Evening star., 1924-12-20
TOPRESS
FOR NEW DRY LAWS
Tells Pennsylvania Society
He Will Center on Power
Development Also.

More dry legislation and giant
power development are among the
few major items to be placed before
the Pennsylvania State Legislature, Gov.
Clifford Pinchot stated at the annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Society at the willard Hotel last
night.
Gov. Pinchot said he does not
know whether the State law-making &
body at the coming session will re-
solve itself into a parrot-and- monkey Y
and dog-and-cat affair or not, and
cares little" but it was generous in
its response to his requests last
session and he would burden them
with but few suggestions at this
session. among them being the enact
ment of laws providing for greater
enforcement of the eighteenth amend
ment. Development of the States
natural resources also is to be agi-
tated. He predicted that the repeal
of the prohibition amendment would
not come within the lifetime of his
audience and probably never.
Lamentations of the opposition
political parties that the Pinchot
administrations policy of efficiency
and economy would be executed at
the expense of human life, he said,
has been dispelled. The governor
added he was ordered to reorganize
the State government. to rearrange
its financial system on a "pay-as-
you-go" basis aud to put the licensed
saloon out Of the State. All of these
tasks have been accomplished, he
declared, and the State is saving
money and doing much more good
than any previous administration
Politics has its proper place and is
recognized, ne said, but political
pull is not allowed to interfere
with the administrations system.
. Hard work is rewarded with the So
called 'plums" usually handed to po-
litlcal workers, PinChot explained,
declaring there is new conception
of what it means 10 be an employe
OF the keystone State.
Face Huge Task.
Placing the State schools. hospf-
tails and prisons on a humane basis,
he said. was a huge task. The speak
er cited one institution for feeble
minded children where the inmates
were never permitted to go out of
the buildings, and now every one
who is able is given the freedom of
outdoor life every day. The children
of the State are to come first in all
matters which may affect them and will
get everything due them and more, the
governor asserted. Inc prisons, he de-
clared, are no longer institutions of
crime, but the inmates are placed at
some sort of labor and they are now
schools of education and enlightenment
Gov. Pinchot eulogizezd Theodore Roose-
welt, declaring him to be, in his opin-
ion. the greatest man in United
States history.
In the receiving line, besides Gov.
Pinchot, We're Representative NJ Clyde
Kelly, president of the society; Mrs.
Wyant Adams, Mrs. Charles b. Wood,
Mrs. F. l.. Crilly, T. Lincoln Town
send and DR.. J. 5. Arnold. y number
of vocal selections were given by
Nine. Henritte Coquelet and Paul
Bleyden, assisted at the piano by Mrs.
Paul Bleyden.
The following officers were re-
elected for the coming year: Presi-
dent, Representative Kelly; vice pres
idents, DR.. j. S. Arnold, Mrs. Frank L.
Crilly and 7. Lincoln Townsend
treasurer, Mrs. Howard s Reeside
secretary, D. B. Croft. and secretary
emeritus, Edwin A. Mess. Dancing
followed until midnight.