The Monmouth inquirer., 1918-08-15


ture provide in its recommendations 10
the next legislature plan whereby
the educational system of the state
may be extended to provide educa
tional facilities for disabled soldiers
and sailors. Mr.. Gill is chairman Of
the committee, which is making an in
vestigatiOn Of the school system with
the end in view of having laws passed
to strengthen and improve 1t. His re-
ply to the governors letter follows:
Il am more pleased than l can tell
you that you have taken SO aggressive
and patriotic a stand in respect TO our
disabled soldiers. Your hope for what
the schools of New Jersey should do
for our war disabled manhood is in
line with the noble plan Of the federal
government as outlined in its voca-
tional policy. Your attitude towards
this important matter greatly encour-
ages the legislative committee of
which / have the honor to be chair
man. 1t only emphasizes again your
interest in the welfare of those &c
| whom all Americans owe so much.
You may rest assured, governor,
that the legislative committee viii
leave nothing undone to make effec-
tive the suggestions contained in your
letter for utilizing the educational fa-
cilities of New Jersey for the refrain
ing Of our disabled soldiers, and ! take
this opportunity in behalf of the com
mittee to thank you not only for this
cooperation, but for all of your other
interests in the future of the public
schools of this state"
Warn of Locusts Coming.
The State Department of Agricul-
ture has issued bulletin warning Jer-
sey farmers and others to be ready for
an invasion by "seventeen-year" To-
Gusts in 1919. The tenth brood OF
these pests invaded New Jersey IN
1902. Concerning the 1919 brood the
bulletin of the department says:
"In 1919 the insects should appear
about the third week of May in the
southern counties and several days
later northward The females cause
injury by their habit of cutting slits to
deposit eggs in the terminal twIgs of
larger trees and in the trunks and
| branches of nursery and other young
fruit trees Many of these slits never
heal In localities where the insects
are known to have appeared orchards
should not be severely pruned and
young trees if set out at all should not
be much cut back until after the in
sects have disappeared. Planting is
safe in long cleared areas or sections
where previous reports were negative.
New settings in recently cleared land
in infested areas should be postponed
Men 1a to as Warned.
Believing that passage by Congress
of the new seleetive conscription bin
is practical certainty, Adjutant Gen
era1 Frederick .Gillyson issued state
ment urging all men of New Jersey be-
| tween the ages of eighteen and forty
FIVE years to prepare to be called into
! the. military service of the nation.
He says:
1T would be well if all such men
were to begin pow TO arrange their
personal affairs so that when they are
called to service they can respond
without great Inconvenience to them
selves in business and personal mat
ters
Zach man liable for service under
the proposed law knows whether he
is entitled to deferred classification
because of dependents, and each man
knows in a reasonable degree whether
he will be placed in Glass 1. Because
an individual has some slight physical
defect now that would keep him out OF
Glass 1 is no reason why the likeli-
hood of such classification should be
ignored for future purposes, for the
defect of today may not exist when
the actual examinations are made un-
der the proposed act"
Buy More Forest.
Authority was given by the State
Board of Conservation and Develop
ment to State Forester Alfred Gaskill
to proceed with negotiations for the
purchase of ], 400 acres of forest land
in Woodland township, Burlington
county, to become part of the state
forest reserve there. When this tract
is acquired the state win have a total
of 5000 acres in one tract there.
Henry c. White of Plainfield has
been chosen president of the board. to
succeed Simon P. Northrup Of Newark.
Isaac F. Richey of Trenton, John l.
Kuser of Bordentown and William E.
Tuttle, Jr, of Westfield are new MEM
bers of the board, succeeding Charles
L. Pack of Lakewood. Nelson B. Gas
kill OF Trenton and Edward S. Savage
of Railway respectively.
Keeps His Better Paid Job.
B.F. Cresson has been dropped from
the states payroll as consulting en-
gineer of the department of commerce
and navigation. This action was TAX
en- by the commission after Comptrol-
Ter Bugbee, as member of the State
House Commission, had objected TO