Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-25
HAS PLAN To AID
RETURNING YANKS
Senator Nye's Bill Patterned Aft
|. er S. A. 7. C. System.
OFFERS EDUCATION TO MEN
Soldiers Who Were Unable to Finish
Their Studies Could Attend a
School or University and Be
Paid $50 Month.


Madison.-A bill to aid the re-
turning soldiers in completing their
educational courses, broken off by en-
trance of the war, and to help others
secure an education which will assist
them In life will be offered in the SEN
ate this week by Senator r. ]. Nye of
Superior.
The idea of the bill offered is taken
from the educational feature of the S.
A. I. G. system. Under that plan SOL
diers were sent to the university and
normal schools, given special training
along certain lines and paid salary
of $50 a month while attending. The
Nye bill contains the same feature. To
Wisconsin soldiers returning who de-
sire an education in university and
normal schools he proposes TO send
them to school and pay them $50 a
month, as was done under the S. A. L.
G. system.
II think the state of Wisconsin
for it's soldiers who are returning"
said State Senator r. J. Nye. MANY
of these boys who entered the service
were students in the university, in the
normal schools, and some were seniors
in the high schools of this state. Their
educational program of life was brok-
en- into. This bill will give them as
sistance in completing their educa-
tional program and will fit them to be-
come better citizens"
Several bills have been introduced
in both houses of the Legislature to aid
returning soldiers. Senator Oscar l..
Olson of Blanchardville has offered
measure to have the state pay the in
surance of soldiers for period of two
years. Senator L. e. Cunningham of
Beloit has offered a bill to have the
state advance three months pay to
honorably discharged soldiers. Cover
nor Philips message to the legisla-
ture showed that $4,000 soldiers have
gone direct into the service from Wis
consin. He declares, however, that a
conservative estimate shows that TO-
600 additional men from Wisconsin
went into the service in the states of
Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, and
perhaps from other commemorative.
This gives a grand total of 12S,OOO
Wisconsin men in the service. Assum-
ing an average three months pay of
500, which military men estimate to
be conservative, the expenditure would
amount to $12,S00,O00. Senator Gun
ningham points out, however, that con-
gress is moving slow and would reim-
burse the state for the amount eXpend-
ed.
Both houses of the legislature have
adopted q resolution asking congress
to pass a law giving three months pay
to returning soldiers upon their honor
able discharge. Another bill has been
offered which provides that returning
soldiers shall be given educational in
struction in the higher institutions OF
Wisconsin without tuition. Another
bill which is pending before the SEN
ate provides that soldiers in the world
war shall be given preference in the
making of appointments from civil SER
vice lists Senator Schultz has meas
ure which seeks to have the state,
county and municipality furnish en-
ployment to soldiers who are unable
to find employment otherwise.
Several measures have been offered
upon the subject of the erection of me-
MORALS to soldiers of the world war.
II SNfT IL II n n
has a bill which permits counties and
municipalities to appropriate money
for the erection of memorial. Sen
ator Roy p Wilcox of Eau Claire is
the author of a bill appropriating $780,
600 for the erection of armOries in the
state, and that such armories shall
contain a roll call of the soldiers who
entered the service from that locality.
Senator Claire B. Bird of Wausau has
a bill for the erection of social center
community houses which shall be dedi-
Gated TO the honor of the soldiers from
that community in the world war. One
assembly bill provides that dentists
and nurses who did service in the
world war shall be permitted to return
to this state and continue to practice
their profession without the formality
of a required examination to obtain
license.
Governor Phillip will receive this
week the Donnelly bill, which has al
ready passed both houses Of the legis-
lature, providing that municipalities
shall furnish free the use of auditori-
ums to welcome returning soldiers.
The governor will approve the meas
ure.