The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-22

Ine rule dppueQ thereto Shall be uni
form as to the whole of the class.
The court further holds that there is
nothing in the allegation of the COM
planning company that it is a property
tax and not franchise tax. The court
says that it is within the provision Of
the legislature to exempt certain
classes of corporations from personal
property taxation and treat them as a
separate class by themselves, as long
as those of that class are taxed ac-
cording to uniform rules. The assess
ment levied by the State Board of
Taxes and Assessment against this
company was sustained.
While the amount involved in this
litigation was not large, the question
brought up for decision was most i'm
portant, as it would have affected the
tax imposed on the gross receipts Of
all utility corporations, which amounts
to millions of dollars annually.
The supreme court also sustained
the ordinance adopted by the city of
Philadelphia regulating the business of
bill posting. 1t provides that bond
of $50 shall be given, together with
fee of $25, and that employees of bill
posting companies must first procure
certificates of authority, for which GER
tificate an additional fee of 81 is
charged. Frank V. Storrs, trading as
the Easton Bill Poster Advertising
Company, attacked the ordinance but
the court held that the regulation con-
stituted reasonable exercise of police
power.
Settle Fishing Law Dispute
Much confusion over the fishing laws
is apparent. Even among the game
wardens of Camden, Gloucester and
Cumberland counties there is diver
sity of opinion, but Warden Avis has
decided that the carp season expired
June / and that shad fishing closed
June 10. The dispute was brought
about when the Camden county war
den ran into some nets in Big Timber
Creek. The owners said they were
within their rights, as they were fish
ing for shad and knew the carp season
was over. Phone messages between
the three wardens created turmoil
until the4question was decided
There will be more confusion, it is
believed, when the deer season opens
next winter. The new law passed at
the recent session of the legislature
provides that the last two Wednesdays
in December and the first two in Janu-
airy constitute the open season. The
law also says that a gunner can kill
only one deer q year, and many inter-
pref this as only one season. Others
say that a man killing a deer in De-
cember has a right to kill one in Janu@
ary, and that he can do the same when
the following season opens unless there
is a new law enacted. According to
the wardens, if man shoots a deer
in December this year he can also kill
one in January, but he is not allowed
to kill any in the following December.
In other words, a man can kill only
one deer year.
Gives Up Lakehurst, Too
Lakehurst proving grounds, where
"super-mustard gas" and other Won
ders of the quickly organized Ameri-
can Chemical Warfare Service were
experimentally developed during the
war, will be abandoned by the govern
ment, the land reverting to it's owners
on July TO- This announcement is
made by army officers, following eff
forts of business and official organiza-
tions of nearby towns to have the post
retained as a military establishment.
One of the most romantic episodes
of the entire war was the service rem
dered by soldiers who, physically un-
fitted for work abroad, offered them
selves for the dangerous experiments
at Lakehurst and tested out the vari-
Gus types of American gas masks un-
der simulated attacks with the various
kinds of poison gases.
While the great area of target zones
and trenches has been thoroughly po-
liced by soldiers in clearing up the
"duds" left after experimental firlrg,
it is likely that some sections will re-
main more dangerous than former
battlefelds in France from unexploded
shells. Most of the land was cleared
from pine wilderness, however, and is
rapidly reverting to dense thickets. Un-
like government property at Camp Dix,
which was purchased outright by the
government, the proving grounds prop
critics were leased. Before the United
States entered the war munition fac
tories making shells for Russian
armies had a testing range at this
site.
Poor Shad Season Ends
The shad fishing season officially
ended June 10 in the Delaware Bay
and river under concurrent laws of
New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania. Most of the fishing crews hung
up their nets early in the week be-
cause heavy rains had made the water
so muddy that scarcely any fish were
caught.
The season as a whole has been
littIa better than last year, both in