16,000 People Read the HERALD. ^ "Justice to all! Published Every Tuesday malice toward none.*1 and Friday Noon. and SUMMIT RECORD FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 79 SUMMIT, N. J., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1931 $3.50 PER YEAR Two Boys Found Here IVmnrrflfc Mayor Pins Medals ffl0C See Congestion Five Children Look Into Mother's Eight- Hiking From Pennsylvania ^ ™S To the Citizens of Summit: on Police Officers Two boys, aged 17 and 15 years, ' . June 8th, 1931. in High Schools Dollar Pay Envelope for Food and Shelter who set out from their homes in r Active Campaign 1 While the effect of the world-wide business depression has Jessop, Pa., to hitch-hike to New been felt in every family in Summit, most of us have been under Calls Local Department York, were picked up by police offi- Local Club Elects Officers the impression that Summit is much better blessed than many School Board Hears of Father Had Two Week^Work During Winter—Co» cers on the Morris turnpike early communities, lacking' as it does, large shutdown industrial plants, Best in State, in Giving Sunday morning and returned home and Hears Talk By •a large transient population of "floaters," and, percentagewise, Increased Enrollment operative Service Budget Exhausted, Has to Look in parental custody. They were County Chairman on 0r= comparatively fewer of the laboring class, and consequently have Next Year—Visit New After Just Such Cases—Children in Case Records Emblems at End oWilliaf m Conely, younger of the ' perhaps been less alive to the desperate condition of a great many two, and William Ford. They told ganization Plans families who have lived in our community for many years. Jefferson School Work Shooting Officers Lambert,and Birch, .'who Five children, week by week, look hungrily at the eight-dollar pay picked them up around 1.30 in the After a careful investigation through the Overseer of the envelope of their mother for their food. Their father has no envelope. Praise Given Range Officer morning, that they were on. their Moore to Speak Here Poor and the Co-operative Service Organization, city officials be- Summer Session Planned He has had two weeks' work during the entire winter. Eight dollars a t N Yk £h b came convinced during the winter that the situation in Summit way to New -York. boys were was a serious one and consequently provided generously out of its week. A pitiful sum. But it feeds them, aif'seveW-bf them. Mayor Edward B. , Twombly taken to police headquarters. Noti- Vigorous pre-election activity is The close of schools this month already in course of planning by funds to meet the unemployment situation. Unfortunately, the will leave the Board of Education * Clothes, shoes, rent, fuel, lights? pinned medals Saturday afternoon fication was sent to the parents and right to appropriate and spend for this purpose was limited by with the duty of solving a problem The Co-operative Service Associa- on the uniforms of the largest the youths were called for by par-the Summit Democratic Club in a the State Legislature, and the city has not, been in a position to Playhouse Association number of qualified Bhots the Sum- Siho .Ba.jne.day. bid for victory in next November's in High School enrolment which tion must' furnish the money for election which according to the continue this work since the first of June, although it is still promises next'year, on the baBis of Annual Meeting Tomorrow these—and the Co-operative Serv- mit, Police Department has ever carrying as large a force in the Street Department and other present estimates, to congest the produced, and called the local de- Sport Dance•- prediction of Edward L. Whelan, departments as its 1931 budget will permit. ice Association has a budget which chairman of the Democratic Coun- Junior and Senior High Schools to : The annual meeting of the Play- calls for expenditures of $700 a partment "the test shooting depart- Sigma Nu Sorority, Beta Chap- the point of overflow. ment in New Jersey," He expressed ter, will hold a sport dance at thety Committee, promises x to be one Instead of a hoped-for improvement with the coming of the house Association will be held in month for just such cases. its readiness, moreover; to prove Field House, Memorial Field, Sat- of the most hotly contested in the summer months, the situation has grown more desperate, and Within the -past few days, Su- the Playhouse on Wednesday eve- And the Co-operative Service As- ... that fact "to any other department county for years. • i there are now 580 families on record without means of support. perintendent John B. Dougall told ning, June 10th, at 8.15 o'clock. The sociathjn has receipts totaling ap- urday evening. Music will be fur- the board at' its regular meeting election of officers and of mem- that wants to make the tost with nished by a local orchestra. This .'• Featured in the plans of the club, •The Co-operative Service Organization has met this situation proximately $1,200 thus far toward either a five-man team.- or in any last night, unexpected increases bers of the executive, admissions, a goal of $15,000 estimated neces- will be the last dance of the sea-which Is settling down to its task to the best of its ability With the limited funds'in hand. These have been materializing with the and nominating committees will be other way they want it,"/ son. I after choosing officers. and com- funds are practically exhausted. The Co-operative Service Or- likelihood that by next December sary to meet the year's needs. ganization has administered the'voluntary subscriptions made to held. Unless the situation Is over- The ceremony took place in the mittees for the year, IB a monster ttye Junior and Senior High School rally for former Governor Moore, it in a businesslike and economical manner, so that an unusually building will have in excess of 1,- painted—and there is constant as- Police Court room at the end of the Democratic candidate to succeed high percentage of .subscriptions received has gone directly to the 200 students. At the present time, surance that it is not—there will semi-annual competitive shooting Nurses Graduate Governor Larson. Plans for the relief of the poor and-the sick of our city. The organization Is the. enrolment is 1,181, a capacity Miss Hood's School be in Summit many toe-prints on tor possession of the Police cup rally to be held here are indefinite not taking care of "floaters," but is distributing its funds to number. - the ground, the marks of small, un- a contest which Patrolman Edward as yet, but the committee appoint- families living in Summit, who are In-dire need. In some cases shod feet, and there will be dispos- Egan won for: the second successive From Overlook facing starvation or dispossession on account of inability to pay Employment of two additional session of more than one family time, with«a score of 95. His near- ed for the purpose has already even merger rent. This refief is carefully distributed so as to do teachers, one as a shop assistant to in Final Program for unpaid rent, before the year Is est .rival was Sergeant M. J. Pin- been in touch with County chair- the maximum of good and to give the minimum absolute needs in cope with greatly increasing inter- over. neran, who hung up a score of 93. W. H. Dewair Speaks at man Whelan, and the proposal is any one instance. est in that branch, the moving of a Under the blue skies of a perfect The Co-operative is now enter- to stage the rally, with Mr. Moore High School class into the Bonnel June day Saturday the children of Nearly all the twenty-four police- 1 ing Ita second month since the an- men who Qualified in the recent Hospital Training as guest of honor, early in the fall. It is estimated that to.continue this worit, the Co-operative building, and tlie use of a room' in Miss Hood's'School danced out nual appeal for contributions was army qualiflcatipn course in shoot- School Exercises— The committee includes D. O. Sta- Scrvico Organization will need at least % 1,200 per month for the Hamilton School as an annex for their final program before a largo sent out. During the first, three ing, were present when the awards bily, J. J. Mooney, and Wilbur F. summer months and $2,000 per month for the winter months. shop work, are among the possible weeks, contributions totaled $785. Brower; Democratic candidate for This means that to carry on tho work, some ?lC,000 is required to methods that may be taken to solve and keenly interested audience. were made. Sixteen of the twenty- C. D. Ferry Also Speaks Tho girls and younger boys were During the past week, an additional Mayor. carry us into the spring of 1932, the congestion if it arises. They $425 has come in, making the total four received "pistol expert" med- Meanwhile, the club's Executive were discussed at the board meet- truly charming In quaint and col- als which show a rating of 85% or While it Is to be hoped that conditions of employment will ing, but no action was taken, exorfu- l Kate Greenaway costumes, for the month $1,210. Last year, hotter with the revolver. Two Prize Awards Announced Committee is to function through- be-better next winter,' it is often the case that the most desperate While the older boys in their dark within three weeks of the time the out the summer and, according to cept that the board virtually ap- appeals went out, the organization sharpshooter medals were awarded, plans outlined, will start active cases exist immediately following business depressions and after proved of the appointment of a shop suits, suggestive of Colonial life and six marksmanship medals.