The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-08-06
ATTEMPT TO PASS
IMPORTANT BILLS
TWO EDUCATIONAL MEASURES
NOW BEFORE THE WISDOM
SIN LEGISLATURE
WOULD UPBUILD SCHOOLS
One Bill Provides for Salary Bonus
to Teachers Who Will Continue
in Service in the Same
Rural Schools.

MadisOn.-An attempt is being
made to pass two important pieces
of legislation which it is claimed will
do much to upbuild the $500 rural
schools of Wisconsin. The first meas
ure provides for a county board Of
education to be elected by the county
board of supervisors. This bill has
the backing of the administration. It
was killed in the assembly last week,
but Assemblyman Ellingson has en-
tered a motion for reconsideration.
The second provides for salary
bonus to rural school teachers who
will continue in service in the same
rural schools. Wisconsin has a mini
mum salary law for rural schOl teach
ers of $40 a month. Under the terms
of the Dickie bill, which has just been
engrossed by the assembly, rural
school teachers with high educational
qualifications will be able to receive
an additional bonus of $25 a month.
This money Is to be taken out of the
seven-tenths mill tax for the support
of the schools of Wisconsin.
Many important labor bills have
been enacted at this session of the
legislature. An attempt to repeal the
minimum wage law has failed. The
workmens compensation law which
was also threatened at the beginning
of the legislature has come out un-
in
minor administrative particulars. The
compensation law has been amended
as follows: To prevent unreasonable
charges Of physicians; to safeguard
payment of money due as accident
compensation; to establish the rela-
imperative by supreme court de-
cision; to exempt farmers from the
act unless they declare their desire
to come under it, and to provide medi-
cal aid for an injured employee when
the employer fails to do so. More
than dozen bills were introduced in
The legislature to change the scale
of compensation. These have been
defeated
Many other important attempts to
change the labor laws of the state
have been defeated.
The assembly has killed the bill
which would permit the working of
boys between the ages of sixteen and
eighteen in stone Quarries.
Attempts to change the woman's
Of lob oot oil Of
The 1915 legislature enacted a law
requiring payment of wages twice
month under certain conditions of en-
ployment. 1t killed bill which would
permit the industrial commission to
investigate the conditions and wages
OF domestic servants in the state.
One of the interesting problems
which the senate will consider this
week is the Caldwell bill for county
mothers aid system. Two years ago
the legislature enacted a law provid-
ing state aid for dependent children.
This law has been amended by the
Caldwell bill so that the entire aid
will be paid by the county. The
amount of aid to be allowed is fixed
at $l5 a month for the first child and
SO month for the second child. The
county or Juvenile judge, who is given
the power to administer the law, may
place the dependent child in the home
of some relative or near friend in case
the mother is not able to take care
of her child
Because of protests from many Sec
tons Of the state, the finance commit
tee has rescinded it's former recon-
mendations to reduce the appropria-
ton for the extension department Of
the university and now recommends
that the extension department be given
the same amount of aid as it received
during the past biennium period.
Prominent among the organizations
which have urged an increase of state
aid to the extension department are
labor unions in nearly every city of
Wisconsin.
The assembly has passed the
Gruenewald bill legalizing all school
district meetings held in Wisconsin
this year. This provision '-as required
because of the new law recently en-
acted changing the time of holding
the annual meeting.
The work of examining candidates
for graduate nurse. heretofore done
under the direction of the state board
Of health by a nurses examining
board, is now in the Jurisdiction of the
state board of medical examiners. This
fact became known to the board of
health only day or two ago.
Veterans Widows Pensioned.