Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-16
DR.. JACKSON GOING
TO STUDY SYSTEMS
Commissioner of Labor Will Visit
European Capitals During the
Summer Months

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Europe this summer. DR.. Jackson
plans to leave about July 1 and will
make the trip at his own expense. II
is his plan to visit the departments
dealing with factory inspection, safety
labor, employment and other subjects
in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and
other capitals and to obtain ideas OF
the manner of conducting their work
A series of conferences has beer
held at the department lately by com
mittees representing various indus
tries. with view to working out safe
ty plans and establishing codes o
rules which can be passed upon b.
the State Industrial Board. Over &
dozen branches of industry have thu.
been taken care of and their rule'
will soon be acted upon.
A hearing will be held by the State
Industrial Board before long on the
proposed code to govern the construc.
ton and operation of movie thea
ters.
Censors Prepare.-The State Board
of Censors, which is charged with the
duty of passing upon the films and
views for picture shows in the State
will begin the enforcement of the
censorship act on June l and exhibit
ors displaying films which have not
had State approval will place them
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board has drawn up a set of rules and
standards and the six film exchanges
in the State and practically all of the
exhibitors have been given notice of
the intention to enforce the act. In
spectors will be detailed on the first
of next month to ascertain whether
| films have been approved.
Tabulate Bids. Seven clerks are
now engaged in tabulating the bids
received by the State Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings for the con-
tracts for supplies to departments of
the State government and the General
Assembly, and it will take two weeks
at least to complete the list The
board had 139 bidders. more than ever
known before, and over $500 items
were bid upon, some of them being
subdiVided, while in some cases q
dozen or more bids were made on one
item. The contracts involve about
$3.50, 900 and will extend for the year
beginning June /. Tons of paper and
all kinds of maintenance supplies for
the Capitol and the other buildings
of the State in this city, as we'll as
labor for clearing away SHOWS, are
covered by the contracts which will be
let.
Commanders on AIert.-According
to unofficial reports which have been
received here there has been marked
activity among National Guard officers
in bringing their commands UP to the
strength authorized by law at this
time on their own hook. If the Guard
should be called to mobilize within
the next ten days most of the organi-
cations would have all the men the law
requires and allows. Many of the COM
manders have reported that veterans
Of the Spanish and Philippine services
have offered to enlist If a call comes.
but the men taken in are mostly young
men who have not served before and
who are eager for training. The men
of the four Twelfth Infantry COM
panies which were converted into cav
airy troops are now being examined
for service and will get their equip
ments in about six or eight weeks.
Extend Flood Service. The State
Water Supply Commission has ex-
tended the system of flood warnings,
which were given thorough test dur
| Ing the high water several weeks ago
in the Susquehanna valley, to the
eastern part of the State. The Schuyl-
kill river has recently been provided
with three gauging stations, one at
Schuylkill Haven and one at Reading
and one on the Little Schuylkill at
Molino. They will be in service this
summer. The Lehigh river has been
! inspected and a reconnaissance made
| to determine the best places for sta
tions, which 1t is planned to establish
on that stream before long. When
the Lehigh has been taken care of
study of the Delaware river will be
undertaken and gauging stations To-
Gated. This will probably be finished
in the Fall. A complete system was
established In the Susquehanna valley
soon after the Ulman act was passed
carrying $4,000 for the purpose. The
next Legislature will be asked to pro-
vide for extension of the system
Up to Boards. - Attorney General
John c. Bell has informed DR.. Nathan
G. Schaeffer, State Superintendent OF
Public instruction, that the act of
| 1880, liking compensation of collec-
tors OF school tax, is superseded as far
as second, third and fourth class dis
tricts are concerned by the school code
CT 1911, which gives the directors the
right to fix the compensation. AS the
act of 1885 specified percentages that
should form the compensation and the
school code does not, a question arose
The Attorney General finds that the
compensation Is discretionary with
school directors but quotes the decis-
ion of Justice Potter in the Hanover
township school district case, which
said that the school code "contem-
plates the exercise of reasonable dis
cretion by the school board in the in
terest of the public" The language
of the code Is not to be taken as vest
Ing in school boards any arbitrary
discretion to be used in defiance of
public interest in fixing the pay or
compensation of collectors.
BoroughS COmplain.-A complaint
by the boroughs of Ashland, Girard-
vile, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah
was filed with the Public Service Com:
mission to-day against the Schuylkill
Railway Company. The service, IA
cilities, rules, regulations and practices
of the company are characterized as
unsafe, inadequate, insufficient, unjust
and unreasonable.
Peterson Case Up. The case of
Mike Peterson, serving from two and
a half to three years for larceny in
this county, is before the State Board
of Pardons for rehearing next We'd
nesday. There are twenty-three new
cases including one application for
communication from Bucks county,
which is protested.
Obtained Conviction. - The State
Fire Marshals Department has re-
ceived word that Mrs. Goodrich, charg-
ed with arson in burning her home In
Huntington county, has been con-
victed. This was hard-fought case