Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-04-01
ACT To PROVIDE
JUNIOR COLLEGES
Senate Body Recommends Nye
Bill for Passage.
AVAILABLE FOR FIVE CITIES
Under Terms of Measure State Aid In
Amount of $4,000 Per School is
Provided--Vvlll Furnish Broad
er Education to Many People.

established in this state to give the
first two years of academic work now
offered at the University of Wisconsin.
The upper house committee on
education and public welfare has rec
commended the Nye junior college bill
for passage, with only Senators Clark
and Titus dissenting. The measure is
expected to come up In the senate for
action this week. Under the terms
of the biz FIVE junior colleges may be
estaSlished in as many cities making
applica don. State aid in the amount
of $4,000 per school Is provided. 1t is
generally admitted that if this bill is
enacted into law junior colleges will
be Immediately established at Oshkosh.
Superior and Racine.
Mai. E. A. Fitzpatrick, seq fary of
the state board of education believes
that the establishment of junior col
leges will furnish broader education
TO many people in the state. In q
statement which he has just issued
he has pointed out that this plan is not
a new movement in this country.
He said lower division of the uni
versity could be found in Chicago,
California and Washington. He said
that normal school work accredited for
two years is provided for in eleven
states. Public high schools have been
extended to include the first two years
of college work and there are 80 such
institutions at the present time. There
are 93 small colleges in the state car
rying on similar work.
The movement for junior colleges in
the state was summarized by Major
Fitzpatrick as follows.
Desire of parents to keep children at
home.
To provide a completion school for
those who cannot go further.
Desire of students to secure college
work near home.
TO meet specific local needs.
Geographical remoteness from
standard college or university
To meet the entrance requirements
of professional schools.
Even in an institution like the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin 1853 of the 4,99S
students from the state are from Dane
county; 2.006 are nonresidents," said
Major Fitzpatrick 1.-The attendance
from the county in which the normal
schools are located ranges from 81 per
cent at Oshkosh to 40 per cent at
Platteville. The attendance from
within fifty miles of normal school
ranges from IS per cent at Stevens
Point to 81 per cent at Platteville."
The house refused to reconsider the
vote by which 1t killed the Anderson
Nxll to abolish the divorce counsel in
this state. BY vote of 81 to 40 it re-
fused to reconsider the vote by which
il engrossed the Edwards bin for a d.
vision OF grain taxes of the terminal
cities This bin affects Milwaukee,
Green Bay, Superior and Ashland.
Although the committee unfavorably
reported a bin validating street bonds
in 0conto the house after half an hour
debate, sent the measure to engross-
ment.
The house reconsidered the vote by
which it passed the Frank II. Hanson
bill for full switching crew on light
engines outside Of railroad yards. 1t
then killed the bin by vote of so TO
As This was one of the measures
which had the backing of the four
brotherhoods.
BY a vote of 81 to the assembly
gave final passage to the C. f. Hanson
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment that sheriff may succeed
himself.
On request of Assemblyman f. =. Pc
terson, the assembly killed his bin pro-
viding for stricter supervision of the
carrying of dangerous weapons. Pc
terson explained that amendments
adopted made the bill impossible.
BY q vote of "a TO 10 the house re-
fused to reconsider the vote by which
1t passed the Mark bill separating the
town Of Phelps from Eagle River
school district The bin was then sent
TO the senate. where 1t will be made a
special order of business for the next
week.
The Becker bin Increasing the pay to
country newspapers for publishing the
laws Of the session and placing the
charge on a circulation basis was
killed 81 to 81
The assembly is on slaughter ram.
page. Ii killed nine of the fourteen
bills considered A fight was made to
kill the Bufiing bill for one days rest
in seven. but it weathered the storm
by a vote of IS 10 81.
For "Conscription of Wealth."
"Conscription of wealth" as a means
of paying or war debts and to prevent
future CONGREGATIONS, contained in a
Joint resolution to memorialize con.
gress to take such sten. was recon,
nleaded out for passage by the assem-
bly, committee on judiciary, after an
exciting executive session. Assembly.
man J. n. French and Assemblyman
Mark Catlin dissented frcm the ma.
jority report Members of the com.