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The Washington times., 1916-12-15
RUSSIANS BURNED TOWNS.

BERLIN tvia sayviile wireless).
Dec. 1b.--Russisn forces retreating In
Roumania, left burning villages
through Great wallachia, today's Of
hcial statement reported.
The Washington times., 1916-12-15

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free trial package.
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
TO GIVE BOX PARTY
Mime. Jussersnd VIII Be Hostess at
'.. Concert Today.

Mime. Jusserand will entertain q
box party this afternoon at the con
cert to be given at the National Thea
ter by Miss Elizabeth Howry. tn,
gifted daughter OF Judge and Mrr
Charles u. Howry. and Robert .Lortat
a disting uished Fr,nch tenor.
Judge and Mrs Howry will aIur
have a box, and will have Miss MARI
Howry and Mrs. Barker Gummere
who II visiting them, among then
guests. The other boNholderH ar,
Mrs.. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. John II
henderson, Mrs, Dclop Blodgctt. Mrs
Samuel Spencer. MrS. John W. Weeks
and Mrs. J.. II. Moran.
-
Mrs. Charles W. McFee gave n debu
thnte luncheon yesterday, entertain
ing In compliment to Miss Roberts
Wiley.
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
THE POL|CEMAN'S
TRUE TESTIMONIAL
Claims Since Taking Plant Juice
He Is Now Able to Re-
port for Duty.

stomach trouble H. the direct cause
OF more arrangements Of the nervous
system and general bodily functions
Than any other ailment. No other rem.
success that has been obtained by
Plant Juice. which IL n combination
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
Recital Patrone.ss..

Among the patronesses for the re
cital by Edouard Deru, the distiu.
guirhed Belgian vioiinist. which will
be given next Thursday afternoon nj
the residence OF Mrs. Henry r,
Dimock for the benefit OF Belgian
prisoners in Germany are Mrs. LarS
Anderson. Mrs. Charles J. He'll, Mira
William II. Bliss. Mrs. Henry r.
.Dimock, Mrs. stephen u. Elkins, Miss
Ernst, Mrs. william Corcoran Eustis
Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs. Carroll
Fraser, Mrs. Arthur Glasgow, Mrs
Nevil Monroe Hopkins. Mrs. Hsnneu
Jennings, Mrs, Lawrence Townsend
Mrs. George W. McLanahan, Miss
Mary Patten, Mrs. william Ritter
Mrs. william Slater. Mrs. story, and
Mrs. Robert NJ, Thompson. The tick,
cts are In the hands OF Mrs. Charles
w. MeFee ana Miss Elizabeth Porter
The recital II given under the aus
plces OF the Belgian Minister and
Mime. Havenith.
Mrs. John X. shields reached Wash.
ipEton last evening and Joined sena
tor shields They have an Apartment
N the Shoreham for the present. Mrs
Shields daughter. Miss Janet Cowan
Is visiting Miss Dorothy Arkwright
In Atlanta.
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
Nerve Fatigue

What you can accomplish
depends directly upon your
nerve energy. Any continued
eye strain, any unnecessary
efforts Of the focusing muscles
Of the eyes, wastes energy
and leads to nerve fatigue.
For this reason neglect Of
sour eyes may not only reduce
your working capacity but
impair your general health.
II you have the slightest
indications of eye strain con-
suit an oculist Immediately.
Should he recommend glasses,
we can fill his prescription so
as TO assure you of glasses
that will be satisfactory in
every detail.
GLHu.ks Optical COMPANY
%&4O oOHHHe
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
First Binmed II On Tramp.

"one OF the tramps then struck
Klein with a stick" Barrett declared,
knocking him down an embankment,
where he beat him again and again.
After the tramp had killed Klein. he
covered his body with leaves and
branches Iran away, caught train
and went TO Eddyrtone, Pa, where
I worked for two weeks In a printers
shop, then came TO baltimore.
Detectives Cooney, Dunn, and Oil
The Washington times., 1916-12-15
BOY OF FIFTEEN
ADMITS MURDER
Used Stolen Rifle as Club to
XIII chun, Says Prisoner
In Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 15.--That he
dubbed and killed with the stock end
of a rife Charles Il. Klein, the fifteen
year.old son OF Mrs. Annie NJ. Klein,
a widow, on June O, near Pen-Mar,
Md, was the confession made Mt po-
lice headquarters by Richard Barrett.
also fifteen years old, son or Frank
and Effie l.. Barrett.
with the confession made by young
Barrett, who for four weeks has been
at st. Mary's Industrial School, and
who was to be released yesterday by
Judge williams, In the juvenile court,
the detectives believe they have un-
covered the mystery surrounding the
disappearance OF Klein, whose mother
has begged them to locate him since
he failed to return to his home on
June 7.
Chance Remark Furnished Clue.
Barrett was taken from 81. Mary's
Industrial school and duizzed for
hours at police headquarters by
Deputy Marshal House and the de-
tectiyes.
1T was a chance remark made by the
youth before he was sent by Judge
Williams to the reformatory that
caused the detectives to suspect Bar.
rett OF knowing something OF the alb
sence OF Klein.
Charlie will never be heard OF
again." was tho remark Barrett Is nj.
legged to have made unwittingly to
william limerick, jr., one OF his
chums. Several days ago young En-
erick told his father, who has n
bungalow at Pen.Mar. OF the remark
and. the detectives were notified.
Young Barrett stubbornly resisted
the griiiing OF Cooney and Dunn, and
denied making the statement at.
tributed to him rs well ms knowing
anything OF the missing boys where
abouts.
But at police headquarters he told
another story. He first said that he
and Klein chopped a freight train"
and went 20 Pen.Mar on June u, where
they met several tramps. lie said the
vagabonds wanted him and Klein to
panhandle" for them, which Klein re-
fused TO do.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
CHRISTMAS, 1916

The Ships That Sail Away
For THE PALIsADIAN:
Under the glow of redeemed bar,
That gilds with light each trembling
spar;
Waited by winds from far-off West,
Like gulls that float on oceans breast,
The ships come sailing in.
But never ship on darkening bay,
AS fair as ship that sails away.
Oh! white the pearls and red the gold,
Down in the darksome, hidden hold,
With freight of fairest, richest, best,
From rosy East, from radiant West;
The ships come sailing in.
But filled with hopes of early day,
Are fairy ships that sail away.
Fair ships of dreams, or air, of light,
Ghost-like you glide through unknown
night,
And still we watch, and still we pray,
For outbound ships that sail away.
Ella Walters.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
Food BOycotts.

Observers of the efforts to promote
boycotts of high-priced foods have MOI
felt hopeful that much could be done
in this way, arguing that people can
not be organized to act as unit ir
any such matter. But some of the re.
suits of the Thanksgiving turkey sale
suggests the contrary.
Turkeys this year were held in the
east at an unusually high price. Sc
far as the public can judge, there was
no sufficient reason for it. Expenses
of raising them may be somewhat
higher than previously, but even al
that the price seemed dispropor.
tionate.
Apparently the trouble was that
commission men and other spectators
had secured control of large part
of the supply and held it fof high
price, believing that people wDuld pay
it rather than go without the Gus.
tomary Thanksgiving dinner.
But people are getting in earnest
over. the high-price question. They
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
Americas Great Battle.

In great battle line extending
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the Lakes to the Gulf, there is
now going on in the United States
the greatest battle the country has
ever known.
For many weeks past the forces of
the great common people class have
been massing into formation for a
charge; skirmishes have taken place
in legislatures and in congress and in
many cities. The plan of the big
fight is now under way, and soon the
thunder of the real artillery will be
heard. When the big guns are un-
limbered upon the enemy, something
is sure to crumble. These big calibre
guns are in congress, and when they
are brought into action, and the &C.
tual Smelling commences under the
direction of General Woodrow Wilson
something is going to happen.
Up to the present only range-fnd
ing has started. When the howitzers
and the mortars and the 16-inch bore.
are turned loose, with the musketry o.
public opinion, lookout! These middle
men marauders and gorilla plunderer
will be scattered to the four winds.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
A good conscience is continual
Christmas.--Frankli
At 500. Per Gallon.

Some smart chap has again pro-
posed a high tax on the manufacturer
of all alcoholic liquors. This time $1OO
a gallon is suggested.
Now, there it goes again!
Another attempt to favor the rich
against the poor.
What poor man could afford a jag
under such tax? But the rich man,
able even to buy beefsteaks and an
occasional turkey would think moth
ing of the getting drunk with the
500 a gallon tax.
But we poor devils who ought to be
allowed to drown our sorrows every
once in awhile, could no longer seek
solace in the flaming bowl.
Instead of drowning our sorrows,
we shall then be privileged to mosey
off to a mill pond or convenient river
and drown ourselves.
The 500 tax won't work. 1t is an
other evidence of the folly of trying
to get rid of an evil by statutory
enactment. The poor man has as
much right to prolonged jag as his
rich neighbor, but he can't do it al
$500 gallon. No stree!
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30

Don't be a stranger of good
thoughts. It is almost like murder.
Many of US strangle good thoughts
by encouraging bad ones.
Every man or woman who strangles
good thought should remember that
their lives are shaped by thoughts,
and that one bad thought may change
the whole course of ones existence.
We never know what will happen.
Sometimes we may be prompted to do
certain things by the bad thought we
had at one time an opportunity to
discourage but didn't.
Bad thoughts are always con-
science killers. At the last when a
whisper of warning comes, we are not
able to master ourselves and are
over-ruled by the original bad thought
we should have discouraged when it
forced out the good thought.
When we get to the point where
the bad thoughts warp US into be-
ieving in them, we have gone far
astray and need overhauling.
We invariably repent of our bad
thoughts in some form or other. We
can only ventilate our thoughts by a
process. of purifcation-getting into
cleaner mental air and inhaling it.
Bad thoughts, like habits, are hard to
kill. If one would be minded,
we must be careful, careful, careful.
Weed out your bad thoughts and
you will see the sunshine stream in
like a benediction.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
The SZanderer.

No name or term of contempt is
too severe to apply to the SANDER
monger.
Since the days of Adam, however,
the slanderer has existed.
Once a lie is started on it's rounds
it travels on winged winds.
And it grows with increased pro-
portions on the double basis of in
verse ration.
1t feeds upon the added fuel of
repetition like a prairie fire Tapped by
northern tempest.
No honest mind will hear an i'm
probable story about any other per-
son and repeat it as fact.
"Did you hear of So-and-So ?" says
Person No. 1.
"No, I had not heard it? Is it SO"
"That's what I understand" says
Person No. 1, and Person No. 1, anxi-
GUS to be an authority, and yet in
wardly not knowing the real truth,
lets the little "that's what I hear"
white lie slip past the lips and the
SANDER is on the way.
Person No. 2 then goes to Person
No. 3.
"Have you heard about So-and-So ?"
Person No. 3 hadn't heard Of it,
and asks, "Is it 500"
"Oh, yes, perfectly true. I heard
it from the Blanks, and their word is
absolute"
And Person No. 8 tells it to Person
No. A, in confidence, and it goes along
the line to Person No. S, until in a
little while Person No. 6 has it, No.
gets it, and passes, it on to No. 8,
and then in an increditably short
while the lie is on everybody's lips,
and the Shiny thing goes wig-wag-
cling along until soon good name is
destroyed because Person No. 1, Per-
son No. 2, 8, and so on, each be-
1ieved the previous No. Liar, and away
goes the character of perhaps an in
nocent person.
That's the way SANDER travels.
The world is not filled with saints.
Admitted.
But it seldom wants to believe a
lie about anyone of it's own accord.
Dammit. Stop it!
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
Jack London.

American literature lost one of it's
foremost figures in the death of Jack
London, who passed away suddenly
on his California ranch recently. He
literally "died in harness." having
been engaged in writing short story
only few hours prior to the attack
of uremic poisoning that caused his
death.
Jack London was a writer of vivid
prose. Literature has not produced
his equal since Robert Louis Steven
son. While it may be true, as one
critic said, that London always
writes at the top of his voice." his pen
produced the sort of fiction that the
reader does not forge. Years and
years hence, however old we may
grow, times will come when the Sea
Wolf will leap at us and give us a
good choking before we can get fully
awake; in deep dreams in some lodg-
ing for the night we will feel the cold
stealing in from the glaciers; days
when our castles of cards fall away,
we will remember Martin Eden and
know that the game is worth playing
hard and hopefully; when the waves
beat pitilessly against our craft, the
Shark will toss a cable tow and guide
us into port.
I'M
The papers say London is dead, but
they are going to have a hard time
keeping him SO. One isn't disposed
to feel that he is quite dead, that he
ever will be dead, whatever death may
mean. But one can easily suppose
that somewhere he and Bob Louis
Stevenson are rolling cigarettes. We
will miss his bold and rollicking and
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
The Hand That Rocks The
Work.

The work Of women in the activities
of the world war is attracting atten-
ton even above the noise Of countless
battleaehs The tasks they are
cheerfully tackling, the places they
are filing and their ability to dc
mans work has put them in hundreds
of positions formerly closed to them
In every great war or movement Of
mankind there have developed eco
nomic and social conditions of even
wider scope than the direct outcome
of the actual event. So it will be with
the European war.
The old saying "the hand that rocks
the cradle is the hand that rules the
world" is truer to-day than ever be-
fore. But the rocking of the cradle
has ceased to be woman's only oc-
cupation. Now the poets sing:
"The hand that rocked the cradle
Now makes shells that rock the world
For female fingers fashion
Almost every bomb that's hurled;
And maidens, wives and mothers
All standing working, sun to sun,
With bits of glittering metal
That will kill men when they're done
Who knows, Oh Tommy Atkins,
AS you throw that hand grenade,
Perchance it's one of many
That your wife or sweetheart made.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30

are willing to forego their customary
habits quite bit, not merely to save
money, but to beat the spectators,
and there are great many substi-
tutes than can be used for any given
food. The householder who did not
want turkey at the prevailing prices
could have mighty good dinner on
chicken.
It is just the the same on the egg
question. A good grade of cold stor-
age eggs is an excellent substitute
for the strictly fresh brand. If there
is speculation in cold storage brands,
the public can use the many patent
preparations by which eggs can be
bought cheap in the spring and sum-
mer and kept until winter.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
Borough Club Assessments.

Attention is called to the list of
lots in Palisade and their values as
assessed on the equalization plan of
the Fort Lee Borough Club which is
published in another column.
The tabulation is so plain and sim
pie that child may read it with
understanding. By the new equaliza-
tion of lot values, no one person is
l6nateriaffy damaged Or -increased,in
assessment. The burden is so evenly
distributed that a person studying the
list wonders why it was not done
long ago.
The same sum in total has been
obtained on the new assessment list,
so that so far as the County Board
is concerned, it need have little to
worry over, as the Borough Club has
cut out the work for it.
If there are any valid objections to
the list as presented they must be
strained, for it is work done on a
clean and equitable basis. It is the
kind of work the borough itself should
have been glad to perform, only those
in charge never could get to it in the
eleven years the misfit valuations
have hung on.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
Germ0n4's AnsUer.

Whilst there was a lot of horse
sense in the Presidents note to the
European belligerents, Germany evil
IDENTIFY does not think so. At least if
she recognized it as anything worthy,
it was all passed up in the answer
to the Wilson note.
In the game of diplomacy the world
may always count upon Germany as
a good listener, but most self-asser-
tive. She believes in herself first.
The peace proposals having come
from Germany in an indefinite form
which did not reach beyond desire
for a parley, they still remain as they
started. Not a single step has been
gained, which puts the situation
where it was before anything was
said in the first place.
What belligerent entente power is
going to jump into parley at the be-
hest of Germany? England and Rus
STA will not; Italy says she will not,
and Japan is not taking a hand.
If President Wilson sent his note
because continued violations of neu-
trail rights have become intolerable,
he will probably make up his mind
that in some form or other he will
have to pit this nation against some
body before he can get the disadvan-
tages removed.
To us it looks nightly like war,
or the verge of it, notwithstanding
Mr.. Lansing's explanations about the
Wilson note
Germany refusing outright to state
her terms, the Allies standing pat,
the violations going on, America must
fight or take her medicine.
In the face of things the probable
ity is that our rights are invaded by
both sides of the war, we may have
to fight both sides. So in order to
get an excuse for defending our
rights, we've got to either draw a
balance and fight the greater offender
or keep still and let a bad matter
grow worse.
Viewed from any angle President
Wilson's position is trying to the last
degree. He is really where he scarce
ly dares to fight, for the side that
finally wins in Europe will be the
whole shooting match, and Uncle Sam
would then have his hands full whip
ping the conquerer.
Perhaps, after all, it will be better
to let the moral side of Germany's
case be its own undoing. At present
whether justly or not, the moral issue
Germany has to face will be long,
long time adjusting itself with thLa
rest of the world. But Germany viii
explain all this in due time.
And SO The War goes on! Ayv~l
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30

And mingled with that light Divine
Came woman's love in sweetness
twining.
When bowed and bent beneath the
force
Of wild tempestuous weather;
Or warmed and cheered by golden sun,
They lived, and loved, and toiled to-
gether.
One day the cleaning, golden gates,
Flung open wide their mystic portals;
The love that lived, that bloomed on
earth,
Was all the Heaven for mortals.
And when they saw the love of Him,
The love that opened Heaven wide,
They found that Paradise above,
Was love on earth but glorified.
Ella Walters.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30

The University of New Mexico has
established department of house.
hold economies.
There are LOG colleges in the United
States exclusively for women with
nearly 10000 students.
The Professional Woman's League,
of New York City, will enter the field
as producer of plays.
Twelve women are making can
vass of the most remote parts Of Eng
land for recruits for Lord Kitchener's
army.
Miss Kate Barnard, Commissioner
of Charities in Oklahoma, has refused
to run for that office at the next cleo
ton though she has been offered the
nomination without opposition.
Miss Maude Anders has been ap-
pointed deputy sheriff in Logansport,
Ind.
European Russia has the highest
birth rate in the world.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1916
A Profitable Investment.

Advertising is investing, not spend
ing. 1t should not be charged to profit
and loss for the very simple reason
that it is neither. Goodwill is an as
set, and yet, how can you place an
estimate on the value of the goodwill
of your business?
We're the immense plants of Col
gate & Co., to be destroyed tomorrow
and the famous receipts for making
the Colgate products lost and the
whole world were to know it, it would
not diminish the demand for Colgate's
products.
1t is not the actual amount of money
that has been paid out for advertising
that is a factor in the goodwill of
your business. Perhaps you have
used trenfttfdousA circulation to, ae--
quaint the public with your business
and perhaps immediate results have
been obtained, but every cent spent for
advertising has been absolutely wasted
unless you have delivered reliable, re-
spectacle merchandise.
Presume you have spent $40 for an
advertisement and that you have sold
$50 worth of goods as the result You
may figure that as pretty good, be-
cause it is not the turnover that
should figure in your calculations. 1t
is the new customers who have spent
$50 in your store and who have re-
ceived good value. They will return
and spend more money in your place
of business. Now, will you figure
their patronage as the result Of the
$40 spent or $40 invested?
Good copy is of greater Importance
in producing business than volume of
space. 1t is very nice to surround
your announcement with liberal white
space and it does create attention,
but, does your copy create desire?
Do you arouse sufficient interest to
prompt the reader of your announce
ment to do business with you? Conf
dence must be inspired and the reader
must be taught to believe your state
ments. Have you put reader-interest
in your ads? Have you said some
thing with the punch?
We do not believe in undertaking.
Our readers are well able to take care
of themselves in the matter of bar
ter and trade. When you shout that
you offer the best bargains, that your
goods are the lowest in town, and that
your service is the best possible, you
must be prepared to back those state
ments up with absolute facts. You
will draw the innocent and the unsu-
specting to your store once or twice,
and should you fail to deliver what
you promised your advertising turns
into boomerang and you had better
shut up shop.
We firmly believe that advertising
is the most forceful selling power of
modern times. We believe you agree
with us, but do you practice it? Are
you interested enough to know more
about it? Are you willing to spend
few minutes to ask few questions
on this most important topic? Do
you want actual proofs of the advan-
tage of advertising as applicable to
your business?
The only thing we have to sell is
printers ink and unless we are able to
deliver maximum value, not only in
our own product but in advertising
value, we will not do business with
you. Drop a postal or phone 896
Cliffside.
Walter j. Fillans,
Advertising Manager,
Tho UPa lice dian
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-12-30

stern adventures in the South Seas
and in the Yukon, and maybe some
treatise on Newer Socialism, or a
handbook on ranching in California,
but when the publishers fail to ad-
vertise new books by Jack London, it
will be comforting to feel that some
where, somehow past the veil, he may
be talking over old times with Morgan
Robertson.