The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-06-03
Random Remarks

In MS talk in imposing sentence on
Thursday, Judge Wells said he doubt-
eo II there was as much persecution"
IN one OF the cases as counsel had tried
to have the court believe. He said the
olhcers OF Camp Dix had right to use
every legitimate means" to secure ar
rest and conviction To this there will
not be particle of dissent. Lepiti.
mate means are all right, but to send
soldiers to get women to break the law
and then have them arrested while the
fellow who has been an accessory
sneaks out under his uniform is going
beyond the bounds of Legitimate
means Nor do we believe anyone
Will agree that this term will apply to
the action OF anyone who will go and
try to have children desert a mott or
by making representations that dire
punishment is to be melted out to the
latter. Every good citizen will aid in
stamping out vice but some Of the
means that have been used to secure
convictions have not been such as to
commend them to the general public.
The prosecutor of the pleas has all OF
the machinery of the state behind him.
ne has two detectives and in nearly all
OF the cases which have been handled
by the military people he has had suf-
hcient knowledge to get action.
In the lower part of the state officials
have been watching Automobiles and
when the latter we're caught breaking
the law they were promptly arrested
and made to pay fine. In some in.
stances the officials were little too
Jealous but their actions have been
productive OF good results as not a
single arrest was noted for last Sun
day. The automobile laws, like manv
others, are disregarded by owners and
indifferently observed by some officials,
On Saturday evening there were sew
eral cars parked on High street, with.
out a light either front or back. On
Brainard street there were ten cars and
only two of them had lights burning.
Inc law requires that every automt-
bile shall show at least one white light
when standing, such white light to be
on the side of the automobile nearest
to the centre OF the road, and shall dis
play at least one red light in the rear
when standing. The occurrences re.
lated above do not apply especially to
Saturday evenings, but are more notice
able then, possibly because of the num-
Der of machines in town, but it seems
to be an almost universal practice. to
leave cars standing around without a
light on any part of them.
Cars have been seen during the last
two or three weeks running up and |
down the streets of Mount Holly with |
out lights in defiance of the law reuuir-
ing them to be displayed thirty min
utes after sunset. The flagman at the
Pine street railroad crossing has been
very much annoyed, lately, by the
action of one man who makes a prac-
tice of coming into town after dark
without any lights on his automobile.
AT one time the fagman nearly shut
the gate on the driver The machine |
being without light the number
could not be obtained.
In recent issue of an exchange |
there appeared this item: There is
only one thing as certain as death and |
taxes and that is that any old school
board can raise as much trouble as a !
church choir" There is no getting
away from the truth of this statement,
as has been shown and is still being