Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-08
DOZEN BILLS IN
P.O.S..OF A.LIST
Military Instruction and Other
Measures Are to Be
Presented

| A dozen bills including measures
for military training, state orphans
nome, English in all public schools
and forbidding marriages of physi-
cally unfit will be introduced into
the legislature during the coming
week. They have been drawn by the
| leglsiatiVe committee of the p. o. S.
OF a. IN Pennsylvania, consisting of
Gaoriel II. Meyer, chairman, Pal
Hiyra' Judge Albert W. johnson,
heWisDurg, and Harry ]. Steele, of
hiidoeIphia, which has held a num-
ber of sittings here.
The list includes;
]. A bill establishing a course of
miitary and health instruction and
framing in the public schools and
normal schools of the state and the
coiieses and universities receiving
state appropriations creates a mill
tary commission to consist of the
GoVernor, the Adjutant General. the
commissioner of Public Health and
the commissioner of the Departn emf
oi LABOR and Industry. Fixes the
LUMBER % and compensation of in
structors Tor high schools and nor
ochoois ana an inspector of
~ framing. describe the course
,iihtafy science and tactics and
health instruction. naval inst,.,,otia,,
and training where such scbooIs
coHeges and universities are 1ocated
III counties bordering on naviga ble
slreams' provides further for a field
framing camp between, the dates of
June ! and October !, and asks for
Sultapie provision to be made for the
leaitn instruction for all girls nm
uer the age of Is years. Exempts
the members of any religious sect
opposed to war, and those physicallv
eint' UNIT Appropriates the sum of
@lVo,ooo Tor the purpose of carving
out its provisions.
2. AN act authorizing the an
poihthieht OF a commission TO in
Hu5io liito the causes and results of
advance methods of Safeguarding
against the same.
d. An act creating in the de-
partment of Health a bureau of child
"eifare, the director to receive a
salary Oh $500 per annum. The
purpose or the act is to educate par
ehts IN the care, treatment and rear
ing OF children, and in connection
theTew1th to educate the public gen
orally in methods for the in1nrove-
ment of health and sanitation in and
ABOUT homes, schools and comnuni-
ties.
4. Act providing for the selec-
ton and purchase of a site for the
erecting, equipping and furnishing
OF state Orphans Home, and for
the administration therefor and
providing for the admission thereto
ana the care, maintenance and edu-
cauon OF certain orphans. This bill
was prompted by the influenza epi-
demtc having swept the state, leav-
ing many children orphans, MOTTO
ably Schuylki1l county, with 1900
The state has no orphanage at this
time.
8. An act providing for the es-
tablishment of a state industrial
home for young men; authorizing
the purchase of site and the erec-
ton thereon and equipment of nee
essary buildings; providing for the
commitment to said home for young
men of males between the ages of
16 and 80 years, pleading guilty or
being convicted of, by the commits
sion of any criminal offense; and
providing for the government and
management of said institution. This
act patterned after the Huntingdon
Industrial Reformatory. The ex-
PSiA VI tiO SOuIIS OI
Sessions of this state calls for legis-
lation of this character as there is
no such place where misdemeanants
may be sentenced.
g. An act to amend the school
code providing for the teaching in
the English language of physical
training and ethics and instruction
conducive to the spirit of loyalty and
devotion to the state and national
governments.
Z. An act codifying the marriage
laws to prohibit the marriage of in
sane, epileptic and persons of un-
sound mind and the physically unfit.
The bill provides for tests and ex-
aminations before a board of med
ica1 examiners within the jurisdic-
ton of the State Department of
Health, who shall issue the health
certificates. as provided by the act.
8. An act extending the provi-
sions of the widows pension law act
of April 20, 1913, to widows, and
children under the age of 16 years,
and for deserted women with chill
dren whose husbands whereabouts
are unknown, and widows whose
husbar dis have been absent and un-
heard of for seven years and women
with children whose husbands are
permanently confined to insane in
stitutions.
8. "Blue Sky Law" To prevent
fraud and deceit by regulating and
inspecting investment companies,
and dealers in certain stocks, bonds
and other securities; and asks to es-
tablish securities commission pre-
scribing and defining the powers and
duties of such commission.
10. An act amending the school
code, providing for medical inspec-
tors giving special attention to de-
fective teeth where parents having
the custody of children are unable
to procure proper medical and sur
gical trea tment for the teeth of their
offsprines. and report the same to
tho board of school directors. to pro-
vide for trea TIM ent at the expense of
the school district.
II. Birth Control Bill. An act
forbidding the advertising. publish
ing. selling or distribution. or other
wise disseminating. or imparting or
attempting to disseminate. or i'm
mart information tending to inter
fere with or diminish the number of
births of human heines in the Com
morwealth of PENNSYLVANIA.
12. An act providing for and
regulating the sterilization of certain
persons. and providing for the paw
ment by the several counties of the
expense in connection Herewith.
This bill is intended to prevent the