Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09
N. ]. DIGGING ITSELF
UP TO SEND AWAY
State Being Scattered by Train
and Boat to All Sections
of Country.

Says one of its native sons, who
observes the movement of things:
Unless New Jersey quits spreading
itself all over the country it won't
be more than a few thousand years
before the government of the United
States wakes up some morning to
find itself shy one of the original
colonies. They are digging great
pits in New Jersey and selling them
all over the rest of the world. By
barge and car they are shipping our
beloved State away. 1t Is all right
for a State to be philanthropically
inclined, and even self-sacrificing oc-
casionally, but to insist on adopting
the latter attitude continuously is
simply to invite imposition. Having
demonstrated it can produce any
thing from q prize poppy to a Presi-
dent, it might conserve it's energies
and be excusable if it resisted the
temptation to go Misunderstanding all
over the North American continent.
"Of course, New Jersey is popular.
Hundreds of thousands visit it every
year, carrying back with them mil
lions of square, feet of Jersey shore
tanned hide, covering an Unsuitable
craving for salt water taffy and New
Jersey Is nothing out by the expert
ence. 1t has been all right, also, to
let enthusiastic individuals-to toy with
it's ocean-washed sand dunes, turning
them into veritable little paradises
where one may connect singly or col
lectively with every kind of thrill
from that produced by a five-cent
glide down a y-roller-coaster to the
sensation emanating from half
hours romance with some fair god
dess loose for holiday. Where one
can wear pretty much anything, or
pretty much nothing, and feel i'm
mensely comfortable and sublimely
innocent all the time.
This has been all right because it
has proved quite profitable. But this
country has no rubber in it's makeup,
nor was it built on the jackknife prin-
ciple, so it does not follow that New
Jersey must convert itself into one
great big souvenir and then get to
work popularizing itself in that form.
If New Jersey insists on being ultra
philanthropic it should remember that
ever since it came bubbling up out of
the Atlantic right alongside its big
continental neighbor, it has served the
latter in more ways than one. For
instance, what would Philadelphia do
without New Jersey, which long
time ago coaxed so many of the awful
temptations gravitating toward the
FORMER over 10 It's sunny COdSL ililS
and kept them there so closely that it
has taken Philadelphia a quarter
century to collect enough of it's own
to attract the attention of Billy Sun
day. New Jersey should think of this
and decide to stay right where 1t is,
but that is just what it Is not doing
about as hard and fast as it can and
here are the facts and figures to
prove it:
From Trenton to Perth Amboy and
from Newark to Cape May, New Jer-
sey is texuding at the rate of about
100 900 carloads year, which, in vari-
GUS forms, from pressed brick to Tren-
ton china, finds it's way all over the
best half of creation, or at least so
much il 1t as lies between the Board
walk and the Golden Gate one way
and up and down the other from the
North Pole to Cape Horn.
"If woman in Oshkosh finds her
china short just before giving her
daughters coming-out party is Tren-
on-made china that goes to the res
cue If a State fishery commission
anywhere west of the Mississippi
river decides to build a duck pond, its
bottom must laid with concrete mixed
with New Jersey sand, and Jersey
rallies heroically to the situation. If
a skyscraper, covering a few thou
sand feet of ground right over a
seemingly bottomless bed of quick
sand is to become a conspicuous asset
of a gulf city nothing will answer for
foundation work but Jersey sand and