Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-18
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Prediction
From the northern end OF our
continent. south n west of Hud-
son Bay, comes word that the season
is three weeks late. Which should
in terest all of us, especially farm
! ers, since much Of our weather is
manufactured up there.
The Ojibway Indians predict a
very hot summer and a late-comlng
winter. They base thi spredietlon
on woodcraft. the late spawning of
the dore and the depth at which
they are catching Namaycush, the
salmon trout.
Pay Envelopes
This concerns general prosperity,
eventually your pocketbook: Since
the first of the yea the railroads
have handled ITO cars of freight for
each 143 cars in the corresponding
period of last veal and 1913 cars the
season before that.
Freight movement is to general
business conditions what the human
pulse is in the diagnosis of most dis
eases. And freight in 1928 has been
moving on a scale nearly 20 per
cen higher than in the year of de-
preston, 1921. The significance of
this figure is that the difference be-
tween hard times and prosperity is a
matter of about II per cent.
Saved
Insulin, the diabetes serum discov-
cred by Dr.. Frederick G.. Banting,
is so successful that DR.. Joslin of
Boston has lost only seven of the
$50 diabetic patients to whom he
gave the insulin treatment since last
August.
1t looks as if DR.. Banting has
opened the gates to a permanent
cure of diabetes, which kills n in
every 100 of us. If SO, his dis ,overy
in about W. generations will save
as many people as were killed ~ the
World WARM battles, or indirectly,
back of the lines.
Bystandcrs
ut is deplorable that honest ply
sicians are now restricted and even
obliged to Fay a tax for The priv
ilege of using pain-destroylng drugs
and alcoholic stimulants to save life
and reduce pain" The New York
State Medical Socle.y, at a conven-
ton, heard this from its president,
DIR. Arthur w. Booth.
The restrictions exist because a
minority, the INSCRIPTIONS of the
medical profession, would abuse
their right to prescribe. It's like.
general laws, which are necessary
only for a small minority of the
population The majority, innocent
bystanders. become G~ictilAs of the
mlnoritys viciousness, all through
life.
Chinese
Cost of living in China now is 1870
per cent higher than when the war
started in 1914. But, at that, eggs
in China are retailing at four Co five
cents a dozen Gin our money!, other
necessities in proportion.
There's a joker, as usual in those
near-paradises on earth: It's an x
ceptional man who makes SIS a
month in China. Too bad, we can't
do our earning in America and our
spending in China. Maybe the air
plane will make 1t possible, later on.
Brains
In China an American s~tenogra-
pher can Tive like a lord" main
tanning two or three servants on his
income. This glad news is brought
by Col. r. NJ. c. Ruxton of Picking.
Supply and demand make I'M
skilled labor work for q few nickles
a day in China's dense and enor-
nous population. But Ruxtor says
the keen American brain is in big
demand over there, and well paid.
The East's reputed superiority over
the West, in the matter of heavy
thinking, doesn't seem to York out
in real life as it does in fiction.