The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-24
EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS.

Military evolutions and the skill
displayed on the encampment grounds
in Sea Grit, both in drilling and
craftsmanship, are superior this year
to those of the past and satisfy the
State is not wasting money in keeping
up the efficiency of the National
Guard. N. Y. Press.
The Orange Journal says: A wo-
mems reformatory may be needed and
may prove as beneficial as it is claimed
it will be, but not until the Railway
Reformatory is placed upon substan-
tial and satisfactory basis will the
State build another one. If the good
women of the State expect an immed-
date appropriation by the Legislature
for the construction of women's re-
formatory, we believe they are doomed
to disappointment"
The Elizabeth Times says: "The
newspapers are nowadays filed to an
alarming extent with the revolving de-
tails of stories of criminal assault COM
mitted or attempted upon defenceless
girls by white men as well as negroes.
1t is doubtful whether ever before in
the history of this country, or of this
State, as many crimes of this char
acter have been committed, and the
situation is such as to justify feel
ing Of Encouragement and the growth
of pessimism among students of the
sometime inexplicable yagaries of
society"
The barber is not a chirurgeon in
these days as he was in history. If he
is bad barber, a state license will not
sharpen his razor and no good barber
needs the Justification of any license
to shave. Each steady customer is
walking diploma of tonsorial skill. If
we license the barber, we may come to
license the wigmaker and halter.
Where will this thing end? Is half
of the population of the State sitting
in office examining and issuing per-
mits to the other half? 1t tracks
that way. Best turn the semaphore
to red. Paterson Guardian.
The Democrats who are urging
their party to have a n-the-rascals-
out" war cry for 1904, in connection
with the postoffice scandal, are behind
the times. The rascals are being
turned out now Democratic and
Republican raScals are being flung
out of the postotfice department just
n n G thnu n rnuno1nH nn6 th0
Republican administration is doing
the ''tiring." This will be kept up
until not rascal Democrat or Re-
publican, is left in. The chances are
that the whole of them will have
gone before Congress meets next
winter. st. Louis Globe Democrat
More than hundred ministers APP
piled for the pastorate of church at
Bound Brook recently though the
salary is not large, and another church
at Elizabeth, that pays smaller sal
airy, has nearly hundred applicants.
1T is said that 5000 new lawyers have
Just been graduated from the law
schools of the country. Probably
there are a greater number of newly
graduated physicians from the medi-
cal colleges. The professions are be-
coming oyercrowded, but as ''there is
always room at the top" the best
qualified will survive, if they can but
wait long enough to get footing
Trenton Times,
"Phil' Days clubhouse at Long
Branch, which yielded him fortune
every year while it was open as a
gaming house, is threatened by a
creditor of Days and may be sold at
auction. The building has been closed
this season. Last summer it was
opened as restaurant, but it didn't
pay and since the season closed it
has remained unoccupied Judge
Fort gave professional gambling a
death blow in Long Branch and the
town appears to be getting along just
as well as it did when the four or five
gambling clubs were wide open and
other peoples money was pouring
into the pockets of the proprietors.
The only business injured by closing
these clubs was the business of gam
bling, and the town can we'll afford
TO lose that. Trenton Gazette.