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Evening star., 1921-03-09
Notion Specials

AHAAS
Dress Shields, good quality,
lightweight nainsook COW
cred; sizes ., and 4. 10.
Regularly CSC pair. ~
Snap Fasteners, all sizes.
regular sc kinds. Two K
CdTuS lot.
Tintex, for dyeing. coloring
and restoring delicate fEe
fabrics; all shades. 80. ~
Rubber Baby Pants. pure
gum. small. medium and large
sizes. r e gu larly soc 2oc
pair
Tur knit Wash Cloths,
stitched edges, p r c. 2r
Alas Seam Tape. all widths:
six-Yard pieces; lawn or 10c
cam DFlc
Chinese Ironing Wax, mus
lin covered; wooden handles.
Four pieces 6r
Tor
First Floor.
Evening star., 1921-03-09

Wright's Spring g-needle Ribbed
Medium-weight Il a l br ga n
Union Suits, ecru color; short
sleeves and full-length legs: sec
onds of regular $3.50 values
Eirst EI0Or
Evening star., 1921-03-09
zoe Unbleached
Cotton, lac

36 inch Unbleached Sheeting
Cotton, a close. even, round
thread quality.-First Floor.
Evening star., 1921-03-09
Little Tots BlOOmer
Dresses. $3.50

OF fine grade blue material,
high-waisted models. with full
skirts and pockets; made with
white sailor collar. finished with
white braid: sizes to s years.
Third Floor
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
Health Talks
Tanning You InsideS

In all the coffee and tea that yor
drink there is a small amount OF
fannie acid. Tannic acid is used to
tan leather. There is also in these
two drinks a certain percentage or
the drug called caffeine, which IS
used in medicine as a nerve and
heart stimulant, though it is being
more and more restricted because OF
its uncertain effects.
Drinking tea and coffee is uni
versal. There is hardly n house,
wife in ten that does not serve tea
or coffee at every meal. Most OF
these women, if asked why they
serve coffee or tea, Or both. would
say that it has become a habit, or
that it quiets the nerves. or that 1t
makes them all sleep better.
The truth of the matter is that 1t
is merely a habit, and one which
might we'll be stopped, for if tannlo
acid will tan leather what Will 1t 40
to the sensitive lining OF the
stomach? There are plenty or
cheaper and healthier ways to quiet
nerves and instead of making
sleep better, coffee or tea is liable
to be a cause for sleeplessness.
Another reason for moderation IN
drinking coffee or tea is found In the
fact that aside from the volatile Oils
that give the pleasing aromas and
aside from the heart stimulant In
caffeine, the acid in these two drinks
serve to dry up the secretions of the
intestines.
This means that your thirty-twd
feet Of intestinal tubes are deprived
of the normal secretions that dis
courage chronic constipation. You
can easily see, after learning about
these things, why 81 many tea and
coffee fiends have pasty, leathery'
.complexions.
' In these days of strain on the
arteries and ills of the kidneys. 1t IS
not we'll to drink a beverage thai
raises blood pressure and stimulates
the action of the kidneys.
Instead of drugs. the over-stimu-
lated muscles need a bath and rub
down.. Such treatment will do more
than all the coffee in the world.
Emotional strain and mental fatigue
demand rest and sleep. Nature Is
the best doctor in such matters.
Wholesome outdoor work Will
usually create a healthy appetite
for nourishing meals when the sys-
tenn is tired of highly-seasoned FOODS.
Milk is a much better drink to gel
in the habit Of drinking at meals
than coffee and tea. 1t does soma
good. The others do some harm.
If the family must drink tea and
coffee, give the children something
else. These drinks are especially
hard on growing children.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
ONE TRAFFIC ABUSE REMAINS

Now that the police department under Chair
man Sofeld and Chief Tonnesen. has done such
good work in regulating the city and establish
Ing rules for parking, it might tackle once more
that other phase of the motor problem which
includes the useless noise made on the streets of
the city.
II we are not mistaken there Is an ordinance
against the use of "cut-outs." This ought to be
strictly enforced. The use Of the screech whis-
tie on trucks and buses is also being greatly
abused. There is no sense in all this racket. The
nerves of the average person are on edge all the
tim. because of the abuse that drivers of motor
vehicles make of their "cut-outs' and signal
horns.
Chief Tonuesen has done good work in hand
ling omo traffic in this city. We doubt II
thcrs is any place in the country where condi-
lions are better. With such a reputation we are
sure that he is not going to let the promiscuous
use of screech horns and "cut-outs" spoil 1t all
A few words OF warning followed by an arrest
or two if the warnings are not needed, would
Doubtless have the desired effect. And the rules
against "cut-outs' and abuse of the screen
horns ought to be enforced as persistcntly as are
the other traffic regulations.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

In addition to it's excellent medical school
Harvard University is now to have the largest
and best equipped public health school In the
limited states. This has been made possible
through a recent gift from the Rockefeller
Eoundation. The initial fund of $1,7S5,oO0 Is
to be followed with other gifts not to exceed
$500. 900, which may be used as required.
The school will provide opportunities for re-
search, will unity existing courses and Will eN-
tend teaching facilities in public health admih-
istration, vital statistics, immunology' oacterloi-
ogy, medical zoology. physiological hygiene anu
communicable diseases. 1t will be able to CO.
onerate with q large number of laboratories
bospitalu and public health agencies in Boston
md so will afford its students unusual oPportu-
mites for first investigation and practcai
field experience. This cooperation VIII exteno
"a man,,fa curing and commercial corporations
offerinr special opportunity for work in indus
trial hygiene.
pa+tou training for public health officers, along
with better understanding of the need and scope
Of public health work and COORDINATION Vi
agencies already engaged in such service haNe
heen greatly needed and will be Facilitated pS
tho new school at Harvard. Marvellous advance
man. has been made in recent years along the
,,as ~ preventive medicine and public health
and hygiene, but the untouched possiblhties nave
remained large and numerous. NOW they Ill
brousbt nearer to realization. Within a COM
rorativelv few years there should be marked
,mnrovement in all public health administrator
and a general raising of standards OF niohi0ip"
and state health supervision.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
PUTTING THE RARITAN ON THE MAP

Those who attended the public meeting in the
high school auditorium last night had brought
home to them some important facts about Rar-
itan bay and river and Perth Amboy's water
front. Incidentally, some plain truths were
emphasized regarding our much neglected OPP
portunities for real harbor development.
1t was plain from the pictures shown and the
remarks of those who came here to represent the
Port of New York Authority, that the Raritan
end of the port has not figured very largely in
the calculations of the commission up to this
time. It remains with the representatives of the
Raritan district to see to it that from now on
the Raritan receives the consideration its adj
vantages warrant.
In showing the map of the port in the pictures
it is significant that while Perth Amboy does
just get on, the rest of Middlesex and Monmouth
counties is utterly ignored. The vast p~ossibili-
ties of the Raritan river are overlooked, New
Brunswick is not even mentioned. The south
shore of the Raritan is apparently forgotten.
Most of the picture consists of showing the roofs
of buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Newark and Jersey City get a little publicity,
but this end Of the harbor with the wonderful
open fairway leading direct to the Atlantic
ocean and the miles of shore front with deep
water close at hand, is passed over in the most
perfsnctory manner.
But 1t will not do for the Raritan section to
sulk and decided to have nothing further to do
with tho project. We are tied up to the greater
port development just as thoroughly as Is Man.
haitian and Newark. The only thing Is to hight
tor recognition. There is much work to be
dune and every ounce of energy that this city
can display must be exerted toward making the
port authority realize the great possibilities here
and give this district it's just share of attention
in the final plans to be presented to the legisla-
lures CT New York and New Jersey.
A good beginning was made last night. The
large number of public men present. including
Unit, | States Senator Frelinghuysen. Congress-
man Appleby, several state senators and assem-
blymca as we'll as mayors and councilman OF
different municipalities, indicates how important
tie consider this matter to be. 1t is for Perth
Amhoy and all the other municipalities on the
Raritan to follow up the good work that was
started last night and see that the Raritan, once
placed on the map, is kept there and that Its
importar ce increases as the time for submitting
the final plans draws near.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
THE PEOPLE HEARD FROM

The rising tide of public opinion against sad
ding on the taxpayers the high cost of patent
pavements is shown in the spirited meeting held
in Woodbridge Tuesday night when an attempt
was made by the township to pass an
ordinance providing for the paving of Fulton
street with a patent material. The public Off
Gals heard from the people in a way that even
the dullest of them could understand. If the
taxpayers will keep up this kind of work all
along the line some good will result.
The Board Of Freeholders are bound to take
notice of this feeling in Woodbridge against
such extravagant use of the peoples money. 1t
ought to have a salutary effect. The freehold
sers know that an election is approaching ana
they have got to give an accounting to the
voters. The two members of the board VINO
seek reelection will have a difficult time ex-
planning why the patent pavement has been
given such preference when concrete, a material
declared by disinterested parties to be better for
heavy traffic, could be laid much more cheaply.
This agitation that has started in Woodbridge
will probably spread until the whole county is
aroused.
And what applies to township committees and
Boards of Freeholders applies with equal force
TO the State Highway Commission. 1t has not
escaped notice that the section of the state high
way leading through Railway from the end OF
the present concrete pavement toward Linden
IA to be paved with warrenite. How any COM
mission. supposed to be acting for the best in
terest of the taxpayers could award a contract
for warrenite to Immediately adjoin the present
excellent concrete extending from the Pennsyl-
yania. railroad bridge, is hard to understand.
This stretch of concrete has been so satisfactory
ma stood up so well under heavy traffic that II
would be hard to find anything better. AT least
there Is nothing superior to be found W
in this section of the state, and there are all
kinds of materials to compare 1t with. with
concrete much cheaper and giving such excel
lent satisfaction, the State Highway Commission
will and it difficult to explain this deliberate
waste of the peoples money especially when
the state is already facing an income tax in oraer
to ind sufficient revenue to meet expenses
1It-eoytg money to fatten the pockets OF the
natent payement interests and if the public OFF,
eials are going to continue their present prac-
tice it will require even more than a state In
come tax to raise the necessary funds.
Woodbridge has shown the proper spirit. 1t
is for the taxpayers to protest and TO protest
in a way to make themselves heard. NOW Is
the time to protest, too, when an election Is
approaching and those who are squandering the
peoples money are looking for votes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
the Law

Obeying the Law
The law forbidding arson has caus-
ed me many signs, although my
friend the parson maintains hat II
is wise. A conflagration rouses In
me a spirit gay: I'm fond of hring
house, and barns and stacks of hay.
l like to see them burning upon a
summer night; IL satisfies my yearn-
ing and fills me with delight. But
there's law forbidding the sport l
most desire; the law says, quit
your kidding" when I would start a
fire. And l am law abiding, the t
tutes must prevail; l let my dreams
go sliding. and thus keep out of Jail.
oh. there are laws that bore us, each
gent some grievance knows; Yer
boten" signs before us increase our
many woes. But if we plan to break
them, these laws that we detest, not
only do we shake them, but injure all
the rest, Yea. many statutes bore us,
and make our lives seem dark; but
anarchy's before us If we don't toe
the mark. 1t helps not to be mulish,
far better grin and yield: If laws are
vain and foolish some day they'll be
repealed; some day, perhaps, Wen
fay them. but while they're on the
books, if we don't all obey them, we
line ourselves with crooks.
Copyright, George Matthews Adams
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08

The best way to help the working man is to
enable the industries tAdo a normal business so
that they can give steady employment to all
their employees. This cannot be done by stand
ing in the way of their progress. AS far as we
can see. nobody is to be harmed by the ex-
tension of this railroad siding along the side of
the cable works building on the east side of
High street, whereas a great many men who are
now out of work or are working on part time.
are going to be helped.
To help the workingman during this period
of depression ought to be the aim of every one.
If the construction of this siding will do so with
out harming anyone. it ought to be done with
out delay.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
NORMALCY
BY DIR. W. e. BARTON

Mr.. Harding is not addicted to the
habit of phrase-coining as were
Grover Cleveland and Theodore
Roosevelt, but he knows the value
of an unusual word in provoking
thought.
He probably knows that there is
such a word as 'normality," but he
said normally" and set us all to
looking it up. There is more in the
word than some people think.
1 heard a doctor say a few days
ago that his profession had been on
the wrong track in studying human
life from the standpoint of disease.
He said what the doctors needed
was to study health and to furnish
conditions in which nature could
produce the health which nature is
more than willing to produce.
l have heard ministers admit that
there had been a good deal of mis-
leading theology. that began with
the assumption that In human life
sin was the natural condition.
Not very long ago sociology and
human government were both
studied as IL we were all savage. but
agreed to be civilized for the sake
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08

of certain benefits resulting from
civilization. Whereas we were born
civilized. and if we became saw
age it is a revolt against the condi-
ton in which we were born.
Health, and not disease, is the nor
NAL condition of human life.
Righteousness and not wickedness
is normal.
Civilization is normal for those
who were born civilized, and saw
agery and brutality are abnormal.
Let it be granted that 1t is easy
enough for any of us to lose our
health, our goodness, our civiliza-
ton, and to go back to whatever
the race has risen above.
Nevertheless, it is true and we
ought to know it. that the normal
condition of human life is one of
kindness. generosity, mutual help
fulness and of good wholesome liv-
ing for body and mind.
1t would do some learned men
good, and do the rest of us any,
thing but harm, to forget the alb
normal and live in the light and
wealth of mental and spiritual nor
malcy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
Learn One New Thing Every Day
Bulletins BY
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

Bulletins By

belongs to the south of us while our
own normal weather has gone to
minister to the Eskimos.
Lows Like Giant Stirring Spoon
These areas of high and low
pressure play an all-important part
in furnishing the world with its
weather. Ordinarily their locations.
If they are relatively stationary, and
their paths, If they move, are pretty
well known. The highs roughly
mean stagnation; they mark the
horse attitudes of the mariners
Indispensable winds. The lows on
the other hand. may be considered
the great ladies with which Nature
stirs her weather brew.
Usually in the summer a sue
cession of lows forms over interior
Alaska, drifts down east of the
Rockies traverse the northern por-
ton Of the United States and passes
from the continent down the St.
Lawrence valley. In their paths
these lows usually leave changes in
wind direction, lower temperature,
and perhaps rain. They are dis
turbers of the status quo. The
highs more nearly stationary. US
|aually stand like sentinels off the
middle Pacific and Atlantic shores.
and herd the drifting lows to the
northward at arms length.
Our Rains Fall in Arctic
"This summer the North Atlantic
high has spread out in all direc-
lions to a much greater extent than
usual and covers a greatly increas-
ed area, even e~ncroaching on the
North American and European. The
result is that the path of the lows
has been pushed farther north. In
America the disturbances that are
counted upos to stir up the weather
periodically in the northern states
recently have not drifted as far
south as the Canadian border, and
when they have advanced so far
have seemed to bounce off as though
a weather wall had been set UP
along the boundary. On the other
side o. the Atlantic the disturbances
which USUALLY crossed England and
southern and central Europe have
been shifted off to the north of Nor
way, Doubtless the rains which
=! should have watered our northern
states and the Tight Little Isle
have fallen in the muskegs about
Hudson bay, on Greenland's icy
mountains, and On the frozen wastes
north of Europe and Siberia where
the midnight sun is shining.
what has caused the northward
shifting of the pressure belts that
has given us our abnormal summer
is a question about which scien-
lists. in the absence of full data, can
only conjecture. Possibly the Sc
cret lies in the southern hemisphere
from which practically no meteoro-
logical reports are available. 1t will
be only when the cables assemble
reports daily from practically all
sections of the earth that this and
other abstruse weather problems
can be fully solved"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08

@ What will cure ~pellagra if
a person catches it?-R. A. G.
A. Pellagra is not a Catching"
disease. 1t is caused by a failure
to eat sufficient lean meat, milk, eggs,
vegetables and fruit. Fresh, whole
milk is the most important single
article of food with which either to
prevent or cure this disease.
Q. Which has the greater effect
on the rate at which sound travels:
wind, fog, or rain?-C. P. B.
A. Wind reduces the velocity of
sound much more than fog or rain
does.
@. Is there any grain that the
Hessian fly does not bother 90. r.
A. The Department. of Agricul-
ture says that the Hessian fly does
not attack oats at all. 1t is chiefly
Injurious to wheat, but sometimes
Injuries barley and rye.
@. Did John Galsworthy yer
write under a nom de plume?-M.W.
A. The early fiction written by
Galsworthy was published under the
pen name of John Senjohn.
@. How many persons were gull
lotined during the Reign of Terror
of the French Revolution Nv. G.
H.
A. There are no exact figures, but
up to June, 1874, there had been
1920 executions and during the next
seven weeks there were 1875. 1t is
estimated that about 1000 persons
lost their lives in this manner dur
ing the entire period.
Q. What Is quicksand and In
| what states is it found Pc. J. M.
A. Quicksand is a loose sand into
| which solid bodies readily sink.
| Quicksands are composed Of very
small rounded particles which under
ordinary pressure do not. pack to-
gether and when moisteped behave
like a fluid. They are especially
common in glacial deposits and may
be encountered almost anywhere
within the region invaded by the con-
tinental ice sheet. Any heavy object
| placed upon quicksand is rapidly
swallowed up, leaving no trace be-
hind. In conducting mining and en-
cheering operations 1t Is sometimes
necessary to freeze the quicksand by
| sinking pipes at intervals. which are
then used for circulating primes or
| other liquids at a low temperature.
Quicksand can be found in practi-
cally all states at some time during
the year.
@. What actor played in Romeo
and Juliet at Covcpt Garden at tho
same time David Garrick was playing
Romeo at the Drury Lane Theatre?
l. l..
A. In 1850, Romeo and Juliet was
played at these rival playhouses,
David Garrick and Mrs. Bellamy ap'
pearing in the title roles at Drury
Lane srd Spranger Barry and Mrs.
Cibber at Covent Garden.
@. How did the ''minutemen" get
the rame?-C. Fl. A..
A. Civilians in Massachusetts, add
several other colonies. at the ,sp-
proach of the Revolutionary War,
pledged themselves to be ready to
take the field at n minutes notice,
and were therefore called minute
men,"
@. Who invented dancing?-P.C
A. Few savage tribes have beer
discovered which did net dance. The
earliest civilization Of the Egyptians
includtd dancing aud its invention
was ascribed by them to their god
Thoth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-08
CABLE WORKS SIDING AND WAGES

We publish today a communication from ono
who claims to speak for the so-called working
man--which, incidentally, includes about every
body in the city. Commenting on the editorial
in the Evening News of a few days ago in which
we claimed that the request of the Standard I'm
derground Gable Company for an extension of a
siding alongside of their building on the east
side of High street was a reasonable PROPOSE
tion, our correspondent complains that it is diff
Acult for a workingman to get along on $2S
for two weeks.
We heartily agree with this man that IL is
pretty hard to expect a man to keep a family on
such an amount of money. But when it is real
lied that there are thousands of men, with fam
lilies, too. who have not received $2s for two
months, let alone two weeks, it it apparent that
a man with s2s in his pocket is better off than a
great many. He will at least be able to tide
himself over the present period of industrial de-
preston when we hope for better things.
We do not desire to be understood as advo-
eating or even defending any such wage as $2s
for two weeks for the workingman in America.
Such a wage is entirely inadequate and no man
can be expected to make ends meet very long on
such an amount. But until times get better and
Industries are running on full time once more
the prospects or better wages are not DilShl'
But, after all, the only connection that all this
has with the request of the cable works for the
siding is to emphasize the desirability of granting
the company its request. We do not see how the
plight of the workingman IN this city is going
to be helped any by keeping the cable works
from extending this siding. In fact, there is
every reason to believe that the cable works will
be able to pay out more wages II the siding is
built.
One of the points made by the cable works
in askin3 for permission to extend the siding is
that at present the concern is Handicapped in
handling its products because it has not suf-
fcient railroad facilities. With a siding on both
sides of the building at High street cars could
be loaded on one side while other cars are being
unloaded on the other side. Thus work would
not be interrupted and there is every reason to
believe that the delays that now keep the men
on part time will be done away with.
Besides, with this added railroad facilities the
cable works will enlarge its buildings, do a big
ger business and thereby employ more men
This is the greatest need at the present time.
we heartily agree with our correspondent thai
s.s is too small an amount to keep a family on
TOR two weeks. But we do not see as that is any
reason for denying the cable works permission to
MILD the siding it asks for so as to increase Its
facilities thereby enabling it to employ more
H~n at full time.
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