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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Some Of the "PIurns''
Available in the Future

Expiring terms, either in 1919
or 1920, which may be considered
legitimate ground for women as
pirants are among these: Seventh
District member of the Department
of Farms and Markets, now held
by William E. Dana, whose term
expires April 1, 1920, travelling and
other expenses; George 3. Burd,
Buffalo, Commission for Blind,
travelling and other expenses;
Bronx Parkway Commission, Will
lam White Niles, term expires in
1920, $4,000 salary.
Under the State Board of Chari-
ties, the following institution posi-
tons will be open in 1919 and 1920:
One member board of managers,
Rome State Custodial Asylum; one
MEMBER Craig Colony board Of man.
ayers; one member Letchworth vi
lage board of managers; three m M
bers West Taverstraw State los
pital for Crippled Children; one
member board Of trustees, Raybrook
Hospital for tuberculosis; one menu
Der Bath Soldiers and Sailors Home
Board; one member Wiman's Relief
Corps Home, Oxford; one member
Elmira Reformatory &c member
Bedford Reformatory; one member
Albion Reformatory, and one men-
Der Hudson Reformatory
None Of these appointments has IN
actual salary attached, but all a.e
responsible positions, held, to a la.'ge
extent, by men, and with possible
ties for more women members.
Four vacancies on the board If
trustees Of Syracuse University viii
exist IN 1920, and no woman is now
a member OF the board
James Byrne, OF New York city,
viii complete his term of Office on
the Boar dof Regents of New York
State in 1920, and here is one of
the most important posts which are
being advocated for women The
appointment must come through
election on joint ballot Of the two
houses of the Legislature No SAL
airy is connected with the position.
The entire personnel Of the Pub
lie Health Council IN connection with
the State Department of Health
must be reappointed in 1920 by the
Governor, at q salary Of 900 and
expenses. One vacancy on the board
of examiners of feeble minded, GRIM
mails and other detectives must be
filled by a general practitioner of
medicine of ten years experience.
Six members of the board of medi-
cal examiners will go out of Office
IN either this year or next, to be APP
pointed by the Board Of Regents.
Six members of the Board of Phar-
macy Will be appointed also during
this year and next by the Regents.
Three members of the State Commits
sion OF Prisons may be appointed
by the Governor in 1920, with SAL
aries Of $40 day and expenses for
each day of actual service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

" WllO we're placeu III Dig
jobs by the Governor have
been making good at rate to in
sure appointments to other women
aspirants.
The announcement of the Gov
errors appointments last spring
carried the names Of two women.
These women were to hold respon-
sible high salaried positions on inn
portant state commissions
In practically all state commits
sions terms expire after a given
number of service years. A Cover
nor always has within his power the
filing of a certain number Of
expired offices. Prior TO 1919 no
woman ever held the Office of paid
commissioner in New York State.
When the first nomination, that
Of Miss Frances Perkins to the In
dustrial Commission, was handed
down from the Senate desk, state
Senators were quick to say that
their debate on the appointment was
not because the Governors APP
pointee was a woman. Rather they
dragged in arguments to the effect
that Miss Perkins, by not taking
her husbands name, had shown her
self radical, hence ought not
to have the Office. 1t was a blow to
many a politician, and in various
centres where patronage is looked
for, when tho $4,000 job went to a
woman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

scores of mothers with their babies
throughout the day, Uncle Sam
first baby clinic on wheels is nov
making its maiden trip through
Illinois. 1t is a big gray automobile
truck-weight, 5000 pounds-with
an especially constructed body. It
was recently purchased by the
Children's Bureau of the United
States Department of Labor to
demonstrate to the country that in
matters of child care the rural
mother can be effectively reached
by the automobile bearing scientific
equipment for examining children,
q specialist in children's diseases
Going along, too. 1t is the govern
ment's version of that we'll known
,roverb about Mahomet going to the
mountain if the mountain could not
come to Mahomet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
One Woman In
Every Department

Zone Of the chief aims of my
service on this commission Will be
to abolish the separate lists. Any
examination admitting both men
and women ought to be followed by
the publication of complete list
of successful contestants, with their
ratings governing the order in
which they are placed. At present
two separate lists of men and of
women, are made out
Mrs. Smith goes full length in
her judgment as to the ACCESSIBILITY
of women in state commissions.
She says that if Miss Perkins and
she have established anything pre-
Cedent it is that every state depart
ment ought to have at least one
woman member to create a proper
balance in point of view
Carrying out Mrs. Smiths sug-
gestion would be impossible for the
Governor this year, because not
every commission shows expired
terms. That a number of "plums"
are waiting to be picked is mat
ter of record. That women will be
in line for a number of them goes
VIII hol1t eovjDp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Uncle Sans New Baby Buggy
Takes to the Open Road

tain afternoon they may have their
babies examined and get health
ratings for the children. The moth
ers receive little slips to indicate
their turn at the doctors attention.
The Especial" is 50 contrived that
dressing tents can be let down at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

The front and rear, thus making the<
whole performance as private for
the mother and little Susie as
though the clinic were held in the
downtown health centre of a large
city. The mothers and children usu-
ally enter at one end and leave at
the other to facilitate the constantly
moving traffic, as it were, within
the car.
The Children's Bureau especially
hopes to demonstrate to the mother
far removed from the doctor and
trained nurse how such a car can
bring essential knowledge. During
the war many communities were left
entirely without such trained medi-
cal assistance, and these same COM
munities are still without profess
SIGNALS. These localities, added to
the isolated sections which never
did have resident physician, make
up large part of the rural popula-
ton in need of advice on child
care. The "child welfare special"
is a government Interpretation of
'baby specials used by several
state organizations during Chill
drens Year in war time to arouse
enthusiasm in the saving of babies
for Uncle Sam. The specials usual
ly went from town to town, not
having the rural mother as the main
objective. In one state the women
obtained a discarded trolley car and
carried the gospel of better babies
wherever the trolley lines went.
Others used the automobile truck,
but this is the first one of it's kind
especially built for the government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Call Sent Out TO
Countryside

This government Especial" has
its own woman physician and baby
specialist from the Children's Bu-
reau. Dr.. Ruth Mcclure has been
assigned by Miss Julia Lathrop,
chief of the bureau, to take charge
OF the moving clinic. Her assistant,
trained nurse, and the driver of
the car "a man) complete the trav-
cling staff. DR.. Mcclure and the
nurse use the trains to get from
town to town, and the chauffeur
=: accommodations aboard the
special" The car was sent through
Illinois first because the Public
Health Nursing Association there,
In making a special campaign for
country child care, asked that it go
= several of the rural counties on
v.'oW-up work. Local committees
the former Children's Year or
-lzation are in charge of the ar
~ngements wherever the clinic is to
De stopped. These committees Sc
lect the site for the clinic and send
word through the countryside to all
fathers and mothers that on Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

kins has accomplished 1 am con-
vlnced that more women ought to
be placed in high positions through
out the state departments.
1.-THE Industrial Commission is
one where more than 800 persons
are employed. l believe, with
the fact before US that between
100000 and 100000 women in New
York State actually come under the
labor or the compensation laws, it
is advisable to advocate more women
In the executive positions of the
commission. We now have Mrs.
Marian X. Clark in charge of the
Bureau Of Industry and Immigra
ton, and Miss nellie Swartz chief of
The Bureau Of Women in Industry"
New Methods
O. Efficiency
Commissioner Lynch's attention
was called to the fact that Commits
sioncr Edward p. Lyons term would
expire in 1920.
"Another woman on the commits
sion would be possible, of course.
Undoubtedly such an appointment
would work out as we'll as that Of
Miss Perkins. | neither advocate
nor oppose it just now, however.
The appointment, remember, will be
made by the Governor"
Mrs. Smith, wife of former Rep
resentative Charles B. Smith, Of
Buffalo, took the place of Willard
d. McKinstry on the Civil Service
Commission. This commission, while
it is not so wide in scope as the In
dustria Commission, allows more
original work. Mrs. Smith was ap-
pointed April s, one of three Civil
Service ComMis sioners, at a salary
Of $4,000 and travelling expenses.
Last week Mrs. Smith was in Al
bany, conducting examinations. That
special branch of the work has been
committed to Mrs. Smiths care. No
such division was ever made before.
Fifteen county public health
nurses came in one afternoon to be
examined bV the first woman Civil
Service Commissioner. Each nurse
had a personal interview and a rec
ord was made, in addition to one on
actual training and ability to dis
charge the technical duties of pub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Ne1c York Tribune
Wdshin ACTON bureau

n AMBLING along a country
n road, parking for an all
night stay under the trees
because the village garage is too
small, and echoing to the tread of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
The Only One
Of Its Kind

The Children's Bureau does not
intend to inaugurate a chain of
Child welfare specials on wheels.
but it is making a demonstration of
this one in the hope that state or
CARNATIONS or state child welfare
departments may be convinced of
the feasibility of the plan, learn
the cost of running such clinic
and appreciate the approximate
amount Of rural childhood accessi-
BILE through this means. A clog" of
the expenses, the unusual expert
ences and general happenings to
the special is to be kept, besides
the official records of the babies
weighed and measured This infor-
nation will be available in a few
months for organizations or states
contemplating the purchase of such
a clinic on wheels for their own
use.
Statistics following Investigations
have aready proved that the rural
child in many states is more liable
to early death from disease and
malnutrition than is the city child.
The old idea that just to live in the
country meant good health and a
long life for the babies was COM
pletely reversed by the data. The
reason the city child's chance for
health and life was superior to
that Of his rural cousin was traced
to health education and baby clinics
conducted in the cities and towns
for the benefit of city mothers.
This Especial" is the way now sag
gested by the Children's Bureau for
bringing the message Of better
babies and general advice to pre-
vent infant mortality to the rural
mother who is shut off from city
sources of information.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
New Y0rk's New Citizen Makes Good
AS an Officeholder and Paves Wav
For Future Appointments

By Geraldine H. Murray
Albany. N. Y
Special Correspondence
wv T OMEN Of New York State
wv who were placed in big
Jobs by the Governor have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
( roRDlen1s in
Housing Z ACTOR
In Race Riots
The Urban League Com
ments on Chicago
Conditions

\ NOUSING problems, which have
\ : been particularly acute among
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

HE Ladies' AID IS NTH should labor together
wheel the machinery OF bly, DISTRICTS should
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
COUN1y'S ASSESSMENT IS 4
INCREASED Three MILLION
Committee Named BY Judge Purnell
Is Able TO Reach Compromise
With State Tax Commission
But Assessment IL In
creased Large
Amount.

County Judge H. p. Purnell and the
committee of local business men ap-
pointed by him to appear before the
State Tax Commission at Frankfort
Monday, met with considerable sue
cess in that their arguments caused
the commissioners to reduce the pro-
posed increase on our assessment but
the increase made in the compromise
will reach nearly three million dol
lars.
1t was proposed by the state body
that Mason county should be in
creased nearly five million dollars
over the assessment returned by the
County Tax Commissioner which was
the largest by several millions that
Mason county has ever made but the
local committee was able to show the
state authorities that such an increase
would be unjust.
Mason county's total assessment as
returned by County Commissioner
Brady amounts to $21,723,559 and the
compromise reached Monday in
Frankfort increases the assessment to
approximately $24,423,559 which is an
increase of approximately $2,7OO,O0O,
The committee is to be congratulated
but the county is still assessed too
high, 1t is the general opinion.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
METHODISTS WILL HOLD
UNIT MEETINGS TOMORROW
In Continuing Centenary Plans Third
Street Church Members TO Hold
NelghbOrhOOd Meets.

The Centenary Unit meetings for
the Third Street M. Il. Church will be
held Wednesday evening at z o'clock
at the following homes: .
Unit Two, Miss Hurd at Mrs. Chas.
Fist.
Unit Three, John Walsh, Chairman,
at Mrs. Sudie Ennis.
Unit Five, ]. H. Richardson, Chair
man, at Nelson T. Bratton.
Every member of the church is ex-
pected and urged to attend one of
these meetings. All have been notl-
fed to which unit they belong; at
tend that meeting. These meetings
serve three-fold purpose: prayer,
information concerning the Centenary,
and social fellowship-getting better
acquainted The meetings will con-
tinue until every member of the
church either gets in line for better
church or shows by their actions that
the interest of the church and Christ S
Kingdom has no interest for them
longer.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25

The city flag on Market street has
not been placed on the flag taft today
by Officer p. Ryan, custodian of the
colors. officer Ryan explains that the
flag will not appear again on the pole
except for some special occasion.
When 1t was first hoisted to the breeze
amid ceremonies 1t was to appear
daily until the war was over. When
President Wilson left for France II
was decided to allow the flag to float
until ris safe return. When the Pres
ident landed at Boston Monday the
flag was lowered. The old flag is
worn to tatters and a new one will
have to be purchased for use on spe-
cial occasions.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
BAREFOOT CARNIVAL WANTS
TO COME TO NASHVILLE

Mayor Thomas M. Russell this
morning received a letter from Chas.
T. McCarty, who will be remembered
by many Maysvillians as manager of
the famous Brown cornivals which
played here a couple of years ago. Nc
Carly is now managing Barkoots big
carnival which carries Is first class
shows. He wants to make arrange
ments for an engagement for Bar
koot's big shows in Maysville during
the coming season and as this is a
first class carnival in every respect
it may be considered.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
new PRICES ARE
ON AS THE TAX BILL
BECOMES Law TODAY
Price Of Whlskey Greatly Increased
With New Tax Going on To-day
Other Prices to Advance.

President Wilson signed the new
$4,000, 100000 revenue producing bill
Monday night. The time was 6:55
o'clock and this means the bill be-
came operative at 1901 a. m. Tues
day.
Whiskey isn't the only thing Affect
ed by the new measure, but the way
saloonkeepers and whiskey dealers
had been urging patrons to buy be-
fore the increased tax started would
lead to the belief, observers said, that
nothing else was going up.
The new revenue bill, when all Sec
tions of 1t become operative, is ex-
pcted to increase tan returns in the
Cincinnati district to $125,O0O,00 a
year. About $4,000, 900 was collected
last year.
The tax on 100 proof whiskey goes
up from 1920 a gallon to $6.4O a gal
Ion. Whiskey of higher proof and
that of lower grade advances proper
tionately.
A quart of whiskey that cost 50
Monday was advanced to SO Tuesday,
although the actual tax increase was
80 cents.
Enormous sales were made up un-
til late hour Monday, but there was
plenty of whiskey left Tuesday. Much
of it is in bonded warehouses and the
tax is not payable until the goods are
withdrawn.
The tax on beer jumps from SO
barrel to $6. The rate on cigars and
cigarettes goes up, but dealers do not
expect more than a cent advance on
the higher-priced goods.
The tax on champagne is doubled
and so is that on other wines.
Ginger ale, rootbeer, pop, mineral
water and other soft goods will be
taxed at 10 per cent. on manufactur-
ers' sales, an increase of 100 per
cent.
The revenue bill also provides for
greatly increased taxes on incomes,
profits and many Of the every day
things of life. 1t also carries a pro-
vision making the national capital
bone dry.
Some of the provisions, such as a
higher tax on chewing gum and one
on ice cream and sundaes will not
be in operation until later in the
spring.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
INFLUENZA CONTINUES TO
IMPROVE IN COUNTY

According to reports reaching the
office of County Health Officer ]. s.
Locke daily, the influenza situation in
Mason county outside the city of
Maysville is now improving rapidly.
The situation in the city has been
very satisfactory for several weeks
but the county still furnished quite a
number of new cases every day. DR..
Locke now reports that the county is
slowing up in new cases and he says
he believes the situation has practical
ly cleared.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
LOcALPOuCE SEARCH
FORESCAPED CONVICT
WITH STOLEN MOTOR
One OF Four Men Who Escaped Quincy
jail Gets By vanceburg Authorl.
ties and Comes Down River
With Stolen Motor.

Chief OF Police Harry A. Ort this
morning received letter from the
government engineers at Dam 81,
Friedrich, KY, asking him to be on
the look out for man who had es-
capped the Jail at Quincy, KY, who Is
said to have in his possession de-
tachable row boat motor which was
stolen from the government engineers
at Friedrich dam.
Only few days ago four men es-
capped from the Jail at Quincy, Ky,
and they are supposed to have broken
into q house in Quincy after their es-
cape and to have stolen several ap-
ticles Of value from the government
men at friedrich. The authorities at
Vanceburg were notified that the men
were on their way down the Ohio riv-
or In the motor driven row boat stolen
from the dam. The Lewis county
sheriff with assistants overhauled the
men near Vanceburg and arrested
three of them but the fourth man es-
capped in some manner and he is sup
posed to have the motor as the spoils
had been divided before they reached
the Lewis county capital.
It is more than likely that If the one
escaped convict who got by the Lewis
county authorities is intending to keep
on down the river, he has passed
Maysville by this time but it is the
opinion of the officers that the man
will leave the river and has probably
already left the river. He may en-
deavor to sell the motor in Maysville
and If a detachable row boat motor is
offered for sale in Maysville or this
district the local police station should
be promptly notified by telephone so
that the man can be arrested and re-
turned.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
LIMESTONE BUILD.
ING ASSOCIATION

Opens new series March 1, 1919.
A few things you know but we will
remind you of them
Your money is guarded as safely as
possible. A guarantee company bonds
your officers. The State Bank Exam
iner audts its books the same as Is
done in banks. Your money is loaned
either on Building Association stock
or on Mason county or Maysville real
estate. You get all the profits less
actual expenses Of conducting the as
sociation.
Save while saving is good. Money
to loan to buy or improve your prop
erty.
25-1wk H. c. SHARP, Secretary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
FIRST ARREST UNDER
DOG TAX Law MADE
Owner Of Dog on Which No State or
County Taxes Had Been Paid Is
Required to XIII the Animal.

The first arrest under the new state
dog tax law was made yesterday and
last night the case was heard before
Squire Fred W. Bauer at the Court
House. The owner of the animal up
on which no state or county taxes
had been paid was ordered to have the
animal killed Immediately.
Maysville and Mason county is filled
with no account ours upon which
taxes have not been paid and the Of
ficers will probably begin in the i'm
mediate future the strict enforcement
Of the new state law.
Because the law was new and the
people did not thoroughly understand
Its provisions, there has been no rigid
enforcement but officers now believe
that the people have had plenty of
time in which to learn all about the
laws requirements and they expect to
enforce 1t in all of its provisions.
The people of the East end had been
bothered several days by a worthless
dog running at large. An investiga-
tion showed that the dog had not been
licensed and the owner, Mr.. John Nit
chell, an employee of the c. & O. rail-
road company, was summoned to ap-
pear In court. When he came to court
he was considerably distressed over
the trouble his dog had caused and
promised that the animal would be
killed. Upon this promise Squire
Bauer dismissed the charge.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-25
SUFFERING FROM
BLOOD POISONING

Lieut.. John Dudley Keith, who re-
Gently was discharged from the army
and who has been connected with the
Keith & Keith garage since his return,
was taken very seriously i'll Monday
evening. from blood poisoning and
three physicians were called to give
him medical attention. A few days
ago Lieut.. Keith scratched his hand
while at work at the garage and blood
poisoning developed. He is reported
as very serious this afternoon.