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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
Build Good R0adluays

The contest now going on in the
borough of Cliffside Park over the
building of a complete system of good
roadways is opposed by certain prop
erty owners. These few evidently
are not looking far ahead when they
voice an opposition to work OF such
decided merit and value.
That good roadways are the life
and salvation of any section or COM
munity has been evidenced IN
thousand instances. They never fail.
They are the most certain channels
to wealth known to man. They in
variably lead to prosperity. Wher-
ever good roads have gone, there has
always followed an increase in land
values.
The trouble with the property
owners who oppose the proposed new
roadways, is that that they look upon
the cost too much in the light OF
tax for today. Of course, if the cost
were all saddled at once, there might
be some ground for complaint. But
it cannot fall this way. The distri-
button of the cost through the bond
ing of the project, makes the increase
in taxation points so slight that even
property that is now dormant or non
productive could afford to pay it and
not seriously feel it.
No one will pretend to say that UNI
improved property that is held from
year to year with the hope of an
ultimate rise in value, can hope to
have it increase as rapidly with old,
wornout roads as with new and up
to-date improved roads. The idea is
preposterous.
All around US are examples of the
prosperity that follows good roads.
Allusion has been made in these col
umns to what good roads have done
for California. They have done equal
wonders for New Jersey. While
many of the present roads of this
state are not the best today, before
the automobile came along and ruined
them because they were not built for
that kind of traffic, New Jersey roads
were the models of America. Every
body looked to New Jersey as pat
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

move troops or conveys of either
munitions of war or supplies across
the territory of a neutral Power"
Nothing could be palmer, yet
reading on further in the articles of
this fifth convention appears the fol-
lowing notification clause which ap-
parently knocks the spots out of the
whole thing, in case one party should
fail to agree to the convention as a
whole:
"18. The provisions of the present
convention do not apply except be-
tween contracting Powers and them
only if all the belligerents are parties
to the convention"
Serbia not having ratified the
agreement, and being a belligerent,
there was left the very small loop
hole through which to escape, in
case any party of the compact might
choose to claim that the treaty was
invalid through Serbia's delay of ac-
ceptance. At any rate, Belgium's
neutrality was not considered in the
war. There seems no way to make
treaties absolute. The technical de-
vices of diplomacy are many and in
tricate. They are past finding out
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
PALISADIAN
Wilson'S Victory Truths Triumph

other crying, "To arms, to arms"
And all the while the silent patient
man in the White House sat still
and rested on his plea. Then sud-
denly, like bolt from clear sky,
there came Bernstorff with his
"wait! wait! till you hear our side"
That was the beginning of the end.
Germany was on the line of losing
the moral support of the whole world
She must have realized the impot-
ency of her attitude in the face of all
civilizations protest. Then as
gracefully as the dove alighting
with the olive branch on Noah's ark,
she wrote what will become historic
words, "Wilson Wins"
Thus the struggle that had gone
up to the very edge of roaring vol
cano, ceased, and all became quiet
as a summer night. Mr.. Wilson
stood unmoved He made no utter
ance. He spoke no word of exulta
ton, acclaimed not syllable Of
triumph. But his inward soul must
have heaved at his conscious VIC
tory-not the victory over Germany,
but the conquest of truth. Thus it
came about that we are again at
peace in our hearts with all the world.
The caldron of discomfort and dis
trust had almost seethed, yet it
now is stilled, and the quiet of sat
isfied soul prevails the land.
For Germany, her stock must go
up. The world will realize that she
is not as brutal as she looked, and
that she still has heart. The incl
dent will make German Americans
more loyal to their adopted country,
and none the less glad for the Faith
erland's sensible treatment of a vex-
atious question.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
The President and the People.

The outstanding fact in the news
is the calmness of the people in re-
gard to the actions of the President
in dealing with the Arabic incident,
and the declaration of Great Britain
and her allies making cotton con-
traband of war. The general, al
most universal, feeling of the people
of the United States is that the
President will do what is wise and
just, and that he will maintain the
rights and dignity of the United
States.
1t is on account of this general
belief that the nation is calm. The
President knows, as few men do, the
history of the United States and es-
pecially the diplomacy of the United
States. There is little support given
to those who aim to arouse the peo-
pie to excited interference.
The people are calm because they
trust their President.
Even on the cotton question the
majority of the newspapers of the
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

tern after which to construct the
best roads. Today New Jersey is re-
constructing the old system every
where, laying down the surface that
will stand the present day traffic, and
everywhere a new bitulithic road has
gone values have not only increased,
but gone up rapidly. Few states are
more prosperous than New Jersey,
and nothing has helped it like her
roads.
Grantwood is wise enough to
value the great help new roadways
will lend, and is at this time moving
strongly in direction that will great
ly improve the whole town. The
property owners along the trolley
tracks see the great necessity of max
ing traffic roadway or street along
the trolley, and the most conserva-
tive estimates are that the invest
ment will more than pay for itself
in five years or less. The movers in
this enterprise do not guess at the
increase in values; they know it will
come. And so certain are they that
it will come, they only ask the
privilege of paying for the work
themselves, the cost not to come out
of the borough at large, though if
values go up, the borough is bene-
fitted in increased totals on which to
garner taxes. Here, therefore, is
one set of property owners in the
same community crying aloud for the
privilege of taxing themselves to
build street, and another set shout
ing aloud to be preserved against
building any more improved roads.
Somehow, these two opposing
elements must get together. They
must be made to see alike. Evidently
the first group is looing into the face
of prosperity, the other group is
turning it's back and won't see it.
Those who oppose good roads because
they bear increased taxes, are seeing
through a glass darkly. They are
shutting out the light. Progress
never came to a community that
stood still, for standing still is really
going backward.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
As They SOWed.

On October 8, 1912, little Mon
tenegro issued a declaration of war
against Turkey. This, according to
Herbert Adams Gibbons, in "The New
Map of Europe" was the inevitable
result of the action of Italy one year
before in wrestling Tripoli from the
Turks; just as the action of Italy
harked back to Russian action in the
Caucasus, British action in Egypt,
Austrian action in Bosnia Here
govina, and French action in
Morocco. Inevitable precursor, this
declaration of war, of the European
catastrophe of 1914. Who, then, is
presumptuous enough to maintain
that the course is simple, and the
blame all at one door? Europe is
reaping in blood-lust what ALL the
"Great Powers" have sown in land
lust.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

The signal triumph of President
Wilson in the diplomatic tilt he has
had with the German Government is
not a matter on which it is neces-
sary to do any shouting. The fact
that Germany has met the conten-
lions of this Government is a SIM
pie acknowledgement that an
appeal to reason has won. Ger
many does not lose by her con-
cession, if her yielding what she has
may be called concession. It is
an acknowledgement on her part that
truth is mighty and will prevail"
Therefore in the light of common
reason, whatever triumph the sit
uation presents, it is the triumph of
truth.
President Wilson had the entire mat
ter diagnosed in his own mind just
right at the very beginning when
he sent his first note to Germany.
He said that submarine warfare as
carried on by Germany was illegal
under the law of nations. Germany
at that time did not agree with him
and so, again and again Mr.. Wilson
reiterated his demand, and again and
again Germany evaded the main
point of issue.
Then came the Arabic sinking and
the loss of more American lives.
That precipitated the crisis. Relat-
ions between Germany and the
United States were at the very
breaking point. One could almost
see the two ministers leaving Wash
ington and Berlin. The picture was
tense, dramatic, tragic. Bryan and
Roosevelt, the malcontents, shouted
from the hilltops, one with the olive
branch of "Peace at any price" the
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
The Literary Sundbaq.

The most ungracious analysis of
Woodrow Wilson, the man, and his
personal relations to the office he
holds, was a full page editorial in
last Tuesdays New York American,
by William Mayard Hall. In it Mr..
Hall undertakes to criticise and en-
phasize the utter isolation of Presi-
dent Wilson, and gives him without
exception the most severe raking
over the Goals that any man has so
far been daring enough to present
since he became President. If the
arrangement had appeared in any
other newspaper but the New York
American, it would have had greater
effect. Mr.. Hearst is owner of a
German newspaper, and his personal
attacks have been notorious against
the President, many of them as bit
ter as those he uttered against the
lamented Mckinley. Self-interest
inspired Mr.. Hearst to attack Nc
Kinley, and the same feeling is at
the bottom of his attitude toward
Wilson.
Mr.. Hale places himself in ques-
tionable attitude in either selling or
contributing his services to Mr..
Hearst at this time. Mr.. Hearst
owns large interests in Mexico
which he wishes protected with
American bayonets. For Mr.. Hale
to arraign himself on the side of
Mr.. Wilson's critics is not an act of
the best taste-about as much so as
was the eulogism pointed by the
late Alfred Henry Lewis about the
also late Cardenio F. King, the Bos-
ton financier who swindled the Amer
lean public out of many millions
through his nefarious game of float
ing fraudulent Texas and Ohio oil
stocks. When Lewis paraded Kings
name as the master financial brain
of the age, he was at that moment
on the threshold of the Massachu-
sets penitentiary where he died serv-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
7. r. In Hard Luck.

The Colonel is certainly playing
in hard luck these days. No sooner
does he get one of his terrific blasts
ready, to show how imbecile and
traitorous is the foreign policy of
the Wilson Administration, than
something happens to make his
bugle sound like tin whistle. He
starts for the Plattsburg camp fully
prepared to prove that the only
way to deal with the German gov
eminent is to threaten them with
an army of Terrible Teddies, when
10! the German ambassador makes
what Roosevelt would call an abject
crawl. While at the very moment of
the Colonel's furious grafton, the
German chancellor was offering to
give the United States satisfaction.
1t is all wicked plot, we fear. Ger
man spies are at work, no doubt,
trying to make futile as well as
ridiculous the Colonel's heroic sput-
tering about Lincoln and Buchanan
and Fort Sumter and China. The
country is defenseless indeed if
Roosevelt's luck has deserted him.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
ROOseUeIt's Sincerity.

The more the act of Mr.. Roosevelt
at Plattsburg is looked at, and judg-
ing it from the expressions contained
in the leading American newspapers
the more he appears to have greatly
lowered his standard of fair play.
That he took advantage of the occa-
sion to make a direct stab at Presi-
dent Wilson and the Administration,
the bare facts indicate all too clearly.
Yet in the face of every interpreta-
ton, he has come forward and said
that he never once mentioned the
name of the President or the Admin
istration. If any ordinary citizen
should make statement and then
deny it, he would have his veracity
questioned Immediately, and that is
just what the American people have
done with Mr.. Roosevelt. They know
he meant to severely criticise the
President and his war policies, and
that he sought by every means in his
power to cast odium upon him and
the Administration. The press is alb
solutely unanimous in condemning
Roosevelt at Plattsburg, yet he has
come back and made an issue out of
the incident, and it looks from this
angle that he would be in the arena
for the next nomination by the Re-
publication to face Wilson.
But in this he would make a sor-
rier job of it than he did in 1912
when he broke away and became the
Progressive party-not exactly single
handed and alone, but he was the
only person in it who had any
authority whatever. He was the most
supreme boss of that party of which
there is record of leadership in par
ties in this country. Giving Roose-
welt credit for many excellencies,
sincerity does not appear to be one
of his virtues. He does the most
questionable things, where even strict
integrity is in the balance. Yet none
of these things makes the slightest
difference with his followers, who
appear to stand up for him right or
wrong.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
Wearing Silk for Protection.

1t is a rather surprising and para
doxical state of affairs that at time
when food is none too plentiful, there
is a greater demand for silk under
wear in certain parts of Europe than
ever before. American manufac
turers are finding it difficult to supply
the market for their goods abroad,
more especially when the wearing of
silk socks and undergarments, par
ticularly the former, has greatly in
creased in the United States in re-
cent years.
However, the present demand in
Europe for silk underwear is strictly
a unitarian one. Bohemian scien-
lists have discovered that silk pro-
tects the wearer from vermin. 1t is
strange indeed that the fabric of
wealth and of fashion should be put
to such base uses, but scientists are
constantly discovering new wrinkles
and this latest one is of practical adj
vantage in war ridden Europe, where
diseases carried by vermin are Turk
ing everywhere and congestion has
made many cities potential plague
spots. Thousands of men and women
are living under conditions which
make it impossible for them to keep
clean. Some of the men are still
suffering from open wounds, having
been discharged from hospitals to
make room for others in worse plight.
To such as these, if they can get it,
silk underwear means much more
than mere comfort.
According to the scientists the pro-
tective value Of silk against disease
carrying vermin is due to chemicals
used in the preparation of the fabric.
Also, the odor of silk is said to repel
insects in the same way as the es
sential oil of camphor or tar. 1t re-
manned for science to put silk among
the really useful commodities of the
world, but heaven forbid that it
should ever have to be worn in this
country for any other reason than
personal comfort or harmless vanity.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
PartY Politics and Graft.

To the statement that was made
in last weeks Fort Lee Senti-
mel touching upon and appertaining
to doing away with party politics in
selecting borough officers, this news
paper heartily agrees. We have long
held to this doctrine, and have advo-
Gated it time and again.
But why doesn't the editor prac-
tice what he breaches He knows,
and a few others know, that the
Democratic ticket is being supported
at this time purely because it is good
business policy for some people to
do so. Of course, it can scarcely be
a policy of to the victor belongs the
spoils, but were the Democratic nomi-
nees in the borough and county to be
defeated, there would be several little
plums that would go elsewhere that
are now being picked up, or licked up
as you may choose to call it.
For instance, the graft of legal
advertising would perhaps be differ
ent. Did anybody around here ever
hear of such a thing as that? Legal
advertising is generally apportioned
by the powers that be through the
influences" that certain people exert.
Some newspapers get merely the
crumbs of legal advertising, others
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915
Serving TtUO Masters.

"The Palisadian" has not been
alone in it's demand that our German
American friends renounce their
American citizenship if they are to
continue in this crisis their loyalty
and support to the Fatherland. No
body could or does blame a German
for displaying loving loyalty to the
home of his fathers. That is very
proper kind of sentiment. But being
loyal in sentiment is one thing, and
doing things detrimental to Ameri-
can interests is quite another.
A recent letter from George w.
Beckel, Secretary of the Brooklyn
Germania Society, to the New York
Stats Zeitung put the matter in its
only tenable light. He said:
81 would like to take this opportun-
ity of expressing my personal views
of the attitude of great many Ger
man-Americans to you. Our Constr
tuition is very clear on the point of
citizenship, and the oath administered
to foreigners who become United
States citizens includes that they alb
solutely renounce their allegiance to
their former country and swear al
legiance to the United States flag,
which means that they must support
the United States flag whether the
same is right or wrong in their esti-
nation. They should do this especi-
ally in such critical times as we have
been having for the past year. If
they cannot consistently do so, there
is only one way open to them-to re-
nounce their United States citizen
ship; Otherwise They Are Committing
High Treason, There Are No two
Ways About This Matter.
A son of Herman Ridder when
asked about the Beckel letter said:
81 would like to say at the present
time, however, that We are fully in
accord with Mr.. Beckel's idea of the
obligations of German-Americans,"
Mr.. Ridder added: "The attitude he
outlines here is our attitude, and be-
lieve it is the attitude of the right
thinking COMMUNICATIONS through
out the United States"
If what Mr.. Ridder says be true, it
is very gratifying, yet some of our
German-American friends have been
very indescreet in circulating secret
propaganda, and others in criticising
the moral side of the part United
States has been forced to play in the
war. To those who persist in laying
themselves open to the charge of
sedition, it might be well, when they
have given up their American citi-
zens to proclaim themselves as Amer
lean Germans, in which case they
would soon know the difference be-
tween serving the Kaiser and know
ing Uncle Sam.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

ing ten-year sentence. Lewis was
man hired by Hearst as literary
thug to sandbag his enemies, and he
was a past master at the art.
Mr.. Hale may felicitate himself in
the consciousness of the fact that he
is at least in congenial company.
And further that he yields a most
ethical sandbag.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
Who Wrote This :?

On large signboard over at Fair
lawn, New Jersey, on the grounds of
florist, is very pretty sentiment
emblazoned in letter a foot high,
reading:
IF YOU HAVE TWO LOAVES OF
BREAD, SELL ONE AND BUY
FLOWERS.
This sounds very Emersonian, but
we do not know. Can any "Pali-
sadian" reader name the author of
the line?
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

South and presumably the people of
the South refuse to embarrass the
President by organized appeals
New York Evening Post.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04

Don't try to force admiration by
show of cleverness. Draw forth es-
TEEN by your good works.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-13
GERMANY GETS
AMERICAN NOTE
Ambassador Gerard Conters
with Foreign Secretary
After Its Delivery.

B.rlin. Feb. 12.-James W. Gerard,
American Ambassador, called on Gott-
lieb Won Jagow. German Foreign Sec.
retary, at s o'clock this evening and
presented to him the American gov
ernment's note concerning the German
war zone proclamation.
The delivery of the note was followed
by conference between Mr.. Gerard
and the Foreign Minister which lasted
for three-uusrters Of an hour.
Nothing concerning the contents or
the note has been given out by any
competent authorities here, and Of
ficials are not ready to comment on IL
beyond stating that the communication
ia "couched in the friendliest spirit and
is a thoroughly friendly document
The German reply to Washington
will be made in due course and, II the
views repeatedly expressed IN respon-
s;ble quarters may be taken as a cri-
terion, it probably will point out that
the German measure in making the
seas around Great Britain war zone
is a fully justified answer TO the Brit
,sh attempt TO stsrve out the German
nstion. "women and children, as well
as soldiers"
II is believed the note will suggest
that il the United States desires a
mitigation Of Germans naval cam
paign. it would be well to induce Great
Britain to lift her embargo on tood-
tufts bound for Germany, which IN
the German Interpretation Of interna-
tional law is entirely illegal and un-
iustified. Ii will be added. it is thought,
that If Great Britain persists in her
embargo the campaign against hostile
merchantmen will go forward with fuii
seVerity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-13
INTRUDERS UPSET
HOTEL DE GINk
Two Men Tear Down Signs and
Denounce "Tramps and
Buns"

Two men upset the dignity OF the
Hotel de Gink early this morning Jus'
when the guests were sleeping soundiy
the pair burst into the hosiery ana
raised a mighty uprosr. They tore inc
placards from the walls. cried out that
"it WAS shame aud an outrage that
H. o;,, sbould nav for the maintenance
- ,ramps and buns" and threatened o
"shoot up" the place. .,.i-
Edward Williams, general supeTNlrr ~
sor of the hotel. in the absence OF J@en @
Davis. sent in hurry caIl 10
Elizabeth Street police station. Lieu
tenant Lee sent half a dozen patrol
men TO the hotel. The intruders were
nisced under arrest, on a complaint
made by Williams. At the police sta sta,
ton they gave their names as james
Wa.,;r Of 4I2 West Fifty-fourth
street, and James Sullivan OF 'lZ
Greenwich Street