The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-02-18
Legislature Is Asked to Settle
Fight Between Bureaus.
MAY ADOPT CALIFORNIA PLAN
Bill Offered by Senator Skogmo WouIA
Merge All Educational Depart
nnents Under One Head-State
Reformatory May Have Dairy
BY FRED L. HOLMES.

mo, River Rails, has offered bill for
the consolidation Of several of the
states educational bureaus. Assem-
blyman William Olson of Green coun-
ty is the author of a bill for the aboli
ton of the state board of education.
There are two big educational de-
partments that have not been getting
along well with each other. First is
the state superintendent of public In
struction under charge of G. p. Cary.
Second Is the state board of educa-.
ton with Maj. e. A. Fitzpatrick as.
secretary. Mr.. Cary declares that the
state board Of education Is "abOut as
useful as the fifth wheel Of a wagon"
Major Fitzpatrick In reply points out
that Wisconsin does not rank high In
the education of it's country school
children under. Carey's, supervision,
compared with other states. There
you have the contending elements.
Senator iSkogmo has offered bill en-
bodying the California idea, where
there Is state board of EDUCATION
and a state superintendent having
separate departments. SkogmO would
merge all of these educational bu-
reaus- and departments under one
head, as was done In California.
Announcement is made by Assem-
blyman Miles l.. Heineman, TOmah,
chairman of the assembly educational
committee, that there will be q hear
ing on these educational matters next
week. 1t promises to be one of the
most important hearings of the ses-
sion. Probably no question, aside
from taxes, has attracted wider at
tentiOn among the people than the
educational differences.
If plans of the state board of con-
troll are approved and money appro-
priated the Wisconsin state refOrma-
tory will have one of the finest dairy
farms in the state.
An option has been taken on 3O6
acres in the town of Oneida, Outa-
gamie county. The plan is to have
the farm operated by TRUSTEES from
the Green Bay reformatory.
The land, all virgin soil, can be pur-
chased for $40 an acre. After it Is
cleared and put in cultivation by re-
fOrmatOry labor the value will be
greatly increased, it is claimed. 1t is
planned to put about $50 head of pure
bred cattle on the farm, enough to fur
nish all the milk and meat needed by
inmates.
The proposition has the backing Of
Senator Timothy Burke, who claims it
would be a splendid purchase for the
state and also have a good influence
on agriculture, as it would teach farm
ers in the vicinity the advantages of
modern methods on the farm. From
financial point of view the senator
says it would pay for itself i'm a short
time.
One Of the subjects that will be
threshed out in the Legislature at an
early date is the regulation of the use
of big motortrucks on the highways
The question is being agitated in many
parts OF the state, especially in the
eastern and southeastern parts. where
it is alleged that many of the roads
are being ruined by heavy truck traffic.
The matter has already been tentative
ly discussed by the legislative high
way committees.
At the annual meeting of county
boards last November the boards of
Jefferson, Racine, Marathon. Keno
sha and Winnebago counties passed
resolutions calling upon the lcgisla-
ture to enact measures to prevent
these heavy trucks damaging the high
ways or to increase the license to
make good the damage done. On a
call issued by the Jefferson county
board a meeting was held in Madison
during the recent road school and a
committee of nine appointed to take
up the matter at the annual meeting
of the chairmen of the county boards
to be held at Madison this week on
Wednesday and Thursday.
The consensus of opinion at this
time is that bill covering this sub
iect in some manner will be passed
One factor brought out in the dis
cussion is that the number of large
trucks is SO small a proportion of the
total traffic that they should not be
permitted to indiscriminately use the
roads to the disadvantage of other
highway traffic.
A mans suffrage bill designed to
give certain equal rights to men was
introduced in the Wisconsin legisla-
ture by Assemblyman Thomas A. Sui
livan of Reedsville
Mr. Sullivan proposes to amend the
law to give husbands the same dover
rights in their wives estates as are
now shared by widows in their hus-
bands property. He also provides that
a married man or woman who has
''wilfully and without just cause
lived separate from his or her mate
FOR one year or more loses all dover