Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-17
JITNEYS SHOULD .
BE RESTRICTED
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ance feature of the workmen's COM
pensation act which appeared in the
Philadelphia morning newspapers. DR..
Jackson classed the attack of the stock
insurance men as "bosh" as far as 1t
connected politics with the insurance
board
Farley Gannett, president of the
Engineers Society of Pennsylvania, |
presided at the morning session, which |
was opened at 10 o'clock with large |
attendance. Although the attendance |
of State employees was not as large !
as at the opening session yesterday |
morning. there was an increased num- |
her of engineers, manufacturers and |
businessmen on hand.
Mr.. Gannett told of the organization |
of the Engineers Society of Pennsyl'
vania and the part 1t has taken in
bringing together socially and profess |
sionally the hundreds of employees of
the State. He said that the advan-
tages of the local club allow the men
to get together and exchange views
along experimental lines, with the re-
suit that 1t tends to broaden them in
their line of work for the Common
wealth.
! wild Conservation
Mr.. Gannett introduced DIR. William
I r. Hornaday. director of the New
York Geological Society, who is known
us one of the greatest of the worlds
naturalists and the Father of Bird
Conservation"
DR.. Hornaday gave what he termed
a blrdseye view of the work of wild
life conservation and said that he was
glad that Pennsylvania stands out as
one of the foremost States in the Union
in the conservation of wild life.
He~-said that the army of defense
for conservation was small, put still
knows how to win victories. DIR.
Hornaday told of the absence of con-
servation in many of the western
states and said the work was strongest
. In New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
DR.. Hornaday declared: 1T is un-
life is not confined to game alone, but
, the whole volume is subject to in
r f1uence of the destroyers."
, The speaker said that he was ap-
: palled by the wild life slaughter in the
West. Unless there is a great wave
r over those states and radical change
for the better for conservation" he
{ declared, twenty years hence all states
t west of Pennsylvania will be swept as
clean of game as Ohio is to-day"
DR.. Hornaday said that the ex-
r termination of the sage grouse, which
, he classed as one of the finest game
birds. as a crime. He told of how
thousands and thousands of dollars
8 are being spent to perpetuate ruffed
grouse. Bob White and the California
> white quail and also the heath hen.
, OF which Just a few remain on an
island off Massachusetts.
Il DR.. Hornaday declared that the man
who shoots must make far greater
sacrifices If game is to be conserved
: and that the salvation of future game
lies in long closed seasons. He said
the game limit laws were far too lib
eral and too many are hunting. He
said that it is the duty to give pos
1 terity square deal and perpetuate
t the wild life. DR.. Hornaday compli-
, mented the counties of Pennsylvania
where the sportsmen themselves have
caused closed seasons of five years to
deer and wild life.
He told of the work of stocking
game preserves in Pennsylvania for
/ perpetuation of deer and said the sal
} vation of the game sport is to cut
) down on limit so that game can breed
5 for time faster than it is allowed to
! be killed.
u Whacks Jitneys
DR.. John Price jackson, Commits
! sioner of Labor and Industry, was the
7 next speaker. Prefacing his remarks,
DR.. Jackson spoke of the use of the
car barns of the Harrisburg Railways
: Company for the conference exhibit
} and urged delegates to use the street
, cars instead of the jitneys in going
back and forth. He was emphatic in
} declaring that he favored the jitney,
but that it needed restriction in Har-
: risburg that would make it responsi BILE
to the people the same as the railway
interests.
. DIR. Jackson told of the enormous
, systems OF industrial growth and the
} production of goods at strikingly less
cost than twenty-five years ago. He
said that in order to prevent cor
porations from imposing on the public
much legislation has been passed,
some of which is good and some bad.
DR.. jackson declared that it was his
thought that the Sherman act must be
modified greatly as the country's in
dustries progress. Dr. Jackson de-
clared that as corporations become
larger and more powerful the compe-
titton becomes less and the restrictions
become harder and harder.
He then took up the organization of
the Department of Labor and Industry
with the thought of improving both
the Industrial welfare and the en-
ployes' welfare throughout the State
lie told of the branches of the depart
ment and their various lines of work
throughout the State and what they
were doing for the State and its people
DR.. jackson said that in the organ
ization and the work of his depart
ment the employers of Pennsylvania
co-operated largely. as did to a large
extent the employees.
In speaking of the employment
bi t>'bNlt VI LIS MT. JACKSON
said that it tended to conserve labor
and urged municipal employment
agencies, State employment agencies
and national employment agency
which could work IN accord with each
other and furnish labor where it was
needed.
Answers Attack
DR.. Jackson in speaking of the State
insurance fund answered an attack
made in the newspapers this morning.
He said the charge of political control
was all "bosh" and that the State
board could give all kinds of insurance
or show how to get 1t. He said the
State fund was backed by the great
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
no one needed a stronger recommen-
dation than that
Water Supply Discussed
Robert A. Zentmeyer, of Tyrone a
member of the State Water Supply
Commission, spoke of the work of his
commission and said that the work he
felt was greatly misunderstood in some
sections. where it was almost looked
upon as "the government rainmaker."
| Mr.. Zentmeyer told of the work of his
commission in controlling the water
| resources of the State and for the
utilization of water power and super
| vision Of