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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01

not particularly attractive. Their
faces are not lacking in qualities of
classical beauty, although their hands
and feet are not the sort that inspire
the sculptor or painter to reproduce
them in mud, marble or on canvas.
The military police keep pretty
sharp eye on the men in Khaki, and
law are pretty severe.
The doughboys make light of the
mud, their well shod feet squash into
it, and their comfortable clothes re-
siSt the penetration of the mist that
floats over and around the Finisterre
peninsula. There is little or no dis
comfort from cold, because while
much further north than New York,
Brest catches the eastern end of the
Gulf stream, and the temperature
rarely falls below 80 and most fire.
quently fuctuates between 45 and So.
The men are we'll fed and comfort
ably housed. The mothers of some of
them would probably raise their
hands in horror at one or two features
of their daily life, but the health re-
ports of the camp furnish substantial
proof that the precautions taken by
the government are working out much
more satisfactorily than the regimen
inspired by home influence.
The army and navy officials point
with pride to the fact that in one day
81 900 American troops debarked at
Brest and that during the next day
5000 were added to the total. This
means that an aggregation of fighting
men one-half the size of the mobile
army of the United States four years
ago was dumped into the mud at
Brest by convoy of the most inn
pressive ships that ever sailed the
main-the Leviathan Mount Wash
ington, President Grant, George
Washington, President Lincoln, La
France, Paris and the Lutetia.
Medical Regulations Rigid.
The medical regulations that prevail
in the chief American military de
barkation port are most rigid. No
soldier is permitted to enter or leave
the camp without a thorough exami-
nation and when he receives his ticket
to go aboard ship to go home he must
be 100 per cent physically
Arriving by train from interior
points his clothing is taken from him
and is subjected to process that
precludes the possibility of infection
or insect life. He gets complete
new outfit and many other convent
ences that were not possible while
he was up near the fighting line.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
TIMELY
WARNING

You are in danger of CATCH
ing the grip if you are weak
and rundown.
The grip germ finds its
earliest victims among those
whose resisting power is
lowest.
The pure food elements
in Father Johns Medicine
build energy to resist grip
germs.
The gentle laxative effect
of Father Johns Medicine
helps to drive out impurities.
You are safe when YOU
take Father Johns Medicine
because it is guaranteed free
from alcohol or dangerous
drugs in any form.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01

the harbor to be of commanding inn
barkation and rest camps outside of
the town.
They worked wonders in doing so,
and despite the manifest discomforts
or daily rains and perpetual mud
they have in Pountanezen provided a
halfway station between the battle
front and home which is second TO
none in the world. Pountanezen is
about seven or eight miles outside of
the town itself. Its present capacity
is about 10000. Within three months
it will have been expanded to take
care of 100000
The embarkation hospital at Ker-
huon, separated only few hundred
yards from Pountanezen, will ulti-
mately have capacity for caring for
$4,000 cases. 1t can now care for
between six and seven thousand. Both
plants are near completion. The plans
when finally worked out will provide
accommodations for three-fifths of the
military establishment maintained by
the United States on European soil.
1t is Il gigantic task, this making a
new city for the care of both the sick
and well, but it is one that the men
intrusted with the work believe they
can accomplish under the most un-
favorable circumstances.
AS it assumes the form of it's chief
Importance all European roads will
lead to Brest.
To Keep the Well Diverted.
The big thing, as the responsible
officials view it, is to provide the
healthy men with diversion to keep
them not only out of mischief but in
good spirits while waiting for trans
portation. Men who have been living
next door to death and constantly I'M
der the thunder of great guns are
finding life at detention and intern
ment camps rather uninteresting 1t
is the purpose of the officials respon-
sible for their welfare to keep them
occupied so that they will not miss
the tumult of war or brood too much
upon the delay of getting home.
Up to date the chief occupation of
the 10000 men who are centered here
has been confined to speculation as to
dates of departure and taking a close
up view of the few attractions of
Brest.
Some idea of the native entertain
ment is furnished by the fact that
there is only one moving picture show
in the town. Severe restrictions are
placed upon the ventures of the
doughboys in the night life of the
ancient burg. The girls of Brest are
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
FEW AMERICANS
IN PARIS PRISONS

over and the men are chatting at their
inability to get home it is probably
a point in the army's favor that so
few have fallen into trouble in search
of relaxation and amusement.
Also 1t must be remembered our
boys come from an unmilitary coun-
try and the discipline in this rigid
army Is not yet old enough to have
placed a restraining impress on the
soldiers whose work in the trenches
Is over.
Almost all the prisoners trace their
trouble to being absent without leave.
Having overstayed leave or left their
outfit without leave, the boys fear to
go back Absence without leave-"A.
W. L."-thus leads charges rang
ing from murder down to forgery of
passes.
Many of the prisoners have a mighty
good war record, some wearing wound
stripes, and several having battled glo-
riously with one or another of
the shock divisions that were always
in the thick of things.
One tall, light-haired boy had run
away TO Paris for holiday after he
ing in hospital several weeks and
unable to speak above whisper, due
to being gassed in the Argonne. He
enlisted when sixteen, and has q req.
ord any man might be proud of, but
he got tired of restraint and now is
in the gloomiest prison he ever saw
because he became involved Ia the
use of forged passes,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
Only 1913 Held Now, and These
Largely for Minor
lnfractions.
MEN CHAFE UNDER DISCIPLINE
Almost All the Prisoners Trace Their
Trouble to Being Absent Without
Leave-Many of Them Have
Mighty Good War Records.
By FREDERICK A. SMITH.
Chicago Tribune Correspondent


paris.-The ancient Petit Roquette
prison. in the Rue Roquette, is a
gloomy shelter for the unconventional
casualties in the skirmishes between
the boys of our army and the temp
tations of Paris. The fact that 1913
American soldiers are incarcerated
there is not such shock to our faith
In the character of our soldiers when
if is considered that this is only a
tiny group out of the 100000 fight
ing men who came over.
The population of the Petit Ro-
ouetta represents that restless element
in the army which, through the weak
ness of excessive conviviality or nat
ural instinct for wrOngdoing. has
clashed with the military police, In
view of the fact that the fighting is
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR COLD
Says Cream Applied in Nostr;ls
Opens Air Passages Right Up.

Instant relief-no waiting Your
clogged nostrils open right up the air
passages of your head clear and you
can breathe freely. No more hawking,
snuffling, blowing. headache, dryness.
No struggling for breath at night i,
your cold or catarrh disappears.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen
etrates through every air passage of
the head, soothes the infiamed or
swollen mucous membrane and relief
comes instantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffedup
with cold or nasty catarrh.-Adv.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01

A new sewerage system was all
right in its way, declared the leading
citizens of Brest, whose ancestors run
back to the time of the Roman wars,
but what was the good of wasting
good fertilizer material through the
Introduction of modern sanitary de-
vices?
Confronted with this problem which
satisfaction of Brest,, the American
engineers, holding the advantages of
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
One on Hubby.

Benham-"Man is only a beast of
burden, after ALL" Mrs. Benham-
"And It's his burden that makes him
a beast"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01

Garfield Tea, by purifying the blood,
eradcates rheumatism, dyspepsia and
many chronic ailments. ADV.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
'luhbroW Art.

FyTUTUW MT.
Myrt-Mabel's face looks drawn to-
night.
Gert-Yes. overdrawn. l should say.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
The Retort ConnubiaI.

he Retoft Connubidl.
He-"Living in Il flat is extremely
tiresome." She-"Not half so tire
some as living with one"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
! High Time For a Treaty V0t e..

LSb IHPC W ~ CDLD y w @
ER. David Lawrence as keen-eyed and
NJ fair-minded an observer as ever
wrote of current events, concludes a
review of President Wilson's recent trip
across the continent with this significant
remark:
Everywhere, and I believe the opin-
ion of the travelling correspondents was
unanimous on this point, the demand
for quick action by the Senate on the
Treaty is absolutely unmistakable. The
people have the fixed idea that there
has been enough discussion and that it
is time for a vote.
The proverbially dangerous delay was
never more deplorable than on this great
issue, at this critical time 1t is now httle
short of eleven months since the armlstlce
was signed and the worlds tired eyes turned
gratefully to promise of peace. 1t is near
ly six months since the Paris conference
finished drafting Treaty that was accept
able to representatives of all the leading
Powers associated in the war against Ger
many. 1t is some three months since that
Treaty was submitted to the Senate For
eign Relations Committee. Yet, we are to-
day no nearer peace, in so lar as us proper
fruitage is concerned, than we were last
autumn when Hindenburg stood sullenly
defiant.
Neither America nor Europe has regained-
normal pulse, or recovered economic pOlse'
The world still moves III painful 1hCSl u
tude, our own nation along with others, not
knowing what a season may bring forth, MOI
daring to settle into carefreeness Tor the
future not able to take UP the great common
tasks of reconstruction with an assured and
TRANQUIL mind. AMERICAS status IN lnterna-
tional affairs her relationships to those by
whose side she fought and those against
whom she fought, are quite underlined. NO
one can say whether she is to JOIN the
other defenders of freedom in the Paris
Treaty or is to desert them and make a
separate peace with Germany? No one can
say whether there is to be League OIL the
worlds moral and material forces TOR the
prevention of war, in SO far as nunldn
agencies can contribute to that good eno
or whether the old evil order of intrigue ana
militaristic competition is to return? NO one
can saw what will be Americas place IN the
worlds estimation and the WORLDS AFFAIRS
six months from now-wether that or
friendly and befriended co-wOrker IN the
vast labors Of rehabilitation, or an isolated
Power living unto itself and for itself alone,
and bearing the earthwide reproach OF IN
glorious selfishness. Our economic StatuS'
our political status our moral status Is YET
tn he determined. And our whole future
hangs upon the decision.
Is it to be wondered, then, that the peo-
nIe intuitively sensing the SITUATION anu
realizing that we can have no real peace, no
fruitful neace until these doubts are resolved
is it to be wondered that they wish an end
of factional discussion and Senate vote that
will bring certainty and reinsurance? we
have dwelt all too long in twilight zone be-
tween war and peace. Let the Treaty be
ratified without further delay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
The South's "SeUen Gates -

HE Shipping Boards allotment of nine
new steel vessels to South Atlantic
trade comes as another cheering de-
velopment for the ports of Wilmington,
Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jack
sonville, and as we'll For Mobile and New Or
leans. These 'seven doors to South Ameri-
ca as the Birmingham Ledger happily terms
them, have hitherto been closed, or but scant-
ly used, because, as our contemporary puts
it, "Ships have been lacking to carry cargoes;
r. freight rates have been adjusted as though
New York were the rdained port of the en-
tire country; and the goods to ship were not
being manufactured"
These diccouragements are now fast yield
ing. The ships allotted by the Government are
only part of service which private construc-
ton will steadily augment. Freight rates
are being readjusted Sc that exporters in
the great manufacturing centers of she Middle
West, who heretofore have been virtually COM
PEELED to route Latil-American shipments
through New York, an avail themselves OF
the more convenient and commodious out
lets OF the Southern coast. There are heart
ening indications, moreover, that Southern
opportunities in Latin-An9erican trade and are
preparing to exploit them.
For Georgia the enrichment thus possible
through her own excellent ports should stir
the entire States imagination and energy.
Interior towns and cities no less than those
directly on the ocean trade routes should CO.
operate to the end that their common inter-
ests in this field of enterprise may be ad-
vanced. That it is a field worthy of the best
efforts of practical and farsighted men is at
tested by the fact that the business leader
ship of most of the South Atlantic and Gulf
States stands already organized for this very
purpose Georgia cannot afford to lag.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03

BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE
"What is man that thou are midful OF
him." "He calleth his own by name"
Just one man.
AS though there weren't another man IN
the whole wide world.
God wanted him to stand up and be count
ed-as one.
Not in droves-lke cattle
Not in battalions-nOr armies-to be
hurled against the mouth of cannon.
Not in masses, or mobs, or multitudes--
Just one man-alOne.
And the world is coming to learn its lesson
the value of one soul.
Have you noticed at the big hotels how
they are displaying the name of the man on
duty at the desk?
He's no longer just clerk-you greet him
as MIR. Finn or "Mr. Sullivan" 1t makes
the contact more human.
Even the elevator Ian is individualized-
his name is displayed so that you needn't call
him George or Charlie" or cap" :
''Boy'-because that isn't his name and he
resents it.
Immediately he's degnihed and he gives
better service
He's man-come to his own.
The trouble in most factories is that the
boss doesn't know his men
They are looked upon as so much @nuip-
ment.
And the boss wonders why he can't run his
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03

-AIDOSTA lays claim TO the happy ulo-
" tinction of providing a dependable
market for virtually every kind OF
product that the farms off its vicinity Orln8
forth-food crops and food animals as wen
as cotton. Surely a town can fenaef no
more substantial service to it's nelghDorlhg
country, and none that Will contribute mol0
to it's own upbuilding.
The progress of diversified agriculture
with it's wide-reaching stimulus TO business
development, depends upon marketing taclIl-
ties Cotton was long king in Georgia, to a
tyrannous extent, not because II was IN
herently more profitable than other crops
but because it could be converted readily into
cash or readily used as collateral tor loans,
whereas other farm products had irregular
and very uncertain market prospects.
planter could bring a load OF cotton to town,
deposit it at the warehouse, and with the re-
ceipt therefor obtain credit from the bank
around the corner. But if he brought in a
load of, say, sweet potatoes, the chances were
that after hawking through divers neighbour
hoods, he would have to take them back nome
to spoil in his cellar, or else sell them for
beggarIy pittance So long as these condI-
tons prevailed, it was inevitable that cotton
should continue kaiser, and diversified pro-
duction lag.
Yet all the while there was a statewide de-
mand for food animals and food crops as
was evidenced in the fact that Georgia spent
the purchase of those necessaries from the
distant West. Moreover, as agricultural
specialists all declared, there was more profit
more real and permanent profit, in food
production than in cotton. The problem,
then, was how to link the producer with the
consumer; how to provide here at home
mediums through which the farmer could dis
pose of those products for which, paradox
cally enough, there was big demand but no
market.
In helping to solve that problem, Valdosta
and similarly enterprising towns have done
the cause of agriculture incalculable service
and have laid broad foundations for their
own prosperity. To the bean mills, canning
factories, grain and forage warehouses, pOta-
to canning plants, packing plants and other
marketing facilities, Georgia is largely in
debted for the fact that she now produces
on her own soil many millions Of dollars
worth of food staples which she formerly i'm
ported from the West. board Of trade or
chamber of commerce can engage in no more
useful enterprise than that of making a
thorough survey Of the food production of
it's adjacent country and then providing the
market accommodations and connections
needful.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
GEORGIA'S TOBACCO CROP
(The TiftOn Gazette J

Farmers in the section around RichIand are
said to be disguised with tobacco as a crop and
will not plant the leaf again There are nc
doubt other farmers throughout the section
where tobacco was planted this year that feel
the same way.
These experiences, however, do not prove
that tobacco is not a good crop for this sec
ton. The experiences of men who know now
to grow tobacco and who went at it in a
buSinesS-like manner proves that tobacco is a
good crop for this section.
Many farmers who went in too heavily, or
who attempted to raise the crop without the
assistance of man of practical experience in
tobacco growing, of course failed. They would
have failed with any other new crop if they
went about it in the same way.
1t takes a who knows his business to
grow tobacco. There are SO many different
things to be done, and they must be done at
just exactly the right time. The growing is by
no means all, either. There is Just as much
in curing the leaf as there is in growing it.
An inexperienced man may grow fine crop
and then ruin it all by improper curing.
1t was the inexperienced man who tried to-
baceo- on toe large scale, who made failure.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
CALLING A MAN BY HIS NAME

shop as he runs his home-so far as his
help is concerned.
He'll tell you proudly that he never has
any trouble with his gardener or his butler
of course not, he calls them by name, and he
knows them, and they know him..
Whereas in the shop his men are known
little brass checll-for purposes of identif-
cation.
Nothing mysterious about it,
It's perfectly natural that he should find
d difference between his home help and his
shop help.
name spells personality.
It's sign of friendship.
'He calleth his own by name"
And if God isn't too big or too busy to
call by name, there isn't much excuse for
the rest of us to learn each others names.
It's some trouble, and if there's lack Of
sincerity it's next to impossible, but gen
uine interest in others will help tremendous
ly.
All kinds of panaceas have been offered to
the labor question, so there's no harm in
presenting another:
He calleth his own by name"
For, you may be sure, mans name car
ries with it a far-reaching influence.
Humanity, personality, friendship, these
three, but more than these, the recognition OF
the value that God places upon man-just
one man.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03

Many farmers who knew how to grow and cure
tobacco, or who employed man who did know
how, made money with tobacco the past season.
although it was a very unfavorable one.
One visit to tobacco warehouse in this
section the past season was enough to convince
anyone, whether he knew anything about to-
bacco or not, that someone was going to lose
money on the crop. The enormous quantity of
very poor tobacco offered on the MAKE 3 r"+:<
that Somebody was going to lose There was
much tobacco offered for sale in Triton that was
worth more to the farmer as bedding for hiS
stables than it was on market.
Notwithstanding the large quantity of poor
grade tobacco offe. ed for sale here, the more
than half million pounds sold at Triton brought
an average of 2O7 Gems pound
They had been discussing art, and the
young man was getting slightly tired of the
subject.
81 remember one picture that brought tears
to my eyes, however," he continued.
"Ah, it was some pathetic subject" muir
INJURED the damsel, who took herself seriously
GAS a matter of fact don't know what the
subject was, but happened to be sitting un-
der a pretty heavy picture when the cord
broke, and it came down on my head"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
AbolOgising for Germany.
ENAToR Thomas, of Colorado, whose

~ ENATOR Thomas, of Colorado, whose
constituents, if we may Judge from
the press of that State, heartily dissent
from his present views, opposes the Peace
Treaty on this extraordinary ground:
My opinion is that this is victor's
treaty, treaty of force, a treaty of
punishments, of partitions, treaty
burdened with conditions accepted by
the Vanquished only at the point of the
sword
Well what if it is? Did the Senator ever
expect any other sort of treaty from such a.
war as that which Germany thrust upon civil
lzatlon? Does he fancy that Prussianism
would have @-alded to any argument other
than force, or that the world would be safe
under any settlement which left Prussianism
unpublished? AS for "partitions will the
Colorado Senator and his companion apoIog-
lists Tor Germany point out just which If the
peoples emancipated from the TeutLa woke
should be dragged back to the old oppres-
sion? And as for conditions accepted by the
VanquIshed only at the point of the sword -
now else pray, does he imagine the burners
OF Louvaine and the sinkers of the Lusitania
accepting anything not to their liking?
We must say, however, that Senator
IhOmas Outspoken objection to the Treaty
on the ground that it is too harsh to the fol-
lowers OF Hindenburg and Hohenzollern is
more to be respected than the pretexts from
which some other opponents are waging am
Dush war against the President and against
the Allies. 1t is better to plead the German
cause openly than under cover of picayunish
earnings against the League Cf Nations, The
American people are tired of every sort of
needless delay contrived to defeat the Treaty
Oh Peace, but especially are they tired of cam
outage.