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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18

nurses, is fast making straight and
strong.
Over in Syria green vegetables and
milk are right on hand. Nobody has
to be taught to use them. 1T is the
natural thing to do. But COWS and
gardens are scarce in the heart of
Paterson, far scarcer than pastry,
coffee, Hamburg steak and the newt
able garlic. Was it strange that a
little mother, scarcely 16 years old
(she had married or been married at
IA, served to her family in good faith
what America offered?
Her husband had ricketts,. The first
child died of them. Then little dark
skinned Mary came into a world full
of love, but not of the right kind Of
food. A little later Charlie followed
her. A little mother watched their
heads grow too large and their little
limbs crooked, helpless before the
strangeness of a new country whose
language she could not speak.
Then it was that the City Home
Demonstration appeared and found
room in some hospital where Mary
and Charlie started on the slow, long
road to health. In the meantime the
woman who is teaching the Paterson
women who need her most what it
means to live in America, climbed
regularly the three flights of steep
stairs to the rooms where Charles
nnd Movie noOfhnr 1uoc frYtcffr1I
waiting for the day when they would
come home we'll and strong. An in
terpreter always came along and
helped the Home Demonstration teach
the Syrian mother how to make is
tards and cereals, milk soups and
buildings that would keep those little
bodies straight when they came at
last from the hospital.
For eight months they stayed, then
returned to a home where good food
and love awaited them together. Now
Mary runs and laughs and hugs her
doll like any little 5-year-old girl.
And soon she is going to kindergarten.
And Charlie, though his legs are not
quite straight yet, smiles trustingly
with dark Syrian eyes on a world that
promises to give him a square deal
after all.
And the Home Demonstration Agent
looks in on the family every once in
awhile on her way to visit some other
Charlie and Mary, but now no inter-
prefer is needed to tell ner that green's
and milk and eggs are helping make
good little American citizens of
Charlie and Mary.-1ssued by the
State College of Agriculture, Noyem-
Der IA, 1921.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18
VAN NESS ACT BEFORE
SUPREME COURT
A Battle Royal to Test COnStitutiOnality Of Act
$50 Gases on WTitS Of CertiOrari; Col. Geo.
7. ViCkers Represents the State and
Robert H. MCCdrter the Liquor Interests

November 4th was the most impor-
tant red-letter day in the making OF
Prohibition history in the State OF
New Jersey since the passage of the
State Prohibition Enforcement Law
by the Legislature.
In the Supreme Court Chamber, at
Trenton, the Prosecutors of the state
met the attorneys of the bootleggers
and rum-runners in a battle royal on
the question of the constitutionality
of the law. Appeal had been taken
in some $50 cases, from all parts of
the state, chiefly from Hudson and
Essex counties, and, by agreement of
counsel, these cases were punched,
former Attorney General Robert H.
McCarter, of Newark, and Counsellor
Warren Dixon, of Jersey City, repre-
senting the appellants; and, by agree
ment between the Prosecutors, Col.
Geo. T. Vickers, Assistant Prosecutor
of Hudson County, and Judge Wilbur
A. Mott, Assistant Prosecutor of Es-
sex County, representing the Prosecu-
tors of the State.
An elaborate brief of 95 pages, pre-
pared by Col. Vickers with Counsel of
Judge Mott, was filed with the Court,
which contained the arguments and
citations of law, on the cases from
Hudson, Essex, Camden, Middlesex
and Union Counties.
The cases selected were those of
Katz in Salem County and Sinisi of
Hudson County.
From the standpoint of an observer
of the debate, one fact was outstand-
ing: Col. Vickers' argument was but
tressed throughout with citations of
decisions of the Court of Errors and
Appeals, and of the Supreme Court;
many of the decisions having been
prepared by the Judges of Part Three
of the Supreme Court, who sat at this
hearing, Justices Trenchard, Minturn
and Bergen, whereas, the arguments
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18
AMERICA is A LAND FLOWING
WITH MILK AND EGGS FOR
CHARLIE AND MARY

Cooperative Extension Work in Agri-
culture and Home Economics. State
of New Jersey. Special Service in
Furtherance of the~Acts of Congress
of May Sth and June 80, 1914. L. A.
Clinton, Director. Carl r. Wood
ward, Editor.
She is Syrian, and young and beau
tifnl. Her home, high up in a Pater-
son tenement, is her paradise; her
husband, sick and often jobless, is not
only to be loved and honored, but
obeyed. But her world centers about
two little bodies, once crooked, which
Providence in the shape of a Home
Demonstration Agent, doctors and
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18

interests of the people, the ordinary
people, farmers, ETC., and how to put
capitalists and everything savoring
of capitalism where it and they be-
long. The League, through it's com
plete control of the State Legislature,
embarked upon a multiplicity OF
schemes of a socialistic and revolu-
tionary nature. The Bank of North
Dakota was organized along novel
lines; all state and county and other
public and official funds had to be
! deposited in this institution, and other
regulations were formulated to make
it the dominating banking power of
the state, enjoying privileges not
granted any other bank. An ambi-
tious scheme for establishing state
grain elevators was launched in order
to protect the farmers from goug1ng
at the hands of the owners of the ex-
listing elevators. State flour mills were
also devised. State bonds were, OF
course, foated to finance these and
other projects conceived by Townley
and his followers. North Dakota
was to be a Utopia for the common
people-if farmers suffered losses
through hailstorms or the like, why,
the state would make good their
losses. There was to be a most gen
erous lending Of the Bank of North
Dakota funds to the farmers and other
little" people, but not a cent for the
kind of people ordinary banks like to
do business with.
The whole scheme captivated the
majority of the voters. 1t looked at
tractive, so ideal-on paper.
Today Townley is under Jail sem
tence. The voters have recalled the
Non-Partisan League Governor and
other leading League officials and
have elected in their stead opponents
of the League. The Bank of North
Dakota got into trouble long ago, nav
ing found that it was easy enough TO
lend money with lavish hand to farm
ers and others, but that it was anotner
thing to try to collect. Financial
scandals have been rife. and when the
new administration takes hold, sensa-
tionaI revelations are promised. The
wonderful mill and elevator plants
have died aborning. North DAKOTA
business and credit have been sho to
pieces.
In short, Townley's ideal mas proven
a disastrous delusion.
North Dakota's experience mas
simply confirmed Russia's g~rand-scaie
governments and smaller-scale expert
ments elsewhere, namely, that Ideals
are worse than worthless unless
founded on h~orse-sense. unless attuneu
to human nature, unless ~predicated
on the principle that brains, manage
ment, skill. experience and common
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18
ODDS AND
ENDS
BY B. c. Forbes
In the New York American

In the New York American
Unless we had ideals, life would be
humdrum. Our ideals are the shining
goals we press on towards. They are
our beacon lights; u guiding stars.
Without ideals we would only drift
In a d~esultory, unsatisfactory, hap
hazard, ineffective way.
But there are ideals and ideals.
Some are sensible. Some are ION
%sensical. Some are reasonably prac-
ucable. Others are utterly imprac-
ucable. Some ideals look beautiful
on paper, but collapse when put to
the test.
In this work-a-day world it is i'm
portant that we set up ideals that
are worth pressing towards, and that
we do not waste effort in furthering
'ldeals which are unsound, visionary,
impossible.
Many become obsessed with ideals
winch are in reality decisions. They
picture conditions impossible of at
'talnment while human nature remains
human nature as we know it. They
Econjure up Utopias which could
|Decome realities this side of the mil
7lennium.
such idealists, such Missionaries, in
s'ead of being a blessing, are a curse
% the world, for very often they inter-
|iere with the adoption of what to them
seems to be halfway measures but
winch go as far as the stern realities
will permit.
quite a few ideals which are more
|ueiaslons than ideals have been and
|rie being exploded these days. Man
|lnd is learning at least something
|aoout what is feasible, about what
work, and about some things that
re not feasible, that will not work.
thoughtful American citizens nave
sV'iowed with keen and close interest
governmental experiments of
0i.n Dakota. Several years ago
o.iailstlc ideas began to gain popu-
niity there. A man by the name of
ruwniey became leader of what de-
reioped into an important political
o'ement. Farmers galore fiocked to
standard. His party, which be-
a"e known as the Non-Partisan
league, finally got into power.
me Non-Partisan League set out
= now how to run a state in the
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sense are indispensable for the sue
cessful carrying on of the affairs Of
this world. Dreams remain only
dreams, or they become night mares
unless taken in hand by those possess
ing the know how"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18

What the world needs is not more
totally-impractical idealists, but more
idealism on the part of practical men
who possess influence and power and
capital and ability.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-18

BOOST BUSINESS
IN WILDWOOD
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
Sunday Morning Talk
WHEN WIRES GET TIRED

Wires tired? That is what the tele- graph operators tell us Automobiles kept all the time in use tire so that they do not obey the commands of the driver. as once they did, and how tired these bodies of our do get sometimes Day after day in these strenuous times we fairly long for a moment when we can just lay our heads on the bosom of Mother Earth and be still, after such a time of resting we go back strong to do the work that comes to us.
 But the sorest weariness is that which comes to the heart, the days have been so hard Things have come to try us as we never were tried before. Passions hot tide has swept over us, and we are conscious that somehow the c. rent of power is weak within us What shall we do now?
 What but creep away from the world and its glage and glitter and be alone with Jesus.
 How sweet are the words that come to us at these times Come with me ] know all about it I have been tired ah, so tired, myself many timesl Let's go away somewhere for little while and be alone That will rest you That vii bring back the strength to meet life again. Tell me all that is in your heart I will take the load myself and let you rest :"
 Blessed resting time! Safe and surC retreat from all the harassing cares WC will go We will sit with Ills hand ir ours. We will listen to His words ot cheer. and then we will go down into the world again, strong in the power o His Might Stop awhile and rest th, tired nerves.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.

Though at the age when life is uneer- tain and when it was known that he was not in the best of health, the death of Chief Justice Edward D. White of the United States supreme court came never theless as a surprise and was learned by the nation with sincere regret. Long and conspicuous has been the service that he has rendered to the country as a member of the highest court in the land Named as a justice by Presi- dent Cleveland he was raised to the chief justiceship by President Taft and it was his ability as jurist that de- termined his selection and the confidence that was manifested in him at each ap- pointment has been fully justified.
 Even though he was Confederate soldier it did not prevent him from be- coming a great American and one who was sincerely devoted to his duties and responsibilities as a judge. He was en- titled to have left the bench some years aeo but remained to the end, and vir- tually died in the harness, for the ser vice that he could be to the country. Twenty-seven years on the United States i supreme court bench has identified him 1 with a vast amount of the law of the  | land. He was cognizant of the need of speeding up the disposition of the courts cases and from the time he became chief l justice devoted much attention to that end with commendable results. Like wise his efforts for more nearly unani- rous decisions bore fruit for a consid.
 eTabla period though recent cases have
 shown more frequently in sharp divis ion.
 Though of judicial temperament he
 was nevertheless a man among men
 one who never forgot the dignity of hi
 office. but always approachable. Ills Ia
 hors for the court in which he served
 so long were indefatigable and there
 cannot fail to be noted those outstand
 ing features of his character which ar
 bound to serve as an inspiration fo
 many another as they reach forth to talk advantage of the opportunities that ar
 open to those who strive to build an by sound policies aim to reach the tor
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
CLEARING THE RECORDS.

In connection with the giving of pub Hcity Go the stacker lists it is noted that the policy is strongly defended by National Commander Galbraith of the American Legion who points out that such is the only way of protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, and takes the view that by such a means aid win be given in clearing veterans errone- ously branded as slacIers.
 That the list contains the names of those who honorably served the coun- try in the war he IS fully aware, but he Lays emphasis upon the fact that through tais method there will be a clearing of those names. now carried as slackers or deserters, which might not otherwise ever be accomplished or not done for a long time or without much trouble, and in his view he points to the fact that thousands of Civn war veterans were for a half century enormously listed as deserters when it might have been clear ed up years ago had a similar method been followed.
 Probably the widespread opposition tC the lists Of alleged slackers comes iron the use of that term and thus branding those who are unjustly accused. There ls Of course no desire to shield tho siacEc- but there is a determined unwil uugnlss to brand the innocent. Uude the circumstances the suggestion wnicl has been offered by B letter writer in th Philadelphia Ledger might have been em ployed by the war department with goot results and served to brought light thos now being unjustiy accused.
 This suggestion was to the effect tha the lists should not have been put GU as those Of alleged deserte-s o- dral dodgers but as those whose militar records are not complete at the war dc partment" Such would have served { furnish the government with those COT rections which Commander Galbraith rollcitous for and avoided including i One roll Of dishonor those who belon in the roll Of honor. That would hav eliminated the trouble which has bee encountered in the lists as they hay been put forth.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
CONNECTICUT AMENDMENT IS
 REJFCTED RY NATIONAL, & $

By vote of 5s to 66 the amendment to the constitution of the Sons or the American Revolution, proposed by the Connecticut society at the national con- gress at Buffalo, this week, was lost and the Connecticut society is thereby thrown back on it's alternate choice, strongly advocated by many members. of considering withdrawal from the ma tional organization. Tbe proposed amendment provided that the executive committee should be selected from tho board of trustees who are elected by the state societies, whereas at present the president general appoints the executive committee.
 Tn amendment was urged by Herbert Fl. White of Hartford, president of the Connecticut society, the Rev. orville A. Petty and Judge Mathewson of New Haven
 The question of abiding by this de ciison or withdrawing from the national organization will come up at the annua meeting of the Connecticut society or June 14 when a committee Of seven ap' pointed at a special meeting iE February
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
ACCIDENTS vs. WAR,

We always look upon war as horrible because Of the large number of lives ciat are snuffed out and the long list of maimed and wounded. War is horrible and there is no way of successfully de- nyinE it but too often 60 we lay strcas upon the death dealing features of war without stopping to consider how much faster life is brought to an untimely end in pesceful pursuits through accidents
 That s a situation that gets less at teation because it comes about in the daily course of events. Less notice is taken of even the fatal accidents than of the list killed on the battlefield. Few are tlos individuals who stop to look over the statistics concerning those who died or were injured in accidents after such rtatistics are compiled each year. Some how we seem to have gotten hardened to the accidents which are an every day occurrence. but wars arc decidedly less freouent. Accidents are spread over a oonsiderzble period while the results of war come in appalling numbers irregu- iariy.
 What the losses are n this country in paaee compared with what they were or the battlefield during the recent war is shown by the fact that there was ar average yearly death rate in the Ameri- can army during the period of our par ticipation of ls.o00 and casualties oi 1so. 900 while approximately s0O00 re. Eult from accidents every year in tho Unitsd States and a half million are in
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
WHAT WAS THOUGHT OF TOBACCO 80 YEARS AGO

There is not a man or woman in the United States today, who is in the habit of indulging in tobacco in some form or other, who is not a trif1e apprehensive about a continuance of it's use in the years to come. It is a subject that is being discussed every day in every nook and corner of the country, writes H. O. Bishop. Some will argue that it is only a question of time until the refo,-mers send the Princess Nicotine to join the late lamented John Barleycorn. Others ridi- cue such an argument, vehemently declar- ing that tobacco is the one thing that legislation cannot take away from them.
 Eighty years ago the users of tobac- co were as much wrought up over the subject of it's being legislated out of ex- isfence as they are at present, and prob ably with as little real reason. Here is the interesting way in which a prominent man of that period defended it's uses and discussed opposition to it:
 feWf1en we consider how much opposi- tion has been offered to the use of to- bacco, and how numerous have been the legislative enactRlents against the e7- joy1nent frequently forbidden under pain of death it speaks much in favor of our inestimable plant that it's virtues have at length been self-enabled to triumph over the maledictions of the mighty When the patriot Raleigh was in favor with Elizabeth having named his discovery | Virginia, in honor of her royal but an- cient maidenhood, the herb was in general request; even the ladies of the court in- | dulged in, the soUl-9oothments of the
 stranger and some writers have affirr,nG
 that the Queea herself, a siddy-mir .c
 woman and ever fond of novelty, gave
 them an example A walnut shell ant
 a straw were the first attempts at pfpt making, and the herb was then so scarce
 as frequently to sell for it's weight il
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
NOrwieh, Saturday. May s1. 1921.
THE DISARMAMENT AMENDMENT.

Not so long ago there was a state nacnt made by the president to the effect that the administration was not unmind- Iul of the call for disarmament that Was being voiced and neither could it be Enheedful Of the need of seeing that ade- Euate protection was provided and he Ia Id emphasis upon tn point that our safety could not be disreEarded. Thus ln asking that the administration be not forced in this matter he let it be under utood that settlement of peace conditions in Europe would have it's effect upon the launching of disarmament plans or efforts by this government
 Since that time there has been a change in the European situation. This change is a decided step toward better ennditions in Europe because Of the aEreement on the part of Germany to meet the allied reparation demands That has decressed the possibility of further military operations for the present at least and the avoidance of those planned provided Germany lives up to its prom lses
 That such is ground for the with hrERaI of administration opposition to lhs amendment in the naval bill. which has been so strongly urged by Senator Borah. authorizing the president to call a conference of Great Britain, Japan and the United States with a view to bringing about a substantial reduction in armament expenditures is possible. As a matter of fact the amendment may be solely regarded us an expression oi the feeling Of the senate without 1T any way binding the president It k apparent evidence of the desire for tn, elimination of the heavy expense in volved in naval competition and wisl 10 accomplish a curtailment of that kint Of expenditure as soon as safety vii permit IT and when tho country car join with others in the cutting down O such big outiays as go to building war shins with safety there is no reason t believe that the administration will d other than give it's most enthusiastic an proval Such safety isn't however to b lightly regarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21
FOR GEORGIA TO DECIDE.

Perhaps the feeling of elation over the evidence of a change of sentiment in Georgia as indicated by the recent &C., ton taken by the governor of that state against the peonage conditions which had been disclosed there came too soon. The action by Governor Dorsey indi- cated such a radical change and a change that was so manifestly needed that it was not realized that it might still be opposed or that 1t could be sue cessfully interrupted.
 Governor Dorsey took a highly com mendable stand. It was easy to regard
 it as the response of the best senti- ment of the state which sentiment has been said to exist but has been infre- quently demonstrated relative to law lessness. But it appears to be an unfor-
 unate fact that Governor Dorsey is soon 10 retire from office and that his success sor-to-be is quite as determined that Georgia shall not reform in the way he desires. as he is that 1t shall. There are even those who have demanded the i'm pes chment of the governor for the stand he has taken and claimed that he has defiled the state before the world. This | leaves no other interpretation than that Georgia still has those in high place: who approve the course that is followed | in that state regarding lynching and who want it to be known that they sane ! ton the practice of peonage even thougi i it is against long established fedora
 law. Instead of trying to purge the stat
 of the record that has been created be fore the world there are those who woult do their utmost to have such crime con tinued.
 Under such a state of affairs Georgi IS certainly headed in the wrong direc
 ton if the Dorsey policy of reform discarded and endorsement is given b
 such action to the Haunting of law an
 order. It is going to be an issue O
 which the people of the state must heard. Dorsey may be out of office bu
 he ought nevertheless to exercise muc influence as a leader, but whether h
 continues in the fight or not public ser
 timent ought to be sufficiently arouse
 that it could distinguish right fror wrong and lose no time in turning Geol ! gia from it's deplorable conduct It res , with Georgia.