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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
old Home Week

The meetings of committees that
are being held in Fort Lee in prepare
ton of "Old Home Week" are begin
ming to show results. The permanent
chairman of the executive commit
tee has been selected in the person
of Mayor Edward A. White, which
insures a working head for this most
important part of the movement. The
Finance Committee and the Program
Committee, are also named. Upon the
shoulders of the Program Committee
much depends, as their work must
embody the general features of the
entire celebration, and the gentle
men named to manage this part of
the weeks festivities are sure to give
a good account of themselves. They
are planning many interesting fea-
lures, and have given assurances that
"Old Home Week" will be an occasion
worth while and one long to be re-
membered. The movement starts out
under very bright auspices indeed.
Now let everybody pitch in and make
an overwhelming success.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
A Kansas Boycott.

The high school girls, of Lewis
Kansas, are up in arms against the
cigarette. Almost every girl there
has joined a club for the extermina-
ton of this nerve wrecking, imbecile
habit among boys. Acting on the
well-known fact that life would be a
goal of nowhere without girls, these
Kansas maidens have declared that
they will not speak to, walk with or
in any manner associate with boys
who smoke cigarettes. AS the Lewis
high school includes all of the social
set, they say that one might be
all dressed up and still have nowhere
to go outside the social set. The
matter thus becomes a serious menace
to the youth of the town.
The Lewis boys have taken the
matter as joke and kept on smok-
ing, thinking the girls would tire of
the boycott and come rushing back
to the good old times when they
were "boys and girls together" But
the girls are unyielding and refuse
to unbend, move or bulge one particle
They pass the boys demurrely, but
Carrie doesn't speak to Ben, nor
will Marie bow to Bob. They all
look in the opposite direction. There
is no excitement over the incident,
no outward indication that there is
anything going on. The moral force
behind the girls is strong, and they
believe they will win. 1t looks easy.
One or two boys to quit smoking
could stampede the whole crew.
the youth of that town, let US hope.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
The United States in Var.

From private sources originating in
England there comes to "The Pals
adian" the statement that the people
over there look to see the United
States drawn into the present Euro
plan war. This is not the first time
mention of such a feeling existing
about this country has been made.
1t has been asserted before, and
any number of chances have been
offered to involve US in the conflict.
But we somehow have a great deal of
faith in the man in the Whitehouse at
this time. 1t is not inconceivable that
even so well balanced a man as Wood
row Wilson would under conditions
yield to popular clamor and continued
assaults upon the rights of this conu-
try. He might not be able to help
himself in the face of extreme provo
ton. And that is just it. If any
country undertakes to provoke fight
with the United States Woodrow Will
son is not the man to allow it to
both slap our face and trample US
under foot.
But President Wilson is going to be
very chary about consenting to even
consider the war thought until he has
exhausted every possible effort to
ward it off. He knows this country
has no desire for war; that it has
done nothing to bring on war: and
that we are in no position to wantOn-
ly institute war ourselves. The Euro
pean countries, also, know that to in
volve the United States would be to
make their situation far worse than
it is at present. So looking at the
rumors that come to US; viewing the
situation from its worst angle, there
appears to be nothing whatever in the
present outlook that should make war
even remotely possible. Of course,
these views are individual, but the
logic behind them is common sense.
The part of American neutrality is
too important factor at this time,
both to ourselves and to the belliger
ants, to make all talk of the United
States being a party to this great
crime out of the question.
P. S. This editorial was written be-
fore the Lusitania was sunk.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
The Ultimate Torture.

People in this world should try the
best they know how not to hate any
body. Hate is poison that reacts
upon the person in whose system it
dwells much more disastrously events
ually than it does upon any other
human being.
We have reached the conclusion,
however, that there is one man in
this world who deserves to be hated
although we do not know his name,
and probably never shall.
The person referred to is the
diabolical individual, who in mis-
guided and melancholy moment, in
vented red-hot towels for use in
barber shops!
Most of US used to think that the
worst place in the world to visit was
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
Revenge.

ANY man who carries in his heart
a feeling of revenge is lowering him.
self in the sight of God, and bring
ing home to himself unconsciously a
sense of shame. Revenge though
idealized by the poet and called
Sweet" is exactly the opposite. 1t
never brings satisfaction, unless to
the callous mind, the disordered brain
that really stops at nothing for lack
of feeling. But to the average, every
day mind, doing anything for revenge
never brings the completeness of JOY
that one feels in the performance OF
real duty. Revenge is retaliation,
first cousin to spite, and these in
turn are related to envy and hate.
Can we wonder then, that these as
ISOLATED mental vices ever bring
peace? Do they ever add joy and
comfort or repose? The man or boy,
woman or girl, who commits any act
out of spirit of revenge has gone
one degree lower in the scale of be-
havior. There can never come any
feeling more certain of reaction than
this. One never wins big victories
through spiteful, envious roads. There
is something higher in every man
that warns him against revenge, yet
we find it carried out in many forms
around us all the time. 1t is species
of revenge to gloat over an enemy, to
be glad that something he has under
taken has not gone just right. Never
mind about the other man. Help
him in every way you may or can, but
let him work out his own destiny as
you must work out yours. The road
of revenge leads nowhere but to the
alleyways of Regret, and everytime
we find ourselves drifting towards
that route, we should steer another
course-try another road. There are
always boulders ahead for him who
goes that way. We need the lamp of
kindly intent to guide us, and it
should be kept burning always.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
| Take more exercise and more still.
| Cavc tho bulletin.

Take more exercise and more still.
Says the bulletin:
Take daily exercise. Have a
hobby that gets you out of doors.
Walk to your business, to your
dressmaker's, walk for the sake of
walking. Join walking club and
keep your weekly score of miles.
Keep chickens, make a garden,
wheel the baby or play golf, or any
other game, but take two hours
outdoor exercise every day. Gym
nasium work is good for those who
like it, but avoid heavy athletics
Don't try to be STRONG man," the
champion athlete often dies young.
So long ago as the seventeenth CEN
fury Dryden wrote:
Better to hunt in fields for health
unbought
Than fee the doctor for a ma
useous draught,
The wise for cure on exercise de-
ponds.
And it was James Thompson who
declared:
Health is a vital principle of
bliss,
and exercise, of health.
The principle health-giving factor
of golf is the walking which it en-
forces. While the swinging of the
clubs invigorates nearly every muscle
in the body, it is the walking of sew
eral miles, up hill and down dale, over
hedges and across fields, that does the
work. This coupled with the fresh air,
the sunshine and the abstraction from
business worry, does both mind and
body good.
For, in the words of Pope, exercise,
not rest, is the strength of the mind.
The increased prevalence of dis
eases of degeneration is attributable
largely to the decline in popular ex-
ercises has prolonged many lives
witness Mr. Gladstone when past eigh-
ty, chopped down trees. 1t laughs
the doctor to scorn, makes life insur-
ance companies sit up and chuckle,
and blesses the individual.
Moral: Take exercise.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
The RidqefeLd Park Press.

Ridgefield ark has a new Saturday
weekly, "Press," owned and edited by
John Steinlein. The editorial an
nouncement is of such rare quality
and fine ideals that it is reproduced
herewith with every good wish to
Brother Steinlein:
"a Paper for the People"
In adopting our slogan for '"The
Ridgefeld Park Press" "a Paper for
The People," we struck our keynote
from the words of the immortal Lin
coin, "a government of the people,
for the people and by the people.
First and last "The Press" will in
cessantly inculcate this policy into the
minds of it's readers. Our innovation
of a one-cent weekly and fifty-cent
per year subscription rate is the first
evidence of our endeavor to reach the
people and should meet with ready
response. The news will be gathered
and published for it's new value alone
but only news that is clean-and
the "mud-slinging" element will be
relegated to the place reserved for
those who attempt to smirsh anothers
character Our columns will be open
to the people for discussion on topics
of the day insofar as they will tend
to enlighten and instruct better
morals and actions, but the general
condemnation of others attitudes OF
actions will not be tolerated. Acts
of public officials that cannot be con-
doned by the people or are froward
to their oath of office or prediction
platforms will be handled judiciously
but fearlessly. Politically, "The Press
will be Democratic and will endeavol
to mold it's existence along the his
tory-making epoch of the government
at Washington under the Indicative
diplomatic guidance of Woodrow
Wilson for peace and the veal of the
people.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
LOUe and Var.

In prose poem on the war, which
concludes as follows, Judd Mortimer
Lewis sings:
"Show the world that love and
laughter in cot where roses bloom
is better thing than tears are splash
ing down on Europe's tomb Keep
your smile and keep your courage
while the blue skies arch above; bet
ter for the world than warning, and
than Borrowing, is love. Keep your
soul strong with your singing, keep
the world sweet with your smile; love
is in the world forever; war for but
little while"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
The European War.

The European war now lacks
barely month of being one year
old. What has it brought about? A
terrific slaughter of human life,
billions of dollars worth of property
destroyed at cost of billions more.
Mere figures do not begin to tell of
the awful havoc.
OF the two sets of allies engaged,
Germany and Austria are pitted
against almost the whole continent of
Europe. Up to now, the German side
has not been the sole victor in the
battles waged The aggressor in
most cases, her attack has generally
been by the extraordinary mobility
of her army, massing it at points
where tremendous drives have helped
to give her better footing. Follow
ing the drive against Paris last
August which failed in it's ultimate
end, Germany then began a coverup
retreat which finally stopped just
where she intended it should-where
she had entrenched herself for long
stand. Nothing of really big import
ance has come to Germany since then
on her western front, except the
enormous battles that have been
waged at tremendous cost. In the
main the battle lines have remained
in the same relative position. Trench
warfare, it has been found, is not
an easy method of winning. The
Germans have found in General
Joffre a foeman worthy of their steel,
and has been successfully held in
check by very masterful generalship
and very thorough fighting skill. The
end is no nearer in sight on the west
ern front than it was last October.
Both sides in France have taken ap-
parently impregnable stands. En-
trenched fighting has now taken on
an elaborate and far-reaching scheme,
No other world period has known
anything like the entertainment sys-
tenn of this war. With England and
France in the west, Italy on the south.
Russia on the east, Germany has
more than held her own. Realizing
that she must be fighting for her life.
she has not halted at anything that
could make her processes effective.
Chlorine gas has been employed with
its deadly fumes, and has slain it's
thousands. This method of warfare
is severely censured, but it's employ
ment is justified by it's users on the
ground that it is no less "human"
than shot and shell. Posterity will
adjust this claim. The moral hazard
of the use of gases as war weapon,
however, is great indeed. 1t is a
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19

the dentist; but the dentist who pokes
at you with a sharp instrument, who
grinds at you with blood-curdling
buyers and who pulls at you with
forceps, is not in the same class with
the barber who insists upon wrapping
your face in red-hot towels, while YOU
squirm and have not the courage to
say him nay!
Not one customer in thousand
wants red-towels spread all over his
countenance. He hates them; but
since it seems to be the proper thing
to endure, he reposes in the chair
and submits to the torture rather than
make a howl,
The hot towel, as exploited in bar
Der shops, is an invention of the devil,
if there is any such person or thing
as the devil.
AS matter of fact, the existence
and persistence of the hot-towel
nuisance inclines one to think that
there is a devil, with two long horns
and forked tail, and that he has
promoted the hot-towel custom on
earth because he is something of a
game sport and does not mind letting
human beings know now and then
some one or two of the fifty-seven
varieties of inhuman and horrible
punishment he has at his disposal in
the underworld-Jac Miss,
News"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19

court of last resort, and indicates the
desperation wrought by the war.
Some months ago an American SCENT
list, Nicola Tesla, published an article
in which he declared that science
would settle the European war. By
Science" he meant the use of gases.
Zeppelins dropping poisonous, in
flamatory and destructive bombs
through the medium of great air
fleets that would sweep across the
channel and SO terrify all England
that she would be forced to yield in
the conflict. Sir Conan Doyle long
ago foresaw the destruction of the
English fleet through submarine at
tack, and was severely criticised for
his temerity in making so daring a
picture of disaster to his own
country.
Perhaps no one feature of the war
has so puzzled the world as the where
abouts of the English fleet. 1t is known
that the German men of war, her bat
tleships and cruisers, are bottled up
in the Kiel Canal. But the where
abouts of the English fleet is as
yelled as the mystry of the prophets,
as unknown as the depths of space.
But they are somewhere, and ap-
parently safe, for the submarine has
not yet located them. That the Eng
lish fleet is the desired target of the
German submarine, it is unnecessary
to state here.
Of the other phazes of the war; of
the entry of Italy into the conflict,
nothing may now be said except that
it is fact. Of Russia enough is
known to prove the belief asserted
at the beginning, that she is too big
and cumbersome to amount to much
She lacks trained facilities; she lacks
mobility. Tremendous in numbers,
and not altogether unskilled, Russia
dI lIle Same Glfle is WITHOUT proper
war footing in generals or equipment
She has hordes of men, great
avalances of them, but they cannot
be handled. She is dead weight
against herself. Her war with Japan
proved the utter and amazing i'm
potency of Russia. Yet withal, Ger
many's greatest fear in this war has
been Russia.
So taking it by and large, this,
little screed on the European situa-
ton, brief as it is, about sums it
up. 1t is about as clear as mud, and
who knows any more? England is
staggering under the cost of war
with debt already piled up of over
$4,000 100000, more than that for
Germany, equally as much for France
and Russia.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
Couldn't Blame Them.

Papa had crouch, and an atmos-
phere of deep gloom settled over the
family dinner table. Even little
Bobby felt that something was wrong,
but he had to talk or burst, and he
preferred to talk.
Daddy" he asked, "why did they
throw the tea overheard in Boston
harbor ?"
Daddy twirled the spoon in his cup
while he thought up this mean thing
to say: "If it was anything like this
stuff they certainly had mighty
good excuse for throwing it over
board"
Having gotten this remark off his
chest, the old man felt so good that
he actually smiled, and before he
knew it his crouch was gone.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
The Psychology of Phrasing.

President Wilson looks on the
rosy, the analytical, the practical,
the sensible side of life. On Flag
Day last Monday he delivered an
him famous as phrase maker. He
seems particularly felicitous in say
ing happy things exactly at the right
psychological moment. He is never
at a loss for the exact dove failing
word. What he says seems to fit
like a glove, or good job of cabinet
making. He is the boss joiner, and
there are never any rough edges to
his constructed works in words, but
best of all, he has character in de-
sign. Just woods or blocks could
never make the finished structure. 1t
is his high art in moulding, in cary
ing out an emphasis of meaning,
giving concrete form, an outward
whole that has the inward meaning,
that makes for the natural art of
Woodrow Wilson's masterpieces. 1t
is this effective touch of the magma
ton that leads one to admire, and
to adore, the finished product of this
master artisan. There they stand,
luminous, lustrous, shining examples
of truth! Pick any one out and study
in detail the long list of sculptures
in words that Mr.. Wilson has created,
and it is always fulfilment of taste
clearness of conception.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
PALISADE AMUSEMENT PARK.

Why,
And when from this mine eyes recoil
They do but meet
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
President Wilson's POLicY.

1t is the need of something to be
done, that calls for the greatest serv-
ice of all-that of service to humanity
and that too without the hope of
fee or reward. And THERE is the
REAL ARISTOCRACY; the arts
tocracy of service to humanity.
Chas. HI. H. German.
Ridgefeld Park, N. J.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
Sermon On Exercise

The United States public health SER
vice bureau has issued a word of adj
vice to the people of the nation-ad-
vice which may be summarized in
two words:
Take exercise.
And fitting postscript would be;
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-19
WARMERS SUGAR.

%,
When t'other night battleship
All strung with lights from tip to tip
FLASHED on my unaccustomed eyes,
| said, What does this advertise ?
New York Tribune"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-01

clubs, while Moran has had compar-
lively easy sailing because of this,
the American league entry will, bar
ring unforeseen events, go into the
series favorite, if for no other rea-
son.
All of sudden the Cub home run
swatters disappeared and the Bruins
were trampled into the second divi-
sion by the Reds. Pittsburgh con-
tributed to the Cubs downfall when
they took a contest down in St Louis
and stepped back into first division.
The West Side boys have only three
games in which to get back the lead.
They will have to hop along in a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-01

live fashion to save Chicago from
disgrace this year.
The Peru Grays of the Hoosier
state played some good ball when
they stacked up against the Hose.
The South Siders were fortunate to
get away with FL game, aided and
abetted by E. Collins, who drove in
both runs.
Football coaches hustled today to
put the finishing touches on their hui
man machines. For tomorrow off
comes the football lid in the west and
every big nine team, with the excep-
ton of our Maroons, will open in
practice game.
Northwestern meets Lake Forest in
Evanston and pigskin fans nave their
ears turned toward the north. For
this game will give dopesters line
on the Methodists.
Chicago U, there is a faint rumor,
will have a man or two out to watch
the game. The Maroon and Purple
meet in a week and the far-north
team is conceded a good chance.
They will not go in the game as IA
vorites, but then a good fight is ex-
pected.
( Another championship changed
hands yesterday when VIM. Huey of
our fair city took the three-cushion
title from George Moore of New York.
The score of their contest, played in
three blocks of so each, laid $50 to
1873 when the last ball was rolled.
Huey first gained fame when he
finished second in the spring cham
pionship tournament in the Inter
Ocean building, which made Moore
the worlds cue leader.
VIM. N. johnson took 81 set
from Maurice Mclaughlin in the
Kansas City exhibition contests.
Chilly weather made the Davis cup
champion show poorly.
Midseason form is showing in
I.o-,,I;,, ~ o;roIoe Tho UToi1ondc yOJIaJ
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-05-04
CAL0MEL. SALWATES
AND MAKES YOU SICK
ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON A SLUG
GlSH LIVER AND YOU LOSE A
DAYS WORK.

There's no reason why a person
should take sickening salivating Gallo
mel when so cents buys a large bot
tie of Dodson's Liver Tone-a perfect
substitute for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't make
you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks cen Ieke
Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is per
iectly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug. 1t is
mercury and attacks your bones.
Take a dose of nasty calomel today
and you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a
days work Take a spoonful of bod
sons Liver Tone instead and you
will wake up feeling great. No more
biliousness, constipation, sluggish
ness. headache, coated tongue or sour
stomach. Your druggist says if you
don't find Dodson's Liver Tone acts
better than horrible calo'ael. your
money is waiting for you.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-05-04
REPORTS ON
COTTON WAREHOUSES

Washington, ID. c., May 4.-The
cotton warehouses already in exist.
ence are ample in aggregate storage
capacity, accorc:ng to a recent survey
made by the United States department
of agriculture, to store as much of the
crop as there is any need for, but they
are poorly distributed. The best are
not available to the farmer and the
charges of the others are higher than
he is disposed to pay. These facts
complicate the financing of the crop
and are largely responsible for keep.
ing so many cotton farmers under the
blight of the credit system. A better
system OF warehouses would do much
to help the situation.
Cotton, according to the govern
ment specialists. is considered the
very best collateral, and bankers and
business men in general are willing
to lend money on it at lower interest
than on real estate. An essential con-