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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
THE sporswooD ROAD IMPROVEMENT

A1.saotswood does not seem to be getting square deal from the
Board of F~reeholders. Last year, when the road between tnaC
borouob and HeImetta became so worn that it was almost lmpass-
sbls IL was agreed by the county authorities that it would be per-
manentlv improved. The work was started, but about a mile
was left to be finished this spring.
But during the winter something happened. Governor Sllzer
ousted the old state highway board and patent pavement whlcn
had been specified for the Spotswood road became exceedingly
mnopular. Public opinion has been aroused and when the new
State Highway Commission took charge, notice was served on
county authorities that no state aid need be expected IN the matter
Of road building where royalties had to be paid on materials used
This was a direct blow at the patent pavements.
Although the Spotswood authorities claim that they were
sromised that as soon as the weather permitted the remainder OIL
road between that borough and Helmetta would be completed,
{ here seems now TO be no intention to continue the paving; instead
an effort is being made to patch up the old road. Naturally, the
spotswood people put up a kick. They are right. The freeholders
ought to make good their promise. Nothing is to be gained by
patching ND a road that has been utterly worn out as has this
read between Spotswood and Helmetta.
This highway, extending all the way from South Amboy
10 Jamesburg and Cranbury, passing through Old Bridge, Hell
meta and spotswood, is an important artery for travel. 1t ought
to be improved SO as to serve as q relief for the main Lincoln
Highway through New Brunswick. A great deal of the travel,
narticuIarIy local travel which is Of direct concern to the county
authorities. would use this route instead of the Lincoln Highway
If n were nut In decent shape. The road from Hemetta to James
buro has been paved with concrete, and the road through Old
Bridge has been improved. There remains this stretch between
Spstswood and Helmetta to be taken care of. Not only Spotswood,
suit the whole county is interested in this Improvement.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert Applej

Change
The radio craze creates a short
age of top-floor rooms in Boston
hotels. Travelling statesmen are
carrying radio outfits in their trunks.
They want top-floor rooms 1or
%stringing aerials. -
It's a good thing we do not build
for permanence in America. AS n
radio develops, favorable conditions
for its operation will have a lot to
do with making rented properties
attractive or unattractive. Not many
years until families. looking about
for a place to rent, will be inquiring
about landing and garage facilities
for their flying flivvers.
Peasants
Russian soviet fears trouble this
| spring when It pools and divides the
land in its Far East district. There
| most of the peasants are landowners,
with SO to ESQ acres apiece. They
farm this out to Koreans on
shares" while the owners hunt, fish
and work in nearby forests.
i The soviet will put the Koreans on
| an equal basis with the Russian
peasants. All corners will get land,
| as much as they will work person
ally-but no more. Important move
. ment, for the seat of wars INT mos
| other economic problems is in land
! ownership.
SANDER
A prominent society woman in an
| eastern city, accused of gossiplng
| maliciously and falsely about another
woman, is sued for $4,000 damages.
| The charge is SANDER.
Not mentioning any names, but IL
the SANDER laws were rigidly en-
| forced. we Wonder how many wo-
men wo Id be in Jail on paying
| heavy fines. Probably as many men
| as Men gossip as much as
| women, but more to the point and
less lingering on details.
Busy
Two important facts, concerning
| prosperity for the south:
From last Aug. 1 to March .,
! northern and southern spinners took
~5,144,621 bales of cotton, compared
with 4,291,365 bales in the cowe-
spending period a year ago. The
market gets better.
Worlds visible supply of American
cotton early in March was 2,733,Iel
bales, which was 1,156,799 bales less
than the supply a year age. For
tunes have been made by men with
the ability to grasp the trend behind
such statistics.
Farmers
Farmers and consumers will be
brought closer together by plans be-
ing put into effect by New Jersey
fruit and potato growers. Co-opera-
tive associations will use trucks to
reach new markets for members. A
good movement. We have too many
middlemen.
In Denmark the farmer gets an
average of 72 per cent of what the
consumer pays. In America the far
mer gets only 81 per cent. Our far
mers, suffering more than consum-
ers, are rapidly being reduced to a
peasant class. Something must be
done to give them a bigger share
of the nations buying power.
China
Professor VIE Lien Hung of Pekin
University sends this message to you:
Three great maps cover the history
of man. The first had the Mediter-
ranean basin as its center. Then a
shift, the new map conferred in the
Atlantic, with Europe on one side
and growing America on the other.
Professor Hung things the map Ii
changing again. The new map, he
predicts. will center in the Pacific,
with the Americans on one side and
Asia on the other. He is right. Eu-
ropean civilization is ~decaying.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
BOOMING sILzER FOR PRESIDENT

Something seems to have slipped a cog in the proposed
launching of a boom for Governor silzer for President. Assem-
blyman DeVoe rushed into print a few days ago declaring himself
put for the governor and placed himself before the public as a can
ddate for the next Democratic national convention IN order to be
d on the firing line. Democratic County Chairman Hayes said
nevos had spoken prematurely; that it was the intention of the
Democratic leaders when they met in conference Tuesday night, to
aunch such a boom But after the conference was over there was
iothing about the boom to be said. 1t is evident that Governor
sker himself has been heard from. He has asked to be saved
rom his enthusiastic friends. He has previously announced that
le was not thinking Of the presidency, but was content just to be
governor Of New Jersey. That ought to be sufficient for the
present. This ambition to be known as the FIRST man to boom
sIzer for President" has evidently got the best of the good judg
ment Of Demoystic leaders in this county. zsae.s
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

O. Do fish feel pain from a hook
or a spear ?-H. w. e.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries says
that fish do not suffer much when
they are hooked or caught. Some
trout have been known to be hooked
two or three times In the same day,
the fisherman using the same type
of bait. Fish. no doubt. have a SEN
sation of discomfort but not as great
as that of the higher animals. In
general, a. fish must feel some pam
on some parts OF the body, but has
few nerves around the mouth where
it is apt to be hooked.
G.. Next to Washington. what city
has the most women in Industry
+. j. II.
A. While 40 per cent OF the wo-
men of Washington are engaged IN
gainful occupations, New Bedford,
Massachusetts,. is a good second with
1875 per cent. Fall River, Mass, Is
third; Lowell, Mass Is fourth. and
Atlanta, Georgia, fifth. OF married
women who work, New Bedford has
the highest per cent; Washington is
second; Atlanta, third; Fall River,
fourth, and Nashville and Memphis,
Tennessee, Nth.
@. Where is the Elephant Butte
Dam located PA. +. Il.
A. Elephant Butte Dam, n or
the largest of the governments 5rri-
CATION projects, Is situated in Sierre
county, New Mexico, in the valley OF
the Rio Grande, 100 miles north of
the point where the river strikes the
Mexican border.
@. Did the Chinese originate I'm.
~broidering Pm. u. p.
A. Whether embroidery originat-
ed in China or in India is a disputed
point. The Chinese claim to have
~practised 1t 5000 years B. G. and In
dia also boasts of similar antiquity
in the art.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

@. Was Virginia Dare born in
Virginia or North Carolina2
T. 1.-THE first white child Boz
In America was born on RoanokN
Island, Virginia. This, however, IT
nov part of North Carolina.
O. How large would a SIG carat
diamond be?-E. ]. s.
A., The Geological Survey says
that it has not the dimensions or
The SIS carat diamond but a dia-
mond weighing 634 carats roughly
~octahedral in shape Is about W o
inches thick and one 457 carats Is
Q Ia inches long and / Ia inches
thick.
@. About what period did humor
become common in the works or
English prose writers?-A. H. 4. -
A. About the first CHARTER OF tn
18th century.
used I'm. H. d.
A. 1t would be impossible to say
when and where furniture vas first
made. The Assyrians, Babylonians
n Egyptians used it in most re-
rnote lines Furniture then con-
sisted largely of rugs. curtains ana
cushions.
O.. Who was president OF the Sec
ond continental congress ?-H. H.
A, Peyton Randolph.
O. What two great composers
lie buried side by side in the Cen
r a cemetery in Vienna?-A. II. ID.
A. Schubert and Beethoven. The
body of the latter was inferred there
on June FL, 1888:
O. Has manufactured comb hon@
ey ever been made that was just
like the work Of the .b~ees?--J. T. q.
A. A reward was offered in 1904
for a single section OF manufactured
comb honey which was like bees
honey. The reward is still good u
has never been claimed.
q. What is the salary OF the
Prime Minister OF Ensland?--L. 8.
A. He receives about $4,000 q
year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

Sad things about having the old
pep all night is you may have the
old pip all day.
Swat the fly. Flies come into The
house without wiping their feet.
Enough coal has been mined now
to keep US warm until winter.
A great many people living on the
fat of the land are living on the fat
houded of the land.
Tho road to hell is paved, which
is why the traffic Is heavy.
A neighbor tells us he has already
gotten a meal out of his garden 1t
waI a chicken
The ever increasing number of
divorces is an evil. Dividing never
vii, be multiplying.
Experience isn't such a great
teacher if you spend all of your
time on the same lesson.
Distance doesn't lend any en-
chantment to a tack in your shoe.
Absence of winter makes the
heart grow fonder.
You can't keep a good head of
hair down.
Baseball fans blow almost as
much as electric fans
People go to n lot of trouble they
/, sIu1id keen AWAY from.
Naturally. the rising generation
gets out of bounds.
Consider the little birds. Flying
around all the time keeps them up
in the air.
Every man thinks his garden pla:
is the land of promise.
All good feelings should be ex-
pressed. Most of them arrive as If
sent by freight.
The small boys idea OF heaven is
a place where they use ice cream
bricks for paving
Even II she does rouge nicely,
find out II she can cook. Two can't
live on rouge.
When you see onions in the ( ront
yard instead OF flowers hubby Is the
boss in that home
Keep out of jail II you can. Jail
Is too combining
Dancing five days and nights IL
darn near as foolish as worrying
five days and nights
One day our swell ball team win
Next day our rotten team loses
The mosquito has 90 teeth whicl
bite the hand that feeds him
While passing out pointed re
marks remember the porcupine. Hi
. only friends are other porcupinee
Save the Trouble OF hunting for a
apartment by reading the Apartment
) and Flats" column In the Classified SEE
tion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
stnns Hackine Cough

Had a hacking cough for years,
and Foley's Honey ana Tar is the
only remedy that reached my
cough. I have not been troubled
with it SINCE" writes Mrs. e. M.
Dolby. Asbury Park, N. ]. Coughs.
Colds. Group, Throat. Chest and
Bronchial trouble r quickly reliev-
ed with Foley's Honey and Tar. Con-
tains no opiates-insredients pointed
on the wrapper. Largest selling
cough medicine in the World. Sol6
eyerywhere.-Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
The Old Tow,
Street by street-Know Your City
COMMERCE. STREET

Commerce street extends from the
Sound north to state street. This
thorougrfare is sixty feet wide and
from High street to State street lis
paved with a bitulithio surface. from
Nigh street TO the sound the paving
Is brick. Sewers, sidewalks. curbs
and other improvements found or
modern city streets are also found
on Commerce street. From High
street to the sound the street is de-
voted to manufacturing interests,
while several fine residences are loc-
ated on the section from High street
to State street. Many years ago
Commerce street was known as
North Dock street and was one of
the main thoroughfares leading to
the Ramsay shipyard.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03
Bible Thought For Today

- A LOVE FEAsT:-Better is a dinner OF hefo'
where love is, than a stalled OK and hatred nereWrh'-rfo'ei
1917.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

GEORGE Fl. THOMPSON
CARPENTER AND BUILDER
Jobbing Promptly Attended 20
81 Lewis st. Phone 14Qo.W
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

A great many people living on the
fat of the land are living on the fat
heuded Of the land.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

Swat the fly. Flies come into The
house without wiping their feet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

Enough coal has been mined now
to keep us warm until winter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

apartment by reading the Apartments
and Flats" column In the Classified Sec
tion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

Tho road to hell is paved, which
is why the traffic Is heavy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

Sad things about having the old
pep all night is you may have the
old pip all day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02

board. Jefferson County League of Women Voters will be held at head quarters on Tuesday, December 1, at 1130 o'clock. according to announce ment of Mrs. J. Ii. Hankins, presi- the new food ordinance being pre- pared by the health department. Dr.. J. D. Bowling will be present and explain the ordinance, and action. on 1t will be taken by the board.
 NC0URsE IS PUBLIC SPEAKINGN
 At the executive board meeting of the League of Women Voters, held pr. Henry Gaines Hawn of New York to conduct a weeks course in public speaking during the . first or second week in March. pr. Hawn has visit ed Birmingham twice before under the auspices of the Chamber of Com merce. He is recognized as the fore most exponent of the art of teaching public speaking in this country.
 As the course will be limited to 65 students, it is important that those who wish to avail themselves of It should register immediately, either at headquarters, Main 5SS6, or with Mrs. Palmer Daugette or Mrs. A. J. Grefenkamp. who are -chairmen for arranging-the course.
 The course will open with a pub lie lecture; there will be two classes daily, and will close with a dramatic performance by Dr. Hawn, accord ing to the American City bureau, Tribune building, New York city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02

day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the Presbyterian church at Leeds, and all who are interested >are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Hudson will preside at the meeting, and de- program Is being arranged through Mrs. Clyde Lee, Mrs. W. A. Spruell of Birmingham, who worked in Leeds during the recent member ship campaign of the League of Women Voters, was instrumental in having the meeting called, as she found that so many of the women voters of Leeds were interested in the work of the league.
 Those from Birmingham who will attend the meeting are Mesdames ". A. Spruell, J. NJ. Hankins, E. J.. Burns and Trenton Fisk. It is pointed out that in forming a branch league. all it's members will also be members of the Jefferson County leagne and eligible to attend all meetings, but a certain portion of the dues will be returned to the Leeds branch to be used in local work.
 BOARD MEETING TUESDAY
 A call meeting of the executive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02
COMMENTS OF INTEREST
 ABOUT ASHEVIILE. N. q.

ASHEVILLE, N. C.-Visitors from all parts of the country have been coming to Asheville by motor and train for Thanksgiving in the moun- tains, and they found an abundance of entertainment planned for the holiday. Golfers spent the day on the Asheville and Biltmore Forest Coun- try club courses, which were in per feet playing condition. Members of the Asheville Country club partici- pated in a tournament for the Con- nally cup, which is placed in compe- tion each Thanksgiving and Inde- pendence Day. The trophy, donated by Mrs. Alice Connally, becomes the property of the player winning three tournaments.
 Holiday dinners and tea dances were given at the hotels and Coun- try clubs. Over one hundred quests reserved tables at the Biltmore For est Country club dinner dance, among those attending being L. NJ. Boomer, manager of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York, and his wife and eight friends. They included J. S. Huston, vice president of the Chemi cal National bank, New York, and l.. c. Haines, treasurer of the Florida East Coast Hotel company. Many guests motored over to Wentworth inn for dinner and dancing.
 Nearly two hundred film artists are now engaged in screening scenes depicting the early life of George Washington in the series of pictures sponsored by Yale university, show ing vital events in American history from the landing of Columbus to the assassination of President Mckinley. Headquarters of the Chronicles of America Moving Picture corporation, producers of the picture, is at Esmer- al in ,,yitb in al unity of Asheville in the rugged and picturesque Hickory Nut gap in>~the Rocky river gorge. The work is under the supervision of G. w. Stephenson of Yale university, an au- thority on early American history. A number of Catawba Indians are ap- bearing in the cast.
 The North Carolina hunting season promises to be one of the, most nota- ble in recent years. Kingdom Gould, George Gould, Pierpont Morgan, Charles Steele and Thomas Cochran of New York, and J. s. Prick and P. J. Maroney of Baltimore are among those who have taken out hunting licenses for shooting on their pre- serves near Greensboro.
 Mrs. Vernon Moore returned to Asheville on Tuesday after spending a fortnight with her mother in Bir- mingham. Arnold Sims of Talladega, Ala, who attended Bingham Military school in Asheville and gradua ted from the University of North Caro- Tina. will be married next week to Miss Catherine McMillan of the same Alabama city. Both young people have many friends in Asheville.
 AIr and Mrs. F. W. DuBoise have gone to Birmingham after spending several months in the Land of the Sky.
 A large audience attended the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02
FAMOUS HORSES
Civil War Repletc With Interest In
 Loved Charges

The celebrity that has attended the horses of all ages which have carried successful generals in battle has led to their selection as models by artists and sculptors, but unhap7 oily monuments are rarely erected until long after the generals and their horses have passed to the grea. beyond.
 Many horses of military leaders, such as Bucephalus the charger of Alexander the Great Marengo, the famous horse of Napoleon, and Co., penhagen, the favorjte mount of'the duke of Wellington, are we'll know n to history.
 America s.not lacking in historic horses Every school boy is familiar with the picture of Gen: Israel Put nam on his favorite horse, galloping madly down long flight of steps to escape the British dragons. The pie ture of Washington on his handsome charger, Nelson, receiving the sur render of Cornwallis' army at York : town, has brought the glow of pride to generations of Americans. Three quarters of century ago it was wholly improbable that. any discus sion of the campaigns in Mexico could take place without some mem ton of Gen. Zachary Taylor's well known horse, Old Whitney.
 The Civil war was replete with in terest in the favorite horses of the great commanders.
 Gen. Ulysses Grants military ca reer was wholly devoid of theatrical display, but he was generally recog- nized as a fine horseman. and the men of the western armies always manifested interest when he rooe among them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02

Thanksgiving entertainment by the Asheyille School for Boys Dramatic club, assisted by the schools glee club and orchestra. Peter stewart Of New Orleans played the part Of "Crawls" in the playlet, -Four of Kind" while Evans Farwell. also of the Crescent City, appeared in the
 Mai. Gen. W. II. Gordon, conn mander of the infantry school at Fort Benning. Ga, and his wife are registered at the Manor for an ex- tended sojourn. Major General Cor don commanded the Sixth division in France and was the first officer to take 12.00o troops overseas aboard the Leviathan. Also at the Manor are staying Commander and Mrs. J. H. Walsh of New Orleans.
 Chester Brown returned to Asne- vile on Tuesday after visiting ms mother in Grenada, Miss. MTs. J. w. Jones left for her home in Horatlo, Ark, early in the week after staying with her sister, Mrs. T. B. Allen, m Hendersonville.
 Visitors of the week in the Land of the Sky include R. E. Bennett or Shreveport. La. Mrs. William Hol- land of Tuscumbia, Ala; Q. H. Wal ters of Bessemer, Ala; Albert M. An derson of Thorsby Ala; Robert ". colbert or Gipslanu' ba., .-, 1, nert of Leland. Miss, and Thomas J. Glenn of Pensacola, Fla.
 Motoring to Asheville from Blr- mingham to spend Thanksgiving were G. A. Petit, E. s. Shill, Arthur L. Reid, Miss Winifred A. Jemison and Roy Brownie.
 Mrs. J. Walters and Miss Jane Walters arrived in Asheville on Mon day from New Orleans and will so- iourn in the mountains for several weeks.
 John S. Puttock of London has been the house guest of Mrs. Edith $. Vanderbilt at Biltmore house. Mrs. o. H. Carswe1l of Montgom- cry, Ala, high score at bridge party given recently by Mrs. DArcy Williams
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02
THE WOMAN CITIZEN Department Conducted By The County League Women
 Voters-Edited By Mrs. Hugh L. Allison

I ship school, to begin January q, as follows:
 Course I. Woman in relation to the three units of the government. which will include discussions of the con stitution and the child labor move- ment
 Course II. Election laws, includ- ing registration and poll tax.
 Course III. The reorganization Of state administration.
 The place and hours of the school have not yet been decided, nor has Mrs. Wallace yet made her commit x tee appointments. Holders of membership cards in the league will be admitted free, while others will be charged a small fee.
 The school will be the continuation of an intensive campaign for regis tration and paymentt of poll tax, which will be conducted by the league during the month of January, similar to the poll tax campaign staged last year, which added more than six thousand payments to the county treasury. In 1924, the registration books will be open for three months. January, February and March, and poll taxes are payable up to Feb ruary 1.
 During the citizenship school. special Coming of Age" party will be given In honor of the young girls who have recently become of voting age or will do so before the year is out.
 Mrs. Neil R. Wallace. as chairman of the citizenship committee. will have charge Of the school. The dlrec- tor will be Miss Helen Rocca of Cleveland who is Q special worker from the efficiency in government department of the National League of Women Voters. Miss Rocca is plan ming two night sessions for business women and others who cannot at tend day meetings, and there will also be one large general meeting, with 8 well known woman as speaker. followed by public re- ceDtion