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■ PALIS AD 8 Jar— -rac* Bounded 1906 by the lata Charles Thomas Logan. Jr. Incorporated 1925. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY by tba Pallsadlen. Inc. Charles Thomas began, President; Walter Stein, Vice President; Cbarlee W. B. Lane, Secretary end Treasurer. „ , Enured as second-class nail matter at the Palisade, N. J.. post offlee, March 13, lilt. _ PRICE 4 CENTS PER COPY By Mall or Carrier 82.00 a Year Advertising Ratee Sent Upon Requeet f ADDRESS The Palisadian , Editorial Office Office No. 2, Grant-Lee Theatre Building, Palisade Junction. Palisade, N. J. Phone 1443 CM fluids Publication Office 847' Gorge Road, Grantwood, N. J. Phone 2002 Cllffslde CHARLES T. LOGAN, Editor; CHARLES w b t,ANE. Manager and Associate Editor; THOMAS deV. FREDERICKS. Assistant Manager. REPQRTORIAL STAFF—Mrs. George Donaldson, Grantwood; Mrs. H. A. Matttce, Coytesvllle. C. Abbott, Fort Lee: Mrs. C. Johnson, Englewood Clifts. Special Corres pondents. J. Hall. Grantwood; J. R. Wilson. Fort Lee; Mrs. George F. Hall. Grantwood, Frank Merritt, Grantwood. ADVERTISING— Mrs. Mary W. Torrey. Hudson Trust Company Building. Union City, N. J., Thomaa deVaux brederlcks. Pal isade. _____ MEMBER New Jersey Press Association OFFICIAL PAPER Borough of Cllffslde Park ... Borough of Fort Lee VOL. XX JULY IS, 1927 No. 23 AFTER THE SHOUTING AND THE TUMULT When he left the municipal opera last night Colonel Lindbergh stepped out of "the fierce, white light that beats upon a throne” into the quiet of private citizenship. This is not to im ply that fame,- having showered him with passionate and exultant atten tions, has now cast him aside. Fickle jade though she be, Fame has a cer tain quality of constancy. She may flirt outrageously with the half-gods and pamper them with tinsel and brummagem for a brief, strutting hour; but when one of the real gods comes, as come they do at glorious in tervals, Fame knows that there is a suitor with the authentic credentials of imperishable achievement who has wooed and won. ' v ' Charles Lindbergh’s boyhod is end ed. There is no way back to the sim plicity, routine tasks, struggles, dis appointments, merrymaking of youth's bland irresponsibility. His tory, poetry, heroism and the ever lasting burden of noblesse oblige— such is the estate to which he has tame \ twith., Minerva-like * .wonder. Whatever his inclination he is oblig ed henceforth to play a great man's jpart. . ’• ' , That he will be equal to his high heritage is the judgment of all who have been privileged to come into close ’contact with him. That, too, is the popular impression. For he appar ently has that indispensable gift of common sense. Throughout this whole Olympian triumph he has been able to think and talk in terms of reality and shining possibility. It is no sudden drop from the clpUds, then, to quote Lindbergh’s re marks as to what must be done to realize the future of aviation, which hks become a universal faith. He has dwelt on the necessity of airports. He has talked about our St. Louis-Chica go air mail service. The flight be tween the two cities is a matter of two hours, and almost as much time is consumed m transporting tne man from the cities to their landing fields. That won’t do. Airports must be tak en out of the suburbs and made in tegral assets of the cities. It is an engineering problem, he confesses. So it is. But spurring on the technical .experts to a solution must be public sentiment, civic pride, the indomitable will of great cities to do what belief in progress says must be done. What of St. Louis? What special bequest may be ours from this "per feet lyrics” with our winged young St. Louisan has written in the stars? Lis ten to his Odyssey: Fourteen hours and five minutes from San Diego to - St. Louis. Seven hours and 16 min utes from St. Louis to New York. That means that you are going to be able to get in a plane in St. Louis in the evening and step out of it at any point in the United States the next morning. It takes 85 hours to cross the United States by train. Yet in the whole flight from San Diego to 8t. Louis; from St. Louis to New York; from New York to Paris; from Paris to Brussels; from Brussels to London; from Washington to New York and from New York back to St. Louis, the “Spirit of St. Louis” has been in the air 79 hours and 20 min utes, or less by almost six hours than a transcontinental train journey. There is an epic in the simplest prose which drives home the fact that St. Louis is naturally situated to be the center of aviation in the United States. < , St. Louis and Lindbergh! Joined together in immortal accomplishment, js there anything in the illimitable dominion of the air which they may not confidently undertake after "the shouting and the tumult dies?”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. WORK FOR THE REFORMERS Now that the primary nominating system is safe, for one year at least, both the political parties in New Jer sey might well devote some of their time and energy to the revision of the Corrupt Practices Act. This law will be found in the gen eral compilation of the election laws for 1927, issued by the Secretary of State, beginning at the bottom of page 202. With its supplements it occupies space in nearly seventy pages of the book. Governor Wilson ordered a revision of the Corrupt Practices act in 1911, but his committee, unlike the volun teer experts who drew the Geran law and recast the direct primary laws, made a botch of the job. They were either unfamiliar with their task or they did not want to put teeth into the statute. Since 1911, one body of lawmakers after another has modified or mutilat ed the original enactment, as the mar ginal notes and the supplements show, until much of what little virility there was in it has been destroyed. Too much money has always been expended in our American primaries and elections. It is conceded that the official reports of these expenditures are largely fraudulent and mislead ing. Some citizens will sell their votes and some politicians can be found to buy them. But no large sums of money can, in these days, be raised for political purposes without leaving their reflec tion on the records of the banks. Heretofore . the authors of corrupt practices acts have been afraid or un willing to go drastically into this phase of the, problem. "Expenditure of money in politics I cannot be kept secret,” said chairman Stokes on June 28. He is right, but the trouble is that we have no real corrupt practices act in New Jersey jto punish the offenders.—Hackensack Record. Putting a few of the brazen devils behind the bars who go into elections with wads of ten dollar bills to buy votes might do some good. The pre sent law has no teeth in it. Liberty it worth whatever country it worth. It ii by liberty that a man hat a country; it ie by liberty that be hae right*.'—Henry biles. MINISTER EXCUSES ADULTRY The New York World ;of last Sun day published in.full.tyie appeal made before the San Francisco assembly. (of the Episcopal church held recently, and it has not added anything to the | reputation of the rector who delivered it. It is an appeal to ,the church to broaden its views on the marriage! question, and is an open revplt against the chastity of women and men—an advocacy of trial marriage, and an actual espousal of sex freedom un heard of before as the faith of a man chosen to espouse the Christian relig ion. He is Reverend Henry H. Lewis, rector of St. Andrew’s Protestant Ep iscopal church, of Ann Arbor, Michi gan. This recalitrant gentleman of the cloth has violated all of the trad itions of the church, invalidated every principle of. decency in human con duct, and comes out in favor of sex relationship without wedlock, excuses it, and says it is both legal and whole some because it is human and there fore natural. The fact that Bishop Manning re buked Reverend Lewis with vehement emphasis may undo some of the mis chief done by this Michigan reformer and Correct (<he whole doctrines he has unleashed. But there is an element that would like nothing better than to feel justified in marriage without wedlock. Reverend Lewis actually says that it is all right to have illicit love because “science” now makes it “safe for women.” The dissemina tion of such unholy filth is an abase ment of every teaching of the Bible and God. If it is “Youth’s Moral Standard,” the sooner Youth blots it all out, the better will be the world throughout all Christendom. There is no language strong enough to con demn such debasing theory of life and it is quite unlike anything ever before propagated in the history of the Christian religion. Youth movement followers, however, will get a lot of license for their faith from this Mich igan rector who would prostitute chas tity and put the disgrace of licen sclousness before the world as its high est virtue. There is one check against the social freedom of this new crusade against truth and decency, and that is the church as it is. Liberty ie never cheap. It it made difficult, because freedom i* its ac complishment and perfectness of man.—Emerson. NEW JERSEY CANDIDATES THICK From all accounts there are to be more candidates for the next govern orship and for United States senator than were ever before the voters. It is going to be a contest never equall ed, from all accounts. Bergen county alone will have at least two candi dates for United States Senator. Wlio will be the lucky man? It is high time somd of the. big plums were falling >ur way. ENGLAND FEARS A TUNNEL, APPARENTLY France and England have long talked of tunneling the English Chan nel. Now, just when the best plans have been formulated for a tunnel, giving France and England the exact same terms of reducing the liabilities of danger from a tunnel, England balks and says she will have none of it. For years the question of building a railway tunnel from England to France has been mooted. There have been many periods when the two coun tries have not been on very good terms, so the tunnel idea has always been blocked. Something has always come about to stop the very best ideas on the subject. Today France is in favor of the scheme, for the safety points have been covered to her lik ing. Now England stops it all, and says she won’t play. The cost of the tunnel would be about $80,000,000, a small sum, con sidering the size of the enterprise. It would be 39 kilometers long, and 50 meters below the bottom of the sea at the deepest point. This would mean the tunnel would be 25 miles long and 200 feet deep. It could accommodate 25,000,000 passengers and 8,000,000 tons of freight annually, with electric traction. Answering England’s fears, France tells her that the exits at both ends would be under the range of all the guns of Dover. Not only that, but all the power stations would be in Eng land. All French trains would be op erated by this power. The English could easily shut oif the current, in time of war, and also All the tunnel with asphyxiating gas. Not only that, but the tunnel could be filled with water from top to bot tom for a space of one and a half miles without destroying the struc ture. In other words, France could safeguard herself from England and vice versa. The military danger would be nil. Nevertheless, England objects. Thus we see the greatest nation of the world, in power, perhaps, living a life of absolute, abject, almost trembling fear. There it no state of society under heaven, and there can be none, where perfect liberty exists, without; u> obedience to law to glad and so entire that the restraints of the law are an felt—Timothy Titcomb. 1 Liberty ,an«| liberty alone, gives me all for w&cJw»xittenc«. is greatly vel-. uablei mind, speech, education, law, security, social station, and social claims; kindred,, home, country.— [Henry Giles. ^ Eternal vigilance is the price #f [liberty.—Ascribed Thomas Jeffer IH .. Arthur W. Tams In the (jeath of Arthur W. Tams one of the] earliest, as well as one of the most prominent, of its citizens has been taken from Palisade. Already widely known in New York city, and in fact in a great part of the country through his music library, he came to Palisade to make his home about 1906 and soon became an active influence in the civic and social life of the rap idly growing suburb upon the cliffs. His home, in which he always took the greatest pride, was made one of the most attractive in the village, with its spacious grounds and arbors, and with the love of its owner and Mrs. Tams for association with their neigh bors, soon became one of the centers of hospitality. Mr. lams always entered wnoie heartedly into civic affairs and was at all times among the foremost in work ing for the betterment and preserva tion of the town as a residential com munity. In this respect he was a tire less worker and joined cheerfully in any movement to this end. In the various stages of the town’s develop ment from the abolition of the divid ing line that had placed it in two bor oughs to the completion of its im provements he was one of the lead ing factors. He was always deeply interested in Palisade’s social and musical develop ment, an interest that led him early in the town’s history, to give his ser vices to the village’s pioneer fire com pany in training and conducting it in its first benefit performance. This deep interest in the community also led him later to organize a choral so ciety of the town talent and produce both “Pinafore,” and “The Mikado,” which he staged and conducted, work ing with tireless energy. He was equally energetic in work ing in many other directions and civic labors. Social by nature, he enjoyed always seeing others about him enjoying themselves and, in spite of the great infirmity of ever-increasing loss of hearing, he was always cheerful and hearty in his greeting. . His greatest recreation was motoring and he sel dom went out on a ride without taking some of his neighbors with him. A busy life, a life of achievement, i life devoted to his home town and its affairs and Palisade misses him and mourns his passing. —David Arthur Carson. OFF THE KATIN WON WTOtJOC* WILSON For the Pellsadien— Repeats Itself Mr. Russel Crouse, in the Post, claims to have discovered in history, the origin of a popular American ex pression. "On the evening of the 26th the march against the city was begun by Clinton—and Howe.” A Tree (Apologies to Miss Hawling) • Among the beautiful things on earth, A tree is mighty neat, With green boughs spread to the morning sun, Or in sillouette, when the day is done, Against the nostilucent sky, It’s pretty hard to beat. Good, If True A stranger wandered into the Po lice station last evening and asked for a piece of toast. He said he was a poached egg and wanted to sit down. The sergeant gave officer Jake Scheurer a meaning look. "It can’t be possible that the gen tleman is potted,” he said. "What is your name, my friend?” “Poached egg” mumbled the strang er. . “No nonsense now,” ordered the Sergeant. “Where did you come from?” A bewildered smile came over the face of the stranger and he answered sweetly. - • ’ . “Poached egg,” he said. v *?Hey,” said the- Sergeant, "Snap out of it.” "Egg,” murmured the stranger. • "Jake” asked the Sergeant, wearily, "Ain’t a policeman’s life awful? Now, what do you suppose is eating this poor almond?’’ "Sarge,” said Jak6, “I think this is a case of hallucinations or else he’s just plain coocoo. Let’s call a doctor before he starts to hatch.” "Hello Doctor,” phoned the Ser geant to Doctor Crandall a moment later. “We have an egg over here— What? NO. I mean a nut. Sure. Quick!” ' In a few minutes the Doctor ar rived1 and examined the stranger carefully. . , q •; •••‘'Don’t worry - boys,” • he said, “He’ll be all right in a day or two, but for the present, you’d better lock him up-erhe may get an idea he's a crumb and choke, awnrfwdy.” ..-^VJjat is,1 it,'* masked Jake, "Is he plartpred or is* he balmy?” * «just a little tig zag in the belfry f^pm trying to keep his' balance on these Main street sidewalks.” ' “"Oh,” said Jake. Discrimination The average *wealth of the United States is, per capita $39.86. We could account for the 86 cents up to the time we bought our lunch but now we stand $39.00 short of our share. Somebody please remit. Rash And Aisky A German woman is planning to fly Across the Atlantic. Her name is Rasche and we consider her all of that if not actually reckless. / New Style Lullaby Hush-a-by, baby, pretty one sleep, Daddy's gone golfing to- win the club sweep, If he plays nicely—I hope he will, Mother will show him her dressmak er’s bill. Hush-a-by, baby, safe in your cot, Daddy’s come home and his temper is hot, Cuddle down closer, baby of mine, Daddy went round in a hundred and nine. —Boston Transcript. Conscientious Witness The old-time practice of kissing the bride received a jolt at a Rowan county wedding when an awkward looking guest was asked if he had kissed the bride, and replied; “Not lately.” - Rest In Peace They picked up the pieces, With a dustpan and rake, Because he used his horn, When he should have Used his brake. Not Much Difference The National Geographic Society has issued a bulletin describing the smhllest republic in the world—Tannu tuva. The bulletin says, “Deer milk, deer meat and tender roots are the principal foods of the Uriankhai, and for clothing they wear deer skins.” It really isn’t so different—our milk and meat and clothing are dear enough, heaven knows. Trucks Save Sheep The value of motor trucks in savins sheep from starving by transporting them from drought nreas to green pas tures was demonstrated during the recent dry period In Australia, the de partment of commerce at Melbourne announced recently. More than 10.00C sheep were moved 220 miles by trucks POETRY Lovers Of Poetry Are Invited To Submit Original Or Clipped Poems For Publication In This Column. Please Give Name Of Author And Source. For th« P»li«adian— Mistress Rain Mistress Rain has slender fingers, And a misty, silver dress, With a lilac fragrance round it, • And a hidden loveliness. Mistress Rain is tall and shining, And her eyes are pools of light; And her hair is faintly golden— Faintly gleaming, faintly bright. And her voice is silver music, Very low, and sweet, and clear— Calling all the Springtime flowers At the threshold of the year. —Mary Saunders Hawling, . Ridgefield Park, N. J. My Lily All summer skies of haunting blue, All verdant springs of old, ' All flashing suns have gone to make My lily gold. —VV. S. B. Dana, Cliffside Park. Summer Night Darkness—and a sweet cool breeze That rustles softly through the trees, And quiet *tars in a quiet sky, A pale moon rising late and high Are things that make a summer night As lovely as the warm sunlight. Now robins are silent and larks are still; An owl hoots from a distant hill; The drowsy drone of the insect band, The riplets swishing on the white, white sand, Are things that make a summer night As lovely as the warm sunlight. —D. L. Baxendale, Palisades Park, N. J. An Arab Love Song The hunched camels of the night Trouble the bright And silver waters of .the moon. The maiden of the morn will soon, Through heaven stray and sing, Star gathering. Mil] Now while the dark about our loves is strewn, r'A Light of my dar£,.bfood my heart, O <;ome! ->*■»}> *,~i »<»*# ! And night will catch hefl^bfeath and be dumb; • so n j. Leave thy father, leave thy mother And thy brother; . Leave the black tents of ihym>tr?bei apart! 1 " •«*•'■> * 11 Am I not thy father "and thy brother, And thy mot he if? ' And thou—What needst with thy tribes black tents, * Who hast the red pavillion of my heart! —Francis Thompson Unrest Sprihg moonlight raises havoc in my blood, I, who dm deeply rooted as a tree, And from each gurgling footprint in the mud Crawl germs of wanderlust to mock at me. Spring breezes blow from out the wanton south, Soft as the breath of a new-bedded bride; A thousand miles away, the river’s mouth Lifts hungry lips to kiss the May moon’s tide. These cursed birds that sound so sweet to you, Keep chirping at me, “Man, if you were free, We’ll tell you what’s the first thing you would do— ( You’d take the long, long road that leads to sea!’’ Old Masters Oh! Where do fairies hide their heads When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills? . Perhaps, in small blue diving bells They plunge beneath the waves, Inhabiting the wreathed shells That lie in coral caves. Perhaps in red Vesuvius Carousals they maintain; And cheer their little spirits thus, Till green leaves come again. —Thomas Haynes Bayly; Oh, Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? Days of my age, Ye will shortly be past; Pains of my age, Yet awhile can ye last; Joys of my age, , In true wisdom delight; Eyes of my age, Be religion your light; rhoughts of my age, Dread ye not the cold sod; Hopes of my age, Be ye fixed on your God. -' —St. George Tucker: “Days of My iTouth” Grantwood Man Injured By Automobile In Fairview Henry J. Joescher, 65 years old, of 265 Knox avenue, Grantwood, is in the Engiewood hospital suffering with internal injuries that resulted from an accident on Fairview avenue, Fair view, on Friday afternoon of last week. Mr. Joescher was crossing the street and was struck by an open door on an auto driverf by Thomas New ton, of Ridgefield- Park. Newton was held under bail on the charge of as sault and battery by auto. Mr. Arthur Abrams, Jr., of Law ton avenue, and Mr. Jeff Yoost, mo tored to Providence, R. I., recently. Auto Injures Girl < Olive Miller, six years old, of 464 Columbia avenue, Grantwood, was. painfully injured when struck by an auto driven by Victor Edelman, of Union City, on Anderson avenue, re cently. The driver claims that the child darted into the street directly in front of the machine. Mrs. Schmidt, of Warren avenue, Fort Lee, has been ordered to keep her bull dog tied up for fifteen days. The canine bit Mr. Jesse Fry, of Rah way, on Monday last as the gentleman was strolling along the street. He reported the matter to the local police and they sent him to Dr. Charles Litt win, of Palisade, to have the wound cauterized. For Your Amusement 200th King Of Kings Presen tation At Gaiety Theatre With Monday July 25, Cecil B. De Mille’s production at the Gaiety thea tre, “King of Kings” will celebrate its 200th consecutive presentation, where it has been the mecca of crowds since mid- spring. The picture is now se curely established in the good-will of all theatre-lovers and the special in terest of those who admire this might iest of stories. Cinematically it has added to the fame of If. -B. Warner, Ernest Torrence, the Schildkrauts, Jacqueline Logan, Victor Varconi, Sam De Grasse, Theodore Kosloff, George Siegmann, William Boyd and the many other principals, bringing them stardom or other advancement just as was the case of players in “The Birth of a Nation” and the play ers in “The Big Parade.” .One of the most remarkable recent tributes of “The King of Kings” has been paid by Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massa chusettes. “It is unlike any other photoplay I know,” he said after see ing it at the Tremont theatre, Boston, “because of the reverent and drama tic manner of picturizing the last years of the life of the Master. Such a picture is something of which the theatre should be proud.” Already a New England company has been rout ed to follow the Boston engagement, playing suflh dentres as Providence, Springfield, ( Hertford and Portland betwixt Labor .day and the holidays. In Philadelphia another unit with its own orchestra and effects will begin an engagement at the Aldine theatre there on October 3. The engagement ft thi <&aiety here is indefinite with he presentations continuing twice daily. ;= New Thriller Planned For Park By Nicholas Schenck Many years ago, Nicholas Schenck, the pioneer in the creation of amuse ment park thrillers, built the “Scenic” at Schenck Brothers Palisades Amuse ment Park, directly across the Hud son from West 125th street. It operated motorized cars by means of a third rail, swooped over the big dip and continued on its ways over a mile of track at breakneck speed. It was the .super thrill of the day and was copied countrywide by other amusement park builders. < Last season it was “The Skyrock et,” built to be the exact replica of the swoom of an aeroplane dipping toward the earth from a hundred foot elevation. A “zoom” that was. breath taking in its descent, a super-thriller that was acclaimed the country, over' as “the last word in amusement de vices.” The inception, construction and op eration of amusement devices design ed by Mr. Nicholas Schenck to ap pease the human craving for thrills had become such an enterprise and important industry and because of his knowledge of crowd psychology and engineering and inventive, skill that once again he felt called upon to present to the patrons of Palisades Amusement Park yet another >“super thrill.” It is a new coaster railway, a grav ity ride, which drops its trains down a dip of 132 feet and at the bottom they are traveling at -the rate--of -70 miles an hour and it is going to be called “The Cyclone,” ready for it<s first dip spmetimp in thq v^ry near future of this present season. \ b GRANT-LEE til V,\ THEATRE Dedicated to the proper presen tation of Photoplays PALISADE JUNCTION, N. J. PHONE 1511 CLIFFSIDE E. Thornton Kelly, Managing Director ’ 1 Member of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of New Jersey , SATURDAY and SUNDAY, July 16 and 17 DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM Marie Prevost, Charles Ray in “Getting Gertie’s Garter” Tom Mix in “THE BRONCHO TWISTER” MONDAY and TUESDAY, July 18 and 19 Karl Dane and George K. Arthur in “ROOKIES’ Mabel Normand Comedy—“Nickel Hopper” WEDNESDAY, July 20 DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM All Star Cast in “EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS” Priscilla Dean, Robt. Frazer in '“The Speeding Venus” THURSDAY and FRIDAY, July 21 and 22 Corinne Griffith in “THE LADY IN ERMINE” OUR GANG COMEDY—“Ten Years Old” Matinee: Mon. to F>i., 3:20 p. m. Sat. 2:30 p. m. Evenings: Continuous from 7 p. m. Sundays Continuous from 2 p. m. 4 COMING “THE GREAT GATSBY” jMtgnrft iBrathprs* PALISADES AMUSEMENT PARK Salt Water Surf Bathing 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. DAILY N. T. G. and his ‘Radio Pals* will present another ‘Intimate Revue’ Friday evening, July 22 Ballroom at 10 P. M. State Tango Championship Third elimination contest Wed. night, July 20 in the Ballroom The Park’s Own Broadcasting Station WPAP is open to the public each evening except Saturday and Sundays