Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-14
THE REFEREE
fBy Albert Apple,

Grub
Ever stop to wonder Where the
food YOU eat comes from? A COM
mission man, shopping in New
York City, finds spinach from Mex
leo, honeydew melons from South
Africa, fresh almonds from the Holy
Land, new potatoes from Florida
green peas and asparagus from Cali
fornia, butter from Denmark, eggs
from China, meats from New Zea-
land and Argentina.
The prices are prohibitive to most
people, on the foods "out of season..
But ever the average person has 1t
on" such ancient p~ersonages as Hing
Tut, when it comes to drawing on
the far corners of the earth for food.
That's what modern transportation
and cold storage refrigeration Tin
vented by Teller, who died in pow
erty) does for us. Why, Tut didn't
even have ice.
Shrewd
Boys with chronic Halloween
spirit find a Ratchet and chop away
at the granite steps of the city hall
in Brooklyn, N. Y, until they have
to outrun a policeman.
The janitor sweeps the granite
chips into the gutter. Hundreds
watched. then walked away. The
stone fragments suggested nothing
to them. Two young fellows remain
ed, held a conference, rugged up a
stand and soon were doing a and
office business, selling the granite
chips as souvenirs. Opportunity gen.
orally is made. not found.
Mussolini, of italian black-shirt
fame, probably will hold his job a
long time. He's cutting down gov
eminent expenses. That's the sur
est-fire vote getter in our age Of a.
normal war taxation,
Mussolini recently took a blue ZEN
Gil and whacked 512 million lire out
of the expense estimates from his
ministers of finance and the inter-
ion.
He follows this by abolishing 500
Italian courts. We also have too
many courts, too many lawyers, too
much red tape and delay in legal
procedure. The chief reason is that
we have too many laws. The .dea
that we can dodge our problems by
legislating against them is a ma
tional obsession.
''Frogs''
In France they're excited, elated,
because their exports in 1922 were
nearly ID billion francs more than
in 1913. However, the franc .sn't
worth what 1t used to be. So IL
you crack the beautiful shell of the
nut and peer inside you find that
the actual tonnage or weight of
French exports last year was about
the same al in 1918.
The price hoax is an international
.delusion, inherited from the war;
boom period when people were hyp-
Noticed by much money through the
buying power of the money corre-
spondingly shrank. Not the num-
Der of dollars in the pay envelope
but what the dollars will buy, is the
important thing.
Ruhr
The Ruhr roar continues, France
dare not back out. If she did, you
can imagine the trouble and time
she'd have collecting any more DAM
ages from Germany. Fight revolyes
around Ruhr coal.
The whole Ruhr district in 1918,
boom pre-war year, produced only
ia million tons of coal. American
mines turn out more than that in 10
weeks. Be proud of your country,
which does things on the biggest
scale.
Cleaners
In Boston only 40 men can be
rounded up who are willing to clean
the streets at 81 a day. Necessity
compels shortcuts and common
sense. Mayor Curley phones the
street cleaning department and de-
mands action. So the streets are
cleaned by flushing from The NY
drants. Nc dust. No hauling. San
itary. Thorough. A tip for other
towns.