The Penn's Grove record., 1920-06-04
State Roads In
Bad Condition
People Want ItemiZed Accounts
To Know Where Money
Goes

The total income from automobile fees
will be approximately $3,0OO,OOO.
The present deplorable road condi-
lions are due largely to the heavy
trucking that is permitted, the state
being entirely too tolerant with this
class of traffic. The following shows
the difference in the maximum weights
allowed in the various states adjacent
TO New Jersey, together with the max
imum registration fee: For New Jer-
sey's maximum of 10000 pounds an an
nual fee of SGT is charged. Pennsyl-
vania's limit is 1900 pounds, for which
the fee is 1915; Maryland's maximum
is $4,000 pounds, with a fee of $500.
Connecticut limits the load to $4,000
pounds and charges a fee of $500. New
York fixes the maximum load at 3D.
600 pounds, with fees considerably
higher than New Jerseys.
Fees should be based OF horse
power and weight. The automobile
should zeal the burden, or most of it.
1t is to the interest of truck owners,
as well as of the taxpaying public, that
the solution be found quickly. Present
laws should be enforced and new ones
enacted with a full recognition of the
importance of developing, rather than
of sitting, the use of this new and val
liable transportation agency.
Want Report Itemized.
In a message to the senate, Cover
nor Edwards condemned the practice
of making omnibus or blanket appro-
priations, and said that "all receipts
and all honest uneXpended balances of
prior appropriations should, at the end
of the fiscal year, remain in the general
treasury, and specific appropriations
should be made for the purpose of
meeting the expenses of the various
departments. In no other way can the
people be intelligently advised as to
how much it costs the respective de-
partments of the state"
Until a few years ago it had been
the custom of the state treasurer to
print, annually, a report showing by
items how the money paid out had been
expended. The itemiZed report was
interesting, but it also vas a measure
of protection to the treasury. The
people ought to know how their money
is to be spent without compelling them
to go on a blind search through de-
%partmental reports, and the bare fig
ures in the comptroller-s statements.
Pamphlet on New Law.
Former State Librarian John P. Dull
lard has prepared and printed the
Legislative Reference Bureau of the
state library, a descriptive list of laws
and joint resolutions enacted by the
legislature during the present session.
The little pamphlet will be helpful to
the courts, the lawyers and others who
are interested in keeping in touch with
the latest enacted statutes, as there ap.
pears to be little prospect that the
volume of session laws will be issued
for several months; and the printed
sections that are distributed from time
to time are incOnvenient to use without
an index. Mr.. billiards. list supplies
this lack by directing the searcher to
the chapter number of the statute and
giving a brief synopsis of the act.
The law of 1895, governing the pub
LEGATION of the laws, provides that all
laws passed in one week shall be laid
before the legislature by Monday night
Of the following week." but this re-
%quirement has never been fulfilled.
Daily, almost hourly. the laws are
being violated because of the lack of
knowledge on She part of the people,
who are supposed to know the law
The courts. which are expected TO pun
ish v~iolators. and those officials upon
whom fall the duty of administering
the laws, are likewise ignorant, but for
the relief afforded by the descriptive
lists issued from the state library ard
the news reports of the daily and week
ly press.
More Pay For Lower Grade Teachers.
The Executive Committee of the
State Federation of District Boards of
Education is reported Il favor a revi-
sion of that part of the school law
governing the apportidnment of moneys
10 help meet teachers salaries, so
that the allowance for elementary in
structors shall be the same as that for
high school teachers; and expressing
the view that THE work of elementary
teachers is fully as important as that
of high school instructors" The opin-
ion is generally entertained, and natur-
ally so.
A great percentage of the children
never get beyond the grammar grades,
Whatever education they obtain is ac-
quired from the elementary or grade
teachers, and anything that is likely
to add to the efficiency of these teach
erS should be done. Indeed, there are
many persons who think that the in
%structors who take the children during
their early years. should be better paid
than those who have them in charge
when less patience, sympathy and skill
are required.
Another consideration that may ap-
peal to the legislature is this-at pres
ont tho ce0O pportiopnaptS po IarOoIy