The. Town Manager 5500 Circulation in Teaneck Township
Copyright, 1931, by Teaneck Taxpayers' League.
VOL. I N~. 7 MARCH, 1932. TEANECK, N. J. PRICE FIVE CENTS School Board Control Welfare Funds Will Benefit Financial 'Clouds' Brighten; By Excellent Concert To Be To Be Guided Solely Given Ai School, March 11 1934 Pr~blem Nears Solution By Platform Pledges Music lovers of Teaneck will have an opportunity on March 11 Town Manager Volcker Cracks. First ~bst~cle With ~xcellent to enjoy an unusual musical treat Arrangement With Bankmg .Insbtubon; Enabhng New Board To Organize Soon; at modest cost, and at the same Legislation Now Pendmg At Trenton With League Sponsored time to augment the funds of the Majority of 5-4 Teaneck Welfare Organization, which are in urgent need of re Of unusual significance to Tea -whereby Teaneck can borrow plenishing. On that date an eve neck taxpayers was the commen money on tax anticipation or revt! The school election held in Tea ning concert will be given in High dation extended by Mayor and nue notes for the purpose of pur neck on February 9, for the elec School Auditorium in Teaneck by Council to Township Manager chasing and retiring the equivalent tion of three members of the board the Neighborhood Glee Club of the Volcker at the regular Council amount of outstanding township of education to hold office for a Northern Valley and the Teaneck bonds maturing in 1933 or 1934. meeting of Tuesday, February 16, Facts set forth later in this article term of three years, resulted in th.e Community Orchestra, presenting for it marked another step forward election of two of the three candi a program of carefully selected will show the importance of this dates endorsed by Teaneck Tax in the progress that i~ bein!\ stead achievement. male chorus and orchestra num ily made toward strai&"hten~ng out payers' League, Eugene Blanken bers. The first step taken toward horn and Gustav A. Escher, and the financial tangles mhented b.Y cleaning Teaneck's financial slate, It is expected that the hall will the present administration when •.t after the present administrati.pn one of the three members of the be crowded to overflowing, as the took office little more than fifteen board who were all running for general admission price is only took office, was to secure from the re-election, C. W. Brett. months ago. State Department of Municipal With three members of the fifty cents, and many organiza Mr. Volcker was congratulated Accounts a correct and official League elected a year ago-G. L. tions are co-operating in the sale and commended because he found audit of the township. This audit Clark John J. Draney and Gaston of tickets. The Teaneck Welfare it possible to make an arrange not only showed various defects in G. L. 'vallee-still in office for two Organization, however, which is ment-at a time when banks are methods ·of accounting, but also re sponsoring the event, has announc flatly refusing to loan money. ~9 more years·, the outcome on ~eb vealed the fact that on December ed that any couple paying $5 for other municipalities against an~ICI ruary 9 gave the League a maJor (Continued on Page 9) 31, 1930, the township's current ac ity of five to four in the. board, pated or delinquent tax collectiOns count owed the trust account $553.- which will soon be orgamzed by 000. This was money that ~ad election of a president, vice-presi been borrowed from time to tnue dent and other officers. in preceding years, out ·of funds The election brought out the Taxpayers' League Party Success paid in by property owners on lo heaviest vote, by far, th~t w.as ever cal assessments, to meet the run polled in a school election m Tea ning expenses of the government. neck, 3,353 ballots being cast, with The necessity to borrow was due votes for individual candidates as Teaneck Palm Gardens was the tenants, an eight-piece orchestra to delinquency ·of property owners follows: scene on ·saturday evening, Feb made up entirely of local talent and in paying their taxes. Eugene Blankenhorn ...... 1,723 ruary 6, of one of the largest gath including several members of the In the year 1931 this debt of the Gustav E scher ...... 1,691 Teaneck High School band. So current account to the tru~t ac~ erings ever assembled in Teaneck many wanted to play bridge, how C. W. Brett ·...... 1,680 for social enjoyment, in a bridge count was reduced by approximate Conrad Wedel ...... 1,674 ever that it was neces.;JRry to set ly $100 000 and in the same per party and dance held under the up than twenty bridge tables Chris Sheffe ...... 1,652 auspices of THE TOWN MAN ~ore iod the 'tow~ship bought in $263,000 F. W. Scholz ...... 1,638 AGER. on the second floor, but this still in bonds that will mature before While the difference between the left ample space for the dancers. the end of 1934, s•aving some $17,- The attendance at the party, Refreshments consisting of cof average of the votes cast for the which exceeded 400, was thorough 000 in interest charges. The new League candidates and those cast fee and cake, were served to the arrangement that has been nego ly representative of the best of players at their tables, and a prize, for their opponents was close, the Teaneck's social life. The party tiated by Mr. Volck~r will. ~ake outcome proved that a clear ma consisting of a bridge set of cards, it possible to buy m ad~Itlonal was informal, and was marked was furnished for the top-score jority of voters throughout Tea from beginning to end by a spirit bonds, and pay for them ~Ith t~x ueck favor the platform and pro of neighborly friendliness, ever;r· player at each table. revenue notes, thus red_!lcmg still gram of school affairs announced body having a good time. While the affair was conducted further the debt of the current by the League. This is unques There were no set speeches, and bv THE T 0 W N MANAG~R, account to the trust account. tionable, in view of the fact that no interruption of the merry-mak known to everyone as the official Financially speaking, Teane~k \he opposing can ::li_d ~ tes had all ing except to introduce Messrs. organ of Teaneck Taxpayers' has a very high hurdle to vault Jn had years of expenence as mem Blankenhorn, Escher and Wedel as League, it was noted that a large the years now close upon it. B?~ds bers of the board, and were the~e the candidates of Teaneck Taxpay percentage of those who attended amounting to $806,000 were ongm fore fully familiar with all deta1ls ers' League for the Board of E~lu were residents of Teaneck who ally written to mature in 1933 and of Teaneck's school system. cation and to conduct a drawmg have never been identified with the $1,609,000 in _1934. Part of these At a meeting of the Lea..,.ue af.. for p;izes contributed by advertis League in any way, including quit~ have been retned through the pur ter the election Mr. Wedel ex ers. a number known as opponents or chase of $263,000 in bonds in the pressed his appreciation of the It had been intended to confine the League when it was conducting lasot year. How much more can be honor conferred in the League's the bridge pl:'ying to the grouncl its campaign for a refe_r~ndum on retired as the result of the agree nomination, and said he hrd no floor and reserve the second floor the adoption of the mumcipal ma:r;t ment that Mr. Volcker has been fault to find with the work of the for dancing, to the excel~en~ m':'sic ager plan of government. This able to make with the Palisades (Continued on Page 24) furnished by Rudy Mannmg s Lieu- (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 2)
TEANECK PUNBEL~ ;:SEY TEANECK, 2 THE TOWN MANAGER
FINANCIAL "CLOUDS" count, will profit by any percent steps are already under way. false assets that have been car age below 97¥2 of par value at At the request of the Teaneck ried for years in the balance BRIGHTEN AS PROBLEM which the bonds may be acquired administration, Senator Ely has sheets. Part of this, for example, FOR 1934 CLEAR UP by the bank. In no case will the introduced at Trenton a bill that was attended to at the council township pay more than par for aims to relieve the situation for meeting of February 16, when var (Continued) the bonds. Teaneck and other municipalities ious items of assessment and taxes Trust Company in Englewood re Just what balance will remain that are facing similar problems. known to be uncollectible, and mains to be seen. That will depend of the debt of the current account If this bill, which is receiving amounting to about $500, were can upon li.ow many holders of the to the trust account will not be strong endorsement from all parts celled by council resolution. bonds can be found who are will exactly known until the state audi of the state, is enacted into law, it In a recent statement to the ing to sell on terms that are ad tors have made the auqit of 1931, will not be necessary for Teaneck press regarding the townsliip's fi vantageous to the township. Thr. or until it is known also what vol to include in its 1935 budget all nancial situation, and its sponsor maximum possible is about $450,- ume of bonds can be retired that part of the $1,571,000 assess ship of the bill introduced by Sen 000, or enough to complete pay through the new arrangement ment bonds still outstanding and ator Ely at the township's request, ment of the current account debt made with the bank. maturing in 1934 which the town Township Manager Volcker said: to trust account. In any event the high financial ship has not funds to retire upon "When Teaneck gets over the The interest charged on the tax hurdles facing Teaneck f9r 1933 maturity. 1934 peak, it will be in good finan notes will balance the interest that and 1934 have already been low The bill referred to, which was cial condition; but that peak forms otherwise would have to be paid ered to an appreciable extent, and first sponsored by Teaneck, is a peculiar cloud in our financial on the bonds. The bank will seli the clouded skies of the town known as Senate Bill No. 96, and sky. It isn't a question of Tea to the township any bonds it pur ship's financial predicament have is in the hands of the Senate Fi neck's credit, or its ultimate abil chases, at an advance of two and begun to clear. Nevertheless, it ls nance Committee. It permits· bor ity to pay its oblig-ations. It is one-half points. That means that certain that there will be a serious rowing, for the purpose of retiring simply a qestion of arranging to the township, besides liquidating crisis to meet in 1935 unless some assessment bonds that cannot be meet the peculiar schedule of ma to that extent the obligation of its thing is accomplished in the mean paid out of the trust account, by turities fixed at the time the var current account to its trust ac- time to avert it. To that end authorizing the issuance of Inter ious bond issues were floated. est Deficiency Notes, these to be "You might say Teaneck is in paid off in annual installments at the same fix as a tenant obliged to the rate of not less than one-half pay $1,000 a year rent, but whose of one per cent. of the assessed lease called upon him to pay $45 a valuation of the municipality, per month except in the month of June, year. and in that month to pay $505. If On the basis of Teaneck's pres his landlord would not agree to We deliver only the finest grades of ent ratables, this would amount to let him spread that $505 over the about $125,000 a year, and since year, he would have to borrow recent annual budgets have in money to meet the June payment, ANTHRACITE COAL and GENUINE KOPPER'S cluded an average of ap:proxi and then pay interest on the bor mately $110,000 a year for the rowed money until repaid. We can same purpose, this will mean an not change the maturity dates of SEABOARD COKE increase in the annual budgets so the bonds, so we want the oppor small that in all probability it will tunity of borrowing under such be taken care of by increase in rat conditions as are set up in the May we be favored with your next order? abies due to new construction, pending legislation." without causing any increase in the As an example of the p,eculiarity THANK YOU tax rate. of maturity dates fixed for various Another possible means of relief bond issues, that resulted in the lies in the fact that local improve total of $1,609,000 issued to mature ments costing $118,000 have been in 1934, one issue floated in Oc completed and asses'Sed in the tober, 1928, affords a good illus SWEEl~EY FUEL, INC. township during previous adminis tration. The total of that issue of trations, against which no bonds assessment bonds was $8Zi),000, BERGENFIELD, NEW JERSEY have ever been issued. When bond and the administration then in of market conditions offer a prospect fice. arranged that $20,000 should Teaneck 7-1126 Dumont 4-0131 of being able to make favorable mature in 1931, $20,000 in 1932, sale, such bonds can be issued and $124,000 in 1933 and $394,000 in COAL thus spread the payment of this 1934. Mr. Volcker would venture KOPPER'S SEABOARD COKE amount over a period of years. no opinion as to why this was done, Another step toward clearing the but it was the peculiarity of ma 75 books of the township was taken turity applying to this and other ,, by including in this year's budget issues that conspired to confront ...... , - j ~,. • $1{),000 as a sinking fund against Teaneck with the enormous total of maturities falling in the year f''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"''''''''''''''"'''''''''''''''''""''''''"'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''B 1934. By reason of the retirement of $263,000 in bonds last year, Mr. Volcker believes the remaining $383,059 maturing- this year and HENRY w. BEI-INKEN, JR. more than $8000,000 maturing next year can be taken care of with of Teaneck, New Jersey moneys that will be received for assessments falling due in those years, supplemented by surpluses Announces the opening of a new store in the current and trust accounts. According to his present estimates, 250 De Graw Avenue, Teaneck, N. J. however, it will be necessary to is sue about half a million dollars in (on :S. W. Corner of Queen Anne Road) Deficiency Notes under the pro ON A P R I L F I R S T posed law, in order to avoid the necessity of adding a heavy and burdensome amount to the budget Offering a complete line of Surgical Appliances for 1935. After 1934, outstanding bonds and special departments for male and female reach maturity at a rate that will present no serious problem. The patients. Expert attendants. total falling due in 1935 is $528,- 066; in 1936, $527,353; in 1937, Telephone Teaneck 6-0336, eft'·ective April 1st $424,181 and in 1938, $138,568. : 3J As soon as the 1931 audit is {!)ll l lll l lllll l l l ll l ll J 1111111 I 1111111111111 I 1111 1 1111111111111111111111111111111 l 111111 ~Ill~ 111111 I 1111111111111 J 11111 lllllllllllllllllllllllll l!l (Continued on Page 16) THE TOWN MANAGER 3 Save up to 50% on Fuel Bills! with America's Most Economical OIL BURNER
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ANNIVERSAR~ Y SALE Service, Devotion and Sacrifice Needed Now MARCH 15-APRIL 1 By G, G. L. VALLE Member of the Teaneck Board of Education COLONIAL DRESS SHOP Vice President, Hurlson County National E:o.nk John Masefield, the English (E. E. WIL"SON) poet, says that in the Spring of 1917 he stood at a point on the 1448 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, N. J. British line in Flanders. Across the road from him were great piles Absolute Reduction on All Merchandise of broken sewing machines and Wonderful Values - Many Articles at household goods; and on the side of the road nearest him was a long and Below Cost. line of broken men. Suddenly, out Telephone Teaneck 7-5621-W of the dust of the road, a Brilish 16M Tommy came running up waving a f!]ttllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIo,l!] newspaper in his hand, and he cried out: "Hurrah! Hurrah! Am erica has declared war on the blighters". An older, more thoug·ht ful British soldier, standing near, said: "Now, thank God, we will The Shampoo . that . includes have a decent world again." I thought of the statement of a scalp treatment that British soldier, anrl I wonder ed if deep in his heart was a real ization of the fact that the foum:a tions of this Republic were laid in The I-Iarper Method Shop Service and Devotion and Sacrifice. I stood not long ago in Fair For appointmer1t phone Englewood 3-1827 mount Park in Philadeiphia before the statue of Witherspoon, the only Room 201 Reeps Building clergyman who s-igned the Decla ration of Independence. In his Park Place ancl Engle Street Englewood, N. J. day not all men were patriots; G. G. L. VALLE : lJ ~ many of them were Tories. And I!:J· · ··IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[!] some of the Tories cam ~ to the old man and demanded to know why There sat down in the Common
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JOHN SKALA NOW AT 37 Intervale Road West Englewood H~taubarbH PHONE: TEANECK 7-1038 Plumbing Fixtures • 139 : (I!]IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlltiiiiiiiiiiiiiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIf!flflllllllllfiiiiiiiiiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItll!l THE TOWN MANAGER 5 The Itnportance of Art In City Planning ·1------· By CURTIS GANDY, Jr. VISIT OUR STORE FOR THE I have been asked to contribut-~ an article on the subject "The Im portance of Art In City Planning". NEWEST IN The request caught me at a cJis advantage, so much that I had to spar for time to find ou'" if I real ly had any ideas worth mentionins~ EASTER APPAREL on the subject. And even now, af ter the lapse of a month, I enter tain doubts of the pract ~cal valu() of this d1gest of my ideas, inspira tions and study, for they have bee~ arrived at by an intensive and al together too brief study of this LOBEL'S important subject. Of the import ance of the subject there can be n-) doubt, for it has long and glori·· ous history of applicabion begin nig 450 or 500 years B. C. do~.·n t3 KIDDIE SHOP our present time. I conceive the aims and purposes of City Planning to have been i:1 MAIN STREET the past peculiarly linked to th~ 160-162 principles of Art, and its close rel ative Architt>cture. The comhined purpose is hygienic-economic-so HACKENSACK, cial-esthetic and ethical: seekinr, to foster a better humanity through CURTIS GANDY, Jr. better environment. It is fore llllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII' sight-common sense an T...... ~ Teaneck Now the Home of Bergen County's Most Modern Fully Inclosed Fuel Depot. Fuel Now Stored In Clean Bins. Your Protection from Rain - Snow and Ice. "IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE." OPPER'S COKE "BLUE COAL" KSEABOARD West Englewood Coal and Supply Co. TELEPHONE TEANECK 7-2400 17M g 011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1111111111111111111111111118 THE TOWN MANAGER 7 tives sat down and said: "For our ~IIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIJI B E R G E N SERVICE AND DEVOTION twenty-four billions of dollars of COUNTY NEEDED NOW IN U. S.; expenditures, we ask not one cent R SEE PRESSING TIMES of indemnity; for the seventy thou A sand white crosses, graves of Am D (Continued) E>rican boys in Flanders and Picar I executive. So day after day, with dy, we ask not one foot of any 0 his marvelous eloquence and his body's territory," then these lineal powerful voice, he thundered descendants of Alexander and Cae Rgainst the ratification of the con sar and Napoleon and the great c stitution by that convention. On conquerors of the past said: "This 0 three days he made five speeches, is a strange doctrine in statecraft. on five days he made three Haven't you come over here to speeches, on one day ·he mac!e trade for anything; don't you want seven speeches, .and upon one oc anything?" And our representa (;asion was on his feet for seven tives answered, "No, we don't want anything except this: that the prin IUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII hours at one time protesting 111111111111111111111111111111111 NOT "UP TO S~UFF"? ciples of democracy that have against the ratification of the con 111111111111111111111111111111111 meant so much to us may be en IIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIflllllll stitution. And so powerful was HAVE AN EXPERT his voice and influence that Wash throned in the capitals of Euroue." ANY In blank astonishment the forgian ington feared that Henry, single RADIO TUNE IT UP. ALL WORK handed, would defeat the purpose representatives remarked, "These of the convention and that Virginia people are idealists, they're dream SEHVICED AND would fail to ratify. Washington ers." CALL US NOW sat down and wrote a letter to Well, let's see how the dreamer's FOR PARTS USED po)icy of tb.e square deal has paid WHY WAIT? Madison and said to him, "Can't GUARANTEED: you do something to change the th1s country. A few years ago we channel of Henry's thoughts ? " owed Great Britain so much FOR SIX ~ But after that convention, by a money that our annual interest bill very narrow vote, had ratified the · to them was one hundred and fifty MONTHS constitution, Henry sat down and millions of dollars. Today Great lllfiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIU Britain owes us so much money IIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItiUI wrote a letter to Washington. In 1111111111111111111111111111 11111 it he said: "Sir, I have opposed ~hat she must pay us every year in IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIII with all my power many of the mterest one hundred and fifty mil provisions set forth as the funda lions of dolla1~s. A few years ago mental doctrine of this land. But we owed the European nations four since the convention has seen fit to billions of d~ll~rs. Today they ratify. the constitution, I pledge ow~ us ten b1lhons of dollars and you, s1r, my heart and my hand to the1r annual interest bill to us is carry out every single feature of ~ve hundred millions of dollars. A that document." A rather strik The United States comprehends H ing contrast to the effort we see only six per cent. of the world's T today in some quarters to regard population and only seven per cPnt. the constitution of the United of the land. Yet every year we 4 States as not quite so worthy of produce seventy per cent. of the Competent and Licensed Radio Engineers Do Your Work emulation as it was in days gone C?pper, sixty-·six per cent. of the by. 01!, seventy per cent. of the cot w Authorized Ag.ent For Again I say, I speak of Service ton, seventy-five per cent. of the A and Devotion and Sacrifice. You corn, fifty-two per cent. of the R FRIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC REGRIGERATOR coal, forty per cent. of the iron and may say to me, "Isn't that a little As low as $10.00 delivers one in your home. hit too idealistic? Politics are ~>~eel, thirty-three per cent of the R s1lver, twenty-five per cent. of the E rather practical." However, I pro We Are Authorized Dealers For pose to demonstrate to you in a gold. We onerate forty per cent. N moment that the most practical of the . world's railroads, we pro Philco--R. C. A.-Victor and All Standard Make Radios man in all the world is the dream duce nmety-five per cent. of the er who has a real vision. There is world's automobiles, sixty per cent. s a story in the Old Book of a boy of all the telephones in the world T. H A C K E N S A C K ...... ~~~ called Joseph. He went down one are in the United States; and, as a clay to feed his father's flocks at reason for some of those figures Dothan. His brothers saw him perhaps I might go on and say that Gl"'"""'"""""'"""'"'""""~~~;.. ~·~~·~~"';;~~~·~~~...... , coming, and they said, "Behold, the (Continued on Page 8) dreamer cometh." They sought to do away with him, but finally bet ter counsel prevaihd, by reason of • • PARFAIT SERVICE STATION the intervention of the oldest Teaneck 6-6368 CHARLES, L. KAUFMAN brother, and they then decided to send. him down into Egypt with a AUTO ACCESSORIES passmg carayan. Long years after Meadow Service that a famme occurred in their Expert Auto Repairing in All Branches own land, and their father sent 1597 Teaneck Road Teaneck, N. J. them down into Egypt after corn. Repair Shop 7M: Strangely enough when they ooot CHARLES H. TURNBULL [!] 11111111111111111 I IIIII II 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I 11111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 11111111 11[!] there they found this dreamer ~d Prop. the dreamer had the corn. Now this country of ours was founded We recondition any make Teaneck 6-4991 upon the poHcy of asking for our of automobile, foreign or selves only those things that we domestic. It will pay you are willing to accord to all the na WM. LUDEWIG Uons of the ear.th. It is true that to consult us. our tourists abroad, a few years PLAN YOUR SPRING PLANTING NOW! ago, spent their money with such a Towing lavish hand that the European peo Day and Night Service SIHEEP MANURE, BONE MEAL, HUMUS, LIME, VIGORO, ple said: "Why these people from GRASS, SEED-FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS the United States are a nation of FORT LEE ROAD = 321 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, N. J. _ money grubbers; they're a nation Near Glenwood Ave. : 68: of dollar-changers," and there 0••111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[!] seemed to be some justice in that Teaneck, N. J. criticism. But when at the peace 100 Patronize Our Advertisers table at Versailles our representa- II • 8 THE TOWN MANAGER back to us were things of Devotion SERVICE AND DEVOTION &nd Sacrifice. For instance, in the i...... ~~··;~;;·;;~·~~;~··~·~~··~~··~~·~~··~~:~·~"; ...... NEEDED NOW IN U. S.; summer of 1915, the British High l Seas Fleet fought a battle with the SEE PRESSING TIMES German Fleet off the coast of .Jut (Continued} land. About half past four o'clock in the afternoon, Rear Admiral ninety per cent. of all the bathtubs Hood of the Third Battle Crui~er = in the world are in the United Squadron thought he heard firing States. to the southeas t. He sent the I have mentioned those figures Scout Cruiser Chester under com not that you and I ought to be mand of Captain Lawton to inves Loastful. We have somewhat too tigate the cause of the firing. The much of a tendency that way. But Chester soon found out what I have mentioned them in order brought on the firing because in a that you and I might have a bet~er few minutes she was engaged with sense of appreciation and a finer three German Battle Cruisers. At feeling of respect for those men the very first salvo of guns, the who laid the foundations upon Germans got the range and every which this great republic has rear man in the forward gun crew of ed its magnificent structure. the Chester was killed, leaving only Wendel Phillips once said: a little British Midshipman, John "What imprudent men the bene Travers Cornwell, by name, four NEW YORK BUSES factors of the race have been. teen years of age. This little f el Most men prudently sink into low stood leaning upon an over Express Service Lowest Fares nameless graves, turned gun, with his right arm But now and then a few forget shot off at the shoulder and a piece Dependable Comfortable themselves dnto Immortality." of explosive shell imbedded in his When Lincoln was debating with hip. Captain Lawton sent a lieu Stephen A. Douglass, before che tenant up the deck to find out what 30 MINUTE SERVICE Civil War in Illinois, that great had happened to the forward gun series of debates which had so crew. As the lieutenant approach from Hackensack, Teaneck, West Englewood, much to do with settling the great question of slavery, a friend came ed him young Cornwell squared his Englewood, New York to Lincoln and said to him: "Mr. legs as best he could, raised his Lincoln, if you continue to take the left hand in salute and said: "Any NEW YORK TERMINAL-4297 BROADWAY position that Nebraska and Kansas orders, lieuhmant, any orders?" have not the 1ight to say for th<;m and fell dead. This :incident arous (Near 183rd Street) Also Stops at selves whether they will come into ed such tremendous interest in the 182nd Str,eet and St. Nicholas Avenue the Union slave or free, you will British Navy that Read Admiral lose your chance to go to the Unit Hood, reporting to his home gov I 80th Street and Wads worth A venue ed States Senate." Lincoln replied, ernment, made a special order of "My dear friend, slavery is eithe1 the Day, and the King of Engbnd right or it is wrong. I believe it wrote a letter to the mother of the iF wrong, and if it is, no state ran hoy in which he said that the Ma have local option in slavery." And jesty and Glory of the Great Brit JERSEY BUS LINES, Inc. then he went on, "I appreciate your ish Empire had never been so ex interest in my political fortunes. emplified as !in the heroic death 152 South Van Brunt St., Englewood, N. J. It is a matter of no consequence and sacrifice of this little boy. The whether Abe Lincoln goes to the strange sequel to it was that all FOR INFORMATION PHONE ENGLEWOOD 3-5071 United States Senate, but it's a over England recruiting clubs Connects in New York with 181st Street Broadway matter of the deepest importance sprang up called Jack Cornwell's that I should be true to myself H,ecruiting Clubs. and it was esti Subway. Subway Fare 5c direct to any place in mated that in four months forty Manhattan or Brooklyn. and unto the cause I believe in." And when Loncoln for four lung thousand men aligned themseh·es - 12M§ under the banner of the Empire in l!lllllll111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I IIIIUIIIIJIIIIIII U llllllllllt U 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1::] years had been Chief Executive of this great nation, and had carried the fight for civilization as the l'e I!] ' IIIIIII;IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllm upon his heart the b11rden of the sult of the death and sacrifice of this little boy. Telephone Englewood 3-1033 Teaneck 7-1252 South as well as of the North, and had finally been striken down by You and I are always talking the bullet of an assassin, as he iay about the things of power. We upon his last bed with the breath like to talk about our tremendons Wu F. SWEENEY and SON passing from his body, Seward who bank balances, and we like to roll stood nearby turned to Stanton under our tongues those figures I HOMES-LOTS-ACREAGE and said, "Now he belongs to '.:he gave you a few moments ago. But :1ges.'' Thus indeed had this great I tell you that the things of real 1440 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, N. J. heart forgotten himself into im power, the things that mark the mortality. course of empires, things that con Office on Windsor Rd., at Churchill, West Englewood Again I say it, I speak of Service trol human destiny, are seldom dis 6M: ::tnd Devotion and Sacrifice. For I cussed by you and me in our bank l!l··············································································································································l'3 know that in spite of all our pcwer ing houses Hs we pore over rmr 8 11111111111111111UIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIII1111111111111111111rq and wealth and influence, the great discounts and figure out our ledger balances. Phone Teaneck 7-4191 moving forces of the world are not expressed in dollars and cents. We From the standpoint of sheer go and look at the monuments power, as men view power, in the elected to the great men of earth. summer of 1915 the most power They invariably record not what ful figure in human history was MARY LOlJISE SHOPPE the dead have received but what William of Germany. He was run they have given. You never saw a ning- through' trains from Antwerp LUNCHEOIN AND AFTERNOON TEAS monument erected to a great man on the North Sea to the Tigris and simply because he had accumlated the Euphrates in the far east with a great sum of money, and I hope German engineers and German eon 9 West Englewood Ave. West Englewood, N. J. you never will. The human meas ductors. And his armies lay coiled 14M [!]•••••nllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltii:J ure of the human life is its income; like a huge snake across the Con the divine measure of a human !ife tinent of Europe with the tail in is its outgo and its contribution to the Ural Mountains of RuRsia and ::Pulling Powe<~ of Ads In uManager" the welfare of the world. the head almost lapping the Eng- Out of that welter of blood and lish Channel. But from the stand Depend Upon Co-operation Of Public tears that we call the World War, point of moving, resistless power, the very finest things that came (Continued on Page 21) THE TOWN MANAGER 9 in existence for some time, holding WELFARE FUNDS TO its meetings at Longfellow school BENEFIT BY CONCERT on Oakdene Avenue under the di AT SCHOOL, MARCH II rection of Wilbur Hamje, who is still the director of the larger or- • ganization. (Continued) The orchestra includes several two tickets will be listed as pat members of recognized high stand rons and patronesses of the con ing in musical circles and its mem FEATURED WITH cert, the list to be printed on the bers are constantly being augment concert programs. It is believed ed by new recruits. It has al many will take advantage of this ready appeared in one public pro opportunity to help that much gram that was creditably rendered WALTER GRAF more in meeting the dite needs and highly enjoyed, and music lov of the unemployed in Teaneck. ers of Teaneck look forward to the . This will be the first appearance time when this orchestra shall hold AND HIS m Teaneck of the glee club, which high rank as a musical organiza is one of the oldest musical organ tion and enhance the reputatton qf TROUBADOURS izations in Bergen County. It in Teaneck as a high-class, cultured cludes in its membership a num community. ber of Teaneck singers, other mem Both of these musical organiza A Dance Orchestra of Distinction bers residing chiefly in Tenafly, tions, the oldest and the youngest Englewood, Closter, Leonia, Dema in this section of Bergen County, 24 Tessen Street Teaneck, N.J. are giving their· services free for rest, Cresskill Palisades Park and Telephone Te::n:~e c k 6-5677 Haworth, with a few in other this concert, the only cost fbr .the program being an allowance to the ; IF~ towns·. 811111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I I I '' 111111111111111111 I I I 111111111111111 J 1111 11 1 J 11111111111 ; 11111111 .IFJ The history of the Neighborhood Neighborhood Glee Club for ex Glee Club of the Northern Valley penses in getting their member is most interesting. It started in sbip together for rehearsals and for their appearance here. r...... , Tenafly in 1905 as a quartet, which quickly attracted much favorable The committee formed by Tea notice and soon expanded into a neck Welfare Organization to take glee club, which now has a mem charge of arrangements for the bership of more than sixty. Its concert includes the following: musical director at present is J. E. Mesdames R. I. Inglehart, Geo. H. Corneille, choir leader of one of Perryman, Ritchie Brooks•, Jr., W. the largest churches in Englewood. A. Miller, John H. Ranges, F. W. REO DE The organization is a member of Shulenberger and 0. P. Morrow, rLYMOUTH the Associated Glee Clubs of Amer and Messrs. Geo. L. O'Hare, Geo. ica, and for many years has been A. Lampe, J. F. Convery, J. P. rated as one of the outstanding Birch, Herbert B. Ivins, Albert L. male choruses of the eastern part Nelson, F. W. Scholz, Rev. Richard of the United States. Baxter, Rev. Charles Kemble, MC CRANE Al.JTO CO. The present officers of the Glee Henry Deissler and Frank A. Mor Club are: President, Harvey Dunn rison. Tenafly; vice-president and secre~ 'Several local organizations have 279-281 PASSAIC STREET t:;try, R. E. Gulnac, Englewood; as already undertaken to dis~ose of sistant secretary, R. K. Dunn. Ten blocks of tickets, includmg the afly; treasurer, J. Amiel Grahn, Women's Auxiliary of Teaneck Hackensack, New Jersey Jr., Tenafly, and librarian, F. Taxpayers' League, Teaneck W o Dean Storms, Norwood. men's Club, St. Anastasia's Altar Of greatest interest is the his and Scapular Society, the High PHONES: HACKENSACK 2 .. 7170-7171 torical background of the name of School Parent-Teacher Association and the two musical organizations 20M§ the organization. For a long per I!JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllltltllllltttlltnanutnn•annlllllrnn•nlnllnlnlnlnnlnlnnu1 1ulu111111111111111 [!) iod ?f years, and ,until about a gen that are to furnish the program. eratiOn ago, various areas in this With a program of such out section of Northern New Jers•e y standing attract1veness offerea at ·------· were known by various neighbor so low a price, and in support of Tel. Teaneck 7-0442-7-0567 hood names. East of Teaneck, be so worthy and needy a cause, the tween the Palisades and Overpeck Welfare Organization anticipates IF YOU WANT GENUINE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI creek, was a tract known as the a generous response of citizens in Stop At English Neighborhood, while west the purchase of both general ad ?f Overpeck creek, including what mission and patron-and-patroness IS now Teaneck and extending far tickets. The organization set out BL{JEBIRD INN at the beginning of the season to the north, was the Dutch Neigh BENNY ROSSI, Prop. bor hood. In other nearby locations· with the raising of $12,000 for were the Swedish Neighborhood emergency unemployment relief as Teaneck Road at Cedar Lane Teanecl~:, N. J. and others. Hence the name (Continued on Page 20) "Neighborhood" harks back to a time when the early Dutch settlers dominated this entire countryside llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllll. -a fact known to comparatively Teaneck 6-07 48 few of the present residents of JAMES E. DALLERY Phone Eng-lewood 3-4372 Teaneck. MEAT MARKET In Teaneck Community Orchestra, free drawing for set of dishes started within the last few months, once a month Teaneck has a purely local musi 370 Queen Anne Road A.DRIAN'S cal organization that bids fair to Nr. Farrant Ter. Teaneck grow rapidly to equal fame. In re 106 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. BAKERY AND PASTRY SHOP sponse to a movement first spon sored by Teaneck Taxpayers' 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111•111111~1"·1111 League, at the suggestion of May Teaneck 7-3434 § 1350 TEANECK ROAD TEANECK, N. J. : or Karl D. Van Wagner, it started W. Englewood Market A rn: with a small orchestral group as CHARLES !{.LOEBER, Prop. I!] I I 1111111111111 I 11111111111111 I 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 1111111111111111 1111111111111 J 1111111111 J 11 ~ 1 u U Ill 1 llllllllllllll El a nucleus and has grown already Everything for the table to a membership of thirty, includ 210 W. Englewood Ave. ,_()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-().. ing the mayor himself as one of Tean-eck, N. J. the violinists. 30 Patronize Our Advertisers The original small group had been 1111111111111111111&11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 10 THE TOWN MANAGER TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE ern Floors Co. ·------· 7-0ne ornate glass relish dish; D R I V E PARTY WAS BRILLIANT William Ludewig. SUCCESS; ALL PLEASED 8-Two $3.50 boxes fancy crack ers; Sunshine Biscuit Co. THE WIZA-RD CONTROL (Continued) 9-0ne box Hubigant perfumes; was particluarly pleasing to those Phelps Manor Drug Co. in charge of the publication of 10-0ne imported bath towel; BUICK for 1932 THE TOWN MANAGER, who Novelty Curtain Shop. from the start have endeavored to 11-0ne smoked, sugar-cured ham; make it a newspaper representing Fred Walther & Son. Now On Display 12-0ne $5 clothes-pressing ticket; both sides in every public is,sue The Plaza Tailor. AT an open forum where all interested in the welfare of Teaneck may-pre 13-0ne quart of milk daily for a month; Borden Milk Co. 404 CEDAR LANE, TEANECK, N. J. sent their views and suggestions in 14-0ne leg of lamb; Community frank discussion. Market. TEL. TEANECK 6-8310 The official life of the township 15-0ne set of calling cards; Dit was quite fully represented in the tus and Bisig. STILLMAN and HOAG, Inc. attendance. Among those present, 16-0ne box finest writing paper with their wives or other members' and envelopes; A. Roffman. BUICK DEALERS of their families, were: Mayor Karl D. Van Wagner, Concilmen The generosity of the advertisers Louis G. Morten, Samuel S. Paquin of THE TOWN MANAGER was Service Station in rear of Showroom at above address and Frederick T. Warner, Town further expressed by the donation 74 ship Manager Paul A. Volcker, of all the delicious cakes and Township Clerk Henry E. Diehl, goodies that were served as re ·------1· Tax Collector Richard J. Pearson freshments, and which were a ellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIO[!] and Assessor Arthur Raymond, be splendid demonstration of the sides Deputy Clerk Clara Christen quality of their products. These Teaneck 7-0578 sen, also many members of advis were contributed by the following ory boards and subordinates em Teaneck bakeries and restaurants: KOBBE and FLANNERY'S GARAGE ployed in various township depart Cedar Lane Bakery, 448 Cedar ments. Lane. Half the space of the dance floor McDonald's Pastry Shop, 424 DAY AND NIGHT TOWING SERVICE was crowded with an eager throng Cedar Lane. while numbers were drawn for the Catherine Seaman, 121 Cedar AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING - ACCESSORIES prizes generously contributed by Lane. the advertisers of THE TOWN Tasty Baker Shop, 1197 Teaneck 1188 Teaneck Uoad West Englewood, N. J. MANAGER. Chairman Frank A. Road. : 71 l!IIIIJIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIS Jennings calleQ-01rt the lucky num Queen Anne Bakery, 312 Queen bers and presented the prizes, as Anne Road. , 1!]1111111111111111111 HIll I 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 U I ~ 111111111 U 111111111111111111111111 I 111111111111111111111111 [F1 his little daughter, Margaret, drew The Tea-Nook Restaurant, Tea the numbered tickets from the neck Road, opposite Town Hall. depths of a basket in which they Schraft's Candy 'Stores, of New Phone Dumont 4-1327 had been well shaken, while the York. crowd scanned the numbers on Before the distribution of prizes, their ticket stubs. The prizes, in in order to get the dancers quiet the order of their award, and their ed down and attentive, Chairman ABT'S MOTOR SALES donors, were as follows: Jennings dis,tributed copies of "A Song to Teaneck," written by OLDSMOBILE - SALES AND SERVICE l-One ton Sweeney's best coal; Councilman Samuel S. Paquin and Sweeney Fuel Co., Inc. first sung at the anniversary din 210 S. Washington Avenue Bergenfield N. J. 2-0ne Puritan ham; Ideal Mar ner of Teaneck Taxpayers' League ket. 18J § last November 11, and called on the G···············IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIII I IIIIIIIIIIIIIJ~UIJIJIUIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIII!J 3-0ne beautiful potted fern; H. crowd to join in singing it while Encke, Florist. the melody of "Tramp, Tramp, 4-0ne all-wool blanket; Home Tramp, the Boys Are Marching," Town Laundry. was played by the orchestra. The Telephone Teaneck 7-2954 5-0ne all-lace tablecloth; Weav audience joined in with a will, the ers. words of the song being as follows: 6-0ne inlaid bridge table; Mod- MIDWAY AUTO REPAIR SHOP I There's a town where beauty HENRY BODEHCK, Prop. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 dwells- GASOLINE - OIL --- ACCESSORIES Wood and M.etal Work W oo~ed hills and flowery dells' Falrer spot you'll never find, Repairs of Etwy Description Tops and Slip Covers where'er you roam; 1555 Teaneck Road Teaneck, N. J. Chassis Straightened Loyal friends and comrades dear - D: Welcome us with right good cheer, {!JIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG Cars Polished Welding When we greet them in our own New Jersey home. [!]11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[!) EXPERT AUTOMOBILE PAINTING CHORUS TREES SHRUBS Here's our toast to dear old Tea neck- CUSTANCE BROTHERS $35.00 and up Town we're proud to call our home: Nurnrrymrn - 1£anbnraprrn Nickel and Chrome Plating One and all we pledge anew: LOW PRICES TREE SURGERY GOOD SERVICE To our town we'll e'er be true, And we'll spread its fame abroad Have A Real Lawn Next Year-PLAN NOW! JOHN SWEIKOW where'er we roam. NURSERY 182 LARCH A VENUE _ NEW PALTZ, N. Y. Teaneck 6-0708-W 403 Glenwood Avenue II : 36: We will boast of Teaneck's fame miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[!J And defend its honored name, Telephone Teaneck 6-7223 Proud to say we live in Bergen's Teaneck N.J. finest town. 81 From the towering Palisades' Patronize Our Advertisers IIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll (Continued on Page 20) THE TOWN MANAGER 11 Manager P. Volcker SPREAD OF DISEASE ·------· Reports On Progress DANGERS ARE MANY; DOES YOUR INSURANCE INSURE, WARN FOOD HANDLERS OR DOES IT INDEMNIFY? Of Unemployed Aid· By W. F. REYNOLDS If you would be free from Insurance Worries, Renew your policies with Under date of February 10, Persons who are afflicted with Township Manager Volcker ad communicable diseases, or are car dressed to members of the Joint riers of disease germs, may intro CLARENCE LOFBERG Committee of the Township Coun duce disease germs into foods "THE AGENCY OF PERSONAL SERVICE" cil and the Board of Education on which they handle. Foods may be the High School Athletic· Field, an divided into three classes accord TEANECK NATIONAL BANR BUILDING interesting and detailed report ing to their likelihood to transmit Palisade Avenue at Cedar Lane showing the progress of the work infection from those who handle Phone Teaneck 6-8854 up to that time. them to those who eat them: 79 Taking up first the area east of (1) Foods which are cooked be the High School building, the re fore they are eaten are not likely ·------· port shows that the work of rough to transmit infection. grading that space has been com (2) Foods which are to be eaten Teaneck 6-6262 pleted, involving the moving of raw are possible sources of infec about 4,000 cubi~ yards of eart]l.. tion, but are not likely to be dan The deepest cut made was ten feet gerous provided they are properly CHAS. D. WALKER at the southwest corner, and the cleaned. deepest fill 8lh feet at the north (3) Foods in kitchens and those REALTOR east corner. The entire area has which are ready to be served at been leveled, and in the early table are likely to transmit infec Real Estate and Insurance spring, as soon as the fill has set tion from infected cooks, waiters Comer Cedar Lane and Palisade Avenue tled and dried, drainage will be and clerks. Soup, meat broths, placed and the top will be fine stews, and boiled potatoes are sim Teaneck, N. J. graded, the type of top surface not ilar to the culture-media used in 82: yet having been decided. laboratories, and when they are in G::IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111118 The work in front of the High fected, bacteria of disease may School building is next discussed. grow in them readily. Lunch ·------· The report shows that most of the counters, restaurants, delicatessen Teanc:ck 6-7477 Evenings Teaneck 6-- 3286 trees that have to be removed stores, and other places in which have already come down. A few food is sold ready to be eaten TEANECK DEVELOPMENT CO. of those still standing at the top spread diseases far more readily of the slope in front of the building than butcher shops, groceries, and will go later, also half a dozen or similar food stores in which most BUILDERS more of those near the corner of of the foods sold are cooked or Williams' Quality Homes at Quantity Prices Queen Anne Road and Cranford cleansed before they are eaten. Place. Grading started about Feb The principal diseases which are Elm Avenue at Cedar Lane Teanecl{, N. J. ruary 1 on the field that will ex transmitted by means of foods, are GUST. WILLIAMS, President tend from the west side of the those of the intestines, especially 87 space reserved for a football grid typhoid fever. Cooks have been iron and running track, west to known, who have been spreaders ·------~------· Queen Anne Road, which is to be of typhoid fever for years, and • • used for soccer and baseball. have produced cases in nearly When this area has all been every place in which they work. AUTO-INS-AT-OLD-RATES! graded with a very slight slope to These carriers may be detected by expedite surface drainage and dry modern methods of laboratory ex ROY E. WILLIAMS ing, it will receive first a light aminations of their excretions. layer of sludge from the dis·iposal Diseases of the throat and respir "Insurance and Nothing Else" plants and then be covered with a atory organs may also be trans four-inch layer of topsoil, in which mitted by means of foods which 137 4 Teaneck Road 95 Maiden Lane there will be a mixture of suitable are handled by infected persons or carriers. The best known exam West Englewood, N. J. New York City fertilizer. Arrangements for se Teaneck 7-5430 Phones: Beekman 3-7684 curing the topsoil are under way, ples of diseases, which are food and it is expected that the plot borne, are septic sore throat, diph will be in shape for seeding not theria and . scarlet fever by means • later than. April 1, which will in of milk, but any other cooked food sure by fall a turf heavy enough may also transmit the diseases. ·------· for football. "A Healthful Sport at a Healthful Resort" Just how soon work can start Prevention on the space that will be used for The prevention of food infection the football field and running and of food borne diseases con Phelps Manor Bowling Academy track, and for the stadium, the re sists in: The education of the port shows, will depend on how public; the inspection of places in LOUIS FINK soon the heavy excavation work re which food is prepared and sold. quired can be done advantageous Public education regarding food Cedar Lane Teaneck, N. J. ly. There is about 25,000 cubic borne diseases may be conducted Phone Hackensack 6-8709 yards of earth to be removed. along two general lines: 46 Brewster & Son have signified (1) Instruction regarding the their desire to have all this earth preparation of foods so as to de ·------· for fill, and their willingness to stroy whatever infection that be remove it without cost to the town in them. ship as soon as conditions permit. (2) Arousing the public to de This will depend chiefly on the mand cleanliness and sanitary weather, and the date when their methods o f handling foods in steam shovels will actually com places in which foods are sold. plete the work is still indefinite. Financial loss from lack of trade Realtors - Insurance in all its branches The report points out that, whilP is an effective means of influencing INSURE IN SURE INSURANCE it is certain that the permanent food dealers to adopt sanitary football field will not be in shape methods of food handling. West Englewood Avenue Teaneck, N. J. for play next fall, this will be to REAL ESTATE - MORTGAGES - INSURANCE the ultimate advantage of the field, W. F. REYNOLDS, 98 (Continued on Page 24) • Health Officer. [!)1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111U1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1::1 ------ 12 THE TOWN MANAGER AUTOMOfliLE. ROUTES HOLLAIID TUBES-To ToNNflL~ A.Vf. RIC;t!T ON S.H(DTHRU fAIRVIEW U M 0 ~ T RIDGEFIELD,IIEAR LEFT ON S.H.~ TO C.ll.lJ('"-~ND ~YE) THRU P~L K. LHT TURN C. H. .sc. (FORT LfE !'.DAD) lfONIA.THENCf STkAI(ji\T TO @ / ' .. TEANECK < i ( ll,J Tu~:-r;i ~~~~J~T ~r·v':o.~{;PJ ! ~ AT MANHATTAN AVf. TO S.H.(l) '!'HENCE AS AI'IOVf. TO TfANfCK ELECTRIC FERRIES Z3&a SI. RIGHT ON EAST IILYD.RIGHT 011 C. H. 27 THRU CLIFfS I Df. f'K TO S.H@ fORT lff.IHE.NCE © STRAIGHT AHEAD ON C.IU4 TO C.l\. 33(c"uo AV!.). THENCE RI<;HT TO . C. H. 51;. (fORT LU Ro.o.o). THENCE LEFT TO TEANECK 42.1!.• ST. fERRY TO WEEHAWKUt COHLANDT ST." . W£H SHQI!.E. P.&l LROAD RICHT AT ~ST riLV'D.THENCf. .St.ME. AS C TO HANfCK 0 ~ 0 12..5 !!! SIBUI Ef.RR;( ., AT TOP OF PALISADf.S RICHT ·' / WITH S.H.CS) TO C.H . 54~STRA"R <>' '>'·~·"'/ AREAD DOWN KILL TO C.H .ll. 0 . TURN RIGIIT.THENCE SAMf. " //HA.SUOUCJ'. . AS© s: I ~OII.G E 'WASHIN~TON aRID~f. .S.H . DIRECT THRU HAllECK <. .... UNTIL JUI.JE IST 1~32 LEAVE S.H.@AT ENGLEWOOD.RIGHT ® AT C.ll,33(c"ANo AvL).THf.NCf. ' LEFT ItT C./I. C.4 (FOUST Av.•. ). <' STRAIGHT AIIE.A.O TO TEANECK DYCKMAN STREET FERRI AT TOP Of PALISADES STR.AIGH Jl.t\ EAD ON C.K." DOWN HILL © TO LEfT TORN AT C.H.33@uuAY RIGHT TURN C.K .G4 TO TEANECK YoNKEP,S fERRY- U TOf Of PALISADES LEFT WITH S.H(l) ® TIIRU ALPIIIE~TENAfl Y. Rlt;KT TUII..N C. H.Gt; tN(jLI:WOOD CLiff~. THENCE SAME '-.S@To TeANfCK HUDSON AND MANHATTAN TU&ES TO JOURNAL SQUARE.. THEN P.i &US 112121 MARKED DUMONT TO TEANE.C.K :42..11.! ST. f fRRY To WEEHAWKEN CORTLANDT 5T. " WE.sJ SHORE RAILROAD TRAIN SERVICE DIP.E.CT TO TEANECK OR WEST EIIGLEWOODSI: ~~ EORGf. WASHft.lGTON IUDGE ..., -\, SfRINC. VALLEY BUS TEJ.M'S IN N.Y. 0 5'lW.3<0'IllST.4 HOTEL ASTOR44tllST. 0 BUS TERM'S NEAR 18Jt1.STSU&WAY STA. ..,"'" MAP VARIOUS B'USSE.S MARKED HACK f.NSACK, DUMONT, ORADELL,SPRI OF ® VALLEY FASS THRU TEANECK. !'IUS TO FORT LEE !'IUS HRMINAL. TWICE P.S. TROLLEY TOTEAkEC ROUTES TO TEANECK DYCKMAN STREET fERRY BUS TO E.N,U:WOOD. THENCE ©· TRAN.SFE R BUS TO TEAN E.CK A6~RE V IAT IONS S.H. STATE. HIGHWAY C. H. COUNTY P. s. PUIILIC. ~ERVICE. THE TOWN MANAGER 13 Typical Teaneck Residence Write your friends Teaneck is a good place in -which to live 1. The fastest growing town in Bergen County. 2. Population. 1920- 4,000. 1931-18,000. 1940-50,000 Estimated. 3. Assessed Valuations. 1920-$ 4,000,000-1,000 homes. 1931-$25,000,000-5,500 homes. 1940-$50,000,000 Estimated. 4. Budget. 1932-$1,200,000 Tax Rate-1930-$6.08 per $100. Tax Rate-1931- 5.46 per $100. Tax Rate-1932- 5.00 per $100 or better. Including State, County, School and Township Taxes: 5. Economical, EHicient and Progressive Government Under the Municipal Manager Plan. Home Building Leads In Teaneck Records 6. Finest Schools from Kindergarten to College. 40 cents from each dollar paid in taxes spent . In or?er to confirm the general The construction in Teaneck is in education. Enrollment 3,300. 1mpresswn that Teaneck was one keeping Up and in all sections of of the leading New Jersey munici the Township new buildings are 7. Free Public Library. palities in the amount of construc under construction with several 84,000 book circulation in 1931. tion done during 1931, the Town new building permits issued each ship Manager recently had a tab day. In January Teaneck ranked 8. First Class Commutation to New York City. ulation made of the amount of fifth again among New Jersey mu By busses or train-$6.40 per month. One building permits issued in the thir nicipalities, only one thousand dol half hour to Times Square, over the George ty··five largest municipalities. The lars behind Jersey City. The val Washington Bridge. results of this tabulation were an ue of the permits issued in Tea emphatic confirmation of the belief neck for January was also greater 9. Many Churches, Literary and Social Clubs and that Teaneck had outstripped many than the total for any of sixteen Fraternal Or~anizations. a larger municipality. states. The detailed results of the sur It is the contention of all those 10. A Golf Course of 300 acres. vey are interesting. Naturally interested in the Township that In the heart of the town. Newark led the 'State with some this progress in Teaneck, only :;;ix what over Six Millions worth of. miles from Broadway, over the 11. Excellent Ho .~pitalization. new construction. Then came J er Washington Bridge, will not stop 250 beds. Investment about $1,500,000. sey City with about half that much. until the Township is fully devel Following these two leaders cam<>. oped into a modern residential su 12. The best food Stores at reasonable prrces. a group of three municipalities: burb, with a population of about Elizabeth, Hackensack and West 80,000 or four times its present 13. A Town Planning Board. Orange, with a greater value of. population. new construction according to 14. .4 Chamber of Commerce. building permits than Teaneck. 15. .4 Real Estate Board. Teaneck came sixth out of the thir NEW PARKWAY PLAN ty··five municipalities, with a total u:. .4 Woman's Club. of $1,700,000 in new construction. OF REALTY BOARD However, the point that Teaneck's 17. A Symphony Orchestra. officials and realtors particularly Plans of the West Shore Realty 18. .4 Weekly Newspaper. emphasize is that Teaneck's $1,- Syndicate for the development uf 700.000 worth of construction was property along the east bank of the 19. Two Well Managed .Banks. entirely residential, practically all Hackensack River, north of the With $2,000,000 deposits. modern on e- family dwellings·, new State highway, has been ap whereas in the cases of the three proved by the Teaneck Planning 20. The largest Taxpayers League in Bergen County. municipalities immediately preced Commission. With 2700 members and affiliates, publishing ing Teaneck, the volume of build The map calls for the building ing is accounted for largely by new of a street one block west of River a monthly newspaper. schools, theatres or other public Road running north from a point 21. Truly a high class residential community. buildings. . of Cornwall avenue, a distance of Taking this into consideration, two blocks, to a uoint of Forest in the Metropolitan Area, so considered by the Teaneck Board of Realtors avenue. No provision is made on New York Bankers. contend that there were more ac the map for lots on the west side tual dwellings erected in Teaneck of the new street which will be 22. Beautiful Building Sites. than in any other municipality in known as Bridgeview A venue. It on improved property on easy terms still New Jersey, with the possible ex is the idea of the planning board available. Communicate with ception of Newark and Jersey City. that the strip of land between the Such · large cities· as Paterson, west side of the street and the Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City and river will be developed into a park The Teaneck Real Estate Board Hoboken were totally eclipsed by way. the Teaneck figures. (Continued on Page 16) lf'., •..•.•..•.••.•.•..•.••.••. ..•..•..•....•.••.•.••.•..•.•..•.•..•.••.•..•..•.•..•.•..•..•..•.•..•.•..•.•.••.•••••••.••••••••••••.••••••••••• ••• s 14 THE TOWN MANAGER PRESIDING OVER SAFETY Teaneck Fortunate In OF CLIENTS' INTERESTS Service and Stability Ar Having Safe, Modern· • Banking Institution 1 The bank building featured in this month's issue of THE TOWN MANAGER is that of the West Englewood National Bank, Tea neck's first banking institution. The demand for banking facili ties in Teaneck occasioned by the rapid development it experienced led a group of well-known local citizens to apply to the Comp troller of Currency for a charter. In April, 1923, the Comptroller granted these men a National Bank charter and they at once proceeded with all the preliminary details so that the bank could func tion as soon as possible. JACOB H. SCHILLING, President The original site selected was the Davidson Building, on Station Street, and it was completely reno vated to make it suitable for bank carried throughout is of green ing purposes. On Saturday, June grey tint, and the marble used is 30, 1923, the bank was formally white tinted with green. opened, and the support given to this institution by the citizens was Every Modern Facilitiy of great satisfaction to the Board of Directors. In the center of the main bank The bank made excellent pro ing room stands a beautiful cus gress and prospered in this loca tomers' check desk of bronze with tion, and soon the quarters, wliich a glass writing top. To the right it occupied, were much too smatl. of the entrance is a ladies' rest It was decided by the directors to room provided for the use of the seek a permanent building site for women patrons. To the left of the a new home, and the corner on entrance are the offices of the pres which the building now stands was ident and cashier, and the cages selected. flank both sides of the lobby. The rear portion, where the vaults are located, is protected by a handsome Construction Starts polished steel grill. The main vault is protected by a hugh circu Construction on the new bank lar steel door weighing over twelve building was started in nineteen tons. All the latest protective de twenty-seven, and the building was vices are employed throughout the Quiet Dignity and Str~ formally opened and dedicated in vault, such as time locks, holdup March, 1929. Teaneck has been signalling devices and a Duplex fortunate in having such a beauti air ventilator, which insures com ful building erected within its con plete protection against anyone be fines, as not only has the West En mg locked in the vault either acci glewood National Bank made a dentally or intentionally. Food, as most valuable addition to the archi well as air, can be passed thro·1gh tectural features of the township, this air ventilator. but it has been a moral force in Inside the vault are five hundred the community. Through its var stainless steel, safety deposit box ious departments it has been con es, which are of various sizes, and stantly teaching a lesson of thrift. rent for five dollars per year and A brief description of the bank up. The bank was one of the first is as follows': to install this type of box, as the The entire exterior construction stainless steel obviates the neces consists of granite and limestone, sity of keeping therr. -'.Overed with being two stories in height. The grease to prevent rusting which is bank occupies the entire first floor objectional to the renters. Direct and the second floor is divided into ly over the vault is a messanine ten business offices, five of which which is used as a directors' room. are rented at the present time. In the basement is a silver storage As one enters the main entran.:e yault, old record vault, supply room the impression given is one of rich and the men's locker room. ness as Vermont rnd Italia mar ble is the decorative stone us FRANK A WEBER, Cashier THE WEST ENGLEWOOD NATIONAL BANK men make up the board of direc OF TEANECK- WEST ENGLEWOOD P.O. tors: Frederic H. Brendle, Wil liam A. Brendle, Ritchie Brooks. Jr., Francis J. Duffy, John J. Hey The figures below represent evidence of the wang Jacob H. Schilling, Nicholas strength of this institution and its careful, cap Volk, Fr I;IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[:;J upon its resources, or any undue PURDY SEES BOOM IN or illogical burden upon taxpayers. !BON-WELL FLOORS COMPANY, Inc.! HOMESEEKING IN TEANECK ~ BERGENFIELD, NEW JERSEY ~ Robert W. Purdy, in his inaugur Realtv Board Will § Phone-Dumont 4-2121 § al address before the Real Estate ; Board of Bogota and Teaneck, at Aid Home Owners I LINOLEUM AND WINDOW SHADES ; its annual meeting, stated that the unexpected interest sbown by § We specialize in making, laying and sewing carpets and rugs § homeseekers and the actual num Announcement is' made that the - Something we'll appreciate-When responding to this ad, - ber of hous·e sales during the past Real Estate Board of Teaneck and § please menticn-Town Manager magazine. § month was a sign of a healthy Bogota, Inc., will cheerfully co-op § 27J § erate with home owners delinquent I!J•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••r•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••ui!J sales condition. He pointed out that this unexpected condition in their taxes, by exerting influ might develop into a shortage of ence with mortgage companies and ~"'""""""'"'"""'""'"'"'~":";""'~"~"~"""~"'~"~"~""'""""""'""""'"""'"""'i available houses. He urged the Township officials to save homes builders to speed up their building from being sold for taxes. programs and at the same time This service is offered free of maintain Teaneck's Construction charge, and without obligation of CEDAR CIRCLE and Architectural standard. any kind. Those who wish to avail Other officers elected were Ed themselves of this opportunity need FRUIT and POULTRY Fi\RM ward Reis, vice-president; Charles only to vis1t the office headquarters R. Demarest, treasurer; Paul Hei of the Board and explain the cir J. R. SNOW, Distributor nen, secretary. George B. Hitch cumstances on a form question cock will serve as the governor of naire. Tel. Hackensack 2-1750-W Call before 9 A. M. ~ Out of 5500 homes in Teaneck, 15M: the board of directors. J. C. 1!)1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII U lllllllllii'I:J Threnheuser, Edward Hallberg, only 202 are in arrears in the tax Charles D. Walker and Rex Mosher es-with a total of $39,000. Fol were elected directors. lowing is the resolution adopted re .. ------· The membership voted in favor cently by the Real Estate Board: of President Hoover's Home Loan "RESOLVED that the Board of bank plan and will ask Senators Directors of the Real Estate Board HERMAN HAGENS Barbour and Kean and Congress of Teaneck and Bogota, Inc., are man Perkins to support it. willing to co-operate with the Watches and Jewelry Repaired Opposition was voiced to the pro Township officials in order to as posed stamp tax bill on real estate. sist the resident home-owners who are delinquent with their tax pay DIAMONDS- WATCHES- JEWELRY ments, to the extent of intevening with the mortgage companies to 166 W. Englewood Avenue West Englewood, N. J. FINANCIAL "CLOUDS" help prevent their homes being of 11 fered for sal by the town. BRIGHTEN AS PROBLEM "RESOLVED also that the Board ·------· FOR 1934 CLEAR UP of Directors prepare immediately,. and submit to a meeting to be bela Shop Phone Teaneck 6-5251-W Res. Phone Teaneck 6-8810 (Continued) not later than March 3rd, 1932, its recommendations for the most suit JOHN w. REID made it will be possible to deter able and expedient manner :n mine just how Teaneck stands which this intervention can be sat CARPENTER with reference to the debt limit isfactory consummated. law passed in 1930. It is probable "It is our intention to prepare a Manufacturer of Window Screens that in the near future it will be questionnaire to be filled in by in Porches Inclosed With Wire or Glass-Garages Built to Order possible for Teaneck again to un terested home owners and mem Jobbing Promptly Attended To dertake public and local improve bers of the Board will be available Shop, Glenwood Avenue · Teaneck, N.J. ments' and with moderate amounts Saturday, March 12th from 9 a. m. : .5F; of bonds maturing each year after to 9 p. m. in the office opposite {!JrUIIIIIIIIJII,IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIJIIUIIIUIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIII.GJ 1934, to arrange maturities for West Englewood R. R. Station, Tel. later issues so that the township Teaneck 7-1350, to assist applicants (!]frltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllll[!} will never again be confronted in filling in the questionnaire. with financial barriers to overcome "There will be no charge for ~ HOMES LOTS ACREAGE§ that will put any severe strain this service whatsoever." BUSINESS PROPERTY Teaneck 6-6100 LILLIAN M. YOUNG Letters From The People REALTOR 328 Teaneck Road Teaneck, N. J. AN ANONYMOUS LETTER IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE We have received a very inter Since advertising in THE TOWN 1!1···············································································································································8 esting communication from one of MANAGER Mr. Henry W. Behn IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII lllllllllllllllllliiiJIIUIJIJIJJIJJIIItlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll our readers dealing with Teaneck's ken, Jr., of Copley Avenue, Tea Phone Teaneck 7-3260 PUBLIC TYPING place in the revolutionary periods neck, announces the opening- of his R AD I 0 Specifications and of 1776, but it is to be regretted new store at 250 De Graw Avenue, W. Englewood Electric Co. Book -keeping that throuo-h modesty or oversight Teaneck corner Queen Anne Road, Service and Accessories this manuscript has been sent to us with a full line of high grade sur 168 West Englewood Avenue CALL unsigned which prevents it from gical appliances and a special de West Englewood, N. J. TEANECK 6-2524-W publication. partment for male and female pa 15 13M tients. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111r IIIIUIIIIIII. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUJIIIIIIIIIIIIIII BUSINESS GOOD Mr. Behnken, who is now only 1111111IIIIJIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIJII thirty-nine years of age, has been Teaneck 7-4222 Teaneck 7-5555 Mr. A. Panettieri, proprietor of in this line nearly twenty-four A. DEPPERMANN J.B.FULLER Manor Shoe Repairing Shop on years. Having started as an office HIGH GRADE HARDWARE Cedar Lane, announces the change boy at the age of fifteen wiffi Pom PHOTOGRAPHS of address to larger quarters to eroy Surgical Company, New York, For Every Purpose! AND PAINTS take care of his increasing busi 202 Markert Street 189 W. Englewood Ave. he is considered one of the best Teaneck, N. J. Teaneck, N. J. ness since he started advertising truss-fitters in Northern New Jer 112 99 in THE TOWN MANAGER. Look sey. There will also be a s•pecial 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIollllll for his new address in this issue. woman in attendance. THE TOWN MANAGER 17 [!]IIIUIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIG ~ A i will reduce your hips several inches, sl cn• derize your i-highs ~nd smooth out ab· cl o:nen and d ia p hragm. Mrs. E. O'CONNOR 126 Copley Ave., Teaneck TEANECK 6-7083 Before 9-After 5 : 6F ' s ...... ~ ...... u ...... u .•..•. ., .•.....•.•.•... [!] Superiority of Machine Street Sweeper laborers. This takes about two hours each morning. Reflected In Comparative Cost Figures The sweeper leaves the town • ship garage at 4:00 A. M. each • morning and returns at 11:30 A. M. TEANECK 6-8244 Teaneck with its thirty-eight in the beginning of November. Sec It is washed down and made ready curbed miles of streets has always tions other than those mentioned for the next day's work. The ma provided the problem of keeping above, were not swept for another chine is driven by Operator J olm PURE ICE them presentably clean. Up to and year. Stevenson, who also makes all ad including December, 1930, the The costs of sweeping by hand, justments and repairs, and builds method of cleaning by hand was as shown below were also taken the new brooms. Mr. Stevenson Every Day in the Year not entirely satisfactory. That is, from records of 1930 now on file has been complimented by the rep there were four men detailed to at the town hall. resentatives of the Elgin Sweeper clean only four sections of the Cost Hours Compnny as being a most indus PETER SCHLICTING town. January ...... $ 20.00 32 trious and competent operator. These men swept sections, and February ...... The following figures s·how cost Teaneck, N. J. when finished started the same March ...... 20.00 32 and mileage covered by sweeper. section over again, leaving four or April ...... 480.00 768 The operator's salary, cost of pick five sections of the town without May ...... 460.00 736 ing up loads and disposal thereof 82 a any sweeping service for a whole June ...... 480.00 768 by truck and laborers, making • year. 'This is a matter of record. July ...... 90.00 144 brooms and repairs, extra labor, in In trying to strike a fair com August ...... 395.00 472 fact, everything is included except parison of the methods formerly September ...... 480.00 768 depreciation which is estimated at used and the methods now in use, October ...... 930.00 1528 $600 per year. we have taken the year 1930 when November 710.00 1136 June, 1931- r··· .. ·;:::i:E~~i::::;····~ the streets were swept by hand, December ...... 110.00 176 with the year 1931 when the Elgin Swept 324 curb miles. sweeper was in use. Although the $4,075.00 Total cost for month ... $293.76 ~ Teaneck, N. J. ~ records of 1930 are neither ·de The records for 1930 show no Cost per mile for sweep- : 37: tailed nor definite, costs of same mileage swept or materials used. ing and disposal...... 906 G···IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIJ [!] will most definitely show that the Nor is there a record showing July, 1931- method now employed is safer, what was done with the sweepings. Swept 232 curb miles. faster, better and more economi The method now in use, we be Total cost for month. . . 211.35 cal. lieve, is satisfactory in its entirety. Cost per mile for sweep- Phone Teaneck 7-3008 It is safer because of elimina The streets are now cleaned by an ing and disposal...... 91 THE tion of hand push broom sweepers Elgin, model "D" motor-driven August, 1931- PLAZA FRUIT MARKET from an insurance viewpoint. It is sweeper, which flushes, sweeps and Swept 340 curb miles. C. ANNARINO obvious that it is faster and better. carries sweepings in one operation. Total cost for month. . . 237.76 Wholesale and Retail Produce Total costs prove it more econom It is operated by one man, who, Cost per mile for sweep- 1348 TEANECK ROAD ical. weather permitting, sweeps the ing and disposal...... 699 Teaneck, N. J. According to records on file, one town twice weekly, or at least once September, 1931- hand sweeper was employed in weekly. The machine has one 'Swept 246 curb miles. each of the following sections. rotary broom and two gutter Total cost for month. . . 209.51 Lower Teaneck section. brooms, which throw sweepings Cost per mile for sweep- Phelps Manor section. onto a leather belt, which in turn ing and disposal...... 851 Cedar Lane section. carries it to a compartment on the October, 1931- Phone Teaneck 7-3799 West Englewood section. front of the machine. When this Swept 216 curb miles. CITY MARKET These four men were employed compartment, which holds two Total cost for month. . . 232.08 steadily in sweeping sections men cubic yards, is full, the operator Cost per mile for sweep- Meat, Poultry and Provisions tioned above. The township as a dumps the load in a designated ing and disposal. . . . . 1.07 1356 TEANECK ROAD whole was swept annually, by an place. November, 1931- West Englewood N. J. enlarged force of men. This These loads are then picked up Swept 276 curb miles. 3M sweeping was done in October and by a truck with driver and two (Continued on Page 23) 18 THE TOWN MANAGER f;J••••••••tllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllll!l ; E Old Estate Now Hospital Site ~ Steamship ~ : : ~ Tickets § : :· PARROTS : Tours and Cruises : : : FINCHES ~ Everywhere ~ ~ "See your local agent, he can If you appreciate birds of j quality we have them serve you best" ==~=:E Finches, C~rdinals, Tana Easter Cruises to Bermuda gers, Starlmgs, ThrusheB, $50 up W e a v e r s, Parrakeets, Doves, ets. Eucharisti$ 2 ~3n;;ess Tours -=_=~- · High Grade Canaries, guaran- ~ . teed singers, $6 up Student European Tours : Birds Boarded and Conditioned 90 days $390 E ~ HEADQUARTERS FOR Bermuda, West Indies Havana § ~ BIRD ROOM: SUPPLIES J amaica and Californi~ Cruises'§ ~ of all kinds Complete Passport Service § § Hoffman's Aviaries § 169 Copley Avenue Greyhound Bus Line Agency ~ ~ Teaneck, New Jersey For rates, literature or § : I2 I!JalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIII!l - ·------· Holy Name Hospital Rates As One of Phone Teaneck 6-6244 Finest In State, Every Facility Here Floor Coverings By F. G. DILGER, M.D. neck's growth is seen in the pro Authori2led Steamship Agent gress of the modern hospital which for Teaneck IN GREAT VARIETY One of the most important pro we are so fortunate as to have perties of life is growth. But 186 MAIN STREET within its borders. The hospital MODERN growth in itself is not necessarily serves not only Teaneck but sur something to be desired. There ~ Hackensack, N. J. round~ng to.wns in the county, and FLOORS CO. ~re several kinds of growth. 'rhere owes Its existence to the foresight §Residence, 575 Sagamore Ave., 1s the. sturdy growth of the oak : Teaneck and the zealous persistence of Dr. Stylish Floors in Latest fro~. Its humble beginning, to its Frank C. McCormack, who has § Capt. Charles Thorwall, M:gr. fruitiOn as a majestic tree· and ! Hackensack 3-0630 Designs of Inlaid Linol been the Medical Director of the there is the sordid growth 'of a institution since its inception. : I38 eum, Rubber, Tile, Cork fungus. There is the orderly G•••IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!J and Tex Tile Through his efforts the Sisters of growth of a child, from babyhood St. if oseph, well experienced in lllllllrlllllllllllllllllllll~lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll to manhood; and there is the dis EXPERT WORKMANSHIP hospital management and nursing, orderly growth of a malignant were persuaded to add to their al Teaneck 6-8700 cancer. There has' always seemed GUARANTEED ~eady cons~derable debt, by build \O'lln Laundll· to me to be something puerile in mg, financmg and operating the 293 Queen Anne Road the blatant self-advertisement of Holy Name Hos,pital of Teaneck. 1es many small towns as expressed on ~~e. ·~~ Teaneck, N. J. roadside bill-boards: "This is Hick The spot selected as a location . - ville; watch us grow"! Who cares for the hospital was an ideal one for growth, per se? Who cares for this purpose. The beautiful ·------~4I. for the fungoid growth of an ar w~ll-wooded plot of ground, meas~ tificially induced boom? What is urmg ten acres, was formerly the there attractive about the disor site of the homestead of the derly growth of a "gold rush"? Phelps family. Certainly, the sad SAVE ISo/o Growth that is sturdy, that is or ness which one would feel at the derly, growth that proceeds ac dissolution of a fine old estate is Bring and Deliver cording to plan, this indeed is to considerably modified when we be desired. Such a growth has view the beauty of the buildings Your Own Bundle been Teaneck's, to a large degree, which have repiaced the old man in the past. It is hoped that, to sion, and consider their beneficent WE ·ALSO COLLECT an even larger degree, in the fu purpose. It was on June 19, 192<1, AND DELIVER ture, a sturdy, orderly, planned that work was started on the main growth will occur. building, and it was formally op Front and Water Streets ened on October 4, 1925. The struc You can rest assured that Progress 'Rapid tural parts are of steel, concrete Teaneck, N. J. and hollow block, the exterior be lS flowers purchased from us One of the most interesting, as ing faced with tapestry red brick IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ. are fresh-they are grown well as outstanding aspects of Tea- (Continued on Page 19) [!]•••••u 111111111111111111111111 fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!J Teaneck 6-34 74 in our own greenhouses! Tailoring H. ENCKE For Ladies and Gentle· 135 Fort Lee Road men a Specialty Teaneck, N. J. DIAMOND Phone Teaneck 6-1276 E. Flowers Telegraphed The Township Tailor ~ 65. l!)a111111111111Uliiii1111111111111111111111111111111111111UUIUI/I!l 283 Queen Anne Road = Teaneck, N. J. § Telephone Our Advertisers : 70: [!}IIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIII[::J For Quick Service! HANDSOME SHRUBBERY AND LANDSCAPING THE TOWN MANAGER 19 S.,t79 ... EACH OPERA TrNG ROOM INSTRUMENT ROOM 29x4.40·21 SA6S EACH HOLY NAME HOSPITAL been erected at a cost of $1,000,000 new section clinic rooms and path 6Ji~IN PAIRS without any general appeal to the ological laboratories. The eastern RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF public. Accordingly, on April 26, half of the second floor is devoted NEW JERSEY'S FINEST 1928, a drive was started for funds to the maternity department, which to finance a new addition. This is entirely self-contained, and the (Continued) drive realized $351,060. The addi western half to the chTidren's and stone trimmings. This origin tion was placed in the rear of the wards and rooms. On the third al building had a capacity of one original building, the whole taking floor, are the suite of operating hundred and seventy beds. the form of the letter "H", and rooms, and also some private and bringing the capacity of the hos semi-private rooms, and wards· for pital up to 250 beds. All the build female patients. The fourth floor Outside Aid ings are in architectural harmony contains additional private rooms The original plans did not pro and provide a complete and com and the Internes' quarters. There BETTER! vide for an "Out Patient Depart pact unit. is a large and attractive roof-gar ment." It was considered that the den, and each floor is well provided in mileage, tread-wear, hospital was situated so far "out Every Convenience with solaria and balconies. protection from punc in the country" that any kind of ture or blowout than an active Out Patient service The interior of the hospital ful~ The Chapel ever before -- at these would not be required. In fact, fills the promise of its exterior. low prices! many predictions were made that Every possible convenience and aid On the ground floor, at the ex very few of the hospital's original for the diagnosis and treatment of treme southern end, is an artistic one hundred and seventy beds medical and surgical conditions and devotional chapel, with a seat would be occupied. However, it was have been installed, and the hos- ing capacity of seventy. The hos GOODY·EAR not long before the pessimists pital has been approved by, and pita! is, and always has been, non were found to be in error. First, has received the highest rating of sectarian; "as non-sectarian as ap PATHFINDERS temporary provisions had to be the American College of Surgeons. pendicitis", in the words of Mr. . Lifetime Guaranteed made for a Clinic; and shortly In addition to the excellence of its William Conklin. Up to May, 1931, Full Price of Each in thereafter additional buildings had technical equipment, the hospital over 16,000 bed patients had been Oversize Each Pairs to be erected. The first of these, possesses a quality seldom found treated regardless of race or 28x4.75-19 $6.33 $6.:16 a handsome Nurses' Home, one of in such institutions. There is a creed. The nursing staff, and the 30x4.50-21 5.43 5.::&7 the finest in the State, was opened cheerful, homelike atmosphere medical staff of the ho.spital in 29x5.00-19 on Sunday, February 12, 1928. A about it that is apparent to pa- elude those professing various 6.6§ 6.45 central power plant was put into tients and visitors alike. This must creeds. But the motive power that 29x4.50-20 5.35 5o:l9 service at the same time. Only be experienced to be appreciated. lies behind those responsible for 3lx5.25-21 8.:1§ 7·9:1 one month later, that is two years• A detailed description of the var- the establishment and management 29x5.50-19 8.48 8.::&3 and four months after the first ious departments of the hospital is of this undertaking cannot be un 29x4.75-20 6.,43 6.:&4 opening of the hospital, it became not possible in the brief space derstood except in the light of that 30x5.00-20 evident that a further building pro available. Only a few of the more little chapel where they worship 6.75 6.$$ gram must be undertaken imme important details will be given that same God who is the Father 28x5.25-18 7-53 7-30 diately. At that time, the first here. On the main floor of the of all of us. Self-sacrificing de 29x5.25-19 7-75 7-52 public appeal for help was made. hospital are the reception room and votion to the cause of sick human 28x5.50-18 8.3$ 8.10 Let us remember, the original offices, the X-Ray laboratories, the ity, without earthly recompense, buildings, comprising a modern Emergency Room, some wards and fame or glory, can be explained on hosnital and Nurses' Home. had room ~ · for m::1le natients, and in the no other basis. HEAVY DUTY ----~------~----~~------TRUCI< TIRES .. Each l'alr 30x5 ...... $1$.45 $::&9.96 32xli ::&6.50 $1.00 CANCRO SERVICE STATION u A House of Reliability" 635 Teaneck Road Teaneck, N. J. Phone Teaneck 6-10444. 63 A PRIVATE ROOM CHILDREN'S WARD 20 THE TOWN MANAGER 0 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111~11UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflf~lll~ WELFARE FUNDS TO this concert by the composer, Paul ~ ~ Gundlach, who is a resident of Tea - - BENEFIT BY CONCERT neck, and who will play the piano AT SCHOOL, MARCH 11 solo part. This suite is made up of three short numbers describing (Continued) Nature's moods in June, October and December. its objective. Up to date it has The Neighborhood Glee Club realized about $5,300, and the re numbers in the program are an cent spell of severe cold has been a nounced as follows: KLEIN severe drain on its funds, so that s. Part One it is in immediate need of replen "Awake, My Love" ...... Gericke ishing its treasury. "A Londonderry Air" (Irish Folk "THE liOUSE ON THE SQUARE" Since everyone who attends the Song) ...... '...... Baldwin concert will receive more than his Part Two money's worth in entertainment of "Nina" ...... Pergolese the highest quality, besides the con Tenor solo by Henri Beaugarde UNION SQUARE sciousness of having contributed to "A Song of the Sea" ...... the comfort and well-being of his ...... G. Waring Stebbens own neighbors and fellow citizens Part Three in distress through unemployment. "The Reapers" ...... NEW YORK it is believed that the capacity of ...... Bohemian Folk Song High School Auditorium will be "Morning" ...... Oley 'Speaks sold out before the event. Those It is• to be noted that the only who wish to attend should not de solo in the glee club program will lay in securing tickets'. be sung by Mr. Henri Baugarde, While final details of the pro a resident of Teaneck, who was gram to be rendered have not all one of the quartet that rendered DRESSES been decided upon, the committee several numbers, and who led th.e has announced tentatively a pro group singing, at the first anni gram in which little change is versary dinner of Teaneck Taxpay COATS likely to be made. ers' League at Elks' Club in Hack Teaneck Community Orchestra ensack last November 11. will dedicate its main selection to Tickets for the concert may be MILLINERY the great composer Haydn, in rec obtained at the office of Teaneck ognition of his bi-centennial, which Welfare Organization in the Hol is being. celebrated this year. The lander Building on Teaneck Road, FUR COATS Haydn numbers will be presented opposite Town Hall, and reserva by a string quartet of which the tions may be made by phone to SUITS members are: that office, the phone number be Edmund Wirths-first violin. ing Teaneck 6-2601, or Teanec1<: 7- Wilbur Hamje-second violin. 2601. Tickets also can be obtamed Rudolf Olsen-viola. direct from the treasurer, Mr. J. = sM§ P. Birch, 327 Warwick Ave!lue, &l l i • )IUIJII11liiii_!.IIIIIIIIIIIUII1111111111111111111111111111liiiiiiiiiiiii1JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIrlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll>[!] Eric Freund-violincello. Through the generosity of Ru- West Englewood, whose plione dolf Olsen, the quartet will have number is Teaneck 7-4020. the privilege of using a very val uable set of instruments, as fol lows: TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE Violin-Nicolas Amati, Cremona, 1679. PARTY WAS BRILLIANT r.. ~~=o:~~·;·:~ ..::~= .. ::~""""""'""""""'"""""""""'"""'"""'""'""~ Violin-Nicolas Gagliano, Na ples, 1735. SUCCESS; ALL PLEASED Viola-Taola Antonis Testore, Eight On Display Milano, 1757. . (Continued) Violincello, A. & H. Amah, Cre To the Ram-a-po's far glades, at mona, 1627. There's no place that rivals Tea The Haydn quartet numbers will neck's fair renown. include rendition of the "Kaiser Chairman Frank A. Jennings Quartet " one of this compos'er's was the recipient of many con VAN DUSEN'S GARAGE greatest contributions to cham~er gratulations upon the success of music, and the well-beloved Enghsh the affair, which, he said, will be HACKENSACK 2-0901 favorite, "Drink to Me Only With followed from time to time by Thine Eyes." other social gatherings sponsored The other chief item in the or by the staff of THE TOWN MAN 122=132 Passaic St. chestra program will be the play AGER, and of which the chief aim ing of a suite for piano with or will be to get people of Teaneck H a c k e n s a c k, chestra, arranged especially for better acqainted with each other lllllllllllfllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll and thus help develop community spirit and enthusiasm. New Jersey 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The other members of the com • 2U~ mittee in charge of the bridge fu,,,,,,,,lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll [!] YOUR MONEY'S WORTH at the party and dance were: Mrs. E. S. Brown, Mrs. John Draney, Mrs. F. Manor Shoe Repairing A. Jennings, Mrs. W. S. Jessurun, [!JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[!] 445A CEDAR LANE Mrs. J. R. Katzman, Mrs. J. J. Mc Teaneck, N. J. Kenna, Mrs. Samuel S. Paquin, 8 Mrs. E. P. Prue, Mrs. Dorothy L. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl Rapp, Mrs. W. J. Senn, Mrs. B. Steinke, Mrs. S. Sweeney, Mrs. F. R. Toombs, Mrs. John Tribert, Mrs. QUE~L~KI=~o~;;,s::KET ~==== Teaneck 6-7238 Karl D. VanWagner, Mrs. Donald Oysters, Clams and Half Shell Our Specialty Teaneck Electrical Service M. Waesche, Mrs. Howard Ward Phone or Call Teaneck 6-3574 RADIOTRICIANS and Mrs. E. M. Young. 310 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, N. J. ~ Electrical Repairing In addition the chairman had the 398 Cedar Lane help of many members of Teaneck ORDERS DELIVERED ANYWHERE ~ Tax~ayers' ·League and its Wo : 10M: 76 G.)1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!J man s A\:txiliary. .. THE TOWN MANAGER 21 another man saying, "Oh! that's all 8'"'"""'""""'""""""'""""'""""'""'"""'"'""'""""'""""'"'"""""'""'"""""""""""""""""1 SERVICE AND DEVOTION politics." But yet another man NEEDED NOW IN U. S.; m o r e thoughtfully inclined answers, "No, that's not polities; SEE PRESSING TIMES that 's a great program of human- . ity we have today. We are think (Continued) ing very differently from the way I say to you now that that sweet we thought fifty, seventy-five or a faced English nurse, Edith Cavell, hundred years ago." And this last PHELPS MANOR in her cell in Brussels, Belgium, at man rather lingers on those worcs. two o'clock in the morning, softly We hear him repeat. "That's a repeating to herself, "Abide with great program of humanity." And me, fast falls the even tide," while we wonder where we got this pro a German firing squad waited out g-ram of humanity. The man of MARKET side to consign her soul to eter politics still insists. He says, "Oh! nity, was a more powerful figure well, Roosevelt first talked about than the Kaisers of all time. For those things." Another man says, all over the world when men heard "No, he didn't; Bryan first taiked PRll\fE MEATS, GROCERIES of her death and sacrifice, their c.tbout those things." And then an arms were nerved and their hearts old man stens forward who }:as were steeled, and they said as they long white whiskers. He says, "I FRUITS and VEGETABLES clicked their teeth together, "By am the original populist. I used God, we'll stop at no sacrifice to to talk about those things out in put down a tyranny that can Kansas forty-five years ago." And make such a thing as that pos ~o far as the element of time is sible." concerned, p;:obably he is right. We wonder sometimes where But you go to Mr. Roosevelt ;md WATCH OUR WEEKLY SPECIALS Washington and Jefferson and you say to him, "Mr. Roosevelt, Lincoln and Roosevelt and Edith where did you get your inspiration Cavell and those heroes of more for this thing you call the square 1ecent days got their inspiration. deal, this !insistence upon equal Possessed of no better _standard, we justice and equal opportunity for try to translate it all into business everybody?" and Mr. Roosevelt FREE DELIVERY or politics, hut we make only poor answers, "Why I have told you headway. I like to think that Dr. that I am a Lincoln Republican, a Carruth of Leland Stanford Uni Thomas Jefferson Democrat." We Corner Palisade A venue and Frances Street versity, who passed the other day go then to Lir.coln, the great eman to his long reward, caught the real cipator, and we say to him, "Lin emphasis of life when he said: coln, where did you get your in Opposite Post Office Teaneck, N. J. "A fire-mist and a planet, ~piration for these ideals of A crystal and a cell, yours? How is it that through A jelly-fish and a saurian four long years you can carry up Telephone Teaneck 6-6164 And Caves where cave-men dwell; on your heart the burden of the Then a sense of law and beauty, r,orth as well as of the south, strike § 5M_ And face turned from the clod the shackles from four millions of ffialllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll alllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllfiiii![!J Some call it Evolution, slaves, and lay down your life in And others call it God. the cause of liberty?" And Lin coln replies, "We have always A haze on the far horizon, made the fight for things like this. The infinite, tender sky; Don't you know, that is why Wa~h The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields ~ngton prayed in the snow at Val THE NOVELTY CURTAIN SHOP And the wild geese sailing high; ley Forge'' And we go then to And all over upland and lowlancl Washington, the father of his The charm of the goldenrod country, upon his knees at Valley Curtains-Drapes-Novelties Some of us call it Autumn, Forge, and we say to h!m, "Wash And others call it God. ington, how is it that through We Make Any Kind Of Curtain To Order snow and ice you can fight on to Like tides on a crescent sea beach Fave the cause of the Colonies Telephone Hackensack 2-5197 When the moon is new and thin, when everyone has turned away Into our hearts high yearnings from you, when Congress down at 255 Main Street Hackensack, N. J. Come welling and surging in, (Continued on Page 22) Come from the mystic ocean J••••••••••••••••••••••••••n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A Few Doors Up From New City National Bank Bldg. Whose rim no foot has trod § 137 § Some of us call it Longing, i!J ...... u ...... ~~ ...... lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllls And others call it God. GARAGES [!].llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiii[!J A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood, Built of Wood or Steel Socrates drinking the hemlock $10. DOWN And Jesus on the rood; Easy Monthly Payments And millions who, humble and ; TeL T•=•;;~~K LAUNDRY i====~ nameless, 'I'he straight, hard pathway tNd INCORPORATED Some call it Consecration, And others call it God." Bergen County's Oldest and Best You and I hear men today dis I cussing great public questions. One Oakdeen Avenue Teaneck, N. J. man talks of compensation for in 38 § jured workmen. Another man f!lrrtltlllllllllllllllllllllllllrlrrJIJJIJIIIIIJIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII•t••••uu•trrrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttrrttllllltlrllo[!J speaks of the prohibition of child labor. Another man talks of equal § ~ Concrete Floors & Driveways [!JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii[!J suffrage, and still another man § Roofs Re-shingled talks of the prohibition of the : Attics Finished liquor traffic. Then you hear still i_ JOHN COOPER CO. The Little Enlarged 307-9 SECOND STREET ~-; ·~~ T~r~~!,~it~~~~ I :::- HACRENSACK ,N. J. v Waffles with Chicken Best Coffee In Town Tell Our Advertisers That You Saw § Hackensac!t 2-0483 ~ I~~u~./~~';;~A~~~~;f 1393 Station Street, Teaneck, N. J. ~ : 7J_ : 119: llis Ad in "The Town Manager". {!)anlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll11111111111111111118 GJriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIJIIJIUIJIIIIIIIIIJIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiJ 22 T H E T 0 W N MAN A G,,E R ~JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll@ found gratitude should fill each of : ~ SERVICE AND DEVOTION cur hearts today as we reflect up NEEDED NOW IN U. S.; on those foundations which were SEE PRESSING TIMES builded by the forefathers \Vho for got themselves into immortality. Out of each national crisis our (Continued) l!ountry has emerged with shining York will not even vote you money face in the splendor of her achieve to provid~ shoes for your troops? Where d1d you get your inspira ments. It has seemed as though tion?" And Washington answers, the watchful eye of a divine provi "The battle has been going on dence has been upon her, leading down through the ce.1Luries for her upward and onward. James things like this. Don't you know, Russell Lowell prophetically said: that's what Miles Standish talked "Careless seems the great Avenger; ab?ut,Jn the early days of the Col History's pages but record Neighbors! omes. And we go back to Miles One death-grapple in the darkness Standish and we say to him, "Miies 'Twixt old sys terns :md the Word; Standish, what is it that has led Truth forever on the scaffold, you to come three thousand miles Wrong forever on the throne, across an inhospitable ocean to a Yet that .scaffold sways the future, more. inhospitable coast to worship And, behind the dim unknown, God m your own way? Where did Standeth God within the shadow, you get your inspiration for this Keeping watch above his own." example of human sacr,fice ?" And No thoughtful American will Miles Standish replie3, "Haven't shirk his individual responsibility. you heard how mankind rises out That responsibility demands of him of the gloom of centuries? That's the best type of citizenship. God why Cromwell fought his king, grant that none of us shall be that's why Martin Luther nailed his found wanting in our adherence to thesis on the door of Castle Church, our laws, in our respect for the WE HAVE A POSITION FOR that's why Savonarola was burned constitution and in our vision of at the Stake." And we go back to the high place which America shall the ~ay of Cromwell, wringing con occupy in the coming days. Cer tainly we must press forward and YOU. IF YOU CAN GIVE REF- cesslOns from a ~eluctant king, back beyond the time of Martin ever forward. The voice of Al11- Luther nailing his thesis on the erica is never the voice of retreat. - ERENCE AND ARE WILLING door of Castle Church, back beyond We have had in us something of the day of Savonarola Hghting his that spirit of the drummer boy of own funeral fire in the public Marengo. TO WORK SEE MR. GOODEN OR square of Florence. And finally At the battle field of Marge;1o, we come down through the lanes Napoleon, seeing the day going of Palestine. We pass John the against him, turned to a little MR. GREEN FROM 10 A. M. Baptist on the way- and we pass drummer boy and said, "Beat the Paul on the road to Damascus and retreat." The little fellow 'vith way back beyond it all we co~e to tears streaming do·wn his face turn TO 6:30 H M. a hrll called Calvary, and right ed to the great Cors"ican and said, there where the great Carpenter of "Sire, I cannot beat the retreat, Nazareth gave his life for a better Desaix has never taught me t11.at. brotherhood and finer manhood we But I can beat a charge. I c:m realize the inspiration that thrflled beat a charge that would wake the the Life of Washington and J effer dead. I beat it at Austerlitz. I son and Lincoln and Roosevelt und beat it at Jena. I beat it at the those heroes of the centuries, for Pyramids. Oh! sire. may I not we hear the great Carpenter of N a now beat a charge?" And the zareth saying: "A new command great commander, stung by the re ment I give unto you, that ye love buke, ordered up his reserves, di one another. Even as ye would rected tbe boy to beat a charg'e, that men should do unto you, do and the French troops swept for-· ye even so unto them." ward to one of Napoleon's great My dear friends, a deep and pro- est victories...... You and I, living in fnis wonder ful age and gener~tion, cannot he non-combatants. W i t h world Croissant Consolidated Companies ·1------· events taking place all about us, we must hear ringing in our ears the words of Byron: Sam Nelson "The dead have been awakened; of N. Y., Inc. Shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants; Ed Williams Shall I crouch? The Harvest's ripe, and shall I Wayne Robinette pause to reap? CROISSANT AUDITORIUM, TEANECK ROAD I slumber not; a thorn is in my couch. (Formerly Palm Gardens) Each day a trumpet soundeth in my ear, Its echo in my heart." Builders And when one nauses to look Next to Blue Bird Inn across from backward upon the foundations builded by earnest men who Teaneck Municipal Building, Teaneck, N. J. thought nothing of them:;Plvefl bnt only of that countrv which shoulrl WAYNEWOOD PARK arise under the providence of God, to take the leadership for the fal TEANECK, N. J. tering feet of the nations. there seems to be a greater dignitv as we pronounce the word Americ:w: l..,,., 11M§ and one has a deeper sense of af- J.:.l lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllttltiiiiiiiii'I~IIIIIJJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIJIJIIIIIIS ·------~------~96. (Continued on Page 27) THE TOWN MANAGER 23 SUPERIORITY OF STREET Art In The Home ·1------SWEEPER MACHINE IS SHOWN IN FIGURES Need Not Be Costly THE BEST (Continued) • (Continued) Total cost for month ... 237.00 part Persia has played in the ar IN TOWN Cost per mile for sweep- tistic life of mankind, but the are ing and disposal...... 858 lovers all over the world know full December, 1931- well the debt that we we owe Per Swept · 296 curb miles. sia for her magnificent contribu Total cost for month. . . 211.35 ti-on to the arts, whether it is in IDEAL Cost per mile for sweep- India, China, Turkey, Italy or ing and disposal...... 714 Spain, and now in Amer:ca. Her These figures include the days influence has been vast. and of MARKET the sweeper was• in the garage, due course, it is most pronounced in to inclement weather, as well as her rugs and carpets. At the 452 CEDAR LANE, TEANECK, N.J. the time of the operator when he present the Persian artists and ar· worked on machine, made rotary tisans are working to produce such Tel. Teaneck 6-3671 or gutter brooms as needed. The objects that are both beautiful and 105 operator's salary w a s always inexpensive . They at ·on time sac ·------~ charged against sweeping, when or rifice the beauty of the object where otherwise employed. made for the sake of cheapness. ·------· The average cost per Thy will put ::\S ·~uch time b a 'feaneck 6-0197 curb mile was ...... $ .848 twenty-five cent piece of goods, for The average cost per example, as if it were a master month of sweeping, in piece. In fact, the Orb<,tals con D. KAHRS' cluding everything ex sider art as worship, and they al cepting depreciation, so believe that any work done in DELICATESSEN SHOP was ...... 233.26 the spirit of service to others is an SCANDINAVIAN AND FI~NISH DELICACIES Making an average cost act of woro:hip or prayer. for twelve months ... 2,799.12 The modern home-maker need A SPECIALTY The cost of sectional not sp THE IMPORTANCE OF ART recreational facilities, etc., as they IN CITY PLANNING IS aff.ect the health, . convenience, ef fiC'l~ncy and amemty of the popu- EXPLAINED BY GANDY . latwn. rrhe order m which t~ese ___ steps are undertaken depends upon (Continued) the urgency of any particular phase · f . of the problem. The order of pref- P1 annmg . o each City ~oun~ed erence is not of particular conse t~ereaftei, as the popul~twn m~ qucnce. As the studies progress BATTERY IGNITION cteased, but. !JOt so. . E or ye::trr; the results are incorporated upon ~hereafter! c1bes c_ame mto matur- the General Map which eventually Ity f.ollowmg ~~e lmes of c~ance or becames what is called the "Final SERVICE temporary ubhty, or, as. m. some Plan". But, all of these must be cases, a cowpath.. Not until sev- flexible. In thus going to the ains AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICIANS enty }'ears ag~ did the movement of com:idering the subject give~ m~ for• City• Planmngd have a real be- sen"ously· and 1·n accord ::u:ce WI"t' n WE SPECIAILZE IN .,_00mnm~ an less than ~wenty years my impression of it:; importance to Ignition Starters Starting sm.cefimte Itform has assumed Its more de- the future health. a n d, h appmess· o.f Carburetion Armatures Wiring · · our commumty I may have carried Generators Timing Lighting Central Park the scope of my thought beyond The creation of Central Park, the present conscious need. Of BATTERIES RECHARGEU AND REPAIRED New York, in 1857 exerted a great course, I cannot anticipate the de influence on public interest in plan- gree_ of the prevision for the futur·~ 766 PALISADE A VENUE . B development of. th~ City by our city mng. ut it remained for the Co·· fathers. But It IS eertain that if TEANECK, N. J. lumbian Exposition in 1893, under art is to, occupy an important nlace E 18 ·,he inspiration of Daniel, H. Burn·- in our City Planning, its effective 8•··~~·~·~~·~··~·~··•~•~•~••••~··~··~·~~·~·~····~·~··~·~~·····•~··~···~···~··~~~·~··••1•11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[!) ham, Architect, and Frederick Law ness or its limitation will be mea Olmsted, Landscape Architect, to- sured by the breadth and scope of gether with the greatest :1-nd most the present vision. Perhaps be • • varied staff of other artists ever cause of the e•;onom~c situat.ion and congregated together in America for ~ther rea1=ons the time is not Keep Smiling at one time, to touch off the k ind- yet due to consider the subject on with Kellys SERVICE ling ~park and really put City a constructive scale. Plannmg on the map in the Uniterl States. The inspiration of that Awakening Needed Anywhere in Bergen County fairy city of palaces and lagoons [t may be that what we need went to _the head like new wine, and now is an awakeninll" to the possi No matter how small the repair for a time an exaggerated not:on bilities of Civic PUlchritude. On of the relative importance of art as that <:core, since I am invited to do you want you will always find the sole important factor in plan- so, I will vffer a few suggestions ning, possessed minds of the pub- as to 'Yh~t I think would improve courteous treatment. lie. The slogan "The City Beau- the artistic appearance of Tear,eck. tiful" became an inanity-without Every citizen should keep UJJ an ac meaning-The reaction that follow- ti_ve interest in the appearance of Manor Garage ed had -also a ~logan equally value- h~s own property and immediate less "The City Practical". Gradual- frontage: Avoid monotany in your E. E. FELD, Prop. ly it dawned that successful City street v1stas when plantino- trees Plann_ing mm.t be equally balanced, Find several good types ;;f tree~ that lJOth the Practical and the with differing foliage and alternate Aato · SnppUes and Accessories Beautiful are equally important. the types. Avoid too great regu- Jn 1909 the earliest instruction in larity in planting. On one block 653 Cedar Lane Teaneck. N. J. City Pianning was begun at Har- set trees between sidewalk an:l Phone Teaneck 6-1396 Day or Night vard in connection with the worl{ curb. In the next between the cur!.> 62 in Landscape Gardening, and in and private property. 1923 a full technical course in City Owners of vacant lots, at thdr • • Planning was offered leading to a own expense, should be required to [!]llllllllllllllllllllllriiii,C IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111 11111111111111111111ltlliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID masters degree. Th·~ work was al- remove all unsightly rubbish or Teaneck 6-9793 so taken up at the University of veget.ation, and fHl any u~eless or Illinois under Chas. Mulford Rob- unsightly excavations. inson and has drawn universal at- The cooperation of the Railroa:l. The Gaston: s Garage and Service Station tention to that institution. Company should be soug-ht on a Slowly at first, then with in- plan to beautify both the -unsioohtly GASTON BOYRON, Prop. GASTON DUPUY, Prop. creasing impetus the importan ~e of excavations of the right of w:y a;; the. study h<.s heen recognized well as the approaches to the De Automobile and General Machinists throughout the higher educational pot by planting shrubbery, vine:; Cedar Lane ami Catalpa Ave Teaneck, N. J. systems of our country, until at and flowers. BATTEIUES RENTED AND RECHARGED present there are few c:ties ths.t The s_am<; should be dor:e by tl1e : 117 are not awake to the importance of Townsh~p m spots like the deep (!JtlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUI IIIIIIIIIIt[!] an adequate City plan, and no plan, embankment of raw earth that de even for the laying down of a new faces the beauty of Cedar Lane. street hut considers the project in There a:e also. opJlortunities for terms of art as well as of utility. greatly mcreasmg the beauties of UNSURPASSED VALUES! $1 KIDDIES DRESSES Let us see what Lhe consemus the northern part of the Town of experience agrees to be the ele- S_tate Stree.t and environs, by judi· GORDON SOCKS 25c a pair mcnts of a City Plan, or the pro- cwus pl~ntmg: Wonders might be gram of preparation. The nrepara- accomplished m a hundred spots in ti01; of the City Plan invol~es three town by the planting of a simple CARO FURMAN mam steps-the Survey, the Pre- rambler rose or Virginia creeper 406 Cedar Lane Teaneck, New Jersey liminary or Master Pl~m, and the and ~t sJight expense. The value Final Plan. 'The Survey, forming of chmbmg plants and sh1:ubbery the fundamental basis fOl' study cannot be overestimated as an es fu~········~··································~······~··~···· · ~·········~·~~·~~~~····~·~··~~·~·~··~·~··~·~ ··~ ·····~········ ····~ ·~··~~·~··~·~~··B involveR a gathering together of theic stimulus. I sugo-est also tha.t 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111: pJ;~~~~~··:r~~~~~~·i~~·7~osl~islllllllllllllllllllllllll. all available data relatin2: to exi:.o- t- all public parking spaces be' sur READ jug physical cond•itions anrl iutlm~ ro~nded by lattice or other vine "THE BERGEN EVENING \VEST ENGLE,VOOD growth. covered walls except as to en- RECORD" TAXI SERVICE CO. The Preliminary or Master Plan trances and exits. Bergen County's Greatest "Service With a Smile" embraces a careful study of all the Signs Objectionable Daily Newspaper Teaneclt, New Jersey elements of the City Plan-streets, The subject of signs, and their 113 81 transportation lines and terminals, (Continued on Page 26) IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIJIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIf'IIIIIIIIIIIIIJIII 26 THE TOWN MANAGER Playgrounds THE IMPORTANCE OF ART Anlor ur de [!J•runrlllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllllllll[iJ air with gas and smoke, breeding vice and placed a stipulated dis despondency hnd cnme. And here tance from the street. In the se we may well use the Spanish ex WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST-STOP AT lection of types of street lights and clamation "Valg.ame Dios". markers there is a possibility for My enthusiasm has unjustly fmproving the appearance of the lengthened this art:cle I fear with Teaneck's Leading Delicatessen s.treets. 'l'he landscape upon whi~h out adding to it the value of the is situated the Municipal Builrlin~,;·s, practical sugg-estions I had hoped GUSTAV ROTHENBACH, Prop. the School or other public build to lend to the subject. And on ings, should be kept simple and dig that same score I will ask to be nified and by consultation with a excused of all faults. 454 Cedar Lane Teaneck 6-1580 Teaneck, N. J. competent Landscape Gardener be I will close by repeating the - 25§ embellished judiciously. This words of Dr. John Nolen "there &1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111)111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!:] should apply to viaducts and can be no such thing as a beautiful bridges as well. In fact, with a City without an urban plan con comparatively slight cost in money ceived and executed not only so as [!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111111riiiiiiiii1111111111111UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIm the appearance of Teaneck to the to serve all the practical require residenT, and the passer-by could be ments of .a City but also provide greatly improved. abundant opportunities for the Vision And Daring proper expression of the Beautiful." McDonald's Pastry Shop In closing, I cannot resist re Editor's Note:-Mr. Curtis Gan sist returning to the thou~Sht of the dy, Jr., whose article appears in possible scope .of the s~bject of ~r,t this issue was born in Seaville, Home of Quality Baked Goods in City plann.mg, earned out W'ltn Cane May County, New Jersey. vision and daring-what an oppor l!l-om his early youth to the pres TEANECK, N. J. tunity ls ours for the daring. An ent time, the subject of art as one 424 CEDAR LANE imperfect picture of my vision is of the means for the expression of an ideal residential City, its thor the human soul has been hi§ guid 28 oughfare<; clean and chastely or ing motive in his career as a pro I!JaniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEl nate, with the right touch in the fessional artist, landscape and por right place,-here a fountain, m: trait painter and illustrator. bit of shrubbery, and occasionally At the age of twenty-three he 1;1 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111(!] some simple bit of sculpture, left home for the West and at the every vantage point of the physi Chicago Art Institute he studied cal arrangement taken n.dvantage for s~x years under such masters COMMUNITY MARKET of as if the whole town were a as: Vanderpool, Boutwood, Chase, beautiful park, anrl no such thing Alphonse Muchu and Boutet de would be permitted m the beauti Monvelle. CHOICE MEATS ful city as ove-rhead wires and un After devoting several years to "SEA FOODS-EVERYTHING IN SEASON" sightliness-every C'itizen would be teaching, Mr. Gandy turned to _ able to see the blue skies. commercial art in which field he Use the Phone-Teaneck 6-2383-6-2384 The further defacing of the town has gained his greatest lz.urels. In would have be~:n stopped ln thP fu 1927 he joined the Bar::m Collier 463 CEDAR LANE TEANECK, N.J. = ture I see, such as the crowding to organization of New York, with 26: gether of ram-shackle types •>f which he is still associat-ed. [!}niiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1flllllllla residences, of which we have alto- Mr. Gandy is a resident of the gether too many-every adciitio!l of Phelps Manor Section of Teaneck residential property would be :.cien since 1922 and has the honor of [!].u ;UUU IIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiUfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllll~ tifically planned to increase beau· being the first to purchase a home § Telephone Teaneck 6-9100 ~ ty, comfort and safety. The Hexa in that important development. gon arrangement of Noulan C')u We are pleased to announce that chan of Ottawa, or, Radburn, N. J. Mr. G2.ndy has consented to be -and there's an idea of many ad come one of our regular contribu vantages-large blocks of resi tors in matters of the greatest im dences are bounded by major w::~ys, portance to t.he taxpayers of Tea but the homes within the blocks, neck. instead of facing on the streets, are arranged along cuJs-de-sa.:: I I that open off the main highways, Your Patronage Assures Its Con :~::d.:~:~ A~STT~~~ :::~~ each cer.tral space an !ideal play tinuation - Mention "The Town : 34J: fuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllll•rn ground or Civic Center. Manager" When You Buy. THE TOWN MANAGER 27 Made Manhood dare for it; SERVICE AND DEVOTION Purity's prayer for it NEEDED NOW IN U.S.; Kept it so white. SEE PRESSING TIMES Here's to the Blue of it (Continued) Heavenly view of it, fection as he looks today upon the Star-spangled hue of it, banner of his country spread upon Honesty's due of it, New yonder "lYall. And if today it were Constant and true. given to us to salute that flag as out of our hearts we should like to Here's to the whole of it, salute it, I know we would say Stars, stripes and pole of it; something like this: Here's to the soul of it "Here's to the Red of it Red, White and Blue." 75% First Mortgage There's not a thread of it, No; nor a shred of it In all the spread of it, TEANECK FINDS WORK From foot to head, Of Completed Cost of But heroes bled for it, FOR ITS UNEMPLOYED Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Teaneck Township has spent $10,- House and Lot Bathing it red. 275 in giving work to its idle. $2,100 of this sum has already Here's to the White of it been received from the state which Thrilled by the sight of it shares one-half the cost of labor 15 YEAR loan for home builders. Who know;; the right of it on unemployment projects. But feels the might of it The Township Manager states EASY monthly payment plan less than 1% a month. Through day and night? that more than 100 people have Womanhood's care for it been given work. THIS plan makes it possible for many families to TOWNSHIP TREASURER'S REPORT own homes who could not otherwise do so. Following is Township Treasurer R. J. Pearson's statement of MONEY advanced as required when loan is made Teaneck finances as of date of January 31st, 1932, with statement of tax arrearage&: to build your foundation, more advanced as frame RECEIPTS, 1932 Balance January 1, 1932...... $ 44,534.41 of structure rises. 1931 Taxes ...... 45,675.43 1930 Taxes ...... 24,622.03 1929 Taxes ...... 10,949.66 BALANCE of cash remaining in loan when house 1928 Taxes ...... 50 is completed. 1927 Taxes ...... 14.34 1926 Taxes ...... 9.01 1925 Taxes ...... ·...... 4.00 WE SUPERVISE construction without additional 1921-1924 Taxes ...... 1.58 Tax Title Liens ...... 96.18 cost. Franchise Tax ...... 25.73 Interest and Cost on Taxes ...... 5,605.82 Interest on Assessment& ...... 16,244.32 INCLUDING complete plans and instructions. Assessments Receivable ...... 39,805.83 Assessment Liens ...... 503.50 NO EXPENSIVE renewals of mortgages or loans Assessment Liens Int...... ·...... 103.74 Local Licenses and Permits ...... 491.00 are ever necessary. Other Revenue (Misc.) ...... 26.60 Interest on Deposits ...... 128.87 YOU CAN take 15 years to pay monthly, as rent. Tax Searches ...... 90.50 Overpaid Taxes ...... 91.07 The home is then free and clear of all indebtedness Redemption Tax Title Lien ...... 34.38 Overpaid Assessments ...... 27.07 and a valuable part of your estate. Gas Stubs ...... 30.00 Total Recepits ...... $189.115.57 DISBURSEMENTS, 1932 School Tax ...... $ 30,000.00 Tel. Teaneck 6-7197-W Budget ...... 17,996.85 FRED. GOSS Miscellaneous 1931 Reserve ...... 3,003.89 388 Sagamore Street, Engineering Suspense ...... 25.00 Gas Stubs ...... 24.00 Teaneck, N. J. $ 51,049.74 I am interested in your mortgage advertise Cash Balance January 31, 1932 ...... 138,065.83 ment. Please have a representative call to give me $189,115.57 OUTSTANDING TAXES-JANUARY 31, 1932 further details without obligation or please send me 1921 ...... $ 258.58 detailed particulars . 1922 •••••• 0 ••••••• 0 0 0 0 ••••••• 0. 0 ••••• 0 0 •••••• 0 0 ••••• 0 00. 363.70 1923 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0 ••••••••••••• 0 ••••••• 0 0. 770.28 NAME ...... 1924 ••••••••••••••• 0 •• 0 ••••••••••••••• 0 0 •• 0. 0 •• 0 0. 0 •• 0 0 0 2,281.86 1925 ••• 0. 0 0 •••••••••• 0 •••••••••••••••••••••• 0 00.0 ••• 0 •• 0 1,658.31 1926 • •• • • • 0. 0 •• 0 0 •••• 0 ••••• 0 0 ••••••• 0 0 0. 0 •••••••••• 0. 0 0. 2,271.03 ADDRESS ...... 1927 •••• 0 0. 0 •••• 0 ••• 0 •• 0 •••• 0 ••• 0 •••••••••••••• 0 •••• 0 0 0 0 3,865.28 1928 ••• 0 •• 0 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4,717.37 1929 ...... 91,197.61 TELEPHONE NO...... 1930 ...... 184,229.24 1931 ...... ····· ...... 447,199.24 9F Total ...... $738,812.50 28 THE TOWN MANAGER THE TOWN MANAGER, shows that the program will not only satisfy the most critical, presenting one of the foremost · THE TOWN MANAGER choruses of male voices in the East, but will also make a Application for Second Class ~atter Pending special appeal to local pride through the appearance of the Official Publication of the· Teaneck TaxpayeTs' League Teaneck Community Orchestra, now grown from a small be Its Field-The Township. ginning to a membersliip of thirty. Its Creed-Just4ce towards all; malice toward none. As a word of precaution, do not let yourself be numbered Its Purpose-To make Teaneck a good place to live in. among those unable, at the last minute, to secure tickets. Its Hope-Co-operation from all residents, on non- There is every reason to believe that the High School Audi partisan basis, with an eye single to service for the benefit of all. torium will be sold to capacity well in advance of the concert PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH date. Business Manager and Treasurer CHARLES A. WIENER 572 Lucy Avenue. Circulation Manager P. E. McEVOY CHASING AWAY FINANCIAL CLOUDS 542 Chestnut Place. Subscription & Advertising Manager FRANK A. JENNINGS 160 Johnson Avenue. Brighter days seem just ahead for Teaneck. The article Secretary WARD SHEETS on the township's financial condition that appears in this issue 249 Grayson Place. prompts THE TOWN MANAGER to extend its congratula OWNERS: THE TEANECK TAXPAYERS' LEAGuE tions to the present administration upon the progress it has made toward relieving what seemed, when it assumed office, like a hopeless financial crisis. NEW POWER MEANS NEW RESPONSIBILITY With the aid of a highly capable Township Manager and a well-selected Advisory Board on Finance and Assessments, Acquisition of power involves definite responsibility for and proceeding from the sound basis of an official audit, it the results that arise from exercise of that power. By its has advanced step by step toward a solution of Teaneck's successful campaign to secure a majority representation on most serious problem. If its latest efforts, aimed at retiring the Board of Education, Teaneck Taxpayers' League has as additional bonds and securing remedial legislation, prove as sumed a measure of responsibility for the future conduct of effective as anticipated, it seems probable that before the the school affairs of Teaneck, which its officers and members financial peak load of 1934 has to be met, means will have cannot ignore. been found to meet it without imposing any serious burden While it is true that the League majority in the board at upon taxpayers. If that hope is realized, the administration tlie start will face the handicap of a frozen bond market, it is will have accomplished what even the most sanguine, at the also true that it assumes office under pledges of specific per time they took office, would have declared to be impossible. formance in various directions that call upon it to cover a [!J•IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllll~ great deal of ground as promptly as possible, irrespective of : : financial conditions. Immediate work must include the secur : : ing of a complete survey of school conditions and needs, and the assembling of other data necessary to afford a guide for intelligent future action, as forecast in the League's platform I MANAGER'S ANNOUNCEMENT :==: on school affairs broadcast to the people during the campaign. We have received several requests from reference libraries The League undoubtedly has every reason to be confident throughout the United States for copies of the September, that its majority in the Board of Education will be as faith October and November issues of THE TOWN MANAGER ful to its pledges to the people, as the present councilmen in order to complete their volumes. We will pay a liberal have been to their pre-election pledges. At the same time the amount to anyone who sends any of the above issues to the League-must keep in mind that its members in the board will Business Manager. need, and have a right to demand, the League's active sup port and help, and cannot be expected to make their record as creditable as it can be, unless this help and support are given. l!l···································································································liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii[EJ The League has the congratulations of THE TOWN MANAGER for its success in the school campaign, which it undertook in the same spirit of service to the community that ·1------· animated its efforts to secure adoption of the Municipal Man ager government in Teaneck. It is entitled to the public's full confidence that future developments in school affairs will show that the League was justified in assuming its new responsibili ties, and that February 9, 1932, will take rank with September j 16, 1930, as a day Teaneck can always recall with deepest gratification. l A MOST LAUDABLE COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE In arranging to give Teaneck residents a rare musical treat, and at the same time enable them to contribute their share toward relieving the distress of their fellow citizens, who are in distress on account of unemployment, the Teaneck Welfare Organization has undertaken an enterprise that is entitled to the enthusiastic approval and support of the entire community. Announcement of the concert to be held at the high school 107 on the evening of March 11, which appears in this issue of •------:.;:..:. •