The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-09
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.)
Expenditures Exceed Receipts-T

shows that for the month OF Septem.
! Der, 1908, there was an excess OF ex.
| penditures over receipts OF S4,5S3,571,
as against a deficit for August OF 49,.
/ 9O9,l The receipts for September.
! however, were over $3,000,000 in ex-
| cess OF August and the expenditures
$3,7O0,0QD in excess OF August. The
customs receipts were s24,946, ,S36,
which is an increase in the last 80
days OF over $2,000,000 and only $685.
900 less than for September, 1907. In
ternal revenue receipts increased
from Sl9,S0G,2O0 in August to s20,153,- :
l4S In September. Miscellaneous re-
! cCipts also show a material gain. The
total receipts for September, S48,320,-
ia, were only about $3,l18,000 less
than for the month of September, 1907,
which was before the financial depres-
sion set in. The total expenditures
for the month were $52,904,085 and
the increases are principally shown
In the war, navy and pension accounts.
Education Is Needful-"Of more
importance than any other feature in
the crusade against the scourge OF
the white plague is the campaign of
education" This emphatic declaration
was made by DR.. Robert Koch, the
eminent German scientist, who figured
prominently in a controversy on tu-
berculosis before the national congress
on tuberculosis last week This ut.
terance was made just after report
had been submitted by DR.. G. A. Heron,
delegate Of the royal society Of medi-
cine Of London. on The teaching OF
elementary hygiene i'm the training
colleges and elementary schools OF
Great Britain and Ireland" and which
was read and discussed by the section
OF the congress on elementary and
popular education" DR.. Koch, in his
comment on the report, regretted that
thus far most OF the educational eff
forts In the campaign to stamp out
tuberculosis have been largely confined
to adults. He emphasized the inn
portance of teaching hygiene to chill
dren, and called attention TO the duty
which imposed itself upon the teach
ers to instruct their scholars in all OF
the sanitary measures and precautions
TO be taken I'm combating tuberculo-
sis. He added that both teachers and
scholars must be thoroughly and COM
petently taught.
Labor Vote UnderiVerable-Dec
ing that it would be suicidal to the la
Dor movement for "any man or set
of men" to deliver the vote of organ
lied labor to any party, President Nor.
man h. McPhail of the Boston typo
graphical union has written a letter
TO Chief Willis L. Moore OF the U. S.
weather bureau, declaring that the la
Dor vote as a body cannot be delivered.
The letter follows: Dear Mr.. Moore
Your letter of Sept. % has just been
received and read by me, as l have
today returned from a tour Of some
of our New England cities for our
organization. In reply to the ques-
tion you ask me. | will state that in
my opinion the vote OF organized la
bor i'm this country as body will not,
should not and cannot be delivered to
any one party by any man or set OF
men. TO allow such thing would
be suicidal TO the labor movement OF
the country. Members of labor un-
ions, as citizens, have the right and
should carefully consider the plat
forms and promises of the different po-
litical parties and should vote as they
believe the broadest and best inter-
ests of our country lie. There can be
no objection to this from any source
and IL is something which every citi-
zen should do. To claim that any
man or set Of men as has been blaz-
oned forth in the newspapers, will de-
liver tie vote of organized labor TO
any party is absurd as it is an impos-
sibility. Sincerely yours, Norman r.
McPhail"
African Hunting Party Nsmed-Au-
thentic information as to President
Roosevelts hunt in east Africa was
given to the public the other day. The
arrangements are far from complete,
but in the essential features the presi-
dent has fixed ideas. All the reports
about Seth Bullock, Bill Sewall and
other mighty guides, and hunters hav-
ing been invited TO accompany the
president and his son are less substan-
tial than moonshine. In the first place
the president is not intending To make
the hunt an armed expedition into the
dark continent for the extinction OF
big game. In the second place the
men mentioned know no more about
hunting In Africa than the Pre- ident
does. While the President is willing
TO cCnccde that they are fine fellows
and might probably assist him I'm hav-
ing "corking time the hunt is not
To be a distinctly social feature Third.
and most important of all. nobody.
other than the shikarees and other
hunt functionaries, is to join the Pres
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