Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1907-12-01

ing city. 1t has 100000 people easily,
and is awakening to every touch OF
progress he great fire but acted as a
stimulus to more active effort, and it
came up out of the ashes of disaster
newer and a greater Baltimore, bearing
all of these same tendencies to be the
foremost American city of culture and
refinement
L The Village Association has become
an institution. 1t is hall of records
and house of action. 1t is at once
the legislative body and a law unto it
self 1t will go down III the annals OF
the town as an organization of hot de-
bates, and pepper. At the same time it
has no unconscious sort of mission. L he
pioneer town of to-day is none of your
oldf fashioned pioneer places. We do our
pioneering nowadays in a manner that
would put to blush the things men did
in the days of General Grant or Daniel
Boone. The difference viewed from the
human side of things has been all in
favor of the Daniel Boone epoch, SO far
as actual pioneering goes. In those days
when men wanted anything they usually
had to hew it out of stone, or cut it
out of a log, or else leave it for the
other fellow to come along and heW or
cut. To-day, when we've waited some
thing. the modern Daniel Boones have
simply done little shouting and it was
all over What a difference in types OF
civilization.
Moreover, in the village association
of your modern pioneer. town, which
isn't more than few years of age, still
teething, in fact, with the eye teeth not
yet visible we are offered unusual OPP
portunities for studying character.
Character study is the essence of pio-
neering, for it bespeaks knowledge of
your future rulers and solves many COM
plex problems which would be long
time coming to a head. Quicker results
NAV be obtained in this way of modern
pioneering than would be possible in
twenty years of the old way. The vii
lage association is not composed OF
mere boys, but mature men, who come
to the woods to pioneer, none OF whom
has seen the others, perhaps 1t is like
the Jury box. If the case looks COM
plex, it means long elaboration, and
when a dozen men are locked up for
days, warm friendships and some enrnl-
ties are sure to spring up. Opinions
vary in all political bodies. Men never
think alike. This variance of thought
adds zest and creates interest. Then
you have the development of chickering's.
Men are prone to many little jealous
les, and the fellow who does things IS
always marked" In other words, his
measure is TAKEN" and his progress is
no bed of lilies or lilacs-rather one OF
rubs than roses. The "Pecksnif' OF
the village; the "Tom Pinch" the
mark Tapley" all are developed in the
village association. All bodies organ
lied on this plan develop these charac-
tiers. They are never very difficult to
match in most places, and pitched battle
in milder form comes to the front now
and then. The mud thrower is a de-
velopment, also. 1t is he who wants to
do all the throwing, and the foolish
man who throws back might be engaged
in a wiser business, to save his own self
respect. Then, too, the patient, we'll
behaved man who waits. He listens,
makes up his mind, but who can be
/ chanped with reason. votes according to