Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-22
THE REFEREE
'NIassacred"
(By Albert Applet

'Massacred'
Ninety-seven per cent of the Ar
menian population In Turkey 'has
been wiped out to date, declares
Rev. DR.. G. B. Young, of the Near
| East relief organization.
AT this rate, if you bother to ado
up the Armenians "massacred" by
the Turks in the last 10 years (ac-
cording to the cables), there must be
| several millions of them left. Some
times We wonder If a propaganda
invented the adding machine. Why
exaggerate an evil that admittedly
exists and is strocious enough with
out e~xaggeration?
Ice
Is another Ice Age coming in
which a gigantic glacier will creer
down from the north pole toward
the equator? Quite possible. ac-
cording to some scientists who have
| studied the growth of northern gla-
ciers in the last 70 years.
The Macmillan arctic expedition
has, as one of it's main purposes, in
| vestigation of the possibility of an
I other Ice Age. If such a catastro-
phe came, how quickly nations ane
individuals would stop warning
! against and robbing each other! II
| the presence of m danger, we
/ quickly unite for the common good
You see this illustrated in disasters
such as foods and fires hat destroy
cities.
II your job seems monotonous anG
dull, think of e. P. Smith of the
! Old Colony Trust Co. in Boston. He
signs his name $4,000 times a year
on checks, etc. A machine, holding
five pen enables him to sign five
at a time. But that still necessitates
10000 signatures a year. And If it's
as boresome as when teacher usec
to make us stay after school and
write the same thing over and over
again on the blackboard, Smith de-
serves a medal. Yet his job is the
kind that Standardization and mass
| production and efficiency" are
bringing all humanity toward stead
lily. We are walling ourselves in a
frightful prison.
Church
The tide is turning, and Euro.
peans are coming back to the
churches, reports Prof. K. H. Roes-
singh of Leyden, Holland. This
comes after an epidemic of despair
and religious doubt--reaction from:
the war and its misery.
The swing back to the church II
Europe is the kind of reconstruction
that counts most. For Europe's rea.
troubles and problems are spiritual.
Home
The home is the least efficient OF
our social institutions, charges Prof
Ernest r. Groves of Boston Uni
versity College of Liberal Arts. He
says the home lags behind the school
and church because it has not made
use of science. There are parents
who prepare themselves more seri-
ously for the raising of poultry thar
for the bringing up of thei W
children"
1t is easy to start an argument
about anything. And there are ways
Of proving that black is white. But
to claim that the average home is
less efficient than, for instance
schools, is too much. Home, man
aged by mothers, is the most sue
cessful of social institutions.
Crime
The former head of Scotland YARD
detectives, Sir Basil Thomson, tour
ed our country recently. Back home
in London, he blames our crime
waves on uncertain and feeble work.
ing of our laws, (loopholes and too
much elasticity rather than on the
courts or police. He also thinks we
do not have enough cops.
Is it possible that our laws, ex-
cept where free speech or property
rights are concerned, are too demo-
cratic? We are so strict with the
rabbits that we overlook the wolves