Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-11

@@E@5sE1zz mothers pensions,
who has been away
for several weeks on visits to county
seats. The last Legislature created the
position of supervisor. but the place
was not filed until last Fall. Miss
Glenn began her first tour in the early
winter and arrangements have been
made for county commissioners to pc
tition for appointment of trustees.
Over twenty counties now have
mothers pension systems in operation
and the project is being discussed in
probably as many more. Under the
law the Governor names the trustees
upon agreement of the county to con-
tribute one-half of the pension fund
required. The Auditor Generals de-
partment has worked out a system of
accounting and uniform blanks.
Look for Morc.-Prospects of ac-
tivity in the stock market have raised
the hopes of State fiscal officials that
the stock transfer act of 1915 will
amount to something as a revenue in
creaser after all. When the act was
passed the calculations in the revenue
scheme were that it would amount to
100000 year, but the first month it
turned in over $4,000. Capitol Hill
people now figure out that at least Il
quarter of a million dollars will be
raised in 1916.
Teach Citizenship.-School teachers
dS5OCldllOHS III a. HUMMER OF COuDIleS
of the State have added "Citizenship"
to the subjects for discussion at their
monthly meetings, according to the
State Board of Education. At these
meetings the ways by which the
teacher and the school can inculcate
love of country and veneration for
American institutions and the nations
great men will be discussed and the
teachers will also be asked to outline
what they have done toward promoting
the idea of citizenship among their
pupils.
Owner of Fishing Tug Fined.-The
owner. master and other employees of
the fishing tug Alfred s., Toledo, Ohio,
were arrested and fined 500 each for
operating the tug on Lake Erie in Vio-
lation of the act of April is, 1918,
which prescribes a certain size mesh
in gill nets which may be used. The
parties were using gill nets of Illegal
mesh and when arrested by q warden
of the Pennsylvania Department of
11,267 pounds of food fish and 10
boxes of gill nets. The fish were on
iiscated and the money received,
amounting to $405.6S, toether with the
fines imposed, $500, making a total of
$950.GS, was paid over to the Depart
ment of Fisheries for the use of the
Commonwealth. The prosecution was
brought under the direction of the At
torney Generals Department, Attorney
Clark Olds, of Erie, representing the
State. Erie is the largest fresh water
fish port in the world and unless the
laws are enforced and the fishermen
made to live up to them it is useless to
have the laws on the statute books. 1t
would be unfair to the Pennsylvania
fishermen who fish out of the port of
Erie to allow outsiders to fish without
| living up to the law, and the depart
ment believes this arrest and convic-
tion will have the desired effect of
having the law respected by all the
fishermen.
Commission to Meet. - The Public
Service Commission will meet here on
Monday for it's session for contracts
and charters. 1t will have several
hearings during the week.
After Oyster Men.-Warrants have
been issued for the arrest of fifty per-
sons in Pittsburgh for the sale of
oysters which have been "fattened'
or "bloated" with water contrary to
State laws. This is the largest num-
ber ever issued for this offense at one
| time.
Holiday Tomorrow. - Tomorrow
/ is Il holiday Il, the State Capitol and it
will be closed in honor of Abraham
Lincoln.
Mcdowell Elected. - Ex-Represen-
tative Thomas II. Mcdowell has been
elected president of the Chester coun-
| ty supervisors association.
To Deliver AddPess.-Major Robert
Gritfiths of the State Treasury Depart
ment, will be the orator at the Lin
coin Day Dinner given under the au-
spices of the Philadelphia and Read
ling Railway Y. NJ. G. A. at the asso-
ciations rooms, Lehigh and Kensing-
ton avenues, Philadelphia, on Satur-
day evening. His theme will be Lin
coins Life and Place in History" The
major will be celebrating his own ma
tai day. also. as he was born on Feb
ruary IL.
Movie Men Win-A long drawn n-out
controversy between motion picture
manufacturers and the State Board
of Censors over the right of appeal
from the latter's decisions was settled
yesterday, and a precedent was es-
tablished in Common Pleas Court No.
2, Philadelphia, when Judge Barratt
filed an opinion upholding the right
of film companies to appeal from the
boards ruling to restrict or forbid
the production OF film. Judge Bar
rats action sustains the appeal taken
by the Franklin Film Manufacturing
Corporation from the censors' finding
in the photo-drama, entitled "Vir-
tue"