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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENTS

Night time. No light on the highway except 'e ne .%e
,amns Of motor cars. A pair Of railway tracks crossing Inc
road. A warning sign only a few feet away iro" ma.aS'
located there in the carriage days. A m,dn,ght eApi .Ls
rearing through the darkness screams suddenly across JOSH
b;gbxav An ACKNOWLEDGMENT seeing the warning sisn un'n
too late. not hearing the train because the doors 0 HE :.
;" a1oseJ dasbes across the track just as the tram comes
ITO y;e,y There is the crash of steel on Steel cries u
- It is another embarrassing accident
There we're FIVE UNDRED MORE OF these ac GnTh
IN The mast wear than the year before. There was a rvr +
e SIX THOUSAND during the year, or one ""
NINETY MINUTES.
And Who is to blame! WY 49,. ,he s;or-
The railroads say: 1--WE warn. We put up the sign
esTOP, LOOK and LISTEN"
. That doesn't settle the matter o.shI;,v
There's a lot of carelessness, not enough responsibility
on both sides. ~ !, .ou , . ,se r when
..aaoh;ng a railroad track, no matter what his
may be. ~ lo do;ro the fair thing if
,b.v will try to give the railroads an even nreak' ny De"7
careful. .,Iro.ds to preyent
eou,sr sxcuses and get more results. Let them say less apc%
,hs stun;d motorist, and a little more about dong way WIN
The worst Of the grade crossings. noec CROSSINGS
80. ~ them saw less about CkOoo ~ =
c%A1TTGOJISIY (which is sound advice, OF course , al" "
little more about DO AWAY With onoooneo"--
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

on that proceeded rapidly, and
completed ferries Immediately
sprang into popularity, until of
late they have carried an average
of 1000 cars daily.
Traffic in both directions took
to the new link across the Della
ware and a rate of 40 cents per
automobile was charged. Philadel-
phians used the ferry to reach
points in New Jersey along the
river and also destinations further
north, discovering that they avoid
ed much Of the congestion of the
center city and of Camden. Motor
lists from northern Jersey and New
York used the ferry to reach Phila-
delphia with equal convenience.
Bus connections we're also estab-
lished, and the up-river passage
across the Delaware became well
known.
Thus a valid demonstration was
given of the need for a permanent
connection between the two points.
and capital was interested for the
erection of a bridge there. The
designer of our own giant span,
Ralph Modjeski, will be in charge
of construction. Points of diff
ference concerning dimensions,
clearance above water and other
difficult items have been settled
between the bridge company and
the Government and river authori-
ties, SO that rapid construction
may be looked for and the span
completed without loss of time.
The bridge will, of course, be a
toll structure, and a center bascule
opening span will permit the pas
sage of vessels higher than the
ordinary river crafts.
There is little doubt that this
Improvement will facilitate north
erly travel to and from Philadel-
phia, and also become a paying
proposition for the company which
sponsors it's existence. In addition
the project bears a hint for other
bridge booms, some of them worthy
and some of them less so, which
would throw arching roadways
across the Delaware. That the real
need for a bridge may sometimes
be demonstrated by the previous
successful operation of a ferry line
between the points in question is
thus clearly shown.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

er's union is the owner of real
estate which houses a health center.
The Amalgamated Clothing Work
er's union has long been in the
banking business. Both unions are
interested in a co-operatice apart
ment house project designed to
make. several hundred of their
members owners of their own
homes.
In the middle west business men
are familiar with the successful
banks of the railway brotherhoods.
Fortunately in the ranks of labor
there are practical idealists.
& = =
DYED HORSES
Word comes from the cavalry
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
A FORWARD

Speaking of labor and unions II
is highly interesting to note that
the big labor unions are entering
into a field of service beyond the
mere matter of wages and shop con.
ditions. The idea of the farseeing
leaders of the greater unions is to
improve the whole condition of the
workingman. m New York the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

necessary at that point, but VINO
realized that the proposition might
not be s~elf-evident to others whose
interest was essential. Charles A.
Wright, president of the private
corporation which will own ana
o~perate the new bridge. resolved
eight years ago that the way to
prove the use of a connecting link
between Tacony and Palmyra was
to begin with a ferry line. WORK
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
Living !. and i! g.. Loving

little daughter, two years CID,
and l are not allowed to go to
anything. He tells me he does
not have any girls outside. Can
you tell me how l am to believe
him? And how to find out II
he really does love me?
LONELINESS"
Why not just trust him and TAX
it for granted that he loves yol
and is true? He may tell you al
times that he doesn't love you JUS
to tease you. You've been stayint
in and thinking too much. II hi
won't take you, go with a CIR
friend or take the baby and ge1
out in the air. Invite some one he
likes to tie house aud have a littl
party occasionally. Couldn't you dc
that?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

The nighthawk, formerly wanton-
ly shot for sport, is really one of
the most useful of birds, and an
insect catcher of great valGe. These
birds scoup their prey out of the
air on the wing. Biological Survey
experts have examined stomachs
of n~ighthawks and have found mora
than so different kinds of insects
representing thousands of indivic-
uals, in a single stomach.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
'TheWdy
of the
World
u IN THE LIGHT
BY r O PATTERSON

OUT IN THE LIGHT
George Berry, president of the In
%ternational Pressmen's Union, in a
letter to the writer, says about en-
ployers and employees: IF we are to
pursue the course of genuine CO.
operation than it is time for both
employer and employee organizations
of America to take the candle out
from under the half bushel measure
and remember that the interest of
the industry is one of mutual con-
Germ and not one of individual or
selfish concern"
The growing recognition of this
fact on the part of leaders in the
industrial world = both among
capital and labor-is what is giving
this country such a splendid era
of industrial peace.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT OF SMALL CITIES


The industrial output of smaller cities and country
towns is gradually surprising in volume the output Q I "e
nreat centers Of incubation, according to the New jersey
Public Utility Information Committee. H.
lust as the country towns and smaller cities hoid n
remembrance Of newspaper circulation IN the ation ~
the thousands Of smaller industries OF these towns hoid LII
nrenonderance of payrolls and general productions except
in a few highly specialized industries. ,
This remarkable rural industrial growth mas taken
place largely within the past twenty years. ana DoeI
eoncurrent with the far-reaching development OF electrical
nover and distribution. Large power plants at central
points are linked up with each other, and maintain dls'r np IL
ing lines to far remote places to smaller towns ana even .
the open country regions. :. industry
,.a;na able more and more to find homes where they can
lonan Of the comforts of life than they could IN the
conrested centers of the great cities Electricity contributes
".oa;des al The advantages of the large city of the country
dwellers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
INTOLERANCE

Many who boast of their toler-
ance seems to overlook the fact
that they are intolerant of intoler-
ance. When you get excited about
the intolerance of an individual or
an organization, remember you are
displaying some of your own brand
of intolerance.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

school at Fort Rilev. Kansas, that
a special board has recommended
that cavalry horses be dyed a
neutral color in a time and
polish equipment be made shine
less. This is to protect the cavalry
from airplane attacks. The fact is
that the war department would do
better to promote the building of
more airplanes-for commerce in
peace time and defense n war time
and give less worry to the cavalry.
It's a changing world and some
branches of war equipment are
getting out of date.
@gH-
The most unfortunate thing about
i 49, - - CO ~
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
JERSEY GAS TAX RECEIPTS

Although it was estimated that the two-cent gasoline
tax put into effect in New Jersey this year would net the
State $6,O00,O 900 for road construction work, Motor Venicie
Commissioner Dill now estimates that this total VIII De
exceeded. Dill has also reported that payment OF the cent
and-a-half- per-mile road tax levied on bus companies mas
been paid by 10 Of the 203 operators whose licenses had
been revoked for non-payment, and that these ncenses nar
thereupon been reinstated. This tax has been the cause oil
much controversy and some of the bus operators nave
obtained court injunctions restraining the commissioner
from collecting the tax pending court action.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

What feminity is hoping for, we
imagine, is a silk stocking that
will rise up to speak, and address
the world approximately as follows:
'I do not choose to run.'-Detroit
Free Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

"Why did you stop singing In
tie choir?" Because one day l
didn't sing and somebody asked II
the organ had been fixed" Hard
ware Age.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

MI. Snapper-"It is said the
prettiest women always marry the
biggest fools" Mrs. snapper Try
your flattery on someone else
Laughter.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
ANOTHER DELAWARE BRIDGE
philadelphia Inquirer.)

The breaking of ground TOT d
Delaware River bridge between
Palmyra, N. j., and Tacony brings
into actuality a project which has
had abstract existence for some
wears. An interesting factor in the
realization of the bridge IS the
reasonableness of it's proponents
who long ago felt such. a span to be
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

First Humorist-"Do your read
your Jokes to your wife," Second
Humorist-"Yes, and when she
doesn't laugh l know it's a good
one.'-Pathfinder.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

All of us would like to think we
arc too important to warrant our
hanging the window screens our
selves.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

While agreeing that economy is
wealth, most of us would rather get
rich in some other way.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

The sscompleat angler that lzaa& Walton once hd
reference to is no longer adiudged complete unless ne
carries the new thirdrail tackle in his basket, according to
a German inventor who proposes electrocution OF marine
vertebrates instead of netting or hooking them. Under his
n1.n . mild electric current would be passed through a
brook. and early fish who came looking for worms would
find volts instead. Shicked into unconsclousness all ISL
f.roa nd email that a in direct contact with the current,
would rise to the surface and there the fisherman couid
sort out the sizeable ones at his leisure, permitting the little
fellows to revive and swim away.
Fish batcheries and game wardens, however, do not
r;ou, +ho ew invention with a credulous or condonlng eye,
arguing that even the most hardy of the fish, which were
permitted to escape, would have their dispositions ruined
by frequent electrocution and the process would De iaa "
the delicate nervous system Of infant trout.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

my Office boy whistles while
he works" "You are lucky; mine
only whistles Laughter
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
FAINT HEART NEVER

WON FAIR LADY
How is a poor man to know If his
lady loves him if she elbows hot
and cold?" Sometimes she says she
likes him better than anyone else,
and sometimes she goes out with
others. All the boys must remem-
Der the motto, Faint heart never
won fair lady," and also that girls
do like to tantalize the men they
know are in love with them. All
females do-in the animal as well
as in the human world.
A disheartened young man
writes:
Dear Mrs. Lee: | have been
going with a girl for a few
months and am in real honest
love with her. / have given up
all other girls. She has led me
to believe she cared for me, but
at times she doesn't show it.
She doesn't want me to give up
my girl friends but there ire
some she doesn't want me to go
with. She goes with two OTHER
fellows. l don't want to tell
her to give up the other fellows
although l get sore when she
goes out with them and she
knows it. What can / do in
order to win her over? I'd do
anything in the world for her.
Do you think seeing her too
much has given her that feel
ing? She trusts and tells me
everything.
DOWNHEARTED."
Have you made it clear to her
that you love and want to marry
her, Downhearted? If you are en-.
SdScu BIC ouOulu give up tIc OtHCl
friends, but if not she can do as
she pleases. She seems to feel you
belong to her, doesn't she, as she
dictates the girls with whom you
may or may not go. Maybe she feels
a little uncertain of you and that
makes her act as she does, an1 any
how every girl likes to tease the
man she likes so he will not fee
to cocky.
Marriage does not always answer
the question, Does he Cor she)
love me-" according to the follow
ing letter:
Dear Mrs. Lee: l am 10 and
married. My husband some
times tells me he loves me and
other times he says he doesn't.
He is "a years old. He is never
at home, away every night and
to all kinds of parties, and my
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

Opportunities that go astray are
usually those that strike other
people instead of coming to us.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27
fashionable.
Stanley

If you keep a good joke to your
self two days you'll find that every
body's heard it.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-27

The most unfortunate thing about
common sense is that it is so un-
Evening star., 1927-11-15
And Others.

And Others.
LET rs LooK At vDp Y9Ug sp chR ChENG ATP p
IN ON ONE OF THESE AUTOMOBILES
DURING THIS SPECIAL SALE.
MARMON MOTORS, INC,
1905 14th St. NV.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
SUBURBAN BOARD.

400 JEFFERSON AVE. Aurora Hills. Va
AttraCtively furnished room with board Tor
two, employed, S35 each: only 10 minutes
to 18th street station.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
SALE-AUTOMOBILES.
fC0ptiuued.)
OAKLAND.
PONTIAC.
l.. P. STEUART, INC.

The cars listed below must
meet your approval. AS man
to man we must prove that the
following cars are approved by
you. Come in today and make
your selection from this list of
good used cars. All cars have
been through our shop and are
in the best of mechanical condi-
ton. Most of them have new
paint and good tires.
Evening star., 1927-11-15

We also have a number OF
good standard make open cars
that we have priced down to the
last dollar in order to move
them. 1t will pay you to look
these cars over at once.
USED CAR DEPT,
1444 p St. NV.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
USED CAR SALE.

ALL THESE CARS ARE IN GOOD CON.
nlTi0N SOME HAVE BEEN REPAINTED
AND ALL WORN TIRES HAVE BEEN
REPLACED
Evening star., 1927-11-15

I740 QUE ST. NW.--Best in market served
S25 per month. Also single and douoe
rooms.
1920 18th ST.-Excellent meals; individual
tables: prompt service.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
WANTED-SUBURBAN ROOMS.

| GENTLEMAN WANTS furnished or unfur-
nished room with private bath. with or with
out board: modern improvements such as
hot-water heat, electric light location north
tan Branch r. r. Would prefer. such TO be
in house off by itself and away from others.
References exchanged. Address +. D Box
1880, Washington, D. G. @l'
Evening star., 1927-11-15

RENT ROOMs-FUR. OR UNFUR.
COTORED-15OI r St. NW-Large front
room. furnished or unfurnished: gas. heat.
elec. Potomac 6315-M after $50 pm.
s4O5 FESSENDEN ST. near Bureau Of
Standards. Lady. Every privilege. Reason.
able. 16s
IA 9th ST NE-4 partly fur. rooms. end
floor: porch. large yard: $20.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-28
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Leaf
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

YN HE most important of all living things is the leaf
Many leaves, such spinach, lettuce, etc., are
eaten in salads cooked directly.
Most Of the foods however begin with leaf and result
in fruit vegetable Apples, pears and other fruit to
nothing of tomatoes and bananas all modification
OF living forms in way other.
The tree is nothing but the developed leaf all tree
trunks start with leafy bud
The leaf products by produce certain amount
OF heat ncurshmen Burned in the fire they give out
definite amount of light and heat
DIR Eager, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, said In
recent address that Dean Swfs description of extracting
sunbeams out of cncumbers for later during
sons not absurd after ALL
The most striking effect of the vegetation Of the earth
It's leaves Even when these do appear green
coppeeaved beeche the green coorng matter there but
it IS overwhelmed by the presence of another pigment
Now this leafgreen depends upon sunlight and might
be called without too greatly stretching the truth capued
sunlight The leabade also gets water and various salts
from the SOIL oxygen and doxde gas from the air. This
only take place the presence Of light and
perhaps the most fundamental of all the processes of life
So the food that eat whether vegetable animal the
clothing wear cotton woolen silk the frame dwellings
in which of live and the wood coal gas and cleo
ricity that heat and light buildings depend eventually
upon green leaves
Most of and comes from animals that feed
leaves All the wood and coal in the world formerly
inside of leaf and the heat and light of houses
is the Sunlight Of previous geological ages captured first by
green leaves and stored up in coal mines
When Adam and Eve, according tradition made for
themselves clothing of fig leaves it act typical of
all future clothing well Of all future nourshment of
the race.
If you going be heather and worship strange
gods might recommend you object of alteration
the green leae
Copyright 1877. by Mcclure syndicata
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-28
Medical Sciences Fight for
Healthier Children

Medical science now tells that the boy baby born in
the United States today has reasonable expectation Of eleven
years longer life than his father had.
Presumably the thing holds true girl baby be-
cause in the last thirty years. the death rate Of babies has de-
Cned less than oneha its former figure due the
prevention Of disease.
The most eminent authorities tell that the gains in the
matter Of life expectation with children and young
and At sixty years Of age the outlook still the
There is greater expectation Of life duration than
there was thirty years ago.
All these interesting facts and many bearing upon the
saving and prolongaon Of life among children and the young
viii be brought out at the annual meeting of the American
Child Health Association to be held in this city May to H.
Secretary Hoover will preside and make the opening address
From many States there viii be reports by the child health
divisions Of State health departments Many distinguished
physicians and health experts win be here.
While the efforts Of the American Child Health Association
devoted largely the physical welfare of babies and chill
dren its activities will bring better health and longer lives for
future generations In another thirty years. the men
Of sixty years Of age reasonably safely expect
TO live longer than did their fathers and mothers.
Medical science devong intense study and thought the
most critical health stages Of sdultsbeween fifty sixty
years Of age The dangerous diseases which manifest them
selves about that time Of life being brought under
and preventive being used with effective
ness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-28
BRUNO. EDDA AND vIrrOR1O MussOLrM
What Will Their Future Bel

These are the three children of ussolni powerful un-
swerving leader and ruler Of Italy.
The girl Edda old enough be married has been re-
noted engaged to Humbert Crown Prince and all things
going WELL future king Of Italy.
What will the future of these children of powerful
man one who made for himself in history place and
name that can be taken away?
As he plans the future Of the Italian people, what plans
does Muson make for these children that inherit and will
hand on future generations his blood BRAIN power and
WILLY From whence the far past did those three inter-
estinr children come? What ancient Romans live in their
bodies today7
What genius of the days of the old Caesars did they in
hertG The girl seems gentle the older boy vittoro might
be an artist the little boy Bruno looks like his powerful
father without the rceness that time and struggle
on the fathers face,
Great things might be expected Of these children if flat
terry does not spoil hem it usually spo the children
the great and nearly always pos children of the merely rich
Mussolin he chose could marry his daughter to the
Italian Grown Prince and future king.
The proud Hapsburg emperor Of Austria was glad enough
to marry his daughter Napoleon another Italian started
as humbly as Mussoln started And Mussoin holds the
Italian king as Napoleon held the Austrian emperor
Mussoin could make his daughter the future queen al
italy or if he chose make himself king of Italy and make the
older of his two boys king after haowng Of course fol-
the unforeseen and Mussoini's enemies
Strange is history and strange the sudden changes that
come in the affairs of this world
Who would have thought the brave Italian soldiers
marched in the the Alps that in their ranks plair
COLDER there marched whose will would be absolute
law for Italy whose force would defy the League Nations
Il its face and who could take his choice my daughter
queen Of Italy or my son, king Of Italy after ms7"
That beats fiction.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-28
VIOLENCE OF
MUSSOLINI

MUSSoLINI'S belief in violence
AVA is clearly set forth In an
exclusive interview which appears
in the May number of the Forum
Magazine.
I'VE are for violence" says the
dictator, But only SO far az
violence Is necessary. Sometimes
it is necessary to put the body
on the operating table. to have
the courage to cut deep, even to
cut into a vital part, in order to
save a life." His success is ex.
planned by Frederick ". Blank
ner. who writes the Forums in.
terview. as due to the fact that
he always knows when to stop.
every movement should be car
ried only to the right point" he
told her.
Miss Blankner found Mussolini
far more accessible than the av.
erage New York editor. There is
a conventional doorman at the
entrance to his offices, and three
ushers. who have to be passed.
one after another, before the Wis.
itor can reach the dictator him
self But there are no special
guards. Mussolini, she says. Is
afraid Of nothing. The successiva
attempts to assassinate him have
not intimidstsd him in the least.