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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-07
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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-07

0TRAS HoRAS Y LOS DoMINGos POR CITACI0N.
Para los Pobres, los Martes de 8 10 de la noche.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
AN UNAvAILING HUNGER-sTRIKE

While the drab picture of hunger gradually driving the Ger
man industrial population to "a red uprising that will sweep Wes-
tern Europe" may not be greatly oyerdrawn, the purpose Of the
Teutonic minister of labor in making it will not be achieved. 1t is
obviously timed to influence public opinion outside Of Germany
with respect to the apparently divergent British and French at
ttudes on the subject of separations. Under-nourishment of Ger
mans may be accepted as a fact. Also that the wage scale of the
industrial workers, which depends for its worth on the value of
the mark, lies at the root of the impending starvation. But adj
hitting these things does not make a basis for sympathy for the
Germans, since it is within their power to alter conditions any
time they are so minded.
In effect, if not with actual design, Germany is on a hunger
strike. Long since the orderloving peoples lost patience with this
device of the rebelious to compel the yielding of public welfare to
selfish demands. Without suffering any qualms of conscience So
ciety can witness the gradual shriyeHng of the hungerstriker.
There is plenty Of food within the reach of Germans if they are
willing to pay for it. They deliberately ruined their own cur
rency. Tens of thousands of them in key industries are voluntari-
ly idle. When they resume work and when attention is given to
stabilizing the mark SO that wages earned will have a dependable
value and international trade can be carried on under conditions
Of security for those ON both sides engaging in it, there will be an
end of the worst of the Germans troubles. Their fate is in their
own hands.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
FATE'S DICE

Man, | once knew a doctor, name of Peck;
He fell in a well and broke his neck.
Served him right, oughta minded his own,
Tended to the sick and left the well alone.
-Snowbird Blues.
Maybe you can explain this: Rodger Dolan rented a sum
mer cottage. A stones throw from the back door a former
tenant had drilled a well. Not striking water when the
hole was % feet deep, the tenant-instead Of filling the exca-
tion-had placed boards over the top.
Time had made the boards rotten, and fear that some one
would fall through caused Rodger considerable worry. He
had a great many weekend visitors and he was forever eau
tioning them not to step on the boards. He w warned them on
arrival, and at least twice a day while they visited.
The abandoned well became sort of an obsession with
Dolan. His warnings began to get on his visitors nerves:
The other evening the latest batch of visitors, while
lounging on the front porch, were startled by a loud yen.
They rushed to investigate.
Rodger Dolan, going to the spring for a pail of water in
the blackness of night, had fallen into the well. Injured, not
not seriously.
There's a lesson in psychology back of this incident.
Dolan had become so intent on cautlonlng others to avoid
the danger that it never occurred to him he might be the
victim.
He was so engrossed on protecting others that he forgot
to protect himself. Over-confdence in his own ability to
escape a fal. into the abandoned well had made him careless.
All of us become negligent in the presence of constant
danger, for familiarity with the hazard luns us into a feeling
of false security, a belief that the situation or pitfall is
dangerous to others more than to ourselves. Caught, off our
guard, we're easy victims.
There is such a thing as putting in SO much time minding
other peoples business that our own affairs suffer. Probably
this is why we are SO ready to send missionaries to save other
when we need saving ourselves.
Few of us ever consider that existing danger is a peril to
ourselves. We picture the danger as existing for others.
Every auto speeder knows that speeding is apt to cause ac-
cidents-but usually he speeds on, convinced that the danger
doesn't apply to himself.
Fate, too, has lot to do with it. We know a man who is
SO fearful of fire that, every night for years, before retiring
he has carefully explored every room of his house to make
sure that no blaze has started. Fear of fire makes him
reluctant to go to bed. 1t frequently keeps him awake for
hours. "
Despite this caution, he has had three fires in his house.
On the other hand, all of us know careless individuals who
never have a fire, though they repeatedly do such things as
putting a glowing cigaret on a shelf and forgetting it.
Often we seem to create what we fear: We become the
victims OF catastrophe because we expect dear) to become
victims.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
WHY NOT PARKS?

With over one hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds issued
fr further Improvements the city's finances are not so bad off,
after all. 1t is significant that this is the first yearin a long time, if
not actually the first, when it has not been necessary to borrow
money in anticipation of taxes. This is quite a saving in itself.
The only reason advanced for such a situation is that everybody
is prosperous and taxes have been paid promptly thus giving the
city all that it has needed to keep things running.
Perth Amboy has been receiving much favorable publicity of
late in the comparison that has been made by the census bureau,
Of the various municipalities in the state. The cost of running this
city is the lowest in the state and the debt is smaller in proportion
to population. All of this speaks well for Perth Amboy.
While there ought not to be any grand orgie of spending as a
result of the favorable showing made by this city tt to be hoped
that the aldermen will be able soon to buy the gas works property
or the river front and develop a real park in that section for the
benefit Of the people. There is nothing that Perth Amboy needs
more today than real parks. Surely, when the money can be found
10 do practically everything else, there ought to be money for
parks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

niond market. Hundreds of th0us-
ands of People are deciding that
they wouli rather have diamonds
than pork chops.
Tho British report contains d fact
which the expert diamond mtr-
chants claim is positive proof that
people are buying diamonds who
never did before. This is the de-
mand for lower quality stones. Rich
people, accustomed to buy and
handle diamonds, will accept moth
ing but those of the first water.
&c others who in the past have been
spending their luxury money for
beer, a diamond is a diamond. The
thinks he will need. For these
emergencies the bureau employs a
glass blower who fills orders for
unusual pieces of glassware. On the
table of thi worker you may see a
piece of glass tubing bent back and
forth like a luted ribbon. Another
order is for a slender little tubs
somewhat in the form of a Grass.
There is an eccentric looking tub
shaped like a wriggling snake. and
there are TASKS with several tubes
shooting off at odd angles.
An expert mechanics shop Is also
at the disposal of the chemists. and
an expert mechanic assist them in
rigging up complicated apparatus.
Some of the machines and ms ru-
mentS that you see about the la5o-
~ratories suggest to the layman the
sort of weird things that H. G. Wells
tries to decribe in his stories of
other planets.
While a whole house would be
none too small to keep the burea l
glass ware, its platinum stock,
valued at between $40, and 500
900 can all be stored in a single
safe The bureau chemists llse A
good deal of platinum, because it
is the least resistant of anv metal
where certain operations are con-
cerned.
The safes contents resemble , set
of cheap aluminium dishes that
might have been made for I chili
to play with. Yet in single tinv cru
cible the size of a little medicine
glass is worth Sis. and the largest
of the dishes is valued at $500.
! Each dish is stamped with q num-
Der and catalogued, and a record is
KEEP whenever it is removed from
the safe or returned. Most of this
platinum was purchased some years
ago when the metal brought $3.50 a
gram-one-1ve-hTndredth of a
pound. Now. platinum is listed al
IS so to 81 a gram.
There is one set Of supplies mora
carefully protected than the plat.
inum ware. That is the infamma-
bic material. Ether. alcohol, and
all infammab1e supplies are stored
If "A separate vaulc sunk III tne
ground. When this vault IS opened
only the supplies needed for a day
or tive are taken out anu distr,b
uted to the laboratories. Partly
because of these precautions, partly
because the government chemist
are experienced and careful, fire.
and rxr losions are rare.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
PUSH THE MEMORIAL PROJECT

Although bids for the construction of the state highway
bridge across the Raritan river at this point are to be received
sentember II, it is not too late to have the structure made the
states memorial to the New Jersey boys who fought in the World
War. It is going to take about three years to build the bridge. 1t
will take a year, at least, to build the foundations for the piers.
Owing to the fact that it impossible to find a rock bottom at this
location, only one style of piers is possible, according to compe-
tent engineers, so that no matter what the plans for the bridge
NAV be for the superstructure, the foundation and piers must be
the same.
Let the work on the foundation of the bridge proceed, there
fore, and the more progress made the better. In the meantime
the agitation in favor of a memorial bridge can go on. The idea is
to have a simple, plain substantial bridge made into a highly or
namental and beautiful structure. The plans for the superstruc
ture or top part of the bridge can be changed at any time. One of
at the approaches, an ornamental railing with fancy light stand
ards, figures representing the various branches of the service-alI
these things can be added after the foundations are finished.
The endorsement of the memorial idea by the Perth Amboy
rotary Club yesterday will be a big step in furthering the project.
With Ferd Garretson as chairman of the committee something
rians throughout the state. Once the plan is understood and the
arguments in favor of this form of memorial located at this par
ocular point are heard, the feasibility of the idea is realized.
With the American Legion stirring up a feeling in favor of
the bridge memorial throughout the state, and with Rotary
also busy along the same line, there is reason to believe that by
c~ompIshed~ toward having the bridge made the state memorial
and an appropriation secured whereby the memorial features can
be added.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

A. On April /, 1929, the tota.
membership of the Knights Of Co.
lumbus was 7B7, 6S3-223,1e5 in
urance members and 544,4SS assoc
ciate members.
@. What does It cost the United
States Government for the up-keer
of the national parks? J. M. T.
A. The Congressional appropA
alton for the fiscal year 1924 for Il
administration, protection, maintf
ance. and Improvement of the pal
amounted to ~$1,6S9,730. ~
@. What is the percentage of ifsa
literacy among criminals? K. r.
A. Criminal statistics of this sort
are practically unavailable from
official sources. The Superintendent
of the New York State reformatories
said that of $4,000 criminals whom
he had examined, only 4 per cent
were college graduates. only Z per
cent had finished high school, 2t
per cent had finished grammar
school. Sixty-four per cent had at
tended only primary schools OF
none.
@. Hovy many miles from Paris
were the Germans on their closest
| approach? l.. F. G.
A. The point in the Disc Province
where the Germans were turned
back was 20.43 miles from Paris.
O.. Why is the Black Sea so-call-
ed? l.. c.
A. The name was given to this
body of water on account of the fact
that in winter heavy fogs obscure
the sunlight and lend a black as
| pect to the waters. The ancient
| Greek name was 'Inhospitable Sea"
@. What is the name given &c
| poker when the joker is left in the
pack? w. T.
A. 1t is called Joker Poker OF
! M~istigris.
O. What kind of mouse is the
smallest? I. E. d.
A, The harvest mouse of the
southern states is probably the
| smallest. It's entire length is only
| four inches, and half of this is tail
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

@. How far up on the high
mountains is vegetation found? *.
K.
A. The British exploration party
which attempted the ascent of Mt
Everest in 1922, reported the find
ing of edelweiss at a height of 2O,-
900 feet.
@. Where is the worlds largest
concert hall? 1. T. R.
A. The Cleveland auditorium
seating 1880 is believed to be the
largest concert auditorium in the
world. 1t was opened April 10, 1922
@. How much water power ii
there in the world? r. A. M.
A. The estimated potential water
power of the world is 4~39,OOO,00C
horsepower, of which about 3D.
O00,O 900 horsepower has been de-
veloped.
@. Can a one-armed man learn
to play golf? L. j. z.
A. There are two one-armeo
players in Washington, ID. G. who
play very good games. Al Howard
who is right handed and who has
his right arm gives a handicap u
General Drain who has to play LETT
handed, as he lost his right arm
and afterward taught himself tC
use his left hand.
@. Is there any part of the
United States where ice Is not man
ufactured? II. G. w.
A. The Federal Census of 1926
shows ice factories in every State
i'm the Union except Vermont anc
New Hampshire.
@. How many members are there
of the Knights of Columbus? r. S
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
CITY ADVERTISEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the final
report and map OF the cost Of grading
Hazel Avenue, was filed in the office Of
the City Clerk Of the City of Perth Amboy
on July End. by the Commissioners Of
Assessments for Street improvements.
Owners Of lands to be assessed for said
Improvement. are hereby notified that the
Commissioners of Assessments will meet
Ia the Council Chamber at city Hall in the
City of Perth Amboy on the card day OF
July, 1929, at 8 p. NJ. to consider said
assessments and TO receive all objections
which may be presented.
Dated, July 9Th. 1929.
PHILIP p. COSTELLO.
2630s-7-7-12-19 City Clerk.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
The Old Town
Street by Street-Know Iour City
Iawton Place

Lawton Place
In the list of streets in the city
directory, Lawton Place is listed as
Lawton street, this City Engineer
Louis P. Booz Jr., declares to be the
wrong name. The street extends for
one block from New Brunswick
avenue south to Sayre avenue and
was laid out in 1900 by c. c. HON.
mann. Although graded, the street
is not paved and has no sidewalks
or curbs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
ueSions Answers

Any reader can get the answer TO
any question by writing fhe Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederick j.. aaskin. Dtrec-
tor, Washington. D. C. This offer APP
plies strictly to Information The
medicinal and ~ina troubles. It
does not attempt to settle aomesl.c
troubles. nor to undertake
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address aui eh-
close two cents In stamps for return
postage. All ep!les ae sent direc:
to the inQuiI or.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Do you remember what you were
worrying about this time vast year!
Very few of us do.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
Bible Thought For Today

GET THE T%RUTH:-Buy the truth, and sell It not; also
wisdom, and instruction, and derstanding*-Proverb 1913
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Only place a mar can write a tele-
gram in two seconds is on the movie
screens.
The rising generation gets many
of its faults from associating with
its parents.
Do you remember what you were
worrying about this time vast year?
Very few of us do.
Over in Europe they are viewing
things with alarm and alarming
things with the views.
Hospitals are ready for vacation
lists returns.
Mosquitoes and flies never go on
hunger strikes.
By starting now and working ev-
cry day on it you may get your
Christmas shopping done in time.
Speaking of .optimists. a great
many girls know it is only about five
months until Leap Year.
There are entirely too many self
made grouches.
Many future conVicts think they
are too good for hard work now.
Think If the money this hot
weather saves you on coal.
Fastest auto race seems to be to
see who can get the biggest auto in
the neighborhood.
Only a few more months until we
! will be wishing it was summer again.
No matter how small the home
town station, it is a better place to
get off a train than to catch a train.
Way radio works in summer you
can't tell if it is a cat on the back
fence or not.
Everything is all right in its place.
but some days everything seems to
be out of place.
Hitching your wagon to a star is
fine, but don't let your little boy
hitch his to the ice wagon.
Only a few more weeks until in
come tax.
If the worlds problems are not
settled soon there will be another
shortage of print paper.
The honeymoon is over when
hubby starts chewing tobacco again,
Difference between a success and
a failure is a success knew what kind
of habits to pick out.
B~ootleggers have a harder time In
summer because they don't have as
many pockets.
The nice thing about being a man
is you don't have to stay home after
washing your head.
People often set so mad they tel
the truth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

The rising generation gets many
of its faults from associating with
its parents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19
NOTICE OF
LIQUIDATION

The City National Bank OF Perth Ans
boy located at the City of Perth Amboys
in the County of Middlesex and the state
Of New Jersey. Is closing It's anairs.
ISOLATION are therefore hereby notified =
present the notes and other claims for
payment.
Dated, July End. 1929.
WILLIAM H. PULLEN,
Cashier.
261s6-7-2-dly 2 months.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Over in Europe they are viewing
things with alarm and alarming
things with the views.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

The nice thing about being a man
is you don't have to stay home after
washing your head.
People often set so mad they tell
the truth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Only place a mar can write a tele-
gram in two seconds is on the movie
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Hospitals are ready for vacation
lists returns.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Bootleggers have a harder time in
summer because they don't have as
many pockets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Man, I once knew a doctor, name Of Peck;
He fell in a well and broke his neck.
Served him right, oughta minded his own
Tended to the sick and left the well alone,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Mosquitoes and flies never go on
hunger strikes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Way radio works in summer you
can't tell if it is a cat on the back
fence or not.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

No matter how small the home
town station, it is a better place to
get off a train than to catch a train.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Only a few more months until we
will be wishing it was summer again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Everything is all right in its place.
but some days everything seems to
be out of place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Difference between a success and
a failure is a success knew what kind
of habits to pick out.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

By starting now and working ev-
cry day on it you may get your
Christmas shopping done in time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Fastest auto race seems to be to
see who can get the biggest auto in
the neighborhood.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

If the worlds problems are not
settled soon there will be another
shortage of print paper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

The honeymoon is over when
hubby starts chewing tobacco again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-19

Hitching your wagon to a star is
fine, but don't let your little boy
hitch his to the ice wagon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-07
MADISON

The Madison fire alarm was sound
cd at 1879 o'clock Monday afternoon
for blaze in hen coop belonging
to Fred Beaulier jus. off Preble ay-
enue. The damage was small.
An important real estate deal has
just been completed by which the
Hilton House lot on Maple street
has been sold TO Walter Fletcher
This lot was owned by a stock COM
PAM of ten local men.
MaDlien Cavanaugh. Ivan W.
Adams. arid NJ. n. Pero. went Tues
day to Bakers Siding for a few DAYS
hunting.
The second entertainment of the
Lyccum Course being given by the
Colt Alber Bureau under the aus
pieces of the Senior Glass Of the
Madison high school was a lecture
Monday evening by J. Franklin Bahb
in the auditorium ut the high school
building. Mr.. I5abb's subject was
THE One Hundred Per Cent Man"
George and Charles Adams are
passing the week on bunting trip
at their camp at Bakers 'Fond.
}. Franklin Tahb vas the guest Of
Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Tetley during his
stay, in Madison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-07

some of the old woodwork still re-
mains in fairly good condition. The
house itself is situated in a tenement
district, and is shut off from the
view of the hay that it used to have.
by large railroad warehouses.
in an early circular sent out by
Mr.. Jackson some years ago, there
Woe misleading statements which
induced many people to believe that
there was no other memorial of the
sort for Longfellow, in Portland.
The president of the International
Longfellow Society is really the
whole society in practice; he is its
treasurer, received all the donations
and has failed, according to last re-
ports. to render any account OF the
moneys he has received, to anybody.
He has been asked to make a state
ment of the receipts and expendi-
lures, but hassrefused to do 50. He
admitted that he had no other source
of income-over one or two hundred
dollars for articles in tho press
except what he received for the
Longfe!low birthplace and applied TO
believe still dWells. in the house
himself. How much he spends for
his support. out of the funds re-
cejved. nobody but himself knows.
Induced by the original circular
some years ago. many distinguished
persons lent their names. but those
who became acquainted with the
facts. subsequently withdrew their
support.
The public may still wish 10 have
this birthD!a"e preserved bat they
ought to know tie above c!ccu:n-
stances before sending in their SUB
sCriptionS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-07
SIDNEY

NORTH-An interesting meeting
of the Tri Mu class of the Methodist
church school was held last Wedncs-
day evening at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Peterson on the Bartlett
road. The house was lighted in a
dim manner by Jack o. Lanterns and
after the routine business of the
class was transacted the evening was
spent in playing Halloween games
and stunts. The class members pres
ent We're: Sydney Lorgley, Carl
Bacon, Henry Goodhue, Alvah Good
hue, Allan McAllister. John DOnnelly,
Dean Bailey, Frank BAILEY. Robert
Austin. George Austin. Lawrence
Peterson. Howard Peterson and the
teacher. Russell Bailey. Others pres
cnt were. Mr.. and Mrs. George =
Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. G. Q. Davis, Mrs.
NJ. l.. Goodhuc. Harold Benson and
the hosts. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peter
son.