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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
SELFISHNESS.

All of the sins of humanity may just
Iy be laid at the door of SeltiShness.
Dating from the garden of Eden selfish
ness has from that day been the gov
erning power of the human race Go
where one will, do what one may, the
experience of every man in his aSSOcia-
tons with his fellows is that the most
he can criticSe is based on what he
sees of the selfish side of his neigh
bors. Harriet Beecher Stowe in "Un-
Gle Toms Cabin" said this: "There is
not on earth more mercilesS eXactOr
of love from others than thoroughly
selfish woman"
A great minister recently returned
from the front in France said in the
presence of this writer, 'Selfishness is
the basis of the whole war. Selfish
ness was its ruling spirit" Go where
we will, do what we want to to avoid
the thought, which is painful as real
ization of our personal faults, there is
no way to dodge the spirit of selfish
ness that makes us all mark time to
obey the command. 1t is a strange
thing that so few of us are willing to
make sacrifices but still cling to the
central, dominating faith that selfish
ness is our religion. 1t is the opposite
of all true religion. Greed, hatred,
spite, backbiting, envy, cruelty. Islander
all spring from selfishness. 1t is the
starting point of their existence Self
love, self praise, self focusing, self
laudatiOn, self cOnceit self admiration,
self applause, are all first cousins to
selfishness. Self control. self COM
mand, self adjusting, self denial, are
all brothers to unselfishness. Which
side do you like most?
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
FEEDING Pics by Machinery.

A hogmeter is not motOr-hog !;
1t is a pig self-feeder. Two of these
ingenious inventions have been tried
by the Western Australian minister for
agriculture on his farm, with eminent
ly satisfactory results.
The machine Is a combination Of a
hopper, a grinder, and delivery plat
form, which has ten divisions. The
ground wheat is equally distributed by
delivery chutes. The shouting instinct
of the pig has been requisitioned to
supply the motive power, the divisions
on the platform being so arranged that
the animal, in trying to snout 1t out
of the way for more feed, forces the
platform round, thus grinding for itself
more wheat, which falls in the next
and succeeding divisions. and so on.
Ten pigs can fed at the same time.
There Is no waste. The pig does not
crush more than he can eat, and he
cannot possibly eat more than he
brushes.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
ENGLISH REVEURY.

Wonder finds itself OutdOne in the
reports of English prosperity grown out
of the war through the reign of high
prices that have scared into hitherto
unknown realms. 1t is next to impos-
Sible to believe the stories the public
prints tell of the princely prosperity
that today has come to the British Isles
through profit making in the war. The
rich are engaged in a spirit of almost
insane rivalry, giving baronnial enter
tainments that for lavish cost exceed
anything in the annals of time, even
Pompeii being outclassed, if what we
read be true Every form of eXtrava-
gance is INDUCED in. Any high cost of
living is taken up as a matter of fact.
The automobile, regarded now in this
country as more of necessity than a
luxury, is being taken up in England
as never before. SO great is the de-
mand said to be that old models three
or four years old are selling for from
$4,000 to $4,000. To us in America
these Bacchanalian tendencies are
astounding. The general thought in
this country has been that the large
masses of England have been too poor
ly off in this worlds goods to indulge
themselves any too lavishly.
There is a serious thought behind
these stories about England, if they are
true. They cannot bOde any good of
themselves. The time has gone when
any people or nation can afford to live
other than useful lives. Extravaganza
in any form is indicative of fall. I'm
less England wants to destroy her own
fitness as the world leader it once was,
it will have to take off this sham face
of high living and get down to where
the everyday folk can look the aristoc.
racy in the eve and say, Let us make
England greater by cooperation" 1t
cannot come through this channel of
revelry.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02

be the same in peoples, but their gov
eminent will be entirely new, with old
time party rule trying to gag and get
back into power. The present and the
newer era is going to be just what we
make it. We can make it the best pc
riod of all human history if we so
choose. 1t is largely up to these Unit
ed States of America. But at the end
of a hundred years perhaps men will
still be crying that the old world is
dead and new world being ushered
in. Make this age glorious. Its start
is truly wonderful if only we continue
along the lines we have started. Plu-
tocracy is dead everywhere and out of
the way for all time. The day of the
king is no more-that is, as a mon
arch.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
THE PALlsADE CHURCH DEED.

Attention of The Palisadian has
been drawn to the recent statement
made in its columns that the local
church property was restricted when
decided, but that when it was built,
there being no objections, the restric-
tons We're not removed From infor-
nation said to be reliable it now seems
that the church property was decided
by the Hudson River Realty for use
by the church, the privilege extend
ing also to the erection of manse for
church use. But this was unnecessary
in this case, as there was not room for
anything but the church. AS for re-
moving the restrictions, there appears
to be no definite knowledge in hand
on the subject, but the party bringing
the matter to the attention of The
Palisadian says he feels sure the re-
strictiOnS could not have been on the
property when decided. This may be
true, but who removed them? And if
they were removed, why does not some
one know about it?
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
IMPORTANT PART OF BUILDING
Ceremonies More or Less Elaborate
Generally Accompany Laying OF
Cornerstone.

The United States government puts
up public buildings all over the coun-
try, and a cornerstone is customarily
laid. But there is no hole in the lat
ter unless 1t be requested by the local
authorities, or Masonic body desires
to conduct a ceremony.
The Masons take special interest in
cornerstones. On such an occasion
they appear in full regalia, and cop
per box is used to hold the articles in
tered. The box is Soldered up and
placed inside the cornerstone, which
is then sealed with cement.
In Europe it is a part of the bust
ness of monarchs to lay cornerstones.
In this country the services of preSi-
dent are always in demand for the pur-
pose, II obtainable. On a conspicuous
corner in Washington is a cornerstone
laid by Mr.. Taft when he was presi-
dent. 1t was meant for church that
remains yet unbuilt.
Colonel Roosevelt, when president,
laid the cornerstone of the Masonic
temple in Washington. Oddly enough
it was 80 feet in the air at the time
Of the ceremony, upheld by timbers,
the ground beneath 1t having been dug
away to that depth. But it was neces-
sary to grab the president while the
grabbing was good.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
SQUARiNG ACCOUNTS.

Squaring accounts is looked upon as
a process of settling differences with
either figures or people. In our assO-
Citations with each other we sometimes
try to square accounts with one proc
ess or another and often fail. The
true process of squaring accounts is 70
make good. Do not make statements
that you are not willing to stand up
to or to fight for. 1t is cowardly in
the first place to state what you 10
not know to be true or have reason 70
believe in. A good way to live is not
to do things that need to be squared
with anything but fact or truth When
we higgle or piggle over platitudes
and do not know our direction in a
contest we need to square with some
thing we can depend on and that 9th
ers can believe in. The finest adver-
Using in the world is selling oneself to
ones neighbOrS. When we gibe when
we dovetail into fact when we size
up; when we stack up plumb when
we can take tape or plumb line and
find ourselves just true and on the
level, we are squared with the world
We have nothing to fear when we can
take stands with no fear of a come
back. That's the mainStay of man.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
THE POMPTON TRAGEDY.

The drowning accident at Pompton
Lakes last Sunday night emphasizes
the great risk young people take in
going out in such frail craft as canoes.
The young woman left her home with
her tiance little thinking of the danger
that was ahead, and least of all that
she would become a victim of the
treacherouS waters of the overflow
ing dam that later swept her and him
over the brink into the pool below
filed with rocks. The incident is most
deplorable, of course. 1t would seem
that with the danger of such an acct
dent so imminent, the authorities of
that municipality would issue either
a warning, or make the taking of
chances in that neighbOrhood prohibit
tive. The story of how it happened
that the young couple actually fell
asleep and finally drifted away from
still nook into the eddying current
and over the falls, is narrowing to the
last degree The lake has existed
for many years and other accidents
have occurred there, but still the law
grew lax and the danger still fingers.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
Buried Treasures in Arizona.

What is believed to be the first clue
to the reputed buried treasures of the
padres of the Tumacacori mission,
built by the Spanish Jesuits high up
in the Tumacacori mountains, less
than three hours journey from Tucson,
Ariz., has been discovered by Frank
Pinckley, custodian of the ruins. 1t is
the gateway to the mission cemetery.
From this gateway, it is said, the plans
and maps left by the padres start to
outline the way to the buried gold and
silver.
The Tumacacori mission was built
near what are believed to be the ruins
of one of the Seven Cities Of Cibola,
The center region is said to show evil
dences of rich mineral deposits, which,
declare those who have inspected the
mountains, doubtless led the padres to
build their mission there.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
BID BY FRANCE IS TOO LOW
Offers Only s3oo,ooo,ooo for United
States Material-May Be Sold
Elsewhere.

Washington.-The French govern
ment having offered only S300,000,000
for American army equipment in
France. costing $1,500,00O.000, the
war department has ordered sales
organization for disposal of the prop
erty be formed in France, Director Of
Sales Hare told special house COM
mittee investigating war department
expenditures abroad. Director Hare
said the French offer was made to
Chairman Parker Of the United States
liquidation committee. The offer. he
stated, included all material, including
ship docks, railroad works and equip
ment, automobile trucks and textiles.
eff France will not pay fair fig
ure," the director added. 1--WE will take
the stuff out of the country and sell 1t
elsewhere"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
VACATION TIME.

The world is in the midst of the va
ton period when all mankind, with
few exceptions, HES itself into some
remote spot or strange place to seek
rest and relaxation from the cares of
life. 1t is almost necessary for most
people to take this view of things. The
meaning of vacation time is that it
takes ones mind off of the cares of
business and other occupations and
makes one the more fit for renewing
contact with the world when the rest
ing time is finished 1t freshens and
rejuvenates the body and mind and
gives one a different and better view
of things.
We find in the New Testament some
authority for the vacation time. When
the disciples We're surrounding Jesus.
he told them to "hie themselves away
to a quiet place for rest" This is not
the exact language of the text, but the
meaning is the same. There is this
Biblical authority for the vacation pc
riod, sanctioned as it is by the Savior.
As the local minister said last Sunday.
ut is the ministry of relaxation. but
it must be rest-genuine rest''-before
we can get its real value Crest is
the sweet sauce of labor" said Plu-
tarch. There are many other express
sions from great writer's on the mean
ing of rest and vacation time. Beau
mont said, "Silken rest tie all my cares
up" and Carlyle said: Crest is a fine
medicine. Let Your stomachs rest, We
dyspeptics let your brain rest, YOU
wearied and worried men of business
let your limbs rest, We children of toll. "
And Richter said 80 rest! thou soft
word autumnal flower of Eden moon
light of the spirit !"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
THE NEGRO TODAY.

The negro question is engaging the
public mind at this time more than for
many years. Close estimates place the
negro population in the United States
at IL 100000, a good 10 per cent of the
country's total. AS citizens as 'wards
of the nation" as they feel themselves
to be, negroes deserve every form of
Justice the law affords. Indiscriminate
attacks upon negroes as such should
not exist. But they do exist and will
continue to exist until some general
plan to better the Negroes condition
mentally and morally is put into effec-
tive operation. Prejudice against the
negro is perhaps stronger in the north
than in the south. Only the other day
an orderly church going citizen of this
vicinity made allusion to the fact that
a certain realty dealer had tried to
sell lot to a negro" This is a con-
crete form of ingram prejudice. The
general public is not against the negro,
but in the matter of social privileges
with whites he is not desirable. That
is the long and short of it.
Give the negro a chance and he will
prove himself. The social side of the
problem will require a hundred years
to adjust itself, and at the end of that
time the white man will still be white
and the black man black. In Chicago
the latest race riot comes because at
the lake beaches there it was neces-
sary to segregate the races. Here was
at once the evidence of prejudice and
the beginning of trouble When a few
whites make the negro a social equal
it turns his head and he at once be-
comes better than anybody and will
fight to prove it.
The whole negro question is unfOr-
tunate. His case is deplorable Lured
away from the cotton field, he comes
into a strange land and is soon forced
to see the difference in the feeling. If
he goes back to the land of his raising
he knows he must behave. That is the
word. Lynchings have hurt the south,
but they have occurred in many north
ern communities, notably Utica, Ian
caster, Springfield, O., and Springfield,
ILL.,, as well as at East st. Louis, Mo.
No section is immune from prejudice
against the negro. While lynching is
positively never to be excused, it is not
confined to any section when sentiment
is aroused to bring it about. The con-
dition of the negro race in America is
improving, not rapidly, but surely.
When he comes to know himself he will
have improved measurably.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
POORLY PAID MAIL CARRIERS
Dogs That Bring News From Home
to the Lonely Men In Alaska Get
Little for Work.

There is good deal of talk over
the meager pay received by mail car
riers, but the most poorly paid of Uncle
Sans mail carriers receive far less
than the familiar postman, yet never
make complaint. They get a pound
and half of dried salmon for full
days pay.
They are the husky and the Mala-
mute, the native Eskimo and the ma
tive Indian dogs in the great Yukon
country. Without them the gold-seek-
ers, the fur traders, the shopkeepers
and the mission workers in the interior
of Alaska Except for the more fortu-
nate ones who live along the lines of
the few railroads) would receive no
mail from the time the Ice forms over
the rivers in October until it breaks up
in May.
Even the most inaccessible of post
Offices receive mail once month in
winter Though only one mail is car
ried them, and for those in the interior
of Alaska the husky and the Malamute
are mail carrier and Santa Claus COM
bined. They would be without word
from the outside world for eight
months every year If it were not for
the mail dogs.
These animals are pushed to their
utmost by considerable and cruel driver
alike, for there is a prescribed task for
them every day, and all they got out
Of 1t is a pound and half of dried
salmon at the end Of the day.
When they are not working their al
lowance of fish is cut down. In the
summer they are fed on the refuse Of
fresh salmon at the fishing dumps,
where the mail contractor boards them
out until the rivers freeze again.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02

be recovered from, and the average
man was impaired by a large percent
age through the hardships of cam
paign. But most of those who went
through the war and came out whole
have not felt the effects long. Nearly
all are now sufficiently recovered to
feel new again. That thousands suf-
fered intensely and that many went
back physically is doubtless true. But
as for the race of man, it has not been
harmed by the war, except to prove
that man is the hardest of all ami
mails. No other animal that ever lived
could withstand what man has gone
through with in the war. His hardi-
ness is established as it never was be-
fore. 1t has endured through the
greatest strain ever put upon it until
no one believes it could ever be totally
destroyed. To many the war was an
actual brace 1t made new men out of
how to take care of themselves
Whether these men who have been
made strong will go back remains to
be seen. Through all ages men have
grossly neglected themselves, but the
race has gone on in spite of all efforts
of race suicide. 1t has increased in
numbers and vitality. We do not be-
lieve in the subsistence of the human
race. Men are bigger and better every
where. The jungle man alone goes
back. He is no longer a match for the
university man bedecked with medals.
AS we grow older the age of man
lengthens. Science tries to disprove
this, but does not establish it.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
MAKE THE PRESENT WORLD BIG

Listen to this from an address by a
noted educator:
"The great hour is here. The
old world is dead. The histories
written % years from now will be-
gin a new era with this year of
grace 1919. The new world is
about to be born, with ourselves
as charter members of it. We are
going either to help make the re-
alization of the prophets dreams
or the grave of their hopes"
We don't exactly get this. Here we
have been hearing that the old world
has been dead so long that it has be-
come tiresOme. Public speakers have
dwelt on this thought for 5000 years
Changed conditions have always exist
ed. After all wars and revolution it
has been the same. The old world will
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
MAN PROGRESSING.

There are so many erratic things
published nowadays that, one scarcely
knows where to begin believing or end
off doubling. Before America got into
the war we read large dissertations
about the horrors of war and how it
made men Of little value for the rest
of their lives. Shell shock could never
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
FOR SALE,

FURNITURE of artist leaving town.
Has finest pieces of furniture, to be
sold at private sale. One mahogany
four poster bed, very nice; springs.
two mattresses, tapestry chairs, kitch-
en- furniture, sewing machine, baby's
bed, etc. Lauderback, 1872 Underclitf
Avenue and Sterling Place, Edgewa-
ter.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
HOUSE FOR SALE.

SIN 60 rooms and bath, lot 50x90,
all improvements, $4,000. Inquire of
Owner, 80 Crescent ave-, Grantwood.
Phone 7O4 w. Cliffside.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
LEGAL NOTICE.

Creditors of Charles Frank, deceased
are, by order of J. Blauvelt Hopper,
Surrogate of Bergen County dated July
14th. 1919, upon application of the sub
scriber, notified to bring in their debts
demands and claims against his estate,
under oath, within nine months from
above date.
MARTHA FRANK,
ct EXecutriXI
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02

Creditors of JOHN AMANN deceased,
are, by order of J. Blauvelt Hopper,
Surrogate of Bergen County, dated June
30th 1919, upon application of the sub
scriber, notified to bring in their debts,
demands and claims against his estate,
under oath, within nine months from
above date.
MADELEINE AMANN,
Administrative.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
THE BUSY BIS.

Here is a distinctively novel cam
paign card that Comptroller Newton
X Bugbee has issued for general dis
tribution:
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
FURNISHED ROOM WANTED.

FURNISHED room wanted by two
young men in Palisade or Grant
wood; together or separate. Address
Thoms, Chinese Ball Game, Palisades
Amusement Park.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
MORTGAGE LOANS

MONEY TO LEND on first mortgage
on improved Bergen County realty, or
on building contract, In sums from
$1,000 up. No brokerage fee, premium
or fines charged. Repayabie In month
ly instruments with reducing Interest
each month. The easiest and cheapest
way to acquire home Or pay off
mortgage. Write for Informa alton to
RosT. A. SIBBALD, Hackensaek,
N. J.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-08-02
WANTED.

FOR SALE-Fitted screens, cheap.
Miss j. Wright, 80 Anderson Ave.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

sary to warn the American soldiers
and sailors against "ill advised and
misleading attempts to form veter-
ans organizations, as it is obvious
and important that one strong. rep
resentative and energetic fraternity
of soldiers will centre the Ameri-
canism of those who served in this
war
"One of these has already started
in spite of the greater and broader
American Legion. Ernest Lundeen,
a former Congressman from Mime
sofa, is instrumental in forming
veterans organization which is to
be known rs the Private Soldiers
and Sailors Legion. 1t does not
come into being under the best
auspices. Certainly it runs counter
to the purposes Of the greater and
nobler American Legion, which as
plres to a place alongside the
G. A. r.
Men who are serving to detract
from the labors of the big, central
organization are not serving the
veterans, but themselves. Lundeen
rad nothing to do with the war as a
combatant. He aspires ignobly to
place among veterans. He should
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

reserve his abilities for other fields
and not distract the attention of
those who fought from the organi-
zation of legion that is to embrace
every man who wore khaki"
In spite Of the fact that avowed-
ly the organization will be inter-
ested in policies but not politics."
The New Orleans Item" believes
that "the opinion may safely be haz-
arded that the great political parties
OF the country are due to have new
mentors, from whom they may be
forced to look anxiously for their
cues" "The New York Evening
Sum- however, believes that the
new organization must be strictly
non-political, declaring that "pre-
cedent enough exists in the career
OF the Grand Army to make that
clear. Despite its proper political
limitations, it should serve as the
most salutary means to influence re-
turned soldiers to cling to plain old
Americanism, shed their martial ac-
qurements and return to plain,
praiseworthy citizenship"
"The Portland Press" sees in the
proposed organization keen in
strument against Bolshcvism.