Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-05-02
SURVEY OF WORK
DONE BY S0LONS
Less Than rs Per Cent Of Bills
Offered Go OR Statute Book
SEED Law AN AID TO FARMERS

Teachers Of the state, After Many
Years Of Effort, to Receive Pen
sions-ohio to Have a Governors
Mansion-New Type of Legislation
Along Patriotic Lines-State Health
Board Reoruanized.
Columbus, o.--(Special. AFTER q
three months session, the Eighty
third general assembly has recessed
until May 5, when it will return for
a few days to pass some important
measures that could not be reached
at this time.
These measures include the big ap-
preparation bill to meet the operating
expenses Of state government for the
next two years and for which the
budget as prepared by Governor Cox
calls for almost $49, ,O00,0 900; the tax
alton measures, at this time, particu-
larly at this time, real "bugbear" to
all solons; the Crabbe liquor en-
forcement bills, the highway meas
ure and several others of much i'm
portance.
But the bulk Of the history has been
written and, as of old, by their fruits
ye shall know them"
A new type of legislation alonS Pc
triotic lines is the outgrowth of the
world war, and, as might have been
anticipated, the legislative and exec
utive departments, being of opposite
politics, have clashed on several oc'
casions as to the merit of various
bills introduced; but, withal, a study
Of the legislation enacted will reveal
the fact that it meets the demands
of the hour. In fact, the bills intro
duced by Representative Freeman and
Senator AXE take advanced grounds
and are regarded as model legislation
along this line of patriotism.
The recent scourge of infuenzs
which recently swept the state with
such appalling results has aroused
| the public to the immediate need oi
q reorganization Of the state board oi
health, which has been accomplished
with the passage of the Hughes bill
and auxiliary measures to facilitate
the operation of the new plan. The
| Hughes law will abolish the present
100 local health districts and substi
| tute instead 102 centralized districts
under the direction of trained ex
| perts.
| While a number of bills we're intro
duced seeking to change the schoo
laws of the state, the solons did no
take kindly to the proposition, ant
the code is left practically intact. Th'
only real test Of sentiment came will
the passage in the lower house by ;
narrow margin, and in an amended
form, of the Cable bill, and in it's sub
sequent defeat in the senate by a votl
of 21 to IL.
Teachers, aided by public sentiment
accomplished that for which the
have been contending for many year:
namely, pension system such as ha
been In vogue in other states, spor
sored by Representative Freeman,
professor Of Ada, and backed by tn
Ohio, State Teachers association
teachers will pay 4 per cent of thei
salaries into fund, on which interes
will be compounded. Teachers VIII
serve SO years can retire on a pei
sion of not less than $25 a montl
Another bill, by the same autho
fixes minimum wage of $50 a mont
for grade teachers and $50 a mont
for high school teachers in wea
school districts.
The usual demand for new builr
ings, to take care of the increasin
were turned down except in two Il
stances. TIE Federman bill, provi
ing for a new building for the feebl
minded, carries an appropriation
$3.50, 900. The Parrett bill, proposir
the erection of a new building f,
journalism at the Ohio State unive
sity, appropriates $215,00O for tn
purpose.
The proposed new penitentiaI
proposition will not be dropped, bu
due to the present high cost of bull
ing material and labor, the work W
, be conducted on limited scale. u
der the provisions of the Spargs la
the unit plan of construction" W
be pursued.
Efforts to repeal the primary ele
, ton law doubtless have failed.
resolution by Senator Latham p1
posed a partial repeal of the measul
, and, while still in a stage of inact
ity, another proposal on more of t
"whole-hog-or-none" plan appeart
This was sponsored by Represent
tive Mcfarland Of Morrow coun
who seeks to amend the constitute
cy substituting the old convent
plan Of nominating all state and d
uict candidates by delegate convt
, tions, and authorizing counties to
eide by referendum whether tn
, ahall revert 70 the convention plan
dominating county candidates OF c,
!. tinue the present plan of direct 7
maries.
OF material interest and aid
: farmers is the new law requiring
= testing of all seeds before plantil
The measure was introduced by s.
Rtor Demuth, an official of the Oh
State Grange.
Another law of interest to dea
and patron alike is that Of Repres