The Penn's Grove record., 1914-11-20
\. j., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1914.
END "uPLIFT" IN THE STATE.
Nothing for the Researchers to Do
and Their Labors Are
Concluded.

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Concluded.
Politicians and institution mana
gers in Hudson and Essex counties
were alarmed a few months age by
the news that the municipal research
ers were planning to make surveys"
and investigate the work Of certain
boards and commissions. Quite a
number of prominent and well-to-do
men were interested in the movement.
So far as can be learned, the only
thing done In New Jersey was to the
financial hackers of the woman suf-
frage movement, who paid to the re-
searchers fancy fees for keeping them
posted on the status of the proposed
suffrage amendment to the State Con-
stitution.
But the ~suffragists did not know.
They had seen their amendment pass
ed by both houses by practically unan-
imous vote at the 1913. session, only
to learn along in July of that year that
the concurrent resolution had never
reached the department of state and
no preparation had been made to adj
vertise it. Then there was trouble,
and when the amendment was finally
recovered from the safe in the xecu
tive department with the explanation
that somebody had blundered it vas
too late for the official advertising. To
protect themselves against any fur
Their mistakes the committee in
charge employed an agent of the up
filters.
No doubt the news of the exorbi-
tant fee charged served to discredit
the research movement in Hudson
county. What headed it off in Essex
is something of a mystery. 1t must
have been the discovery that DR.. Al
lens assistant proposed to send out O.
small army of young men and young
women just out of school to gather
statistics and information concerning
industries, charitable and reformatory
institutions and agencies, the county
and municipal government.
For several years New Jersey has
been suffering from the uplift disease
that broke out in Wisconsin twenty
years ago and has nearly run its
course there.
A curious feature about this uplift
movement of which municipal re-
search and charities aid are seeking
to become the foundation, is that it
seems to be more concerned about
getting jobs for it's workers, magni-
flying the Importance of it's directors
and improving the conditions of GRIM
inals and those who owe their misfor-
tunes of 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.
Example of Craze.
AS an eaxmple of the craze for fol-
lowing strange movements, the New
Jersey Department Of Charities and
Corrections has this year $4,000 for
research work" $4,000 for engineers,
surveyors and other technical SER
vices, as needed; $4,000 salaries and
expenses of inspectors, and $500 for
the deportation of aliens. In all, the
department will cost $4,000.
There was in the supplemental ap-
preparation bill this year an item of
SIS, 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
sioner Byers had applied to the Civil
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 ap-
preparation, the $4,000 was permitted
to lapse and the Civil Service Com
mission was notified that no special
examination or candidates vas neces-
sary. In all probability the $500 ap-
propriated for deportation purposes
this veal will also lapse unless the
u~plifters 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 owe