Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25
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BY HARRY B. HUME
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are better than bees. It Is safer to
be an aviator than an apirarist.
These are the conclusions of Con-
gresham Royal Johnson of Aber-
deem. S. D., former first Lieutenant in
the 313th Infantry, 10th division.
A. e. +.
Despite his army service Johnson
still likes camp life, SO when faced
recently with the proposition of get
ting his family back to South Dakota
from Washington he organized a
new expeditionary force of himself,
his three boys and his bulldog and
faree forth with the family hiVver
and a couple of pup tents.
All went well-or as we'll as things
ordinarily go with tin-can tourists
until they reached Missouri. Then
as they were putt-putting along, OBJ
livious of all danger, catastrophe
overwhelmed them out of a clear
sky. Literally just that.
For without warning. premonition
or advance notice of any sort they
collided full tilt with a swarm\of nj
grating Missouri honey bees.
The open windshield seooped them
in by the score and distributed
them Unfortunately over driver,
boys and bulldog.
Space and vocabulary are too linn
tied to describe the ensuing activi-
enierged-swollen but not with
pride or victory-the fivver was the
only part of the expedition still in
running order.
II doesn't hurt a congressman to
know "a little something concern
ing the things he legislates abol.-
thinks Clarence M~acGregor, Buffalo
representative from New York =
Forty-first district. To make good
his theory. MacGregor is taking q
summer course in finance at the
University of Pennsylvania. Among
the subjects 10 which he is delving;
are THE Principles of Sound
Money" THE God Standard" and
THE Monetary System of the United
States.
AS chairman of the House Com
mittee on Accounts and a member
of the Banking and Currency
Committee, Mac Gregor's summer
stu1ies will doubtless prove helpful.
Perhaps yer more helpful than the
Education" several score of other
members are absorbing on congress
sional junkets.
To help his psychological ap-
preach to his studies-to give the
course the full flavor and atmos-
phere of college days-MacGregor is
living at the university dormitory.
And they gave him a medal for
that! (Remember the old song?)
For what?
Collecting stamps.
Who?
Ackerman-Hon Ernes. r. Acker
man, congressman from Plainfeld,
N. ].
AS a member OF the Foreign AZ
fairs Committee of the House and in
the interest of harmonious internal
tional relations, Alderman took his
collection to London recently to DIS
play az stamp ~fanclers show, They
handed him the gold medal for the
best collection of American 5 and
Decent stamps, and he came home
happy.
The trip from Europe, incident
ally, was Ackerman's forty-seVenth
ocean voyage. AS soon as he had
safety deposited his stamps at home
he left again for iortyeighth voy-
age-this time to the Philippines.
He deserves another medal for that.
Alderman, a Republican, was
president of the New Jersey Senate
Wills VOOQFOW wilson.
was Jerseys governor. Whenever
Wilson got outside the boundari IS
of the state Alderman sat in as act
ing governor. He's almost as proud
of that fact as he is of his stamp
collection. Which is some pride
The death of Senator William D.
Dillingham; of Vermont
from the Senate rolls the last octo D
genarian And on March 4, when
Congress adjourned, there were
three
Senator Page, also of Vermont,
who was so last January, retired on
that date.
Knute Nelson of Minnesota, three
weeks younger than Page, died in
May on his way from Washington 70
his hcme.
And Dillingham;, midway in his
eightieth year, died early in Jul ?.
Removal of these octogenarians
from the Senate leaves Francis E.
Warren of Wyoming, now one mon.h
past IS, the oldest member. Next
comes LeBaron Colt of Rhode Is
land II; then Albeit B. Cummins of
Iowa, a youngster of 10, third. Lodge
OF Massachusetts,, three months
younger than Cummins, comes
fourth.
charity.