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Glas svobode. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1902-1931, 1921-04-12

Narcotic Sc ma Glas Svobode!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
THIS ROAD NEEDS ATTENTION.

If the Board of Freeholders. in their tour of
the county roads Tuesday went over the high
way between this city and Port Reading by
way Of Sewaren. they certainly had their
bumps. They also probably found the road
practically deserted. The cause and effect were
very apparent.
The large population in this section OF Mid
dlesex county wants this road put in first class
condition. There is good reason to believe the
freeholders have the funds on hand to do the
work and reliable advice has been secured TO
the effect that it ought to be possible to build
an entirely new concrete road, properly drained
on both sides, for what it would probably cost
to merely put a dressing on type r" material
on the present foundation without drainage.
These are facts that greatly interest the tax
payer and they are not going to be overlooked
There is no road in the county that is in greater
need of attention than this highway which, al
though one Of the most important roads. is now
nearly deserted because of its condition. Blu
when it is repaired it must be done right.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

lust how successful this move on the part Of
the government TO unload some of Its surplus
explosives will be remains to be seen. The
interest that the people of this section have In
the matter is the evidence of so much powder
still kept in this vicinity.
The great quantity stored at Morgan is par
ticularly significant. not only because 1t was AT
Morgan where the explosion of a little over
two years ago occurred, but because Morgan
is not a permanent government arsenal and
therefore the explosives naturally are not as
well provided for and protected as they are at
Raritan, for instances.
Whether or not the government succeeds IN
selling the powder now stored at Morgan every
effort should be made to see that the supply
there is greatly reduced as quickly as possible
The old excuse about the railroads being con-
gested with freight and a scarcity of cars no
longer holds. The railroads have plenty of
idle cars today and they would be only too glad
TO haul the stuff to any part of the country
the government might designate-the farther
from the thickly populated section of the coun-
try the better.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
AN INDEPENDENT SENATOR

No one who is familiar with the political
record of Senator Edge will accuse him OF
being anything but regular In all party af-
fairs. He is a thorough organization man, al
though he may like to have his own organi-
cation. But regardless of what may be said
about the senator his Republicanism will not
be impeached.
II is with a great deal of satisfaction, there
fore. that the senator's constituents back home
note his Independent attitude on various mat
ters that come up at Washington since he has
become a senator. Besides being the sponsor
for one of the most constructive pieces of leg
islation that has been enacted by the present
congress-the Edge act authorizing the forma-
ton of foreign financing corporations-he has
not been afraid to stand by his convictions re-
gardless of whether he agreed with the so
called "elder statesmen" or not.
The senator's latest show OF independence
is his vote on the emergency tariff bill that
passed the senate on Wednesday. The bill
was forced through congress by the Republi-
cans as a sop to the farmers OF the West.
That the bill is a farce is generally admitted;
that Il will tend to increase the cost of living
is also pretty generally admitted, even by Re-
publicans. In fact, 1. is doubtful II the Dill
would be passed at all II 1t were not practically
certain that President Wilson will veto 1t there
by preventing it from becoming a law, yet the
Republicans will have saved their faces be-
fore the farmers claiming that they really tried
to do something for them.
But Senator Edge could not favor the bill
even on such grounds. He was one of the four
Republicans to oppose the measure on final
vote. He had good reason for his stand.
Senator Edge Is making good at Washington.
He is one of the younges statesmen who are
making their influence felt. The control of the
senate is still in the hands of Senators Lodge
Penrose, Smoot and the so-called oligarchy,
but there are signs of a change coming. Sen
ator Edge is going to be heard from mora and
more as time goes on.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Luke + SAYS

About the most useless way to waste time is
to sit down and brood over the time you've
wasted.
If you are fixing TO go TO Cuba for a month
for a Rest, arrange your affairs SO you can rest
for another month after you get back home.
And what has become of the oldfashioned
man who used Hair Oil?
You imagine that Fortune Tellers can tell
your Future. But if you thought that they
knew your Past you wouldn't go near them
would you?
A lot of foolish people worry about Death.
Just as though Death was likely to get absent
minded and forget all about them!
Lots of married men believe that if there
was a Fool Killer they would have been carried
into Church in a long Casket instead of being
lugged into Church by a bride.
This is a contrary old world. A leather shoe
scuffs up and gets rough at the toe. but a
suede shoe wears smooth at the toe.
Al Optimist expects'to get the worst OF Il
sooner or later. But a Pessimist expects to gel
it sooner.
The idiot who doesn't know anything ism
half as tiresome as the Idiot who knows 1t al
Education isn't such a much, after all. A
High Brow uses Logic to calm his angry wife
and loses out. A Low Brow uses his shoe on hi
wife's features to calm her anger, and wins out
Tell a man in January that the sun Is 80.
900, 900 miles away from the earth and he'll
believe you. Tell him the same thing in Jul!
and he'll call you a wall-eyed Liar.
II you only knew how hard a homely CIR
works to make her face presentable, you would
admit that she is just as pretty as she can be.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
EXPLOSIVES IN THIS VICINITY

There are still plenty of explosives stored in
the two government plants in this vicinity, judy
ing from an advertisement appearing in various
Journals having to do with chemical and metal
lurgical engineering. It seems. according to this
advertisement to which the EVENING NEWS
has previously called attention. that there are
$4,000 pounds OF c~ellulose powder stored al
Raritan arsenal and $4,000 pounds of cellu-
lose and 4.149,OOO pounds Of cordite powder
stored at the general depot at Morgan.
The government wants to sell this powder
ard is offering it to chemical concerns with thu
idea that they will take from it the more or less
valuable chemicals of which it is composed
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason.
NIGHTS AT HOME

/ always spend my nights at home
remote from strife and Garcia pill
low soft supports my dome, my feet
rest on a chair; and so L read some
gripping pome or volume ripe and
rare. My aunts and grandmas play
some tunes, or blithely sew and
knit, while merry children. full of
prunes, throw many a gladstone fit,
till lullabys their mother croons-
and so the calm hours fit. And
when the morning comes l read
how men who roamed by night fell
victims to the autos speed, were
shot up in a fight, or touched for
all their chicken feed by some I'M
holy wight. 1 read of kidnapped
maidens fair, and parents in dis
tress. of youths who lose. in White
Way glare, the number of their
mess, of misdeeds in the gamblers
l say, if those who galivant would
spend their nights at home. with
grandma. niece and maiden aunt.
and read some helpful tome, the
crime of which the p~eelers rant
would disappear like foam. I'd
rather be with bards who think
than with the men who prance to
places where the glasses clink. and
there are games of chance: a book
is better than a drink, or than a
tango dance. And when at dawn 1
leave my bed l caper and l sing,
no hold-up, with a bar of lead, has
spoiled my larboard wing. / do not
have to stitch my head, oil wear 1t
in a sling.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
D,y1IGHr SAVING FARCE.

prosnacts for real. daylight saving legisia-
,,o, this wear are not very bright. AT WASH
,,qton. the only place where the ottlclal 'me
csn prorerly be regulated, congress has Iooleu
- is time on a sc-called emergency tarlii
hui which even those who stand sponsor i"i
Il adm, is poor legislation and which VIII
nayer become a law because President wilson
q hound 10 veto it. In the meantime measures
,bat could be of som use to the country have
been ignored so that now rot even the htaeh
,oodad anpropriation bills are likely to be
passed.
Tn New York state a bill has been introduces
AZ Albany repeating the statewide daylight saw
ing law and substituting thsrefor a Dill gyms
towns ard cities the privilege Of regulating
their own time. This is an attempt to please
The CITY jewellers who demand the dayusht
saving time and at the same time satisfy the
farmers by permitting them TO have the time
remain as 1t is.
Here IN New Jersey we have no daylight
saving law and we are not likely to have one
hut It is admitted that II New York city ad-
vances the clock one hour IN summer all the
municipalities within the metropolitan area will
be compelled to do likewise.
n, the railroads the through trains Will be
run on the regular time while the SUBURBAN
trains will adopt the new schedule. CLOCKS In
the stations will show one time and clocks IN
street will show another. Some timetables Will
list trains on standard time and other Timetables
will list trains according to the daylight saving
scheme. There will be confusion worse con-
founded, the same as last year with much an
noyance on all sides.
Such a situation ought not to be permitted
The country is too closely related and the dill
ferent communities are to interdependent to
make any such farce Of the official time. Day.
light saving in summer has many advantages
but these advantages are more than offset by
the great inconvenience that are caused when
the change in time Is not universal-or at least
when It does not cover one whole section of
the country.
The people ought to be spared a repetition
of such an outrageous condition as resulted last
rear from the adoption Of daylight saving time
In some places and q maintenance of the stan
dard time in other places. Changing the Off
eial time is not even the function of a state, let
alone a municipality. If there is to be any
daylight saving legislation Washington Is the
place for it. If Washington refuses to act, let
the state legislatures and municipal governing
bodies keep hands off. Our troubles are numer-
ous enough these days without deliberately mix
ing up the clocks so that no one knows where
he is at half the time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

That genial American poet, Sam
Walter Foss, touched a responsive
chord in contemporary life, when he
wrote his poem, THE House by h
Side of the Road" He found in
Homer a line which told of a certain
gracious character, that He was a
friend to man, and he lived in a
house by the side of the road"
Whether his place of residence
was voluntarily chosen and hence
the expression of his friendship for
humanity, or whether it was acci-
dental. and its opportunities we'll
improved made the owner increas-
ingly hospitable and kindly, we may
not know; but in the American
poem the place of residence was
Voluntarily chosen. 81 and Homer
co~llaborated," wrote Mr.. Foss.
There was a time when men who
knew the world to be sinful sup
posed themselves to have no way of
keeping themselves holy and of
gaining additional holiness but by
retiring to the desert and living lives
of sanctifed uselessness. We have
found hat the best type of holiness
m not in that way. We know
who taught US a better way:
81 pray not that Thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
Thou shouldest keep them from the
evil that Is in the world"
That was the program of Jesus.
His apostle Paul had this idea:
BE not overcome of evil. but
overcome evil with good"
That is the program of being in
the world. and not being dominated
nv its evil Influences hut of using
every opportunity for good. And
that is the program of the man in
the House by the Side of the Road:
Let me live In a house by the side
of the road,
Where the race of men go by.
The men who are good and the men
who are bad,
AS good and as bad as I.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

O. Are cities in Alaska equipped
with electric lights and electric rail-
ways?-I. NJ. c.
A. The Alaskan Division OF the
| Interior Department says that towns
in Alaska have electric lights n
street railways, but towns are not
connected by electric lines. Auto
motlle lines connect some of the
towns.
O.. What building contains the
most elevators?-A. NJ. p.
A. Unless recent building opera
tons top this record, the Hudson
Terminal building with SO elevators
heads the list.
@. How should one breathe while
swimming ?-F. d. s.
A, Annette Kellerman makes the
matter of breathing in the water
very clear when she says: a a
quick gulp of air through the mouth
and let it ooze out slowly through
the nose" In practicing n should
take a quick breath, then submerge
the head and exhale the air through
the nose under water. When this
is mastered. the real secret of sue
cess in swimming has been learned.
@. When was the fifteenth
amendment, which gave the negroes
the right to vote, ratified Phi. H. b.
A. This amendment to the Con
stitution was ratified March 80. 1870.
@. What Is the longest word in
the English language Pc. c. d.
A. j. is observation-disclosures
which contains "a letters. has this
distinction.
Q. What is a parlor boarder?-
C. p. G.
A. This term is applied to a pu-
pill in a boarding school who has
many privileges not granted to the
ordinary pupils.
@. What is meant by tracing
paper?-A. H. G.
A. This is paper so prepared as
to be transparent, and of such tex
'ture that it will receive marks either
in pencil or with pen and ink. 1t
| is used for copying, being placed
over the original and the lines care
| fully followed with a pencil or pen.
Q. Please state the proper angle
for the stylus of a cundial made for
Chicago.-B. S. X.
A. The Naval Observatory say
that in the ordinary horizontal form
of sundial. the stylus should be set
at an angle to the horizon equal to
the latitude. For Chicago this angle
is Al degrees s minutes.
Q. What are the duties OF this
War Department General Staff
T. B.
A. The duties of the War Depart
ment General Staff are to prepare
plans for national defense and the
use of the military forces for tina
purpose. both separately and in con
junction with the naval forces. and
for the mobilization of the manhood
of the nation and its material re
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

sources in an emergency; to investi-
gate and report upon all questions
affecting the efficiency of the Army
of the United States. and its state of
preparation for military operations;
and to render professional aid and
assistance to the Secretary of War
and the Chief of staff.
Q. Who were the Apostolic Fa-
thers?-T. w. A.
A. This name is applied to those
Christian writer's who were believed
to have been contemporary with any
of the apostles. They are Barna-
bas, Clement of Rome, Ignatius,
Polycarp, Hermas, and Papias.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
W TO QUESTIONS

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Direc-
tor. Washington, d. c. This one
applies strictly to information. The
bureau cannot give advice on legal.
medical and financial troubles. II
hoes not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, moi to undertake exhaus-
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly and oriefly.
Give full name and address and en-
close two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
OrfuIi

Commenting on Luke's criticism of our
modern magazine poetry, Barrie Payne, of the
Nashville Teunesseean, wants to know why our
modern popular songs should consist of words
IKE: "Lank and leany. chile beany, eeny-
m-eenie-minie-moe ?" The words of some OF
them aren't that sensible. Barrie.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
BITS OF BYPLAY
BY Luke cLuke
Copyright. 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer.


81 wonder If you could?'' unused the Cheerful
Idiot.
you wonder II you could what?" demanded
the Wise Guy.
"Why, | wonder If you could say that the
Solid Citizens of a town are the Hard Guys? p
replied the Cheerful idiot.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Gushing,

He was the wisest of young men.
He'd loved a girl since first he met her;
So he bought a cheap fountain pen.
And he wrote her a gushing letter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Aw, Gwan!

Don't, you have a hard time keeping a sock
from slipping down when you have an artificial
leg % we asked the man with the artificial leg.
How do you keep your sock up, anyway"
Il use a thumb tack" replied the man with
the artificial leg.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Wuni

1 know that when they are in love.
Most boys and girls will moon;
But darned If l can figure out
What makes the table spoon.
Dee Dee.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
The Horrors of Prohibition,

Last Monday, in Philadelphia, Penn, a leg
less man in a wheel chair wheeled up to a
pedestrian, pulled out a gun, held up the
pedestrian for $50, wheeled down the street,
and escaped. If this thing keeps up, it won't
be safe to pass an infant in a baby carriage.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

Dear Iuke-You say: Love is the night
before-Marriage is the morning after" L al
ways thought marriage was the Mourning after
Billie Wood.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Alta Bowl

Anyway. Will b. Rich, of Nashville, Tenn
who has been graduated from Vanderbilt Uni
versity, shouldn't worry about the future.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Helm!

He asked her on a ferry boat
To be his bride, did Plover;
The story ends right here, you'll note,
Because she threw him over.
Luke McLuke.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Oyster-Ready.

George oyster and Cecil READY were married
in Washington. D.. c., recently.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Add Old World Humor.
GAS happy as a King"
Names Is MAJ

Pearl Barley lives in Johnstown, Pennsyl
Yania.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

Harmonious Consistency
What is the meaning Of consis-
tency'?"
Consistency, my son, has to do
with the fitness of things"
IT don't know just what you
mean"
"I will give you an example,"
Eyes, sir"
"A freckIe faced girl In a polka
dot dress, leading a coach dog
Youngstown Telegram.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
Efficiency ON the Farm

Efficiency on the Farm
Cow-Can you beat it? There's
so much system around here now
that they file me in the barn un-
der the letter &C"
Hen-Yes. I have my troubles
with efficiency too. They've put
a rubber stamp in my nest so l
can date my eggs two weeks head.
American Legion Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

He asked her in an aeroplane,
To be his bride. did Hupp:
The story ends right here, It's plane,
Because she took him up.
-Hasting, Neb. Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18

Our Daily Special.
Where There's a VIII There's a Won't.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-18
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
BY DIR. w. E. BARTON

I will not sit in the scorner's seat.
Nor hurl the cynic's ban
Let me live in a house by the side
of the road,
And be a friend to man."
1t is possible for us to wall our.
selves in with a spirit of complac-
ency, and let the toiling world 60
by.
1t is possible to find u home in
some remote habitation where the
pain and hunger of the world shalh
not greatly disturb is. \
But 1t is better to live beside the
highway of toll, in a house with an
open door. and be a friend to man.
Good Advice
"This-ub-glub-spaghetti Is W
full - lob-glob - slippery stuff.'
coplailned a customer in the rapid
fire restaurant.
Jaw. don't try to eat 1t with your
knife!" briskly said Heloise. the
waitress. "Ketch it by the tail and
reel it in."-Country Gentleman.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-16
Victory for the Legion.

The closing OF the United States
public health service hospital for tu-
bercular eX-service men at Mar!lle-
ton, Pa. by order Of Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Treasury Ewing Laporte,
is regarded 10y American Legion Off
Gals as great victory for the ex-
service mems national policy in re-
gard 10 disabled veterans. This hos
pital was frst denounced as an i'm
proper place for the treatment Of tu-
bercular ex- service men by II. W. Cal
braith. Jr, national commander of the
American Legion, in a speech in Phil
adelphia last November. His stand
followed numerous Investigations
made by government authorities, and
a public appeal from o6 tuhercular
veterans being treated there.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-16
AID FOR THE LEGION BOYS
Directory of General information of
Especial Interest to All Elk
Service Men.

To aid the veteran of the World war
to adjust his affairs with the govern
ment ana to settle other interests of
eN-servIce men. the American Legion
has published the following directory
! of information centers;
( COMPENSATION CLAIMS: Compensa-
/ ton and Claims Division. Bureau OF War
4 Risk Insurance, Washington, -. c. Out
standing claims which cannot be adjusted
/ locally and those which have long been
/ held up by complications in correspond
! ence with official bureaus may be sub
] mitted for adjustment to the Compensa-
! iuu Editor, The American Legion Week.
! ly. New York City,
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE: Insur-
auce Division. Bureau of War Risk Insur-
anoe. Washington. u. &.
ALLOTMENTS AND ALLOWANCES:
! AIoments and Allowance Division. Bu-
reaa OF War RISK Insurance, Washington,
H. O..
VOLUNTARY ALLOTMENT: Allotment
} Division, Army Finance Office Washing
ton, -. G.
SIXTY DOLLAR BONUS: Bonus Sec
ton, Army Finance Office. Washington.
LIBERTY BONDS: Bond 4,ranch,
Army Finance Office, Washington, d. c.
ADDITIONAL TRAVEL PAY CLAIM:
Additional Travel Pay Section. Army
Finance Office. Washington. D. c.
VOCATIONAL TRAININGS Apply by
letter or in person to District Voca-
uonal Officer Federal Board for Voca-
u0nal Education, at one of the fourteen
regional offices; or write directly to Re
haDilitation Division, Federal Board for
Vocational Education Washington, ID. C..
CAPITALIZATION OR MEDICAL
TREATMENT: Apply to either % Dis
triCt Supervisor L. S, Public Health
Service in one of fourteen regional dis
tricts, 60 Field Examiner at one of eight
branch offices of Bureau of War Risk
Insurance. or 90 write directly to Sur
geon General of the Public Health Serv-
Ice, Washington, u. c., or Hospital Di-
vision Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
Washington d. c.
CIVIL SERVICE: Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. c.
VICTORY MEDALS: Apply to nearest
Main Recruiting Office, or write to Vic
tory Medal Section, Adjutant Generals
Office, Washington. y. c.
LOST DISCHARGE PAPERS,: Apply
to the Adjutant General of the Army,
Washington d. c.. The Bureau of Navi-
cation, Washington. D. c.. or to the
Major General Commandant, L. 5. Marine
Corps. Washington, d. c.
SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOS: Photo
Washington, d. c. Catalogues listing
titles OF Army photos and giving prices
of various sizes may be consulted at
most public libraries.
LAND: Apply by letter or in person to
either the Public Land ONCE. DepaI tment
of the Interior. Washington. D. c, or to
any one OF the branch Offices throughout
the country,
LAWS AND PENDING LEGISLA-
TON; For informatio as to botf. ma
tonal and state legislation. apply TO
Chairman, State Legislative Committee,
American Legion, your Department Head
quarters
GRAVES Service to Dead: Cemeterial
Branch, Quartermaster Generals Office.
Washington. d. c.
EMPLOYMENT, Apply to employ.
ment officer of Legion post. or to en-
ployment officer of department Head
quarters. If employment offices are not
maintained by your post or department,
your inquiry will be referred to the proper
authorities