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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Where the Responsibility Is Upon the Individual
He Cannot Shirk It


1t is said that there re ten departments of government at Washing
ton. In fact, there are many times ten independent and practically
unrelated agencies of government there. No department under these
circumstance cn avoid becoming rigid and law bound, and red tape
necessarily becomes the rule.
If instead, the department heads were authorized to prescribe the
duties of subordinates, the red tape would largely disappear and the
responsible head would have power commensurate with his responsibility.
Instead of an inert mass you would have a living organism with an
actual head.
There ae SON who have assumed that large responsibility could
be more safely deposited in a body of men than in a single man. Expert
ence has not justified this. Where the responsibility is upon the
individual, he cannot shirk it. Where it is placed in a body of men, the
individual can find shelter behind that body when called to account
for the manner in which he has exercised his power. Good and efficient
public service makes it mandatory that responsibility be fixed definitely.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

build up a New World empire along
the st. Lawrence and the Mississippi
ana England was working inland
from the Atlantic seaboard, when 1t
was New France against New Eng
iand-and devil take the hindermost !
lie Caron, named in Bourinot's verse,
one cannot place. Verendrye National
monument In North Dakota is the Uni
ted States memorial to the explorer
who may have been the first white
man TO see the trans-Missouri territory.
But there are larger figures.
Take Father Marquette, for an ex-
ample. Marquette's fame rests large
~ on what he did in the Mississippi
valley. He was the first European
with Joliet, to travel the Fox and Wis
consln rivers and the Mississippi to
the Arkansas. He was the first to
ascend the Illinois and make the
Chicago Portage" TO Lake Michigan.
BE tansht the Illinois Indians 2.
Keoria. He lived one winter on the
sfle of Chicago. He died in Michi-
gan and was buried there.
LaSalle, a great man with the
vision of an empire builder. is an.
other parsonage of the early DAYS
whose fame is based on his activities
this side of the Canadian line. In
1852 he explored the Mississippi to
Its mouth, claimed all of the vast
Mississippi basin for Louis XIV and
named it Louisiana. The United
States in 1903 bought from Napoleon
the part of this Louisiana lying be
tween the Mississippi and the Rockies.
Champlain is a third historical
parsonage of the first rank in whom
the people of the United States are
greatly interested. But his case is
more complicated. AS every we'll
read nan knows, the French and Brit
ism struggle for supremacy in the New
World lasted from 1859 to the capture
of Quebec in 1859.
Now. it was Champlain who un-
Willingly was in no small part re-
sponsible for bringing about the final
triumph of the British over the
Il TellGu- 1At HkcICI VI
Canada began with Champlain. who
entered the St. Lawrence il 1903. In
1909 he explored to the south of the
present international line. discovered
the lake that bears his name and used
firearms on a band of Indians from
the Mohawk valley in central New
York. Thereupon the powerful Iro-
ouois ~Confederacy sWore eternal
enmity to the French. carried the
tomahawk and scalping knife TO the
French and their Indian allies along
the st. Lawrence, blocked French ad-
vance southwark and for $50 years
was in effect a buffer state in the real
of the growing English colonies of the
seaboard. The IrOquois Confederacy
was so powerful in the Seventeenth
century that ii collected tribute from
tribes as far east as Massachusetts
and MS far west as Illinois. Historians
are agreed that Its geographical To-
cation and pro-English activities made
the Iroquois Confederacy an i'm
portant factor in the final outcome of
the French-EngliSh struggle for
supremacy.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

IF you do not care to have your
bones rest in the unholy ground of the
white devils for a long spell, then in
land of YOU ancestors, you had bet
ter
just then as the truck was about TO
bump Sam his companion finished his
warning with the excited exclamation,
Look ow |"
Sam jumped just in time to escape
being crushed. With a frightened face
he turned TO his helper. VIVA for you
no talkee Mclean first timer" he
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30


Chanting a nations minstrelsy.
o. lyric singer. of our race.
Bold voyageurs have braved thy stream.
LIE Caron, C~hamplain. V~erendrye.
DISCOVERIES driven by the dream.
A pathway to Pacifc's sky:
Immortality your paddles CLEAN.
In unison you singing cry
Old chansons and the waters seem
ain echoes when your voices die.
1t is planned that perpetual light
shall here shine down on the faithful
departed servants of the state and
b~enefactors of mankind while ENC
lasts. The corner stone was laid by
the prince of Wales In 1919. II is
fanked on either side by the house
of commons sand the senate chamber.
The high window 1t the end of the
court is called I'm Flanders Fields
and shows the sons of the Dominion
going into action at st. Julian, where
gas was first used by the Germans.
A special chamber In the memorial
tower will contain the names of the
$1,000 who lie in Flanders and of
the entire Expeditionary Forces from
Canada.
The old Canadian house of COM
mons and senate. opened at Confed-
GRAFTON, in 1867, was destroyed by fire
mysteriously in February, 1916. 1t
was charged that emlssaries Of the
central powers had sprayed the cor
ridors and floors of the reading room
with an inflammable oil. The minis
tiers, speaker and the members had
to rush from the building to escape
cremation. Had the galleries been
crowded, as usual, instead of almost
empty, there would have been q great
tragedy that would have been added
to the long list.
Canadians are proud of the fact
that the material for the great new
structure on Parliament hill was
found exclusively within the ,boun.
daries of the Dominion. The only
foreign materials are strips of teak.
wood from India. ebony from Africa
and small quantities of Tennessee
marble and Ohio stone for blending of
colorS.
The Canadian Hall of Fame will be
open TO industrial leaders and inven-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

bule, 30 feet wide, leading from the
main entrance at the base of the
300-foot memorial tower and run
ming across the entire building to the
library at the rear, which overlooks
the Lovers Walk" with the Gatineau
mountains in the distance, and the
Ottawa-to which Arthur S. Bourinot
thus sings:
Great river. flowing broad and free,
Around our city's r~ock-hemmed base.
o. rN,d. that marches to the sea.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
of the Many Popular Delusions of the Age
Is the Naive Belief


One of the many popular decisions of the age is the naive belief
that prominence in one field of human endeayor jushfes intrusion into
another; that the great popular leader may dictate authoritative pro-
nouncements in science, theology, and education.
Socia, commercial, and religious compulsion, sometimes exercised in
drastic ways, but more often brought to bear with artistic subtlety,
abounds in all circles. It is not surprising that in so vital a matter as
education, social compusion has always been in evidence. 1t has some
times been the cause for cowardice when penalties threatened.
Any college or university, whatever its foundation, that openly
or secretly imposes unusual restrictions on the dissemination of verified
knowledge in any subject that it processes to teach at all, or that dis
courages free discussion and the research for truth among its professors
and students, will find itself Stunned by professors who ire competent
and by students who arr serious.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Many in America Completely Hypnotized by
the Communist Propaganda


ian E7ANY persons in the United States who have managed to
uWXII make for themselves regulations in the intellectual world have
UWU been 50 completely hypnotized by the Communist propaganda,
that the propaganda itself has been able to establish something
OF a reputation for sanity and responsibility.
This latter manifestation is N of the most amazing features of
the whole situation regarding Communism. The most important fact
about Communism, 10 far as Americans III concerned, is that it is the
antIthesls Of democracy. Dictatorship is the inescapable conclusion of
Communist operations 1t is the goal of the Communist movement. It
constantly preached.
But men and women possessed of American names, possessed of
intelligence and education, re part and parcel of the Communist propa-
ganda. They take orders from the Communist machine. They function
as lackeys of Lenin and Trotky.
I suppose I shall be disputed by the cotere of the elect if I say
that within a large group of literary smore-o rless-ceebrti it is almost
impossible to find presentation for any thought or argument that does
harm to the Soviet cause There is a wellrecognized group of this
character, and its power is enormous.
1t includes book reviewers, dramatic critics, writers of special
departments, and of so-called newspaper columns, writer's of books and
a certain type of public speakers and even ministers of the Gospd.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Human Game of Bridge

Bridge, r~ivaling in interest the game
of human chess played recently at a
military carnival near Paris, was the
feature of p festival held this year at
one of the gathering places frequent
ed by London holiday crowds.
A broad platform served as card
table. Youngsters of fourteen or ff-
teen, dressed in paper suits. each paint.
ed to represent a card. we're grouped
on the platform IL a miscellaneous
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

'trOnal heroes. Men of wide cull,.fe,
unerring judgment and high ideal viii
be chosen to act as a commission TO
decide who shall and who shall no
be among the first to be honored
here. Prime Minister w. L. Mac
kenzie King is much interested and
during his presence at the recent i'm
perial conference in London made a
special study of Westminster Abbey.
Undoubtedly his ideals are high for
here are some fine lines by his friend,
Wilfred Campbell, now dead, about
the discoveries and explorers of the
New World by which he sets great
store:
They feared no unknown, saw no hori-
ION dark.
Counted 10 danger; dreamed all seas
their road
To possible futures; struck no craven
sail
For sloth or indolent c~owardIce: steered
Ger wastes of heaving ocean. leagues
of brine;
While Hope firm kept the tilIer, Faith.
In dreams,
Saw coasts of cleaning continent loom
ing large
Beyond the ultimate of the seas far
rim.
Even a man of the United States
can give n good guess as to some of
the James which will be approved by
the commission. Such a tentative list
includes Sir Wilfred Laurier, who is
In addition to have a great memorial
on Parliament hill, Sir John Mac
Donald. Edward Blake, Sir William
Osler, Darcy. MCGEE, John r. Booth
and william MacDougall.
1t is interesting to know what will
be the decision az to several sons of
the Dominion who rose 10 fame on this
side of the border. There is, for ex-
ample, James ]. Hill, a son of Well
ington county In Ontario, who built
and owned more miles of railroad
than any Canadian who stayed at
home.
And there is Franklin X. Lane
millions of nature lovers on this side
of the line would applaud this selec-
ton. He was born in Prince Edward
Island and it was for that reason
that many of his admirers on this
side were wont 10 salute him a 'Mr.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Pine Tree Pollen

Yellow rain in the Yukon territory
and red snow in Greenland with a
peculiar fine yellow deposit. are usu-
ally found TO be caused by the pollen
of pine trees growing miles distant.
The pollen Is caught by the winds.
carried away and then dropped. The
red snow is made" by wind-placed
deposits of minute vegetable organ
isms, bits of seaweed which contain
red spots.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Golfers Numerals.

A French caddle. after listening to
many visiting players. British and
American. Informed a friend that he
learned how TO count the strokes in
English, viz: Won. do, tire, fore. If.
sees, damn. ait. damn" Being asked
how seven was distinguished from
nine in this scoring he replied that
when the latter was meant it was pro-
nounced with double force.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
No Time for Ceremony

Sam Lung was busy in one of the
great warehouses south of Market
street, says the San Francisco Argo-
naut, when a large motor truck loaded
high with burlap came backing silent
" through the door. Another Chinese,
who was helping Sam to move a pom
lerous bale. spied the truck and, STEP
ping aside, began in the quaint sing
song of their people to inform Sam of
the danger:
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
[ R.kegront Rpaa


A nan IN a dOWnt0Wn ~festnuranl
whose order was unsatisfactory APP
preached the manager with fire in his
eye.
You've a kick coming" said that
worthy.
4 sure have"
well say it with flowers"
"A wreath will certainly be an ap-
propriate gift when I get through
with YOU" was the angry diners
comeback, and seeming trouble we
hurried from the place.-Boston Trap
script.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Quixote" Was First Modern Novel and
Will Eternally Be the Last


By BLASCO IBANEZ, in International Book Review.
"Don Quixote" was the first modern move. and will eternally be the
last, the most recent and the most interesting, because no novelist will
ever succeed in creating anything more alive, more complete, It more
modern.
No other book in literary history has been translated into so many
languages and achieved so many centuries of true success. Perhaps |
ought to explain that word true" There III many famous works which
everybody admires, but which very few read. Most of these few, more
over, read such a book once in order to say 81 know it," and never again
take it into their hands, limiting themselves to gazing at it with
religious veneration o a shelf in their library.
Such books are works of a retrospective interest. They contain
great beauties, but beauties that have dried on the stalk, that long ago
lost the freshness of life. "Don Quixote" will live forever, because it is a
synthesis of all humanity.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

sort of shuttle formation. At a given
signal a card was called. the one fol
lowing going into another orner and
so on until the deck was distributed
to the four players, who then played
their hands by calling out a card
to the middle of the platform.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

jailer at Philippi,
which are as con
else as any other
Scripture portion
indicate the way:
Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt he
d h G
process Of saliva
ton with no two
persons Is exactly
the same. There
may be a similar
ity, but there is
never i Identity.
b of
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
The STRENGTH of PRAYER

God keep US through the common days
The level stretches. white with dust
When thought is tired, and hands up
raise
Their burdens feebly, since they
must
In days of slowly fretting care.
Then most We need the strength OF
prayer.
-Margaret z sanrstar
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
SruhtnsA MH
MXHwH xzaxnenf
AMMn6M Mawz
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

He Dominion of Canada
is to have a Canadian
Hall of Fame In the pala-
tial new Federal Parlia-
ment buildings at Ottawa.
The builders have just
made way for the sculp-
tors in this national
pantheon. There Is an
impressive marble yesti-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Sweet

Smith-"Did you enjoy yourself on
your cruiser" Grump-"Yes. was
shipwrecked on a desert island with
the doctor who had been telling me
just what l could eat"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
An Awful Bulge

After his mother had told him about
Jonah and the whale. Tommy asked
Mummy, do you think Jonah said
his prayers when he was inside the
whale?"
'0h, yes, dear"
What an awful bulge he must have
made in the whales back when he
knelt upi'
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Credit, of Course, Has Much in It's Favor, but II
Has Distinct Perils
By j. HARRY TREGo, Natl Assn of Credit Men.

Only 5 per cent of the business of the nation is conducted upon that
cash-and. carry plan which was a heritage from the fathers. Twenty-Five
per cent Of all business is conducted upon credit and 80 per cent of the
annual credit turnover is paid in checks.
alss.s. :. course. "a maen n Its avor. It Is the negean. 9. business
the medium that keeps the wheels turning. But it has distinct perls.
Credit is the cheapest commodity we have today, and the cause of
much woe to buyer and seller. I look upon the extrayagant use of credit
a al attack upon our whole system Of economy; and there can be no
doubt that we, as a nation, are using credit extravaganty. This not only
is the fault of the public, but Of organized Business a WE'LL
Everywhere one goes credit is thrust upon him. 1t takes considerable
resolution to resist the temptation to buy. Business, in its eagerness to
sell, has devised a thousand plans based upon credit. Many people buy
things they cannot afford, run themselves into debt, and either fail to
meet their obligations O. else must go through a long period of struggle
all caused by mistaken purchases.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
The Nav

1t is hard for men to believe that
humility is the golden pathway to ever.
lasting power and everlasting glory
Christian Observer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
our Guide.

In danger Christ lashes US to Hin
self. as Alpine guides do when there
Is perilous Ice TO get over.--Alexander
Maelaren.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

Secretary of State Hughes-We find ourselves in the age of the
motor, the movie and the radio, which, with freedom of locomoion, novel
and easy intmaces, and the ever-present and constantly expanding enter
prise of the press, give us a delusive facility in acquiring information. 1t
is the day of the feeting vision. Concentration, thoroughness, the quiet
reflection that ripens the judgment are more difficult than ever.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
The Genius of Sincerity.

Enthusiasm is the genius Of sin
certify, and truth aecomplishes no vic
tories without it.-Bulwer Lytton.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
Entire Conservation.

A man is entirely ~consecrated when
he can say with General Booth: God
has all that there is of me"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

Frank O. Iowden.-Now is the time for the farmers of America to
show their loyalty to their organizations and to give their support to mar
keing cooperative societies. The latter are beginning, for the first time
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

shouted. "Too muchee Chinee talkee l'
Youths Companion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30
ecease0cos9oa
: Belief, Confession,
: Personal Treatment
By REV. J. H. RALsToN. D. D.

Dean Of the Correspondence school,
Moody EIhle Ln%allLuta- ChLcaan-

ODOo11Do0oSSso9 ooooOgooSsl
TEXT-What think ye of christ?-Matt
"a.
But whom say ys tina am?-Matt
l6.15.
What hall I do then with jesus
which is called Christ?-Matt. 27.22.
What is it 10 become a Christian?
The words of Paul and Silas to the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

Occasionally we meet a man who
boasts of his failures.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

AeiH stomach. heartburn and nausea are
corrected with the use Of Wright's Indian
Vegetable Pills. s72 Pearl St. II. Y. Adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-30

AT tLAst--A Simple Machine That split
wood as fast as your saw can cut il. Csrc
brings literature. tMentfon this paper.
TOM HUSTON MFG CO. Colr Sus. Ga
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Handy Book of Assorted Hand sewing
needles and darning needles Csc with enVe-
ione Of 10 self-threading needles free. Chris
O'Brien. IS Broadway. Room 546. Sev York.
FOR GOOD HEALTH USE W. IL. \. instead
Of Tea or Coffee. Pound bottle makes $50
cups instantaneous food beverage Sent par
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Z HOuF WI WIZ HFuJNotFNUFEy "
Above the strife of creed and place
a nations minstrelsy.
o, lyric singer. of our race.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-15
NEW FARM INVENTION
British Experts Are Trying Out New Contraption Intended for the Drying of the Crops.

Oxford, Nov. 15.-An invention is being tried by the Institute of Agri- cultural Engineers at Oxford Uni- versity, which, if developed will re- move one of the chief causes for grumbling on the part of British farmers and revolutionize English harvesting methods.
 The invention is a new process for drying farm crops, a very nec- essary thing in the damp English climate. The plan is to cut the crop and make it into circular stacks of from 10 to 20 tons weights around a hollow central chamber. Heated air will then be blown over it by powerful fans. Haystocks have been dried by this means in ten hours without fermentation.
 It is asserted that the new process will allow harvest 10 proceed in any weather, save field labor. give 9 greater corn yield, make straw better, and facilitate blowing.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-15
BASEBALL TEAMS
 THROUGH ABROAD
No More Exhibition Games-'
 Players Plans
By The Associated Press.

SS iHN FhhspC4tked ffess.
 Paris, Nov 15.-The New York Giants and the Chicago White sox baseball teams. which have been playing exhibition games in Europe, will play no more baseball on the continent. The party broke up in Paris today.
 Jennings, Evers. Nehf, Sam Rice, Ruel and others of the players will leave for Rome this evening where they hope to be received by the Pope through the good offices of Monsignor Cha'lcs A. O'Hern, rec tor of the American college.
 Charles A. Comiskey and his son, with Frisch and Groh, are proceed ing to Berlin, via Brussels and Am sterdam, this evening. Ed. Walsh, Lyons and Clancy will make a three days tour of the battlefields, &C., companied by Hank Gowdy who will give them first hand informa- ton. Another party will go to the Riviera, Nice and Monte Caro.
 Manager John McGraw of the Giants will remain in Paris. as will also a few of the players who have become smitten with Paris. The teams will assemble in Paris, Nov. 24 and will sail for America on the Leviathan from Cherbourg on Nov. 25. Picinich and Huntzinger will return 10 the United States tomor- TOW on the George Washington.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-15
City Advertisement
LAYING CAST IRON WATER
 MAINS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Water Commis- Sioners at their office, Room 201, City Hall. New Britain, Conn, until 1900 o'clock Standard Time, Wed ncsday, Nov. 1a, 1924, for laying of Cast Iron Water Mains in the City of New Britain, as follows:
 CONTRACT "T" OSGOOn AVE,
 a0n lincal feet Of 12 in. Glass "B" Main.
 The Board will furnish all Cast Iron Pipe, Specials and Valves re- quired,
 Proposals and Specifications may he secured al the above office after Nov. Is, 1924.
 The City or Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to accept any bid whether the lowest or not should the Board deem fl to be for the best interests of the City of New Britain. BOARD or WATER COMMIS-
 S1ONERS. ! Frank J. OBrien, Clerk Joseph n Williams, City Engineer.