davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

The present acute attack of nerves Is a
reaction from the disappointments Of the
last few months. and also the reaction from
the resolve to go on which the country mas
made. 1t is the flashing momentary regret
which people experience when they have
pledged themselves irrevocahly to big
thing. You decide to get married, and just
as soon as you have published your inten-
tion you get sudden, ephemcral twinge or
regret at the loss of your liberty. II passes
But If you could multiply that twnge n
million times and add to it tho gravity of
life and death, you would approach the feel
ing which is over England just now. The
country has at last and reluctantly. faced
the truth Of the long war theory Break
through or not, Russia or no Russia. Amer
lea or no America, we have to face an ther
year and half of it, and the worst third
Of the war It is certain to be.
Well, I'm this moment of resolution we are
met with disaster in Russia and such
series of conversations in the United states
as even the meagcr cables have not known
for years. I may say that people here do
not understand how much talking we natu-
rally do and how we discount our own talk.
We Americans know that one fine day we
will invent "terroral" so that we can blow
up Essen by dropping one grain OF our
powder on the roof. But we also know that
before we do 1t we will announce 1t forty
times over in the papers The people mere
take everything we say as sop"r tru'h' put
they are only impressed with what we do,
They are, far more generously disposed
toward our efforts than the Americans over
here are inclined to be.
There Is one thing which the United states
has made no effort to do since her first
dramatic entry on the 'Iage. She has done
her share with the army and navy; she has
started marves for the air: she has CO.
operated with every agency of war, but she
has done nothing for the civilians of this
country | think I have written once before
OF the need for an American mission to this
country, n mission which could do FOR Eng
land (and why not for IrelandD what JoffrC
and Balfour did for the United States. We
want heartening here and do not need to
apologIZe for saying tive" Americans who
have been here n year or so are as much
In need of n breeze Of confidence and cheer
as the brave people who have gone through
three years of war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

Knocking the war tax should be
confined to hammering it through.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

Meatless weeks and wheatless
neeks are now simultaneously in evi.
lence in oppression.ruled Germany.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

| way down into the army. On the eastern
/ front last week the Kaiser was com
PEELED to promise victorious army peace
| within three months. The morale had
begun to break. In the west all reports
agree that sullenness mans the Hnden
burg line. with the whole structure OF
Kaiserism about to fall asunder. with the
Turks restive, the Bulgarians anxious and
Austria desperate with a long winter under
famine conditions drawing nearer and the
iron economic ring closing in, the assas-
sins of peace and order want to quit.
Their dreams unrealized, they are willing
to forgo victory temporarily. They want a
breathing space. They want to reinforce
the structure before 1t topples. The ma
tons they sought to beat into subsection
have refused to succumb. and, instead,
have within three years equalized the con.
ditons Of battle by miraculous prepara.
ton and done in that short time what 1t
took Germany forty years to do. The
flower of Kaiserism is broken and dead
but the Kaiser would save the root and
nurture ii to future fruition.
WE SAY that there is no sacrifice too
W costly to be made now in civilizations
last triumphant effort to extirpate from
the face Of the earth the monstrous sys'
TEN which Germany has espoused. No
weakness on our part must be permitted
to stay the final blow. We are fighting
second war OF independence, even
though we battle in foreign lands, and
that independence will not be sure and
certain so long as the German mind
and might are directed by a family which
has sworn vengeance on this country
and openly declared its intention to strike
at us and strike hard at the first favor
able opportunity. Men living now re-
member the terrible summer Of 1864.
had set against him and the war.weary
North would vote him out of office and
make peace. The South fought its last
desperate battle in Union ballot boxes
that November. It's final hope was to
fool the North II failed, and from that
moment the Confederacy was doomed.
No less certainly is Kaiserism now
doomed If civilization remains steadfast
Whoever said that coming events cast
their shadows before them was inspired.
They do. We require no soothsayer only
common sense, to wrest from the depths
of the future its one great fact. No man
lives who does not know that peace with.
out victory was the horror of horrors to
the junkers when the war began. They
would not yearn for it now If they did
not know that disaster was on their
tracks to be avoided by no military
might which they possess. but only by
skill in persuading their enemies to quit.
But civilization will not quit, will not
be recreant to God and man. will not
betray posterity, will not sanction throw.
ing society back twenty decades. will not
surrender it's triumph in the very moment
of achievement.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

TNHE American embargo has chilled the
Teuton heart. The vastness of the
financial aid we have already given the
Allies, the prodigality Of our general pre-
paredness. the whole-souled manner of
our entrance into the war. the demonstra.
ton of the efficiency OF American naval
patrols. our success in transporting troops
and our method Of raising additional
units. our airship building program and
our shipbuilding program. all together
have bludgeoned the truth into the heads
or German officialdom. The war lords
understand at last that they cannot win.
4 4 written in every cable from America
~ loats on the wireless into ~ yeFy
< Qonn0fr = .hao .hGrnn r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-16

rs THERE an authority, indeed, in Ger
many with which the Allies can deal?
Good faith is an essential to any contract
and good faith in practice and theory has
been ridiculed by the war lords. The men
who openly violated their pledges Of neu.
trality in respect to Belgium, who pledged
their good faith to the United States and
made agreements with us merely to gain
time in which to build U-boats wherewith
to violate these pledges, who have per-
verted truth on repeated occasions, who
have conspired and plotted and lied and
deceived and are plotting and lying ana
deceiving now-are these men to be met
at a council table and bargained with as
their hands were clean and their hearts
untainted?
Long since the material purposes
OF the war sank into insignifcance
in comparison with the immoral and Grim.
tnal spiritual purposes which were re.
Nedieu 10 tHe WOTlu as underlying the en-
tire German program. Men almost ceased
to think Of the nationality Of territory in
view of the greater terror loosed by Bef-
lin. Lands have before this been seized
by conqueror, and treaties made with
him by faithful States, but not with a
conqueror whose honor was forsworn.
whose testaments were worthless. who
avowed new code of ethics and pro.
claimed that the law Of the cave man
must supersede international law and the
mailed fist take the place Of justice in the
administration Of human affairs. The
blood-guilt and the soulguilt have not
been washed from Kaiserism, il indeed
they ever can be. Forgiveness is a Chris
tian quality. but forgiveness with the
right and privilege and opportunity to
repeat the outrage would be the unpar-
HopahIe crirpe
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
As To Raising Revenue
To Carry On The War

An annual tax of 81 per acre-foot,
or 1900 tons, on our coal deposits
held out of use would yield over ST.
100000 a year.
A tax of $100 per acre on gas and
oil deposits leased and held out of
use would yield about $75O,O0O,O00.
A tax of $50 per acre-foot on iron
and other mineral deposits and 81
per acre on farming and grazing and
forest lands held out of use and 20
per cent. on the annual rentable
value of vacant city lots would yield
many billions of dollars.
Such taxes would reach spectators
only, who now pay almost no taxes,
and would break up the greatest evil
of the age. The restriction of pro-
duction-due to the fact that high
rents and high prices Of land make
production Improbable.
Unless such taxes are laid the suf-
fering and death caused by high
prices and low wages will be many
times greater than that caused by
war alone, our people will be poorly
nourished and weak and unable to
produce what is needed, and there
fore our nation could not put up it's
best fght-and defeat might be
possible.
If such taxes are laid our own
prussianism will disappear, all of
our best lands will be put to use,
monopoly will be destroyed, prsduc-
tion will be enormously accelerated,
giving employment to all labor at the
highest wages possible, prices will
fall to minimum field by healthy
competition, prosperity such as was
never known will come to all, reach
ing down to the very poorest, in spite
Of the war drain; our people will be
well nourished and strong, and they
will then be able to invent and forge
weapons that will make our nation
invincible.
Official reports show that 27,O00,-
600 of our people are now deprived
to great extent of the necessaries
of life. Shall this number be in
creased to 97,00O,OOO? Or shall we
let all have opportunity to produce
and get an abundance? One path
leads to universal peace; the other to
universal suicide. "
This is no time for quack legislt-
tion. Our worst enemies are those
short-sighted legislators who, be-
cause they fear that some of mo-
nopoly's rights" may be infringed,
propose and pass such, and thus
drain the very life-blood of our peo-
Pile. Civilization itself is now threat
ened with destruction. Not since
the world began was it ever in
greater peril; and there is but one
certain way to avert it.
The holding Of land out Of use
must be prevented, or the holding Of
land out of use will destroy us.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Jersey tuberculosis
Delegates Meet

Cincinnati, May 13.-Anti-tubercu-
losis workers from the State of New
Jersey to the number of fifteen
gathered at luncheon here in con-
nection with the annual meeting of
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis which has just closed it's sessions
in this city. Special New Jersey
tuberculosis problems were discussed
New Jersey had next to the largest
state delegation present at the meet
ing and the progress of the tubercu
losis campaign in that state is caus-
ing much favorable comment among
the delegates.
Among those present at the lunch
con were: Ernest D. Easton, secre-
tary of the New Jersey Anti !Tubercu-
losis League, DR.. Samuel B. English,
superintendent of Glen Gardner Sani-
torium, DR.. John A.. Runnells, super
intendent of Scotch Plains, DR.. C. w.
Crankshaw, of the Prudential Life
Insurance Company, of Newark, DR..
and Mrs. B. S. Pollock, of Hudson
County Sanitorium, Miss Elizabeth
Allen, DR.. w. L. Kinkead, of Pater-
Elizabeth, Miss Emily Halsey Suy-
dam, Of Newark, Mrs. E. H. Colville,
of Bayonne, and Miss Alice Behn, OF
Montclair, DR.. Frederick L. Hoffman,
of the Prudential Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, Frederick D. Hopkins, and
Philip p. Jacobs, Of the National As
sociation for the Study and Preven-
tion of tuberculosis.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Stray Bullet Lodges
In Fairuiew Home

The Jacob Meyer family, of Meyer
avenue, North Bergen, had bad
scare couple of nights ago when a
bullet that is said to have come from
the gun of guardsman doing duty
somewhere in Fairview" went sail
ing through ther home and lodged in
the piano,just next to the room where
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer were sleeping.
In it's flight the bullet tore through
three walls, couple of pictures that
were hanging on the walls of the
home and only stopped when it tried
to wind it's way through the piano.
1t is said the bullet had travelled bet
ter than mile before it came to a
stop.
Mr.. Meyer reported the affair to
the Fairview police headquarters and
an investigator has been started to
ascertain just why the shot was fired.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Telephone Employees
Stick To Their Posts

Telephone employees have been ad-
vised by the Government through
Brigadier-General George O. Squire,
Chief Signal Officer of the Army,
that they can serve the country Gin
no better way than by sticking to
their posts"
In a letter to Mr.. Frank H. Bethel,
vice-president of the New York Tele-
phone Company, addressed to him as
president OF the Chesapeake & Poto-
mac Telephone Company, one of the
several Bell companies composing the
Eastern Group Of Bell organizations
under Mr.. Bethell's direction, Gen
eral Squire says:
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, May II, 1917
"Dear Mr.. Bethel:
"In the conduct of the war that is
upon US the service furnished by
your company and by all telephone
companies will be of the greatest i'm
portance.~
"You will be called upon to meet
demands Of the most urgent kind;
you have been called upon and you
may be called upon further to pro-
vide men trained in the art of con-
structing and maintaining telephone
and telegraph Ines, l, therefore, direct
your attention to the fact that men
and women now engaged in provid-
ing this all important service can
serve their country in no better way
than by sticking to their posts.
"Very truly yours,
"(Signed George O. Squire,
"Brigadier-G General,
Chief Signal Officer of the Army"
Commenting upon this letter Mr..
Bethel said to-day that telephone
workers are fully awake to, the i'm
Fortance Aof telephone service at the
present time and are bending every
effort to serve the country by pro-
viding fast, effective service both for
the use of the Government and for
the country's commercial interests.
"For more than two years we have
been called upon to handle an un-
precendented amount of telephone
traffic, due principally to the ex-
pansion of American trade activities
as result Of the war. This demand
was Immediately increased by our
ling this rising tide of telephone
traffic we have made use of our re-
serve plant, invented substitutes for
raw materials shut off by the war,
and trained thousands Of new en-
ployees.
eve are confident that with the
continued cooperation of the public,
manifested by exercising care and
consideration n the use of the tele-
phone, we shall continue to provide
the quality of telephone service re-
quired in this emergency"
Palisadian., 1917-05-19

CARPENTER AND BUILDER
OVERHAULING and repairs Of all
kinds, Storm sash-Jobbing prompt
ly attended to. Robt. Cadien. Tel.
829 w Cliffside. Grantwood P. O.
Box 427.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Triangle Club
Returns Money Gifts
Because Men Enlist

The following resolutions were
passed by the Triangle Club at it's
last meeting:
Whereas. The majority of the
members of the Paisade Rifle Corps,
organized under the auspices of the
Triangle Club, having entered, or
signified their intention OF entering
into military service, and
Whereas, Under the conditions it
is no longer possible to continue the
corps as originally planned, be it
therefore
Resolved, That the contributions
given by the residents Of Palisade to
equip this corps, be returned to them,
with a copy of this resolution and
our sincere thanks for their hearty
support and cooperation, and be it
further
Resolved, That a vote OF thanks be
extended Captain Samuel E. Darby
for his untiring help and services in
drilling the afore mentioned corp.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
BARBER SHOP

Up-to-date, Electrical massage, Ex-
cellent service. Carmello Milazzo,
Trolley line and Columbia avenue,
Grantwood. 1y.Aug.1
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Another Boy
Goes To France

xdCarson w, Johnson, who lives on
TIE big hill in Central boulevard west
of Anderson avenue, younger brother
of Osman johnson, both well-known
in Palisade, left on Monday last for
France. He has Joined the Medical
Corps of the Presbyterian Hospital,
New York, and is now on his way for
active field duty at the front. Osman
johnson has remained at home to
take care of his aged father and
mother, but expects to meet the draft
if it comes.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
BOUGHT AND SOLD

HOUSEHOLD goods of all kinds and
furniture bought and sold. Hanlon,
431 B'rgline ave., nr. st., U. H.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Ralph Hacker Picked
For Special Rife
Practice At Columbia

While the Columbia. University
Battalion was drilling in the Twen-
ty-second Armory on Monday, Cap
tain Robinson chose four men from
each company to receive special train
ing in rifle practce, after which they
will have charge of the training of
the various units. Ralph Hacker was
one of those chosen.
During the afternoon the manager
of the New Amsterdam Theater
visited the Armory and invited the
Columbia men to be their guests at
the evening performance of "When
Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
FOR SPRING CLEANING TRY
sAROMATIC MIST

COnquers Dust
Cleans and Polishes all Floors
Woodwork, Furniture and Autos
A GERMICIDE
Mrs. T. COrrist0n 430 Nelson Ave
Grantw00d, N. ].
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Young Peoples Picnic.

The next social affair Of the Junior
Young Peoples Society will take the
form of picnic on Saturday May
26. The young people will meet at
the church in the morning at ten
o'clock, each bringing their own
lunch, after which the plans for the
day will be in the hands of the So
cial committee.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
Classified Cards
FOR RENT

TO SELECT FAMILY with refer
ences, the Darby home in Abbott
boulevard, Palisade, New Jersey.
No children allowed. House COM
pletely furnished. Large double
garage with electric lights and
running water. Four bed rooms in
house, library, dining room, recep-
tion hall and kitchen. House COM
pletely screened, including back
porch. Owner will take care of
lawn during summer. Every con-
venience. No linen or silver in
cluded. Price $110 per month.
Address, Mrs. S. E. Darby, Pali--
sade, N. J.
Palisadian., 1917-05-19
PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN

If you are seeking an easy payment
mortgage loan on dwelling house,
let me explain the system under
which more than Two Million Dollars
has been advanced in Bergen county.
l can refer to satisfied borrowers in
forty municipalities. 1t costs moth
ing to ask for particulars.
Charles O'C. Hennessy.
38 Park Row, N. Y. City.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
ST. LuKE's TO. GRADUATE
D NURSES ON THURSDAY
Many OF Them Plan to Accompany
ro9N Medical College Unit to
France.
HOSPITAL WILL BE CLOSED
Departure Of DR.. Stuart Mcclure for
Battle Fields Means Only Tempo
(, rary Interruption to His Work In
80 Richmond.

Comm enccment exercises Of the
straining school for nurses at st. Lukes
I. Hospital lin this city. will be held on
Thursday evening in the Jefferson
Auditorium beginning At $3.50 o'clock
Ten graduates will receive diplomas as
follows:
Miss Ella MacKarg Coleman, Vir-
ginia: Elise Flippeu. Virginia: Dora
Belle HaEa, Virginia.; Cameron Parker
Drummond. North Carolina: Edna
Bales. South Carolina: Elizabeth Hen
bricks. Virginia; Alice Parish, Virginia:
Elizabeth Greenhow Maury. Virginia:
Gladys Lorraine Wilson. Maryland:
Mortimer Randolph. Virginia.
Peculiar interest attaches to the ST.
Lukc's commencement this year. DR..
Stuart Mcclure, surgeon in charge of
the hospital, is director of the Medical
College Of Virginia Base Hospital No.
As, and within few months will give
up his work here to go TO Franco at
the head of the unit. With him Will
go large percentage OF the nursing
and medical staff OF the hospital. in
GLIDING the superintendent. Miss Ruth
I. Robertson. All those who will par
ticipate In the comm encemcnt proGra m
are in some way connected with the
base hospital Dr. Mcclure will preside
and present the diplomas. The chap
lain of the unit. Rev. w. Russell Bowie.
n. D.. rector of ST. Pauis Episcopal
Church. will conduct the devotional eS-
ercises The address of the evening
will he delivered by Henry Cabell.
prominent in the work of the local
Red Cross chap;er, which IS giving
liberal financial support to the base
hospital The oath 20 the graduates Will
he administered by Lieutenant w. L,
Peple NJ r. c, who is now head OF
the surgical department. OF the big hos
nj nd Wi
ueily hs chief 81 the surgical staff OF
base hospital No, 45
ST. LURES TO CLOSE
WHEN DIR. MCGUIRE LEAVES
Before another commencement shall
i,e held at ST. Luke's many OF those
p-esen: on Thursday evening will have
eeen, months and possibiy years OF
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30

work on tho battle fields Of Europe. Re.
cent rumors that DR.. Mcclure would
not accompany the unit to France have
been emphatically set at rest. Though
the statement has not been made in so
many wo. DIS. this will inevitably mean
that st. Lulte's will close while Its dis
tinguishcd head gives his service at
the front. This commencement, there
fore. marks sort OF epoch In the life
OF an institution already identified with
the name OF Hunter Mcclure. another
great surgeon. The interruption of the
hospitals career. however. will not oc-
cur for some months yet. and even then
Will be only temporary. Upon his re-
turn to America DIR. Mcclure has every
intention Of actively rcsumine his work
in Richmond.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
Hearing Postponed.

The State Corporation Commission
announced yesterday that the hearing
Of the McFaddcn Telephone Company.
to determine its tax assessments for
the coming year. had been postponed
until October s.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
PREPARE TO GO TO FRANCE
First New YORK; Field ARTILLERY In
Ordered to Camp Mt SpartnnburE
for Training.
tRy Associated Press. !

tBy Associated Press.1
PLATTSBURG. n. Y. September 20.
Orders were received at the officers
training camp hero to-day for the
transfer Of. the First New York Ficld
Artillery from the training camp to
Spartanburg. s. c.. for training. pre-
paratory TO going to France. Tho reg
III. Smith, will leave for tho South
next week. and Its place at the camp
here will be taken by two batteries
Of the Sixteenth Field Artillery, under
command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry
l.. Newholdt, now stationed in Wis.
consin.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
CLUBS DISCONTINUE
Literary PROGRAMS


Al the regular monthly meeting oi
the executive board ot the City Fedora
ton oi Women, clubs at the Carnegie
library this motulng It was voted To
discontinue the monthly literary pro-
grams No other work was substituted
for them, bat the sessions viii be de
voted strictly TO buSine"
This is a conservation move IN a
way" said Mr., {. K Phelps, president
OF the federation I'VE will conserve
time ~ preparing and giving the pro
grams and save moucy ON the cost OF
printing our year books This will leave
the individual, more time to devote to
whatever interest they please
Members OF the City Federation OF
Womcn'S Clubs do not propose TO pay
IS cents per quart for milk The fed
GRAFTON went ON record at tins morn
lng'S session OF the executive board
with the agreement 10 boycott any dairy
raising the price OF milk 10 that sum