NEW JERSEY: Yesterday's Garbage

"Under today's gentle blanket of beautiful snow lie hidden the special decorations which embellished the streets of Jersey City for the holiday season. Tomorrow the sun will shine and everything will sparkle, even last week's garbage."

The Jersey Journal, editorializing thus last week, was wrong in one respect. Not just last week's garbage, but a month's accumulation of rubbish, ashes and slops littered the sidewalks and gutters of certain sections of Jersey City.

For this stinking state of affairs, Jersey Citizens had, as usual, to thank their perennial mayor, Frank ("I am the Law") Hague. Boss Hague did not have to hold...

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