The Penn's Grove record., 1917-03-02
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917
State News
Continued from page u

of Burlington; WOlverton, of Camden,
Sheppard, of Cumberland; West, of Glou-
c~esterr; Iobst, of Hunterdon; Hagaman,
of Ocean; Greenwood, of Salem; Amer
man, of Somerset; Wilson, of Sussex;
and Morgan, Pierson and I.unyon, f
Union. The only surprise was the favor
able vote of Bramhall, it being the first
time the bill has gotten an Essex County
vote, Stille, of Cape May, who expected
to vote for it, was absent.
Many changes are made in the general
election and primary laws by a bill drawn
by the Commission to revise the election
laws, and introduced this week in the
Senate. One of the most radical changes
proposed is to restore the party column
to the general election ballot. Each
party will have a column, with an extra
column for Independent candidates. No
straight ticket can be voted, however, as
it provides that the voter must mark
every candidate for whom he votes, even
if they are all his party candidates.
The hours of the primary election are
reduced from 9 o'clock P. NJ. to z P. NJ;
the question asked the voter when regis
tcUing relating to age, business, part of
house occupied, etc., are eliminated the
third registration day has been made uni
form in all municipalities no Independent
candidates may use the recognized party's
designation; no primary designation is
permitted opposite the candidates names
as at present, and many other changes
are proposed. The Commission is COM
posed of former Senator Peter J. Nc
Ginnis, of Paterson, Democrat; John B.
Woolston, of East Grange, and Frederick
R. Brace, of Trenton, Republicans.
Reduction of the high cost of living
and the relieving of the food scarcity sit
uation is the aim of a bill put in the
Senate by Leader McCran, for the Gov
ernor's Commission to investigate the
high cost of living. 1t authorizes mum
icipalities to purchase and distribute food
supplies in case of emergency, any avail
able funds to be used for this purpose.
Secretary Alva Agee, of the State De-
partment of Agriculture, has replied to
an inquiry by Governor Edge asking for
suggestions as to how to meet the cost
of living situation. Secretary Agee's rec
commendation is to substitute corn for
potatoes as a food staple and to teach
the people generally how to prepare corn
for food.
Governor Edge expresses confidence
that the state highway bills will pass.
Some amendments have been put in the
bills, but the Governor says this was to
be expected. II am glad to find the
great interest being taken in this sub
ject," states the Governor, "and I am
willing to accept reasonable amendments
based upon common sense. There were
some murmurs of protest at first, but as
things have turned out, they can be
elassed only as murmurs, and not pro-
tests that were inimical to the plan as
q whole"
Former Senator Charles NJ. Egan, of
Hudson, has issued a hot attack on the
bill introduced by A~ssemblyman Edgar,
Middlesex County, providing for a
state inspection of monasteries, nunneries
and other religious houses. The measure
was brought to Trenton by Daniel Fitz-
henry, one of the anti-Verdon Republi-
can leaders of Hudson County, with a
attached signed by some 11,0OO
persons. At Fitzhenry's request, Edgar
introduced it, though ordinarily it should
have been put in by one of Fitzhenry's
Hudson County Assemblymen. Egan
calls it a bigotry bill and a fifteenth
century measure. No bill this session has
up as much bitterness as this.
Junior Order of American Mechanics
denies being back of the bill.
That fho foor Of tho Daeeoro o1.1
option bill and the rising tide of pro-
hibition was responsible for the Lembeck
Eagle Brewery in Hudson County failing
10 declare the usual dividend of ten per
cent. last year, is the declaration made in
the suit in The Supreme Court brought
by John Mclaughlin against the Brewing
to get access to the co~mpany's
books and to compel an accounting. The
company is resisting the action, charging
that there is an Interior motive back of it.
The lives of the 10000 workers in the
and other explosive factories in
state will be safeguarded by the new
.ode of safety standards that will take
April 1. The code has been adopt
ID Jointly by N. J. and Pennsylvania
through their Departments of Labor. 1t
gives comprehensive rules for the govern
of the manufacture of all explosives ;
'or the elimination of explosiv. s and other
risks and for the prevention of acid and
other fumes that cause illness and dis
Ease.
The work of the State Fish and Game
in ~propagating and preserv-
ng game and fish was demonstrated in a
notion picture exhibition in the Assembly
Chamber of Monday evening. The ex-
was in charge of Ernest Napier,
If East Orange, president of the Com
The movies depicted in a
and graphic manner the handling
If the eggs, the care of the young and
he placing of the young fish in cans and
he young birds in crates for distribution
throughout the state. New Jersey has
he largest and most successful fish
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