Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Laws Wanted by the Teachers. [ARTICLE]

Laws Wanted by the Teachers.

Before the Indiana State Teachers’ Association adjourned, were adopted instructing the legislative committee to secure legislative action furthering the teaching of vocal music in the schools; amending of the enumeration laws so as to prevent fraud and inaccuracy; modifying the text-book law so as to give corparations a local option, simplifying the method of handling books and keeping the accounts in connection with the books; asking the general assembly to levy a tax for the support of the State university, Purdue university and the State Normal school; recommending a township library for the state; amending the law so as to allow corporations to lay a maximum tuition levy of 35 cents; asking for a law requiring the study of the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics upon the human system, and recommending the teaching of patriotism m the public schools.