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1879. AUGUST 25, 1938, THURSDAY, Camp Happiness and Its Blind Men. September is the time and the Friday evening, Leonardo high school auditorium is the place for the annual entertainment and dance for the beneft of Camp Happiness, the summer vacation home at Leonardo for blind men of New Jersey. The Blind Men's club of New Jersey is sponsoring the event. No one, whether actuated by a desire to help worthy cause have a good time, can go wrong in attending this festival.

The fact that it has been held annually over a long period of years with ever increasing attendance 1s proof of its merit. Hundreds of blind men enjoy happiness every summer at Camp Happiness. Many people who have the use of all their faculties are prone to complain over alight indispositions, but expressions of self pity are almost unknown at this summer home for the blind. Singing, dancing, instrumental music and sprightly and informative conversation are invariable features of their Up to the present time maintained entirely through How they manage to do it ination. However, they did, cial straits.

No cause more been presented in this section. pist and also find enjoyment Camp Happiness has been money raised by the blind. seems almost beyond imagbut now they are in finanworthy of support has ever One can be a philanthroby attending the show. One Time When Politics Did Not Make Strange Bedfellows. The adage, "politics makes strange bedfellows," may seem hackneyed, but it is much less repetitous than the truth which it illustrates.

Both in the past and the present thousands of examples might be cited of former enemies patching up their differences and making common cause on the political battlefeld and of former friends having become bitter enemies. However, in the recent history of Monmouth county politics nothing quite so unusual has happened as the proffer which County Clerk George H. Roberts recently made to Harry S. Willey of Holmdel township, a Republican, of the Democratic nomination for freeholder. Indeed, that would have made strange political bedfellows if the offer had been accepted.

Politically Mr. Roberts and John Quinn, Democratic county leader, are linked up as closely as the proverbial "peas in a pod." Therefore, it can be deducted without one segment of doubt that the county clerk, in making the offer, was carrying out instructions from the party chieftain. Strange though it may seem, this move had some elements of shrewd strategy. Mr. Willey, a member of the township committee and of the Holmdel township board of education, was formerly a Democrat and left the party because he was not in accord with its leadership.

As a Republican he has followed an independent course and has occasionally voted for Democrats. Probably Mr. Quinn has no more active political foe than Mr. Willey unless it is Harry W. Mountz, Democrat, who is supervising principal of the public schools of Spring Lake.

For a number of years the Democratic party in Monmouth county has been torn and rent by battles between factions led by Mr. Quinn and Mr. Mountz. This internecine strife is the chief reason why Monmouth county has continued to pile up big Republican majorities despite the fact that unprecedented Democratic landslides have occurred on a national scale. All who keep close tabs on politics know that the Holmdel township farmer and the Spring Lake supervising principal are political pals and that they have been very influential in swaying elections.

Obviously, the offer of the county clerk was an attempt to patch up the family differences in the Democratic party, to attract independent voters and to present a united front to the enemy in November. It would have presented a wonderful illustration of the adage referred to had it been accepted. However, it was refused by Mr. Willey. Democrats who mourn that the olive branch was thus rejected may find consolation in the fact that the Republicans are far from harmonious and that discord within the P.

ranks seems likely to be accentuated by primary battles. -0-0-0-0-0-0- Winter Forums Gone With the Wind. What has become of the winter forums or round table discussions which used to be held at Red Bank? "Gone with the wind" is apparently the most logical answer. Several readers of this paper have made inquiries of late as to the likelihood of this feature being resumed. If the meetings were to be held the coming winter it would not be too soon to arrange for them now.

Unfortunately there seems to be little or no possibility that they will be resumed, For four winters the forums were held, first at the Elks home and later at the Molly Pitcher hotel. They were discontinued last year and the reason for this was not lack of funds. There was little or no expense. The speakers, although outstanding in their specialized fields, received no remuneration and the cost was only about $50 per season, which was always raised without dimculty through contributions made by interested percons. The program was well balanced, including a wide variety of subejcts of general Interest.

Glenn Wishard, J. Daniel Tuller, Lester Ross and Edwin C. Gilland were the most active in promoting the forums. Each address was followed by questions and a general discussion. Lack of interest was the reason why the forums were discontinued.

At frat there was a large attendance, but as one member of the committee expressed 1t, "later on so few were present that we were ashamed to lavite potable speakers to Per some reason bard to analyse Rad Mask has sever shows mach predeliction for of this kind. This de greatly at variesos with ditioes in many other communities. For forums at Long Branch Just winter drew larger attendances than ever before. Perhape time will bring about an increase of interest bere, but until there more interest thas la new apparent the action of the tee in declining to aponsor more affaire of this kind net surprising. Shade Trees and Their Value to the Community.

Red Bank has shown a singular lack of appreciation of the value of trees as compared with many other monicipalities. Some thoroughfares are entirely devoid of trees and othere are almost so. It da encouraging to note, however, what appasre to be a growth of interest in this matter, as la shown by the offer which number of residents of Maple avenue made recently to pay half the expense of buying and planting tress if the town would pay the other half. The shade tree commission has recommended acceptance of the offer. Under the terms of the offer plantings would be made inside of the sidewalks on private property instead of between the curbing and sidewalka as la generally done.

The mayor and counell are considering the matter. The offer should be accepted. As has been pointed out, under this arrangement, it would be up to the property owners to care for the trees instead of the town and there would be no likellhood of the tree roots clogging sewer pipes as baa frequently occurred. The tornado-like storm which occurred last month took heavy toll of trees in this community. Many streeta are more in need of such improvement than Maple avenue.

The cost of carrying out the project would be small, in fact less than a drop in the bucket, and in the event that the Maple avenue offer is accepted is to be hoped that property owners on other streeta will take advantage of this opportunity to beautify the community, Old Times Brought Back by County Fair at Freehold. Two days are not enough to determine, but if the Monmouth county agricultural fair at Freehold goes ahead with as much vim and vigor during the remainder of this week as it did Tuesday and yesterday there is little doubt that it will be made an annual event. It is not exactly like the original fairs. Too many changes have taken place to make all the ancient features pose sible, but persons with a nostalgia for the horse and buggy days will find in the festival at the county seat that is reminiscent of old times. The fair will close Saturday night.

Its sponsors are a group of Freehold residents. All over the nation there has been somewhat of a revival of such events. The Freehold promoters of the fair are said to have been encouraged by the remarkable success which attended the resumption of the Hunterdon county fair at Flemington last year. Fifty years have passed since the Freehold fair has been held, and all who remember it know without being told that it was a wonderfully effective agency for spreading the name and fame of Monmouth county. The Referendum on Potato Marketing.

ately revive? This is the season when all the Monmouth county has reason to feel concerned over saucy and familiar birds--the wrens, the sparrows, the robins, the thrushthis condition because of the large number of its inhabes, the phoebes, the catbirds and even itants who are dependent on the soil. It is impossible the truculent jays--withdraw from to understand how prosperity can be restored when the the haunts of men into the densest purchasing power of so many familles is less than nor- and darkest woods and there keep mal. Some observers claim that because of changing their peace. It is the season when food habits and other new factors, potatoes are destined the ever-chilly blacksnake abandons to pass out of the picture as this county's chief his favorite sun-baked rock and money crop. They say that forehanded farmers will take wriggles into the dank undergrowth; cognizance of this fact by planting other crops next and even the land turtles forgo their perilous promenades on the hot year.

roads. Only two kinds of creatures Perhaps this deduction is correct, but it is very much are feverishly astir at mid-Augustto be doubted that there will be any large reduction 1 in the two-legged and the many-legged the number of potato growers in the near future. One -and of these it is only the manything which operates against the likelihood of such a legged that are joyfully up and dochange is that there is nothing else in view which prom- ing. The almanacs, which unite in ises to be more profitable. If they quit raising potatoes predicting moderate temperature for what other crops should they plant? The situation this month, which say that the dog a bleak one.

Everything is at dead lows. Never has days ended on August 11, and that we are suffering under the zodiacal the picture been less inviting for those who wrest their auspices of Virgo are, as usual, all living from the soil, but there has never been any lack wrong. What we need more than of tillers of the soil and it is safe to predict that the calendar reform is almanac reform, same will be true next year. for the only appropriate sign for this Farmers are not compelled to comply with the new season is the Bug; and if we cannot marketing plan. However, if it is adopted and they do do better for ourselves we had betnot go along they will find themselves at a considerable ter use translations of the Chinese disadvantage in marketing their crops.

The rules and almanac, of the which rightly calls this the season Great Heat, and foreregulations are so drawn that dissenters cannot par- end to it sees no until August 24. ticipate in whatever benefits may accru. They may re- One must be very closely confined fuse to go along, but it is safe to say that few if any by brick, steel and concrete to be unwill do so if the required two-thirds vote is cast. aware that this steamy month is that Critics of the national administration claim that of the insect's triumph, when every this is coercive; that, it is opposed to the traditions of crawling, fluttering, hopping thing democracy. Maybe they are right, maybe they are that has a voice sings exultantly of wrong, but the plan will not be judged on such academic the vertebrate world's discomfort, grounds.

Its success or failure will be determined and the silent ones contribute to the results by man's poverty and ill temper by dewhich ensue next year. vouring the fruits of his labor. This la the season at which we get preview of that threatened epoch when Those who are worried about the spread of com- the many-legged will have exterminmunism should take courage from the realization that ated all other creatures and be communism can spread in the United States only when tars last of few mundane creation; and these the people of the United States accept its doctrines. duced to have been introyears we the particular bug that Returns are not yet announced as to the referendum held Monday and Tuesday for new marketing regulations for potato farmers. Probably it will not be until tomorrow or next day before the vote is tabulated.

The proposed program includes the late producing states extending from Maine to California, and in Monmouth county balloting was done at eight places. The referendum was under the auspices of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. A majority of two-thirds of the vote is required and there seems little room for doubt that the count will show that it has been given. As one farmer expressed it, "we are not at all sure that the new marketing regulations will help us much next season, but we cannot see how conditions could possibly be worse; therefore we are willing to take a chance with the plan." This is not an overdrawn picture. Up to the present time the current season has been about on a par with the disastrous one of last year.

Despite the huge subsidles paid by the federal government to farmers to take food crops out of production by planting soil conservation crops and despite the great damage done by storms and other inclement weather, the price of potatoes is about the same as last year. Possibly there will be an upturn later in 1 the season when more favorable weather for shipping is expected. The evidence la overwhelming that paying the tillers of the soil not to plant crops is not a practical solution of the problem. Not only potatoes but nearly all other crops are selling at about same as last year's low prices. It is a discouraging picture both for the farmers and for the county as a whole.

Overproduction is often cited as the cause of the trouble, but this is hard to believe when it is considered that many families are struggling along with less than the necessities of life. If their purchasing power were restored, who can doubt that the market for food crops, as well as for many other things which are now a drug on the market, would immedi- Editorial Views (The 5 Crime Prolection. The fate of J. Hines resta with the jury but there la so doubt that somebody with political power pros (tected the polley racketeers under Schults from interference by the police and conviction in the lower courta. Otberwise the racket could not have functioned on a multimilion-a-year basis.

For every policeman knows that given freedom from political restraint he could eliminate chronic lawlessness from his beat in hours. Policemen who full in this are either accepting graft themselves or they have been ordered by their superiors, to maintain a "hande off" policy. Their superiors in the police department are invariably ordered to overlook the crime and vice for which protection has been paid. Otberwise these omelala, among whom blindness la not a common amiction, would demand that their subordinales in the police department enforce the law or quit. This la not true only in New York.

It la true in every municipality where crime flourishes. If you know that the law la being repeatedly violated in your community you can be equally certain that some official 1s accepting graft in one form or another to protect the payer from the police. If gambling is Illegal, as it la in New Jersey, and it la possible almost anywhere, as it is in this vicinity, to buy a number ticket, play the horses, or take a chance with roulette wheel there's no doubt that part of your wager is going to an official who ateera the police in the opposite direction. The trial of Jimmy Hines is but glorified expose of how gambling and other forms of crime thrive in hundreda of American cities. And because lawlessness in one form encourages all types of lawlessness it accounts for a large percentage of the murders and other violent crimes that All the newspapers every day.

Crime pays in this country, and it pays well for the protection necessary for its existence. There lan't city in the nation that does not maintain a police force adequate to route rountine crimes such as the gambling business in one day. When the police tall to do this they are being held off. The average official does not instruct the police department to ignore and subservient judges to go easy with racketeers because of sympathy. He does it only for a price.

So the next time you see a gullible citizen laying down pennies for number ticket or dollars on 8 horse or a bird cage, and most of our readers do not have to be far-sighted to 806 as much, rest assured that some official or politician with the power to make or break officials is living well off the graft he receives. Fortunately District Attorney Dewey is not wasting his time in New York raiding penny ante card games or shyster bookmakers or the luckless shopkeeper trying to make a few extra dollars peddling numbers. He is going after the politicians who are the real source of protected crime. We need more Park Press. Gravel From On High.

One of the highest hills in Monmouth county stands three miles south of Keyport. It is known 88 Crawford's Hill and rises 392 feet above 868. level. The hill is now scarred by roadways and gravel pits. From the top of the hill WPA employees scoop gravel by hand into trucks which haul the material to where repairs are being made to roads in nearby townships.

A dead power shovel stands in one pit. If put to use it could do the work of 50 WPA shovelers and at about onetenth of the cost of hand work. From the top of the hill one can see over the New York bay, and on clear days, the main buildings in the city are easily discernible. It seems like sacrilege to tear up the trees and dig pits on a site which could be put to good advantage if the hill was part of a county park system. Anyhow there is the gravel which must have been deposited on top of the hill many millions of years in the past.

But who cares about beauty when a place 1 must be found for WPA voters to lean on Transcript. Under the Sign of the Bug. destined to load the bouta the spineless to: chia eventual the Japanese beetle. Certainly, so destroyer that la so catholic is it taster, so adaptable to differcal as and bard to kill From every come different accounta of feedtag babita and sew catalogue of taverite foods. If It were escluded from all man's plantationa it could reproduce itself by feeding on fras, fox grapes and a doses commop woodland If driven off the grape vines and the sweet corn the kitchen garden it will go tor the asparagus tops and the beans.

From one quarter it la reported that the Japanese beetle can actually oust the Mexican bean beetle and then outest him, while from another we bear that the beautiful, Iridescent little creatures are now gorging themselves on elderberry juice. These are indeed, the Tartars of the tnavet world, Innumerable, all but omnivorous, and so swift in their maneuvers that in their strategio fighta trom lime, salt water, derria power sprays and deadlier poisons, they will devastate several neighboring gardens and return to the attack before their enemy has had a chance to boast of his vietory. We fume and steam, trade suggestions and lay out our wealth in poisone; and off in the woods somewhere all the bug-eating birds are discreetly York Herald Tribune. Life Saving on the Roads, If America has suffered more fatalities in the conflict on the highways than in the World war- -and so say the statisticians -then the recent marked reduction in murder by motorcar may save as many lives as keeping out of war. Seventy-five thousand in ten years would be the saving at the present rate; there have been 3,670 fewer deaths from traffic accidents in the United States in the first six months of 1938 than in the similar period of 1937.

The full measure of hope in this downward trend is even more apparent when the mileage rates rather than the yearly deaths are compared. At the University of Michigan where safety engineers have been comparing notes at a National Institute of Traffic Safety Training, Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Automotive Safety Foundation, reported that highway fatalities were at the rate of eighteen per 100,000,000 vehiclemiles in 1936, while in the frat six months of this year the rate was only twelve. He said that at the 1936 rate there would have been 45,000 killed on American roads this year instead of the estimated 32,000. That is a rate of saving which would mean 130,000 lives in ten years.

Surely that is worth much more work and money than has been expended to make it possible. Most hopeful-and most challenging--is the conviction of the safety men that this great gain is directly traceable to safety efforts which can be intensified and expanded. Couldn't some of the money and thought now directed to preparations for life-taking war be better turned to this life-saving Christian Science Monitor. Nothing For the 828. in a study of Pennsylvania public schools, submits an interesting preliminary report that does not heap much credit on the state's school system.

The commission's aim is not to discredit the school system but rather to point out where it has failed and to offer constructive criticism. The report concludes that the state's public and private educational systems have failed to make a successful adjustment of their schools to the needs of their youth. The commission operated in Pennsylvania in 1934, 1935 and 1936 checking on students enrolled in sixth grades during 1926 and 1928, following their careers on from those dates. Probably one of the most startling disclosures was that 172 out 1,000 public school students went to college. This plain fact is not 80 startling, but what causes thought is that schoolmen tell us that our public school system is intended to pre- The American Youth Commission, pare youth solely for entrance into higher fields of education.

At least that is what Shippensburg schoolmen tell us. There is something wrong with a system intended to promote higher education when only 172 out of every. 1,000 school children obtain the direct advantage of that system. Somebody appears to be sadly neglecting the other 828 of the 1,000 school students. The year 1934 is the last year for which statistics are available.

In that year local taxpayers paid total of $186,202,538 to operate the state's public school system. The state, in the same year, turned over an additional $31,276,500 of tax money to local school districts, making a total of almost $138,000,000 expended for the primary purpose of preparing school children for college work, according to schoolmen. but with only 172 out of every 1,000 school children taking advantage of this primary aim. The commission goes on to say that it is obvious that educational funds have not been most economically and efficiently expended because the present school system fails to deal justly with youth and 80- clety in that a proper adjustment has not been made to the needs of a large number of youth. The commission suggests that new departures that may reasonably be sought are more definite and extensive intellectual Interests, education in line with the general training for citizenship, the further development of non-vocational needs of individuals and the proper functions of society as a whole in this regard.

They also require a changed conception of the school so that it includes more of the external life of the child and of youth and will be more closely related to the life of the community. In other words, public school education must be more practical. Taxpayers should receive more value for the millions they spend on schools. Obviously it is rather asinine to conduct our public school system on its present basis, geared to give full value to only 172 out of every 1,000 students enrolled, and to insist that the other 828 students remain in school until they have attained the of 38 when there being offered to them that to chair particular See largely the fact that our school 600- trolled by with their beade in the clouds and their feet off the ground: with their stake if changes should be made. The who supplies most of the mucky for operating the schools, has been denied any authority in the conduct of the school Shippenaburg, Pa.

Cheerful If an editor sets out to please bia readers (and advertisera) with front page of cheer, be bad a wide range of selection. Wall Streetera rejoice at the prospect of wage outa. How much joy or will-to-buy, de you suppose, would be created in Pittaburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Youngstown, or Birmingham by either the news or the rumor of a steel wage cut? The Wall Streeter cashes his chips after a couple of days' furry around the steel post, and bops to Southampton; the roller in Johnstown tightens bia belt and tells Mamma to forget about that week-end in the mountaina, or the new refrigerator, or the music lessons for little Lana. War and rumors of war make grand reading for the guy who believes that another "good" war would fix all our troubles. There are such -they remember Bridgeport of 1916- 1918, allk-shirted workmen, war baby" stocka, and forget that the poor man.

with his wages doubled, bad to pay 80 cents Instead of 80 centa for butter. Inflation rumors, too, are cheerful for the folks who kid themselves that they can buy low and sell high. How about the millions earning fixed salaries? Or the millions of widows and retired people trying to eke out their lives on pensions and annuities? And the same news item that tells the Board of Trade operator and the Dakota farmer and the New York consumer that Uncle Sam has the second biggest wheat crop in history may be cheerful or gloomy, according to your interests. Cheer doesn't seem to be a dependable yardstick for the judgment of news. But, if we were a regular reader of the Chillicothe (Ohio) Scioto Gazette, we believe we'd have liked its front-page editorial in the June 30 issue.

It was a beautiful photograph, in four columns, of a Southern Ohio field, with stacks of newly cut wheat ranged in long diabonals to the trees in the distance. The editorial opens on a note similar to this piece, but its conclusion is worth repeating. "Who, viewing this fruitful land, can turn back to the little cares of his busy life, without acknowledging to his Creator fervent thanks for sun, for rain, for the will to toil that we are given? "Who, beholding this lovely picdares say: 'America la In hopeless, out'? tangle. We'll never find our "Let us look long on the ROSE County scene: from such blessings come the strength and the spiritual wealth that beloved nation's noble -Arthur Robb in Editor Publisher. Mr.

Ely and Mr. Barbour, In William H. J. Ely Mayor Hague has the best Senatorial candidate he could get. Ely will have the support of the President, he has made few enemies, not too closely identified with Hague and has no religious handiIn mental gifts he cannot be cap.

compared with Senator Milton, who wisely decided not to run, but politically Ely is much less vulnerable, The WPA machine of which Ely was the head and which is now administered by his close friend, should be useful to his candidacy, since the Washington authorities encourage WPA participation in state elections. Although he is the ha candidate of Mayor Hague, Ely will run 88 a 100 per cent New Dealer, which creates a problem for W. Warren Barbour, who will be his Republican opponent. Barbour's record in the Senate that of a liberal Republican. He did not oppose too much of the New Deal and voted for Social Security and other progressive legislation.

He has counted on that record to win votes from liberal groups alienated Mayor Hague's labor policies in Jersey City. Opposition from New Dealer loudly pledging his support to the President should not tempt Barbour into reactionary position. This would be a great mistake. There is much in the New Deal that merits support. Indispensable reforms have been accomplished the Roosevelt administration.

Only the most conservative Republicans desire their repeal. Mr. Barbour's task is to' convince the New Jersey electorate that they should send to Congress not men pledged to follow the President blindly along whatever path he chooses take, but fair-minded, independent representatives who will accept leadership when it right and oppose it when it is wrong. -Newark Sunday Call, Carrying Burdens, There are those who feel that there is a certain virtue in carrying burdens. There little if any virtue in carrying burdens for the sake of the burden, if one has to carry them, the virtue lies in doing it as cheerfully and as best one can--and in making little fuss about the matter.

But the burden itself, as burden, is not the thing. A tired woman entered a street car one day carrying a heavy basket. Instead of placing the burden upon the floor or upon an empty seat, she continued to hold it, shifting Its weight now and then from one knee to the other and sighing heavily at each shift. A workingman seated across the aisle watched her for some time. When he could stand it no longer, he reached over and touched the woman on the arm.

"Madam," he said, "If you will set your basket down, the car will carry both It and you." There are, of course, burdens that cannot be so easily disposed of Another's burden may often be carried more easily than one's own and the effort to help put forth by a friend is wonderfully helpful to both. The burden is lightened and sometimes drops off. Who was it who the casual remark, "7 had a Emigrants Wings Buddenly, from nowhere and every where they gathered the only 4 days There handreda chess the peeped and whistled to one another- the older Ober this quite a suddenly they were and North America not see them again until April. It was the southward migration of the purple martins, almost the first of the birds to leave, and big "apartmant 00 poles MARY back yard are empty. The birds that have the farthest to dy leave fret.

of the warbJere have cone. Others remain till late Shore birds are on the wing. Tree and bank swallows follow the I martina. which spend their winters in South and Central America. Maeter Bobolink journeys In leisurely atager to Central Brazil The Aycateber family starts from north temperate America in August.

Robins. bluebirds, catbirds and sparrows start late, and the seedeaters are the last to go. Indeed, cardinals, mockingbirds, sparrows of various kinds, Carolina wrens and even robins and bluebirda, often spend the whole year in the Ohio and Potomac valleys. So. though we hardly realize It, migration has begun and will be at its height for a month after midSeptember.

Moulting Lime is a persod of quiet for the songiteha, durIng which the gayest dressers don sober traveling garb. None has fathomed the mystery of the bird migration Instinct. Nor can human wisdom understand how these tiny feathered ones find their way during long and perilous flights. Obviously, as William Cullen Bryant mused on the waterfowl There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless constThe desert and Illimitable airLone wandering, but not lost. -The Christian Science Monitor.

Good Formula, In good-natured editorial The Wall Street Journal offered formula for putting everything right In this country- or at least nearer right than it is. The Journal says that the basis of economic activity is the exchange by individuals of muscular energy and skill for food, clothes, good dwelling and an chair. Even the penniless and jobless man has purchasing power in the form of energy and skill. Why is there no exchange for millions of men at the present time? In the opinion of The Journal, for one or both of two reasons: (1) Other men ask prohibitive prices for what the jobless man needs in exchange for what he has to offer. (2) He himself asks 8 prohibitive price for what he tenders in 6x- change what he needs.

"Allowing for 8 little over-simplification," continues. The Journal, "here is the reason why men have to beg or starve in a land of abundance. Things rot in warehouses and men decay because they are kept apart by the obstinacy of price. It is that that drives a nation to the dignity of a natural right -for what is the essence of all public relief of every sort." As far as this analysis goes it is sound. But it overlooks one factor that cannot be ignored and that is debt.

Were it not for debt and the consequent interest, exchanges could be more freely made on the basis suggested. Incomes and prices could get into balance more promptly. Debt that takes half the Income of a nation and neither the principal nor interest of which can be shrunk, is barrier recovery. We must shrink our debts. Shrinking wages and prices isn't Ipswich (Mass.) News-Chronicle, BIG GUNS BOOMING, Anti-Airoraft Practice and Mine Testing at Fort Hancock.

Anti-aircraft artillery firing will take place tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 4:15 o'clock at Fort Hancock. Practice machine gun Aring at aircraft took place Monday and Tuesday and will be held Monday afternoon from 1 to 4:15 o'clock. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 6, 7 and 8, Headquarters battery of the Seventh coast artillery will conduct its annual service mine practice at Fort Hancock. Loaded mines will be planted within the area beginning 1,200 yards south of Sandy Hook Point light and west from the shore line 1,800 yards. The line mines will be 2,000 feet long and will be marked by three buoys.

It will be patrolled continuously. The military authorities state that the ares will be dangerous to all boats during the period mentioned. During the remainder of August test group of mines will be maintained in the same area. The line is marked by three buoys and is patrolled. These mines do not contain explosives and there is no danger other than the possibility of fouling anchors OF propellors.

TO EXHIBIT HIS STAMPS. Alexander D. Cooper to Show Unusual Philatelic Specimens, Alexander D. Cooper of Peters place, one of the charter members of the Monmouth County Philatelic society, will make an exhibition stamps and philatelic covers from United States, Canada and Newfoundland at the meeting of the soclety at the Red Bank borough hall Friday night. The society cordially invites anyone interested in philately to attend the meeting and see this fine exhibit which will begin promptly at eight o'clock.

The notices for this meeting were mailed from the Fort Hancock postoffice on the government's military reservation at Sandy Hook. They make an interesting addition to the collection of those who are specializing in covers mailed from army and navy postoffices. Wild animals in Alaska are valued at $08,000,000, The ABC's of B. P. R.

BALANCED PRICE RELATIONSHIPS By Theron MeCampbell the open the rind to for productivity. P. R. bring prosperity to the A. P.

I. must comse through by of old privileges to tavored will have B. P. majority of the their law makers, in ALL forms force Balanced Price Relationships between the products farmers and other earth workers the products of and other Industrial workers. The crest depression, which started with the agricultural panie of 1921 and continues unabated to this day, was caused by UNbalanced price relationships between foods and raw materials, and finished goods and services.

The only wAY under heaven by which the depression can be cured la through balanced price relationshipe between the products of earth workers and the products of factory workers including services. Let the prices farm crops and factory goods be brought into balanced relationships and the depression will vanish over night. Concentrated Industrial power, with the aid of high tariffs and the labor unions, have been able to hold up the prices of goods, no matter how much the demand for their products falls off. Since about of the costs of industrial goods goes for wages and salaries, starting with the raw materials from the earth, the prices of goods can not be much reduced without reducing wages, and that all governments have tried to prevent by every scheme that law makers could devise. Prof.

Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. calls this group the world of concentrated control of high and rigid prices, restriction of production, etc. Prof. Arnold says the opposite second world comprises "farmers, retailers and small business men their helpers, is a world of competition, of low flexible prices, large production and labor standards often at starvation level." He goes on say (in last Sunday's New York Times) that "the trouble with economic system is that the first these worlds works at cross purposes with the second." In effect he admits that governments must force anced price relationships between products of his concentrated industrial world and his competitive world of farmers and small business men.

All economists who write for newspapers and magazines are in agreement that the wide spread between the prices of finished goods and the farm crops other raw materials have defeated every attempt of government 1921 to restore prosperity, Further, every student of the problem admits that government can not the net income of farmers by or bonuses. Of course, temporary advances may be made by inflationary devices, but these methods no hopes for a prosperous agriculture, without which the nation of balanced price relationships between raw materials and finished goods. Generally speaking, the production of raw materials is highly competitive and prices low, while the production of finished goods is controlled by concentrated control, aided by high tariffs and supported by labor unions. Prof. Arnold says in effect, that the balanced price relationships must come by forcing the manufacturers to make the reductions in prices without reducing wages.

The manufacturers claim that this cannot be done, in which event Arnold (an Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. makes the startling statement "if it is not we are moving inevitably toward highly centralized industrial state like Germany and Italy." He should have added that this would be Socialism with a vengeance, and that that would be followed by Fascism under a dictator. No thoughtful citizen can afford to overlook the political-economic battle for the restoration of balanced price relationships. He has experienced the effects of many laws made to bring back prosperity only to And that his business is slumping with no hope in sight.

Farmers have been nearly ruined while waiting for the restoration of balanced price relationships. They are now facing their creditors and the tax collectors with little cash or credit left. And this is what man-made laws, Socialistio legislation, since the war period 20 years ago, has done to the food growers. If governments had forced Balanced price relationships between foods and goods we would not have had a business depression with the terrible losses of life and property. This is the price we pay for our experience in Socialism but the worst is yet to come.

Seventeen years ago this August was the date of the surrender of the American competitive system to Socialism. It was not then, and it is not now a partisan issue. Both of the dominant political parties are equally responsible for doing all in their power to UNbalance price relations between foods and goods. Further, NO political party this year will have the courage to demand that governments repeal the laws which have blocked the return of prosperity. Not until the people come into a realization that their only hope for prosperity is in balanced price relationships will the political leaders have the courage to commit their candidates to the repeal of the Socialistic legisiation which has wrecked the nation's economy, leaving millions of farmers and workers without profits or jobs.

Let as kill off Socialism and return to demooracy for our business affairs. not have prosperity. The greatest issue before the American people is the restoration of the or and to our of balthe the now and since now lift laws give can.