Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-07
THE REFEREE
(By Albert AppIe)

Contrast
To get money to buy an auto for
visiting more members of his con-
| gregation. Rev. Charles F. Taylor
of East Orange, N. j., has been
chopping down trees and clearing a
large tract of land.
You may recall reading a few days
ago that the deceased owner of the
Police Gazette, pink sporting paper,
left an estate of close to two million
dollars.
A New York woman, charged with
obtaining $4,000 worth of goods from
a department store under false pre-
lenses, is saved from a prison term
by physicians who testify that n
is a pathological liar"
To most people, this is something
new under the sun-that the chronic
liar may be merely a victim of dis
eased mentality. Lying is the re-
suit of ef~fervescent imagination,
whether the ibbing is harmless or
cunningly p%urposeful. And effer-
vescent imagination is usually an
endocrine-gland disturbance-exces
siye secretion by the thyroid gland
in the neck. Nearly all writer's are
pathological liars.
Smash
Inc guest VI dill dQlO dLANCA VI
owner cannot collect damages for
injuries received through careless
operation of the ear-unless h
guest protests against the reckless
driving before the smash. II the
guest keeps silent. he is guilty OIL
contributory negligence. So rules
the courts of appeals in New York.
Do you, as an auto driver, realize
that you are apt to be liable Tor
damages in most communities Il you
give somebody a lift and he gets
injured while in your carr Inns
isn't justice. It's the law.
Prices
Cost of living now is about three
hfths higher than it was when the
war started in 1914, according 10
the National Industrial Conference
Board. This is. of course, an aver
age figure for the whole country and
Varies with locality-higher in s)me
places and lower in orhers. Most Of
Us will agree that We 1--we in one ci
The higher" localities.
However, Toe three-f:ths-hltller
estimate is logical, since its covcis
actual cost of living necessities in
ending necessary r~ecreation) for a
wage Garner with five in family.
Our real increase in cost of living
is largely in our increased demand
TO. luxuries-what Jim Hill called
the cost of high living"
You
Half the families in the United
States have an income of less than
$500 a year comments NJ. j. Stickel
eastern Y. NJ. G. A. official For
contrast, he refers to the national
Industrial Conference Boards est1-
mate, of some months ago, that the
amount needed for a decent standard
of living for a family of five is
S1,69S a year.
There is something wrong with
the figures, for it's tommyrot %
claim that half the families in the
United States are unable to main
tain a decent standard of living. we
have the highest average standard
of living in the world, and it's At
least a half higher than it was 10
years ago.
Capables?
State motor vehicle officials. con-
vening in Chicago, have been laying
plans to make every auto driver IN
10 middle western states prove his
fitness to operate a car before being
granted a 1924 driving license.
Eventually this will be the general
rule in all states. It'll have to be,
to curb the rapidly mounting auto
accident toll. A considerable frac-
ton of motorists (about the same
percentage as of pedestrians) have
defective vision, slow and inacc1-
rate Judgment and a scarcity Of com
mon sense. Better to begin regu-
lating them rigidly before they take
to the more dangerous vehicle, fly
ing flivvers.
Babies
King of England gets called down
by a hospital nurse for rocking a
cradle. It seems that the medical
profession in swinging "agin" cradle
rocking, claiming that it makes the
baby i'll.
It's an iconoclastic age we live in,
and no idea or custom is safe from
the reformers and researchers. It's
a phase of the pandemic of social
Observation-Disclosures restlessness.