Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11

| ESHHH4AaItsN Board OF Educa-
zSS S.; s.: !; !: 5:
| ty-five per cent. of
- the salaries of the
school teachers,
wnlch was presented a short time
| ago and on which a number of
studies are being made.
AT the meeting of the State Board
1 In pittsburgh committee was
named to investigate sources of rev.
enoe available for meeting the in
creased appropriation and to point
| out that the principal object is to
provide Tor equitable taxation and
EQUALIZATION of educational advan-
tages to children throughout PENN
syivania. One of the letters received
at the offices set forth that nearly
half a billion dollars has been paid
into the federal treasury in income
and excess profits tax in the year
ending June 80, and that the direct
inheritance tax will amount to about
$5,000,000 a year.
Warning on Fowls-warning that
many fiocks of chickens are being
infected by hens which became sick
during the severe weather of last
winter and were not killed and that
/
before fall is contained in a bulletin
issued by the State Department of
| Agriculture. State inspectors are
urging that diseased chickens be-
Killed at once and be either burned
or buried deeply. Thousands of
chickens have been found infected. /
Foust Will Act-The State De-
partment of Agriculture to-day an
nounced that as a result of the de-
eision of the superior court yester-
! day reversing the Bedford county
court, Dairy and Food Commissioner
Foust would issue orders at once for
| numerous prosecutions for the sale
of so-called canning compounds
which are almost exclusively made
up of boric acid. The sale of boric
acid in such preparations is forbid
| den.
Board Stands Pat-The State Com
pensation Board to-day handed
down decision refusing to set aside
a second supplemental agreement
in the claim of Robert A. Lewis,
Scranton, VS.. Bethlehem Steel Com
pany. The proceeding was an un-
usual one as the petitioner alleged
disability recurred since the signing
of a supplemental agreement and
final receipt and wished the original
agreement reinStated. The board
had medical examination made.
The appeal was also dismissed in
Lutz VS.. American International
Shipbuilding Corporation.
Report Due Soon-All local draft
boards in Pennsylvania have been
notified that a report on class 1 pre-
liminary to apportionment of quotas
will be requested within the next
two weeks. When the report is asked
nothing shall interfere with the
prompt compilation"
Prisoners Working-1n parts of
Pennsylvania prisoners confined in
county jails are working as farm
hands on lands owned by poor dis
tricts, building roads, cleaning
streets, chopping firewood, which
will next winter be distributed by
mothers pension commission, and In
a couple of counties are being hired
out to aid in the harvesting of crops.
| The latter employment is not author
lied by law, but owing to the scarcity
of labor caused by war conditions,
no objection is being offered to this
infraction of the statutes.
Interest in Grouse-All over the
state the greatest interest is being
manifested in the closing of the
counties to the hunting of grouse. 1t
is one of the most extensive moves
ever undertaken and the support
being given assures that it will work
out.
Attended Meetings-Commiss
of Labor and Industry Palmer and
Superintendent of State Police
George F. Lumb, were in. PhiladeI-
phia, attending meetings of state
bodies yesterday.
No Decision Soon-It is unlikely
that any decision will be handed
down soon in the quo warranto pro-
ceedings against the Lancaster and
Susquehanna turnpike. The state
ments made yesterday are being
studied.
| Murdoch In Action-Major w. G.
Murdock, the state chief draft officer
has suspended Philadelphia draft
board No. 4, as the result of charges
| filed relative to the conduct of the
draft in the Fourth and Fifth wards
of Philadelphia. The work was given
to another board which was increas-
| ed in number.
Radnor Complains. The school
| district of Radnor, Delaware county,
| to-day filed complaint with the Pub
lie Service Commission against the
new rates of the Wayne Sewerage
Company. previous complaints having
been entered from that section.
Pen Is the Piace.-Courts of quar-
tence wife deserters to a peniten-
tiary for the term of one year and
| the act OF 1903, so far as it restricts
the place of confinement of such an
/ offender to a county jail, is repealed
by the act of 1917. according to an
! opinion given by the Attorney Gen.
erals Department to John Francies,
| warden of the western penitentiary.
1t is held that the law requires such
a convict to work and that as work
is part of the dicipline in peniten-
tiary and not in a county jail the
penitentiary is the proper place.
| Earnings of a convict are to be paid
| to the proper authority of the county
whence the convict was sent to the
institution. The opinion points out
an inconsistency in regard to pay of
/ prisoners between the acts of 1915 and
1917. the former fixing fifty cents a
day and the latter sixty-ffve.
Rates Away Up.-Increases of from
SO to $12 year in rates for tele-
phones are set forth in a new tariff
of rates filed with the Public Service
Commission by the VandergTift Tele-
phone Company.
Bamberger Hearing On. - Officers
of the Attorney Generals and Health
Departments appeared for the state
at the hearing in the prosecution in
the Bamberger case in Palmyra to-
day., 1t is alleged that a. case of
smallpox was not reported.
Capitol Visitors. - Asher Seip. of
Easton. was here to-day to get the
nomination papers for Supreme Court