Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-01
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LEGISLATURE

Madison, Wis.-Teachers of Wiscon-
sin would be protected in their posi-
lions against summary removal by
school superintendent, under pro-
visions of a bill introduced into the
legislature by Senator William A.
Titus, Fond du Lac.
The Titus bill establishes that all
teachers in schools of the state, in
Guiding vocational schools, shall be on
probation for their first three years,
and after that time are to be regarded
as permanent teachers.
No person serving three years as a
teacher could be suspended, reduced
in pay, or discharged, except for cause
and after a hearing before the school
board, upon written charges verified
by the chief administrative officer of
the school system in the city The bill
is aimed at despotic school superin-
tendents, Senator Titus said
Ask Dance Regulation.
The Walworth county board unani-
mously adopted a resolution memorial
izing the Wisconsin legislature to
enact laws to regulate dances, de
scribed as promoting vice, immoral
ity and delinquency" Joseph Row
bothan, author of the resolution re-
quests that attendance be limited to
persons not younger than Is years and
that probation officers under the sher-
ifs authority take charge Of such
dances. The resolution also condemns
the automobile as a means of spread
ing vice.
Unemployment Bill introduced.
State Senator Henry A. Huber's
unemployment insurance" bill has
been introduced in the legislature
THE purpose of the measure is to
create a wholesale incentive for in
dustry to reduce unemployment to a
minimum" said Mr.. Huber. "The
cure of unemployment is employment.
Hence if industry is required to pay
81 day to the worker laid off, it will
hesitate before the man is laid off.
They will plan their work ahead. They
will hire and fire more cautiously"
Small employers, hiring less than
six persons, would be exempt from
the provisions of the Huber bill.
Women Want Arts Courses Restored.
Gov. Blaine and. the state legisla-
ture have been appealed to by mem
bers of the Milwaukee County Aux
iliary of the Wisconsin Federation of
Women's clubs in the fight for the
retention of college and arts courses
in state normal schools.
In a resolution the auxiliary con-
dennis the action of the state board
of normal school regents in elimi-
mating these courses and asks the
governor and legislature to amend the
law governing the normal schools in
such a manner that these departments
will not be lost.
Blaine Appoints Elmer S. Hall.
Former Secretary of State Elmer S.
Hall, Green Bay has been named a
member of the state conservation com
mission by Gov. Blaine. The job pays
$500 a year. At the same time, the
governor announced the appointment
of Dwight 7. Parker, Fennimore, as
commissioner of banking, to succeed
Marshall Cousins, whose term ex-
pires in May. The position pays So
600 a year. Other appointments an
nounced were:
David Atwood, Madison, state
printer, re-appointed.
T. J. Cunningham, Chippewa Falls,
state oil Inspector, re-appointed.
Herbert E. Austin, Boscobel, mem
Der state fair advisory board.
Hold Budget Hearings.
Study Of the state financial program
looking toward cuts in appropriations
requested by various departments,
boards and commissions has already
been initiated by the joint committee
on finance. Budget hearings will be
held so shat departmental heads may
explain requests for appropriations in
excess of two years ago. The state
banking commissioner and dairy and
food commissioner have already been
heard. Appropriations will be cut 30
the point of meeting the actual needs
of governmental departments" said
Senator Henry Huber of Stoughton,
chairman of the committee.
League To End War Favored.
A joint resolution memorializing
congress to take the initiative in
bringing about an association, coali-
ton and international conference of
neutral nations to devise means of
prohibiting and preventing war, intro
duced in the lower house of the Wis
consin legislature by Assemblyman
Clinton G.. Price, Mauston, was unani-
mously adopted.
Wisconsin counties will be able to
choose their own county agricultural
representatives and public health
nurse if a bill introduced by Assem-
5lyman Blomberg, Price county, is
adopted.
A bill that would require the licens-
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