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■ PALI sadianS fir— —ra* Founded 190* by the let* Charles Thomas Logan, Jr. Incorporated 1925. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY by the Pallsadlan, Inc. Charles Thomas Logan, President; Walter Stein, Vice President; Charles W. B. Lane, Secretary tad Treasurer. .. . Entered mi second-clase mail matter at the Palisade, N. J., post office, March 18, 1918. _ PRICE 4 CENTS PER COPY By Mali or Carrier $2.00 i Year Advertising Rates Sent Upon Request ADDRESS The Paliaadian Editorial Office Office No. 2, Grent-Lee Theatre Building Palisade Junction, Palisade, N. J. Phone 1448 Cliffside , Publication Office 1 847 Gorsre Road, Grantwood, N. J. Phone 2002 Cliffside CHARLES T. LOGAN. Editor; CHARLES W. B. LANE, Manager and Associate Editor, THOMAS deV. FREDERICKS, Assistant Manager. REPORTORIAL STAFF—Mrs. George Donaldson, Grantwood: Mrs. H. A. Mattlce. Coytesvllle, C. Abbott, Fort Lee: Mrs. C Johnson. Englewood Cliffs. Special Corres pondents, J. Hall. Grantwood: J. R. Wilson. Fort Lee: Mrs. George F. Hall, Grantwood, Frank Merritt, Grantwood. ADVERTISING— Mrs. Mary W. Torrey. Mod son Trust Company Building, Union City, N. J.. Thomas deVaux Fredericks. Fnl isade. _ (MEMBER New Jersey Press Association OFFICIAL PAPER Borough of Cllffsids Park Borough of Fort Lee VbL, XX. JULY 22. 1927 No. 29 ? OUR .REAL'DIPLOMATS •' * ' '* • __— .. • S An incident recently that took place in Zcecho-Slovakia,. was scarcely no ticed by the average American. The first American soda fountain was op ened, at Prague, and was therefore iihportant to that people, and also im portant to the American pdople. We cannot - understand why this has not taken place before. And while American diplomats and statesmen are doing much to spread the prestige of the United States, yet it is very true that the real gospel of America is spread by those gum-shoe travelers, our national salesmen, who| Ido the best work for this country. Visit any of the .highways or byways of. this earth, and you will find in sod houses, in igloos, and palm leaf huts, surprisingly large numbers of Ameri can phonographs, sewing machines, kodaks, jack knives, movies, fountain pens, typewriters and patent medi cines. Every one of these articles got there- through the direct efforts of an American 'drummer. They, as much as the diplomats, have put the United States in the forefront of world es teem. Who does not know of that re markable drama, Samuel of Posen, that caught the American heart in the long ago. Samuel of Posen was the Champion salesman of his day. , , Thi» earth it our inn, not our home. ’ V" J. H. Vincent. , MISSISSIPPI VALLEY NEEDS HELP The most important public demand of the times in the United States to day is the immediate rebuilding of the levees along the Mississippi river which were destroyed by the recent floods. So far as outward evidences gb;. President Coolidge has done noth ing Whatever outside of a little money sent through secretary Herbert L. Hoover, who went into the flooded area and worked like a man and true patriot to realieVe the great suffering that spread over thousands of square miles, involving immense losses to a million or more people. A drop in the bucket. The American people living far re moved from the flooded area have formed a poor conception of the real damage, and they can have inade quate ideas of what is NEEDED NOW to relieve the damage and suf fering. The public is sick, sore and disgust ed at the dillydallying of Washington and there comes little or no promise of any action looking to relief in the immediate future. The New York Times, tiring of the inaction where action is needed, sent last week one of its trusted corres pondents into the flooded section to see for himself what is NEEDED NOW. His stories were amazing in deed, causing those who read them to wonder why Washington does not awaken to this great national duty. The truth is the flood sufferers have simply been DESERTED, left to scramble for themselves and get along the best they can. It is a sorry spec tacle the Government presents. The Red Cross did a noble work in applying themselves to the feeding of . thousands of the hungry women, men and children and the care of the sick. And the American heart gave willing ly the great sum of ten millions dol lars through the Red Cross. This government should set about the task of spending a billion dollars, if necessary, to make future floods im possible. President Colidge, summer ing in South Dakota among the Black Hills for political effect, is the one man who should return to Washington and start the movement for rehabil iating the Mississippi basin. He owes it to Americans to perform this great duty immediately. He should not de lay it a minute. ; ... . i' PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHER IN PALISADE An article elsewhere tells of the scientific photography of Silas W. Nourse, of Palisade, who is the ac credited pioneer in X ray photography in this country, and whose work is in demand by scientists, everywhere in America. At his studio-laboratories here he has the finest, largest and most expensive equipment to be found anywhere. There are special lenses and cameras not found anywhere, in Mr. Nourse’s array of photographic outfit that make it a place of wonder ment even to those who know how to appreciate what he is doing and has done. , The earth abideth forever.—Ec cle.ia.te* i: 4. HE IS ALMOST UNREAL Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the fly ing king, seems, also, to be about the oddest and most ‘unique, as well as unreal young man who ever attained world-wide fame. Not even Napoleon ever excelled him n some things. Lind bergh flashed across the limelight with sudden furore, but has had the dis tinction of not losing caste upon clos er . acquaintance. Here are some of his virtues: He does not drink. He does not play cards. He does not use tobacco. He does not dance. He does not swear. ■' He does not care for women. All of which sounds almost inhu ■y ;h man. Hut without any of these failings if any one wonders what the dickens he does with his time, the answer is that he is usefully busy every minute of his life. The story of his achieve ments since he flew to New York from California in two flying days by day light would fill many large volumes. That is how “unreal” Charles Lind bergh is. LOOK uien auiu mine noan writ*.—Longfellow. OUR FLIERS The home brew of American fliers has been a. crop of sturdy young men that the whole world has been eager to honor. Report comes from France that that country is almost heartsick over the aviation question. France had the unquestioned lead in aviation until Lindbergh took all the wind out of her sails and went ahead and con quered the Atlantic and made the first flight from New York to Paris on the non-stop plan. Since then France has become much peaved at herself. Her own brave men, Nungesser and Coli having been lost at sea, disheartened the mother country and made the whole world full of grief at their sad disaster. It was most piteable. Now word comes that the French want to start all over again because their planes are out of date. But all this was soon laid aside in the recent strides of so many Americans mak ing the trip to Europe in airplanes without stopping. They have literally captured the world, until some one comes along from somewhere with other air achievements that will make America well worthy of being the home of the flrst airplanes that ever put themselves in competition with the eagle. We have gotten so used to giv ing welcome days, dinners, medals arid super tributes to our fliers who have sailed over the ocean blue unfettered and unafraid, that the custom has grown almost an everyday affair. This week we welcomed home Commander Byrd who sailed over the North Pole, also, and who took his three compan ions and airplaned to Europe with a desperate degree of danger to the par ty, but who got there just the same. And then, Chamberlin, he, too, be came one of the honored in New York this week with Byrd while the modest "littlest borough” of Teterboro, fairly brought out all of Bergen county to give him honor and welcome home only last Monday. He made a very human picture standing on the mod est little grand stand at Teterboro where the best speakers of Bergen gave him evidence of how they loved him, and modest young Mr. Chamber lin gave forth his soul’s best when he said that the Teterboro welcome was best of all he had had. He doubtless meant every word he said, for his heart was in his little speech. Our airmen are an asset that seems to set the world agog over their possibili ties as a peace figure of the future. Writ* the things which thou hast seen, end the things which ere.—Re velations i: 19. BACK TO THE HOME “Back to the home” is the arrest ing title of a recent volumne on child ren and their proper attention and education. Sociologists and psychologists have rediscovered the great moral import ance of the home as an institution. The thought was late in coming. And it is a decided reaction against certain tendencies towards “expert” care and specialization in rearing children. It may Be admitted that V , teachers and experts may do much for children, but parents and the home can do even more. Indeed, there is no substitute for their personal con tribution to the well-balanced develop ment of children. But what is the home, may be ask ed? The answer is not as obvious as may appear at first sight. Parents alone do not make a true home. At least this is the opinion of writers on ethical problems. Possibly today par ents make more sacrifices for their children than ever .before. Yet the net results may often be disappoint ing and why? Because, some thinkers believe, par ental effort must be supplemented by the constant, subtle, indirect influ ences o fthe homes as a distinct insti tution. That is, the home is a moral as well as a physical entity. To live in a real home, to study, to rest and amuse oneself at home; to be fond of certain rooms, certain bookshelves, pictures, furniture, and to entertain friends and discuss matters of current interest during or after dinner, is to be the recipient of all manner of im pressions and stimulating thought that mold character and socialize the individual, and which cannot' be ob tained from any other possible source. Possibly the influence of the home as a separate institution has not been stressed enough of late years, al though much has been said about the disappearance of the home in the larg er cities, and its replacement by small flats, or apartments, in which neither parents nor children spend many of their leisure hours. "Back to the Home” is a significant slogan. Parents as well as children need to give it heed. Liberty exists in proportion, to wholesome, restraint; the more re straint on others to keep them off from us, the more liberty we have.— Daniel Webster. KfclN I AINU CUULIUUt . ) Frank Kent, well known writer, has been berating President Coolidge for not being disturbed over the Missis sippi river disaster, of which Will Ir vin says: “Excepting Was alone, the history of the United States shows no parallel to this for death, destruction an misery.’’ Mr. Kent says that the President’s attitude is Sphinx-like, calm, cool, and unconcerned, while a whole world is shocked by the disaster. • * v Mr. Kent ought to brush up on his tory. The Sphinx revealed no . sign of perturbation, so far as we Jiave been able to learn, when it listened to that famous oration of the menacing Napoleon, when the threat of the' world in that day was informing his troops that “four centuries look down upon you.” The Sphinx did not care a rap, ap parently, what happened to it or its people. It was perfectly cool And its expression did not change a whit. Why should Mr. Coolidge, a modern prototype of the Sphinx, be outdone by his ancestor in the lack of emo tion? Mr. Kent, Calvin Coolidge is Pres ident of these United States of Am erica, a position, sir, which in the dignity and the power of it, has no peer in the high places of this earth. Excelled by the Sphinx? Not on your life, Mr. Kent. Vanity ii often the unieenspur.— Thackeray. CLARENCE CHAMBERLIN T he welcome given Clarence Cham berlin last Monday at the Teterboro flying field was a worthy tribute to a modest and talented young man who has given his life over to the develop ment of flying. The people of Bergen county responded and were out in thousands to welcome this daring young man on his return from his great adventure of flying straight uway to Germany, the first ever ac complished or tried. He is one of the two pioneers in crossing the Atlantic ocean on a non-stop trip to Europe, and part of his experience was as thrilling as any ever recorded. But he had the courage to take all the chances through fog, cold and rain and finally landed in Germany after many hairbreath experiences, flying all night because he could not see where he was—over land or ocean. Clarence Chamberlin deserves every honor that could be conferred. But the best thing he said on his return to his home field was that his home town had given him the reception he appreciated most because it was best. The crowned heads of Europe had given him gracious tribute at his courageous performance, for he never faltered when facing the most terrify ing dangers of the air and ocean. Bergen county is proud to honor her young hero, who is so worthy. His modesty is as beautiful as any man ever exhibited, and his courage as high us ever mortal showed. Mr. und Mrs. August Ii. Lucdcrs, entertained at dinner at their home in Anderson avenue, recently, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalheim, Mrs. J. Grimm, Rev. Carol O. Morong and Stephen K. Newhall. OFF THE BEATEN RATH WITH "DOC* WILSON For the Palisadian— Detroit Dithyrambics Then here’s to the village of Dearborn A town of harmonious chords, Where the Fords are now fond of the Levys, And the Levys are fond of the Fords. —F. P. A. in the World. And here’s to the city of flivvers, The home of subsided dislikes, Where Hank speaks to Moe, With the very same glow, That he shows to the Pats and the Mikes. —H. I. Phillips in the Sun Fort Lee Ditto And here’s to Fort Lee on the Hudson, Where service with concord unites, Where the Cooks and the Griebs love the Hoebels, And the Hoebels are fond of the Whites. Words f I, Mo—Jedge, I jest gotta have a di vorce. Dat < woman is drivin’ me crazy. She talks and talks ahd talks the whole day long. If I don’t git away from that talkin’ I’m goin’ wild. Judge-^What does she talk about? Mo—She don’t say. Discussions Learned men,, particularly special ists, can always find some fantastic excuse for holding council to “settle” some question that isn’t any more settled after they have spent days talking' it over, than it was before. Recently the flower of the medical profession of England, congregated to discuss, among other things, the poss ibility of a process to, chemically man ufacture a synthetic man. Now fifty British, and fifty Ameri can poets and philologists have as sembled to “settle” for all time, the correct pronunciation of the words of the English language. Bernard Shaw, as usual, gives everbody the "berries.” He admits to being the one living man to use the language correctly. He states that Woodrow Wilson--could never have hoped to be King of England because he used the word "obligate” instead Of “oblige.” We d<j not have to be as wise as Bernard‘Shaw to know that President Wilson could never have been King of England regradless of what words he Used!'"--' ( htjfj tp'(lahme that he would hdt have *wisheflJ%© trade places with the British Monarch even if he could, by any chance, have learned to use the word “oblige” in a manner acceptable tp Mr. Shaw. „ After these gentlemen, in council, have established a foundation for a hew dictionary (if they ever get that far), what effect will it have on the lingual customs pf the- people? • The Cockney*Mill drop his H’s and the Bostonian will drag his R’s; the Herring Chokers of Maine, will drag the R to such a fine point that it is negligible and they will understand each other perfectly just as they do now. In the southern states they will con tinue to drawl and slur and the east side lad will go on using D for T and nobody will worry the least bit about it. Take this article as an example—we are confident that Mr. Shaw and his colleagues could find in these lines enough crimes against the King’s English to condemn the writer to the limbo of the ignorami, but with all its errors and crudities we will bet an ice cream soda that it is a darn sight clearer to you than a lot of the ramblings of Bernard Shaw—wise as he is. tie Wanted silence The blinds were pulled down to keep out the morning sunlight, a pitcher of ice water was near the head of the bed in which a man was lying, and a wet cloth was lying across his throb bing head. A cat came to the door, stopped at the threshold, looked around, and then slowly walked across the room, turned and started out again, when the man on the bed suddenly rasped out, “Say you— ? ’ I | ( ; : ) cat, you don’t need to stamp your feet so when you walk.” —Kansas Sour Owl Wuh You Were Here? t With,the vacation season at its height you are, no doubt, suffering the annual deluge of picture post cards. There is a certain pleasure in being remembered and the cards are all well Dnough, but why must the care-free vacationist keep harping on the same old wise-crack year after year. You know the one I mean; a pic ture of the County Jail with the in scription—"Having a fine time. Wish irou were here. Bill.” Up to the moment of going to press our friends have wished we were in ,he following places: Eastern Penitentiary, Lake Erie, Zoological Gardens, Lindbergh’s Home, Grave Yard, Montreal, Stock POETR Y Lovers Of Poetry Are Invited To Submit Original Or Clipped Poems For Publication In This Column. Please Give Name Of Author And Source. For the Paliaadlan— Desire Just give me a dag when the blue of the sky Outlines pure white clouds as they promenade by; When the meadows are billowing oceans of green, And the uplands and lowlands arc wind-swept and clean. A day when the sea is as blue as can be, And the white-crowned breakers arc singing to me; When the sand is more golden and bright on the shore, And the gulls soar up higher than ever before. A day when the sails of the ships are like snow, And catch all the sunbeams and an swer their glow; When the wind is a gypsy, a-roving and free, And whistles a tune to the song of the sea. A day when the mountains are fra grant with pine, And the light of their summits is al most divine; When the hills raise their heads with a beautiful pride In the diamond-clear streams that are running beside. ' Oh, give me a day when the world is as bright As a myriad suns with an infinite light, And the sound that is ringing o'er ocean and sod Is the voice of the Maker—the voice of our God. —Mary Saunders Hawling, (Age 16) Ridgefield Park. War You think these plotted, those design ed the War with deadly craft—and some made money out of Kingdom Come on purpose! Nothing of the kind! God! how much better such devilish' cunning than that ineptitude which, like a slattern bringing food, just slipped, and let the whole world smash! By Humbert Wolfe. Herod By William E. Brooks in the Century And so the Magic-worker comes at last! f Three years he’s shown his wondrous might to men. They say his touch has power, that fever flees Before his fingers, even blind men see; Today perhaps he’ll show htat power to me. Youth slips from me, my body’s grow ing old, Older than my years warrant. I have lived With wine and song and merry Roman girls And merry Roman boys in Caesar’s house, And now I pay the price. Perhaps ^ this man Will touch me and will bring my youth again. I’ll try him, seek a sign, and then I’ll draw . , Him close beside me, offer him his freedom, All he desires as well, if he will work The miracle that brings me youth again. He has his price, I’m sure, like any man. Then Rome once more, while Caesar stares agape At my new strength—and nights of wine and song! He stood and looked and answered not a word. But, oh! how deep he looked within my soul Past places where I had not looked for years. Such men as he and John would drive me mad; ' And so he goes to Pilate—and his end! Yards, Chicago, Ben Franklin’s Tomb, Lake Placid by moonlight, Brazilian Jungles, English Channel, Insane As ylum, Old Ladies’ Home, Dog Pound, Harrisburg, Pa., Home of Incurables, City Hospital, Blind Man’s Working Home. We will studiously avoid all of these places hereafter. And even when there is no evident intention to be funny; the two sen tences do not mix. Nobody can have "a fine time” and be wishing for some thing else at the same time. It is a lot of balderdash with a slight tinge of good-nutured derision. What they really mean to say is— "Having a fine time. Don’t you wish you were here?” EYPPER & BECKMANN, INC. PHONE CLIFFSIDE 167 825 Palisade Ave., Palisade, N. J. Real Estate & Insurance WE OFFER FOR SALE — Semi-Bungalow, Frame, 8 rooms and bath. Plot 50x150, all improvements, Morsemere. Will consider ex change for larger place. Price $9,500. FOR SALE—Swiss Cottage, Shin gle, 6 rooms and bath, and en closed sleeping porch. Plot 50x89. Bargain at $7,300. Grantwood. FOR RENT—Two-family apart 6 rooms, alcove and bath, all improvements, large, screened porch, Grantwood, $80. FOR SALE—Eight lots in Areo la must be sold as one plot for * $3,000. WE WANT TO BUY—A 5 or 6 room Serrii Bungaiow in Grantwood, or Palisade, must be near trolley and bus. TO RENT—A 4 or 5 room apart ment in two-family house in Palisade, Grantwood or Morse mere. $40. TO EXCHANGE—Two-family Duplex house and two lots in Grantwood, for a one-family house, 6 or 7 rooms, on plot 1)0x100 or larger in Palisade, Englewood, or Teaneck. TO BUY—Dots on the west slope of the Palisades, between'Fort Lee and Ridgefield. When Buying or Selling Real Estate Consult Us For Your Amusement Novel Broadcasting Event Arranged By Buick Motor I ' Company On Sat., July 23 In keeping with Buick’s character as a national institution, the Buick Motor company has engaged the full facilities of the National Broadcasting company for the night of Saturday, July 23, at which time it will span the United States and Canada with three special musical programs, feat uring such headliners as Roxy and his gang, Arthur Pryer’s Band, and other star ensembcls, and carrying to every home the announcement of the Buick for 1928. Local residents are cordially invit ed by Stillman and Hoag, Inc., Buick dealers, to visit the Buick showroom, Engle and Chestnut streets, Engle wood, or Washington avenue and Kipp street, Bergenfield, and hear the program over the large, six tube Stromberg-Carlston set specially in stalled there. Those who do so, or who tune in at home, will have a hand in the making of automobile and radio history; tor never Deiore, except in the case of presidential addresses and the homecoming of Lindbergh, has the entire nation’s broadcasting network been devoted to a single topic. Since the reception areas overlap very largely, the three programs will be broadcast at different hours, permit ting most of the listeners throughout the country to tune in on at least two of three. The Blue network of WJZ will go on the air first, from 9 to 10 p. m., eastern daylight saving time, with a program featuring the world-famous Arthur Pryor and his band. While Pryor’s band has been heard through the south during recent months, when it went on the air through Miami, Buick’s nation-wide program marks its first presentation through a Nat ional Broadcasting company chain. Following the Blue program, Roxy and his gang will be heard, through the chain of which WEAF is the key station. This program was composed especially for the Buick announcement and will opep at ,10 p. m., eastern day light saving time. THEATRE Dedicated to the proper presen tation of Photoplays PALISADE JUNCTION, N. J. PHONE 1511 CLIFFSIDE E. Thornton Kelly, Managing Director Member of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of New Jersey SATURDAY and SUNDAY, July 23 and 24 ■ DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason in “LET IT RAIN” House Peters in J. Oliver Curwood’s “Prisoners of the Storm” MONDAY and TUESDAY, July 25 and 26 Norma Shearer, Lew Cody in “THE DEMI-BRIDE” Mack Sennett Comedy—“DIVORCE DODGERS” WEDNESDAY, July 27 DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM Florence Vidor, Clive Brook in “THE POPULAR SIN” Johnnie Walker and Silverstreak (King of Dog. Actors) in “THE SNARL OF HATE” THURSDAY and. FRIDAY, July 28 and 29 Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton in “THE GREAT GATSBY” Charlie Chase Comedy—“ONE MAMA MAN”. Matin**: Mon. to Fri., 3:20 p. m. Sat. 2:30 p. m. Evening*: Continuous from 7 p. m. Sunday* Continuous from 2Ip. m. COMING—August 1 and 2 “THE RED MILL” . ^rhenrlt ^Brothers ' 4 PALISADES AMUSEMENT PARK P 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. l State Tango Championship Third elimination contest, Wed. night, August 3 in the Ballroom The Park’s Own Broadcasting Station WPAP is open to the public each evening except Saturday and Sundays