Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01
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dealing with educational matters
presented to the Legislature of 1919
became laws. The number of such
bills introduced at the session of
the General Assembly was the
largest of the kind known in years,
but in spite of the number, 101
failed on final passage. The Gov
ernor vetoed thirteen.
The bills which became laws af-
feet every one of the bar classes
into which the $500 school districts
of the Keystone State are divided,
While the bill increasing the salaries
OF teachers affects about As, 900 in
structors in various grades. The
program of the State Board of Edu-
cation was practically carried out
in the enactment of the teachers
salary, physical education, consoli-
dation of schools, elimination of
small one room schools, increase of
appropriations for normal school
work and for the establishment of
the school employees retirement fund,
according to men at the Capitol
who have studied the legislation.
Other school bills which have be-
come laws and will affect many of
the almost 100000 pupils in Penn
sylvania provide for special classes
for deficient children, necessary food
and clothing supply for tubercular
children, payment of 81 per day
to teachers attending teachers in
stitutes. payment of teachers when
schools are closed by epidemics,
expenses of county superintendent
and their assistant, safety first in
struction, granting of $100 college
scholarships for four years'to worthy
graduates of elementary schools,
forbidding children of school age
from attending moving picture
theaters during certain hours unless
accompanied by parents or guard
ians for cooperation of cities and
towns with school districts in main
tenance of recreation centers and
establishment of a bureau of re- |
habilitation for wounded service |
men with the cooperation of the |
Department of Public Instruction. |
The Pinchot conference appears !
to be still subject of editorial COM |
ment in newspapers of the State. |
Philadelphia Inquirer: Natural gas |
has caused more than one explosion !
in Pennsylvania, but none sadder |
that the unfortunate affair in Har- |
risburg on Tuesday which resulted |
in the bursting of the Pinchot |
boom for United States Senator or
President or any other old thing. |
To the uninitiated it may be said |
that Mr.. Clifford Pinchot is a gen.
tleman who was once commended |
by President Roosevelt for some-
thing he did while in the forestry
service, and who has since lived |
in the world with the belief that he
has a mission. This mission, we
gather from his statements, is to
reform politics, and especially the
politics of the Republican Party.
Envious ones intimate that his real
mission is to have himself appointed
or elected to some public office, and
it was assumed in some quarters
that his purpose in calling a meet
ing of former Progressives was
augurate a Clifford Pinchot boom
for something or other"
The general belief is that some
of the Pinchot men will en-
deavor to get into county or city
nominations t-is fall in their home
communities and to stir up the con-
troversies which are never hard to
find.
The appointment of the regis
trars is causing much comment in
Philadelphia. The examinations
Ie uIlueI way anu Tie
Press calls attention to the fact
that man under indictment regis
tered as an eligible.
Sheriff H. c. Ransley has open
ed the Ware fight against the Com
mittee of 100 by a diatribe against
the personnel of that body. He con-
tends that some of the people nam
ed do not live in Philadelphia. 1t
has provoked some tart remarks
from newspapers.
Major Fletcher Lutz, of Glen
Rock, York county, will enter the
lists as candidate for the Republican
nomination for county treasurer
against Captain Stuart Lafean.
Both are veterans of overseas SER
vice and the major has not yet been
mustered out.
DIR. n. E. Newbury has been
named as the new director of health
of Scranton to succeed DR.. S. p.
Longstreet. whom Mayor Connell
asked to resign.
District Attorney Frank P.
Slattery, of Luzerne county, we'll
known to many here, is going to
be opposed by Martin j. Mulhall,
of Wilkes-Bar who tried conclu-
sions with Elk District Attorney
Salisbury some years ago.
John Ferguson who has been
district attorney of Susquehanna
county for two terms, has announced
that he would again seek reelection.
Ferguson's entry into the district
attorney race adds spirit to the
fight and F. A. Davies and Garritt
Gardner out after the nomination
too, the coming fall primaries prom
Use to be very interesting upon the
northern tier
things are interesting in Wilkes
Barre now that the nonpartisan
municipal election is a thing of the
past r. NJ. Keiser, says the Wilkes
Barre Record, filed petitions to be
candidate for city treasurer on the
Republican, Dem ocratic and Social
list tickets.
District Attorney James c.
Furst, of Center county, is out for
Republican denomination.
Snyder county candidates for
associate judge include C. NJ. In
gram, John II. Lloyd, n. B. Stetler
and C. D. Bogar.
Many people in this city and
vicinity will be interested to know
that Col. Samuel D. Foster, former
| chief engineer of the State Highway
Department and the holder of a
fine ar ny record, is a candidate for
Republican nomination for county
| commissioner in Allegheny county.
/ Col. Foster is a son-in-law of Col.
Walter 7. Bradley, owner of the
! Swatara quarries who has a sum-
mer home in this county.
-Speaking of the Colonel's on