The Penn's Grove record., 1916-10-27
SOCIAL CLUB IN POLITICS
A Small Tax on Democratic
Prosperity a Political
Crime

The DUPONT Mems Social Club. which
suspended meetings during the past three
months, held the first meeting of the fall
season last Monday evening in Commun-
Ity Hall. An interesting meeting and
entertaining program was announced by
posters. The club was organized last
year for the social welfare among he
men. Politics and religion were not TO
be introduced.
On Monday evening about 200 were
present from the borough as well as du-
Pont Village. The hall was profusely
decorated with placards on which were
portraits of hughes and Fairbanks.
Edge and Frelinghuysen. After music
on the piano and violin, J. c.. Zeigler.
president of the Club, introduced A. z.
Conley, who made a typical Republican
speech for an hour.
CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH
MIR. Conley began by stating that for
~ years ago horse cars ran in New York
CITY, but now electric trains took peo-
pie everywhere. The Republican party
has been in power nearly all the past
forty years and therefore was response
BILE for all the nations progress, science
and inventions.
That reminded us of what Kent G..
Keller, the Democratic speaker said last
saturday night. He said: I'm the be-
ginning God created the heaven and the
earth," and repeated it three times. Il
want to impress on you the fact that
Rufus Claimall will soon be hear and he
will tell you the Republican party crea-
ted the heaven and the earth, and all
| thlnOC fhnrafn Mr. Kanar roa1a
grave mistake because Claimalrs name
was Conley.
Mr.. Conley said if Mr.. Roosevelt had
been president the Lusitania would not
have been sunk. If it were he would
have told the German Ambassador to get
out.
He failed to state that such an act
would have meant war, and that it is the
general public opinion now that if
Roosevelt were President this country
would be at war now. He also said
there would be no political revolution in
Mexico. He derided the passage of the
child labor law and S-hour law by a
Democratic Congress. He failed to
state that Y Republican Congressman
voted for the S-hour law which is de-
| signed to apply to 24-hour industries as
/ ueIHhlueu III the 1IOSTtSSINC udLEOudi
platform of 1912. He forgot to tell that
only 56 Republicans voted against the
S-hour law and among them were VIM.
J. Browning, the Republican candidate
in this district.
Mr.. Conley said that a high tariff was
needed because the industries in this
country could not compete with the
heap labor in foreign countries. then he
closed by telling about the millions OF
manufactured goods sent abroad to COM
pete with goods made with cheap labor
n foreign countries.
The next speaker was Mr.. A. F. Por-
ter, chief superintendent on Carney
Point. He said that he was a free
trade Democrat who voted for Woodrow
Wilson in 1912, but now supported
Hughes because of the tax on the ex-
cessive profits on powder.
Fred A. Gentien, superintendent of
manufacturing, also spoke about the al
legged unfair treatment the dupont Com
pany had received from the Democratic
administration, in reducing order three
years ago and the tax. The editor of
the Record was taken to task for an ar
ticle in last weeks issue. He thought
the publicity ungrateful when a son is
employed IN the engineering corps.
The company is after business efficiency
which is necessary as political contracts.
The advancement of the son from dish
washer in the cook kitchen six years ago.
and from the treHch with pick and spade
FIVE years ago, to head engineer of con-
struction on Deep Water Paint within the
past three weeks, at the same salary, saves
the expense of a higher salaried engineer.
(The editor of the Penns Grove Rec
ord commended Mr.. Gentieu's appoint
ment to the State Board of Taxation at
a salary of $500, by Governor Woodrow
Wilson; also his disappointment BY
Governor James f. Fielder at a salary
Of $500 for a sinecure advisory posi-
ton that takes five hours a week. We
expect to see him r~e-appointed if Mr..
Edge is elected, but there are Democrats
and Republicans who take exceptions to
us both.)
Lemuel Greenwood, the Republican
candidate for Assembly, was introduced.
The entertainment of the evening
closed with a moving picture of a rich
banker who studied hypnotism. While
practiced on others hypnotism did not
go with his daughter who married a
poor man, to his dismay. Some thought
the joke on the banker well suited to the
political speeches.
After the meeting circulars were dis
tributed announcing that G. J. Diekma,
former Congressman from Michigan,
will speak this Fridly night, 9th. and
l.. G. Laylin will speak next Friday
night, November 3rd.
We have been requested to state by a
prominent member of the Mems Club,
who, with other Republicans, regret that
the first meeting of the season was turn
ed into a political meeting, surprisingly
to most members of the Club, also to the
officers, because the Club was organized
for social welfare. Politics and relig-
ion were not to be introduced in Club
meetings.