charge in addition to the regular toll charge.

The Northwestern opposed the connection, on both the grounds that it was not necessary for the public convenience, and that it would result in irreparable injury to the Northwestern system at Owatonna, by taking its property for the use of a competitor. In support of its first objection it presented elaborate statistical arguments to the effect that it had been able to serve efficiently practically the entire demand for toll service to and from Owatonna in the year 1915. In support of the latter it pointed out that many of the toll messages passing through the Owatonna exchange originated or terminated places where both Northwestern and Tri-State exchanges exist, so that physical connection would give the Tri-State, a competitor, the use of Northwestern property in competition against the Northwestern. This, the Northwestern contended, would constitute an irreparable injury, unless offset by a differential charge of at least twenty-five cents per message by such connection. The Tri-State objected to any differential.

The Commission has decided that the public convenience does require the connections, that it will not work an irreparable injury to the Northwestern, and that a differential charge of ten cents per message to or from a Northwestern telephone at Owatonna, over our Tri-State lines, should be paid to the Northwestern. This charge is not to be absorbed by the Tri-State into its toll charge, however, but is to be added to the charge made to the customer.

This means that a message going over Tri-State lines to or from Owatonna, and through the North

western exchange at Owatonna, will cost ten cents more than the Tri-State toll charge. If it is between Owatonna and another city where both Northwestern and Tri-State have exchanges, unless the Tri-State rate is ten cents lower, the Northwestern will be protected by this advantage against diverion of its toll business to Tri-State lines. It is to be noted too, that with equal toll rates, a message from such a point to Owatonna will cost one who has a Tri-State phone, but no Northwestern, ten cents more than it will his neighbor or competitor who has Northwestern service.

Reorganization of State Board of

Health Contemplated

The Public Health Commission was appointed by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist in 1915, to study the administration of public health in Minnesota. In its report it recommended legislation reducing the number of members of the State Board of Health from nine. to five, modifying the qualifications for appointment so as to permit a more representative constitution of the Board, changing the method of selecting the executive officer, an increase of salary for that position, to attract and hold the best qualified men, and the creation of a Division of Tuberculosis in the State Board of Health, to take over the functions of the Advisory Commission, which should then. be abolished. The Governor incorporated this report into his message to the legislature, and bills designed to carry it into effect have been introduced into both houses.

Marshall is considering a street paving program.

THE GENERAL EXTENSION

DIVISION

Exists to Make the Facilities and Resources of the University of Minnesota Available for Communities and Citizens

Throughout the State. NIGHT CLASSES in Collegiate, Business, and Engineering subjects are conducted in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and in other centers where a sufficient demand appears.

CORRESPONDENCE COURSES are offered in a wide range of subjects.

SHORT COURSES ARE OFFERED, which are of particular interest to merchants and business men who can spare a week to attend.

THE BUREAU OF VISUAL INSTRUCTION furnishes educational lantern slides to schools and study clubs.

SOCIAL CENTERS are fostered as a means to better citizenship.

UNIVERSITY WEEKS take the campus to the people each

John Smith would not willingly lose his spare change of dimes and quarters. He puts them together and scon has dollars.

John is not so careful of his spare change of minutes and quarter hours. He lets them go, and there is nothing in the world to show where they go.

John knows his savings bank will hold his spare money for him. He thinks he hasn't any such place to put his spare time. But he has, if he would. It's his head.

John admits that he might know, and would like to know a great deal more than he does. But he has thought it impossible to get this knowledge, since he couldn't afford to go away to college.

John has forgotten that college can always come to him. The U. S. mail will bring him assignments and lessons prepared by University instructors, and will carry back his recitations, to be criticised and corrected as ca efully and as helpfully as thoug" he were a student in residence.

If John were to enroll for a co respondence course, he would b accumulating a savings account of spare time which would pay dividends from the beginning.

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