Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-16
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert Applet


FINS
For three years the allies have
been dynamiting the great fortifca-
tons built by the Germans on
Helgoland. German scientists fear"
the explosions have so shattered the
underlying rock hat the sea will
soon entirely annihilate the whole
island. Too good to be true.
Another echo Of the big war from
Washington, where 1t becomes
known that about 1888 million dol
lars will be the damages demanded
OF Germany By Uncle Sam. This
covers all government and citizens
claims. including Lusitania losses.
Balancing this against what the war
cost us, Wen realize about five cents
on the dollar. And that's an ex-
~trayagant estimate. But safety is
cheap at any price.
Stars
The pettiness of ourselves and the
so-called troubles that worry US Is
emphasized by the Harvard astrono-
mers report that $50 nebulae are
discovered In one photograph Of the
heavens taken in Peru. Each
nebula is a luminous gaseous mass.
Many of them are whole solar sys-
TENS in the making, just as h
sun, moon. earth aud other planets
once swirled together in the form
of gas.
A single grain OF sand, thrown
into the Pacific Ocean, 10 smaller
by comparison than u earth In
the vast universe. Human vanity Is
the most ridiculous of all jokes.
Einstein
You read a lot about the photo
graphs taken by astronomers III
Autraiia last September, during the
complete eclipse OF the sun, TO
check up the Einstein theory. T
Chant, one of the photographers,
saws The evidence Is favorable to
the of the Einstein theory.
Though IL cannot be said to be de-
cisively So"
rhis is the most important higher
scientific news, so far in 1928,
Unlucky
Why is the 81 bril- consideredzso
| unlucky that Uncle Sam thinks OF
| withdrawing it from circulation
Walter Altman. who draws the
| Duffs, suggests maybe it's because
'people are fraid of spending a
| two for a. one
Superstitions usually start among
gamblers. Pullman porters and
actors. The n about the ~ Dill
probably began with gamblers, for
:. SO banknote looks worse TO a
gambler than a black cat or "tae
hand the dead man held"
Magic
Listening over her radio, Mrs. W
r.. Harding of Elizabeth, ~. J..
learns that she is heir to $4,000.
Lawyers had been unable to locate
her, SO they asked g. radio sending
station TO help.
The other night we picked up
WV and heard the Detroit police
b~roadcasting a description OF a man.
wearing a red mackiraw, wante Tor
murder. He had fed from windsor,
| Ontario. across the river from De-
| troit. a. few hours previously. Many
a farmer. hearing this, must nave
hunted up his shotgun and begun
watching the road .
Radio eliminates distance. 1t
| makes the werld smaller, especially
| for the fugitive.
ssBug''
Her husbands mania for radlo-
is one of the reasons for the ivorc
asked by the wife OF 0. millionaire
in Newton, Mass.
might after night" she orn
plains, "he would go to the wireless
| room at the top of the house and
spend hours and hours thore, ieav-
| ing me alone. I think any jury will
consider that gross neglect n
cruelty
There must be several hundred
| thousand wives who will nod SYM
| REALISTICALLY and wish they could got
| on the Jury. Why wives cave home,
has a new answer in radio.