The Penn's Grove record., 1923-01-12

of the pupils of the public schools"
The bill suggested the naming of a
director of health, who must be a
medical man, to cooperate with the
State Board of Health for n year
at a salary of $4,000, a physical edu-
cation supervisor 1t $4,000 and a
superintendent of health education at
$4,000 a year.
Commissioner Murray entered Wig
orous protest against the measure
and inquired if the bill did not mere
ly represent a plan for the creation
of another swivel-chair job in the
State Department of Education. He
declared himself as favoring a thor
ough reorganization of all educa-
tional programs or a strictly funda-
mental basis, and in such a way that
"fads and fancies" will be effective
ly driven u The schools of the
state, Mr.. Murray declared, are be-
ing subjected to criticism because
they are turning children out with
the most superficial kind of IN edu-
cation and he insisted that the evil
be corrected at it's source.
Bill Gets Silent Treatment
Mrs. Katzenbach defended the bill
as being designed to insure better
health for the children. She insisted
that it has been given thorough CON
s~ideration and that the work, inyoly-
ing the health and the hygeinic pro-
grams for school children could not
be adequately supervised by the di-
rector of physical education, as was
suggested by Oscar w. Jeffrey, OF
E%nglewood.
On a roll call Mrs. ~Katzenbach's
bill was given silent treatment, no
one voting for its approval and
Thomas w. Synott, of Wenonah, be-
ing recorded in the negative.
Appointment of the Commissioner
of Education would be transferred
from the governor to the State Board
by another bill. 1t would not, how
ever, become effective until the ex-
piration of the term of the present
incumbent. The tive-year term and
salary of $40, 900 would not be affect
ed under the law, but the board
would not be restricted to state lines
in the selection of the commissioner.
A school censu every three years
is provided under another bill, but
the local school districts would be
authorized to determine how it
should be taken. There would not,
however, be any funds appropriated
by the state for the purpose.
Another measure provides for the
appointment of a county attendance
officer on recommendation by the
County Superintendent. That rec
ommendation must be approved by
the commissioner and the State
Board and the salary fixed at $1,S00
with a maximum of 500 expenses
annually.
The board confirmed the appoint.
ment by Commissioner Enright of
Jason S. Hoffman, Pennington, and
H. c. Dixon, of Salem, as county
superintendent Of Hunterdon and
Salem, respectively. The reappoint-
ment of A. l.. Johnson, Elizabeth, and
Robert G. Sanford, Belvidere, as
superintendent of Union and Warren
counties, was referred to the advisory
committee, as also was the appoint
ment of Mrs. May Griffin, attendance
officer of Monmouth County
Plan Aviation SerVit-
Under orders approved by Cover
nor Edwards and issued by A%djutant
General Gilkyson the New Jersey
Naval Militia is to be r~eorganized
and equipped with a%eronautic serv-
ice. Flyers will be attached to each
of the proposed three battalions in
the brigade of the naval militia. The
naval militia in 1917 became part of
the federal service.
The reorganization plans call for a
modernly-equipped militia, with bri-
gade headquarters and three battal-
ions, brigade headquarters staff, bat
talon headquarters staff, deck divi.
sions, engineer division and air serv.
ice.
General Gilkyson's order reads:
IAN aeronautic division may be or
ganized as a part of a battalion and
in addition to the divisions provided
for in this order, and the commission
ed and enlisted complement thereof
will be as may be authorized by the
Auditor General at the time of or
ganization, provided, however, that
no Officer will be commissioned for
aviation duties who is not a qualified
tlier.'
Silzer's Active Blue Pencil
The inaugural message of Cover
por-elect Silzer to the 1925 Legisla-
ture will be brief and will deal only
with outstanding problems. Mr.. Sill
ger believes that too often the i'm
portance of the message is lost in its
length and an effort to cover too
much territory.
The new executive will give first
place in his message, he has let it be
come known, to the proposed change
in the administration OF the state
highway system, which will provide
principally for a reduction in the size
of the commission and to the problem
of steadily mounting state and munic-
ipal tax rates. The message will
also summarize other issues and he
will a~nnounc that he will, from
time to time, deal with these sub