Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-09

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Legislature duplicates of the bills
that are introduced or have been in
troduced at the other State capitals.
Mention has already been made of
the fact that the Seven Sisters" were
copied almost bodily from the Cali
fornia statutes and that there was
never any more effort to enforce the
California antitrust statute than
there has been to enforce the seven
into which it was divided when 1t was
Transported into New Jersey. So also
of the legislative recess plan that WAS
adopted in California and abandoned
as impracticable before II had had a
trial, and before the determined but
unsuccessful attempt was made to
introduce it into New Jersey last
January.
A curious feature about this uplift
movement, of which municipal re-
search and charities aid are seeking
to become the foundation, is that 1t
seems to be more concerned about
getting jobs for its workers, magni-
flying the Importance of its directors
and improving the conditions of GRIM
inals and those who owe their misfor-
tunes to their own vices and excuses,
than in caring for the worthy unfor-
tunate, such as the deaf-mutes, the
blind, the feeble- minded and the VIC
tins of tuberculosis. Sympathetic
and well-meaning women and men
will contribute to the success OF q
prison reform movement when they
turn deaf ears to appeals for help for
a home for orphan children, the blind
or other deserving classes.
$1,000 for Research Work"
AS an example of the craze for fol-
lowing strange movements, like that
of which DR.. Allen has been the head,
take the New Jersey Department of
Charities and Corrections. 1t is TO
have this year $4,000 for research
work" So, 900 for engineers, surveyors
and other technical services, as need
ed $4,000 salaries and expenses OF in
spectors, and $500 for the deporta-
ton of aliens. In all, the department
will cost s42,4 400.
This may also be used to illustrate
the manner in which the Safe ex-
penditures have been boosted from
less than $2,000,000 in 1894 to $13445,-
812.65 for the year ended October 81,
1918. The Department of Charities
and Corrections was created on the
recommendation of Governor Stokes
In 1905. The Governor had three OBJ
jects in view, to get some official SUI
pervision over such charitable and
correctional institutions as received
money from the State treasury, to re-
duce the cost for plans and supervis-
ing the erection of public buildings
and to find a place for his old friend
and political lieutenant, Rev. DR..
George b. Wight.
For the first year $500 was appro-
priated to the department, which was
provided with an architect, whose
duty it was to prepare plans for all
new state buildings, and for this ne
was paid $500. Fortunately, the
state architect, George e. Poole, had
private means and was thoroughly in
terested in his job. He resigned two
wears ago, when he found that he was
likely to be displaced by a change in
the appointing power; but at the time
of his resignation he could show
where he had saved more than 100000
10 the State during his seven years OF
service. For the last year OF the
Wlght-Poole administration Of the de-
partment the appropriations amount
ed to $16,s20, considerably less than
one-half the sum appropriated Tor
the year beginning on November 1.
It costs a lot of money to uplift in
New Jersey.
More Money fer Commission.
While on the subject of increased
exnenditu-es take the State Tenement
House Commission, which was Gre
ated in 1904 and got an appropriation
of $40, 500. Next year 1t Is to nave
SIS. $50. The commission has a mis-
leading title. Its work is almost en-
tirely confined to the cities of New
ark, Jersey City and Hoboken, and
it is quite as much OF local agency
as are the police and fire departments
of those cities. If, as comptroller
Edwards believes, the work done by
the Civil Service Commission for
cities and counties should be paid for
nv the municipalities interested, there
is still less justification for the State
treasury bearing the cost OF main
tenance of the Tenement House Com
mission
There was in the supplemental ap-
preparation bill this year an item OF
So, 900 for the deportation of aliens"
New Jersey had never embarked in
the export trade, and Comptroller Ed
wards's assistants started to look into
the law. Before they had made much
Roadway they learned that Commits
Service Commission for an examina-
ton of applicants for the positions of
deportation agent and assistant.
AS no authority could be found for
the creation of such offices, which
would have consumed half of the APP
preparation, the $4,000 was permitted
to iapse and the Civil Service Com
mission was notified that no special
examination or candidates was neces-
sary. In all probability the $500 APP
propriated for deportation purposes
this year will also lapse unless the
uplifters succeed in convincing the
next Legislature that the State of
New Jersey should bear the expense
of sending back undesirable citizens
whom the steamship companies in
duce to come over.
With the decadence of the progress
sive movement it is going to be hard
shedding for the surveyors, uplifters.
researchers and social benefactors to
hold what they have attained, which
means that it is not going to be as
easy to get appropriations in the
fut,,ra aS II has bean in the recenf