The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
new CHILD LAWS
NOW EFFECTIVE
Protection Given BY New Statute
To Nightmares, Depend
ents And DeIinquents.
SAYS use MORE CORN
State Fuel Administrator Announces
Grain Is To Be Subject of
Next Big Food
Drive.

ST. Paul
With the war making more urgent
the necessity of child conservation,
authorities will begin enforcement
of Minnesota's new child welfare laws
which give children born out of we'd
lock a better chance; place guardian
ship over all dependent and delinquent
children; broaden the Jurisdiction of
the Juvenile court and increase the
scope of the mothers pension law.
Under the terms of the new laws,
the maternity hospitals and infant
homes in the state also must be in
corporated and licensed annually.
William w. Hodson of Minneapolis,
who has been named director of the
children's bureau, which will be con-
Quoted by the State Board of Control,
said that he will confer at once with
Mrs. r. ]. O'Connor and Miss E.
Hayes of st. Paul, Miss Florence Mon
ahan of Minneapolis, and Miss Lucille
Way of Mortified, field agents, on
their duties.
They will begin their work in the
Twin Cities, reporting all unlicensed
hospitals and infant homes to the
Board of Control so that they can be
licensed under the terms of the act
passed at the last session of the Leg
islature.
| Under the illegitimacy section of
one of the statutes, the father is made
responsible in the same degree as
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"Use More Corn Is Slogan.
Minnesotans as we'll as Iowans are
to be cornfed folk if the Federal Food
administration for Minnesota has it's
way. A. d. Wilson, state food admin
istrator, has announced that corn was
to be the subject for the next big food
drive.
American housewife, use more
corn!" is Mr.. Wilson's exhortation.
"We have 80 bushels per person for
this year. and our average consump-
ton is less than one bushel per per-
son. Four-ffths of all the farmers
in America grow corn and One-third
of all the land under cultivation is in
corn. Corn cannot be shipped for two
reasons: There are no mills over
seas for grinding of whole grain, and
cornmeal grows rancid in passage.
This is due to the large amount of fat
which detracts from it's keeping quail
ties, while it adds to it's food value.
What is the bit for the housewife of
today? Corn saves wheat for soldiers.
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May Charter No More Banks.
With view toward conserving Min
nesota's financial power to aid the
government in winning the war, F. w.
Pearson, state superintendent of
banks states that he has planned to
suggest to the State Public Safety
commission an order to prohibit char
tering new state banks until the end
of the war. The results, Mr.. Pearson
said, would be that prospective stock
holders in new banks would De IN
fiuenced to buy Liberty bonds and use
their funds in other ways which would
help the government. The Public
Safety commission has been passing
on applications for charters for new
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with view of determining the loyalty
of the project.
In one instance the commission di.
rected the superintendent to refuse
charter for new bank on the ground
that it was backed in some measures
by parties who became displeased
with other banks in the same town
yuh ho6 Or in 7 I
other patriotic undertakings.
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1918 Crop Survey Unlikely.
No special survey of Minnesota's
crops likely will be made next sum-
mer other than the customary crop
report estimate, A. D. Wilson an
nounced after a conference with Paul
H. Kirk, field agent in the crop report.
ing service of the Department of Agri-
} culture.
The conference came as result OF
!; a letter to Mr.. Kirk from Washing
: ton, urging him to consult with Mr..
Wilson as to the ACCESSIBILITY of con-
Quoting a statewide survey of crops,
yield, acreage, labor and general re-
sources next summer. 1t was pro-
| posed to do this work through the
schools Several hundred high school
agricultural students were to be en-.
listed in this work.
, Delinquents Face Suit.
Hotel and restaurant keepers who
failed to pay the state license fee Of
50 for 1917 will not escape payment,
it has been announced by W. A. Witt.
becker, state hotel Inspector Fifteen
or twenty places in st. Paul are delin-
: quent and prosecutions may start this
week. By February delinquent lists
will have been mailed certifying hotel
, and restaurant keepers to county at
torneys for prosecution. Further in
spections will be made soon II ST.
Paul hotels and restaurants, Mr. Witt.
becker announces.
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} Autos Defying Weather.
; Nearly $4,000 new state automobile
: licenses and 100000 new tags in the
new 1918-19-20 series have been issued.
J Secretary of State Schmall said that
, a new high record for applications by
mail was set one day recently. The
sales show the practicability of the
, automobile for winter service, indicat-
: ing that considerably more than so
per cent of cars owned in Minnesota
: are in winter service. The old state
: license series closed With No. 191, 900
, and it is expected that 100000 licenses
will ha isslled nv 1921