Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-23

New York, contrary to it's reputation
for cold-blooded sagacity, is II of
the simplest, meekest and mos gull
lible of towns. For all it's bland airs
of sophistication, it is as easily i'm
pressed by display as any savage
chieftain. and it is constantly fall
ing" for all sorts of hokus-pokus
that would scarcely deceive a child.
1t is estimated that 40 per cen of
all the questionable stool loated
in this country during The past five
years has been purchased by New
Workers. 1t is we'll known that they
contribute more every year to fake
charities than the citizens of any
other metropolis; that they support
the most extensive army of frauds
and beggars, and that they pay the
highest prices for the most abomi-
nable service.
The New Yorker likes to boast
about his city's superior cultural
advantages, but he carefully ignores
all d~isparaging features. Thus, he
fails to tell you how he rides back
and forth to work like n packed
sardine in order to help the transit
companies economic on trains; or
how his children are getting only
three hours schooling daily because
there is not sufficient space in the
schools to accommodate them for
full time. He makes no mention of
the battered condition of ths pave
ments or of the large black rivers
that flow down the cutters in incle-
ment weather and render the street
crossings uncrossable, even with the
condescending permission of a po-
liceman. Presumably, he bays taxes
for and has a vote concerning the
! upkeep of these things. cut he does
uot seem to mind if they are neg
lected.
New York needs a Declaration
of Independence" said an indignant
property owner recently, but it new
err will be declared. It's too good ma
tured. And to think that in the
Middle West where / come from
they call this a hard town. They
ought to live in it for a while. Why,
it's the easiest town on earth. 1t
will submit to every imposition that's
foisted upon it, and smile encour-
agingly at it's oppressors."
Bucket Shops and Boobs
1t is here in this wise and world
ly borough Of Manhattan that the
bucket shop fiourishes, annually rob
bling the public of millions. 1t is
here that the fake promoter re-
ceives the most cordia. welcome.
During the war this was especially
marked and a great revival of stock
fiotations occurred, in which, ac-
oording to one financial expert
gopher holes in the West were cap
italized as oil wells and a name
| on a map became a shipyard." The
| results of these gorgeous but ficti-
tious war time enterprise are be-
ginning to appear in the whole
sale collapse of bucket shops'in Wall
street and in great flood of COM
plants thai is sweeping into the New
orK district attorneys office.
The Now Yorker likes to pretend
that while plenty of wolves may eX-
list in New York, the sheep upon
which they prey all dwell west of the
Hudson and south of the Battery.
But the police records show that the
largest sheepfold is right here with
in the city's boundaries and con-
tains many persons who are Them
selves supposed to possess unusuai
business ability.
"Only the other day" declared q
police official I'VE had the case of
a prosperous business man who
bought the Grand Central Terminal
! from a clever promoter. y Honest.
the guy owns three restaurants here
and he's lived in New York for
| several years. but that didn't help
him. He paid $3.50 for the Term
inal."
Paradise OF Panhandlcrs
While begears have always reaped
a rich harvest here, it took the war
and the war drive to accustom New
Workers to solicitations for funds on
every street corner. During the whole
length of the war. New York never
had any difficulty in going over the
top with its contributions whether
the campaign happened to be a legit-
innate II or not. Undoubtedly, the
| majority of them were. but they
| brought in their wake the inevitable
host of swindlers. For awhile. any
body with a fictitious business card,
a guarded money-box and a pa
thetic plea for the starving Patago-
mans or Persians could raise enough
monev to keep himself in luxury for
q couple OF years. Even today,
these unofficial appeals are often
successful.
The other night. fer example, a
! tall, broad shouldered figure in
amazing feminine garb appeared in