New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-24
CAPITOL NEWS LETTER.

ocoVO CoA AaCO VIII NC flu Dis compared
with Ats last year and SOB in 1913.
The 1911 legislature appropriated
ST., 662,908 and the 1913 session $19,-
O94,168. Governor Hammond in his
campaign speech and again in his in
augural address urged that the appro-
priations by the 1915 session be kept
down to the 1911 figures. The Legis-
lature gave him it's cooperation and
kept the appropriations for the two year
period down to $17,910,000 making the
reduced tax rate possible.
State dairy and food inspectors and
state oil inspectors are giving the state
hotel inspectors department efficient
assistance, according to Hotel In
spector N. G.. Nee. The plan or CO.
operation was proposed by Governor
Hammond at conference of the head
Of the three departments last spring
and was at once put into practice.
Under the old plan a hotel Inspector
would visit hotel and give orders for
improvements to promote safety or
cleanliness but the department was
unable to follow up the case and see that
orders were obeyed. Now the hotel
inspector informs the dairy and food or
the oil inspector of the changes ordered
and asks them to visit the hotel and see
if the changes are made. The dairy and
food and the oil inspectors are doing
work without additional pay and the
state for the first time is getting efficient
hotel inspection without increased cost.
Governor Hammond has issued a
statement urging physicians, nurses,
health officers and others to attend the
joint meeting of the Minnesota Public
Health Association and the State SAM
tary conference to be held at Rochester.
In the letter he says Minnesota lost in
1914 11,078 of it's population through
the ravages of preventable diseases.
Notwithstanding this large number of
deaths, no cutlery or protest was raised =
probably for the reason that it is given
to all men once to de- Had 1000
cattle or hogs died from preventable
diseases the newspapers would have been
filled with the calamity and the national
and state governments would have sent
their agents to do all in their power to
stay the evil, simply because cattle and
hogs have a monetary value. Should
we not consider human life as valuable
as animal life, and put forth as much
effort to protect our people as we do to
protect our livestock?"
Governor Hammond has transmitted
to Arthur Hoese of Mayer, Carver
county, the medal awarded the youth
for the best authentic yield of corn re-
ported to the officers of the Panama
Pacific exposition, from this state.
Mayer raised 1854 bushels of corn on
one acre. Il congratulate you most
heartily upon your success" said the
Governor in his letter to Mayer. "Min-
nesota has become a great corn pro-
ducing state. 1t was and is a great
wheat producing state, but now within
it's boundaries there are raised twice as
many bushels of corn as wheat. You
have done big thing, you have a right
to be proud Of it, and we are all proud
of you, the Grand Champion Corn
grower of Minnesota. "
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nor, the board of control and the histori-
cal society have settled their differences
regarding the new state building. AS
usual the Governor was right and made
somebody play checkers according to
Hoyle. With the present Governor on
the job the people can sit back and look
on with confidence"
Officials of the Minnesota dairy and
food department, together with instruc-
tors in the dairy division at the State
school of agriculture come in for favor
able comment in an article by Allied
Mccain in the New York Globe. He
says the teaching here is in surprising
contrast to that in Wisconsin. Prof.
I. L. Hacker, head of the dairy division
at the school Of agriculture, is given high
praise and of John McCabe, who has
been assistant dairy and food commits
sioner since Johnson McCabe was a
good influence in the state Of Minnesota.
Mr.. McCabe came to investigate con-
ditions under which butter shipped from
western states to New York was manu.
featured, and found conditions much
better in Minnesota than in Wisconsin.
"Make Minnesota Fireproof', is the
slogan adopted by. R. w. Hargadine,
state fire marshal, who has had this motto
printed in large red letters on all enveloDes