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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
YOUR FRONT"

What impression do you make on other people-partcu-
larly when you are introduced to strangers? And what is
your attitude or 'front.' in trying to get something you wanti
Here's a tip along that line, from Clemenceau. He pauses
in a speech and says: 81 will tell you that 1 am rather timid-
slightly"
Judging from the arguments he starts, slightly is right.
But powerfully effective on an audience is Cemenceaus
confidential admission that he feels a trifle timid. In this
age Of 'rush-' EN- of-their-feet' aggressiveness, timidity and
shyness are rare qualities.
As in Clemenceau's case, they appeal as a craving for af-
lection, for attention, for respect.
While shyness is rare among the bulk of people, it is be-
coming quite the fashion among the shrewd and cunning, to
affect an air of modesty and meekness.
Once the speaker forcefully thumped his fist on the table
and declared, 81 tell you so-and-so and | know what I'm
talking about
The same speaker now says, in effect: My great reputa-
ton for wisdom probably is an over-estimate of my humble
self. But, from all I can learn after patient and thorough
investigation, it seems to me" etc., etc.
The psychology of this is that it appeals to reason-and
to the hearers vanity, by deluding him into the belief that
he is asked to pass judgment.
The "know-it-all" attitude, backed by crush 'em-of-
~theirfeet'' tactics, breeds resentment and even disdain.
Statesmen, first to sense a change in popular psychology,
are shifting from aggressiveness to an oily, cunning approach
to what they re after.
In counting a woman, a man makes faster progress by gen.
tleness, smooth tact and the shrinking that attracts sympathy.
AS soon as a man falls in love, he begins moaning to his lady
love, that he has had a sad past, more trouble than his share,
and that no one seems to understand and sympathlze with him.
The English are VIGOROUSLY successful in diplomacy
because they handle situations with velvet gloves and soft
words, more effective than buster, threats and force.
You cannot get sympathy by waving an AK. But you can
get it by pointing mournfully to the ak and admitting that
YOU dread to use it. Lincoln said something about molasses
catching more flies than vinegar. He should have added,
ethan a flyswatter.."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society
MERE MAN IN

Apropos of current discussions re-
garding the comparative status of
women's rights in the United States
and other countries the following
bulletin of the National Geographic
Society is quoted-not as argument
but as important evidence on this
point:
Among the Tuaregs, found in the
vilayet of Tripoli, it rs man the brute
who by all the laws of the country
has to obey the women. Descent is
traced through the mother; woman
shows her proud face to all the word
while the man goes yelled. In the
presence of a m of noble birth,
men v their faces and heads al
together. The women give the chill
dren what little instruction they have
and train them to respect and obey
them.
"Bullied and worried by his wo-
men-folk. the Tuareg has no liberty
at all. All the goods, tents, camels,
and clothes are the women's prop
erty. The stick he carries and the
great wooden box into which he
puts what his wife suffers him to
have are all the man possesses ana
all he retains If for some reason his
wife chooses to divorce him.
In Chat, when a man goes out
after sunset he is usually followed
by a negro servant, sent by his wife
to dog his steps, and woe to him If
he forgets himself or comes home
too late! He will find the door shut
and must count himself lucky If he
Is not put into the street altogether.
The young mai who, in spite Of
all this, wants to marry must pay a
heavy sum for the bride, to obtain
which he is obliged to look for other
means than his usual work of rear
Ing camels or carrying goods for the
Arab trader. Thus he Is forced into
taking part in one of the annual
rhazzias.
"The ladies' decide when the right
moment has come, and the men sally
forth against some luckless caravan
or to the rich highlands of Tibesti.
These s%enseless raids have destroyed
many a fertile oasis, and have ac-
CELEBRATED the final disappearance of
trans-Saharan trade"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

@, Is it a crime to draw a post
office money order under an as
sumed name?-E. T. P.
A.. The Post Office Department
saws that there is nc law prohibit
ing the use of an assumed name IN
making out money orders so lone
as it is not done for a fraudulent or
unlawful purpose. Trouble might
be caused if the payee of a money
order had assumed a name and
could not prove identity when try
ing to cash the order.
@. Has the number of guns,
twenty-one, comprising the military
salute, any significance ?-H. l.. c.
A. The origin of the custom OF
firing 21 guns for the international
salute has been traced as follows:
originally warships fired a salute OF
7 guns, the number z being selected
because OF its symbolism: With the
from antiquity. Although h salute
at sea was Z guns, shore batteries
were allowed to fire 3 guns 70 n
ships one. The eason for this was
that sodium nitrate was largely
used in the manufacture of powder.
This was easily spoiled at sea-, but
could be readily kept on land. The
multiplier 8 was selected probably
because of it's symbolism. With n
development OF the manufacture OF
nowder. the number of guns for the
international naval salute was made
to correspond with that of the land
forces. On August IS, 1875. a reso-
luton adopted by the United States
nrovided that salutes be returned
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
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8-High n Lewis Streets
34-Madison Avenue n Smith Street
35-Smith and High Streets
S6-New Brunswick Ave. and New Street
37-Smith and State Streets
I~-Standard Underground Gable Co.
42-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works
buckingham Ave. and Hartford st.
46-State and Washington Streets
- and Washington Streets
59-Cortlandt and Easton Streets
63-Divfsion and William Streets
54-Stat' n Buckingham Ave .
55-Parker St and Pull Xxi Ave.
56-HaH Ave. and CharlSe Street
5I-State and Wayne Streets
5s-Near Lead Works
'-Maurer
62-Washington Street ana Park Avenue
6S-New Brunswick Ave. and Elm Street
64-Smfth Street and Watson Avenue
~65-Commerce and State Streets
sA-Front and Smith Streets
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14-Kearuy Ave. and Gordon Street
s1-Brace and Hanson Avenues
s2-Smfth and Herbert Streets
STANDBY Ave. and Washington gt.
S4-Lehigh Ave. and stanford Street
s5-Near City Hospital
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87-Amboy and Hall Avenues
s2-Amboy Avenue and Inslee Street
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SPECIAL CALLS
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16 Eagle Hose Co.
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23-Lincoln Engine
4t-Garfeld Hose
sss-Eutire Department
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

WASHINGTON, Dec. doctors
are after the Volstead law insofar
as the prohibition enforcement act
interfereS with or regulates the
practice of midicine Suit has been
brought in the United States dis
trict court in New York to annul
the provisions of the law that re-
strict physicians to a limited amount
of whiskey or other alcoholic bev-
erages in the treatment of sick per-
sons, and it is announced that the
case will be carried to the supreme
court of the United States for a final
decision
Preliminary to this action the
New York physicians organized the
Association for the Protection of
Constitutional Rights, and it is
stated that similar bodies will be
formed in other cities and states to
cooperate in the fight. The gentle
men of the medical profession say
they have been silent too long under
the injustices of the Volstead law
and that they purpose a campaign
that will at least be instructive to
general public even if it does not re-
suit in a modification of the statute
which they find obnoxious.
There is no connection between
this new association and any lay or
ganization or any movement that is
opposed to prohibition. In fact, it
is said that some of the doctors are
themselves ardent prohibitionists.
1t happens, however, that they are
equally ardent in opposition to any
methods of ~practicing thera-
peutics That is something that
governmental interference with heir
congress is not supposed to know
anything about.
In commenting upon the resort to
the courts of the officers of the as
ISOLATION said that there was MOTH
ing hasty or ill-considered about it.
They had ~pondered over the prob
lem for months with growing irrita-
ton, for they had witnessed need
less suffering and threatened death
or else had deliberately violated g.
law which they look upon as stupid
and unjust.
The Law says that a physician may
not prescribe more than a pint of
whiskey or brandy for a patient
within a ten day period. The doc
tors claim the right to prescribe
as much more in that period as their
judgment and knowledge of medi-
cine tells them the patient requires
and they contend that no n but
a physician is a competent judge
of what that requirement may be
Lawmakers Practiced Medicine
When congress passed the VOL
stead act, the lawmakers we're I'M
dertaking to practice medicine, ac-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

gun for gun. At this time the British
salute was already 81 guns, there
fore this number was accepted by
the United States.
@. What were the names of
Mary Ball Washington's sisters?-
L. r. G.
A. Mary Ball had no sisters. She
had four half sisters. Elizabeth
married the Rev. John Carnegie.
Hannah, Mr.. Travers; Anne. Col.
Edwin Conway; Easter, Mr.. Raleigh
Chinn.
Q. Will the Church of st. Anne
de Beaupre be rebuilt ID. L.
A. 1t Is said that the reconstruc-
ton Of the st. Anne de Beaupre Ba-
silica will start next summer. The
over 1 100000 and should be com.
pleted for the spring of 1924. The
ruins of the old church have now
been removed.
@. Is burglary a crime that car
be committed only at night ?-T. C.
A. At common law burglary is
the breaking and entering of the
house of another in the night time.
with intent to commit a felony
therein. In New York and in some
other states in which the New York
statute has been adopted burglary
in the first degree must be commit
ted at night, but burglary in the
second and third degrees may be
committed in the daytime.
G. What part of the country
has the greatest acreage in cram
berries PC. r. 1.
A. The cranberry boys in Masa-
chusetts are the largest cultivated
ones in the world.
@. I would like to know some
thing about where the Christian
Endeavor organization was started
j. M. c.
A. The Society of Christian En-,
deavor was organized by the Rev.
Francis E. Clark, pastor Of the WI
liston Congregational Church in
Portland, Maine, on Feb. 2, 1881
Fifty boys and girls met in the pas
tors study and pledged themselves
to attend and take part in the week
ly prayer meetings and to hold a
monthly meeting of conservation to
divine service. The membership
now is estimated at yer 5000, 00e
and there are Christian Endeavor so.
cieties practically all owe the world.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
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tific value, and placing the associa-
ton on record as opposing the use
of alcohol as q beverage and dis
couraging its use as a therapeutic
agent
This led to q QUESTIONABLE under
the auspices of The Journal of the
American Medical Association which
was sent to more than $4,000 ply
sicians throughout the United
States.
Approximately So per CEN Of
these physicians voted in this ref
erendum and in response to ques-
ton as to whether they regarded
whiskey as a necessary therapeutic
agent in the practice Of medicine,
81 per cent of those voting an
swered yes, and 40 per cent an
swered no
Nothing has been said by or for
the new association to indicate
whether it will make a fight for the
amendment Of the Volstead Act in
event the courts uphold its consti-
t%utionality with the respect to its
restrictions upon physicians.
That is a bridge to be crossed
after a decision has been handed
down in the case brought in New
York.
Meanwhile, prohibition will con-
tinue to hold its pre-eminence as
the most discussed subject in the
United States thu weather not even
sxcepte
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Instead of asking your friends whers
there's a nice room to rent. read the cias-
sihed ads and find out for yourself.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
Bible Thought For Today

%& SAFE STEPS-The steps of a good man are ordered by
the Lord: and he ~delighteth in his way-Psalm 1923.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04


We can all be thankful we are
not among the 163,S00 who are in
jail.
Seattle women held a baking on
test, so Seattle kids are happy.
What this country needs is socks
guaranteed for 10000 miles.
A Fort Worth boy who found a
quart of nitroglycerin will
One tells us she dislikes long
skirts because they are SO effemi-
nate.
Teachers have quit in West
Frankfort, H., but the kids fear the
trouble will be settled.
Heiress to $40,000,000 says she
will marry a cartoonist, and if that
isn't love there isn't any.
Paderewski, the pianist, is back
in America. 1t must be great to get
paid for just playing around.
Man asks divorce because, he
says, WHEY shot at him five times.
Some husbands are SO touchy.
New Jersey man struck a match
to see If he had any gas, so now he
has no car.
Business men not cutting much
ice these days held a convention IN
Texas. They e ice men.
In Oregon a foolish doctor got
sent to prison to study criminals
when there are more criminals nut
side.
Fake money bought good booze in
Highland, N. J.. but it is usually
just the other way around.
What makes us laugh out loud Is
seeing a girl with bobbed hair one
day and long hair the next.
Experts find music will not charm
a snake, so next time you see one
it is safer to run than sing.
The handles on aluminium frying
pans don't get so hot, but the pans
r too light for hitting husbands.
dOlue helps. 1nS jest way TO NIX
broken plumbing is to have it done.
They seldom have lightning in the
polar regions, so that would be a
fine place to go to tell a lie.
Fuel hint: Thinking about coal
prices will keep you warm.
What this country needs is onions
too polite to smell in company.
A reader writes in to ask If cough
drops make o drop a cough. Yes.
Just to be the first one, we wish
all our readers a Merry Christmas.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

What this country needs is socks
guaranteed for 10000 miles.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

A Fort Worth boy who found a
quart of nitroglycerin will o
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Seattle women held a baking con-
test, so Seattle kids are happy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

One tells us she dislikes long
skirts because they are SO effemi-
nate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Teachers have quit in West
Frankfort, H., but the kids fear the
trouble will be settled.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

We can all be thankful we are
not among the 163,S00 who r in
jail.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Heiress to 100000 900 says she
will marry a cartoonist, and if that
isn't love there isn't any.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

A reader writes in to ask If cough
drops make you drop a cough. Yes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Just to be the first one, we wish
all u readers a Merry Christmas.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04

Paderewski, the pianist, is back
in America. 1t must be great to get
paid for just playing around.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12
GOOD ~ADVERTISlNGa

NtIfE have no possible chance OF getting the
w shrine convention to come to Albuquer.
que and camp out in tents, an Albu-
querquc merchant said tdoay, referring TO a
news item that appeared IN the local papers
last week, but il is good advertising IN make
the proposition"
But is il good advertisingf
II would not be good advertising for this
merchant TO advertise for sale or use, or even
for free delivery, goods that he cannot deliver.
He knows il and would not think Of doing il.
The selling Of a community does not diff
fer in the least from the selling" of merchan.
disc as regards fundamental principles Of good
advertising.
Proposing impossible things is not helpful,
even when we have no idea of attempting the
impossible.
This city, in common with all other cities,
proposes far too many things which it does not
intend seriously to undertake., or which, with
the best of intentions 10 start with, il does not
finish.
The Albuquerque hotel would have been
very bad advertising if Albuquerque had not
subscribed the money to build il. II was writ
ten about by newspaper men all over the coun-
try. For people 10 come here and find nothing
but a dream hotel would be disastrous.
But the rev hotel Is under construction and
will be completed and in operation next year.
fhtttAoft ~ ~ tht bt~t anu hhbnt utipiui hltu
Of advertising.
Z For Albuquerque Shriners TO announce that
they are going after the Shrine's proposed hos
pital for crippled children is good advertising
hecuuse the local shriners are going after that
institution and have an excellent chance TO
get il.
To propose 10 thousands Of people seeking
comfortable vacation that they come to Albu-
querque and live in tents is likely 10 make them
laugh at us or become irritated with our pre-
sumption.
Advertising, TO be successful, must be built
on bed rock. II must be sincere. II must pro-
pose possible things aud tell the truth about
them. The f%undamenta rule is. il anything,
more important as TO communities than as TO
the individual merchant.
This city has plenty Of bed rock resources
10 advertise. Our principal fault, up to this
lime, has been in our unwillingness to settle
down. provide the necessary funds and adver-
tise those resources with the persistence and
the follow up" that alone will produce sue
cessful results.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12
THE PLUMBING ORDINANCE

CEVERAL weeks ago the city commission By
a vote, apparently OF two to two, placed ON
the city's statutes a law requiring that all
plumbing installed in the city Of Albuquerque
be of one particular kind, which, IL we are cor
rectly informed, can only be installed by an
experienced plumber.
There was some kind Of informal agreement
that this ordinance. Of some later date, would
be So amended as 10 leave the property owner
an option 10 use one other brand Of plumbing,
IL he desired.
The original ordinance, should il prove to
have been legally adopted, which is very
doubtful, would be a serious restriction upon
the rights OF American citizens, since il would
compel the employment Of highly expensive
help and the use of a type Of plumbing that
might not be desired or desirable.
The amendment, il II is adopted as proposed,
would not help the case materially.
n II is a matter Of course that there should be
public supervision of plumbing installations.
il should be equally a matter of course that
supervision should be sufficiently intelligent 20
determine when plumbing is safe and sanitary
md when il is not. But the individual should
have the right 10 have that plumbing Installed
by whom he pleases aud he should have the
right 20 determine the !" type" Of plumbing he
derires. so long ~ Il is within the limits Of per-
fecf sanitation and safety.
70 undertake 10 put on the statutes Of this
t1ty a law which will place any class Of work
exclusively in the hands n one group Of men
lnoks VERY much like an effort 10 ~legislate bus
iness into The hands Of those men and TO shut
mt cpmpetitiop. IL that proves 70 be the ease
f},r public viii not stand for this undertaking.
The city commission SHOULD siraighten out
>t,in plumbing ordinance tangle without delay
nn<s Il shoaId 30 straieiaeuit out that the rights
~ tie individual citixen are fully respected and
protected.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12
Tom Sims Says:

A ioafer n always glad whel
Monday comes because then hi
hasn't seen every show In town.
Why doesn't somebody organic
n wife Insurance company
Shot by Sultor'- hcadlInd
The sutton didn't suit her so he de-
clded to shoot her.
Longes, day In the year Is JurI
%. How appropriate that II failI
on Friday. the day before paydhsl
Wonder N a saxaphone playel
can join the musicians union7
skirts may get longer. but n
viii be n long time before thc}
keep shoes shlned again.
bulgarian king works his owl
garden plot. This II better thai
working International plots.
Nothing II as high as the higG
coat Of loafing.
Wouldn't Il be awful II the mar
who paints pictures for sec
packages opened a beauty ahopl
Old man Collins boys like "a
fight. Michael is the head OF N.
Irish army and Patrick IN q
Chicago policeman,
a political machine Is seido1
a abor-EnVing machine.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12


wrecked boat OF my W and give
somc instructions what shade 1
want tho body done over In. I feel
lost without n wheel IN my hands.
You won't mind. Mhmmay-for a
little while ?"
Mrs. Walden was ~powericss. She
had wanted Ruth to stay on, But
she had her cue from her own
daughter. Aner all Il was she who
would have to sweep the older
Ruth may have dressed 90 linz
preas the crowd al the Club hut
II all went 10 Jacks head and he
broke out Ia Intense love max
inR.
did you get my flowers, Ruth 2"
They ere beautiful. How did
you know my favofltesY'
milne. too That's how. Ruth
dear. haven't you noticed how
many things we have In common
Love OF fast cars. speed. excitement
even to roses Why | couldn't
even quarrel with you!"
He edged over under the wheel
nearer her. Ruth smiled az him.
Suddenly he leaned yer 10 steal n
kiss. II went wrong and fell on
her car. Somehow Ruth was glad
u wasn't the one Dick had kissed.
But the next moment she had taken
JACKIE hand and niyen II a little
squeeze in return.
They were just about leaving
Merrihew's, when the faithful Nc
Kay. who had been watching the
departure vigilantly from the park
ina space at the Club. tapped light
~ on the door OF Dicks boathouEe
workshop.
II needed only 20 have Mckay
spill the news about the automobile
ride with Curtis to set Dick frantic
over Ruth. A few minutes later
Dick and Garrlck wer on the Club
porch.
Professor vario was there with
Mrs. walden. very thoughtful and
sympathetic. In fact, he was = 10
attentive that Garrick found him.
self wondering where lay his In
terest-in mother or daughter?
ut beats the devil" Guy found
himself wondering. how these
doddrrltg scientists can he 80
clever and deep In their own fleida
and such children when u comes
to affairs Of life and the heart"
Dick snw nothing. His vision
was eciipaed BY one thought. Ruth
was somewhere with Jack, Nor
was Il long before he bIurted Il out
In some thInly disguised form.
II wouldn't worry much over
Ruth and Jack" nut In the pro-
lessor. Those Youngsters seem 10
mo To be quite capable Of taking
tare OF themsciyes-at least Ruth
does" He pnnsed a moment. II
think I know enough OF their habits