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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

On July II, 1916, PRESIDENT Wilson
signed a bill accepting Cu behalf Of the
federal government he log cabin in
which Abraham Lincoln was born, near
Hodgenville, KY, and memorial hall
enclosing the cabin.
And with this act the American peo-
pie have but paid another tribute to
the greatest character in our national
history. OF him it may we'll be said,
as of another whose name has come
down to us through the centuries, that
he was meek and lowly"
In rude log cabin Of unhewn logs,
the chinks Of which were daubed with
clay, was born the Rail Splitter-Law-
yer-President, the awkard, gangling
backwoodsman whose physical charac-
teristics raised q smile, whose qualities
of brain and soul brought a nation to
his feet in alteration.
Thomas Lincoln married Nancy
Hanks, brought his bride to Larue
County, then a part of Harden County,
Kentucky, in 1906 anG built with his
own hands the cabin where on Feb. II
1909, Abraham Lincoln was born.
Every schoOlboy is cOnVersant with
the details of Lincoln's life. Let us
follow the career Of the cabin.
An enterprising Snowman bought the
cabin and exhibited it about the coun-
try for a time, but finally stored it
away in 4 cellar, where it was found
and purchased by Mr.. Robert ]. Col
lier.
In 1906 the farm was ordered sold at
auction and vas also purchased by Mr.
Collier for $4,000. The Lincoln Farm
Association, being formed shortly aft
erward, Mr.. Collier decided both farm
and cabin to it to be held in trust for
the nation.
A campaign to raise funds for the
erection of a memorial over the cabin
was met will quick and generous re-
sponse. Over 10000 persons cOntribut
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

"WHEN7"
A Drinking Song.
Say when"
The old bartender said,
(You were with beer and whiskey wed;
It's plain to see. for your nose is red)
Say when" "
Say when"
(What sense you had is dead.
You've had enough to fill your head
With fumes to put your brains to bed)
Say when
Say when"
(Some loving heart has bled
With sorrow for the life you've led;
Your honor gone, shame in its steady
Say when.
Say when"
(Au you held dear has fed
You broke the heart.of the girl you wed
Health, happiness and manhood dead)
Say when u
A. D. Redfern in Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh Railway Employees Maga-
zine.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

the price has more than doubled in
the last year or two. The usual meth
cd Of production was from crude oil.
Those who are familiar with the oil
country have noticed wells from which
a jet of flame burned constantly. This
is a method of getting rid of the nat
ural gas which constantly escapes from
an oil well.
When the demand for gasoline in
creased some thinking chap cast about
for a method of making mOre,-experi-
mented, figured and sat up nights
bit, and hit on a method Of turning gas
into liquefied gas, or better known as
gasoline. This is how such things al
ways happen-somebody gets "hunch"
and stays with it until he makes good.
There are many gasoline plants in op-
Grafton in this country today making
liquefied gas, or gasoline from gas.
Down on the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh Railway, in the Bradford
oil field, at the Johnston & Matthews
plant, we got our first knowledge of
how it is done. Forty years ago the
Bradford oil fields were the greatest
producers in the country, and Bradford
was some town. But that's another
story. Passing through that section
one sees from the car windows or the
observation platform, hundreds Of der
ricks, each. marking the location of
well, and these are but small portion
of the wells which were drilled, as the
field extends over an area of some
twenty miles.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17
MAKING GASOLINE
FROM NATURAL Gas
An Interesting Enterprise In the
Bradford Oil Field.

This is a wonderful world-daily we
grow more efficient Mother necessity
adds daily to the inventions which add
to human comfort or make for greater
economy in the use of products.
Chicago pork packers, to illustrate
the degree to which they turned every
thing to account, have been fond of the
statement that they packed "all the pig
but the squeal."
Countless examples might be cited in
similar vein. Right here we are going
to tell about the making of gasoline
from natural gas. The advent Of the
automobile increased the demand for
gasoline, a demand, which, naturally,
kept pace with the increase in their
numbers. Due to this and other, causes,
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17
.esesesssssesssesese

Man is great! He is the crotcnin0
t0Ork OF the Maker of all created
thtngSi But he gains his greatness and
maintains his position of supremacy,
solely because he possesses that foon-
derfWE potoer: MTND-the ability to
think, reason, and forge fori0drd along
such lines as ne chooses. He is foreuer
tmpGSsGbly separated from all other or
ders of creGtiOn-becduSe no other has
this Mind attribute-AEbert Let0is Pei
ton.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

the daytime, when a
train Is approaching
the hagman must stand
beside the track in the
center OF the street or
highway with arms ex'
tended parallel with the
track and with the STOP
disc held in such a man.
ner that the word STOP
can be seen by anyone
approaching the cross
ing, blow the whistle tc
attract attention, and
continue to blow 1t at
short intervals until the
train is on the crossing.
AS soon as the train has
passed and the crossing
is safe for uSe, the nag
man stands beside the
track at one side Of the
street or highway with
arms extended parallel
with the street or high
way, with disc 80 dis
played that the word
STOP cannot be seen by
anyone approaching the
crossing and blows the
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

With a view of standard
izing and improving the sig
nails given to the public by
crossing f1agmen stationed
at various highway and
street crossings along the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burgh Railway, each flag
man has been provided with
a stop disc, replacing the
white flag formerly used.
These discs are eliptical In
shape, the horizontal diane
ter Is Is inches and the YER
teal diameter u inches, pro-
Vided with a short handle.
They are painted white with
the word STOP" in red let
ters across the face on both
sides, the letters measuring
8 inches In height and the
whole word covering a space
Of 13 inches. This word Is
visible and c-n be read at a
distance of several hundred
feet.
In addition to this visible
signal, each crossing flag
man is provided with a high
pitched, powerful whistle
used to call attention to the
signal given by the flagmar
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

whistle attract attention No Oh
signal given by the fagman During signals by hagmen
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17
Watching the Line

Where winding twisting, the road pokes its
through middle of day. upgrade
straight track where
sceechng they show their real stuff along by the river where
ridges hills that rocky
steep with alertness that's fne there's al
way a track-walker watching the line
The cold of the day is as sharp as knife the line Is az stu
ties with his tackwalkerg
kit Mike shufes along with his brow tensey knit And he
leaves the
coggd switches all ready throw for emergencies with
Mike trackwalker watching the
clean crossings to clear
cracked joints to look for and wide gauge to fear while
broken if time wrecks caused
by sackness and that's called crime and when the short day
dark must defend and that Mixes work too to m clean and
So searching and watching for breaks and for flaws IN
by commonplace work that
followed in and in cold the racwakers kit the roads
hold And when No buses screaming along,
agaopng strong they're safe because al
sunshine there's somewhere rackwalker
JOHN WINTHROP HAMMOND.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-03-17

sese9sss,!9sa' se
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Boys Not Suffering
At Training Camp

Camp Dix, Wrightstown.-Just to
make things a little different, Gen
eral Booze" who is about to be plac-
ed on the retired list as far as Camp
Dix is concerned, stirred up a COM
motion in camp this week. Accord
ing to government edict, all persons
who sold beer or any of the fifty
seven varieties of John Bar,eycorn
within five miles of the cantonment
were supposed to shut up shop.
1t was impossible for the few tru-
ants who conducted gilded palaces to
grasp the war condition idea, and
the result is that at Wrightstown,
New Egypt and Pemberton the "old
applejack" was flowing as freely as
ever this week. At Wri G h t s.
town, the Brick Hotel, of which Brose
E. Smith is proprietor, was doing bus
mess at the same old slant. At New
Egypt two of the bars are closed and
a third remained open. Browns
Mills was closed up Tight and one Of
the two saloons at Cookstown had
the lid on. a y
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Archie M. Hart
Now Head OF The
Hackensack Council

Former Congressman, Archibald G.
Hart has been named by the nomi-
mating committee of the Community
Council to be president of the organ
ization for the coming year. lyman
S. Marshall, who has been the head
of the Council for the past two years,
retired Thursday night because of
added burdens he has assumed with
the William Campbell Wall Paper
Company.
The other nominations made by
the committee for the other offices
are as follows: First vice-President,
Herman B. Ferber; second vice-presi-
dent, Joseph A. Brohel; recording
secretary, Herbert B. Engel; treasur-
er. Demarest Romano; directors, for
two years, lyman S. Marshall, Philip
C. Stab, James P. Clarendon, Charles
w. Terhune, Andrew Stertzer, Dan
iel G. LETTERS, George Van Buskirk,
William G. Broadhurst and George
RI. Howell.
The nominations will be acted
upon at the annual meeting of the
Ccuncils which Will Ne heM - the
State street school this Thursday eve
ming. The new board officers will
meet soon to outline a plan of cam
paign for the coming year that will
tend to make Hackensack A Good
Place In Which to Live"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Trinity Lutheran.

Sunday morning at 10:45 the SER
vices at the Grantwood Lutheran
Church on Columbia avenue, near the
trolley the services will be conducted
in the German language. All other
Sundays the services are conducted
in English at 10:45 a. m. Bible
school $50 a. m. Tuesday and Fri
day at a p. m. Young Peoples So
ciety the second and fourth Friday
at 8:15 p. m. Ladies' Aid Society the
first Wednesday at 3 p. m.
The pastor is much elated over the
unprecedented good attendance of
late and hopes it will keep up. Ow.-
ing to the increase in Sunday school
attendance several new teachers have
been added to the teaching staff. To
the glory of God and in thankful re-
membrance of the blessed reformation
our Grantwood church will join in
the auadricentennial celebration to be
held at the New York Hippodrome at
8 D. m. Sunday October %. Professor
Biederman of Springfield, Ill. and
Professor Romoser of Bronxville,
N. Y. are the speakers. A special
chorus Of one thousand men will sing.
Rev. B. C. Weinlaeder pastor. Resi-
dence Edwin avenue, West Fort Lee,
N. j. Telephone connection.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Suffrage Agitation
Is Decned By Root

Utica, N. Y, Sept. 25.-Elihu Root,
speaking at an anti-suffrage meeting
here last night, deplored the policy
of the suffragists in raising con-
troversy over votes for women while
the country is in peril. Mr.. Root de-
clared that time had not changed his
unfavorable opinion of the suffrage
movement except to strengthen it.
He said in part:
81 think it is unfortunate that the
subject of woman suffrage should be
thrust upon US now, at a time when
all who care for their country require
all their energy and strength and en-
thusiasm and heart and soul for the
services of their country in the peril
it is in. | think it is unfortunate
that we should be compelled to turn
aside from our efforts toward making
our country victorious over the cruel,
brutal and arrogant enemy who does
not hesitate to murder women and
children and seeks to destroy the
liberties of the world in order to have
a controversy over the question Of
woman suffrage.
"But the question is thrust upon
US and cannot be ,allowed to go by de-
fault and so these ladies who do not
wish to be public characters, who are
not seeking place in politics, who
love their homes and have a high
idea, of the proper functions of wom-
anhood have buckled on the armor of
discussion and are determined that
it shall not go by default.
81 could not come here and intro
1,,ao +Lox,, Al pof cxy,,, hizo
with their views. l am opposed to
the granting of suffrage to women.
formed an unfavorable opinion of
that proposition many years ago and
time, far from changing my opinion,
has but confirmed it. | am opposed
to it because | think it would be bad
for the Government of the country
and State and bad for the women"
The other speakers were Mr.. Jas.
w. Wadsworth, president of the Ma
tional Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage, and Mrs. Grace D. Good
win. of Connecticut.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
George Glatz Sued
For Auto Injuries

Suit was begun in the Circuit
Court, Hackensack, Monday afternoon
before Judge Cutler and jury by
Mrs. Marguerite De Crosta and Louis
De Crosta, of Hackensack, against
George Glatz, ST., of Park street.
The action is for injuries alleged
to have been sustained by Mr.. De
Crosta, growing out of the automo-
bile accident at the corner of State
street and Banta place on August ID,
1916, wherein Glatz, in turning the
corner, struck the De Crosta child
and killed it. Mrs. De Crosta was
also struck by the machine.
Former Congressman A. c. Hart
and George Richenaker appeared for
the plaintiffs, and Senator William b.
Mackay, Jr., for the defense.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Installment Plan On
Next Liberty Bonds
To Haze Punch Cards

1t was announced last Sat-
urday afternoon by Arthur M. An
derson, Executive Secretary of the
Distribution Committee of the Liberty
Loan Committee, thatp lans are be-
ing perfected by the Distribution
Committee for uniform system of
handling the bonds which are to be
sold in the Second Liberty Loan cam
paign on the partial payment plan.
Under it, all banks and employers
who SO desire will be supplied with
punch cards.
"This question of uniformity" said
Mr.. Anderson, "was agitated imme-
diately after the close of the first
campaign, when many different me-
thods OF keeping track of the inves-
tors installment payments were found
to be in practice among the banks and
corporations of the Second Federal
Reserve District. The plan now I'M
der way is to distribute among the
banks a supply of cards which will
be punched every time an investor
makes payment. The purchaser of
the bond will have one of the cards
and the bank which handled his SUBJ
scription another card, identical in
sibe. Both cards will be punched at
the same time, and the first card will
be returned to the subscriber. The
second will be filed away until the
next payment comes due. This sys-
tenn will be applicable to $50, $500
and $500 bonds purchased by INSTALL
merltS
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Woman's Committee
1t National Defence
United Wanted Here

The Council of National Defense,
wishing direct line of communica-
ton from Washington to the woman
in the smallest local community, has
organized Woman's Committee of
the Council of National Defense, with
State, County and local units. When
this first came into existence, there
seemed but little work for the Bergen
County units beyond Food Conserva-
ton and general cooperation in the
plans Of the Government, but the
placing of large Embarkation Camp
in this county is bringing abo-t con-
ditions that necessitate much local
work of type that can be best done
through county cooperation, and
through such an organization as the
Woman's Committee of the Council
of National Defense The Chairman
for Bergen County, Mrs. F. S. Ben
nett, has organized most of the towns
and boroughs in this county and a
short time ago held meeting of the
Chairmen of the local units at Hack
ensack. 1t was, perhaps, a unique
occasion, for never before had such a
need brought together the women of
the county.
All recreational work that is done
with camp is entrusted by the Gov
eminent to the Y. M. C. A., the
Knights of Columbus, and the Young
Mems Hebrew Association, but the
work that will be especially entrusted
to the Women's Committee of the
Council of National Defense, to be
done in cooperation with the Govern
ment's War Commission on Training
Camp Activities which group will
have its representatives working in
Bergen County, is the recreational
work for the soldiers who are on leave
and who are without places to go in
the neighboring towns. Recreational
and canteen houses will be opened I'M
der the auspices of the committee and
every effort will be made to provide
legitimate entertainment for the men.
The women of each community are
agreed to cooperate heartily with
their own local units in this work.
The job to be done is so big that I'M
less all work together cordially, it
may not be accomplished well. In
dependent efforts springing up will
confuse a situation complicated at
best and there is work enough for
all to have share in cooperation with
the agency established by the Gov
eminent. The Committee will also
have in charge work to enlist the
girls of the county in helpful activi-
ties that may give them their bit to
do in the great problem but which will
not take them into direct touch with
the camp itself There will be new
lines of work coming up constantly
and it is only as the Committee is
thoroughly organized and has COM
plete local cooperation that these can
be successfully handled.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Mime. Wheeler Plans
"A Second Concert

Those who had the good fortune to
be present at the big concert organ
lied for the Red Cross by Madame
Blanche Arral Wheeler last June, will
learn with pleasure that another
treat of the same sort is to be offered
by her at Carney Hall, Grantwood on
the evening of October 10TH This
concert will be for the benefit of a
number of artists of the Allied coun-
tries to whom the war has brought
losses and hardship, and who have
been compelled to seek refuge in this
country.
In gathering together the talent
who will appear on this occasion
MIME Arral Wheeler has enlisted the
services of some of those who gener-
ously gave their services for our Red
Cross and in addition has added sew
eral others whose names and repu-
tations indicate that in magnificence
this concert will equal; if not excel
that of last June. Among those who
will appear are Nine. Pillar NORM the
distinguished French actress and pan
tommist whose creation of Pierrot in
L'Enfant Prologue at Paris marked
her as a leader in her art and war
ranted Mr.. Thomas A.. Edison in
characterizing her as the leading ex-
ponent of the Silent Drama.
Particularly approprite at this time
will be brief address by Rev. j. j.
Billingsley on present World wide
to Them"
1t is also learned that Nine. Wheel
er is now training chorus of twenty
of the best female voices of this COM
munity in the beautiful "Charity"
chorus by Rossini.
Further announcements regarding
other artists who will be on the pro-
gram will appear in q later issue.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Village Gossip.

One of the literary curiosities OF
the campaign was sent out last week
supposedly by Sigh Prosch. 1t
sounds like a wall over the bad treat
ment of the village of Coytesville by
the mother borough. 1t is reproduced
herewith punctuation and all:
Loyalty Unrecognized!
When, in 1904, bunch of would
be secessionists, backed by The Fort
Lee Sentinel, sOught-fOught to cut
adrift from the township of Ridge
field, leaving Insignificant, as revenue
producers Coytesville and LeOnia
Heights, to maintain and expensive
Township Government; COytesville,
alone, holding aloft the slogan; ''The
Whole Township a Borough, or No
Borough at all'', seeking to maintain
the union, entered the contest, and
won out.
WHAT HAS BEEN IT'S REWARD:
In the thirteen years existence OF
the Borough of Fort Lee, no lOyaEst,
COytesviller, has been hOnOred with
any office, elective, or appOinlve,
other than a Councilman, or coop"
or two, and more: every salaried
office has fallen into the laps of the
would have been seceeders.
HOW ABOUT A DESERVED DEAL?
Author of the Slogan.
Coytesville, Sept. q 1917
-Palisade has a new family just
moved, Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Phillips,
their little daughter Marion and Mas
ter Loyal. They are from New York
City, and have had Palisade in mind
for number of years. Mr.. Phillips
thinks Palisade the very finest and
promising suburb of all near New
York. He has looked at everything
within thirty miles of Gotham, and
Palisade made the most lasting ap-
peal. He thinks the people here
ought to wake u and push the village
more. The Palisadian cordially well
comes the Phillips family, and hopes
they will be the means of bringing
others here.
The former home of the Omans has
been leased by Mr.. J. M. Burns, of
New York, who will move in by the
first of October with his two sisters.
Mr.. Burns is unmarried.
S. E. Darby was in Wash
ington this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ayres Darby dined
with Mrs. S. E. Darby Thursday eve
ming.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Chest Of Fine Silver
Taken From Lemmon's
With No Clew Whatever

The w. D. Lemons recently went
away for awhile-a few days. When
they got back a large chest of solid
silver was missing. 1t is said to be
worth several hundred dollars, and
was priced Cor family association
No clue whatever as to the purloiner
The Lemmones recently had a maid
leave them without leaving her ad-
dress. No charge is made against
the maid, but they would like to know
where she is The Lennon home
was entered in the daytime some
months ago at the same hour a thief
went into the Foeppel home next door
south and stole an iron safe. The
taking of the chest of silver was a
great shock to Mrs. Lennon.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
Twenty Years Ago
From the Pike County (Ill.) Republi-

Gail.
Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted fly.
Nobody had seen silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was cents pint.
Most young men had "1ivery bill. "
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
You never heard of ''tin Lizzie.
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Milk shake was favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Nobody cared for the price of
galoline. .'
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew $3.50 week.
The butcher ''threw in" a chunk of
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a
joke.
Nobody "listened in" on a tele-
phone.
There were no sane Fourths or
electric meters.
Strawstacks were burned instead
of baled.
Publishing a country newspaper
was not business.
People thought English sparrows
were "birds."
Jules Verne was the only convert
to the submarine.
You stuck tubes in your ears to
hear a monograph, and it cost you
a dime
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-09-29
The Birds Have Flown.

There is strange quiet in the
neighborhood due to the absence of
birds. They seem to have disappear
ed all at once. But the grasshoppers
are in abundance as we'll as other
insect hosts. l wonder if the early
cold weather drove the birds South,
while the INSECTS lay low till the
weather grew warmer? People who
tried to raise cabbages report that
the leaves are so filled with holes that
they look like colanders, the insects
being on the Job.