=
WD
en
Ii]
it a
mifi-
leans
z Bi-
more
nue.
Thursday, April ‘6th, 1939 ..
THN UNION PRESS-COURIER
PAGE SEVEN
ISSUING A STATE CHECK
INVOLVES A LONG OP-
ERATION TO COMPLETE
Harrisburg.—More than a dozen in-
dividual operations are necessary in
preparation of each of nearly 65,000
checks written each business day by
the state treasury in the conduct of
the $250,000,000 a year enterprise which
is the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Equally exacting—but less numer-
ous—are details of handling another
25,000 checks not written in the de-
partment, but audited and signed each
day to cover unemployment compensa-
tion payments.
Successive steps in this fool-proof
system of checks and counter-checks
which safeguard expenditures of state
monies were explained by State Trea-
surer F. Clair Ross.
Requisitions for payments of com-
monwealth bills originate. Treasurer
Ross points out, with the department,
board, commission, or other branch of
the government responsible for the ex
penditures. These requisitions are for-
warded in duplicate to the treasurer
where they are received and docketed.
Their requirements are studied by
department auditors and, on approval,
requisitions are routed to appropria-
tions bookkeepers whose duty it is to
see that each contemplated expenditure
is charged against the proper account.
In this regard it is important to re-
member, Treasurer Ross said, that the
state monies are kept by the Treasury
in 39 specific funds, each subject to its
particular restrictions.
With these details satisfied, the re-
quisition is checked and approved by
the Bureau of Disbursements which
then sends the original to the depart-
ment of the auditor general with a re-
quest for a warrant authorizing pay-
ment. This warrant is issued only af-
ter a detailed scrutiny of the requisi-
tion by the auditor general, and no
bills are paid without such an order.
Meanwhile—so that accounts may be
handled with all possible dispatch —
the duplicate requisition is send to the
treasury cneck writers where a check
is drawn in duplicate in the proper
amount and against the fund design-
ated.
Checks—originals and duplicates—
then go to the proof readers who in-
spect them for errors, erasures, etc.
void bad checks and have substitutes
arawn where necessary. When this
work has been completed the total of
ali checks written against a particular
requisition is struck and examined.
By this time the auditor general’s
warrant is received and entered for-
mally on department records. From
these records proof readers insert the
proper warrant number on checks ai-
ready written and audited. They are
ready for a signature.
Checks covering sums in excess of
$500, are signed manually to comply
with banking regulations; those for a
lesser sum are signed mechanically.
Both then are listed in a master re-
ceipt.
Those destined for the judiciary and
for special legislative boards are mail-
ed directly to payees by the treasury.
Others are picked up by special mes-
sengers who must sign the master re-
ceipt before the checks are turned ov-
er to them for delivery to the depart-
ment in which the requisition origin-
ated.
PUBLIC INTEREST IN
DRIVE AGAINST SYPH-
ILLIS BEING NOTED
Harrisburg.—Public interest in the
problem of syphillis, its detection and
treatment, is increasing in Pennsylva-
nia, Dr. John J. Shaw, secretary of
health, declares.
“There has been an amazing rever-
sal of the former refusal to have even
the word syphillis mentioned,” said
Dr. Shaw. “The disease is now accept-
ed as a public health problem which
must be solved with the assistance of
every citizen.
“I believe the barriers have drop-
ped much more quickly than they did
in the case of tuberculosis. We are rel-
atively much further ahead in our
fight against syphillis than tuberculo-
sis workers in the corresponding per-
iod of time when they began their
drive twenty years ago.”
Interest on the part of the public
has stimulated the drive of private
A RUG OF GLASS
YOURS IN TRUST
ES
. & Banus OREN
In the perpetual campaign to stamp out man-caused fires that burn
over 40,000,000 acres annually, the United States Forest Service in co-
operation with the state forestry agencies and organizations interested in
conservation, will distribute in poster form nearly a million reproduc-
tions of the above painting by the famed illustrator, James Montgomery
Flagg. The painting is the property of the American Forestry Association.
physicians to more active participation
in the state program the secretary de-
clared.
Free drugs for treatment of syphil-
lis have been available to physicians
in Pennsylvania for some time, and re-
cently the profession has made an ap-
preciably greater demand for them.
The department of health furnishes the
medicine for use in cases where pa-
tients might not be able to continue
the long course of treatment because
of financial difficulties.
“In 1938, a total of 807 private phy-
sicians received anti-syphilitic treat-
ment and drugs from the department
of health,” Dr. Shaw said. “For the
first two months of 1939 the demand
shows an appreciable increase over the
same period for 1938.
“Surely that is indicative of stead-
ily-increasing interest. From all indica-
tions the demand will continue to grow
for the year 1939.”
CRACKER EATING
POLLY DIES AT FIFTY
Blairsville.—The tamuuar requests
that “Polly wants a cracker,” heard
for many years at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. M. D. Campbell of Derry town-
ship, have ended. “Polly,” a parrot,
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, died
last week at the age of fifty years.
The bird was 19 years old when Mr.
and Mrs. Campbell purchased it and
it had been in the family for 31 years.
The parrot was an intelligent bird
and seldom failed to greet members
of the family when they returned home
after being out. The bird was well
known to residents in the Derry town-
ship section.
“Your work speaks more convincing
than your tongue.”
B. C. Forbes
{TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAN
PATIENTS CURED OF THE
DREAD CANCER, 5 YEARS
Philadelphia.—More than 25,000 pa-
tients in the United States have been
cured of cancer in the past five years,
physicians attending the recent cancer
forum of the Womens’ Auxiliary of the
Lankenau Hospital Research Institute
were told.
Despite the fact that victims still
view the disease with alarm, records
of the cures can be found in the files
of the American College of Surgeons,
speakers at the forum said. More than
30 men and women of all ages who had
had cancer, were guests at the forum.
Dr. George E. Pfahler ,veteran radi-
olugist and chairman of the Philadel-
phia County Medical Society's Concer
Commission, presented the former pa-
tients with the announcement that he
| himself had been cured of the disease.
All of the “exhibits,” he said, were
cured by surgery, X-ray or radium
trom five to twenty-seven years ago.
One man was a Pittsburgh minister
| who suffered from a stomach cancer
| 15 years age Another couple, man and
{ wife, testified they had been cured 1%
and 15 years ago, respectively.
At least half of the 15,000 lives tak-
en each year by cancer could be sav-
ed if all the knowledge on cancer now
in possession of the medical profession
were promptly used by doctors and
| patients, Dr. Pfahler said.
Dr. William Carpenter McCarty of
the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minneso-
ta, blamed physicians for failure fre-
quently, to recognize the disease in its
early stages.
WAGNER LABOR,ACT
REVISION PETITION
IGNORED IN HOUSE
Washington — A House drive to
force action on proposed revision of
the Wagner Labor Act by the discharge
petition method bogged last week as
both Democratic and Republican fac-
tions refused to accept responsibility
for a determined battle on the issue.
But four members of the House had
signed the petition of Representative
C .Arthur Anderson, Democrat, Mis-
souri, to discharge the Labor Com-
mittee from consideration of his re-
vision bill and bring it to the House
floor, despite the fact that he began
his drive two weeks ago.
The four members placing their
names on the petition to force a vote
were Anderson, Representatives Bur-
dick, Republican, and Lemke, Repub-
lican, North Dakota, and Hoffman, Re-
publican, Michigan. Signatures of 218
members must be placed on the peti-
tion to make it effective.
D |DEBT WILL PASS FORTY
BILLION PEAK, IN U. S.
Washington.—1'reasury statistics in-
! dicated this week that the public debt
will rise to an all time high of forty
billion dollars this week.
This will be equivalent to $307 for
each man, woman and child in the
country.
When the United States entered the
World War the debt was $2,975,618,585
or a per capita of $28.57. When form-
er President Hoover left the White
House it was above 20 billions and re-
ached 22 billion 538 million dollars 3
months after the New Deal moved in.
On Tuesday, the Treasury reported,
the debt was $39,972,052,542. That has
not changed materially, but with the
beginning of April a bookkeeping en-
try will increase it well over forty
—
| million dollars. The entry will be a
transfer to the old age pension reserve
|
| account,
Old age pension taxes are not ears
marked but placed in the Treasury's
general fund. Congress appropriates
funds for the old age reserve account
but the Treasury does not put up the
cash.
Instead it provides the fund with
the certificate of indebtedness which,
in reality, are I. O. U’s. Treasury ofe
ficials explain that if they do not bore
row the money from the old age ree
serve account they would have to bore
row it from the public.
The law does not provide an increa=
se in the public debt beyond 45 billion
dollars.
“Books are the ever-burning lamps
of accumulated wisdom.”
G. W. Curtis
1.
IT'S TIME
TO MAKE
YOUR
2.
Reds"
PE
Tm
“4
UES
ems ar
A i
i
Get a tankful of Atlantic White
Flash.
Change to the proper grade
of Atlantic Summer Motor Oil.
3. Get Atlantic Toms River Lubri-
cation Service.
Don’t wait. Give your car proper
TRIPLE-PLAY
warm-weather protection now.
Enjoy spring motoring more.
FOR SPRING
Hurry to the big red Atlantic sign
for your spring triple-play.
“ Wore Miles fos Yours Wlomey
LISTEN TO ATLANTIC FOR THE
ATLANTIC
) WHITE FLASH |
MOTOR OIL
LUBRICATION SERVICE
BEST IN SPORTS BROADCASTING
New COLD-WALL Frigidaire
with the Meter-Miser!
THE WORLD'S FIRST “COLD-WALL” REFRIGERATOR! Built on an io
entirely New Principle that saves food's vital freshness from drying out
For the first time, you can now store even highly perishable foods —
and prolong their original freshness, retain their nourishing richness and
peak fresh flavor. . . days longer than ever before! Come in. Convince
yourself in 5 Minutes. See how this new Frigidaire puts you years ahead
in every way—in beauty, usability, economy as well as food-preserva-
tion. Yet costs no more than ordinary “first-line” refrigerators!
L,
ONLY
Big, roomy,
you t
full 6 Cubic Ft. size! Gives
he Same Simplest Refrigerating
Mechanism, seme Metet-
iece steel construction an nef
Rott 5-year Protection Plan as Frigid-
Frigidaire __
Suporte] |
mene $149.70 |
CONVENIENT
TERMS
AS LOW AS
7 7) ’
Miser, same one-
d same General
e's models costing up to $100 more.
iy at a Super-Value price!
The young lady can roll this |
“glass rug’ because it really is a
broken sheet of the new safety plate
glass for automobiles. A new type
of solvent has been placed between
two thin layers of plate glass. The
broken fragments cling to the sol-
vent. It was introduced at a scien-
tific meeting at Franklin institute
in Bhiladalnhia.
—— Lg
ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF FRIGIDAIRE AIR CONDITIONING — BEER COOLING — MILK COOLING AND HO-
TEL, RESTAURANT AND MEAT MARKET COOLING EQUIPMENT,
BENDER ELECTRIC C
ATING COILS.
17]
Sr er NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME
essa ns 1 THE NEW “DEW -FRESH SEAL” A
oN daa ® SOLID GLASS PARTITION — DIVIDES
as nsual. f THE CABINET INTO 2 COMPARTMENTS.
and .
a 4 9, THE LOWER COMPARTMENT IS RE-
J ® FRIGERATED DIRECTLY THROUGH
THE WALLS BY CONCEALED REFRIGER-
© This provides all 3 essentials for keeping
foods vitally fresh longer than ever before— 1.
Uniform Low Temperatures. 2. High Humid-
ity. 3. No Moisture-Robbing Air Circulation.
All without adding a single moving part!
AND ONLY FRIGIDAIRE HAS IT!
CY (1352)
CARROLLTOWN
* & JOHNSTOWN
CHARLSON’S STORE... -. Barnesboro COMMONS’ HARDWARE ......_.. Nanty-Glo BARNES STORE CO Bakerton
ite eviessnssenssessumrers Smith Fork HUGHES STORE CoO. Aaa Lilly BAKERTON SUPPLY CO. ——ao———— Elmora
Sr imim—— CC TOSSON JOHN MARUSEKA reeeneene. Grallitzim
SHETTIG HARDWARE ..._..__._ Ebensburg BARNES & TUCKER STORE H. J. EASLY FURNITURE
N. W. MOORE HARDWARE ..____ Portage COMPANY e. Barnesboro STORE .... — Hastings