The Penn's Grove record., 1917-03-16
FRIDAY, MARCH Is, 1917
State News
Continued from page u

a bill designed to meet the high cost of
living. 1t authorizes municipalities to
purchase and distribute food in case of
necessity. This measure was introduced
for Governor Edges Commission on the
High Cost Of Living.
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Another important bin the Senate en-
acted yesterday afternoon was one by Mr..
Osborne, of Essex, providing that all
children at work under sixteen years of
age shall attend continuation schools six
hours daily.
Full power is given Governor Edge in
a bill introduced in the Senate this week
to render the United States Government
in the present crisis with Germany any
assistance in the power of the state. 1t
authorizes the Governor to employ and
organize all instrumentalities and re-
sources within the state, whether men,
property or other needful thing A bill
was also put in revision the state military
code as a part of the military prepared
ness program.
At the call of Governor Edge, Cover
! nor Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania; Gov
ern0r Whitman, of New York; Governor
Townsend, of Delaware, and Governor
Harrington. of Maryland; will meet with
the New Jersey Executive at the Union
League Club. Phila., next Saturday morn
ing to discuss ways and means of CO.
operating with the Federal Government
along the line of military preparedness.
The Adjutant Generals of the States
mentioned will also be asked to attend.
Assembly bill No. 104. by Mr.. Pancoast,
of Camden. has just been vetoed by the
Governor. 1t provided for an increase
in the salary of members of Boards of
FreehOlders in counties of 100000 to
100000 population. The Governor states
that he is opposed to salary raising I'M
less the justification is more apparent
than in this bill, and he hopes that under
the proposed home rule legislation, the
matter of salaries will be made a sub
ject of local regulation.
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Organized labor leaders and representa-
tiyes of the State Chamber of Commerce
FLASHED at a Lively rate on Monday after
noon at the public hearing on the bill by
Senator Pierce, of Union County, es-
tablishing a State Department of Police.
with a Chief at a salary of $4,000 and
two companies of state c~onstabulary.
Ii the measure is reported there will be
"a hard fight over it in the two houses.
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The new home rule bill including the
amendments proposed by Governor Field
er's Home Rule Commission. was intro
duced in the Assembly this week and will
take place of the original home rule mea-
sure, Senate bill No. Z. The changes
are those suggested ~ the municipalities
at the pubic hearing on the question and
do not, it is claimed, affect the essential
provisions of the original measure.
Through legislation and also through
cooperation between the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Federal
Bureau of Education. the Administration
is taking steps, it was announced today,
to organize the school buildings through
out the state as community centers. The
purpose is to meet the suggestion along
this line contained in the Governors in
augural address.
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Miss Jeanette Rankin, of Montana,
the first woman ever elected to Congress
in the United States, was in Trenton yes
terday to lecture under the auspices of
a Woman's Club, and visited the State
House. She was introduced to Governor
Edge and the two had a little chat. When
she referred to the fact that she was a
Republican, the Governor said he was
glad his party was back of the innovation
of sending a woman to Congress. Miss
Rankin was enthusiastically received in
the Senate and Assembly and addressed
House briefly, by special invitation, max
ing a plea for the ballot for the women of
New Jersey to aid their sisters in the
west.
Three suffragists, comprising the Lee
gislative Committee of the New Jersey
Suffragist Association, were at the State
House yesterday in an effort to get out of
committee their bill permitting women of
the state to vote for Presidential Elec-
tors. They have a duplicate copy of the
measure in each House. After inter
viewing the members of the Senate Elec-
.tions Committee, they said they had hopes
of having the bill reported. They were
Mrs. Robert Huse, of Elizabeth Mrs.
Everett Colby, of Orange; and Mrs.
Philip McKim Garrison.
Some of the remarks made by Assem-
blyman William N. Runyon, of Union
County, before the Woman's Club of
Hoboken, a few evenings ago are attract
ing the attention of State House politi-
clans. Every Assemblyman goes to
Trenton an Idealist," he declared, but it
is hard to kick against the pricks.' To
play the game according to rule, one is
not supposed to think for himself. Favors
are granted through the boss. In every
group of legislators there are certain men
you can depend upon. They are usually
men from the smaller counties who while
they may not be able to do constructive
lawmaking, can obstruct the passage of
obnoxious laws"