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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-14

ers and switchmen and adds to the
safety Of railroading.
Only five men are needed where
dozens were formerly used. George
Hannauer of Calumet City is the in
ventor.
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Judge Charles F. Remy OF the
Appellate Court at Indianapolis will
be one Of the speakers at an all-day
religious. gathering to be held here
that day.
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NEW RAILROAD DEVICE

Holsters Invention to Be Given
Trial Saturday.
BIZ Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. 14.-In-
vention of electropneumatic switces
which will be given trial Saturday
before railroad officials at Gibson.
Ind, will be one of the most i'm
portant railroad inventions of the
twentieth century, If successful. The
switching device eliminates car rid
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LIGHTS UNDER
elevation TO
BE REPAIRED
Mr.. Fixit Destroys Lurking
Place for Thugs
and Bandits.
Do You Know?

The tax levy for the city
during 1925 stands at $1.0625
and that last year it was
$1.055.
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your advocate at the city hall. Let him
HELM you. You may write him at The
indianapolis Times.
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TO GIVE BIBLE PAGEANT
Expect 10000 Persons at Mont.
gomeiy County Fair.

BIZ Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Aug.
14.-Arrangements are being made
to accommodate 10000 persons who
are expected to witness the religious
pageant to be given here Aug. %,
by the Montgomery Company
Pageant Association. A cast OF $50
persons will depict scenes from the
RihIe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-10
OF
INDIANA RADIO
LEAGUE S0UGHT
Nationally Known Men on
Program - Inspection
Trips Are Planned.

The second annual convention Of
the H osier American Radio Relay
League opened today at the SEVERN,
with several hundred members from
various parts of Indiana in attend
ance.
Men nationally known in radio cir
cles are in attendance, including
Prof. A. M. Wilson of the depart
ment of electrical engineering, Uni
versity of Cincinnati; John H. Mil
Ter, chief enegineere Jewell Elec-
trical Instrument Company P. D.,
Scott of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; A. E. Beane,
supervisor of radio, ninth district;
A. A. Herbert, treasurer American
Radio Relay League; E. T. Flewel-
ling radio engineer; Clyde Darr,
director of the A. r. r. L, and r.
H. G.. Mathews, division manager
A. A. r. L.
This afternoon WFBM, Merchants
Heat and Light station; Lenore sub
station of the Central Indiana Power
Company and Allied Magnet Wire
plant are to be visited. Professor
Wilson xviii speak on Radio Educa-
ton" at the SEVERN tonight Miller
and Scott are also on the program.
License examinations will be held
Saturday morning, followed by in
spection of the Bell Telephone Com
pany plant. Several speakers will
be heard Saturday afternoon, and the
meeting will end with banquet at
$40 o. m.
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RIDERS PICK UP GLASS

Special Motorcycle Squad Maintained
In Chicago.
By Times Special
CHICAGO, July 10.-A special
squad of motorcycle riders IS main
tanned by the Chicago Motor CLUB
to rid the streets of glass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-10

New York Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Michigan. Massachusetts,, Ohio, Cali
fornia, New Jersey, Missouri, Mary
land, Texas, Wisconsin and Connec-
ticut. During the twelve months
just ended Indiana's payments for
income taxes amounted to $23,703,-
1875, as compared with S26,3S4,SS6
during the previous year.
Miscellaneous taxes during the
past year were $14,52S,104, bringing
the total Federal revenue from the
State to $3S,2S1 ,230. The drop in
income taxes from the whole United
States was considerably less than
per cent, despite the sharp reduc-
tons made in rates.
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ETERLE RETz Of Muncie was
~ eager to go fishing-too
IL eager, in fact. Reaching
for his fishing pole he fell and
broke his arm. Now he is looking
forward to next years angling.
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HOOSIER BRIEFS

FIR. j. l.. SHOWERS, OPP
IL tician, should fit himself
~ with good pair of glasses,
his fellow townsmen at Clinton
say. He <collided with new
traffic signal.
First wheat thrashed in Clinton
County was on the county farm at
Frankfort, in conformity with an
old custom.
Many visions of wealth were
shattered when drillers for oil in
Polk Township, Monroe County,
brought in a dry hole. Cost OF the
well was approximately $23,500.
Warm weather makes life rather
easy for Miss Katherine Frazee,
librarian at Seymour. But when
the mercury goes to really high
marks she finds an increased de-
mand for books.
School days are not yet forgotten
by this years high school graduates
at Clinton. They are giving a dance
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Edward Kenkel. II, Of Cincinnati,
visiting at Washington. was curious
about a golf ball and stopped to pick
it up. Dale Harris had already
started a swing for the ball and his
golf club caught Edward on the
nose. Seven stitches were taken.
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Thieves at Upton are hungry. One
night eleven hams and two butcher
knives were taken from one home,
while theft of more than 200 chick
ems was reported from a nearby
Pa I'm
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to pay the deficit on their school
year books.
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INDIANA INCOME
TAXES fall OFF
Sharp Drop Made in Total
Paid.
Times Washin0ton Bureau.

I5GA " Gu UTh dUFWWb'
WASHINGTON. July 10.-Federal
income taxes paid by Hoosiers dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80
dropped over $4,000 as compared
with the previous year, the Internal
Revenue Bureau reportede today.
Indiana, however, held its same
position as fourteenth State in point
of total income taxes paid. The
States ahead of Indiana in the order
of their total income taxes were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-10

narcotics In the house of suspect
Rackusin waited for an hour out
side the house. but Reed failed to
appear. He was captured in New
York and has been sentenced TO a
year in Jail.
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RAT KILLING COSTLY

LOS ANGELES, July lot cost
the city $125,OO0 to catch and kill
10000 rats during a recent rodent
determination campaign.
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SELDOM SERVED

Cucumbers may be fried in the
same manner as eggplant. If you
like the one you are quite sure to
like the other.
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GUEST AT POOR HOUSE

IngIish Woman Remembers Inmates
of Institution in Her Will.
BIZ Times Special
BRIDGEWATER, England, July
1o.-Recause she was lonely Mrs.
Melvina Cobb entered the local work
house as paying guest.
She died recently and her will LEFT
about $1,000 to benefit inmates OF
the institution.
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A rattle snake between four and
five feet long was discovered by H.
e. kellogg Of near Hartford City.
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STOOL PIGEON JAILED

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON. July 1o.-Nar-
cotic Agent Rackusin gave Melvin
Reed, a stool pigeon" 500 to buy
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The Rev. Henry Buchmueller of
Forreston, ILL.,, has completed six
ty-five years as a minister in the
Evangelical church. He has re-
tired, because of his advanced age
of eighty-ei and with his wife
recently celebrated their sixty
third wedding anniversary.
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
Elkan Not a Rubber
Stamp Candidate
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Last week in an editorial on the
Fort Lee campaign you mentioned me
as being "the one Independent can
didate" in the race. Personally l
have had little to say about the CAM
paign and have made public my plat
form as a regular Republican candi-
date and have also attached my sig
nature to the general platform of the
local Republican candidates.
l do not resent being called an Gin
dependent" except that the word
might be misconstrued TO indicate
that I am not connected with the
party ticket 1 am independent in
every sense but this, and am glad to
admit that if elected to the local coun-
Gil every vote I cast will be my vote.
| will never wear somebody else's col
lar.
1 understand there has been some
criticism in the borough because of
my connection with the Office of Har-
ry D. Schall, the present councilman.
1t is the product of someone's imagi
nation that if elected I will vote with
and for those things which Mr.. Schall
desires. This is not true and anyone
who knows me will tell you that. My
stand on questions in local organiza-
tions against the urgent advice of
very close friends in many instances
proves that l have the courage of my
convictions. l am not on Mr.. SchalPs
ma vrolI hut am ascOoiatnd with him
under an arrangement that leaves me
under absolutely no obligations to him
OR anyone else.
I hope the foregoing will put at rest
the thought that | am a rubber
stamp" candidate.
Sincerely,
HARRY ELKAN.
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
MAYOR White TALKS OF CAMPAIGN
CRITICISES OPPONENTS PLATFORM,
SAYS He RUNS ON ADVICE OF FRIENDS
Both Parties Urged Him Run, He Claims in Talk With
The Palisadan-Tells Why He Thinks Experience Is
Worth Considering at Time When Borough Is the
Urge of Greatest Crisis in Its History-Promises Cor
rect Administration and Forward Going One.

Mayor Edward A. White of Fort
Lee took occasion this week to COM
ment on the Republican platform as
published in the last issue of the
Palisadian. He said:
81 have seen platforms like this be-
fore. Some better and some worse.
They do not mean a whole lot and
many things promised by opponents
of administrations could not be car
ried out if the proposers of the So
called reform measures were elected.
do not propose to single out the
planks in the platform and comment
on them separately. but do want to
say this: whether or not the borough
has a qualified head of the police
department in the two years to come,
whether or not the tax collectors Of
flee is at the Borough Hall or in his
home, and such things are of little
consequence. The crying need of an
experienced executive in the mayors
chair is the all-important issue.
"The two years ahead are, in my
estimation, the most critical in tho
history of the borough. They are
years during which Improvements
must be made in keeping with the
rapid growth of Fort Lee. They are
years full of municipal problems that
only experienced and trained minds
can solve. They are years that will
require unselfish labor on the part
of those holding public office. My
reasons for seeking election were best
expressed by those who urged me to
run after I had decided definitely not
to be a candidate. Those reasons I
have already outlined. In brief, the
necessity Of having man skilled in
municipal management with the
proper connections with state and
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
present COLLECTOR POST HAS fine
RECORD THAT WILL APPEAL TO The
VOTERS and REFLECT HIM THIS YEAR
Gives Personal Statement the Palisadan Telling What
He Has Done; Information Contained in Report
About Collectors Duties Very Interesting; All Should
Read 1t.

In an editorial last week the Pali-
sadian promised to print in SUBJ
sequent issue review of what Her
bert l.. Post has really accomplished
as Collector in Cliffside Park.
AT the papers request Mr.. Post
wrote the following summary telling
the duties of Collector and outlining
what has been accomplished in this
department under his direction.
Mr.. POSTS statement follows:
Not "PoIiticaI Plum"
Undoubtedly many people do not re-
alize just what the Collectors duties
consist OF. AS the title would imply
some probably think the Collector to
be simply the receiver of taxes and
nothing else. Others might be of the
opinion that the Office is one of those
coveted political plums." Very few
know the actual duties and RESPONSE
bilities of the office and l cannot over
emphasize the necessity of selecting
man with the best business training
to fill it.
Duties and Responsibilities
With the rapid growth of Cliffside
Park the duties and responsibilities of
the Collector have increased tremen-
dously. The office of Collector is the
very foundation of the financial struc-
ture of the Borough. Every dollar re-
ceived or disbursed in every depart
ment passes through his hands and
the financial records of every single
transaction are maintained by him. In
addition to being receiver of taxes he
is the General Borough Treasurer
and as such he must provide for nee
essary financing; payment of principal
and interest on bonds; must record
all bond registrations; arrange for
payment and renewals of notes and
maintain competent books recording
all transactions relative to these mat
ters. He must furnish reports at
stated intervals setting forth the ex-
act financial condition of the Borough,
School and Sinking Fund accounts.
The Collector is custodian q dis
burses and keeps records of all road
way, sewer or other improvements
by the municipality; bills,
records and collects all assessments
from such improvements; is the Sec
retary and treasurer of the Sinking
Fund; is the official search officer and
as such issues searches which must
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
be scrupuously correct to safeguard
the Borough from losses.
Ra,I T,ck

be scrupuously correct to safeguard
the Borough from losses.
A Real Task
With 5000 tax bills to render and
collect in two installments each year,
with forty-seven improvements under
way and temporarily financed at the
present time, with about S1,000,000 in
bonds and notes outstanding on which
payments of principal and interest
must be made at maturity, with
searches to issue each week, with the
schools disbursing about 200 items per
month aggregating about s225,000 per
year, with outstanding taxes and as
sessments to be collected and record
ed, some in as many as ten INSTALL
ments, with tax money coming in at
the rate of 400 payments aggregating
$4,000 per day during tax time, with
fifty-five bank accounts to reconcile
monthly, with an average of eighty
pieces of mail handled daily, to main
tain a filing system of all correspond
ence and copies of every letter and
report properly filed and indexed, to
be able to tell every taxpayer on a
moments notice how much is owing
on their property, and why-to do
these things and do them as they
should be done, accurately, honestly
and intelligently is real task.
Collected Many Old Accounts
In addition to maintaining current
work and creating the necessary sys-
TENS which is a considerable task in
itself, was compelled to go back and
practically reconstruct the records
for the past twenty years. Many hun
dred accounts totaling several hun
dred thousand dollars were outstand-
ing on the books. Many owners were
unaware of any indebtedness. Many
items had previously been paid, some
were subject to adjustment or cancel
lation. 1t has been tremendous and
far from pleasant task to investigate,
adjust and collect these accounts.
Owners against whose property were
unpaid taxes of long standing thought
they were being prosecuted or that for
personal or political reasons these un-
paid items were being presented for
collection. AS matter of fact every
one has been treated justly; there
have been no preferences and no ex-
Continued On Page 10)
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
Statement Made by
William Sporting
October ii, 1925.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
AS Democratic candidate for the
Office of Tax Collector l believe it my
duty to state frankly to the voters of
Cliffside Park just where I stand.
I am a Democrat and always have
been, and believe firmly in the prin-
ciples that Democracy represents.
During the II years that I have been
resident of this borough I have sup
ported the candidates of my party and
in the coming election 1 do not intend
to change that policy.
1 hold, however, that every voter
has the right to vote for whatsoever
candidate he chooses, and so believe
that any candidate is fully justified in
seeking the suffrage of all voters ir-
respective of their party affiliations.
therefore solicit the support dur
ing the campaign and on election day
Of every person who believes that my
election will be for the best interests
and service of the people of this
borough.
1 pledge myself, if elected to Office,
to give prompt, cheerful and efficient
service to the people of this borough,
and to make the Office of the collector
an institution of service in every
sense of the word.
Faithfully yours,
VIM. R. SPERLING.
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
SIBLEY is APPOINTED ARCHITECT FOR
The HIGH SCHOOL ADDITION; HUDSON
HEIGHTS SCHOOL GOES TO VIM. MAYER
Compromise Among Board Members Evident; Ralph
Hacker Undertakes to Criticise Boards Action; Final
Decision Surprise to Many; School Buildings in

The members of the Cliffside Park
school board evidently agreed on a
compromise as the easiest way out
of the architect tangle and at their
meeting on last Friday evening Ernest
Sibley was appointed as architect
for the high school addition while
Mayer and Mammalian were given the
new Hudson Heights school, Trustees
Mahoney, Kenny and Hattemer voted
against the Sibley appointment while
the appointment of Mayer and Mamma
han was unanimous.
Ralph Hacker, the third architect
who had submitted plans, arose fol-
lowing the appointments and UNDER
took to criticise the board for its
action saying that at the last regu-
lar meeting when the plans were
submitted to the board, both archi-
tects were instructed to limit their
explanations of the drawing, as an
other opportunity would be given
to go into details. But no such op-
portunity had been given.
He contended that the plans SUBJ
mitted needed a detailed explanation
and it was impossible for the Board to
determine which plans were best
without such an explanation.
President Goemann in reply said the
Board was the Judge and not the
architect and that they had done what
they thought best.
An application from the Democratic
Club of Cliffside for the use of the
auditorium in the Cliffside Heights
School on October 80, for the purpose
of holding mass meeting was grant,
ed
The "Sperling Sponsors" asked for
the use of the Lawton avenue school
for meeting on Wednesday night,
this request was also granted as was
the request of the high school ALUMNI
T Tor the use of the high school for a
testimonial dinner, to be given in
honor of Mayor Joseph Marini on
| October 21.
| Supervising Principal Hall reported
| that the football field in back of the
high school was not in a fit con-
dition to play league games on. There
were no goal posts on the grounds,
and there was home game scheduled
with Rutherford. 1t was decided that
the game would be played at Fletch-
er's' Field, lower Fairview, the cost
OF hiring the grounds being S35.
Following request from Seymour
N. Sears it was voted to donate $50
to the Athletic Association funds.
Miss Johnson asked the board to
release her from her contract, as
teacher, which was granted by the
board. Miss Bessie Tragen was ap-
pointed to the vacancy at a salary Of
$1,000.
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
State and County
News in Brief
Special, for The Palisadian

in an address delivered before the
City Business Club of Philadelphia
on Columbus Day, Governor George
N. Silzer declared that New Jersey
was willing to go the limit to reach
an amicable understanding with
Pennsylvania over the question of
tolls on the Camden Philadelphia
bridge, but added that it refused to
be coerced. The governor made a
number of suggestions for the settle
ment of the vexing controversy, one
of which was one-way tolls, and held
that the completion of the bridge
without tolls agreement was moral
ly impossible for New Jersey even to
contemplate, stating in conclusion
that in his opinion the controversy
could never be settled by harsh
words.
Eighteen persons have made appli-
cation for naturalization papers to
George E. Steele, Bergen County
Americanization Secretary in the
Hackensack Y. M. C. A. They repre-
sented eleven different nationalities.
To-day will see the start of the
great drive to raise the sum of $400,-
900 for the purpose of erecting mod
ern Y. M. G. A. home in Hackensack
which is intended to serve the sur
rounding communities as we'll.
Vice President Charles G.. Dawes
delivered an address ON Monday eve
ming at the 114th Regiment Armory
in Elizabeth, his visit having been
arranged by the Y. M. c. A. MIR.
Dawes spent the day with friends in
Montclair,, being dined in the eve
ming at tie Elks' Club in Elizabeth,
Senator Walter E. Edge being also
guest. Previous to making his ad
dress Vice President Dawes reviewed
the Guardsmen and presented a medal
as well to Gordon Cunnane, Boy
Scout who last summer rescued
girl from drowning at Silver Lake.
"A total of 11S arrests were made by
the county police in September, dur
ing which time fines to the amount
of $1,05S were collected. The months
report records twenty-seven acci-
dents, in which two persons were
killed and fourteen injured.
The new Municipal Building at
Lyndhurst will be opened and dedi-
Gated on Armistice Day. Elaborate
ceremonies have been planned for
the occasion, which include the par
ticination of the American Legion.
County Physician William E. Og-
den reports thirty-three sudden deaths
in the county during the past month.
There were sixteen from natural
causes, five suicides, three victims Of
homicide, four in auto accidents, one
railway, one motorcycle and three
drownings.
The North Jersey Baseball League
will hold their second annual BAN
quet at the Hotel Astor, New York,
Palisadian., 1925-10-16
Hoebel's Business
Standards Are Known
To Be of the Best

Il would like to say" said a prom
inent member of the Fort Lee commit
tee this week, that Louis F. Hoebel.
candidate for Mayor on the Republican
ticket this year, is continuing the
same energetic type of campaign that
caused him to head the local ticket
last year, when he ran for the Office
OF Councilman. He is to be seen at
the party headquarters every after
noon and evening, and, judging from
the atmosphere permeating that place,
victory only is thought of.
His definite statement of last week
on the problems confronting the Bor-
ough at the present time has caused
town-wlde attention, and a great num-
Der of citizens who read it have as
sured Mr.. Hoebel that he struck a
popular chord when he demanded that
all existing assessments for improve
ments be levied at once, so that both
the property owners affected, and the
town at large, would know exactly
where they stand.
knowledge of his fine business
qualifications Is beginning to be ap-
preciated generally, and the young
people of the town, in particular. feel
that Young America will be recog-
nized in his election.
"The County Republican organiza-
ton has put the unqualified stamp of
approval on him and his running
mates on the ticket, realizing that the
fight is a straight party fight in the
Borough, for the first time in a num-
Der of years. Senator Whitney, candi-
date for Governor on the Republican
ticket. called at the headquarters
Thursday, greeted the local men, and
wished them full measure of sue
cess.
Both Messrs. Woods and Elkan are
busy pushing Hoebeps campaign in the
hope that the party will have a clear
control of the affairs of the Borough
this year, through the election of the
three candidates. Their platform is
strong, definite statement upon, and
analysis Of the outstanding points at
issue in Fort Lee at the present time.
and is gaining them hundreds of
friends, when coupled with their slo-
gan, Vote for all of u.s."