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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

The order of the State Board of
Health to close all churches, schools
and saloons went by default in the
borough of Fort Lee, also in Cliffside
and other places. In Fort Lee the cir
cumstances of the closing order
brought out amazing things in connec-
ton with the present administration
the head of which is Mayor Edward A.
White.
On Tuesday of last week the state
board ordered the borough Board of
Health of Fort Lee to have the police
close all saloons, also all schools and
churches. The following day the or
der was passed to the saloons, and
they closed for two days. Friday
night, after due consultation with GER
tain people supposed to know and to
be in authority, the decision was ar
rived at that the saloons were being
unfairly Disseminated against. AS one
of them put it:
eff we keep our places orderly and
not allow crowding where is the harm
in keeping open?Y
Then an officer or a certain board is
alleged to have said: Eyes; / agree
with you that the edict of the state
board is hardship on the saloons. If
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
PARK RIDGE BOY
RETURNED WOUNDED;
TOLD FRIENDS DEATH

Private Ramon Mejia of Park Ridge
recently returned from France after
being severely wounded in the battle
of Chateau Thierry in June. Mejia is
in the base hospital in Brooklyn.
He enlisted in March, 1917; crossed
to France in June and after a years
intensive training was among the first
to see active service. An unusually
interesting fact is that he was closely
associated with the son of Rev. George
r. Abrams of the local Congregational
Church and was with him the day be-
fore he was killed in action. Abrams
was in the Forty-third Company, while
Mejia was in the Fifty-frst, and the
former was sent over the top with the
first wave of marines on June IL,
while Mejia was sent over on June r.
On the morning of June 10 he was
sharing a lunch with Abrams and did
not know that his friend had been
killed until his return to this country
last week.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
WESTWOOD LOSES
BRAVE LIEUT., H G,
LEONARD IN ACTION

Lieut.. Howard G. Leonard. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Leonard for
mer residents of WeStwood, was NOR
tally wounded somewhere in France on
September 8.
Lieutenant Leonard was born at Ro-
chelle, ILL.,, on March %, 1885, and aft
er graduating from the Wheaton (ll)
High School, in which town his boy
hood was spent, received his subse-
quent education in Northwestern Uni
versity and Columbia College.
He had served two five-year enlist
ments in the Seventh Regiment, n. Y.
n. g., and had seen service on the
Texas border during 1916 He later
entered the second officers training
school at Plattsburg, N. Y, and grad
uated with highest rating on August
s, 1917, and was assigned as senior
first lieutenant of Company A, Three
Hundred and Seventh Infantry, at
Camp Upton, Long Island, eventually
sailing with his regiment for France.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
PALIsADE, N. J., OCTOBER 10, 1918.
After the War Is Over
BY E. YANCEY COHEN
For THE PALISADIAN."


William J. Wallace, Single Tax par
ty candidate for United States senator,
has issued the following series of
questions and answers concerning his
platform:
What Is Single Tax?
Single tax is intended to describe
the method by which land rent should
be administered so that it will be
owned in common and used for the
common welfare.
Why Should Land Rent Be Owned in
Common?
Some sites, such as those around
harbors or on river fronts, and water
powers, mines, quarries, Oil fields, nat
ural forests, fertile lands, ETC., possess
natural advantages. Also superior
value attaches to some localities or
sites by the presence of progressive
community.
If the value is conferred by nature it
is evidently conferred upon all men /; if
it is the product of the community it
should become the property of the
community. Rent is the measure of
this special advantage.
Why Do We Oppose Private Owner
ship of Land Rent?
Because its historical basis is found
in force, fraud robbery, chicanery and
wars of conquest and utter disregard
of public rights.
What Difference Does 1t Make to Me
Whether My Land Rent Is Paid to
the Government or to a Private
Owner of the Land?
If paid to the government it will be
used for necessary governmental eX-
penses and you will be relieved of di-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
EDWARD KAUFFER
caught" CUTTING
DOWN HIS own TREE

"Hellor'
Hello! This The Palisadian?'
Eyes"
"Well, there are some men ovel
here cutting down some live trees on
the cliff front. Please come over and
see about it, won't you?"
And the reporter did.
Arrived at the cliff front he found
Hon. Edward Kauffer, president of tho
Fort Lee Board of Education, saving
down a big white oak with the help OF
a man and saw.
"Well, Mr.. Kauffer, how dye do?"
pretty we'll, thank y-o-u," re-
piled Mr.. Kauffer between breaths
still saving away.
Saving down trees for any pur
poser"
"Yes; firewood," he said, looking ur
and pausing.
"Well, lady phoned about it, and
ran over to see who it was"
Tell 'em it's me, will you?"
"Own the LOTT"
yes; own it."
And then there was a guffaw.
One on the reporter.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
WERNER EBELL, 10, DIES TUESDAY,
INFLUENZA VICTIM; BROTHER DIED
WEEK BEFORE; FAMILY STRICKEN
Pasade Family Loses Two Fine Sons From Plague Within One
Week; Little Daughter Dangerously III From Pneumonia
Was Talented and Popular-Had Begun to Serve Country
lNTERMENT AT FAIRv|EW CEMETERY TODAY

Werner Ebell, oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. f. Ebeil. of Palisade died at the
Columbia Base Hospital last Tuesday
morning, just a week following the
death of his younger brother, Winter,
who passed away the Tuesday before
Werner had slight cold and cough
when Winter died and was prevailed
upon to take good care of himself. He
was taking military course at Co
lumbia, and his reply was Characters
tic. He is said to have remarked, mo,
am now trying to be an American
soldier, and l am going back" The
next day he was sent to the hospital
at Pelham Bay, where he gradually
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
THEOPH|LUS NELSON,
PALISAD|AN, DIES IN
THE ARMY SERVICE
Able Young Mechanical Expert,
Starting in Coast Artillery,
Then Aviation and Government
Motor Cycle Engineering, Was
Influenza Victim.

III
Another Palisade young man, Theo-
philus F. Nelson, only son of DR.. T. F.
Nelson, of Cumbermede road, Pail
SADIE, died last Sunday morning in the
hospital at Springfield, Mass. Young
Nelson was one of the first to enter
the service when the war broke out as
a volunteer in aviation work. He had
graduated from the Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute, Troy, N. Y, and
chose this branch of the service be-
cause of his mechanical skill. While
the authorities rejected him because
of weak heart, he was not to be de-
MED, so was transferred to the motor
cycle branch and was at the time of
his death serving his country with the
Hendee Manufacturing Company plant,
Chicopee Falls, Mass, where he held a
high post in the engineering depart
ment. Young Nelson started his mill
tary training with the Coast Artillery
when he was only eighteen and served
till he was twenty.
He was taken down two weeks or
more before he died with influenza,
which developed pleurisy, and at the
end had taken on pneumonia, and his
heart could not stand the pressure all
these complications brought about.
Young Nelson was most pleasing
personality, was enthusiastic by ma
ture, though quiet and unObtrusive by
disposition. He gave promise of
most useful life and had already been
the inventor of number of useful
mechanical devices. He was married
to Miss Maud Bailey of Springfield,
Mass, June Is, 1917, and the young
wife had just presented him with
daughter one week before he passed
away. The event gave him great hap
piness even ON his sick bed, and he
was laying great hopes by the time he
should be released from the hospital
and wee one by her side in a nearby
hospital also, the Maternity Hospital
in Springfield. The circumstances sur
rounding the case were peculiarly sad
all round. DR.. Nelson, the father, had
been several times to Springfield to
see both patients and was heart bro
ken that his son should have been car
ried away by the dread disease that is
striking the whole country so hard at
this time.
The funeral will take place today,
starting from Springfield, where serv-
ices will be held, the interment to take
place at Kensico, N. Y, where the
Nelson's have family plot. DR.. Neil
son is surgeon for the Palisade unit of
the New Jersey State Militia Reserve.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
FORT Lee GIRL
KILLED BY AUTO

Fort Lee was terribly shocked las
Tuesday evening when the new.
spread that 9 lovely and attractive
young girl, Elizabeth Tracy, sixteen
had been struck and killed by an au
tomobile truck about 4 80 o'clock in
Lemoine avenue, between Fort Lee
and Coytesville.
The driver of the truck, which was q
delivery auto of the A Silz Company
poultry dealers at Ala Fourteenth
street, New York, was Philip Coin OF
70 East One Hundred and Fifteenth
street, New York. He was held to
await the action of the grand jury.
The body of Miss Tracy was taken
to the North Hudson Hospital by
Frank Hermance of West New York
automobile dealer and state automO-
bile inspector, who happened to be at
the place of the accident a moment aft
er it happened. 1t was thought that
Miss Tracy was unconscious, but a
haSty examination by the hospital doc
tor showed that death had been instan-
taneous.
Miss Tracy was very popular in Fort
Lee and musician of some local note
She led small orchestra in Fort Lee
that played at local functions and was
one of the most popular young girls in
town.
Miss Svanburg, who was badly
bruised and shaken nervously, was also
taken to the hospital in Mr.. Her
mance's car, and she remained there
Tuesday night
Cohn was taken back to Fort Lee
after the extent of the injuries to the
two girls had been aScertained and
was held by the Fort Lee police until
Prosecutor Huckin took charge of the
case.
Cohn, it is said, claims that the girls
We're walking in the middle of the road
and that as he sounded his horn to
warn them he was coming the cal
struck a stone on the road, putting
his steering gear out of control, with
the result that the truck swerved anG
struck the girls.
Miss Tracy's father is Captain
George Tracy of one of the Fort Lee
ferry boats. Her mother is also living
A soldier brother, Robert, Jr., who is
home on a furlough, hearing of the ac
cident to his sister, hurried to the Fort
Lee police station, where no one haG
the heart to tell him the fatal results
until Mr.. Hermance returned with
Cohn, when he broke the news as
gently as he could.
Lemoine avenue is now a new state
road and is one of the finest surfaced
drives in Bergen county. 1t offers 8
strong invitation to all autoists tc
speed up because for the most of its
length of about three miles it runs
through an isolated section where
there are no houses. But in Fort Lee
and Coytesville there are several mar
row stretches to which traffic regula
tons are but poorly applied and fol-
which the borough has been severely
criticised.
Young girls are in the habit of walk
ing along Lemoine avenue and take
many chances. Many auto drivers
have had many narrow escapes from
accident.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
Malta EbELL BETTER;
WAS VERY Low FROM
PNEUMONIA CASE

Little Malta Ebell, who has been des-
perately i'll ever since her brother Win
ter died last week, is now much bet
ter Thursday was her birthday, her
ninth, and she was made some brighter
by receiving pretty doll, and Mrs.
Stulpnagel made her beautiful birth
day cake. Both of these remem-
brances frightened the little sufferer
greatly, and she smiled her pleasure.
There is now strong hope of her re-
covery.
The whole town sympathizes with
the Ebell family, and quite a number of
Palisade ladies have gone to the house
TO help about the place, get meals and
the like. They have nurse for the
child after hard time getting che.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

rect taxation upon the house, apart
ment or room in which you live and
the Indirect or concealed taxation upon
practically all the articles you pur-
chase.
Why Should Tenant Favor the Single
Tax?
Because, in accordance with the law
of supply and demand, it will reduce
his land rent by increasing the supply.
The rent of land needed for homes
would be mere fraction of the price
paid now, as all unused land will be
available at what rent it will bring 1t
will reduce his house rent by the elimi-
nation of taxes on buildings. 1t will
relieve him of personal property and
income taxes, etc. 1t will reduce the
price of building materials, and it will
give him improved accommodations at
lower rent. 1t will enable him easily
to become home owner.
Would 1t lnjure the Owner of Home
Ittwould not. He would have no
taxes to pay on the improvements His
landtrent would be less than the taxes
he nbw pays on land and building. The
selling value Of his land would disap-
year, but this will enable all men to
secure homes without paying for land
values, and while the selling price of
his house will also decline, as it does
now, the amount realized would en-
able him to purchase another house
equally good if he desired to change
his location. With all others he
would enjoy improved living conditions
at lower cost.
Continued Next Week.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

MIR. and Mrs. A. Josephson of Grant
wood have been touring again, this
time to Easthampton, L. l. They re-
port a wonderful display of autumnal
glories en- route. Easthampton is the
home of Thomas Moran, the great
landscape painter, regarded by many
critics as the greatest living painter.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

Ruth Sears and Junior, the brither,
of Grantwood were down to see the
editor one evening last week. We
thought it was Ethel, but Ruth said it
was not so, so we let it go at that with
the hope that the twins will come to-
gether next time duly labeled, for they
are so much apart they cannot be told
alike.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

they behave and run right I don't see
why they should not remain OPEN"
"But will we be prosecuted?" was
asked
$50 far as I am concerned, no."
Continued on Page s..
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19

That block dance for Palisade was
not pulled off with the van load of
Camp Merritt soldiers who were COM
ing on account of the influenza.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-10-19
MAYOR WHITE DEF|ESSTATE HEALTH
BOARDS SALOON CLOSING ORDER,
ALLOWING Them TO REMAIN OPEN

Community Greatly Outraged That Churches and Schools Were
Closed While Saloons 0pened-Later Teegraphc Order From
Trenton, Monday of This Week, to Mayor Personally
Caused Him to Change His Mind-SaIoons Now Closed.
MINISTERS ARE INDIGNANT AT SITUATION
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28

The last excuse of the pacifist has been
brushed aside, The United States has
been invaded-invaded by Germany.
If there yet remains single American
citizen who is not willing to throw his al
upon the altar of his country, that man
should be banished from the land he dis
honors and disgraces.
Many people are asking the quetion,
"HoW can German submarines operate so
far from base?" And they can find no
answer to their question unless it be that
the base may not be so far away as we
suppose. Hun influence is almost SUI
preme in certain country on this CONT
nent, the people of which bear us no love,
and submarine base in that land would
be no surprise.
The sooner we awake to the fact that
freedoms enemies are in the saddle and
riding hard, the sooner will we take steps
to bring those riders to disastrous fall.
While the Hun is looming large in our
view, let us not forget that there is, and
has been, treachery much nearer home
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28
springdale, Arkansas, Friday, June %, 1918.
I'm THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY"

How many homes in this country have
already become sadly familiar with this
phrase? It seems to be hurled at them
in cold and unfeeling manner by the mil
itary authorities. 1t is the set phrase used
in announcing the death, on the field of
battle, of brave American boy who has
sailed three thousand miles at the call of
duty
Your son died in the performance of
his duty!'
Mothers, fathers, do you get only sor-
row from the message? Do you not rath-
er gather the sadly sweet conviction that
all is we'll with the brave soul who saw his
duty and went bravely to meet it-played
the MAN to the end of the glorious, if
brief chapter?
And what shall we say Of ourselves,
we who were not called to go lover there"
yet were called to an equally honored task
here at home Have we not "died"-but
LIVED in the performance of duty?"
The boy gave all he had-his life He
gave it like the hero that he was. Are we
giving LIFE?
Think soberly for a moment What
does it mean to give life for county? 1t
Cross and an auto for daughter 1t dos
mt mean five dollars to the Y NJ c. A.
and a sealskin coat or diamond for
mother 1t doesn't mean fifty dollar
liberty bond, while we buy another farm.
What DOES it mean.
Think,
He DIED in the performance Of
duty
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28
THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AS APPLI-
TOOUR PRESENT WAR.

The United States is the only country
who government was constructed upon
the principles of human rights and hui
man liberty The governments of Eu-
ropean countries grew up by degrees as
extensions and consultations of the feud-
al systems. They were autocratic, appos-
ed to individual freedom, and any ad-
vance in liberty for the body Of the peo-
pie had to be Wrung from them by bitter
conflict The United States government,
on the contrary, came into being as a
guarantee of the liberty of the people.
The first statement in the Declaration
Of independence acknowledges mans
right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" and the formation of new
country is based upon the offenses of the
king against this right.
The men who signed the Declaration
did so as protest against arbitrary
power. They had little to gain and much
to lose by the separation from the mother
country. American troops were few and
undisciplined. American resources un-
developed The outcome of the struggle
for independence seemed at the time more
than doubtful. Yet these men, with hun
dreds of their followers, chose to hazard
their property, their homes and families
and their very livs in defenc of the prin-
ciple of human liberty.
America was victorious in the war, and
came to position where she could le-
velop her power and resources. The
United States became one Of the greatest
and prosperous nations of the world But
the circumstances Of her inception have
laid peculiar obligation upon her. She
must stand as the champion oe freedom
or be recreanJ to her OWL, traditions.
Our entrance into the war with Ger
many is the logical outcome Of this posi-
ton. We were predestined to it. The
United States could not watch unmoved
the spectacle of a mighty arbitrary pow
er, utterly INSCRIPTIONS as to MEANS u.s.
ing its mighty resources and its strong
military system toward the enslavement
Of Europe.
Our national holiday this year will be
both a celebration and a solemnity. We
are giving our money power and our man
power toward the prosecution of a great
war, in order to ensure to the free of this
country and the oppressed of Europe the
right to ''life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness not only for today, but for
generations to come. On this anniver-
sary of the birth of our nation let us feel
more than ever that in such cause no
sacrifice ca nbe too great,-that the love
of country and the love Of humanity are
not mere phrases but living reality to
us all.
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28
AN OLD TRUTH REVIVED.

Every day now the line is being more
sharply drawn between the real, self-sac
rificing patriot, and the profiteer hiding
under a cloak of blatant loyalty.
Nineteen hundred years ago the Man
of Gallilee quietly remarked to COM
pany of friends and followers that sit is
more blessed to give than to receive At
the time it made little impression upon
his hearers, and in the centuries since that
day men have grasped it merely as a
theoretical truth, with no real thought of
making it a life principle.
But the present world cataclysm has
put people to thinking seriously of this
statement of the great Teacher. People
with no claims to religious convictions are
waking up to the fact that underlying the
statement is found the true secret of life.
We are coming to see more clearly every
day that the selfish life is the miserable
life, stunning and dWarfing all the finer
qualities Of our nature that have elevated
us as race so immeaSureably above the
human brutes with whom we now do bat
tie
When the final history of this war is
written, those whose names will go down
at the head of the honor list will not be the
profiteers who grasped millions from a
suffering world but those who gave, and
gave, and gave, till they could give no
more-who stripped themselves of earth
y possessions to gain crown that all
earth and hell can never deprive them
Of
The proud consciousness that they
have "done what they could for human
ity and the right.
The duties of the president of the
United States are not limited to presiding
at cabinet meetings, formulating policies
and making speeches. The other day
President Wilson threw the first ball in
the baseball game between Republican
and Democratic members of Congress-
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28

The letter W takes prominent place in
our alphabet. Without it we could Meth
er wage the. war nor win the war, nor
should we have wool Or wheat nor Will
son.
The Springdale news., 1918-06-28
PUNCHY PARAGRAPHS.

If you want results, get the marins
after the submarines.
The truly patriotic family is Cheerful
~ raising war garden and joyfully can
ming the products.
Many superstitious people are prOphe
sying that the world is coming to an end
1t within time.
A mother in Chicago had her son ar
rested for evading the draft She didn't
raise her boy to be a Stacker
Preserve to our use the kindly frus
of the earth is the petition we are max
ing to the housewives of America.
Americas colors-the blue field thl
white stars, the red stripes, the Whit
stripes,-and never, never a yellow
streak
Mr.. Schwab has the right idea Of u
Fourth of July celebration. Instead d
sending up rockets toward the SKY AZ
will send down ships to the sea.
The United States has made wonoef
full advances in the dye industry during
the past year, and is making many ass|
that were formerly procured from us'|
many. The Germans, on the other naiN
have been industriously dying LATELY
According to statistics, it is safer tof|
soldier in the trenches than to
baby under year old The death raw
for the soldier is per cent ana lqf ~. NJ
baby 7 per cent. If it were optlonas. WIN
the baby, he WOULD probably nlliA''
prefer to be a soldier.
Government officials at the heaa Nv
the wool and wooden department r ~
nounce that during the period OF tne vi
conservation of both mems and Wohsa
wooden apparel will be absolutely n, yss
sary. They predict that in another o VI
no garment will be fashionable uhieS !,
displays the democratic darn o. l,sn
patriotic patch" The "reacllon''
rip, however, Will not DE tolela'o''
In the present drive for war sa ~
stamps the government puts 1t up "
all to make small economies Iowa.
great cause. The Liberty bond ISSUE .ss n
upon us to look ahead and balance 'n' ~
ference between income and ou1go ,,s
figuring carefully, to devote the ne a ha,d
we can toward the purchase OF p Sss
After we have done this, the snian man. -
fees we can make from TIM to tln's
be turned toward thrift an war Scam s.aa
stamps. As this interest is az am 'nc
beyond The ordinary income, applsssld
to to this purpose will not be tell 40 4,
privatien, ard the aggregate an'ouil ~
applied will b. Of great assistance :"