Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-08
TIE REFEKEE
(By Albert Apple }

| Colds
The epidemic of grippe this Win
| ter reminds you that the common
cold is the worst disease pest in
hicted on civilization. BY under
mining general health, it indirectly
is one of the leading life destroyers.
| The common cold, Coming several
| times a year and year after year,
would wear us out eventually, even
| if we had no other diseases.
All very fine for scientists to
search for way to make us live
200 years or to rejuvenate old age
| by monkey glands. But the world
is in greater need of something that
will annihilate colds-from the COM
| mon type to grippe and flu. Med
ical science has no greater field.
False
There's an old saying about
Starving a fever and feeding a
cold" Modern laboratory research
proves that the quickest way to get
rid of cold is to starve it.
When you have cold, eat lightly.
And go to bed. A few days in bed
" more effective, for almost any ILL
ness, than pills or other kinds of
drugs. When you're on your back,
the heart has an easier job than
when you're on your feet and NOV
ing about. BY gcirg to bed when
feeling out of sorts, we relieve the
heart of part of its customary bur-
den, enabling it to rally our energy
for an attack on disease germs.
African
Zobhua, native chief of Swaziland
IN Africa, visits London. The sights
that impress him most are the rush
ling crowds and tire snakes in the
zoo.
He says, the hustle and hustle and
mad rush and the roaring of traffic
sapped his energy and left him very
tired. Civilization is doing that to
all of us, constantly, In cities our
nerves have to withstand fright
full number of shocks.
The wise man goes to the country,
to recuperate in peace and quiet, as
often as possible. Civilization at its
best is more of monster than a
benefit Airplanes to the rescue.
They will break up the cities by
enabling people to scatter and live
in the country
Gloomy
Zobhua, king of the black natives
in Swaziland, Africa, is impressed
| by "the streams of people with sad
faces" in London. That always
strikes visitors to cities who come
from quiet parts of the earth.
| If you want to know what city
congestion in doing to our emotions
and spirits, study the expressions on
the faces in the dense crowds of city
streets. Nine out Of ten look
gloomy. depressed. And yet they
cling to the city. Do we love
misery?
| Dollar
| The American dollar, worth 100
cents in the year 1913, now has a
comparative purchasing power of
| only 81 cents in buying goods at
wholesale. So figures the famous
economist. Professor Irving Fisher.
If we can find way to stabilize
! the buying power of the dollar, we
can get rid of periodical hard times.
There is way. Meantime, Pro-
fessor Fishers announcement calls
attention to this: Our dollar fiuc-
tuates at home the same as foreign
moneys rise and fall in foreign ex-
change.
Clock
A Florida man commits suicide by
the gas route. He sits leaning over
the stove, inhaling the deadly fumes
until his heart stops. Friends find
him, his hand still clutehing the
watch with which he had observed
his life tick away.
A terrible force is the ticking of
| the watch or clock, as you've OBJ
served when unable to sleep. We
can escape from anything except
time and death.