The Tomahawk., 1915-12-23
MINNESOTA AIDS
HOME BUILDERS
STATE ART COMM SSION O'S'
TRIBUTES 100000 PLANS FOR
MODEL FARMHOuSES.
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
Events of General Interest IN MINNIE
sofa Condensed and Revised tor
The Creator Convenience
Of Busy Readers.

St. Paul.
Minnesota homebuilders are getting
state aid on a large scale. The state
art commission, according to bulletin
lust issued, has sent out 1.0O0,OU
plans for model farmhouses in the past
"a months. The plans were submitted
by leading architects of the state ana
have been sent out at merely a noml-
nal cost, a service that no other state
government has undertaken to give.
This service is now being extended.
The art commission has been delug-
ed with requests not only for plans'
but for information about building
materials Of all kinds, paint, cement
and the like, or what sort OF heating
plant is best. The Minnesota chapter
of the American Institute Of Architects
has undertaken to render this service
free, through the art commission as an
outlet. It is known as the "Arch1tec-
tural and Allied Arts Service Depart
ment will soon be open to all the peo-
pie of the state. Inquiry OF the Mime
sofa state art commission, Old CAPITOL
St. Paul, or addressed to 5O4 Esse1
building. Minneapolis, will bring com
plete information about the new ser
vice, also about new plans for so moo
ell village houses, which will be turn
ish for the mere cost Of the blueprlnts
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Snyder Again Heads Regents"
The board of regents at the Unlver
s1ty of Minnesota has reelected the
officers to serve for 1916. Fred
Snyder of Minneapolis, as chairman
of the executive committee. The per-
sonnal of the standing committees was
retained.
Three gifts amounting to more than
s2,1OO we're presented to the regents
and accepted. Furnishings for the
Charlotte S. Winchell cottage, amount
ing TO 1900, were donated by the MIN
uesota Alumnae club.
A bronze table concentrating Prol
A. e. Haynes was accepted by the re
gents for the university. The taple'
was presented by almuni OF the uni
ve1sity who we're students of Dad?
HAYNES. Many Of the contributors
were Spanish war veterans.
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Epidemic Holds Attention.
The status Of jaundice as a disease
has been raised by an unusual eplaem
ic that prevails in Minneapolis, ac'
cording to DR.. H. A. Burns, eploenllc
loeist of the state board OF health
with offices at the University of Min
nesota. Ordinarily the disease IS mol
considered sufficiently serious to war
rant special attention, but it's ravages
this wear have called the attention,
of medical science to the fact thai
little is really known about 1t.
X X r
Bulletin on Christmas Trees.
Christmas trees fires in Minnesota
last wear cost loss Of between $6,OOO
and $4,000 and State Fire Marshall
Harcadine in a special Christmas tree
Bulletin calls attention to the fact. Tx
ira precautions this Christmas are re-
ouented. In decorating Christmas trees
Ha.gadine advises the use OF treproc1
Material. Cotton and tinsel he says
are dangerous and menace 10 Ills
ana property. Fireproof decorations
arc obtainable at all stores.
plnnoses of Securities.
r;'be State Board of Control has dis
posed of $4,000 worth Of educational
building certificates and $4,000 of HIS
tor;cal society building securities 10
the Harris Trust and Savings bank OF
Chicago. For the first named securl-
ties the state receives a premium OF
$3.50 and on the latter S1,lOo.
The educational certificates draw
per cent and the historical building Sc
curities Az per cent.
X X X
For Central State Board.
A protest against abolition OF the
state normal school beard, as proposed
in the plan of central state board OF
education, has been made by pres
ent members of the board to the state
efficiency and economy commission,
which met at the STATE capitol to de-
eide On it's course of action in framing
a plan to reorganize the state govern
ment.
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Educator Makes Suggestions.
If Minnesota would improve the
quality of it's rural schools, it should
require the teaching Of tho fundamen-
tails of agriculture in every state-alden
school, county and city, in the opinion
of d. D. Mayne, principal OF tie
School of Agriculture, university farm
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Special Child Labor Agent.
w. D. Washburn, chairman or TIE
Minnesota child labor committee, says
that this committee expects to employ
a special agent to Investigate the en-
ployment of children less than ten
years old to sing in motion picture
shows. Mr.. Washburn said this COM
mittee also will investigate cases OF
children under ten years selling pap
ers on the street or engaging in any
street trade. Plans to have the pre-
sent child labor laws revised by TINS
noxt legislature are being made by MI.