Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-24

S....e 90. ~ugn the drafting of teach
ers and school executives into war
service" 1t is claimed they are
not only needed now because of the
shortage of teachers, but will be re-
quired to help meet conditions aris-
ing after the war.
The board is also preparing bills
to be presented to the next Legis-
lature calling for a S20,000,000 mini
mum appropriation for the common
schools and arrangements to per-
unit a 20 per cent: increase in the
salaries of teachers as we'll as al
lowances for the teachers retire.
ment fund and for school consolida-
tions.
Attended FuneraI-Colonel John
b. Patrick, of the State Departm ent
and treasurer of the Meade Memo
rial Monument Commission, has re-
turned from Philadelphia, where he
attended the funeral of Colonel
John w. Frazier, secretary of the
commission. who died suddenly on
Tuesday. Colonel Frazier was the
originator of the project for the
Meade memorial statue in Washing
ton, for which the sculpture model
was recently approved by the Fine
Arts Commission. Worw will soon
be started, There is much regret
that the colonel did not live to see
the memorial completed.
Uniform Accounts-As the result
of conference held here between
representatives of water companies
operating in Pennsylvania and Cole
man j. Joyce, chief of the bureau
of accounts of the Public Service
Commission, the state authorities
Will issue a series of suggestions to
the companies for starting the uni
form system of accounts arranged
by the commission to start on Janu-
ary l. Every water company in the
state is to start the new system on
the first of the year, when it is also
hoped to have electric and natural
gas companies install uniform sys-
TENS. The final proofs of the system
for the natural gas companies have
just been read and will be issued by
the end of the month by Mr.. Joyce,
who has been in conference with
representatives of the companies in
this state, Ohio, New York and
West Virginia. The electric COM
panies have filed a brief in regard
to the system suggested for that
class of service.
Want More Policc-Efforts are
being made by the State Police De-
partment to enlist men for each of
the four troops as the membership
in that organization has fallen to
one of the lowest points because of
the men going to war. Most of the
men whose terms of enlistment have
expired the last year have entered
the military service or become spe-
cial policemen for corporations and
munitions plants. %
Telephone Jangle-Questions as
TO what constitutes trespassing upon
the territorial rights of one tele-
phone company by another will be
thrashed out before the Public Serv-
ice Commission tomorrow. The
action is the result of a controversy
between telephone companies oper-
ating in local service in Bedford and
Fulton counties.
State Gives Adjust now the
state of Pennsylvania is paying
$4,000 per month as half pay under
the Act of 1917 to the dependents of
attaches of the state government
who are in the United States Army
or Navy, and this sum will grow as
men leave the state service for the
Army or Navy. The act provides
that they shall be given half pay
up to $4,000 per year. The pay
mcnts made last month show how
this act is giving state aid and are