Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-03-26

which the bill gives the smaller
schools all along the line should sure
ly result in very large improve
ment in conditions and quality of
wo,G. The younger primary and
district hool teachers-tho likely
they will have to prove a higher
standard of fitness for their work
will Incidentally receive much more
satisfactory compensation. Of.course
thes0lil has yet to run the gaunt ct
OF both Houses, but they must take
this bill in some form and make the
best of it or go without any, and it
is likely to be amended in some par
ticulars and passed. The committee
| finally evolved a taxation bill pro-
viding for limited offsets and a few
incidental trimmings, but when it
was brought into the House a meas
ure of very nearly like character
formulated by Moore of Ludlow was
substituted for it after "a brief but
hot discussion and the Moore bill
was passed What the Senate may
do to it is beyond guesswork, but
there is known to be considerable
opposition to the soffset principal in
that body of immortals. If the
Moore bill passes,i it will work a very
considerable change tin the present
taxation laws, but the Senate may
decide to give the present laws two
years more trial.
1t now appears that the very dras-
tic bill of DR.. Mayo of Mortified
for the handling by the State of all
venereal diseases will become a law.
in which case there will soon be
things doing all along the line.
The bill demands that when a
physician becomes aware of a disease
Of this nature he shall at once quar-
antine it do in case of .any other in
fectious and communicable disease,
and then it is under the care of the
local health officer acting for the
State board of health. The quaran-
tine may not be especially open and
notorious, hut it will be carefully
and thoroughly enforced and the ut
most care taken that there shall be
no infection while the patient is able
to communicate it. 1t has been
shown to be very evident here that
there is most emphatic public de-
mand for such regulation, and the
State is apparently very much alive
to the necessity of emphatic action.
In view of the probable passage of
this act it is likely that the so-called
'eugenic marriage bill" which re-
Gently attracted so much attention,
will be allowed ,to die, the public
meanwhile observing the operation
of the latter act.
The bill for the regular scientific
inspection sof all establishments in
which milk lis handled has passed
both Houses, and after it gets to
working it may be assumed that all
creameries will be like the baking
powder, absolutely pure" The bill
permitting the organization of a
farmers cooperative ms rance
company throughout the State, I'M
. der the direction of the State Grange
is also an accomplished fact. 1t is
likely that the state support of the
State Fair will be continued with an
appropriation of 5000, with an ad-
ded S., 900 more to be divided among
all other agricultural exhibitions in
the State, whether incorporated
or not. The House bill, "for the
conservation of the flood waters of
! the State, in other words, to
locate sites for power. and manufac-
turing plants and to provide for the
protection by the State of all such
| has likewise passed the Senate and
will become a law with the Govern
or's signature, In all, $4,000 is ap-
propriated to carry out the plan.
The uproar over the proposition to
abolish about everything in sight
has about died down, and there is
thus far nothing to show for it. The
factory inspector is seemingly safe,
after having Ahad healthy scare
thrown into him and admonitiOn in
the way of official quietude and
economy, and the bill to wipe out
: the whole business will die in com
mittee. The bill likewise abolishing
= the Office Of Commissioner of Weights
and Measures will also be smothered,
but it is suspected that the Governor
has his eye on some other statesman
to succeed Commissioner Henry as
head Of the department. The latter
insists that large appropriation
. at least $12, 900 is absolutely neces.
sary with which to carry on the
department,While the general sense
: is that half that sum ought to do
and one well-qualifed and responsible
party offers to administer it to the
limit witt. $1,000. The office will be
continued, under somebody, but the
late encouragement style of ex
l penditure will be considerably cur
: tailed
An army of lifelong friends Of
Senator Page were delighted to have
an opportunity last Thursday anc
Friday morning to again greet hin
and to look into those kindly twink
, ling eyes which have lost none OF
their friendly benevolence of express