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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
BY DIR. William T.. Barton

A few weeks 6 the California
lemon growers were pickink their
lemons and placing them in
open boxes beside the road and in
viting all who would to take them
awav freely. When they could not
longer give lemons away they threw
them away.
Tons of them rotted because they
could neither be sold nor gviewnaay
could neither be sold nor given away
J was shown a lemon grove of per
haps ten acres which had been cut
down almost to the roots and graft
ed newly this season with oranges.
The owner believed that the lemon
crop would never be profitable again
Supply Short
On the day when 1 write this,
lemons are fourteen dollars a box
The supply that glutted the early
market is gone and the reserve sup
ply does not exist.
The farmer who cut back his trees
and grated in oranges may make
more money out of his oranges. but
he will have no income for three or
four years. If he had let his trees
alone they would have been yield
ing him the most profitable crop in
all the years of the lemon industry.
I am not a lemon grower, and 1
have learned that it is not we'll to
give other men advice about heir
own business; but it seems to me a
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
CAUSE TO BE THANKFUL

Some light is beginning to be shed on DARK
est Russia now that some of the Americans
who have been held prisoners by the BoIsne-
wiki are beginning to reach the outside world
There is an awful lot of complaining and fault
finding here in the United States because or the
condition of the so-called work:ngman and 1t
will be membe that some time ago quite
q number of those who had become convinced
that the capitalists had everything their own
way here decided to go to Russia which was
hailed as the paradise of the prolectariat.
It is quite a different story that is told by one
who having gone to Russia with such high ideals,
has just escaped from that country, finding 1t
necessary to steal his way across the border in
spite of the promise of the Soviet government
TO deliver all American prisoners. 1t is Adam
Karat, of Hartford, Conn, who relates the story
as cabled to the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"Karat's experience" says the Public Ledger,
's typical of that of others who returned 10
Russia on the same ship with him last Aprli.
He was arrested by Red guards two days after
reaching Moscow because he was without a pass
port, which he had exchanged for a receipt
from the American consul before entering the
country. He was beaten up once as an amer.
can spy and again, to force him to JOIN the
communists, robbed of his baggage, papers;
clothing and $500, none Of which was returned
to him when he was released AFTER a month ~
iail and assigned to work at his trade as TOOL
mako in a Moscow factory. His wages there
we're a dish of soup and a pound OF oreao
daily and shelter. Ie stuck it out FOR TWO
months and then decided to risk the rifles OIL
the Red guards or a long prison sentence lot
jumping his job, and fled. He is awaiting re-
mittance from his brother in Hartford TO pay
his passage to the United states. which he
swears he never will leave"
Perhaps living conditions in America are not
all that they should be, but where in the world
are the ideal conditions to be found? Those
who are haggling over whether they should
work forty-eight or forty-four hours a week.
or whether they shall receive $3.50 or 50 a day.
and even Samuel Gompers who pretends he
sees a movement on the part of capitalists to
enslave labor in this country, would do we'll to
consider Mr.. Karat's experience and his deter
mination that if he ever reaches the United
States never to leave it again.
Conditions here may not be all that we would
like to have them, but even those who are the
worst off here are so much better off than the
best in other countries that instead of hndlng
fault we ought to be thanking our lucky stars
that our lot has been cast in such pleasant
places even if things are not quite as pleasant
as one would like to have them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
Virginia.

O. Wnere are most cattle raised
in South America? r. G.
A. The Pan-American Union says
that the region of greatest density OF
cattle is hat surrounding the Plata
river, including Uruguay, Southern
Rio Grande do Sal, and five prov
inces of Argentina. In this terri
tory. comprising less than 6 per cent
of the area of South America. As per
CEN of the cattle are raised.
Q. Please suggest something for
summer window curtains. dislike
the bare windows? A. S. *.
A. Use scrim, wolfe or swiss cur
tain material which can be bought
by the yard and has a border on one
or both sides. Turn a hem on n
side wide enough to run the curtain
pole through. This will make cur
tains the depth of the upper window
sash. with a border at top and bot
tom. They make the room look
dainty and fresh, but do not obstruct
the breeze and do not gather dirt by
blowing against the screens.
O.. Where does the spinach which
can be bought all winter come from?
l. X.
A.. The truck farms of the South
ship spinach north. In 1919, 2,lOS
cars were sen out, 81 per cent of
them being from Virginia and Texas.
O., Who was ThamyriS? NJ. G.
A. Thamyris was a Thracian bard
who challenged the MUSES. to a con-
test of singing. He was overcome by
them and as a punishment was
blinded and deprived of his gift of
song. .
@. Where did the word trolley
originate? M. p.
A. Both French and German con-
tain verbs resembling trolley" and
have the meaning of rolling or
rambling The word trolley
was coined in England and was first
used in the sense of a land cart n
then of a truck.
@. Why is the water of Niagara
Falls green? N. B.
A. In accounting for the color of
the water of the Niagara. it is neces-
sary to consider the fact that the
waters of this river come directly
from the lake in which they have
left all sediment they may have
held in suspension, and therefore
are clear. Authorities are of the
opinion that the %greenish color OF
the water is due to the amount OF
carbonic acid gas that it contains.
@. Do fleas have wings? H. N. G.
A. The flea is a small wingless in
sect. There are about 100 species
known. of which one-third are
American.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
PROGRESS

A caravan of 100 people is on its way from
Brooklyn to Idaho, where its members have
bought farms.
They travel in autos and motor trucks, COOK
on gasoline stoves and camp at night in portable
canvas houses.
If YOU could turn the clock back 100 years.
you'd see pioneers making the same trip west
ward in prairie schooners" wagons drawn by
hcrses or oxen.
Those early settlers had a rough life while
thew were on wheels. And it wasn't much bet
ter after they had reached their journeys end
and built log cabins.
Suppose one of those pioneers, with prophetic
vision, had said to his neighbours: II see a car
AVIAN travelling West in 1921. It's wagons run
without animals hitched to them. In camp at
night. they bring out a wooden box that talks
and sings"
Such a seer would have been taken to a doc
tor-and later to the lunatic asylum, II ne per-
sisted in his prophecies.
The contrast, then with now, shows you how
a century has changed the mode of living in our
country.
Can your imaginations picture the changes
that another century will bring?
Compared with the past, we live in an age
of ease and comfort. And, our nerves on edge
MS a result of modern city life, we frequently are
dissatisfied with conveniences that only a few
generations ago were denied kings.
That dissatisfaction is what gives man modern
conveniences. It's what will bring more and
| better ones.
Progress is the child of dissatisfaction.
You press a sutton and electricity floods the
room. Grandma had to wash the GLOBES anu
trim the wicks of oil lamps. Her mother pa
tiently made tallow candles, for progress mad
only begun to conques the black night.
An old Indian chief, shown over New YORK.
was asked what he considered the greatest won
der. He pointed to the spigot from which came
running water.
1t is only a few hundred years since there
were no sewers. That caused the frightfui
plagues Of the Middle Ages.
You can count on your fingers the generatioos
M have passed since France had a tax on
windows and poor people spent their nights IN
darkness and foul air.
A city is bad enough at times. but when you
are inclined to bay at the moon too loudly
inst consider the hardships you missed by not
being morn 200. 100 or even fifty years ago.
We are making progress, all right IN Inns
world. Sometimes it seems discouraglng. But
the tourney, though slow, is ever onward 10
better things.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
THE PRICE OF LEMON
BY DIR. W. e. BARTON

good thing for everyone to know
that there is a curve in normal life
in all, or very nearly all, its phases.
When the price of lemons strikes
the lotion, that 10 the time for
thoughtful men to plant more lemon
trees When other people are dis
ccuraged and ready to Guit, then
success ttn es to the man vino a
discern Inc CO ming turn Of the tide.
thick It a good rule to follow al
most anywhere IN life.-DJH't cut
down a bearing tree because the
price of the fruit is low. Fourteen
dollars a box is a good price for
lemons. 1 wonder what the farmer
thinks who hears that price quoted
and looks out upon his w trees
newly grated to oranges.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
pAsEBALL sAFEGUARDED.

In a social system where such verdlcts are
possible as that rendered by the chicago jury
In the baseball scandal, it is we'll that there are
also men Of the fearless probity of Judge Lands
II is citizens of the latter type who keep dis
honesty from over-running society.
There seems to be no question that some at
least of the players who were brought to trial
conspired deliberately to cheat their employers
their associates and the public. If so they have
been just as guilty of fraud as any dealer who
sells a spurious article under claim that 1t is
genuine. Thus their acquittal must be just one
more instance when law has been invoked TO
defeat rather than to secure justice. But their
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
PEAT FUEL POSSIBILITIES
By frederic j.. Haskin.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Wide use of the
natural peat deposits in this continent as a
substitute for or a supplement to coal and fuel
oil is possible as a result of the development
of the deposits in Minnesota. and the pertec-
lion of machines to make the raw peat good
heat-producing material. 1t is estimated that
there are 20, 900, 600 acres of peat bearing land
in this country, and 80, 900, 600 acres in CANADA.
on the land in the United States there are
thirteen billion tons of peat, with more than
half of the supply conferred in Minnesota.
One of the difficulties which has always stood
in the way of using this material as commercial
fuel has been getting the moisture out OF 1t so
that it would be approximately as good as coal
Machines are now in operation which so Tar TO-
ward accomplishing this end.
Fl. w. Richardson. meteorologist and official
weather forecaster for the region around Du-
luth, Minnesota, has made a study of the peat
question for a number of years, and believes
that its use as fuel is entirely practical because
of the low cost that improved methods or cutting
and drying make possible. A long series or tests
has been made, and while it was found that
Jumps of coal were better than humps or peat
as fuel, due to the amount of moisture retained
by the lump peat, crushed and atomlzeo peat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15

'vindication" by the jury will not get them
very far.
Back of every such farce is a force stronger
than any court or any verdict, and that Is a
public moral sense. The triumpant sinner may
think that he has outwitted this, but when he
tries to resume his old standing among his
owl he learns the truth. He can never
win back to any sure position in any place
where he is known.
In ruling that these men may not play in
big league baseball, Judge Lands has provided
for keeping a great sport clean and he voiced
at the same time the opinion of the majority
of players and patrons.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
RIPPING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
Victorian Days

Victorian Days
The age Victorian. m~ethinks, pro-
duced some able writing ginks. al
though they're jeered at now; the
modern wielders of the pen insist
that prudery was then behind each
bullying brow. The authors of that
bygone time wrote tales of love, in
trigue and crime, in palace and in
hut; and all their tales were good
and clean, they wrote up life. both
high and mean, but left out all the
smut. The beastliness of life, gad-
cooks! Why write 1t up in mighty
books in language coarse and curt?
Why overlook the blooming rose to
show that soil from which it grows
Is largely made of dirt? Our later
scribes resolved to strike against
convention and the like, and show
life as it is; and when 1 read their
stirring tales of gas the sewer pipe
exhales, I weep and cry Gee Whit"
They show up every morbid phase of
life as lived these sordid days in
slum and den and style; and If the
tales they tell are true, and life Is
such a beastly stew. the world had
better die. The prudes Victorian
were wise; they wrote of mirth and
shining skies, clean danes and de-
cent men; they knew the world had
filth and vice but figured that 1t
wasn't nice with such to soil the pen.
Copyright. George Matthew Adams.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
@. Has London a corner as busy

@. Has London a corner as busy
as Columbus Circle? N. Y.
A.. Picadilly at the Ritz Home is
the busiest spot in London. An av-
erage of 2,S73 vehicles pass thiS
corner in an hour, while 1896 vehi-
cles pass around Columbus Circle in
the same length of time.
@. How ripe should tomatoes be
when picked? H. G.. F.
A. Tomatoes which are to be
shipped to a distant market should
be picked when two-thirds ripe. If
for local markets, the fruit should
be ripper. For home consumption or
for canning the tomatoes should be
left on the vine until ripe.
@. Is any more land being set
aside for national forests? N. A.
A. The purchase of 42,221 acres
of land to be added to the eastern
national forests vas authorized on
June 18th by the National Forest
Reservation Commission. About
$4,000 acres of this is in Virginia,
the rest including tracts in Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Tennessee, and West
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
W TO QUESTIONS

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any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director.
Washington, D.. c. This offer ap-
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medicinal and financial troubles. 1t
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troubles. nor to undertake exhaus-
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your question plainly and briefly.
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postage. All replies are scnt direct
u the inquirer
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
IincoIn's Pen Stolen

CHICAGO, Aug. 13-The quill pen
used by President Lincoln in sign
ing his first inaugural address has
been stolen from a Chicago exhibit.
The pen was made from an Ameri-
can eagle, killed by an admirer Of
the president.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-15
Coudv Weather Forecast

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-The
weather predictions for next week
in the middle Atlantic states, con-
siderable cloudiness, occasional
showers and cooler. Moderate tenn
perature thereafter.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
Fall to Agree on Pact.

London. = An Anglo-Russan trade
agreement has been rendered unlikely
through proposal by Leonid Krassin,
bolshevik commissioner, to insert
clauses in the preamble which would
virtually institute recognition of the
soviet government. Krassin returned
from Russia with amendments which
would change the entire complexion OF
the treaty. These amendments, II is
said, are considered impossible and
negotiations will end II they are per.
sistantly urged.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
DETROIT QUOTATIONS
Feed and Grain.

WHEAT-Cash No. 2 red. $751; March,
h.76; May $l74; No. mixed and No. 2
CORN-Cash No yellow. Tic; No. 4
yellow, Csc; No. yellow. 63c; No. yell
oATs.Cash. No. white, 4Sc; No. 3
white IS 1-2c; No. white, 40 1-2c.
RYE-Cash No. 2, $l.56
BEANS.---Immediate and prompt ship
nent; 1915 per cwt.
sEEDSmPrme red clover. $l275;
sike $14; timothy, &c.
FEED-Bran, SS1Q3S standard midd-
lings, s8l@82; fine middlings' ss4Gss;
cracked corn, S35; coarse cornmeal, 1872;
chop, $50 per ton in 100-lb sacks
HAY-No timothy. $21az2; stand
aid, .$20q2; light mixed; $2O@21; No. 2
@19; No. 1 clover, $17@1S; rye straw, $13
Ola; wheat and oat straw, $12@13 per
ton in carlots
FLOUR-Fancy spring wheat patents
$11@11.5O, fancy winter wheat patents,
S11.50@12; second winter wheat patents
50. 50 winter wheat straights, s9@
$50 per Dbl.
Live Stock and Poultry
best handy W.T. butcher steers s7@s.25;
mixed steers and heifers $7@75o; handy
light butchers $6.50@7; light butchers IS
@650 best cows $6q6.50; butcher. cows
3; best heavy bulls $5,5OQ6.25; bologna
bulls $5Q5 so; stock bulls $4a5; feeders
SQI25; stockers S6@6.25; mixers and
sprlngers s50Q90.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Best lambs
s10.25@l0.50; fair lambs sS@9.5O; light to
common lambs S5@7.5O fair to good
sheep $5@6; culls and common $1.50@3
HOGS-Mixed hogs S1125611.50; heavy
hogs $40; roughs s775; stays 6; boars
S4g5; pigs $1150.
CALVES-Best $14 culls and common
S7Q10; heavy $607.
LIVE POULTRY-Spring chickens.
smooth legs, 32@33c; spring chickens,
shaggy, 29@31c; fat hens, 33@34c; old
ROSTERS, zoe; ducks, 35c; geese, 27M2Sc;
turkeys, seven pounds and over, 42@45c
per 10.
Farm and Produce
oTATOES-AIichigan, $2.25@2.35 per
150-lb. sack
CABBAGE-s25@S0 per ton; new cab
bage, $2.25M2.50 per crate.
DRESSED HOGS-Light 12aI3c:
heavy, 9M11c per Id.
APPLES-Fency, $225@275; firsts.
s1.75@2; seconds, sl@1.5O per blu; west
ern boxes. $2.75@3.75
Butter and Eggs.
EGGS--Fresh current receipts 32 1-20
33c per doz.
BUTTER-Fresh creamery, 45 lac,
storage, 30@4oc per Id.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18

Cumberland. Md. - Captain James
Brock. V. c., sc, one of the Six Hun
dred" who took part in the charge OF
the light brigade. has been buried al
Oakland. The captain, a pensioner of
the British crown and holder of the
Victoria cross. was wounded in the
famous charge. He distinguished him,
self in the charge, and was decorated
for bravery. Captain Brock, a native
OF North Devonshire, England, distin
giished himself also in the East
Indian revolution.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
$1,000 T .roes Idle in CHICAGO.

Chicago.-The Negro contingent Of
'cag army of unempl- led totals
70 and. though the South is beck
them back home again, they
no disposition to leave, accord
ms 20 Phil Fl. Brown, chairman of the
Negro survey committee of the Re-
publican National Committee. Ac-
cording to George Arthur, of the Y. M.
c. A., at least 5000 Of the 10000 have
come here during the business de.
preston from Michigan and Ohio
automobile manufa curing localities.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
MICHIGAN HAS MODERN PoRTIA
Girl Acts as Counsel for Father, But
Jury Says Guilty"

Mancelona-Joseph Horn, charged
with distilling moonshine whisky, de-
clined the aid of an attorney when
brought before Circuit Judge Mayne
for trial. He asked that his daughter
act as his counsel.
She examined all the witnesses, put
ting them through spirited cross ex-
aminations. The father argued his
case before the jury.
And the IL men, after listening at
tentively, returned verdict of guilty.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
CONGRESSMAN MANI SMOKES
Chorus Of "Noes" Kills Proposed Anti
Smoking Measure in House.

Washington-The House. composed
largely of smoking men, stood up for
the man who smokes while working at
a Government desk. There was a
shouting OF noes when Senate
amendment to the Sundry Civil Bill,
directing heads of departments to is
sue anti-smoking orders In Govern
ment buildings, came up for its first
test. Less than score of members
supported it. The law was designed
as protection against fire.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
How Oysters Get Food.

The main food of oysters and other
bivalves is vegetable dust which is
found either in suspension In the
water, or deposited as the thin upper
layer of the bottom itself. lifting and
spreading at times in stormy weather,
but only to be precipitated anew later
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
Michigan News
TerseIy Told

Cheboygan.-With the spring cleo
ton less than three weeks away there
are no candidates for mayor.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-08

billed as ''Coarhing Mary but which would be moro appropriate, if labelled 'TouchinE Mary" This is q novel ty act in which the character of q crook is portrayed. The words are written in verse and. spoken tn spool<y music. have good effect. Loud applause from the audience diScloses an elderly individual who urges the actor to show him how to take the money so easily from women: he wants to try it on his wife. The cur tain then goes up and the act pro Eresses not without humor. Barks and Whiting have a singing and dancing number. Miss Whiting is a petite little eirH and in their clos ing number. "Nol'll Never Know both she and her partner arc good. Waiter and the LaFour sisters are really good. They have an acrohatiC stunt, but as usual, the audience does not fully appreciate the difficult rainc, two men, do singing. talk ing and dancing sketch in which a se- lection of parodies on popular airs IS q feature.
 Patrons at this theater yesterday afternoon and evening were charmed with the feature picture. Every body's Sweetheart" with the late Olive Thomas in the title role. Tn this picture Miss Thomas is at her best She enaCts a spirit of youth and TO- nance. tagged with the skill and magnificent technique that are so representative of her productions. In the role of Mary Q poor little nobody" on the County Poor Farm. she portrays a character most ap- peaIing because of it's wistful tender ness. Playing opposite her is Willie Collier. Jr.. an excellent juvenile lead. Other pictures are Episode of Fantomas. the Fox News. a Ches- ter Outing. Travelogue and a reel of side splitting comedy.
 Thursday, Friday and Saturday brings Pearl White in the 'Moun tain Girl"
New Britain herald., 1921-02-08
MUSICAL COMPANY
 PLEASES AUDIENCE
Billy Aliens Players in Initial
 Performance
CBy Herald" Reviewer.)

My Once Tn a While" the musi- cal play offered by the Billy Allen Musical Comedy company at the Ly- ceum theater last evening seemed to satisfy the desires of those who wit messed the show, judging from the applause which waa orthcominS . after the various musical numbers.
 The company as a whole is capable and although Billy Allen is billed as the star of the company, he did not show up to good advantage in last evenings performance, as his part in the play was small. More will be expected of him during his stay here. The honors of tho evening easily fell partner. Austin Gootz. pleased with their various spccialties and num- bers
 Miss Virginia Lee was called for an encore following her hard shoe danc- ing in tho second act. Others worthy of mention are Vic Kennedy, Cert rude Lynch, Lew Petel and Able Shcr.
 The show last evening was novel and entertaining. of special notice is the Billy Allen Fashion show. This is one of the best fashion shows seen upon q local stage. Tho costumes worn arc pretty and might be called gorgeous. both in color and in design and caused much comment from the audience. The scenery carried by the show appears to be new and is pleas ing to the eye. The chorus Is good to look upon and several of the girls have fair voices.
 The song and dance numbers were all we'll received. Taking all in all the company is good and should re- ceive the support of the New Britain people. It is hoped that more shows of this type will be seen here in the future.