The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-07

Schools Show Great Strides
school system, total expenses Of which
nave increased from s25,451.014.13 to
SAG, ,196, ,02S09 in five years. Is pointed
out in the annual report of State Com
missioner Enright, submitted to the
state board. Total enrolment Of
pupils in all the various departments
Of the schools. including evening
schools, for 1922-1923 was 693. .342
This is an increase in the day schools
Of 10000 boys and girls. To instruct
693,342 pupils 21.644 teachers were
required
OF the s46,196,O2S.O9 for current
expenses, 2.239,S32.46 represented an
increase over the previous year. The
sum of $33,6O2,29947 was expended
for salaries of teachers, orperintend-
ents, supervising principals. super
visors and principals. Salaries Of
janitors, engineers and f1remen cost
s2,673 ,650.SS, atte n d ance officers.
S334,816.7S. and fuel, 81. 600, ,S62.59
Important facts in these statistics
are summarized for the purpose Of
making them prominent and for the
purpose of showing the enormous
business that education has become
in our state" said the commissioners
report.
OF the total number in the schools
there were 24.951 enrolled in evening
schools and 42.036 in the kindergar-
tens. In the first four grades, or wha
are known as the primary schools, the
enrolment was 301,479. In grades
five to eight, the total was 207.109.
High school students numbered IS.
PIG, an increase or 1850 in year
In five year the high school registra
ton has increased from 51.379 to IS,
PIG.
The average salary for teachers,
exclusive C the higher positions. was
S1699.50. yearly increase Of S71.78.
School property is valued at s15l
796.312.20. an increase of S1S.6S5.-
14053.
| COMMISSIONS Enright also submit
ted reports of his assistants covering
elementary, secondary or hign schoo;.
vocational and manual training, and
physical training education.
Game Law VIolators
Prosecutions for violations of the
] fish and game law totaled 115 in
October and in each case the defend
ant was convicted. In seven cases
/ fines OF 500 were imposed, three Of
them for hunting deer out of season.
Failure to have a license was the
offense in many of the cases. Vic
tins of Illegal gunners included flick
ers, a woodpecker. robin, blueb':d and
several wood ducks.
Apropos of prosecutions, the State
Fish and Game Commission regards
as of large Importance decisions in
i its favor on two appeal cases IN Ocean
county. The defendants were arrest
ed for shooting ducks from a struc
ture built in Tuckerton Bay at a
greater distance than 100 feet from
! shore 1t was claimed in their behalf
that the place where the structure
was erected was in reality an island
which had not lost it's identity as such
because grass growing on 1t appeared
above the water.
! An investigation by wardens shove
/ that the water over which the blind
/ had been erected was two and hal
feet deep at half-tide and the Common
Pleas Court sustained the judgmen
in the cases.
A game law amendment enacted in
/ 1921 prohibits a gunner placing any
I boat, sink box, seaweed or other YES
! sci of constitution" at a distance OF
more than 100 feet from ice, marsh
! or meadow, bar or bank not covered
/ with water. The cases just cited are
/ the first to come up under this amend
ment.
State Forest System
A program of acquisition by the
state of not less than 100000 acres
of forest land for system Of sta
forests has been adopted by the State
Department of Conservation and DE-
velopment AS outlined by the de
partment. It calls for the acquisition
of a minimum of 10000 acres annually
during the next ten years.
In addition. counties and local mu
inequalities In which there is a con
siderable area of forest land will b.
urged to establish county and munic
ipal forests IN order still further to
increase the acreage undr public
control. The Department OF Con
servation and Development points out
that the creation Of such local public
forests would serve threefold pur-
pose in that the interest Of the citi'
gems in forestry problems would be
stimulated; a public recreation
ground would be created, and con
tinuous local timber supply would be
assured ut a substantial profit to thu
public.
! Against shrewsbury Deepening
| Less than 100 residents Of the
North and South Shrewsbury River.
which 1t is proposed to deepen partly
at government expense, are against
the improvement, and they have filed
petitions with the government engi
neers against any change in the chan
mel on the ground that the deepening
of th% river would bring factories AMI