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The PAUSADIAN, Palisade, N. J.
Phone 1448 Cllffside
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VOL. XIX May 7, 1»2« No. 21
AN OUTRAGE
If It comes about that the little tri
angle at the Playgrounds 1ft Palisade
should be allowed as a gasoline sta
tion the act will be an unmitigated
outrage. In the first place, the deed
lor that property, small though It IS,
calls for restrictions that cannot be
violated. Yet the secretary of the
Fort Lee Zoning Board has given the
present owners of the plot a permit
for a gas station. In addition to the
deed violation, the danger from a gas
station at that point is too great for
the thing to be allowed. The State
Highway Commission should stop it.
COVTESVILLE PARK
Tho borough of Fort Lee Is pos
sessed of two parks. One of them,
Monument Park, is a credit to the
community. Coytesville park, al
though beautifully situated on the
edge of the cliff at the head of Wash
ington avenue, is continually in an
unkempt and uncared for state. What
is left of the grass after campers and
autoisls have cavorted over it on Sun
days and holidays, and practically
every summer evening, is covered
with trash, and the care taken of the
place has always been inadequate.
Residents of Coytesville are not
able to walk or sit 1n the park in sum
mer with their families after dark be
cause of -the behavior of the occu
pants of cars. Automobiles are driven
over the grass to the edge of the
cliff, with entire disregard of the
roadway, and if residents of the town
do not care to have their children
listen to the conversation of more or
less drunken petting parties, the resi
dents may move on, because if it is
not time for the one night patrolman
of Coytesville to make his rounds, the
petting parties stay put.
Somo sort of a wall or fence enclos
ing the lawns of the park, with a gate
small enough to admit pedestrians
and exclude automobiles, would put
an end to part of the nuslance, and
two or three graveled paths might add
a great deal to the appearance of the
place. Surely the borough appropria
tion for parks 1s large enough to take
care of these improvements and pro
vide more systematic care of the
place.
GIVE HIM A JOB
Far back in the Old Testament, in
the book of Numbers, we are told
about Hobab. Now Hobab is not an
outstanding person in Bible history
though he should have some claim to
fame as the brother-in-law of Moses.
Moses had a big venture on hand
and he said to Hobab:
“Come with us and we will do thee
Hobab wasn’t interested. He said
he was going home.
So Moses tried something else. He
told Hobab that it he would come
along he would give him a hard job.
He mentioned the various useful
things that ought to be done. Ho
laid out a program for him.
Hobab changed his mind and de
cided to go ulong with Moses.
Now Moses utilized a piece of sound
psychology. Hobab responded as he
Pew of us who have enterprises on
hand, programs to set up or causes
to lead, learn a lesson from the expe
rience that Moses had with his
brother-in-law.
lie wasn’t interested in a project
that would simply do him good. He
was very much interested when he
was given a definite job to do.
The quickest and surest way to en
libt a man's interest, his co-operation
and his labor i3 to give him a job
tie him into the work you have on
hand by giving him a definite task.
And dou’t make the task too easy.
Men, by and large, are capable of a
great deal more co-operation and ca
pable of a great deal more hard work
than v.e suspect.
We fear to ask them to participate
in large enterprises because we fear
tholr indifference and their refusal.
Many times they are just waiting to
be asked. They would be pleased be
yond measure to bo included, to be
put to work, to be given a hard job.
Charles P. Taft, son of former
President Taft, speaking recently at
the International Convention of the
Y. M. C. A. in Washington, made it
plain that the biggest task confront
ing such an association today is the
traiuing for leadership.
And the best way to train boys and
young men for leadership is to put
them to work, with hard jobs, in
worth-while enterprises.
FEEDING CHILDREN
Judge Henry Neil, father of the
mothers’ pension law in Illinois,
which was subsequently adopted in
forty-two other states, says that 60
per cent of America's 26,000,000
American school children are under
fed.
He is touring the country, speaking
to men’s organizations, urging laws to
compel the board of didectors of any
school to furnish free, adequate food
to fully nourish ill-fed children.
But why not go to the mothers?
Judge Neil answers that men’s organ
izations will do more for children
generally than women; women will
do more for their own children than
men. A woman regards every other
child as a competitor with her own
child and wants her child to excel,
he says, while men are more apt to
act for the greater good of all chil
dren.
KINDNESS WIN8 MEN
There Is a quality of gentlemanly
kindness that inspires leaders and
wins men. That may be one reason
why the soldiers of the Confederacy
were ready to follow Gen. Robert El.
Lee to the cannon’s mouth. This lit
tle incident, related by an ex-soldier
to one of Lee's biographers, MaJ. Gen.
Sir Frederick Maurice of the British
army, is an example.
In May, 1844, the private and a
friend were foraging, and entered a
little farmhouse near Fredericksburg.
A kind old lady Invited them to eat,
saying she waB just about to feed
some other of the soldiers. The two
privates Washed up in preparation
for the meal.
Upon entering the dining room,
they were amazed and confused, to
And, sitting at the table, Gen. Lee
and Gen. Wade Hampton. Here was a
situation for you, the commanding of
ficer of an army, and one of his caval
ry chiefs, paired for dinner with two
plain privates of the rearmost rank!
The privates backed away, stam
mering excuses, making for the door.
But they did not reach It. They were
stopped by Lee himself.
"Men, you need thiB food more than
we do,” he said. “Sit down and help
yourselves. Come, general, we will
be moving on.”
Is it any wonder that Lee’s men
were always ready to die for him?
THRILLS IN CHURCH
Kansas City business meh inserted
a full-page advertisement in a news
paper on Easter Saturday urging
"flaming youth” to get the “new
thrill” of church on Easter morning.
The ad listed as youth’s pleasures
the wee-hour parties, the Charleston,
joy riding, the wailing Baxophone, the
mile-a-mlnute one-step—“and so your
daily and nightly existence becomes
one glorious thrill after another.”
Then the copy goes on to ask if it
could be God that youth is groping
for, with these physical pleasures
"but the shadow the mirrored reflec
tion of a capacity for spiritual enjoy
ment whose depths you have never
really sounded.”
Because Christ lived intensely and
died a young man, perhaps he knows
the problems of youth, the ad sur
mises.
Well, perhaps that’s one way of
getting them into church. But the
pastor of St. Nicholas’ Church, Wal
lasey, England, relies a little more on
the power of suggestion. One of the
stained glass windows in that church
depicts two golfers in plus-fours.
They are supposed to be going to
church before their Sunday sport on
the links.
Getting the young into the churches
seems to be one of the problems of
the day.
FOR LOCAL CONSUMPTION
A matter of truancy got tangled up
with revolutionary Communism In
Municipal Term Court yesterday, and
Magistrate August Dreyer adminis
tered a tongue-lashing to Mrs. Sarah
Granof, fined her $3, and sent her
weeping home with a threat of im
prisonment and an admonition to take
her son and daughter back to Russia
"where they persecute you."
Leo Granpf, fourteen, the "boy
Trotzky," whose arrest in 1923 set the
National Security League to quaking
and the Bomb Squad to investigating
the plot3 of his Communist Club, had
gone to work. His mother had ignored
a summons for permitting Leo to be
truant and had required a warrant
and two policemen to take her to
Truant Officer Moscowitz said he
had known her eight years and every
time he had called she had denounced
the Government and the flag. Chief
Truant Officer Coppinger called her
“a Communist of the worst type.”
Lieut. Lentz of the East 104th Street
Station said she had pictures of Lenin
and Trotzky in her home at No. 114
East lOSth street.
Mrs. Grauof had opportunity to say
through an interpreter that she want
ed to plead not guilty and did not
know what the trouble was all about,
i She said she needed Leo’s help and he
i could go to school if he worked, too.
j Leo had finished grammar school and
; had working papers, she said. Cop
| piuger said he hadn’t had them when
the summons was issued in March.
“The next time you talk about this
Government it will mean a prison sen
tence,” the Magistrate exclaimed.
“Pack up and go to Russia. You are
the typo and class that causes trouble
for us in this country. You get free
dom, wonderful schools, nobody mo
lests you. You can talk within the
bounds of reason, but you can’t talk
treason.
“Pack up and get out of here! If
you come back again I’ll give you ten
days to shut up your mouth about this
country.”—New York World. April 16.
NOTE.—It might be well for some
of the Youth Movement advocates
hereabouts to read the above care
fully. "Communist Club” doctrine is
exactly the same faith as put out by
the Youth Movement. They are all
tarred with the same stick. Commun
ism and the Youth Movement are
identical. Both are against normal
forms of government.—Editor.
Telephone Numbers
PALISADIAN
Palisade Office
Grant-Lee Theatre Bldg
Cliffside 1448
Grantwood Office
547 Gorge Road
Cliffside 2002
WIDER ROADS ARE 8AFETY SO
LUTION
As yon drive oyer the narrow rib
bon of paved highway such as con
stitutes the bulk of our hard-surface
roads, has it ever occurred to yon
that the average automobile driver
must have a good sense of judging
distances, good eyesight and Steady
nerves, to pass another car at high
speed without more accldentB than
the large total recorded?
So great is the danger of accidents
on narrow highways that engineers
are suggesting remedies such as: "1,
roads at least 18 feet wide, 20 if pos
sible; 2, widen the dangerous 'bottle
necks; ’ 3, build by-pass roads through
traffic, thereby relieving congestion in
the cities’ busy districts; 4, construct
permanent roads that lead immedi
ately into the cities, at least 40 feet
wide; 5, provide at intervals of not
more than 300 feet, level parking
places entirely off the main traveled
roads.”
Public opinion is aroused on the
question of widening roads and thus
making them safer, but it will take
organized effort to secure remedies
such as are suggested.
Western states are progressing rap
idly with a program of widening high
way pavements by building 2-foot
shoulders on each side of the 10-foot
pavement and, in addition, putting 2
feet of crushed rock along the new'
shoulders. This gives 20 feet of pave
ment and 4 feet of rock, which virtu
ally makes a 24-foot hard-surface high
way.
Such construction produces a satis
factory road at a minimum of ex
pense.
INTELLECTUAL SCUM
Sixty thousand copies of the May
edition of the American Mercury, the
monthly magazine edited by H. L.
Mencken, were destroyed early Satur
day morning on the order of the editor
because they contained an article
entitled “Sex and the Co-Ed,” pur
porting to be an expose of collegiate
undergraduate life, it was learned this
week.
This number of copies had been run
from the presses of the Hudson Crafts
man, Camden, N. J., which prints the
magazine, when a man, reported to be
Mencken himself, rushed into the
pressroom and ordered the machine
stopped.
i lie ma.li uiuucu cue paio wuuwu
ing the story taken down from the
presses and broken up. He then issued
an order that all of the 60,000 copies
be burned, the tyf>e destroyed, and
warned that any employee of the
printing establishment who attempted
to leave the building with a copy of
the magazine would be dismissed in
stantly. The presses were held while
a substitute story was set in type and
the entire edition reprinted.
Horace Donnelley, Solicitor-General
at Washington, when asked whether
this action might have been precipi
tated by an order or suggestion from
the Post Office Department that in
clusion of the story might result in
the issue being barred from the mails,
replied that he had not seen a copy
of the Mercury until after the article
had been deleted. At that time, he
said, the magazine was ruled admis
sible to the mails.
The April issue of the Mercury was
declared unfit for the mails because
because of a story called “Hatrack,”
written by a New York newspaper
man, and dealing with the life of an
Immoral woman in a small Western
town. When Mencken was reached
in Baltimore by telephone and asked
about the affair, he said:
“It so happens that a story can be
advertised to appear and then doesn’t.
There was nothing dangerous about
the story. It was perfectly harmless.
I don’t care to be interviewed about
it.”—New York American.
Bobby was reading history, and look
ing up suddenly he asked, "What is
beheaded, mother?”
“Having his head cut off, darling,”
she replied.
After a thoughtful moment, Bobbie
remarked, "I suppose defeated is hav
ing his feet cut off?”
NIZE BABY ET OP ALL DE HOT-DUOS
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What the Brooklyn Bridge Did for
Kings County the Hudson River
Bridge Should Do for
Bergen County
In 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge wag opened, the population of Brook
lyn was less than 600,000. Brooklyn in 1920 had 2,018,356 population, and
in 1925 it was estimated that the total had increased to 2,196,333.
In other words, more than 1,500,000 people have moved to Brooklyn since
the Brooklyn Bridge was opened.
History should repeat itself when the New York-New Jersey Bridge is built
and the Hudson River barrier to free and uninterrupted Inter-State travel is
removed forever. THINK what that will mean to you if you then own a few
choice lots in the section of New Jersey to be most benefited by the Bridge.
DUMONT, N. J.
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Few Blocks From Dumont Station, West Shore R. R.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MAY 44—17
“The Vanishing American”
THEATRE
Dedicated to the proper presen
tation of Photoplays
PALISADE JUNCTION, N. J.
PHONE 1511 CLIFFSIDE
E. Thornton Kelly, Managing Director
Saturday and Sunday, May 8 and 9.
DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM
CORINNE GRIFFITH IN “INFATUATION”
With Splendid Cast Including Percy Marmont
The drama of a woman who dared to tell her husband the truth.
JOHNNY HINES IN “RAINBOW RILEY”
It was a private feud in the Kentucky hills ’til Johnny took charge.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, May 10, 11 and 12
Colleen Moore in “IRENE”
From the famous musical comedy by the same name.
ThuV-sday and Friday, May 13 and 14
JETTA GOUDAL, ROBERT AMES, HENRY B. WAL
THALL, CLIVE BROOK IN “THREE FACES EAST”
The girl he loves is a German spy—the enemy of the country which
shelters and protects her—shall he give her up to Justice and death.
LLOYD HAMILTON COMEDY—“CAREFUL PLEASE”
Matinee: Mon. to Fri. 3:20 p. m. Sat. 2:30 p. rn. Evenings: Continuous from
7 p. m. Sundays Continuous from 2 t>. m.
COMING, MAY 17, 18 AND 19
JOHN BARRYMORE IN “THE SEA BEAST”
GRANT-LEE
Schenck Brothers
Palisades
Amusement Park
"The Skyrocket”
America’s Latest Thrill
Charles Strickland and Or
chestra in the Ballroom
New Rides, New Attractions,
New Thrills
Salt Water Surf Bath-,
ing Opens Saturday,
May 29.
Tree Vaudeville and Circus
Acts every Afternoon and
Evening
Free Fireworks every Tuesday
and Thursday
Charleston Contest in
Ballroom Wednesday
Night, May 19
And every other Wednesday
Night thereafter