Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-05
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Interesting
You should find the newspapers
very interesting in the text few
weeks. News run in cycles, either
a feast or a famine. Once more the
so-called human race rises from its
lethargy and performs entertaining.
ly. Three samples:
Matthew Bernard Oldenburg. q.
inventor OF brick ice cream" Is
buried in New Orleans. He left the
world a great perpetual legacy.
The youngest bigamist on record
in u country is discovered in New
York City. At FOURTEEN she has tive
husbands.
Eighty-year-old twin sisters. Mrs.
Weis and Mrs. Won Pelt, celebrate
their birthday In Brooklyn. One twin
often lives TO this advanced age. but
it's phenomenal for both 10 survive
that long.
WIZ, the b~roadcasting station OF
Newark. n. J., will not broadcast
any more copyrighted music. Royal
ties OF $500 10 $4,000 apiece are de-
manded by the authors, composers
and publishers who own the copy
rights. They organized recently.
alarmed because radio is cutting
down their sales Of sheet music and
Photograph records.
VIZ should broadcast the old-time
stuff. Its better, and very popular
judging from the way it brings down
the house in vaudeville. WJZ's &C.
ten probably IS the beginning Of
the end OF radio isEz.
Einsteiu
Prof. Campbell. % the Lick OBJ
~serNstory. says the photographs OF
the stars, taken In Australia during
last Septemeer's eclipse OF the sun,
prove that the Eins;e!n theory is &C.
curste. Two other astronomical
eheek-ups aus take place before
the Doubling Thcaiases % science
VIII be convinced.
N~er!1cS1cl CT the Eins;ein theory
proves many things including this
strange tact: \ yaTdS.Ick does not
measure the same distance north
and south SIS !: does east and west.
Einsteln opens the way 10 thinking
in terms @ fear dimensions. Most
things that puzzle rs are puEzl.ns
largely because NE can grasp" only
three dimensions-lsnsIh. width and
depth. The fourth dimension IS time.
Prohibited
New York City passes an ordi-
AlAlAS PA OilADAA4IS human mes
from climbing the sides OF buildings.
The human flies win cali this an
invasion of personal liberty. How
ever, the aldermen who framed this
ordinance don't care much what
happens to the flies" They're in
terested in protecting the general
public. on whose heads the lilies"
are apt to drop. The ethical and
economic theory of liquor prohibition
is the same.
Sport
Tom Lawson, famous stock mar
ket operator of "frenZied finance"
fame, advertises that he must have
money" So he offers to sell his best
auto, saying, "As l am completely
out of cigars for summer smoking,
I will take 5000 81 cigars in lieu of
cash.
There's a sport for you. In the
same situation, most of us would be
wearing a face a foot long. Lawson
doesn't, SO he'll probably soon come
back and not have to trade pet cars
for cigar money. Troubles cling to
What's the difference, in another
hundred years?
Hold -ups
A boy-bandit, nineteen, ~confesses
to New York police that he and his
pals pulled off ~seventy-five hold-ups,
enough to be called a crime wave.
The average "crime wave" usually
is h work OF a handful of individ-
uals. They stage a lot of laWlessness
and the public gets the incorrect
notion that a a of crime Is surg
ing through a large part of the
population. A half dozen prison cells
can end the average crime wave."