The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-25
MEET HIGH PRICES
Rotary Club Committee Reports
on Teachers Salaries.
Urges $50 Per Cent Hike,
Minus Increase Last Year.
MEANS THREE MILL TAX
Report Compliments The State
Journal Article on Pay.
Walter Wilson Addresses Club
on Blue Sky Law.

After making an investigation OF the
city school teachers salary problem
the Rotary club committee, appointed
TO consider the question. today recon-
mended that the club get behind an
effort to secure an SIS per cent salary
increase for the teachers.
II. d. Yoder. chairman Of the COM
mittee. gave the committees report
10 the club He said that Kansas is
behind other states in paying her
teachers; that in nineteen states the
average pay is better than in this
state; that since January. 1914. the
teachers have received only one aG-
vance; that was last year and amount
ed TO an increase of $500 per annum
for each teacher
Meet Advance in Prices.
The committee stated that from Of
ficial reports the average increase in
the cost Of living during the last five
years had been S2.5 per cent. 1t re-
Commended that the teachers be given
this much of an increase less the in
crease they have already received;
Yoder stated that an advance of from
two and one half to three mills in the
tax rate would raise from 81 600 to
$3.50, 900, amply sufficient to cover the
proposed increase: - regard to the
scale of wages. the committee suG
Eested that that, Of course. be left to
the board TO settle; the report sug
gested that the qualifications for
teachers be raised to a higher standard
when an increase is granted; the chair
man stated that the board of educa-
ton was confronted constantly by the
tax payers league opposing any in
crease in the tax rate. This the re-
port says. regardless of any matter of
justice. to the teachers. The report
complimented the detailed article of
facts on teachers salaries appearing
in The State Journal last Saturday.
The report was made the subject of
a special order for next weeks meet
ing OF the club.
Wilson Addresses ClubA
The Kansas blue sky law was used
as a pattern for the framing of similar
laws in other states. Walter f. Wilson,
bank commissioner. declared today in
talk before the Rotary club at the
Chamber of Commerce. The blue SKY
law has spread to practically every
state in the Union, Wilson said.
Wilson in his discussion of the Kan
sas blue sky law said in part:
when the legislature of 1911
passed the original blue sky law. the
business world read il and smiled
then read il again and wondered Had
something gone wrong with Kansas?
Was this the Socialistic prank of radi-
Gals. cranks. or the result of a too
prolonged and too drastic enforcement
of the prohibitory law
kansas also smiled. True to tradi-
ton. Kansas had come to bat with the
bases full and knocked a home run.
In the eight years which have since
elapsed, the blue sky idea has spread
TO nearly every state in the Union.
The Kansas act has been used as the
pattern by which other acts have been
fashioned.
During the year ended June so,
1918. a total of 1853 applications were
received by the department. These
applications represented requests to
sell SOS, 447, 600 worth of securities in
Kansas OF the 1873 applications pre-
scented to the board. 50 were refused
outright and three were withdrawn.
The balance, numbering 1913. after
passing the examination of the board
and in many instances meeting re-