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Public Help Needed To Stop Waste In Railroad Operation That it Essential, First of All, If the Cost of Railroad Transportation is To Be Reduced. THE EXCESS TRAIN CREW LAW IS BAD It Means Large Cost to the Travelling and Shipping Public Without Any Return THE PEOPLE and industries of New Jersey want the best railroad service at lowest possible cost. The railroads want to provide it. • But to do so they must be operated without waste. Every dollar expended that produces nothing in service makes a charge to be "~^f ad by passenger and freight rates. ■ One such waste, which last year put an unnecessary burden of $629,000 on the railroads and people of New Jersey, is compulsory employ ment of excess men in train operation. A law requires this. Such law has so far made a waste of $5,500,000. Thus is money, paid to the railroads by the people and industries, paid away in wages without any compensating value either to the railroads or the public using them. Such waste, the railroads would stop. But before they can there must be legislation repealing an arbitrary, uneconomic law of this State which requires employment now ol 384 trainmen in positions where they are not needed and in which they perform no real service either for safety or effictncy of train operation. Last year the excess crew law of Indiana was repealed. Also, a similar law of Pennsylvania was changed as it is now purposed to change the New Jersey law. The railroads do not ask to be final judges of how many t men shall run a train. They will continue to put on trains, as now. as many or more men than the excess crew law requires — whenever they are needed. So there can be no doubt and that trainmen, not less than passengers and shippers, shall be sure of full protection, the law, as the railroads propose to change it, will vest in the Board of Public Utility Commissioners —the selected and responsible guardians of the public— compulsory power to see and to order that every train operated in the State is properly manned. Thus Will intelligence, with full force of prrblic authority, act in place of a t blanket law which applies regardless of varying conditions and allows no consideration of obviously essential differences in train operation and services. What is now undertaken in New Jersey, where industrial and business depression is severe, creating unemployment, losses and distress on all sides, directly concerns every shipper and passenger, every farmer, trucker and industrial worker in the State, every family, every individual, being a measure to stop a perfectly unnecessary expense in railroad operation, as one important move to get down the whole cost of railroad operation and service for the benefit of all. The railroads in New Jersey are sure the people of the State will f' approve this move to end an excess cost, therefore ask their active support and request them, both women and men, as citizens to urge their legislative representatives by letter, telegram, telephone or personal interview to voto for die bill soon to be on passage. ASSOCIATED RAILROADS OF NEW JERSEY. 137 State Street, Trenton, N. J. T. J. R. Brown, Chairman Executive Committee, ECONOMICAL OPERATION FOR RAILROADS MEANS ECONOMICAL RAILROADING FOR THE PUBLIC

TAX EXEMPTION IN NEW JERSEY Senator Simpson, of Hudson county, Nw Jersey, who stands sponsor for a tall which would extend the operation of the exiWing home -building, tax -exemption act for another year, until October, 1923, and proposes to offer similar inducements to industrial pioots in erder to speed the.building boom, will find some strenuous i oppositionPreferential treatment of industrial plants through tax-exemption and in particular circumstances apt to be of doubtful value, and gen- . era! amnesty from taxes for five

years for industrial const ructi op is more emphatically open to question. , Nor is the necessity for an extention i r of the time limit an tax-exempt hous- • ing apparent. The warrent for the , original legislation was the existence , of an extraordinary- emergency which > called for the erection of every pos- - sible house. That condition is now - passing, and by October it will have s almost entirely disappeared. Possibly Senator Simpson is set- - tingup straw men to counter the dei j mand for the immediate repeal of the s -tax exemption law and to avert the - threatened assault on its coi^atitation - sjwUty. On either side of the case well

s enough were better let alone- The i- act as it stands is a moral contract n 'between the State and the property a- ownft-, and, as City Solicitor Bleake ley, of Camden, recently pointed out, e the fniits of the substantial expanh sion which it set in motion will be ens' joyed long after the exemption be- *" comes inoperative. But its original e purpose of stimulating home-building for an emergency having been -served, I" there is no sufficient reason for e handicapping taxable property in the e towns and boroughs with an extra i- share of the public expense which ■ II should be borne by the newcomers- i

SENATOR BRIGHT AND FERRY BILL BILL PRESENTED FOR ESTALISHMENT OF FERRY LINE BETWEEN CAPE MAY AND LEWES, DEL, WILL LINK SOUTHERN JERSEY HIGHWAYS WITH THOSE OF DELAWARE AND THE NEARBY SOUTHERN CITIES ' Senator William H. Bright introduced the bill on January 23 that will establish and put into operation a | ferry for vehicles and passengers between Cape May Point or some other paint nearby and Lewes, DelThe measure was drafted by the Attorney General as an amendment to the act of last year and is expected to overcome those obstacles which killed the ferry move at that time. Under the bill introduced by Senator Bright, the ferry would be put .into operation and be a part of the I state highway system, the same policy being followed as that under ^--wfiich the provision was made for the J Delaware river bridge and the Hudson river tunnel- ! It is the duty of the state highway commission to acquire the necessary 'land and water rights for the estab- ! lishment of wharves, docks and apI preaches. It is authorized to use ; condemnation . proceedings if necesi sary, but may acquire needed property by gift, purchase or other means, taking title to the property so acquired in the name of the StateIn presenting the bill Senator B right" called attention to the fact that the ferry would provide a connecting link between the state highway system of New Jersey, terminating at Cape May Point ami the concrete roads of Delaware, which in turn connect with the main arteries of travel to the principal cities of the southThe outlay necessary to extend this highway system, Mr. Bright pointed out, is amply justified by the volume of travelIn addition to empowering the highway commission to acquire the necessary land, docks and approaches the Bright bill also gives the commission power to acquire a boat or boats which must be adapted to carrying both passengers and vehicles. 1922 DIRECTORY The Star and Wave Telephone and Business Directory Calendar will go to press in a few weeks. Those wishing advertising space, see A. LBwing. Keystone phone, office, 90; residence, 378- A.

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X I CAKE CONTEST X WILL BE HELD ON j X Saturday February 11, 1922 ( ft AT CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND PERRY ' ft STREETS IN CELEBRATION OF

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