO armsa
To arms!" wouldn't make much his
tory now.
The greatest rubber plant must
be his new forty-foot telescope.
Winter may come and winter may
60, but skirts get shorter forever.
The early bird gets the worm, So
does the early chestnut.
Many phone numbers are called.
but few T gotten.
The man who inherited three mat
tress factories fell into something
pretty soft.
Debs isn't at liberty to say much.
Lives there a man with clothes SO
worn, who never to himself doth
mourn. this is my own, my only suit.
Soak the rich is what prohibi-
ton does.
Drivers who try to beat trains are
jumping at conclusions.
" n
Stockings hold more rents thans
rent.
When your shirt comes back with
buttons gone-there's the rub.
The man who has no will rarely
finds a way.
Honesty is the best policy for
everyone else.
Many of our future convicts are
driving autos.
Benjamin Franklin got his start
as a writer knocking the styles We
claim we want back.
AfNr the ceremony some women
find they have been hugging delu-
sions.
All the kings horses and all the
kings men can't get peace in Ireland
again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-18

You can't keep a good man down
q bad one up.