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ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1918. THE SPECIALIST ASBURY PARK PRESS AND EVSNINQ NEWS. DID ARTILLERY FAIL TO SUPPORT 114 TH? I i ii mi mill "II Til I'll II I I II ,4, LYLE KINMONTH, Editor and Owner. i The world will be treated to no more spectacles like that brazened before civilization so long by Franz Josef and Kattl Schratt and Empress Elizabeth; no more triangle tragedies like thai of Prince Rudolph and Mafie Vetsera- of Meyerllng; no more ro not forget how narrow was Us escape from the submarines, and Jt might even reflect that the law of blockade to as interpreted by ltaelf, it has held so firmly may some day be enforced In the same fashion on its own shores. We are glad to say that til this uproar In London in support of the old contention that because Oreat Brit Suffered Most Gruelling Punishment to Befall mances like that of Archduke John Published Dally at M3-7 Mattison Aibury ParK, N.

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One of these Journals refer to the World's position as a fine example of democrat) brusquerte, whatever that may mean. This sentiment bears out, how- Asbury Park, Nov. 27, 1918. as large an offensive as some ot the others. It was worse, according to A GLORIOUS VICTORY.

Time will bring, perhaps, a story In greater detail than Captain Harry 6f Austria Who went away to sea with his "commoner" wife and sailed to the Port of Missing Men; no more such pitiful exhibitions as that of Frederick and Louise of Saxony and the tutor. Nor will there be apy more suoh tragedies as that of Augusta of Prussia and Zila of Austria pleading in vain with monarch -husbands to stay the hand of slaughter. These royal women have hid no freedom of choice as to the fathers of their children. At the nod of tyrants they hive been given to madmen and debaiichers. Their miseries ar over.

Harsln'a hastily written account of the PATERSON, N. Nov. 17. NewV of th sad but glorious stand mad befor Ormont wood, Just north of Verdun, in the closing days of the war by'th now famous Blue and Gray division, was distributed thru-out suburban New Jersey, when more than 14,000 letters reached the homes of relative 6t men of the badly battered 114th Infantry, announcing that they had been thru "the worst slaughter of- th war." Something went wrong miscarried, one of the officers wrote but exactly what it was could not be determined from the mass of conflicting accounts of the regiment's terrific fight against apparently heavy odds. The fact stands out, however, that the 114th reqelved perhaps th most gruelling punishment to befall any of the American units glorious victory of the 114th regiment Ormont wobds but the Harsin narrative will survive because of Its sin ever, what we have said ail along that, while democracy Ss now In pow-ft in arm Britain, France and Italy, Imperialistic ambition is ttlll Influential every one of them, and we all know that In the United States th foroes of reaction are never tx rest.

The shocking proposal that German warships be wastsfully sunk as the easiest way to settle An Inevitable dispute" Among Mends must have originated in the fcfala of a quarrel cerity and its graphic suggestion of swift, deadly action. It was Indeed all the military authorities, than all th Chateau-Thierry and St. Mihiel fighting put together. After the battle I had 14 men left. Company lost on officer and 15 men killed, on officer and 57 men wounded and 32 When the 114th Infantry went into the fight before the wood it was getting its first real taste of fighting.

This fact was revealed by the copy of a general order issued by Major-Gen. Charles F. Morton, Nov. 1. (A copy of which appeared in yesterday's Press.) Further testimony ot, the punishment inflicted upon the 114th was contained in a letter received from Capt.

Fred E. Rohrbach, Company whoso homo Is in Passaic. "The only officers left In our battalion of the Old Fifth," he said, "are myself, Lieuts. Clarence Shuit, Passaic; William PIckhardt, Lodi; Grover P. Heinz-mann, Passaic; Kimclman, Passaic; McNally, Kilpatrick, Paterson, Grey and Fisher.

All the rest are gone or a soul stirring recital. To us in Asbury Park and nearby It had poignant meaning. Captain Harsin had Iff some Tory who, instead of welcoming been separted from his comrades of true disarmament, wa anxious in a spirit of vengeance to disable an adversary and as suspicious of Allies as old Company but It was with them that delivered the final crushing blow to the German military machine. as well as with his own company, that tie fought thru the gas drenched, shell One of the letters, whose recipient A THANKFUL WORLD. Surely If the American people ever had cause for thanksgiving, they have now.

It would be sufficient reason for ah outpouring of gratitude merely that the war is ended, ho matter what had been the cost. We Are especially fortunate in having the end come while our human losses are Still refused to make known tho name of torn valley and the death swept hill the writer, or even to permit passages of the Meusei Captain Harsin cov from it to be quoted, stated that his letter said the 114th on one occasion was left for seven hours without ar ered the same ground that, from an observation post, he bad seen his old sent home or to other places in France. I have only 90 men left in tillery support. Whatever happened, the regiment lost heavily, the letters comrades charge. small, compared with those of other revealing clearly that some of its companies were reduced to as low as These were our boys that Captain Harsin described.

A shell burst In a platoon. Froni his position the cap 60 to 90 men. The normal strength of foes. Worse than that, however, it shows a cynical attitude toward the high professions on which this war has been fought by the western powers and a purpose at the peace table and elsewhere to cling as tona-clo'usly as ever to practices of bullying and bluster which" have been and must be prolific of strife. Fortunately for a world weary of war and not easily to be deprived of the fruits of its triumph, Tories, Junkers and autocrats Are not to control the Versailles conference.

There will never be another congress of Vienna at which peoples and their liberties were shamefully and ecretly huckstered. It may be that the virtue and wisdom of mankind will prove unequal to the task of doing away with war at once, but that progress war-smitten countries, and while the material cost is almost negligible compared with our vast resources. We are especially fortunate in of a company under the present regulations is 250. tain saw men fall. He counted ten Wounded and five dead.

Two of his Won Glorious Victory. Despite the terrific punishment, the officers were put out. Machine gun emerging from the war with so fine a record of clean, honorable behavior arid uniform military success. It is ners, from hidden nests, poured a Company and Company has orfly 60 left. Other companies are about the same, but we expect more men to bring them back to 250 each again." The chaplain of the 114th regiment is the Rev.

A. M. Smith, pastor of the Paterson Avenue Methodist church, Paterson. "As chaplain of the 114th Infantry," he wrote to a friend, "I want to convey a brief message to the people of Paterson. The regiment covered itself with glory.

It was a most wonderful sight and display of heroism. Under the most grilling machine gun fire and heavy artillery barrage our men went coolly straight up a mountain without a waver. The people ot New Jersey have every reason to be proud 114th drove forward thru the German defense for a glorious victory and, with the rest the Bluo and Gray division, has been cited by both the French and the American harrassing fire into the ranks. literally true that our victory Is "I gent out patrols to find them," Without blemish or stain. Captain Harsin wrote.

"Every min Above all these peculiarly national The 114th Infantry id composed of nte men 'of these parties came creep separate companies which made up benefits are those universal benefits 1 the old Third and Fifth New Jersey National Guard regiments. It was sent to Camp McCIellan, Anniston, at the start ot the war, and will be made toward that splendid aspiration we have an abiding hope. To this end, One of the first steps must be respect for private property at sea, and another must be tho grad words of the poem with good diction, son, and athletic, rough-riding George Larkin makes a dashing hero. The "Lest We Forget." The last words were sung softly, off stage, by the of her fighting men here. Of course was trained there as the nucleus other students, closing the program, about which the rest of the division, ual reduction of all naval and military story, based on facts of the United States secret service, has to do with cattle ruetling and opium smuggling, and the action is swift, the situations ing back, wounded." "What men of old company were designated for similar duty, as they must have been in their advance, only two hours earlier? What men of Asbury Park "came creeping back, wounded?" "We tried to find Shelter in the bank of the hill, but it was a trap and the shrapnel fell on us like rain." which was one cf Ruth academy's best offerings.

armaments. The leaders of the var composed principally of National Guard troop from southern states. ious democracies who, in unity, have Ten dollars was realized which goes many paid the extreme price, and it Is of them I wish to say a word. Reaffirm Their Determination. "I saw that all, so far as was possible under tho circumstances, received an honorable burial.

Homer Rodeheavcr (Billy Sunday's trom i for which we entered the struggle, and of which we have thought most. All other nations In whom dwells the spirit of good will and the love of liberty might well join With us In this Thanksgving day because of the completeness and finality of the victory. The great menace is renderedpower-less. Militarism lies at the mercy of the free peoples it sought to destroy. Nothing remain but to make secure and permanent by wise counsel, the was built.

It was this union of flght- TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY IN ASBURY PARK Nov. 27, 1808. Mrs. Cora Burr-Applegate of Likewood was visiting- herr par- ents, Mr. and Mrs.

M. Burr, on Seventh avenue. Miss Kittle Bamman assisted in an entertainment given in the Farmingdale Presbyterian church borne the responsibilities of this aw ng men from the norths and the to for a new school typewriter. The tickets were printed by the ful conflct are not likely now, in dis south that gave the division its name. Its official title is the 29th division.

agreement, to sink either ships or ideals. Now York World. tense and thrilling. Miss Compson plays Rose Hardy, the only child of a wealth rancher, the queen of vast acre3 and the boss of the Hardy cowpuncher-v a loyal company of modern cavaliers. Mr.

Larkin is seen as "John Smith," a faro dealer and "drifter," recently down to the Mexican border. Today the school hae distunaea ror bone player) cenie into the wood with Perhaps the most picturesque de us, and was there at the service at scription of what happened was con the Thanksgiving holidays, to reopen on Monday morning. What Asbury Park men were hit SLOWING DOWN SENSIBLY. which every man left recommitted tained in the letter received from as they, too, perhaps, had to wait himself solemnly to the accomplish Lieut. Grovcr P.

Heln2mann. It came While Republican politicians and AT THE THEATRES ment of this task of freeing the world while the deadly fire from machine to his sister, Mrs. James P. Parber, newspapers are gauming over the wonderful things they Are going to do benefits won by arms. Passaic.

On Oct. 12," Lieut. Heinz- gun and field piece and the heavier "Mrs. Leffingweli's Boots." One of the best pictures in which We give thanks for all the world. in the way of post-bellum recon "Both Protestant and Catholic took part in this service.

There ia little difference here. From that service we went out battle. Nobody was mann wrote, "our regiment went into battle and something miscarried, with "The Yellow Ticket." Fannie Ward and a noted cast in the dramatic feature, "The Yellow Ticket," adapted for the screen by Pathe from the famous A. H. Woods stage euccess of the same name, will struction, It is significant that the Constance Talmadge has ever beeit The Bolshevik government has of seen Is her latest Select picture, Mrs ashamed to pray or afraid to die government and the American people are going about the task with that the result that there are only a few of us left to tell the tale.

Company suffered the worst of any, with Company a close second. LoffinRwell's Boots," which will be They fought like heroes and died like fered to let the Czecho-Slovak troops Christians." Miss Beesie Bird, daughter oi Millard Bird, was home from th State Normil school for a vacation. Miss" Addio Hendrickson, a teacher in New York, was visiting her parents in West Park. J. Stanley Ferguson and Charles Clevenger of Ocean Grove were preparing to leave for a vacation trip thru the eouth.

return home, if they will lay down simple directness whic-h is so eml nently characteristic of them. Sec But perhaps it was the letter of "The dead and dying were strewn all over the field. -How I escaped no their arms. They tried that game on the before, and Dr. J.

J. Halman. regimental surgeon of the 114th, that told most strikingly the terrrble Intensity of the fight body knows, as machine guns and be seen at the Shubert tomorrow. "The Yellow Ticket" is a scathing denunciation of Russian secret police methods used in persecuting the Jews and the etorydeals with the way in which they take advantage of their position in dealing with beautiful and defenseless girls of that race. It abounds with dramatic thrills.

retary of War Baker has announced that in his department he has already canceled or readjusted contracts so ordnance of the barrage which Captain Harsin describes as particularly violent, peered their devastating fire upon them? Captain Harsin brought back 70 out of 220 men. We know from him that old II company lost its captain "shot thru the lungs." We know from him that old "suffered heavily." We have counted already a heavy toll of dead and wounded. These were our boys who went In at Ormont woods, who fought thru cannon were belching death and destruction, as well as airplanes shoot ing thru which the regiment passed. then cut loose on them with machine guns. as to save $1,336,000,000, an amount "We were 'in' from Oct.

12 to Oct. he wrote. "It certainly was hell equal to about one-fifth of the Fourth ing at us. I stopped bandage the wounded and the Germans shot them again, one of the men lying across Dr. E.

B. Reed had just shot Liberty loan, and that the pruning 1 Casualties were very high, as it was Britain's dead alone number more seen at the St. James theatre today. "Mrs. Leffingweli's is a story of a young woman whci loves pretty clothes, and much against her husband's wishes she buys a pair of expensive embroidered slippers to wear to a fashionable dance.

Unknown to both, a replica of the pair is in existence, and were purchased by Walter Huntley to give to his fiancee, Mable Brown. Mabel beco.nes angry at Huntley, however, and breaks off the engagement, so Huntley gives his slippers to his maid. The two pairs ot slippers keep making their appearance at very inopportune moments. big moose in Maine. the worst battle of the war." knife is being applied wherever pos? my lap when he was shot.

than ix times America's total casu MWSBES NEED Worst Than Chateau-Thierry. of the generals, both French sible. All the other branches of the government are following the same And this: "I have no souvenirs for I will always remember every awful detail of that terrible scene alties. Let's not get too enthusiastic about our earnest but secondary part and American, claim It was the worst policy. without anything as a reminder." slaughter of the war, but perhaps not in the late war.

OF FOOD AVING the night without shelter or blanket, who ate only the lightest of rations and who suffered thirst. Our boys, ernmenU who has given such careful Those ot us who believed the Ger thought to the meaning of the war RUTH HALLG1VES FMiaaeipnians have their very doors an impressive illustration of the way In which industraj conditions are shaping themselves to the changed order of things. With the elimination of overtime and Sunday work in the shipyards, thousands of men are leav man fleet would be ordered out for a given what i3 said to be the hardest, final gamble at (sea had the right and the significance of the victory, or who has approached these problems with a mind so well trained for most deadly job of the war. Hundreds of our boy3 were on the battle lines hunch, but reckoned without the sin FRENCH PiMfl their study, as the president of the gular discretion ot the crews. ing them to return to their former oc cupations, but there is to be no sud United States.

Only the general an France and' they have fought and died as valiantly as those of old II company. But old was Asbury's The serious need for food conservation in America in order that her allies in Europe may be fed and anarchy and Bolshevikism suppressed was emphasized to 30 lodge executives by Mr. Mygott of the state food administration at a meeting In the Elks' building Monday evening arranged by S. Heilner Calvert, local food administrator. Just what America's program must le in order to provide 20 million tons den reduction in the output of vessels An enthusiastic group of more than The surrendering U-boat crews seem to have about the same coh- Daniel Shutts, of Tintoj Fall and Miss Sara Walling, daughter of William A.

Walling, were married at the bride's home in Red Bank. They were to reside at Long Branch. Mrs. Amy Edwards, S3 years, old, fell thru a trap door at th home of her son-in-law, Henry Tilton, at Freehold. Best cold -packed tomatoe were selling for seven cents a can, string beans six cents.

Peas were three cans for a Mrs. Arthur F. Carter of Los Angeles, who, with her husband, was viisitlng Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.

Underwood of Cook man avenue, saw snowflakea for the first time in her life dur the first flurry of the season. The railroad 6tation at Elberon burned to the ground by fire due to crossed electric wires. Th instruments and switchboards in a of the depots were burned out and several of th buildings caught fire. Cf: I If Yif own, her war company. Seven thousand former airplane workers, thrown out of employment by the stoppage of government work 50 people gathered for the entertainment given by the "Ruth Academy Talent," in the parish house list tempt for themselves as their British recognition of that fact accounts for the acceptance by England, France and Italy of him as the exponent of their views.

They recognized in the various addresses of the president what all of them believed, but what none of them could say so well. Our boys sons, brothers, sweet conquerors had. at Buffalo, will be brought here to fill the gaps, and everything will move on night. The program featured the French study and was under the direction of Madame de Laume, French teacher. The stage was arranged by hearts, comrades of happier days facing bitter odds, overcoming by sheer, weight of grim determination of food for Europe will be' revealed by Herbert C.

Hoover in a epecial The desire of congress to run as before. In the Eddystone district, The president was the first states-- wnere ror years production or war message to be read In every lodge the school head, Miss Emily Collins i stubborn, hard fighting enemy en munitions has been pushed to the ut The program opened with the sing things its own wax henceforth would be more easily realized 'if congress knew which way it was going. most, the Westinghouse Electric and ling, off stage, of Kathenne Lee trenched in superb defensive positions, boys who counted not tho cost Manufacturing company has an nounced plana for so increasing its man in the world to recognize the essential character of this war, when he defined it as a war between democracy and autocracy; a war between the rights of man and the privileges of inherited power. Tho allies have been too closely involved in the they paid to the full. plant 'that it Will require 15,000 em room in America during food conservation week beginning Dec.

1. Meantime the conservation program is to be urged by every means and lodges have been made a special medium of conveying to te household the necessity of food saving. The lodge representatives were greatly impressed and the meeting was most successful. We'll have peace until congress reassembles, anyhow. I i 1 r.

-VAUl What words shall be chosen to ployes instead of the 3,500 for whom It now finds work. Thus the men speak for them and their sufferings now engaged in the manufacture of fighting, the immediate concerns of their sacrifices and their deeds? How Penrose seems as little eager to abdicate as the kaiser was. rifles and engines for our armies shall we express our pride, our rever Bate's "America, the Beautiful." Elizabeth Watson next recited In French La Fontaine's fabel: "Le Re- nard et les Raisins," and Frances Da. vis gave a companion number: "Mon Orelller." Cynthia Martyn followed in costume as little Herby Hoover, giving "The Callories '11 Get Ye If Ye Don't Watch Out!" Then came the play, and the audience listened in wonder, for the girls' action was well worked up, and some of the fluent French was the result of two month6 French study. The French accent of these beginrnfrs was very good.

Rosheen Glenister of abroad will, with the termination of their respective countries have been too pressing, to admit of their taking that broad survey of the larger as- once for the fallen, our glory and our such turn to peaceful work The Editorial Mirror pects of the war. awaiting them in the eame vicinity, MRS. SISSON ENTERTAINS. The Tuesday Auction Bridge cjub, the oldest card party in the city, was entertained yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. D.

W. SIsson, 221 Fifth avenue. Members of the club GERALDlNEWt The New Tork Sun makes the vic everlasting gratitude for them all? Shall we not say, with Captain Har fin, "Praise be to God?" SINKING SHIPS AND IDEALS. in THEr TURN OF Wfc FAREWELL SURPRISE. Mrs.

E. Coleman of 75 Benson avenue. Ocean Grove, was tendered a farewell surprise party Monday evening before departing with Mr. Coleman for the south, where they will spend the winter. The visitors were employes from Morgan.

Music, games and a general social time were enjoyed. Among those present were Corporal James Manu-pelll, Private Beershank, N. Scott, J. Conley, and the Misses Agnes Sanderson, Mildred Wilson, Ella Williams, Eleanor Peterson and Mr Coleman. If the noblest purpose of the vic ious suggestion, "Scrap the war work," utterly disregarding the factor of the human labor engaged in such industry, and the necessity of safeguarding its interests by prevent junuue lurs.

u. a. netricK, mrs. Ar SOME HAPPY WOMEN. tors in this war was to rid the earth thur F.

Cottrell, Mrs. Sampel V. tup wheel mm of war it must be said In all frank Coldwjn Pictmvs Kiikbride, Mrs. Effle Hamilton, Mrs. Albert D.

McCabe, Mrs. E. G. Mlan- ness that a considerable journalistic Mrs. Edward Stroud and Mrs.

Tomrorow the St. James will present a De Luxe program, Geraldine Farrar in her first Goldwyn picture, "The Turn of the Wheel." New York city, had one of the prom-iment roles, and until September this 12-year-old had never etudled French. The main role, the. woman who lost her purse, and caused "Une Tempete dans un Verre d' eau" was Vivien Hall. The- husband, handsome in his riding clothes, and bringing into "La Tempete" the news of world France had no attention lor any fact except that the invaders were on its soil and must be expelled.

Italy's thought was concentrated On the recovery of "Italia Irredenta." Great Britain was almost as directly and intimately concerned. While Germany was trying to destroy British commerce and assaulting Ypres in frantic efforts to reach the British channel and "hold a sword at the throat of England," in the language of one of the German generals, the British mind was too much absorbed by Immediate dangers to consider the larger aspect of the war and the pro Sisson. Yesterday Mrs. Mortimer V. Pach ing a too violent transition from war to peace conditions.

"It is truer economy," It contends, "to throw shells and bayonets Into the melting pot, to be made over for the use of mankind, than to stack them up as dead stuff ofvno use to anybody. Kill the war business in its tracks." This would be an admirable way to produce panicky conditions and labor crises. Happily for the country, wiser counsels prevail at Washington War affairs, was Emma Louis Davis of Thanksgiving at Holy Church. In all Catholic churches of the diocese of Trenton special services will be held tomorrow by order of Bishop Walsh. At Holy Spirit church there will be high mass and sermon at 9 a.

m. "Wildfiower." Marguerite Clarke, the dainty star, will be seen at the Savoy today in "Wildfiower," a bewitching characterization, constructed for just such a star as Miss Clark. The story is a drama of the lights and shadows of the sun-kissed forest, and the depths and shallows of human life. "Wild- Allenhurst. Th other roles were taken by Winifred Shaw of this city, by Harriet Benger, Beatrice Hall and Madame de Laume.

The second half of the program was gram of peace. America was not directly menaced. opened by a dolly sisters' dance, by There are some "royal 'personages" In the emashed Central empires wno will shed few tears over the debacle of royalty and absolutism, in Teuton-dom. They are the royal women of all the deposed kingly and princely families. Euperslaves they have always been in spite of the golden chains and cages about them and the fawning of menials.

Marriage will hereafter mean to them following the dictates of their own hearts, not a bartering of honor and self-respect and personal happiness "for dynastic reasons." There are no more dynasties to intrigue for power thru matrimonial alliances. It was a theory that died In the great war that by interrelationship reigning families could strengthen and perpetuate their pow flower" is painted as a child of nature, who knows hot the meaning of love, work must be stopped as rapidly as possible, but the jolt must not be so sudden and severe as to throw all industry Into confusion. Philadelphia Record. until the one man comes. Tomorrow the Savoy will present one of the-best bills of the year, Rex element in England now seems disposed to forget the fact or to treat it as.

of little importance. If this war is to end war, what reason is there for sticking over the freedom of the seas? And if this war is to end war, what insensate folly It is for anybody in Great Britain to propose that, rather than risk a dispute over the division of the spoils, the German war vessels now in the hands of the allies be eunk in mid-ocean! What th United States demands In the way of freedom of the seas is no new thing. If there is to be no more war the freedom of the seas will be gained automatically. There is freedom of th seas in peace, but when Great Britain has been a belligerent It has used Its naval power against friends as well as toes. Insisting upon neutral rights, the United State has always upheld the sanctity ot private property on water as well as on land, and Great Britain, we are sorry to say.

has been the pi-lnclpaJ opponent of the idea. If we are to go right on with war It Is conceivable that, wltfc several other nations powerful at sea en gaged in hostilities, the British empire as a neutral might find ruina Beatrice and Vivien Hall, given in a professional manner, and well costumed. Madame de Laume then recited "Patrla," by Victor Hugo. Miss Arrouslag Costlkyan, regular music instructor at Ruth academy, won the greatest applause of th evening with her restrained and masterful playing of Chopin's Ballade, the popular one In flat. Adelaide Miller and Cynthia Martyn then gave a duet dance, accompanied by Mr.

Martyn at the piano. Beach's tremendous drama of re demptlon. "Laughing Bill Hyde," i Its right were Infringed, and It had to fight for them. But its life was not threatened. Its soil wa not defiled by Invaders.

It could see the larger aspects of the war, and recognize what lay back of the dangers of Franc and England. And the Americans, the author of "Congressional government' and the professor of jurisprudence at Princeton, and historian of the American people, had studied the nature of government and the rights and future of democracy with a stronger and more penetrating mind than any other American, or any European statesman whom the chances of politics or the exigencies of this war had placed in a position of power and MAIL SCHEDULE Mails Arrive From New Tork (direct) 6.30. 10.21 a. 12.60, S.23. 0 25, 6.16, 10.52 p.

m. New York and Way Stations G.30. 10.21 a. 6 26 p. m.

Philadelphia t.ZO, 10.21 a. 2.21, 8 02 p. m. Trenton 6.80 a 2.24, 6 02 p. m.

Freehold 30, 10.21 a. 6.26 p. m. Newark 6.30. 10.21 a.

12.50, 3.23, 6.25, 6.26. 10.62 p. m. Point Pleanant and Way Stations 7.40 a J. B0, 7.10 p.

m. Ocfjan Grove 7. HO a. m.j 12.50, 6.26 p. tn.

Parcel Poet should be in the postofflce before 6 p. m. to assure dispatch the same evening. Sunday Malls Arrive from all points at 11. 0u a.

ni. Sunday Malls Close for all points at 7.50 p. m. PostolTice Hours: Executive Division a. ni.

to ii. ni. General Delivery a rn. to 7.S0 p. rn.

Stamp Window 7 a in. to 7.20 p. m. Regintry Divigion a m. to 6 p.

Money Order Divlsion-8 a. m. to 6 p. m. The evening closed with a giving of story of the Alaskan Gold fields.

Featuring Will Rogers, the famous cowboy comedian, who Is known to ail New Yorkers and visitors to New York for his dry humor and witticisms. This year Rogers Is ln-the Zlegfield Follies and has regaled many thousands with his timely and comical comment on important events of the day. Animated Weekly, comedies and other interesting subjects will be er and "divine, rights." The folly of it was exposed when William Hohen THE VOICE OF FREE NATIONS. It is not surprising that European statesmen have settled down on the president's 14 points, with very little chang or reservation, as th basis of the peace terms. Virtually they had already been accepted.

By common consent the president has been accepted by friend and toe as the spokesman ot the tree nations. The allies hav recognized his utterances as th "most comprehensive and most carefully thought out program of peace, and the Teutonic nations based their applications for armistice upon their acceptance of the president's speech of Jan. 8, In which he formulated the 14 points, and his later speeches. zollern attacked his cousins. George Kipling's Recessional, so stirring at this when "The captains and the kings depart." De Koven's fine musl.

cal setting was played and a tableau revealed Alice Montgomery Brown of Brooklyn was posed as Justice. Her stately white-robed figure was draped with the flag aftet the manner of Simmon's great New York mural of "Justice." Every detail ot that mural painting was following in staging the tableau, the two child figures of Britain and Nicholas of Russia. High-born women ar hereafter to be just as free in Teutondora as their shown. There will be a continuous performance from 2.30 till 11. Holiday Bill at Shubert.

"The Border Raiders," the best thus far of the Diando western stories and released as the firet of the Pathc program features, wilt be howii at the Shubert theatre today. It is a. splendid vehicle for popular Betty Comp- tion in its own doctrine Unless it Is The more the European statesmen study them, the more fully they realize that the president's speeches are untitled sisters. They will be able to vote if the new republics are real and carry out thir promises of unreal -ted suffrage. represented by Hope Weidler, bear to accept war as the, normal status a iner a whitft rlnVi anrl lit P-a-vnlh CALENDAR ThursJay.

Dec. 12. Annua! i-hurtii dinner in First Baptist church. utpices Ladies' Aid ajid O. and ot men ar.a nations ana be always Some folks are like th' fleadly buckeye they look good, but they'd certainly put a crimp ia you.

Th feller fhat gits ahead of his story would not be so bad if he stayed ahead, i the voice of the free natlons-rhlla-j Rhome, bearing 'a great golden prepared to' enter the lists, it should There is no man in the allied gov dclphia Record sword. Miss Alice Brown gave the.