Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-19

| specific aid should be maintained in
every industrial center. No child
should be allowed to enter upon any
form of service who is not certified by
competent agents to be physically fit
for such service.
! In this great Industrial State it is
l,our DUTY to pay definite attention to
| the housing problem. Every family
should be housed in a home that is pri-
vate. sanitary. safe and attainable at
reasonable rental. I urge your at
tention to this Important problem. We
cannot breed good citizens in disgrace
full houses. Tt would be a great pleas
ure to me and a great blessing to our
workmen if this problem were ade-
quately met now.
Our Farms
We have not learned how to make
the most of our soil. The rewards of
our toll on the farm are not what they
| should be. The State should grow
more food than it consumes. We ought
not to be buyers but sellers of foods.
Money should flow to us, not away
from US The departments of the gov
ernment charged with the conserva-
ton of our soil and the scientific de-
Velopment of our crops have sprung
up, one at astime, as their services
were required and no effort has been
made to articulate and coordinate
| these several agencies. There is at
least departmental confusion If not ac-
tual duplication and conflict of activi-
ties. All this means waste in funds
and lessened service to the farmer. I
nope in this session of the Legislature
to have such action taken as will sepa-
rate the teaching from the administra-
tive functions of these agencies and
reduce each to an ordered and scien-
tif1c service. The funds for the ad-
vancement of our agricultural inter-
ests ought to express themselves much
more largely in wheat and corn and
potatoes and less in clerical and other
forms of routine service. Let us legis-
late for the farmer rather than for the
| officeholder.
Municipal Regulation
Our cities have grown more rapidly
than our rural districts. Our urban
population is so complex that 1t
scarcely knows how to apply the prin-
ciples of democracy These people will
learn, even If they blunder. when they
have the fullest responsibility of con-
troll placed squarely upon them. They
will learn much more slowly, if at all,
while the State at long range is the
large regulator of their conduct and
their corporate life. Our laws ought
not to hinder but help these great
groups speedily to find themselves in
the difficult task of adjusting munich
pal affairs to individual welfare. The
State should give these municipalities
wider freedom of opportunity to de-
velop as they would, and to place def
mite responsibility upon them so to
regulate their affairs as to make our
cities centers of moral uplift and ex-
/ amples of clean, capable administra-
! ton.
| Conservation
Once Pennsylvania was rich in nat
ural resources and unequaled in nat
ural beauty. Much of its wealth has
been taken from it. Much yet remains.
It's ownership has passed to private
and to corporate agencies. They have
| rights that must be respected. So also
| have the people of the State a claim
upon these great natural assets. In
their marketing the Commonwealth
the people ought also to share. A rea-
sonabIe tax upon our great natural re-
sources as they flow to our markets
| is both fair and wise. Our public lands
represent a new and increasingly valu-
able asset. We should speedily ac-
quire many more acres and assist ma
ture to reforest the same. The State
can well afford to invest part of it's
! income for the welfare of succeeding
generations. Indeed, If we love our
continuing Commonwealth more than
J we love our personal gain, we shall
assuredly foster our resources and,
whenever possible add to them.
| We fail to sense this obligation
Alright if we do not remember that our
people are our greatest asset. What
ever makes for their good is conserva-
ton of the loftiest kind. That they
may be safeguarded in their health,
their recreation, their education. their
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their regulated freedom, their toll,
should be our constant endeavor.
Conclusion
Pennsylvania has always given home
and haven to the people of the civilized
world. Here we have had for a quar-
ter of a millennium the most hetero-
geneous population of any State. There
| has never been persecution or oppres-
sion. In peace, in order. in brother
hood. we have grown into a mighty
people, an empire of substantial pur-
poses. Our people are law abiding and
liberty loving. They want the right
things to prevail. They welcome the
unselfish leadership of clean men.
They want and must have a clean, cap
able and conscientious administration
of their public affairs. Those of us
that serve should be frankly honest
with them. They have Il perfect right
to know, and they shall know. what
this administration stands for and will
steadily do.
In the performance of public service
let us adopt the finest code of our best
citizens and put private integrity into
public service. Let us all devoutly
pray for this great State and by our
words and our deeds humbly help our
common God to save, to honor, to exalt
this splendid Commonwealth He has
given into our care and keeping.
Brumbaugh Party Spends
Night at Executive Mansion
Governor Brumbaugh and his party
arrived soon after O'Clock last night,
going direct from Union station to the
executive mansion. In the party were
his son, George Edwin Brumbaugh and
his wife; his daughter, Miss Mabel
Brumbaugh; Mrs. Flora Parks and
Miss Ella Wise with James S. Hiatt
and Mr.. and Mrs. Louis j. Kolb. Mr..
Kolb is a close personal friend. A
number of Philadelphia people called
to see the new governor and to wish
him success. Several Harrisburgers
also left cards.
Governor Tener spent the night with
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