Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-10
THE REFEREE
Strength
(By Albert Apple)

Strength
Strongest man in the world prob |
ably is Arthur Giroux, giant French
Canadian constable. In Montreal he
lifts $50 pounds of iron dumb-bells
from the ground to the level of his
chest. Interesting-but unimport-
ant, for a child can lift more than |
that with a chain-hc.st. If Giroux
had lived a few thousand years ago.,
he would have whipped all corners
and by his strength made himself
king.
Brain muscles are what count to-
day.
Place Giroux alongside q slender,
graceful, half effeminate movie star
with dreamy eyes,, Z Giroax
wouldn't get much %.ttention from
the ladies. The notion that women
are primarily intere ted in strength
in a man is hokum. A boastful
strong mar probably started the be-
lief. and other men were afraid to
contradict.
You read about the liquor ships
lurking outside the three-mile line
along the Atlantic coast, selling their
cargo to rum-runners in smaller
boats.
Two-thirds Of the supposedly i'm
ported liquors sold from these float
ing warehouses are manufactured at
! sea by redistilling alcoholic prepara-
lions like toilet watc-s, exported
from United States. So claim some
| prohibition officials who are match
ed against the rum smugg.ers. Right
! or wrong, it will throw a scare into
many thirsty. The ltest prohibi-
ton enforcement agent is fear of
| poiso' booze-and will be increas-
ingly 80.
| Scheme
Walter e. Kohler brings suit in
| New York federal court to compel
prohibition agents t. give him a per-
| init to buy brandy and rum "for
| cooking purposes in the home" 1t
| was said to be a test on behalf of a
| vast army of American hot .eholders.
Judge Learned Hand, Diminishing
| the case, says that the issuance Of
| such permits would wreck the whole
framework of the prohibition law.
If Kohler had won, kitchens all
| over the land would have suddenly
become active on a scale staggering
to the imagination. A few might
| use brandy in pies and puddings, but
most cooks probably would expert
ment with soups.
Boston discovers that a lot of coal,
| which it bought under the impress
| sion that it was imported from
Wales, really came from Germanys
Ruhr mines.
The French will say: "Oh, no..
she couldn't supply enough coal to
keep up with reparations-but she
managed to export"
However. the Ruhr coal received
in Boston is said to have been de-
livered in England on ~reparations
account, then exported.
You can't know the truth about
| Europe without listening to both
sides.
"Way-W Wiser"
The auto speedometer, in princi-
pie, is 266 years old. Back IN 1861
| Evelyn wrote in his diary: 81 went
to see Colonel Blount, who showed
| me the application f lie 'way-wiser'
| to a coach, exactly measuring the
| miles and showing them by an index
as we went along. 1t had three 'lr-
| cles, one pointing to the number of
rods, another 70 the miles, by 10 to
1000, with all the subdivisions OF
| quarters. Very pretty and useful"
A lot OF the things we consider
new are "old as the hills" Ideas.
especially.
Insect
A tiny bark beetle threatens to
| destroy a million and a quarter acres
/! of virgin yellow pine forests in
| northern California and southern
| Oregon. Scientists are finding these
| insects harder to conquer than the
Hindenburg line. The world might
| rsrofitably take a century off from
| wars and battle mutual natural enc
| mics