The Connecticut labor news., 1923-05-25

nee Will De present. ne sale Of , tickets has been large and unusual in terest Is being taken in this matter. claim he has so many duties at pres ent in holding two or three responsi- ble positions that he would have no commission. His friendss say he is unwilling to give up his present occu- pations. Then, some point out, pr. Lyman once served on the commits sion with Dr. Maher and is a warm personal friend of the New Haven physician. This indicates that Dr. Lyman would Automatically sidestep stepping into his friends shoes if Governor Templeton made any such unpopular /1nove as to neglect re- appointing pr. Maher.
 Press Supports Maher.
 Dr. Maher must find comfort in the fact that the state press stands faith fully at his side in these trying hours. Dr. Maher was originally a newspa- perman, serving his time on the New Haven Register many years ago. He gained popularity as reporter and in addition to gathering the news gath him to practice medicine. Like every
 
 game thoroughly and for the last 20 years has been recognized as one of New Haven's foremost physicians and probably one of Americas leading authorities on the treatment of tuber culosis. Among newspapermen of New Haven and Hartford he is an idol. He has not forgotten the press for "once a reporter, always a re- porter" and pr. Maher bobs up every so often with Scoop" for his scrib bling brethren.
 Friend of the Riddles.
 One thing that has won him glori- ous respect from the people of Con- necticut IS his passionate devotion to the children's tuberculosis sanitorium at Crescent Beach. Here he has made it possible for the stricken lit tie folks to breathe good clean salt air, frollic about on the white sands and gradually restore their worn little bodies into those of robust, laughing young Americans This resort with ] it's convalescing boys and girls is Dr. 1 Maher's pet hobby. He spends one and two days a week there and takes | the keenest pleasure in showing legis- l citizens, and visitors from l other states his juvenile charges playing" their way back to health.
 Oiling the Guil1otine.
 Is it then any wonder that the l Connecticut newspapers line up beside | Stephen Maher and are already l marching to battle in his defense? For l a man who loves little children and l makes his greatest thing in life that | of keeping their little bodies free of a | menacing disease is man who de-
 +1, 0f Il, after all the newspapers are the voice l of the people,
 The Hartford Times this week del fled Governor Templeton~ to do any such degrading thing as refuse to ap- point pr. Maher and in stirring edj torial under the heading "Oiling the says:
 ~There Is evidence that Governor Templeton IS having the guillotine prepared for the removal of the off ,ial head of Dr. Stephen J. Maher, or a decade chairman of the state tuberculosis commission. It is true hat the governor says he has not nadeup his mind whom he will ap- ,oint, and that any action he takes will be for the best interests of the tate but it will be remembered that xactly the same statements were made when it was reported that Bur on Mansfield was to go as insurance commissioner and that William s. Hyde was to be shown to the door rom the labor bureau. Friends of Dr. Aaher will not therefore be too much eartened by the fact that the gov rnor still has the matter under ad- sement.' It would seem from ex- erience that this fact might be ac- opted as an indication that pr. 1aher's official time has about come. 'It would be interesting to know pon what theory the governor can roceed to arrive at a decision that Dr. Maher ought to be decapitated, ! 1T that he can best serve the interests f the state of Connecticut by ap- ointing someone else. No one will ake any stock, of course, in the story hat the appointment will be with eld, If 1t is, as a penalty for the ef- ort to secure land at Crescent Beach, ,wned by the family of Governor I executive secretary, for he use of the seaside sanitarium for ,one tuberculosis. A man who is big nough to be governor of Connecticut