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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
PROHIBITION IN BERGEN COUNTY =
HAS WORKED A MIRACLE, SAYS
JOSEPH K|NzLEY, JR,; Y IN JAIL
Remarkable Statement of Present Conditions Where Not
One Person Charged With Drunkenness Has Been
Brought in Since November, and Present Inmates
Soon to Leave
DEADLY ANSWER TO THE GIN MILL

Sheriff Joseph Kinzley, Jr., was
talking to The Palisadian one evening
this week and was asked how things
were at the Bergen county Jail. He
is living at the prison with his family
and says he likes it immensely. He
had just gone down to the kitchen to
see how things were going there when
he was called on the phone. He gives
every little detail his personal atten-
etion. Nothing escapes him.
GLOW do I like living alongside my
tenants?" he asked. "The best in the
world. This is the greatest adventure
I have ever had. 1t is the one Oppor-
tunity I have sought that fulfills my
ideals of what man might do to help
his fellow man. l long wanted to be
sheriff because thought 1 could find
a chance to snatch some poor devil of
a brand from the flames. When I
started for the job, however, expect
ed to have great swarm of company
Instead, the work of prohibition has
revolutionized the business of keeping
open house in jail"
"What do you mean by that?" he
was asked.
Why, folks now avoid the Jail in
stead of coming in and just staying in
'droves. They actually dodge it. I'll
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Debate on Warfare
Rules at Palisade
Church Sun. Eve,

AT the Young Peoples Society meet
ling last Sunday night Harry Elkan
spoke to the thought contained on a
llittle slip he had been given Is ii
right for a general Id war to deceive
the enemy?" Harry said he did not
think it was. He did not believe in
war anyhow, because it was not hui
man. A general with an inferior force
can so camoutiage the guns he has. the
men and the roads so that he can get
the enemy to come into the danger
zone and then slaughter him. He did
not believe it was right because it was
not human.
Mr.. Logan said he thought that all
was fair in love and war; that strate-
gy. which was deception, had always
been employed to mislead the enemy,
and that no institution was more hui
man than war. 1t has always existed
and perhaps would always exist I'M
less the League of Nations became so
formidable that nations could not go
to war. But the league was not form
ed to stop wars, but to stop unjust
wars. War was a natural expression
of humanity. AS long as men differed
individually he believed war would
continue. Only the Millennium would
avert war
Mr.. Elkan said he still believed war
would cease because it was not hu-
man, whereupOn Pastor Guhse agreed
with him that war was not human,
and Mr.. Logan said that as long as
war was waged according to the rules
of civilized warfare it was all right.
In the recent war; from which we are
not yet fully recovered, Germany had
not fought according to the rules of
warfare and had to take Il defeat for
! that reason, perhaps. Mr.. Guhse did
not agree with this and said that the
late world war had come about be-
cause the world was already in such
a chaotic state everywhere when the
trouble began. Mr. Logan said this
was not the case at all. Far from be-
ing in chaotic state, no other nation
but Germany was even thinking about
war Germany was the only power
that was ready and fully prepared.
England did not have even the SEM
blance of an army and took the hand
full of men she had and got into the
fray like man running to a fire in
his night clothes. The United States
was not in any chaotic state before
the war and certainly tried hard
enough to keep out of it. But it had
to be. War is carried on in all
| forms of life-in the floral and vege-
table Kingdoms, in the animal king
DOM among the fishes of the seat is
always the survival of the fittest.
There will always be war, but future
wars, he thought, would be fought like
the rules governing the rules of Mar
quis of Queensbury fight, in the squar-
ed circle, where the referee saw that
men fought fairly. That was one of
the purposes of the League of Nations
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
A Stirring Sermon
On Adventurous
Life" Exenplihed

Taking the subject "The Adventur-
GUS Life" for his discourse last Sum
day and basing the life of Paul as an
Iexennl fication Of II in its truest sense,
| Rev H. II Gunse last Sunday at the
Palisade Church delivered one of his
best sermons, which all who heard it
greatly enjoyed. Indeed, it was one
of the best deliveries he has made DUR
ing his stay here Paul, he said. was
the truest type of man, who had the
daring and the nerve to serve the Mas
ter in the spirit of being willing to Law
down his life in the cause of serving
him.
After Paul had pledged his life to
the Masters cause following his con-
version he took many risks through
opposition and ran many physical haz-
ards. These included opposition from
the Jews, ecclesiastical opposition,
jealOusies, etc. But Paul pledged his
new life to the cause of his new faith,
and the inevitable outcome was an adj
venturous life Paul's faith was the
commanding passion of his life. and
that is what makes us all conquerors
when we go out after an achievement
The speaker said he deplored all the
petty, little mean things, the irritating
meanneSSeS and indecencieS, which in a
man of bigneSs and broadnesS are
burnt up because of his faith and en-
thusiasm. You cannot burn up moral
refuse by faint hearted faith. The
speaker quoted Il friend, who last week
said to him: Everything goes wrong,
but my optimism is greater than ever"
Ask yourself the question, How much
of the glow of enthusiasm do men see
in you?
The power to endure and achieve
is the great thought in life. Paul said,
Il can do all things through my faith
in Jesus Christ" There is nothing
material quite like the inspiration of a
determined effort to do a thing. Not
self must actuate us in our efforts.
The joy of achievement is in doing for
others. This was aim and ambition.
Others are to catch the CLEAN of his
work through the centuries, as they
have in the time that has elapsed since
his time and day. Was there ever Il
greater day for adventurous living?
Smite the times with your faith; clari-
! fly the day of chaos with simplicity of
purpose; undergirt the season of UNI
certainty with power; raise a standard
of high Christianity and noble living
in a day when men need to be fasci-
mated by things that abide. What
kind of life is yours? he asked.
All in all, it was a stirring sermon,
that held every listener to the end.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
HkJk)I sd1SC111c1lC Oh
Palisade Damages
On New Highway

The appraisers for the new public
highway that is to dispossess several
families in Palisade and damage
great many of the finest residential
properties is composed of only two
members, H. G. Straight of Morsemere
and Andrew Christie of Leonia. These
gentlemen have now completed their
labors of appraising Palisade property
touched by the new highway, and the
results will be known before a great
while. Their work has been of an in
teresting nature, and they have used
their own judgment in regard to dam
ages, depending upon the sense of JUS
tice in the Highway Commission to
sustain them. The two men who OPP
Grated in Palisade have done other
work of this kind, and their ideas have
pretty generally matched. Recently on
one piece of appraisement work that
amounted to $4,000 there was scarce
1y dollars difference in the estimates
made by each. Some of the damages
in Palisade will be satisfactory. No
doubt others will not be, though this
the committee has tried to avoid by
system that has been acceptable wher
ever they have operated.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Ground Rules Break
Up Game With
Clihside High

Monday evening the Cliffside Park
boys and girls of the basketball teams,
with thesr followers, travelled to Leo
mia. The girls were badly defeated.
The scoEs was 1870. The boys had
put on faeir toys and were ready to
get revefsse when an argument arose
between Mr. Burns, coach of the Cliff
siders, ansi the coach of Leonia.
The Ls&niaite tried to make ground
rules Nj III would haze been q serious
-1 ais.,l sas % the acal 6ays. Sc re.
quested that the boys use the walls
for boundaries, even though the court
had been marked out. This Mr.. Burns
would not tolerate He said, mas
much as the local boys had been train
ing during the past season on the
marked line, he could not see why he
should comply with their rules. The
Leonia boys knew their court and
could use the walls to an advantage.
Finally the game was called, and the
boys went home feeling pretty sore.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Scout Play Was
Fine Success

AT the regular meeting of Boy Scout
Troop l of Cliffside Park on Thursday
afternoon at Grantwood school the
flnal returns were made of the Scout
play and entertainment recently held
in the Cliffside Park High School, and
after all expenses had been paid the
clear profits were found to be $77S5.
This was very encouraging for the
Scouts and their Scoutmaster, who had
well earned success by their hard work,
which they did in many ways, and the
troop were well pleased to find their
expectations of the support of the peo-
pie of the borough confirmed.
They wish to thank those who so
generously contributed to their enter
tainment. A discovery which has been
made renders the Scout play doubly
interesting. The Scoutmaster, Mr.
Wallace e. Stockwell, wrote and staged
the play himself, so the large audience
that evening enjoyed the original work
of one of their number, who, as the
manual training teacher in the school,
can do both literary and manual work.
At the Thursday meeting Mr.. Goe-
mann was present and signed and pre-
scented two second class certificates to
Scouts after being sworn in by the
Scoutmaster.
The two fortunate boys were Her.
bert Mute and Walter Preator, who
We're recently transferred from a Pat
erson troop. After the swearing in of
these second class Scouts Arthur
Abrams was given the Scout oath and
admitted into membership.
Eight other boys are busily engaged
in studying the requirements for a ten
derfo0t Scout and are using every adj
vantage to get in before the member
ship closes, for troop is only allowed
80 active members, and just now there
are more than that number applying
for membership.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Alan Mutt Post
Legion Drive Now
On in Earnest

The big membership drive of the AL
an Mutt Post of the American Legion
of Cliffside Park has started in earn
est. Post Commander Joseph Mitchell
at the last meeting of the Legion gave
stirring address, in which he showed
the boys the advantage of large men,
bership. The entire prospective men,
bership and roll file was read, and as
the names were read each member was
requested to jot down the names of the
men he knew, so that he could ap-
proach and inform them of the bene-
fits of the Legion and to exact a prom
Use to attend the first current meeting
of the Legion to sign up and join.
The men have entered into the spirit
of the drive and have promised hearty
cooperation.
The members of the Legion are plan
ming a baseball team, and it is said
that it has excellent material to select
from. The basketball team have made
fair record for themselves and are
becoming stronger as the season closes.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
e5ln side r ark
National Bank
Opens for Business

The Cliffside Park National Bank
opened it's doors for the first time last
Monday morning and began to do bust
ness from the start. They had about
100 accounts opened, and the gain is
making rapid Roadway daily. There
had been an informal reception to the
subscribers on Saturday night, which
was greatly enjoyed, this being the
first bank the borough has ever had,
and everybody is as proud of it as a
small boy with his first pair of red
topped boots. f. w. Jacoby, formerly
of the Edgewater Trust Company, is
cashier, and with his experience things
are bound to go along smoothly. The
officers are greatly encouraged at the
outlook.
President Sammis said this week: 81
want everybody to feel free to ask us
for any kind of help within our power
to offer. Call us up at any time and
we shall gladly serve. People living
in Palisade, for instance, who might
favor us with their deposit accounts
may find it inconvenient to bring their
cash to the bank on account of the dis
lance. If they will call us on the phone
we shall be pleased to send for the
money by messenger, giving the de-
posit book entry at the home. This
is new departure, but being accom-
mOdating is our middle name. We
want your business and will go after
it,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Bogota Girl Hurt
By Train Thursday
Is Badly Injured

Nancy Monroe, twenty-five years old,
of 100 Elm avenue, Bogota, assistant
auditor for the Hotel Seville Madison
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New
York, was seriously injured in an acct
dent at the1Bogota station of the West
Shore raili'bad at 7:3O o'clock Thurs
day m0riiI b. The young woman is in
the Hackensack Hospital with frac-
ture of the skull, a fracture of the
right arm, an injury to one hip, lacera-
lions of the face and possible internal
injuries.
1t is understood she attempted to
pass over the tracks in front of the
station from the east to the west side
to board the train she was accustomed
to take on her way to business. The
train was pulling into the station at
the time and Miss Monroe cleared the
first rail and was almost over the Sec
ond rail when the engine caught her
foot, throwing her back and against
the locomotive.
Miss Monroe has been boarding at
the address given in Bogota and it is
said her family live somewhere in Ca
NADIA. The attending surgeon, DIR. He'll
stem, telephoned The Palisadian in the
evening tlElt Miss Monroe, while terri
bly, injured had chance for recovery.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Steele Purchases
Fine New Broom
Home in Madison

The w. P. Steeles have recently
bought a fine little home out in Madi-
son, N. j., just little beyond Norris
town. The house is white stucco, has
eight fine rooms, a solarium, sleeping
porch and all modern improvements.
1t has a red tile roof and is modern
is on the left as you enter, the kitchen
in the rear, with a large living room
on the right extending the length of
the house. The lot is So feet by 200
feet, running with the length of the
block The house faces the long side
of the property and is on corner. Mr..
Steele will build new garage. The
price paid was $4,000.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13

tell you what you would not believe.
We have just IL people in Jail at this
moment, and by Friday of this week
[ look to see nearly half this number
leave us. The number of the county's
Jail guests is away below normal. 1
wasn't particularly in favor of prohi-
bitiOn, and I don't have to say what
believe in now. But I'll say it's a
good thing. l have not had one person
in this Jail charged with drunkenness
since | came here, November IL last.
There were hundreds monthly before
prohibition, and that is no misstate-
ment. The people 1 have here now
are three charged with murder, two
doing sentence, four awaiting sentence,
two witnesses, and one other minor
witness. Can you beat it? Is it not
an answer to the gin mill? 1 had a
man here-just one-under the inf1u-
ence of liquor. Also one woman in the
same fix. Both were released without
the charge of drunkenness There has
been not one other. Is there any ques-
ton about prohibition? It is a wonder
full record have had right here. Make
no mistake about it. l am personally
delighted to make these observations.
1t is revelation and miracle. The
Hackensack lookup is having a similar
record
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
800 YEARS OLD CHINESE RUG GIVEN
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, C'WOOD;
ONCE in ANCIENT TEMPLE THERE
twenty-five Feet Long, Rug Still as Fresh in Color as
When Woven-Desgn Is in Ten Squares on Panels,
With Medallions of Orchids and Butterflies, Typify-
ing Beauty and Immortality
DONORS NAME WITHHELD FOR T1ME

Recently there has been presented
to Trinity Church, Grantwood, by DON
ors who do not wish to be publicly
known, a Chinese rug of unusual beau
ty and historical interest. 1t is to
be used on Communion Sunday the
first of each month, commencing with
Easter Sunday, April 4.
The rug is about % feet long,
feet, 6 inches wide, and Is divided into
squares, or panels. The We're origi-
nally ID of these, but unfortunately 5
were cut off and sold to individuals.
The designs are medallions of orchids
and butterflies with a blue cross in
the center. The rug was made nearly
800 years ago, and belongs to the
QuinS Chang dynasty. 1t was made
for Chinese temple, and on each
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13

square monk sat cross legged to
receive aims of the faithful. The over
throw of the Empire and the Inaugural
ton of the Republic caused the temple
to become deserted. The monks, de-
prived of their livelihood, sold the
rug, with other objects, to an Ameri-
can, who brought it to this country
last July
The colOrs of the rug are as bright
as when first woven, and consist of
dark blue, white, lemon yellow, and
burnt orange.
The butterfly is the emblem of i'm
mortality; the orchid the emblem of
beauty.
Strange to say there are no figures
of dragons, or any other mythical
beings that would make it incongruous
with the Christian worship.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
New Auto Agency,
Rich. Fox, Jr., Has
Winton and Ternplar

Richard J. Fox, Jr., who has been
recently elected to the Board of Edu-
cation of Cliffside Park, polling the
largest vote, will open an agency for
the Tempar auto and the Winton
auto. These two new makes are rap
idly becoming popular throughout the
country, and Mr.. Fox expects a ire
mendous business from his section of
the county, northeastern Bergen.
Mr.. Fox has worked around automo-
biles for many years, and he under
stands the mechanism of nearly every
car on the market. He also has many
secondhand cars for sale and will also
buy cars.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Young Peoples
Society to Have
Pictures Sun. Eve

The Young Peoples Society of the
Palisade Church will have Mrs. D. II.
Valentine as leader Sunday night. Her
topic will be "Habit and Its Control
Over Life" After the discussion,
which will be open following Mrs. VAL
entine's talk, there will be a series of
stereopticon pictures shown, which is
specially interesting announcement.
The public is cordially invited to be
present.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Contentious Never Popular.

The wise man in Israel has truly
said: ga FOOLS lips enter into conten-
tion," and the contentious fool is as
common nuisance today as he was
no doubt in the olden ones. Usually
in proportion to their lack Of actual
knowledge do such persons presume
to set themselves up as dictators to
others.--EXchange.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13

There have been more houses sold or
exchanged in Palisade within the last
few months than for many years all
told Some are selling to go to other
localities, others for the profit they
make on the original cost, while others
have just sold. Well, they'll all be
wanting to come back to dear little
Palisade sure's you're born and no mis-
take. Watch 'em!
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Turtle Unstops Sewer.

To open stopped up sewer pipe
Frank Ward of Richmond, Mo-, caught
a small turtle and cut a small hole in
its shell. Then he tied string in
the hole and started the turtle through
the sewer pipe. Whenever the turtle
stopped a pull on the string started it
clawing its way forward again until
the pipe was clear.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Clifside Council
Holds Short Session

A short meeting was held by the
mayor and council of the borough of
Cliffside Park on Tuesday evening.
Only routine business was transacted,
and the meeting was adjourned shortly
after 10 o'clock
The West Grantwood assessment
was returned to the commission for
readjustment, as several complaints
We're filed objecting to the assess
ments.
A committee to be called the Perma-
nent Assessment Commission was APP
pointed, as follows: One year, DR.. L. c.
Hellstern; two year term, j. G. Vos-
burgh; three years, R. H. Mutt, Sr.
Councilman Post proposed an EN-
ployees insurance for the roadmen.
It was turned over to the Road Cons
u; tFsaa II ,.. 10
ing.
The Aurora avenue improvement
was laid over until the next meeting,
which will give the borough engineers
more time to secure a complete esti-
mate of the cost of grading and sewer
ing the street.
A communication was received from
the Citizens Club protesting against
the Lawton avenue improvement. The
clerk was instructed to communicate
with that organization and advise
them that it was too late; that work
had already begun on that avenue.
The Fire Committee reported that
400 feet of fire hose had been received
for the Cliffside engine. The bill was
presented and ordered paid.
The Prospect avenue improvement
was given it's second reading.
The st. Johns Lyceum Club was
granted use of the playground for the
coming baseball season.
The garbage came in for a drub-
bling; but, taking the severe weather
into consideration and the garbage
mans promise to clean things up, he
was given $50 extra to hire an extra
team of horses to straighten things
out.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13
Not ENOUGH.

"Swept by saline breezes and wash
ed by the waves of the sea. That's
our town." "Any other STRENGTHENING
facilities?" inquired the old Crouch
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-13

Very few people who want a ''soviet"
are able to explain clearly what it is.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-07-30
LEFTOVER WHEAT IN JUMP
Grain From last Years Crop Carried
over into 1920 Amounts TO
to9 $4,000 Bushels

Washington, July % Wheat from
last years crop Carried over into 1920
totaled 109,3lS.000 bushels on July 1,
compared with 1861. 900 bushels of
the 1913 crop ON hand the correspond
ing day last year, said an announce
ment by the department of agriculture.
Crops ON farms, In country mills
and elevators and In points of large
accumulation. all showed an increase
over 1919 totals This year farmers
held 47.756,000 bushels, against 49,
POI 900 bushels In 1919. the figure per-
haps rejecting disturbed transporta-
tion conditions during the last year.
At the larger central storage points
this year the department found "a
574,0O0 bushels, against 9,5320 600 In
the same places ON July l, 1919.