The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-07
ees unless the voters SO elect.

continue the present State policy II
regard to corporations. They @ert
drawn by Professor Warren OF Har
ward, assisted by NJ. c. Webber o.
Rutland
Foreign corporations are liver
means to come into the tSate to dc
business. They must secure a cert
ticate from the secretary of state
| which is to be renewed every year
and must file with that official d
sworn copy OF their charter and al
affidavit showing their principal place
of doing business, capital stock, in
debtedness secured and unsecured US
sets and kind of business. There is
also provision that no foreign cor
poration shall stand better than q
| Vermont corporation.
| The Legislature from the start was
opposed to the bill based on the rep ,rt
of the Carnegie investigators because
it was viewed as being too radical
and not in keeping with the Vermont
idea OF town independence. Extended
hNdi mss NGlG nt4u anu LlitIl d OIJCGAul
| committee reported two substitute
measures which were eventually
passed.
The first relates 10 elementary
schools. 1t creates new board of
education of five members. to be ap-
pointed by the governor, who in turn
will appoint commissioner of ed,l.
cation. A uniform course of study is
to be provided and the schools are to
be supervised by superintendents aD.
pointed by the central authority ard
these superintendent will be watched
over by Il limited number of super.
visors Cities and Incorporated dis
trlctS with 25 or more schools may Sc
lect their own superintendent and
pay them in addition to the state pav
The school unions are not confined
to town lines but to groups of schools.
and union may be composed of
schools in two or more towns The
school age is raised to six years and
the school year is increased from 30 TO
"a weeks. A minimum wage OF IS .
week for teachers in strictly rural
schools is provided with additional
pay from the state of SO, $4, or So &c.
cording TO the teachers qualifications
The state also pays for transporta.
ton over one and one-half miles in
towns having grand list of not over
$4,000, and aid is given other towns
i'll accordance with the ratio their
grand list bears to $4,000. Another
provision is that pupils can go direct.
ly from the elementary schools into
the high schools without taking OK.
aminations.
The cost under this bill in round
numbers will be $43O,000, or some
S5ooOV0 below what would have beea
necessary had the commissions bin
been adopted. The increase OYER tho
cost in 1914 is $4,000. to be met bv
increasing the state school tax fror,
eight TO 10 cents This $4,000 in.
crease Is to go into an equalizing fund
to help those towns to which the Law.
might prove financial burden
The second substitute education bin
relates to the establishing of senior
and junior high schools. The com.
mission bill would have obliged towns
to maintain either a junior high
school with four years or n senior
high school of two years. and womb
nave compelled vocational education
while the substitute measure makes il
optional. 1t provides for an appropri.
alton of $4,000 to help those towns
which may elect to work under IT'S
termg.
The house refused to pass The
Eaton eugenic marriage bill and
then turned around and passed law
relating to venereal diseases which
was even more sweeping in its an.
-piication. This law provides that
when person, knowing himself 70
be infected with such disease
marries he shall be fined not moro
than $500 or imprisoned in the house
of correction for not more than two
years, while similar fine and one
year Imprisonment is provided for
a man who has sexual intercourse
While so infected. Doctors treating
cases are to report them to the sta.e
board of health, under a fine of 5000
for failure to report, and
the state board shall make and en-
force the quarantine rules necessary
to protect the public. Names of
persons under quarantine are not to
be disclosed except when necessary
for court action.
Appropriations were kept down
enough so that a State tax of five
cents on the dollar was required t
meet the deficit. Two years ago ..
tax of ten cents was necessary and it
is probable, that the FIVE cent tax
levied this year will leave consider
able deficit. In addition to the FIVE
cent state tax there will be the two
cents annually added to the state
school tax so that there is really only
one cent reduction from two years
age.
A State budget is created, to be en-.
forced by committee of Stale oil
GERS. This may work changes by in
PRODUCING more system in State
fiscal matters. The committee will
have power to inspect the finances of
all State denartments and institutions