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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-14
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Play Cast Announced.

Appended are the characters III
the three act comedy, Aunt Mag
gie's WILL" to be given Friday
night at st. Joseph's school hall by
st. Elizabeth's guild. Mrs Faye
Hough Mccarthy Is directing the
rehearsals. During the perform
ance a musical program viii be
given as follows:
Vocal solo-.Miss Catherine Full
Ter.
Ukelele harmonies-Miss Kath-
crime Kale, Miss Gertrude Patting,
Ida and Marie Hofer.
Irish Ballads Miss Marie
Houldsworth.
Solo dance-Kathleen Dorm.
Duet-Kathleen porn and Char
lotte Thompson.
The cast includes:
Jane Scott-Miss winifred Heide-
mann
Priscilla Parsons-Miss Gene
We've Stauduhar.
Debbie Thorn-Miss Alena Pc
roma
Madeline Gray-Miss Dorothy
Sersig.
Minnie WeIls-Miss Louise Burt
Julia Watson-Miss Evelyn Err
hart
Henrietta Clark-Miss Marian
Bleuer
May Hell-Miss Petronilla Stau-
duhars
Mrs. Sims-Miss Irene Mcleod.
Della O'Gallagher = Miss Marie
Houldsworth
-Director-Mrs. Faye Hough Nc
Carthy.
Parties Honor Miss Young.
Miss Helen Young of Davenport,
who IS to be a bride of Saturday,
shared honors with Mrs. ]. X
Stringer of this city, nee Miss Della
Langwith, last evening at a dinner
theatre party given by members of
lambda chapter, Pi Sigma Phi.
Dinner was served at the Chamber
OF Commerce and later the guests
attended the performance at the
Grand theatre. Valentine sugges-
tons were the decorations used.
This evening Miss Young is hon
Gree at party at the Presbyterian
cottage, the affair being given by a
group of girls from the First Pres
byterian church. Tomorrow Miss
EGvena Wells of Davenport is en-
PERTAINING at an evening card party
and Thursday night Mrs. George
Gibbs of Ripley street will enter
tain in her honor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-14

Tri-City symphony orchestra Rock Is
land concert.
Business and Professional Women's
club organization dinner at Y. W. c. A.
Phi Delta Psi's meet with Mrs. p. J.
MeerSman.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-14

Mrs. Ora .Padget LANCER, contralto, OF
Chicago, assisted by Charles Mitchell
Mixer violinist, and Mrs. Charles Or
chard, pianist give concert at February
meeting OF Rock Island Woman's club.
Williamsburg wedding in Davenport.
Amt We Got Fun" club entertained by
Mr. and ms. Joe Collier.
Tri-City Art league tea.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
MOB

Under the influence of that peculiar form of psychology
known as "mob hypnothsm, - it takes the average person about
30 seconds to throw off the mask of civilization and revert to
the lowest form of savagery.
The other day in Cleveland, an auto driver speeding so
miles an hour through congested streets was pursued by motor
cycle police. Other auto drivers joined in the chase, like small
boys chasing the fire engine.
By the time the reckless driver was arrested on a charge
of driving while intoxicated, the pursuing autos numberet.
80, and cries of Lynch himl ~ were ringing forth.
There might really have been a lynching, if the chase lad
een longer and no cops were present. A mob transforms
quickly into a blood-hunting, hypnotic state.
The atrocities of the recent mine massacre III Illinois were
committed by men who probably never would think Of ccnl-
hitting murder while alone.
The mob spirit hypnotized them.
These fits of mob or social insanity happen in a fash by
chance. They also come in waves-epidemics OF dancing,
freak fashions, madmen's cults and similar phenomena.
Most of us are reasonably sane-when alone. II
But whenever human beings congregate in large groups,
something crazy always happens or is started.
When people swarm together, a mysterious psychic current
is generated and, by hypnotism, leads them to do queer things.
Thus you see quiet, respectable people make fools of them
selves in cabarets. A dignifed person at a dance sometimes
catches the fever and begins cutting up like a lunatic. Jokers
tissuepaper Ounce hats. And the wearers seem to enjoy it,
though they wouldn't wear the hat for 800 except under
'the spell" of mob hypnosis.
The tendency that people have, of making asses Of them
selves when they get together in large groups, may explain
why we do so many fool things when we get together in the
form of government.
As voters we back community or national projects based
on principles that none of us would think of countenancing
in our private lives. &
Mob hypnotism is what makes a man, who is q genius of
economy and practicaness in private life, fall for" visionary
and impracticable projects when serving in public office.
Carry the idea on and you understand why, the larger the
population grows, the worse the governmen becomes. China,
for instance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
MENLo PARK SITE REJECTED

The State Board of Health has turned down the Menlo
Park site for a tuberculosis hospital in Middlesex county
mainly because there is too much swamp land adjacent
thereto. This seems like a very poor reason. AS a mat
ter of fact, the low lands included in the tract are nothing
more than meadows that would make good pasture for cattle.
The indifference shown by the state board in this matter
in the first place and then the final rejection of the site can
net halp but invite criticism.
While the state board is condemning the Menlo Park
properly because of the low land, it fails to mention the
fact that the tract also includes some of the highest land
in the county and springs of the purest water to be found
in the state, besides excellent facilities for drainage. No
account, apparently, is taken of the accessibility of the
Menlo Park site, which is one of the things most to be de-
sired.
There is low, marshy land close by, to be sure, but
where in Middlesex county can a suitable site be found that
does not have marshy land in the vicinity? This county
does not have the hills of Somerset or of Hunterdon; neither
does it have the soft, dry climate of the pine belt in South
Jersey. Middlesex has got to take things as they are and it
is extremely doubtful if a better spot can be found within
the county for a tuberculosis hospital than the site just re-
jected by the State Board of Health.
As a matter of fact, the Middlesex Board of Freeholders
have done everything they could to discourage building on
this particular site and the only reason that can be given
is that the present board did not have the privilege of buy
ing the site in the first place.
However, now that the freeholders have had their way
and the Menlo Park site has been rejected, it will be inter.
esting to see just where a new site that does not have the
alleged disadvantages of the Menlo Park site, yet that does
possess all the advantages to be found On the site just turned
down, will be found.
In the meantime, gentlemen, human lives are at
stake. There is no time to be lost.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
GOOD WORK BY THE POLICE

& Excellent work has been done by the police depart
ment in the last few days in cleaning g up a robbery mystery
that has baffled the authorities of several towns and cities
in this section of the state. 1t is apparent that an impor-
tant capture has been made and much credit is due the local
detectives who got on the trail of the loot and ran it down.
These thieves have been active in Perth Amboy, Me-
tuchen, Woodbridge, Westf1eld, Elizabeth and several other
places. They have made some rich hauls. For months they
have eluded the authorities and were seemingly having
things their own way. The attempt to claim an abandoned
automobile at Westfeld that had figured in one of the rob-
berries led to the gangs undoing. From Westfield the trail
led to this city.
Westfeld detectives came here and when they had
stated their case it did not take the local authorities long
to get results. The admissions and confessions that have
followed prove the Importance of the arrest. Chief Ton
nesen and his men have we'll upheld the reputation of the
police department in the part they have played in this
capture.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH

Perth Amboy's slip backward in the matter of a safe
and sane Fourth of July celebration is becoming more and
more marked every year. 1t doesn't seem to make much
difference what the ordinance is or under what conditions
permits are granted, if the police make no pretense at EN-
forcing the regulations we might as well go back to the old
time Fourth with all the fatalities, injuries and fires which
made the day notorious. Chief Tonnesens warning about
the premature discharge of fireworks will help some, but it
is a mighty disagreeable thing to arrest a boy under such
circumstances when he is really not at fault. The trouble
is in permitting the sale of these explosives.
There ought to be some warning in the fact that New
ark has already had her second tetanus victim this year,
Two boys dying in the city hospital within twenty-four
hours of each other: Blank cartridges were to blame in
their case. Another victim is reported in Roselle. 1t is not
necessary to dwell upon the agones that one passes through
when stricken with lookjaw; that is realized only when the
victim is some loved one and the horror is brought close to
home.
1t would seem as if there should be some other way
of celebrating the anniversary of Americas independence
without deliberately endangering the lives of the youth of
the land. At least the celebration ought to be confined to
the one day instead of beginning a week or two previous to
the date.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
HOW MUCH WOULD YOU
PAY FOR ONE BOOK
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskih

NEW YORK CITY, June 27.-
Would you pay $4,000 for one
little book?
This is the price recently paid at
the Anderson Galleries here in New
York for one little volume of Will
Shakespeare's complete works, with
Chambers portrait, dated 1928. 1t
was a first edition, of course, in re-
markedly good condition consider
ing its vast age, and considered by
the gratified purchaser to be a great
bargain as first editions go.
Here is something well worth re-
nlembering the mex time vol feel
imposed at having to pay $3.50 for
the latest product of your favorite
author. You never can tell-in a
few years his works NAV be worth
a good deal more. Some of Joseph
Conrad's already bring as much as
$50 per copy. while a first edition
Of Walt Whitman's Leaves OF
Grass" recently sold for $3.50.
But first editions. like all other
antiques, grow more valuable as
they get older. An author has TO
be dead a long time before his books
will bring as much as $1,000 apiece,
ard few of the books published now
adays are capable of surviving
through several centuries. Not that
some of them r not of lasting
merit, but the materials they are
made of are too fragile.
The E~lizabethan literature was
printed On strong, thick paper, made
by hand from rags, and in many
cases remains whole and firm today.
The Shakespeare volume mentioned
"a hA,v1 g. S--A.ro l. - ,A,fan
condition as it was in the seven
page, where an expert eye can de-
tect a break in the watermark OF
the old paper. showing that it has
been mended.
"A good many of the old books
have to be doctored." explained Mr.
A. Babe of the Anderson Galleries
as he pointed out TO us the almost
i~mperceptible flaw in the precious
Shakespeare volume. There are, OF
course, experts who specialize in
this restoring work. Some of the
books have been washed and iron
ed. in which case it is always ap-
parent. Many have been virtually
ruined in the big English libraries
where they remained for centuries
with proper care, and now have tC
be extensively repaired.
"Others fell into the hands OF
careful collectors, and have been
passed down in surprisingly fine
trim. We a usually tell from the
owners label in the front of the
book just what to expect. To men,
ton one example, books from the
library Of the late Robert Hoe
which up until 1911 was the largest
private library in this country, are
always in good shape. Mr.. Hoe
evidently took elaborate pains with
them. Then we have several vol.
umes here from George Washing.
toms library which are in astonish'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

@. What is the name of the ex-
hibition of Craftsmanship and roping
which takes place in Wyoming each
year? c. +. H.
A. This meet is held in Cheyenne
and is called Cheyenne Frontier
Days. 1t will be held this year dur
ing the last week in July.
@. How long will it take a lilac
bush to bloom which was started
from a small sprout? l.. j.. E.
A. The Bureau of Plant Industry
say that a lilac bush may bloom
any time from two years to ten af-
ter planting. There is no account
ing for it's behavior in this respect.
Q. When was there an issue OF
three cent stamps showing the pic
ture of a locomotive? Z. f.
A. The Post Office Department
says that the blue three cent stamp
issue of 1869 had the engraving OF
an old fashioned locomotive.
9. How did the United States
get Wake Island? r. C.
A. The Bureau of Insular Affairs
says that Wake Island was discov-
cred and surveyed by Commander
Wilkes in his exploring expedition
of 1S3S-43, and was formally taken
possession OF IN the name ol tic
United States by Commodore E. ID.
Taussig in 1893.
O. What are the largest weighing
scales or machines? j. G..
A. The machine at Watervliet
Arsenal, used for weighing guns,
has a capacity of 100000 pounds.
The largest railroad or track scales
are suspended platform scales in the
West Albany yards of the New York
Central Railroad. These have a ca
pacity of S25 tons
O. Where is the largest cemetery
in the United States? ]. H. T.
A. Pine Lawn pm Long Island,
New York, has an area of 1000
acres, and is probably the largest
cemetery in the country.
@. When is a river a ~navigable
stream? J. r. Z.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

A. The courts say that those riv-
ers must be regarded as public nav
igable rivers in law which are nav
igable in fact, and they are naviga.
BILE in fact when they are used, OF
are susceptible Of being used, IL
their ordinary conditions as high
ways for commerce.
Q. What is the largest gland in
the body? E. l.. M.
A. The liver Is classed as q gland
and exceeds all others in size.
Q. How does the number of sar-
dimes canned in California compars
with the output of Maine? c.. p.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries sayf
that in 1921 the Maine pack of sar-
dimes "a 1,350,631 cases, valued at
$3,960,916, while the California
pack was 415,5s7 cases. valued at
$2,346,446.
Q. What is meant by sicilian YES
pers? A. S.
A. On March 80, 1882. the French
in Sicily were mastered by the Sic
ilians. The signal was the sour Hina,
of the vesper bell. -
Q. Is most of the rubber wild OF
cultivated? w. c.
A. About SO per cent of the rub
Der used comes from plantation
areas. The world production OF
crude rubber has increased more
than five fold in the last twenty
years. The amount of wild or ma
tive rubber has declined c~onsidera-
bly, while that of cultivated trees
has increased from a small amount
to 800, 900 tons a year.
@. Who founded the Friends
church? E. NJ.
A. This sect was founded by
George Foxe, the English religion
list, who lived from 1924 to 1890.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
SUES FOR INSURANCE

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 3d.
Papers have been served in the su-
preme court action of Antoni Bre-
zinski of Perth Amboy VS.. the Sun
Insurance Company of which
Charles L. Steuerwald, Inc, of Perth
Amboy, is the agent. Brezinski is
suing to $500 insurance on
an automobile which the Sun Com
pany has failed to pay. According
to the papers in the case, Brezinskl
took out the insurance on the car,
October 27, 1921. for a period OF
one wear. The car was destroyed
nv fire on April 2 and Brezincki has
been unable to collect the insur-
ance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
FORM CLUB IN MILLT0WN

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 30:-
Through the efforts of Mrs. Anna
Libby, of Midtown, a Republican
club, a unit Of the chain of Woman
Republican Clubs in Middlesex
county, has been formed at Midtown
with a membership of twenty-four.
The club was organized last night
at a meeting at which Mrs. >Eli8a-
beth Oliver, of Perth Amboy. was
the principal speaker. Mrs. Oliver
told of the need of forming the
clubs in all sections of the county
in order to assure success.
The officers elected were: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Anna Libby: vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Anna Junker, and secre-
tary, Mrs. Frank Dunn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

0ViM

The h~elicopter is a machine that
goes straight up. Like a wife when
hubby is late for suppe:.
In Kansas, parachutes saved three
people from a falling plane; but it
is a dangerous habit.
Street cars still refuse to pull over
to the euro to dodge reckless auto
drivers.
This man who hanged himself be-
he bought some worthless
stock got the proper person.
Maxim's new gun shoots five miles
high. Look out, gas prices.
"Jobs going begging in 20 states"
says Department of Labor. Much
better than men going begging.
Perhaps China just got mad be-
cause she wasn't a yellow peril and
started in to fight.
This landlord fined for breaking a
tenants nose should restrict him.
self to breaking tenants.
At Poughkeepsie, society women
! are keeping up mule races. This IS
much lighter work than keeping up
the human races.
Cheer up. Think of the money
you save on overcoats in hot wealth
er.
Sometimes the pensive girl makes
an expensive wife.
Perhaps they are telephone ex-
changes because they swap right
numbers for wrong ones.
It seems that our ships can't
carry passengers on water alone.
DE Valera Says He Will Fight
On"-headline. On what?
We can't figure how Solomon mar
ried 700 times without an auto.
Woman's place is in the home.
When she Is out of place everything
else is out of place.
The ice man can't claim this CHI
mate doesn't agree with him.
If Ruth loses in baseball he can
go on the stage. Ruth mas been
pulling some hne comedy.
When a college graduate thinks
the world Is easy the wcrld thinks
the same OF him.
It's funny to see an auto driver
in a movie. During a race he al
most pushes a hole in the floor.
Opposites attract. That's why q
poor girl wants a rich man.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
Questions Answers

Any reader can get the answer TO
any question by writing The Perrin
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederic j. Haskin- Director.
Washington. D. G. This offer APP
plies strictly to information Ths
bureau cannot give advice en legal.
medicinal and financial roublea. II
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles nor to undertake xhaus
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
Give full naIne and address and an
close two cents In stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct
TO the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society
FRANCo-BELGIAN FRIENDSHIP

A victory memorial in a foreign
country which celebrates with the
victor nation-thus may be charac-
terized in a phrase. says a bulletin
from the Washington, ID. c., head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society. the famous bronze Cock
of Jemappes," surrounding a stone
shaft, which the French have just
replaced in Belgium.
when it is known" says the bull
letin, that this shaft on Belgian
soil commentaries a French victory
o-er a German enemy. it might be
assumed that it relates to a battle
of the recent World War; and Bel
sian interest could be understood
easily. But the battle of Jemappes
took place more than a century
ago, and it's memory even
more to France than a memory Of
the victories of 19~14-191S. 1t was
the first great victory won by the
armies of the French Republic socn
after the French Revolution brought
1t into being. The defeated Ger
mans were Austrians who at the
time held what is now Belgium as a
conquered territory. The victory at
somewhat like the fall of the Bas-
title, as a treasured symbol to the
French of the rise to power of Re
publican France. From the realiza-
ton that the hastily equipped SOL
diers of the republic could defeat
the trained forces of Austria came
the confidence that led a few years
later to the victorious sweep
through Europe of the armies OF
Napoleon.
Belgium Once Part Of France
For a short period Austria again
gained possession of Belgium in the
years Immediately after Jemappes;
but from 1895 to 1914, Belgium was
an integral part of the French re-
public.
Besides being a memorial of a
century-old victory, the Cock o.
Jemappes, when it was unveiled first
in 1911, was an earnest of the
Franco-Belgian friendship and SOL
idarity in the face of German dan
ger that the World War demon
strated.
"Jemappes Is less than ten miles
north of the French border. That
the old battlefield saw fighting too
during the World War is obvious
from a glance at the map. 1t is
within FIVE miles of Mons and not
far from Charleroi, Journal. Valen-
ciennes and Maubeuge. When the
Allies made their famous retreat
from Mons during the early days of
the World War, Jemappes fell into
the hands of the Germans. Natural
ly the cock-the Gallo symbol
was removed. Its recent restoration
emphasizes the continued stand of
France and Belgium, shoulder to
shoulder"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
AMBOY WOMAN HELD

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 3o:-
Mrs. Carrie Park. of Perth Amboy.
has been arrested on the complaint
of John Park of Dunellen and held
in the county jail to await the action
of the grand jury on the charge OF
deserving her daughter. Dorothy.
The complaint was sworn out be-
fore Justice of the Peace James p.
Cunningham Of Dunellen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
Loot is

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 30
Irving Benson, the boy arrested in
Hightstown in connection with the
robbery of a safe in the residence
of the Bum farm at Rocky Hill.
took Detective John r. Ferguson
over the ground yesterday and
showed him where he had dropped
the jewelry and other articles taken
all recovered was strew nabout a
field and woodland. no attempt had
been made to hide it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30
Bible Thought For Today

GOD FORGIVES AND HEALS:-Bless the Lord,
o my soul, and forget not all his benefits; who forgiveth all
thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who re-
1eemeth they life from destruction.-Psalm iO3: "a.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

The h%elicopter is a machine that
goes straight up. Like a wife when
hubby is late for suppe:.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

In Kansas, parachutes saved three
people from a falling plane; but it
is a dangerous habit.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

Street cars still refuse to pull over
to the curo to dodge reckless auto
drivers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-30

This man who hanged himself be-
cause he bought some worthless
stock got the proper person.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-09
TWO HUNTERS DIE
WHEN RAFT FALLS
THROUGH ICE LAKE
TRepubIican A. P. Leased WNe1

LAS ANIMAS, Colo, Jan. S.
Robert Orr, formerly of Denver and
Alan NJ. McGilliveray were frozen to
death or drowned in Blue Lake, Is
miles north of this place last night.
The two men had gone geese hunting
and after shooting several geese they
built raft to &c for them. The raft
broke through the ice.
The bodies were found by search
ing parties this morning. Orr was
found dead on the raft and McGilli-
veray was found in seven feet of
water 1t is believed that they be-
came exhausted from exposure and
froze to death.
Orr leaves a wife and baby. McGill-
iveray is a ranch man and leaves a
wife and three children.
Young Orr, who was 2S years old,
formerly was general manager of the
Interstate Pipe company in Denver
lie moved TO Las Animas from Den
yer a month ago.
He was born in Pittsburg and at
tended the University Of Michigan.
During the war he rose from an or
dinarv seaman in the navy to the
rank of lieutenant Junior grade He
was a member Of the Denver Athletic
club and the Michigan alumni Of
Denver.