The Penn's Grove record., 1910-05-27

A subcommittee of the House
Committee on Labor reported favor
ably a bill prohibiting the transperta-
ton in interstate commerce of goods
made by convict labor:
Against Con- There is a considerable
vict Labor. demand for this legisla-
ton from States which
do not permit the products of their
own convicts to enter into COMPETE
ton with free labor, but which are
powerless to prevent the admission of
the products of convict labor from
other States. 1t is believed that the
full committee will promptly report
the measure, although 1t is decidedly
questionable if it can be brought be-
fore the House for a>vote at this ses-
sion.
X X X
Representative Tawney has sue
ceeded in securing the adoption of a
provision his committee has inserted
In the sundry civil bill by which the
sale of oleomargarine coll
Oleo a ored to resemble butter
Criminal. will be made a penal Of
Tense. 1t was supposed
by the authors of the law which re-
quires that revenu stamps be affixed
to all oleomargarine that colored to
resemble butter paying q much
higher tax, that the statute made it a
penal offense to sell oleomargarine
colored as butter, but, according to
the Internal Revenue Commissioner,
Royal e. Cabell, the courts have so
construed the law as to eliminate the
criminality, and as a result the manu-
facturers of oleomargarine affix the
necessary stamps and sell to the re-
tailers uncolored oleomargarine, and
these in turn color the product and
sell it as butter, and the present law
Is inadequate to reach such violations
of the spirit of the statute.
y X
1t is asserted by officials of the For
est Service that a state of consider
able disorganization exists in that
service, and that for practically three
yearsthe broader prob
Forestry lens of conservation
Disorganized. have taken precedence
of the practical admin
~lstration of the Forest Service. These
men insist that abundant credit
should be given to Clifford Pinchot as
the pioneer In the forest conservation
movement, but they intimate that Mr..
Pinchot was more successful in the
preliminary propaganda than in the
more tedious and exacting work of
executive administration, and that re-
Gently he had been so absorbed in the
promotion Of the general %conserva-
ton movement that he had little time
for the purely executive work which
formerly engaged his attention. His
subordinates, it is asserted, have re-
sorted to the expedient of including
vast areas of range lands in the forest
reserves, deferring as long as posi-
BILE the elimination of the land not
suitable for forest purposes, and have
sought to make a c~reditable financial
showing by renting as sheep ranges
the lands so included. 1t is asserted
that sheep pasturage is fatal to re-
forestation, and that only an anxiety
to offset ~extravagalt methods of adj
ministration by enhanced p%ecuniary
receipts could ever induce a genuine
forester to admit sheep to the nation
al forests.
The Treasury Department is going
to wash the microbes from 81 silver
certificates so that they can be re-
stored to circulation and not destroyed
as at present. The
Will Save scheme is a product of the
81, 100000 brain of Assistant Secre-
a Year. tary Norton. He sub
mitted the idea of wash
ing 'the paper money to Director
Ralph, of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, and later to a commit
tee consisting of C. S. Pearce, of the
division Of loans; G.. K. Leet, his pri-
vate secretary, and Brandon Smith,
the Department chemist. The COM
mittee found that about eighty per
cent. of the paper none now de-
stroyed can be saved by washing and
put back into circulation after It Is
properly sterilized. Only silver cef-
tifcates can be washed, because the
ink in yellowbacks and national bank
notes will not permit of such an oper-
alton. The laundry machines will
cost between $500 and $1,000 each,
and the Governmentmaysave through
their use about $1,000,000 a year.
One machine will be installed at each
S~ub-Treasury.
No information has been received
on this side of the water to the effect
that ex-President Roosevelt Is look
ing for any outlet for his energies
other than his editorial
New Job For work, but there are a
Roosevelt. good many persons in
Washington WHO would
like to see him take hold of the long
discussed but attained National
University proposition, of which they
believe he could make a notable sue
cess. 1t is declared that abundant
funds would be Immediately forth
coming were Mr.. Roosevelt to consent
to become president Of such an in
stitution. In fact, 1t is known that
two years ago Andrew Carnegie ex-
pressed a willingness to contribute
s17,0OO,000 to the endowment of
such an institution. 1t is appreciated
that such a university would be OPP
posed by some of the larger universe
ties, such as Harvard, Yale, Column
bia and Johns Hopkins, but there is
a wide sentiment in favor of the es-
Enlistment of such an institution
nevertheless.