Evening star., 1933-09-17
TRAINING JOB[ESS
IN KEYSTONE STATE
10000 on Relief Lists to Get
Six-Month Apprentice
Vocation Courses.
BY WALTER d. ROOS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, September 10
To train unemployed adults for new
kinds of work, Pennsylvania is about
to open special vocational classes in
25 cities.
Six-month apprentice coasses WIN De
offered to mors :aan 10000 persons on
relief lcss, to prepare them for re-
employment. The courses not only are
! intended to fit the men for strange
tasks. but also are intended to increase
theil earning capacity when business
conditions become normal.
The plan also will offer employment
to 500 jobless teachers. who will be
paid weekly salaries of SIS from relief
funds
The experiment in rehabilitating in
dustrially orphaned workers will be
tried wherever more than 20 applicants
enroll for the special courses. In dis
tricts where facilities permit, rooms in
public school buildings will be used for
daytime classes. In others, late after
noon classes will be arranged in class
rooms which serve the regular school
system during the day.
october l has been selected for OPEN
ing of the recovery schools" if Fed
eral approval of use of some Federal
funds in the courses is forthcoming by
that time.
Fight Centered on Beer.
Dry forces in the State, while not
actually conceding Pennsylvania to the
repealists. have begun to concentrate
their activities toward checking the
sale of beer in various localities.
tho ho
State. on November Z, expresses its
attitude toward repeal of the eight
zenith amendment, more than 800
cities boroughs and townships will vote
locally to decide whether beer and
wines may be dispensed within their
boundaries.
The local option clause of the State
beer control act provides that by a
majority vote municipality may i'm
pose a ban against the sale of beer
and wines for consumption on the
premises. The poll would have no
effect upon brewers, manufacturers and
distributors who may continue to sell
direct to the consumer for use at home
in the same district.
In many instances the signatures to
the petitions for beer referendum
have been obtained by the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
The local option votes will be held
in November in all or parts OF % OF
the 67 counties of the State.
The predominance Of western coun-
ties in the beer referendum group in.
dicates the dry forces have been most
active west of the Alleghenies, and
prompts the expectation that the
greater part of the anti-repeal vote in
November will be cast in the rural dis
frin af fhof nf he
large cities of the western half of the
State, however, have mustered enough
dry petitioners to result in a test vote
on beers popularity.
A preview of the 1884 Statewide
campaign may be furnished by results
in next Tuesdays municipal primary
elections. In most of the larger cities
and many of the smaller ones, savage
fights for party control will be decided.
Upon the winners may depend the as
surance of denomination next year OF
Senator David A. Reed and the selec-
tion of the Republican nominee for
Governor The hold of the present Re-
publican State Organization, which is
friendly to Reed, is threatened in many
Uf the larger vote centers.
Governor Pinchot, regarded as an
aspirant for Reeds berth, and hostile
to the present State organization, is
angling for a foothold in several coun-
ties where he has no effective organiza-
ton of his own. In several others he
is aiding but not directing, fights by
independents.
Most unusual is the situation in
Philadelphia, where the Ware Repub-
lican organization in the past usually
has been able to predict .najorities with
unerring accuracy fa' in advance OF
the balloting. Intense interest in a
multi ti-cornered fight has sent registra-
ton OF voters abov, the 100000 mark,
an amazing figure TOR an off-year elec-
ton. The Democrats more than dou-
bled their $4,000 registration for last
years Presidential election, <nd the
Republican enrolment has fallen of
by 10000.