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Palisadian., 1925-02-13
Tax Collectors in
This District Soon

To assist Federal income taxpayers
in filing their 1924 income tax returns
as promptly as possible, Edward E.
Gnichtel, collector for the Fifth New
Jersey District, has arranged the fol-
lowing schedule of assignments of In
ternal Revenue Deputy Collectors, for
the period February 16 to March IA,
1925, inclusive. The work of the en-
tire district is under the supervision
of Reginald T. Bennett, chief field
deputy.
The deputy collectors will not only
assist in making out the returns, but
will take the necessary affidavits,
without any charge.
Taxpayers are urged to take ad-
vantage of this arrangement by fling
their returns as early as possible.
The deputy collectors will be in this
district on the dates and at the places
printed below:
Paterson, Post Office Building, Feb
ruary 26 to March IA. Ridgewood,
Citizens National. Bank, February Is
to February 81. Ridgewood Trust
Company, March 4 to March TO-
.Hackensack, Hackensack Post Office
Building, March to March IA. West
wood, First National Bank, February
20 to February 26. Westwood Trust
Company, February 81 to March 3.
Englewood, Borough Hall, March to
March T. Rutherford, Rutherford
Trust Company March to March IA.
Rutherford National Bank, March to
March Z.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
SCHOOL BOARD REFLECTIONS

It is of little interest that the Board
of Education election is over and the
matter closed for another term.
There are certain reflections, howeV-
er, which may be INDUCED at large.
While there are many views on
boards of education in general, there
are only two elements worth mention
ing here, meaning two classes who
have views that are outstanding.
There is one element that believes
the Board of Education should be
composed of those who are of good
business qualifications, since the
board is in reality a business body.
The other element presupposes that
the name Board of Education means
what it says and should be composed
of members who qualify, first, by be-
ing educated themselves, and next,
because of these individual educa-
tional advantages they would be the
better able to inculcate higher school
standards, better systems of applied
educational methods and raise school
tones III Senerdl.
Unfortunately this latter element,
while perfectly entitled to it's views
and which are really unassailable, do
not appear to meet popular approval,
Judging by the common American
practice on boards of education as a
whole The fact is that the almost
universal rule in America is to look
rather to a school board members
business capacity rather than to his
college degree as best fitting him or
her to adorn the school board. There
seems to be, and really is, no way of
anyone's doubling this broad state
ment Those favoring college-bred
school board members must admit
that they are in the minority, how
ever desirable their ideals may be.
Go where one will, the business men
are an excessive majority. And there
was once a school board member who
gave satisfactory service as bust
ness man who could not even write
his own name. Besides, Abraham
Lincoln and Thomas A. Edison never
went to college, they argue.
Who is to solve the school board
question? In New Jersey, as in the
large majority of states, local boards
are regulated by state boards, which
plan the general system of education,
such as the curriculum to be used,
the kinds of books that must be
studied and other matters to which
the local boards cannot address them
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
A FASHIONABLE GENTLEMAN

A Fashion Committee of the Ma
tional Association of Merchants meet
ing in Cleveland declares that "a
mans wardrobe should contain four
overcoats, a topcoat, sport clothes, a
tuxedo or dinner jacket, waistcoats
dhe more the better), sack and rid
ing suits, morning coat and silk hat
And we rise to ask what sort of man
wants to be bothered with four diff
ferent overcoats in addition to a top
coat at one and the same time?
1t all goes to show we shall never,
never become a gentleman. We got
our very first setback when we
learned from IAN eminent authority in
New York's elect" that to be gen
tleman required daily pocket money
totaling $4,000. That hurt our preten-
tions nightly, since our annual in
come was a few paltry hundreds over
that amount. But after awhile We
,perked up a bit. We honestly didn't
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
HAckENsAcK HIGHS VICTORY

The victory of the Hackensack
High School basketball team over the
nationally famous Passaic High team
made unique chapter in amateur
athletics. The Passaic invincibles
had gone along winning steadily
since 1919, seven seasons, with not
one game lost, and piling up total
of 159 victories. In all of the history
of the game there had been no such
record. They had come to point
where they actually overawed other
good teams through their very repu-
tation alone. Everybody was afraid
of Passaic. But at the beginning of
the present season the Passaic play
ers got a line on what the Hacken-
sack team really represented and
pricked their ears bit in their first
game with them this season, for
Hackensack actually was on even
terms in that first game up to and in
cluding the third period, S3 all, only
to lose out in the end by score of
5S to 35.
One of the sure things in sport, as
in many other things of late, is that
champions must some day be de-
throned. OF course basketball man
agement has had much to do with
PASSAGES long unbroken victory
chain. The team has been rebuilt
from year to year and forced up to
and kept at a standard that made
Palisadian., 1925-02-13

selves if they would. So that it would
appear that if politics should enter
into the selection of school boards
those who vote for members of local
boards have themselves to thank for
making issues which force the taking
of sides when new members are to be
chosen. To any one who will offer a
plan that will eliminate politics in
school board campaigns should be
given prize or crown. Getting to-
gether at school board election time
is provocative of feeling, rough-neck-
ing and scrambling that make one
laugh in trying to fathom the cause
or propose a remedy. The real an
swer is that people cannot agree on
many things connected with govern
ment, civic, church or educational.
Think it over, you wise ones. And
remember that the bourgeois may
claim as many rights of opinion as the
intelligentia, if either class ever un-
dertook the right of control.
The exciting time had in Fort Lee
and neighboring boroughs at this
weeks school election was scarcely
different from a similar experience all
over the state. There are not many
things that can happen in any aver
age community to beat school cleo
ton But they breed always a good
crop of two things-friends and enc
mics. Which is too bad
The net of these observations is
II tk1n Of irin o.
those who know is that business men
are better qualified as board members
than professional men, though there
are few good lawyer members some
times. A successful business man is
almost universally regarded as the
ideal person for school boards. Busi-
ness men provide the means for
schools, and the educational process
es are definitely fixed by the state.
No boards of education successfully
undertake to interfere with the school
superintendent work. He selects the
teachers, and he is success just in
so far as he uses good judgment in
picking them. A school board that
undertakes to go out of its own
sphere of action is like fish out of
water. No school board can change
what the, state provides one iota. The
state fixes standards in everything
relating to school studies. Superin-
tendents that are not broad and able
should not be selected. But the
school board cannot interfere with the
educational system.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
AN ERA OF PROTEST

We live in an era of protest. Since
the beginning of the world war in 1914
civilization has gone so far awry that
friends of good government every
where the world over, anxious to see
things on an even keel again, have
lived in open protest, II not in open
revolt. II was an evil moment when
the heart of the world was staggered
at the start of the European eruption.
That there has not come full recovery
yet has been due to the enormous pro-
portions of the wound to humanity.
Every form of mistrust and doubt has
pressed forward to hold back the final
adjustments necessary to start up the
hill again. Civil governments every
where, national, state, county and mu-
nicipal, have gotten into the great
whirlpool of dissatisfaction and in the
face of excessive. taxation made pos
sible by a determination of politicians
of every type and kind to raid public
treasures at the expense of the peo-
pie, there has come a form of money
spending madness never before
it end? There is no longer an over.
plus poverty. The every day poverty
we used to know is no longer with us
People have money today who never
knew it's meaning before. People of
good property ten years ago are the
real poor of today. With no larger
incomes, prices have risen till com
mon necessities are prohibitive, and
they are again rising. 1t is strange
condition that prevails, and loose poll
tics has made the outlook most un
promising. Profiteering is no longer
more rampant than ever
Palisadian., 1925-02-13

them unbeatable Then last year
Hackensack got together a team of
six-footers and went out to win. How
well she has performed is in the rec
ord. 1t is to the credit of Hackensack
that the well deserved honors are be-
ing born modestly if bit enthusias-
tically. 1t will be long time before
last weeks game will be forgotten.
That it was no fiuke is admitted by
every sporting authority.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13

money was absolutely required and
that a resourceful chap could get
along with trifie less.
But we are about to give up the
struggle. Managing four overcoats
and topcoat at one time would take
TOO much brain power and time. Right
now we are two down and three to
play. What's the use of continuing
such an unequal struggle. Anyhow,
We like one particular topcoat to the
exclusion of any others We know
about-and have for several years
past.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
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VOL. XVIII. FEBRUARY 1s. 1925 NO.
THE BIGoT's CREED

believe as l believe-no more, no
less;
That / am right, and no one else,
confess
Eat what eat and drink what | drink,
Look as / look, do always as / do:
And then, and only then, I'll fellow
ship with you.
THAT l am right, and always right,
know.
Because my own convictions tell me
so;
And to be right is simply this: to be.
Entirely and in all respects, like me.
To deyiate j0t or to begin
To question, doubt or hesitate is sin.
Let sink the drowning man if he'll
not swim
Upon the plank that I throw out to
him;
Let starve the famishing if he'll not
eat
My kind and quantity of bread and
meat;
Let freeze the naked, too, If he'll not
be
Supplied with garments such as made
for me.
"'Twere better that the sick should
die than live
Unless they take the medicine / give;
'Twere better that sinners perish than
refuse
To be confirmed to my particular
Palisadian., 1925-02-13

The first railroad land grant from
the United States was to the Mobile &
Ohio company of 100000 acres lying
along the route from Mobile to the
mouth of the Ohio river. 1t was made
in 1S49.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
Get Together Social"

The girls of the Grace Mission of
Grandview held a meeting on Thurs
day evening of last week and decided
to hold ''get-together social on Fri
day evening, February 13. Admission
will be only 35 cents.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
Divided Effort

81 have noticed" an employer re-
marked, that when man sings at
his work, he doesn't seem to be doing
either of the jobs very well."-Boston
Transcript.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13

lHlooiOhCl VI iASul duCS VI CuAoy 4
vania, in brief on the subject OF
:. !. ~ 1I1lIu 49,
80 far as providing insurance is
concerned, regulation (agreement) Nra
ther than legislation is, in my opinion,
practicable.
THE instant insurance is men
toned a state fund is projected as
a cure-all and at the same instant
politics enters in.
The state fund idea is to save the
poor people payment of insurance
premiums. In the first place, the peo-
pie do not want to be called poor.
In the second place, they are not
poor If they are they should not
purchase automobiles, which are not
poor mems toys
mo state fund was ever a factor in
progress or in advancing the science
of insurance, and no state fund ever
saved money for the poor public A
close analysis will prove that all OF
them were costly subterfuges.
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
mot POOR MEMS TOYS"

Thomas b. Donaldson, former Com
missioner of Insurance of Pennsyl-
vania, in brief on the subject of
Palisadian., 1925-02-13
re better lhss tbN

still than move
In any other way that that which
approve"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
SCHOOL FRAT FIGHT
IN COURT IS ENDED

The high school fraternity court
battle today came to a legal close
through the failure of plaintiffs tc
perfect an appeal in the test case
filed in the name of Chester c.
Ward, student at Western High
School, who was one of a number
OF pupils stripped of student honors
because of fraternity membership.
The case was brought against the
Board of Education by members of
the Sigma Delta fraternity, and
Justice Jennings Bailey found
against the fraternity. refusing a
writ of mandamus to compel school
authorities to restore school honors
to fraternity members.
The graduation of the plaintiff,
Chester Ward, since the suit was
filed, automatically prevents restora-
ton of his honors. even if the case
were won, it was announced as a
reason for dropping the case.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
SCHOOL ITEMS
HEAD BUDGET
F|GHT
Bitterest Will Be Aruond
100000 for Junior High.
Commissioners Plans

Renewal of the annual battle over
District estimates will begin Mon
day as a result of notification by
Budget Director Lord that the Dis.
trict estimates for the next fiscal
year must be slashed from $50, 479,,
sec to $36,250,0O.
One of the bitterest fights is
likely to center around the item OF
100000 for acquisition of a site
for junior high school in the
northeastern section of the city, it
is indicated.
Early estimates called for pur.
chase Of this site, for completion OF
the John Burroughs school and for
purchase of a school site at Rhode
Island avenue and Twelfth street
northeast.
The fight also will be renewed
for rebuilding of the Langdon
school, condemned by residents of
the neighborhood as a fire-trap.
While there has yet been no def
mite estimates in response to- the
order of the Budget Bureau, it is
practically certain that the school
estimates will suffer severely, es-
pecially as regards estimates for
continuing the five-year school
building program.
The District Commissioners are
planning to include practically all
of the items eliminated from the
District estimates in supplemental
list which will be forwarded to the
Budget Bureau with the District
estimates on September i.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
DIAMOND RING STOLEN
FROM FINGER, SHE SAYS

While she served a meal in her
newly-opened tea room, at 1926
Fourteenth street northwest, ut
supper time last night, Mrs. Grace
H. Jones, joint proprietress OF the
cafe, reported to Tenth precinct
police that some one stole from her
finger a diamond ring valued at
$3.50. .-...
Mrs. Jones and her partner, a
Miss Patterson, had only been in
business for two days at the Char
ViVe Tea House. ....
Although it doesn't seem possible,
Mrs. Jones said today, the only way
she could have lost the ring was 10
have had one of her customers slip
it from her finger while she was
waiting on them.
The two women live together In
the Falkstone Courts, at Fourteenth
and Fairmont streets northwest,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
POOL FOR EVERY
PLAYGROUND
SOUGHT
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes Asks
Many Improvements in
Annual Report

Aroused by the lack of public
bathing facilities in Washington
this summer, Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes, supervisor Of Fairgrounds,
in her annual report submitted to.
day to the District Commissioners
recommends construction of Wading
pools on every Washington play
ground and swimming pools on all
Of the larger grounds.
The District now has three swim
ming pools in operation on the
Fairgrounds and one municipal
pool in the Monument grounds.
Funds were not available until
July 1 with which to open the
playground pools and they were
opened by private subscriptions,
raised in a twenty-four hour cam
paign conducted by The Washing
ton Times. ........ .......,-
Mrs. Rhodes also requests that
funds be made available and au-
thorization granted to keep all Dis
trict Fairgrounds open throughout
the year. with supervision. Other
recommendations follow:
That school Fairgrounds which
now are opeh throughout the sum-
mer also be kept open after school
hours during the school term.
That in opening new city sub.
divisions, one-tenth of the total
ground area, exclusive of streets,
be set aside as playground space.
That every playground be pro-
vided with a field house large
enough for indoor play in extreme
ly cold or hot weather.
That public-spirited citizens be
reminded that there is no gift
that can be made to the city Of
greater use and enjoyment, with
more lasting honor to the donor,
than the gift of land for a public
DIayground'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
Judge Raps Mothers
Who Like to
Smoke

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Mod-
ern mothers who smoke came in
for a verbal slap from Judge
David Gorfinkel. The court
was Iecturing Miss Elsie Sen
chack, seventeen, arraigned as
ungovernable, her father COM
planning he had not been able
to break her Of cigarette smok-
ing.
"You should be ashamed of
yourself the Judge told the
girl, Smoking against the
wishes of your parents.
1.-THE trouble with many
mothers is that instead of rock
ing their babies to sleep with a
lullaby they suffocate them with
smoke from cigarettes"
Elsie was placed on probation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
NEW YORK RABBI. 70, is
Welded TO WOMAN, S.

Rabbi Simon Paltrowitch, seventy
years old, of New York city, and
Mrs. Regina Lieberman, fifty-one,
of 1908 Warder street northwest,
were married last night at the home
of Rabbi George Silverstone, 1911
Lamont street northwest.
The couple will remain in Wash
Iireton for about ten days when they
will leave for New York, where
Rabbi Paltrowitch will began work
on his fifth book of sermons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
FACE LIFE TERM
IN PICKFORD
PLOT
Two Are Convicted of Plot
ting to Kidnap Movie
Star
BY international News Service

Los ANGELES. Aug. 14.-Charles
z. Stevens and Claude A. Holcomh
must serve from ten years to life
in San Quentin prison for plotting
the kidnapping of Mary Pickford.
motion picture star.
Sentence will be passed tomorrow
following their conviction late last
night when a jury of nine men and
three women found two of the three
defendants in the abduction case
guilty and. freed Adrian ]. Wood.
scarcely past twenty-one.
The jury deliberated four hours
and thirty-five minutes before re-
turning a verdict.
Stevens, Helcomb, and Wood were
arrested May 80, charged with a
plot to kidnap Americas Sweet
heart. At the trial their attorneys
charged the arrests We're a police
frame-up for publicity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
TREASURY DISMlSSALS
CUT IN REVISED LIST

A revised list of employees to be
dismissed from the loans and cur
rency division of the Treasury De-
partment this month was submitted
to the personnel classification board
for approval yesterday. Only eighty
seven employees are now recon-
mended for dismissal, as compared
with ninety-two on the original list.
Many of those on the original
list will leave the service tomor-
row, while others will leave August
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
NORMAN 3. LANDREAU
NAMED TO LEGION POST

Norman B. Landreau, Washing
ton lawyer, has been appointed
judge advocate Of the District De-
partment, American Legion. 1t was
announced today
Department Adjutant Joseph j.
Idler, in a letter written at the
direction of Department Commander
Julius /. Peyser, informed Landreau
of his appointment, effective imme-
diately.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
BOY, LOST IN WOODS,
EATS RABBITS RAW

NEGAUNEE, Mich, Aug. 14.-Al-
bert Franklin, sixteen, ate a rabbit
raw, after being lost in the woods
neare Little Lake two days. He
killed the animal with a slingshot.
He had no matches to start fire
and his suffering from hunger
prompted him to eat the raw meat.
He lost his way while looking for
COWS. He slept in the woods at
night under a clump Of bushes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
PENNY REDUCTION IN
WHOLESALE GAS MADE

A reduction of l cent a gallon in
the wholesale price of gasoline in
the District of Columbia went into
effect todayt The reduction was
announced by Paul Himmelfarb,
president of the Penn Oil Company.
This is a second cut within a few
days, as both the wholesale and re.
tall rates were reduced l cent a
gallon last week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
WALKING 400 MILES
Is CURE FOR ILLS, HE SAYS

BOSTON, Aug. 14.--Although we'll
along in years, Herbert Welsh, of
Philadelphia, president of the Indian
Rights Association, recently COM
pleted his annual 400.mile hike from
that city to his estate at Sunapee,
Mass.
For thirteen years. Mr.. Walsh,
who believes that walking is a cure
for most physical ills, has hiked
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
Theatrical Notes


''Desire Under the Elms," the
New York stage success, was
given an impromptu run here
last night by the boys OF No. 6
pumping engine company.
Commissioner Bell had ordered
them out to clean the elns on
New Jersey avenue, between L
and M streets, of the big black
bird convention which had. been
annoying the neighbors. The
boys played the hose, but upon
empty trees. Their desire is to
be left strictly alone until the
humiliation wears off.
Larry Beatus is having a hard
time these summer nights with
the folks who want to see how
near Never the Twain Shall
Meet" is like the book. A couple
of nights ago it was that the
ushers and house staff could do
to keep the mobs from crowding
down the aisles. And that's no
marylouise.
Mary Pickford's kidnapers
have been found guilty and the
general opinion among press
agents is that out in California
they may carry a publicity story
too far.
According to Congressman
SCOTS counsel, a member of the
House must play poker and stay
out late at night If he wants to
get a bill passed. We wonder
ii they have a definite schedule
for various pieces of legislation,
such as: evolution rider" ten
cent limit for three nights, and
orange blossoms; new postoffice
for home town, twenty-five-cent
limit game for one week, and
Scotch; big.league law, no.limit
game for one month, and any.
thing on the bar; confirmation
of old friend to big Federal po-
sition, ??????
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14

Chief william Gray @of the River
dale fire department told the coun-
Gil his department wished 20 build
another room on the fire house,
for storage and other purposes. lie
was asked to submit plans and
specifications at the next council
meeting.
Citizens Of the first ward have
requested the council to construct
new bridge across the branch on
Lafayette avenue, near the Balti
more and Ohio railroad, and Coun-
Gilman G. G. Bowers has been asked
to get bids for a structure and re.
port at a special meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14

with the washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission the possibility
Of having all Riverdale residents
connect with the sewer mains.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14

between his two homes. He carries
twenty-three pounds of baggage
strapped to his back and stops for
rest and refreshment along the
route. He generally covers the 400
miles in a month.