The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-09
Public Enterprise Pay Elsewhere.
Why Not In Penns Grove
Riverside, Cal. April IA. 1913.

AifCicioCJ Val, hpIIl IL, 1O1Os
Mr.. EDITOR
L have read in the Penns Grove RECORD
with interest and no little amazement of
my former home towns action in school
affairs. Those property owners who
tear a little raise in their taxes show
gross ignorance of their business interest,
as well as the public welfare.
In Los Angeles a foot of land now
is worth more than an acre was a short
time ago, simply because OF Los Angeles
great increase in population. 10000 per-
sons arrived in Los Angeles in the last
few days OIL one-way tickets. They came
to stay because of its excellent educational
facilities, good government, beautiful
public parks, etc., beside the ever famous
California climate.
L know a place in Texas which five
years ago was a prairie that had never
known a pillow. A town site was laid out
and the first building erected wa a $780,
600 high school, and the next improve
ment was a beautiful public park. Why
all this expense out OH the wild prairie?
Because the builders well knew desirable
people would leave places like Penns
Grove and flock to them.
To-day the Texas place is a progressive
little city with several important manu-
facturers, its own water system, trolley
service and daily newspaper. People
prefer good schools, streets and parks to
shanties, COW paths and mud holes.
In the West, High Schools are as COM
mon as District Schools are in New Jer-
sey. The progressive towns now have
Polytechnic High School.
District school teachers in the West re
ceive $S5 per month and lady teachers al
so have the possibility of roping a COW
boy and living happy ever afterward in
All ideal climate and the most beautiful
country in the world.
DR.. Harvey Wiley stated here in his
famous lecture: California is a wonder
full country. Judging from my limited
knowledge of heaven and rather enten-
sive knowledge of your State, / see no
reason why any one here should want to
change residence"
The town in which 1 live (called by
noted writer's THE City Beautiful" re-
Gently voted $3.50, 900 in bonds to build a
Polytechnic High School, and now we
have a group of beautiful buildings thor
oughly equipped where a student can
learn something useful, whether he in
tends to become a farmer, a mechanic, OIL
a professional.
Since California lost a $50, 600, 900 orange
crop, and the "City Beautiful is a citrus
fruit center, we have voted over a million
dollar bond issue, Isl, 100, 0OO) for a mum
icipal water system. | am glad to live in
a place where things are done.
We have no saloons, but we do have
churches of all denominations, the best o
public educational facilities, thoroughly
equipped children's public play grounds
polo and golf grounds, tennis courts, pub
lie baths, beautiful public parks, public
libraries, daily newspapers, beautiful
homes, more curbed and ~macadamed anC
tree and shrubbery, ornamented avenues
and streets than any town OF our size il
the world.
A word about the cold that Chicago hal
SO greatly magnified. My Thermometer
registered 23o for about two hours OIL,
morning. This is the coolest in 25 years
Oranges will stand only 260 so they wert
damaged; but a frozen orange is perfectly
harmless, and good as long as any juice
remains. Some misguided Boards o
Health in the East condemned somt
fruit after the freeze as injurious. Thest
members though perhaps good business
men i'll their several vocations, are iik'
some members of Boards of Education il
not being educationally capable OF ad
ministering affairs to the peoples bes'
welfare. A CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVE.