Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-09-30
Charles 7. Logan, Jr.
And His Short Career
By His Father

My object in giving publicity to
these features of my sons life is
primarily to record in a succinct way
his value as boy, man and citizen.
l have had no thought to unduly
praise him. That l have left for
others. But in very truth the boy
was worth volume of praise for his
example alone. 1t was his thorough
ness and efficiency in his undertake
ings that made him promising, and
his actual performances were many
and worthy. AS he grew older l
could see the almost startling ma
turity of thought that was gradually
developing his character. His judg-
ment in business matters was easily
80 per cent. good. He was safely
edging up to the visible side of sue
cess in his publishing business,
about which there had been many
misgivings. He had ambitions in
maintaining the "Palisadian" and i'm
proving it along the highest lines.
That he would have done this was
morally certain.
He had been negotiating for prop
erty in the unrestricted section of
Palisade, and had intended to put up
his own buildin gthere. Business had
been showing such marked improve
ment. At last he was keeping "the
plant" busy. The presses were kept
running most of the time, and if this
could be maintained one of his pur-
poses in life would have been realized.
He had taken an unknown quantity
and by the equasion of his energy, his
zeal and his personality, he was
building a cabin in a wilderness and
the world was gradually making a
beaten path to his door. He was
solving an improbable problem
making something out of nothing,
but his almost prophetic eye saw in
the growth of the Hilltop section the
open door of opportunity and he
was making for its inviting light.
Mother" he said one day only a
few weeks before he was stricken,
"You will yet be proud of me and the
'Palisadian.' She was proud of her
boy, and gave him every ounce of en-
enlargement it was possible for an
idolizing mother to yield.
Those who have followed the for
tunes of the "Palisadian" know well
it's purposes; they know it's ideals; it's
fearlessness in the advocacy of what
it believed in; it's utter lack of policy
when it came to an issue of Fighting
the devil with fire." Charles did not
always agree with me in matters of
this kind, yet he knew, if anybody
ever did, the meaning of truth. His
whole life was patterned after its
tenets. He could never tolerate in
sincerity, and he knew the hollow
sham of much that he saw around
him. He and / had many int -
talks about local matters, and Ne
mo no recollection pf, ever heafa iaa
utter harsh crl Lshi. Whal 3
posed he opposed from princip but
he would never be vindictive, never
harsh. l never understood the power
of this gentle youth until he was
snatched so ruthlessly from US. l
do not REBEL against God; l have
yielded to His wise purpose in send
ing us this sorrow. And I have
thought that perhaps He did not send
it; that maybe we had neglected
something in behalf of the dear boy;
that maychance he himself was so
overweight with the driving power
of energy that unconsciously the
spark current lessened from over
tension and the life giving current
snapped from mere inability to stand
the pressure of his desires to forge
ahead in a storm Of difficulties. If
he had only known that he was al
ready within the encirciling grasp of
a life of certain conquest, perhaps he
might have slackened speed. But he
never did.
His last act on the fatal Thurs
day evening of his falling by the way
side, was in "making-up" of one page
of the "Palisadian," when his ,physi-
cal agonies cried, "You must 'stop!"
Then and there his labors on earth
were ended, it appeared. But not
yet! The following Saturday found
the still hoping soul comforting with
his foreman at his bedside, giving
full and definite instructions about a
big contract they were working on,
and later he signed a check as the