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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
HELPING THE UNEMPLOYED

With the cooperation of the citizens much ought to be
accomplished by Mayor Wilson's committee on unemploy-
nent which held its first meeting Tuesday night. Perth Am
BOY seems TO have a problem all its own in this matter. The
general appeal elsewhere seems to be to start building in
order TO give men work. Such an appeal. is not necessary in
Perth Amboy. The building trades have all they can do.
Seldom has there been so much building going on in this
vicinity. True, it is mainly business and public buildings
that are being erected so that the NOusing problem is not
being solved TO any extent, yet as far as giving work to the
building trades is concerned, it makes no difference what the
character of the building is.
In Perth Amboy the problem is one of common labor.
Hundreds of men who are usually employed in the industries
that handle metals are out of work. They have been out Of
work for a long time. 1t is this kind of labor that the average
citizen can help the easiest. C~hopping wood, cleaning the
cellar, taking care of the furnace, carting out the ashes, beat
Ing rugs-anything along this line that can be offered by
any household would be the means of enabling some men to
earn a few dollars. Citizens are urged to get in touch with
The employment bureau where the unemployed are register
e. and secure the services of a man for a day, a week or pos
sitlv for the season.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

painless. In fact, any one who did
not see the apparatus would not
know treatment was being given.
The child can be brought to the
hospital and it's mother assured
that he is not to be touched by a
knife. The child is laid on a ia
BILE and the rays strike up from un-
der the table through the place es-
pecially prepared. The mother sits
by the patient and holds his hand
and in less than half an hour the
treatment is over. After several
treatments the tonsils are gone.
One of the latest experiments
with Xrays is in connection with
diphtheria carriers. The diphthe-
ria carrier zoe about, unconscious
that his tonsils, nose and ear pas
sages reek with germs and that he
is giving the disease to his more
susceptible friends. There are a
great many of these carriers and
they are a serious menace to the
health of a community, though they
are not responsible for the danger
they carry.
In one city, Detroit, a doctor is
making a series of tests to deter
mine whether X-ray treatments
Will rid these persons of the diph-
liberia germs permanently. We are
told that eleven out of fifteen tonsil
cases, two out of four ear cases, and
four out of five nasal cases were
cured by X-ray treatments.
The doctor is continuing his
treatments, but he is chiefly inter-
ested in knowing how long the i'm
mUnity is going to last.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
Learn One New Thing Every Day

BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

animal, in their search they are still
opening the stomach of every cow
that dies.
The most effective weapon of the
Nasal and Andoobo is the arrow
which they poison with the Acocan-
thera schimperi, a small tree. They
boil the leaves and branches until
the mixture becomes thick and
pitch-like in appearance, and place
1T on sheets of bark which they hide
high on the branches of trees away
from the children, until it is needed.
When an animal is shot with an ar
row dipped in the poison, it dies al
o Immediately. The natives cut
out the flesh around the wound as
soon as possible and throw it away.
The remainder Is eaten and the
blood is drunk. This love of blood
as an article of food is common
among the African tribes, several
of them going so far as TO bleed their
cattle and drink the blood hot or
mix it with their porridge.
The mixed breed known as Swa-
hills. who live along the coast of
h mainland and among the thou
sand-and-one representatives of 9TH
er peoples Of the world to be found
in Zanzibar, have one claim to
prominence among Kenya tribes
their language is the one in common
use in the Colony. If one speaks
Swahili he can find some one to con-
verse with him from Natal to Alden
and from Mombasa to the Congo"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
~APe BraleyS
EM Daily Poem
FISH

Whenever I'm terribly bored,
Whenever life seems, on the whole
A thing to be greatly deplored,
A WEAKNESS unto the soul,
I find / can brighten my lot
And tie to my troubles the can
By thanking my stars / am not
Like the Paleolithic Mani
His life was exceedingly bleak,
He had very little to do
A fight with a bear ono a week,
A brush with a tiger or two
But otherwise, gosh, it was dull!
With nothing TO figure or plan
And never a thought in the skull
OF the Paleolithic Man.
No books and no music or plays,
No baseball or tennis or art,
Just one long succession of days
With no way to tell them apart:
He fought and he gorged and he
slept.
Beat his wife-like the rest of his
But the years must have sluggishly
crept
For the Paleolithic Man!
So when I'm considering him
1 say to myself, Hip hoorayi
Existence has color and vim,
I'm glad 1 am living todayi
The world Is a place of delight
With marvels and wonders to scan
I certainly pity the plight
OF the Paleolithic Mani"
Copyright. 1921, NEA Service)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
Easy For Thin People to
Put on Flesh and Gain Weight

It's such an easy matter nowadays for
thin. weak, scrawny people to put or
good, healthy. solid flesh and become
plump and graceful that one often won
ders why there are still so many people
who seem 10 prefer 10 be "all skin and
bone" ungainly and unpleasant to look
upon.
Physicians have long known that WIN
ever could discover a remedy that would
cause the food that one puts into the
stomach to turn into good, rich, flesh
making blood instead OF going to waste,
would also discover how to put healthy
muscular flesh onto thin under-nourished
people and this has now been accom-
plished.
II you are thin, under developed, ner-
vous. weak. or lack vigor and vitality,
you can secure at any good pharmacy
at moderate cost. a ten days treatment OF
EVANS TRIPLE PHOSPHATES, a new
combination Of flesh producing. muscle
building, strength creating elements that
is guaranteed to put good. solid. lasting
flesh pm your body and to make you
strong. healthy and vigorous. or money
back.
Physicians who have watched the re-
suits OF the Evans Triple Phosphates
treatment are astonished at its rapid ac-
tion-often in a month five to ten 20 1ds
of desirable weight Is gained. Barnekov e.
PETE has agreed TO supply readers r. his
paper with Evans Triple ~Phosphates and
to guarantee 1t TO do Just what Is claimed
for 1t or money re~turned.-Asv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
THE cITy,s ONE OPPORTUNITY

A great opportunity will be lost to Perth Amboy if it
permits the adoption of plans for the elimination of the
nrade crossings through this city without provision being
made for a union station to be used by the Lehigh Valley
as well as the Central and Pennsylvania railroads. Because
the city lacks definite plans for municipal development the
matter, apparently, is to go by default. The railroad COM
pany draws the plans and the city officials are invited to in
spect them and give them their approval.
The proper course would be to have the elimination OF
the grade crossings all provided for by a city plan drawn in
conjunction with a plan for the development of the city as a
whole. A city plan commission properly organized and prop
erly financed would have been prepared for the present sit
nation and when the railroad company was ready to talk
crossing elimination the railroad engineers would have been
invited 10 Perth Amboy TO look over the plans that the city
had prepared. It would then have been for the railroad en-
qineers 10 inspect and give their approval.
The matter of a union station with proper approaches is
something that vitality concerns the future of the city. The
opportuniIy now offered will not soon come again. The
coming generation will wonder at our lack of foresight.
More and more the importance of a city plan is being i'm
p essed on the people.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
BE GOOD TO
BY DR.. w. L. BARTON

I called upon an editor in a west
ern city. and enjoyed a very pleas
ant visit with him. He asked me
at what hotel 1 was stopping and
when 1 told him, he inquired, Are
the rates satisfactory? Are they Civ
ing. you good s~ervice?"
+ told him that the hotel was a
good n and that the rates, as
hotel rates now run, were satisfac-
tory.
Said he. I'VE have been insisting
that our hotels shall keep their
rates at a reasonable figure. 1t is
not good for our city to get the
reputation OF robbing tourists"
The very next city to which I
went / found the rates much higher
for the same class of accommodate
ton. I judg< that the work of
that editor had been fruitful.
If I were speaking to the repre-
sentative men of any city, 1 would
say. See to it that tourists pass
ing through your city ever from
one depot to another get a pleas
ant impression of your city,"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

O. Where can the most euuable
year-round temperature be found In
the eastern part of the country
III. +. N
A.. such conditions are found
near the seaeoast toward the south.
The places of least change of tenn
perature are the small islands of
the Florida coast.
q. What American vessel first
went round the world?-D. l..
A. Some authorities give credit
to the U. s. $. vincennes, a sailing
frigate, as first circumnavigating
the globe, making the trip in 1929
1890. Other authorities credit the
United States sailing frigate Poto-
mac, which made a continuous
cruise around the world from 1881
1894.
@. In what parts of the country
is h hard hack tree found?-
A. w. Il.
A. The hard hack tree is found
from Maine to Minnesota and south
to Florida. This tree is also
known as the hornbeam tree.
@. Where did Angora goats come
from and who brought them to this
country FL. N.
A. Angoras are traced to q dis
tinctive breed that was known even
in the days Of Abraham. They are
native to Angora in Asia Minor.
and were brought to the United
States by DR.. James B. Davis of
Columbia South Carolina, in 1s49.
q. When, where and by whom
was the first bank in the United
States organized ?-H. w. ].
A. The first bank in the United
States vas the bank Of North Amer
lea in Philadelphia. II was char
on December 81, 1881. 9 As origi-
nally established, it was the idea
of Robert Morris. This bank is
still in existence and 10 located at
S07 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
@. I wish to send some acorns to
France. How long should they be
dried?-H. G.. j.
A.The Forestry Service says 1t is
not necessary to dry acorns. as they
have a natural process of drying
themselves. Before shipping. be
sure that any acorns that are
sprouting are thrown out.
@. What variety of strawberry
was grown for commercial use in
the United States?-D. s. N.
A. The Large Early Scarlet was
the leading variety of strawberry
grown from the beginning of COM
mercial strawberry growing about
1900 until about 1860. AS this va
riety was too soft to ship to dis
tant markets, other varieties suita-
BILE to various climatic conditions
have displaced it.
@. How much is a metric TONI
v. r..
A. A metric ton is 1000 Kilograms
which equals 2204.6 poupnds.
Q. Why r certain cabs called
herdics ?-T. p.
A. This style Of cab was named
for its inventor, Peter Herdic.
Q. How long has tatooing been
practicable. Y. o.
A. 1t Is impossible to say when
and where the custom of ~tatooina
began, but it is of very ancient orr.
gin. In the tombs near Thebes
were found painted representations
of white men with tatooed bodies
and in his commentaries Caesar
writes Of Britons being tatooed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

COMMON SENSE WAYS TO KEEP YELL

than because they are beauty spoil
ing marks. that people have them
removed.
The electric needle is used to re-
move smaller moles. For the larger
ones the X-ray, radium and "dioxide
snow" have been successfully en-
ployed.
For a large mole an operation
which is not as bad as it sounds is
that of carefully cutting out the
blemish and drawing the edges to-
gether.
Although moles are defects pres
ent at birth, warts, another beauty
spelling blemish, appear at any time
during ones lifetime.
Children are usually the most Ii
able to warts. especially boys of
grammar and high school age.
An old superstition places the re-
sponsibility for spreading warts on
the innocent toad. This probably be-
cause the toad is such a loathsome
looking little reptile and is wart COW
cred itself.
There is no truth in this belief. 1t
is quite probable that a certain germ
gets into a scratch or sore on the
skin, thus forming a wart.
Warts do no harm to children ex-
cept for disfiguring their skin. In
adults. warts may develop into
malignant growths like moles.
The skin specialist employs prac-
ticalIy the same remedies for warts
as for moles. X-ray, radium and
"dioxide snow as wei, as the electric
needle.
Sometimes a wart may be removed
by use of salieylic acid, or a small
one may be cut off with a sterilized
knife blade or scissors.
Cleanliness has often been found
useful in getting rid of warts. An
abundance of soap and water, fol-
lowed by the use of a powder such
as boric acid or alum will often do
where other things are of no use.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
DISTRIBUTION COSTS
HOLD PRICES UP

off the retailers profit, 1t wouldn't
make your apple much cheaper.
You have to consider all the other
costs thai enter into the apple.
To really bring about a reduction
something must come off each n
of the thousands of costs of ma
terials and services that go into the
finished product.
This will come by gradually re-
ducing costs all the way along the
line. This can be done by better
and more efficient grading and hand
ling, cheaper transportation, better
distributions more frequent turn
overs, better business methods,
greater economy and discrimination
of the buying public.
There is no reason why our work
should not establish a more stable
level of prices and a more just dis
tribution of the final price among
those who render services or pro-
duce materials.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
BY DIR. r.. II. BISHOP

Many people are born with marks
On various parts of their bodies.
These are known as 'birth marks"
and are usually in the form of moles.
People who have moles on their
faces naturally wish to get rid of
them. They are unsightly blemishes
to the complexion. Coarse hairs
usually grow put of the center of a
mole and only add to the unsightli-
ness of such a mark.
Moles are brown, sometimes al
most black in color. They vary in
size from hat of a pin head to the
size of a hand and may appear on
any part of the body.
In youth moles do no harm except
as they spoil the beauty. But in adj
vanced age it sometimes happens
that they develop int a malignant
growth.
1t is for this reason, perhaps more
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

His hair is the most precious her.
itage that can be left to his son by
a man of the Suks, n of the tribes
of the Kenya Colony. British East
Africa, where, dispatches state, the
natives of the colony are claiming
equal representation with the
whites" says a bulletin issued from
the Washington, d. c., headquarters
of the National Geographic Society.
ut is unwomanly for the Suk
women to have any hair at all Oh
their heads, but the increasing sup
ply of hair passed down from father
to son is ove in a great chignon,
in which he can carry all of his val
liable possessions, UGH as his
ments and his snuff-box. This head
covering is the only garment which
he deems necessary.
An Assortment of Peoples.
'The Suks belong to the Nilotic
race group, which is only one of the
divisions of the interesting inhabi-
tants of this newst colony of Great
Britain. We find the Swahilis, or
coast folk, a hybrid race formed by
the union of Arabs who have pushed
into the country with the negro
tribes, the Somalis and the Gallas.
There also are Bantu-speaking pop
ulation, many of whom dwell in the
regions around Mount Kenya, which
was for a time believed to lie in the
tabled regions of the Mountains of
the Moon as we'll as more of the
Nilotic group, consisting of the
Nasal, the Nandi and others.
Though Kenya calls itself the
newest of the British colonies, it is
one of the oldest lands of the earth.
Theodore Roosevelt, in speaking of
his African hunting trip, said that
the Nasal often reminded him OF
the pictures of the soldiers of Tho
Times and Rameses made by the
ancient Egyptian sculptors. in that
their faces were resOlute and had
cIear-cut features. The same noted
straveler said of this tribe that
though the women were scrupulous-
ly clothed, the husbands and broth
ers, very ostentatiously wear no
clothing for purposes of decency.'
From Raiders to Farmers.
Reports concerning this particu-
lar people have constantly made
their appearance in the civilized
world because they persistently pill
LACED neighboring tribes. having de-
cided that they no longer cared to
I'LL Inelr on Helus, DuI WOuiu Set
their sustenance by taking the cattle
and supplies of weaker tribes, and
in this way have been responsible
for the depopulation of large dis
tricts of British East Africa. Today,
however, they are doing excellent
work in cultivating the soil.
The greater portion Of the Nasal
o live in the districts around
Nairobi. They have perhaps the
most definite religious beliefs of any
of the East African tribes, praying
to two gods, M black and benevo-
lent and the other red and cruel, but
they believe that when they die, they
go out like puff. Some of the
Bantu tribes. however, hold TO
witchcraft and the witch-doctor's
business is to detect the culprit so
that she-for the accused is nearly
always an old woman-may be put
to death.
Cow Ate Sacred Book.
''The Gallas, though they are now
of little importance either politically
or economically. take great pride in
their past. They say that they once
had a sacred book, like the Bible oil
the Koran. but a cow ate ii. and not
being certain about the particular
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

Great is the advertising value Of
a pleasant impression.
/ met an American woman who
had travelled In Europe, and who
thought well of Vienna, because
there she had such lovely sausages.
II a tourist spends but a day In
your city. do not let him carry away
the impression that the hack drivers
are pirates and the hotel keepers
robbers and the merchants descend
ants of the crowd that waited be-
side the Jericho road for the nan
who was coming down from Jerusa-
lem.
The tourist is your cheapest and
best advertiser. Furthermore, he is
your prospective resident and neigh
Dor. Do not let him leave your city
with the impression that your town
IS sorry that he had a few dollars
left when he went away; he is liable
to keep those dollars and spend
nem going somewhere else.
Be good to the tourist. 1t is good
morals. 1t is good business. And
what is good for morals in the long
run Is good for business.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

In a railroad strike the public is
out.
Corkscrews kept in stock by the
senate indicates they haven't lost
their pull.
"Hermits Eat Grass and Bark
headline. Gone to the dogs.
Los Angeles 20 divorce DEGREES
in n day leaves the score united.
Lip sticks do not seem to make
them stick.
Every radical group claims It
saw America first"
The only perfect man in the world
is the one your wife once refused
to marry.
This Asia Minor trouble is a major
one.
Wonder If a girl ever penalties .
football star for holding?
Being rich consists of having
more than the neighbors.
The $50, 900 left to care for stray
cats could be spent in buying up
old shoes.
Easiest way to keep house is buy
one.
The man who is as busy as a bee
doesn't get stung.
The scientist who counted $4,000
germs sitting on a pin point might
try it himself.
Country cousins are busy getting
for summer vacations.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

Any reader eco get the answer to
any question BY writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederic .. Haskin. Director,
Washington, D. c. This onsr sp-
bureau cannor give advice on legal,
medicinal and financial troubles. Ii
does NOT attempt to settle domestic.
troubles nor to undertake exhsus-'
live research on n subject Write
your question plainly n briefly.
iive 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., 1921-10-27
BY SIDNEY ANDERSON
Chairman, Joint Congressional
Committee Of Agricultural Inquiry


Hanging p%rofiteers won't bring
down the cost of living.
But cutting distribution costs by
introducing more efficient and econ
omical methods will.
The price you pay for any article
is not just one price-it's a combina-
ton of thousands of prices.
You buy an apple. The price you
pay at the fruit stand is the cost of
growing trees plus spraying plus
pruning plus packing plus grading
plus material in the box plus trans
portation, including pay of brake
men, engineers and firemen, plus
hauling plus retailers profit plus
insurance plus rent plus storage
and hundreds of other items.
Now, If you took 10 or 20 per cent
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
Science Service

A lightweight rifle for throwing
life lines has been adopted by Brit
ish h~fe-savers, says the current is
sue of Popular Science Monthly.
This rifle takes the place of the old
fashioned mortar. or squat cannon.
The life-saver can fire it from
shore, climbing with it to a tree top
or carry ii to the bow of a life boat.
1t is only three feet long over all.
Fitting into the barrel is a pro-
jectile rod that enters about al far
as the cartridge chamber of the or
binary rifle. The rod projects slight
ly beyond the outer end of the barrel
where it's ose is attached to a hollow
tube, called the envelope" that fits
over the rifle barrel and extends
half way back to the butt.
Outside the tube is the canister
containing 100 yards of life line,
which is wound on a cylinder of
cardboard. To the back end of the
envelope tube a lanyard is secured
and this. in turn, is attached to the
end of the life line.
When the gunner fires. the pro-
jectile rod is shot out, taking with
it the envelope tube, lanyard and
life line. If a shot misses it's mark,
the gun can easily be reloaded.
TRY THIS FOR INDIGESTION
Foley Cathartic Tablets are just
the thing for constipation. Their
action is wholesome and thoroughly
cleansing. without gripping. nausea
or Inconvenience. They Danish head
ache. biliousness. bloating. gas, bad
breath, coated tongue and other
symptoms of disordered digestion.
Mrs. H. j. Marchard. SO Lawrence
St, Salem. Mass. writes: II used
Foley Cathartic Tablets for consti-
patton with good results. l keep
them in the house." Sold every
-here.-Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27

'The Gallas, though they are now
of little importance either politically
or economically, take great pride in
their past. They say that they once
had a sacred book, like the Bible or
the Koran. but a cow ate il. and not
being certain about the particular