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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

This war has given us a new nation
al view Of what is real value. We
have come to subscribe to the prin-
ciple that only that is sacred which
serves. A human life is valuable only
as it contributes something to the good
of all. The individual value of life is
practically nil. 1t is cooperative eff
fort which counts and no life is wasted
which seeks to do its part along with
others for the common veal. 1t is this
conception of the value of human life
to attain democratic ideals that has
inspired our fighting son to "carry n
the struggle against tyranny until 1t
is dethroned, says Philadelphia North
American. 1t is this new national view
that will be indorsed by those who pay
the supreme sacrifice and a better, tru-
er civilization.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
/ CENT A WORD

minimum charge-25c first insertion 15C
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WANTED.-A chimney sweeper to dc
work at my home, 38 e. Verona ave
nue.. Mrs. Boyajian.
CHICKENS.-Will buy or sell in any
quantity. Write c. Hare, Absecon,
or call phone 246.
FOR RENT. -Five-Room Dwelling,
one and half acres ground, Fruit
trees and Chicken house, two miles
West Washington avenue, $500 per
month, Apply A. Freeman, Real
Estate, Pleasantville, N. j.. &c
FOR SALE. = Ford touring a and
huckster wagon, cheap. j. H. Cur
ley, West Delilah Road. 26c
FOR SALE. = Young White Leghorn
cockerels. SO Walnut venue 26c
FOR SALE.-Strictly Fresh Eggs to
private parties. N. Grub, e. Col
Inns avenue. 29c
WANTED.-A wash woman to do
washing and ironing. Apply to Mrs.
Houser, 6 e. Washington Ave.
LODGING for one or two persons, or
for light housekeeping. Southern
CApOoulC. IL oCOl ~ 1AfO
FOR SALE.-Cord wood cut to any
length, $40 per cord delivered. Write
Roy Esslinger, Linwood, New Jersey
WANTED-A person to represent us
in Pleasantville. Geo. Kelly'S De-
partment Store, 1916 Atlantic Ave
nue., Atlantic City.
WANTED TO BUY.-A few shares
p1oocoptvi11a Truct ~ ctonk. state
price. T, Pleasantville Press office.
FOR RENT-Dwelling, Merton ave-
u So per month. Apply James c.
Vickers, 81 S.. Main street.
FOR SALE.-64 acres of Timber Land
5 minutes wall from station on
Reading Railroad. VIM. Hauenstein.
MONEY TO LOAN on mortgages;
various amounts; placed promptly
T. B. Wootton, 10 N. Main Street,
Pleasantville, N. ].
MONEY TO LOAN on first mort.
cages. Apply to James C. Vickers
C Co., 81 s.. Main street.
WE BUY Anything you have to sell
for cash. Both phones. Drop pos
tai. Moore's, 2218 Atlantic Ave-,
Atlantic City. Established 1896.
MUSIC STUDIO, Is S. Georgia avenue.
Instruction for voice and fingers.
Both systems taught for all instru-
ments from start to finish. Special
training for children of talent to be-
gin at the age of 8 years. Other
studies taught on application. Also
needle and art work done to order.
Madam Lambert.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

The wonder grows where all the
fur comes from and if any ~fur-bearing
animals are still alive so popular is
fur this season. Hudson seal coats
are very much to be met with in the
street. either plain or trimmed with
their own material or a contrasting
fur. Forty, 4S, and so inches are the
lengths, and their style is very much
the same as was worn last winter.
Fur capes are the newer thing this
season, but a great many animal
throws and stoles are used. Fox in
natural and dyed color is the leader
in furs. though nearly every kind of
pelt is in demand.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
NEEDED: A JUNK DICTATOR.

The proposal that the national
council of defense appoint a junk die
tator is not a joke, unless a matter of
81, 500.000,000 is a joke. The amount of
valuable material wasted in the United
States annually aggregates that amaz-
ing sum, because Americans throw
away what they cannot use, but what
someone else could. Scrap iron, other
metals, rags (both cotton and woolen),
rubber, paper of all sorts, bags and
bagging, glass, eve broken glass, all
can be utilized. Such materials are
transformed into articles different
from those in which they were orig
inally a part, but important in these
days of shortage of raw materials,
says Boston Globe. When America
was getting rich quick u junk heap
was a symbol of our wealth. Today
when the drain of war is upon us
the junk heap must be made to serve
the country, just like the back yards
and the preserving kettles. An organ
ICED system for the collection of the
waste products of everyone has be-
come imperative. Almost everything
that is thrown out with the ashes in
an average home could be sold to the
junk dealer. Tin foil and lead foil are
really valuable. The tubes in which
tooth paste, shaving paste and toilet
preparations are contained could help
to save the country. The junkman
should be made a national servant.
Those who help him in his trade are
helping in the war.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Food regulation has not yet meant
price regulation to the consumers.
What doesn't reach and affect them
might as well not be. The food situa-
ton depends on them, and the govern
ment might Is well get to working
with them, says New York Tribune.
When they can buy cheaply what the
government advises them to eat, there
will assuredly be no reluctance on
their part; but they'll not be able to
do their part effectively until the gov
eminent steps in and labors assidu-
ously with the retailers as well as
the wholesalers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
VISIT H

Parents and those interested are
cordially invited to visit the Pleasant
vile Public Schools at any and all
times. Parents and visitors are very
welcome. 1t will greatly add to the
good work in the schools if citizens
visit them. You will be surprised al
the many excellent things going on in
the schools which you know nothing
about and which you can only find out
about by actually visiting and stay
ing in the rooms for an hour or more
at a time.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
GOOD ROADS

1t is realized more and more by
thinking men that facilities for dis
tribution are essential to public well
fare, and that among facilities for dis
tribution good roads occupy an impors
tant place. 1t Is a scandal that when the
farmers toll has been rewarded with
bountiful crops consumption may be
retarded by inability of farmers to
make deliveries unless the Almighty
freezes the roads in the North and
withholds the rains in the South" The
appreciation of this fact is going to
be manifested in a practical way in
the near future. All over the coun-
try, and notably in the middle West,
wide-awake citizens of late have been
roads movement. Recent legislation,
state and federal, provides machinery
by which the good roads movement
may be made effective. Wisconsin will
perform her part in the Improvement
of the country, says Milwaukee Eve
ming Wisconsin. Before long there will
be trunk line highways, crossing one
another at intervals and stretching
across the state from east to west
and from south to north. The con-
struction of these highways will cost
money but the investment will bring
large returns.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

There is reason to apprehend that in
the thick of the business of preparing
the military hospitals, for the strenu-
Gus work which it is expected they
will be called upon to perform, the va
rious home hospitals will be somewhat
neglected in the matter of providing
the funds necessary for their proper
administration. 1t is desirable to
maintain the full efficiency of the city
hospitals, a. they will doubtless be
called upon 10 do their share in the
care and TT satment of the American
soldiers VIII, will be wounded and in
valided home for recuperative treat
ment.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Now the army complains that the
habit which some American women
have Of adopting soldiers previously
unknown to them Is cumming up the
war. Sentimentalists Of this p~articu-
lar type should content themselves
with adopting and doing everything
possible to promote the welfare of that
handsome, modest and honorable
fighter, Uncle Sam.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
o o WHO'S COMING !
To Asbury M. e. Church, Pleasantviile
on Thursday Evening, March 20.

The Doric Dramatic Club, of Allan
tic City will appear in the above NAM
ed church on the above date, under
the auspices of the Stewards, in a
drama entitled 1.-THE Rose of Eden"
in four acts.
Don't fail to see this play, as it is
one of the greatest in modern dramas
of the day, with good music by the
Doric Dramatic Club Orchestra. Ad-
mission 20 cents.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

And then there is a whole lot of
pretty good sort of mo mans land" in
the United States that about a million
of trifing rascals and loafers of the
cities ought to be made to cultivate
and make something for the army to
eat. In time of war and food short
age, we need a rule of mo workee, no
fightee, no eatee."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Workingmen's Building and Loan Associ-
alton of Pleasantville, New Jersey, will be
held on Monday evening. March eleventh,
1918, at 7.30 o'clock, at the office of the Asso-
citation in the Pleasantville Trust Company
building, for the purpose of e~lecting directors
for the ensuing year and for the transaction
of such other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
JAMES C. VICKERS, Secretary.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

German-made peace Is rumored
again, Germany to get all the favor
able conditions, and will, of course, re-
serve the right to treat any agree
men subsequently found unpleasant,
as a scrap Of paper. A peace such as
proposed is simply a breathing spell
for the mad dog of Europe's" re-
cuperation for further ravages.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

A Baltimore .judge-A1aryland has a
law to compel everybody to do useful
labor-has ruled that bootblacks and
gypsies are idlers. A mar should
shine his own shoes, says the court.
But take the case, your honor, of the
fat man he can't.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Washington calculations as to Amer
lean ability to construct shipping now
exceed the requirements stated by
LLOYD George-6,0O7 800 n for 1919.
The odd 1900 IONS are thrown in by
way of good measure, as the pre-
mier's estimate was confined TO
round millions.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

LET me live in a house by the side
of the road,
Where the race of men go by
They are good, they are bad, they are
weak, they are strong.
Wise, foolish-so am L.
Then why should l sit in the scorner's
chair or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in a house by the side
of the road,
And be a friend to man."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

A letter of recommendation from a
Sunday school teacher does not
amount to much. What the prospec-
tive employer wants is a letter of that
character from enc who knows you
the other six days of the week.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

The college world may well think
over the suggestion of President Hop
kins of Dartmouth that a degree of
bachelor of military science would be
far more fitting for the students who
have gone to the front than the mis-
leading bachelor of arts"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

From the Liberty golf tournaments
held throughout the country on July
t last $72,375 was collected for the
Red Cross. The figures incidentally
furnish an impressive illustration of
the remarkable growth of the game
in the United States.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Edison Is said to have devised a
plan to convert wooden ships into YES
sells available for use In the subma-
rine zones. Now if he car advise
another one to convert dream ships
into steamships the country will be
ever more indebted to him.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

There are more than 100000 In the
fighting forces of the United States.
Those who think they are deprived OF
an opportunity to fight for their coun-
try will be proud to know hat 3,0oo'-
moo men will he in the service by next
November and that they will have a
chance.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

And the greatest waste of all In the
land of the free and the home of the
brave is the waste of time that can
never, never be recalled.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

dustry, not, thank heaven, because of
food conditions, but because huge bat
tleships seem to reach the higher stage
in certain bearings.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

A returned traveller says there
isn't a fat man in Germany. Nor,
we imagine, in Russia, where most of
the fat men, along with others, have
been running for cover one way or an
other for the last several months.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

The cry is going up against the ex-
pensive banquet as something that is
not fitting in war times, whereas many
have contended that sall banquets
should have been abolished long ago.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Women are advised to knit helmets
for the soldiers. It is easy to tell a
helmet from a sock by the hole for
the nose to stick through.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Return of long skirts in a time of
cloth shortage would not show par
ticular public spirit on the part of
makers of fashion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

AN ORDINANCE amending Section One of
an Ordinance entitled, IAN Ordinance pro-
viding for Salaries and Fees Of certain Off
GERS of Pleasantyille," approved June 1,
1914.
Section 1. Be it Ordained by the Common
Council of the City of Pleasantville that sec
ton one of an ordinance entitled, "An ordi-
nance providing for salaries and fees of GER
tain officers of Pleasantville," approved June
/, 1914, be and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows :,
l. That the salaries and fees OF the here
matter named officers. of Pleasantville shall
be as follows, viz:
Mayor $4,000 per annum.
Clerk 5000 90 per annum.
Assessor 5000 90 per annum.
Collector of taxes 5000. 90 per annum.
Treasurer $4,000 per annum.
Solicitor $40o.0 90 per annum.
Engineer, fees upon work as ordered by
Council.
The hours of the City Clerk at his office in
the City Hall when he shall be in attendance
shall be daily from nine o'clock A. M. to
twelve NJ. and from two P. NJ. to four P: NJ.
except Saturdays when they shall be from
nine A. NJ. until IL NJ.
Section 2. Be it further Ordained that all
ordinances or parts of ordinances5inconsistent
with the provisions of this ordinance be and
the same are thereby repealed and that this
ordinance shah take effect March 4th, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that the Common
Council of Pleasantville will consider the
final passage of the above Ordinance at its
meeting to be held in the City Hall, Pleas
%antville, on Monday evening, Mar. 4, 1918.
BY order of the Common Council of Pleas
~antville.
City Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

A college professor with German
sympathies who has not succeeded in
learning to keep his mouth shut is not
likely to be able to teach much to any
ne else.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

The limit of conservation seems to
he reached by the Western hotel that
puts this on its bill of fare: "Save
your toothpicks."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. H. R. McClelland, Phi. D., Pastor

Services Sunday as follows:
1890 a. M, Morning worship with
sermon, "The Excellence of Christian
Privilege"
7.30 p. M, subject of sermon, Our
Hearts"
2.30 p. m, Bible School.
GAS p. M, Christian Endeavor.
A cordial welcome to all to attend
! these services.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Imagine being required to get a Il
cense for an upper berth!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

The war is pretty likely to quarter
saw some fine presidential timber.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

Another ADVANTAGE Of knitting is that
napnc- ST. ' init.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-02-23

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-16
Niagara Helping to Win the War.

Possibly there are but few who ever realize that
the famous falls been and will continue to be
factor in the winning of the much so that
the very scales of victory be turned by the
weight it throws into the balance.
The story of the part Niagara is playing in the
world conflict is an epic the history of the
Already it has heightened the lives of big guns,
multiplied the power and number of shells; it is
standing guard over every mile of American war
carrying railroad track and protecting every
CINE and wheel from failure in the rush of
materials to the front. Niagara made grindstones
grind a hundred critical parts of every The
nose of every shell which goes Europe has been
ground by them. Three-fourths of the product of
steel made this country is made by the open
hearth process and ferro-silicon from Niagara
used deoxidize practically all of it. Ferro-chrom
ium alloy used to harden steel and give it its
resistance. 1t the touch Of Niagara that trans
formed aluminium from laboratory curiosity into
one the essential of the minor minerals and
which has been power to the allied of the
European war.
The utilization of so per of the power gen
Grated at the falls for this war work has rendered
necessary the provision of additional $4,000
horsepower that the homes and industrial plants
within the radius of its operations may not suffer
lack of power
Since March over seven hundred men have
drilled blasted and hammered in against
time. so that the increased power may be available
by the end of October This is practically assured
and light and power will have the equiv
alent of a and never-failing mine producing
than million tons of coal each year, and even
then Niagaras resources for future needs almost
limitless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-16

continue. Mr.. Carman states that the wages of
labor in China doubled within short time, and
they will doubtless continue to increase For long
time however China will be country OF low costs,
but with intercourse with the world there win
be a gradual assimilation OF standards wages and
prices those prevailing elsewhere. And with
general increase OF prosperity we may expect cor
responding of political stability. In spite
OF our exclusion act we in better favor with
the Chinese than those of other nation. We
also have the of supplying them with the
and the materials which they will need for the
development of their resources We could further
raise ourselves to Chinese favor. and at the same
crafty instinct of idealism which the prest
dent so often and so beautifully expresses, if we
should notify the Chinese government that if il
chooses to denounce the treaty by which
and that of others is required for any change in
its duties imports there would be opposition
or even criticism in this country. 1t is really
prisng that the president has not already done
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-16
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The Family Doctor.

Please tell me in your question
and answer department what could
1 use to remove a wart from my
lip. f. B. B.
Answer-The safest thing would
be your family physician. l have
never seen a wart on a lip.
Enlargement of the Heart.
My husband has enlargement of
the heart. The doctor said it was
caused by his smoking. Please tell
me the symptoms of enlargement of
the heart, and whether ii is cura-
BILE MRS. NJ. c.
Answer-Patients tell their symp-
toms to the doctor 1t would be
rather confusing to reverse the GUS
tom Enlargement of the heart oc-
ours from two direct conditions
dilatation due to weakness of heart
muscle and strain or over-exertion,
and hypertrophy or thickening Of
the heart muscle as compensatory
development to meet the handicap
of valvular leakage, hardened ar
teries, Bright's disease, etc. Thus
enlargement of the heart is as like
ly as not favorable condition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-16
With Other Editors
The War-Marriage Lottery.

The draft is having a perceptible influence upon
the business of marriage licenses good many de-
sultory courtshps are being quckened; the youth
who the verge of a matrimonial proposition
the only girl" does one two things: he either
postpones it indefinitely-tlI he comes back or he
puts his fate the once He is most likely
to do the last being Somewhat sentimental over the
prospect of departure and the hazards of The
idea of leaving some one at home who will be in
terested in his fate, and will mourn for him if he
falls, naturally appeals to him.
Life does not offer much of romance at best, so
why not advocate the war marriage? True the sep
araton and the danger bring heart pangs, but the
poet it is better to have loved and lost
than to have loved at all Possibly it is no
harder to have some worry about than to feel
left out of it through having interest in any
individual participating in this tremendous Of
conflicts. The who is going 'over there" finds
a measure of comfort in the knowledge that if it is
his lot to fall he will pass on unregretted that
there perhaps be child to carry his lineage
So far as the emotions are concerned. and
much alike under the skin" though men
usually suppress their emotionalism the better.
The disappearance of two million men re-
duces the matrimonial chances of women Delays
may prove dangerous. Presently it may happen
that only the physically unfit and the slackers are
left After all it is uniform that appeals to
the heart of the woman it is what the khaki stands
for. loyalty. service manness willingness TO sac
rfce bravery; these are the qualities that stir her
heart
Prudence vainy counsels wait" Parents and
friends warn that the soldier may come back MAIN
ed in body warped in mind; that she the risk
of having to for perhaps work for, cripple
invalid but in the bright lexicon OF youth the
word is not fail" but chance it." And somehow
since loves very is self sacrifice it's
what we willing to endure suffer for its sake.
have little distrust the girl who raises ques-
lions OF expectancy. perhaps doubt not only
love but also loyalty. If does balk a the
supreme sacrifice, ought she to do her bit"
also7-Detroit Free Press.