Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-07
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Fast
Juries trying ~bootleggers are legal
ly entitled to drink the evidence. So
rules a deputy prosecuting attorney
in Los Angeles. Higher powers will
have something to say about that,
but it makes good reading at the
time.
Brookline, Mass, richest munich
pality of it's size in the world. again
votes to keep movie theatres out of
town. The vote is 1894 against mo-
yies, 1863 for. You wonder what
they do, in d town of that size, to kill
time.
THESE two interesting items come
from opposite ends of the continent.
Yet they ara available to newspaper
readers all over the country within a
few minutes after the actual events.
Many now living can recall when it
took weeks to carry the news that
far. Human thought and action are
broadcast quickly in our time. Fast
communication is the greatest mar
vel of the twentieth century.
Destination
The G. A. r. reports that its mem
bership last year dwindled by 14,512
leaving only 71,106 of the Blue vet
Grams alive. At that rate, it'll only
be a few years until you'll see a pic
ture Of "the last O.. a. r. man"
Time slips by rapidly. Before we
realize, The Al: surY:vor of the.
american Legion Will be hul hing
about with 7 cane This life IL mere
~ a %jourHoy, and he means of
transportation seems a lot faster
than the airplane. Curious, how
some of us act as if we'll be here al
ways.
Dumb bells
We're a nation of dumb-bells, a
Chicago professor means. To back
himself up, he points to the intel
ligence test conducted in the army
during the war, (which shows that
only IL per cent are of superior or
very superior intelligence, while "a
per cent are very dull, feeble minded
or on the border line. These tests
present an accurate sample of the
adult male mind"
Rot! These Intelligence tests
are 95 per cent bunk. They are based
on a false premise, that a~lertness
tfast thinking) is real intelligence.
Socrates. slow thinker, couldn't pass
a modern Intelligence test
LdDCf
The world now has PISA different
languages and dialects, according to
experts on talking. Is it any won
der countries do not understand each
other, are suspicious, distrustful?
We should have an international
language, such as Esperanto, for the
same reasons that we have an inter
national Morse code for telegraphy.
Itll come, as soon as someone fig
ures out how to make money by
bringing it about. Profit is the gen
orator of progress.
Prosperity
We've reached a point in this,
country where booms are no longer
safe. claims Theodore H. Price, able
publisher of Commerce and Finance
magazine. Industry nj longer
needs the stimulus of abnormality.
We can avoid alternating depression
and imitation by refraining from be-
coming victims of u own n
thusiasm."
That's easy-if the nation really
wants to stabilize. Depression al
ways is the direct result of hoggish-
ness-dishonesty, "a national cpl
demic of trying to get more than We
give in return.
Buying
We've overdone the art of sales
manship. It's time to cultivate more
intelligence in buying, according to
Theodore II. Price. That's true.
Schools of craftsmanship exist on
every hard. But you ever heard of
a school to train buyers. Until we
have them, business will be without
a balance wheel, no scientific equi-
librium.