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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
MORE FACTS ON MILK SITUATION

AT last further action has been taken in the milk scan
dial in Perth Amboy. All the indictments, however, center
around the bomb plot. While this was bad enough and
cannot be ignored, it is evident that the attempt to destroy
the milk wagon with its contents was merely the culmina-
ton of events and does not get at the root of the matter, at
all.
OF the three counts on which the indictments against
the men arraigned in court yesterday were based, the one
that comes nearest to getting at the bottom of the matter
is the last one mentioned, based on the old common law.
This count charges the men with conspiracy to drive a milk
dealer out of business by threats, violence and the destruc-
ton of his property.
Just how far does this conspiracy extend? Are there
any others involved besides those already brought before
the court? How many retail milk dealers are held in line
and made to obey the orders by threats of such a "combina-
ton as the alleged conspiracy would indicate existed here?
The citizens of Perth Amboy certainly expect the bomb
outrage to be cleaned up by the authorities and suitable
punishment melted out, but that does not clear up the milk
situation in Perth Amboy, by any means. There must have
been something very serious in the background that would
lead up to such an attempt. Surely, the investigation con-
Quoted by the prosecutors detectives and the private detec-
tives that were engaged, must have unearthed interesting
facts that would not necessarily apply directly to the bomb
affair.
AS a matter of fact, the milk situation in Perth Amboy
will not be cleaned up to the satisfaction of the people until
several of the retail milk dealers have been summoned be-
fore the grand jury and questioned under oath, as to exactly
the conditions under which they do business. From stories
that have been circulated regarding the difficulties expert
enced by certain milk dealers in securing milk when they
were inclined to defy the So called combination there is
every reason to believe that something more than indict-
ments in connection with the bomb outrage is justified.
When one realizes what the milk supply means to the
health and prosperity of the city, life itself being dependent
upon it, it is expected that the prosecutor will go the limit
in protecting the people and that the grand jury, made up
of the people themselves, will insist that all the facts be
laid before them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
GERMAN MARKS

Now that German marks are cheaper than high-grade wall
paper, spectators again are swinging to them in a big buying
movement.
The obliging German government promises that there will
be plenty for all. Beginning October l the Reichsbank VIII
print 900 100000 a billion) paper marks a day.
For large investors it is rushing plates to print marks in
denominations of 500,000 each, so that amateur spectators
can carry around a few billions, to show their friends the
. mortgage they have secured on the future, without firing their
muscles or tearing out the Innings of their coats.
On September l., German paper money in circulation to-
tailed around $50, 10000 900 (25O billion marks.
The presses have been turning out 2,600,OOO,OO0 new
marks a day since then.
Presuming that the presses are idle on Sundays, to pre-
vent them from melting or getting hot-boxes, about 315,000,
100000 paper marks will be in circulation October l when the
new presses get started with their output Of 1000, 5000 a
day.
By the end Of the year, some 100000 100000 $500 billon)
marks will he on the market, so don't burst a blood-vessel
trying to get to the bargain counter.
Those 100000 00C, 900 paper marks-if they could return
to par, "as investors hope-would be worth $142,S00000,
900.
That is twice as much as Germany's national wealth be-
fore the war and about six times her present national wealth,
making allowances for what has been taken from her by
war.
The ''easy mark. - buying marks for a rise, admits that
he never expects the mark to return to par, but a rise, ever
so slight, with me holding millions of them. " and so on.
AS John Moody points out in the American Magazine, the
Germans may not repudiate the mark, but the mark already
has within a hair sbreath repudiated itself out of existence
by attaining nearly absolute worthlessness.
The Germans, in their own country, are discarding the
mark in business transaction and reverting to barter and the
use of foreign currencies, especially the American dollar.
The buyer whose appetite for marks is gluttonous need
culation by the end of the year. Never forget, other years
lie ahead.
The more the mark falls, the more Germany's profit on
the deal. Eventually she gets all, like the 'kitty'' in poker.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

AiiS "toNAI5 VI tilOAi Oa
WandS.
Then the Snake priests dash in
literally dash in-their rattles jim
Cling madly, their feet padding the
hard-packed earth faster than a
can conveniently count. They are
wild looking creatures, painted red
dish brown from head to toe. Their
hair is ragged and fluffy with parrot
plumes stained a soft rosy brown.
Their jaws and chins are painted
black, the mouths broadly outlined
with white.
They take their places in front of
the Antelope priests and with them
chant and wave their wands for
many minutes. The music seems to
grow wilder. Suddenly it breaks.
The snake priests separate. One of
them kneels in front of The kisi,
reaches in and pulls out a snake. He
grips it's neck with his lips sc th1t
its head projects a little beyond his
left jaw, and if it Is a large snake,
six or seven feet long, he grasps its
body with his hands. Meantime an
other prest, with feather-wand, has
taken his place at the dancers right,
places his left hand on the dancers
left shoulder, and with the wand
strokes the body of the snake. To-
gether, with high rhythmic step,
they start around the court. A third
J priest, also with a feather-wand,
I falls in behind. Thus the whole fra
ternity forms into groups of three
faster than words can describe, max
ing the circle of the dance. Every
time they cross Shi-pa-pu, they
stamp upon the board. These beats
fall as regularly as those of a drum
and keep perfect time to the song of
the Antelopes. Both movement and
| song are swift and wild.
Several times each group of three
makes the circle, and then the
dancer drops the snake. The third
member of the group, the gath
erer," now brushes the snake with
his wand, and Selling it by the neck
swings it high in the air. Their he
Grapes it over his ar mas uncon-
cernedly as a woman adjusts a bou-
quet. Meantime his two companions,
the dancer" and the "hugger," have
gone on around to the kisi and Sc
and on and around and around until
the "gatherers' have armfuls of
reptiles. Now and then they hand
them to the Antelope priests who
nonchalantly fold them over their
arms without losing in their songs.
Altogether they use seventy or
eighty of the creatures, big and lit
lie, harmless and poisonous, whip
snakes, bull snakes. rattle snakes,
any kind of snake.
Finally, almost unnoticed, women
come from an inner room with
plaques of meal and draw a huge
white circle in one corner of the
court. Then the lines break. The
snakes are thrown in a heap inside
the circle. the women hastily and
timidly sprinkle them with meal,
and as hastily depart. Certain OF
the younger Snake priests dart in,
and, Selling as many reptiles as they
can hold, dash in the four directions
Far out on the plain they release
their loads-and their serpent broth
ers seek their holes and bear the
recently enacted rain-prayer to the
gods below.
The snakes fangs are not pulled.
Sometimes the men are bitten, but
1t is claimed they do not even get
sick. II is rumored that for many
days before the dance the men use
an herb tea which the women pre-
mare. which acts as a counter poison.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

@. Just what is butter? What 1
want to know is, is there any official
definition of or standard for butter?
C. E. V.
A. On August 2, 1886. congress
defined butter as follows: THAT for
the purpose of this act the word
butter shall be understood to mean
the food product usually known as
butter, and which is made exclu-
sively from milk or cream, or both,
with or with common salt, and with
or without additional coloring mat
ter" On February II, 1898, con-
gress passed a law effective in the
District of Columbia establishing a
standard of butter of So per cent.
milk fat and IL per cent. water. On
June 6, 1906, under an act of con-
gress approved March 3, 1908, the
Secretary of Agriculture defined but
ter as follows: butter is the clean
non-rancid product made by gather
ing in any manner the fat of fresh
or ripened milk or cream into a
mass, which also contains a small
portion of other milk constituents,
with or without salt, and contains
satisfactorily adjusted by the COM
m~issionerS of cancellations; 59 were
adjusted by the commissioners OF
Cancellation in cooperation with To-
ca. officials and agencies; 80 cases
are pending or in process of ad-
Justin emit, and in SO cases the de-
rartment has failed to secure a set
Element. The period of industrial
readjustment through which the
country has been passing, made the
settlement of industrial disputes
more difficult, but despite the fact
nearly 80 per cent of the controver-
sizes in which the department used
its good offices were equitably and
satisfactorily adjusted. Without
doubt these settlements did much to
aid in the stabilizing of the general
ly disturbed industrial situation.
Nearly a million and a half workers
were involved in the disputes under
0sideration.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

Possibly Henry Ford's announcement that he will shut
down his plant today for lack of fuel was intended primarily
to throw a shock into the government and the public. AT
any rate, it is having that effect, and the effect is wholesome.
The Ford factories might have continued to exc out a
precarious existence but they would have had to shut down
or greatly curtail their operations before long If coal pro-
duction and delivery were not speeded up. SO would every
important industry in the country. Mr.. Ford simply antlcl-
pated the industrial collapse that was bound to come soon If
the fuel and transportation strikes had continued.
His action was a spectacular warning to Washington,
and tbe President and congress were bound to heed it. Gov
ernmental reluctance to intrude in industry is easily under
stood; but 1t is facts, not theories, that confront the nation
at this time and the nation was ready to uphold any action
based on the facts and calculated to give relief.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
STREETS

The DAYS of annual fall clean-ups in countless Amerl-
can cities are now approaching. For seven days CIVIC PRIDE
will stir. Back yards, Easements and public places will be
stripped of their disfguring litter. Then, a week or so
later, the bits of dirty and torn paper will begin to fly about
again. and before long the streets will be unhdy as before.
Most communities would be Mortified if any one sug-
eested tossing the garbage out onto the lawns or into the
street cutters. Yet even in residential sections one can find,
in almost any town or city, at almost any time, the litter of
discarded newspapers, empty bags, torn wrapping paper,
and so on. Occasionally a citizen is seen who pushes the
paper he is through with into the rubbish box provided for
such things, but more often one sees him drop it at his side
in the street.
Not so much rubbish is deliberately thrown into the
street in residential sections, but the litter appears there
inst the same. Much of the advertising matter distributed
from door to door is never picked up and taken into the
house. 1t blows from porch to yard and then starts its
career of clinging to hedges or fluttering about across the
lawns.
CLEANUP week is a fine institution, as far as it goes.
The inspiration of those seven days needs to begin earlier
and last longer, however, if American cities are to rid them
selves of this disgrace to their civic enterprise.
A headline says: affairs in Cuba are Being Ironed
Out Lucky Cuba! In most places they are being mangled.
That New York beggar who lives in luxury from the
proceeds of his profession would surely make a successful
college president.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

not less than 82.5 per cent. of milh
fat" On May IA, 1919, the Secre-
tary of Agriculture reaffirmed and
reannounced the butter standard OF
1906. On June 16, 1922, a bill was
introduced in congress defining butt
ter as follows: THAT butter shall
be understood to mean the food
product usually known as butter and
which is made exclusively from milk
or cream, or both, with or without
common salt, with or without addi-
tional coloring matter. and contain
ing not less than so per cent. Of
milk fat and not more than 16 per
cent. of water" This bill has not
yet become a law.
@. Is former Senator Sutherland
of Utah, the new Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
a Mormon?-G. r.
A. He Is not a Mormon, and is
not affiliated with any church. He
was born in Buckinghamshire, Eng
land, in 1852, and came to America
in his youth.
@. How much milk is used in
New York City?-T. j. M.
A. About $4,000 quarts Of raw
milk is Used n,:milk-ianFm
milk and ~2,245,000 quarts of pas
teurized milk are consumed IN New
York City daily; OF this amount,
approximately A per cent. is retail
ed in bottles.
O. When do leaves drop off
maple and oak trees?-E. w. M.
A. Trees leave and defoliate at
different periods in different sections
of the country. Generally speaking,
maple and oak trees defoliate in
October and November.
@. When is Blue Monday Pr ID.
A. This name is sometimes given
to the Monday before Lent.
Q. What is the origin of the
sayirg "queer as Dicks %hatband"?
F, NJ. M.
A. We have traced it as far back
as 1855 when the expression was
las queer as Dicks ..n'band hat
went 81 G times round and wor'dn't'
meet" The origin of the phrase is
not known.
@. Are gifts sent from abroad
subject to duty?-F. ]. L.
A. The Customs House says that
gifts coming from abroad are taxed.
@. What proportion of the auto
mobiles made, are closed cars?-
A. o.
A. The output of open cars in
1921 was ~1,179,000 and of closed
cars, $4,000. This was about 20
per cent. of the total output.
@. What is a tiger in Poker?-
A. This is a Poker hand which
is seven high and deuce low; without
a pair. sequence, OF flush. Such a
hand beats a straight but loses to a
flush.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
Bible Thought For Today

SEEK TODAY-Seek we the Lord while he may be
found, call we upon him while he is near.-Isaiah SIS: 6.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

Flapper fall fashions are Greek
outfits and what they talk is Greek
to most peOple.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

Babe Ruth has a swell job. All he
does when he wants to go fishing is
cuss an umpire.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16

Besides not having to wash the
tub, the nice thing about a hotel is
you can knock cigaret ashes on the
floor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
An Institution With Vision

THIS BANK IS NOW A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL
RESERVE SYSTEM OF TIL UNITED STATE Gov
EMINENT, N IN THUS AFFILIATING WITH THE
GREATEST FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD
WE HAV THE PROUD DISTINCTION OF BEING
THE ONLY TRUST COMPANY IN MDDLESEX
OUNTY A MEMBER OF THE RESERVE
SYSTEM.
THIS PROVIDES ANOTHER IMPORTANT LINK
IN THE CHAIN OF DIGNIFIED N DEPENDABLE
SERVICE OFFERED BY THIS BANK TO IT'S PAT
RONS WHERE THEY FIND 1T A PLEASURE TO DO
BUSINESS WITH AN INSTITUTION WHICH COM
ZINE EVERY FINANCIAL SERVICE UNDER ONE
EXPERIENCED ORGANIZATION.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
Tom


May we call the coal shortage a
CRATE danger? Thanks.
Our shipping board threatens to
build two 1000-foot liners.
This new Turk offensive is very
offensive to the Greeks.
Some towns are lucky. Boston
movie organist broke his arm.
Oyster soup is back, says our dry
cleaner.
One New York floorwalker not
only acts like a count but is me-.
If you want to wake up famous
sleep with one eye open.
The school of experience is always
a high school.
Bonus" is good in Latin; but
it has a bad time in America.
Years and years ago men bought
homes before autos.
After our harvesting machines gel
49, NtNS ) ISNaSu IA HS1l lldIly
to act as cash registers.
When road hog meets road hog
that's nice.
Many a father thinks he sings the
baby to sleep when he only sings il
unconscious.
The big corn crop is causing a
jug shortage.
Fat reducers who succeeded will
be mad about it this winter.
Movie stars seem to consider be.
Ing married sufficient grounds foi
divorce.
Pigiron has advanced 50 per ton
Pay no more,
The rail strike has it's bright side
Carload of egg plants rotting on side
track.
A dollar goes far enough nowadays
to forget the way back.
A new machine makes So 900 Gig.
arets an hour. Necessity is the
mother of invention.
Mr.. Charles Valentine of Yonkers
has improved the phonograph, blu
Is still at large.
Human nature is what makes a
mar brush his front teeth and lie,
the back ones go.
Man asks soo. n ha,.,.. ~,.,
broke his legs. He needs 1t to set
on his feet again.
Besides not having to wash thu
J tub, the nice thing about a hotel i.
You can knock cigaret ashes on the
floor.
Babe Ruth has a swell Job. All ht
does when he wants to go fishing i.
cuss an umpire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-04
525 ONE-ARMs AUTO DRIVERS
LICENSED.

Drivers licenses of ninety-nine
motorists were revoked by the
Pennsylvania state highway depart
ment during the first six months
this year, lightweight of the revoca-
lions being made where drivers were
convicted of operating cars while
intoxicated. During the same period
the department, "blacklisted'' for
one year 112 drivers, 81 of whom
violated the state law while driving
intoxicated
The persons whose names are
placed on the blacklist" cannot
get license for one year from the
date their names were put on the
blacklist" Last year 203 licenses
were revoked and 1874 other drivers
we're put on the blacklist" In
crease in the number of "one-arm"
licenses, special licenses issued to
drivers who have but one arm, is
shown on. the records this year,
Last year 402 owners, 46 paid
drivers and So operators were
granted "one-arm" licenses, but for
the first six months this year 416
owners, So paid drivers and 54
operators received "one-arm" IL
censes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-04

Three years after the war it is
costing over a half billion dollars
more-or $685., 100000 more, to be
exact-foy the legitimate expenses
of the government under President
Harding than it cost three years be-
fore the war for the legitimate ex-
penses Of the government under
President Wilson.
This fact is set forth in minute
detail by Senator Lee Overman
(Dem., N. CO., in public state
ment. Senator Overman is the
ranking minority member Of the
Senate Appropriations Committee
and his purpose in issuing the state
ment is to refute the distorted and
untruthful statements sent out by
Republican propagandists Of alleged
great savings and economies of the
Harding administration.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-04

The Republican legislative pro-
gramme as near as one can guess,
is to send the Tariff bill to confer
ence by Sept. 1, and then to adjourn
about Oct. /. The interval between
these two dates is to Be devoted to a
consideration of the Bonus bill.
1t is generally understood and ac-
cepted that President Harding will
veto the Bonus bill in it's present
form, or any bonus bill that does MOI
provide for sales tax, so that the
big taxpayers will escape payments
and that the tax will fall upon the
general public made up. of small
taxpayers.
With the responsibility on the
President for vetoing the bill, it is
thought that number of Republi-
can Senators can be brought to per-
NIT the passage of the bill even
though they are opposed to it.
Just what Congress intends to do
about the Ship Subsidy bill, which
President Harding insists shall be
passed before adjournment, is not
definitely known. The general i'm
preston is that Congress will not at.
tempt to pass the bill before the ao-
journment, although President
Harding has threatened to recon-
yene Congress if it fails to do so.
In the meantime, it is assumed
that the members of the House are
finding out the views of their con-
stituents with respect to the Ship
Subsidy bill. If they really learn
the truth. it may be safely predicted
that there will be no Ship Subsidy
bill before adjournment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-04
TEACHERS QUALIFY.

The State Department of Educa-
ton reports that for the first time in
decade Maryland has a full supply
of certified elementary teachers,
without being compelled to look for
outside help. Between 500 and 500
teachers are needed in the State.
Including the graduates from the
normal schools this spring, there
will be available about 575 qualified
teachers white and colored Or
these 70 are men.
The records show that about half
of the white applicants for new cer-
tificates and about one-third of the
eolored applicants met the full re-
quirements of examination, which is
10 to Is per cent. higher than the
results of former examinations, de-
spite the scoring of papers was done
according to standard slightly
higher than heretofore. This Su-
perintendent Cook regards as evil
dence of more efficient work in the
county schools, particularly in the
high schools from which most of
the applicants for teachers certifi-
Gates are recruited.
Mr.. Cook reports that 1916 white
persons and 211 colored persons
took the examinations in June for
the various classes of certificates.
The Western Shore and Southern
Maryland contributed the larger
number of the applicants, there be-
ing an average of Sc applicants to
county in that section, and an aver
age Of 35 applicants to county on
the Eastern Shore. u
OF the applicants for third grade
certificates. 70 white and Is colored
persons qualified. OF those who at
temped the examinations for sec-
ond grade certificates, 1877 white and
2 colored persons qualified and 95
white and 4 colored persons quail
fed for third grade certificates in
stead of the certificates for which
they applied.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-04

Impressive demonstrations were
held throughout the county July 20
and 80 in furtherance of the mo
More War" campaign. Thousands
OF mo More War" posters were
broadcasted, parades and demon
STATIONS held, etc.
Beginning in three cities on the
Continent in 1920, the anniversary
of the outbreak of the world war
has been made the occasion in Eu-
rope of a No More War demonstra-
ton, to express 'sthe will of the
people to end war forever" Last
year, demonstrations were held in
200 cities in England, France and
Germany. This year ten nations
of Europe agreed to participate
England, France, Germany, Holland,
Sweden, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia,
Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland.