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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS
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★ Bible Thought For Today
PROCLAMATION* OF PEACE:-Glory be to Got
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.—
Luke 2: 1 i.
THROWING THE MONKEY WRENCH
The Board of Freeholders through motives not made
clear are trying to gum up the Amboy avenue improvement
No other meaning can be taken of their attitude when they
appeared before the State Highway Commission and op
posed the proposed new’ route across the property of the
Barber Asphalt Company, insisting that the road be rebuilt
over its present course.
Such tactics are little short of contemptible. There is
noming 10 dc gained ior me county Dy standing in me wav
of this improvement. On the contrary, there would be a de
cided advantage in adopting the new route. Furthermore,
this is a state highway and whatever is done the expense to
' the county will be insignificant.
It is said that the Board of Freeholders feel that the
Barber Asphalt Company will be benefited. Suppose this
is true, what of it? Is it any crime for the Board of Free
holders to do something that will benefit one of the largest
taxpayers in the county? It is just such concerns as the
Barber Asphalt Company that make it possible for the free
holders to have so much money to spend.
If the present route of Amboy avenue can be changed
<o as to cut off the long curve down to the railroad at the
Maurer road the Barber holdings can be united making it
possible for further development in the way of factory ex
tension along the railroad. Such extensions would not only
add to the ratables in the county, but it would give employ
ment to more people and thus benefit the county in many
ways.
But the Barber Asphalt Company would not be the only
beneficiary in such an improvement. The traveling public
would have a shorter road between Woodbridge and Perth
Amboy with less grade and, being shorter, there would be
less pavement to maintain.
In the beginning the freeholders seemed very willing
to make this improvement. The county board passed a reso
lution returning the road to the city even before the city
asked for it. Finally the city made the formal request as it
was only through the city that the State tfiglnvay Commis
sion could act. Now, when the city has proceeded with the
negotiations, the freeholders arc showing a peevishness that
does them no credit.
If the city is satisfied and the Stale Highway Com
mission is satisfied we cannot see why the county lor what
ever interest it may retain in the highway, should throw
the monkey wrench into the machinery at this late date
when plans for this important improvement are about com
nleted.
We have it from competent authority that this new
route can be finishel by next year. The amount of filling has
’been greatly exaggerated in the first place, and what filling
there is to be done can be accomplished this year and at least
part of the road finished. The winter will do alt the settling
that will take place where filling is necessary so that the
pavement can be completed next year. In the meantime,
all that the city asks of the county is that it put the present
route in as good condition ns possible to serve as a detour,
so to speak, while the new route is building whereupon the
city will take over the road as far as it lies within the city
limits, while the State Highway Commission is responsible
for all that lies outside the city.
Under these circumstances, the sudden change of front
on the part of the freeholders is disconcerting, to say the
least. It puts the county board in a decidedly bad light. This
Amboy avenue improvement is one of the most important
projects before the city at the present time. There have
been numerous complications to be straightened out be
tween the aldermen, the freeholders and the state commis
sion. Now just as the whole matter had been successfully
negotiated the freeholders throw the whole proceedings
back into confusion by the unexplainable stand they have
taken before the State Highway Commission.
What are the freeholders after, anyway? It is time fo"
a showdown.
“GLAS8 HOUSE” A FAILURE
Whatever success the “glass house,” as Alderman
Clark calls it, which is being tried out for the traffic officers
on the important corners in the city, may have been at other
locations, it certainly is an utter failure at State and Smith
streets. Where Hie streets intersect at righi angles the
signs “Stop” ami “Go” are easily enough interpreted, but
when another street coming in diagonally, as New Bruns
wick avenue does, the sign only adds to the confusion. When
traffic on Smith Street is stopped the “Go” signal fronts
State street so that the drivers waiting in New Brunswick
avenue do not know what to do.
As a matter of fact, are not these shanties overdoing
the matter? The streets are already congested enough with
out adding these “houses” to interfere with the traffic. We
know of no city where such “houses” are provided. Even
on Fifth avenue, New York, the traffic officer stands in the
middle of the street governing with his hands and a whistle
the movement of vehicles. In Newark it is the same. A
policeman at a busy corner ought to have more responsibility
than merely to turn a lever all day. Confined to one of those
shanties he is as helpless as a chicken in a coop.
The need of freedom of action for a traffic officer, not
l» mention the obstruction that the shanty makes iri the
„ Middle of the street, far over-balances any possible advan
!nrthat the “houses” might have.
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ABLE To CAAAY out a MUCH LAAGEA,
LOAD OF THE FUANACE ASHES ON
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WINNING 86,000 NAVY
FOR UNITED STATES
Dally Letter by Frederic J. Hasklu
WASHINGTON. May 1.—A short
time ago the House voted, 177 ayes
to 130 noes. to increase the person
nel of the Navy from 67,000, recom
mended by the appropriations com
mittee in the interests of economy,
to 86.000, urged strongly by Presi-,
dent Harding in a personal message
to the House. 4
Behind his message to Congress,
which is credited with the overturn
of the committee's recommendations
and the overruling of Republican
leadership of the House In this mat-1
ter, was pressure which was brought;
to bear on the President by mem- i
bers of the senate. The action taken
by the House was and still is viewed
from many angles. By some it is
called a severe and unwarranted
further attack on the pockctbook of
the American taxpayer. It has been
called a victory for militarism. By
others still it is said that even 86,
000 men is not the full number
needed to man the ships properly
of the restricted navy allotted the
Inited States under the treaty
agreed upon at the recent confer
ence for the limitation of arma
ments.
The members of the House all
have to go before their constituents
this fall for reelection. It was gener
ally felt that the country at large
wants government outlays of money
cut to the very bone. Any war of
the future is felt to be many years
away, if not entirely improbable.1
even impossible. The countries of
the world, carrying enormously
heavy war debts and consequent
large loads of taxes, are not, as a
matter of fact, eager to resume fight
ing with each other on any consid
erable scale.
But while the treaty to limit the
naval armaments of the great pow
ers was still before the senate for
ratification. President Harding was
told in no uncertain terms by certain
western senators that unless the
larger personnel for the navy was
strongly recommended by him to the
House, the prospects for ratification
of the naval treaty would be slim
indeed.
The Senate situation
In the midst of all of the row
about the personnel of the navy,
with most members of the House
f-. .. I ^ K4 14
to their constituents for voting 19,
000 additional men. a strong group
of senators took the stand that it
would be a ridiculous thing to have
a certain number of fighting ships
allowed in the American navy, if
some of them were going to be
so stripped of crew that they would
have to lie idle at their moorings,
with only sufficient force aboard to
keep the vessels from being utterly
ruined by rust and neglect.
The Navy Department repeatedly
pointed out to congress and the peo
ple that only a portion of the capital
ships allowed the United States could
be kept in commission, with trained
men to operate them, if the cut to
67.000 men was made in the person
nel of the navy. In spite of this, the
leaders of the majority in the lower
branch of congress, in the interests
of economy and in response to the
public clamor against continuing
heavy taxes if they can in any way
be reduced, were bent on putting
through the smaller naval quota.
President Harding did not want to
embarrass any members of the
House, particularly the leadership of
that body, by using his influence in
the fight. He having been a member
of congress he knew the exact sit
uation in which many of its present
members, with an election on their
hands, found themselves. However,
he was moved to urge the larger per
sonnel because of the fact that oth
erwise ratification of the naval
treaty In the senate would have been
the subject of a real fight, with
strong possibilities of defeat.
It can be stated on the best au
thority that one of the western sen
ators, and one who has long been
associated with naval legislation,
told the President flatly that he and
several of his colleagues would have
to fight the naval treaty to the last
ditch unless what they considered an
adequate personnel for the Ameri
can navy was provided. The defeat
of the treaty would have been a far
more serious question for the coun
try and the whole world than would
the addition or subtraction of 19.000
men from the personnel of the
American navy. It would have upset
all of the International agreements
reached here in Washington by the
world powers. It would have meant
going on with the interminable race
of naval arguments, and In the end
would have meant, the administra
tion felt, very much greater tax bur
dens than the 19,000 increase )t the
navy personnel could possibly mean.
It is generally believed here that
many of the people of the country
will disapprove of the enlarged per
sonnel voted for the navy, because
of the fact that government funds
raised by taxes on the people, are
required to support them. By pro
ponents of the 86,000 navy, this is
regarded as an inevitable but some
what peculiar state of mind.
One of the senators who declared
he would fight the naval limitation
treaty if the S6.000 personnel was
not made an issue by the White
Hose, points out this situation:
Would Weaken Navy
It, in the negotiations between the
powers of the world which led to
the treaty, the United States had
agreed to write into the covenants an
agreement that it would scrap one
more battleship than England, there
would have been a veritable road of
protests from the people of the
country. Then he said, Messrs,
Hughes, T.odge, Root and Under
wood might as well have voluntarily
retired to private life. They would
have been looked upon, he contend
ed, as having betrayed their country
by permitting it to be weaker spe
cifically in naval power than anoth
er great power of the earth, and as
having invited trouble by that ac
tion. The interest and excitement
aroused by the agreement all
through the country is guarantee of
this fact, ho said.
As a matter of fact, this senator
said, cutting down the personnel of
the navy so that all of the ships
allowed the United States could not
lie kept in commission and the men
trained to their duties, amounts to
exactly the same thing. The ships
and gims alone are nothing, without
trained crews to operate them. As
sistant Secretary of the Navy Roose
velt is authority for the statement
that with 67,000 personnel, the navy
could keep in commission only 13
of the 18 capital fighting ships al
lowed under the treaty. The other
vessels would have skeleton crews
on them only, to keep them from
going completely to pot while lying
idle for periods of years.
This senator, who comes from a
state where the question of Japan
i< over in the minds of the people.
said that the people of his part oi
the country were alive to this fact.
They felt that the United States
migh Just as well scrap five of its
big fighting ships as have that many
out of commission and unable to
render service when that service was
needed. .
All of this, it is understood, was
communicated to the White House.
President Harding saw the justice
of the situation. The administration
was torn between going counter to
its own leadership in the House ol
Representatives and the possibility
of failing to have the senate ratify
the naval treaty. Even if the oppo
sition which would have sprung up
in the senate had not been strong
enough to defeat the treaty, it would
have caused a big break in the
ranks of the Republican majority
there, a thing which naturally the
President was anxious to avoid.
In this dilemma, President Har
ding, whose own views were opposed
to having idle and undermanned
vessels, went before the members ol
the House of Representatives, and
by his influence secured adoption ol
the larger personnel for the limited
American navy.
Children In Spring Time
Mrs C. Osborn. 7812 Hillside Rd.
Cleveland, O., writes: "My grand
daughter was troubled witli a cough
for nearly two years. She took Fo
ley's Honey and Tar and her cough
is now gone. It loosened the phlegn:
so she could raise it easily." Foley's
Honey and Tar is Just what childrer
should have for feverish colds
coughs, "snuffles” and tight, wheezy
breathing. Be sure to get Foley's
It checks crop and whooping cough
too Sold everywhere.—Adv.
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J. RYMSHA, Pre«.
H.W. KINSEY, Mgr.
When in Need get the Best!
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Handle Best Grades of
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989 State St. TeL 1313 P. A.
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About the only successful bath
ing suit censor is a mosquito.
In Boston, a robber ran from a
flapper. A single man, no doubt.
The saddest sight on earth is a
one-armed man trying to tell about
a fish that got away.
Mexico is so quiet. It looks as if
she were too good to be true.
Home is where a man hangs his
radio.
Soviets at Genoa wear new silk
hats and talk through them.
A little moonlight now and then
often marries the best of men.
These are ticklish times for the
young ladv with bare knees and a
fringe on her dress.
Harding is said to have shaken
hands with 150,000 people. This is
much better than shaking heads,
r ~ .
! Aiany h unc-nuiac luwu una
| filling stations.
| The perpetual light they are work
ing on will never look right unless
I they send a perpetual bill. ,
I Dempsey says he doesn't drink.
smoke or gamble. But the fans want
| to know "Does he fight?"
: Many a man gets stung by a but
terfly. •
In Dublin, armed men invaded a
| bath house, took a bath and then
made a clean get-away.
The family skeleton is bad enough
| without wearing a bathing suit.
—
Another rich man ia being sued by
a chorus girl for breach of promise.
The call of the wild.
We are not out of the woods yet:
but we will be if lumbermen keep
on destroying them.
Many an amateur gardener grows
nothing but disgusted.
"Woman Sentenced for Keeping
| Still”—headline. Our experience ia
they seldom keep still.
\A dumbbell thinks the cry “54-40
or fight” was Abe Lincoln trying to
get a telephone number.
If these talking movies succeed
seme of our stars are doomed. They
could never learn English.
A man who runs around goes in a
[ circle.
Did Him More Good
Many men and women suffer from
backache, rheumatic pains, stiff
joints, sore muscles and other re
sults of kidney trouble because they
neglected the first warning symp
toms. Foley's Kidney Pills aid the
kidneys to throw out poisonous waste
matter that causes pain and misery.
' Stephen Lewis, Eldridge. Ky.. writes:
i “Foley Kidney Pills did me more
1 good than all the other medicine 1
ever took. I had kidney trouble ten
years. I don’t have any pain like I
: had before I took them.” Sold every
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HATE YOUR CLOTHES MADE
TO ORDER
H. SCOTT, Tailor
They coat no more than the ready
made kind.
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ELLEN YOUNG
DOCTOR or SALES
By Ruth Leigh
Author of "Tbo Human Slda of Re
tail Selling.” -The A ■ C of Retail
ing." etc.
The affal-s of tho Mansfield Pub
lishing Company were all in a tur
moil when Ellen Young visited its
| offices.
“Reed, our sales manager, was
laken suddenly ill,” explained Mr.
Dunkirk, president of the company.
“Gosh! we're stumped: he's such
a dandy executive." ^
In reply to Ellen Young’s blunt
statement that she thought Mr. Reed
an exceedingly poor executive the
president of the company looked
amazed.
"He is a poor executive.” she In
sisted, ‘it he hasn't trained an un
derstudy. You say half of your
week's orders are not in: the adver
tising and sales plans are naif rqade;
nothing's done; how’s that? Reed's
away."
"Well, he was a one-man manager
I'll admit, but —"
"Mr. Dunkirk, let me tell you
something. There Is absolutely no
reason for this condition. It can be
traced directly to the weak manage
ment that exists In tnanv offices—
the lack of vision, the Inability to
appreciate the value of trained men
in minor positions. One of the most
Important duties that I know of in an
office Is the training of an assistant.
A big-visioned man need not be
afpaiii rtf falsi aagisf ant nfralH tfaaf
he's going to supplant him. If he
is afralt^ then he hasn't the breadth
of vision to make a valuable execu
tive to your business."
"But what’s the remedy? Our prob
lem now is to get out of this hole
that Reed's absence has placed us in.
While you're on the subject I'd like
to get your opinion.'' Dunkirk ask
ed in bewilderment.
"I should say the most important
thing in any organization is a sys
tem of promotion. If you began by
inaugurating a definite system of this
kind, whereby every man or woman
in the organization knows the job
ahead of him. you'd never be in po
sitions of this kind. An understudy
would have been able to step into
Mr. Reed's chair temporarily. Train
each person fee the job ahead of h(m
Any one who objects *o a lesser
worker knowing his work should be
replaced."
“Pm. Not so bad still—"
"Well, what happens if Mr. Reed
is away long? You know that there
is some one in your employ who
has had his training under Mr. Reed
and who can fill his place. I have
noticed that stores or offices who do
not have a system of promotion of
this kinid are obliged either to hire
a new man from the outside (and to
pay that man much more than the
last one got at his period of great
est productiveness) or else to hire a
cheaper man on whom they cannot
depend."
"You mean Instead of getting peo
ple from the outside, to promote
those in our office?"
“Exactly. It isn't fair to loyal
workers who are ambitious and try
ing to get ahead in your employ to
hire executives from the outside.
Why not give those with ypu a
chance? The only way to do this
is to keep constantly preparing the
people in your employ for better
jobs, for promotion. Then, whe 1
the opportunity presents itself they’ll
be ready. By establishing such a
policy you will add to the general
loyally or every one in your omen,
because It will show them the op
portunity ahead."
“Them there models you ordered
will be a pretty classy assortment.”
Ellen Young heard a young sales
man of millinery say to the buyer ot
a store. She shook her head In de
spair, as she caught the buyer's eye.
Tho latter smiled.
A talk tomorrow about salesman
ship English that every business per
son should read.
Let Miss Leigh answer your bus -
ness questions on buying, selling, ad
vertising. employment. etc. Ask
your questions clearly and give all
ths facts. Questions requiring tech
nical answers will be sent by mat*.
Others will be answered in this col
umn.
_ii_
Business Questions Answered
Don't you think It unreasonable
of an employer to waste hls time,
and mine, too, all day while he at
tenlrj to personal matters, and ther.
start to dictate his mall at about 4
o’clock, expecting me to get it out
by 5:30? That's what my employer
does constantly. It means that I
have to stay until « or later every
night. Can you suggest anything?
STENOGRAPHER.
Don't be grouchy or unpleasant
about it, but some time when your
employer is not busy and is feeling
good approach him with the sugges
tion that he handle his dictation
first thing in the morning. Tell him
that you are willing to serve faith
fully. but that you waste virtually
most of your day doing trivial things
and then are so rushed later in the
evening that you can’t do justice to
your mail, and cannot turn it out as
accurately as you would like. If you
appeal to his own sense of economy
in this way. showing him how it will
pay him better lo let you give your
best time and thought to hls dicta
tion, I am sure he will listen to th's
reason.
(Copyright, 1922. by Public Ledger
Company)
L. KEMENY
Jeweler
Cor. SMITH AND STATE STS.
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for the Famous
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Wall Boards. Rnoltn*. Sewer Pipes
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Oray Hair permanently dyed In li min
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Manicuring Parlor. Hair Bobbed and
1 Curled.
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YOU INHERIT IT
_ i
Suppose you go to an antique shop and buy ap ofl
Chinese dagger, with ivory handle and an ivory sheath. You
clean it, hang it on the wall.
Friends come in. Show the Chinese dagger to them.
They handle it gingerly. Then discovering that it doesn't bite
a wave of impulse sweeps through them.
Playfully they pretend to go on the warpath—make
flourishes as if about to sta£ every one in sight.
Scientists call that a “reversion to type”—a throw-back
to barbarous ancestors who wanted to kill with a knife when
ever they got their fingers on it.
Occasionally the reversion to type unfortunately occurs
when some one is examining a pistol. Then a wreath is hung
beside the front door, with purple streamers attached, and
the pistol handler says he "didn’t know it was loaded.”
All of us inherit many primitive emotions from ancestors
thousands of years back. . These emotions are like furnace
fires with the drains closed by gradual civilization.
These emotions, in super-civilization, will become cold,
dead ashes. Now they smoulder, some of them rarely bursting
into flame in the course of a lifetime.
rri_... ikst marlr man’s imwav/1 nlimK
Behold the spring gardener, happily plunging his fingers
into the soil. lie in a reversion to type—displaying the
mechanical spring-time planting habit of ancestors, far back
when agriculture was the only form of real civilization.
The city man’s backyard garden is an inherited expres
sion of the crop-growing instinct.
What of the man who hates gardening and flower planting!
He probably likes to roam in the woods and fish—a throw
back to ancestors who lived by fishing and hunting. They
were roamers, unlike the soil tillers.
Another type in spring goes crazy on sport. If they could
trace their family trees far enough, they’d probably find
gladiators and 'professional soldiers at the roots.
Nature intended all men to be tillers of the soil. Wander
ing therefrom, we have economic and health problems that
result from congestion. From these we revolt in springtime
—rdvert to type—fish, roam, plant vegetables, trees, grass and
flowers. **
Springtime wakens all that lies dormant in man’s blood ,
and brain. It is the link connecting us with the unknown
past.
' PUBLIC OPINION
TRAIN SERVICE
EDITOR EVENING: NEWS
Being an evening commuter. ]
cannot help but resent most bitterlj
the awful train service that is giver
our city. It seems that our mud
neglected city gets more than Its ful
measure of ‘‘poor train service.”
Have the people here no civic
pride? ‘
Can’t the welfare of the citizen
once in a while, be taken into con
sideration by our worthy "trusties’
and can’t It be shown that they art
trying to improve the conditions ol
the citizens?
Must all of the time of the re
sponsible parties be spent in concur
ring bills and . expending money ol
the citizens whom thejr will not ever
favor with a "half-decent railroac!
schedule”?
It seems almost unbelievable thal
a "Pacemaking City" of the size ol
Perth Amboy will allow the rail
roads to “railroad” them out of ser
vice. In Staten Island, the farmer)
and villagers can easily, rightfully
and truthfully claim their superioritj
over the “Pacemaking City" ol
Perth Amboy. There on Staten Isl
and any farmer can get his trair
home at an interval of no longci
than one hour. Yet we of the “Pace
making City,” must wait hours at i
stretch in order to arrive at oui
dear city which is known as "Pace
making." If that slogan was no
adopted for ridicule, it must surel;
have been proposed by a person witl
a keen sense of humor.
It seems that Perth Amboy, the
"Pacemaking City” is not at all i
bad place for a speeding railroac
train to kill nine firemen at one cll|
or to have taken numbers of othei
D'riArl nltloona oa <«a trill fnn the
Perth. Amboy is o. k. but when 1
comes to service, its not there. Pertt
Amboy is a pood place to be orna
mented and decorated with scores o
cars of coal which are held here ai
exterior decorations, adding so muci
to one's pride of the city beautiful
but it can't have more than tw<
trains a day from that station. Peril
Amboy is a fine place to "drll
freight cars", but not a place to havi
train service. Doesn’t it seem tha
Perth Amboy has Just been “bam
boozled” out of that which she
rightfully deserves?
When we look at places lllci
Plainfield, New Brunswick, Mont
clair and cities of that size gettlnf
the service by various train com
panles passing through there, i
makes one wonder, if Perth An.-jo;
was founded under an unlucky stai
or whether it's because the com
panles realize the lack of civic pridi
or the lack on interested, responsibli
officeholders.
To conclude, don't you think tha
if Perth Amboy is good enough foi
a railroad to run on the level of th<
street; if it is good enough for thi
railroads to collect its toll in deathi
annually; if it is good enough for thi
railroads to "exterior decorate it’
with scores of coal cars and let coa
dust fly as one of the essential con
stituents of the air; if it is a goo(
enough place to "hold up traffic” of
times for ten minutes or more; if i
is a good enough place to allow thi
road trains today to go through thi
city at a rate far in excess of thi
fifteen mile an hour limit. If thesi
things are true, don’t you think tha
we ought to be given half as mucl
consideration as the people in Statei
Island? I mean the greatest interva
of time between trains on the Statei
Island is one hour. Why make ui
••Pacemaking Perth Amboyans" wai
more than three hours?
For any persons wanting to taki
a night course to advance one’s ed
ucation, he must either only taki
one hour of a class and take thi
9 o’clock train home at night 01
_u whirh arrives a
1:1*. That's too much for any one
•'O tempores! O mores”! as Cicer<
says, "the time, what change thej
bring.” If Perth Amboy Is a "Pace
making City." then we must lamen
the fact that time has brought abou
such a change in the meaning of thi
word.
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Questions -Answers
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Q. What nation has the larges!
coast trade?—It. S. D. m
A. The great length of our sea
and lake coasts, the number of good
harbors and the fact that most of
the coast region of the United tliatef
has been settled, makes the coast
ing trade of this country the most
extensive in the world.
Q. Could ostriches be raised any
place in the United States?—F. F. B
A. The department -of Agricul
ture says that ostrich farming 'has
only been conducted successfully as
a business in the southwestern part
of this country. Climatic conditions
are favorable for keeping birds out
of doors there throughout the year.
Alfalfa range seems to be one of the
essentials In successful ostrich farm
’ ing. ‘ .
«. What was the lowest point
• that the English pound reached in
’ the United State*, eince the War?
C JJ
A. The lowe*t quotation on the
■ English pound was on February 4,
. 192U— $3.23.
q. How long is the Grand Can
i yon?—J. E. 1’.
A. The Grand Canyon is more
: than 100 miles in length, divided
. into four divisions known as ths
k'l.Mh .Artinn. the kanab section,
the Ulnkaret section and the Sheav
wit* aectlon.
Q. What is the largest cotton
mill in the world?—W. H. N.
A. The Olympia Mill, Charleston.
3. C., with nine to ten acres o£ floor
space and over 100,000 spindles, Is
said to be the largest cotton mill in
the world operating under one root.
Q. What element unessential to
plants is essential to animals?—N. 8.
A. Chlorine is an element essen
tial to animals but not essential to
plant life.
Q. Was it ever proposed to name
a state for Thomas Jefferson?—
G. D. T.
A. In 1850 delegates met and
adopted a constitution for a state
of Jefferson, with an area some
what larger than Colorado, and the
opposition held a second convention
and established the "Territory of
Jefferson" which later become the
Territory of Colorado.
Q. When was coal-tar first con
sidered a by-product and put to
use?—L. N. B.
A. Up until about the middle of
the nineteenth century coal tag was
regarded as a waste product - and
I thrown away, or burned undef the
retorts, but beginning In 184* Its
value was discovered and It was first
used in Germany for making roofing
felt.
Q. What can be done to make
hydrangeas blue?—8. G. T.
A. Hydrangeas should be Plant
ed in the spring as early as possi
ble. They should be planted two
feet apart. The blue color of hy
drangeas depends upon soil condi
tions. and may usually be Induced
in the following year by watering
with a solution of alum (one ounce
to three gallons) all the precoding
summer while growth is being Stede.
Q. Do eggs lose weight in Stor
age?—Q. T.
A. Unless the air In the rodth Is
neither too moist nor too dry,;and
the room is properly ventilated, Oggs
will lose in weight in cold storage
on account of their tendenWr to
evaporate through the shell. > .
o. What change In temperature
Is required to make a com wm-—
B. K.
A. A cold wave Is a term com
monly used in the United States to
denote a fall of 20 degrees in tem
perature in twenty-four hours,
bringing the temperature belo^r the
freezing point.
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