The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-11-27
AS The Editor Sees It

How many of our good citizens
realize that Pleasantville is depend
ent to a considerable degree upon the
good will and patronage of the farm
ing community surrounding US? And
how many ever give a second thought
to the comfort of the farmer and his
wife and children when they come to
town?
If we have never done any thinking
along this line before it is not too
late to begin now. Let's begin.
We a not do everything at once,
but we can make a start in the right
direction by selecting a convenient
site and build sheds where the farm
ers can leave their rigs and hitch
their horses and feel safe in their
minds that their teams will not be
frightened by the innumerable auto
mobiles that are constantly whizzing
by.
Some may argue that there are liv-
cry barns and feed sheds where the
farmer can stable his team for a
price.
True, there are. But when a man
from town drives out into the country
and stops at a farm house does the
farmer charge him a quarter or a half
dollar for a place for his team to
stand? Not a bit of it. That team
is put right in the barn, or hitched in
a safe place away from the road, and
there is no price attached.
And if the town man is thus taken
| care of in the country why shouldn't
the farmer be shown equal courtesy
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his money here?
If we want the farmers trade we
will have to treat him right when he
comes to see US. If we don't he will
find other places to go and no n
will have just reason to complain.
This is but one of the items in the
count. Let's dispose of it and then
tackle the others.
Just why should George Burkitt
worry over his job as assistant post
master of the little village of Winnet-
ka, Ill? Getting fired by the post
office department for commenting ad-
versely upon the engagement of the
president and Mrs. Gait, and then be-
ing promptly and emphatically rein
stated by the president himself, has
made him a national figure and is
rapidly qualifying him for stage life
or the lecture platform. And really,
now, if Mr.. Wilson wants to marry
Mrs. Gait and the lady is willing,
whose business is it And if Mr.. Bur-
kitt wants to exercise the American
right of free speech in gentlemanly
language, whose business is that?
Seems to us the daily press has been
making a whale out of a tadpole. But
then again, that's their business, and
they are experts in their line.
We just feel it in our old bones
that the boys will walk right up and
hand US all that delinquent subscrip-
ton money before old Christmas gets
around again. And because of our
, sublime faith in the boys we are 60
ing to place an advance order for a
whole turkey for our Christmas din
ner. Thanks in advance, boys, and
thanks again when you fork over.
In these days you can't make a
man out of a monkey, and neither
can you make a respectable member
of society out of a brainless idiot who
gapes around on street corners and
makes vulgar remarks about every
woman who passes. Feeble minded
degenerates should be in asylums for
imbeciles, where they belong.
When a peppery old duck told his
wife she had no sense she meekly
pleaded guilty to the charge and
pointed to him as the greatest evil
dence of the fact.
New York has 100000 school child
rem, according to a newspaper para
graph. Let 'er keep 'em. All local
demands can be supplied right here
at home.
Adequate defense measures will
cost millions. Paying the indemni-