The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-06
STATE news ITEMS
Geographic Glance of Events
Through Wisconsin.
DRAFT MEN NOT ovERpAlD
Nal. &. A. Fitzpatrick Makes Detailed
Report to Legislature Showing
Salaries Paid to Members Of
Draft Boards.

Madison, Feb. 5.--E. a. Fitzpatrick,
state draft administrator, settled the
question of whether there were Inn
proper salaries paid to representatives
on various draft boards by making a
detailed report to the legislature, Civ.
ing no names, but declaring that there
was not one case of improper charges
against the administration by draft
board members. He said he has now
become secretary of the state board of
education and cannot furnish names,
but pays a high tribute to all who
served, He says that no one drew more
than he was entitled to. He quoted
General Crowder as wiring that the ma
ton has come to expect the impossible
from Wisconsin, and also declaring
that Washington placed Wisconsin at
the top of the lists In nearly every
step taken In the execution of the Sc
leetive service law. A bill to make
teachers In normal schools members
Of the teachers retirement fund win
be introduced this week by Assembly
man Hanson of Pierce county. He also
offers bill to give greater publicity
to income tax records by making 1t
possible for any person to examine
the records on his own oath that he
believes the person investigated has
made improper statements.
Assemblyman Axei Johnson's bill to
prohibit the teaching OF foreign Ian
guages in the graded and public
schools of the state may raise some
thing of a Little Red Scholohouse"
issue in the legislature, although in
these days Of Americanization 1t Is
doubtful whether it will become the
great political issue that resulted
years ago in the defeat of the late for
mer Gov, w. d. Hoard.
Mr.. Johnson's bill Is scheduled for
hearing before the house committee
on education on the afternoon of Feb
ruary II. Assemblyman Miles Hine-
man, chairman Of the committee, be-
lieves that one public hearing will be
sufficient, which means that the for
elgn language question will be dis
posed of early in the session.
A committee or Lutheran ministers
called on Mr.. Hineman and asked him
if 1t was his view that the bill applied
to parochial schools as We as to the
graded and high schools of the state.
lie replied that he SO understood it,
and that Mr.. Johnson had drafted it
with that in mind. Thereupon the
Lutheran ministers said they wished
to appear in opposition to the bill
The Wisconsin legislature takes no
tice Of anarchism in the state. To CON-
bat this present menace" says the
report of the senate committee on re-
construction, much legislation must
be enacted at this session.
"Bolshevism demands that readjust-
mentS of society must be completed
forthwith, that the center of gravity
must be changed; that present organ
izations and achievements must be put
into the scrap heap" says Senator Roy
r. Wilcox in the report of the recon
81 ASLlOu COullulILGG. AluODR recon-
struction measures recommended by
the report are: Prohibit profiteering in
foodstuffs, establishment of state
marketing commission, special attor-
ney general to be appointed to inves-
tigate the discriminatory practices
against farmers, representation Of
farmers on educational boards, author
lzation Of collective bargaining by as
sociations of farmers in the public in
terest, right to organize should be
guaranteed to every worker, establish
ment of vacation camps for children,
extend minimum wage law to men, la
Dor to be represented on the boards
Of directors Of industrial corporations,
establishment Of an eight-hour day,
one days rest in seven, and many sim
liar measures. The report will be pre-
sented to the senate this week, but
most of the bills will be offered today
and Thursday.