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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917

Soofli Jersey's Normal School Governor Fielder, in his annual address de. liveied in Trenton before the Legislature, last Tuesday, stated that he iavored the *|>propiiatii.n 6F#350,000 asked to build a State Normal Sclu-d in Sontb Jersey, bnt because of the limitations placed upon him by the budget act, he did not recommend that this appropriation be granted. It is true that the State's finances, like that of any other corporate body, is some u hat limited. A South Jersey Normal School U an actual necessity, however, and must be built before uiauv years. It is np to the civic organizations oi South Jersey to get busy at once and urge upon the Legislature that whatever other appropriations are cut down, or are eliminated, the one loi a Normal School must go through this vear, and

it is reasonably certain that ue tnli get it

* The subject of the location ot the school for . which the $250,000 is asked, has been ore of de-

Sbould Fanners Be Licensed? . ■' The case of Charles L. B. Cresse, farmer, against the City of Wildwood, for damages for arrest for non-payment of a license to peddle the produce of his farm is of county-wide interest Wildwood City, in common with other resorts of the County, has a city ordinance to corape 11 all farmers, whether raising their own products or buying them to sell, to pay a mercantile license. These ordinances were passed, and enforced in the belief that they were legal, bnt earlier legislation on the matter allowing fanners to peddle produce of their own farms without the payment of a license, which has never been repealed, has been brought to light, but never tested in the Courts. Meanwhile the resorts exacted the payment of a license from all. The case of Cresse against the City of Wildwood is the first test cose, and in the trial last week before Judge Carrow, Ex-Judge Clareqpe Cole, of Atlantic City, appearing in defense of Wildwood, stated that the city admits that it had no right to exact a license fee, but claisned that the mode of Cresse’s procedure to obtain damages was wrong. This point is one of law, and does not materially affect the matter. The point is that the attorney employed for the City of Wildwood admits, before the Court, that the law which forbids the exacting ot a license fee from fanners peddling their own produce is valid, and that the City of Wildwood hud no right to attempt to exact this license fee, or to arrest Cresse lor failure to

pay it.

The primiple involved will, no doubt be Nettled, in this County at least, by Mr. Cole’s admission. PI linly, municipalities have no right to demand the payment of a license fee from farmers other than those who buy all or part of their produce and then re-sell in these municipal-

ities.

We do not laJieve that any attempt would

have been made by any of the resorts to react this licens- had not the privilege of peddling without a li. eusc been abused by a few unscrupulous farmers who have made a practice of purchasing a large part of their produce from other fanners, and even from the middlemen of Philp-d-Iphia, and ihen peddling it In the resorts as their own. It was practically impossible to catch the culprits even though the police authorities

knew that the practice was going on. It is the old case of the innocent suffering

with the guilty. Because a few abused a privil-

GRAFT RULES CHINA.

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Why can't China build hci own railroads, dredge her own canals? kaa rnflBerra who are Uu alwlichee, at* has Umltleas material and the cheapest of labor. There are two reason a, sloth, and graft, the outgrowth of sloth. Try to take one of the little 1 that ply from point to point along the coast of China. “Will the boat lea re today at the schedule timer' you ask the agents at the pier. Well, do, probably not till

Is some delay, and you may hang a boat for a week before yon get off In that steamer. How could such methods build a trunk line from Peking to Canton, eren If the government could float all the beads in the world? Graft, which permeates all (3 from the highest official to the poorest coolie, would make It vary dUBcul: a corporation to Itve. Bo many would taka bites from the melon! A missionary wer here on a visit tails a story of s Chinese boy, educated tn s mission school, who nearly upset a whole province by refusing graft. Bent on some expedition for the local government ho was given what In our money would be 0300 for expenses When he retuned he handed In $80. “What la this for?" they asked. “1 spent only $230," he explained. There was a gnat to do. and the governor of the province sent to see this lad. who had done what no man had ever been known to do before. But he was solemnly assured that be must not return that $80 because 11 a'jald mortify others who kept all they could get—Eleanor Booth Klmmons in World Outlook.

Economy

makes happy homes and sound nations; instil it deep.” — George Wasington. Get interest on your savings by depositing them in the Security Trust Company, CAPE .TAY, N. J. 3* Interest Paid on Savin?* Deposits

bate in South Jersey for the past year. Vineland . . , wants it; *0 does Millville; Woodlairy has its | sought, very naturally, to remove j hat in the ring. Of coune, Camden is there I , P r * v ’* c ? t from all. As this is now proven ilalso, and several others, among which is Ocean * •"Hd 1 mooted question is settled.

City, in our own county.

It appears that Ocean City would be the logical location for the school. The building could be used for the purpose for which it was built during the regular school year, and llien could be used in summer to house the annual Slate Teacher’s Summer School This would eliminate the necessity of an appropriation to build a separate building for the Summer School, aud an active efiort will be made by the Ocean City civic b- dies this winter to secure such au appropriation. Geographically, Ocean City is ideally located for the Normal School. With excellent train service over three railroads ; fast electric service from all the South Jersey towns; good transportation facilities for our own couuty, and with many suitable hotels aud boarding houses it

makes a location hard to beat.

First let us see that we get the Normal School appropriation this ytar—we have had promises enough. Then let us all puil together to get the school for our county, in Occau City.

The apparent lack of interest in the proposal of the Pennsylvania Railroad to construct an electric high-speed trolley system from Ocean City through to the resorts to Cape May, is surprising in view of its p'ea importance to the

progress aud growth of the Count}-.

The Pennsylvania officials have had Uie project under consideration for some time, and just lately, as announced in the press, the railroad engiueers were instructed to draw plans of the

route of the road.

The proposition as outlined by Vice-Presi-dent Atterbury, is this: The present railroad bridges at Corson’s lulct and Townsend’s Inlet would lie used for the trolleys, aud new bridges would be built jointly with the County at Cold Spring aud Herefoid Inlets. The various existing trolley roads over the beaches would be used, I

either purchased or leased.

It does seem that in a matter of such magni-

tude aud great importance a keen interest would ! be taken by the Civic organizations of the County I end a concerted effort would be made, both iudi- | vidually, and collectively through the County Chamber ol Commerce, to have this trolley sys-

tem graduate from the ''dicaiu" stage. An electric road is comiug just as surely as the All-Resort Occau Houlcvaid is coming. How soou, is a mattei for us to decide.

We

extend our profound apology to the

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Times last w knew, only tv arc older tin Wave." and Conn House. 3a >eais old May County, mattei oi not

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.oilowing article, explain itself: •c May County

it. so f,.: as the editor papers in the county Times—the "Slar and la/ette" of Cape May which are niotc than Sentinel’’ is in Cape » 36 vcur> old. It’s a leal consequence, permight iu well be

Regardles-- oi the law in the matter, the com-

mon sense view is NOT to charge a license fee to farmers peddling the products of their own farms. The farmer, with the iresh products of his nwo rais ng for sale to the inhabitants of any municipality is an invaluable asset to the community, and should lie accorded every privilege. On the other hand, no one likes to be duped into the purchase of produce which has been imported from the city markets in the belief that it is fresh and a home product, and farmers who ma>:e a practice of such deception should be made to pay the lull penalty provided for the violation of the

city ordinance governing the matter. An unconscious tribute to the power of ad-

vertising in the country press is paid by Herman Roienfeld, advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the great Chicago mail order house. At a recent convention of the American Advertis-

ing Men's Clubs, he said:

"We have a bureau whose duty it is to read each week the country newspapers from all over the country. There is not a paper of any consequence iu our trade territorv that our bureaq does not get. This bureau looks over these papers and when we find a town where the merchants are not advertising iu the local paper, we immediately spread our catalogs and sales literature there. It always brings results far iu excess of the same effort put forth in territory where the

local merchants use thair local papers.”

In commenting on this, the Toms River,

Ocean County, "Courier,” asks: “Could a stronger argument as to the

need of advertising by the local merchant

be cited ?

"Why will the country merchant allow goods to occupy valuable shelf and counter space in his store, when the proper use of printer's ink would move them into his customers’ hands, make room for fresh stock aud give him cash with which to buy mo:e

1 goods?”

“The editorial d'seussions of the Journal of Commerce are accepted as high and impartial authority upon all questions connected with commerce, industry, transportation and banking,’» reads an advertisement of that paper, in that paper, of recent date. With the pro&mndest respect and admiration for the New York Journal of Commerce, on the question of the tarifl we must respectfully dissent. The editor of the Journal is unequivocally aud categorically against the protective tariff policy, aud unreservedly md whole-heartedly for free trade. He can no more j lie impartial on this subject than the "non-parti. I san " tariff commission, soon to Iw appointed bv President Wilson, can he. And it is said that the commission will consist of three free-trade Democrats and two uou-protective Progress!vc-

Democrats.

i A MAN WE HAVE FORGOTTEN. PvMaiaa Maury. Who Waa a

Raally Qraat American.

•vary on* who baa baarfl of Robert 1 Fulton, cartalalj riecj one who bai baarfl of B. F B. Morae ur Cjru» W Flotd oaibt al»o to have beard of Mat thay Fontaine Maury. But that U not tha case. For ay part. 1 bad nev-r beard ot Maury until I went to Vlr ] flnla. I hare :i«k«d acboolboya If they 1 bar a beard of Uni. None of tbem baa. [ ' Tat Maury t » leotlflc- reaearvbe* and ! accotnpliabmrnt* bare bad an enor ; mom effect, not only In this country,

j but tbronjtbout the world.

It may be tald that Maury laid tbe foundation for our modern weather bo reau aud tbat tbe ecienca of meteorology be;an with him. He founded tbe national nautical obaerratory and the hydrographic office In Washington and discovered, among other things, tbe cause of tbe gulf stream and tbe existence of that plateau In tbe north Atlantic ocean which. If I am not mis takan. made possible tbe laying of tbe first Atlantic cable. Cyrus W. Field said with reference 10 this. “Maury furnished the brains. England the money, and I did the work." Further than this,: tbe cherts of the north Atlantic ?rhb:b Maury made years ago are today tbe basis upon which tbat ocean la nan- j

gated by all undone.

I am Informed tbat though be wat decorated by many foreign govern menu, be wee never given so much as ' a cheap little medal by tbat of tbs United Statea. and tbat bis name bet not been kept alive by any memorial or ' other token of bU country's gratitude -Julian Street In Collier's Weekly.

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TV-, Cn..l Wolf tpfd... One of tbe most unnatural things In nature. If tbe expression la allowable. Is tbe manner In which tbe young of tbe common wolf spider treat their mother. After tbe Uttle creature baa laid her eggs she envelops tbem In silken covering, so aa to make a ball about tbe alse of a pea. and this carries about with her wherever goes and will defend It with ber life. When tbe young are batched they climb on ber beck, giving her a monstrous appearance, and tide about until nearly heir grown, and as eoon aa they dlecot er their strength they fall to and dsvour their mother.

A Bam bee FereeL There are few spoU Imagine hie more beautiful than a Japanese bamboo for eeL It la tbe moat lovely In color, tbe most aristocratic and tbe beet behaved farret In the world. It whispers picas antly and gently, and tbe severest winds cannot make It angry. Tbe long, slim bodice of Iu trees are useful long after death, for they are made Into water pile*, canes, feuceo, picture flames, vases, fishing rods, roofings, flutes, fane, furniture and poles

Fellowing the Btylee. “Tbe average woman spends moat of ber time thinking about what to wear." "1 fear you are mlauken." "Why eor "She spends moat of her time thinking about what to wear next"—Birmingham Age-Herald.

Hie Time te Talk Jodie He*e you anything to say before I pronounce sentnnee u|h.u you? Prisoner- Yes. Judge. I rertalnl* have But It's dinner time. Let's wall until after we've bad It. I lave guile a .wtnilallfin es an after dinner a|water - Tuckers him tee wan. Dangerous Suggeotien. -Talk U cheap ■■ “Now. look out and don't be talking that way «n (lr»i tiling you know the teh-plnme laltw t. Ill U- csdug up'' Baltimore Amerti-aii. When a man alls flown and hopes for tbe beat be Is apt to get tbe went wf K.

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