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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
OCEAN GROVE HEAD
DIES AT NINETY EIGHT
DR.. Aaron {. Ballard Was President
and One of Founders of the Camp
Meeting Association.
KNOWN AS ~eRAMD OLD MAN.

Asbury Park, N. j., Nov. 27.-Dr.
Aaron e. Ballard, president and one
of the founders of the Ocean Grove
Camp Meeting Association, died today
after a long illness. He was SO years
old.
Doctor Ballard, known as the grand
old man of Ocean Grove" was born in
Bloomfield, N. j., on Christmas day,
1920.
In 1869 Doctor Ballard. in company
with DR.. e. c. Stokes, began the camp
meeting project at Ocean Gorve in
which he had always taken an active
interest. He had held the presidency
of the association since 1908. Doctor
Ballard was a member of the general
conference of the Methodist Church
in 1872 and was said to be the author
of the paragraph in church discipline
that year banning card playing and
dancing.
His boyhood days We're spent in Es-
sex county, where he lived almost the
life of a pioneer.
Then his father lost his health and
property. and the boy had to go to
work. For a time he sold fish and
later peddled radishes from house to
house. Finally he got a job for 81 a
week. Doctor Ballard had but little
schooling, but when he started to work
he continued his studies at night, SO
as to keep up with his former school
mates.
At the age of Is he heard DR.. David
w. Bartine in Newark, who so ap-
pealed to him that he became a regu-
lar attendant at church. Then. with
the late Henry NJ. Brown, he began to
hold meetings and formed a choir.
Doctor Ballard then felt that he was
called upon to preach. He was later
made a local preacher under a presid-
ing elder and admitted to the New
Jersey Methodist Episcopal conference
Before he was elected a member of
the general conference it was decided
to hold a camp-meeting. Then, with
the late William H. Osborn, Doctor
Ballard and others got together and
organized Ocean Grove for the shore
district and Pitman Grove for the
country district. Doctor Stokes was
made president of Ocean Grove, and
Doctor Ballard, president of Pitman
Grove. When Doctor Stokes died,
Bishop Fitzgerald, one of the Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
succeeded him as president of the
Ocean Grove Association. DR.. Ballard
had served from the beginning of the
Camp Meeting Association as Vice
President, and upon the death of Bish-
op Fitzgerald, DR.. Ballard became
president.
He was an astute politician. and
near all his life was in the confidence
of Gen. W. J. Sewall, and the leaders
of the Republican party. He served
as Presiding Elder on two Districts
in the New Jersey Conference.
He was the last survivor of the
thirteen ministers and thirteen laymen
who. in 1869, former the Ocean Grove
Association.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY
SOCIETY OF FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The regular monthly meeting was
held at the home of Mrs. j. H. North
on Main street.
Mrs. McClelland presided, and as
has been the case, ever since Mrs. Nc
Clelland started the Society, all fell
her presence an impetus, and plans
were made for several Missionary ac-
tivities. One, a Missionary Tea, will
be held at the home of Mrs. Charles S
Adams, on N. Main street, Friday at
ternoon, Dec. 5, from 8 to 5 O'Clock
There will be an exceptional program,
tea and refreshments will be served
Everyone interested in Missions is in
Vited.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
LOCAL MAN WOULD
SIMPLIFY METERS
Nehemiah Andrews Advocates Plan OF
Turning Back to Zero After Each
Reading.
COULD THEN ZEE READ BY ANYONE

The w%ell-known gas meter is to be
thoroughly tanned if enough friends
can be founds for a bill which is to be
prepared by City Clerk Nehemiah An
drews, for introduction into thescoming
Legislature. Water meters and the
mysterious c~ontraptions which purport
to tell how much light has been used
in electric bulbs are to come under the
same proposed regulation.
Mr.. Andrews proposition is that
every meter used for recording use of
gas, electricity or water shall be turn
ed back to zero each time a reading is
made by a representative of the COM
pany. The proposed bill would order
that all meters placed in dwellings and
other buildings shall be of a type
which will allow of this being done.
Under the proposed method each
householder and owner of property
would be able to tell at a glance at any
time just how much gas, water or
Juice had been used and govern
Their %draughts accordingly. Also Mr..
Andrews declares belief that such me-
tiers would prevent most of the highly
acrimonious disputes arising at pres
emit
There is no more reaso why a me-
ter should not register from zero each
time than there is for a grocer being
forced to have scales that return to the
zero point after each weighing de-
clared Mr.. Andrews. What would Gus
toners think of a butcher who started
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
.ABSEcoN BOULEVARD TO BE
DEDICATED NEXT FRIDAY

Formal public dedication of the Alb
isecon Boulevard will take place next
Friday, Dec. 5, according to an an
nouncement by Director Doughty of
the Board of Freeholders. Exercises
of an elaborate nature, under the SUI
pervision of a committee headed by
former Senator Edward A. Wilson.
will mark the day. State Highway
Commissioner Walter J. BuZby, accom-
panied by w. G. Thompson, State high
way engineer, E. e. Reed, assistant
State highway engineer, this week
made a formal inspection of the road
WaY.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
WESLEY M. E. CHURCH..
Rev. Dewitt C. Cobb, Pastor.

Services Sunday as follows:
$50 a. M, Glass.
1890 a. M, Evangelistic Service.
2.3O p. M, Sunday School. Room for
men in the Bible Glass.
$40 p. M, Epworth League Devo-
tional meeting. Conservation meeting.
7,30 p. M, Great Song Service and
an all around meeting to follow.
Official Board Monday night.
Tuesday, 3.45 p. M, Junior Epworth
League for children from 5 to IA
years..
Wednesday, 7.3O p. M, Prayer ser
vice.
Friday, 7.45 p. M, Glass Meeting.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
THE L U

Mrs. Mary B. Campbell charmingly
entertained the Authors Club. Tues
day afternoon, in her lovely Apart
ments on the Shore Road. Among
those present were: Mrs. Jerry Gar
ton, Mrs. Charles S. Adams. Mrs.
Charles T. Collins, Mrs. Hugh Collins,
Miss Helen Collins, Mrs. Charles Steb-
Us, Mrs. Steelman, Mrs. Parker, Mrs.
robert Race, Mrs. John F. Ryon, Mrs.
Samuel Ireland. Mrs. Daniel L. Col
Inns, Mrs. Charles Blake. The next
meeting will be at the home of Mrs.
Parker.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE WILL
BE $3.50 A YEAR AFTER
JANUARY 1.

The Pleasantville Press is one
of the few things that has not
advanced in price, and although
the cost of. production has dou-
bled in the past two years we
have held off, hoping that %
NAL times would soon return
and that we might get by on the
old price. But we find it impos-
sible to continue longer. Print
paper today costs five times
what it did and it is almost i'm
possible to secure it at that fig
Ire Either we must raise the
price or discontinue the publica-
ton of the paper. Consequently
we are compelled to raise the
subscription price beginning
January 1, 1920, to $3.50 per
year, single copies 8 cents. Up
to that time we will accept new
and renewal subscriptions at the
present rates, and subscribers
may take advantage of this offer
to pay as many years in advance
as they desire.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
DEATH CLAIMS JOHN Il. REED.

John H. Reed, for the past fifteen
years special officer for various bust
ness men on the Boardwalk, died al
his home on Church street, Pleasant
vile, at s o'clock Monday morning,
aged SO years. Mr.. Reed had been i'll
of dropsy for eleven weeks His wife
survives with one daughter, Miss Title
Reed. Funeral services were held
from Christ Church on Wednesday
afternoon and interment was in Pleas
antyille cemetery.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
SALEM M. E. CHURCH.
Rev. Pennington Corson. Pastor.
serviees SUNDAY as fonows:

Services Sunday as follows:
9.45 a. M, Glass Meeting.
1890 a. M, Congregational Worship
Miss Esther Elfreth. president of the
New Jersey W. c. T. u, will address
the congregation.
$50 .. m, Sunday School.
6.45 p. m, Devotional meeting Of the
Epworth League.
100 p. m. Song and Praise Service.
Wednesday, 7.30 p. M, Prayer Meet
ing.
A hearty welcome to all our servic-
as
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
MARRIED.

William H. Bennett, popular agent
for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in
this city, and Miss Clara Strickland,
of Oceanville, were united in marriage
at the parsonage of Wesley M. e.
Church, by Rev. Dewitt c.. Cobb, last
Saturday evening. After a short hon
eymoon trip by auto through various
parts of the State the young couple
will go to housekeeping in Pleasant
vile. The wedding was much of a
surprise to their many friends, who
wish them much success.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Franklin and Verona Avenues.

Rev. Mr.. Head will begin his duties
at St. Marks Church on SUNDAY morn.
ing. Nov. 30th, at IL o'clock, when he
will preach the sermon and administer
the Holy Communion.
Sunday School as usual at 10 a. m
On Wednesday evening. Dec. Sd. at
7.30 o'clock, Rev. w. w. Blatchford
will address the congregation.
A full attendance of all members OF
the congregation is requested at these
services.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29

II anything occurs in your neighbor.
hood that interests you. 1t is sure to
interest others. Send an account Of
1t 10 The Pleasantville Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29
AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Maybe the newspaper office seems a
queer place to 90 shopping for Christ
mas presents. but there are few gifts
that the friend miles away from the
home town will enjoy more than 81
issues of The Pleasantville Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-11-29

Reading The Pl~easantville Press is
reading the news of this locality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
ny Trotzky Doesn't Like Any of Us

r7H1S Is the second in
stalment OF Raymond
i Robins's Vivid account
Of his experiences IN writh-
ing Russia, aChere he spent q
gear as Red Cross Commits
s;oner. The first anstdlment
of this amazing document
shoaDed hoD Lenine saOal-
bwed up the soviet. The
criticize which foUoaUs pre-
ssnts an unjorgettable pict-
ure of Red Russia IN action.
We see Trotzky up close, and
are introduced to him n,
m0ny moods. We also en-
counter again the operation
Of that Indoor mind" aUhich
prevented Allied diplomacy
from taking steps a0h5ch
,could haze, IN large degree,
prevented Germdmy's bene-
fitting By the general chaos
IN Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

were hard to reach, but they were
present, and the Germans were max
ing every effort to get them out.
There was an embargo forbidding
exports from Russia to Germany.
But the Germans were finding holes
in it, surreptitiously.
At Viborg, a hundred miles north
west Of Petrograd, Robins's agents
found fifty-four cars loaded with
metals and destined to Helsingfors,
in Finland, and thence to Sweden
and to Germany. Robins had pru-
IDENTIFY provided himself with agents
who were vigorous enough to stop
those cars, but they could hold them,
of course, only temporarily. To do
anything with them permanently
they needed an order from Petro-
grad.
Robins said to Trotzky: "Will
you stop those cars permanently;
and will you do more? Will you
confscate what's in them? It's all
contraband, contraband trying to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

as soon as the War broke out,
Trotzky wrote, in Switzerland, a
pamphlet entitled '"The War and
Internationalism." 1t was addressed
to the workingmen of Germany and
was struggled into Germany by
Swiss Socialists. It denounced the
German Socialist party, as party,
for supporting the Kaiser's war and
it called on German workingmen at
large and in general to stop sup
porting it. For this service the Ger
man authorities tried Trotzky, then
a vagrant refugee on the face of
the earth, and sentenced him to i'm
prisonment when caught. Trotzky
had clear recollection of the news
of that sentence in the newspapers.
Three years later in 1917, at Brest-
Litovsk, when he was invited, as
Commissioner Of Foreign Affairs of
the Russian Republic, to go to a
German city to continue the peace
negotiations, he remarked: 81 have
to remind you that I still lie under
certain manifestation of dis
pleasure by the German imperial
government
Robins also knew that in 1905,
when the Kaiser was giving the
Car all possible support against the
Russian revolution Of that year,
Trotzky led the revolution in the
Workingmen's Soviet at Petrograd.
He was arrested. He was held in
prison in solitary confinement for
twelve months. Then he was exiled
for life to Obdorsk, in Siberia, at
the mouth Of the Obi River on the
Arctic Ocean.
But it was his second experience
with exile in Siberia by order of
the. Car. He had been exiled in
1902 to Ust-Kut on the Lena River
north Of Irkutsk. He had come to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

know the ropes. On the way to
Obdorsk he broke loose and fed 500
miles across a roadless wilderness
of snow in an ostiak sled drawn by
reindeer.
He fled, successfully, all the way
to Vienna. There, with Mrs.
Trotzky and his two sons, he lived
in house of three rooms and wrote
articles for revolutionary papers
which went back into Russia under
ground.
Hither and Y0n
The Austrian government drove
him from Vienna when the war
broke out. The French govern
ment drove him from Paris. The
Spanish government drove him
from Madrid. At length, via New
York, he got back to Russia in the
spring of 1917, admiring all govern
ments-that is, all capitalist"
governments-equally.
But that was just the point. s'This
man Trotzky," argued Robins to
himself, "does not like any Of US.
He does not like any Of us on either
side. So why should he be unwilling
to trade with the Germans? The
Germans need raw materials: Rus
STA has them. Russia needs manu-
featured products: Germany can
furnish them. Why should Trotzky
maintain the embargo? Why should
he not. from his standpoint, lift
the embargo and trade with Ger
many freely?"
Trotzky soon shed light on that
question. One day, at Smolny, he
turned to Robins and bluntly said !:
Colonel Robins, about this EN-.
barge on goods going from Russia
into Germany, how would you like
to put your officers on our frontier
to enforce III"
1t was some time before Robin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

1T arrived without having been in
any manner molested or marauded
on the way. Robins got receipt
In full for it from Colonel Ander-
son, head of the American Red
Cross Mission in Rumania.
Thereupon, when people told Rob-
ms that the Soviet would extend no
facilities to any Allied mission for
any Allied purpose and that anyhow
the Soviet had no power and no au-
thority in Russia outside of Petro-
grad, Robins knew from his own
experience that they were slightly in
error, at least for that part of Rus
STA extending from Petrograd south
ward. They were also slightly in
error northward.
Robins had 100000 cans of con-
densed milk, and certain other sup
plies, medical supplies, lying at
Murmansk, the most northerly
port of Russia. He wanted to
get them down to Petrograd (es-
pecially the milk, to use in Red
Cross relief work among the desti-
tute. He discussed the prospect
with General Poole, head Of the
British Economic Mission in Rus
STA. The British had warships at
Murmansk.
"Quite hopeless" said General
Poole. probably the Murmansk
Soviet has grabbed all your milk
and drunk it by this time. Thieves.
Might as we'll give it up"
AnOtIaer Visit
Again Robins went to Trotzky.
Again he got Soviet frank, a
Soviet order. And again it worked.
Major Allan Wardwcll, under Rob-
mss command, got into a grand
ducal car, car once a grand ducal
car, now Soviet car, but still re-
tanning all it's luxurious furnishings
Of the Russian ancient regime, quite
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

beyond the luxury Of American pri-
vate cars; and he proceeded to Muir
mansk. There the local Soviet
perused the order from the head
quarters Of the national Soviet at
Petrograd; and some of the cans Of
milk that had been stolen from the
docks by real thieves were traced
and brought back; and all of Rob-
mss supplies were put on Bolshevik
trains and were started to Petro-
grad.
They arrived in Petrograd, and
they were distributed in Petrograd,
under Bolshevik protection, per-
fectly safe. There was a little
trouble, indeed, from hungry fam
lilies. Robins wanted to hold the
milk in his warehouse for several
weeks and to keep it ready for the
time when the greatest scarcity in
the local milk supply was due to
happen. Some frantic fathers and
mothers tried to storm the ware
house and get the milk out of it at
once. Robins asked for Soviet
guards, on behalf Of the property
of the United States. He got them,
and they were effective. He held his
supplies as long as he wanted to,
and then he distributed them ex-
actly as he wanted to, under a
protection formally promised and
scrupulously delivered.
But again he went to Trotzky.
This time he challenged him to a
sterner proof.
There existed then in Russia GER
tain great accumulated stores Of
raw materials, useful to the Rus
SLAMS. but useful also and attractive
to the Germans. There were cop
per, lead, nickel, cotton, hides, oils,
fats. Often these things were hard
to reach, because many railroads
were broken down or jammed. They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Face to Face With Trotzky

REslDES his of being passionate he has great
- power of being superclious. He showed it His
black eyes bazed his Impotence of his vices
intellectual PRIDE One of his virtues he confesses it,
In public speaking he does fatter He will
to the other He will openly it. He
will freeze with Russian journalist described
him, such occason freezing fire. His face then
the face of Mephsophees dabolcaly intelligent, dia
bolcaly scornfu redeemed only by eyes of much human
suffering in long and relentless pursuit coop
erativc Utopia"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

shortly after the Bolshevik
IN revolution had put Trotzky
into Office. I cannot quite
think that he went in complete ease
and confidence of mind.
Robins had taken part in much
propaganda, both by word of mouth
and by word of print, in support of
Kerensky and therefore against the
Bolsheviki. This was known; and
Colonel Thompson, Robins's chief
in the American Red Gross Mission,
once, quite naturally, said to him:
"Robins, do you know what will
happen to you if our propaganda
fails? You'll get shot,
When Robins came to Trotzky's
door there were soldiers there and
when he got inside there was man
standing by Trotzky's desk who at
once showed much excitement.
"Kerenskyite," he cried, pointing
to Robins. "Counter revolution
ary.' He had heard Robins address
ing the Russian soldiers against
peace and in favor Of fighting Ger
many. Counter revolutionary"
he continued.
Robins raised his arm in a gesture
ne hoped was commanding and
calm, and said to his Interpreter:
Tell Commissioner Trotzky it is
true did everything could to help
Aerensky and to keep the Commits
soner from getting into power"
Trotzky frowned.
But tell the Commissioner"
said Robins, that | differ from
some Of my friends. know
corpse when ] see one and I think
the thing to do with corpse is to
bury it, not sit up with it. / admit
that the Commissioner is in power
now"
Trotzky looked Modified.
But tell the Commissioner"
said Robins, chat if Kornilov or
kaledine or the Car were sitting
~ his place I would be talking to
them
Trotzky looked less Modified. |
Robins fastened to state his whole |
errand.
Tell the Commissioner" he
ss'd, that have come to ask him
van the American Red Cross Mis-
won stay in Russia with benefit to
ne Russian people and without dis
sdvantage to the Allied cause? If
- II Will stay. If not, it will 60"
What Proof?
Trotzky looked at Robins steadily
sad considered. "What proof do
You want?" he said.
Robins was prepared to ask a GER
AN very definite proof. He men |
toned it.
have thirty-two cars Of Red
o'oss supplies" he said, "and l |
,aa" 70 send them from here to
,sssy IN Rumania, consigned to the
american Red Cross there. l want
caange over from Kerensky
saa'os 70 your guards, and I want
A'0'e cars to go through to the Ru-
a'''sn border under your Soviet
ss uaA. want you to order your
a'lsary people and your railway
.sp's 10 pass my train and to ex-
Eoite it,"
=. - making this request Robins
~ TWO purposes He wanted to
ssoser two things. First: Did the
,s.. nave the power to give pro.
ICON ICON TO train Of supplies on it's
3 acloss all central western Rus
from Petrograd ! 300 miles to |
n'ver Pruth? Second: Would |
- 'os'et be willing to move sup
rs: Is. away from the petrograd dis
~. - where the Germans might get
~ 20 Jassy, where the Germans |
80 ~ very unlikely to get them?
e order. ''~As' II MAKE
L. = vain went through on sched-
= vent through really on bet
,1an schedule. II arrived at
2 passenger train time. And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Strange Forms

BY this time Robins was con-
WINGED of one thing about Trotzky's
pro-Germanism: namely, that it
took strange forms. Why should
Trotzky stop supplies on their way
to Germany? And why should he
send any such supplies to a remote
port, dominated, in the military
sense, by the Allies?
Robins knew, of course, that
Trotzky had formerly served Ger
many in ways which are puzzling to
people who try to explain him as a
German spy. In 1914, for instance,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

run the embargo. Will you issue
an order of confiscation?"
Trotzky issued the order, and he
went still further. He sent some Of
that contraband, useful for war, up
to Murmansk, where it lay under the
guns of the resident British war
ships, quite considerably secure from
German Saiz11re
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

Continued on merit page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
BY William Hard

n OBINS went to see Trotzky
X shortly after the Bolshevik
IN revolution had put Trotzky
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-13
Policeman Kills
Man in Scufh

KANSAS CITY. No. May l]-Thc
police today announced there were no
Developments IN the death Of a young
man identified hy papers found on h',
body, a' Homer Horn. formerly OF
Fort Smith. Ark, who vas shot and
killed here last night By . pairolman
as he was being taken TO the police
station. The r1'rolman declares Horn
attempted 70 pull a knife while riding
in the patrol wagon and in the scuiilc
for the weapon was shot His death
was not instantaneous hut came as he
was being taken TO the hospital.
Horn was arrested upon the oom-
plant Of garage owner, according 10
The police He was 10 have been held
FOR investigation and no formal charge
had been made.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-13
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