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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
A HARD LIFE

You wouldn't see a drop of rain for five or six years at a
stretch, if you lived in Antofagasta, Chile. In fact, there
are many grown people there who have never seen a real
rain storm such as we have in America.
Antofagasta is an up-to-date South American industrial
city, with municipal market, motor busses, golf courses and
the usual trappings of civilization.
Being an exceptionally dry country, the drinking water
has to be piped long distances from the melting snow of noun
tain tops.
No such things as trees growing wild in or near Antofa-
gasta, says W.. NJ. Stokes, resident of that city, now visiting
our country. "They have to bring suitable soil into the coun-
try and blast out the rock in order to plant trees. Then they
must be sprnkled regularly. The several parks We have there
have been built in that way
Stokes came north to dodge the winter of Chile. Seasons
down there are the opposite of ours. Chile is having winter
now. It's coolest months are June, July and August.
This place never looked better to us than after we had
spent a few minutes bordering Antofagasta as pictured by
Stokes. We kick when we have trouble making grass grow
on the lawn. But just think how easy we have it, compared
with the Antofagastans.
A platitude, possibly, but it helps us stand the hard bumps
of life to remember that things never get so bad but what
they're worse some place else. Troubles are no bigger than
we admit they are. Whether trouble is a mountain or a mole
hill, depends a lot on our mental attitude.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
FoRTY-oNE GIVE oNE-s1xTH

Out of approximately 10000 families in Perth Amboy only
forty-one contributions had been received for the japanese relief
fund up until the time for closing yesterday. While 1t is true
that many of these contributions were for more than one dollar,
the forty-one contributions totalling $1,049, this does not by any
means represent Perth Amboy. Surely the great majority of the
people Of this city are not going to be contented with having fifty
or sixty people subscribe all the money that Perth Amboy is to
give for the relief of the earthquake sufferers.
One dollar from every family, was the slogan adopted at the
meeting of the Red Cross in the City Hall last Friday night. When
we remember how every family in Perth Amboy was suffering five
years ago ii is not too much to expect at least a dollar in gratitude
that the present disaster did not befall us.
And why should anyone wait to be called upon and asked for
a contribution This is just as much the concern of one person as it
as another. Everybody has his own business to attend to. Every
body is busy. The simplest way is for each person to consider
himself or herself a committee of one to solicit his or her own sub
scription and turn It, in to the Red Cross headquarters in the Rari-
tan building, or send it to the Evening News. Ask yourself for the
contribution now and get it in quickly so that it can be used to adj
vantage.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11

Grande. President Harding started
negotiations to this end and now it
has been accomplished under Cool
idge. 1t is admittedly the best thing
that could have happened for Mex.
CO and undoubtedly it Will prove adj
vantageous to this country and its
citizens who are counted upon to as
sist largely in the commercial and
industrial rehabilitation of the
neighboring republic.
The Coal Problem
From the first day he was Presi-
dent, Mr.. Coolidge was confronted
with a serious domestic problem in
the situation in the anthracite coal
industry where another great labor
controversy was imminent. His
method of dealing with 1t is regard
ed as characteristic. At the outset
he sought and obtained the fullest
possible information from the
sources that would be most reliable,
and then he let it be known that any
possible emergency would be met
promptly and with firmness az 1t
arose. He INDUCED in no threats
to miners or the operators, again
demonstrating hat he is not one
who gestures"
Next he did something that oc-
casioned no little surprise. He re-
quested Governor Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania, to make the first direct Of
fetal effort to bring the miners and
perators together and avert an in
terruption of coal production.
By some this was looked upon at
first as an indication tllet President
Coolidge did not know what to do
In the circumstances, or that he was
fearful of the possible political eff
feet of anything he might do him
self, and was, accordingly, passing
the buck" to Pinchot. However, it
was soon apparent that he was pr =
ceedinS vita sound logic. Inasmueh
as all the anthracite nil ers are &C.
Gated in that M State it was mani
testify imprcper for tiie Federal dow
eminent to intervene or assert its
authority until the State of Penn
s~ylvaula hal exhausted it's resources
without avail. At no time was 1T
left in doubt that President Coci-
idge would act when it was clearly
up to him to 10 so.
When he assumed the heavy re-
Bponsibilities .levolving upon him by
the death of his predecessor, Presi-
dent Coolidge announced that 1t
would be his aim TO carry out the
Harding policies, and during his first
month he gave every evidence that
he would keep the faith. He re-
eeived only two designations of
Harding appointees in important
positions during that period-George
+. Christian reureo as secretary to
the President, and T. e. Scobey
announced his retirement as Direc-
ter of the Mint.
No reviews of the early days OF
the Coolidge administration would
be complete without mention OF
Mrs. Coolidge. The new First Lady
Of the Land has been the cynosure
of many eyes and it can bc said
without reservation that the impress
sion she has made is altogether IA
vorable. In her Washington has q
wholly charming, gracious and tact
full mistress of the White House.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
YOUR HEALTH
BY DIR. CLIFFORD C. ROBINSON
YOUR CLOTHES

Your clothes may carry germs
into your home. Some of these
germs may be dangerous, and sick
ness would be the result.
Don't yea the same clothes day
In and day out. Some people wear
them without cleaning month after
month until they become so soiled
and germ laden as the old boarding
house towel.
1t has been proved that many peo-
pie are disease carriers and are not
aware of the fact. They transmit
contagion to others by means of
their clothing or by personal contact,
also by handling tools or other OBJ
jects in common use, by unhygienic
habits and soil pollution.
Typhoid is carried in this way.
Those who come in contact constant
ly with the clothes of ~tubercular
persons also subject themselves to
disease germs. Clothes that are
hung in crowded factory rooms or in
contact with the garments of stran-
gers in public halls, hotels or coat
rooms, may bring you ~unlooked-for
trouble. Those who are constantly
out of doors in winds and dust carry
bacteria which ride on the dirt and
dust collecting on garments that are
not we'll cleaned and sterilized.
Clothing hygiene should include
the careful selection of those ma
terials which will provide the maxi
mum body protection and allow for
skin ventilation. This means hav-
ing loose, warm, porous garments
for the free passage of air.
Be sure TO have your clothes care
fully cleaned and sterilized at least
three or four times a year-the more
the better.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert AppIe)

Royal
Touring America in an auto, r. C,
Bruce and wife of Los Angeles have
covered 5000 miles in 10 months.
That's more ground than Alex
ander the Great was able to cover in
his whole lifetime. And there wasn't
as much to see in his day.
Mechanical invention enables the
plain people of 1928 A. D. to see more
of the earth and enjoy more real
luxuries than the kings of long ago.
Square
After touring $4,000 miles in his
auto, R. c. Bruce says: 1.-THE thing
which has impressed me most on
this wonderful trip is the security of
life and property we have found
everywhere. We have seen no vio-
lence, we have met with no personal
disagreeable experiences. We haven't
had so much as a tent-peg stolen
from US. and We have me no ex-
tortion."
That's a picture of Real America
that is rarely held up to view. But
it's the true picture.
The quest for gold recognizes NO
barriers. Of. IneWllS, writing In
American Medicine magazine, tells
Of one of his patients, a refiner, who
had been repeatedly buying gold
from a stranger. Finally he asked
where the gold came from. The
stranger confessed that he was man
ager of a crematory and that he
sifted the ashes of the dead, recov-
ering the gold from their teeth.
Changing
The bottom of the Atlantic ocean
500 miles from the southern tip OF
Africa, slowly bulges up to make q
mountain two miles high under the
sea.
This upheaval is gigantic to us, buI
it's mild compared with the huge
size of the earth. 1t might very
easily have taken place on land in
stead of beneath the waves, and
given a large section of our country
a terrific shaking. We live in un.
certainty, figuratively OF thin ice
But we plot and plan as IL NOTHING
could teach us and we were here OF
earth for all eternity Instead of opll
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11

is invited to a bridge party and
would like to go but does not play
the game?-P. L. K.
A. If you are invited to an auc-
ton bridge party and are not suffi-
GENTLY well versed in the game that
you will not be an embarrassment to
yourself or to other players you
should decline the invitation. II is
lot in good form to plead ignor-
ance of any game of that character
and at the same time attempt to
play it.
Q. Who originated the expression
tainted money?"-B. v.
A. The expression was probably
first used in the fight which the
Rev. Washington GLADDEN. made
against the acceptance of 100000
offered by John D. Rockefeller to
the American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions of the Con-
~gregational church in 1905, in
which DIR. GLADDEN. said: TT the
church units itself for work by TAX
ing brides of tainted money she
ought to perish with the money, and
she Will" DIR GLADDEN. was over
ruled by the Board of Missions.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
SMILES
BY TOM SIMS

A use for old safety razor blades
has been found at last. Pickpockets
slit pockets with them.
If you have the right kind of poll
teal bunk you may be able to swap
it for an easy berth.
In spite of the fight by many dane
ing masters against jumpy dances,
the jig is not up.
Seals are being skinned for this
winter, seals and people.
A serious shortage of people with
nothing to say is reported.
Peace of mind is often destroyed
by a piece of mind.
These air mail pilots make good
time becauce they have fine roads.
Poor brakes cause auto crashes.
Bad breaks business crashes.
Birthdays are celebrated before
twenty. After twenty they are cuss-
ed.
Wheat acreage will be cut to boost
prices. Expecting larger prices, they
will plant more.
There are many children who
think you milk with a can opener.
The annual coal shortage seems to
be about the same this year.
Making homemade wine age
quickly Is so simple. Set 1t on the
table and tell it your troubles.
To turn sweet cider into hard
cider kick the cider around the
house, cussing freely.
Many a father who wanted to be
president has a son that he wants
to become a bricklayer.
Some men take baths on Saturday
night. Others go out to get soaked.
The average husband has more
sense than his wife thinks and not
40 AAANAl 90 AAO "a
Taking proper care Of a beautiful
complexion leaves 10 time for clean
ing up the house.
Men have worn neckties a thou
sand years without thinking UP a
logical excuse for them.
The best way to argue with your
wife is to go out on the porch and
smoke a cigaret.
Dollars are supposed to be well
made. But they won't last. You
must keep making new ones.
What some merchants give you
for a dollar indicates they think the
dollar is silver plated.
A dime looks like a dollar to a
small boy. And a dollar looks like
a dime to a bootlegger.
Some people are so generous they
throw pennies around as if they
were five dollar bills.
About twenty-three Is the roper
age for a girl to marry. If she let:
him reach twenty-four he become:
unruly.
Reading a mans palm to deter.
mine his future isn't as sure a wa
as asking his neighbors.
Pottery making is the oldest art
unless you count making a living.
a21-Asa-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
CUT THIS QUIT is WORTH
MONEY

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
THEOLDTOWN
treet by Street-Know Your City
RIDGELEY STREET

Ridgeley street extends from Am
boy avenue, east to West avenue 1t
was laid out on the lands of the es-
tate Of John Arnold by C. c, HON.
mann and the map was flied in the
county clerks Office in New Bruins
wick. February 10, 1912. The street
is sixty feet wide, has sewer and
water, but no other improvements.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11

Any reader can get the answer TO
n question by writing The-Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Direc-
tor. Washington, d. C. This ofer
apples strictly to information. The
bureau will not attempt to answer
medicinal and financial troubles. It
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, nor to undertake exhaus.
tive on n subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address and en-
close two cents In stamps for return
to the inquirer
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
Bible Thought For Today

CHOOSE YOUR AssOCIATES-Be We not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath right
eousness with unrighteousness9 and what communion hath light
with darkness Corinthians STA.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

@. When and where will the next
National Convention be held?-C.
E. G..
A. The Republican National Com
mittee will hold a meeting in Wash
ington early in December at which
the time and place of the next la
tional convention will be determined.
The date will probably be early in
June and Chicago is regarded as
the more likely convention city,
although Cleveland is making a de-
termined bid.
@. Why did the British burn
Washington in 1S12.-M. C. G.
A. General Ross is reported to
have said that he regretted burn
ing Washington, but that he had
been ordered to do so as a measure
of reprisal, the American General
Mcclure having burned the public
buildings in the seat of government
of Lower Canada the year before
at what is now Toronto, but was
then known as Newark. Private
buildings in Washington were I'M
touched except the house from
which shot was fired narrowly miss
ing Ross as he rode into the city.
@. How long was the old Long
- Ao6O ONOA bAA0 4OtOA4l&S ak w aSA
ington?-A. E. w.
A. The Long Bridge was a mile in
length, crossing the Potomac from
avenue.
@. Is the ghost dance of the In
dians IN ancient ceremony Or rite +?
#. D. s.
A. The ghost dance is compare
lively modern, having originated
with the Pluto Indians in Nevada
about 1889. 1t was the outcome of a
religious belief that a Messiah was
soo to appear who would rid the
land of the white man and restore
to the Indians all their rights.
@. Who was the tallest man who
ever lived ?-J. J. G.
A. Among what are regarded as
fairly authentic cases of abnormal
stature it is reported hat in the
time of Augustus there were to be
seen in the Horti Sallustiani at
Rome the body of a giant, Posio,
feet 2 inches in height. J. Mid
dleton or the Child of Hale, born
in 1878, attained the height of 9
feet 3 inches.
@. What will rid pine forests of
blister rustic. v. b.
A. The Department of Agriculture
says that destruction of currant and
gooseberry bushes in the vicinity OF
pine trees Is the means OF Riding
them of blister rust.
Q. what should a person do who
a few more years.
LoafepN
Europe has two. mi1ion fewer SOL
| diers in service now than in 1913,
but still has nearly four million un-
der arms, according to estimates by
military experts.
If these troops were home work
ing in fields and factories, instead of
idle and non-productive in uniform.
Europe would gain nearly four bill
lion dollars a year by their produc-
ton. That's figuring their labor at
only SO a day apiece. Four billion
dollars a year would pull Europe out
| of the hole by 1890 or before.
Wireless
Five hundred years from now, man
will do most of his work by wire
less, predicts Professor David A.
Low, the English scientist. He paints
a dismal picture of man enslaved by
radio.
It's more probable that radio will
have become obsolete and forgotten
by the year 2423. Something greater
will take its place, of a nature as yet
beyond the imagination. Very few
inventions have a life of 500 years.
The few include the knife, fork,
! spoon, ak, shovel and mason's trowel
Evening star., 1923-02-18
US. IDEALS SPREAD
TO 0W0RLD'PEOPLES.
Rotary Broadcasts Words of
President and Others on
Anniversary.

In observance this week of the
eighteenth anniversary Of the or
Eanization of the first Rotary Club
in the world, Rotary International is
serving as a medium for communica-
tion Of the ideals of citizenship.
These ideals will be expressed in the
words Of the representatives of the
three coordinate branches of the
government in twenty-seven coun-
tries. and messages from President
Harding, Speaker Gillett. Attorney
General Daugherty and other high
government officials will be broadcast
to all points of the globe.
The text OF Attorney General
Daugherty's message, one of the first
to be sent out. is:
The individual citizens first duty
is to respect and obey the laws of
his country himself. II every citizen
did that, then every citizen would
appear to have done his full duty,
and his responsibility for the admin
cred ended. There would be little for
the law courts.
Duty of Citizen.
"All men are not law respecting
and law abiding. This condition
would appear to imply that the indi-
vidual citizens duty extends beyond
his own observance of the law. He
ought to do something more than set
a good example for the other man.
The most helpful thing that he can
do is to make 1t known that he stands
always on the side of the properly
constituted law enforcement authori-
ties municipal. county. state and ma
tional. The peace and safety of our
country depends upon this attitude
Of 1i,-jH .if N
tional government is possible only by
all citizens observing and "b"Hlng
the laws enacted by the majority.
Every American owes II to his
country. himself and his fellow citi-
zenS to make il known that he
pledges himself to uphold the law and
all those officials who have been law
fully chosen to administer it,"
A special program Will be carried
out Wednesday by the local Rotary
Club at the New Willard Hotel Rep
resentative John ketcham of Michi-
gan will be the principal speaker.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
THINKS SHE'S GIRL
j. KIDNAPPED IN 1918
Nite of Ohio Coal Miner Re.
| calls Answering to Name
/ Catherine Winters.
SENDS FEATHER" WORD
Indiana Dentist Told in Telegram
Photo and Letter Are
Being Mailed.

3, the Associated Press
MIDDLEPoRT. Ohio. February IL
Mrs. Clyd" Taylor, wife of a coal
miner. was anXiously waiting word
tonight from DR. ". a. Winters. New
Castle. Ind, dentist. who she believes.
is her father, She declared today she
thinks she is pr. Winters daughter.
who WAS kidnapped Il decade ago, and
for whom the country was combed.
She sent the following telegram to
DR.. Winters this afternoon: Il have
rccollrctions OF being called Cath
erin" Winters at one time. Was kid
nap"d Sending photo and letter.
Messages sent to the dentist Friday
miscarricd. Mrs. Taylor said.
br. W iutcrS. according To word from
New Castle, previously had said he
received no word from Mrs. Taylor
and that he would not communicate
with her until she got in touch with
him. Mrs. Taylor's assertion that she
Was the principal in the famous alb
duCJiom ease. followed a visit to II for
tunc teller yesterday who told her
she had been called many names"
RccaiIcd by NeiEhbor.
Rep"tiuC this To Mrs. William Hap
pouStall \ ne Ghhor, she said She did
r"m"whtr vaguely at one time Of
&
Thl~ recalled the Winters case to Mrs
HapponStaH. MIS-. Taylor declares she
km' " 20. Bins, Of that until told by
her ucishhul.
A"cnr'ijnG /" sNrr story. Mrs. Taylor
said ii" remembered being sent 10
III" .:r,"'.ry Stcr,. 10y her mother years
aCU. She said she did not know what
city they lived in. She declared IA
strange man. took her by the arm and
hurried her oft: that they boarded a
train and rod" for u long time" get
ting off at Il country station and rid
El- in a buggy to a log cabin.
Arriving hero, she continued. the
man threatened hcr with Il horse
whip. told htr siI" was IL say that
her name was catherine Ross. She
said she thinks she remembers Il tall
man" coming In til" cabin when the
alleged abductor was absent and ask :
ing her if she was Catherine Winters
and through fear she replied her
ranc was Catherine Ross.
After being held in the log cablr
for some time, Mrs, Taylor said. she
was placed in 4 chiiGr,A'S home Al
Macarthur. Ohio, later being adopted
into the home of claude lloyd.
She said she does not know her age
but believes she is between eighteen
and tWcnty-ouC.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
NOT KIDNAPPED GIRL.
Father Says Mrs. Taylor Does Not
Resemble Catherine Winters.

.RICHMoNp. IND. February II
Photographs of Mrs. clyde Taylor.
wife of a Mlddlcport. Ohio, coal
miner, bear no resemblance to Cath
crime Winters. kidnapped girl, accord
ing to the statement of DIR. w. A.
Winters, in n telephone conversation
tonight. Pictures, newspaper clip
pings, u telegram and a letter were
Received ~ the father Of the missing
girl this afternoon from Mrs. Taylor.
Mrs Taylor wrote to me that she
will he urGPteen years old May L.
aid Dr. Winters. The pictures ap
pear to be of much older woman.
and there i not the slightest re-
semblauro to my daughter. ! will
write 10 Mrs. Taylor tomorrow telling
her that l do not believe she is
Catherine.
Catherine Winters would have been
nineteen years old last Saturday. Feb
ruary n, according to her father
She disappeared March 20, 1913.