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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-18
Some Old Christmas Customs

~ ONG ago in some countries
Christmas was regarded as a time
like Halloween when all sorts of
Ah@ tricks were played and mummery
was gone through with to predict the
future. All the girls, then ID now,
wanted to know whom they would
marry, and all the men longed to
know whether or nc fortune would
come their way. A book popular IN
the reign of King James the First gives
this method for determining your fate.
"Gyrles that doe search to know
the names of those that shall THERE
husbands bee, take four, five or eight
onyons, and make in everie one a
name they fancy most or beste thinke
upon, set the onyons near the chin
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arms and ran her around the market
place until she was ashamed of her
laziness. But she had her revenge,
for If the man servant failed to pro-
vide ivy to decorate the house when
she asked him for 1t, it was her priv
ilege to steal a pair of his breaches
and nall them to the garden gate or
even to a tree in the public highway
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TEW, try to be more quiet, sisl
| asked you once before
Ito keep your feet and fingers still
Don't scratch 'em on the loorl
D. you think he'll use the chimney, sis,
Or just come thro' the door9
Sill Saw that curtain novel did
Say. amt you nervous. sisa
What's thata 1t sounded like a step.
D'jer think 'twould be like this1
Gee. amt it darka I'd go right back
But think what we would missl
That's right-just crawl so easy-like
You don't make any row.
We're nearly to the dining-room.
There's not much farther now.
Oh. goody. there is still a fire.
I'm not afraid. I vowI
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fTo be colOred ,0tth paints OF crayons

ITO DC coIoTed i0tth paints or cT1y0nI
RMA ERRY CHRIsTMAsl And a
big GREEN Christmas tree all
allght with RED, BLUE and
y y = white candles each with a tiny
YELLOW fame atop!
There is a string of RED balls and
a string of BLUE balls and a string
of YELLOW balls and all over the
tree are PURPLE, RED, ORANGE
color (use RED and YELLOW mixed)
and YELLOW balls both great and
SMALL There are interesting white
packages too tied with RED ribbon
and sticks of RED and white and
YELLOW and white candy. There Is
a RED suited Santa Claus with long
BLACK boots. He has a Jolly RED
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-18

I1WtUy DVJI WIIOH0 IItVIO SIotOI
finds her greatest Joy in life in
~D gratifying her maternal instinct
by rocking her dollies to sleep. This
chair Will At her Dimensions so much
better than one made for grown ups,
n If well made of hardwood will
stand any reasonable strain to which
1t may be subjected.
Make the legs first of is" K 1%",
the back legs 20 " long and the front
legs 10" long. Cut the rails for the
back and front exactly the same
length and be sure that the ends are
squared accurately. Make and fit the
half inch bowels or square Stats of
the back rails; the bowels may be
used more easily but the Stats will
look much better. Dowel all joints
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-18

HIS project should interest the
Handy Boy" whose little sister
finds her greatest Joy in life in
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-18

- ANITA CLAUS tucked the robe in
- tight all around the right side of
the cutter and Mrs. Santa tucked
1t on the left.
There now" she said with a lone
some sort of a smile, you're all
tucked in warm and mind you don't
loosen your robe before you get out
of the cold north" You see. Mrs.
Santa had a hard time keeping her
husband good and well, for he would
get so interested in filling stocking
and climbing out chimneys that he
many times forgot to tuck the robes
back as they should be tucked.
"Flddle!" laughed Santa Claus, good
naturedly. To tell the truth he rather
liked to have his good wife fuss over
him but he pretended to think 1t all
bosh, Gust like all men do. Fiddle
and to deei Nobody catches cold on
Christmas Evel Anybody would think
I was a Christmas tree ball wrapped
up in cotton to keep from breaking
the way you talkl" He laughed
heartily and then added, "all the same,
my dear, 1 wish there were so
you could go along. Many Is the
place ] need help.
you'd be surprised how careless
people are about hanging up their
stockingsl" he continued as he hunted
in his pocket for his pipe. you know
I told you last year I found FIVE hun
dred stockings hung up with pinsl
Just common ordinary pins that
would hardly hold a thing! OF course
the minute 1 filled them, down they
dropped and l had to stop all my
work and hunt a nail and get them
up again" But this year. II l ind
any of those same stockings fastened
with pins-after they have had nails
hxed In q crack so nicely that the
mark won't show-I shall just turn
around and go to the next house with
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CHRISTMAS MORN

CHRIS MAS MORN
n H, Christmas morn In Nurseryland! What tongue IA tell its joys
IS Unknown indeed to all who arr no longer girls and boys.
W Thanksgiving and the glorious Fourth no thrills like these an give
Its raptures in sweet memories tho' all the years will lvel
Dear Mother Goose-how hard she srove to make our Christmas bright
She toHed tho' many weary days and many a winter night
That all her chldren-none was thought too ugly or forlorn-
Might know the blessing of a bright and happy Christmas morn.
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ANITA CLAUS tucked the robe In
- tight all around the right side of
Vthe cutter and Mrs. Santa tucked
n on tho left
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out leaving ohO ON
gle thing" Santa
shook his head Sc
verely.
Gwen II there
are good children In
the house 2" asked
Mrs. Santa anxious
ly, and she put her
two feet on the run
ners of his sleigh so
he couldn't start
Evening star., 1923-12-16
THE PASSING SHOW In POLITICS

him. He and National Committeeman Hles
of New York hope the delegation can go to
President Coolidge on the first ballot. Any
how, they do not favor lessenng the Cool
idge vote on that ballot by the New York
delegates tossing him fowery compliment.
The democratic national committee will
meet here January IS to name the city and
the date for holding the democratic national
convention. Chicago, having lost the repub
lican convention, is now making dead set
for the democrats, and says it will get them
regardless Of the price" The Chicago BOOM
ers say they will play the biggest game Of
poker the Capital has ever seen. Every time
the other fellows ante" they declare, Eve will
raise 'cm few thousand"
The democratic politicians who are tout
ing Senator Ralston of Indiana as presi-
Dental dark horse, in case the two-thirds
rule flags the high man and causes dead
lock, are finding their prospective favorite
balky. He won't talk seriously with them,
but takes the suggestion in the nature of a
joke.
Some of his colleagues at the Capitol are
threatening to send for Tom Taggart and
have him talk turkey TO him.
X X
The democratic side OF the Senate has
several potential presidential candidates, ii
and when that much h-discussed deadlock does
come. Besides Senator Underwood and SEN
ator Ralston, there are Senator Robinson OF
Arkansas and Senator Glass Of Virginia.
n q l..
do some high art work in leadership in the
present and prospective involved and EN-
barrassing situation which confronts the re-
pubicans.
X X y X
When the republican national committee
picked Cleveland for the national convention
Evening star., 1923-12-16
Business Leaders Join to Check
Radicals by Refusing Funds

business men Is on the verge Of max
doesn't want to finance the campaiRns
OF candidates who will advocate such
huge outlays as that called for by the
soldier bonus bill and press harsh
regulatory measures when elected.
At the moment, this group is work
ing for enactment Of tax reduction.
They do not seek to dictate legisla-
tion. according to information reach
ing here. but they are insistent that
taxes be reduced and that the bonus
bill be defeated. They profess to see
another period of depression almost
Immediately ahead unless there is a
reduction in the tax burden. One OF
the insiders is authority for the state.
ment that there will be another pe-
riod OF widespread unemployment.
comparable to that of 1921, unless
taxes are reduced. He believes this
period win come before the elections
next year and that when the elections
are hold the unemployed will hold
the balance. Of power.
Such a contingency would react
profoundly upon the situation. in the
view Of political observers here.
Meetings at which the growth of
radicalism has been discussed have
been held in strict secrecy. It is re-
ported that one such meeting was
attended by more than twenty leaders
in the business world, every man a
millionaire. At that meeting the 1920
platforms Of both the republican and
democratic parties were analyzed, so
far as they referred to Industrial re-
lations, and matched alongside some
of the measures now pending before
Congress. The group is reported to
CONTINUED on Third PaGe.)
Evening star., 1923-12-16

M EN- and women have about an
M equal amount of brains, but
they think differently. That is
the conclusion Of Prof. Fl. {.
McComas Of Princeton University, VINO
,ectured on Social Psychology Monday
at the home of Mrs. Sarah c. Ffouike'
2o11 Massachusetts avenue northwest.
The lecturer declared that the
psychologist finds that the dtfference
in general Intelligence between men
and women is negligible, but that the
female interest IS concerned with
matters relating to human anafrs'
while the male interest runs IN 'he
direction OF material things.
BOYS and Girls Compared.
For instance, boys and girls In a
school are told to describe postage
stamp. The boys interst is in the
direction of the perforations, printing
and the coloring of the paper, while
the girls, naturally, describe the race
and the character expressed in the
face on the stamp. These two trends
in the thinking Of the two sexes are
very evident. 1t seems that they are
INST tho differences in physical struc-
ture. which are in turn reflected In
the thinking Of the two sexes. The
orrans of internal secretion are dis
tinctly different in the sexes These
orrans bring about different interests
and temperaments..
The psychologist believes that the
activities of women in national and
industrial affairs will result in no
plans and policies to lower the intel
lectual standard than those we have
now. women's minds will neither
raise nor lower our intellectual activ-
tiles. What may be accomplished is
q change in our interests. If women
are true to themselves we should find
their influence resulting in more hu-
man attributes in life. Probably we
shall not have as many great women
Evening star., 1923-12-16
Men and Women Of Equal Brain
But Differ in Thinking, Is View

in our national life as we have had
great men. Men deviate from an av-
erage much more than women. There
are more supernormal and subnormal
men, more fools and more geniuses.
A word of caution was entered
against the prevailing notion of race
differences Various tests show that
there is a large overlapping in abili
ties Among the different races the
average white man passes intellec-
tual tests better than the Mexican,
the Indian and the negro. But there
are many white persons who fail
below the average of other races. In
a democracy there must be a great
deal OF homogeneity among the total.
If there are levels of intelligence
among the people who cannot acquire
the ideals and purposes of the higher
levels it is impossible TO get unity
~ purpose and action. 1t Is indis
pensable for "a country of our type to
discourage an increase in immigrants
of a low order of intelligence. Dr..
McComas called attention to the diff
ference in the mental life OF the
modern man and that Of his grand
sires. The latter generation was
taught to believe that this world was
the center of the universe and man
the most important creature In the
world. Science has expanded our
horizon. Many of us lack the vigor
In our thinking that our fathers had
Biology has Influenced the philos-
ophy of today. Many of the German
Heals which we repudiated had their
origin in biology. 1t seems probahl-
that psychology will be the next
science to affect our philosophy of
life. We shall no longer think of the
universe in terms of last century's
science. Rather we shall come to be-
lieve that the machinery of the uni
verse functions as does the machinery
of the human brain. There is con-
sciousness in II.
Evening star., 1923-12-16

the other day, there was an immediate rush
for hotel reservations. The Cleveland BOOM
ers were approached by officials and others
acquainted with them in the most engaging
"You know me, Al!' air, requesting to be
taken care Of"
Representative Burton and others who
pulled the plum for Cleveland however,
adopted the rule that no reservations were
to be cinched until the Cleveland committee
could look over the applications and the ac-
commodations and try to frame a definite
system of alocating them for the best con-
venience of the convention personnel.
There is still lingering hope in many
quarters that San Francisco will come to the
democratic national committee meeting jan
uary IS with a bank roll big enough to see
Chicago's raises every time and finally get
the convention. San Francisco surely did
win the visitors to her democratic conven-
ton.
X \ X x
For the next few months the real, work
ing, practical headquarters of both political
parties will be in effect the cloakrooms and
committee rooms of the Congress of the
united StdtcS. CHuci lic uohiC oh NoPi-
tol Hill and in the House and Senate Office
buildings, political conferences, wire-pulling
and maneuvering Of the highest style of the
art will go on daily
For it falls out that democratic senator's
and representatives in both the political
parties constitute leaders of weight in their
respective states. The party platforms, when
not actually written on Capitol Hill, as they
frequently are, always are shown to- the
leaders in Congress before being taken to
the conventions.
X X X X
Isn't II terrible to think that from now
until next November Washington will have
to "eat, sleep and breathe" politics?
Evening star., 1923-12-16
BY N. o. MESSENGER.
TIME republican presidential nominal
campaign may now be said to be in
i full swing. The republican national

TIME republican presidential nomination
campaign may now be said to be in
i full swing. The republican national
committee has gone home after a
two-day session, in which it chose Cleveland.
Ohio as the convention city and set the date
for June TO-
1t also attended to another little matter.
By charging the representation in the ma
tional convention Of southern states that
contribute but few votes to the republican
ticket, it left ground for criticism which
Senator Hiram w. Johnson, that alert and
resourceful campaigner, was quick to seize
upon. This kind of politics needs no char
acterization." said Senator Johnson in his
statement. "The campaign commences with
an act repugnant to every sense of fair deal
ing and just representation
4 X + x
Thus is presaged bitter fight IN the con-
vention itself over the question of represen-
tation of southern states. The G. o. P. ele-
plant seems to pick up trouble with his
trunk as he ambles along. But this seems
to have been "a case of must" Representa-
tions were made to the committee that il
the southern apportionment were decreased
the party stood in danger of losing the vote
OF the negroes who have migrated to the
border and northern states-a loss that
would count.
The subcommittee had brought in report
recommending the reduction in accordance
with the instructions of the national commit
tee Then, like the French general who
marched his army up the hill and then
marched it down again, the full committee
rejected it.
x X
Senator Wadsworth of New York refuses
to play the favorite-son role He does not
want the New York delegation instructed for
Evening star., 1923-12-16
BY HARDEN COLFAX.


~ USINESS Is moving to check
X radicalism in the United States
Alarmed by its growth and by
the generous showing OF radi-
rails in the new Congress, some Of the
biggest business interests Of the coun-
try are holding regular meetings, quiet
but enthusiastic, to fight what they re-
gard as the new menace to enterprise
and to stamp it out. If possible. at the
national elections next year.
Several meetings already have been
held in New York. and others are
down on the program to follow. The
men who have sat in at these meet
ings are men of millions, directing
great enterprises which give employ
ment to hundreds os thousands of
workers. They are, for the most part,
men who have contributed literally
to the campaign funds of one or both
Of the major political parties. They
sense further appeals for their finan-
cial assistance next year.
At present most Of these men are
not in the mood to contribute a dollar
TO any political campaign fund. They
want to be shown that the money
they may contribute, will not be uti-
nized to elect lawmakers in love with
isms. And unless the responsible
party leaders can reassure these big
contributors that the candidates for
election are not going to injure busi-
ness by fantastic legislation when
elected, it seems extremely likely
that solicitors for campaign funds
will have to go to new sources for
the money with which to finance the
coming presidential campaign.
In other words, this correspondent
is informed, this group Of prominent
Evening star., 1923-12-16

r. AGING a winter OF terrible eco
* nomic suffering. confronted
by complete financial collapse.
visioning the loss Of the very
heart of her industrial realm, weary
almost unto death as a result Of con-
tentious political efforts-in fact, be-
neuverings OF monarchical elements
the German government has extended
an olive branch TO France.
Likewise confronted with sharpened
political conditions, seeing prestige
and influence outside of Europe grad
ually being undermined through her
own stubborn clinging to reconstruc-
ton policies designed to keep Europe
in a turmoil for many years. il not
decades, a condition which would re-
act to tho disinterest OF the world at
large, France gives evidence OF meet
ing the Germans upon common
ground, there to reduce. II not elini-
nate, grave questions fostering. not
solving. the difficulties that have &c
cumulated.
The new German government.
through the instrumentality OF Chan
cellor Marx, spurred on by Foreign
Minister Stresemann, has asked that
the French consider the future status
OF the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Pre-
mier Poincare has met the German
charge in Paris and voiced his desire
to consider some means of agreement,
provided 1t does not concern the repa-
rations account, settlement of which
will come through the recognized
reparations commission, possibly fol-
lowing a general study Of Germany's
financial situation by the proposed in
ternational experts.
Long Step Forward.
The fact that Poincare-who has
remained adamant against any deal
ings with the German government in
regard to the Rhinelana and the
Ruhr-consents to take up the vexa-
tious question with representatives
of the German government. Is long
step forward. Heretofore he has
voiced French purpose of remaining
in complete control Of all activities
within the disputed and occupied
territories until every centime Of the
reparations account is paid by Ger
many. The civil and economic life
Of the occupied regions has been
under the domination Of the French.
In the Rhineland, though it be still
denied by Paris, the French have
worked hand in glove with the sepa-
ratist leaders, who now, discredited
among their own people, cannot be
expected to be of much future serv-
ice to the French.
France. after it appeared that moth
ing could be accomplished through
direct negotiations with various Ger
man governments, and when 1t ap-
psared that the chaotic situation in
the occupied territories might even
submerge French interests, set about
series OF conferences with various
industrialist leaders in the hope that
from these there might emerge set
Elements looking toward co-opera-
tive endeavor and eventual preserva-
ton of French purpose. Many agree
ments were effected between the
French and the lesser industrial
leaders before SHINES and others of
the great industrial barons took no.
tice. Not until Il appeared that the
Strssemann government would not
ana could not effect ameliorative
processes relieving the strain upon
the industrialfsts OF the Rhineland
and the Ruhr. did they approach the
Evening star., 1923-12-16
BY &. GOULD LINCOLN.

A USTRALIA, great dominion Of
~ the British Empire, since the
~ world war has had on its
hands a merchant shipping
problem in many ways similar to
that which has confronted and is
confronting the United States. How
the Australians have sought to solve
this problem is Of peculiar interest
in this country, where it is recog-
nized that something must be done
to better the merchant marine situa-
ton.
During the world war Australian
producers and importers found them
selves faced with the difficulty Of
obtaining ships in which to ship their
goods away from and to Australian
ports They found. as did Amer
leans their markets jeopardized,
their industries menaced.
Like the United States. Australia
had relied upon the ships Of Great
Britain and other nations in carry
ing on overseas commerce. Like tho
coastwise trade and confined its
merchant shipping almost entirely
to that trade. And, like the United
States, Australia has enacted laws
which demand better conditions for
seamen than are found on the ordi-
nary merchantmen Of the other mari
time nations.
Fleet Under Own Flag.
But most significant Of all is the
fact that Australia-like the United
States-has determined to continue
to have an overseas merchant feet
under its own flag. What more nat
ural than that this great part of
the British empire should return to
the practice of allowing all its over
British ships or the ships Of other
friendly nations? This, by the way.
is just what the British are urging
that the United States should do.
Australia's answer has been, how
ever, to stick to it's own line-the
Australian Commonwealth Line.
The reasons advanced by Austria
lians for this course are that they
desire these ships to protect their
even break when it comes to rates
and service, to prevent Australia
being again put into the position it
faced during the world war in the
event of another great conflict, when
1t could not get the bottoms 1t re-
qufred to handle it's commerce, and
to prevent their shippers being
charged extortionate rates in times
of emergency. Already, they insist,
they have been able, through the
operation Of the Commonwealth Line,
to obtain better treatment for their
shippers.
Tho vessels which formed the nu-
cleus Of the Australian merchant feet
were purchased in 1916, when tho
German submarine campaign began
to assume intensive proportions and
Great Britain was forced to employ
the greater part Of her shipping to
supply her own imperative needs in
connection with the war. W. M
Hughes, then prime minister of Aus
tralia, purchased in England fifteen
ships, known as the "Austral" boats.
The Germans increased their sub
marine campaign. Australia, as well
as the other allied nations. began a
shipbuilding campaign, and her feet
was added to. Shipbuilding and the
operation OF an overseas. merchant
fleet, therefore. began in Australia, as
it did in the United States. as war
measure,