River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-04-28

diers will be cared for but that it
must be at once and that every effort
must be made to get adequate hospi-
tai service where it is possible.
The new bill which was reported in
the Senate last Thursday provides for
the erection of four temporary shacks
and one main permanent building.
These four shacks would care for ap-
proximately $50 shell shocked sol
diers. To pay for this institution
100000 will be taken from the SOL
diers' disability fund, which still has
100000 on hand; approximately
$4,000 which has already been paid
to the state by the federal govern
ment will be utilized. When this is
done it will require less than $4,000
to equip and operate the buildings.
Once the buildings are ready for oc-
cupancy, which will probably be ear
ly this fall, the federal government
will pay the cost of maintenance.
This building program has been so
arranged that when there are no shell
shocked soldiers the permanent in
Urinary building which will be erected
under this bill will be turned over to
the Mendoza State hospital for use.
The shacks and infirmary will be err
ected on the Mendoza State Hospital
grounds close to the shores of Men
dota.
Practically unanimous approval of
the proposed new teachers retirement
fund law was voiced before the joint
committees on education in the sem
ate parlors last Thursday afternoon
No action has been taken on the bill
as yet.
Chairman Kuckuc in calling the
committee to order told of the work
of the special legislative committee
during the past two years. Speaker
Young stated emphatically that he
believed the committee had found
satisfactory solution of the very diff
ficult problem of providing an entire
ly adequate teachers pension fund in
lieu of the old law. He said that this
bill simply aimed to put the present
teachers retirement fund on an abb
sound and permanent basis.
"The plan of investigation adopted
by this committee meets my hearty
said President Carroll G.
Pearse of the Milwaukee Normal,
"and sets an example which should
be followed in other important legis-
lation."
He spoke especially Of the great
economic act to the state in the big
where the state expended
very large sums of money in the
training of teachers who continued
but short time in the profession.
He also stressed the advantage of
having the teacher know that there
was waiting an adequate provision
for old age enabling the teacher to
give full time and attention to the
real duties of the profession.
George Schroeder, chairman of the
committee on education at the Eau
Claire Board of Commerce, urged the
of this change in the re-
sulting gain to the tax payers from
the money expended on the public
"This question is one of the most
that has ever come before
the legislature" said Joseph Stuckey,
of the Trades and La
Dor Council of Oshkosh. This is one
of the most important bills before
the legislature.
The state department Of agriculture
reports that hog cholera has again
in the state, and that heavy
losses are reported by herd owners
in Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine,
La Fayette, Grant and st. Croix coun-
ties. The department is appealing to
all Wisconsin herd owners to cooper
ate with it in it's effort to protect un-
infected herds.
Every herd of hogs, says DR.. Pur-
cell, in charge of this work for the
department, can be protected against
hog cholera by proper vaccination;
therefore losses from this disease are
unnecessary and usually indicate in
efficient herd management. Even when
the disease appears in an unvaccinat-
ed herd, losses can be held to low
percentage if prompt action is taken,
but heavy loss must be expected If
the disease is allower to progress for
any length of time without interior
ence.
A far-reaching measure patterned
after the Ralston-Nolan bill in Con-
gress, known as the land value sur
tax bill has been introduced into the
lower house of the Wisconsin legis-