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The Washington times., 1925-02-26

When to protecting water and wood and crops
and mail and home manufacturers, that's O. K.
'Those things worth money. The protection
have for them the BETTER if do have to violate
States rights to get it.
"But don't need any Constitution to tell how to
manage kids.
"AREN'T THEY OUR KIDS? they ask.
And want to work them when they re babies even
does kill them off, whose business is it but OURS?
Things have to pretty pass if you can't do what
you want with your kids.
the rled exploter of child labor through
him:
Then there's this wheeze of them put up about
not being Christian
'That just how crazy people get they stop
using their common
"Christianitys all right
Weve gotta have little of that religious stuff keep
looking respectable
Moreover, it helps business.
'But it doesn't do take Christ seriouslynauray
you couldn't expect Him reflect the viewpoint of up
to-date Go-Getter
"And red-booded Americans going to show the
world that don't need any outside meddlng when it
to managing our kids
Saying which, the employer of child labor sent menoran
dunn to his cashier ordering reduction in pay for his
child workers.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

By putting ourselves record-BY KILLING THAT
CHILD LABOR ACT
They made look foolish once, with their beats about
The Dear Little Children but they aren't going to do it
again.
No siree-e-e
Here's where show them the stuff redblooded Ameri
made Of
Are going let bunch of sob sisters put law
right the of fine, old American thrift?
Not your life.
We're going show the world that Yankee
can't be sdetracked by d lot of molycoddles.
Keep children from working9 Waste millions and mil
lions Of dollars that those youngsters might be earning for
Fill fields and factories with expensive union
labor when could breed raft of youngsters
do the jobs at quarter of the prcef SHOULD SAY
NOT!
No fool law is going to get us nto like THAT.
the smoke while the of killing that law
in State after another goes
Makes you mighty proud of your fellow citizens when
you them arising in their might and defending the fine
old traditions Of the country
makes those nut idealists and reformers eat their
words, doesn't it7
And for little, good hard work doing the kids
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

II A MERICANS should be for
ever grateful for two
IA things" writes William
LYON Phelps in Scribner's Maya
zine: 1.-THE sunshine without and
the furnace within.
"Yet we never get foreign credit
for our glorious sky. For centuries
British writer's have celebrated the
beauty of Italian sunshine, because
that was the only kind they knew.
AS a matter of fact, the sky over
Florence is not shade more blue
than the sky over Bridgeport.
But as we have it so often, we
forget what a blessing 1t Is.
onceE asked a Scotsman who had
miefated to America, what weNs
the chief thing in the new country
which impressed him by It's oil
ference: The blue sky Then ne
told me that during his twenty.
five years in Scotland, he had
never seen one day without clouds.
ION the streets of London, you
can tell an American from an
EngIishman by looking at his. feet.
The American wears the thin low
shoes he brought from home; the
EngIishman wears heavy hlgh
laced shoes-he calls them boots -
with soles an inch thick. He has
"In the year 1898 the Reverend
Jeremy Collier made his famous
attack on the immortality and pro.
faneness Of the English stage. All
the dramatists retorted angrily
except Dryden, who owned up
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

TH1s formidable name has
been bestowed upon another
missing link" between man
and ape, believed to be older than
any hitherto discovered. From
Australopithecu Africanus to
Scipio Africanus, what a process.
sion Of lOng-1inked ages! Put the
bald. round head Of the Roman
conqueror Of Hannibal beside the
skull Of this man-ape. blasted by
dynamite out of solid limestone
cliff in Bechuanaland. South AT.
RIGA, and read the story % Lvolu-
ton there-n you can.
The discoverer Of the new arch.
geological find, Professor Ray
mond Dart, well known to anat-
omists and evolutionists, does not
doubt that he reads that story
plainly. The gap between the
most primitive ancient men and
the most advanced apes. he AYERS
is now filled.
This individual was cot n hu-
man being. and yet was q much
more intelligent being titan Il go
rilla, or chimpanzee, which Is
the highest Of living apes. He
was unable to talk, but the brain
was advanced in the direction
required for those whose offspring
were to attain ultimately the
power Of communicating with
their fellows by the symbolism OF
speech"
The statement about the lack
Of power OF speech Is based upon
what Mr.. Bryan would be. likely
to call monkey phrenology. For
the old guess-work and coinci-
dence science" Of Gall and
Spurzheim, modern anatomy and
physiology have substituted an
intensive study Of the nerve rela-
lions OF various parts OF tho hut
man brain, and a region called
1.-The speech center" has been 10.
Gated on the lower left-hand side
of the brain Except for left
handed persons, with whom 1t
may be on the right.
Africa Home of Race.
In monkey and ape brains
there is a similar region, or area,
which is connected with the
power to utter vocal sounds, and
this region is close to the loca-
ton of the speech center of man.
But the two are not identical,
though evidently related. Now,
although the bumps" Of the
phrenologists have no scientific
standing, yet something there is
in the shape of the skull that
corresponds to a perceptible ex-
tent with the development or the
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
BLAMING THE WEATHER
FOR IMMORAL PLAYS

like the honest man he was. Vari-
Gus explanations and excuses were
offered by the others; but the
most original was that given by
William Congreve. This accom-
plished gentleman blamed it ell
on the weather. He said that in
countries warmed by sunshine 1t
was not necessary to have a racy
literature; but in England the cli-
mate was so depressing that TIE
dramatists were in duty bound to
furnish any means OF entertain
ment that would help the specta-
tors to forget their environment.
Thi is the only occasion, so far as
I know, where the weather has
been used as an excuse for i'm
moral plays"
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

various motor centers, or else
Professor Raymond Dart would
not have been able to tell from
inspection of the skull of Austria.
lopithecus Africanus that the
creature did not possess the
power of speech.
That, of course, is not the
same thing as saying that II did
not posses the power of uttering
vocal sounds. Very likely Il
filled the Miocene forests with
sounds that we're alternately
dulcet and grim to the ears Of
its contemporary nnaT1-apes. But
it had no ideas to communicate,
and so needed no speech. al
though its remote descendants
were to be sWamped with ideas
and overwhelmed with talk.
AS Professor G.. Eliot Smith
points out, this discovery IN
South Africa of a type of anthro-
poidal primate older than the
Pithecanthropus Erectus Of Java,
if ii Is confirmed will tend to re-
establish the idea of Darwin that
it was in Africa instead or IN
Asia that the human FAMILY was
first developed.
Evolution Backed.
OF late the theory Of the Asiatic
origin of mankind has held the
chief attention, but it may now
have to yield the floor to enable
the unlearned world to hear the
claims put forth for ancient and
mighty continent, whose geograpnl-
cal and historical nystries so long
baffled the civilized world.
Professor Smith makes a very
good point, with reference to the
fact that both the gorilla and
the chimpanzie, the most human
like Of all the apes, are inhabi-
tants of Africa, but not OF Asia.
It would seem that in any un-
prejudiced mind that this new
discovery must tend to strengthen
the theory Of mans descent from
some variant OF the anthropoid
group Of animals. But one can,
nevertheless. appreciate the force
Of the sentiment which refuses
to believe that the Queen Of
Sheba was descended, however.
remote and indirectly, from a
gorilla.
She stood before the great
kings throne
And at his feet laid gifts Of
gold.
"Take up thy gifts; for thou
Art Beauty's self in human
mold"
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
One Good Salesman

Labor in Parliament attack the Prince of Wales
mandng that he pay his travelling expenses his
journeys through the British Empire Macdonald recently
Labor Prime Minister wisely attacks those that
Prince.
That young is frstclass salesman, the best that
British Empire could possibly have, he is an IN
DUSTRI0US salesman, of failing good humor making
friends for his government everywhere
Many American would pay him than Britain
pays him is not for his pleasure that goes about
telling queer people, with queerer and ways how
much he loves them, from Long Island to Siam.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
r gssS#sss sgyss By ELSIE ROBINSON
By 7. E. Powers

harm-pooh! Of course, they cant play
much, but what's the big idea of letting kids
play, when they might be earning money for
the old man?
And naturally some of the spindly ones
die off yearly in the game and the rest
don't grow very big.
But what of that2 LOOKIT THE MONEY
THEY MAKE.
"It isn't the kid s rights that count-its
OURS" is the unspoken argument of these
exploiters of child labor.
'What right has Washington to come but
ting into the business Of the separate States9"
they demand.
Wasn't this Government founded on the
theory of States rights? "Then what are
they trying to interfere forY
"Of course. some Of those Federal laws
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Bee-Keepers

tTHE number of registered bee
4 keepers in Manitoba, Can
ada, increased from 1900 to 1900
between 1923 and 1924. The ag-
gregate value of the honey pro-
duction in 1924 was 100000 net
to the producers. Bookkeeping
has developed to such IN extent
that the Western demand is now
chiefly met by home production,
and factories for making apiary
supplies have Leen established
here.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Church Membership

All churches gained in membership last year The biggest
gains in churches that have witnessed the
discussion arguing and denouncng SO says
Herald
America has kinds of religion than any country in
the world that exist nowhere else Some church
bers will be surprised in the hereafter when they
how little Importance omnpotence attaches theories
But in the meanwhile conviction be the life
Of the church.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

Neutrality-suspicious. dOubters about their city HOu'.
the haze doubts about
the future of Washington uDng their
in Washington real estate.
2 The money M0yfIOWer HOTEL just
COMPLETED Middle West and the Far
Warrington sources"
3 The Washington Trade Chamber Of
Merchants and probably the
City united, pulsine organza
ton pOuerfuI body Orking the uPbng Of
city olong unified lines
T. The foregoing organizations should "eet line with
thoughts eliminating their little ciques, and
future Warrington We
oren thinking Of 1925 nOuU but of 1880"
Washington going WITHOUT the assistance Of
organizations together and shOOe
hing oruDnrd
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
An Outsiders Suggestions as
to Booming Washington
By BILL PRICE.

hustlng outsider writes The Times that he has
come to Washington to build and says that he speak
frankly about things and offer helpful suggestions to
keep this town moving toward its goal of MILLION popu
lation
The Washington times., 1925-02-26

~ EMEMBER that stuff they pulled back
in 1917, about the Huns cutting off
A~ babies hands2 Sounded pretty
fierce, didn't tall those trusting little
lives SCARED?
10 many it wasn't really the thought Of
cutting off those babies hands, that got
their goats.
1T WAS THE WASTE OF IT.
What's the use," they inquired, "of
cutting off a kids hands when you can
make good money by letting them stay ont"
Wasting a lot of time and expensive
steel hacking off hands, when they might
some day put those hands to work in beet
fields and cotton mills
We wished on ourselves a reputation for
being bunch of sentimentalists once-but
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS OF
LATEST ''MISSING LINK

Skull Found in Africa Indicates That Continent
Was Original Home Of Human Race.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
Councilman Schall
Opposes Dalton's
Salary of S2,100

H. D. Schall, Palisades representa-
tive on the Fort Lee council board, at
the regular meeting of that board
warned the council against giving
Thomas Dalton a S2,100 salary.
Before submitting the resolution for
payment of bills Councilman Schall
called attention to bill for Dalton's
pay at the S2,100 rate. He said the
resolution which placed Dalton back
on the force did not fix his salary. and
for this reason he had held the bill up.
He said he could not see how Dalton
was entitled to a third year police
mans pay when he should have the
same status as a new man.
Councilmen Cook, Hoebel and Car
ney favored the s2,1OO wage, and
Councilman Aikens, although silent
during the discussion, voted in favor
of the claim.
Mr.. Schall made clear to the board
the necessity of following the advice
of the attorney. He pointed out that
Dalton's salary would be larger than
the other new men on the force and
would be unfair to the old and new
men both because Dalton's pay would
equal that of these men. Mr.. Schall
believes the council has taken a very
foolish stand.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
HUDSON VIEW IN FT. Lee
finer THAN M0SC0W'S
FAMED BY NAPOLEON |
Proposal by New Jersey Taxpay-
er for Auto Road to Edge of
Cliff, Where Picture Would Be
a ReveIation-Cost Nominal.

Why does not the Palisades Inter
state Park give New Jersey the benefit
of the best and most accessible part
of the park?
All of us who reside here realize
how difficult it is to have any view
of the river, as nearly all the land on
the bluff Is in private possession, but
the Interstate Park in New Jersey
owns the site of the original former
powder tract in Fort Lee, and prop
erty north of that There is a good
state road to these properties-to Fort
Lee, to the powder tract, and the one
north of that All it would requireis a
drive to the edge of the bluff. The
state owns from Hudson terrace to
the river, and it would only require
the making of road on perfectly fiat
land to the edge of the bluff. If
there is no money for building a WALL
edge to prevent automobiles from 60
ing through, and from one who has
stood on Sparrow Hills, overlooking
Moscow, which Napoleon I said was
the finest view of the large city in
Europe, let me say that this is so
much more transcendent than Sparrow
Hills that anyone who sees it cannot
fail but be impressed with it. The
road cost would be nominal.
If we'll were dug from the top of
the cliff to the park below it would
be possible to see the stars by day
light, and with an elevator the people
could be taken either from the TOP
of the bluff to the river wharf, or from
the river wharf to the top of the bluff
Why not?
NEW JERSEY TAXPAYER.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
SEVEN CANDIDATES
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
IN Fl. Lee BOROUGH
Four to Be Elected on Next
Tuesday; Three Present Men,
berS to Seek Election.

Up to this writing seven persons
have filed petitions in the Borough of
Fort Lee and will be candidates for
the School Board at the election on
Tuesday next which is to be held in
the Whiteman street school from
o'clock in the afternoon until o'clock
in the evening. Four members are to
be elected.
The candidates are John C. Abbott,
Jr, Edward Packard, Walter Oetel,
Oreste Cassi, Edwin D. New, Mrs.
Sophie Waller, all of Fort Lee, and
Dr., R. 7. Scott, of Palisade.
The members whose terms expire
are Mr. Abbott, Mr. Packard. Mr..
Oetel and Dunbar SPOTS. All will
seek reelection with the exception of
Mr.. SPOTS who was one Of Palisades
representatives on the board.
Within the last two years Fort Lee
has elected two women to the board,
Mrs. Edward Dobblelaar, elected in
1923, and followed in 1924 by Mrs.
George E. Clark, representing the
Palisade section of the borough.
Both Mr.. Packard and Mr.. Oetel
were elected to serve the unexpired
terms of members who resigned. Mr..
Abbott is serving as clerk of the
board and has been member of this
body for the last ten years.
AS far as is known no candidate
has any particular platform and there
is no particular issue to be considered
as in the neighboring Borough of
Cliffside Park, where the policies OF
the various candidates in regard to
the proposed school building program
will affect the voters decision.
Judge Moore, of Fort Lee, in let
ter published elsewhere in this issue
suggests some points that should be
considered by the voters. Whether
his appeal for public defamation
from the candidates of how they stand
on these matters will meet with any
response remains to be seen.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
Goemann Talks on School Survey

2. l voted for two propositions-viz
ton to the High School, which will
bring the capacity up to 1000 pupils,
and the erection of twelve room
building in the Hudson heights sec
ton. These propositions were voted
by unanimous consent of the board,
and by so doing it affords the voters
an opportunity to make choice. How
ever, my stand, as expressed in my
writings in the press on previous oc-
casions, has not changed, and l still
believe that additions is our solution.
This twenty room wing on the High
School will relieve to such an extent
that part time will be greatly mini
mized, so that soon we may bring fur
ther relief and eventually work out
the entire program of the State De-
partment of Education. In support of
my attitude for relief let us suppose
there is an epidemic Of a contagious
disease throughout our county. The
situation commands the attention of
the health authorities, and they lend
their greatest effort toward relieving
that area where conditions are worse
with the ultimate aim of relieving the
entire county. So it is with our school
situation. The greatest need today is
in our High School, and when you re-
lieve that. you will automatically be
relieving the other two schools by af-
fording additional space and thereby
alleviating the drain ON all three
schools. Respectfully,
H. F. GOEMAN.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
Communicated


The State Department of Education
has finally submitted the public
school housing program, which is de-
signed primarily to relieve the over
crowded condition of our schools.
AS 1 have stated before in my stand
for additional space for our children,
additions to our present buildings is
the most economical program and the
only program that will render imme
diate relief The States Survey
asked as proposition No. 1 that a
twenty room wing be added to our
High School building. By doing this
we will secure immediate relief, for,
as the Survey says in part, Extra
room in this building not needed i'm
mediately for Junior-Senior High can
be used for time to house the rapid
ly increasing number of pupils in
Grades and g."
The carrying out of such program
has been my contention right from
the outset That is why l have re-
peatedly opposed a Hudson Heights
project-not as personal issue, as
some have wrongly named it, but as a
matter of sound principle.
Relief is what the people Of our
borough want, and additions is the
only solution at the present time.
Heretofore I have never been given
an opportunity to have my proposition
placed before the people for their ap-
proval, whichever the same may be.
At recent meeting of the Board OF
Education held on Monday, February
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
The Crime of Part Time in the Schools.

, ent price of labor for fourteen-year
children is equal to at least $500. Is
it crime to steal money from child ?
Every child who is not promoted
and repeats a grade takes that much
longer time to get out of school, there
fore costs the town more for teacher,
books, etc, as we'll as occupying a
seat, which otherwise would be empty,
that makes the class larger and the
teaching less efficient.
Ameritanization in its broad sense
means making good citizens of every
person, young and old, in this eoun-
try. When because of slow promotion
on account of part-time children be-
come fourteen years of age while in
the sixth grade and go to work, they
have been robbed of their American
birth right They have not had an
equal and fair opportunity to acquire
thorough and efficient" education
as called for in our State Constitution.
Is this g. crime?
We need more class rooms. If any
building is done it should be with the
idea Of stopping the crime of part
time in all parts of the borough.
If I am elected to the Board of
School Trustees I will endeavor to
have every child on full time. Re-
member that one vote counts for little.
Elect three who stand for the same
idea and there will be some chance
of doing away with part-time.
School election at the High School
on Tuesday. February 10, 1925.
GEORGE N. VENABLES.
February 4, 1925.
Palisadian., 1925-02-06
PALISADE MAN FILES
BANKRUPTCY PETITION
William J. MuIIigan Claims No As.
sets to Meet Liabilities To-
falling 100000.

Through his attorney, j. Lawrence
Elmore, of the firm of Seufert G. FL
more, Dean street, Englewood, Will
liam j. Mulligan, residing at 1000
Anderson avenue, Palisade, where he
and his wife conduct a real estate
business, has filed petition for pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy in the Federal
Court in Newark, listing his liabilities
at approximately 100000 and no as
sets.
Mr.. Mulligans operations as a real
estate dealer have covered quite
wide territory ranging from the
Grantwood section across to Pali-
sades Park and down to Ridgefield.
He is also lawyer, and came into
the New Jersey territory from the
Bronx, in New York State.
The attorney for Mulligan, ]. Law
renee Elmore, of Englewood, was reti-
cent about entering into any discus
sion of the case, but did give out the
information that his client was not
now engaged in any sort of business
except that he was a lawyer, and that
while he had attempted to carry on
real estate business and engage in
other lines during the last few years,
there were numerous judgments hang
ing over him in New York and in New
Jersey that when he would start to
embark in business these judgments
would be forced into legal action
against him and stop his efforts. 1t
was decided best to enter bankruptcy,
with the result that Mulligan became
client of Attorney Elmore. The
papers in the case have been duly filed
in court with schedule of liabilities,
the amount of which the attorney ad-
mitted was correct, but declined to
proffer any further information as to
the items in detail. The attorney also
admitted that there was not a dollars
worth of assets named in the filing of
the petition in court
When asked if there were likely
to develop anything of sensational
nature in the case, the attorney fol
Mulligan said there might arise some
thing of particular interest in the
proceedings, and if anything of fur
ther news developed he would make
it public
Mr.. Elmore gave the impression
that his client had been treated
rather roughly by claimants who helt
judgments, and that he had not beel
given a chance to get on his feet il
a business undertaking SO as tt
make good. Hudson Dispatch