The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-23
BEER CONTROL
BILL FIGHT ON
Slate TODAY
DryS Marshal Forces for
Bitter Battle to Halt
Brew Measure.
VETS ALSO COMPLAIN
Public Hearings Scheduled;
Taxation and Teacher
Law in Spotlight.

Beer control. Wright bone dry law
repeal, and teacher tenure were
centers of interest today, as the
general assembly opened the third
full week of it's session. The house
convened at II and the senate was
to meet at g.
Public hearing on the liquor bills
today at 2 before the public morals
committee holds the spotlight. Dry
organizations, with L. E. York and
f. A. Mills of the Indiana Anti
Saloon League, are scheduled to
present their protests.
Representative John F. Ryan
CDem., Terre Haute), chairman of
the morals committee, said it was
possible that vets also might appear
to complain against some features
of the administration beer control
bill, which provides a system for
distribution of medicinal whisky and
beer when the latter is legalized by
congress.
The house has passed only eight
cen bills of the original ITO orig
mating in that chamber, and the
senate has passed only two measures
introduced in the upper house. The
act declaring moratorium on de-
linquent tax sales until February
of next year is the only one enacted
by both houses.
Tax Measures Up
Many administrative measures,
including the sales tax, abolition of
. the present public service commits
sion setup, corporation income tax,
and banking code revision, are like
ly to receive action this week in
the house.
Ripper bills pending in the sem
ate include the measure revamping
the state highway commission and
another consolidating the battle flag
commission, soldiers and sailors
monument board, and Armory
boards into one body.
First action on petty loan rates
may come early this week in the
senate, when Senator William P.
Denningan Dem, VincenneS), calls
down his measure for second read
ing. The bill reduces the rate from
81 to IL per cent month.
Other Bills Pending
Two similar bills are pending in
the house and companion house
bill to the bank code bill provides
for investigation of the justice of
present petty interest rates.
The senate is expected to approve
a report of its education commit
tee favoring repeal of the teacher
tenure law Effort to alter the re-
peal bill by making application of
tenure optional in cities of $4,000
or more population is expected to
be made from the floor.
Senator Henry F. Schricker (Dem.,
Knox, banker, serving his first
term in the assembly, is author Of
the repeal bill.
"A good teacher does not need the
tenure law and a poor teacher does
not deserve it," Schricker said in
discussing his bill.
Indiana was proud of its public
educational system long before any
tenure law ever was on the books
Our state ranked very high, higher.
perhaps, than it does now. In my
judgment one of the reasons why
1ndiana's public schools are not held
up as models, as they used to be, is
because of the abuses since the ten
ure law went into effect.
Measure Is Discussed
I'm the public hearing on the re-
pealing act, held last Thursday, one
prominent educator, in opposing my
bill, said Indiana lacked good teach
ers. If this statement is true. I
wonder what this educator can say
in defense of the state normal
schools and universities, from which
, enough students are graduated
every year to flood the teacher mar
ket.
1.-The truth is that the tenure law
has resulted in wholesale dismissal
of qualified teachers just before
they would come under the provi-
sions of the tenure law. 1t also is
true that township trustees and
school officials have kept their
friends and relatives on the pay roll
long enough to make it impossible
for later officials to remove them.
"Permeating our public school
system is a feeling of class hatred
between those holding jobs under
the tenure law, and those outside
the laws provisions. This situa-
ton should be corrected by outright
repeal of the tenure law"