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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29

thing, speak up. The world may be
the brighter for what you say.
Il n n
And the bills of the past year have
been duly received, and tucked away,
and POSSIBLY forgotten. Pay upi
n n n
Locally, we know of no set formula
for popping the question in Leap
Year. Just brace up and pop, that's
all.
Those golden locks Belinda wears
will gag you just as quickly as any
other hair when fished out of the
soup.
X Y \
Some men are great, others are near
great, but the greatest of all is the
man who doesn't realize that he is
great.
Don't worry about the mistakes of
yesterday. Oil up your think works
and avoid making any more of them
today.
II \ 4
We wish you long life and much
happiness in 1916, and it won't be our
fault if we don't grab off just a little
more than you get.
u y \
For once we will welcome the ad-
vent of the baseball season with Joy.
Twill be a welcome diversion from
our Mexican assassinations.
X X 4
Our dimpling maidens who prance
around with a black splotch sticking
on their face should add another dab
of mud in honor of Leap Year.
\ X \
Any fellow can cure himself of the
habit of villifying other people if he
wants to. But most people are too
absorbed in the art of ~villifcation to
want to.
Y X 4
That settles it-Ford's financial
manager is no gentleman and not even
a sport. He refused to put up the
cash for new gowns for some Of the
fair DANES of the peace party.
\ Y X
When a dashing young mar begins
to tell her of his castles in Spain it
generally ends in cooking three meals
a day, scrubbing the kitchen floor and
making over her last years dresses.
\ II X
Now when a nan calls his wife a
"she cat", and she whacks him wei
the head with the rolling pin, how in
heck are they to obey the scriptural
injunction and dwell together in love
and harmony?
\ X X
We don't know whether it is a lack
of feminine courage, or an evidence of
masculine obstinacy, or whether it
Gust happened" but the fact remains
that we haven't a single leap year
wedding to report this week.
Y X Y
An eminent writer has said that we
are physically, morally and mentally
what our thoughts make US. Good!
With this as an aid and a guide we
ought to be able to diagnose the
thoughts of every one in town.
Y X X
Have you ever been in a tropical
country where you could stand at a
safe distance and watch the alhgators
shopping around and waiting for an
opportunity to pounce upon their un-
happy victims? Mexico of today!
y X \
With some women frantically de-
handing the vote, and other women
vociferously and contemptuously de-
nouncing it, how in tarnation is a
mere cit" of a man to decide without
sinking in either the mud or the mire?
X X X
"The presidents wife is a happy
woman" MARBLES one who would like
to be. Bah! Ours has been delirious
with joy ever since we popped, and it
hasn't created even a ripple on the
social waves.
\ X Y
Same old story again. An Oak
Park, H., mar owns S2,000,000. His
son wanted the money and plotted to
kill his parents. Since they are
prominent people the would-be muir
derer is pronounced mentally unbal-
ancad" Of course. To he Sure etp.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
NEWS BREWT|ES
OF NEW JERSEY
Interesting Happenings In the
State Carefully Condensed.

vents OF All Kinds Gathered FROM
Various Points In the State and Sc
Reduced In Size That They Will APP
peal to All Glasses of Readers.
Sleighing was the best In many years
In Paulsboro ano vicinity.
The Wildwood board of trade has
opened a campaign for a membership
of 500.
An offer of $4,000 for the Joseph
Locke farm near Paulsboro has been
refused.
Charged with the Illegal sale Of
liquor, Thomas Zebriska was fined S3s
by Mayor Gieg at Millville.
Revival meetings will be held in the
First Presbyterian church. Grenloch.
during the entire month of February.
The Pitman Castle of Golden Eagles
is In possession of the famous golden
eagle" which is making the rounds of
the state.
Falling as he attempted to descend
the stairs at his home near Paulsboro.
Charles Benner sustained a fractured
knee cap.
The government has established n
postoffice In the village of Carney's
postmaster.
Edward e. Miller has been sworn in
as building inspector Of Paulsboro. and
all buildings to be erected will be thor
oughly inspected.
The clear, cold weather has cured
more grip sufferers than a ton Of medi-
cine. OF sixty Blackwood victims
twenty have recovered.
Convicts are busy on a state road
from Elmer to Malaga, which will give
the western end of Cumberland county
easy access to Atlantic City.
Rev. Richard A. Conover, pastor Of
the West Collingswood NJ. e. church.
was convicted of stealing chickens be
fore a mock court in the church.
MI. and Mrs. John Neagle of Plain
field observed the fortieth anniversary
of their wedding. Mr.. Neagle is the
Plainfield local weather observer.
Tax Assessor Charles A. Ruhlmann
of Bayonne is drafting a bill exempt
ing from personal taxation persons
whose goods are worth $500 or less.
Woodlynne fire company has reject
ed all bids for installing a heating sys-
tenn in the firehouse as being exorbi-
tant. New bids will be advertised for
Work upon the erection of a new
ammonia house to replace the one re-
Gently blown to atoms at the Du Pont
powder works. at Gibbstown, has been
started.
Wallace w. Green. a boss carpenter
of Hackensack, fell from the scaffold
of a new house in Leonia with his
arms full of tools and died from his
injuries.
Charged with stealing chickens from
William Heulings' farm. Henry Van
Nell was committed in default of bail
by Justice of the Peace Gabell. at Bor-
dentown.
Elmer Garrison, six years old. son OF
William R. Garrison of Salem. was run
over by an automobile and died within
a few minutes. The driver was held
blameless.
Over 400 delegates, representing every.
county in the state. attended the TWEEN
ty-fffth annual convention of the New
Jersey Equal Suffrage association at
Elizabeth.
The state eliminated 1880 corpora
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
Terse, Tart, Timely
Short and Snappy Sayings to Interest
Old and Young

Howdy!
Pop, grille, pop!
n n n
Here we are again.
n n n
Make it a year of justice, too.
n n IL
Your smile is charming-keep it up.
n n n
Don't waste time talking about
prosperity. Grab it!
n n n
The ups and downs of business are
principally ups now.
n n n
Is your wife a jewel? Tell her so.
Tell her SO, anyway.
h h n
Here's hoping Prosperity don't
stumble and break a leg.
n n n
Blessed is the mar who pays his
bills-if We get the dough.
We might add a little spice to life
by turning Teddy loose on Villa.
II n n
When the war is finally ended every
mothers cuss will yelp 81 told you so"
n n II
Why is a babbling tongue like soft
mud? Wise up, and answer it your
self.
Hail to sweet womanhood! With
out her we wouldn't have any kind of
a hood.
Man proposes, woman supposes, dad
opposes, the lawyer exposes, and the
judge deposes.
No sprinters in sight this year.
Every one is adorable and of strictly
marriageable age.
n n n
Big business is on the boom. So is
little business. So is all kinds of bus
ii n u
The most priced and priceless of all
Oriental rugs are those that fall to
while you look.
N n n
be a sport; give your wife her own
way. Even at best she probably got
the worst of the deal.
n n n
Load up with a crouch if you like,
but shake out a smile before you come
into u grin factory.
n n n
Why even speak of Mexico, when
speaking appears to be all that we
have the courage to do?
n 81 n
Coming events cast their shadows
~. But ring off! We've had too
many shadows the past year.
~ n n
A writer aver that "in the divine
symphony of love your soul sings an
aria, while" Oh, bugs!
If you thoughts are worth any,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
SCRAP
IRON & METAL co.

>, 127 S. Main ST., Pleasantville, N. J.
We buy all kinds of scrap iron and
metals and pay highest market price.
Call US by Bell Phone 233 and we
will stop at your door.
We also have for sale all kinds of
engines and repair pieces for auto
mobiles. Also l set tires and tubes,
32x3K, in good condition. Cheaper
than anywhere else.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
Aliens FOot-E Ease for the Troops.

Many war zone hospitals have ordered AL
lens Foot-Ease, 1.-THE antiseptic powder to
shake into your shoes, for use among the
troops, because it gives rest and comfort to
tired, aching, swollen feet and makes walking
easy. At druggists everywhere, 25c.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29

ton. Recently he visited the justice
In an auto and said be had found his
folly and has been successful In bust
ness.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
Don't Set Hens

the same old way. Use the PRAIRIE
STATE INCUBATORS and BROOD
Frs. For sale by FRANK JAMES,
Zion road, Mortified, N. j. Phone
105-R Pleasantville.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-29
People IN
Middle Life

'F you are of middle age,
RA it is advisable that you
AM have your eyes exam
ined by a competent
Oculist-no matter how
good your sight might
always have been.
At this time of life, various
defects of the vision occur, and
such changes usually take place
quickly.
If given early attention, they
might quickly and easily be cor
rected, but if left to go un-
checked they may result seri-
ously.
At least, it is very comfort
ing to know that ones eyes are
not defective, and an Oculist's
examination is the correct thing
from either standpoint.
If glasses should be required,
bring his prescription here,
where long specializing has
qualified us to fill all prescrip-
tons with unvarying accuracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
SIDE TAIL * S
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Advice.
Two friends were discussing a GER
tain summer resort to which one of
them was thinking of going.
Louise says the mosquitoes are
perfectly terrible there, and you real
ly won't like it, said one of them.
Does she really?" said the other,
thoughtfully, and she couldn't have
any motive in saying that now. for
that camp she wanted me to take has
been rented"
"Of course she hasn't any motive -
retorted the other. Aren't you hor-
rid to be suspecting everyone of mo-
tives in the advice they give you'll"
Was she horrid?
Personally. 1 don't think so.
I suspect almost everybody of mo-
tives, myself.
You think that's cynical thing to
say?
But 1 didn't mean bad motives, and
I didn't mean conscious motives, and
include myself among those 1 sus-
pect
Take the case of the camp and the
mosquitoes.
If A wanted B to take a camp in
which she was interested in isn't it
probable that, without telling any I'M
truth, she would place more emphasis
on the mosquitoes in the other loca-
ton than she would if she were en-
tirely disinterested?
A friend of mine told his wife that
he thought they needed new car this
summer because the old one was get
ting rather ramshackle, and as they
would be taking the children out a
good deal he didn't feel it was safe.
He is not a man who ordinarily wor-
ries much about what is safe. Can
one help thinking that his desire for
a new car had OTnethi0R to do wit n
his unwonted anxiety?
/ don't mean that the average per-
son deliberately perverts the truth
when he is interested in one way or
another, but that he presents it in an
exaggerated or softened form, accord
ing to the demands of the occasion.
1t is this trick of the mind that
makes us declare, TT was about
three" or 1T was just after half-past
two," of the same time, according to
whether our intention is to make it
sound as early or as late as possible.
Usually people are utterly uncon-
scious that they are doing this. There
is nothing deliberate or conscious
about the process because they don't
alter their thoughts before putting
them into words, as they do when
they tell 4 deliberate lie. They simply
speak what they think, but they think
what they like to think, instead of try
ing to get at the absolute truth.
Very few of US have much acquaint-
ance with the absolute truth. We fol-
low the line of least resistance and
the line of least resistance leads to the
approximate truth
Consequently our advice both to
ourselves and to other people needs
to be discounted. Unless I know a
person to be one of those rare people
who are capable of being absolutely
sincere, 1 discount his advice by his
motives and prejudices, and I do the
same by the advice / give myself
Copyright by George Matthew
Adams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14

prescribed for the passage of other
bills over the executive veto. Under
the laws of the United States. the pres
ident has no such power. If there is
any grab" or rider In an appropria-
ticn, the only way to get rid of it Is to
veto the entire appropriation bill, halt
ing the orderly process of the govern
ment. The James resolution would
confer upon the president such power
with regard to vetoing items in nation
al appropriation bills as is conferred
upon governors in most of the states as
to state appropriation measures. If
the James resolution became law,
no president hereafter could hide be-
hind the present limitations on his
veto power. and give way TO political
expediency on the ground that he must
veto all or none. For example, If such
a law were now on the statutes, Presi-
dent Wilson would be forced to go
openly on record as to whether he
would or would not veto the Tavenner
rider in appropriations bills recently
passed. This rider, as is well known,
was sponsored by organized labor, and
prohibits scientific shop management
in government plants. Excellent as
the James plan is, it is certain that its
passage will not be brought about un-
less business interests and the public
generally are aroused to a point where
they will bring sufficient pressure on
congress to pass the resolution. The
evil influence against any such legisla-
ton is tremendous, but that of the
business men. if effectively used,
would be much more powerful. VIII
it be so used?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14

planned Danny. I'VE ought to see it!
Some day Miss Genevieve wants to
go hunting with me. Dye care if we
take herr"
mo, agreed Tomm huskily. I'VE
might take her tomorrow"
Danny was trailingy a deer. Tommy,
perfectly happy. was breaking frosty
underbrush for Genevieve to get
through. The girl, to a casual OBJ
server, was as happy as Tommy and
in her fawn-colored hunting suit was
as pretty as she was in the pink and
blue summer frock.
Suddenly Tommy turned. Say,
what's the difference between a Latin
grammar and cook book?"
She thought a moment. why,
don't know. What's the answer" she
asked.
Tommy caught her hand and looked
into her eyes The answer isl he
said deliberately, that I'm going to
marry you dear. if you'll have me?''
-(Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
tFrom the Atchison Globe. !

Some men not only have bad tenn
pers, but boast about that weakness.
As a rule, the motion to adjourn is
the motion most likely to carry by
unanimous vote.
An artistic temperament is fire.
quently found where there isn't a
great deal of art.
An after-dinner speaker should
make it a rule not to try to talk until
breakfast is ready.
After man begins to pay the bills,
it seems like about every other day
is the first of the month.
Knocking the neighbors is also Quito
a help in the making of conversation
and keeping it going.
The man who is willing to tell all
he knows is likely to go further and
guess at good deal more.
So much of the enthusiasm is in
the possession of the Young Things
who don't know what to do with it.
If a woman is happily married. she
thinks every woman ought to get mar
ried. and gambling is encouraged in
other ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
A PLAN TO ABOLISH PORK.

Commenting on the news that Con-
gresham James of Michigan has de-
vised a very simple and admirable
method of eliminating pork" from
federal appropriation bills by merely
authorizing the president to veto items
In such bills. the Iron Trade Review
sensibly says: Mr.. James's join reso-
luton should be adopted in the inter-
est of orderly business methods and
sound public policy 1t would place
squarely on the president the tremen-
dous responsibility of vetoing obnox-
ious and unnecessary items in the
various appropriation bills without:
completely destroying the measures
providing for the operating expenses
of the government. 1t would give him
the privilege of exercising discrimina-
ton as to what is in an Apr opriation
measure. If he failed to use such
discrimination, then blame would rest
directly upon him. 1t would be a duty
calling for courage in the chief exec
Utive. but most of our presidents have
been men of courage. At present the
veto is in too many cases a useless
PheroSahNe' use OF II may destroy
much of good in order to prevent some
measure of bad; and, on the other
hand, failure to employ it must give
appearance of approval to everything
bad in a bill that is signed. In nearly
all the states, the governor has the
power to disapprove any item or items
Of any appropriation bill. The items
disa pproyed are void unless syer,a sSa5
according to the rules and limitations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
JAYMAWlKER pJOTS

Yes, dear, answers Ruth Alexander
People in her Women's Column in the
Erie Record: This Bohemian life
they rave so about is merely another
name for Rough Neck sassiety.
The modern machine gun is not dis
eliminating, points out Mrs. Tom
Thompson in the Howard Courant Tho
it eats them raw, the seasoned pre-
pared" soldier is shot to pieces with nc
difficulty.
Philip Flipflop is quoted by the
Lansing News as saying: Frequently
the wife is called the better half be-
cause she gets the larger part of the
husbands earnings; 1t isn't the one
that earns the money, but the one
who spends that makes the family
reputation
Observed by the Erie Record: Even
the nubbin is going to look mighty
good this year. Did YOU ever
own fountain pen that you could de-
pend upon? Lots of fellows
can catch fish who are not much &C.
count for anything else. It's
easier for a preacher to get a vacation
every summer than anybody else,
Another beauty of the in
stallment plan. You are paying Tor
your heating stove in July, and your
refrigerator in January.
As a few things occur to the Brod-
ricks of the Marysville Advocate
Democrat: Tomorrow is always a
great day for doing things.
1t is privileges most people seek, rath-
er tnan rights. Lots of men
tire themselves to death looking for an
easy job. Gossip NAV be idle
but you can't dodge it once it starts
after you. =. Nothing so forclhly
reminds one of nfe's brevity as a
thirty-day note at the bank.
Most of us feel that when we have
acknowledged a mistake, we hav,.
more than made up for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14

Instead of disposing of the nations
important business with reasonable
promptness and dispatch, the oratorl-
cally inclined members of congress,
and especially those in the senate. are
wasting their own time and the time
and means of the people as well in
making purely political speeches.
Why don't they attend to the work
for which the people sent them to
washington, adjourn congress and
then make these political speeches
where they should be made, in public
rostrums, and not on the floor of the
senate chamber or in the hall of the
house of representatives. But they
are frugal boys, these members of
congress, and they don't care how
much freight Uncle Sam has to pay.
You see they can get these political
speeches they are now making from
congressional levels printed at gov
eminent expense, and all the copies of
them they may desire, and then they
can send them out free to their con-
stituents. Efficiency and economy in
the conduct of the nations affairs
well, it seems to be unknown at Wash
ington, or in congress, at any rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
STATE LIFE INSURANCE.

probably some of the functions IN
dertaken by the government, writes A.
J1Buscheck in the August Case and
Comment, such as the ownership and
operation of public utilities by munici-
palities, must find their ultimate JUS
tification in that they administer to
the health. morals. comfort and we'll
being of the entire people of a COM
niunity. 1t is difficult to see how state
life insurance can have any direct
bearing on any of the aims enumer-
ated in the above definition of police
power. Neither is there any appa-
rent similarity in their object between
municipal ownership and operation of
public utilities and state insurance. 1t
might be urged that there is some con-
nectIon between state life insurance
and poverty. the alienation of which
issadmittedly proper exercise OF the
states police power. It is clear, how
ever. from the very nature of insur-
suce. that its aim cannot be to aid the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia RecordJ
A man is all right in his way, if
he isn't in the way of other people.
The people who brood over their
troubles evidently want to hatch out
more.
Never do things by halves if you
want people to think you are the
whole thing.
burned child breads the fire, and
many man grasps an opportunity
that is too hot to handle.
It's a lazy mans belief that all
things come to those who wait for
others to do it for them.
Some people are so generous as to
give away all their good advice, never
saving any for themselves.
Zone swallow doesn't make a sum-
mer," quoted the Wise Guy. Nor
quench thirst" added the Simple
Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Even a mirror will not show himself
to man as he is seen by others.
X X X
Also, even Christians without a
little envy of others in their hearts
are few and far between.
X X X
Nor does the owner of an automo :
bile ever have to hunt far for such
company as he desires.
X X x
Runaway boys and runaway horses
are a good deal alike. Unless a thoro
cure IS administered they will always
keep at it.
x x *
man is likely to make an un-
comfortable mistake if he does not
take sides on a question, because, if he
doesn't, he usually has to listen to the
arguments on both of them.