Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-30
THE REFEREE
tBy Albert Applet

Polite
Fun Is being poked at US by the
British Underwriters, who have heard
Of our wide sale of books on man.
| ners. A wave of etiquet is sweep
ing America, that's true. It's SO
per cent. the result of clever adver-
Using. Possibly 70.
Our leaders have a keener under
standing of applied psychology than
the leaders of any other country.
The advertising gentlemen with
tortoise-rim spectacles and brown
Boston bags have more to do with
running the American people than
the orators in Washington.
When it m to real brain work,
psychology takes second place only
to natural philosophy.
Feat
Kidding America about its cpl
demic of buying books on good man
ners, or how to behave correctly in
public. a London newspaper satiri-
cally says: "Cuspidors are being re-
moved from countless American
drawing rooms"
That's letting us off easily, COM
pared with what some of our vaude-
Vile s~lap-stickers do to the English.
1t recalls Charles Dickens who,
touring America, visited Congress
and saw a speaker at the pinnacle
of oratory suddenly pause, sight a
cuspidor some I'd feet away, then
spit and hit 1t squarely in the center
with a ~resounding ring. This was
the highlight of Dickens impress
sions of America. He commented:
mo one applauded, for they could
all do the same thing"
Romantic
The way we Americans Aim his
torical Is bad, fumes Julian
Champenois of the French ministry
of public education. He refers to
historical inaccuracies in the NOV
les.
The movies try to make history
like fiction, playing up its romance
and adventure, and putting the soft
pedal on it's real self which is sordid,
depressing and usually dull. The
nine-tenths Of the Battle of Water
loo, ~unrecorded in most historical
versions, would be repulsive rath-
er than firing to the imagination.
However, that's characteristic of
history in general, which is colored
to make the cannon fodder of the
future docile, and the slaves sub
missive.
Football
Newspapers IL Poland find they
have to print mos sports to hold
circulation. Especially football.
which has become the Polish ma
tional game. Which must make
the philosophers of that country
worry, for football involves all the
strategy and psychology of warfare.
Every great stroke of so-called mil
itary genius is merely a football
play.
Poland apparently has war in its
blood. Natural, considering the
it's between the sharp jaws of a
nut-cracker.
Courage
A woman in a dentists chair will
stand twice as much punishment as
n man. saws DR., Catherine v.
O'Meara, practicing dentist, former
ly on the staff of Forsyth Dental
Infirmary.
THE average man begins to wine
when he gets into the dentists chair.
Frequently he tells YOU his nerves
are a bit unstrung and inva-
| TldDle ne AOllCiS pClOIC AS 10 mutt
A woman's courage is the real
thing. A mans courage usually is
d~aredevilism seeking applause for
vanity-or plain f~oolishness.
Rider
Who was the original pony express
rider out of st. Joseph, Mo-? Old
timers have been debating this In
the readers column of a New York
newspaper, and the honor apparently
goes to Johnny Fry, for making the
historic start westward on the af-
ternoon or evening of April 3, 1860,
bound for the coast, racing a team
bound eastward to st. Joseph.
That doesn't mean much to the
east. But it ought to get a stir out
of the west. Wouldn't you rather
have been the first pony express
rider than the first transcontinental
air mailman?