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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
CONGRESS LEADERS AT ODDS
ON new TARIFF BILL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-"The
Republican members of the confer
ence committee on the tariff are now
settling party policies" said SEN
ator Simmons last evening. They
will! not invite the Democratic mem
bers in until they have definitely de-
cided what they will do about
American valuation and other ques-
tons of policy.
From Observation and talks with
senators | am satisfied the Tariff
Bin will not be sent to the Prtsi-
dent before the fall elections, unless
tho leaders in congress can get The
advocates OF protection to permit a
whiting down OF the rates to the
point where the public will submit
to them without a big row. The
Republicans would not offend the
protectionists who put up money for
the last campaign with the under
standing that they We're to have high
tariff duties, but they fear the peo-
pie at large.
L understand they have not taken
up any of the amendments of the
bill yet"
Representative Moore (Dem., Va.)
took Majority Leader Mondell to
task for trying to rush the House
through to an adjournment. He said
he was surprised at the Republicans
for running away from their duties
at a time like this"
More legislation than that pro-
posed in the two strike bills pending
is needed" he said.
II ask if the leader of the House
expects to do more than put these
two measures through"
Some days ago." replied Mr.. Mon
dell, 'it looked like we might take a
recess, but the situation has chang
ed. 1t looks as if the tariff con-
ference would complete its work
much earlier than we anticipated.
With this condition confronting us
we do o want to quit"
Mr.. Moore added he thought it
was wrong to be marking time when
the country is in such a crisis. He
| declared nothing like it has been
| witnessed in fifty years.
ut seems to me we ought to speed
up this legislation" he added. "The
| people of the country are losing con-
| idence in the government"
After seeing the President Mr..
| Mondell said he expected the House
| to remain in session until the tariff
| was out of the way. taking a few
DAYS off between To- and the adop-
| ton of the conference report.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
TELEPHONES TO Be MADE
into RADIO SETS

EVERETT, Wash, Aug. 90
Telephones in Everett. already
equipped with a device which meas
ures conversation. are to be made
into wireless receiving stations
through the use of an attachment
supplied by the Pugent Sound Tele-
phone Co, an independent corpora
ton which serves this city.
To hear concerts, news bulletins
and other features thrown INTO the
air by broadcasting stations at Seat
tie, thirty miles from here. Everett
radio fans. who also are telephone
subscribers, will simply hook their
radio receiving sets onto the attach
ment. which is known as the radio
.adapter, and which will fit into the
telephone bell box. Expensive aerials
will not he needed.
In addition to supplying the adap-
ter the telephone company, working
with the Seattle Radio Association,
will mail to it's radio subscribers
weekly programs of the broadcasting
stations and will collect SIS a year
from each fan to defray the cost.
The Seattle association hopes to
have telephones in all other cities
within a radius of 100 miles, equip
ped with the adapter.
The conversation-measuring de-
vice, which, 1T is said, is not used
anywhere else in the world, has
been operated here for eight months
and enables the company to charge
for the telephone service according
to the length of the conversations.
When many residents found hat
the device, called the telechromc-
meter, increased their monthly bills,
they protested to the State Depart
ment of Public Works, which is to
hold a hearing September 6 to de-
eide whether the affair must be
abandoned. In the meantime 629
Everett residents have signed appli-
cations for new telephones to be in
stalled if the machine is given up.
Friends of the telechromometer
say that some of the opposition was
caused by the fact that it made lis
tening in" on party lines cost just
so much for every minute the tele-
phone receiver is off the hook.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
'ARMY-NAW
UNION ELECTS
Hull Renamed State CON-
mander Here Last Might
Endorse Van Pelt

Alonzo S. Van Pelt was unani-
mously endorsed in his candidacy
for mex national commander of the
Army and Navy Union by the mem
bers of the regular N. j.. department
convention of the Army and Navy
Union held here yesterday afternoon
and last night. The election of a
new national commander viii take
place at the national encampment to
be held in this city, September G, z.
8 and Q.
Quartermaster Van Pelt is a vet
eran of the Spanish-American war,
having received an award for meri-
torious conduct at the battle at Peu-
o%principe, Cuba. Previous to that
war he served in the Eighth u. S.
Cavalry in South Dakota as sergeant
on the Ogalala Sioux reservation. He
has served five terms as national
quartermaster, an Office which he
holds at present. Quartermaster
Van Pelt is a life long resident of
Railway. and is connected with the
Albert Leon Furniture Co, of this
city.
The committee in charge of the
national encampment to be held
here reports that their work is pro-
crossing very well. The program
committee. under James Christer-
sen, is preparing a very fine
program. Funds necessary for the
convention have been practically all
collected, and the committee extends
its thanks to the merchants and in
dustrial interests in this city for
their corporation.
New officers were elected last
night for the N. J.. Department of
the Army and Navy Union. The
Department Commander,
Frederick Kull. of Newark. was
unanimously reelected. John J.
Clark of this city was elected senior
vice commander; John w. Brown,
Jr.. of Railway. junior vice COM
mander; Major +. L. Hagadorn,
chief of staff; August Edlund, of
Newark. adjutant; John r. Hoch.
of Orange, paymaster; ClemenCe l..
Walker, of Railway, deputy inspec-
tor; Edward Sorenson, of this city,
quartermaster; Edward f.. Hand, of
Atlantic City, judge advocate, and
D. Watson, of this city, chap
lain.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
WAR ON FIREBUGS IS
STARTED IN new YORK

NEW YORK, Aug. ga syste-
matte campaign against the firebug
has been begun by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters.
Arson last year was worse than in
any previous year., according to a re-
port of the committee en- ~incendiar-
ism and arson.
Standardization of arson laws, de-
fining the crime and fixing the PEN
atty more rigidly in all the states, is
the purpo of the campaign, ac-
cordi~g to announcement by Jonn
b. Morton, president of the board.
Secret service men, under the dl-
rection of Frank r. Morgaridge,
chief of the arson bureau, are scat
tered over the country Investigating
suspicious fires. They are on the
trai, of crooked adjusters as well as
tirehugS.
Investigations were made into S32
fires last year, and 36S persons we're
arrested. Out of 210 cases brought
to trial. 159 persons were convicted
and 81 acquitted.
HEAVY penalties imposed include a
20 to 40 years sentence for an 1tal-
ian cobbler in New York who set fire
to his kitchen and endangered the
lives of 20 families in the same
building.
A woman employed as a maid in
Detroit was sent to the home OF
correction for from 10 to 20 years
for setting fire to the nome of her
employer in revenge for a fancied
grievance.
A Long Island pyromanlac,, who
out OF a craving for excitement
started fires that nearly cost several
lives, got 80 years in Sing Sing.
Sentences of from n 20 so years
and n to Is years were imposed
on men in San Francisco and Ev-
erett. Wash.
Standardization is necessary, Off
Gals say, because penalties are too
severe in some states and too slight
in others. -Four states, Alabama,
Delaware and North and South Car
DINA, have death penalties, but jur-
| les seldom inflict them.
A similar fault is found with the
arson laws in Vermont and Missis-
sippi, where death is the penalty if
life is lost in a fire, and life impris-
onment otherwise. Penalties in other
states run from two to so years.
During the last three years, since
the model arson law has been pro-
NOTED by the national board, ten
states have made important changes
IN their arson statutes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
FLOWER SHOW OF GREAT
INTEREST IN THIS CITY

September s and 3 Perth Amboy
will have its first flower show at
the public library in Jefferson
street. The competition is open to
all residents OF Perth Amboy, and
all local gardeners. old and young.
are urged to bring their choice spe-
cimens to the public library. The
exhibit will be open to the public.
Friday and Sunday of next week.
Three judges, one of them a hor-
ticultural expert, will make the
awards. The following rules govern
the entries: Competition is open to
all residents of Perth Amboy; each
exhibit shall have been grown by
the exhibitor; each exhibitor shall
furnish his own holder for his ex-
hibit; all entries shall be in the Ii
brary by IL o'clock noon on Friday,
September s in order to be in posi-
ton and ready for the judges; the
section, name of flower and exhib-
itor's name shall be written on a
card supplied at the library. The
library cannot responsibility
for injury or loss.
Awards will be made for flowers
in the following sections:
Section one, annual Towering
plants, one vase, three blooms or
sprays-Cosmos, China Asters,
Scarlet Sage, etc. q
Section two, hardy herbaceous
Perennials, one vase, three blooms
or sprays-Phlox, Chrysanthemums.
Section three, tuberous rooted
and cormous plants. n vase, two
sprays or stalks-Gladioli, Dahlia,
etc.
Section four, tender ~perennials,
bedding plants, one vase, one spray
-Geraniums, Coleus, etc.
Section five, woody plants, m
vase, one bloom, stem or spray
Hydrangea. Rose of Sharon, etc.
Section six. most artistic arrange
ment of flowers in vase or bowl. d.
Section seven, most artistic ar
rangements of flowers in basket.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
rs MEN LOST
IN MINE, BELIEF
Held Prisoners in Mine, ReIa-
tives About Ready to Abail-
don All Hope

JACKSON, Cal, Aug. 29.-(By
The Associated Press)-Held in the
grim grip of despair as hour follows
hour in their vigil, families and fell
low workers of the forty-C:ght gold
miners, imprisoned since midnight
Sunday, nearly a mile below the
earth's surface in the Argonaut mine
today chung stubbornly 10 the thread
of hope that their husbands, fathers
and buddies were still alive, AZ
though the most optimistic hope
was to reach the men within eigh-
teen hours.
Dawn today found the tense group
still waiting. From the pit came
signs of the hell of flame and smoke
and poison air hat ragged between
the imprisoned miners of the levels
below 1000 feet and the workers
who vainly struggled to reach them.
Canary birds told the rescue work.
ers the futility of attempting FUR
her descent into the shaft. The
birds gave their lives in warning of
the danger of the attempts. The
test showed that the descent to g.
700 feet could be made, but that
farther it was perilous.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
johnson is Favorite

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. z9--Vot-
crs of California were called out at
a statewide primary election today
20 r ok party candida tes for United
States senator. governor, congress-
men in eleven districts and a num-
Der of important state Offices and
judicial positions.
Interest centres around the contest
fel the Republican mir, ton for
United States senator between Hi
ran, w johnson, the incuut emit. and
Charles G.. Moore Of San F Francisco.
Senator johnson is a 4 to ! favorite
in the Letting.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
MILLIONAIRE
MARRlES DANCER

NEW YORK, Aug. 29:-The mar
riage of John Hartman, nineteen
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
Hartman, to Miss Alice A. Laidley,
also nineteen, daughter of Mrs. Will
liam H.. Laidley, of Chicago, at Port
chester. N. Y, August IL, was made
public today.
Mr.. Hartman, who tutored for
Princeton University, has decided
not to go to college in the fall but
will enter the real estate business
with his uncle. Frank Charley. in
Florida. Mrs. Harriman's brother
Harold is general manager of the
General Electric plant in Chicago.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
FUTILE CANCELS SPEAKING
DATES; DOCTORS ORDERS

TRENTON, Aug. 29.-Announce-
ment was made from campaign
Headquarters this morning that
Ba.nking and Insurance Commas
sioner William i. futile, Jr., mas
suffered an attack of neuritis which
means that his speaking engage
monts in the campaign he is MAX
ing for the Democratic nomination
for governor have been cancelled
for the next few days.
Mr.. futile has been advised by his
physician to rest for a few days as
during the past month or SO he mas
been going at a strenuous pace, trav-
cling all over the state to meet the
Democratic voters. He is now at mis-
home in Westfield, and will be there
until the doctor says he can Sc
.ume activities.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
CRUISE TO CAPE MAY

The regular meeting and drill OF
the members of the crew of the
Eagle AS will be held tonight at 8
o'clock aboard the ship. A Labor
Day cruise is scheduled for this
week and those men intending to
make the trip should report on
to get instructions and register with
the paymaster. The ship will leave
Perth Amboy Saturday afternoon
and proceed to Cape May. the re-
turn trip will be made on MONDAY
arriving in this city about dusk.
This is the longest weekend trip
made so far this year
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
NO FEDERAL SEIZURE OF
MINES, IT IS CLAIMED

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20. a
definite statement that there would
be no government Intervention or
seizure of mines. remained the out
standing fgureNof the anthracite sit
uation here early today. The state
ment came from an authoritative
but confidential source.
Probably within a week, it was
said representatives of the miners
and hard coal operators will sign a
peace pact and 10000 workers soon
thereafter will return to their jobs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
NEUBERG TAKES SEAT
IN WOODBRIDGE BODY

WOODBRIDGE, Aug. 29.-Louis
Neuberg. of Sewaren, occupied the
chair at the meeting of the town
ship committee, for the first time
last night. General satisfaction was
expressed by those who attended the
meeting and by members of the
committee.
1t is felt that when the meeting
was held in more suitable quarters.
in the new City Hall. the confusion
which has been noticeable in the
past, will be eliminated.
Neuberg announced last night
that he will be a candidate for re-
election at the coming election.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
Urges Peoples Bloc

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 29-Wis-
consin's woman candidate Off Con-
gres, Miss Martha Riley, the Demo-
cratic nominee for the Third District,
has issued her platform. The sum-
mary says:
II am opposed to tax revision
for the buccaneers and to senate
seats for the auctioneers."
Miss Riley says she favors a
peoples bloc in congress instead
of a millionaires' bloc.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
NOTED BRITISH EDUCATOR
FOUND DEAD IN ALPiEES

GENEVA, Aug. 20 (By IKE Asso-
ciated Press)-The body of Sophie
Bryant, aged British educator, was
found on the rocks along II short cut
between the villages of MCntanvert
and Chamois in the Alpine region
by hunters To-Day.
She apparently had become lost,
and had taken off her shoes to
battle her feet. There was no in
dication of the cause of death.
Sophie Bryant was scventy-two
years old and the widow of Or. Will
liam Bryant, of Plymouth. She was
widely known in England as an ed
vocational authority and was at one
.time a member from the ~consulta-
tive committee of the Board of Ed
/ucation. She was also the author of
various educational and scientific
works.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
ROBBERS At MAURER

Some time during the last week
end thieves entered a shed on the
property of Henry Maurer g. Son
and made off with a guam
tity of mason's tools, according to
4 report received by Desk Lieuten-
ant William Calvin from Supeiin-
tendent Pteiffer yesterday morning.
The case has been referred to Cap
tain Lawrence A. Long OF the de-
tective burau, for investigation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29

ROME, Aug. 29-The members of
the Mount Everest expedition have
sent to Pope Plus a fragment of
rock from the highest point reached.
The fragment is mounted or an eb-
ony stand decorated with silver and
engraved.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
BANDITS MAKE BIG HAUL

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Aug. ~
Five motor bandits invaded the
town of Foremost early today, bound
and gagged employees of the Union
bank, blew the safe n escapeo
with $4,000 in cash and negotiable
securities.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
Forty and Eight Session

NEW BRUNSWICK. Aug ~
The executive committee of the
American Legion Society of the
Forty and Eight meets tonight in
tho Highland Park borough hall.
The committee will discuss plans for
the coming convention at Lake Ho-
patcong on September 16. A dele
CATION of more than 100 is expected
to represent MiddleseX county. A
large delegation will also go to
Plainfield to attend the joint meet
ing to be held with the Somerset
Voiture.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. %
States Commissioner Frank
lin M. Richie announced this morn
ing that his petition for nomination
for the general assembly would be
filed in the office of the county clerk
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29

People in New York City live,
like bees in a hive, ants in a hill.
You'd think that everyone would
know all about their neighbors.
But they don't. And don't care to.
Above is Dominic Albino. He was
kept locked in a dark room for
four years according to officers.
who found him in an East Side
garnet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29
Dog Dies; Owner Kills Self

Dog Dies; OWncr mis- SGT
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Aug. 20
Following the death of his bird dog,
Harry Howell, ~ifty-one, a mail car
rier who lived alone here, ended his
life by shooting.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-29

@. How much blood is there in
the human body? 7. j.
A. There are from 9 to IL quarts
of blood in the body of an average
man about twenty-five years of age.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-01
PELICAN SCANDAL
ROUSES ANIMALS
AT YELLOWSTONE.

YELLOWSTONE PARK, .Wyo.,
August 31.-EXcitement is rife in
the wild animal community of tie
park since the scandal about Mr..
Pelican received public attention.
The ducks are quacking about it,
the squirrels are chattering it and
the bobcats are scattering it broad
cast in their shrill voices.
Throughout all the whispers and
nudges of neighbors as he passes,
Mr.. Pelican maintains his stately
micn, seemingly unconscious of the
jibcs of the multitude, His actions
would indicate he still holds his val
ucd place in the community.
His trouble started with the charge
by Prof. Henry B.. Ward, head of
the department of zoology of the
University Illinois, that he's q trout
hog and yiolator Of all the tenets
of good craftsmanship. Proof of
these charges probably will mean
that Mr.. Pelican will become an. out
cast with cveryone's door closed to
him and cvcryone's hand against
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-01

Prof. Ward is conducting an ex-
haustiye investigation for the federal
bureau Of fisheries al Lake Yellow
stone in Yellowstone National Park
as the relationship between the peli-
can and the trout supply. His in
yestigat;oI, which has been progress
ing several weeks, viii continue
through the present season.
The flock of pelicans that live and
breed on Lake Yellowstone numbers
about 400 They summer" aristo-
cratically until September, then go
to their winter resorts along the
Gulf of Mexico.
The bird diets almost exclusively
on fish, and, so far as the Yellow
stone and other Rocky Mountain
lakes and streams are concerned, this
means exclusively on trout, He es-
Inmates that the 400 pelicans con-
sumo more trout than are taken dur
ing an entire season by sportsmen.
The Pelican is no respectOr of size
limits or open seasons, Professor
, Ward charges. He declared he had
seen a platoon of SO pelicans ranged
across a stream in regular formation
praying on the trout as they swan
up to the spawn. Hitherto, the
stream had yielded trout eggs by the
millions but hatchery men this sea
son could gather only fraction of
the normal amount.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-01

the case of wheat, by world eompeti-
lion.
ION the other hand, the price of
what the farmer has to buy is de
tcrmined by the wages paid in its
production, and these wages are not
fixed in free competition, out are ar
officially established,
The farmer, therefore, is the
chief victim of a situation in which
one class Of labor is subsidized by
wages maintained at an artificial
level, and another class which has its
wage determined by free competi-
.tion.
In the end, economic law will
force a correction by Turing men out
of the low-paid occupations into sub
sidized occupations until food scare
ity restores the balance.
Human society cannot be main.
tanned permanently upon the basis
of half competition and half subsidy
No legislation, tariff, financial OF
other, can reach out and cure this
situation. There can be no cure un
! til we give up our attempts at par.
tial socialism and accord free play
to economic law"
Copyright, 1929
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-01
farmer HIT BY
LABOR SYSTEM
lanes A. Wheaton Shows no"
'' r;xed Wages VS.. Competition
Hurts Grower
ny ROY GIBBONS.

ruICAGO, August 81. Inc
.;,.c farmer is being crushed by
,.l.r .rstem that permits Part OF
~. ncor.e to fix their own wages
Il the agricuIturaiist's reward is
s,,4 hy competitive conditions"
Tbi. is the opinion of James A.
o.,..o mult.milIionaire wheat king
II chicago, given in an interview
..b NEA Service in which he dis
anssed the fact that the farmers
JoIIar has shrunk to II per cent
~ is former value. The drop IS
Jno 70 the decreased price of farm
comuodities as compared to what
he buys. ,.,, ,oor
..,doo+ of agricultural conditions,
mJ his views are accepted as al
tbori+atfve by students Of the sub
~. ~ am aswcd where the farmer IS
,,a5od for and what solution there
!. far his present situation, Patten
.sid "In reply | answer, the farm
~ is not headed anywhere-he has
.ra.dy arrived. His trouble is fun
JgmcntaI and it cannot be cured by
local applications.
Wages Reduced.
Crops represent the wages Of the
farmer He gets so many bushels of
wheat for his years labor. The eX-
change value Of the wheat measured
in terms of the products of other la
bor represents the farmers reward
for only II per cent of what they eX-
changed for in 1918, as shown by
Government reports, then his wages
have been reduced by that much.
"Whcp economic factors have free
NAV, The reward for one form of la
bor when measured in the products
F another form of labor, will bear
an coutablc relation to the amount
Of human effort involved in each
production.
"Thc Fundamental difficulty no"
+, that the nricc of the farmers prod
uct is fixed by free competition. IN
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-01
Have You Entered?
500 Prize Sewing
Contest

VI course you saw our big an
nounCement of 500 in cash
prizes for the best examples Of
household garments m a de Of
empty Juanita Flour Sacks.
Scores of people from this section
are entering this big sewing contest.
Surely you don't want to miss the
chance to show your skill in making
pretty, practical things from Juanita
Flour Sacks, and certainly you want
the chance to win one of these cash
prizes.
Hundreds Of people are using the
ncaVy quality muslin that Juanita
Flour Sacks arc made of, to make