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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

O ABSECON. Q
Arrival and Departure of Mails.

Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Mails arrive at ADsecon Post Office a.
follows
From Philadelphia and wesf-7s3o and 10
From Atlantic City-esso a. m. and 3.45
p. m.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphia-6.2 20, 9.25 and 9.45 a.
M $50 and 6.25 p. m.
For Atlantic oity-9.45 a. M; 6.25 p. m.
The Office opens daily except Sunday al
6.15 a. M. and closes 7.15 p. m.
Carrier leaves on Rural Delivery Route at
$40 an.
Subject of sermon at the Absecon
M. E. Church, Sunday, 1890 A.. M,
will be: "One of the Blessed Verities".
Master Gordon Draper is i'll with
the measles.
Reuben L. Babcock has sold his Ma
tional touring car to Atlantic City
parties.
Mr.. Howard Payne is suffering
from an attack of rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Newell, of
Pemberton, have been guests of DR..
and Mrs. C. C. Allen the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Adams, of At
lantic City, were guests on Sunday of
the ~latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Hamilton.
Miss Joanna Doughty, of Atlantic
City, is the guest of her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fraley
Doughty.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Berry recently
entertained at their home on Connec-
ticut avenue the latter's brother, Will
liam H. Mccormick, of the U. S.. S.
Whipple. Mr.. Mccormick came here
from the Pacific coast.
A one-story concrete mandatory,
garage and machine shop is being err
ected by theAbsecon Manufacturing
Company, of which William Wyand
is the head, on the Pitney property,
north of Turner's on New Jersey av-
enue.
Members of the Absecon Art CLUB
were guests on Wednesday afternoon
of Mrs. James B. Townsend at her
home in Longport. Her guests were:
Mrs. A.. L. Hamme1E, Mrs. R. L. Bah
cock, Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin, Mrs.
George Conover, Mrs. ]. T. Townsend,
Mrs. M. M. Townsend, Miss Lorine
Boice, Miss Hannah Madden, Miss Jo-
anna Doughty, Mrs. Samuel Johnson,
Mrs. R. A. Elwood, Russell Elwood,
Mrs. l. G. Adams, Miss Mabel Adams,
Mrs. Minnie Corson, Mrs. Howard
Mcconnell and Mrs. John B. Smith.
GET-TOGETHER WEEK.
A "Get-Together" week will be OBJ
served in the Absecon M. E. Church
beginning next Sunday. In the eve
ming Rev. Clarence M. Johnston will
preach a special sermon to the City
Council and Board of Trade, subject,
"a Ca~ndlesearch of a City,"
Monday night, May "a, preaching
by Rev. S. R. Stratton, of the Pleas
antville Baptist Church. Tuesday
night, May %, Ushers' Union night.
Wednesday night, preaching by Rev.
DIR. F. A. DeMaris, the new District
Superintendent. Thursday night, May
27, speaker to be supplied. Friday
night, May %, a strawberry festival
under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid.
This will be called a "Jitney Party"
Five-cent coupons will entitle the hold
err to candy, ice cream, strawberries,
etc. Autos will be furnished by mem
bers of the church to take the people
jitney-riding. A big time is antici-
pated.
Sunday night, May 30th, the pastor
will preach a patriotic sermon on:
"The Coronation of the. Common Sol
der" Members of the Grand Army
are invited, and the lodges of the city
are also to be guests that evening.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
A Girls Wardrobe.

"a girl can look very well at all
times if she has five well-thought-out
changes" holds Elsie Ferguson. in
an article on dress, in the Green Book
Magazine. "She will need g street
suit. two afternoon gowns and two
evening gowns. In general l should
recommend a dark-blue street suit,
one afternoon gown of wool crepe and
another of silk, and one black evening
gown and one l~ight-colored."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
Softens New Rope.

To soften new ropes that are ex-
tremely troublesome because of their
stiffness, the following is excellent.
Cover the ropes with water and heat
the water until it almost boils,
straighten and dry them. Ropes
treated in this manner work satisfac-
torily as soon as dry.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

Agriculture is recognized as the
greatest of all industries and a pros
porous, progressive and enlightened
agricultural population is the surest
safeguard of civilization.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

1t is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without a permanent agriculture,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

1t is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without a permanent agriculture.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
Woman Is Ruler Over All.

Why does woman chafe under re-
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has chung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face Of
childhood? In it's sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
in shame; clinging to it's motherly
folds. lettering children have learned
to play hide and seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re-
spect womanhood. Can man think of
his mother without this c~onsecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow
er? Is not woman all powerful? Man
cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
sheds tears of regret ove his depar-
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, his name and his money.
What more does she want?
Can man find it in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that his
honorable mother-in-law was one OF
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
fflibusters in the Genate or that his
mother was a noted warrior and her
name a terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where will we
land?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked
Nation.

I follow the pillow for a living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps / am n little ol~d-fashioned,
but l believe there is more moral in
fuence in the dress of woman than in
all the statute books of the land. AS
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
constitutions and bylaws in the world.
As a power for purifying society, ]
wouldn't give n prayer of my sanity
mother for all the women's votes in
government, l wouldn't give the plea
of a mothers heart for righteousness
for all the oaths of Office in the land.
There is more power in the smile
of woman than in an act of congress.
There are greater possibilities for
good government in her family of
laughing children than in the cab
met of the president of the United
States,
The destiny of this nation lies in
the home and not in the legislative
halls. The hearthstone and the fam.
lily Bible will ever remain the source
of our inspiration and the Acts of the
Apostles will ever shine brighter than
the acts of Congress
This country is law-mad. Why add
to a statute book, already groaning
under it's own weight, the historical
cry of woman? If we never had a
chance to vote again in a lifetime and
did not pass another law in twenty
five years, we could survive the or
deal, but without home. civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming a ~hen-pecked nation;
help us keep sissies out of Congress
and forbid that ONE become step
fathers to government, is the prayer
of the farmers of this country.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
HOW DO THESE. STRIKE YOU?

Too many cooks spoil the broth, but
too few make it too thin.
The high cost of living has not yet
had its effect upon the cheapness of
advice.
The devil always finds work for idle
hands, and he works them overtime
without pay.
Some persons are not happy unless
they are broke, and they are happy
most of the time.
The fact love is blind is a poor ex-
for the neckties some women
buy for their husbands.
The fact that a man is an excellent
walker does not necessarily mean he
will run well at the primaries.
l would rather go to heaven bare
footed than to stand in the shoes of
some persons | know.-Elder Berry.
"My idea of the LATEST man in the
world is he who is too tired to fall
heir to a fortune."-The Man in the
Smoking Compartment.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
FLASHES

Sympathy is very comforting, but
don't let it influence you to be the I'M
der dog.
No mar ever realizes how insigni-
fcant he really is until he attends his
W wedding,
Don't tell your troubles if you are
looking for an encore.
Many a man brags about a future
that is already o~vershadowed by his
past.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

Also lots of people rolling in wealth
don't gather any moss.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

The fact that a man is an excellent
walker does not necessarily mean he
will run well at the primaries.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

The friends that your money buys
are no friends of yours.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

Woman is naturally a bargain hunt
err, but the fact remains that she once
snapped paradise for an apple
Judge.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

A pessimist has seen better days,
but an optimist has not.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
BRIEF DECISIONS

When a mar reaches the top those
at the bottom are the first to find it
out.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

Pastor st. John NJ. E. Church. South.
st. Louis. Mo.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22

Too many cooks spoil the broth, blu
too few make it too thin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Insurance Cost and Fire Loss.

Fire Commissioner Adamson announces
that the cost Of fire insurance in this city
Is lower than anywhere else in the country,
save In the District Of Columbia, where
the buildings are 30 largely residential
that the rates are abnormally small. This
statement il based on survey made by
the Central Mercantile Association, which
holds that the low rates prevail because
Of the slight fire risk, due 70 the high
pressure water system and the prevalence
Of automatic sprinklers.
1t is gratifying, Of course, TO know that
this city Is 80 well of in respect Of In
saraDce rates. Yet that does not alter the
fret, frequently reported by the Fire De
Dartment, that New York City has ire
ynendously heavy fire loss each year--a
loss IN proportion far In excess Of the loss
IN most European cities. Carelessness,
reckIessness, criminal disregard Of fire
laws. produce this in spite Of the efforts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05

Of the Fire Prevention Bureau, with its
campaigns Of education and
the services Of the most efficient depart
ment in the world when II comes TO extin-
gushing fires. In some recent litigation
the Fire Department obtained decision
that corporation in whose premises
fire started, the concern having failed to
obey certain orders Of the Fire Prevention
Bureau, must bear the cost of the depart
ment's work in fighting that fire. If that
can become the regularly recognized city
policy, so that the owner or tenant Of the
premise, in which fire occurs will know
he will be held responsible for it, there
would be fire insurance rates so low that
the business men of the city would save
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually,
without counting the vast saving in city
expenditure and property loss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Lady Byzantine.

Geese who lay golden eggs and between
times NEEDLE outrageously in other peo-
pies affairs should derive benefit from the
example set them by Lady Byzantine.
This gentlewoman, of irreproachable White
Leghorn ancestry, by attending strictly to
business. not only lays eggs that are worth
their weight in gold (all fresh eggs belong
to this category to-day, but she lays more
eggs than ever hen laid before, 3l4 in 365
days, to be exact. Wherefore, she is valued
at 100000, she travels in a private car,
occupies an expensive hotel suite, and is
attended by lackeys and motion picture
representatives.
But, above all, she possesses the pro-
found respect of the community, which
finds it a distinct relief in these days Of
hysteria and false gods to turn its atten-
ton for the moment 10 this honest bird,
content to perfect herself in the role
which God assigned her, to herald her
standard product simply with modest
cackling and to leave other matters of
domestic and international Importance to
those better equipped than she to deal
with them. An embodiment of calm in
telligence, true member of the aristoc-
racy of achievement, Lady Byzantine pre-
sents better model for mankind than the
dove of peace. Just now she seems thrice
welcome 10 the freedom of our city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Some One Had Blundered. "
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I don't think we can justly blame
Sir John French, though of course he !,
held responsible for the errors OF his subOr.
dinates
| understand (my son was in the Aaber,
Ridge muddle and lost his life) that an or
der from headquarters was misunderstood.
and the attack which commenced on May
should have been deferred until May 10,
when reinforcements were at hand, as was
subsequently proved. There was absolutely
no necessity for the attack TO have beer
made on May 8; both Germans and the Allies
were sitting tight.
My son had the honor Of being chosen 20
go back through the firing line TO carry
message for reinforcements, and had 10
trudge back with the hopeless news tks.
there were none 20 hand, and subsequently,
learned that surprise was expressed at head.
quarters that the attack had been precpi.
tated, and there was nothing left for these
poor fellows TO do but either 10 surrender
or hack their way through, which they did,
and after the holocaust the captain Of ;he
18th Kensington ordered on his own initial yl
the remainder 10 intrench themselves Which
they did, escaping one by one as dusk fell.
Who, then, was to blame for this holocaust
Hardly General French, who never issued the
order, but the commander who msnterpretei
the order.
1t is good news to hear that Lord Kiteh-
ener is at the front. lie should have been
there long ago; he has done well in bis pO-
sition as War Minister, harsssed and ehiy-
We'd about by lot OF old women, by whom
the War Committee is at present controlled.
Winston Churchill, the man Of the hour, was
relegated TO a seat at the back and had 70
fold his arms and say nothing sorry po'
sition for a man Of Churchilps intellect, and
capability, and energy and honesty Of psr'
pose.
We want more men Is the cry Of the lead.
ers; We want better leaders Is the cry Of
the men. CHARLES DRAM LANDER,
Late Of Harvard University
London, Eng, Nov. %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
War and the Movies.

If the war has had disastrous efec,
on the stage in Europe, its influence on
the moving picture shows Is hardly less
apparent. The American film makers
have no dangerous rivals to-day. Even
before the war began they supplied a
large proportion of the most popular
films shown in English theatres; more
over, England was said to be sort of
dumping ground for the very poorest pro
duced here, the kind that had nothing at
all to recommend them but their cheap
ness. The French were serious competi-
tors, and the Italians were gaining
ground; indeed, it was commonly recog-
nized that in point of excellence the ltal-
ians were unrivaled, though commercially
they could not compete successfully with
the Americans.
The war assured the supremacy Of the
Americans. French rivalry was over
come, of course, and the English firms,
which had never been very enterprising,
became less successful than ever In their
attempts 10 uIlN6 OuL LilCll VI
competitors. In many of the theatres the
Americans monopolized the whole pro-
gramme, and still continue to do SO. But,
according to an observer In Manchester, a
great change has come over the American
films. Detective stories, thrilling melo-
dramas and cowboy plays are becoming
rarer and rare, though unfortunately"
he SAYS, ''the humorous American film re-
mains pretty much as before" This is
the more regrettable because there Is no
one to replace the lamented Bunny Of
facetious memory, and even Charlie Chap
lin is growing stale.
Educational films seem to be no more
popular with English audiences than with
our own, and the war has interfered seri-
ously with travel pictures. To replace the
sort of performances that used to be in
vogue a year or two ago many firms are
now turning to the adaptation of popular
novels, and for the moment films of this
sort seem to be acceptable. If the present
taste of the public endures, the English
firms may in the long run prove as sue
cessful as our own, but for the present
the Americans have a virtual monopoly of
the trade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Driving Out the Pubs.

Sir Alfred Bower predicts that Six more
months of drink regulation will close every
licensed house in London. II that is so,
the outlook for the liquor dealers Is UNI
promising, for the opposition of the trade
unions evidently weakens, and the Central
Control Board shows no inclination to re-
lent. Only a few days ago the National
Union of Railwaymen formally refused to
back one of its own members In organizing
a protest against the new order, and 1t is
not unlikely that others will follow its
example.
Hitherto the trade unions have been the
most dangerous opponents of those who
would force sobriety on the nation. What
they were expected to demand was re-
vision of the time table in order to meet
the requirements of night and early morn
ing workers; for the terms Of the order,
forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors
except from noon to 2:30 p. m. and from
80 TO 9 80 p. M, make it impossible for
such workers to drink at all. 1t was con-
iectured, therefore, that they would at least
ask that the public houses be allowed to
sell drinks for two hours in the morning
say from to o'clock.
There has been a great outcry, of course,
but those who protest most vehemently are
apt to fall into self-contradctions. They
say the order is a miserable failure; that
instead of acting as a deterrent it has only
increased the consumption of liquor; that
though the sale of beer has fallen, the de-
mand for stronger alcoholic beverages has
grown steadily, and so forth. At the same
time they complain that the licensed trade
has been scandalously treated and that the
industry will soon be utterly ruined
Many reformers will be glad to believe
that the latter complaint is the more sim
cere, as it probably is. And there are
many who will not be content till further
restrictions of more drastic sort have
been enforced. Thus the Bishop Of Oxford
and several eminent University residents
have lately published an appeal to nom
combatants generally to take the pledge as
q national duty till the war is over, and
now the Bishop Of Hereford invites them
to give up tobacco as well, on the ground
that pipes, cigars and cigarettes "can
hardly be counted as necessaries of life"
1t is significant that this recommendation
is made in a thoroughly detached spirit,
for the Bishop himself is a non-smoker
even in time of peace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Organizing the Farm Business.

1t is tremendous project which the Ma
tional Conference on Marketing and Farm
Credits has fathered-nothing less than
the organization of all the farmers of the
country into cooperative societies dealing
with every farm product. No country in
the world to-day has anything just like it
in operation. Perhaps the farmers unions
Of Germany, with their intricate semi
official organization, come nearest to it. If
it is 10 be worked out, America will have
to be the pioneer.
Whether anything remotely approaching
the ideal expressed by the conference can
be achieved in this generation, the scheme
is well worth working at. The benefits
realized for the farmers who have formed
associations for the cooperative marketing
of apples, grapes, citrus fruits and the like
in various parts Of the country are con-
siderable, and there are also distinct ad-
yantages for consumers growing out OF
such organizations, notably the fact that
the organization guarantees the grade OF
the output and keeps it up TO standard.
Grain growers in the West and North
west who have combined TO pool their
crops have found it vastly TO their adj
vantage. It has been estimated that the
farmer Of this state receives about 40
cents Of each dollar paid for the produce
he sells; the rest goes TO various middle
men and transportation companies. That
Is unwholesome for him and the com
munity.
Cooperation on the big scale proposed
would far outrun the scope or possibilities
Of any Of the local organizations this coun-
try is becoming familiar with. It's adj
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
Ballad of the Germans.

In Wetteren Hospital, Flanders, the writer
saw a little peasant girl dying from the
bayonet wounds in her back which the Ger
man soldiers had given her.
Cain slew only brother,
lad who was fair and strong,
His murder was careless and honest,
A heated and sudden wrong.
And Judas was kindly and pleasant,
For he shared an invincble man
But you--you have spitted the children,
As they toddled and stumbled and ran.
She heard you sing on the high-road,
She thought you were gallant and gay;
Such men as the peasants Of Flanders:
The friends of child at play.
She saw the sun on your helmets,
The sparkle Of glancing light
She saw your bayonets flashing,
And she laughed at your Prussisn might
Then you gave her death for her laughter
As you looked on her mischevous face.
You hated the tiny peasant,
With the hate Of your famous race.
You were not frenzied and angry;
You were cold and efficient and keen.
Your thrust was AS thorough and deadly
As the stroke OF faithful machine.
You stabbed her deep with your rife:
You had good reason to sing,
As YOU footed it on through Flanders
Past the broken and quivering thing.
Something impedes your advancing,
A dragging has come on your hosts.
And Paris grows dim now, and DINNER,
Through the blur Of your raucous boasts
Your singing IL sometimes broken
By cultural German groans.
Your ankles are wet with her bleeding,
Your pike is blunt from her bones.
The little peasant has tripped you.
She hangs 20 your bloody stride.
And the dimpled hands are fastened
Where they fumbed before she died.
ARTHUR II. GLEASON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05

vantages might be correspondingly great
There is no business so unsystematized, SO
lacking In standards, in information, IN
accurate knowledge, as agriculture, de-
spite the splendid work of agricultural
schools and colleges, experiment stations
state and Federal departments. Inc
farmers have trouble in buying supplies,
in getting credits, in finding markets. For
all this the consumers pay. Fruit rots on
the ground fifty miles from New YORK,
while the poor Of the city are unable to
paw the prices asked for what finds lts
wav into the markets here. In the kind
Of cooperative societies proposed by the
National Conference, transmitting 10
members information about supply and
demand, prices and the like through edu-
cational centres, spreading information
about the buying of supplies and the
shipping Of goods, serving as clearing
houses for individual farmers, there lies
the hope of better and more stable condi-
tions for the men who grow the produce
and for the people who eat 1t.
The country which has seen the steel
industry reach its present estate ought to
be ashamed that the farms, with their I'M
told present wealth and incalculable pos
sibilities, are; save in individual cases, not
greatly beyond the infancy Of the business.