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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-27
Victim of Bad Booze

CARTERET, Nov. 27.-Edward
Bacon, twenty-seven years old, of
IS Hudson street, returned yester-
day from the Perth Amboy City Hos
pital where he has been confined
since Friday morning. Bacon in
dulged in some moonshine with two
other fellows and became painfully
i'll. He was attended by two physi-
clans but his condition was of such
character that it was decided to keep
him in the hospital.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-27
Stnv Auar From Hero

LAHORE, Afghanistan = Some
Americans think their prohibition
laws are about the toughest thing
in tao world. But they would
change their minds if forced to OBJ
serve Afghanistan's. A soldier, who
had slipped a bit too much here re-
Gently was fined $145, lashed so
times ap6 paraded through the
streets as an example to others who
might fall by the wayside, as he did.
Least said about neighbors the
better.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
PROFITS BETTER THAN CREDITS.

rINEIE average Delaware business man will be Inn
IL pressed favorably with the comments made by
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon concerning agricu-
tural credits legislation.
Mr.. Mellon favors additional credit facilities for
that this only of the factors in restor-
ing agriculture to a stable basis,
There already has been a onsiderable recovery.
with substantial advances in staple agricultural
products. but prices are somewhat out Of. gear and
be further readjusments and better faci-
tiles for distribution and marketing before farm
ers position be fully restored" he
Mr. Mellon very wisely dstin guIshes the proposed
plan from the form of credits handled by the Farm
Loan sysem-credits based entirely upon estate.
Loans of this latter kind he says be standard
lied and handled according 10 fixed rules Of general
application. When Il 20 shcrt-term credits on
security OF huctuang where indyid-
judgment is large factor different problem Is
presented and Mr. Mellon does think this be
satisfactorily handled by what system of
government banks
The handling Of current farm credits requires
promptness. hexlbty and adoption local needs,
and these essentials Government banking could not
in my opinion. supply-certainy without grave
administrative difficulties" he assents
Mr.. Mellon does enumerate these dimcuIsas
but IT Is TO conceive what some OF them ara g.,
Delawarean ever has endured the slow unwindtrg
OF Governmental red tape and has observed the In
Inevitable influence of politics in government bus
ness.
Farm cHdit is the least Of the Delaware fsrmers
needs. Whst he needs most is profits and when he
gets that he will have no trouble credits.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
THE oRPHEUs CLUB AT NEWARK

NO thousands OF music lovers there Is nothing so en-
Il tertainng and satisfying male quartet OF a
male chorus.
The blending of voices particularly when the
voices ably trained and under skilled leader
ship a distinctive OF harmony that is not
pleasing the but exciting to the admiration
for the varying musical effects which may be pro-
duced
Thus It is that nearly every city OF size and many
small towns and villages have their male choruses
whose members work by day at trade profession
but delight assemble and practice singing by night
Then every little while" Elbert Hubbard said OF
publication his Phlistne, they like to display
their powers in public concert.
wilmington is to be congratulated upon having so
well organized and balanced chorus the orpheus
Club now in sixth Its roll contains the
names Of affairs including singing mayor,
Leroy Harvey.
on Thursday night the Orpheus, for second year,
will sing Newark. Last its concert there was
decided make II annual event
or all places which appreciate the Of the genus
male the college university rank first; nat
urally by the glee clubs and singing groups
of students usually to be found within them. Thus
the orpheus Club once more both hearty
welcome and an OF discrimination and taste
attuned good and ready to bestow
It's applause in return.
It just such loSal" these that to
knit neighboring communities closely. bring
about better understanding OF each others worthy
qualities and abilities and make for lasting friendships.
The road between Wilmington and Newark now is
good and the Wilmington friends and admirers OF the
orpheus ought out strongly Thursday night and
join the people and students of Newark in making
the recital a deserved success
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
SOME JUSTIFICATION

J,HE New York Journal OF Commerce comes out
Il with editorial statement that it is owned con-
troled and edited exclusively by American citizens"
and that neither foreign domestic
troll or influence its course Of action"
1t that it does this in reply certain state
ments which have been made by certain papers
OF will strike the Delaware reader OF that
particular editorial extremely funny Journal
should find it necessary make such statement What
earth could have induced other papers to believe
otherwise except the complexion of the editorials
which have been appearing the journal for many
years?
We have heard it said Of old that by their fruits We
shall know them" When paper advocates free trade
nternationalism unrestricted immigration opposes ship
subsidy, and incessantly administration
when its editor holds job in the Federal Reserve
Board while the time opposing practically
everything that the administration which honors him
desires achieve-when Is established the paper
founded by family Of British antecedents is it
reasonable for TO suppose that in
nuences prejudicial to the we-being nation
az work through its columns to impede progress
and advance the interests Great Britain free
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE

A WILMINGTON railroad figures out that Il
costs twenty-four cents to stop freight train 60
ing five miles an hour. Wear and tear and overhead
increase with speed Of the train when brakes ara
thrown reaching s1.44 hte cost OF stopping when
running fifteen miles an hour.
Far off. in Sweden. Dr. svante Arrhenus astrono-
mer. estimates that eighty-six billion years
from now will be shining earth as brightly and
warmly now.
The human body is chained to earth, but its brain
IS exploring the universe Curiosity back Of It all
with nothing too big little to be worth investi
eating. What is your brain most interested in now?
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
With the Paragraphers

II the Allies expect America to pay Germany's repa-
rations. someone s due for disappointment-and a
big one.-Boston Transcript
When Miss Lola f. Gardner defeated Tor circuit
clerk OF Green county she got the Office anyway And
not only did she the Office She got the man who
won 1t away from her. She and James c. Hale the
successful candidate, married the other day at
Springfield where both bride and bridegroom live
Kansas City Times.
The opportunity for dishonest practice under the
bounty system is well illustrated by case that came to
the attention OF the predatory animal inspector the
Biological Survey stationed at Olympia Washing on.
The auditor for Grant county. after paying out much
money for timbeg wolves" decided send one OF the
wolf pes to the district inspector the Biological
Survey for identification. It pronounced coyote
pet, although somewhat darker and larger than the
average The hunter who brought in the pels claimed
that the animals driven down from the timber to
the owiands by forest fires The local coyote bounty
is 81 while that OF the wolf is S15-Department OF Ag
rlculture Bulletin.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
IT MAKES YOU
BUBBLE over
With ENERGY
Women Who Find House
work Hard and Men Who
Are Weak, Run Down,
Need This Home
Tonic

Il guess I've told a hundred neigh
bors OF mine how to build and tone
themselves up at this time OF year
They asked me II I would let them
print 1t and ] am glad to do 50" de-
clared Mrs. Elizabeth G-anizares who
seemingly has the secret OF good health
solved. A thousand tests in similar
cases proves It. Read what she says. Il
was tired and worn out-iust a Door
run down weary worn out woman nv
selt-and ] could hardly do the little
housework l have TO do. II utterly ex-
hausted me. was listless. languid and
tagged, from morning until night" de-
clared this enthusiastic little lady. $50
you see 1 know how 10 feels to feel
bad. Then one day ] saw an advertise
ment in the paper Gust like this one)
and 1 read IL. | took that advertise
ment TO the store and told them to
give me a bottle Of HypO- Cod Nowadays
thanks to HypO-Cod / am a changed
woman. work like a girl 20 years
younger than !. My appetite is huge. l
sleep like child and on awakening
each morning / bounce out Of bed bub-
bling over with ambition and energy.
For woman Of my age / think am as
spry and active as anyone I know. 1t
Is a wonderful tonic and did for me
more than they advertise. I'm glad to
recommend Hypo-Cod because II is an
economical and nice tasting medicine
that builds you up quick and fine Re-
suits are lasting too. Scores of neigh
bors have taken Hypo Cod on my sue-
gestion the past couple years and with
out exception II helped them one and
all so you see. I think Hypo-Cod will
help anybody who Is weak and run
down." continued Mrs. Canlzares. for
merly residing at 1l43 n. 57th street
Philadelphia, but now living in Wayne,
Pa. As ono druggist in Philadelphia
said-"Tt is amazing the results people
get from HypoNod." II is foolish for
anyone to risk being sickly during the,
wet, changeable wintry weather. Take
home a dollar bottle OF Hypo-Cod with
YOU tonight Eckerd's Drug Stores
Adv.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

The householder whose coal bin
is empty IS reading nowadays what
he would have passed over year
ago. This is the news of the pre-
liminary battle between the miners
and the operators. The result of
the skirmish Is the old story. A
joint conference relating TO fifteen
districts of the bituminOus field has
adjourned without agreement. The
miners blame the operators for the
failure to reach a common point
Of view. The operators believe that
their solution OF the problem OF
wages is the only practicable one
and regret that the miners cannot
see It that way.
Yes, the old story, except this
year IL is particularly ironical. At
the very time when the people are
shivering, when the dealers are
are talking Of another strike. The
effects OF their strike OF last sum-
mer. beginning in April and extend
Ing TO September. are now felt in
almost every hom e-yet the discus
sion of the moment is whether or
not there will be new strike this
coming April
Perhaps there will not be a strike
this spring. Another conference Is
TO be held, beginning January II.
BY that time the Presidents Coal
Fact Finding Commission will be
ready TO report, at least in a pre-
liminary way, on production costs
and retail prices. The report,
coupled with the temper OF an
aroused public. may give pause to
the operators and the miners.
But II the strike does not come
this spring It Will come later-!n
six months or a year or two years
unless the Government does what
Il eventually will have 10 do in the
coal industry. For there can never
be lasting peace between operator
and miner I'm an industry where the
costs OF production are so varied as
they are in the coal fields. II It
costs 81 a ton to mine coal in one
county and 81 ton TO mine It in
another county. and in each place
the miners demand-and perhaps
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
DEALING WITH CRIME.
the Washington Poi .

From the washington Post.
Not every one will agree with the
views as to heredity in crime ex-
pressed on Thursday by Sir Basil
Thomson. former head OF the IA
nous bureau OF criminal investiga-
tion Of Scotland Yard. Indeed, he
admitted as much himself. when he
said that the opinion he gave utter
ance 10 on this point was contrary
10 popular BELIEF. and 1t will take
much more than the ipse dixit OF a
criminologist, however experienced
and astuts he may be. 10 put pop
ular belief IN the wrong while 80
many specific INSTANCES keep ,oc-
curing to prove its correctness. Who
doubts. for example. that II young
Jerry Cruncher had been put before
US as an adult he would have been
seen developing into Just as eager
and as crafty n body-snatcher as his
father had been before him? The
paternal leanings were in the blood
and bones OF the hoy, and not all the
"ioppings" of his pious and prayer
ful mother would have aVailed to
check the hereditary taint. En-
vlronment. example ara opportunity
are undoubtedly great provocations
70 crime. hut heredity must never be
left out OF the reckoning.
Others of Sir Basirs views will
meet with more general acceptance.
That certainty aud rapidity of pun
ishment will act az deterrents OF
crime is a proposition so automatic
as to need no proof. II, how
ever. proof were called for, IL lies
70 hand in the comparative statistics
as to murder adduced by the emf
uent Britisher. When an eXplana-
tion Is sought as to why one person
in every 1900 Is murdered annu-
ally in the United states and but one
in every 63e.OO0 in England, It is at
once forthcoming in the difference OF
legal procedure in the two countries.
Here punishment in such cases Is
slow and uncertain; there Il IS swift
and sure. Hence the contrast in the
murder averages. a secondary but
important factor Is the strictness of
the regulations governing the carry
ing and sale of firearms in Eng
land.
That the English police are able to
secure convictions in criminal cases
without employing. or being allowed
to employ, "third-degree" methods
is a refreshing revelation which, in
view particularly OF the results
achieved. ought to furnish a strong
for the total abolition of
such a brutal debasing and unre-
liable practice throughout the United
states.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
Talking CoaL.Shike Again
(Fr6m the New York Herald)

deserve-the same wage, how can
the lean mine compete with the fat
one unless It keeps down wages?
Yet It is desirable that the lean
mines be operated as well as the fat
mines Otherwise we shall leave
nothing except lean mines for fu-
ture generations.
After all the conference, all the
commission reports. all the talk in
Congress, the United States will
have to meet the coal problem with
the only thing that can solve it,
a consolidation of the mines into
few groups. the fat put with the
lean, all TO be operated by private
enterprise under Government super
vision. 1t is either this or Govern
ment ownership. Then the opera
tors of the lean mines will be able
to pay a good days wage TO their
men. Then the public, which un-
der the peculiar competition" of
the totally different fields hasfo pay
a price based on the cost of pro-
duction in the leanest mine, ought
to see fair prices.
And when Uncle Sam lays his
hand on the soft coal mines and de-
clares that they shall do thus and
so he will regulate the hard coal
mines, too. For these, even more
than the soft coal mines, have the
public at their mercy. now. The
unions do not-control all Of the
soft coal mines. but in Pennsylva-
mia. where practically all the hard
coal is mined. they are absolute
bosses OF coal production. The laws
OF the State permit their dominion
Of anthracite production.
Because the miners union CON
trolls all anthracite production the
middle Atlantic and the New Eng
land States are In distress today.
The homes OF New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and much OF New
England have relied on the Penn
sylvania mines for hard coal. In
stead OF producing the sO,00O,O
tons expected the hard coal mines
fell short 3O,00o,00O tons. The re-
suit is discomfort, distress, illness.
death and the inesca apable fear OF
what the winter may bring in the
way OF hardship.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
Editorial Opinion

fully short on inhabitants as we'll as
business. But that fact never de-
tered Representatives and Senators
from attempting TO convince hum
bile but aspiring communities back
home. whatever their census rating,
that an appreciative government
had its eve fixed on them.
Postoffices went by log rolling
and Christmas tree dispensation in
those times. Now they are to he
apportioned on a prosaic efficiency
basis even with the unprecedented
purpose Of reducing Federal ex-
penses in a given town or city. in
stead OF increasing them. There
are. in fact. places where rented
space costs moro than the interest
charges and upkeep OF public
building.
The lottery-grab-bag plan Of dis
trlbution was picturesque and fur
nished Congressman with excite
ment. The new plan. however, pro-
duces much larger returns in ser
vice on the governments building
inveetm ents.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Lazlness is next to ungodllness.

Laziness Is next to ungodllness
:-:-:-:
Facts stubborn things" everybody except the
man with theory.
.-:-.-:
Crimes sometimes. ndiscreton often are committed
in the name OF charity.
-:-:-:
Il didn't think" has cost more lives and money and
effort than viciousness itself
T. :-:-:-.
It's all right to love everybody. It's only when you
specialize that you get into trouble.
:-.-.--:
Every great man has genius for solitude The biog-
raphy Of the world draws that line Of demarcation
through the human
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

were those of truth and courage. He
showed that the bill was a blanket
bonus which paid no heed to the
real needs of individuals. 1t tossed
public pensions to rich as we'll as
poor, to the well and the sick alike.
It threw money to the type of woman
that marries a civil war veteran fof
mercenary reasons when he is on the
brink of the grave.
Worst of all, the bill saddled new
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
WHAT THE PRESIDENT sroppEr

From the New York Herald.
Public admiration for the Presi-
dents veto OF the Bursum pension
bill is followed by public wonder
that the measure should ever have
been passed by Congress. Even the
author OF the bill. Senator Bursum
OF New Mexico, shows no signs OF
trying to Justify the action OF Con-
gress by endeavoring TO override the
veto.
The President" says Senator
Bursum, denounced the principle OF
the bill in such positive terms that II
does not seem possible to amend It
to meet his objections; and I find
many Republican Senators inclined
to support his position"
The President did denounce the
bill in positive terms. His terms
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

trade and an abandoned American merchant marine
would undoubtedly do?
Should not be justified in believing that the edi-
torial salary such paper Of more consequence
to the recipient any remuneration he receive
from the Federal Reserve Board? Does the Journal
protest too much?
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

taxes of sos, 100000 a year on tax
ridden people.
Why could not Congress, which
passed the Bursum bill by over
whelmjng majorities in both Houses.
have seen what the President saw?
Or did Congress see it and shut its
eyes in fear of turning down a PEN
sion bill?
Or is it that Congress simply can
not get over the spending fever?
Whatever the reason for the folly
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
ASPIRIN GARGLE
in TONSILITIS
Cut This Out and Save If
Subject to Tonsilitis or
Sore Throat

A harmless and effective gargle
IS 70 dissolve two Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin in four tablespoonfuls Of
water, and gargle throat thoroughly.
Repeat i'm two hours If necessary.
Re sure you use only the genuine
Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. marked
with the Bayer Cross, which can be
had In tin boxes of twelve tablets
for few cents.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
THE UPITuRNED PORK BARREL

From the New York Tribune.
Secretary Mellon and Postmaster
General Work want to turn the
public buildings pork barrel upside
down. They have astonished Con-
gress by recommending an appro-
priation, spread over several years,
of s40,OOO,OOO for new Federal
buildings and by specifying where
and how the money is to be spent.
In the good old days the COM
mittees on Public Buildings and
Grounds selected the centers OF pop
ulation and commerce, In which it
was supposed that public build
ing would have remunerative uses.
Many OF these centers were pain
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

of Congress the country is lucky
have a President who seesgand do.
not fear.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-06-07

Inc boy went back to Arkansas
IN the course of a few months he re,
turned to Virginia City. He was
compelled to tell his father that his
motner's message to spouse No. ]
was that she was happy and prefer
req to make no further changes. Sc
o q Stone remained in Virginia
City. A year later he met a woman
whom he married. His son remained
IN Virginia City, where his father
established himself in business.
a few years later the boy received
a letter from his mother, advising
him that her second husband had
died. About this time the second
wife of John Stone passed away con-
veniently. Then the boy rose to the
occasion. He suggested that his
father go back to the old Arkansas
nome, marry again the bride of his
youth, and bring her out to Virginia
City.
Stone made the trip. There was a
happy reunion, followed quickly by
q marriage. He brought his wife to
Alder guloh, but she did not like the
climate, and in a few years
persuaded her third husband, who
was also her first husband, to sell
and go back to Arkansas. The
son remained in Montana for many
years, when he returned to Arkansas
inherit the property of his mother
and her several husbands.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-06-07

ton to his Texas herds. He begar
TO take life easy and would suenC
his summers only on his ranch prop
erty and his winters in Paris.
In everything that Wibaux under
took fortune seemed to favor him
He staked a prospector. The pros
pector discovered the Glover Lea
gold mine in the Black Hills. Wi
baux took a small fortune out of the
mine as his share of the grub-stake
advance. The town at which be
made his ranch headquarters was
called Mingusville. He asked the
Northern Pacific management to put
in stock loading yards there. The
railroad agreed to do it providing he
would change the name of Mingus-
vile to Wibaux. There was little be-
sides a general merchandise store, a
saloon and a post office in Mingus-
Vile. Wibaux decided if it was to
be called after him he would encour-
age the coming of other business in
stitutions. He also bought a lot of
land and Immediately after he made
his purchase Wibaux doomed and the
town lots advanced in price. Wibaux
~NoN0 " LILO WOolth NY thlO PlOCCoos
He took over the control of the
State National bank at Miles City,
and the next year and always there
after hat institution began to declare
record breaking dividends. He be-
came a heavy stakeholder in the
American Bankers Life Insurance
company of Chicago, and that con-
Germ Immediately began to make
money. He bought out his brothers
in the French textile business and
that concern Immediately became the
first mandatory of it's kind in
France.
Since his death his wealth has in
creased enormously. During his busy
lifetime he invested much of his pro-
fit in the cattle business in land. Nor
thern Pacific grant land in what is
now Wibaux county could be had
when he was doing his buying at
from 81 to 50 per acre, 10 per cent
down and 20 years in which to pay
the balance. 1t is known that during
several years his cattle business
him 100000 a year. A very
great proportion of his money was
vOOtCQ LII tAOoC CACdp lduuo. lucu
came the homesteader, who filed on
land adjoining his holdings, hundreds
Of them, and demonstrated its worth
as dry land acreage. The land that
Pierre Wibaux bought for pasture
against the day when the ranges
would be crowded, advanced 5000
per cent in value, and much of it
this year will be seeded to wheat and
other grains.
It is easy to imagine the son of a
pioneer, Injured to hardship, coming
the west 80 years or more ago, and
a life of privation while he
was building up a competency. But
it is not often that a youth who has
been raised in the lap of luxury, as
was Wibaux, has the courage to de-
prive himself of the good things of
life in Greer to achieve, and this is
what Wibaux did.