The Penn's Grove record., 1913-06-20
JUDGE WESCOT7
WARNS LAWYERS
OF Short Shrift For Sharp Prac-
tice and Ambulance Chasing
MUST PUT CHECK ON EVIL
Address Before State Bar Association
on Being Elected President-ShouId
Direct Attention to Details of
Conduct of Members.

Especial Trenton Correspondence.) E.
Trenton.-In assuming his duties as
president of the New Jersey State Bal
Association at the final session of the
ton, at Atlantic City, former Judge
John w. Wescott, of Camden, warned
lawyers addicted to sharp practices
and Ambulance chasing" that they
would be given short shrift at the
hands of the association during his
term of office. "An association of this
character has a peculiar duty to per-
FORM" he said, "and, above all, it
should direct its attention to the de-
tails and conduct and activities of the
members of the Bar. 1t is the bar OF
the world that has led the progress of
the world" said the president, land
1t is the bar of the world that has
checked the excuses of progress. 1t
is clothed with the most serious and
weighty responsibility. The Bar of this
State ought to look with deep concern
to certain practices springing up here
and in other States. Members of the
Bar of Philadelphia have organized
forces at work for the discovery of
every opportunity to institute lttiga-
ton. They ecure litigation and intro
duce this questionable condition to
the Bar of New Jersey" At the be-
ginning of his address Judge Wescott
congratulated the members of the
State Bar Association on the excellent
showing they had made at this session,
and the beneficial results attained
through their interchange of thought
and idea. THE ideas that have been
%engendered by these discussions and
dissertations" he said, will give us
a fresher and keener impulse to pur-
sue the right track in the practice of
our profession. To my mind the bar
of the world has had the most intense
and diversified activity in its dealing
with justice, truth and humanity. l do
not mean that the bar of the world
has more brains than are utilized in
other capacities, but that it has been
more occupied with the progress of the
world than other agencies"
Everett P. Wheeler, veteran member
of the New York Bar, also delivered an
address, in which he upheld the Con-
stitution of the United States and de-
plored the constant demand for
change.
Good Settlement Work.
Founded more than a year ago
through the efforts of George NJ. La
Monte, Commissioner of Banking and
Insurance, the Neighborhood Settle
ment is doing some excellent work
among the foreign born population
Brook. Commissioner La Monte has in
terested many of the best people OF
the town in the movement, all of whom
have volunteered, and the Women's
Literary Club, a prominent social or
ganization, is doing it's full share tow
ard aiding the aliens to become Amer
icanized. The work of the Neighbor
hood Settlement is conducted in d
building erected for that purpose
which is complete in every detail with
class rooms and gymnasium. There is
also a stage for the production Of
plays and on which the boys and girls
are taught dancing. The boys have
baseball, football and basketball
teams, and both girls and boys are
taught manual training while the girls
have classes in sewing. In the wen
ing free instruction is given to the
foreign born people, who are employed
during the day. A feature of the worl
through the summer, which is now be
ing taken up, is the campaign in the
foreign settlement for the eXtermina
ton of the fly. There is also a cam
paign for the cleaning of the yards o
the residents of that quarter. The di
rector of the settlement gives illus
trated lectures on tuberculosis and BY
the aid of moving pictures the chill
dren have been taught many a whole
some lesson in fighting disease ant
dirt.
Needs New High School.
When the Board of Education O
Millburn Township holds it's meeting
in the library of the Washington
School, it is expected that the build
ing committee will make a report OF
the matter of a new high school 70
the municipality to replace the presen
building, which has been declared in
adequate. The committee will likeI,
have decided by that time just wha
kind of a building is most desirable
and the probable cost. A special cleo
ton to submit the proposition to tn,
citizens will then be called. 1t is be
lieved hat the amount of money t.
be asked for the building and a suit
able site will be between $50, 600 an,