NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE DIRT FLIES ON STATE'S ROADS a .Highway Department Issues Statemen About Start of Work Road construction and mainte nance •is under way in earnest on the highways in Pennsylvania. The spring oiling of highways is proceed ing in many sections of the State, and much resurfacing of macadam roads is being done, necessitating the use of bituminous compounds on which is placed stone chips or pea gravel. Temporary inconven ience is resulting because of the great activity of the Highway De partment and contractors, but this inconvenience is part of the cost Pennsylvania is paying for better highways. The Highway Depar inent has is sued the following statement: "The State Highway Department in lay- ! ing out detours past highways stretches on which construction is under way chooses the best possible thoroughfares. It very frequently ; happens that the best possible de- i tour is a township' road, not under 1 the direction of the State Highway ! Department. Where this occurs the department will ask township su- : pervisors to pay particular attention | to the condition of the detour, so that the unusual volume of traffic may be cared for as expeditiously as ! possible. "There are many detours now in ! use, and so .many are contemplated during the department's four-year program, that it has become neces sary to discard the old cardboard system of direction: and in the near future metal signs will be in j use, arrows pointing the proper di rection. "In the case of surface road treat ment, where dust-layers are employ ed or resurfacing being done: Orders have been issued that only one-half the thoroughfare may be treated at a time. Weather conditions governi the period in which highways so treated will resume normal condi tion. Rain will interfere with pene tration, but in warmi dry weather oiled or resurfaced roads are in ex cellent condition within three days of treatment, while a week after the date of treatment absolutely no in convenience should be encountered. "Pennsylvania road users will find more detours necessary and more surface treatment under way this summer than ever before —because the State is building more roads and making more improvements than ever before. Temporary inconven ience is part of the cost the State must pay for better roads." HAIR ON FACE DISAPPEARS QUICK The moat effective, MiTeatent and harmless way ta remove hair la with neMlracle, the erlglaal sanitary liquid. It acts qalekly with rertalnty and absolute safe ty. Results from lta aw are Im mediate nnd lasting. Only genuine DeMlrnele. the original sanitary liquid, has a money-back guarantee tn each package. At toilet coasters In Mr, 91 and 12 almes. or by mall from as In plain wrapper on re ceipt of price. 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Your jaded nerves are steadied and your overworked, undermined, weak ened system is quickly nourished back to health and strength. MAKE THIS TEST TODAY. Go to Geo. 'A. Gorgas or H. C. Kennedy and obtain a trial package of Novo San (12 days' treatment). Take two tab let* three times a day after meal* regularly for 12 days and if you dn not feel at least 50 per cent, better, return the empty package to the .druggist and yet your money. TUESDAY EVENING, " SALARY BILLS PASS THE HOUSE Measures Establishing SIO,(XX) For the Auditor General and State Treasurer Bills increasing salaries of the | Auditor General and State Treas- j urer from SS,OOO to SIO,OOO were ; passed in the House at the night session, half a dozen adverse votes j being cast against each of them, i Thev will not affect the present in- | cumbents. The House also passed the Palmer bill creating a division of building i inspection within the Department of I,abor and Industry and division I |of building inspection in third class cities and in certain counties, bor- j oughs and townships. The Senate bill declaring incor- 1 ■ porated cemetery and burial asso- j ciations to be public servic# com-j panies was defeated at the opening i of the night session of the House. The House passed finally the I>auler bill authorizing the Superin tendent of Public Instruction to es | tablish in the schools courses to in ! culcate loyalty to American insti tutions. The McKim bill relating to assess ment of damages for changes in t grades and making center line of j street basis of assessment after at tacks on it by Mr. Baldrige, Alle- ' gheny and others. Among the bills passed at the night session was the McCaig bill [to dedicate to the public the Econ omy Society property at Ambridge and the following: | Chatjging procedure in Philadel phia municipal court. Constitutional amendment for graded taxation. Requiring counties to furnish of fices for judges. Constitutional amendment for 1 titles of laws to be clearly ex pressed. Deficiency appropriations for Con nellsville and Warren State hos pitals. Providing that railroad crossing 1 signs shall be in accord with Pub i lie Service Commission regulations. Increasing salaries of second class city assessors to $4,000. Permitting building and loan as sociations to secure payment of tem porary loans by pledges of war bonds. Requiring State Daw Examiners to register soldiers who had made application before going into na tional service. Senate bills: Regulating Legislative Journal size and style. Quieting title of realty of bank | rupts. I The Senate bill authorizing butld | ing and loan associations to invest in bonds or the Federal home loan I bank was passed after a discussion due to the fact that the House pass !ed a similar bill last week. I The bill abolishing the State [ Quarantine Station was amended j and passed on second reading, j The House passed the John ..R. I K. Scott bill providing for roads for j horse travel on State improved i highways and the Eyre Senate bill | for consolidation of schools just be i fore adjournment. Rumanian War Orphans Need Old Clothes and Shoes Bucharest, May 21.—Twenty thou , sand Rumanian war orphans ' through the Rumanian War Orphan j Society send out to the children of j America an appeal for old clothes ! and shoes. A pair of shoes costs a ! fabulous amount in Bucharest and | the price of a suit of clothing is pro | hibitive. Thread is two dollars s* ispool. ' Underclothing costs fifteen j dollars a suit. The cheapest pair o{ ! shoes costs SIOO and for a suit of ! shoddy material $l5O is asked. Wool j cloth is $2 4 a yard. I The American Red Cross Commis sion to Rumania is totally unable to meet the demand for clothing. Colonel H. Gideon Wells, of the American Red Cross who is co-op , erating with the War Orphan i ciety, has appealed to American | schoolchildren to sort out their old | clothes and old shoes for eventual ; shipment to their needy little Allies ' in far-off Rumania. ! Queen Marie and Prince Carol, of j Rumania are intensely interested in j the work being done by the Amer ican Red Cross for the war orphans |of Rumania. Prince Carol is active ly co-operating wih the Red Cross ; which has distributed tens of thou sands of cans of condensel milk to the babies. American doctors are having rj j hard fight to overcome the epidemic !of smallpox which has broken out in all parts of Rumania and which is taking heavy toll of the children. The war orphans are being vaccinat | ed wholesale. Mine Assessments ' Unfair to Owners, Operators Charge Pottavtlle, Pa., May 21.—The ap parent understanding between county commissioners and coal companies in the assessment of Schuylkill county coal lands was disrupted when counsel for the commissioners and operators clashed in court Monday. While the Tax Revision League charged that the commissioners have as sessed coal lands hundreds of millions of dollars below market value, W. K. Woodbury, counsel for the Sheafer and Gilbert coal land owners, declared to court that lands of his clients at Shen andoah had been raised 125 per cent, in taxation, according to the new as sessment. He said general real estate in Shenandoah, which includes miner homesteads and business nlaces, is as sessed only at 10 per cent, value, ac cording to recent sales. These assess ments were not raised by the commis sioners, he added. A. L. Shay, representing the com missioners, withdrew from his agree ment to hold the hearing for these cases in October, as it Is necessary to float a bond issue to meet Shenandoah's needs. The question, he said, must be settled at once. Engineers. employed by the coal land owners, are now attempting to determine the tonnage already mined at Shenandoah and the amount remain ing. One of the Philadelphia lawyers employed in the cases Is In London and cannot be here until fall. Courr decided to hear the Shenan doah cases In September, but will hear the other experts in June. V—- McNeil's Pain Extaj-mlnator—Ad -/J COMPENSATION CAUSES DEBATE Lively Hearing Held By the Senate Committee in Charge of the Amendments Compensation amendments pro posed by the administration bill were given a hearing before the Senate judiciary general committee, with Senator Frank A. Smith presiding, yesterday afternoon and the pro ceedings closed with Atornev Gen eral William I. Schaffer appearing and asking that the bill be favorably reported. The other compensation bills did not get a chance to be heard. Mr. Schaffer's argument in behalf of the bill was marked by a state ment that he had endeavored to reach a compromise and thought the bill best for all, which caused Joseph R. Grundy to remark that Mr. Schaf fer had not shown the open mind of an arbitrator. The incident caused much com ment on Capitol ilill and indicates that the compensation bills -will have a fight ahead of them. The commit tee gave no sign when it will report out the bill. The hearing was attended Iw many prominent men and representatives of big steel, coal, railroad and other companies and the labor organisa tions. Mr. Schaffer, after hearing the arguments, said that there was a difference of rather slight charac ter. Tlic Crux of tltc Case Mr. Schaffer summed it up by saying that in the main feature it was a question of 50 per cent, of $24 or 60 per cent of S2O. t Judge Gawthrop opened the dis cussion by explaining the bill and Major Reed saying the law as en acted was fair, but that war had brought changes in costs of living. "The percentages are fair and not PACKARD TRUCKS VALUED J | ON 100,000 MILE BASIS I Truck economy cannot be gauged by the first cost of the || I truck, nor by the figures of the first year's operation alone. 11 The one conclusive test is "What economy will the truck J A show in 100,000 miles of operation?" * d If ROB ABLY the best customers for They demonstrate that long life and low up- J l lil I IN vislrc Packard trucks are the many solid, keep expense go together. - || tH established mercantile andmanu- Because the same quality of engineering design / 1 facturing houses of America. and careful scientific building which makes possi- They have been in business for years and they hie upwards of 100,000 miles with a Packard truck, I expect to stay in business for years longer. also keeps it on the road with the minimum of S 11 ii i attention and grooming. IB When they buy trucks they are buying / transportation . And they know that the capacity * ** * 8? . of the Packard to maintain economy in 100,000 Y ou may have occasionally heard a man say miles of service, makes a Packard worth as much that when you buy a Packard truck you are pay-j as three ordinary trucks each at half the price. ing for a name. That is quite true —and a very small price it is 1 The greatest mercantile house in Chicago for the insurance that the name gives you# '■ 'A wrote off the value of some of its Packard trucks XXTI , , „ - . , . II four years ago. These trucks are still running in Packard sells V ou fre, S ht transportation^ first class condition. or P assen ß er transportation, or even transporta-i 4 tion by air—it is delivering to you the results ]| rtfteen thousand miles a year for nine years is the c.l _ 1 . . ... . . , i.i r 1 °i the most complete transportation engmeermg average of several trucks m the service of another organizatioa ever brought together and it great epartment store. furnishes the cheapest transportation ?er mile 1(1 What a small factor in transportation expense you can buy. is the first cost of any of these trucks! For figures see the Freight Transportation These long distance transportation records Department of your Packard Branch or Packard show another important thing. Distributor. "Ask the Man Who Owns One" I > I \ PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO. of Philadelphia I - Front & r Market Streets Harrisburg, Pa," ' v " ■ . •• V , , IU BAHRIBBURO fi66Bhl TEEEORXPir to be tinkered with." said he. He declared advances in compensation might destroy incentive to work, en courage maligning und bring about some fake "disability." He said the minimum of $6 was too low and should be $7 and that there should be increases in the rates for deaths and total disability.. He gave this as the combined judgment of men in j the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and various employers, suggesting changes in the waiting period and that if disability lasted seven weeks compensation should begin with the accident, medical and hospital charges to be separate with 175 as the figure for each. In com menting upon the plans for these limits he said that new provisions would prevent any "ambulance chasing" by doctors. Henry W. Moore, of Philadelphia, speaking for the Manufacturers' As sociation, discussed the medical charges and the waiting period; Henry T. Wilson, of Jefferson coun ty. speaking for the Central Penn sylvania Coal Operators' Associa tion, objected to the payment to widows after remarriage as "estab lishing a peculiar precedent" and the ] provision for supervision of pay ments to dependents by the State Board. He suggested that guardi ans should be named. E. C. Jones. Wilkes-Barre. made objections to the plan for determination of wages on a basis of gross earnings without deducting supplies and labor in an thracite mining as "an untrue" ba sis, and to the method of determina tion of days as involving too much search. Changes in Procedure F. M. Painter, speaking for the Pittsburgh Coal Operators' Asso ciation, suggested changes in pro cedure, one being that agreements he altered as of the time when stat us changed; no awards be. made on incompetent testimony; notice of ap peals to court be given by appellant und that courts be empowered to dispose of Cases instead of return ing them to the State Board for re- Mew. Dr. A. S. Van Sycle, representing the State Medical Society, declared doctors should have delinite allow ances as hospitals owing to re quirements sometime get most of the money for the treatment, sug gesting that the New York State method be applied. Sherman Con rad, of Pittsburgh, representing Western Pennsylvania Hospitals, spoke from the institutions as need ing definite allowances in compen- . sation cases. Major Reed then said that the i amendments suggested by employ- j eie would mean the same expendl- j ture of money in the end as the Attorney General's bill provides. La- i bor, he said, is asking for an in crease and on sound reasons, but there is the difference whether it should be on percentage or maxi mum. He suid that it percentages were raised and did not bring an increase labor could justly return next session with a demand for amendment. Maurer Gircs Views James H. Maurer, of Reading, president of the State Federation of Labor voiced disappointment at the opposition developed to the ad ministration bill, saying that while it did not give what labor had asked in its original drafts of amendments to be made, he thought it best. "We don't intend to have the act as it stands mutilated. If this is not ac cepted, let the law stand as it is," said he. Mr. Maurer contended that under the Reed amendments men earning between 114 and 120 a week would not share and men getting over S2O would reap the benetit. Mr. Maurer charged that employers made men lay off two weeks to avoid infection fVom injuries and suggested 21 days instead of 49 as the disability period wherein com pensation should hegin with the ac cident. "The Governor's propo sition is fair and we accept it. If the act is to be weakened we ask no change," said he. Senator Charles Donahue, of I.ock Haven, asked Mr. Maurer whether he and his friends would not be coming back for 75 per cent, com pensation next session if they got an increase this year and two years later for 85 and two years after that for 100 per cent. "If conditions warrant," replied Mr. Maurer. 1 "Well, if you get 100 per cent., men can lay off and get their wages," remarked the Senator. Reflection on Roaril Mr. Maurer reported that if any man laid oft most employers would "fire him" and that a charge that men were receiving what they were not entitled to, was a reflection on referrees and the State Board, i Thomas Kennedy, head of the. miners of the Hazelton .district, said that men would come back for] amendments until Pennsylvania gave what other State award and attacked the method of ascertaining depen dency as it has been practiced. Rather than accept some ideas, he said, he and his people would take their chances under the common luw and defended the computation of wages of anthracite miners on gross earnings as fair. He said some of Major Reed's suggestions were "far fetched." Roger J. Dever, of Wilkes-Barre, counsel for the miners, declared that parents were entitled to share in minor's wages where needed to keep homes together and supported Mr. Maurer's contentions. Judge Gawthrop then asked for approval of the bill as drawn and said that if it made no difference in cost, it should be taken. Whereupdn Major Reed remarked that Messrs. Maurer and Kennedy had "let the cat out of the bag" and thnt they intended to come hack next time and ask an increase. Mr. Sclia Iter Closes The Attorney General then said I that he had endeavored to adjust differences and believed the bill the wlliiS In Bottles EE E ■fil I ill Pottle Patented For Your Protection Hjij j| j| jjli|| Harrisbnrg wtftc. il ii| MAY 20, 1919, best for both sides. The bill, he said, cannot bo tried out for two yearS and should bo accepted. The margin of difference, ho contended, was very close and neither side would he injured by accepting it. Mr. Palmer remarked that people were being satisfied as to dollars nnd cents, but not as to methods. The Attorney General replied thnt he had endeavored to appreciate both sides' opinions nnd stood by his bill, which he asked to have report ed. Mr. Grundy then entered into the discussion and differed with the Attorney General as to how much .he and his friends had been con sulted about compensation changes. Students Provide Dinner In Paris For 40 Cents Paris, May 21.—Cheap meals can still be obtained in Paris but it is givn to few to solve the problem. General Association of Paris j students (known to its members as the "A") has suceeedd in providing a dinner for the equipment of forty ■ cents. It consists of an hors d' oouvre or soup meat with a vege | table, one vegetable ae a course and la desert. Unlimited bread, and a I serviette are given but no wine. Two ! hundred students took part In the I Inaugural meal. i Alkali in Shampoos Bad For Washing Hair Moat aoaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, whleli is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Mulsitled cocnunut oil shampoo, for this Is pure and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap and beats anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the j whole family for months. I Simply moisten the hair with water ! and rub it in. about a tenspoonful is | all that is required. It makes an | abundance of rich, creamy lather I cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and | evenly, and is soft, fresh looking | bright, fluffy, wavy and easv to han dle. Besides, it loosens and takes out 'every pnrticle of dust, dirt and dand ruff. 7
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