The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-08-23

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! several of them and find that they
have a real interest In the matter,
and some have adopted remedial leg
islation
Il believe that this conference will
go a long way toward providing a
permanent solution Of the oil pollu-
ton problem, and | earnestly request
| the same cooperation and support OF
| yourself and the other north Jersey
shore mayors which you were so gem
erous In giving last year Meantime
be assured that you have our fullest
cooperation and service in meeting
your present regional problem of
garbage pollution
Crop Conditions Better
| Substantial improvement in state
crop conditions during July is indi-
Gated in the monthly bulletin issued
by the state department of agricul-
ture. This is true particularly Of
crops not matured to any great ex-
tent before the first week of July.
/ Although no general rain fell until
late In the month, local showers re-
lieved the serious drought situation,
except in the northern counties,
where crops suffered until about the
middle of the month.
AS previously indicated, the early
crop of white potatoes is very poor,
due to the prolonged dry weather
during the growing season. Some
| digging has taken place, but many
growers have been awaiting better
prices. The condition of the crop is
placed at So per cent of normal indi-
eating yield of rs bushels an acre,
or 6,0S0,00O bushels as compared
with 11,073,000 bushels last year.
The sweet potato estimate is 2,140,000
bushels as compared with 100000
last year.
For the state as whole the condi-
ton of the early tomato is estimated
at 20 per cent of normal In the
southern counties shipments are
over. Second earlies show a condi-
ton of from 70 to rs per cent. Late
tomatoes show uniformly fair pros.
poets.
Harding Highway"
Harding Highway" may be the
name given to the proposed improved
road across Salem county from
Pennsgrove to Malaga, used as a
route for motorists from the south
bound for shore resorts and passed
over by the late President and his
party upon his last visit to New Jer-
sey. This is officially known as the
i Pennsgrove-Malaga route. After the
Harding tour IN May, 1922, with stops
| at the larger towns along the way,
there was suggestion that it be
called the Presidents Highway be-
cause of the short route provided be-
tween southern Jersey and Washing
ton. Future Presidents are expected
to use the same route on motor trips
to this state.
Since the sudden striking down OF
the nations chieftain sentiment has
sprung up in this region towards
making this the first memorial road
to the fallen President This senti-
ment is yet to be crystallized by ac-
ton of chambers of commerce and
municipal bodies along the route pro-
posing to the State Highway Com
mission the adoption of this name.
The last legislature added this
route to the list of roads that are
eventually to be made part of the
state highway system. The commits
sioners are said to be favorable to
the early improvement of this route
with concrete.
Poor Law Revision
/ The revision of the poor law, which
failed to pass at the recent session OF
the legislature, may be temporarily
gone" but it isn't by any means per-
manently forgotten, as was evidenced
by the frequent mention it received
from the speakers at the regional
meeting of the Conference Of Social
Welfare and annual meeting OF the
I Monmouth County Organization for
\ Social Service, held at Lincroft The
bill will be again introduced next
winter. Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson, a
| member of the board of control of the
! department of institutions and agen-
cies, who was an ardent sponsor Of
this measure, told of the failure of
/ the effort to pass the bill last winter
and declared that experience had
/ shown that no state legislature had
been willing to appropriate from ex-
listing revenues a sufficiently large
sum to do intensive local work
through the staff of state depart
ment
"The bill passed through the as
sembly at the recent session." she
said, was the first step necessary to
I create county units of public welfare
and to bring the overseers of the poor
throughout the state into such pro-
( gram. Its connection with the state
4 department was not emphasized to
any great extent, but the natural de-
velopment of the principle inherent
in this bill would eventually have
brought all of this group of paid Off
/ cial workers into cooperation and CO.
: 0rdinafi0n with a state prOpram in