Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-10

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took more personal interest in the work
of the State Home for Boys at James,
burg than In anything else. As presl-
lent of the board of trustees, he was
virtually manager of the home. He
kept close tab on the homes expenses,
watched its discipline and was fruitful
of new ideas. He kept track of boys
who had left the home and helped them
to get a start in life. No Institutional
manager in the State is in as close
touch with his institution as Edward
Spaeth was at Jamesburg. He had a
pride in the home, was proud of Its
cellencies, which he did so much to
create, and wal Jealous of its good
name. The officers and inmates of the
State Home for Boys will miss edward
Spaeth, and 1t will be hard for the
Governor to find a man to replace him
and do as much for the home.
Public school teachers of experience
ought to know what is best adapted
for children in the schools. The con-
sensus of opinion among fifty teachers
of the Essex County Teachers Guild
at the Public Library last night was
that the school child of today receives
less really useful education than did
the school child fifty years ago. None
of the teachers would confess TO an
age to justify that Judgment by a half
century experience, but it Is u~ndoubted-
w frTIa thof fha Cahaa1 nbS15 Of 4o1axr
is surfeited with fads.
Newark business men nav Well feel
indignant at the condition of the Plank
road n the inattention and neglect of
the Essex and Hudson ~freeholders.
Their is an increasing public disgust
with the ineptitude of the freebooter
boards, and an increasing desire for a
change to a small executive board, not
SC much interested in politics and con-
tract jobs. Perhaps the outcome of the
grand jury investigation of county in
sane asylum affairs will bring out .
strong expression of the public feeling.
Som State officers who, by law, re-
ceive free transportation on the rail-
roads of the State, 1t is said, lend their
passes to friends. The practise is a
species of larceny. The pass-holder
virtually takes the amount of the rail-
road fare out of the company to reward
a friend. AS the Legislature compels
the railroads to furnish the passes, the
Legislature should give protection
to the railroads against loss by the i'm
proper use of a pass.
j. Ward Smith, in the fine pic
ture he drew at the Real Estate Brok-
ers' dinner in Jersey City last night of
the prospective great city that is to
be consolidated ~hereabouts, didn't
reckon on the cheap politicians who
would watch Ind kill every annexation
bill introduced in the Legislature be-
cause it might possibly turn a few
votes the wrong way.
The majority leaders in the Legisla-
ture have doubtless read the returns
from the special election in Burlington
~ ph foliiiS Alic1CA1illCo3 LOll
is a Republican stronghold, and on
Tuesday it voted its five voting ma
chimes out by 629 to 20. B~urlington's
verdict is that of the State. And shall
the voting machine act repeater be
strangled again?
The fact that of $50 children at the
Cleveland Cottage Preventorium at
Lakewood since last July not a single
child was sick is an eloquent commen-
tary on the selfish and cowardly fears
at Lakewood that clamored SO loudly
last year against the preventorium. Not
a single hotel at Lakewood has such a
record.
There is something remarkable in the
sudden revival of interest at Trenton
in the Lee bill for trolley extensions
after it was so decisively beaten in the
Assembly. The bill was believed TO be
dead, but here it is galvanized into life
again, n in shape to be passed if the
Assembly is so minded.
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