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2 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915. TEACHERS' BILL IS FUTURE SAFEGUARD Pension and Retirement Fund to Pro- tect Illinois Instructors in Days to Come. This summary of what the teachers of Illinois are trying to accomplish by the Illinois State Teachers Pen- sion and Retirement Fund Bill is in- teresting 'as a clear and condensed statement on a somewhat involved question: A movement which is likely to make itself felt during the present session of the legislature is that in behalf of a state-wide teachers' pension and re- tirement fund for the teachers of Illi- nois. An aggressive group of teachers from the city schools of Free- port and nearby rural schools must be credited with the initial impetus given this movement and they are today receiving the generous suppord of teachers all over the state. Many boards of education and students of the educational situation in general have endorsed the movement and at the annual meeting of the federated boards of education of Illinois at Ur- bana in Nov. the delegates present committed the boards they repre- sented strongly to the support of a teachers' retirement fund bill. The publicity and promotion com- mittee of the Freeport teachers has prepared a bill which with minor modi- fications has just been introduced into the legislature. The provisions of the bill apply equally to rural teachers and to teachers in city schools, and all teachers are placed upon the same footing regardless of rank or of salary conditions. The fund is to arise from an annual tax of three tenths of one mill upon all the prop- erty of the state and from a graduated system of annual payments thereinto made by the teachers themselves, In favor of some such bill there is an argument from the teacher's stand- point and another from the stand- point of the interested public, and a careful analysis of both arguments shows their substantial agreement. For the public it is maintained that the definite assurance of some provision for the future would tend to attract to the profession more of the best talent and check the constant drift away from the profession of those whose services the state so greatly needs. Then, too, pensions would make possible the retirement of the aged and disabled without hardship, and so promote the dignity and gen. eral efficiency of the corps. They would tend to eliminate the great abuse so common now of having in- _experienced teachers in the rural schools, as teachers would be more willing to remain there if the service could be credited toward a pension, the same as in a city. For the teacher it is claimed that pensions are merely a part of an adequate com- pensation and that they relieve the teacher's mind from the fear of an old age of poverty and dependence. They tend to enable teachers to live in a manner to some extent becoming LAWN GRASS North Shore Oak Park Special Velvet West Parks Blend Shady Nook Mixture Retailed at Wholesale Prices 5 Pounds One Dollar LEONARD SEED CO. 226-230 W. Kinzie St., CHICAGO their extremely important and use- ful profession, to spend more money for books, for additional professional training, etc. It is seen by these ar- guments that the interests of the public are to be as well served as those of the teacher by the action pro- posed. An inquiry as to what has been done in other states and in foreign countries shows that there is abundant precedent for Illinois adopting the proposed leg- islation. (1) Ten European nations pay annuities to teachers. (2) Eleven of our sister states have state-wide teachers' retirement systems. (3) Twenty of the largest cities of the U. S. having more than one ninth of our population and employing one- twelfth of our entire force of public school teachers, support teachers' re- tirement laws of various types, cre- ated and regulated by state enactment. It is argued that the teachers of smaller cities, towns, villages and rural districts should have 'the same protection. That is the purpose of the proposed teachers' pension and retirement fund bill. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS. Christian Science. First Church of Christ Scientist, Wilmette, Central avenue and Tenth street. Sunday, 10:45 a. m., Wednesday, 8 p. m. Reading room, 1 to 4 p. m., except Sundays and holidays. adv. 7:45 p. m. Dr. Edwin T. Schildberg Osteopathic Physician Room 6, New Bank Bldg. Hours: 9 to 5 Daily Phone Winnetka 799 Third Evening of Chamber Music Fine Arts Assembly Room MARCH 25th---Sonata Recital Harry Weisbach, Violin M. Jennette Loudon, Piano Program--C Major, No. 8 - - - - Mozart Op. 28 (First time in Chicago) - Weismann G Major, Op. 30, No. 3 - - =~ Beethoven Tickets on sale, Box Office, Fine Arts Theatre. Direction: 614 Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago. FOR SALE 50 pairs of Homer Pigeons, also Corean Bantams, four colors. Reasonable prices. North Western Poultry Farm G. FROBERG, Prop. EGGS FOR HATCHING Phone 244 878 ASH STREET Geo. Ettingshausen Complicated Clocks and Watches Repaired 1070 North Avenue HUBBARD WOODS Telephone 989 Formerly with Lebolt & Co. With the New Trier Students Are you going 9 to California ! Store Your Valuables with Winnetka State Bank Christmas Savings' Club Still Open New Trier had entered twenty-four boys for the last A. A. championship swimming contest to be held at the Central Y. M. C. A. in Chicago. New Trier won the last contest and there is more than a good chance the team | may win again. Swimming try-outs are going on all the time at the New Trier gymnasium and Dudley De Groot with Wallace Dexter take the lead in good work. The contest for the Suburban League Heavyweight Basket Ball championship will be held Saturday evening, between the New Trier boys and the Evanston High School team. There will be two league games and they will wind up the year's record in splendid form. This evening the Garrick Lake Forest college presents three new plays under the auspices of the New Trier Dramatic club in the audi- torium of New Trier. ¥ SAVE $5. 00 to $10 On Your New Spring Hat We can make over your last season's hats into new, stylish shapes. Turner Hat Bleachery Co. Now at 18 S. State St., one door north of old address. Half a block south of Madison St., Chicago. 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