Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-28
THE TWO BIG THINGS
Are Health and Education, According
TO Commissioner Martin - The
States Fight With Nature.
Judge winners Rare Record
Nv GEORGE NOx MCCAIN

have no doubt thnt DR.. Thomas II.
Finegan, the efficient head Of the Depart
ment of Education, will respond with sin-
cere amen to the declaration OF DIR, ed.
ward Martin, the equally efficient head OF
the Department OF Health.
The multiplied echo Of millions of unofi-
cial Pennsylvanians will concur In their
conclusions.
So great and varied are the functions Of
the Department of Health today, so closely
are they interviewer with the welfare of our
swarmng millions, that additional aid Is
imperative.
Help, not In the sense of an inflated pay
roll but the kind of aid that comes from
CO. operation, voluntarily, cheerfully and
gratuitously given.
Dr. Martin Is an enthusiast. Likewise he
Is an inspiration. He imbues others with his
ideas of the vast possibilities of his depart
mcnt's work.
IT'S a great, big, comprehensive plan that
i Commissioner Martin has evolved. 1t
appears In its vastncss as well as its origi-
nality. Here's the idea:
During the world war there came into ex-
istcnce In this state huge community organi-
cations known as civilian war activities.
They functioned systematically. smoothly
and with an efficiency never dreamed possible
before that era.
Why should this power now be permitted
to sink into inaction? Why not foster and
direct It into humanitarian channels for the
public good?
Every crossroad hamlet, every water tank
railroad station with its cluster of houses
was a center Of activity during the war
years. Why not make them ceuters OF ac-
tivity today for their own health and hap
pincss?
Now you get DR.. Martins idea.
Co operation that costs nothing Is the high
peak Of the PROPOSITION.
1t can aud will be put over.
GEORGE II. BILES, the Philadelphia
" engineer, who is second in command to
State Highway Commissioner Lewis s. Sad
ler, is, under the direction of his chief or
ganizing his forces for the biggest fight of
the year.
It's the battle Of man against nature and
the elements. Some job? III say It is!
The first showing Of the white flag Of win
ter on a hillside il the signal to Commander
in chief Sadler and Chief of staff Bilcs that
the annual conflict is on. But long ere this
the human army has been lying in wait fully
equipped for eventunlities.
Squads of fighters and sQuadrons of trucks,
plows and drags, backed by shovel brigades,
have been waiting the signal to begin.
It's the annual fight to keep the state
highways open to travel and free from snow
DUT here's the big idea!
ID Pennsylvania reputation is nation
wide as successful combatant and van
dgcarce,v dr, n nortbern w wastarn state tha9
hasn't asked for Pepnsylvania's mans and
sncci6catons for kecpine her highways omen
in midwinter.
And they are always cheerfully furnished
Only Yesterday n deleeation Of MARYLAND
| officials and snow fighters from its highway
department journeyed up to Harrisburg to
| get suggestions for keeping their excellent
roads clear.
conious notes Tbev spafnineJ tha srstsm,
which. in a couple of hours. can throw
thousands Of workers Y,pon the highwavs of
| Tho state fulIy eouinned 70 carve irivew, ys
| through drifts and sween tbe accumvIo TOD
! snow from danger points.
| II seems So simple when one kpows bov
| Il ia done,
|
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