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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
CLIFFSIDE PARK
SCHOOL MEETING

Continued from page y
for total of $5,575 for this part of
the work. President Whelan, and
others, doubted the wisdom of APP
plying such a large sum for this pur-
pose. The president then read an
approximate estimate to cover the en-
tire work: architect, $500; grading,
$4,000; furniture, $4,000; attorney
$500; surveying, $3.50; advertising,
$3.50; printing bonds, 500; or a total
of S1O,5OO. The land would cost $751;
900 and the building about $4,000, OF
a grand total of $105,500 for the
plant. Mr.. Bohm thought that $1,000
ought to be added for an inspector to
represent the borough's interests.
Supervisor Bray applied for per
mission on the part of the high school
boys to use the auditorium of Grant
wood School for an entertainment, In
the near future, to raise funds fol
equipping the ball team with suits
and supplies for the season. Granted
The supervisor also requested tna'
the dying trees on the school property
be supplanted by new trees; also that
flowers be planted. Referred to COM
mittee on grounds.
A communication was read from
Ridgefeld school board asking that
the local board consider the possibility
of accommodating thirty-three high
school pupils in Cliffside Park high
school the coming year and stating
the compensation required. OF the
pupils needing instruction, twelve
were first year; fifteen second year
three third year; and three fourth
year. :,
Supervisor Bray reported that il
was necessary to have new tables fol
the chemical laboratory.
The board then adjourned to meet
again on the first Friday evening If
the month or May Z.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01

no matter what the calling in life,
unless we make certain necessary
sacrifices. No man can move upward
with indulgence mastering him. No
man can accumulate a fortune with
out making sacrifices. The saving
clause of all great achievement is
based on sacrifice, and indulgence is
the last word in building the bulwark
that we cannot overcome. There is
no attainment of value without yield
ing up our inclination to do those
things that retard our progress. If
we did not sacrifice we would not at
tain; if we did not give up sin it
would become our master. Take joy
in all you do, but remember that I'M
less you sacrifice you lose value, you
lose Roadway. Nothing puts us back
like indulgence. Giving up things is
one of Gods signs of wisdom, one
of His processes of leading us to
greater deeds. Get all the happiness,
all the delights of living, yet remem-
Der that there is no happiness COM
pared with that of the life that has
known it's joy of sacrificing those
things that are not necessary to hap
piness. The difference between pleas
ure and sacrifice is that one is
an imaginary form of happiness, the
other the result of realizing ones
self in the act of service and duty.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
Calamity Howling Extraordinary

Calamity HOwling Extraordinary
The ultra partisan press at this
time is bowling itself hoarse over the
national revenue deficit. 1t is not I'M
usual for deficits to occur in the run
of the governments business. 1t has
occurred before many times. But
there are great days ahead for the
Republicans who have now brought
back the DETECTING Progressives. 1t
would surprise no one to ever see the
immaculate jingoist, the chief glass
blower of the whole world come out
again as a candidate for the presi-
dency. Indeed, that looks like the
play for the moment. There are as
many as two or three days at time
now when Theodore is not on the front
page. He is playing the old Uncle
Remus stunt, "And Brer Fox he lay
low"
But be this as it may, it is weak
cry to lay the deficit to the Wilson
Administration. He is about as re-
sponsible for it as the Sultan of Tur-
key. With the European war on,
any other president would have faced
this exact crisis. But who could have
met crisis of such proportions with
greater force, sterner stuff, or more
potent zeal than Woodrow Wilson,
What American could have added
greater luster to the American name
than he? What statesman could
have used diplomacy with finer aim?
The calamity takers have shouted
against Wilson until they have be-
come black in the face, yet this
wonder-man has stood in his tracks,
content and proud that he knows his
duty and dares to perform it. AS the
World says: the Wilson Administra
ton has been saving and not dis
turbing factor in this world upheaval.
1t has STAYED off the incalculable evils
of Mexican Intervention. 1t has held
the scales of neutrality even against
influences working to involve the
Nation in the great European cata-
clysm. 1t brought about reformed
banking and currency system but for
whose existence an appalling financial
crisis precipitated by the war would
have engulfed the country. 1t has
kept the way clear for the operation
of those recuperative forces against
and under calamity abroad which are
tremendously at work paying off
huge foreign debt, absorbing large
foreign borrowings, moving the
worlds financial center from London
to New York and working into
great range of new outside markets
deserted by their old European bene-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
THE UNCROWNED

TO write some earnest verse or line,
Which seeking not the praise of art,
Shall make clearer faith and man.
hood shine
In the untutOred heart.
He who doth this in verse or prose
May be forgotten in his day,
But surely shall be crowned at last
with those
Who live and speak for aye.
james Russell Lowell.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
CLIFFSIDE SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL

The following pupils of the fourth
grade in Clifrside school have not
missed days attendance during the
month of April:
Chas. Baggene, Joseph Higgins,
Ahrend Mazzoni, Chas. Schraier
George Irwin, Grace Bonner, Edith
Dickerson, Mary Uhuse, Frank Nc
Cullough, Fred Naedler, Abraham
Orenbach, Andrew Uhuse, John
Grande, Mary Leshinsky, Pauline
Lukach, Alice Flood.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
THE SATISFACTION

1t is difficult to be always true to our
selves, to be always what we wish to
be, what we feel we ought to be. AS
long as we feel that, as long as we
do not surrender the ideal of our life,
all is right. Our aspirations repre-
sent the true nature of our soul much
more than our everyday life.-Max
Muller.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
Chauncey DepeW At 81.

Chauncey M. Depew at 81 presents
wholly different picture of himself
than he did at 81. Twenty years ago
Depew in voting contest would no
doubt have won first honors as the
most popular man in America. He
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
fciaries.

ficiaries.
Are we going to help along these
forces or assist in blocking their OPP
Grafton for some partisan advantage :?
Calamity bowling reaches it's limit
when it RACES as now around deficit
produced by causes unforeseeable, of
temporary force, and beyond our con-
troll"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
SUNSHINE

A laugh is just like sunshine.
1t freshens all the day,
1t tips the peak of life with light,
And drives the clouds away.
The soul grows glad that hears it,
And feels it's courage strong;
A laugh is just like sunshine
For cheering folks along.
Anon.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-18
What Is a Fair Rate?

We do not know what constitutes
basis for rate making and have never
heard of anyone who did claim to
know much about il, but if the pros
perity of the farm is factor to be
considered and the railroad commits
sion concludes that an increase IN
rates is necessary, we would prefer
that it come to us through articles OF
consumption on their journey from
the factory to the farm. We would,
for example, prefer that the rate on
nogs remain as at present and the
rate on meat bear the increase, for
anv farmer can then avoid the burden
nv raising his own meat, and a farm
er who will not try to raise his own
meat ought to be penalized. We
think the rate on coal and brick can
much better bear an increase than
the rate u, cotton and fcur We
would prefer that the rate "a plcWs
remain the same, and machinery,
nianos and such articles as the poor
er farmer cannot hope to possess bear
the burden Of increase.
The increase in rates should be SO
arranged that the farmer who iives
at home will bear no part of the bur
den, but let the farmer who boards
in other states and countries and
who feeds his stock in foreign lands.
pay the price of his folly.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-18
THE EGHURCH As
AsOC|AL CENTER
A Broader Sphere for Reiipion-ksw
Field for the Rural Church.
BY Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers Union

Lecturer National Farmers Union
The social duty Of the rural church
II Is much Q part of its obligations
a. its spiritual side. In expressing its
social interest, the modern rural
church does not hesitate to claim that
IL In expressing true religious In.
stinct and the old-time idea that the
social instincts should be starved
while the spiritual nature was over
fed with solid theological food, Is fast
giving way to broader interpreta-
ton Of the functions Of true religion.
We take our place In the succession
Of those who have sought to make the
world fit habitation for the children
Of man when We seek to study and
understand tho social duty Of the
rural church. The true christian re-
ngion is essentially social-its tenets
Of faith being love and brotherhood
and fellowship. While following after
righteousness, the church must chal
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-18
Registration Notice.

The ',,fice of The Supervisor OF hey
istration will be open on the Isl Mon.
day in each month for the purpose OF
registering any person who is quail
fed as follows:
Who shall have been a resident o)
the State for two years, and Of the
county one year, and of the polling pre-.
cinct in which the electOr offers to
vote four months before the day OF
election, and shall have paid, slx
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both reat
and write any section of the cOnstitu-
tion of 1895 submitted to him by ths
Supervisors of Registration, or who
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectible on during the
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars 0,
more. H A MEYER,
rlork nf B0ar
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-18

Employer-But if l take you on,
some other man will have to lose
his work.
Applicant-Oh, the little I'll do
won't hurt anybody.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-03-18
WHY NOT?

Silas-Are you in favor of taxing
cats?
Hez-Sure. Every polecat should
pay poll tax.
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lenge and seek to reform that social
order in which moral life is e1-
pressed. While cherishing ideals OF
service, the rural church which 1t.
tains the fullest measure Of success
Is that which enriches as many lives
as it can touch, and In Eo way can
the church come in as close contact
with it's members as through the
avenue of social functions.
The country town and the rural
community need social center. The
church need Cffer no apology for its
ambition to fill this need in the com,
munity, il an understanding OF its
mission brings this purpose into clear
consciousness. The structure OF q
rural community is exceedingly com
plex; 1t contains many social groups
each of which has it's own center, but
there are many localities which have
but one church and although such
q church cannot command the inter
est of all the people, it Is relieved
from the embarrassment of religiously
divided communities
Social Needs Imperative.
The average country boy and girl
have very little opportunity for real
enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a
vague conception of the meaning OF
pleasure and recreation. 1t is to fill
this void in the lives Of country youth
that the rural church has risen to
the necessity Of providing entertain
ment, as we'll as instruction, to its
membership among the young. The
children and young people OF the
church should meet when religion Is
not even mentioned. It has been
found safest for them to meet fre
quently under the direction and care
of the church To send them into the
world with no social training exposes
them to grave perils and to try to
keep them out of the world with nc
social privileges Is sheer folly. There
ID SOCldl udluiO " Uoih oia esAo
young, but the social requirements ol
the young are imperative. The church
must provide directly or indirectly
some modern equivalent for the husk
ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing
ing schools Of the old days. In one
way or another the social instincts
of our young people must have oppor
tunity for expression, which may
take the form of clubs, parties. pic
MICS or other forms Of amusement
One thing is certain, and that is that
the church cannot take away the
dance, the card party and the theatre
unless it can offer in its place a sat
isfying substitute in the form of more
pleasing recreation.
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RATE INCREASE +.
NECESSARY.
FARMERS UNION OFFICIALS
THINK RAILROADS ARE EN-
TITLED TO MORE REVENUE.
Products Of PIow and Farmer Whe
Lives at Home Should Be
Exempt From Increase
BY Peter Radford.
Lecturer National Farmers Union.

Lecturer National Farmers Union.
The recent action of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in granting aA
Increase in freight rates In the eastern
classification Of territory: the applicsr
ton of the roads to state and inter
state commissions for an increase ID
rates, and the utterances Of President
Wilson on the subject bring the farm
ers of this nation face to face with the
problem of an increase In freight
rates. 1t is the policy Of the Farmers
Union to meet the issues affecting the
welfare Of the farmers squarely ana
We will do 80 in this instance.
The transportation facilities OF the
United States are inadequate to ef
fectively meet the demands OF com
merce and particularly in the South
and West additional railway mileage
is needed to accommodate the move
ment of farm products. II in the wis
dom Of our Railroad Commissions an
increase in freight rates Is necessary
to bring about an Improvement in our
transportation service, and an extern
sion of our mileage, then an increase
should be granted, and the farmer II
willing to share such proportion OK
the increase as Justly belongs to him,
but we have some suggestions to make
as to the manner in which this in
crease shall be levied.
Rates Follow Lines Of Least Resist
ance.
The freight rates of the nation have
been built up along lines Of least 10
sistance. The merchant, the manu-
facturer, the miner, the miller, the
lumberman and the cattleman have
had their traffic bureaus thoroughly
organized and in many instances they
have pursued the railroad without
mercy and with the power OF gan
lied tonnage they have hammer i the
life out Of the rates and with Inre-
strained greed they have eaten the
vitals out of our transportation system
and since we have had railroad COM
missions, these interests, with skill
and cunning, are represented at every
hearing in which their business 10
involved.
The farmer is seldom represented
at rate hearings, as his organizations
have never had the finances to en-
ploy counsel to develop his side OF
the case and, as a result, the products
Of the plow bear an unequal burden
of the freight expense. A glance at
the freight tariffs abundantly proves
this assertion. Cotton, the leading
agricultural product the South, al
ready bears the highest freight rate Of
any necessary commodity in COM
merce, and the rate on agricultural
products as whole is out OF pro-
portion with that Of the products OF
the factory and the mine.
We offer no schedule of rates, but
hope the commission will be able to
give the railroad such an increase in
rates as is necessary without levying
a further toll upon the products OF
the plow. The instance seems to pre-
sent an opportunity to the Railroad
Commissions to eQualize the rates an
between agricultural and other classes
OF freight without disturbing the rates
on staple farm products.
-.
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Universal instinct for Play.

In providing for enjoyment the
church uses one of the greatest meth
ods by which human society has de-
veloped. Association is never secure
until it Is pleasurable; In play the in
stinctive aversion of one person for
another Is overcome and the social
mood is fostered. Play is the chief
educational agency in rural commun.
ities and in the play-day of human
childhood social sympathy and social
habits are evolved. AS individuals
come together in social gatherings,
their viewpoint is broadened. their
ideals are lifted and finally they con-
stjtute a cultured and refined society.
1t is plain, therefore, that the
church which aims at a perfected so
ciety must use in a refined and eX-
alted way the essential factors in
social evolution and must avail itself
of the universal instinct for play.
If the church surrounds itself with
social functions which te2peal to the
young among it's membership, it will
fill a large part of ttfhIHc mentable
gap in rural pleasures ard will reap
the richest reward by promoting a
higher and better type OF manhood
and !. lT:HnkCcd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-20
ENDORSES TURKEYS
ARMENIAN POLICY
Won RNyentlow Says Matter
Does Not Concern Germans.

Berlin. Dec. l9.-Count Ernest Won
Reventlow. naval expert, writing IN the
"Tages Zeitung." discusses the Ar
menisn question. using as mis- text a
expression in a pamphlet just pub
lished By C. Adolf Bratter. a Berlin
political writer. who says Armenian
atrocities always arise in the same
way: Revolutionary Armenisns arg
melted by Great Britain or Russia 10
uprisings. rebellion and treason. Fui.
OF bitterness, the Turks for decades
have been vainly endeavoring TO sup
press these conspiraciss."
Bratter's book declares that Great
Britain, with the help Of Russis anu
France in the present case, planned a.
extended conspiracy in Armenia with
the purpose of having an uprising oc'
eur az the moment when he Allie
entered the Dardanelles. Unfortu-
nately for the Armenisns, the uprising
came too soon"
Count Won Reventlow welcomes the
book. saying:
at IL high time Germans compre
hended the real meaning of Armenian
atrocity affairs. They should finally
understand that it is not our affair to
feel or even express sympathy with
Armenian revolutionaries and usurers.
who form a great and malignant dan
ger for our brave, tried and true Turk
ish allies, and who are the tool of our
mortal enemies, Great Britain and Rus
STA.
"If the Turks did not defend them
selves. energetically and thorough
against the Armenian danger whenever
it arises they would be doing their al
lies as we'll as themselves bad ser
vice. Therefore. we Germans must
consider the handling of the Armenian
question as an internal affair of the
Turks"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-20
BOMB LAID VENICE
CHURCH In RUINS
Chiesa Scalzi'S Famous Frescos,
Sculpture and Richly Carved
Panels Mass of Debris.

Venice, Italy, Dec. Ian oppor-
tunity TO see the destructive effect OF
the bomb raids on Venice was given =
The Associated Press correspondent
when an inspection. under Official
escort, was made OF the havoc and
ruin in the famous old Church of the
Scalzi, one OF the arr monuments OF
the world. now a wreck, with its roof
blown of, its massive walls tottering
and the famous ceiling fresco by Tie
polo, valued at a million francs. lying
in heaps OF rubbish in the ruins OF the
building. There have been three bono
raids on Venice, but this was the
worst, and the historic church bore the
full brunt OF it.
The facade, fronting the Grand
Canal. is intact, and three sculptured
figures standing along the cornice re-
main untouched. But back of the fig
ures the roof says away in carved
line downward and then up again to
the rear wall, as though some giant
hand had reached down and torn Gu q.
the whole top of the church. leaving
only the front and the ric6ety side
walls still intact. Norkmen can be
seen high above, beginning the work o.
salvage and repair, and heavy timbers
are being laced across the gaping hole
left by the bomb.
Entering the historic church. scene
Of havoc and ruin is presented twist
ed beams and arches, panels and col
umns Of slabaster crushed into bits and
lying around in heaps, the richly
carved pulpit blown TO pieces. with only
faint outline of its former wonders
remaining, and above, the roof wide
open TO the sky. with the wonderful
frescoes of Tiepolo dumped In huge
masses of debris on the stone pave
ment. Faint edges of the grand old
frescos still cling TO the side wslls,
giving some idea of the beauties Of
the work torn away. The high altar
was not touched, and the electric can
dies circliug the church were undis-
turbed. But. with these two exceD-
items, everything is a ruin, frescoed
ceiling. inlaid marble sidewalks
sculptures, confessionals. memorial
tablets. baptistry and marble mo'aic
pavement-all lying about in frag-
ments.
It was about II o'clock in the morn
ing when the explosion occurred. The
Austrian ronoplane. flying very high.
hurled the bomb apparently at the rail
way station. but it struck square on
TOP Of the famous old church. II did
not explode when it hit the roof. In
stead. il made a clean hole through
the roof. and then, shooting down
ward. exploded Just above and in front
Of the pulpit. This internal explosion
il what caused the terrible destruc-
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-20
JAIL AMERICAN AS SPY
Germans Hint Guide Conspired to Give
Russians Information.

Berlin, Dec. 19.-Siegfried Paul
London, a naturalized American clti-
zen. is in Jail at Warsaw, awaiting
trial on the charge OF espionage. As
the investigation has not been com
pleted, the authorities have not been
able to communicate to the Amerl-
can Consulate the full charges against
London. which are understood TO in
volve a conspiracy 10 convey informa-
ton TO the Russians after the German
occupation of Warsaw.
The authorities arc allowing the
American representatives the wides,
latitude TO assist London in preparing
for his defence. The consul and vice
consul are permitted to visit him free
ly in his cell. They have been assured
that they will be shown the formal IN
dictment in due time prior TO the trial
and be permitted TO be present when
the prisoner is tried.
London has been a hanger-on in the
leading hotels Of Warsaw for years
as a commissionaire and guide. and
as such is known to many American
tourists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-20

the public eye, idolized by the soldier.
and with the confidence OF the people
and government He il son OF the
old Cadorna, who commanded the ltal-
ian troops when they entered Rome as
the temporal power OF the Pope was
given up. Marconi, the wireless In
ventor, is another popular figure.
Berlin, Dec 10 by wireless to Say
vile, L. H.. 49, Describing the defence
by Hungarian soldiers Of difficult posi-
tions on Krn Plateau. in the Isonzo
region, 900 feet above the level OF the
sea, the correspondent OF the Overseas
News Agency, who reached the scene
after the receipt of congratulatory
telegram sent by Emperor William 70
the Kaischau regiment, says:
"The Hungarians, with no sandbags
at their disposal. at first took shelter
behind frozen corpses. The whole pla-
teau was covered with dead Italians, II
being impossible to bury the bodies, as
the Italians kept up continuous artil-
lery fire. The wounded soldiers per
ished, as it was impossible TO assist
them.
"The Hungarians have been defend
ing the Krn positions for 200 days,
in which time $50 attacks were re-
pulsed without the Italians gaining the
least success.
"a special road eighteen miles in
length and nine feet in width was con-
structed by the Hungarians, SO that
provisions and ammunition could regu-
iarly arrive. The Austro-Hungarian
positions are provided with stoves and
are comfortable"