Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-13
THE REFEREE
(By Albert AppIe)

Wine
Fifty thousand bottles of Chinese
wine, seized in New York city oy
prohibition raiders are taken out to
| sea and sunk. The sad sea waves
! must have had a joyful moment.
This Chinese wine. known as Ng
Ka Pi or yellow bark brandy, is dite
titled from NORWOOD. 1t is a first
cousin of absinthe. and about four
times as powerful as the strongest
whisky.
Cellar chemists long since discov-
cred that almost anything in the
Xvegetabe kingdom can be converted
into alcohol. but Wormwood is a
new one to most of them. The ease
| with which alcohol can he filched
from bounteous nature is the most
difficult of the many prohibition
problems.
Deadly
The automobile killed more than
10000 Americans last year an-
nounces the National Safety Council.
A little arithmetic reveals the
rather startling fact that one auto
out Of every 1000 kills someone
each veal
At which rate. the motorist who
drives a car 10 a has ole
chance in 100 of killing himself, a
passenger or a pedestrian.
Better paste this on the wind
shield.
Handicaps
A young man, blind since boy
hood, George H. Weinman wins
the Sage scholarship highest honor
at Northwestern University Law
School.
Another young man, Ray Dudsin-
sky, came out OF Delaware and re
Gently made an excellent showing
in a championship swimming meet
though he is minus a. leg.
We call your attention to these
two cases to show what the power
of will can accomplish at overcom-
ing handicaps. We are always
bigger than our handicars, if we
only believe SO.
Here's good news: Bradstreet's
agency report that average whole
sale prices of the SO leading
commodities advanced less than a
tenth of l per cen during January.
Why good news? Because. at least
temporarily. it will help put the
brakes on rising retail prices.
At the beginning of February
wholesale prices as reported oy
Bradstreet's were only 40 per cent
higher than in 1913. Compared
with Dec. l, 1922. they showed a
very slight drop. It may indicate
a breathing spell instead of stabil-
ization but. at least prices seem to
be attached to some kind of heavy
weight that makes a runaway
improbable. That weight is public
willingness to pay. which in the
1n,,r yt,r iS tIo ,.oal ya-;oa rooYJatn.
Imaginary
J.. j. Mcnamara government tea
expert, says Americans get the best |
teas in the world, and many OF the
teas rejected here are reshipped 20
England and Canada.
That will get a laugh from the
English and Canadians, who claim
that Americans do not know what a |
real drink of tea is. Similarly Amer |
lean tourists claim that the coffee
served in England and Canada is
impossible. Doc Coue would explain |
this discrepancy of opinion as a
matter of imagination and faith.
Imagination and faith may not
regulate life, but they play a big
part in the reactions we get from
life, pleasant or not.
Interest |
AOiloOil newspapers LIS AK llIdL
England, by the time it wipes ont
it's debt to us. will have paid US
nearly three times the actual
amount due. That is, So of interest
each 81 of principal.
To pay US in full nearly SIS a year
will have to be contributed until
1855 by every British man. woman
and child. It's a burden, all right, |
but not big enough to give them
lame backs.
Edison, the inventor, says he has
a cold, but Tom may be i~nventing