Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
Address By Charles T. Logan,
Palisades Tenth Anniversary,
Public School, April "a, 1915
Ladies and Gentlemen


am very much honored at being
here tonight, particularly when | con-
slider the occasion, and look into your
faces and see your pleasure at being
here also. If you are as happy as
you look, the evening is sure to bear
you no cares. Being as happy as one
looks, however, does not always mean
everything. There was a man once
who held calf for cross-eyed man
who was preparing to knock it in the
head with an axe. Hold on there!"
said the man holding on. care you
gong to hit where you look ?" YES
came the response. Then you hold
the calf yourself"
Now you are in pretty much the
same Tx as the man was who held
the calf. l have been forced to bring
along my manuscript, but, do not get
alarmed. IL is short, ana IL is only my
way, or l should say, my only way.
The truth IS, l get very much en-
DarraSSed when | try to think on my
feet. know some people who PROB
ably wonder ii | do not feel emDar-
raised when | write. We'll, yes, L
do, about some subjects, and some
people. But | never mean to be per-
sonal | am not like the man who
wrote in his paper, Bill Brown was
caught last night stealing chickens
from Mrs. Jones hen roost, but this
announcement is not meant to be per-
LII, hat oil
journalism more properly belongs, Ii
1T belongs anywhere, IN the adveftlS-
ing columns, as the young lady
thought who advertised Tor piano.
She wrote the advertisement to read,
wanted, piano by young lady
with carved legs" and asked the man
at the window TO put 1t IN the pers onal
column.
NOW, my wife says that | was born
trying to talk, and have never SAID
anything yet. l think she is right. L
believe most people talk too much,
except when at home, and there some
or them 40 not have a chance. But
lust another word about running the
village newspaper. | have tried to
philosophlze with myself as to why
1 ever tried to start newspaper IN
Pahsade. While it was not what |
would call an evil spirit, or an insplra-
toni know it wasn't that-but 1t
was a spirit that had kind OF
grudge against me. You all have had
trials. You have had boils, and sore
heels, and sore heads and the lheu-
matism. All are bad enough, heaven
knows. But you never had news
hands pnnld not
turn loose. You can drop a hot
potato because you have to. But let
me warn you, you connot drop news
paper when you want to. Whatever
there is about it that gets a hold, it
sticks like glue. Like the frog in the
well, when you try to get out, you
jump up one hop and fall back two.
You never know the difference be-
tween a man and burglar until you
become village editor. Then you
find out. And the burglar has the
advantage. 1t is not so much what
an editor says as what he does not
say People have way of finding
out how big fool an editor is sooner
than he does. The difference between
some people and the editor is that
some of them are darn fools and know
1T, but the editor is one and don't
know it. | was once asked which
would rather be, bigger fool than
appeared to be, or bigger fool than
| actually was | thought moment,
and answered that if | really had a
choice in the matter, | would prefer
to be bigger fool than | actually
was | got this answer: "That is i'm
possible l wonder what would
have been said if | had taken the
other choice?
But my time is limited here, and
| am wandering, as usual, from the
subject. hardly know what | want to
say. feel that everybody knows that
have been Palisade booster and
rooter ever since have been here, and
| hope to continue so. | have made
many mistakes. All of us do that.
You want to steer clear of the man
who never makes mistake. have
always wanted to do what | thought
was best for the interests of every
body-and myself. l have tried to
free myself from prejudice, very
difficult thing to do, for | know thai
man may be prejudiced with OF
without a cause, and that generally
this feeling is sort of society word
for stubbornness. But from whatever
cause it may come, it is dwarfing in
it's influence. 1t is belitting to ones
self and unfair to others. Now, If
there is anything that enthralls my
respect it is to see man fair in all
his dealings. When prejudice is
harmful it often comes from igno-
ranc, stupidity, selfishness or down
right meanness. One of the old rules
of the Bible, and illustrated in the
life of the Gentle Nazarine, is old
but ever new, GIN honor preferring
one another" We should be generous
with the plans and methods of other
men until they fail. We should be
alert on all of their points of strength
and not their weakness. All men are
weak, to an extent. Search the
Scriptures, or literature, look through
the Bible from cover to cover, and
uo,, will find that in the nreSence OF