The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-09
new MOTOR LAW
ASSAILED BY Dill
Holds Up Application Of Mute
Until He ConsuIts Attorney
General KatzenbaCh.
DISCoURAGING FARM OUTLOOK
New state Utilities Commissioner Is
in Great Demand for Public serv-
ice-commlttee Will Draw Code
for sale of Fruit Trees.

Trenton.-The law passed by the
recent Legislature which permits deaf
mutes and crippled persons to drive
automobiles was assailed by Motor
Vehicle Commissioner Dill when he
held up the application of a deaf mute
for a drivers license in his court at
East Orange.
The application will not be granted
until after he has conferred with At
torney General Katzenbach as to his
obligation to issue licenses to deaf
and other physically unfit persons.
Mr.. Dill said.
with all the grade crossings there
are in New Jersey" he added, this
legislation designed to permit deaf
and crippled persons to drive becomes
one of the most vicious in the State.
1T is truly a crime to add to the
increase in the already appalling
number of accidents by permitting
physically unfit persons to drive"
More unworked Farms
Monmouth county reports that
there will be at least fifty idle farms
within its boundaries by the first Of
the month bears out the statement
made recently by Secretary Agee of
the State Department of Agriculture
that the most serious item in New
Jerseys farming operation in 1924
was the lack of profit from the potato
crop.
The prospect OF so many unworked
farms in Monmouth, due to that very
cause, is certainly not a reassuring
outlook, especially when it is consid-
cred that there is a possibility that in
other farming counties there may
be more or less of a repetition Of
these s~hutdowns.
The present situation was brought
about in this way: During the war
period, due to various conditions, the
cultivation Of potatoes increased very
largely in New Jersey. The result
ant profit encouraged the industry
and acreage kept expanding. Changed
conditions during the past three or
four years, coupled with lowering
prices to the consumer, made the po-
tate crop less profitable and resulted
in deflation in the acreage.
In the expansion period lands were
planted with potatoes which in many
instances were not adapted to that
purpose. With lowering prices the
previous acreage could not be main
tanned proftably.
The New Jersey potato grower. Of
late, necessarily had to rely mostly
on the relatively early crop that he
could rush to the markets in most Of
the States east Of the Mississippi
River before the heavy producing sec
lions of the North had the opportunity
to become rivals. Confronting the
New Jersey farmer, too, has been the
increase in the acreage of potatoes in
the Atlantic Coast States south Of
this State, and the nearly complete
loss Of their markets west OF Pitts
burgh.
This year, the State Department Of
Agriculture is informed, growers
generally are buying certified seed
with a view to improving the crop in
that respect and are also eliminating
from potato cultivation much of the
land not suited for that crop. AS a
general proposition farmers through
out the State are giving more atten-
ton this year to location Of crops and
the planting Of crops to which the soil
is particularly adapted.
A Popular Commissioner
DR.. Charles Browne. Of Princeton,
former Congressman and former May
or of Princeton, who was confirmed
by the Senate-to succeed Harry v.
Osborne. Of Essex county, as Public
Utilities Commissioner. has been in
the public eye for some years in his
own section Of the State and in recent
a in the State as a whole. DR..
Browne was sworn in as a commits
sioner and entered upon his duties at
once.
Within a few months after the cleo
ton last November determined that
DR.. Browne would not succeed him
self as Representative In Congress
from the Fourth District. he was nom
mated by Governor Silzer as a mem
, Der Of the State Board 81 Control,
. When DIR. Browne was confirmed as
Utilities Commissioner, this n~ecessi.
! tated his withdrawal from the State
Board Of Control, but there was still
another public Office to be dealt with.
! DR.. Browne had resigned as a member
of the Board Of Managers of the In.
stitution for Predetermined at Vine.
land, but his resignation had not been
accepted. Now the State Board OF
I Control. under which the Vineland in.
stitution operates. wishes him to re.
consider his resignation as q man,
ager, having been advised by Attor.
ney General Katzenbach that this Of
fee is not incompatible with that Of
utilities commissioner.
DR.. Browne was born in Philadel
phia. September %, 1875, and was
graduated from Princeton in 1898.
Three years later he received the de.
! gree of M. A. from Princeton Uni.
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