Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-03

organized under the state board o.
Health.
:. Industrial Aysisas should ~
transferred from the Department OF
Labor to the State Board of Health.
7. Larger appropriations for the
state IS public health service should be
granted.
copy of tho full report of this COM
mission 10 also appended to this mes
sage and will, trust, receive the care
full consideration of the members Of
this body.
The reports of both the legislative
commission on changes in our civil adj
ministration and the commission on
public health agree in recommending
that the present advisory commission
be abolished, that the State Board OF
Health be made to consist Of fave in
stead Of nine members. and that COM
missioner of health be appointed to
have full authority over health mat
ters. The two commissions. however.
differ as to the method of appointing
the commissioner of health. Ono Ia
vors the appointment by the Board OF
The question as to whether an appoint
ment should be made by board or by
the Governor is not, In my opinion,
very important II the Legislature gives
to the appointing power sufficient au"
thority, with reasonable l1mitat1ono.
When position requiring technical
training Is involved the appointing
power should have the right to remove
the appointee and the power with suit
able safeguards to adjust his salary.
The length of tho term of such an APP
pointee should be indefinite and In all
cases where it oan be done the Legis-
lature should prescribe as high quail
fications as can reasonably be applied
to those who are to be appointed.
w>lfarA NJ Children.
Closely connected with the question
of public health is that of the welfare
of the child. This state has done much
for it's children through it's charitable
institutions. There is probably not
more than one or two states that are
ahead of Minnesota in this regard and
yet by reason Of Inconsistencies and
omissions in our present laws relating
to children, 1t has been felt that the
statutes pertaining thereto should be
codified and revised. At the request OF
those interested in this matter. a COM
pose of making a thorough study OF the
subject and subsequently reporting
recommendations as to any changes
! that are needed. This commission was
appointed in August of last year and
preliminary report, which shows the
careful and comprehensive manner In
which the work of the commission is
Their final recommendations will be in
corporated in a bill to which the Legis-
lature, it is to be hoped, will give the
attention that the Importance Of the
proposed measure deserves.
Labor Liquidation.
We have had, in the past, much
enactment of law pertaining to the
what we today call humanitarian legis-
lation. 1t is only forty years ago
since the passage Of the first law in
volving the regulation Of hours of la
| Dor. Such legislation was at that time
regarded as extremely dangerous and
when. thirty years ago, an attempt was
made to keep children out of factories
such attitude was considered "a reck-
less interference with economic free
DOM" But changes are taking place
and have taken place until, today, all
fair minded men in public life believe
in legislation tending to give adequate
! compensation for injuries sustained
and to insure payment thereof, to Sc
cure the ample protection of lives, the
decrease in the number of accidents,
the improvement of all conditions un-
der which men work, the shortening
, of their hours of labor to the lowest
possible point, and bring about as soon
as possible that situation in which no
man, who desires to work, shall be
compelled to labor without receiving
for his toll sufficient amount in
wages to enable him and his family tc
live in such a manner as to secure fol
them their full, fair share Of the acces.
series Of life.
Industrial Disputes.
There are times I'm this state a. well
as elsewhere when employees feel that
they are not getting that to which
they are entitled, either in wages OF
conditions of employment. AS a result
serious strikes take place. The state
executive is then asked, not only to use
the National Guard to prevent disorder
and riot, but, although he is not au.
thorized by law to do so, to attempt t.
settle such industrial controversial.
Notwithstanding the fact that we have
at the present time what is known a.
the State Board of Arbitration. Thu
existing law upon this subject provide.
that when majority Of employees o.
their employers make application
therefor, the said board shall visit tn,
locality, inquire into the dispute, heal
and advise all parties interested" bu
the amount authorized to be paid tn,
members Of the board for such worl
Is so small that It cannot be expected
that they should leave their homes o.
places of labor or business to go to tn,
locality involved for the purpose o