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Newark post., 1921-08-10
Historic Huckle-
berries at Lewes


A report that huckleberries, gath
cred from the Capes back Of the Hen
lopen lighthouse near Lewes, were
now on the market, made reference to
an early grant of this land. about
200 acres, for the use of the poor IN
and around Lewes. As matter OF
fact the record of this grant makes
no mention Of the poor and is ve-y
interesting document. 1t created
commons or free park under terms
which were considered just to the re-
presentatives of William Penn's court
at Lewes. This was in 1862. Forty
wears later the grant was confirmed
by a subsequent court, and finally the
commissioners of the town Of Lewes
were made trustees of the land. "A
part of the original document reads:
climber and feed of the said Land
and marshes thereunto belonging be
and forever hereafter Lye in common
for the use of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Lewes and county of Sussex;
as also free Liberty for any and all
Inhabitants of the said County to
fish, get and take off their oyster and
cookie shells and gather plums, cram
berries and huckleberries on the said
land as they shall see fitt."....
The huckleberry crop is short this
year, owing to the cold spring wea-
ther and the recent dry spell. The
berries are a staple product Of Sussex
county and grow in abundance IN
other sections than Lewes. OF the two
varieties the high bush berries are
the finest and bring the best prices.
New Jersey agricultural agents are
actively interested in increasing the
crop of large sized berries OF the
high bush variety. Boys in the agrl-
cultural extension courses and club
work have been offered good pay for
plants with unusually large berries
It is believed that berry can be
produced as large in diameter ~
dime or even a nickle.
Newark post., 1921-08-10
Better School Libraries
Subject of P. T. A. Bulletin

The present committee of the Par
ent Teachers Association is prepar-
ing a program leaflet to be issued Oc-
tober /, and to contain suggestive
programs for Parent Teacher meet
ings in November. The subject OF
the bulletin is "The School Library"
It is prepared with the object in view
of helping teachers throughout the
State to organize associations and to
arrange for meetings that will meet
the high aims of the association for
bringing the people of each commun-
ity into helpful contact with the
schools. It is the aim Of the Parent
Teachers Association to secure librar-
les, healthful playground equipment,
and to encourage music. The bulle-
tin now being prepared is to meet the
first of these aims.
The members of the committee are:
Miss Ina Barnes, Kent county Super
visor: Mrs. Annie E. Snyder, Sussex
county Supervisor; Miss Elizabeth
Jenkins. New Castle county Super
visor; Miss Mary E. Rich, Of the
Teacher Training Department Of the
University of Delaware; Mrs. John b.
Cleaver, State President, and Miss
Eta Wilson, executive chairman OF
the State Parent Teachers Associa-
ton.
Newark post., 1921-08-10
FARM FOR SALE

Must sell on account of i'll
health, farm about SO acres,
located below Tweed's place
on Creek Road. SIS acres in
cultivation, rest timber and
meadow land. Ten room
house in good condition.
1-4-tf CHARLES kRAPF
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSON

1t usually takes something to arouse the public to need
ed reforms. The accident on the Staten Island ferry last
Sunday night was startling enough to accomplish anything
that will improve conditions and make less likely a repetition
of such a catastrophe.
Stuart L. Ritz, president of the Tottenvlle Civic League,
in his letter to Mayor Wilson, called attention to a condition
that ought to receive attention. On the Perth Amboy side of
the ferry foot passengers are compelled to use the same ap-
proach to the boat that the vehicles use. This necessitates
the people on foot standing and walking in front of the auto
mobiles in going on and off the boat
Had there been a separate approach on the bridge at
the ferry landing for foot passengers it is very doubtful if
such an accident as occurred Sunday night would have hap
pened. In failing to provide such an approach the ferry COM
pany invites criticism and censure. We fail to see how it
can escape its share of the responsibility for what has already
happened.
The safety of the ferry between this city and Totem
vile is of vital concern to the people on both sides of the
sound. 1t is to be hoped that Mayor Wilson will act on Mr..
Ritzs suggestion and join with Tottenville in insisting that
a separate approach be provided for foot passengers on the
Perth Amboy side of the ferry. The fact that the ferry COM
pany has not provided such accommodations long ago is
only another instance of the Indifference of the company as
TO the welfare of its patrons.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
HARD ON n DOCTORS

Beer as medicine to be secured from drug stores only
on a doctors prescription is putting the respectable ply
,icians and druggists of the country in an embarrassing posi-
ton. 1t tends to lower those engaged in the medical profess
ZION to the level of booze dispensers. 1t is not surprising that
the respectable element, regardless of their attitude on pro-
hibition, show their resentment.
This effort to class beer as a medicine is a farce. The
only thing beer has ever been known to cure is a thirst.
-Emipeht physicians have testified before congressional COM
mitteS that they know of no way whereby beer can be
classeAas a medicine. There are instances, perhaps, where
beer han been prescribed as a tonic and some physicians
may RECOMMEND beer for mothers while nursing infants,
but no reliable doctor can consciously prescribe beer as a
medicine in(the sense that we commonly understand medi-
cine.
At the meeting of the American Congress of Surgeons
held in Philadelphia a few days ago the majority of the doc
tors present, while declaring that they were opposed to pro-
hibiion, said they would not subscribe to beer through the
prescription route. prohibition has either got to go alto
gether they said, "Or we will have nothing to do with it,"
perhaps three per cent. of the physicians of the country
will traffic in beer because they cannot make a living at any
thing else,' one of the doctors said. But it will be the same
crowd that has always dispensed dope when nobody else
would"
Il. looks as if the doctors of the country were being made
the goat in the matter of prohibition. Either beer and light
wines should be carefully authorized, or they should be alb
solutely prohibited.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
DIRTY NAILS
COMMON SENSE WAYS TO KEEP WELL

pose, because either of these cause
the under surface to become rough
and hold particles of dirt more Sc
curely.
After the use of the nail file or
orangewood stick, the nail brush
should be employed and then again
the stick or file.
Some emotional and absent
minded persons have the habit of
biting their nails or picking at
them. The origin of such a prac-
tice may be 'hangnails'' and rough
edges which are first sucked upon
or bitten once or twice. Then fol-
lows the bad habit.
The fingernails themselves are
not dangerous. Neither is a scratch
from them if they are clean. If
the margains of the nails were ster-
ilized, disinfected and as hygieni-
cally clean as the surgeons knife
you could pick and scratch a disin-
fected skin without hurting any,
thing.
1t is because the nails harbor
germs and the skin is also filed up
with microbes, hat scratches and
nail marks and skin bitten off
around the nails are dangerous.
Bone felons" and inflamed "hang
nails" are infections in the flesh
from germs harbored by the nails,
Red, swollen and inflamed Gin
growing nails" are due to similar
bacteria. A good treatment for such
infections is hot boric acid water ap-
plications.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
@BcrtOnBrale
Em\ Daily Poem
@@MyISeeE

Way I see it, life amt right,
Things amt runnin' perfect. quite;
Rich folks has it owe poor,
Worlds chuck full Of ills to cure:
Loves too weak and hates too strong
Good too often bows TO Wrong.
Yet, though everywhere we 60.
LIES bound up with grief and woe.
Grumblin' amt tho way to free it,
Way 1 see it,
Way / see it, / shud say
Strivin' is the better way.
Strivin' hard. an hopin' too.
That our dreams is comm true:
Fightin' evil all the time,
Battlin' all life's muck an CRIME,
Yet, through toll an strain an stress
Keepin' cheerful. nome the less;
We shud face the game-not flee it,
Way / see it!
Way | see ii, we can bear
All our load of work an care
Better if we recognize
There's a lot in life to prize:
Things is bad. but they was worse
In this jumbled universe,
An it's folks who keep their cheer
That improves it. year by year;
RI that's p~latitude. so be 1t.
But it's sense-the way / e 1t!
Copyright. 1921, N. E. A.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
Learn One New Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC soCIE TY
MACAo: THE NAPLES OF CATHAY.

Cidade da Nome de Deos, Mao ha
outra mails leal, October 23-
Telegraph editors are reasonably
shock-proof, yet a date line like the
above might arouse curiosity, if not
CONSERVATION when the bill for cable
tolls rolled around. Yet it would
be accurate enough, according to a
headquarters of the National Geo.
graphic Society. For that is the
corporate name of the Monte Carlo
of the Orient where dispatches, more
modernIy dated Macao tell how
the Southern Chinese government is
trying to break up opium smuggling
and church lotteries in this Portu-
guese city. Macao's longer name
means "City in the Name of God.
most loyal of the colonies"
From all the controversies raging
around the bakers dozen foreign
holdings on China's coast modest
Macao has remained immune until
the Canton regime recently endeav-
ored to cleanup this first Euro
pean conquest in China, perhaps with
the added political motive of there
by insuring Portuguese recognition
of the Sun Yat-sen regime" the bull
letin continues.
ttIitE6 IOTtuSutSo SIAtuCCE NiotCs
mot only is the Macao the site
of the first European claim staked
out on Cathay's coast, but it has
cultural ties with Europe closer knit
than the political relationships of
controverted areas to the north. 1t
contains the oldest ruin in China
that is associated with Europe, and
the tamarind and banyan shade the
gardens where the Portuguese Chau-
Ger. Camoens, composed half of
The Lusiads, one of the half dozen
of the worlds great epics.
Inevitably, too, one associates
the location of Macao, on a scant
three mile peninsula jutting from an
island in the delta of the Canton
River below Hongkong, with that
colony of Portuguese Americans on
the very tip of Cape Cod, made IA
nous by Joseph Lincoln. In Macao,
as in Provincetown and at Goa, on
the west coast of India, it seems as
if the Portuguese had left the very
edge of Europe and all but missed
landing on the headlands OF other
continents. But if history did not
record the lasting debt that Europe
owes to Portugal for reaching out
to every quarter of the globe. Cam
oens, here at Macao, would have
left In his immortal epic a noble
monument to Vasco da Cana and
other heroes of Lusitanian caravels.
"Once in Macao the traveller may
remain to contemplate an out of the
way shrine of European history. But
| that is not why most folk board the
! daily boat from Hongkong to go
there. 1t is a summer resort for the
Cantonese because of it's exposure to
the cooling monsoons in tmid-sum-
mer. Opium smugglers and gam
| blers, in recent years. have doomed
large among it's transients. Former
~ the Chinese coolie traffic also had
a Headquarters here. Within a CEN
fury its waters may have warranted
the characterization of one traveller
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

children, both in city and country,
showed an average of fully 20 per
cent. who were so much undernour-
ished as to be considered in a SER
ious condition.
The Bureau of Education is es-
pecially interested in improving I'M
derweight defects. Weight is an
index of health. In children, and
in grown persons as well, excessive
fat or thinness is almost invariably
a sign of some health rule disregard
ed. Occasionally, the condition is
the result OF some disease.
A normal child gains weight with
more or less regularity, and should
weigh somewhere near the standard
for his age and height.
Children who weigh as much as
10 per cent. below the figure set as
a standard for their age and height
are sub-normal physically. A child
who is not more than Is per cent.
heavier than the standard is prob
ably healthy, and has a reserve of
strength that is desirable. Weight
more than Is per cent. above the
standard is apt to be overweight, and
generally implies some fault in food
sleep, exercise, OF breathing.
The standards approved by the
Government and printed for school
room use were fixed by DIR. Thomas
d. Wood, director of physical train
ing of Columbia University. The
table is regarded as the best avail
able.
In preparing his table, DIR. Wood
consulted statistics gathered from
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
PERTH AMsoY LOSES VALUED CITIZEN

The excellent reports made at the annual meeting of
the Perth Amboy Chapter of the American Red Gross Thurs
day night only tend to emphasize the loss the city will ex-
,perience in the removal of retiring president of that organi-
cation, Tracy D. Waring, to another field. While it is not
made public yet where Mr.. Waring is going, it is an open
secret that he has been transferred by the Standard Under
ground Cable Company, with which concern Mr.. Warning is
connected, to another one of its plants.
Perth Amboy will miss Mr.. Waring. Modest and unas-
Stunning almost to a fault, he has been a valued worker in
many of the city's leading activities. His thoroughness in
everything he has undertaken and his mastery command
of detail has been the wonder and the cause of admiration on
the part Of those with whom he has been associated.
Mr.. Waring was a member of the Board of Trustees of
the public library at the time the new front was erected to
the building. AS chairman of the building committee he
brought the work through in a most satisfactory manner
AS head of the Red Gross during the trying times of the war
and since, he has rendered a service which only those who
have been associated with him can ever appreciate. AS chief
Of the Boy Scouts in this city his untring efforts and constant
attention has done more to make the boy scouts a permanent
institution in this city than anything else.
Mr.. Warning has a host of friends in this city and there
is much regret to learn of his departure. Perth Amboy is
losing entirely too many such men as Mr.. Warning. The
serious thing is that there does notseem to be anyone COM
ing in to take their places.
As the new position to which Mr.. Waring goes is in the
nature of a promotion his fellow townsmen unite in con-
graduating him and wishing him continued success, in spite
of the direct loss which everyone feels at his departure from
the city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29

10000 records of Horace Mann
school children; life insurance sta
tistics for the Is to 20 year period;
statistics gathered by well known
doctors; and statistics of New York
school children, IA to 16 years old,
who were examined for permission
to work.
The Government Is urging schools
all over the country to have scales
as health equipment and use the
Government weight table. In some
communities the Parent-Teacher
Association or some other organiza-
ton is giving a scale to a school
building. With this apparatus IN
hand, a record can easily be kept
from month to month showing how
each child stands.
Besides a scale in every school
building, the Bureau of Education
would like to see hot lunches in
every school. And it hopes that
soon we may have all over the
country school physicians, adequate
ly paid and engaged to give all of
their time to the schools. Then the
school doctor can not only prevent
disease but he can assist the teacher
to make well children healthier.
Not until the schools begin to
spend some time and money on the
bodies as well as the brains of the
children car we hope to reach the
Governments aim to have 90 per
cent. of the Children of the country
well nourished, strong, alert, and
clean.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29

the fires of industry and productive
toll.
And 1 began to think less unkind-
ly of this match business.
And l thought of my W life and
of the lives of other men, into how
many %splinters they are divided. And
l said within myself that 1 had
never been able to make of my life
one single. solid, undivided contribu-
ton to any heroic achievement but
that it had been cut up into match
wood and kindling by the ~exigencies
o. the daily demands upon my
strength and time.
Yea, what is this parable but a
splinter, with the end dipped a little
space into the personality of him
who writeth it, that peradventure 1t
may kindle a kindred glow in the
heart of some one else who hath
seemed to himself to fritter away
his life in trivial duties, with no OPP
p~ortunity for conspicuous and heroic
deeds?
Now this is my message unto all
such:
If thou hast lighted the lamp of
hope in the humblest life; if thou
hast put a torch into the hand of a
child that he might walk Alright
down the path of temptations; if thou
hast set in the window of thine own
soul, where it is visible unto men,
a candle lighted by a spark of thine
W conviction or experience, so
that any life hath been guided
Alright; if thou hast kindled into new
warmth the flame of love within the
hearth of n cold and troubled
home; if thou hast warmed the milk
of human kindness in the cup of n
human being, then thank God that
He hath permitted thee to be cut up
into matches.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
Science Service

The people of the United States
are approaching a distinct type of
American man. and woman. Hence,
in the future, America is to have its
W type, the same as France, jap
an, Germany and all other countries.
now have.
This from DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, cura-
tor of the Division of Physical An
thropology in the United States Ma
tional Museum.
He has been in charge of the
Smithsonian Institutions executive
investigation. which has covered
eight years, of the physical and
physiological features of the oldest
and most American element in the
United States.
There l. 10 American type IF
either man Or woman, as yet" says
DIR. Hrdlicka. yet there is an APP
proach to such a type in physiog-
nomy, stature. build, augmentation
and in other directions"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
PINE TREE AND MATCHES
BY DIR. w. L. BARTON

I journeyed, and I came into a
great forest of tall pine trees. And
men were at work cutting them
down. And not far away was a
sawmill that sawed the trees into
lumber.
And they sawed down 6 great
pine, and it fell with a mighty shout
that woke the echoes of the forest.
And l said, I am a lover of trees,
and l could almost as easily murder
my father as cut down a tree so fine
and tall as that. Yet 1 know that it
must be done; and it may be that
yonder tree will be cut into lumber
for a temple of worship, or a hall
of justice. or a happy home.
And the foreman spake unto me,
saying, This tree will be cut up for
the making of matches.
And l said, Thou mightest make
matches u of the chips and the
splinters of it, but the tree itself
would make matches enough to set
the world On fire.
And he said, All the lumber which
thou seest at the mill, and all h
saw-logs that are beside the mill.
and all the trees that these men are
cutting, yea, and every tree in this
vast forest is for the making of
matches.
Then vas I sac to think of those
monarchs of the forest casting down
their crowns and tumbling from
their thrones to light cigarets.
But I considered that there be
other and more honorable uses of
matches, and that so great a tree
would not give it's life without serv-
ing many noble purposes. For it
would light the evening lamp in
many a home, and kindle a glow on
many a hearthstone, and set ablaze
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-29
WAR AS AGAINST WAR
TO BE THE N

ance called by the executive of the
whole trade union movement of Eu-
rope.
The old enmities engendered DUR
ing the recent war will be largely
forgotten will be made evident when
| tell you that the Transport Work
ers International will have three
delegates to Amsterdam-one from
France, one from Germany and
from Great Britain. At Amsterdam
we can agree upon a peace program
far more effectively than can the
representatives of governments at
Washington.
Sprung from the people, repre-
senting the mass of the people who
earn their bread by the sweat of
their brow. we will call upon the
people of the United States and Eu-
rope to wage war against war. And
we can win If we stand together.
Suppose the statesmen of two op-
posing nations got their Congress or
Parliament or what-not to vote
credits for the munitions of war.
Theirs would be a mere idle. but
savage gesture If we stood together.
If the miners of the world refuse
to produce Goa for war purposes
and the metal workers refuse
to manufacture metal for war pur-
poses and the transport and railway
workers refuse to haul Goa and
metal and munitions of war, for war
purposes, how can the nations make
war?
Need Shot and Shell
They can't fight each other with
words or proclamations. They need
shot and shell which they can't have
If the workers act.
In Other words, the Amsterdam
meeting is to be an attempt on the
part of those who most grievously
suffer from the burdens of war to
make war impossible. In such an
undertaking, / feel we ought to have
the enlightened support, backing
and sympathy of all civilized people.