The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-03

sibIe for the loss and cong ask s;
eds to- impose d tlat nominal tax itllsss
out any Inference for color with pro-
vision for indiyidual stamped or or
igfnai package Of certain sizes are
quately markedand safeguarded. The
law governing the sale Of adulterated.
butter is declared to have brought
about unfortunate conditions through
the difficulty Of its just enforcement.
Recommendations.
Among his principal Recommended
lions to congress the secretary placed
the following:
Enlargement Of the Public Health
Service and a closer cooperation with
state authorities to prevent and
stamp out epidcmics Of disease.
Building of four revenue cutters,
for need Of which the secretary
points out, the service is seriously
crippled. S d
Consolidation of the Revenue CUT
ter and Life.SRving Services into
one organization to be known as the
Coast Guard. Such a consolidation,
the secretary says, would increase the
efficiency of each service with the
idea that the new Coast Guard should
become first naval reserve in time
of war. The increase in, cost would
be about 100000. In that connec-
ton the secretary also recommends
passage of legislation for the retire
ment of live savers on pension, and
declares that unless some such meas
ure is made law, the efficiency Of the
service will be impaired and it will
become increasingly difficult to OBJ
tain good men. He gives point to his
argument by showing that the Rev.
enue Cutter and Life Saving Services
saved 4,42S lives in 1913 and sal
vaged property worth more than $16,-
900, 900.
Cutter Headquarters.
Establishment of, revenue cutter
headquarters al louisville or Cincin-
natl, at, st. Louis or some other point
on the upper Mississippi and at
Helena, Ark, or Vicksburg, Miss, is
urged as a measure for the saving OF
life in the foods time in the Ohio and
Mississippi valley. Three light
draught cutters to cost about $780,
900 each are recommended. With
the rivers at normal stage they would
be used in patrol to enforce the navi-
CATION and motor boat laws.
The report refers to the require
ment that banks Which hold govern
ment deposits made April 80, 1913,
pay interest attwo per cent, declar-
ing that it means an annual revenue
Of $4,000, 900 TO the government and
showing that II such regulation
had been made in 1897 the govern
mcnt would now have received in in
terest more than $30,O0O,0OO.
The income tax is not dwet upon
at length, but the report estimates
that 425,OOO individuals are subject
10 it and that corporations not here
tofore subject to tax will number
about 100000.
Safety at Sea.
international action to prevent
such disasters at sea as resulted in
the sinking of the Titanic is urged.
1.-THE important maritime nations
should unite" says the secretary, "in
defining lanes Of travel across tho
North Atlantic 10 avoid all danger of
iCebergs during the months Of April,
May and June Of each year, and COM
pei steamship companies to observe
them. This would result in increas-
ing to some extent the time Of ocean
passage but II would on the other
hand, insure immunity from the dan
gers of icebergs during this season.
Tie steamship companies should not
be permitted to jeopardize needless
ly human life for the purpose of
shortening the TRANSATLANTIC jour
ney by few hours, and saving 3
comparatively few dollars, bat If
they are they should be compelled to
maintain an effective ice patrol at
their own cost"
The question is to be taken up by
the international conference on Safe
ty at Sea now in session in London.
Speaking of scientific research by
the Public Health Service the report
says:
ION account of the announcements
of discoveries of alleged cures for tu-
berculosis and their bearing on pub
lie health, important investigations
Of them have been undertaken.
Studies of the friedman treatment
we're sufficiently advanced by May
Is, 1918, to justify report that the
observations made up to that time
did not warrant the confidence IN
the remedy which had been Inspired
by widespread publicity. This in
yestigation is being continued, as are
also studies Of other preparations
claimed as cures"
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