The Penn's Grove record., 1913-10-24
NORMAL SCHOOL SURE.
Democrats and Republicans Pledged
to Provide Funds.

Democrats and Republicans Pledged
to Provide Funds.
Whether the next Legislature be
Democratic or Republican there is
every reason to believe that South
Jersey will get the State Normal
School for which it has been clamor-
ing for several years. Both the lead
ing parties are committed to provide
the necessary funds for the institu-
ton, the only obstacle that has pre-
vented the selection Of a site and be-
ginning of the work on the school.
The Legislature in its last session
passed a bill sponsored by Assembly
man Hates, of Camden County, pro-
viding for a school in a county south
of Trenton. Assemblyman Carrow,
also of Camden, had introduced a bill
providing for such a school in a sec
ond class county south Of Trenton"
but as Camden is the only county
answering that description the rivalry
of the counties of the other classes
made a compromise on the Hates bill
necessary to get any legal sanction at
all.
However, after all the efforts to get
the bill through and to obtain an ap-
preparation for at least the purchase
of a site, the Appropriation Commit
tee ignored the demand and left the
item out of the years budget alto
gether. When, therefore, the Demo
cratic and Republican ~conentions were
held, Assemblymen Hates and Carlow
saw to it that planks were adopted
/ pledging the Legislature to the ap-
preparation, and~this is apt to be forth
coming at the 1914 session.
Industrious committees represent
ing many towns south of Trenton will
get busy in the effort to land the
school, which is looked upon as a
valuable acquisition. Haddonfeld.
Woodbury., G!assboro, Collingswood.
Hammonton, Bridgeton and Salem
will exert their utmost to land the
institution, the location of which is
in the discretion Of the State Board
of Education.
Child Hygiene Dispute.
A decision was given by the Civil
Service Commissioners in the matter
of the hold-up in payments of the
Child Hygiene Department. Payments
of salaries have not been made owing
to the Board of Health failing to
classify the Child Hygiene employees
and report the classification to the
Civil Service Commissioners.
The commission has ruled that
these employees come under the ex-
empt class, and Commissioner Alex
ander Fordyce has in consequence
authorized the regular payment OF
their salaries, subject to the approval
of the Board of Health.
This ends a controversy that has
held up the payment of the August
salaries for more than six weeks.
These are now paid, but the Septem-
Der salaries, for which statements
were sent in last month, have not
yet been approved by the Board of
Health.
Religious Liberty.
1t would have been better if the
members of the Methodist Protestant
| Conference at Atlantic City had done
a little investigating before they per
mitted the criticism of the New Jer-
sey State Prison authorities for deny
ing to convicts their rights to re-
ligious liberty" The particular act
denounced was the Withholding of a
Bible from a prisoner for several
years and until his discharge from
the institution.
The fact is, as stated by Chaplain
Taylor and deputy keepers, that
Bibles, prayer books and Testaments
are given to the ~convicts when they
enter the prison, and each is visited
by a minister, priest or rabbi, accord
ing to his denomination. There is
not an institution in the country, nor
a community in the State, in which
| more consideration is paid to "relig-
ious liberty"