The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-03-29

OF public school. and senate Biil O..
requiring that English shall be the
language In which every public school
shall be conducted.
THE PENSION BILL.
Longs measure to provide a pension
fund for retired public school teachers
was first taken up and read.
kanlho wanted TO know what share
in the fund discharged teacher would
have, which was explained. The ques.
ton was based on the fact that tho
Hawaiian translation Of the bill used
the same word for discharged" and
"retired.p
Long explained that no public school
teacher could be discharged except for
cause, in which event every cent would
be returned.
This being so, Kaniho moved the
passage of the third reading of the
bill.
This bill may be a good one, but
It looks Just Ike a sop thrown to the
teachers" said Long. What the
teachers really need is fair salaries. If
they are given living wages they can
provide for themselves. 1 think the
proper time to consider this bill is after
we have passed on their salaries. 1t
should not be that we can say 1t does
rot matter what we pay because we
are going to give a pension"
Sheldon took issue with the last
speaker.
Il do not think this is a good bill at
all. Why should we pension teachers
and not police officers? The teachers
seem to be well looked after, for they
are always taking trips to foreign
countries. / think we should take each
individual case IL any pensions are to
be granted. The police have the better
claim anyway, as some of them have
been serving the country all their lives
1.-The government is always complain
ing of stringency in finances and i do
not think 1t is right to take money for
any pension. fund. If there is anyone
to be pensioned 1t should be our queen,
who has been deposed, dIssraced and
degraded
Rawlins spoke strongly in support of
the bill, which was no sop but a proper
measure to support teachers who had
spent their lives in the service of the
government. He agreed that there
We're police worthy OF pens,oring and
II such bills came up he would not OPP
pose them. At the present time there
is not one teacher in fifty who could
retire on pension. Principal
Scott of the High School, might, but It
is not to be supposed that he would
retire from his responsible position to
accept any pension just because there
was pension bill.
Kaleo was afraid the measure might
result in some favoritism on behalf of
the Board of Education, the members
of which might keep up incompetent
friends in order that they might enjoy
the benefits of the pension fund.
Kaleiopu favored the measure. Ev-
eryone In the House and in the Terri
tory was indebted to the teachers of
the public schools.
I'VE would not have obtained our
high positions If 1t had not been for
the work CT the teachers who taught us
what we know and received a meager
pay for Their work. Now some of us
are reaping the result of their labors
to the extent of 5000 to $3.50 month.
I'VE will always be in their debt and
I do not think 1t is appropriate for any
OF us to assume any doubts about the
bills. When left the Royal school In
1883, Miss ........ was a teacher there
and Mr.. Macintosh, who was a teacher
there before ! entered the school and
there are other teachers in these
schools with records of long service and
1t is for them that this bill will be
passed"
Rice remarked that the bill was
styled pension act but was in reality
mutual benefit act
Now i ask that the House play fair
with the teachers. Give them enough
to live on before we allow them to pay
themselves a pension. I believe yet
that this is Just sop to the teachers.
/ move that this be deferred until next
when we will have passed
the appropriations and know what pay
the teachers are to get and If they can
afford to contribute to pension fund"
Pail favored R'ce's motion.
Kaleo would give his right hand to
support the bill IL 1t were for the old
teachers. but he thought that 1t did not
do so.
Hughes didn't know whether he was
particularly dull or just affected by
payday, but none he had heard so far
had said anything for or against the
bill. One member said it was a good
bill but sop TO the teachers. another
talked rs II we should gel down on our
knees before the teachers and think
they are the only people on earth.
Every man Is factor in the COM
munity and I think that any man VINO
has wo, sed through life and grown old
and gray-heired is as much entitled
to pension as a school teacher. The
teacher Is entitled 10 pension the po-
Iiceman IL entitled 10 pension and
believe that the time will come when
every old man who needs a pension will
be given one.
II believe the bill will be vetoed, for
e We cannot pay $3.50 a day for labor
srs, cannot pay Jurors proper fee and
build hospitals. / cannot see
low the Governor would pass this bill. |
Therefore / support the bill because Il |