The Penn's Grove record., 1920-07-30

rie proper steps to replace the Die
commissioners. If any of the men
chosen are unsatisfactory they should
be rejected, but the Senate should
remain in session until new nomin9-
tons can be made.
Request Decision on Suffrage.
II is understood that Attorney Cen
eral McCran has been asked whether
ratification of the suffrage amendment
by the thirty-sixth state would auto
.Ia+'"alIy give women the privilege OF
voting III New Iersev for all CT ndi-
dates for Office, state INT ioct.. as well
as federal.
The State Constitution confines the
r'-ht of suffrage to males. but there Is
Ne doubt that if the proposed Nine
trcuth amendment to the United States
Constitution is ratified IT'S prt visions
will override the State Constitutions
so far as it affects vOtirg for fedora
offices. The question pus up 10 Attoi
."r Gene al McCran is Wheeler tho
nd States Constitution would up
: -. .5.ate Constitution ban on wo-
n N vc+iY% for candidates for state
and municipal Offices.
rsle. a:es 10 Negro League.
Il IT delegates to represent Few
Jersey AT the tw enty-first annual con-
zen i'm Of the National Negro Rusi-
ness Leagre to he he'd in Philadelphia
August IS < 20 ha re been appointed b"
Governor EDWARDS. The league Was
founded by the late Booker Z. Wash
ington. The delegates appointed are
as followS:>
Rev. Sylvester Norrothers, Newark !;
J.auc Walker and John Everett, Yer
cay City; il. a. Williamson, Asbury
FAX: Rev. IL. =. Anderson, Atlantic
CITY; Profps>O or W II. Valentine, Bor-
dentown; W.lliam Swanson, Trenton,
ard Walter jackson, New Brunswick.
State slosrital cvercrowded.
DR.. Curty's first report as chief ex-
t~cltive officer Of tie State Hospital
ii Morris Plains r. peats the story that
ma carried annually with increasing
emphasis. by The reports OF his prede-
q: or. ne IL . IL. evans, in the las
half dozen Years OF his lHng incum
)ency. Ii is The soy, in fats anC
iguses. e Ea%'trt md c~aiioEhess o.
lac pa.t Of l., state as to is institt.
t'onai insane. Thee IS n" sCJG % b
served in ether ignoring c. atteHp@
ing to PALATE the o~ifense.
Crowded for the past five years, If
not longer hevOnd the farthest boun-
dairy of d%ecency, the element of COM
fort long ago forgot .en, the State Hos
pital for the northern half of the state
within the last year has gained 40 pa
tients over the number it housed last
year despite discharges, transfers
and the merciful relief Of death. If
it were possible 10 differentiate be-
tween such u~nfortunates, the fact that
men who lost their reaSon, or had II
impaired, in devoted service to their
country on the battlekelds of France
are among those now humured within
those crowded walls, would write
blacker the Indictment.
The present Legislature provided for
e soldiers home for healthy world war
vcteraps able to vote. Calling for
$4,000, 900, that bonus, as a bond is
sue. is subject to referendum at the
polls in November. The same legisla-
ture appropriated 100000 for two new
buildings at Greystone Park for the
relief of the far more needy soldiers
and their more than 1000 fellow SUI
ferers, who. being incompetents, can
not vote. The contrast is not all. 81
long has the State Hospital situation
beer neglected that the eleventh hour
relief proposed was inadequate for us
as well as directed tow
the wrong kind of relief. The S4U0,-
600 has not brought relief, because 1t
will not pay at present costs for the
buildings it was designed to erect. 1t
Is now proposed to devote it to a hos
pital-care building that will in some
measure aid toward the desired end.
What Greystone Parks narrowed
population needs is that scientific solu-
ton of their problem which has been
urged year after year by those bes'
qualified to direct that solution-the
farm colonization plan that would give
them Gods out of doors and its health.
full, curative work in the fields. They
were denied that, and the dole tina!
was substituted is inadequate even fol
it's purpose. A 1.-THE of the millions
it is proposed to hand over to health!
veterans, many of whom do not need
aid, some of whom do not wish II
would have provided the farms that
are needed by the insane, among whom
are soldiers who gave more thar life.
When shall we awaken to this re
sponsibiIity, perform this duty? DIR
Curry's report reveals that he fears =
catastrophe at Greystone Park be
cause of the conditions that eXisi
there.
State Tax Report.
New Jersey, it has been often stat
ed. probably stands in the fore rank i'll