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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27

Simple Method by Which Medical Ser
peant Solved Monetary compiiea.
ton Arising in Crap Game.

The International complications OF
the monetary system Of the crap game
were even more confusing than usual.
for the players had but recently ar
rived in France via England. Aaeri-
can silver, English shillings and
French francs were scattered about
the barracks floor, and the voices Of
the players were raised in angry pro-
test over the financial differences be-
tween francs and shillings. Finally
they decided to appeal to the only nom
pla. er present, medical sergeant
who lay half asleep on his bunk.
Sarge" they asked. This here
small change has got us all fOxed. /
win a shillin' off Bill and he gives me
a franc and l say he still owes me
two big clackers and he says he don't.
Can't you suggest somethin' to sim
plify the darn thing?"
The medico, who had had a hard
struggle with would-be invalids at sick
call that day, rolled over sleepily.
Jaw. mark 'em all quarters" he
grunted.-Home Sector.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27

than that the people, fearing if site
were determined upon, the work might
progress further.
There is decided stand against the
tremendous spending of money now
going on in the borough. The new
northwestern sewer that no one knows
the cost of is a cause of fear. The
new Palisade avenue extension to cost
$167, 900 for mile and a quarter is
another frightening sum.
And to meet the excessive eXpendi-
lures already made tax rate of $4.22
per 500 is now announced.
No wonder the people are afraid of
a high school. But who is to blame
The local government enacts ordinances
against any protest. They call shear
ings" which are overridden and ap-
parently unnoticed. There is no sense
or justice in taxing the home owners
of Fort Lee unless just system of
assessments is allowed. This is the
whole trouble. Equalize assessments
and tax burdens would not exist.
The people have it in their power to
do the things demanded, but no one
seems to want to lead a movement to
put it into execution. The way to stop
all this extravaganza is as sample as
A-B-C.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
MEDALS OF HONOR.

The scars of battle are deeply
marked on the face that the President
presents to the photographers after his
months of retirement. This is but the
wrath of the confident, determined
man who went abroad on the George
Washington in 1918. The face is that
of one who has been through fire and
has not come out unscathed. The
tragedy is too apparent for comment.
The pathOs Of the expression of Wood
row Wilson is best not put into words.
But the scars are honorable. They
are the marks of grea, events upon a
personality that Is somewhat its own
enemy, but of great events encoun-
tered, after all, in heroic spirit. The
mood may, indeed, have been too he
roic. crowding out humor and toler-
ance-the situation was heroic. The
strategic errors of the President are
now obvious, as obvious to himself,
let it be surmised, as to others. But
humanity cannot quarrel with the pur-
pose. 1t was as noble as any that
ever actuated statesman. Only the
method is rightly subject to criticism !;
only the failure is tragic.
Here are the sears of man broken
in good fight. They are medals of
honor that his opponents do not wear
New York Globe.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
NO coNscRiPTioN..


How strong the reaction against
compulsory military service has be-
come is indicated by the vote at Cam
bridge University, England. After a
debate upon the question a motion
against the adoption of any system of
compulsory service was carried by ia
votes to Al.
Before the war, when Lord Roberts
compulsory service agitation was, at its
height in England, such a motion would
almost certainly have been defeated by
larger majority either at Cambridge
or at Oxford.
The demonstration was especially
significant inasmuch as a majority of
the young Englishmen who voted on
the motion served as officers in the
war.
The sentiment expressed should not
be a real surprise to anyone. There
was never during the war the same
proportion of support for CONSUMPTION
among the soldiers serving at the front
as there was among the politicians at
home The Australian troops voted
heavily against conscription when it
was, proposed by. the government, at
home.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
GAM BLING.

One of the problems confronting
America today is to provide legiti-
mate interests and amusements to take
the place of gambling, which is stead
lily on the increase among all classes
of society.
The man who investigates the leis-
ure hours of the laboring man finds
gambling chief diversion. The papers
all over the country feature accounts
of police raids of gambling houses. AL
most anybody who listens to those in
his circle who made a little extra
money in "war babies" can hear tales
of winnings and losses IN little friend
ly" games which would support an or
binary family in comfort.
There is nothing surprising about it.
The fever was bred in the idleness of
thousands of homesick men, seeking
refuge from their thoughts and the
tiresome routine of army camps; and
inflated wages. Easy come, easy co."
is the same old gamblers slogan of a
thousand years.
The best antidote for the disease
is harmless amusement, clean indoor
and outdoor games and sports fostered
by every industrial concern and social
and community organization. Plain
common sense has it's appeal also. 1t
is not much use to dwell on the wick
edness of gambling, for it may not be
intrinsically wicked at all. But one
man can be made to see the folly of
contributing to another, ON the turn
of dice or cards, the price of long
desired trip or coveted possession.
Thrift clubs, own-your-own-home clubs,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
CONSTITUTIONS CHECKS.


I The provision requiring two-thirds
majority in order to ratify is not a
democratic provision, says the Phila-
delphia Evening Ledger.
1t places control of foreign relations
in the hands of minority.
The fathers of the Constitution put
it in for the same reason that Wash
ington uttered his warning against en-
tangling alliances.
We were a weak, young country, and
might become the tail to some Euro
pean kite.
Moreover, the fathers of the Consti-
tuition were only experimenting with
democracy.
They did not know whether it would
work or not.
Many of them felt sure it would not
work
So they adopted an elaborate system
of checks to prevent the country from
losing its head and acting on sudden
impulses.
The most drastic check of all was
the two-thirds majority requirement
regarding foreign relations.
The result of it has been a break
down in our government.
On the one side has been the Presi-
senators preventing action.
The Constitution ought to be
amended
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
SALOONS MADE PROHIBITION.

The Palisadian has received the fol
lowing communication
Permit me to congratulate you
on your editorial in your last issue
on the work of prohibition. You
strike the right key. All sensible,
fair-minded people are greatly
pleased that the effects of bone
dry prohibition are SO readily visi-
BILE. Take the record in Bergen
county alone, and the effects of
prohibition are wonderful. we
have an unusually large Jail close
to the county court house, built
for the accommodation of several
score of prisoners-perhaps more
than a hundred could be taken
care of there at once. Today there
are scarcely bakers dozen peo-
pie confined there, none for the
charge of drunkenness. This is. a
truly wonderful record. Three
years ago we had five murders on
the docket in Bergen, all from this
immediate section some from
Fairview, the others from eFn{
side. Shooting and fracases were
of daily occurrence. The three
boys who were saloon habitues
who killed an old man on the hill
in Edgewater were at once traced
to saloon and captured. That is
the saloon influence. 1t is as bad
as HI. Had the liquor interests
made any sort of endeavOr to pro-
tect society or regulate the sale Of
liquors, prohibition might never
have come. The chances are it
would not have been necessary.
This character of crime did not exis
in all saloons There were some wei
but not many. They wer
mostly tarred with the same stick
This is why it is going to be Difficult
to restore the sale OF any kind of al
cOhOlic beverages for general sale
That the world is largely better OF
goes without saying. Any one who vii
look can see it.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
Britain Needs New Houses.

1t has been estimated that 100000
new houses are needed in the United
Kingdom to properly house the popu-
lation. All building was at stand
still throughout the war. Because of
the enormous increase in building ma
terials and the increased cost of la
Dor these houses cannot be built for
less than twice the amount they would
have cost in 1914. Thousands Of big
houses in London are for sale. but
these are of no use to newlyweds,
who in most instances cannot afford
to maintain them, nor can they get the
servants necessary to keep up such
establishments. 1t has been found too
costly to try to convert many of these
houses into apartments. They now
are monuments to prewar and opu-
lent family life in London, when serv-
ants were employed by the dozen.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
One enat and Two camels.

Some of our grave and reverend
looking senator's are exceedingly fun
ny because they take themselves so
seriously. On the one hand they pre-
tend to consider. Canada 5000 miles
and Australia 1900 miles away as
integral parts of the British Empire,
neither of whom should have any voice
in the League of Nations, whereas
Ireland, only 60 miles away from Eng
land, must be considered as an entire
ly Independent and sovereign nation,
whose absolute isolation from the Brit
ish confederacy of England, Scotland
and Wales, is the chief and only con-
Germ of the United States in European
politics. 1.-The British Isles should be
made 'The British Island" in order to
remove all danger of an invasion of
the United States by Great Britain.
1t is our only safety, so they pretend
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
FOUR KINDS OF LIARS.

DIR. Frank Crane told his readers
the other day what he thought of liars
one thing he started out with was
the greatest thing he said, but all was
good. There is no luxury like telling
the truth" That is fact. There are
some pepole, however, who do not feel
this way about it, Not long ago a
Palisadian was telling the editor of
how many kinds of liars there are in
the world, and he classed them under
four separate heads. They are:
White liars.
Black liars.
Yellow liars.
Red liars.
The white liar is one who tells some
thing that is not exactly true, but
which may pass as such unless one is
found out. These are little Indifferent
fibs that people tell for the sake of
passing something up, or for the pur-
pose of CLOSING over some point one
desires to make. The white liar is the
everyday kind, and we find them
everywhere.
The black liar is the nasty kind who
lies for the sake Of lying, who knows
he is lying. and who cannot help lying.
The yellow liar is one who lies to
hear himself lie; one who lies for the
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27

Trenton are roundly scored by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Jer-
sey City. The censure is richly de-
served There is no more supercilious
and domineering body in the country
than these men. They do not in any
way regard the rights or sentiments OF
the citizens and they have shown them
selves ON every occasion when ap-
pealed to, to be utterly deaf and dumb.
The trouble is not confined to Jersey
City. Their policy covers the entire
state. No action of Governor Edwards
could give more popular satisfaction
than the immediate removal of these
men and the passage of law making
the offices elective instead of appoint
i've. 1t was their evil reputation that
made the coming system failure; for
the public, owing to their contemptu-
Gus neglect of public interests, was,
disinclined to cooperate in any way
with any movement of the Public Serv-
ice Corporation for its betterment.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
BATTLEFIELDs OF FRANCE.

Capt. Samuel E. Darby has written
wonderful description of a visit to
the battlefields of France made last
August in company with party OF
four others. two of whom knew the
topography and direction of the most
important and interesting parts of the
great war arena, and Captain Darby
has presented his story in such inter-
esting and graphic manner as to en-
chain the readers attention from the
first syllable to the last. 1t is indeed
a remarkable production, and will take
rank with the best that has been or
will be written of this now historic
field of war action, the like of which
history has never before known and
will probably never know again.
There have been two outstanding
descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo
one by Victor Hugo in LES Misera-
bles," the other by Charles Lever in
Charles OMalley." There have al
ready been scores, of descriptions of
the battlefields of France, but none, in
the estimation of The Palisadian, to
surpass the fine work Of Captain Darby
in his modest little publication. The
manner of giving out his conception of
what he saw, in merely timid little
pamphlet mission, intended for his per-
sOnal friends, shows with what COM
mendable spirit he gave his feeling
description to the world. AS matter
of fact, what he has produced deserves
the highest rank, for nothing better
will ever be printed Some time, when
the real critic has found out that he
has done this fine thing, the little
masterpiece that contains only about
1900 words will be taken up and pre-
served as among the greatest of the
best that has been written about the
field of the greatest contest that was
ever staged between cOntending armies
with modern equipment for slaughter
and carnage.
There are parts of this description
that are of SURPRISING beauty and
tenderness, particularly those passages
where he paused in tears before the
grave of Quentin Roosevelt and at the
great American cemetery at Roumagne
with its $4,000 dead.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
Our Real Mission.

1t is the task of the right thinking
part of the world to heal the sick men,
Der Of the nations, Germany. This
nation has suffered from the faults of
its rulers. Bloated with prosperity, fed
with lies by even the church and the
university, to say nothing of its poll
ticians, these unfortunate people burst
over the world and drew upon them
selves the wrath and hatred of all
civilization. No nation has ever earned
such scorn and indignation. The blind
led the blind, and both have fallen into
the ditch. 1t is not the mission of
Christianity to judge and condemn the
guilty, but to bring them to new
frame of mind wherein they will &C.
knowledge their faults, pay the PEN
atty of recompense, wherever it can
be done, and start new life of de-
cency. Germany needs a revival of
real religion, not formal, but Of the
spirit. Who will take it to her?
EARSEN I. SOPEN.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
TEACHING is ALTRuisTlc.

1.-THE teaching profession should be
honored above all others; the direction
of its ideals, standards, and curricula,
the choice of its man-pOwer and wOm-
empower placed in the hands of the
most truly enlightened and sweet-liv-
ing persons in the state-not mere ca
pable administrators or scholars, but
men and women who have shown in
practice that they can rise to the altru-
istic conception of human existence.
States should spend money and effort
as freely on this great all-underlying
matter of spiritual education as they
have hitherto spent them on beating
and destroying each other. "-"Where
We Stand" by John Galsworthy, At
lantic Monthly. January, 1920.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
More Jobs Lost.

Sheriff Kingsley gives report on
the county Jail that must make the
shivers run up and down the spine of
the wet" advocates in Bergen county.
Twelve inmates, instead of the GUS
tomary hundreds before prohibition
became law. But Governor Edwards
will soon change all that. What would
our fiourishing Jail building companies
do if they are to be forced out of bust
ness together with the brewers and
saloonkeepers? Are we to have these
thousands of hard working Jail con-
structors deprived of employment, in
addition to the countless millions of
crime breeding experts already de-
prived of livelihood by prohibition?
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27

sake of carrying a point He knows he
is liar, but nothing ever stops him.
The yellow liar is the exaggerating
liar, the cur lier, who lies like dog
because he is one himself.
The red liar is the one who would
commit murder, who cannot keep from
living when he knows the truth would
be better. The red liar Is the lurid
kind that knows when the truth would
fit better but would die rather than
tell it. His is ingrOwn lying-a man
who would lie facing death itself. He
is the last word in lying, who would
send his mother to Jail to secure a
drink if telling the truth would Keep
her out.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

Today it is poor egg that doesn't
bring nickel, and butter is worth 70
cents the pound. The old-timer looks
back over the years. He signs for the
good old times. Eggs were 10 cents a
dozen and butter 20 cents pound
But does he really want "the good
old times?' Let's see.
In those days people had parlOrs and
didn't use 'em. Now they have living
rooms and wear 'em almost out.
They lighted their homes with kero-
sene hanging" lamps.
Fellows took their girls out buggy
riding" and knew nothing of the joy
of fleet motor car.
Men were paid dollar a day on the
section, and the other day laborer,
just a little above him, was paid $40
week.
a person had weak lungs they began
to select nice green spot in the "mar-
BILE orchard" for him, and if your ap-
pendiX got tangled up they said you
had Inflammation of the bowels and
they buried you deep.
And women wore bustles and long
germy skirts and had limbs instead of
legs.
Houses We're heated by stoves of one
kind or another. And-bathtubs and
other toilet facilities there were none.
Remember those cold winter nights,
with the ordinary lot 900 feet long?
Yes, those were not the good old
days. Let 'em keep their 1O-cent eggs
and their 20-cent butter. Living in
1920 is worth more than it costs, even
if it costs more than it did.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
Not Right, but Rapaeity.

The .Bolshevik ideas cannot prevail
where ordinary morality exists. 1t is
the doctrine of the seizure and division
of wealth without any regard to right
or wrong. The first object of their at
tack IS religion necessarily, for re-
ligion forbids the deprivation of prop
erty from any man without regard to
both human and divine law. Human
laws may be changed, but the divine
law never. Hence the Bolshevik hates
all reference to divinity. Bolshevism
is Numerically opposed to the two
commandments "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
thy neighbor as myself" 1t is the
Lords earth and the neighbors' goods
that the Bolshevik loves.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27

any schemes for systematic saving and
safe investment are the sworn foes OF
the goddess of chance, and help to
combat the temptation to add needless.
ly to the other fellows pile.
Example, too, deserves serious con.
sideration. Our lives GO lend argu.
ments to our neighbors' creeds, wheth.
er we like to believe it or not, and in
nothing more than in gambling. And
gambling today needs every argument
which can be arrayed against it,
Hackensack Record.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
ST. PATRIcK's LUNCHEON.

The st. Patricks day luncheon given
by Mrs. william Clark of GrantwOod
will be remembered as most attractive
The hostess has the reputation of do
ing things artistically, and ever since
the guests received their unique little
shamrock cards of invitation in rhyme
for the luncheon at the hospitable
Clark home on Palisade avenue, In
Grantwood, they have been anticipat.
ing the occasion with pleasure, and
the event more than justified their ex-
pectations. The group of twelve were
greeted by a most charming table in
green and white, over which waved
the Irish flags encircling the American
flags on standards on each side of the
large green hat of typical shape which
formed the center piece, while at each
place was a dainty place card, little
boy or girl, green clad; also in each
glass stood large green shamrock
which unfolded in a wonderful way,
and each guest had little green bas-
ket of salted almonds and an unfolded
napkin decorated with gay Irish lads
and lassies.
The menu was delicious in all its
four courses, the main dish of the
animal saint of Ireland, the pig in his
evolution of dainty pink slices of ham,
The Irish potato had it's place, camou-
tagged lin cream. Green peas and va
rious green pickles and jams, green
candies, chicken salad and pistachiO
ice cream, all of home manufacture,
made an appeal both to the eye and
the taste.
The hostess made quite sensation
when she added the special touch of a
birthday cake, which, brilliant in its
green icing and lighted candles, she
brought in In honor of Mrs. Charles
Stein, who, it seems, has the honor of
being born on the day of Ireland's
patron saint. To Mrs. Stein was ac-
corded the honor of cutting the cake,
Of which each guest had a piece.
At the luncheon many were the sto-
ries told and great the merriment ere
ated. Then the hostess presented each
guest with one of the Irish flags, each
of which bore number, and following
this mysterious proceeding the hostess
passed the hat, not for a collection,
but for distribution, for in the green
high hat were charming little gifts,
numbered according to the flags, and
each guest received very pretty SOU
venir wrapped in green paper fastened
with shamrock.
Then daintily decorated cards were
given each one, and, as Mrs. Clark
played on the piano various tunes,
each was to be guessed.
The scene was very jolly one, with
the women decorating themselves with
their flags and shamrocks and the lit
tile flags which had graced their cream
cups, and they developed a talent for
story telling which kept the ball roll
ing till late hour, when all adjourned
with most happy recollections for
many day of their generous hostess
and delicious luncheon.
Those present were Mrs. KrOnen-
bitter of New York, mother of the
hostess; Mrs. Joseph Kenworthy, Mrs.
q. Sheffield, Mrs. George Vaughn, Mrs.
Z. Mileham, Mrs. w. Moreno, Mrs.
George Dickinson, Mrs. c. b. Hearn,
Mrs. Charles Stein, Mrs. William
Schlatter, Mrs. w. w. Clark and Mrs.
George Donaldson.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
SIMPLE AS A-B-C.

That there is clear understanding
in Fort Lee on the new high school
building in Fort Lee was again evil
denced on Thursday evening, when a
meeting was called to talk on sites
voted on resolution designed to block
the building altogether for the present
The resolution meant nothing more
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
Thoughts Of the Today
Fritz Dotted His kapp.

Germany did not seem to find the
Kapp to fit properly at the head of the
government. He was no Liberty
Kapp." The Kaiser's 100000 marks
must have been easy marks, so to
speak.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
CREDITORS of Henry woodcock. de

CREDITORS of Henry Woodcock, de-
ceased, are, by order of J. Blauvelt
Hopper, Surrogate of Bergen County,
dated December 8, 1919, upon applica-
ton to the subscriber, notified to bring
in their debts, demands and claims
against his estate, under oath, within
nine months from above date.
MARY WOODCOCK,
WILLIAM HENRY WOODCOCK.
Executors.