The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-02-17
SOLONS CONTINUE
ROUTINE WORK
EDUCATIONAL PROG r A M
AND NEW PRIMARY ELEC-
TON LAW FEATURES
OF WEEK
Nav Have State Film Censor
Board. Twenty Years for Rob-
berry. Commission Government
for Counties

Millage for the educational institu-
tions and amendments to the existing
primary law were the high lights to
the routine work by the state legisla-
tors at Olympia last week. Tuesday
afternoon subcommittee of both the
senate and the house, sitting jointly
heard DR.. Henry Suzzallo and COM
mittee of business men on the costs
Of education at the state University in
connection with a proposed cut in the
educational levy. At present the Uni
versity is getting rs mills and has
asked for 1856. The increase will be
necessary, according to DR.. Suzzallo,
to maintain the present work. 1t is
costing $19142 per student at the Uni
versity as compared with student
cost of $132.SO in the Seattle high
schools.
A House bill introduced by Austin
Mires of Kittitas county provides for
direct primary election to choose
precinct party representatives or dele
gates to attend county, district and
state conventions which shall nomi-
nate candidates for county offices, con-
gressmen and state officers and Uni
ted States senators.
Candidates for office would file as
at present, with the conventions later
to nominate candidates from among
those who declare themselves at the
primaries for specific office. The
nominee would not necessarily be the
high man for an office in the primary.
Additional candidates could be nomi-
mated on petition of 10 per cent of the
voters.
With the signing of the state code
bill by Governor Hart gossip has been
rife regarding possible appointees.
Governor Hart stated that he did not
propose to pay the maximum salaries
and that he hopes to have some of
the appointments ready for confirma-
ton during this session of the legisla-
ture. Preparations are being made to
have the bill confirmed or rejected by
the supreme court as soon as possible.
The validity of the emergency clause
is to be tested.
A bill introduced in the senate pro-
vides for a committee of three, one a
woman, appointed by the governor, to
censor all films and advertising and
to disapprove of any as are in the
judgment of the board immoral or
which portray acts of cruelty, crime
or deeds of violence, such as tend to
debase or corrupt morals, or suggest
or teach crime, or ridicule any religi-
Gus sect, or the peculiar Characters
tics of any race of people.
An amendment to the state constitu-
ton passed by the senate provides for
the commission form Of government
for counties, including the managerial
plan and the consolidation of some Of
the elective offices. The senate also
passed H. b. No. so appropriating
100000 from the motor vehicle fund
to start the state highway work. One
half of this fund is to be used on each
side Of the state. This leaves bal
ance of about 100000 in the fund
The state fair at Yakima has appar-
emily been given a new lease of life
in $4,000 appropriation which has
passed both houses. The same amount
has also been appropriated for bovine
tuberculosis eradication work The
house passed the senate bill provid-
ing that supreme court clerks furnish
copies of decisions to attorneys con-
cerned and H. b. Is which permits
counties consisting entirely of islands
to benefit from the federal road fund
appropriation.
No levy above so mills may be
voted by boards of diking commission
ers except by vote of the people of the
district according to H. B. Al which
has passed the house, which also pass
ed Mrs. Colwell's bill fixing the age
at which women may marry without
the consent of their parents at 81
years. Her bill fixing the age of ma
jority for women at 81 years was lost.
New senate bills provide twenty
years to life Imprisonment for first de.
gree robbery and five to ten years for
second degree robbery; for the survey
of the Roosevelt highway from Mar
blemount in Skagit county to Uncas
in Jefferson county; requiring loan
brokers to pay $500 annual fee and
post a $4,000 bond.
New house bills provide that no
person not citizen of the United
States can. teach in any public school
and that no person shall be permitted
to instruct in the schools who teaches
either publicly or privately, bolshev-
ism, radicalism, or theories Of govern