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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
MAINTAINING cIry,s WATER FACILITIES

81 Perhaps the most gratifying item in the rivers and
s arbors bill that has been introduced in congress this year
: the one appropriating $4,000 for Woodbridge creek.
While the sum is small it shows that this stream has not
cen abandoned by the government as was recommended
Y some of the officials having to do with the matter.
Woodbridge creek is the northern boundary of the
ity. As long as shipping is maintained there Perth Amboy
\ .as navigable water on three sides. The time will come
when more industries will be erected in that vicinity because
! i the shipping facilities afforded by the creek. To have it
.bandoned by the government would be a decided loss
o the city. Because its abandonment had been talked OF
he appropriation in the new bill before congress becomes
LOUDLY important.
~ The meagre appropriation for Raritan bay and river, is
Is disappointing as usual. Not for years has congress done
Justice TO these important waterways.
81 The money spent on the bay and river has not been
Tsuffcient to maintain the channel at its established depth
Slowly it has been filling so that pilots claim there is now not
more than nieteen feet of water in some parts of the chan
8ael up the bay at low tide whereas the government charts
ball for twenty-one feet of water.
However, greater things are in prospect for local wa
erways. Perth Amboy's proposed development involving a
million dollar steamship terminal will put an entirely diff
Ferent aspect on the situation. The federal governments pol
lev is to help those localities that show an inclination to help
The municipalities on the Raritan have been
slow to do this.
Perth Amboy is showing the way and there is reason
10 believe that once definite plans for the development OF
Ahe local waterfront are adopted the government will pro-
vide a twenty five foot channel up the bay, and possibly
one Of thirty feet.
In the meantime we want to hold on to all the advan-
tages we already have. For that reason the expenditure OF
even sc. 1000 on Woodbridge creek will tend to keep that
waterwav before the government and help maintain naviga-
non on the stream until it is time for still greater develop
saeM
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
TIE GOVERNORS FLuNKlES

The sight of Governor Edwards riding through the
streets of Trenton with a state trooper riding in front and
another behind his automobile would be a huge joke were
it not such a serious misuse of the taxpayers money. This
personal vanity on the part of the governor means that there
are two less men to do service throughout the state where
The constabulaPy is most needed.
There are only seventy-four men in the constabulary
and kf .e two of them detailed as a guard of honor for the
20, JAlor is to make the governor ridiculous and at the same
time rob the people of some of the protection they are en-
titled to. 1t is to be hoped that after the governor has had
his fill Of playing the part of a rajah or some other grand
potentate, with his armed body guard to escort him wherever
he goes and to act as sentinels at his Office door, he will
come to his senses and release these men so badly needed
on the highways of the state.
A request has just been made for an greatly increased
for the state constabulary for the coming year.
How can such a request be justified if this is what the mem
hers of the state police force are to be used for? Governor
Edwards did everything he could to prevent the establish
ment OF a state police force and now he seems determined
TO. do everything in his power to discredit the organization.
|1g1ese state troopers are paid to do patrol duty, not act as
|iiubkies for the governor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
TIME FOR MiDDLEsEx TO ACT

The Board of Freeholders have named Thursday night
2ns the time for holding a public hearing on the desirabllty
of erecting a county tuberculosis sanitorium in Middlesex.
The fact that Middlesex is one of the last counties in the
state to erect such an institution would indicate that it is
about time something was done along this line.
The interest in this matter is brought prominently be-
fore the public by the sale of Christmas seals now going on,
not only in Perth Amboy and Middlesex county, but through
out the country. 1t is the big humanitarian movement of the
present time. 1t is deserving of all the support one can give.
The fact that the taxpayers of Middlesex county are al
ready being taxed heavily to support the large number of
tuberculosis patients that are sent to sanitariums in other
counties and even into other states, is an argument in favor
spf building a sanitarium of our own. MiddleseX has the site
md there are more than enough patients to fill the institu-
lion when it is built. Instead of paying all this money that
The patients are now costing the taxpayers to other counties
it would be used right here in Middlesex serving a double
purpose.
1t looks as if MiddleseX had waited long enough in this
matter. The time seems to be ripe for favorable action on
The part of the county board. In the meantime, let every
body buy all the Christmas seals possible in order to help
support such work as is now being carried on here.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE
DIToR EyENING NEWS:

EDITOR EVENING NEWS:
The enclosed clipping from the
News" of December 10 meets my
attention and knowing it to be mis-
leading and that the inquirer in your
questions and answers column may
be correctly informed (and it may
be of interest to others) 1 am here
with Offering the story of Mother
Goose as it should be told. h was
not, as is generally supposed, a fairy
story myth, but was a Boston woman
and very much alive at all times as
may be seer. by reading something of
her life. Nor was she English and
her songs were not first published
in England as sometimes claimed.
Mother Goose was born in Boston,
Mass, and belonged to a very
wealthy family. Her eldest daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, vas married by Cot
ton Mather, in the year IT'S, to a
printer named Thomas Fleet, and
when their first child was born,
Mother Goose took upon herself the
taking rare of the baby granddaugh-
ter and spent almost all of her time
in the nursery. pouring forth songs
and old dltties to the baby. The
singings of the old lady greatly n
noyed the entire neighborhood and
particularly so, her qu~iet-loving SON
in-law, Thomas Fleet, but being a
good business mar he conceived the
idea of getting together the Mother
Goose Melodies and together with
others that he had already collected,
published them for the entertain
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
THE TRAIL OF THE "WHITE MULE"
Daily letter by Frederic J.. Haskin

men in tho Appalachian region to
comb out the stills" Probably a
thousand c. uld not have done the
job.
Meantime the market for the pro-
duct steadily widens. 1t has always
been used largely III the southern
cities. such as Chattanooga and
Birmingham, and the moonshiners
found a ready market in those places
as soon as prohibition went into ef-
feet. Washington has also been
a steady user of White Mule for a
long time. New York, it is said, is
just beginning to acquire a taste for
it, but the market there is growing,
despite the competition of imported
stuff. Moreover, white corn whiskey
while a terrible thing at its worst, is
by no means unpalatable at its best.
There is ne reason why the moon
sinners field of activity should not
widen, as he learns how to cater to
the better trade.
Perhaps mex this infant industry
will have it's LOBBY in Washington,
and will cooperate with the Anti
Saloon League for legislation to pre-
vent the importation Of liquor. White
Mule is 100 per cent American, so it
must be good.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
Learn One New Thing Every Day

BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

more than 100000 barrels were pro-
duced.
The bringing in of what Ameri-
cans would speak of as the first
gusher was not an unmixed blessing.
This fountain or 'spouter,' as such
wells are called by the English oil
men of the Baku fields, was unex-
pected. Nothing was known of the
handling of oil flows under high
pressure at hat time, so the well
ran wild and could not be brought
under control. Most of the oil was
a total loss.
when later fountains were
brought in under control nothing
like the present demand for oil ex-
listed in Europe, carrying facilities
were poor, and the presence of great
quantities of the liquid above ground
demoralized conditions. The Russian
government experimental for a num-
her of years with monopoly regula-
tions and then heavy taxes. When
taxes We're reduced in 1877 the Baku
oil industry grew very rapidly.
Carters Fight Pipeline.
Before the first drilled well was
brought in all oil was transported
to Baku from the oil fields, a dis
lance Of eight or ten miles, in bar
rels on awkward two-wheeled Tatar
carts. An endless stream of them
traversed the unspeakably bad road
from morning until night. After the
advent of gushers a pipeline was
projected. The Tatar carriers staged
a riot when the plan became Known.
! The pipeline was constructed, how
ever. and the carting industry died.
From their commercial start in
1869 until the outbreak of the World
Wal the Russian oil fields were Sec
ond in production except for a few
years when they passed the United
States. When Russian production
reached ton million barrels in 1884
the United States was producing
, twenty-four million. In 1898 the
output from Russian fields passed
that from the United States, being
81, 100000 to the latter's 1884, 600.
in 1901 WREN Russian production
reached it's heigh s figure-S5.0 00,-
600 barrels it was well ahead OF that
years production in the United
State: 80, 600, 900. But the very next
year the United States jumped to
SO, 900. 900 while Russia advanced to
only $4,000, 900. The lead of the
United States has increased steadily
since that date.
"In it's banner year, 1901, Russia
produced a little over half of the
output Of petroleum in the entire
world for hat year. The production
from the United States was not
much under half, and over ninety
per cent of the worlds oil came from
the two countries.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

That lean, anawk-nosed. sockless man
has become a prosperous fellow with
a good car and a bank account.
Many a mountain boy and girl is get
ting a better education and better
food and clothes by reason of pro-
hibition. There are no more staunch
supporters of prohibition than these
artists of the White Mule. 1t has
been a boSn to them. They are back
Of tie Antl-Saloon League to a man.
There are risks, OF course, but they
cannot be great. In the cities the
police frequently arrest bootleggers,
but IN the wild ruraI neighborhoods,
where White Mule is made, the To-
cal officers are selaom hostile. In
fact, it is lot unusual to find the
sheriff a part VINE. of a still and the
local storekeeper supplying the SUI
gar for a share of the profit. and in
some cases even tire preacher has
been known to paitake of the labors
and the profits of the venture. In a
word, the whole neighborhood is
pretty SURF to be in cahoots, and the
way of the stranger there is apt to be
hard. 1t was published not long ago
that the prohibition enforcement de-
partment was sending a hundred
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
LUCKY ACCIDENTS
BY DIR. W. e. BARTON

Perhaps that is true. but it is not
the whole truth. Some workmen
would have cursed the machine and
never picked up the scrsw and IL IL
had been laid before their eyes
would never have stopped to think
that in that accident was disclosed
a secret that hid a mine of wealth.
1t was that way with the discovery
of photography. A silver spoon laid
by accident upon a plate that had
Leen coated witlliodine preserved an
image of the spoon. How many men
of single-track mind would simply
have washed off tho plate and coat
ed 1t again with iodine for the orig
inal experiment? Not so Daguerre
he utilized the accident and dis
covered photography.
Accidents are happening all the
time. The inventors are not the
lucky fellows to whom the accidents
occur, but the men who stop and
think of the reasons and the posi-
BILE uses of the accidents. Those men
bless humanity and build up their
own bank accounts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
BY DIR. II. II. BISHOP

The human body is an exceedingly
delicate instrument and probably
one of its most delicate organs is
the ear.
The ear Is in direct and close re-
lation to the brain. 1t has three
parts. external, middle and internal,
and all of these are most Intimately
connected.
Permanent harm often results
from abuse of the external ear, that
part which stands out from the
head. The harm thus done, how
ever, is to the parts you cannot see,
the internal and middle ear.
A child's ears should never be
pulled or slapped. This, too often,
results in Inflammation of the mid
die ear and the inner ear may take
on the same condition.
The outstanding part of the ex-
ternal ear is thin and unprotected by
fatty tissues so that when it is eX-
posed to cold it becomes frost-bitten
sooner than any other part of the
body. 1t should be protected from
freezing.
When exposed to heavy air pres
sure in a tunnel or when there is
heavy cannonading or blasting. the
mouth should be partly open to per-
NIT equal pressure on either side of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

@. If the Pacific and Atlantic
fleets come together, which ship
holds place as flagship Of both
neets?-D. 4. S.
A.The u. 5. S. Great Northern,
whose name has been recently
changed to the Columbia has been
designated as flagship OF the fleet.
whenever tho Atlantic and Pacific
fleets are brought together. The
Great Northen was formerly an
Army transport and is now being
refitted at the New York Navy Yard.
The old Columbia is now ON the list
of navy ships to be sold.
q. is thereskh
q. What is the Indian legend con-
corning Muscle Shoals &c. IL.
A. The Indian legend of the
shoals in the i've is hat it repre-
and water.
OILS there q bird called the organ
bird?-D. M. X.
A. This name has been given to
two different song birds whose clear
warbling notes resemble those of
the organ. One is a wren found in
the valley Of the Amazon and the
other a piping crow of Tasmania.
Q. How did the slang phrase ito
bant" originate ?-D. ID. T..
A. This humorous phrase for diet
ing with the pUrpise of losing weight
originated in the making Of a verb
from the name Banting. Bantfng
was the advocate of such a system,
which bears his name.
@. Who was nicknamed THE
Bobbin-boyg
A. This nickname was given to
Cnnnrnl Natha nal ID DanlxC ~
Massachusetts, an American soldier
and politician, because Of the fact
hat he worked in a factory as
u young mar.
q. Who was the original of the
character Faistaff?-C. c. G.
A. 1t is said thai John Oldcastle
q boon companion in the young days
of Henry ". was the original OF
Shakespeare's Falstaff. Oldcast1e
met his death condemned as a trail
tor and hereto during this mon
arch's reign.
@. What land is included in Oce-
ania?-G. FL. s..
o. Oceania of Oceanica was a des-
ignation which embraced the land
surface which remained after appor-
tioning the continents of Eurasia,
Africa and the Americas. The term
CONtltu BuotA dild, the iiluldH ATtli-
ipelago and the Pacific Islands.
After Australasia was set apart as
a continent, Oceanica was restricted
to the Malay Archipelago and the
islands of the Pacific.
Q. How old is osteopathy IN. 3
A.. The principles of osteopathy
were discovered and formulated by
DIR. Andrew 4. Still in 1874. The
first college of o~steopathy was open
ed in Knoxville, Missouri in 1892.
q. How long ago were Paisley
shawls made ?-F. N. K.
A. The manufacture of the IA
mou Paisley shawls began early
in the nineteenth century at Paisley,
Scotland.
= @. Why there is a b in the word
debt?-M. w
A. The word debt is derived from
Middle English Diet, dette and from
Old French dette. In an effort to
make the English spelling suggest
debita the b was inserted. The g
was inserted III island for the same
reason and the ! in fault although
in the latter case it came in time
to be sounded.
Q. Has Jerusalem ever had any
other name ?-S. Y. o.
A. When the Roman Emperor
Hadrian rebuilt. jerusalem after
it's destruction in 70 A. D., he
cbSkhged the name to Aelia Capito-
lima and forbade any Jew to dwell
in this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

! have been told that for many
years after machines had been in
vented for the making of screws,
the screws had to be pointed by
hand and that it was a difficult and
expensive and not wholly satisfac-
tory kind of work.
one day a workman operating a
screw machine had a slight accident.
The machine worked loose lille It
was making a screw and throw out
the screw with an unintended twist.
The workman picked it up. 1t was
perfectly pointed. Before he ad-
iusted his machine, he sat down and
studied it to see just what had oc-
Cured. When he discovered how it
had been done, he invented a way to
have the machine do that same
thing every time. He is said TO have
grown rich.
In a recent article in the London
periodical, Discovery, Herbert w.
Horwill, in an article on 1.-THE Par
entage of Invention" declares hat
90 per cent. of inventions are acct
dental.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

while the United States and Mex
leo are forging ahead in the produce
ton of petroleum, ~feverishly devel-
oping their discovered fields and tap
ping new ones" says a bulletin is
sued by the National Geographic So
ciety, the Russian fields, where
some biologists believe are situated
the worlds most extensive oil resour-
ces, are to a considerable extent
marking time because of disturbed
conditions resulting from the World
War. Although the Mexican oil
fields are more spectacular, and
though those of the United States
+ now yielding in the aggregate
mucAA more oil, the Russian fields.
especially those near Baku on the
shores of the Caspian Sea, have long
been very near' the front in world
interest.
The oil territory about Baku is
not like that in our own mid-conti-
nent fields where grain grew in a
rich surface soil, and where there
were no indications to tell the lay
man hat far below the surface
were pools of liquid gold. The oil
bearing strata reach the surface, or
'%out-crop,' over a considerable area
In the neighborhood of -Baku; and
the oil and gas escaping at the sur
face, have made their presence
known for ages.
Natural Gas Furnished Holy
FIamc."
There are no indications thai in
remote times the oil or gas was put
to much practical use as modern
people understand that term, but
there is little doubt that priests of
the fire worshipping cult which flou-
rished in old Persia made a good
thing out of the phenomena. Not
far from Baku are the ruins of a
temple of the cult which is believed
to have been in existence for more
than 2,50O years. Tower beacons
and affairs are provided with chan
nels concealed in the masonry, which
7 demonstrate that gas-titting is not a
craft of modern birth. These chan
neis led from assures in the earth
which once furnished natural gas. To
this temple came pilgrims from al
PARTS of the East as late as the
eighties of the last century. Beside
the walls of the temple today stands
a modern refinery, furnishing an en-
I phatic contrast in the old n new
/ uses Of natures gift of oil and gas
"Appreciable production of pc
troleum began in Russia in 1868
four years after the first oil well was
brought in on Oil Creek in Pennsyl-
vania. The first year Russia turned
out a little less than Al, 900 barrels
while production in the United
/ States was more than 2,5O0.0O0 bar
els.
Russian Gushers are "Fountains.
Early commercial development OF
oil in Russia was strikingly different
from the development in America
Dug wells were used. They were sew
eraI feet square and OF depths vary
ling from few feet to fifty feet 81
riore. The oil seeped into bottoms 81
the pits and was bailed out. The
crude methods continued for eight
years but under them a considerable
production for those days was mains
tanned. In 1870. the year before
bringing in Of the first drilled wei
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

ment Che said) of the entire world,
and we all know how we'll he sue
ceeded in that,~
And now, as me visits the city Of
Boston, it is almost certain hat they
will go or a sightseeing trip
on one OF the many Sightseeing
autos that abound in that city and
among the many places of interest
that you would see, would be the
place where the house stood that
Mother Goose lived in. Then you
are taken to the Granary Burying
Ground where John Hancock, Paul
Revere, Peter Faneui, father of the
mother of Benjamin Franklin and
many others of colonial times are
buried. And there you will see the
grave of Mother Goose with inscrip-
lions giving the birth, and the death
of elizabeth Goose" and it is the
one grave of the many in that yard
where the visitors linger and the
quaint old inscriptions on the stone
are photographed and copied by
other means many times every day
during the vacation season when SO
many tourists are in Boston. And
in fact almost every day of the year
as the burial ground is always open
to the public throughout the day.
Now it might be considered by some
chat it was a shame" to take any
thing away from the Mother Goose
Country but Mother Goose was a
good American and every child in
America should know it.
JACK AND JILL"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
mad Kidney TroubIc Ten Years

Don't give up nope IL you are sur
fering from backache, rheumatic
pains. stiff. swollen points. always
tired feeling. pains in groin and mus
Giles or other symptoms of kidney
trouble. J. I. Osborn. r. +. ID. No.
1, Lucasville. o., writer's: II had
tried all kinds of kidney remedies
but they did me no good. l took
one bottle of Foley Kidney Pills and
they helped me so much / am well
now" Sold egerywhere.~-Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20
Questions Answers

Any reader can get the answef 10
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskfn. Director.
WASHINGTON, u. c. This offer APP
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medicinal and troubles. IL
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troubles. nor to undertake exnaus-
i've research on any ssbJuct Write
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-20

Rouge makers are meeting. a
regular Ladies' Aid Society.
During the trouble C. w. Morse
might change it to r. e. Morse.
Everybody eats one ton a year.
says Secretary Davis, who must
have a fine cook.
IL cussing the weather made US
fat we would all be S00-pounders.
The best thing we got cut of the
was was getting out of the war.
Some people are lodging work.
while work is lodging others.
The woman who invented the
"shimmy" says she is sorry SO that
makes it unanimous.
Pockets have that Christmas feel
ing.
The older a ma gets the younger
he wishes he was.
Wonder how a profiteer, who
can't force a strike on his men, ex-
plains his high prices?
Aviation mas it's ups and downs.
Resolution No. /: We will swear
off and on when needed.
Two heads are better than one
eli the morning after.
you can't tell a genius says an
art critic, who probably means you
can't tell him to get his hair cut.
Most of the free things you enter
are pay as you exit.
All of the people who don't fall
for flattery could hold a
ton in a telephone booth.
Cold fee. often keep a hot head
out Of trouble.
Any girl who goes through col
lege without having her heart
broken twice will make a fine teach
er.
The champion vegetarian of the
world won't eat animal crackers.
Why worry? Six months from
now the furnace will be working fine
and coal will be cheaper.
1t is too late to shop early now.
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