Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09
THE REFEREE
fBy AIbert Applel

Matches and careless smokers
caused fire losses of nearly rs million
| dollars in n year. In announcing
| this, the National Board of Fire I'm
J derwriters says that this loss was alb
normally large, and suggests that 1t
| may be due to increased use OF to-
| bacco by Needless to say
the board is composed of men.
In handling fire, women are at
! least twice as careful as men. You
| never see a woman toss a match into
2. wastebasket after using it. Ma
| runs around the house picking up"
| after careless pa. But how often do
| you see a pa have to "pick up"
after a careless ma?
FURS
Thirty million animals a year are
being killed throughout the world
to get enough furs to meet public
demand.
The modern girl is more destruc-
| tive Of fur bearing animals than was
| the caveman Of 100000 years ago,
| says H. e. Anthony, of American
| Museum OF Natural History.
The big animals are nearly all ex-
terminated. And slaughter of the
smaller ones Is increasing by leaps,
| and bounds. Fashion and vanity
1 LdPAAl OL4Ai5Ah6 ~ GA O"O tN~
| age of mammals which began (ac-
cording to scientists) three million
years ago.
SMUGGLING
A sailor on a. French ship SNUG
| gled some liquor into Port Arthur,
Texas. His customers paid him In
| Confederate money. Police arrested
| him when he got back to France and
began spending the worthless paper
in shops whose owners didn't know
| the difference.
The sailor makes good on the bad
money. But he's in hot water with
| his s~uperiors, for smuggling into q
friendly country.
l. In dealing with foreign I'M
ners outside our three-mile ocean
limit, the real offense is that they
are assisting smugglers. On thai
charge, Washington might get some
action from London.
These gliders, airplanes without
| engines. r not new. AS far back as
| 1871 a man named Household got
the idea of initiating birds. And he
| made a successful flight in a crude
| gliding machine in Natal, South
| Africa.
He had a big idea but aid nothing
to market it.
In every brain there lie the germ Of
| at least one big idea gathering dust
when it might be making money for
the brains owner, If developed and
applied.
How long until we have another
| business slump? A Wall Street
| banker tells US, his studies of the
| past show that business cycles
| periods of depression or hard times,
| usually last three to four years
They are shorter or longer, when i'm
| terferred with by wars or changes in
the banking system.
If this Is true, we have at least Is
months Of good times ahead of us.
| For the present revival OF industry
| began late in July, 1921, when the
| steel industry hit bottom and began
| climbing back toward normal. A
three-year cycle would not end until
July. 1924, Add another year, for a
four year cycle.
POSSIBLE
Every natural law has its excep-
tons, including the theoretical law
that UP or down movements OF bust
ness last three to four years.
A period Of prosperity began in
1873 and lasted until 1885. By going
ahead seven years before reacting in
a slump, 1t broke the rule. The
period Of prosperity was abnormally
long because from 1878 to 1885 the
national banks we're very active
Maybe something will happen to
break the rule again and make Dur
current prosperity last until 1928 or
longer.
Business is the most uncertain of
all games of chance, measured over
long periods. and one guess probably
ie as good as another.