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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
BY DIR. r.. II. BISHOP

Medical science has learned that
more can be done-infinitely more
against tuberculosis, or any other
ravaging disease, by remedying the
causes or catching it in its early
stages before 1t gets a strangle hold
on the body.
Catch tuberculosis in its early
stages and your chances of recovery
are great; allow it to go far and
little can be done to cure the dis
ease.
Strange to say, there are few of
us who do no have some tubercu-
losis germs in our bodies. The reason
we are not all tubercular is that
good care of the body or a good con-
stitution renders the germs harm
less.
Every three minutes some M in
the United States dies from tuber-
culosis, or consumption, as it is Of
ten called.
The disease is caused by a living
germ in the lungs. The body of a
healthy person can resist its growth
ard may kill the germs, but in a
weak body not having proper care,
the germs fast multiply until the
lungs are consumed and the victim
dies.
These germs are found in the spit
OF a consumptive-in small numbers
In the early stage-in countless mil
lions in advanced stages.
Among the earlier symptoms one
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

Joseph Parker, a few weeks be-
fore his last illness, stood In his ac-
customed place in London and made
the Bible in the City Temple pulpit
into an atlas. He opened it at an
imaginary map of London:
'Londoni London! 1t fills the
whole page! 1t fills the whole life
and thought and imagination of
many of its people! They eat and
drink and worship London! They
know nothing. think nothing but
London!"
Then he turned a page, and found
what he assumed to be a map of
England:
"And here in this ri of the
map is London, just a little spider!"
In succession he turned to a map
of Europe and to one of the world:
"And upon a map of Europe, Eng
land is not very large; and Europe
looks small upon a map of the
world"
Here he forsook his imaginary
atlas, and said:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
MUST MEAN

IT is gratifying TO see South Amboy fall in line with the
spirit of the times and go on record as favoring immediate
waterfront development. South Amboy, as well as Perth
Amboy, has her greatest asset in the water facilities that ma
lure has provided. The trouble with both places has been
that they have not been enterprising enough to make the
most of these advantages. 1t looks now as if something real
ly worth while had been started. The two Amboys, working
together, can make the mouth of the Raritan river TEEN with
commerce, harboring ships from all parts of the world, with
in a comparatively short time.
But these good intentions, fine words, and high sound
ing resolutions must be followed by real action. There is an
old saying to the effect that "hell is paved with good inten-
TONS" Anybody or any covering body can pass resolutions
and crate on what they are going to do, but what the Port
Of New York Authority wants to know is, what is actually
being done.
1t will be all we'll enough for Perth Amboy, South Am
boy and New Brunswick to go to the port hearing in New
York tomorrow and tell what they are going to do, but they
must be able to convince the port authority that they mean
business and are really going to do it. 1t must be made
clear that this is no flash in the pan; that this proposed
waterfront development is not something trumped up mere
" to attract the attention of the port authority.
Perth Amboy, for instance, must be in a position to
drive home the fact that this city intends to spend at least
one million dollars on its waterfront just as soon as the
plans can be adopted. 1t is not enough to say a commission
has been appointed to look into the feasibility of the plan.
There must be evidence that at least a million dollars is
going to be spent, and perhaps more.
The fact must not be overlooked that other municipali-
ties included within the port district have already got the
Jump on us. Not only do they intend to develop their water
front, but they are already doing it. They are spending mil
Nons of dollars. The municipalities of the Raritan district
have got to compete with these places and it is going to re-
uuire our best efforts.
Here we think a millions dollars is a tremendous sum.
II is. But it does not make a very big impression on other
places that are spending many times that amout. 1t is a
decided step in the right direction, however, and If Perth
Ambov can convince the port authority that at least a MIL
lion dollars h going to be spent here as soon as the plans can
10 arranged il is going a long ways towards getting the rec
aenition for the Raritan section that is so much desired.
With South Amboy in line and with the support OF New
Brunswick there is every reason to take courage. II looks
is If the Raritan municipalities were awake at last. we have
The natural advantages that few other places possess and
once we get these advantages properly before the port au-
thoritv. with the assurance that we mean business in doing
what we saw we will do, cooperation by the port authority
NAV be expected as a matter Of course.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
Science Service

Frost's formation, and the way
to fortell its occurrence are not gen.
orally understood.
The U. s. Weather Bureau has
much interesting information along
these lines.
The formation of frost Is similar
to that of dew, except that the tenn
perature on the ground or surface
upon which 1t forms must be at or
below the freezing point. Most peo-
Pile suppose that dew falls in the
same as rain.
1t is really formed on the groun6
or on terrestrial objects in the fol.
lowing manner:
After sunset the ground and 9th.
err substances begin to lose heat by
radiation and become chilled.
If at the same time the air Is still
and the sky clear, the air in contact
with the cool ground and objects
deposits upon them condensed mois-
ture in the form of dew drops.
Whenever these same conditions ex-
ist with the temperature of the sur
face material at freezing or below
the dew will CONCEAL, forming frost.
1t may seem strange that frosts
occur when the temperature Oh
served at the time would show tie
impossibility of the formation of ice
particles. But when conditions fa
vor radiation, a thermometer lai I
upon grass land at night may maj <
a temperature much lower than thst
of the surrounding air. Thermom :
eters placed on the surface undes
favorable conditions have reveale I
temperatures from 6 to 10, or even
16, degrees lower than the tempera-
ture of the air several feet above.
These differences in temperatui {
are also governed by the condition
of the surface of the ground; for in
stance, whether or not the surfae {
is a grassy one, whether the gras'
is short or long. light or dark col
ored, whether clover or lawn grass.
and if the surface is bare, whether Il
lis hard like a roadbed, or cultivated
and if cultivated. whether stirred re-
Gently or not. and whether the sci
is hight or dark colored.
The coming Of frost can be fore
told with considerable accuracy b.
observing the general atmospheri
conditions.
If the day has been moist am
mild. and the temperature con-
mences to fall towards evening an
registers about so degrees at nigh,
and IL the sky is clear with littl
wind, frost may be expected. \
clear, cloudless and comparatively
calm night is always favorable fcs
frost if the temperature is low
enough. while the coming of clouds
which act as a screen, retards radia-
ton Of heat from the ground. plants
etc. =
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
~BertonB raleyS
(E1\ Daily Poem
@MEMORY

I too, once lived in Already,
A little while, a little while,
Where all the ways are glad and
free
And all the heavens smile:>
L walked the paths of wonderland
1 with my sweetheart hand in
hand:
All, yes, I know
Twas long ago
Butt too, lived In Already
A little while, a little while!
1 have been gone from Already
A long. long time, a weary time,
But all its ways are fair to me
AS in my golden prime;
And all the lovers strolling by
Relight the glimmer in my eye,
For I know well
Loves tender spell
And all it's magic guile
], too, have been in Already
A little while, a little while!
I lost my love in Already.
oh 1 was blind. so young and
blind,
But since I know how sweet can be
The bliss that lovers find
My heart leaps at each glowing
word
That ever I overheard;
(My eye. l fear
May hold a tear
That mingles with my SMILEY
But that is natural you see,
For one who lived in Already
A little while.
A little while!
Copyright, 1921, N. z. A. Service)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
Daily Letter by Frederic J. HaskiI

The unemployment situation al
ready shows marked signs of i'm
provement, but the fact should not
be overlooked that many men are
still employed in the harvest fields
who will soon be out of jobs. The
real test of the country's ability to
keep its man power employed will
come this winter.
The correspondence of Colonel
Woods with the various mayors re-
veals the fact that much might be
accomplished If a method could be
worked put for shifting men to
where they are needed. For exam
pie, from towns in the cotton belt
comes word that not only is there
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

four days of March winds r bo-
lieved to have spread over Central
Europe about two million tons of
Sahara dust, most of it falling south
of the Alps, but some of it being
carried as far as the Baltic sea.
"Wind-blow dust also gives rise
to some interesting phenomena.
When dust falls on glaciers or de-
posts of snow neal the mountain
tops, every dust particle melts its
way through the ice, sometimes sew
eral inches in depth and If there are
a great many of these 'dust-wells'
the mountain-climber must watch
his step. Use was made of this
knowledge by engineers in melting
! SHOWS preliminary to the building
of the New Bergen railway in south
ern Norway.
No Mountain Peak Above Dust Zone
ut is probable that no mountain
top is high enough above the earth
to be entirely free from some dust,
especially that thrown out during
volcanic eruptions. In a great ex-
plosion, such as that of Krakatoa in
1883, dust is shot into the upper at
mosphere rather than picked up by
it. Dust particles from krakatoa
travelled around the world, some OF
it completing its first trip in fifteen
days. Before this giant shook the
world with it's mighty ~upheaving we
were ignorant of the winds that pre-
| vailed az over ten miles above the
| earth's surface. The dust so colored
these upper reaches that canny
scientists were able to trace upper
wind movements. to record them up
on their charts. and to tell us thai
mighty air streams are flowing
twenty miles above our heads.
Long before meteorologists real
lied the part played by the dust In
the upper atmosphere following vol.
canic explosions, they recorded az
phenomenal and inexplicable certain
dense dry fogs that neither abund'
ant rains nor fierce winds drove
away. Today we can easily explain
them because we know that the fog
was really dust in the a~tmospher,
high above the rain and wind clouds
In some places these 'fogs' made the
sun invisible until 1t had risen high
above the horizon, and colored and
| reflected the light of the new moor
until it appeared as bright as tina
of the full moon at midnight.
| Beneath the earth's surface tn,
dust plays as fantastic a part as 1
does above it's crust. In mines it in
a inflammability and assists il
explosion of gases which would
otherwise be incombustible, proba.
bly, acting in the same capacity al
the catalytic agent in a chemical re
action"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
GREATNESS, BIGNESS
BY DIR. w. Z. BARTON

"And now If you will take an or.
rery, If you know what that sand
if once / get the word said never
make a second attempt-if you take
an orrery, that shows the entire So
lar system, with the sun at the CEN
ter. and the planets in place n
This great earth's a child's marble
where now is London?" z
Then he said
"a thing is not necessarily great
because it is big, nor big II
is neari"
/ heard Joseph Parker in this ad-
dress. and l thought 1t a very whole
some rebuke to the conceit and pro-
vinciaIism of London. And 1 have
thought of it many times since as a
lesson which Americans need not
less than the people of England.
Perhaps there is no nation tna'
has need of more frequent warning
not to confuse bigness with great
ness.
"A thing Is not necessarily great
because it is big, nor big eau Il
Is near"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

no unemployment, but more cotton
pickers are urgently needed. Grand
Rapids, Michigan, needs furniture
upholsterers. The list might be
heightened.
This doubtless is one of the ma
tional phases of the problem which
the conference will deal with in u
course. The Woods committee wants
it understood that the conference is
not trying merely to pass the buck
to the cities. National measures
will be got under way in due course.
But 1t does believe that the solution
of the problem undoubtedly begins
in the cities. They are the ones who
must do the emergency work.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
CUT THIS QUIT is WORTH
MONEY

Cut out this slip. enclose with sc
and mail it to Foley & Co., 1885
Sheffield Ave-. Chicago. ILL.,. writing
your name and address clearly. You
will receive in return a trial package
containing Foleys' Honey and Tar
Compound for coughs. colds and
oroup; Foley Kidney Pills for pains
in sides and back; rheumatism.
backaches. kidney and bladder all
nts; and Foley Cathartic Tablet.
wholesome and thoroughly cleansing
cathartic for constipation, bilious
ness, headaches and sluggish bowels.
Sold everywhere.-Advs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

O. Is it possible for visitors in
Washington to see White House?
s. l.. c.
A. During the war and the ILL.,
ness of President Wilson following,
the White House was not open to
any except special guests. With
the beginning of the Harding ad-
ministration, the old custom was
resumed. of allowing all visitors
access to the lower Corridors, and
to the East Room, while those hold
ing cards issued in the Executive
ONCE upon presentation of a letter
from a senator or representative,
night see Red Room, Blue Room,
Green Room, State Dining Room.
President and Mrs Harding recent
ly issued an order making 1t pos
sible for all visitors to see these
rooms at certain hours of the day.
After a weeks trial of this plan
they returned to the former meth
cd of requiring the presentation of.
cards.
O. Has the Labor Board when
hearing arguments. shown partial-
ity to either the Railroad Compan-
MES representatives or the Unions
by allowing one side more time to
present its ease than the other7-
j.. j. ID.
A. The division of time Is usually
a matter of agreement, but when a
limit is fixed by the Board the
Board is invariably fair to both
sides.
O. What ~pseudonym did Wash.
ington Irving use CIV. G. G.
A. During the early period of
| Irving's writing career, he used the
| pseudonyms Jonathan Oldstyle,
Launcelot Langstaff, Diedrich
Knickerbocker and Godfrey Cray.
On.
@. How did the Passion Play Of
Oberammergau originate ?-v. X.
A. The villagers of Oberammer-
gau vowed to present the passion of
| Christ every ten years, in gratitude
| for the cessation Of the Black
Death in 1888.
@. What is Gloria Swanson's
baby's name?-J. B.
A. Gloria Swanson Somborn's
baby which is nearly a year old. u
Gloria Swanson, second.
@. What is a vinegar roon?-E.
A. A vinegar room is defined as a
whip scorpion, especially a large
Mexican species (Thelyphonus gil
genteus) popularity supposed to be
very venomous: SO called from the
odor that it emits when alarmed
q. What is the best method for
keeping pecans?-C. w. D..
A. One of the best methods Of
keeping pecans is to store them in
glass Jars. Sooner or later how
ever all nut meats become rancid.
l.. w.
Q: Is Marie corelli livins7vL.
A. Marie Corelli dropped dead
at her birthday party at Stratford-
on-Avon June 1921.
Q. When wa sthe first round trip
flight between cities made by an
airplane7-E. P.
A. Charles X Hamilton made the
first round trip between cities
fight on June 10, 1910. He flew
from Governors Island to Philadel-
phia and back. Time in air was 8
hours and 81 minutes.
@. How much sugar is contained
in grapes, particularly Concord and
Delaware?-T. r. r.
A, Grapes contain from IL to SO
per cent of sugar. The Concord
grape contains 1885 per cent of
sugar and the Delaware 22.15 per
cent.
@. What will keep a windshield
from clouding or gathering mois-
ture ?-F. S.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
that a windshield may be kept
Iclear by wiping it off with a cloth
moistened in glycerine.
@. What causes rust?-F. B.
A. The Bureau of mines says
that rusting is due to condensa-
ton of moisture in the atmosphere
on a cool surface.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

wants. Being I'M
desirable. 1t can be
eliminated to a
very great extent
ny concerted effort
on the part of the
people of a city.
This is the theory
2 o la n d has
worked on in the
last six or eight
a with the re-
suit that we have
avoided serio u 8
trouble.
To lay down any
set rules for meet
ing an unemploy-
ment problem is
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
Questions Answers

Any reader can get the answer 70
any question By writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
bureau, Frederic J. Haskin- Director.
Washington. D. C. This oner ap-
bureau cannon give advice on legal,
Medicinal and financial troubles 1t
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles nor to undertake exhaus-
.ive research on n subject Write
your question plainly and briefly.
5iye full name and address IND en-
close two cents in stamps for return
postage All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
BY GEORGE Il. BAKER
Mayor of Portland, Ore.

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 20.-Un-
employment is a disease-an I'M
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

Beauty Hint: Frowns are wrinkles.
Fashion says women must wear
skirts longer. How much longer
six months?
Britain and Ireland can't play
without their notes.
1t is great to be rich enough to
afford a v breakdown.
In a railroad-labor fight. as in
most fights. the innocent bystander
gets hit.
When a single girl asks a single
man if he SHORES the plot begins to
thicken.
Bad money shows someone Is
forging ahead.
One time this world will need re-
forming is after 1t is reformed.
ating disturbances.
Grass-widows are not green.
An expert says the world is s,000,-
900 years old. That's how many
hard winters we have had.
China's argument is that she
wants to mind her own p's and
queues.
In the social swim u is the sur
vival Of the fitests
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20
Learn One New Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC sOCIE TY
Dust: AN UNsUNG BENEFACToR


svrbe falling OF a thick coating of
dust upon a steamer in the Yellow
Sea and the attendant darkening OF
the atmosphere so that sailing was
difficult, reported in news despatch-
es. is not such an uncommon occur-
renee in that part of the worla. or
even in mid ocean," says a bulletin
of the National Geographic Society
from Washington, ID. e.
besides the dust fall on the
ocean. which on the ACE of it seems
a Joke, there are sometimes yellow
rains in the Yukon and red SHOWS
In Greenland and other Arctic ana
Alpine regions" the bulletin ADDS.
Vegetable Growths Redden Snow
1.-The yellow rains. sc called be-
cause the ground becomes covered
with a peculiar inc yellow deposlt,
are usually found to be caused by
the pollen of pine trees, growing
miles and miles distant, which is
caught up by the winds and carried
until their fury has abated, and tnen
dropped. The red snow seen in the
Arctic is made by a wind-placed de-
post OF the motile algae, Chlamy-
domonas, in the nuclei of which are
red pigment spots. other KINDS OF
algae sometimes reproduce in such
numbers that they form the greenish
| deposits seen in fresh water.
1--WE are all more or less familiar
with the popular fallacy that ii
| rains tadpoles.' OF course, the think
ing man who knows that when the
sun cannot vaporiZe the~salt in the
| ocean and carry it into the CLOUDS,
it would be impossible for it to PICK
up a tadpole in any state OF its evo-
| luton and hold 1t floating above US
long enough for it to grow legs and
| lose it's tail. The appearance of small
| toads after a rain in summer is very
easily explained. as they must keeI
to damp, cool places when they mrs
come from the water and the rair
and consequent dampness of the
earth and atmosphere give then
more latitude for their adventures
than they possessed before the show
er.
Beautiful Sunsets Due to Dust
Particles
"Dust. however, that bane of the
housekeeper and the curse of tbs
automobile tourist, plays a vita
part in our lives. Though 1t some
times seems to ~suffocate us, without
it we could have no rain, as the
vapor would not condense ana with
out its power of ~refraction u day
light would not be so bright, and tht
coloring of our sunsets would be al
most entirely lost.
THE loess of northern China,
fine yellow powder brought by tn
winds from the desert regions be
yond and deposited in places severa
hundred feet in thickness has beer
titled o thousands of years. with
out any artificial fertilization ant
without signs of exhaustion. Bed
of volcanic dust r to be found II
Kansas and Nebraska today, in som
places as much as 80 feet in thick
ness, though there were no volca
noes in the past and none at presen
within hundreds of miles of the de
posts. The wind Is the culprit o
b~enefaetor.
steamers out in the middle .
1 the Atlantic often have their sail
Redeemed with dust blown from tn
Sahara, and sometimes the rains o
southern Europe are colored by dus
from the same source. In $50
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

An expert says the world is $780,
600 years old. That's how many
hard winters we have had.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

China's argument is that she
wants to mind her wv p's and
queues.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

In the social swim u is the sur
vival Of the hitests
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

Grass-widows are not green.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

Home-brewers can be held for cre-
ating disturbances.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-20

One time this world will need re
forming is after 1t is reformed.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-03-23
DIYERSIFYING WILL KEEP
$110,O0,000 IN SOUTH CAROLYN A

Columbia. March 14.-South Caro-
linians imported $l10.000,000 worth Of
food and feedstuffs from the West last
year, according to figures compiled by
the committee on banking. legislation
and warehousing Of the South Carolina
Division OF the American Cotton Asso-
citation. The importation Of this enor-
nous amount OF foodstuGs into the
state WAS made necessary by the Gag
erness Of the FARMERS to raise cotton,
many Of them planting seventeen acres
to the plow.
In a statement issued yesterday the
association declared that there was
no reason for the farmers Of the STATE
TO be panic-stricken over the fact that
the price which cotton Is now bringing
forbids them planting over a half crop
Of 1t next year. 1t Is declared that q
study of the figures collected by the
committee on banking. legislation and
warehouses Of the association, ought
TO convince them that a diversifica;ion
Oh crops IN South Carolina will prove
profitable.
According to the committee state
ment the importation of food and feed
stufis into South Carolina from the
West last year as follows: Corn, sl5.-
100000; mixed feeds sl3,000,oo0; hay,
sl2,000.000; Oats, slo.00000O; -four.
s20,ooo.o00; beef, sl5.ooo,ooo bacon,
s20,Oo0,O0o; eggs and butter. $4,000
600 making a grand total OF $llo,00o,-
900.
These figures says the association
ARE purchases from this state only
before the goods are delivered together
and every item nut be paid for in cash
With the freight. This amount couid
be spent at homo If the farmers OF
South Carolina would get their minds
on Of cotton for a few minutes"