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THE NASSAU POST, FRFA^JPORT, M, Y., FWDAY, MARCH 16. 1918—P«g« 4
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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 191fl
Merchants are Generoas.
Merchants generally contri+rute to ¦cores of different causes. These cauMs are not confined strictly to the villajfes in which the merchants are located, but frequently outside. Solicilalivns range from churches down to organizations having a fixed income from dues and olher sources. A majority of the projects for which subscriptions are asked, have merit, and the business people seldom turn them dowrn. As compensation in part, at least, for their jfenerosity, the merchants expect patronage from those berveflted. This has not been forthcoming, if reports from many j villagea are true. Rather, the mer- ] chants have put in what they call a tight Winter with the declaration that conaiderable trading has been denied them. They believe in the old saying that "one good turn deserves another."
Women Set Votirig Pace.
The special elections recently hold in four Congre.s.sional districts in New York changed nothing from the previous political standing of those
plarlnr <m th<» tfaTW all aTai1i*»te farm labor to aid in plftnrting, har¬ vesting and oonnerring food product*, such committer's to serve wrtthout pay. It also ha* decided to create a bu¬ reau of ttie New York Boys' Worit- ing Reserve to co-opcrafce with the U. S. Boy*' Working Reserve and wRh the »tate and city departments of education under a director serrinif without pay.
It has aaked the <V)Tr»ptroller to set aside $50,000 for the procurement, trani*port«tion an|d organ iz^ation of boys furniahed to the war productton committees. $2.'i,000 of this to be used in placing New York City boyg.
It has appointed a committee to woric out A plan of co-operation be¬ tween the Woman's Land Army and the employmervt bureaus.
It has appointed a committee to purchase ten ditchers and arrange for their consignment f^ districts where they are most needed.
For the purchase of ditchers and to get boys to the farms the Commis¬ sion is disposed to spend all the money needed.
VAiaOR.
Robtrf HafK Holmti*.
Cadet Williaoi Clinton Story
Freeport, !>. I.
Killed in collision with another irtudent aviator
February 26th, 1918, at Memphis, Tennessee
An eaglet iVw from a fledglirrirV netl,
Its new fo<und wings and ita strength to test; With eyes agleam toward the sun it flew,
A tiny speck in a vault of blue- Darting and diving, entrancinif sight,
All but over was the hirdboy's flight; Whence, from a cloud in the evening sky.
Another swife eaglet drifted by; And as one swerved east, the other west,
They were death enfolded, breast to breast.
But, Oh! the frig-htful, terrible cost,
Two of our bravest useleswly lost, And the pain racked souls of those at home,
Who nAU|[^ht can do but to grieve and mourn. Yet, one should hearten and ncrt. despair,
¦fhcir fate calls thousands into the air. They died for their country not in vain;
Ita roll of high honor holds each name; And God in his wrisdom marks the day.
The wanton Hun shall be made to pay.
P'ost
D)cripts
BY THB TRAVELER
Barge Canal Avmlahle.
i The summoning of the barge canal ; traffic agent to Washington to confer with officials of the railroad admin- I istration looks as though the Federal i Government is at last waking up to the importance of the barg« canal as ; a factor in relieving the freight con¬ gestion and speeding up war ship¬ ments. Several times within the past year. State Engineer Williams and Gen. Witherspoon, superintendent of public works, have called the atten¬ tion of the Washington authorities to the fact that the canal would be open from the lalves to tidewater in constituencies; but they did pro<luce j ^^»y "^ this year and offered the use
some facts of more than passing im- I)ortance to the student of politics. For instance, the women, voting for the first time, broug'ht to the polls about ninety per cenl of their total registered strength, whereas the men —to whom, perhaps, voting has be¬ come an old story—brought out only about half that percentage of their number. This indicates that the men will have to be on tiptoe in future elections. Another fact, of even more importance,^, was the heavy vote cast by the Socialist party, which in one district was in excess of that received by the Republican caruiidatc. There is no denying tliat the growth of So¬ cialist opinion is one of the most menacin{7 features of political devel-
Croker a Poor Prophet.
Croker picking Hearst as a winner in the coming gubernatorial contest serves to remind us that durinj? his career as state leader Croker never succeeded in naming; a successful can¬ didate for Governor, and also that when Hearfrt. ran for Governor in 1906 he was beaten by more than .'50,000 and was low man on the tick¬ et. While the difference between the highest and lowest candidate on the Democratic ticket except Hearst was less than 2,500, Hearst ran about 28,000 behind John S. Whalen, who ran next to tfie lowest. Croker never was a ^rood prophet and the last time he ran for Governor, Hearst was not a good candidate although he had the support of both the Democratic party and the Independence League. 4
ONE COINTRY—ONE GOD.
of it free to the Government
Within the pa.st month Governor Whitman pointed out to Secretary McAdoo how the use of the canal for coal transportation would reduce the cost and release thousands of cars now used for shipping coal into this, state for other purposes. All that the Federal Government has got to do is to see that coal is routed from the mines to the nearest point on the barge canal, and as it has entire con¬ trol of the railroads that is a com¬ paratively simple matter.
Square Deal for Soldiers.
Representative .Allicrt Johnson of the state of Washington has been ac¬ tive in securing the repeal of an or- opment today—and to combat it will der of the War Department that has require close and careful educational worked great injustice to many new
work. This will not be aided if the tendency of legislation is to continue in the direction of state socialism as strongly as it haa in the past.
recruits. It seems that heretofore men entering the Army who mani¬ fested chronic physical disorders within three months After their en¬ listment have been subject to dis¬ charge for disability not incurred in
Hunting Farm Labor.
To find a sulficient supply of farm ' >'"« "^ '^^^y- ^hey then have a status
labor, to get it to the farms in time and keep it there throug-hout the sea¬ son of raising and harvesting the crops is the task to which the State Food Commission is applying itself with all of its energy and aliility.
.\11 kinds of suuw-"rtions have been offero<l and any plan that promises practical results is receiving careful consideration. A number of experi¬ ments were tried last year by indi¬ viduals and associations and some of them turned out well. iSonie were so successful that they will be included this year in the state's farm labor program.
Frank A. Pexford, director of boys' farm aervice work for New York City, last year had 790 boys out on farms, has 740 ready to go now and I expecta to have between 1,500 and 2,000. For $50,000, he says, 1,600 boys can be placed on farms under fifty able supervisors.
Mrs. Thomas C. Burgess last year experimented with seventy-five wo¬ man farm/hands in Westchester County with good results. Two of the women did the cooking and seven¬ ty-three did all kinds of unskilled farm work. Her camp paid for it- •elf, the women enjoyed the work and cloeed the season in better physical condition than they bef^an it.
The State Food Commission has appointed the rxeiutive coniriiittei- of the farm bureau asiiociation in each county a war production committee for the purposa of o>v*niz|ng and i
under which they are denied many of the benefits intended for them in the War Risk Insurance Act. Mr. Johnson conceives it to be a great injustice to a man to accept him for military service after a severe physi¬ cal examination, and three months later conclude that a disability he therl has was contracted before en¬ listment. .Asa result of the C^ongress- man's representations to the Surgeon General, that oflicial has recommend¬ ed that hereafter any disability con¬ tracted subsequent to a soldier's en¬ trance into the .Army must be consid¬ ered as having come to him in line of duty.
Can't Buffalo the Tiger.
Chairman Harris of the I>emocrat- ic State Conimittee is quoted as say¬ ing that Tammany Hall will have no part in state politics this year until the Democratic state ticket has been nominated. In other words the up¬ state Democrats can nominate the ticket and Tammany will get its re¬ ward In trying to elect it. The five counties in the city of New York cast'nearly half the votes refceived by Judge Seabury in 1916, 82i6,199 out of a total of 686,862. Tammany controls the Democratic organiza¬ tions in those counties. When the preaent chairman of the Democratic State Committee was elected Tam¬ many controlled the State Committee and used its control to defeat the candidate of the up-state Democrats and elect .Mr. Harris who has many more friends in Tammany Hal! than he has in the up-sUitc counties. Tam¬ many has not shown the slightest inclination to relax its grip on the party machinery to the advantage of the up-state and anti-Tammany ele¬ ment which is from time to time re¬ ferred to as "a little bunch of kick¬ ers
for a candidate one cannot help but recall John A. Dix and what happened to him.
The Strength of America.
"If Hindenburg piles up 500,000 casualities in another Verdun against the western front," says Major Fred¬ erick Palmer of Gen. Pershingr's staff, "that will be the end of him, as il was of Falkenhayn, and there will be no hero to take his place in Ger¬ man public admiration. His fall will i'O t.'iy fail of a great idol and of the temple of the German staff." Ma¬ jor Palmer, who has just returned to France, in discussing ouf part in liie war before the New York Electrical Society, said that the German staff is now taking the -American army very seriously.
Better Service for Navy.
Senator Boies Penro.se of Pennsyl vania is the ranking
" I frpndlinesa and practicnl ci>-oper8tiiMi l>etw
member of both the Committee on , thiistians of every name. «
Inlformation that the iproposed d«yiight-4Piavinig hjill has heen held up in Wa^ington is no douM gratify¬ ing to the late stay-a-beds and pos¬ sibly a lejrion of ot,hers. About every¬ thing on the calendar of reasons has been advanced to get "pep" behind the measure, from that of needinif it to win the war down to more time for recreation hy the working clashes. The clocks, which the bill is 8uppo««d to jugiirle twice a year, once an hour forward and then an hour backward, have not uttered a nound either for or against the measure, but have kept ticking off the time twenty-four hours a d«y.
ROOSEVELT
In almost every village The Trav¬ eler has discovered spots that are so unsigiitly as bo remove to a conaider¬ able extent favorable impressions cre¬ ated by the more picturesque views. The untidy areas are in both residen¬ tial and business sections. iI>ocal pride, it would appear, has lapsed into a state of indifference when such conditions are permitted to exist. It would not require a superhuman ef¬ fort nor one involving much financial outlay to eliminate the untidy places.
OBTTUARY
FANNY MO-RRFSON Funeral services for Mrs. Fanny Morrison, sister-in-law of Daniel Morrison, were conducted last Sun¬ day afternoon at her late home in Leonard avenue by Rev. Saul 0. Cur¬ tice of the M. E. Church. Mrs. Mor¬ rison was 56 years of .age. Her death occurred on March Tth. She is sur¬ vived by one daughter. Miss Ella Morrison.
ROOSBVBI.T HCHOOI, NOTOT
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7th dratf^ atmnn Nathan, flarah UiKtar> hin. FT(>r»t*e» Knhlw. Rmma Clark.
«fh (irnAt^ Sxnt* SmUh. FrancOT Smtth.
Rth r.r*<t» Rnth Pnhlman, ManrarM AmHk, M«ry KamnmraltT, Arthnr TIiiMiar)), LilNMi B»H«n, ManrarM Hukw. Irvn* Walkm-.
4th r.T»H«»- Domthy Janncr, Conwila Hyf, John t;inhr»)t. H»l»n Swmnaon, Chrtotalfi VolIm»r.
»rrf nra<fr AnnH V«l»Titln#. Evrlrn Wood, Antta Pfenirnrr. H»l«i H««ly. AmcHa Kl«r< man. P«lm;,Marahaek. Hm>ry Kalb. WIBtaai Dmton, ftaAinnil ffaaeamp.
2nH (^mdr Emfna Zirrman, VIoM 8<w«a- noTi, Albert riark. E«th»r Pirkola. Ruth Dvtt- lo. Otto PirkoU.
lut C;ra<V MiMrrt Z<rrman.
Thr att^ndane* hannrr trom airain to MlM roorl»T'ii 7th Grad*.
Th* piipihi of r;r«(t# S rceHvliiH 100 par e«nt. In th<> arithmetic teat (Wm hy MlM Wmtrrvvlt laat mmh are aa followt;
Mnnloa Broekmeyer, VJnrlnla Vnllmer. Han- rietta Baurr, Schuyler ConkHn, Florenea Cor* nrll, Fanner Lieht, Hitrry Smith. Jcniri* Stubbe, Florence Rottjer.
The pupil* reeelvinir 100 per cent In tli4 aeeuraney teat in MIh PInKer'a 4th Grade ar* an follows :
Cornelia Ryf, Helen Swanaon.
In Miss KIBiani's 8rd »ra4e the 100 p»r ' cent, pupila were:
Myrtle ChatUway, Arthur Rodsen. . 4
MRS. WEBB GIVES $1000.
The Nasaau County Farm Bureau announces a gift of $1,000 from Mm. J. Watson Webb to purchase equip¬ ment for the demonstration kitchen which the Home Economics branch of the Bureau will shortly open in the basement of the Court Houae. "Mrs. Webb is a former president oif the Home 'Economics Department and ia a member of its executive comnnit¬ tee.
/¦>..iTr Ihe N. y. CathoUe Nr.wn. Out- pleasinK effect of our country's par- ticipation in the World War w the promo¬ tion amonK Americans of ull cree<ls of a lH>tter anil a more nenerouH feelinK. Catho¬ lics. Protestants and Jewa have all been brought tottether in army camps and united under the Rloriou* Stare and Stripes. Men When Tammany goes up-state "f world-wide experience all say that where
real. irenuine patriotism holiU sway peli- Kious prejudice cannot thrive. The way the (Treat i'rotestant Younsr Men's Christian As¬ sociation and the Catholic Kniprhts of Colum- lius have worked toRether for the moral Iind mjiterial honefit of nirr yountj Boldieni and sailors in an insnirinc illustration of the truth of this sayinK-
Many a time since we went into the I war the i'uthiilir Nrwa has taken occasion ' to commend the Y. M. C. A. for ilji kind- I ness to Catholic chaplains and CHthnlic sol¬ diers in the armv camps. I
I ll was a great pleasure to receive such a j
letter ,(s the full wing, for it indicatcH 1 clnirly thnt wo CiiholioH in our war camp work may re'y nn i!ie pood-will of the Y. M. j C. A., and it shows, tixp. that thia lirinfrinK of Catholics and Protestants closer toneth- er in the war camps is liounti to clear away n^iieh misunderstandinjr on Iwth sides. ¦¦Tn lilt Editor n/ The Catholic Ncwa.
"Dear Sir: I read with a irreat deal of interest the article on the Catholic mis¬ sion, held at Camp Upton last month and which appeared on the front paife of your issue of January 5. I want to thank you for your very kind references to the 'V. M. C. A. We have been Brreatly impressed by thf tine attitude of Chr^tian liroLherhood manifested by the Catholic chaplains who arc here in oamp, and we have been de- liirhted to work with them in the great task of brinitlnK the men of this cnmp into a closer aciiuaintance and fellowship with GihI. One of Ihe real CDntribution.s ti> Chris¬ tian civili»itii>n, 1 believe, that will come Republican l ""' "^^ ^^'^ *"¦¦ *'" ^ the new spirit of
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An Old, Old Dream.
"There is a rising tide of (Social¬ ism today which threatens the foun¬ dations of representative democracy the world over. There are well-mean¬ ing men in their ranks. They believe that ths millennium is coming, that the Government can exercise the func¬ tions of all private enterprise and that all fields of human endeavor can be equalized. It is an old, old dream, which the world has discarded again and again since the dawn of civiliza¬ tion. The best guarantees to the peo¬ ple of this country for the security uf our institutions ar« those princi¬ ples embodied in the Bill of Rights, which have been tried by the expcri- ent-e of «g«s and are ftrmjy Axed in the constitution of this land." -Sena¬ tor Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota.
Naval .Affairs and on Post Offices. That circumstance puts hiifl in a po¬ sition to secure better mail facilities for men of the Navy. .Mr. Penrose has reported a bill to the Senate pro¬ viding for the designation of enlisted men of the Navy to act as Mail Clerks at shore stations. Heretofore such men have acted as Mail Clerks only on board ship, but the large training stations that have been es¬ tablished on land have made in neces¬ sary to provide for the better hand¬ ling of mail at those points. Especi¬ ally is this true of the Great Lakes Naval Training? Station, where sever¬ al thousand men are undergoing a course of naval instruction. Numer¬ ous complaints have been made of the faulty mail syetem now in opera¬ tion at that plaoe, which Senator Pen¬ rose's bill is intended to correct.
Words of Service.
Samuel Gompers packed a great deal of sourvd common sense into a very few words when he .said in a speech addressed to the Central Pow¬ ers: "Before you talk peace, get out of France! Get out of Belgium! Go back to Germany and then we will talk peace." With Germany sprawled all over the map of Europe talk of peace is futile, and nobody haa point-
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With kind rewards to you, 1 am sincerely yours,
WII.l.lAM K. HIKSCH. "(leneral .Secretary."
Why Ihe Study ol German ? '
/•¦|i.»i thi' I'litrhiiyiiv .•liii'imr,-. j
Why continue the study of Cerman in } the public schools of I'utchoxue or any | where else? It has no "cultural value"
the French lan^ua^e can not (five equal- ' ly as well, and it is revoltinK to the flne sense uf patriotiiim, honor and humanity [ beinK instslM in the hearts uf youthful Americans to have the language and lying propatranda uf (iermany taught in their school rooms.
The Duck Growers' Only lope.
From tke Long laland Agrieulturut. The only hope t,he duck growem of eaat¬ ern L.ong Island have of coming out a little ahead this year, is tbat prioes will be highor than last year, and with the froien ducka cleaned out uf the atorage houses, the market will open up favurabey for the producer*. Frnh dueka are now_ quoted at 32 cents a pound.
Our supply of Gas Ranges this season tvill no doubt be limited.
Don't wait until our representative calls. Place your order in any of otnr oHicesJjohere you can look over our different styles. ^ Do it today.
Ruud Automatic Hot Water Heaters'are always in use at our offices. They work just as well in your home.
Place your order early for the Ruud you expect to have installed as they will never be cheaper.
Our Vulcan Tank Water Heaters are the most dependable Hot Water Heaters of this type on the market.
Get busy with your order before'we^have to tell you that our stock is exhausted.
Sprtii Geese are Flylig/
From- tke fiay Skore yuumai. Wild geece are flying northward, aA al- moat infallible sign of the appruaea of Spring. Okl-timen say the birds are earlier this year by several weeks than they bav* been in forty yean. A flock contaiiDiiic mure than une hundred geese was ofaaerved one day last week, and many repurt having •sen several small Hock* at various times.
¦abylM's Ceraai Alieis.
> rum the JabyluH S\gt%al.
According tu the oflicial registration mad*
with ths iiuetraasters last week there are 19
(iermaii aliens within the town u( tlabytua.
ur these U are in l.an<l«nbiM>t, 12 ia
ed t I Mr.
Gompers.
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Cuyiagu* is tuuique io tbat do U«r- •n salai W live within its bordaw.
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