The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-04-16
WOMEN VOTERS TOLD
ABOUT CIVIC MATTERS
ADDRESSED AT CLUB ROOMS ON
MONDAY NIGHT BY JUDGE IN
GERsoLI AND PROF. SULLIVAN.

Members Of the Pleasantville Wo
mems Republican Club have been hear
ing about city government and county
administration through the several
city officials and Sheriff Woodruff, who
recently addressed them, and last Mon
day night they were given facts regard
ing the Juvenile and Domestic Rela-
lions Courts and public schools by
County Judge Robert H. Ingersoll and
Superintendent William c. Sullivan.
A number of members of the Parent
Teachers Association attended this
meeting, which was presided over by
the president, Mrs. Amy Penhallow.
Superintendent Sullivan gave an in
teresting talk on the local schools.
He informed the woman voters that
P~leasantville had an efficient Board of
Education and hat the city had been
fortunate in securing teachers that
have proper requirements and that the
schools were never in healthier condi-
ton than now. He said that the pupils
had shown the value of their training
and of the 20 graduates of last year s
were now in normal schools, l in the
University of Pennsylvania and 4
teaching school, with the remainder
titHCi IldilItu VI III DuSllleSo.. he
said Education is development. 1t is
an expansion of ones self. This COM
munity has had a struggle because of
many foreign interests. There is not
enough of the community spirit, not
enough of P~leasantyille, first, last and
all the time. In fact there is not en-
ough of home spirit.
This is looked upon by many as a
place to sleep and not as a place in
which they are yitally interested. Let
me say that the greatest need of our
schools is an active interest ON the
part of the people in the community
welfarsiand in the public schools. The
next thing | would speak Of is the lack
of school room for the pupils Of the
primary grades. We all realize that
taxes are heavy, but what would you
do IL you had no home in which to live
and you could raise sufficient money
with which to build one?
Better to pay a great deal of tax in
support Of your home town that it
may develop than to pay more tax and
support some other town. The first
thing a person wishing to purchase or
rent asks is have you good school IA
cilities'?" He told the women that
surrounding municipalities next year
would pay the sun of 1864 to
~Pleasantyille for the tuition of their
pupils for which they did not have
adequate facilities at home.
Judge Ingersoll's address was on
THE Juvenile Court and DELINQUENT
Children" After outlining the con
stitutional provisions of the court he
said, the principal purposes for which
the Juvenile Court is of value are the
taking care OF what may be termed
crime n the fact that a juvenile may
be heard, punished as the case may
require, and that there will be no con-
vlction to stare him in the face the
rest OF his life, Gas the records of
these cases are all destroye 5r5two
years and can never be ue6 1nst
the child in later life), :pb-
tains the purposes desired The
juvenile showing the crima en-
cy, would continue and evG(|kN er-
hapS, be a confirmed cri
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