Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-31
THE REFEREE
lBy AIbert Apnlel

Chinese
The 16-year- Manchu boy, who
is emperor of China in name only,
has renamed himself Henry and his
wife Elizabeth. Possibly he got
tired of signing his official title
Ia Ching Kuo Ia Huang I'll. He
is intensely interested in all things
American. Expressing his admira-
tion of Caucasian ways, he had his
queue (pigtail hair) cut off year
ago.
He retains his title as emperor,
and the Chinese republic gives him
a large allowance for the upkeep of
his family and court. But he has
been stripped of real power and is
isolated in a condition that amounts
to imprisonment.
Emperor Henry of China may be
powerless but he is one of the
worlds most interesting characters
"a living monument to a. great
oriental nations casting aside the
monarchial system that ruled it for
unknown centuries. The whole
world moves toward real democracy.
Shoplifter
Arrested by detectives on a charge
OF shoplifting, a New York man
claims that the theft was a subcon-
scious act. He says lie had been
thinking of buying some jewelry for
a niece land had not realized he had
stolen it until he reached the
street"
A novel aiibi.
However, few of us realize how
many things we do when hypnotized
by our subconscious selves, things
that our so-called conscious selves
would never dream of. Everyone
has duo-personality, a DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde.
Headache
Over 200 world famed experts are
at work on the 150-volume history
of the World War that is being COM
piled by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace.
1t is the most thorough work of
its kind ever undertaken. The aim
of the writer's is to steer clear of
causes of the war and the incidents
around which bitter controversies
have ragged. Military operations also
are ignored. The history Is limited
to describing the wars effects on
European civilization. For that
reason, the part played by United
States is left out. Get ready for
the book agents.
Darkness
In Daghestan, Russia, Explorer
Colder finds a tribe so primitive and
ignorant that they believe we Amer
leans live in absolute darkness
somewhere down under their feet.
This compares favorably with many
Europeans conception of us.
The people in Daghestan think we
walk upside down. That's nathe-
matically correct, in relation to the
folks on the other side of the earth
from US. If there were hole
through the middle of the earth and
you dropped down it, you'd come
out standing on your head.
Bullfght
Jacinto Benavente (not ca cigar,
but the name of the Spanish author
who has written and staged 80
p1ays) visits America. He says our
blood -and-thunder movies and stage
melodramas are intellectual bull
fights"
Think it over. Maybe we've been
too harsh with the cruel sport OF
the Spaniards. Mental cruelty Is as
evil as the real thing.
Lost at sea--216 vessels. That
was the toll for 1922 just announced.
Once this would have been interes-
ing news to everyone. Now most OF
us yawn. Interest has been trans
ferred to auto. railroad and airplane
accidents, except among those
bound to the ocean by a business or
personal tic.
Within SO years at most, the air
plane will doom ocean transporta-
ton.
Queer
Spring fishermen, here's a tip!
Fish have well-developed sense OF
smell, says a writer in Aquatic Life.
Maybe they're smelling when they
nose the bait.
Settlers in central Ontario, Can
ada, say they have to stand behind
a stump to bait their hooks when
they sprinkle a few drops of oil OF
rhodium on a can of worms. OJib-
way Indians, by the way, claim the
best trout bait is live field mouse,
hooked under the spine and allowed
to swim freely.