Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-03
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert Apple)

Styles
Mrs. Asduith introduces King Tut
fashions to London society. She at
tends a wedding, wearing a dress of
"closely-swathed terra Gotta, caught
at the waist with large scarab
Egyptian beetle) clasp
Clothing houses and jewelers. are
rushing their designers to King Tut's
tomb. BY next fall our women will
be draped tightly like mummies,
fashion experts predict. An acci-
dental discovery by scientific ditch
diggers may revolutioniZe styles.
Human nature is tickle, vanity al
ways ready for a new craze--follow
the leader. It's part of the phenom-
enon called life. With most of US.
life's main purpose is quest for
thrills--anything new.
Tut
A modern witch doctor in Denver
says that Henry Ford is the reincar-
nation of King Tut. That's new
Ford joke, false like most Of the
others. If Ford in a previous exis-
tence had really been King Tut,
those chariots they have been TAX
ing from the tomb in Egypt would
not have been SO crude.
Scientists say that Tut's tomb is
yielding priceless treasure. Maybe
so, through their eyes. But few of
us would give attic space to the
tombFs contents, if we didn't know
its source. Values are largely inn
aginary, priceless to some, junk to
others. 1t all depends on the view
point.
Bet
Frank Doudera, New Yorker, is in
Canada on hunting trip. He says
| he's after a timber, wolf nd, If he
gets it, wins $4,000 bet. Has to
be home with the pelt by April l..
We humans certainly are animated
by strange quests.
Who bet against Frank? For $10,-
900 any average trappsr would go
into the North Woods and bring out
freight car full of timber wolves.
Easy money. Why are these unim-
portant things interesting? The
vaudeville managers know.
"Smut
Police charge that thousands of
copies of an obscene book called
Smut" have been sold to Chicago
high school boys and girls. Discuss
ing this, many grown-ups will shake
their heads and comment that the
rising generation certainly is going
to pot.
The same groWn-ups may recall
reading Boccaccio and such booklets
as "Oniy a Boy" when they were
young. Strike an average and the
youngsters are just about the same
in one generation as another.
"R. U.R."
An airplane without pilot makes
a flight of six hours and half In
France. A pilot was aboard for en-
ergency, but he didn't touch the ma
chinery. The plane was under per-
feet control from the ground, by
radio.
Within 10 years you probably will
see the sky dotted with such ma
chimes, crewless. guided to destina.
ton by wireless waves. What will
it lead to? In the distant future we
see radio machinery doing the heavy
work of life, controlled from central
switchboards. Radio and airplane,
now just getting out of the toy stage,
will revolutionize ways of living
Competitor
DO you remember, when the war
ended, q wave Of fear swept our
country that Germany would corner
the worlds foreign trade?
Reduced to value in American dol
lars, our exports last year totaled
about four times as much as Ger
many's
This illustrates again, that we live
in an age of false alarms. Great
crises threaten us, one after another.
You have observed that they do not
materialiZe. Nerves make US
dread the chimeras.