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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS Pnbllobed Dally except Sunday at 'efferaon Street, corner of Madleon Arena* Perth Amboy. N. J-. by he PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS COMPANY Telephone 40U-4C1-40J • J LOGAN CLEVENGER. Editor * D. P. OLMSTEAD. General Manager Subscription Price by mall. Including postage and war tax. 1 month. <6 cents,] Mar. 17 10 Entered at Poet Office at Perth Ambov. N J.. as second class mall matter. Branch Office*—New York. r. R. Northrop. 303 Fifth Avenue; Chicago. 3u!t« 1110 Association Bn; ding___ Com m n ntratloae I Tbs Evening News is always glad to receive communications trorn Ite readers bat letters Intended for publication must he reasonable In length and mutt he signed by the name and address of the writer. If requested the name will not be published mlese poreonaMtte* are indulged in.___ ember of The Associated Preee The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to tho use for publication of ill new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also tie local news published herein. The Evening Newt is also a member of the American Newepapere Publishers' Association and th* Audit Bureau of Circulation. ,4 Bible Thought For Today THE HIGH CALLING:—Re ye therefore perfect even a.s your Father which is in heaven is perfect.—Matthew j; 18. MYSTERY ABOUT THIS PAVING. There seems to be n great deal of mystery concerning Ihe paving of that part of I he Lincoln Highway between Me • luchen ami Highland Park which is a part of Houle No. 1 oi the Stale Highway system. For some time past the State Highway Commission has been trying to get the Hoard of Freeholders to pave this stretch of six miles of highway under the rc-imbursctnent plan. The idea is to have ths county issue bonds and pay for the work now and the state will refund the money thus spent two or three years hence. This re-imbursement plan is one of the tricks of the patent pavement interests. With the various Hoards of Freeholders iit dilTcrcnt parts of the slate awarding con tracts for all this paving work, responsibility is scattered. There is not so much public attention attracted to the bid ding when done by counties as when done by Hie state board. The patent pavements are more easily pul over. The road between Metuchen and Highland Park is showing the signs of wear, hut it is not in as bad condition as a great many other roads that are supposed to be im proved. The main trouble is that it is ton narrow. The fact is. however, that the State Highway Commission is deter mined to have it paved this year. Although the Board of Freeholders have not yet signi fied their willingness to build Ibis road under the re-im bursement plan and in spile of the fact that the Stale High ■ way Commission insist that they have not the funds available to go ahead with the work themselves this year, the properly owners along the highway have been notified lo make such connections as are necessary and preparations are being made just the same as if the paving of the road this year was an assured fact. The freeholders profess ignorance of what is going on and the State Highway Commission is mum. It will be in teresting to watch developments. In the meantime, it is interesting to recall the fact that this Metuchen-llighland Park road lias been built hut flv3 TTrsfx years and the bonds issued to pay for this road must have many years yet to run. In other words, before the present road is half paid for it is proposed to rip it up and issue more bonds to pave it all over again. The taxpayers would then he paying taxes on two pavements for the sane road. And then we wonder why the tax rate is high. This road paving game is the greatest burden the peo ple have to carry. It is particularly expensive when costlj pavements are built and then neglected and allowed lo go to ruin so that they have to he rebuilt before the original pave inent is anywhere near paid for. P-Afc ‘tt ' » I CHILDREN IN THE STREETS With a record of fifteen children injured in the streets of this city during the month of April and the first week in May it would seem as if something should be done to remedy the situation. True, the playgrounds will soon be in oper ation, but, at best, they will provide lor only a few young slers. The appropriation is wholly inadequate. Incidentally, playgrounds opened the first of July do not help prevent ac cidents in April. May and June. The men of today who are in charge of public affairs do not seem to realize that conditions are vastly different now from what they were when these men were boys. In the first place, there were no paved streets; houses were built further apart and there were yards to play in. Open fields were only a short distance away. Then, again, the traffic in the street was not only ml nearly so great, but it moved much more slowly than the present day traffic. But modern needs have been provided for as the city has grown excepting where the children are concerned. They have been gradually robbed of their natural play grounds and nothing has been done to provide a substitute. What is the answer? Fifteen boys and girls within the short svace of five weeks are rushed off to the hospital for treatment, many of them possibly maimed for life. Isn’t it about time to include the children when laying out the program for the years work in municipal develop ment? The boys and girls of today are the men and women of tomorrow. It is the first duty of the city to see that they have every advantage and receive the proper care and pro tection. TIME TO "COME ACROSS” A pledge once given ought to be considered good until it is fulfilled. The Young Men's Hebrew Association and iftiliated organizations conducted a campaign a few years igo for funds with which to erect a building. The pledges amounted to over $100,000. It seems, however, that only •lbout $30,000 of that amount was ever paid in. Recently it has been decided to proceed with the building. The funds are needed to proceed with the work. Since the excavation was started about $20,000 more has come in. But there is still about $60,000 outstanding. Naturally, the leaders in the Young Men's Hebrew Assocation took those who pledgeJ certain amounts seriously and on the basis of those pledges they have felt justified in going on with the work. Now is the time to “come across.” It is something that is owed to the Y. M. H. A.; it is something that is owed to the city and j ** la something that those who have made pledges owe to l)*M. A drive has been started to get this money in. pifRcnlty about collecting it. j NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS * V^RHoN McNor-r was eosr i.ast )| WEfK 0fi^oHSTRATlN'G HiS HtW ^{j Pogo Stick CopfiuesrcHe. TamR£R j. ©M- WHICH He Hopes lb oBTAiM | I ^ _ La LABOR BOARD FOR COAL INDUSTRY PROPOSED Daily Jjeltcr by Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON. May f>—The tri bunal created in the proposed Ken yon bill to regulate labor affairs in the coal industry is patterned close ly after the Railroad Labor Board established by the law which re turned the transportation systems of the country to private operation. It is designated as the “National Coal Mining Board,” and is to be composed of nine members. Three members, constituting the labor group and representing the coal miners, are to be appointed by the President of the United States and shall be selected from men proposed by the United Mine Work ers of America. Not less than six nominations shall be made by the union. Three members of the board shall constitute the management 5roup, representing the coal opera tors, and they shall be chosen from lot less than six nominees proposed :o the* President by the National Coal Association and the Anthra cite Coal Operators Association. As [he bituminous branch of the coal Industry is much larger than the anthracite it is assumed that the bituminous operators will name two >f the three employer members of he board, but there is no provision ;o that effect in the bill. The third division of three nv nl >ers of the board will constitute the public group, representing the public interest in the great fuel in lustry, and they will be chosen by the President entirely* on his nwn initiative. All appointments to places on the hoard must be con iirmed by the United States Senate. If either the employes or employ ers fad to make nominations and offer nominees within thirty days after the passage of the bill in case of any original appointment to the office of member of the labor board, or in case of a vacancy in any such fflce withlng fifteen days after such vacancy occurs, then the President shall make the appointments on his own motion, hut he shall select in dividuals associated in interest with the groups they are appointed to represent. Any member of the proposed board who during his term of office is an active member or in the em ploy of or holds any office in any organization of coal miners or op erators, or owns any stocks or bonds thereof, or is otherwise financially Interested therein, becomes at once neligibie for further membership on he board, but none of the members will be required to relinquish honor ary membership In or his rights to my organization of employes or by 1 ny operator. Ton Thousand Dollar Men The members of the board will Iraw salaries of $10,000 a year, which is the same as the pay of the nine members of the Railroad Labor Board. The term of office will be five years after the first appoint ments have been made. Coal miners and operators are ex pected to do their utmost to settle heir quarrels without appealing to he proposed labor board. Section i of the Kenyon bill declares that it shall be the duty of both operators and their employes to exert every reasonable effort and adept every available means to avoid tiny inter ruption to the operation of any coal mine which might result as the cul mination of a labor dispute. All such disputes shall t»e considered ind if possible decided in confer ence between the representatives designated and authorised so to con ier by the employers and employes directly interested. The proposed law thus contem plates the application of the prin ciple of collective bargaining in the creation of unofficial machinery which shall adjust minor differences and controversies. but when tills machinery cannot accomplish the desired end. then appeal must be taken to the labor board which rep resents not only the miners and operators, but the public as well. Three ways are proposed by which a dispute may be brought before the board. First the board shall take jurisdiction in a case upon the ap plication of any operator or organi zation of employes whose members are directly interested in the dis pute: second, the board may pro ceed upon the written petition oi not less than 100 unorganized or jton-union employes who are direct iAJnterested in the dispute in ques tiolL or. third, the board may a® on i* own initiative If It Is of lh< opinio* that the dispute "is likeli substantially to interrupt com mer|e." The board may thus act in any dispute with respect to wages, hours of labor .and other* working conditions. The board, once it has taken ju risdiction in a case, must render its decision within sixty days, unless this period is extended \?y agree ment of the parties and there can be no decision by the board except by the concurrence of at least five of the nine members, ar.»l at least cne member of the public group must join in the decision. • No Penally to Enforce Decisions. Xo penalties are provided for vio lations of the decisions of the la bor board. When the transportation act was under consideration in con gress this question of creating a board without giving it power to enforce its decrees was debated at length, but in the end it was de i ided wisest to leave such persons as would not abide by the decisions of such a tribunal subject only to the condemnation and opprobrium that would be visited upon them by public opinion. In the experi ence of the Railroad Labor Hoard only one or two of its decrees have been evaded or defied, and it is be lieved that public opinion can be as efficacious in enforcing a labor board’s decision as any penalties in the form of fines that might be pro \irlpH The board, however, docs have au thority to compel the appearance of witnesses and the production of pa pers and documents. Any mem ber may require by subpoena the attendance of any witness and the production of any book, paper doc ument or other evidence from any place in the United States at any designated place of hearing, and in case of failure to comply with any subpoena, or in case of the contu macy of a,uy witness appearing be fore it, the board my invoke the aid of any United States district court. Such court may thereupon order the witness to comply with the require ments of the subpoena, or to testify, and any failure to obey such an or der may be punished as contempt of •court In the usual manner. Wit nesses are also liable to prosecu ton and punishment for perjury committed In testifying before the board. Any person who upon demand of ! any member or duly authorized rep | resentative of the board snail refuse access to and the right to copy any i book, account, record, paper or cor ! lespondence relating to any matter ! which the board is investigating is | subject to a penalty of $5C0 line for ! each such offense. • In addtion to the settling of dis putes the Kenyon bill gives the proposed labor board the following additional broad functions: ‘ Shall investigate and study the relations between operators and their employes, particularly ques tions relating to wages, hours of labor, and conditions and regular ity of employment: shall gather, compile, classify, digest, and pub lish, from time to time, data and information relating to tuch ques tions to the end that the labor board may be properly equipped to per form its duties under this act and • that the public may be properly in ures to stabilize the industry and regularize employment.” If the bill should become a law with this provision in it, the Na tional Coal Mining Board would have a bigger job on its hands than has ever been turned over to any similar tribunal, and more power and latitude to act than has ever been entrusted to any group of men dealing with industrial relations. It would be possible for the board to make a complete survey of the coal industry am^ give the public all the tacts that'are so essential to the formation of an inelligent pub lic opinion as to what should be done in crisis like the one precip itated by the strike on April 1. It would also be possible for the board to institute measures that would revolutionize the entire in dustry which is admittedly in a bad way as a result of being over manned and over-mined and in a constant state of turmoil over the unionization problem. i - . THE COMMERCIAL PRE88 PSUflEU 1 1(1 New Braeewleb Ave. These ll» Perth Amber, H. J. Saxophone players go In bands. It’s dangerous to play one alone. Dempsey Is Invited to Russia, where everybody lights for a living. 'Tax Collector Missing”—head line. Not missing much, though. The wages of sin is debt. Why not a radio in the country broadcasting the cricket chirp? People who bny bootleg get soaked. The early bird catches it when he mows the lawn. Perhaps the man choked his wife with her apron because she had him tied to the apron strings. Rady radio fans listening in on congress should wear ear muffs. In Texas a man was sentenced to the pen for 146 years. That will hold him for a while. When two young people get their heads together they are dancing. Every now and then a fellow bobs up with six or seven wives and the men who can’t even keep one got disgusted with themselves. All golfers may be liars; but all liars are not golfers. Men brag about coming from a good family Just as if they had something to do with it. Hair-raising stories have given way to hair-bobbing stories. A Borneo explorer says he has found a race of people with tails; but this may be one of them. Worst thing about the movies are the people who eat onions. In a few more weeks now we will smear it all up and say "Well, there’s our inkum tax again.” Health hint: Men who can't fight should not have bad tempers. Some of these new drivers think a train should take to the woods when it sees them coming. Since there are no cuss words in Japanese how do they discuss the war in China? Amboy Taxi Service PHONE 1485 1 to 5 Passengers 60c. Main office and station corner State and Smith Sts. AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE LAUNDRY CABS WASHED AND POLISHED Br Kxperleaeed Weehere Called For end Delivered 147 Jefferson Street L. FREEMAN. PROP PERTH ABBOT, N. J. Washington or Baltimore EXCURSION SUNDAY, MAY 14th I ^ _ a A I Tickets toed only ei fr r n n ape' let train le»vir.( U k II Dl Pena Air.boy 6.41 ih ■ I I I I A. B P.eturnlni II ■ I _ II II loeve Weeklngtoi tfVi¥¥k«i r. tt. Betti I * I mare ».« P B. Keatrrn Standard Time Shewn | New Jersey Central * 4 ELLEN YOUNG DOCTOR or SALES By Rath Leigh Author of "Tho Homos Mdo of Ho tnll MIIdi." -Thu tICol Retail lag" etc. Richard Draper, president of th: Lyon Mstal Products Company, laughed as Ellen Young spoke of a plan. "Everything seems to be run by a plan these days, I judge from what you say. Miss Young. Office routine, clothsa buying, advertising, and even our own lives." "If there were a little more plan' nlng, and a little loss aimless guess ing In business today, more busi ness people would be making money I believe," commented Ellen Young, grimly. "Take advertising, for ex ample. Your advertising is fairly well handled, Mr. Drapes, but you have no idea how many advertiser*, retail and wholesale, go to work year after year spending money without a plan." "You mean they don’t outline where they're going to spend It?" asked Draper. “Not only where, but how and how much. That is what I mean. Every advertiser, no matter how small his business, should sit down at the ^beginning of Avery business year and say to himself: ‘How much can I afford to spend for advertising this year?' That depends on his total sales. Tho custom among re tailers, for instance, is to set aside a certain amount of money each year, based on the volume of busi ness of the previous year. The av erage in most retail stores is a little over 3 per cent of sales. The aver age in department stores is 4.67 per cent of sales." “Then having decided how much he is going to spend. It's up to the advertiser, I suppose, to decide where he's going to spend it?" "That's all part of the budget making plan,” agreed Ellen Young. "The retailer sits down and lists the best advertising media. How much for newspaper advertising? How muoh for olroulars and letters? How much for window signs? Is there to be a store paper? And so on. You see, to get the best value for yous money, no matter what you're go ing to spend it for, it's only common sense to decide before you spend it. where to spend It, so that you’ll get the most for your money." “After the advertiser decides what media he's going to use, What •'Then he gets down to specific cases. He has decided in the be ginning how much he's going to spend for newspaper advertising. What papers? This ho Investigates with the same care and exactness as he plans his advertising appropri ation. You see, Mr. Draper, this is what I always point out to adver tisers. You have a definite message to put across. Now if you start be forehand and say: ‘How best can I put across this message?’ you are planning your advertising intelli gently. On the other hand, if you go around scattering energy, brains and appropriation in a careless un systematic fashion, you scatter the force of your message. Instead of aiming direct, hard, hammer blows in definitely planned directions, you scatter your fire and lose force. If planning your advertising does noth ing more than concentrating adver tising energy, it pays in the long run." “In other words, unless you know what you're trying to do, before hand, you canlt do It," commented Draper, dryly. "That’s all. A little more ad vanced thought, and a little less in spirational hit-or-mlss advertising would save many a concern money.” In talking to a group of salespeo ple at the McLane Department Store, Ellen Young said: "I wonder how many of you ap peal to the senses of your customer when you sell them?" • The members of the group looked puzzled, but interested. How do yon appeal to the Kvnees of customers in selling? Ellen Young will tell yon tomorrow. I^et Miss Leigh answer your busi ness questions on buying, selling, ad vertising, employment and so on. Ask your questions clearly, and give all the facts. Questions re quiring technical answers will be sent by mall. Others will be an swered In this column. Business Questions Answered Bo you belisve in the use of a sales manual to be given to traveling salesmen selling a specialty product to retail stores. We have never used one. but I notice from articles In the leading trade papers that many of the best concerns have adopted sales manuals for their men. By the sales manuals, I mean, of course, a book in which the products that the men are selling are completely de scribed. all their selling points out lined and objections and answers his ted so that the salesmen knows every point about the goods he is selling and carries It around in the manual form, in cases of question of doubt. SALES MANAGER. I am a great believer in sales manuals. First of all, it gives them talking points about the product, which they may otherwise forget. Second, they can always review these talking points by reading over the manual. Third, by listing objectoins and answers, you give your sales men constant help In selling espe cially your new salesmen. Fourth. It gibes the salesman greater respect for ths product he Is selling if he sees ths sales arguments, obpections and answers outlined In this way. The leading concerns of the coun try are finding sales manuals ex tremely Important and profitable. (Copyright, 1222, by Public Ledger Company) IT KILLED THE CAT, BUT— ! _,_,__ ij New York is installing fire alarm boxes without glass doors. This will increase the number of false alarms rung in by mischief-makers who “obey that impulse.” The Paul Prys'will find it hard to resist a fire alarm handle dangling free outside the red box, just as they cannot resist touching wet paint with their fingers to gee if it’s dry, or poking an umbrella tip in a freshly laid concrete sidewalk.’ Shrewd psychologists a long time ago realized that the Paul Pry instinct could best be kept in bounds by making it necessary to break a pane of glass before ringing A>r the fire engines. Behold little Willie, embryonic Paul Pry, marveling at spring, pestering pa with questions about what makes the grass grow, why the days are getting longer, where the wind goes to when it stops blowing. Later on, little Willie will be testing dryness of fresh paint, taking his watch apart to sec if he can get it together again, trying to eat everything that looks as if his jaws could d master it. Children try to taste their Way ;o knowledge. ' Be thankful for this. Curiosity is the force that has pro duced all comforts, all knowledge, all civilization. All forms o? animal life constantly are trying to improve themselves. The desire is manifested by their curiosity. Go into the woods. Start chopping. In half an hour, if you look about, you’ll see an army of eyes among the trees— curious squirrels, flocking to see what it’s all about. Trapper, laid up with a broken leg in a trail cabin of the Yukon, drives a short pole in the snow and to it fastens a rag. Animals will see the rag flapping in the wind and, steered by curiosity, will come from miles away to investigate. That gets them within range of the hunter's rifle. Animal trainers differ as to whether menagerie monkeys or human spectators get the most fun from watching each other. The instinct of curiosity is so powerfully developed in man that anything dangerous has to be made fool-proof. Put a “Danger—Stay Out” sign on a shed containing dy namite. Nearly every one that passes will cither force the door with a club or peer through cracks and knotholes to learn what’s inside. Wisdom, handed down from the experience of the past, is disrespected—because the average person’s curiosity im pels him to find out for himself. Thus youth has its fling, the bootlegger constantly has a new crop of customers—and, in general, man learns very little from experience. . The motive force oi’ life is the Paul Pry instinct. p-. ■■ _.___ Questions-Answers ; Any reader can get the answer to ' any queation by writing The Penh ' Amboy Evening News Information Bureau. Frederic J. Ha*kin. Director. Washington, D. C. This offer ap plies strictly to Information. The bureau cannot give advice cn legal, medicinal and tlnanclal troubles, it doee not attempt to Mttle domestic troublea nor to undertake exhaus tive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and tn. close two cents In stamps for return poataxa All replies ars sent direct to the Inquirer. Q. When brokers speax of “car rying charges" what do they mean? —J. E. B. A. Carrying charges are the In terest, paid by those buying stocks on margin on the difference between tho market price at which the stock was bought and the amount of mar gin deposited by the purchaser. Thus if ten shares of stock are pur chased at $100 a share and $200 deposited as margin, the carrying charge would bo the interest on $800 Q. What is Sapsago cheese flav ored with?—M. 8. A. Sapsago is a kind of Swiss cheese flavored with malilot. Q. Is it true that rivers wasij their western banks to a greatas extent than the eastern?—D. T. A. Kivers do not wash western hanks more than eastern banks as a general rule. Other factors de :ermine what land is washed away. Q. Is any gr>at portion of the $10,000,000 appropriated for the enforcement of the Volstead law cfTset by taxis on illegal liquor sales?—O. M. A. A. The International Bureau says that fines and special taxes im posed against liquor law violators have brought revenues to the gov ernment two and one-half times as great as the $10,000,000 appropria tion for the ir.for.ement of the Eighteenth Amendment. Q. When was the Cobalt mining country opened up?—H. G. S. A. Silver waa discovered In the Cobalt region In 1908, but It was not until 1906 that the Cobalt “boom" reached its height. • Q. What percentage of farm crops are cereals?—H. N. P. A. During 1921 the value, of ce reals produced waa $2,063,000,000 or 36.5 per cent of the crop total. <3. Is there ahy way that color may be restored to an article which has been affected by acid?—I. E. K. A. Dip the article which Is faded into a weak solution of baking soda and water. This Is particularly ef fective for shades of yellow. Q. How much Ijottled-ln-hond whiskey Is stored in warehouses in the United States?—P. W. A. At the present time about I*. 000.000 gallons of such whiskey is B stored in warehouse's throughout ^ the United Staten as compared with 50,000,000 gallons eighteen months ago. Q. la there any artist by the name of Charles Chaplin? I do not re fer to the movie actor.—G. R. L. A. Charles Chaplin, a painter and engraver, of English parentage, was born June 8, 1825, at Les Andelys, Eurc-France. He became a natural ized citizen of France and died in Paris in 1881. Ons of his best pic tures ‘•Souvenirs" is in the Lux embourg, and another "Haides" i* in the Metropolitan Museum, New York city. Q. Does the government own mail cars?—H. B. A. Ths Postoffice Department says that the railroads own the mail cars. The hauling of the mail* * 1 is paid on » space basis, and accord ing to the frequency of the service and mileage. Q. Can you give the names of two j men whose friendship rivals that 9 of Damon and Pythias?—p. T. M A. It would bs hard to and a I more beautiful story of friendship ■ than that related of David and Jon- ■ athan. In 1st Samuel, 18th Chap- 9 ter. 1st verse, it is stated "That the B n>ul of Jonathan was knit with the I »oul of David, and Jonathan loved ‘B him as his own soul." ^^^B MATA WAN |i| At the preliminary meeting of friends of Ann May Memorial lir.^HHB opathic Hospital, of Spring Lak^BSI held in Odd Fellows’ Hall, \Vednes-^W day afternoon, a permanent organi- H zation Woman’s Auxiliary was form- ” ed. the following officers being elect ed: Mrs. Tunis R. Schenck, pres ident; Mrs. C. L. Green, vice pres ident; Mrs. F. S. Cottrell, secretary; Mary Conover. Mrs. Lillian Walling Mrs. L. E. Davies, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Conover, Mrs. LilUam Wailing and Mrs. Clara Brown, committee on by-laws. The auxiliary starts with a nics membership which will be consider ably enlarged in the near future. Ths next meeting will be held at the call of the president, the latter part of the month. Mrs. I.. E. Davies, wife of School Physician. Dr. T*. E. Davies, was op erated on yesterday in the Ann May Memorial Homeopathic Hospital at Spring Lake for gall stones and other conditions that were found during the operation. In considera tion of the seriousness of the oper ation. Mrs. Davies is doing well ae can be expected. Mrs. Davies is treasurer of the Ann May Memorial Hospital auxiliary recently formed in this borough. I GEORGE R THOMPSON CARPENTER AND BUILDER Jobbing Promptly Attended to »7 LEWIS ST. PHONE 1408-W FELDMAN’S KOSHER MEAT MARKET lit Fayette Street BEST NEW FORK KOSHER MEAT A Pound, 26c. 137,Etl840 Have yoar windows cleaned In Building*, Offices, Stores and Private Residences Br The Perth Amboy Window Cleaning Company lH BIO AD SX. HOKE 1M _ TRY THE NEW GRAY HAH REMEDY Gray Bair permanently dyed In 1ft min utes at Min Peterson's Hair Brassing an< Manicuring Parlor. Hair Bobbed am