14 r ''" *** ' —. ' ■ ■ ' " »- i- ( -v——< -r-y- —*—>—r i I >■ r y r— —- , — t , —I I SEPTEMBER MORN? O H{ 1 U««<S.UKO I # ««*.* C A , ra SHOULD SAY NOT !! IT IS ONuy T*C TOP PMITfW<J tAFE ANI> 5 ■ TH W e OT «'J-r THE "gwwm up"G»RLS TAK,N« IN T«a« S „ NC k—— I I THfL '* *" DUTY OF PENNSYLVANIANS TO DEFEND STATE Governor Tener, Reviewing Administration, Sharply Calls Muckrakers to Task Public Health, Education and Agriculture Fostered by Commonwealth Special la The Telegraph Erin. Pa., July 3.—Members of the State Bur Association of Pennsylvania gathered at the largest banquet of til© organization held in years cheered a speech by Governor John K. Tener upon what the Keystone State is doing to protect the well being of its 8,000,- 000 people. The speech was a depar ture from the usual speeches at such affairs and every word was heard with the closest attention. The governor brought right to men who are most concerned with legisla tion what was being done by the government and pointed out what was needed. One of the significant parts of his speech was when he de clared that after the State Highway department had built up a line organi zation it was prevented from carrying out its work by the hold-up of the funds by the State Treasurer and j Auditor General. State To Be Proud Of The Governor began his speech with some remarks of unusual vigor. "It should be," said he, "the proud claim ot Pennsylvanians that their State is a leader in so many things and less than a leader in so few. It should be I Uneeda Biscuit Tempt the appetite, please the taste and nourish the body. Crisp, clean and fresh— -5 cents in the moisture proof package. Baronet Biscuit , , Round, thin, tender— with a delightful flavor 1 . —appropriate for luncheon, tea and dinner, cents, r I V ' ZuZu Prince of appetizers. Makes daily trips from Ginger-Snap Land to waiting mouths every where. Say Zu Zu to the grocer man, 5 cents. \ Buy bucuit baked by' NATIONAL • BISCUIT COMPANY II Always look for that name FRTDAY EVENING. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 3. 1914. GOVERNOR TENER tho usual Instead of the unusual thing for our people to proclaim Pennsyl vania's greatness. It should be the usual instead of the unusual thing to defend her fair name against the tongue and pen of her slanderers and the muckrakers within and without the State, because students of her his tory know and fair-minded people agree and statistics demonstrate that she has done more toward the up building and development of this na tion than any other State. "Under the administration of Gov ernor Pennypacker, when so many good constructive measures were en acted into law*, the Health Department which we now have, so ably directed and conducted by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, was made possible. Although this was only nine years ago, to-day the fed eral government states that 'in public health records Pennsylvania represents the keystone of the statistical arch of the United States.' From 1905 until now Pennsylvania has waged war with untiring energy against disease, with the result that 15,000 lives have been saved from death by typhoid fever alone: one-half of the waters of the State used for domestic purposes are being filtered; ninety-one sewage dis posal plants have been constructed, and by co-operation with municipali ties and individuals of the State typhoid fever has been reduced t>7 per cent, since our health laws went into effect. Diphtheria has been fought from 667 centers from which antitoxin is furnished by the State free to the doctors for their poor patients and to-day through this curative agent and agency the lives of 18,000 children have been saved. "The greatest single cause of death in this State and in the civilized world is tuberculosis. To-day Pennsylvania stands ahead of every other State in the Union in caring for her indigent sufferers from the great white plague. Since 1907 the death rate from tuber culosis has in Pennsylvania been re duced 18 per cent. All communicable diseases have been fought by well organized corps of health officers until VJTaaX we have saved to our population 60,000 more people than would have been hero had the death rate of 1906 prevailed until the present time. The Health Department is on guard everv minute of the day and night and is never found unprepared when epi demics are to be stamped out and lives saved. "It is not to be wondered at, there fore, that Pennsylvania is proud of tt.is splendid department. Other States are awakening to the results we are obtaining and following in our foot steps in enacting similar laws and creating health departments patterned after ours ,and foreign governments frequently inquire as to our public health work. u*"Next in importance to health and lite is education. It is more than likely everyone here has at some time at tended one of the 37,000 public schools of our State and is more or less familiar with the work in these schools but unfamiliar with the system now in effect. • • • in the last three years Pennsylvania has made greater prog ress along educational lines than in any similar period of her previous his tory. Among the salient features are the passage of our present excellent school code, the creation of a State Board of Education, the closer super vison of high schools, the introduction of the study of agriculture in the ele mentary and high schools, the estab lishing of manual training schools and evening schools for adults who desire training in their respective vocations and the establishment of a Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure. As To Agriculture "ln a State such as ours, with its large cities and busy marts, its flaming furnaces and rich mines, we are prone to forget at times the greatest and most important industry in all the world, namely, agriculture. The work of the Pennsylvania Agricultural De partment in all its branches is both educational and governmental. When the country was new and our soil was full of native fertility little need was felt for Instruction In the fundamental principles of agriculture, but after be ing under cultivation for a long period of years apparent soil exhaustion and consequent failures in crop production showed the necessity of specific in struction in methods of conserving and restoring fertility, to our run-down State Highway Department Not Responsible For Tie-up of Road Funds Pays High Tribute to National Guard; Revenues in Good Shape farms. This led to the establishment of schools of agriculture, but the great body of men occupying the farms of our State could not drop the impor tant work of providing food products for our people to enter these schools as students, and so one of the first lines of educational work to which the department turned its attention was the farmers' institute. The farmers' institute work has recently been sup plemented by the work done by a corps of well-qualified farm advisers. Another form of educational work is done by the bureau of economic zool ogy, which also has charge, of the horticultural work of the department. The agents of this bureau go into every county of the State for the in spection of orchards, reporting to the owners the presence of diseases or pests that are injurious to fruit trees, at the same time reporting conditions as found to the chief of the bureau, ,na ils to the owner of such or chards instructions for the treatment unf avorable conditions reported. ' The most important duty of the de partment is the enforcement of the pure tood laws. Our people spend an nually about S9O per capita for food, making a total of $720,000,000. Utrge as this sum is. the value of public health and business morals io the community is vastly greater. A sum mary of the operations and cost of this branch of the public service from 1907 to 1913, inclusive, shows that the cost of the service is about 12 cents for $ . 1 1 1 000 wo , r th of food purchased, while the receipts from licenses and fines are about twice the amount of the expenditure, so that there is no direct tax upon the consumer. In the 1913 the receipts of this depart -1 lent were $173,800; expenses, $75,000 Wo therefore must realize that our thJ Department is awake to the necessity of encouraging quantity production and guaranteeing the (|u f!'!. ty °f t,lat which is produced. Closely connected in interest ar-d importance to our agricultural work is our Department of Forestry, cre ated <n the year 1901. although the State established its policy of land purchase in 1597, since Which tfme there has been bought 1.002,490 acres at an average price of $2.2 7% ner acre. Receipts from water rents, for niineral royalties and sources now aggregate $84,000, which amount is being slowly ad , fled to and will eventually « iTi il a n , ln the earnings from which our public schools will be the direct beneficiaries. This great work r ß u^? st i State to January 1, 1914 slightly less than $4,000,000 and repre ?« !*.?<!?• aas ® t °f '"ore than $6,000,000 in addition to the inestimable indirect \alue to industries, agriculture, water supply and the health of our citizens lieaus in Conservation "Remember, therefore, that our State leads In the work of forest con thnn'iin 1 the State owns more than a million aores of land; that it protects Nature In her work in the forest: that we are clothing with a new arowth of trees our denuded hillsides, thus cleansing and healing the scars made upon the landscape by the hand of man that they may enhance in beauty and in value to the joy and benefit of the coming generations Not only is the State ever helpful to our people who are engaged in agri cultural pursuits with respect to the treatment of the soil In order that the value may be enhanced, but she as well keeps a watchful eye on the live stock reared or shipped within the boundaries of the State, and to the bet ter systematizing of this work the State Livestock Sanitary Board was created for the purpose of supervising the treatment of transmissible dis eases of animals and to formulate the best plans of controlling and eradi 'th»fir r c , h f dlfieasos : This hoard was the first state organization in America to establish a laboratory for studying the diseases of animals and manu facturlng and distributing, free of charge, vaccines, serums, etc Our meat hygiene agents examine the ani mals before they are slaughtered, cer tifying the fit and condemning the unfit for food. During the past two years the meat hygiene agents also inspected 52.000 dairies and found some 5,000 of them In a dangerously unsanitary condition. The great value of this work, therfore, must be mani fest to all. "When we speak or reflect upon country life, the farms, the brooks and the forests, our thoughts naturally turn to the songbirds In the open, the ?.* ou f lakos and streams and the wild life In our forests, and It is be cause of the great Interest taken bv our splendid citizenship In the propa gation and protection of our fish, wild birds and game that a Department of Fisheries was established in 1903 and a Board of Game Commissioners ap pointed. Because of the protection given through the Board of Game Commissioners more deer run through our forests now than fifty years ago and hunters in the open season have killed some 2,000 bucks within the past two years. We last fall issued In this State more tiian 300,000 resi- NOW WILL THEY BE GOOD! F NEVER MIND, I ILL PROTECT YOU ' ) \FROM THOSE BAD BOYS J /NEW W dent hunters' licenses, thus demon strating the great popularity of the sport which is claimed by many is a national necessity, bringing better health, better training in marksman ship and greater knowledge of field and forest, and tits, with limited dis cipline and drill, our hunters to be the equal of any soldier on the face of the earth when called upon in his coun try's defense. The Business Barometer "But other departments of our State's government appeal more directly to the business man of the city and per haps more strongly to you members of the bar. The office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for instance, which enjoys an annual appropriation of but $55,000, returns a. revenue from fees and bonuses collected approxi mately $700,000 per year; at least it did return $794,000 for 1913, although so far in the present year the revenue has been less than 50 per cent, of the year previous, and if the issuance of charters and the increase of capital stock is to be taken as a barometer of business conditions the record in this department for May, 1913, with re ceipts of $14(5,000, as against May, 1914, of only $28,000, may be illumi nating "The Insurance Department, oper ating under a new code of laws. In creased duties and larger scope of Its activities, has enhanced Its efficiency. Nine hundred and ninety-six Insurance companies, of which number 62 8 are in the fire Insurance business, 81 in life, 110 companies In casualty and 177 assessment and fraternal companies do business in this State, and all under the supervision oi the department. Under the new law the department acts as receiver of all insolvent com panies, and at the present time has charge of the liquidation of a score or more of companies whose affairs arc being closed and distribution made to claimants and stockholders, with no unnecessary delay and at only a slight expense in comparison with former re ceiverships. Through fees and taxes collected the annual revenues from this office exceed $1,750,000, while the law and the splendid efficiency of the department administering It alike are satisfactory to both insurer and in sured. The Ranking Department "The great Importance of the proper conduct of the State Banking Depart ment must appeal to each and all of you. This department was created by act of the Legislature In 1892, In which year there were In existence but 84 State hanks. 16 savings institutions and 72 trust companies, In all 172. To-day. we have 179 State bonks, u. savings institutions and 294 trust com panies, or a total of 484, an increase of 312 since 1892. Twenty-two years ago the aggregate assets of the financial institutions under State supervision was $310,000; to-day the aggregate as&ets are $1,286,900,000. These in stitutions are examined and the assets carefully scrutinized by agents of the department and these examinations and this scrutiny are as thorough as that of the federal government, and in some respects more rigid. "The authority given the depart ment to examine private banks under certain conditions has been productive of much good, particularly among the foreign houses engaged in the receiv ing and transmitting of money for emigrants. The work of the depart ment would be decidedly more effect ive for the protection of depositors and stockholders were the commis sioner empowered by law to liquidate the business of institutions which have become insolvent, as does the federal government, rather than through re ceiverships, always Inexpeditious and expensive. I fully believe, however, the time will come when that much needed legislation will be placed upon our statute books. The State's Highways "Perhaps the enormity of the colos sal task which confronts the Commis sioner of Highways and his depart ment is least understood and least appreciated by the people of our State. It was but a short time ago when, by legislative enactment, more than 8,000 miles of our highways were turned over for the construction and future maintenance by the State. Imagine an undertaking which would mean the building of a highway from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon; another one from New York to San Francisco, and still a third from Boston along our eastern coast line to the gulf, and you have an idea of the tremendous task confronting our Highway Commis sioner and his department. "Last year, with funds available for maintenance, the roads of the State were in better condition than ever be fore In the more than a century and a quarter of the State's existence. To day, through no fault of his, the High way Commissioner finds himself with no funds provided to meet the cost of maintaining the highways of the State. Nor is it the fault of your members of the Legislature, since It wan their cleai Intent that all moneys received by the State from automobile licenses issued should be available for the betterment of our roads. Receipts from this | source aggregate a sufficient amount to meet the expense of maintaining our roads in good condition for at least ten months in the year and in better condition than they have evei been heretofore. These receipts, which have accumulated for several months and aggregate a very large sum, art, withheld by the fiscal officers of the Commonwealth notwithstanding the decision of the courts of Dauphin county to the effect that further with holding of this fund is unlawful. People Will Know Kcason "The 8,000,000 people of the Com monwealth "or those of them who are inconvenienced in traveling over any part of our State highways in ba J. con dition cannot, in fairness an'd j.jstice, blame the Highway Commissioner or his department. The offense does not lie at his door. "The tremendous importance of the Department of Mines is only under stood when we consider the magni tude of the coal industry in Pennsyl vania and realize that practically every ounce of anthracite coal in the world is mined in this State. The value of the annual output of coal in this Com monwealth* greatly exceeds the total value of all copper, gold and silver mined for the same period in the United States. The copper output in 1911 amounted to $137,000,000; gold, $97,000,000; silver, $32,500,000, or a total of $266,000,000; while the total output of coal from Pennsylvania had a value of $350,000,000 at the mines and $750,000,000 at the points of dis tribution. "The Department of Labor and In dustry was created at the 1913 session of the Legislature and the Department of Factory Inspection abolished. This new department, with extended pow ers, is entrusted with the enforcement of the large group of labor laws In effect in the Commonwealth and more particularly charged with the responsi bility of guarding the safety, health and welfare of those who labor in the industries and are promoting In such way as may be feasible the prosperity of the industries themselves, and while it has been in operation but one year Its splendid work has already more than justified its creation. Our Citizen Army "The adjutant general's department Is in charge of the military affairs of the State and is charged with the duty of keeping the National Guard of the State in a high degree of prepared ness and efficiency. It must be ready to respond at any time for dutv, must be thoroughly equipped to take the field, whether upon the order of the Governor or the call of the President of the United States, in case of war, or if in the judgment of the President war is imminent. The Rational Guard of Pennsylvania is virtually an orgail ized army of 1 1,000 officers and en listed men, thoroughly organized and fully equipped, it is a training school in which both officers and men are taught obedience to authority, respect for the flag, loyalty to our institutions find a proper conception of the duties of citizenship. The readiness to serve his country in her hour of need brings a man closer to and gives him a greater respect for the things for which the republic stands pre-eminent. The Na tional Guard of our State has for years been considered by competent military authority to be the best trained anil the most dependable force of citizen soldiery in the United States. "In the war with Spain it was mo bilized and placed in camp at Mount Gretna in thirty-six hours, all depart ments in working order. This re quired a high degree of perfection in organization and method—a knowl edge of what to do and how to do it. This work is all under the control and direction of the adjutant general's de partment, a department that must issue the stores, provide for trans portation, have camp equipage at the point of mobilization when the troops arrive—-In short, place every depart ment in working order. In the busy, hustling life of the American people | too few give any thought to the im portance of the military institution of the State. The State Police The Department of State Police was created by an act of the Legislature of 1905 and the State police force was or ganized. uniformed, equipped and ready for duty January 1, 1908. The force consists of 8 officers and 220 men, all mounted, and is divided into four troops with 2 officers and 55 enlisUd men in each. The creditable record this splendid force is well known TO the majority of our citizens. During the year 1913 the Department of State Police received 4,15«» requests for as sistance, over 11 per day for every day In the year, and these requests came from judges, sheriffs, mayors, chiefs of police and private citizens. Unfortu nately. the number of men of the force IF SO limited the department was only able to comply with about one-fifth or these requests. The force Is always on duty, trained to the service and to the minute —flexible in its movements, and in its character and personnel per sonifies the cool judgment and bravery of the greatest police force that w« have to-day. "Another department only recentlv organized is that of the State Fire Marshal. The territory covered by this department includes all the counties of the State save Allegheny and Phila delphia. To it all fires are reported, and by it investigations are made where incendiary origin is suspected. Many arrests have been made and con victions secured, and the effect of the prompt efforts of this department in making investigations and arrests has resulted In a noticeable decrease ill the number of incendiary fires." ANOTIIKR AVIATOR DIES By Associated Press Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 3. Lieutenant G. D. Spandaw, a Dutch military aviator, died to-day from the effects of injuries he had sustained in an aeroplane accident at the Soes | terherg aerodrome yesterday. ! WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS TIRED May Find Help in This Letter. Swan Creek, Mich. —"I cannot speak too highly of your medicine. When UT.btjf.. through neglect or ' |!j overwork I get run down and my appe al! tite is poor end I " V T* fClfflji 1 kave that weak, lan- IjlpiM HI j guid, always tired I®!# -a-/111| feeling, I get a bot -11 *' e of Lydia E. Pink !|| ham's Vegetable N Compound, and it builds me up, gives me strength, andre- ' '' —M stores me to perfect health again. 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