Palisadian., 1923-09-07
HARBOR NOTES
By E. N. G. ROGERS


In short, he spends nearly as much
time on guards and "details" as in fit
ting himself for border duty or expedi-
tionary forces, An extension of the
A. E. F. Labor Battalion idea to rou-
tine domestic camp duties would stim-
ulate the training of the combat
troops. 1t might eliminate the evil in
fiuence of detail lodging on army
morale.
CIiffside War Memorial-How About
Carlton?
The question of the erection of a
memorial has been considered long
enough. The site for a shaft, clock
dais, monument, cenotaph or torch.
tower was selected long ago.
Isn't it about time that some tenta-
tive water-color sketches are put on
display to show us various types?
If the Grantwood Legion post does
not bestir itself l believe the Womens
Club and Ladies' Auxiliaries can put
the thing over If the authority is dele
gated to them.
WounldIuCCTS anu
AS it was at Newport News that the
blue Ridge Division officially the
Eighteth, embarked for overseas serv-
ice in May, 1918, it is no wonder that
many gold stripers headed for the
Norfolk reunion on August 81, 1923.
The three blue peaks badge shared
with the Jersey lightning shoulder
patch in the marches of October, 1918,
around Thiacourt and st. Juvin.
American Legion National Contest
October IL is the date by which all
essays must be received by the Ber-
gen county judges of local efforts.
The subject set is "Why America
should prohibit immigration for five
years"
How many girls and boys in the
Palsade school are going to try for
the state silver medal? They must be
between the ages of twelve and eight
Gen.
imagination.
Retired" but Not "inactive"
BrigaderGeneral Lloyd Brett is
this years president of the Eightieth
Division Association as well as being
an active comrade in the V. F. w.
A cavalry man, trained at West
Point, General Brett won the Congress
sional Medal of Honor in the Sioux
of 1881. He left the Fourth
Cavalry command to assume charge of
the One Hundred and SiXtieth Infan-
try Brigade at Camp Lee, Virginia.
The Fort Lee Highway
The tennis players on the Legion
courts may live, feel dawn and see
sunset glow" amid the picturesque
and peaceful woods of Palisade. If
report be true they even "love and are
loved" thereon, but is there any objec-
world and his wife that they are pass
ing Palisade Legion tennis courts?
Lowell C. GLADDEN., first vice com
mander of the French Universities
post, American Legion, became the
property of Miss Marie Mershon on
August Is, 1928. Only two shell-backs
remain among the officers of the post,
so everything points to the formation
of an auxiliary.
U. 8. C. G.
The forty-one Coast Guard stations
along the New Jersey coast line have
new commander this month. Cap
tain j. S. Coles, who has had charge
since 1912, has been transferred to the
northern line-from Plum Island to
Maine-with Porthmouth, N. H., as
operations headquarters.
The incoming superintendent, Peter
Jensen, is Dane by birth. He halls
from the Thirteenth California Coast
Guard district and will assume his
New Jersey duties at Asbury Park.
Noise Brings Chancery Ban
After hearing to determine wheth-
er there were any feasible methods of
eliminating roller coaster noise the
vice chancellor of New Jersey granted
an injunction against the Monmouth
Amusement Company. A body of resi-
dents of Asbury Park began the fight
last autumn against the coaster.
Coast Artillery Vets
ne SOl H. D. w dlidSC poot, " L
w., of Fort Hancock, N. j., having sur
rendered it's charter, has been de-
Clared defunct at the annual encanip-
ment of the veterans. My shipmate
On the Siboney, Major d. c. Cordiner,
c. A. c., has been ordered to Fort
Leavenworth for course at the gen.
teral staff schools.
Major Cordiner commanded bat
TALON in the Sixtieth C. A. Regiment
under Colonel Wallace.
Jersey Lightning
Harold Eisgrave of Bogota has sent
out call to ex-members of the Three
Hundred and Third Sanitary Train.
Harold wants about hundred or
the bunch to back up DR.. j. A. Rol-
ilngs at the Seventy-eighth Division
reunion They will meet up with the
men of the Three Hundred and Ninth
Machine Gun Battalion. the Three
Hundred and Eighth Field Artillery,
the Three Hundred and Eleventh In
fantry and the Field Signal buddies.
Fred Thoman of Union Hill tells
me that General McRae will be at At
lantic City on September 2S to greet
the hombres >arriving from Tuttles