People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Resolution*. The following resolutions wdre passed by the Jasper county' teachers, at their association which occurred last Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30th and Dec. Ist: RESOLUTIONS. our state institutions at Bloomington, Terre Haute and Lafayette have been crippled by want of proper financial support, and compelled from time to time to surrender many of their best dnen, becauso of better salaries offered by other institutions better provided for in other states, be it That we as teachers of Jasper county deplore the illiberal spirit that our legislatures have shown towards our state university, state normal and Purdue University in the matter of appropriations for equipment and maintenarce, and that we most urgently petition the coming session of the legislature, through our representatives Messrs. Phares and Spitler, to grant these institutions such aid as they need and deserve. uc ’solved , that a copy of this petition to be signed by the members of this association, be handed to our representatives, and with the request that they use their best efforts to secure its favorable recognition. Resolved, that it is the sense of the teachers of our county that the usefulness of the state un : - versity, great as it has been, will be very greatly * increased by its removal from its present inconvenient and almost inaccessible location at Bloomington to Indianapolis. Resolved, that additional safeguards be thrown around the se- | lection of county superintendents, and superindenterts of all towns having com- ■ missioned high schools, by I the enactment of a law requiring ! all such superintendents to hold !a life state license, or a diploma from the state normal school or from the pedagogical depart- ! ment of the state uuiviversity. Revolved, That the Indiana book law should be so imended