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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
THE REFEREE
10y Albert AppIel

Milk
Mothers milk in powdered form
is now available to saw the lives OF
thousands of infants. With Wae2l
added, it has full original strength.
The process of storing mother 5
milk was discovered by DR.. Law
renee Smith of the government nos
pital in Manila and perfected BY d..
Pau. Emerson. visiting physician 20
the Boston Floating hospital IRE
milk Is no ia laboratory c~onooctioa
1t is genuine mothers milk reduced
by evaporation and stored for al
most any desired length of time.
The extreme Importance Of this
discovery will be realized by all W.
men.
Tourists
Despite the lure of booze IL
10000 Americans travelled across
the Atlantic ocean to Europe during
the first six months of this year.
Compared with the corresponding
period of 1922, it was a loss OF near
ly $4,000 passengers.
Twelve new transatlantic liners
havs, been placed in service this
year. The falling off in passenger
business makes competition Keen,
which intensifes the desire to serve
LIQUOR on the eastbound trips. Steam
ship companies want the LIQUOR only
as a lure for passenger trafhcs Tne
iiquor is secondary to profits.
Flag
Foreign ships are capturing Amer
lean trade. In April latest month
for which figures have been CONF
piled, only 81 per cent Of u tot1l
foreign trade was carried in Amerl-
can ships, against AZ per cent In the
entiI year 1920.
marine situation, to date. Propa-
ganda doesn't always get the desired
results. =
Fire
A fire breaks out in some Ameri-
can home every four minutes. re-
ports w Il Malla1eiu, general ma n
ager of National Board of Fire I'm
derwPiters. He claims three out of
four of these fires are preventable,
that they result from carelesshess or
Ignorance of dangerous conditions.
Fire destroys SIS million dollars
worth of homes a year. And $4,000
lives a year are lost in fires. 70
play safe, all of us-in handling
flame or combustible materiah-
should constantly be a little more
careful than seems necessary to give
To u SdAO maj 6Ah
Roads
The good roads program, as now
planned, will include 187.406 miles
of federal aid" highways-Uncle
Sam helping the states pay the costs.
A big start has been made. When
completed, ninetenths of the Amert-
a people will live witL=l 10 miles
of one of these federal aid roads.
The primary purpose of these
high ways of course, is pleasure for
autoists, though the good roads
hackers look at 1t from the stand
point of applied economics. How
ever, pleasure is sufficient purpose,
for most of us work too much, play
too little.
Within 20 years the main roads
will be overhead, in the air. Hasten
that day, with nc paving bills.
Wine
France Checks up and fnds that
last year she produced 30 per cent
| more wine than in 1913. Using the
| same years for comparison, the ex-
| port of French wines decreased SIS
per cen in value, despite increase In
prices.
And the excess is not all being
stored, by any a The French
ministry of agriculture issues a pro-
clamation viewing with alarm the
increased use of alcoholic drinks
among the French.
Europe has its own prohibition
problem without worrying about
ours.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

terest in this stamp, Mr.. Glover
says. Later. King George enter.
tanned the assistant postmaster gen
eral at Buckingham Palace, where
there was more talk of stamps, and
Mr.. Glover saw 165 of the British
kings $50 stamp books.
The United States display was so
different from usual entries in q
stamp contest that no regular prize
could be given it. Only the inverted
airplane was worth more. than face
value. Yet so artistic was the ar
rangement and workmanship of the
exhibit that a special prize was be-
slowed on the United States gov
eminent. This award is to be q
parchment scroll with a ribbon.
Not only is the United States sup
posed to have the biggest collection
of big collectors, but it also has the
largest number of stamp enthusiasts
Of any country. Mr.. Glover says
that there are probably close to L.
000, 900 American collectors.
The Postoffice Department has
| reason to be interested in the coll
lectors of this country since the
governments stamp agency has
grown to such proportions. Last
month $4,000 worth of stamps
were sold by the postoffice agency
to collectors, and sales for the fis-
cal year are expected to total $780,
600. Considering that the equip
ment and salaries of the men in
charge of the agency cost the gov
eminent only a few thousand dollars
a year, the governments annual
profit in selling to collectors will
be almost $14S,000. The govern
ment does not deal in rare or oh
solete stamps. 1t sells all of its
stamps at face value, and so it
makes none of it's profits in prem
iums. But a sheet of stamps costs
the government eight cents, whether
the squares represent one cent in
postage or five dollars. That is
where the profit in.
The high denomination stamps on
the governments exhibit sheet have
attracted a good deal of interest.
Some of them are SO rarely seen in
common use that many people dc
not know that such stamps are
printed. Banks and brokerage
firms are the chief users of the high
est denominations. A bank sending
$500. 900 in bills by registered mai
would call for a single dollar oil
even a five dollar stamp to cover
the first class postage.
The dark blue fourteen cent stamI
which bears an Indian head was es'
pecially admired in England. Thu
engraving is excellent, and the de
sign appears in fine relief. The en-
tire group of American stamps, how
ever, won praise. The engraving
was pronounced unusually fine, ant
the range of subjects depicted oil
the stamps and the artistry of tn
designs were said to be exceptional
Apparently, from all angles, tn
UNITED States is going to be know
as the leading stamp nation of tn
world.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

@, Are the automobiles used in
Europe about the same as the ones
seen in America PA. L. A.
A.-For the most part smaller,
lighter cars are used abroad, since
gasoline is much more expensive.
The high priced cars are often larg-
err, heavier, and handsomer than h
ones seen in America.
O, What was the nearest point
that Germany reached in its advance
on Paris ?-I. NJ. c.
A. A monument marks the place
+Ja Chapelle en- Serval'-on the
Aisne, which was the nearest point
to Paris reached by the Germans on
September 2, 1914.
O. Where is the shortest distance
across the United States ?-G. q. +.
A. The shortest distance from the
| Atlantic to the Pacific across the
United States is between points near
| Charleston, South Carolina, and San
Diego, California, and is 2,152 miles.
Q. What wood is used for tele-
| phone poles ?-J. L. w.
A. Chestnut is most commonly
used: next come northern white
| cedar; southern white cedar, ana
western red cedar.
O. Where is the highest tide in
the world ?-S. L.
A. The highest tide is in the Bay
of Fundy, Canada. There is a rise
of fifty-three feet.
@. What kind of whales attain
the greatest size ?-J. B. H..
A. Fin back whales are the larg-
| est. The length of the longest one
captured was 100 feet.
O. At what period did the So
| called cave-men live?-T. c. M.
A. The cave-man tied between
the third and fourth Ice Ages, along
with caye-bear, cave-lion, cave-hy-
aena, woolly ~rhinoceros, Irish elk
and other mammals now extinct,
which some scientists say was from
80 900 to $4,000 years ago.
@. What is meant by brick tea?
IT. M. p.
A. Brick tea is a tea prepared in
Central China. 1t is the commonest
sort made by soaking refuse such as
broken tea leaves. twigs, and dust,
In boiling water and then pressing
them into moulds. 1t is used in ST.
IBERIA and Mongolia where it also
serves as a medium of exchange. The
Mongol places the bricks on the head
when testing the quality and tries to
pull it downward over the eyes. lie
rejects the brick as worthless If 1t
breaks or bends.
O. What is the greatest depth a
submarine has ever reached?-O. y.
A. The Navy Department says
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

that the greatest depth a United
States submarine ever submerged
was 296 feet. This record was made
during the war, off the coast Of Irc-
land. !
0. Does sound travel faster by
radio than 1t does natural1y?-C. C.
H..
A. Sound travels about 100 feet
per second. When sent by wireless,
it takes the speed of electric waves,
1885, 900 miles per second.
@. Why are the apple and rasp-
berry placed in the same class?-B.
M. s. 4
A. The Department of Agricul-
ture says that raspberries and apples
are not placed in the same class Lut
botanically they belong to the iame
family. That is because of the group
relationship of the floral organs and
some of their botanical charactsrls-
tics. :
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
CIrY ApYERTIsEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing entitled ordinance:
IAN ordinance to provide for the rails
ing of 81, 10000 by the ISSUANCE of Bonds
by the City Of Perth Amboys@to be known
as street Improvement Bonds was
passed on third and final reading at the
meeting of the Council Of the City of
Perth Amboy. N. J.. held July 18th, 1923,
and approved by the Mayor of said City
on July goth, 1919.
Dated July Goth, 1923.
PHILIP p. COSTELLO,
eeoE-7oA-1 Citv Clerk.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
The Old Town
Street by street--Enow Four City
Lewis street

Lewis street
Lewis street is one of the Oldest
in the city. 1t extends from the
Staten Island sound west to the
tracks of the Central Railroad. The
most western section was opened up
In more recent years, but that part
laying nearest the sound dates back
to the early history of the city: The
street has sewers. sidewalks, curb
ing and is paved with asphalt
blocks. There are many shade trees
along this thoroughfare. which Is
purely a residential street.
Lewis street is named after jacob
Lewis, one of the old residents of
the city. Mr.. Lewis was q COM
modore in the United States Navy
and 1t is said he may have taken
part in the war of 1872. This has
not been confirmed however. Mr..
Lewis lived in what Is now known
as the johnson or Woodruff property
in Water street.
Nearly every day Is sun day now.
Many detourists are in town.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
Ouestions-Answe

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing rhe Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederick j.. Haskin. Direc-
plies strictly TO Information. The
medicinal and financial troubles, u
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles. nor 10 undertake exhaus-
tive research ON any subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address ana eh-
closS two cents IN stamps for return
postage. All ep.lbs ae sent direcs
to the ihdntIsr |.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

The average young fellows YER
sion of Love one another" is Love
one or another"
What the United States needs is a
serious shortage of serious shortages.
Canadian doctor says men should
wear eorsets. Men object to clothes
discarded by women.
Our monthly cigaret output is five
billion cigarets while the put out is
much lower.
Statistics show the average woman
eats less than the average man. Fig
ures, however, do not.
This is a bay year for champions
of all sorts, except. perhaps, cham
pion liars.
Nearly every movie star is trying
marriage again.
Bail team with an eye on the pen.
nant has to bat more than an eye.
Proper time to change seats in y
ano is before you get in.
-
One June husband tells us his wife
really wanted to boil the ice to kill
the germs.
The taxi driver who once heard
his engine missing now listens only
to passengers kissing.
American women use 10000 tons
of falRlIm nnNNdnr nNnpU WAR hLtf
less gun powder.
Who remembers last winter when
the ice nan was a total Stranger
Frenchman says radio Is the devil
in a halo. Only sounds like the
devil in a boiler shop.
Berlin carpenters are knocking off
dnstead of knocking on.
Our marriage rate is increasing,
perhaps because bow legged girls are
wearing long skirts.
Goshen, Ind, mar travelled 1901
600 miles. He was mail clerk, in
stead of hunting a drink.
Doctors think a Toledo, O., man is
crazy because he likes to work toe
much. We think so 0
What's in a name? Profess III
Schmack Of Paris has invented 4
machine to kisses.
Des Moints. "a. safe blowers made
$4,000 in a few minutes, but it ISM
steady work.
Teachers want the minuet danat
back. 1t will never do. They dane,
hours, not minuets.
Oshkosh, Wis, man raises abou
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

These are the days when 1t IS
time to go home just before you get
settled down to work.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
Bible Thought For Today

- BE VERY CoURAGE0Us-Only be thou strong and
very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all
the law, A" " " that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thon
goest-JohSua 1t.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Yes, If we have no bananas we
have no banana skins to step on.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Oshkosh, Wis, mar raises about
a million frogs a year; not, how
ever, to get the hops.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Teachers want the minuet danee
back. 1t will never do. They dance
hours, not minuets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Des Moints, IA, safe blowers made
$4,000 in a few minutes, but It isn't
steady work.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Our monthly cigaret output is five
billion cigarets while the put out is
much lower.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Canadian doctor says men shoult
wear eorsets. Men object to clothe:
discarded by women.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

The average young fellows ver-
sion of Love one another" is Love
one or another"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

What's in a name? Profess jr
Schmack of Paris has invented 4
machine to measure kisses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

What the United States needs is a
serious shortage of serious shortages.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Statistics show the average woman
eats less than the average man. Fig
ures, however, do not.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Doctors think a Toledo, o., man is
crazy because he likes to work too
much. We think so too.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Goshen. Ind, man travelled 1901.
600 miles. He was mail clerk, in
stead of hunting a drink.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

Our marriage rate is increasin,
perhaps because bow legged girls al
wearing long skirts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24

This is a bay year for champions
of all sorts, except. perhaps, cham
pion liars,
Evening star., 1923-02-11

short hayre, mouthed like a lion;
and many times they. lie upon the ice; F.;
they are hardly killed unless you
strike them just upon the forehead
II hath four feete. but no ears, and
commonly it hath young. one at a
time.
And when the fishermen chance to
find them. upon a fake Of ice with
their young ones, shee casteth her
young ones before her into the water.
and then takes them in her arms, and
so plungeth up and down with them +;
and when she will revenge herself
upon the boatcs or make resistance
against them. then she casts her
young from her againc, and with all
her force goeth toward the boate
(whereby our men were once in no
small danger. for that the sea horse
had almost sticken her teeth into the
sterne' of their boate). thinking TO
overthrow il. but by means o. the
great cry which the men made she
was afraid and swomme away againe
and took her young ones againe in
her arms. They have two. teeth
Evening star., 1923-02-11

experience of having large bull
wairus crash up through the bot
tom of the boat. They crammed a
coat into the hole and pulled for the
nearest ice pan. That is exciting
enough for the most adventurous.
Yet such an attack is very rare
occurrence. In general. walruses.
when on the pan, are wary. At the
first sound or smell of boat and its
occupants they are away at speed
of about seven miles an hour, which
is faster than good crew can row
for any considerable distance.
This uncertainty as to just what
the walrus will do makes the hunt
exciting. I remember we'll when We
encountered a very large herd feed
ing off the front of the glacier in
The row Of fierce heads, powerful
necks and strong, white tusks on the
outside Of the herd, keeping a con-
stant watch of our boat, showed us
as plainly as anything could that
they accepted our challenge and
dared US to come on. We all felt
that our. r.twenty-onc-foot dory was
too small for the fight We decided
IL
to avoid such large herd, for num-
| bers always lend courage to the wal
rus.
In FIVE years of hunting walruses
I have known of only one instance
| when a single animal attacked
| boat. This was entirely uncalled
| for and wholly unexpected on bur
part as we were quietly rowing
along the shore, without a walrus
in sight. Suddenly one broke. water
| within a few feet of our stern and
| rushed angrily at the boat and
| jabbed his tusks repeatedly into the
rudder. The Eskimo boy seated in
| the stern jumped up as IL he were
seated on hot iron, shook the tiller,
waved both arms and let out terri
flying yell, which had it's effect, for
the walrus disappeared at once.
' Hunting in a large wooden boat is
rather prosaic when compared with
hunting in the tiny narrow seal
skin production of the Eskimo. IT
seems almost suicidal to think OF
using such a frail contrivance to
effect the capture of a giant walrus-
a veritable sling of David against the
| giant Goliath. But to see that black
dart, propelled by strong-armed
Eskimo, with flashing paddle, shoot into
the midst of a. herd removes all doubt
as to it's practical use and evokes
| feeling of. admiration for these polar
children. whose life is fight for food
and clothing.
| Although the kayak is efficient and
far superior to anything which could
| be substituted, it's use is attended
with a considerable amount of dan
| ger Sipsoo, one: of the abfest hunters
| in the tribe. nearly lost his life in
| 1908 while hunting walruses. He was
attacked, his throat was cut and he
4 was left for dead. hanging head down
in the water. And yet his courage
| seems as good today as it ever was
Arklio, our dog driver and general
assistant for four years, bears upon
J his right arm aalarge, ragged scar
Evening star., 1923-02-11

sticking out Of their mouthes. on
each side one, each being about halle
an ell long, and are esteemed. 10 be
as good as any ivarie or elephants
teeth"
Scoresby put down his impress
sions in somewhat similar words:
THE walrus is fearless animal.
It's capture in the water cannot
always be accomplished without dan
ger: for, as the walrus go in herds,
an attack made upon one individual
draws all it's companions to its de-
fense In such cases they frequently
rally round the boat from whence
the blow was struck, pierce its planks
with their tusks, and, though resist
ed in the most determined manner,
sometimes raise themselves upon the
gunwale and threaten to overset, it.
The best defense against these en-
ragged animals is, in this crisis, sea
sand, which, being thrown into their
eyes, occasions partial blindness
and obliges them to disperse.
:; :. !. x - D..
A FTER a walrus hunt, which. re-
"A suited in an attack upon his
boat, Dr. Hayes, one of our early
explorers, wrote.
"I never before regarded the wal
rus as a really formidable animal,
but this contest convinced me that 1
have done their courage great injus-
tice. They are full Of fight, and,
had we not been very active and
| self-possessed, our boat would have
been torn to pieces and we either
drowned or killed. A more fierce at
tack than that which they made upon
US could hardly be imagined and "a
more formidable-looking enemy. than
| one of these huge monsters, with his
immense tusks and believing throat,
would be difficult to find. Next time
| / try them 1 will arm my boats crew
with lances. The. rifle is a poor reli-
ance, and, but for the oars. the herd
would have been on top of us at any
time"
A study of the. skull of a walrus
reveals at. once its enormous strength
and thickness, which fit it to serve
as bed for the long, strong tusks,
which the -animar uses in digging
clans, in fighting and in pulling itself
out upon; the sice.' That thick skull of
Charles Francis Hail..
Shoot seal in the head. and it
dies. Shoot a walrus in the head, and
the damage is. to the ball. which i'm
! mediately flattens without effecting
any injury whatever to the walrus"
But that was in the days of the
smooth bore rife The modern high
| power rifle is much more effective
weapon against. this hard skull,
! which, the Eskimos declare, the wal
rus often drives" up through FIVE
| inches Of solid ice; but it has re-
| suited in, the loss of hundreds of
animals, for a"wafrus sinks to- the
bottom when mortally wounded and
cannot be recovered. 4,
The Eskimo, method of. capture
with the harpoon is better in every
way, but dangerous for the inexpe-
rienced white man. unacquainted with
Evening star., 1923-02-11

! four miles from Etah, north Green
land: for here walruses are constantly
migrating from the feeding grounds
at Sulwuddy to Little island and be-
yond. Something on the bottom here
tempted the walruses to remain and
feed for a few minutes. That gave
us an opportunity to launch our
kayaks and await patiently their re-
appearance.
Twice the herd Of seven walruses
came to the surface to breathe, as
they do about every nine minutes,
but Ark-pood-a-shah-o delayed his
attack upon seeing mothers and their
young. for he knew that they are far
more dangerous when aroused than
the males, the natural guardians Of
the herd. He did, however, finally
harpoon a mother and of she went
to the south, closely attended by all
the others.
Two Eskimo women with babies in
the hood and a little girl OF eight
helped me to launch our twenty-one-
foot sailing dory from the ice foot
which borders the shore. They all
got in and we were off as a support
ing party to od-a-shah-o, who
now Joined us to assist at the oars.
Overtaking the inflated sealskin float,
which was attached to the end Of the
harpoonf lime to indicate the location
/ of the wounded animals, We fastened
it to the forward seat and settled
down for a novel ride, but not long
one,, as a small, fiat foe lay directly
across our course. I suggested that
we release the float and let it pass
under, the ice and recover it beyond,
but, the Eskimo said:
| no; slet's make 1t fast to the noe
| and have a fine big ship"
| We. followed his suggestion, and
off we went, with our black horse
pulling Hike q Trojan and our white
chariot as steady as church.
Discovering that strong tide was
! carrying US rapidly southwark, Ark
| pood-a- -shah-o decided to halt our
! steed by shooting her. Accidentally
| he shot the young, and our troubles
| began. The herd turned back, with
the, mother leading the charge. The
Eskimo. women yelled their 1oudest
and. added bit to the racket by
pounding the rail with tin dippeI
and an oar. The babies, peeping
over. their mothers. shoulders, knew
that things were not right, and said
so in full crescendo. The little Els.
kimo girl was divided in her feal
between the actions Of her mother
/ and CHE actions Of tho walrus. Their
/ Ark pood a shah-o got busy with the
EriAe and killed the waIrus leading
tire charge and sank two others.
[ .,fh".ssff : x ). .:l .~t-.@ 4.
| ALFHoUGH 1 was more interested
I'm tn. photography than in shooting
I r was Curious to know ;ifs'Ts could
harpoon walruses. and feed my six
| teen dogs without tho help of the
natives. 1t keeps. a man busy to
feed a family OF this size.
In front Of our tent at Sulwuddy a
large herd appeared and began to
1 feed at the bottom, coming up in the
same spot every few minutes for air
] We launched our kayaks and slowly