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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
PERTH AMBoY TO DO ITS PART

Perth Amboy has a duty to perform. 1t is up to us to do 1t
promptly and cheerfuly. The world has been Mortified by the ter
rible catastrophe that has befanen the people of Japan. Whole
cities were wiped out in an instant with a tremendous loss of life.
Hundreds of thousands are homeless and destitute, exposed to the
ravages of pestilence. Every human heart is touched, and human
ity is called upon to render aid.
The one great international agency for handling the relief
work is the Red Cross. Hardly had the earth stopped trembling
before that wonderful organization had set its machinery in mo-
ton. This movement on the part of the Red Cross is as inspiring
as the catastrophe is h~orrifying. Into every town and hamlet the
organization reaches, giving everyone a chance to have a part in
rendering aid.
Here is where Perth Amboy and all the surrounding cities and
towns come in. The Perth Amboy chapter has called a public
meeting to be held in the council chamber at City Hall tonight.
It is proposed to form an organization to raise a subscription here
for the japanese relief. The national headquarters has fixed
Perth Amboy's quota for the relief fund at a little over $4,000.
The city has a reputation to uphold and the only way to do it is
to get this money within the next few days.
New York city raised over 81, 100000 in a single day for the
japanese relief. Other cities are showing the same enthusiasm in
furnishing the funds so that the work of the Red Cross may go on
without interruption. America prides herself that she does not
mix up in the quarrels of other nations, but is always ready to re-
leve the suffering anywhere at any time. Race, color or religion
Humanity is calling and it is America that invariably answers the
call. Perth Amboy is called upon to do her part. Every citizen
pught to give something, no matter how small. Let it be known
That Perth Amboy can always hold up her end when there is
something worth while to be done.
The catastrophe in Japan is one of the worst in the world
history. The need is urgent. There should be a large attendance
1T the public meeting in City Hall tonight and the response to the
quest for contributions ought to be prompt and generous.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
AVIATION BECOMING SAFER

That aviation is steadily becoming safer is evidenced in a num-
Der Of ways. The most striking of the recent indications that the
hazards of flying are diminishing may be found in announcement
Of a member of the British air ministry that there has been no loss
OF life or injury to a passenger on any of the four great airpane
lines between England and the continent of Europe in the past two
years. We can pretty nearly match that in the record of our air mail
service. There was not a single fatality among the postal filters
last year, though they Travelled a total Of 1,750,OO0 miles in the air
the air, carrying 100000 letters.
The growing scarcity Of aviation mishaps stands out in graft
tying contrast with the experience of a few years ago when acct
dents were of frequent occurrence, and demands were even made
ahat the air mail service be discontinued because it was too dan
gerous to the pilots.
Safety devices have been introduced in the construction of
a;rplanes and the pilots have become better versed in the methods
Of safe navigation of the atmosphere. At McCook field, Dayton,
last winter, an army fier, Lieutenant Harris, escaped death
fbrough a parachute when his airplane went to pieces at a height
Of $500 feet. Parachutes are now part of the regular equipment
df the United States military planes.
It is largely in experiments, or tests, that the casualties of the
air result. Trick flying, spectacular performances, circus feats,
involve considerable risk but the hazard has been in great degree
eliminated from the kind Of flying that is done by the postal
sxiatoEz and the operators oeAaaehines on the commercial lines.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
WHEN YOU DIE

At some unknown date in the future, your heart will stop
beating. What them Death, of course. But what is deathg
Read the strange case of eight-yearold Jack Leaney, of Strait
ford, Canada.
He was i'll, in agony. At 10 O'Clock at night, his heart
f1uttered and ceased beating. Physicians applied every test
known to science. ''It's all over, they announced gravely.
1.-THE lad is dead
But shortly after midnight, two hours later, his heart be-
gan beating again. He breathed. Life was miraculously re-
stored, though only for three hours. At 5 in the morning,
he died for the second time. This death was final. Jack
Leaney is buried, gone into the Hereafter.
Medical journals soon will be discussing this.
It'll possible to bring a man "back to life" after the heart
has stopped beating, by injecting adrenaln, most power
full of heart stimulants. But only under certain conditions,
usually when the sick man expires from the a%naesthetic dur
ing an operation Even then, according to medical rule, adj
renalin must be injected within a few minutes after the
heart stops beating.
The Jack Leaney case is one Of the greatest mysteries in
medical history. The doctors, of course, finally will decide
that the lad first "death'' was>really a condition of suspen-
dd animation, form Of trance. But isn't suspended anima-
ton" a good description of his second death-of all deathsf
You see a man driving an auto. 1t runs along smoothly.
Then it goes dead, stops. A little tinkering a
broken-down part replaced with a new one and
the auto runs again. If the collapse of the mechanism is too
emphatic, the owner buys a new car. s.
Our bodies are the autos driven by our spirits. The auto
wears out. The driver gets a new car.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

@. What Is 1t about finger marks
that makes 1t possible to bring them
out? A. X. D.
A. Fingerprints contain mainly
salt and grease. BY careful busting
with lampblack the impression is
brought out clearly.
@. What are the earliest figures
on the wealth of the United States?
r. T. L.
A. The Bureau of Census says the
first report OF the wealth in the
United States wAs taken in 1850. AT
that time the total wealth was ST.
135,780,000 or s307.6s per capita. 1t
was estimated in 1920 that the
wealth of the United States was
1920, 900, 100000 OIL $2,6S9.34 per
capita.
Q. What is the meaning of P. P.
G. used On visiting cards? NJ. p. I.
A. The abbreviation p. P. C. on
visiting cards stands for the French
words Pour Prendre Congel The
phrase is used when n is forced to
leave the city without having return
ed calls.
@. How Is invisible ink made
which turns red with application of
heat? A. A.
A. A weak solution of nitrate of
copper gives an invisible writing,
which becomes red through heat.
@. While passing through Marl-
borough, Massachusetts,, I noticed a
small sign pointing into the woods
which read MARY Goodnow's
Grave. Why is her grave pointed
out? B. R. c.
A. Mary Goodnow was the daugh-
ter of Samuel Goodnow. On August
IS, 1907, she and Mary Fay were
gathering herbs in a meadow near a
garrison designed for use by her
family, and others. Indians ap-
preached them. Mary Fay ran to-
ward the garrison, but Mary Good
now could not, because of lameness.
Some of the Indians followed the
fleeing girl; the rest attacked Mary
Goodnow. She was killed and scalp
ed: Her body was later buried at
the spot now marked by a stone.
O. Has copper ore ever been found
on the surface In this country? A.
p. K.
"A. ISdllNo COpPeT was OuuQ at IHe
surface along the shores of Lake
Michigan.
@. Are r~attlesnakes the only
snakes that give birth to their
young? L. z. ].
A. Many serpents lay eggs but the
most venomous ones and many of
the commonest species are vivipar-
Gus. The viviparous retain the eggs
within the body until Matched. Rat
tlesnakes are viyiparous and produce
from six to nine young of five inches
in length.
@. In what class do natural gas
and petroleum belong? A. z. r.
A. They are classed as minerals.
@. What is the Swiss Guard2 H
T.
A. The original Swiss Guard wai
a regiment OF royal body guards OF
the rulers of France, constituted b.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

servant problem. Delve as you will
in old records you will find that the
good old days when there was no
servant problem is like the horizon;
as you approach it, it still recedes.
Part of Jobs Troubles
Job was not free from the prob
lem. "They that dwell in my house,
and my maids, count me for a stran-
ger" he complains. IT am an alien
in their sight. 1 called my servant
and he gave me no answer"
Plato was n of the earliest ex-
tensive commentators on the servant
problem. Solomon had something to
say about it but did not go into the
subject so deeply as the Greek phil
osopher. He wrote books about the
problem and held learned discussions
on how to treat servants. Plato js
fair to servants in a strictly I'M
personal way. He counsels his peo-
pie never to speak to a servant but
in a tone of command and yet to
be invariably just to them. He in
sists that 1t is more important to
be impartially just to servants than
to equals, for the equal has more
opportunity of redress than the serv-
ant. This, he says, is especially
true of slaves.
When Aristotle, who was the
teacher of Alexander the Great, came
along, he took a milder view. He
thought that a servant should be
encouraged in a certain degree of
familiarity and even went so-far as
to dine with his servants. In early
Rome, we have the interesting *
ample of Seneca who thought that
IL 1Ia
utmost kindness.
This is just scraping the surface
a little. The next time the earnest
housewife believes she has occa-
sion to wish for the good old days
because the servant problem is Sc
difficult, let her wonder if, perhaps
she is not better off in an age when
so many labor saving devices have
made servants much more dispen-
sable than they were in the days OF
Plato.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
YOUR HEALTH
TYPHOID FEVER
BY DIR. CLIFFORD C. ROBINSON

Typhoid fever occurs most in sum-
mer and early fall.
The typhoid bacillus seems to
be somewhat irregular in suscepti-
bility In different individuals. Its
f~avorite range in both males and fe-
males lis from Is or 16 years old to
about 35. Don't let your summer
vacation be broken up and your after
life interfered with by contracting
this disease.
If YOUR vacation is spent in the
city. your chance of infection Is
rather remote. Cities have reduced
typhoid almost to the minimum. In
1922 the extremely low rate OF 3'l5
for every hundred thousand persons
was averaged by the large cities OF
the United States.
Drinking water is a common source
of typhoid infection. If you are
drinking well water in a rural DIS
trict, and are not sure, boil the Wa
ter. Don't drink raw milk unless
you wish to invite typhoid baciil 70
dwell in you.
Watch out for the common house
fly. He is a carrier of this troupIe'
Avoid bathing in polluted water,
Persons who have had typhoid may
continue to carry the bacilli in their
systems for weeks and even months
Such persons are called typhoid
carriers" Be on the lookout also
for this bacilli in polluted soil.
Typhoid begins with a slight head
ache. loss of appetite and lassltude
There is some fever and restlessness
at night but nothing of a pronounced
nature so that one may be on guard
This is just the trouble-you have
contracted typhoid and don't Know
it. The safe way is always to have
your guard up and not give TINS
bacilli half a chance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Uenin
DR.. Furster, celebrated German
medical Specialist who treated Lenin
says. Zone Of the causes of Lenin's
disease is bullet that was fired by a
revolutionary girl, and in his neck
it hurt one of the main arteries, the
consequence of which is that the
feeding of the brain by the blood Is
becoming gradually diminished and
he is dying because his brain dries
up"
At that Lenin may have a chance
For if drying up of the brain were
always fatal, few of us would live
beyond 40.
Sixty days ago the president of a
large Goa company said to US:
There's a surplus Of 100 million
tons of coal in the United States.
An anthracite strike would cause a
lot of hard coal consumers to turn
to soft coal, thereby eating into this
surplus. With no strike, the price
of soft coal to consumers should
drop considerably this coming win
ter.
One result Of the average coal
| strike is to create a fat and prosper
Gus market for the coal industry.
wv dTEItlA
Theatre managers say that mys-
terry plays and comedies make the
audiences blood circulate fast, by
stimulating the heart, which in turn
makes the bodies of the watchers
generate more heat. Some managers
even claim that this increased heat
radiates into the air sufficiently tc
raise the temperature of the theatres
several degrees.
No one minds cold when excited
In a pinch maybe we could ust
Nick Carter and the funny paper al
coal substitutes.
Longer
We Americans are g%luttons fol
punishment, seem to thrive oil
trouble. The Census Bureau reports
that the average length of life in
creased three and a third years dur
ing 1921, a year of hard times.
One reason for this is that we 1gh
harder to live when the struggle 70.
existence becomes more sereve. Mott
ing Is more consuming, even fatal
than a soft life"
Salvage
The fleet that vas scuttled ant
sunk by the Germans at Scapa FLOW
in June, 1919, will be raised by tn
British admiralty and sold as junk
It's a pity that all the battleship
afloat can't be turned yer to tn
iunkmen. AS long as the worll
packs a gun, there's bound to b
shooting. No permanent peace unit
there's complete disarmament.
Il Ell ~
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
F~uRUNCULOsIs

Furuncles or pimples together
with their little darker brothers.
comodones or bfackheads, decorate
the faces of altogether too many
people, young and middle ageo'
women as well as men.
Through pinching and squeezing
their pus-producing organisms are
sometimes forced into the Venous
circulation. The blood stream may
then carry them to other organs OF
tissues of your body, where they
may do serious harm.
This may sound rather unimpor-
tant, as the majority of people re-
gard squeezing a pimple or W a
morning exercise of no consequence.
But you NAY ONE day have a con-
dition for which you cannot account
II MAJ be a serious infection, caus-
ing YOU much pain and suffering.
Their presence is usually the sign
of a lowered bodily resistance. Per-
haps your diet is not evenly q
anced. containing too high a per-
centage of carbohydrates, such az
vegetables, starch and sugar. II
your skin is naturally oily, you may
be forcing this unnatural suppura-
tive conAition by eating too much OF
energy or fat-forming foods. Care
lessness in bathing or allowing the
pores to become clogged by lack OF
proper exercise or flee perspiratlon'
NAV also encourage pimples.
To get rid of pimples, try the rol-
lowing treatment:
Do not squeeze, pinch or puncture
them. A Mild, simple ointment or a
zinc ointment should be on
them to cause a gradual drying Ut
or ripening of the pustules. When
ripe open carefully with a sharp
sterile instrument. This will result
in a. small seal which may eventual
ly disappear. -,
Be careful not to cut or scratch
your skin. II the pimple is a deep
seated one try the application OK :
small hot compress.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

royal decree, 1916. 1t was composed
entlrely or Swiss and SO conducted
ltseir that 1t a world famous
lor absolute fidelity and courage.
traditions of the guard were
Kept up until after the final dissolu-
ton of the empire. The papaI guard.
known as the Swiss Guard consists
of ten officers and 10 men, picked
from Swiss of unblemished charac-
ter, and, in the case of the officers
of high family. Only Swiss were al
lowed to serve and privates may noe
marry during their term of service.
Q. What is a disme? A. L. +.
A. "I4sme" is the old spelling for
the word dime.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic J.. Haskin, Direc-
tor. Washington, d. C. This offer
applies strictly to information. The
bureau will not attempt to answer
medicinal n financial troubles. It
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, nor to undertake exhaus-
tive research on any subject, Write
your question plainly and briefly.
GIVE 1uil name and address and en-
close two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
Against

The Knights of the Blazing Ring
which announces itself against all
clans and klans," claims that its
membership is growing like wildfire.
Sounds reasonable. AS soon as a
Soctety-For becomes powerful, up
rises a Society-Against, to cut IL
down. Nature by volcanic ~upheaval
creates a mountain, then instantly
starts destroying it by erosion. Thia
three dimensional universe of ours
has an memorable system of checks
and balances. Just a matter of time
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
THEOLDToWN
Street by Street-Know Your City
Raritan Avenue

Raritan Avenue
Named after the Raritan river,
Raritan avenue extends from Brace
avenue west to Carlock avenue. 1t
was laid out about 1912 by Asher
Atkinson of New Brunswick. The
street is graded and has a few
shade trees. There are no sidewalks
or curbing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Detroit scrubwoman went to work
in her auto, proving they charge in
Detroit like they do here.
Ten were arrested for sleeping in
a Chicago theatre. We think We
have seen that show.
New York brides baby weighs half
a ton, SO Of course it is a baby ele-
plant given al a present.
Chimney has been built in Ana
conda. Mont, S5'feet high, causing
many cricks in farmers necks.
Doctors estimate Americans have
$1,000 600 pounds excess fat, which is
a lot of b~ootleggers.
Thin summer dresses are all right.
One enabled a Chicago girl to tear
loose from a robber.
Madura girls of fourteen are old
maids. They hardly have learned to
smoke at that age here.
FIJI girls nave Lnelr ddLe OF Dlrtn
tAttooed. No matter where it is it
shows. We might try it.
This bees knees, cats pajamas,
gnat's eyebrows conversation is get
ting to be the snakes hips.
Nobody wins a dance. The couples
come out neck and neck.
Song hits soon miss. Yes, we have
no Eyes, We Have No Bananas" is
due.
The social butterfly steers clear of
the wall flower.
Our radio sounds as II she needs a
new needle.
A social lion is one who thinks he
is the cats whiskers.
Thinking is a great pastlme. But
it you don't do 1t right 1t will get you
into lots Of trouble.
AS leaves are falling from the
trees hay fever in with g
sneeze.
The last rose of summer usually
arrives with the first nose of winter
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Nurses among the Armenians Of
Russia owe the skin of ~newly-boru
babies with salt to keep evil spirttN
away and insure the little ones
health and strength.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Each grain of sand of Eigg Island
off the Scottish coast, at times rubs
against it's neighbor, the whole mak-
ing a noise that has given 1t the
name of Singing sand"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
Ni6
INIlftl@
WOK[d
BY MILTON
NEA Service Writer

DEMONSTRATIONS certainly
looks after the British. They don't
look after themselves. When it
comes to food cleanliness and food
preservation they are just one mil
lion miles behind us. For instance,
seen in one walk around town:
A butcher shop in which the
meat was hanging on hooks in the
open air, without any attempt to
cool it artificially. No fly screens,
no big cool ice box such as we take
as a matter of yours in our country.
A fish shop in which the hsh lay
on the zinc counters with very little
ice and with the flies swarming on
them.
A boy pushing through the streets
a handcart in which several big
rusty-looking cans held milk. No
Ice, The milk was dipped out OF the
cans amid clouds of dust.
A wagon delivering rolls and
| bread to a little restaurant. Bread
wrapped In clean transparent paper
unknown. Man drops some of the
| rolls on the pavement, dusts them
off on his Goa and delivers them as
If nothing had happene1.
Having heard these things 1t will
not surprise you that at this late
date the British Minister of Health
has just appointed committee to
inquire whether thesuse of ~preServa-
tives and coloring matter in food is
injurious to health and, if so, IN
| what quantities. Secondly, wheth-
err the presence of such materials
| should be announced on the con-
tainer.
Britain is still the home of
fruit preserves" made out OF
melon rinds and carrots, in which
| real fruit seeds.
The other day a doctor who served
| as an examiner for the British army
told me one man who came to him
gave as his regular employment
"assorter of flower seeds for fruit
preserves"
Goshi
A cynical British friend has just
asked me whether Congress will
vote a medal of honor to the jolly
old tar who captains the italian
ship, President Wilson.
| According to him, two days before
the vessel was due in New York, the
captain received a wireless from It
ally warning him beer was not al
| lowed inside. our three-mile line.
He responded at once:
Doing all we can. One thousand
| thirsty passengers drinking beer
rapidly as possible. Hope to arrive
in New York square with the laws"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
Bible Thought For Today

AS MOTHERS C0MFORT-As one whom his mother
cemforteth, 50 will [ comfort ~you-Isaiah 66:13.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

People bothered to death by insur-
ance men may enjoy learning one is
in Jail In Akron, o.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
SMILES
BY TOM SIMS

Mrs. Coolidge Is a good knitter.
So is her husband when it to
knitting his brows.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Dubuque (Ia.) mar won an m
broidery prize. Men are making it
now. They may wear it some day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

A man Is starting a butterfly farm
in California. He will grow real but
terflies, not movie stars.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Duluth (Minn.) jury says dry
agent must take only eighteen
drinks. Doesn't 1t depend on how
dry he is?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Photographic the eclipse from an
airplane 10000 feet high eclipses
anything so far.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

An insane man may run for Office
in Buffalo, which is nothing new.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07

Detroit scrubwoman went to work
in her auto, proving they charge in
Detroit like they do here.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-05-18
Double Jeopardy
The wet newspapers are worrying great deal abe

The newspapers worrying deal about double
jeopardy They very much concerned the possibility of the
booegger being punished the They worry
much about this they do the doctor who has ma
upon the liquor prescriptions he write Double jeopardy
with subjecting
twice for the oense In the of prohibition laws the
tried punished by the city by the and by
federal In such while the punishment might
would be for separate offenes The single
breaking the prohibition law be violation of city
dinances and federal laws Each violation would be
grant
punishment for other ofenes committed by the
possible for yoaors real punishment
might very low fine for the act of booteggng and
thereby prevent punis by the federal
If this could be done under the law not only prohibition
nearly could be made ineffective by the simple
expeden passing ordinance and melting mild punish
its For this the question OF double
jeopardy usually applicable only serious oense
involving heavy punishment such death sentence.
The lack of patriotism and by newspapers
illustrated by their udcrous efforts to sympathy for
booegger the of double jeopardy Why
little sympathy victims who placed in much than
double jeopardy by. the mecenary poison peddlers!