The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-07
New Bills introduced.
Relating 10 Public Schools, BARRIERS and
Social Clubs.

Senator Miller, of Bedford has
introduced a joint resolution III the
state senate for the appointment by
the Governor of commission for
the purpose of amending, revising
and collecting the laws touching
upon the public schools and Tor the
further purpose of suggesting new
legislation for the welfare of the
schools. The Governor is to APP
point seven competent citizens, OF
whom the State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction ex officio shall
be one, as commissioners. 1t will
be the duty of commissioners to
collate and reduce into one act all
the acts and statutes relating to
public schools and arrange the same
Systematically under proper titles,
divisions and sections, to omit in
such revisions all acts that have
been repesled Oh supplied by sub
sequent acts or which have expired
and to prepare and submit such
bills to the next Legislature as they
shall deem necessary TO make the
public schools more comprehensive,
efficient and adapted to the needs
of its citizens.
Senator Kline, Of Allegheny, be-
lieves that the Safe board of
barber examiners should be es-
tablished, consisting Of five skilled
BARRIERS, to be appointed by the
Governor, who must have had ten
years practical experience. With
this end in view, he has introduced
a bill. Under its provisions no
persons shall follow the occupation
of barbering without having OBJ
tained a certificate of competency.
A person engaged in the business
three years or more shall be known
as a practical barber, and less than
three years shall be considered an
apprentice. Each applicant for
registration and certificate oflicense
is charged fee not exceeding S..
The apprentice fee is fifty cents.
The board shall have the power to
evoke any certificate on account of
conviction Of crime; habitual
drunkenness for six months imme-
diately preceding the filing Of a
charge; gross incompetency and
the unsanitary condition of the
barber shop.
If bill introduced by Senator
Herbst, of Berks County, become
law, every social club dispensing
any alcoholic or malt liquors to its
members shall before so doing take
out a license from the Count
Treasurer, which shall be good for
three months from its date of issu-
ance and no longer.
For every such license there shall
at the time of its issuance be paid
to the County Treasurer a sum
equal to one-fourth of the retail
liquor venders licensed by the
Court of Quarter Sessions in the
city, borough or township where
the club is located.
Any social club at which any
such liquors are dispensed without
such license in full force at the
time shall be deemed a public nui-
sance and abataole as such, and all
persons concerned in its mainte-
ance or operation shall be liable to
indictment for maintaining public
nuisance and upon conviction shall
be subject to the same penalties as
upon conviction for selling liquor
withou: license.
No license obtained under the
act shall authorize the dispensing
or selling of any such liquors to
persons not members Of the social
club licensed, nor to minors, nor to
persots of intemperate habits or
vislbly Affected by drink, but any
person conc. .rned in dispensing or
selling such liquors to any person
of the classes aforesaid shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and upon
indictment and conviction punish
able in the same manner as for sell