Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert applet

Tragic
There's a world surplus of wheat
(lf the figures don lie)-nore
wheat than the world will eat this
year. J.. H. Haslam, statistical x
pert of the Farmers Union of Can
AID, Gays:
i've have II on the greatest au-
th0rity that the grain trade expects
10 buy Canadian wheat this year 1T
81 > bushel t. o. b.. seaboard, which
will net the farmer between bO and
so cents a bushel. This is below The
cost of production
We hope he's wrong (and lie
probably Is too blue. at least), tor
American and Canadian wheat are
Siamese Twins in the world grain
market.
Oyerproduction is what's trou-
bling the farmer most. Back 10
the land p Too many there now, ap-
parently, some will reflect.
Penalty
France has mother u.sappolnt-
are that she viii
have a low wheat crop this year.
French interests are said to % puy-
ing enough wheat in the world mar
ket to take care of their CountrVs
needs for several months.
The law Of compensation never
sleeps. Swords into plough-shares
and spears into pruning nooKs'
France!
X-Ray
An X-ray current OF 25O,00O Volts;
most powerful ever used, was snot
into the cancer Of a Woman paSien'
at ReIlevue hospital, New York City,
Three weeks later the cancer is re-
duced in size three-quarterS OF an
inch.
AS a result. DR.. Lewis Friedman,
a Bellevue radiologist, Is able to
make this scientific prediction the
most important medical news so far
in 1923: "All tissue contains cleo
trical energy. The X-ray burns OUT
hat energy. We believe that 1t VIII
take the place of radium in cancer
cases. There is no doubt that soma
form of X-ray will eventually be dis
covered that will produce an abso-
Lutte cure"
Hired
The steady tendency in our CIVIL
zation is to get the same results Will
fewer employed. This constantly re-
| leases man power for the operation
of new industries n oL
old ones-that is, a gradual lncrease
in our average standard or living.
Government issues figures snow
< INK Ind ElllCl lCoI
1910.
In the same 10 years the auto IN,
dustry. movies and railroads addod
nearly a million employees to their
payrolls.
Hokum
American industry is carrying 2
load of eight billion dollars a year
in the form of overhead charges Tor
government expenses. SO claims d
large banking organization.
The simple truth is that Industry
is merely doing the bookkeeping and
hat the burden is being carried ny
consumers. They pay in the long
run. Taxes are taken out of In
creased prices. Corporations are as
far from the poorhouse as before the
war. though-in common with lnol-
yiduals-they are not enjoying the
same prosperity as war-boom days
when money literally grew on trees
Electric
Slowly but surely we move n
the Electric Age. Production O.
electricity this year will be increased
ar least a tenth. Electricity nov
Iipht II million homes, two and a
hall million stores and Industrial
plants, and supplies the power used
bv more than five million manu-
featuring and commercial estao-
lishments.
The solution Of our coal problem
is to burn the coal at the mines.
generating power sent over hi%n
tension wires to a nation on an cleo
tricai basis-lighting. cooking ana
fuel for warmth. You may live TO
see it. Look at your lifeline. left
palm.