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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
RIPPLIN9 RHYMES
By Walt Mason
THE NEW DRIVER

/ said to James Augustus Barr,
when first he bought himself a car,
"Shun streets where crowds are
thick; hunt up some thoroughfare
remote. and there propel your pant
ing boat until you've learned the
trick. The half-baked driver Is a
frost, and many priceless lives are
lost for his besotted sake: emergen-
cies arise. alas, and then he steps
down on the gas when he mould use
the brake. / beg you, j. Augustus
Barr, to keep off Main street with
your car, until you've learned TO
drive; because of drivers brash and
new ten thousand sleep beneath the
dew, who still should be alive" But
James Augustus is a bore who knows
1t all. and then some more, and balks
at counsel wise; and so he fooled his
boat along, among the Main street
shopping throng. and crippled seven
guys. And of the seven v will u
to get the money they feel due for
sundry broken limbs; and two in
righteous wrath have said that they
will punch the drivers head, and
blacken both his glims. And 1t is GER
tainly a shame that boobs, before
they've learned the game, may drive
through crowded marts: the cops
should pinch such lads at sight, and
straightway Jail them over night. and
confiscate their carts.
Copyright. George Matthew Adams
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
A GREAT MUSICAL TREAT

Once in awhile some person or organization
rises above the ordinary run of entertainments
that are being given all over the country and
brings to this city something really worth while
something that is a credit not only to those
bringing 1t to this city, but to the city itself.
One such event is about to happen In Perth
Amboy. The attraction will be the United
States Marine Band. of Washington, known as
The Presidents own" This band ranks with
the greatest concert bands in the world. 1t COM
mands the highest prices and it is only the
larger cities and more important places that are
able to get it. For a place like Perth Amboy 1t
requires not only considerable enterprise. but a
let of nerve to go after it.
Those who are backing this project are to be
congratulated. They are deserving of the ut
most support from the people of this vicinity for
affording this opportunity right here at home to
hear one of the finest organizations Of musicians
that has ever been formed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
PRICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT

The only thing that can end unemployment is
employment. The only thing that can provide
employment is widespread buying by the public.
The unemployment conference knows this. 1t is
obvious. Soon we shall have drives" to stimu-
late buying. But that can only be a temporary
stimuiant.
A blind man can see why buying is stagnant.
The Bureau of Labor Satisfies says that
wholesale prices are above 1913 prices in these
percentages: House furnishings 100, building
materials 50, cloths and clothing 10, fuel and
lighting Sc, metals and metal products 20, food
so, farr products IS.
How can the farmer, getting only is per cent.
more TO- his crops than he got in 1913, buy, for
instance, house furnishings wholesaled at 1870
per cent. higher price than in 1919?
There will be no general buying movement,
to furnish employment, until all prices seek the
same level in comparison with pre-war prices.
That will necessitate equal lowering of costs in
all industries. Will it come? Yes.
Water seeks it's own level, and price dehation
IL the water of economics.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
Y. NJ. G. A. SCORES AGAIN

The organization of the Industrial League I'M
der the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A. to conduct all
kinds, of indoor sports this winter on the floor
of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium again emphasizes
the important place that this institution occupies
in Perth Amboy. 1t stands out pre-eminently as
the one civic center of the city.
Under the efficient management of the gen.
eral secretary, Walter II. War;. and his capable
staff Of assistants, the Y. NJ. C. A. is playing a
part in our community life the full extent of
which is hardly realized by the average citizen.
So completely has the Y. M. C. A. been absorbed
into our daily affairs that most of us have come
to take it as a matter of course. 1t is only when
some stranger comes to Perth Amboy and show
his enthusiasm over the building and its splen-
did equipment that it is brought home to us
what an advantage we have.
In an industrial city like Perth Amboy to be
able to bring the young men employed in the
different plants together in friendly contest and
to foster clean sport of every kind is surely
something well worth while. 1t makes for a
better city, a higher standard of citizenship and
cannot help but make better employees. Surely,
the industries must appreciate this service of
the Y. NJ. C. A. just as it is appreciated by the
men themselves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Editorial Comment From Other Newspapers
No TIME To

With all members of the senate present and
voting, thirty-three votes would be needed 10
block ratification OF the Peace Treaty with Ger
many. There is little indication that opponents
near that number.
OF the Irreooncilables on the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, Senator Borah was the one
"Bitter-Ender' to vote against reporting the
sees in it a linking up with the League of Ma
lions. which he believes to be a sort of covenant
with hell and a league with death. 1t is doubtful
il his cry of alarm will recruit the old Battalion
of Death" to more than half a dozen senator's.
Unless some as yet undiscovered door is OPEN
ed in the American-German pact, disclosing
some closet filed with blackened skeletons IT
will be hard to round up Republican votes
against ratification. The administration and the
Republicans of the senate are anxious TO make
an enc OF il.
Something near two dozen Democratic votes
must be swung against the treaty before 1t can
be seriously threatened. Democratic leadership
in the senate does not oppose the treaty. Sena-
tor Underwood does not favor blocking 1t. He
defers TO Senator Hitchcock. ranking Democratic
member of the Foreign Relations Committee,
and it is to be left to the Nebraskan to say
whether the Democrats shall undertake to carry
through a series of reservations.
Democrats who think there is a chance 70
make political capital out of it are waiting for
Senator Hitcheock's word. Unless the Nebraskan
has changed his mind since August rs they are
not likely to get much comfort. When he came
out of the Foreign Relations Committed room
he announced that he saw mo reason why the
treaty will not be ratified promptly"
Responsible Democrats as well as responsible
Republicans know that the United States ol
wrangle. or to watch weeks of partisan maneu'
vering over this treaty. II they do not know 1T
the country is in a fine mood to tell them So
Philadelphia Ledger,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
Learn One New Thing Every Day
Bulletins BY
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
RAvENNA: SHRINE OF DANTE AND REIIouARY OF ROME.
Bulletins BY
>~ar ~

an opportunity as Ravenna to study
the years just before and after the
breakup of the Roman Empire.
"RaVenna long had passed the ze-
NTH of her influence ana power when
Dante spent the last years of his life
there. He was the invited guest of
Guido Novello, lord of the city, whose
patronage of art and letters kind
led a flicker among the embers of
the city's great past.
Byron's Description of Dante's Tomb
1T is paradoxical that in a city
noted chiefly for its architectural
treasures the ashes of it's most FAM
resident should repose in b
shrine described by Byron as a lit
tie cupola more neat than solemn
Byron. 1t will be recalled, lived at
Ravenna in 1S20-21. during the time
he was enamored by the Countess
Guiccioli.
The sea has receded from Raw
emma, it's lagoons now r marshes.
Two streams which are not nayigable
and a canal connect it with the Adri-
attic. 1t is capital of the modern
province of Ravenna, in the COM
partment of Emilia, and lies As
miles east of Bologna. 1t was among
the first cities to cast its vote for
Italian unity in 1859. Ten years
earlier Garibaldi's wife died in the
marshes outside the city, while she
accompanied her husband in his
flight from Rome"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
INVITATION COMES LATE

It is a pity the Board of Freeholders did not
take pains to ask the borough officials of Me
tuchen what kind Of pavement they wanted be-
fore the specifications for the paving of North
Main street. Metuchen, were drawn up and bids
ask i for.
1t is evident from the latest action on the part
Of the freeholders that, at the time they adver-
tised for bids for the pavement in Metuchen they
did at known of any preference on the part of
the Metuchenites. That being the case. how does
the county board explain that warrenite was
specified. being one Of the high-priced ma
terials controlled by the patent pavement trust?
One would think. II the freehoiders were as
s~elicitous about the welfare of the taxpayers as
they would have us believe. and desire to make
their money for road building go as far as pos
sibIe. they would have picked out the best pave
,eent they could secure for the least money.
The Board Of Freeholders evidently is not OPP
posed to concrete as a pavement for it has built
some concrete roads in this county. 1t is also a
fact tina. the State Highway Commission which
Governor Edwards so unceremoniously ousted,
had adopted concrete as the standard road-pay-
ina material in New Jersey and some excellent
stretches of highway are now paved with that
material-notaBly the Lincoln Highway through
Railway beginning at the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge, and the News Brunswick-Kingsten road
with these excellent examples of concrete
road, and knowing that a concrete road can be
I built for less money than one with a patent
~rurface, Is it not strange that the freeholders
- net knowing of any preference on the
4 ~. sezssysy daEssssy interested in tbs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01

I visited a battleship. / and Ke-
turah, and it was some ship. Yes,
it was the flagship of the fleet, and
it bare upon it's turrets a great let
ter f, which being interpreted is
excellent in craftsmanship, and up
on its smokestacks another h. which
meant excellent in engineering.
And the captain treated me kind
ly, and spake c~ourteously unto
Keturah, and we sat down in his
cabin and held converse n with
another.
Likewise the admiral, when he
knew that we were on board, sent
for us, and we sat down with him
in his cabin.
And we drank tea. and there was
| nothing that we desired that was
not done unto us.
And the ship had great guns. and
twelve of them carried shells that
| were almost a cubit in diameter.
And the captain permitted me to
| point one of the great guns, and to
| turn it upon its axis, and to raise it
and to lower it. And it was very
easy. Likewise did I look through
| a telescope that was fastened to the
| gun, that 1 might see where l was
| pointing it.
And I spake unto the captain,
saying, I am a fair shot with a rifle,
but this kind of gun is a little be-
yond my caliber and range.
And the captain said, Thou art
mistaken. 1t is much easier to shoot
this gun than a rifle. For with the
| rifle thou must get three things in
line-the object and the foresight
and the hindsight. But with this,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
@. What is the A and M berry,

@. What is the A and M berry,
L, /. A.
A. A new berry produced by
hybridization of the dewberry and
the raspberry, is known as the A
and NJ berry. The plant is a vigor-
Gus grower, has large round. thick
leaves, and produces a dark red
or crimson berry of unusual size
and flavor.
@. What is the lowest tempera-
ture yer recorded in the Frigid
Zone "a. s. d.
A. The Weather Bureau say that
the lowest temperature yer record
ed in the Frigid Zone is 80 degrees,
observed at Verkhoyansk. north
eastern Siberia.
@. What is meant by the word
dish-faced in speaking of a dog?-
j. C. H..
A. The term dish-faced is used
to describe q dog whose nasal bone
is higher at the nose than at the
stop-a feature not infrequently
seen in pointers.
Q. Are there Is many people in
the United States from Great Bril-
tain as there are from Ireland?-
c. C.. G..
IA eASaL Akho q AO" Ah0hS
sons and daughters here than Ire
land, since the foreign born white
population of the United States in
clude 1~,1S3,967 persons from Eng
land, Scotland and Wales, and j.
035,6S0 from Ireland.
Q. When a recipe calls for two
ounces of bread crumbs, how can /
measure them in a eup?-T. NJ.
A. One cup of stale bread crumbs
is equal to two ounces.
Q. Did Texas when entering the
Union reserve the right to subdi-
vide into several states?-P. r. z.
A. The state of Texas entered the
Union with the understanding that
she had the right to subdivide into
not more than five states.
Q. Do both male and female mos
quitoes bite Pr. o. N.
A. 1t is the female that bites.
1t is doubted that the male ever
does.
O.. What is meant by actual SER
vice on the battlefront FL. e. l..
A. The term actual service on
the battlefront means that a man
has been sent with his troop into
an active sector where the troops
either engage in battle or are about
to do so. 1t does not mean troops
that were stationed in quiet sectors
abroad who were training and wait
ing for opportunities to go to the
front.
Q. Can a pitcher throw a ball in
a straight line o a certain dis
lance; then u 1T to drop sud
denly or urn to M side Pc. A.
A. 1t is possible for the pitcher
to throw a ball in a straight line
for a certain distance then cause
it to drop suddenly or turn to one
side. The spit ball will do this.
O.. What is the food value of a
peach?-T. c.
A. Three medium sized peaches
are approximately equal in food
value to M large Esq.,, or five
Fights cup of milk or one medium
sized potatoes or two slices of bread
or three-fourths cup of cooked
farina.
Q. Is a person suffering from de-
lirium tremensI insane Nv. T. F.
A. Delirium tremens Is a form of
acute insanity due to alcoholic poi
soning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
Health Talks
Diphtheria

Health departments all over thu
country are now girding themselves
for their annual battle with the
dread disease. d~iphtheria. which
causes more deaths in the United
States than scarlet fever. whoopin9,
cough or measles. 1t is a distincu
| menace to children despite its speci-
fic, curative agent, antitoxin.
Diphtheria is, however, a durable
disease and to a great extent pre-.
ventable. 1t is n of n few dis.
eases for which we have q curative
agent in antitoxin.
Before science had discovered and
applied antitoxin, more than half OF
the diphtheria cases died. Today
only m out OF every eight cases
proves fatal and q great many OF
these deaths are the result of negli-
| gence on the part of parents to treat
the cases properly in n early
stages.
1t has been pretty well proved
that every case of diphtheria could
be cured by giving the antitoxin
during the first twenty-four hours
of the disease. In order that this
remedy may be administered early
in every ase it is necessary for
parents or guardians of children to
call in the family physician when
suspicious of the disease arise.
If the child has a sore throat with
white faky deposits on the tonsils,
it is suspicious. One should not
wait for further symptoms such Is
fever and marked physical depres-
sions, as these are signs of an ad.
vaneed stage. Diphtheria is rapid
and may prove fatal if treatment il
O given at once.
A croupy cough is a suspicious
symptom. When the disease attacks,
the voice box. hoarseness and q
ringing cough result and the victim
may soon strange. from OBSTRUCTION
of the wipd-pipe, caused by the|
diphtheritic membrane.
Even if a cas- Ia cured In which
diphtheria has attacked the voicd
box the infection may last for many
months and even years, because the
antitoxin was not administered be.
fore the disease got a strangle hold
on the larynx or voice box. Sur
geens are often obliged to provide
artificial means for breathing by in-
Producing a tube into the Wind-pipa
which sometimes remains for a long
Iperiod. in order to sustain life.
A running nose is another sus-
Ipieious symptom of d~iphtheria. Par-
ents should look out for the dirty
white material which forms in caaes
of diphtheria and obstructs the
breathing.
School children may "catchs
diphtheria from one another ia
many ways-by drinking from the
same cup, by putting pencils AID
marbles to their mouths, by turning
Pages of books with wet fingers. BY
kissing. splitting. coughing, sneezidg.
by using towels, handkerchiefs AID
napkins infected by others.
Teachers should be especially
watchful for any of the above sigAa
in children and report any sus i
ciouS cases to local health depalt :
ments. This precaution may me1
the saving of many little lives.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01

pavement. did not seize the opportunity to scon-
serve their highway account and at the same
time secure a good job by specifying concrete
for this Metuchen pavement? The face that
Metuchen already has some concrete pavement
would indicate that the borough would not
object.
The fact is, however. that the freeholders'
wholly of their own ~volition, specified warren
tie and. having so specified with bids about to
he opsned for that material. they have now
decided 20 ask Metuchen what material is pre-
ferred.
Regardless of what Metuchen preters' II ~
quite apparent that the freehoiders themselves
are rather partial to the materials put out oy
the patent pavement interests.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
PARALLELS OF
SAFED THE SAGE

| the man in the coming tower given
thee the range. and the correction
for the wind, and all else that thu
needest, and thou hast only to get
the cross-wires of the telescope
upon the object, and hold then
there, and that is all there is of I.
And 1 examined the great gun,
and it was even so. For there WIS
no labor of bringing the foresight
down into the notch upon the re,r
end of the barrel and then hunting
around to see if the target was am
where on the same side of the shb,
for there was the target and thee
were the cross-wires, and it WIS
very easy to lift or lower the greet
gun or to move it to the right haid
or the left.
And 1 said, / have always SUP
posed that this would be hard, bit
behold, L could do it myself.
Now this have / discovered in life,
that 1t is often easier to do a greet
thing than a little thing. And
there are folk who do small things
with such great labor that they
have no courage to attempt any
thing larger. Whereas, if they but
knew it, the great task brings wit
it a sense of eXhilaration and cour-
age and high resolve that make i
easy; and when it is done. there i
great joy in it.
Therefore do I say unto men
shrink not from the great task
Undertake it bravely, and behold
thou shalt find that it is better ant
less arduous than the petty tasks a
: which thou dost waste thy life an
get nowhere.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01

ces which develop into drunken
not to be tolerated in this city.
) be some way found to stop them.
lace. the proprietors of the places
Fairs are held ought to have enough
be reputation of their halls and
ct for their city to refuse to hire
|ch an element. But perhaps this
DO much. In that case, the police
ftainly can find a way to keep the
as to be committed at one of these
kr to attract sufficient attention 10
them stopped it is well that the
4 at the beginning of the season.
ught not to be made the rendez-
4sorderly element from all this
state. From Elizabeth, Railway,
and even as far away as New
here to hold their orgies that
to any sci f-respecting community.
1t an end to them right now.
here Is a striking illustration of
woman on the police force. Young
these dances in large number and
seen intoxicated. There seems to
n for them whatever. Mayor Will
sed to name a policewoman the
makes an appointment to the
would seem as If the conditions
ard to these dances. which have
INTO the limelight. through the
Thursday night, would be sufh-
i'm to act promptly. Truly. the,
afford to have such disrepute
pc city without doing all within
NEEDY the situation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01
W TO QUESTIONS

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic J.. Haskin. Director.
Washington, d. c.. This offer APP
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medicinal and financial troubles. 1t
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-01

With the proposition to be put
of New Jersey at the coming
issue bonds to the extent of
be purpose of fixing up the
4teV utions, it is interesting to note
ording a statement made by Otto T.
secretary of the unemployment confer
how in session at Washington, statistics
TIT during the single month of August
had been a total of s106, 600, 900 worth OF
Iiciral bonds for public works sold. making
|btal for the year up to the end of that month
about s7Oo. 900, 1000,
All of this money has been spent readily
hough and the cry is for more all the time.
Iready the foundation is being laid for submit
ng to the people for their approval still an
Pther state bond issue to the amount of $4,000
boo for improving more state highways. The
state is already committed to a bond issue OF
s2s, 900, 900 for the vehicular tunnel and the
Delaware river bridge at Camden-two projects
With, by the way, will cost about s70,000,o 900
o complete and New Jersey will have to put up
900 bond issue also already approved by the
people, for the purpose of paying the ex-service
men a bonus.
So il goes. The state officials have become
by the vast sums of money SO will
insiy placed at their disposal by the taxpayers.
OF course. they can continue to devise means for
getting rid of it as long as the people hand it to
Them on a silver platter, so to speak,. But
these officials cannot be blamed SO much when
every proposition put up to the voters is ap-
proved regardless of the amount involved.
This grand orgy of spending the peoples
money will cease only when the people get tired
of Smelling out the dough-" To turn down a
Of these proposed bond issues when put
to the vote would be signal enough for the
spenders to put on the brakes. Then, and not
until then. will taxes begin to come down.