Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-07
TIE REFEREE
"Pafrioth'
(By Albert AppIe)

Patriots"
| Hindenburg, addressing conven-
tion of German mannon fodder,
says: IF necessary we will fight
even until the last tag is torn to
pieces and the last sword blade shat
tered. 1t is better to perish in honor
than to live in disgrace
His gullible, audience cheered
though deep in their hearts they
knew that Hindy would keep out of
Lullet range, the same as he did In
The World war. The ones who talk
the most about fighting, the ones
who rush their country into war,
rarely show up on the list OF killed
or wounded. In Germany or
America.
The widow of +. W. Woolwortll
had an income last year Of $696,e52.
Most of 1t came from the 5-and-10-
cent stores.
This is revealed in a New York
court-also the fact that income tax
took $251.597.
While this left Mes. Woolworth
$445,Q55 TO the good" the size of
her income tax shows that being
itch is not quite as attractive as it
used to be. Also that the wealthy
are digging down in their pockets to
help her pay for the war, the same
as the family of small income which
indirectly pays taxes when it buys
things.
The income tax is the fairest and
most sensible of all taxes.
Undertakers
A protest against removing King
Tut'S mummy from its tomb, is
voted Indignantly by New York un-
dertakers. Frank y. Campbell,
their president, comments: 1T is
not pleasant to contemplate the
prospect of having the bodies of
Washington and Lincoln dug up
after couple of hundred or thou
sand years and placed on exhibition
in a museum"
Now that the scientific grave rob-
hers have looted Tut's tomb, let his
body rest in peace. Only the morbid
care to see it. People curious to see
a mummy have a lot In common
with the morons who delight in fire.
quenting modern morgues when
they haven't indentihcation of the
corpses as their motive.
Mummy
1t you could unwind the long
strips of cloth and papyrus from
King Tuts mummy, you'd find q
klack and Shriveled corpse more like
charred tar statue than the re-
mains of man.
The popular notion about the
n.arvels OF ancient Egyptian em-
balming is nine-tenths bunk. Amy
modern undertakec, using the best
methods and fluids, can excel the
embalmers OF King Tut's time.
Religion
Fred Stone, worlds greatest
clown, got religion" while snow
bound in Il sleeping car in the Da-
kotas. He pledges a tenth of his in
come for Christian work, as a re-
suit of his Bible reading. The
church will profit highly, for Stones
income is said to be around $125,000|
a year.
The person who hasn't read the
Bible from cover to cover has
missed one of the finest things in
life, including the greatest literary
work ever written. When you can't
find comfore anywhere else, you'll
find it in the Good Book. Even
those not religiously inclined will en-
JOY the romance and adventures
woven into the Bible. Have you
read it
Sweets
The wholesale price of candy
eaten by Americans in 1921 was
about 314,000.000, the census bu-
reau announces. Thit was nearly
a third less than in 1919, but more
than twice as much as in 1914.
Changed prices partly explain the
rise and fall. Figure it out accu-
rately, making allowances for price
changes, and you'll doubt if we're
really eating much more candy than
before prohibition.
Sugar consumption has increased
tremendously. But most of the in
crease has gone into home made
wines, not candy.