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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
CHICKENS COME HOME TO RoosT

Senator H. S. New, Indiana, has is
sued the following statement regard
ing his connection with Harry S. New,
who killed woman in Los Angeles
and who claims the senator is his ia
Their, says a dispatch from Washing
ton:
Il have Just this to say about the
whole deplOrable matter: More than
thirty years ago, when was in my
twentes and unmarried, l knew Mrs.
Burger. There was never at any time
a question of marriage between us.
Conditions arose which | did not care
to dispute which resulted in my do
ing everything in my power to make
amends then and later. Whatever |
did in that direction was of my own
accord, and no one else had anything
whatever to do with it. The affair
ended about thirty years ago. Since
that time the people of my home city
are the best judges of what my life
has been. l never shirked responsible
ity that has come to me, and | never
SHALL"
The unhappy thought that comes
with this desperate domestic tragedy
is that there is no evidence that Sena-
tor New did more than provide for the
woman he seduced or at least lived
with for a period of his younger days.
Had he married her society would
long ago have condoned the offense as
~, Of nj ri
story that chickens come home to
roost seems to fit this case, deplorable
as it is.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12

half of what it formerly bought. The
wage question is one of startling posi-
bilities, and no one can foresee the
end. From domestics to bricklayers 1t
is the same. Boys never before earned
such wages as now. They will I'M
doubtedly be spoiled, many of them,
for if the wage ever does go down they
will not understand the cause that
brought it about and will howl to be
put back to the old high wage. The
truth is boys have no appreciation of
high wages that represent the real
value of their labor. To any average
boy it should make very little differ
ence what moneyehe makes the first
few years of his working life. The flu
ture wage alone counts. If he proper
~ fits himself for the larger, more i'm
portant things he will be almost sure
to rise in accordance with his worth.
OF course the boys nowadays who are
working for big wages do not under
stand all this, but they will have to
come to it in time. Then they will
know from experience. That boys get
a mans pay today is no sign that they
are worth it, but merely an argument
that we are living under abnormal con-
ditions, which may be changed when
the world once more rights itself.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
"NOBODY WANTS IT."

When Lloyd George was speaking in
the house of commons about the
League of Nations member called
out, "Nobody wants it, says the New
York Evening Post. This has been
seized upon in this country by the
leagues opponents as one proof more
that it is an unpopular scheme being
forced down helpless throats. They
do not perceive that if it were true
that nobody in England wanted the
League of Nations it would be an end
of their own favorite assertion that
the league is an artful plan of the
British to hoodwink Americans I'M
awares. But they know perfectly, of
course, that a powerful body of Eng
lish opinion has favored and still IA
vors the league. At the recent great
meeting in Albert hall the chief speak
ers represented the Liberal party, the
Conservatives and the Labor party re-
spectively, and all were for the league.
Concerning the wishes of the people
in the United States, there has been
hot dispute. Senator Borah declares
that if the league could be submitted
to a referendum yote-as he knows
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
THE PRESIDENT RETURNS.

The return of President Wilson last
Tuesday was an event of great interest
to the world as well as to America.
That he was acclaimed in a manner
BETTING his high office was an honor
to the good taste and to the sentiment
of the people who gave him such cor
dial and enthusiastic welcome. The
mOdesty of his speech in Carnegie Hall
lost nothing because of that quality it
possessed. But it made up for it in
the feeling behind it's patriotic utter
ances and the high type of American
ism that pervaded it. AS a felicitous
yet eloquent message this speech must
go among the Presidents best utter
anceS. 1t caught the heart of every
friend and met the approval of every
enemy 1t was a speech on liberty and
Americas gracious part in bestowing
freedom upon the world. The Presi-
dent has many times said in Europe
that he reflected the sentiment and the
heart of the American people, and it
looks like he must have been right if
his reception in New York and Wash
ington may be taken as the temper of
the people The real feeling of the
public could not be better illustrated
than in the demonstration made in
honor of President Wilson this week.
1t will surprise no one if he should
win back all the favor it is claimed he
has lost by being away so long. But
he was away in the cause which Amer
lea is always so proud to acknowledge,
service for the world at large. He
comes back with greater hOnorS than
has ever been given to any one man in
the history of the world. Why under
take to deny it? The record is there.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
VILLAGE GOSSIP
July Sunday Short Services.

The first of the short ten-to-eleven
service for the children and grown ups
at the Palisade Church began last
Sunday that are to be continued
through July. The morning was warm
and about only thirty were out, though
the service was most interesting.
There was singing and short talk by
Mr.. Haynes of the Sunday school. He
talked on the meaning and value of
prayer, asking the children what kind
of man Washington was-Christian or
non Christian? He asked the same
about General FOch and got the same
answer to both queries. The speaker
referred to General Foch making it his
daily habit during the war to retire to
some nearby church daily, morning
and evening, and spend nearly an hour
in prayer.
Rev. Guhse, also gave talk of a
few minutes only.
What? Yes, Palisade is liable to
have symphony open air concerts this
summer. Where? Wait for the an
nOuncement
Dog gone it Did y'ever try to wedge
mattock on the handle with a hatch
ct, miss the wedge and come down,
bang on your thumb nail and not say
dammit, dammit, damit! and squirm
around with your thumb between your
knees churting like haitch-e-double-qu?
Well, that's what happened to us last
Saturday, and it amt bit o. fun.
Everybody waiting to see the dirt
broken for the Bluff road highway, the
most foolish thing ever done to destroy
the peace and quiet of community.
But it will hardly get through this
summer.
The third baby boy was born to the
John DavidsOnS, Jr., in MOntclair last
week Wednesday at high noon.
&C. 1. Phillips is back home from
Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Phillips and
the two children are summering.
Marie Anderson is now driving her
fathers automobile like thorough
bred. She takes him to the ferry and
back every morning when she isn't
spending the summer at Groton Long
Point, r. l.
Capt. Samuel E. Darby sailed for
England this week (Friday) on i'm
pOrtant legal business.
The Giles home is reported sold.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
JUNE WEATHER.

June this year was more nearly nor
NAL than any other month of the year
so far. The mean normal maximum
for June is 77.2 degrees temperature,
while this June was IT'S. The mean
minimum is GIL, while this year it
was 616 The mean maximum is 69.5,
while this June it was 69.7, trifle
warmer than normal.
Humidity normal for June is "A per
cent, with this year showing Y per
cent.
The highest temperature was 81 de-
grees on the .4th, which is rarely ever
equaled in June. The minimum was
50 degrees ON the Doth. The mean
temperature for June is normal.
Mean temperature for. June this year
was 20 degrees against lowest mean
of GA degrees in 1904 and the highest
mean in 1899 of II degrees.
Precipitation for June this year was
quite small, being only 2.23 inches.
The highest June rainfall was no
inches in 1887 and the smallest O.S6
inches. There were two thunder
storms, Goth and 9th. AS Junes go
the one of 1919 was pretty tolerably
comfortable.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
DEMPSEY "NO FIGHTER"

Grantland Rice, perhaps the highest
authority in America on all questions
of sport, talks out in meeting about the
winner of the recent worse than brutal
prize fight at Toledo, at which Jess
Willard, champion of the worlds
heavy weight sluggers, lost his crown
to the younger Jack Dempsey. Mr..
Rice says that Dempsey is greatest of
all the heavy weight men of the prize
ring based on the simple skill he
possesses as boxer, but declares that
he is no fighter. He gives as reason
that he lodged the war, and says he
did not have the slightest excuse for
so doing. He is now hailed as the
greatest living fighter, when as mat
ter of fact he is no fighter at all. Per-
haps Mr.. Rice is not far from wrong.
Nobody knows anything about Demp-
sey's fighting ability since he never
shouldered a rifle. Maybe there is
some logic in the issue made by Mr..
Rice. Willard also was rOundly abused
for not doing something for the war
cause when he could not enter the
army on account of his size. There
are other 'brave" men who lodged the
war in a different way.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
KNOWLEDGE NO SIGN OF SENSE

People who appear to be loaded
down with knowledge are not always
the most successful. In fact, just
knowledge alone rarely makes a man
successful. 1t is all in the application
of knowledge that makes it valuable.
We see lawyers who are walking ency-
clopedias of legal knowledge, who
even write books for other lawyers to
practice with, who are very poor
pleaders before the courts and who
make very sorry exhibit as business
lawyers 1t is the same in many of
the other professions. 1t would seem
natural that any man who knows lot
on any subject and WHO can tell others
how to apply his knowledge should get
to the topmost rounds before the other
man. But that rule does not work at
all somehow. So there are editors who
can write histories or even dictionaries
and encyclopedias who never amount
to much in the profession.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
PEACE TREATY DELIVERED.

The peace treaty was formally de-
livered to the United States senate by
President Wilson on Thursday In
handing over the great document, the
most important contract ever fOrmu-
lated in the history OF the world, he
said what was in his mind in a gen.
eral way, regarding the necessity of a
League of Nations and the duty of
America to accept the treaty as drawn.
He did not undertake to discuss the
specific points in the treaty to which
his party opponents have taken OBJ
lection. This was logical in the cir
cumstances, for he has placed himself
at the disposal of Congress for further
discussion. The Foreign Relations
depreciation of the treaty which will no
doubt be DONE If, in this way, Mr..
Wilson can be questioned on his in
depreciation of points at issue and a
satisfactory view obtained, there ought
not to be any difficulty In the senate's
acceptance of the treaty.
The subject of individual point dis
cussion was too broad to admit of
treatment in the presentation speech,
so the President contented himself
merely with an appeal to the con-
science and to the reason of America,
and to it's heart also, to take the
League-of Nations as vital necessity
with the treaty. To our untutOred
minds, Mr.. Wilson has not only shown
good judgment and force, but good
taste as well in getting the treaty into
the hands of the senate as he did.
The partisan press criticises his ut
terance, but that is politics. When
the sober judgement of the people
finds expression, the whole treaty will
no doubt be accepted as wonderful
triumph for justice.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
SERVICE NINE CHALLENGES
ST. JOHNS TO SERIES

Baseball fans of the borough are
still discussing the fine game that was
played during the Welcome Home cele-
bration on the Fourth at the play
ground between the Service nine and
the st. Johns.
Although the latter was the victor
by the close score of 6 to 5, the friends
of the Service team think that the out
come of the next game will be differ
ent, while the st. John rOOters are lay,
ing odds that their team will turn the
trick again.
Mayor Cadien has generously of
fered a silver loving cup to be pre-,
scented to the winner of a series of five
games if the managers of the teams
can arrange for the series.
A meeting will take place during the
coming week, and the managers will
surely try to come to terms, as these
games would draw large crowd.
There is no doubt that Griffin would
have defeated the st. Johns if the
Service nine had catcher that could
hold him.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
SENATOR JoHNsoN's ATTITUDE.

AT Providence Senator Johnson OF
California spoke of the worlds great
hope, after it's war experience, for
some forward step for peace. TO all
these people," he said, including him
self among the number, 1.-The idea of a
league or confederation or union of
the nations of the earth in behalf OF
the right possessed a charm and al
lurement, hope and inspiration,
which we would have gone far to re-
alze and consummate."
Thus the senator reav0ws himself a
league of peace advocate. He agrees
with Mckinley that 1.-The period or
aloofness is past" with Roosevelt
who said it would be "a master stroke
if the great powers honestly bent on
peace would form a league not only
to keep the peace among themselves,
but to prevent, by force If necessary,
its being broken by Others perhaps
with the New York platform of 1918,
which declared, 1--WE favor the imme-
date creation by the United States
and it's allies of league of nations"
etc.
Yet the senator is opposed to the
covenants ratification because it COM
promises our national sovereignty and
commits us to maintain and preserve
for all time the present government OF
the little nations we are setting up in
Europe and freezes the world into
immutability" If Article y has such
an effect refusal to approve it cannot
be too firm. But it is denied such is its
obligation. If doubt exists the sensible
thing would seem to be to remove the
doubt. The article can be construed
in advance and similarly we can
escape any other Objectionable obliga-
ton. Senator Johnson does not say
he will vote if the stumbling blocks are
removed, but the favor with which he
regards a league per Sc suggests he
would favor qualified ratification, pro-
viding he can discover any good at all
in the league plan. R,sa
That the covenant, taken alone, lit
tie realizes the worlds hope may be
deemed established. Moreover, it has
been supported in a manner to excite
prejudice against it. But it is step,
even though asshort one, in the right
direction If this is so, and adequate
safeguards are provided against mis-
understanding, there is nothing in Sen
ator Johnsons words committing him
to the negative, and yet he has been
paraded as one of the most extreme
in opposition. Is it not about time
for the partisans who have tried to
inject partyism into the covenant dis
cussion to desist from misrepresenta-
ton New York Tribune
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
TRYING THE KAISER.

Nearer and nearer the day comes to
bring the late German Kaiser before
the bar of justice. During the long
days of the peace conference little ref
erence was made to taking up the Kai-
Ser's case. 1t was only at the very
closing hours of that august body's de-
liberation that it was determined to
give him a trial of justice. In the
light of so many important links in
the chain of evidence against him,
there is little chance of his escaping
a severe sentence of some kind. If
any but a monarch of tremendous in
tiuence had done the things attributed
TO William HohenZollern there would
have been no avenue of escaping a
sentence of death. He has several
times claimed that he personally was
not responsible for bringing on the
war, but he will now have a difficult
task in proving an alibi. Guilty, he
should be punished. Innocent, he
should be made a citizen of his own or
some other country. But it is scarcely
likely that he could escape the fullest
severity of the courts findings. The
prediction is made herewith that EN-
peror William will get not only a just
sentence, but savage one. And when
he reaches the Tower of London and
is confined there during his trial he
will get very little sympathy from any
quarter. The tribunal that will try
him should have no difficulty in finding
him guilty and establishing the stain
of his guilt as the most monstrous that
ever disgraced humanity. His punish
ment should be in accordance with the
enormity of his crimes. Hohenzollern
pride will prove of no avail in these
last days of the worlds greatest trag-
edy.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
PALISAD N

that it cannot bet would be voted
down. On the other hand, Chairman
Cummings of the Democratic National
Committee, gives it as his belief that
between so and 80 per cent of the peo-
pie are heartily in favor of the league.
against another. But we do not have
to go blindly upon that. There has
been large and free expression of def
mite opinion about the League of Ma
tons. Many tests of public sentiment
have been made, and they all point
one way-in favor of making an hon
est and thorough trial of the League.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
A NEW CHAMPION.

Notwithstanding the statement that
Jack Dempsey who recently fought
Jess Willard for the heavyweight
championship of the world and won,
lodged service in the recent European
war-a miserable disgrace of itself
he is now heralded as the most impOr-
tant hero before the world at the pres
ent moment. 1t was great achieve
ment to whip so handily such mon
ster man as Willard the largest of all
champions, but Dempsey did it so ham
Oily that his prOweSS is now said to be
the most remarkable ever developed in
the history of the ring. But the bru-
tality of this last battle should serve
as IA lesson. Whilst it is manly art to
go through a contest of this character,
vet it could be ShOrn of at least some
of the cOarser elements were larger
gloves used Boxing as a science is in
tended more to develop the art of de-
Tense against attack and not so much
to damage the other man in the game.
A good boxing exhibition without the
brutal side developed in this fight is a
fine thing to see. There is no harm in
it, and it encourages personal bravery
as well as manliness to an extent.
Willard says he never loved fighting,
but he certainly cannot say that about
money. Perhaps had he given more
attention to conditioning himself than
he did to the purse he was guaranteed
for going into this last eclipsing bat
tie he might still have won the pugilis-
tic crown
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
THE GLORY OF AGE.

The1 papers are constantly telling
things about General Foch, the sue
cessful Frenchman who led the allied
forces to victory in the war; A recent
story runs THAI when Joseph CumminS
Chase, the American portrait painter,
not long ago finished a picture of Gen
eral Foch some people who had seen it
thought it would be foolish to show it
to the old general. Being painted from
life, the artist had been loyal to. the
face as he saw it and had made it look
like the big man before him, even to
the age he bears. When he showed it
to Foch it was with an apology that
perhaps it looked bit too old. Gen
eral Foch is said to have remarked
when he saw the Portrait 1T looks
old, but / am old. You must be true -
The story further goes that he did not
allow the artist to alter one line in the
picture.
1t is strange why men and women
fear to look old. Surely there is moth
ing to be ashamed of in age. Must
there be something unreal in youth
that we must deceive the world to pos
sess it? Age is the common lot of man,
and when we begin the descent down
the sunset hills of life what finer, no.
bier sentiment could we bear with us
than that we are growing old graceful
ly. The compensations of age are
many, and we should rejoice that we
are endowed with years that all should
strive to make glorious with better
deeds.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
TAXES.

The taxes, like the poor, are al
ways with us and ever a perennial
subject for debate. The discussion
was doubtless started by the serpent
in the Garden of Eden and has gone
on through wet seasons and dry sea-
sons, through war and through peace,
ever since and gives evidence of going
on and on until the angel with one
foot on the sea and one on the land
shall sound the last trumpet. Wars
may come and go, nations rise and fall,
dynasties spring into being and crum-
bic into nothingness, but taxes are
everlasting. There have been centu-
RES of discussion, cons of debate,
myriads of plans, but the more the
talk the greater the confusion until
there is neither head nor tail, rhyme
or reason, to it. There is crying
need for a Moses to lead the people
from the wilderness of unequal and
unfair burdens into the promised land
of equal and exact justice.-Borough
News.
The Moses has appeared, and the
people knew him not, but his disciples
followers of Henry George-are
leading the way to the promised land
of justice and equal opportunity.
Single Tax may not be a panacea for
all human ills; but, like the great prin-
ciples upon which the League of Ma
tons is formed, nothing better has
ever been offered or is more worthy of
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12

WE ARE moving. Will sell you for
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case, mahogany table, parlor desk, cleo
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many small household articles and or
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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12

a trial.-Ridgefield Park Bulletin.
Wherever Single Tax in regular or
modified form has been tried it has
done wonders. 1t has never failed to
open the door of progress immediate
Fly. Our present system could be
largely improved if honest equaliza-
ton of assessments were practiced
Commission government also has
greatly relieved the unequal burdens
of taxation.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-07-12
A BOYS WAGES TODAY.

Just when normal times are to be
again reached none of the dealers in
commercial prognostications has so far
been alert enough to tell the world. In
all lands since the late war got started
things have gone from one high price
TO another until at the present time a
dollar is not worth much more than