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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
A MASSACHUSETTS TRUCK FARM
WHOSE OWNER MIGHT FAIL 10 LIFT
HIS MORTGAGE BECAUSE FLAX
CEASED TO COME FROM RUSSIA.

Great Britain was nearly $1,000
100000, that Of Germany was about
$4,000, 900, 900 and that of the Unit
ed States vas nearly $4,000 DOC 5000,
a total Of approximately $16,O0O,-
100000. In the fiscal year ended
June so, 1920, the foreign trade of
the United States alone was $13,-
729,661, 900, and for the nine
months of the calendar year ended
with September last the total value
Of u foreign trade was S11,94S,-
100000, Of which exports were val
ued at $6,0s2, 100000 as compared
with $5,S66,000,000 for the CORE
spending period in the preceding
year, while imports totaled $4,35S,-
100000 as compared with $780,.
100000 for the corresponding Pc
Rod ending with September, 1919.
The enterprise Of the American
farmer, the dependence Of the world
upon him, his interest In maintain
ing and extending his markets, Is
written all through this record of
Americas foreign trade. Convinc-
ing as the figures of pre-war years
are as to outward bound trade
routes that have their beginnings In
the broad acres Of the United
States, those of last year are fairly
astonishing in their size and in
their implications.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
Junk ACTION
AT So. AMBOY
Discussion on Granting Ii
censes Before Board of
Health at Short Session.

SOUTH AMBOY, April 1.-TWO
applications for licenses to operate
a junk business in this city were
I:ade to the Board of Health in its
. special session on Thursday night,
\. Golds;ein of 343 John street. and
w. Austrak of 357 Henry street were
the applicants.
The point was raised by the board
that II :ni9h hit find itself unable to
grant the licenses at that time un-
less the location and the manner OF
taking care of their stock of junk
on hand met the approval of the in
spector. and hat it might be neces-
sary to insist upon junk stock be-
ing stored at points away from the
centers of thickly populated districts.
These points caused quite a bit of
protest on the part Of the applicants
who said hat their property was
just as good as any other property
and in their opinion their business
was not injurious to health or other
interests of their n~eighbors and any
steps looking towards compelling
them to purchase special property to
provide storage for their stock was
practically excluding them from
business.
President Lovely advised the ap-
pllCdllS ~ ldhe advantage II Inv
next two weeks to dispose of their
heavy stock of junk and clean up
their places so hat when their cases
come up before the Board at its
regr;ar meeting they might find their
yards meeting with more favorable
impression and pass the inspection
of tne health inspector.
Tho board will prepare a set of
rules and regulations covering the
ordinance. These will be adopted
at the mex meeting of the board so
that the junk men VIII have a work
ing program.
The new ordinance in itself is very
drastic and provides for the protec-
ton OF the health of the community
and for the proper development of
the section of the city in which the
yards are located.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09

tria-Hungary 100000 Frances
great northern industrial area,
which was deliberately devastated
by the Germans to kill future COM
| petition, was full of textile mills,
which bought In 1914 S73, 900
worth of cotton from the United
States. England, the same year,
imported cotton to the value Of
s230,000,0oO; Italy, $34,250,000, and
Spain, $19,2OO,0 900.
In the fiscal year of 1914 the
total value of merchandise exported
from the United States was $685.
6S4,025; In the fiscal year 10000
the value was S7,950,429,1 $50, an In
crease OF $500, 745, 155. We can
not hope to continue exporting at
such a pace In the face of ex-
changes so adverse to other coun-
tries as to make continued buying
impossible or, If persisted In, ruin
Gus. On the other hand, we know
that a sustained period of reduced
consumption or non-consumption of
any product by large numbers Of
people constitutes a loss that can
never be regained. Non-consump-
ton In u foreign markets means
an accumulation here and conse-
quently an unnatural lowering of
prices which would produce stagna-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed proposals will be received by
the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the
County of Middlesex in the County Rec
ord Building at New Brunswick, N. j.,
on Thursday. April 81, 1921 at $3.50 P. NJ.
for furnishing, delivering and applying
10000 gallons coal tar or water gas tar
for macadam penetration, 10000 gallons
coal tar or water gas tar for surface
dressing, and for furnishing and deliver
tho boundaries of Middlesex County, price
tar for cold patching.
All materials shall meet the require
ments of New Jersey State Highway
Department requirements, governing road
material, Edition January. 1871; the
material for macadam penetration meet
ing the specification for grade X, coal
tar Or grade U-3 water gas tar. page 8:
the material for surface dressing meet
ing the requirements of grade b coal tar
and grade UB water gas tar. page .. The
material for cold patching meeting the
requirements of grade p coal tar. grade
UC water gas tar, page 3.
All such materials shall be delivered
at the place designated by the Board of
Chosen Freeholders on any road within
the boundaries of Middlesx County, price
for material for macadam penetration
and surface dressing shall include the ap-
plication of the material where and when
designated by the Board of Freeholders.
Price for materials for cold patching shall
include furnishing and delivering the ma
terials and distributing In barrels along
the lines of work where needed.
Proposals must be signed by the bidder
or MS duly authorized agents ana MS post
office address must be given.
Proposals must be placed in sealed en-
velopes addressed to the Board of Free
holders of the County of Middlesex, N. j.,
and marked with the type of material bid
upon. and the name and address of the
bidder.
Each bid must be accompanied with a
certificate from a bonding company au-
thorized to do business in the State of
New Jersey stating that they will become
bound as his security for the faithful per-
formance Of the contract IL awarded to
him.. The successful bidder will be re-
quired to furnish a surety bond in the sum
Of Three Thousand Dollars (s3, 000) to
guarantee the faithful performance of
the contract.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check for 81, 900. 90 payable to
the order of r. William Hilker. County
Treasurer, to guarantee the execution of
a proper contract by the successful bid
der.
The Board OF Chosen Freeholders re-
serves the right to purchase as much or
as little material under any bid as they
may desire or to purchase otherwise if
they SO desire.
The period Of time for which this con-
tract will be effective will be one year
from the date or award of contract.
Bids will be received at the hour named
and not before, and not after.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids If deemed in the best
interest of the County so to do.
(Signed) JOHN w. Lessen.
Supervisor of Roads,
Middlesex County.
1905 q ~
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09

The value of breadstuffs exported
from this country during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1914, was $780,
3O2,3S5; in the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1920. the value of bread
stuffs SO exported had risen to
$S0S,471, 226. This increase did not
represent an increase in values on
ly, but also in the amounts. In
1914 there were exported 92,393,77
bushels Of wheat, valued at $751;
953,456; In 1920 the number of
bushels was 100 ,43O,7 24 and the
value $306, 163,O23. In 1911 there
were exported 11,S21,461 barrels Of
wheat flour, valued at $54,454,175
in 1920 the amount was 21,651,261
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09

barrels and the value was $240,574.-
go.
The most notable Of the very
few reductions In amounts Of ex-
ports Is that In the amount of cot
ton exported In 1920, a decrease of
about 2,250,000 bales, although this
decrease was amply Offset by the
rise in price. What 1t means to u
Southern cotton planters when the
textile mills in Central Europe are
running at only 30 per cent Of nor
NAL can be realized by recalling
that in 1914, when their output was
normal, we sent to Germany at
the then existing low prices $751;
| 100000 worth Of cotton and to Aus
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09

ton In industry. We are approach
ing a time when such non-consump-
ton of American goods In foreign
countries will have to be reckoned
with. Already our exports are
falling Off and cancellations Of con-
tracts are reported from many
parts of the world.
Americas great task Is to assist
other nations to a position where
they al esume production and
distribution Of the products with
which in other days they paid for
imports from this country. We
have the food and raw materials
and machinery which the remain
der of the world, and particularly
Europe, urgently needs. And We
have also the foundation Tor such
an extension of credit as will make
the purchase of these requirements
possible.
Under the Federal Act known as
the Edge law 1t is possible to or
ganize corporations, supervised By
the Federal Reserve Board, by.
means Of which long-term invest.
ment funds of American capital can
be converted into funds to finance
immediate exports from the United
States. A natural question arises
as to why the ordinary commercial
banks do not arrange for such vital
financing. II must be pointed out
that no commercial bank can AFFORD
to tie up the money of It's deposi.
tors, as they are essentially demand
deposits and must be held liquid.
When used to finance foreign trade
the funds of the commercial bank
must be employed in such q way
that 1t Is reasonably certain that the
transactions which they cover viii
be self-liquidated within three or
four months. 1t is obviously not ordi-
nary commercial banking but true
investment that Is involved when
periods longer than a few months
are in question.
But II anything Is to be done
with this credit machinery there
must be created an interest In fol.
eign investments on the part Of our
people. A very widespread interest
in this subject Is required, and ev.
cry class Of savers or investors
must somehow be reached and o /.
WINGED shat a portion Of our capt.
tai devoted to foreign investment
purposes is now essential to pre-
serve the prosperity Of the world.
Farmers have prospered. As In.
vestors they have always preferred
to place their surplus funds close at
home. Can any large number Of
them be stimulated to study the in.
ternational situation7 Can they be
convinced that 1t Is a matter Of
deep and present c to them1;
When Edge Law debentures, basedt
on foreign securities and issuedt
by responsible American bankirgl
groups, are offered to the pub Ia
will they pass them by? We hi a
a conviction that when they unt r.
stand what they mean the farm re,
will do their full share and ii VI
will see as clearly as any otheE
class that the task Of getting III
world back or a sound, stable bA.S
Is just as important as was the
winning of the war and, consy .ered
from the viewpoint Of enlightened
%selfishness. Is imperative ii the. /
farmers would preserve their own
prosperity as well as that Of the
country.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
FREEHoLDEEs NOTICE

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Middlesex
County. N. j., in the Freeholder's room.
County Record Building, New Brunswick,
N. j., on Thursday, April 21st, 1921, at
2:so P. M. for the furnishing. F. O.. B.
Perth Amboy, n. j., one new SO ton auto
truck. equipped with solid tires, steel lined
wooden body, removal sides and wood
en- hydraulic hoist. such proposals TO
state the amount which will be allowed
for the ia ton Day Elder truck, and the
6h ton Sauer truck. both the property
of this county which trucks are to be
taken over and shall become he property
OF the successful bidder, he to make a
stated allowance therefore in his proposal
Each proposal shah be accompanied by
. certified check. made TO the order of
r. WIN. H.lker, County Treasurer. in the
amount OF 1875 Of the proposal, and en-
closed In a sealed envelope marked on
The outside thereof, Proposal for fur
Eishing 51z ton auto truck.
This Board reserves the right to re-
ject any Or all bids II it Is deemed to
the besi Interest OF the County so tn do.
BY order of the Board OF Chosen FREQ
hoieers. Niddlesex County. \. J.
THOMAS J. MuLvIHILL,
~ q. r-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
Accountings Approved

NEW BRUNSWICK, April g.
Two accountings were approved by
Judge Daily in the orphans court
yesterday. The accounting of Will
liam j. Bowe, administrator on the
estate of James II. Gordon, of South
Amboy. was approved. The total re-
ceipts of this estate were S~24,902.91,
expenditures $S,975.2S. and the bal
ance $~15,919.63.
The accounting of Mary L. Palmer,
~executrix on the estate of her hus-
band, Frank j. Palmer, of Perth
Amboy. also was approved. The to-
tai receipts In this case. were SAL
63S, and the balance, $907.52.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
BY WILLIS II. BOOTH,
flce President Guaranty Trust
Company Of New York,

OF Nc" IOFN.
Y GROUP Of our citizens Is
nj more directly affected by
the state Of u foreign
trade than the farmer.
This Is daily emphasized as the
world applies itself to a study of
Its difficulties and seeks remedies.
With the coming Of a war that in
volved the great producing nations,
we began to see how closely the
interests of each were linked with
those Of all others. The realization
Of that fact is now complete. In
the present stage of human prog
ress international, commercial and
financial relationships are not
merely desirable on the ground of
convenience and comfort; they are
absolutely necessary If life is prop
erly to be sustained and the future
Of civilization made secure.
No nation, no community, no In
dividual can live alone. Economic
interdependence Is such that dis
tress or disaster in one country is
inevitably reflected in every other
country. When Russian markets
fail, for example, the industries Of
Great Britain, of South America. Of
the United States, feel the effects.
When the great sources of raw ma
terials fail or the free flow Of such
materials throughout the world Is
seriously interfered with then In
dustrial countries must close their
plants and workmen must leave
their machines.
Thus a Massachusetts truck
farmer, for instance, might fail to
lift the mortgage on his half dozen
acres because fax ceased to conte
out of Russia. Because there was
no fax Irish linen manufacturers
turned away their operators. These
in turn could not buy shoes, and
that fact swept across the Atlantic
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
A SECTION OF NEW YORK HAReoa.
THE GREATEST PORT IN THE WORLD
THE PROSPERITY OF AMERICAN
FARMERS DEPENDS LARGELY ON
WEEPING our SHIPS BUSV

to New England. These shoemak-
ers left their lasts and curtailed
their purchases at the grocery
store, and the grocery man, in turn,
cut down his receipts of vegetables
from the truck-farmer.
1t may be that the truck-farmer's
analysis of the situation would ex-
tend no further than the city which
had been his market, because the
effects Of a fax shortage in Russia
communicated to him slowly
and by i~ndirection. Had he been a
producer on a large scale, however,
one who had built up a foreign
market and maintained 1t as the
source Of that marginal profit
through which his domestic bust
ness was b%uttressed and stabilized,
his understanding Of primary
causes would have been swift and
sure. Whether the effect m
slowly or swiftly, directly or indl-
rectly whether 1t is clearly under
stood or not. eventually and inevi-
tably it does come. And that is
why the American farmer cannot
escape a direct interest in what is
happening in Europe, In the inan-
cial crises In Japan and Cuba, In
the depression In Australia and
South America.
The part which the United
States played In the worldwide In
terchange of commodities before
the war vas impressive, but today,
because Of the peculiar position in
which the war left us with respect
to the rest Of the world, the amount
and value Of our foreign trade is
beyond anything ever before dream
ed Of.
In the year before the war the
total value Of the foreign trade of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
%SURROGATE'S COURT

fBy Evening News STAFF Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK. April O.
Letters of administration were is
sued yesterday by the surrogate to
Julia Orosz of keasbey. on the es-
tate of her husband, Daniel, who
diel April 1. Besides the widow, the
deceased is survived by three minor
children. The %nersonal estate is
valued at 1850.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-09
Funeral for John Bergman.

Funeral services for John August
Bergman, of 207 Grant street. who
died yesterday morning at the City
Hospital. will be held Tuesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock from his late resi-
dencc. Interment will be in Alpine
cemetery.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-01-13
BEASTS MAKE GOOD ON FILMS
Eastern journal Makes .Unknd Com
parison Between Four-Footed and
Human Actors.

II was said at a recent meeting OF
the London Geological society that the
plan of making, and keeping on record,
films of rare animals had been entered
upon with considerable success, the
natural movements of the beasts hav-
ing been reproduced on the screen in
a most interesting and instructive
manner. II is indeed reasonable to
suppose that the four-legged film act
ors may even be more successful, from
an artistic standpoint, than their hui
man colleagues; first, because their
motions are naturally ineligible with
out the accompaniment Of spoken Ian
guage; and second, because they can
not be trained, as movie" performers
apparently are, to chop up their move
ments into n limited number of stereo-
typed gestures, in more or less regular
sequence, which audiences presumably
know by heart and may anticipate
well in advance.-Christian Science
Monitor.
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why THE CELT WAS PUZZLED
Visitors Inquiry Did Seem Unreason-
able in View of Statement He
Had Previously Made.

A weIknown physician of New
York tells why he does not know
whence his ancestors came.
Now, he had always understood that
his ancestors were Scotch-Irish, and
on the strength of that belief had
prided himself on their royal blood.
Once it occurred to him to go and
have a look at the old place whence
they were supposed to have come
When he arrived at what he believed
was the right district he appealed to
an old Irishman to tell him the exact
spot.
The Cclt regarded him much as one
does "A crazy man, and then said:
"Ye say that your ancestors emf
grated from here 200 years ago? Then
why the deuce, sir, are We lookin' for
them here now?"
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White Eleas.

Robert Lee Phillips, six years old,
living in East Washington street, Is
much impressed with all he learns at
school, says the indianapolis News,
The other evening he was busy cut
ting out paper animals" and MS he
played he kept repeating to himself,
"Flens is white, fleas is white" His
older brother grew tired of hearing
IT and said: "Where do you get thntY"
Very emphatcally I've answered: AT
school. Mary had little lamb; its
tleas is white as snow"
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! don't know any more about poetry
than a porcupine knows about Para
disc. If you'd stand up and recite'
few pages from a mail-order catalogue
/ have no doubt you'd put the proper
| feeling into it, aDd move your audi
ence to tears, but 1t a crime for
man like you to mangle a beautiful
poem, full of sentiment and melody.
"There ought to be Il law against
that sort Of thing. Some of the best
poems in the country have been ruined
| by common or garden elocutonists.
Nowadays people smile when you
mention Curfew Must Not Ring To.
night. 1t has been recited so much
by people with cracked voices that 1t
has become a joke. Yet if you exam
inc the poem calmly and impartaily
you will find that it has great deal
of merit
"Tn the schools the pupils are per-
mitted to recite some of our best
poems, and the poems aren't fit for
ANYTHING after it. The school author
tiles should prohibit this sort of thing,
and prepare volume of cheap ashes
tos poetry that is fool proof, that can't
be injured, no matter what you do to
it. There is plenty of punk poetry in
the world, and a collection of this
stuff would serve the schOOlboy elo-
cutionists just as well as the high
class poetry that is so easily spoiled.
"When I went to school, about
hundred years ago, there was a tall
frcckled, gangling boy, who talked
through his nose, with sort of'whine
that sounded like filing a saw There
was to be a school entertainment, and
this boy was down for recitation.
The teacher never asked him what he
was going to recite, but gave him the
right of way. Teachers continue to
make the same mistake, even as we go
to press. They should choose the
poems which are to be butchered to
make a Roman holiday and select
something that won't rip, ravel or run
down at the heel.
"Ths boy stood up before the school
and droned through Gray's 'Elegy,'
Now, that's one of the best rhymes
ever composed. 1t was written by
iourneyman poet who put in seven
years at it, in the time when they had
ten-hOur days. He wanted to leave
behind him a poem that would stand
the severest tests of the government
inspectors, and he did In my opinion
there is nothing better in any Ian
guage. 1t is rather melancholy, but it
has a sort of doggone soothing quail
ity that is balm to the bruised spirit
of Il landlord when he finds that the
receipts of his hotel don't equal the
expenses.
"Time and again, when discouraged
and played out, have started to read
that poem, and as soon as | get fair
" into it, | seem to see that blamed
gangling schoolboy, in his high-water
garments, and hear him droning
through those verses, making noise
like a Sawmill on wet day. It's
more than forty years since he made
a violent assault upon the Elegy, but
1t seems like yesterday. It's the same
way with Hamlet's 'Soliloquy.' Every
time hear or see that gem | think OF
fat youth who reclted 1T In our.
school, and then burst into tears.
"There's no sense In such busi-
ness and congress ought to do some
thing, doggone It."
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The Family Laundrcss.

George Luks, an artist, said at a
reception in New York:
servants are paid such high wages
nowadays that only labor unionlsts
and captains Of industry can afford to
keep them. AS for painters"
Mr.. Luks made helpless gesture
and went on:
"A promising young painter said to
me the other day in a complacent
voice:
"'My work is now hung on the Iine.'
"Then a bitter thought struck him,
and he added
"'So's my wife's.'"
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You Must Replace the Wear
and Tear on the Human System

Did you ever stop to consider
what a tremendous task is placed
upon your human system every
day?
Your heart is constantly pump
ing life and vitality to every part
of your body. This is being rap
idly consumed after being turned
into energy and strength that
keeps your system performing its
various functions.
Every day there is a certain
amount of wear and tear that must
be replaced, if you are TO enjoy
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good health.
Many people have found S. S. S.
great aid in keeping their system
in good condition. Being such a
fine blood tonic and system-builder
S. S. S. strengthens and enriches
the blood supply, ard gives new
vigor and vitality to the whole
body.
S. s. s. is sold by all druggists.
Write for free literature and full
information to Chief Medical Adj
wiser, l62 Swift Laboratory, At
Ianta, Ga.
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New Process Haydens Wood.

A new process of artlflcially aging
aDd hardening wood, which is a new
industry In Denmark, is said to give a
quality Of durability to timber hereto
fore regarded as worthless. Ash be-
comes like real teak and birch like
mahogany.