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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21
THIS FREEDOM
By THOMAS A.. CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.

lie room in which Aunt Sarah was
Dg4aSs- heated with an open ire.
place, dirty, Nervous and inadequate.
requiring con.tant feeding and hour
ly attention.
When she was married the family
had progressed through the cannon"
stove stage to the base-burner which
promised almost perfect freedom from
the incident to the other
means of heating the little house in
which Aunt Sarah was living. But
even the ~base-burner had to be filled
twice a day, and the male members
of the household were often busy and
more often thoughtless, and the trip
to the coal house was long and the
coal scuttle heavy when Aunt Sarah
was the purveyor. The ashes, which
khad to be taken out twice a day were
light and messy, and if one dampered
the stove too heavily in an attempt to
regulate the heat, it gassed. 1t was a
relief when she moved into a new
house and the furnace came into
vogue.
But even the furnace had it's draw.
backs. 1t ate up coal like a ravenous
fapper eating chocolate candy-soft
coal, too, hat clogged the chimney
with SCOT. Sometimes the chimney
burned out, scattering flames and hot
| ashes over the roof to the imminent
danger OF the house, and to the utter
terror of poor Aunt Sarah who hourly
expected to be burned out of house
and home, and who woke at night
smelling fire. The soft penetrating
SCOT found its way everywhere, laid a
dark hand upon all of Aun Sarah's
household treasures, and held her like
a slave to her household duties.
And then came the "Nocoal" innova.
ton promising relief from shoveling
coal, from ashes, from SCOT, from re.
sponsibility of all sorts, and Aunt
Sarah willingly paid her money for
the invention and had one installed.
But she still found difficulties. The
workman filing the oil tank went to
sleep at the switch and wasted a bar
rel or two of oil, the critter needed
intelligent regulating at least three
times a day, and once Aunt Sarah
failed carefully to read the directions
for managing the pilot light, and while
she was investigating with a lighted
and nearly killed her.
There amt no such thing as free.
dom anywhere" Aunt Sarah averred
feelingly, and she was right
We struggle to evade responsibility.
to find the short cut or the easy job,
but there aren't any. We might bet
ter face the task that is before us
bravely and make the best of 1t. What.
ever freedom from work or ~responst-
bility or effort we seem to attain we
pay for usually more than it is worth
&c. 1924. Western Newspaper Union)
Native (who has accompanied total
stranger along country road: Maybe
we've come from Lunnon?"
Stranger: mo"
Native: Perhaps from the North of
England?"
Stranger: mo"
Native: Maybe Scotland, them"
Stranger: mo"
Native: Dye think Oh cares a DOM
where we comes from?"
=Iou-
Visitor: what an inspiring sermon
your husband preached on One Days
Rest in Seven"
Pastors Wife: 81 didn't heal i'll
had to get his dinner"
-noI-
Liberty Bonds accepted for deposit
the same as cash at PleasantVllle
Trust Co. advertisement,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

The room in which Aunt Sarah was :
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

westwardly along said divisi6n llle, h1Jyy
feet to the southwest line of Sheffield
Avenue; thence 90 enthusiastically
along the southwest line of Sheffield Ave
nue.. thirty-five feet more or less to the
north line of New Road: thence q) East
wardly along the north line of the New
Road. twenty-five feet more or less to a
point which is ENTHUSIASTICALLY, one hun
bred and fifty feet at right angles from
the northwest line of Maple Avenue;
thence 90 enthusiastically at right an
giles with Sheffield Avenue, thirty-nine
feet to the place of beginning.
Be and the same is hereby vacated. =.
Section >. That this ordinance shall
not take effect until all costs and eXpen-
ses incurred by the City of P~leasantville
in and about the preparation and publ
cation of notice of intention. mailing of
notices thereof, preparation and publtca-
ton of this ordinance, etc, to be paid by
the owner or owners of the land imme-
diately adjacent to the strip of land here
by vacated, payment of which is hereby
made a condition precedent to the taking
effect hereof.
Passed third and final reading this 18th
day Of May, 1924.
President of Common Council.
Attest:
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
Approved this 9th day of May, 1924.
CHARLES E. JACKSON,
NaVOr.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21
NO. 26t

ORDINANCE amending An Ordi-
nance providing for Police Officers fot
P~leasantville and regulating the sala-
ries thereof" approved January Is
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

TVE~g
1923 Appropriation
Sewer Connections
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

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if should Sit at her ia bic To-Day I
should be served with the same ONE
let, the same pop-overs, the same
sponge cake she refreshed me with
when a boy. She has learned moth
ing new; she follows the same old
track.
We see the same tendency every.
where. We do things because they
have been done and pride ourselves
often that we are following a tradi-
ton, when in fact, from lack of
initiative, we are simply following the
same old track. 1t takes courage and
energy and %alertness to change. 1t
requires power to pull ourselves out
of the old rut.
20 by Western Newspaper Union.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21
FOLLOWING THE
OLD TRACK
By THOMAS A. CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.

< OCCASIONALLY | take an early
~ morning train north and pass
through the country town near which
| lived as a boy. Always l see the
same figure standing at a corner of
the station or sitting stolidly on a pile
of freight nearby. He is an old man
now, but for forty years., unless he
has beer i'll or out of town, he has
never failed to meet the n%orthbound
morning train. There is no special
reason for his doing so; he is not ex-
pecting anything; he isn't meeting
anyone; it is one habit. He is follow
ing the old track, and he would feel
lost or unhappy, no doubt, if he did
otherwise.
We all do it more or less. 1t re-
quires less energy, less thought, less
initiative. 1t is far easier than to
blaze a new trail. to hew out a new
road.
But sometimes following the old
track means stagnation, a lack of
progress and effort. Two old ladies,
whom l know, living in a suburban
village, still insist on trudging to the
post office, ten blocks away, twice
daily for their mail, though the free
delivery was introduced into that
community ten years ago. They do
not need the exercise, they do not
especially enjoy the walk; they sim
ply cannot pull themselves out of the
old track.
The choir Of the country church
which l attend were reasonably ia
miliar with music, but they confined
their Sunday morning selections
throughout the year to less than a
dozen different hymns, though the
book contains hundreds. 1t was as if
the minister, tired with preparing his
sermon, fell back into the old track
when it came to selecting the hymns
and shrank back from trying some
thing new.
SSEhirty years ago Mrs. Tobias had
equation of being the best cook
Northumberland, but knew that
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

Visitor: what an inspiring sermon
your husband preached on One Days
Rest in Seven"
Pastors Wife: 81 didn't hear it
had to get his dinner"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-06-21

4% Interest on all time accounts
paid by P~leasantville Trust Co.-adv.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
SHOWN
IN MINERAL SURVEY
Geological Director De-
plores Depleted Force Due
to Small Salaries.

Work of the United States Geo
| logical Survey during the fiscal year
| 1924 was SO directed as to assist in
the economical development of the
Nations mineral resources. George
Otis Smith. director of the survey, de-
| clares in his annual report today. DR..
Smith, however, laments the fact that
the inadequacy of salaries in the Gov
| ernment service prohibits retention
| Of trained technical men.
Explorations in northern Alaska,
| the expedition down the Grand Can
yon of Colorado, discoveries Of what
are believed to be commercial de-
| posits of potash in Texas and an In
vestigation of the oil-producing for
nations in Montana are some Of the
accomplishments cited by the di-
rector.
Surveys I'm ~ States.
+ During the year geologic surveys
were made by the field men of the
bureau in A states and Alaska, while
at the same time 2I,000 square miles
were covered by Topographic surveys
in various part of the United States,
all of them surveys of great eco
nomic usefulness, but the value of
which the public does not yet appre-
ciate.
Air route maps Of more than 100000
the survey for the Army Air Service
many million acres of land were clas-
siffed as to their mineral or non
mineral character: the flow Of streams
were measured at LOO gauging sta
tions to determine their value for
power, irrigation and other pur-
poses; a large amount of investiga-
tion and study was devoted to the
mineral resources Of the country, and
many chemical analyses were made of
rocks. minerals and ores.
THE Colorado Canyon expedition,
which attracted public attention, well
exemplifies the success won by unit
ing specially trained Topographic,
hydraulic and geologic engineers in
a carefully planned and skillfully exc
cuted effort" says the report. This
traverse OF the Grand Canyon com
pleted the instrumental surveys of
Colorado River that had been begun
IL years before at kremmling, in
northern Colorado"
Miles of Canyons Mapped.
The mapping of 253 miles of can
yons and the examination of 22 pos
sible dam sites during the year was
a task fraught with danger, but the
government engineers regarded the
danger as only 'in the days work"
of scientific exploration. This thor
ough survey of the Colorado and it's
principal tributaries is the necessary
preliminary to the making of Federal
and State plans for the full utiliza-
tion of the natural resources in a
region where water gives value to
land.
Equally noteworthy and equally
spectacular are the exploratory ex-
petitions into Arctic Alaska, the first
made in the Summer of 1923 and the
second started in the following Win
ter. This geologic examination OF the
naval petroleum reserve in northern
Alaska has been undertaken at the
request of the Secretary of the Navy
to determine the possibility of finding
oil in quantities sufficient to add ma
terialIy to the reserves for the future
use of the Navy, if not, indeed, large
enough to augment the Nations sup
ply for other needs.
i'The first seasons examination alons
Evening star., 1924-12-10

the Arctic coast of Alaska verified
4 the reports of In. ge seepages of Oil
and of geologic conditions sufficiently
favorable to oil accumulation to war
rant the second expedition, which
started northward with dog sledges
from the Yukon In February last and
had crossed the Endicott Range by
March. The area to be trarersed and
mapped by the three parties of this
expedition Is roughly 3,700 square
miles, and includes the largest tract
of unexplored United States territory
This search for an oil field in Arc
tic Alaska illustrates the emphasis
now put on geologic work in the ex-
ploitation OF fuel resources. but the
nature. of the exploration and the ex-
perienced personnel available for 1t
fittingly mark the status of the Geo.
logical Surveys work in Alaska after
25 years of uninterrupted effort. In
the quarter of g. century since 1899
slightly more than 100000 has
been appropriated for the investiga-
tion of the mineral resources of
Alaska, and by this means over one
fifth of the area of the territory has
been covered by reconnaissance geo.
logic surveys"
Evening star., 1924-12-10
COURTS THROW TAX
PUBLICITY BAN BACK
FOR CONGRESS- ACTION

CONTINUED from First pase.)
Evening star., 1924-12-10
MYSTERIOUS BLOW 4
KILLED VETERAN
PerTyville, Md, Death Unsolved,
With Officials in Conflict
Over Evidence.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, December 10
With official opinion in conflict as to
the cause of the death Of Albert
Marshall, World War veteran, found
with his skull crushed Sunday in a
cottage Of the rehabilitation center at
Perryville, Md, the mystery was no
nearer a solution today than on Mon
day morning, when the gathering of
evidence was begun.
An inquest conducted by Coroner
Howard w. Green Of Elkton resulted
In a verdict that Marshall came to his
death as a result of vicious blow.
received in a manner unknown to the
jury. The coroner expressed the opin-
ion that the man was murdered. Col.
M. B. McMullen, in charge at the Per
ryyille reservation, said he believed
Marshall was the victim of an acci-
dent. Official disposition of the case
rests with the Government. since the
body was found on Government reser-
walton. About 80 witnesses have been
questioned.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
z|NOV|EFF LETTER
IS HELD AUTHENTIC
Baldwin Reports on Probe of
Document Urging RevoIu-
tionary Activity.
BY the Associa ted Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 10.--Prime Min
lister Baldwin stated in the House OF
Commons today the subcommittee Of the
cabinet after examining all the evidence
put before II had come to the unanimous
conclusion that there was no doubt the
Zinovieff propaganda letter was au-
thentic.
The famous Zinovieff letter, urg-
ing revolutionary activity in England
was made public during the height
of the recent election campaign, and
was generally credited with helping
along the landslide for the Conserva-
tives. The authenticity of the COM
munication, purporting to have been
signed by Zinovieff as head of the
Third, or Communist, international OF
Moscow, was hotly denied by the
MOSCOW authorities. when the Mao
Donald government took them to task
for it.
An investigation into the authenti-
city of the letter begun under the
Macdonald ministry was continued
by the Baldwin government.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
MRS. IDA o. TRENlS DIES
AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
Funeral Rites Held in Home To.
day-Was Member of D. A. r..
and u. d. G. in Capital.

Mrs. Ida Offutt Trenis, prominent
member of the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution and the United Daugh-
ers Of the Confederacy in this city
and we'll known musician here, died
It her residence. 3056 r street. Mon
day night. after a lingering illness.
Funeral services were conducted at
the residence today
The obsequies flag of the Daughters
of the American Revolution was placed
upon the casket. while members of the
Stonewall Jackson Chapter, U. D. c.,
attended the services in body. Miss
Marie j. Mcguire read blank verse.
written by Miss Gretna Perrott Bos-
well, at the services. Interment was
in Rock Creek Cemetery
Mrs. Trenis is survived by her hus-
band, Bertram Ewell Trenis: a son,
Bertram Ewell Trenis, jr.; mother,
Mrs. Gertrude Offutt; a sister. Mrs.
Benjamin Gantz. and two brothers.
Warren Offutt and Mortimer Offutt.
Mrs. Trenis was born in Georgetown
and was the daughter OF the late
George Warren Offutt. president of the
Potomac Savings Bank of Georgetown.
and Gertrude Tribby of West Virginia.
She received her early education in
the public schools OF Washington,
graduated from the Western High
School and completed her education
at the Eastern College Of Virginia.
She was a well known musician, hav-
ing studied under Archibald Almstead
and Archibald Krutz. She was from
childhood a member of the Dumbarton
Church of Georgetown. and later be-
came organist of the Congress Street
Church of Georgetown. Mrs. Trenis
was a member of the Arts Club and
was a past regent of the Abigail Hart
man Rice Chapter of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution, during
which time the chapter accomplished
conspicuous work In the interest Of
the great Americanization cause. She
had as her colonial ancestor Col. Ninian
Beal and as her revolutionary ancestor
Humphrey Luckett, one of the IL
apostles for freedom from Maryland.
She was also an active member of
the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy. having served in various official
capacities and had been nominated for
the presidency, and would. II is said.
have been elected unanimously to said
office the night of the morning she
died. to lead and serve, as its chief
executive. Stonewall Jackson Chapter.
No. 20, L. D. C., the first and Oldest
chapter in the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1924-12-10

rill, Rear Admiral and Mrs. William
r. Shoemaker, Capt. and Mrs. Yates
Stirling, 3r.; Rear Admiral and AIRS.
Edward r. Stitt, Miss Silt, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Joseph Strauss. Miss
Strauss, Maj. and Mrs. Oscar N. Sol
bert, Mrs. Swain, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Harry Taylor. Col. and Mrs. Thomas
T. Turner, Col. and Mrs. Julius S.
Turrill, Brig. Gen. Lutz Wahl. Miss
Wahl, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Kenzie
w. Walker, Miss Dorothy w. Walker,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Dion Williams,
Col. and Mrs. Herbert o. Williams
and Col. and Mrs. Franklin r. Wing.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
STATUE MADE U. S. PARK.
Status of Liberty Shrine on Bed
lows Island Changed.

NEW YORK, December 1o.-The
statue OF Liberty on Bedlow's Island
is now a national monument and it's
eleven-pointed, star-shaped base is a
national park. Announcement of the
new status was made by the Army In
formation Service on the basis of a
proclamation issued nearly a month
ago by President Coolidge.
The presidential proclamation also
designates as national monuments:
Castle Pickney, on Shutes Folly
Island, in the Cooper River, a mile
from Charleston, S. c.; Fort Pulas aski,
Ca; Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla,
and Fort Matanzas, Fla.
The presidents proclamation was
based on an act of Congress of 1906.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
POISON DART USED.
Woman Pedestrian Wounded b.
Party in Auto.

VANCOUVER, B. c.. December 10.
Police are searching for a mystic
rious curtained car from which a
woman pedestrian was shot today
with a dart said by medical examin-
ers to have been smeared with
lead and cedar poisoning. Officials
believe the dart was propelled from
g. blow-gun or air pistol.
Prompt cauterization Of the wound
was reported tonight to have placed
the woman out OF danger.
Evening star., 1924-12-10
Assigned to Boiling Field.

First Lieut.. Benjamin r. Morton,
Army Air Service, under treatment at
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver,
Colo, has been relieved from duty in
the Office of the Assistant Secretary
Of War and assigned to station ar
Boiling Field, Anacostia, D. c.
Evening star., 1924-12-10

The force of education is so great
that we may mold the minds and man
ners of the young and give them the
Impressions of such habits as shall
ever after remain.
Evening star., 1924-12-10

A chair with a back that forms a
coat hanger and with a collar draw
er and sliding foot rest has been
invented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27

hide-and-seek and tag and anything else you want to-"
 "It's a splendid day to work too," re- piled Peter, land I've too much to do to play" Peter was tugging at big bramble which he had cut off to get it out of one of his private little paths.
 Once more the Merry Little Freezes couldn't believe their own ears. Peter Rabbit working!' Whoever heard of such a thingi
 "You don't really mean that" ven- tured one of the Little Freezes.
 'I certainly do," retorted Peter. five cleared all the brambles out of my paths in the dear Old Brier Patch, and now I've got to clear them out of my private paths over here 50 that when I need to use them in hurry there will be nothing in the way. Besides, I'm going to cut a few new paths. You know there is nothing like being prepared. Now run along and don't bother me. When my work is finished I'll play. You ought to do little work yourselves. You've no idea how interesting it is and how 1t makes the time fly" With this Peter turned his back on the Merry Lit tie Freezes and began to cut another bramble.
 The Merry Little Freezes looked at one another, then with one accord they raced away to spread the news that Peter Rabbit was working and refused to play, for they knew it. would be the most surprising thing Peter's friends had heard for many a day. y.
 Next Story: Johnny Chuck Has Something On His Mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27
Peter Surprises His Friends


 THE Merry Little Breezes of Old
 playing by themselves. Let's go to play with Striped Chipmunk y. cried one. No sooner was it proposed than away they raced across the Green Mead ows up to the old stone wall on the edge of the old Orchard nearest to the Green Forest. 1t did not take them long to find Striped Chipmunk. He was racing along the old wall as if his life de- pended on it.
 Come play with us!" shouted the Merry Little Freezes, dancing around Striped Chipmunk.
 'Too busy. Too much to do," mumbled Striped Chipmunk, for his cheeks were stuffed with nuts so that he could hardly speak at all. With that he whisked out of sight between the stories of the old wall. Presently he was out again scampering back to- ward the Green Forest. The Merry Little Freezes raced along with him, teasing him to play, but he merely snapped his bright eyes at them and re peated that he was too busy; and this was all they could get out of him.
 The same thing happened when they tried to get Chatterer the Red Squirrel to play and again when they hunted uI Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. Johnny Chuck couldn't stop stuffing himself long enough to play. He said that il was almost time for him to go to sleeI for the winter and he simply must gel little more fat to take him through Bobby Coon and Unc' Billy Possun were asleep in their hollow trees. Prick ly Porky the Porcupine never would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27

to this, for they felt that the little sail or was right, so they sat down and ate every cream puff there was upon the dining room table.
 We can eat as many as we wish" MT. Sanky told his wife, "cause the cream puff bushes are just filled with more!"
 "T'm glad that we only gave the fat sailor two!" Mrs. Sanky said, That leaves just that many more for us '" And they are very good"
 Now, when the little fat sailor found out that the Sankys were mean selfish people, he ran right over to where Wal ter's daddy and the Wizard were tied and set them free. Then he did the same to Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, I am sorry that l mistreated youw the little fat sailor said, But did not know that the Sankys told so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27

Next Story: Johnny Chuck Ha Something On His Mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27
Little Stories For Bedtime
tBy THORNTON BURGESS,

play, anyway, so it was of no use to look for him. Paddy the Beaver was hard at work cutting a supply of wood on the shore of his pond deep in the Green Forest and sinking it near his house, where he could get it in the winter when the pond was frozen over. He said that this was no time for play ing and refused to stop working even to talk. Jerry Muskrat down in the Smiling Pool was just as busy. Even the birds which had already started for the far away Southland were too busy making up parties for the long journey
 There isn't any one who will play with us," said one of the Merry Little Freezes disconsolately.
 "Yes, there is !" cried another.
 "Peter Rabbit" was the reply. Peter never works. He always is ready to play"
 So the Merry Little Freezes raced over to the dear Old Brier Patch to look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27

many fibs.
 "We will forgive you!! Raggedy Ann told the fat sailor. "For we are cer- tain that the mean creatures fooled you!"
 Thank your' the little fat sailor re. piled, But now that the Sankys have the house, why don't you all come with me to my boat? I have a lovely boat and we can have lots of fun just sail. ing around in it v'
 That would be lots of fun if we only had Walter and his mama with usw Raggedy Ann said. But you see, we shall have to get them out of the house some way :"
 That is quite true!" the little fat sailor said: Isn't there some way we can fool the Sankys and rescue Walter and his mama?"
 That is what we shall try to do !'