Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
,rtin G. Brumbau9h's Final MeSsade Is Read Befe

tional forces set up am happy to
name Cd the establishment of con-
tinuation schools; t2) the passage
of Child Labor laws; (s) the ac-
ceptance by appropriate legislation
of the provisions of the Smith
Hughes law making available ma
tional funds for vocational educa-
tion; (4) an increase in the mini
mum salaries of public school teach
/ ers; CD an increase In the salaries
OF county superintendents OF
schools; (6) an act making effective
the law in regard to assistant coun-
ty superintendents and Increasing
! the compensation of these officials;
Cd the increase of the State appro-
priation to common schools to eigh-
teen million dollars (S1S,000,000):
(8l provision for the payment of
pension to. mothers and making
large appropriations for the same;
CO.. the enactment of q teachers re-
tirement law; U0) the purchase and
organization under state control OF
eight state normal schools; (11)
an increase in the salaries of the
| responsible officers In the depart
ment of public instruction.; (12) the
Inauguration of bird day as part of
the observance of Arbor Day; G3)
the creation of the bureau of voca-
,eiohoL VIZ lhCTcdSt0
provision for the adequate care and
education of the blind, especially of
blind babies; G5) an increase In
the permanent school fund from
seventy thousand dollars t$70.000)
| to three hundred sixty thousand
dollars (S360,000). and the use of
the income to help poor school dis
tricts to provide good education for
all the children residing therein.
ut is a program of achievement
worthy the great Commonwealth
and is destined to be regarded as
one of the most important legisla-
tive programs in education that has
come to our people in n generation.
There yet remains the very manifest
duty of increasing the salaries of the
teachers in our public schools. They
have rendered and are now render
ing service of the greatest impor-
tance. Their compensation 10 pitt
fully meagre. A great common
wealth ought not to allow this re-
proach and neglect longer to re-
main.
Il wish to urge upon you in all
earnestness the duty of arranging
with the accredited colleges of the
Commonwealth to give to each re-
turning Pennsylvania soldier who
went out from our colleges to fight
for liberty an immediate opportun-
ity free of all tuition to complete his
college course. The Commonwealth
cannot make a wiser, a more profit
able. a more gracious investment.
The state forests are now in con-
dition to require improvement cut
ting and this work can absorb at
least five thousand men in profitable
industry and result in marketing ut
fair estimate one million nine hum
dred thousand dollars ($1, ,900,00O)
worth of timber products. This en-
terprise should be undertaken and
the entire proceeds conveyed into
the permanent school fund. 1t
should be diverted to no other pur-
pose.
The lessons educationally of this
war should not go unheeded. Such
legislation as is necessary to fit the
educational system to meet these
newer. conditions ought to be en-
acted. These enactments should
have in mind increased vocational
opportunity for our youth, particu-
larly in agriculture and domestic
science, the organization of a defin-
lite and adequate program of Ameri-
canization through the agency of
the school, the specific training in
trade education, the establishment
of savings banks and the teaching
of conservation and economy. the
transferrence Of moral instruction
from a passive to an aggressive
function of the school, the setting
UP of a new ideal of national 10y
atty, and the utter abolition of the
Prussianized cult that once ruled so
largely in our American education.
Labor and Industry
Pennsylvania Is pre-eminently a
manufacturing community. Above
one third, almost two-fifths, of our
population is engaged In manufac-
turing Industries. The range OF
these industries Is greater than that
of other states. Many important
and exceedingly complex problems
arise in the matters affecting capi-
tai. labor and their coordination.
These problems fall within the scope
of this important department. Dur
ing the present administration this
department has rendered a notably
successful series of services and has
greatly extended its sphere of ac-
tivities.
"a department of municipal sta
tistics has been created, and it has
already aided our municipalities to
standardize and improve their fiscal
administration. 1t is performing an
increasingly valuable service.
"The bureau of employment, estab-
lished fortunately before the war.
has in this war period rendered
very great service to industry and
is at all times regulator of en-
ployment and a check upon waste
full to-morrows and idleness In our
industrial workers"
THE woman's law was so amend
ed as to allow the industrial board
in specific cases so to subdivide the
rest period of these women as to
promote their comfort and safety.
You can do still More for the wom-
anhood of the Comm monwealth by a
recasting of the hours of toll, the
comforts in factories and provisions
for safeness."
Banking
"In 1917. by action of the Legis-
lature. / appointed a commission to
codify and revise the banking laws
of the Commonwealth. Their find
ings will be submitted to you and
are recommended to your favor and
respectfully urged for early enact
ment. 1t Is hoped that you will en-
act a law to make IL impossible for
irresponsible promoters to enter
semi-rura1 communities and, at a
large profit to the promoter seek to
estab state banks where their is
really no need for such fiscal agen-
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