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Telephone Plainfield 6-8000 PL A INFIELD, N. COURIER-NEWS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935 PAGE NINE Drives Against Radicalism In Schools Called Dangerous By Frank at NEA Convention Is 75 Today Board of School Estimate Lops $35,000 Off Budget; No Salary Engagement Announced Jury 'Equality' Bill, Termed 'Practical Is Defeated In Assembly by 24-25 Vote Raises Are Provided for 1935 (Continued from Page 1) Wm. i tacked the national planning of the 'sit fz' priations, equivalent to 6 points plU3 1 1 fe There also seems to be a possibility that the fight to unseat Mr. Barlow as a member of the Board of Education will be abandoned. Mayor Stutsman declined to discuss the possibility.

He was elected on a tax reduction platform and was determined that there should be no increase in the tax rate this year. His objection to Mr. Barlow was that he stood in the way of tax reduction through zeal for the schools. It is considered likely that former Councilman Andrew H. Stiglitz, whom the Mayor named to the board- in Mr.

Barlow's place after finding no oath of office for the lat AMantic City Glenn Frank president of the University of Wisconsin warned that campaigns against "radicalism" in the schools may create "an atmosphere of terror," which would impair the educational usefulness of Institutions and teachers. "By and large there is no ground for agitation." said Doctor Frank in an interview as he left for home after speaking at the annual convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Of his own university, which is about to undergo its second legislative investigation by a commit ence requirements for pharmacists. Heber, Essex To define qualifications for real estate brokers and salesmen. Burell, Essex To forbid unauthorized use of veterans' organization emblems.

Young, Morris To make the taking of a bribe by a public official a misdemeanor. Bills passed in the Senate included: Woodruff, Camden Ten measures to regulate minor phases of the insurance business. Reeves, Mercer To empower the municipal finance commission to remove tax collectors and assessors; to refund outstanding bonds and notes; to ask the Supreme Court to determine the rights of municipal creditors. Trenton The Senate approved bill to require that New Jersey panels be composed equally of men and women was defeated in the Assembly last night after its opponents had called it a "practical joke" being played on women by men who objected to jury service. The vote was 24 to 25.

Women members of the Assembly were among the measure's supporters, contending it represented a step "toward feminine equality in government." Assemblyman John J. Rafferty Middlesex), answered this by saying it was a "step backward." He said there was nothing in the present law to prevent a panel being composed entirely of women while "this bill limits their membership to one-half." A bill introduced by Assemblyman Alex Adams of Ocean to appropriate $100,000 for bulkheads and jetties in the Manasquan-Bay Head Canal also was defeated. Adams said that if such a sum were not spent soon four or five times that amount might be needed later, but Rafferty contended this was not time to seek such money when the state is faced with a relief problem. Bills passed in the Assembly included: Read, Cape May To provide that in the tax rate. points in the tax rate is offset by a loss of $822,575 in ratables.

This loss amounts to approximately 4 12 rin! in tn-r fato bjlvinrr nat -1 A 'Hfj drop of between 7 and 8 points not tatting siate ana county taxes into consiaeraiion. The Board of Estimate was in session for two hours in the Mayor's office. Present besides the members were Supt. Frederic W. Cook of the public school system and George B.

Zimmer, clerk of the Board of Education. In: announcing the action of the board, Mayor Stutsman recalled that at an informal meeting with the Board of Education in January he expressed himself a3 being in favor of restoring part of salary reductions if it could be done with- o. increasing the amount to be raised by taxation over the amount raised in 1934. Uniform increases for all city employes would require an increase in the amount to be raised by taxation and therefore he opposed any salary restoration, he said. Petitions to Mayor A roster of the names and addresses of people who signed petitions for restoration of 5 per cent of the 15 per cent cut of Board of Education employes was left at the Mayor's office yesterday afternoon.

The petitions were spon-sored by the Teachers Club and are said to contain more than 3,000 names. Because names had been elided in checking the actual petitions were noi. filed. Mayor Stutsman stated this morning that he is very much elated at the outcome of the meeting and the prospect of a substantial tax reduction for the citizens of Plainfield this year. He left early for Elizabeth where he is engaged as counsel In the trial of an automobile accident case and indicated that he would probably not pass upon the city budget until tomorrow.

It has been awaiting his action ever since it was pas-sed by the city fathers last week Monday. Predictions now are that the budget will be approved. The Mayor conferred briefly with Mr. Satterfield and Mr. Claybrook about it after the Estimate Board meeting.

The 10-day limit for action expires Thursdav. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Starck of East Orange announce the en' gagement of their daughter.

Mist Lillian M. Starck, to Thomas E. lianetvald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Ilanewald of 109 Itelmont Avenue, IS'orth Plainfield.

Clubs, Societies Girls' Friendly Society of St. Andrew's Church will meet today at 8 p. m. in the home of Miss Helen G. Baker, 436 Spooner Avenue.

William Porter Townsend of West Fifth Street will address the Lark Club tonight in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koenig, 211 Manson Place. Executive committee of Plainfield Forest 84, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, will meet in Masonic Temple tomorrow at 8 p. m.

"Silver Tea," sponsored by the Women's Guild of St. Andrew's Church, will be held in the home of Mrs. Edgar Hallock, Route 29, near Terrill Road, tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. A roller skating party will be held Saturday evening by the Young People's Society of Trinity Reformed Church.

Marks 76th Birthday Califon Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, widow of the late James Trimmer, of Califon, celebrated her 76th birthday yesterday at the home her daughter, Mrs. William Wy-man, in Plainfield. Mrs. Trimmer was born at Califon, where she resided nearly half a century.

Mrs. Trimmer was Miss Sarah Cole of balifon. HOTEL COUNTRY ACTIVITIES Md mora to at th iunff GOLF deep-sea fishing boating ridinc, bathing, trapjhooting. tenuis dancing ud entertainments mi the hotel; no expeo sire "extras." (First tee at the door.) Luurioas rooms with private ooca Ltega nav.troni smmc 1 1 5 double. American rut, -Interesting mo nth Irand ea son rates, folder on request.

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WU.J-72M cum V3 school board members continue in office until their terms expire and permit county superintendents to appoint members under certain conditions. Kuser, Somerset To allow highway employes under the 1934 appropriations to be paid in 1935 under temporary budget. Leap, Salem To require that government reports be filed with State Library. Burke, Middlesex To- grant teachers dismissed for economy priority in re-employment. Schroeder, Bergen To place un der tenure paid firemen in semi-voluntary fire departments.

Paul, Essex To validate affidavits notarized by married women under maiden name; to make claims for silicosis allowable under workmen's compensation. Cunard, Salem To allow re-apportionment of school fund where district splits in two. Bischoff, Hudson Revises experi present. Declaring that the schools have produced a "generation of special ists," he cited a growing disillusion ment "with the content and focus of education that has not produced a leadership better equipped to keep the social and economic orders from running amuck. "Desperation rather than a sense of confident grasp has driven us to the ambitious ventures in national planning upon which we lately entered," he said.

This he credited to "the specialists who have come out of their separate cells of expertness and gone at the building of broad policies with an unprecedented abandon." Urges "Square Deal" Frank termed "social suicide" the closing of schools and dismissal of teachers for "economy" reasons. "Out of the no-man's land of uncertainty between old deals and new deals'' he said, "I want to sound the bitter cry of the children for a square deal." "Never before in the United States or elsewhere in the civilized world has a depression been permitted to scuttle the schools and rape the intellectual resources of the national future." A demand for further federal support of schools was voiced meanwhile by Prof. George Drayton Strayer of Teachers College, Columbia University. "The current depression," he said, "has established beyond a reasonable doubt the absolute necessity for further federal support. We have seen the breakdown of state and local systems of taxation.

Schools have been closed and hundreds of thousands of American boys and girls have been denied their educational birthright because of our dependence on local and state revenue systems." Another advocate of federal school aid was James H. Richmond, superintendent of public instruction of Frankfort, Ky: "The persistent attitude of the federal government in usurping the whole field of taxation is making it increasingly difficult for the states to secure adequate revenues for the support of their governmental he said. Moreover, the wealth of many sections of America is being poured into a few financial centers." Local Soldiers Are Awarded 100 Pet. Rating Headquarters Company of the 44th Division, NJNG, of Plainfield won a 100 per cent rating in an inspection conducted at the Plainfield Armory last night by Maj. Joseph Leimer of Orange, commander oi Special Troops.

A feature of the inspection was the presentation of a 10-year service medal to First Sgt. Louis C. Wyckoff. A member since the company was organized 11 years ago. Sergeant Wyckoff has not missed a single drill or an encampment during his enlistment.

The award was presented by Major Leimer. The commander was accompanied on the inspection tour by his assistant, Lieut. Ernest Lawen, aluo of Orange. The Inspection is preliminary to the annual one by federal officers which will be held Mar. 18 when Capt.

R. V. Thomas, Quartermasters Corps, USA, will visit in Plainfield. Capt. Walter H.

Albers, company commander, directed the unit through the maneuvers. Uniforms and equipment and the armory itself were inspected by the state officers. Odd Stamp Found Goldsboro, N. (P In the de bris of an old houss he tore down near here, M. F.

Suggs found a stamp dated May 20, 1775, with this inscription: "Bedding stamp, state of North Carolina, 2 cents." SENTENCED TO HANG Belleville. Harold W. Vermilyea of California, convicted last night of the hatchet murder of his aged mother, was sentenced today to be hanged May 2. tee seeking proof of radical activi ties among students and professors, he said "I can't see any 'grounds for that. An investigation was held two years ago, but they found nothing.

"My own opinion is that a good teacher is never a propagandist While he is not a colorless neutral by any means, his primary aim as a teacher is to enlighten his students on all points of view. The 8,000 school superin tendents and department heads at the convention yesterday heard speakers from Washington among them Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corpo ration and Charles E. Merriam of the National Resources Board ask their support for the "New Deal" policies of economic and so cial planning. Education On "Trial" Today public education goes "on trial" before a jury of its own choosing.

Liberals and conserva tives will attack and defend each other's views but there will be no verdict in "the "jury panel" discus sion of "social change and educa tion" conducted by 11 public school leaders. Headed by John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Ed ucation, the "jury panel" includes the authors of the departments 1935 year book which sought to de fine the new role of education in the faca of social and economic change. In his address before the convention last night. Doctor Frank blamed education in part "for the breakdown of political, social and economic organization" and at Board Urges $400 More for Counsel Fees (Continued from Page 1) Appeal that the new building code be amended to permit the erection of projecting signs from 1-story buildings if construction warrants.

The recommendation resulted from an appeal by the Jersey Advertising Corporation from the refusal of city engineer to grant a permit for the sign erected for the Evergreen Dairy. 110 Watchung Avenue. Action wa3 deferred as other amendments to the building code may be decided upon in the near future. In the meantime the sign wiii not be ordered removed. It was erected before the Board of Appeals had begun to function.

-The committee voted to report favorably the application of the Reliable Jewelry Shop. 255 West Front Street, for permission to relocate its street clock at 177 East Front Street. Action by the Common Council is required to permit private use of public property. City Engineer H. Edwin Bush reported that a cinder walk has been laid along one side of Carnegie Avenue except for a stretch of 150 feet in front of one property, from the owner of which he expects to hear shortly.

He also reported on the convention of the Highway Officials of the North Atlantic States at Baltimore last week. Engineers generally are cramped for funds, he found, and consequently are making them go further by using materials that will last longer. All three members of the committee were present. Including Howard W. Satterfield who suffered a collapse Jan.

21 as the Council about to meet and was confined to his home for a month. Education Is Only Salvation From Economic Collapse and World Chaos, Says H. E. Barnes ter on file, would resign under the circumstances. He Is now confronted with the necessity of a quo warranto suit to establish his rights.

Mr. Claybrook, Third Ward Dem ocrat who succeeded Joshua L. Miner as a member of the Board of School Estimate, engineered the fight against provision for the restoration of salary cuts at this time. At his request, Ross R. Dear-dorff, supervisor of municipal accounts, prepared an analysis of the Board of Education budget as respects salaries.

Salaries and wages amount to $762,955. Reduced $50,300 The 3 12 per cent salary contribution of Board of Education employes for the feeding of undernourished children will be discontinued June 30 and for the ensuing year will be paid to the city. With reductions of $15,300 by the Board of Education and the $35,000 cut by the Board of School Estimate, the school budget has been reduced $50,300. Had the school budget been cer-. tified with provision for salary restoration, the city budget might have been reopened to provide for corresponding increases for other city employes.

It now provides for the restoration of automatic increases for policemen and firemen, the total requirement being less than $1,600. The Board of Education budget provides for no such increases. The amount required for the purpose is said to exceed $30,000. Following the meeting of the Estimate Board Mr. Satterfield expressed regret that It had not been found possible to restore part of salary cut3 this year.

"The belief had been general that he would vote for restoration. Next Monday evening Doctor Barnes will give the second of the lectures. Single admissions and reservations for the course may be obtained at the Parish House door on the evening of the talk. Junior Hadassah Will Complete Plans for Dance Plainfield Unit of Junior Hadassah will meet tonight In the home of Miss Anna Kwint, 636 West Front Street, to further plans for the third annual birthday dance In Jewish Community Center, tomorrow evening. Eddy Kugler and his Rhythmic Ramblers will play.

Meyer Paris Co. will put on a show in cabaret style. Proceeds will go toward the Palestinian Reserve Fund. Those heading committees are: general chairman. Miss Sally Siegel; program.

Miss Bess Kadesh; advertising, Miss Gertrude Mile-cofsky; decorations. Miss Hlen Isenberg; finances. Miss Julia Nus-baum; tickets, Miss Etta Berko-witz; publicity. Miss Lillian Steinberg; correspondence. Miss Sara Kunzraaa Personal Mention Reid N.

Dickerson. son of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly S. Dickerson, 1039 West Front Street, is four years old today.

The anniversary will be observed Saturday, when a group of 12 boys and girls will help celebrate. Mrs. Samuel Gishkin and Miss Dorothy Gishkin of 428 Darrow Avenue, are in Atlantic City. Willard Harrell, -134 Garfield Avenue, and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles W. Harrell and daughter, Lois, of Somerville, returned yesterday from Sundury, N. C. SYDNEY- STOCKHOLM Photo by Row Elias 11. Bird Congratulations Extended to Bird On 75th Birthday Former Postmaster Elias H.

Bird is observing the 75th anniversary of his birth today in his home at 24 Sandford Avenue and is receiving congratulations of relatives and friends. His long service of 28 years as postmaster is considered a record in the state. He was born in Somerset County, his ancestry dating back to the Revolution. He came to Plainfield at the age of 10, was educated in the public schools here and entered business in the employ of R. MacDon-ald Son, ultimately becoming manager of the business.

Politically Mr. Bird has been always a Republican, active, In his party and serving as a member of the Common Council, tax collector and freeholder. He resigned as tax collector to become postmaster. With the exception of one term, when Alvin E. Hoagland, Demo crat, filled an appointment, he held the office since his original appointment.

Mr. Bird has been affiliated with various fraternal or ganizations and banking institu tions and is a member of Trinity Reformed Church. Recently Mr. Bird fell on the ice. incapacitating himself for a period.

Deaths in Jersey Hoboken Frederick W. Jansen founder and president of the Janssen Dairy Products Corpora tion; in Overlook Hospital, Summit, in hw 66th year, after an illness of several months. Montclair Miss Hester A. Rob erts, 79, a teacher in the New York public schools for 50 years until her retirement eight years ago. Irvington Henry J.

Hummel, for mer president of the News Dealers Association of Essex County, in his 72nd year. Long Branch Francis T. Logan, prominent Catholic layman, and a leading member of the Elberon Hor ticultural Society, after two years illness. He was 71. Long Branch Pierce N.

Poole, 78, former alderman ia New York City and a member of Tammany Hall for 35 years. News Briefs Associated Press Washington Pleased with the money-saving success of a new borrowing operation. Treasury officials today polished plans for launching Friday a nation-wide "baby bond" sale. Allenhurst Fire today swept the 20-room residence of A. M.

Hud-nut, perfume manufacturer. Damage was estimated at $25,000. March Field, Calif. Eleven giant Army war birds of the 31st Bombardment Squadron took off here today at 7:25 a. m.

(Pacific Standard Time) on the first leg of a projected lO.OCO-mile round trip training flight to Panama by the way of San Antonio, and Washington, D. C. New York Narcotics valued at $500,000 and two prisoners were held by police today as the result of an explosion and fire in what investigators said was a well-equipped plant for refining disguised contraband. London Great Britain was said authoritatively to have assured Austria that she will insist on German adherence to the pact3 guaranteeing Austrian independence before the Reich is admitted to the proposed defensive air pacts. Paris Violent storms continued to batter the French seacoast, causing at least six ships to become disabled and wreaking widespread damage ashore.

Sian, Shensi, China Search for the Rev. and Mrs. S. C. Frenoham, missionaries reported to have been kidnaped and murdered, failed to disclose any trace of their whereabouts.

Rome Three big Italian liners plowed through the stormy Mediterranean Sea conveying troops to East Africa as the Italian government indicated it wai dissatisfied with the progress of diplomatic negotiations with Ethiopia. Havana The strike of school teachers and pupils threatened to expand into a general national-wide strike directed against the government of President Carlos Mendieta. Berlin American merchants charged Germany with discriminatory practices against their firms after figures were made public showing a precipitous decrease in the United States commerce with Germany during the past year. Education Is the only thing that can save us from economic collapse and world chaos. Dr.

Harry E. Barnes told a Plainfield Institute group at the Parish House of the All Souls Unitarian Church last night. An American historian. Doctor Barnes gave the first of a series of four lectures on the subject, "The Challenge of the Twentieth Century." The course is being presented in co-operation with the Plain-field Public Forum. Approximately 100 persons attended.

Doctor Barnes pointed out that although we have made great strides In the intellectual field, we do not apply our knowledge to our resources in the economic field. He condemned a "system which permits 22 million persons to be on relief lists and 22 million others, although not on relief, to earn barely enough cn which to exist. "If we cannot build up a definite balance in our social scheme, we should get off the planet and make more room for the animals," he asserted. He urged that a plan should be provided for a decent standard of living, one which will call for a minimum work week of 15 to 20 hours. "But this cannot be accomplished." Doctor Barnes continued, "until financial vampires and our capitalistic system are wiped out.

We will never solve our problem if we continue with the present system of organized looting of billions by men like the Mellons, the Morgans and the Insulls." The speaker declared we are passing through a great economic crisis because of "this system of financial looting. Very few informed writers agree with the old type of Democracy," he said. "Either it goes or society goes with it," he said. Doctor Barnes asserted the old type has proven inadequate for the present-day problems, adding we never had a system of education that has saved us from war. He denounced the attacks made by William Randolph Hearst on schools and teachers who are In favor of introducing the study of social sciences, stating they should occupy an important place in the curriculum.

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