Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-09
THEl REFEREE
zy Albert Apple,

"I'm kthe LATEST man in the world,
for / nave never done a stroke of
work ht any time during my long
lifetin Ae-76 years"
TIL exceptional claim is made by
The Hermit of Ridgefield. Conn"
He ZONES from a long line Of blue
bloq&ded New Englanders.
The hermit has never been more
thd&n 20 miles from his home. built
bys his grandfather in 1908. Never
hi seen a street car or movie. He
d&evotes his time to reading Latin
md Greek and the newspapers
(which. he considers. take the place
Yof travel. Goes ba%refooted.
Maybe this hermit isn't accom-
plishing much in a material way, but
he is improving himself. That's his
purpose on earth. ard the only sue
oess that matters. As proof of his
wisdom, he says he has quit drink
ing because good liquor hasn't been
made in a decade"
Weather
While we had our recent hot wave
Japan shivered in cold rains and Eu-
rope had snowstorms as far south as
Italy.
! Something Ia definitely wrong
with the weather on this old earth
of ours. and the seat of trouble is
in the sun.
We take our petty affairs too Sc
riosuly. Did it ever strike you hat
a matter of only a comparatively
few degrees of temperature stand
between us and fatal disaster? Ev-
erybody talks q lot about the
weather, and with goood reason. 1t
not Uncle Sam or the policeman, is
our real government.
Money
Twenty-Five years ago this month.
the nation was excited by reports
that a consolidation was under way
to control the iron and steel indus
try. Newspapers of that time said
the proposed deal involved the stu
pendous sum of so million dollars.
A dollar now is worth half as
much as in 1893, but a business con-
5olidation involving only 100 million
dollars wouldn't cause much excite
ment In 1873 We are losing our re-
spect for money. That's at the root
or a lot Of our economic and social
problems.
Consider
Union Pacific railroad men in one
week built a 33-mile branch from
Lund to Cedar City, Utah, to get
president Harding to one Of his
speaking engagements.
AT n same time, in Montana.
Northern Pacific engineers were
rushing 40 miles of railroad sidings
to park 1900 Pullman sleepers for
the Dempsey-Gibbons fight.
Boy, page Mr.. Socrates.
Fine!
A small pony, hauling a peddler
n MS ice cream wagon that
weighed over a ton, collapsed in the
snafts in New York City. A dozen
ldlers came to life and made the
pedd!er haul the wagon two blocks,
by that time the crowd had grown
70 eOOo and police had to interfere
TO mead off a riot. In very hot wealth
er, too, this show of activity.
fhlnnness to animals is a very fine
thing But the high-light of this
pony episode is its illustration of tbe
contagion OF mob spirit, the factor
tnat is apt to upset the political done
sters IN the next national election.
MOST people lose their mental hal
ance In a multitude, which NAV he
why we nave so many defects when
we express our mob spirit in nation
wide movements.
Rheumatism
Arnlca buyers, ahoy! A serum
mat appears to cure rheumatisn, is
announced by the clinic of New YORK
University Medical School. Five
thousand eases have been handled
.our out or every five cured or close
~ II, The serum beats snake oil,
rew people who think they have
rneumatism really have the genuine
naiLipie infection arthritis." SRheue
,.asism. covers a multitude of all
MEMS generally neuritis.