The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-01-11
ALLOT MILLIONS
I'm AUTO FUND
Apportionment to Counties Is
Based Upon Area, Population
and Improved Road Mileage.
RALLY OF DRY FORCES
Date Changed to Avoid Conflict With
Inauguration of siIzsr-To Combat
"Lying Propaeanda"-Wants
Schools to Get Canal Fund.

Trenton State Highway Com
mission apportioned $2,500000 Of mo-
tor vehicle funds for 1928 to the vari-
Gus counties and also allotted $525,000
for township aid The apportionment
to the counties, as heretofore, is
based upon area, population and i'm
proved road mileage The estimated
county program for construction and
maintenance work next year is placed
at $5,926,00 and the motor vehicle
allotment available for maintenance
is about so per cent of that amount.
The largest share of the total ap-
portionment goes to Essex county.
Apportionments to south Jersey coun-
ties are: Atlantic, s129,275; Burling-
ton, $4,000; Camden, $104,575; Cape
May, $84,075; Cumberland, $117,325;
Gloucester, $4,000; Mercer, $112,025;A
Salem, $7S,15O.
The commission also gave consider
alton to the various problems relating
to the proposed South Amboy bridge.
A communication was received
from the Chamber of Commerce of
Cape May county asking renewed ac-
tivity on the part Of the Highway
Department looking to the establish
ment of the ferry between Cape May
and Lewes, Del, as part of the state
highway system.
Dry Forces to Rally
A change in date from January 16
to January IS has been announced by
the Anti-Saloon League for the Tren-
ton rally of all New Jersey residents
who desire to participate in a protest
against the efforts that are being
made to make New Jersey as wet as
the Atlantic Ocean The first date
| confiicted with the inaugural of Gov
ernor-elect Silzer.
| The rally and mass meeting, which
the league believes will attract thou
sands to Trenton, will commemorate
! the third anniversary of prohibition.
| The call for the rally has been signed
by more than 600 clergymen and
Others The meeting place will be the
First Methodist Episcopal Church in
State street, near Broad street. 9th
er nearby places will care for ex-
pected overflow crowds.
The objects of the rally. as stated
in the call sent out through the
league, are:
ITO organize for the enforcement
Of our prohibition laws and for their
maintenance unimpaired. To combat
the lying propaganda about prohibit
ton To emphasize anew the impor-
lance of scientific temperance instruc-
ton in our public schools, as provided
for in the laws of our state. To re-
yive the spirit of patriotism and rev.
erence for law among the peoples of
our state"
Among the speakers announced are
/ former Governor Richard Yates of
Illinois, recently elected to Congress
as dry; Congressman John G. Cop
per of Ohio, a labor man, according
to the league, and Wayne B. Wheeler,
national attorney for the league.
i Canal Fund for Schools
State Senator-elect Emerson L.
Richards of Atlantic county will in
troduce bill in the 1928 Legislature
to turn receipts from the settlement
1 of the Morris Canal controversy over
to the state school fund.
The state has received $175,000
thus far from the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company, former owner OF the
canal. The money represents the
first installment on sS75,000 which
the railroad will pay the state in con-
nection with the deal Mr.. Richards
also proposes that the income from
the portion of the Little Basin in Jer-
sey City decided to TIE state in the
4 settlement and revenues derived from
the disposal of the bed of the canal
from Phillipsburg to Jersey City shall
likewise go to the school fund.
He estimates the total annual in
come from the interest on the $685.
900 and other sources to be 100000
annually
He also proposes that the State
Board of Conservation and Develop
ment, custodian of the water rights
and the canal bed, shall be deprived
4 of supervision of the same. Richards
bill will propose to give the State
Board OF Commerce and Navigation
Jurisdiction over the disposition to be
made of the various water riparian
rights.
Real Estate Board Reports
In it's first annual report to the Gov
ernor the New Jersey Real Estate
Commission asserts that the license
law has come to the real estate pur-
| chasing public as the first measure
of protection, outside the state courts,
that New Jersey has even known.
In the ten months of the fiscal year
ending June 80 last gill licenses
we're issued, 1906 Of which were for
brokers and 1866 for statesmen. The
law, the commission Continued. has
created in the minds of these brokers
and statesmen the knowledge that
their acts are governed by the pro-
visions OF the license law.
when 1t is considered" said the