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action makes very little change in the
status of the
Society, while it offers large
opportunities for co-opera-
tion with the various branches of the
Department of
Education. The Superintendent of Public Instruction
now becomes ex-officio a member of our
Board of
Trustees.
ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF
THE WORLD WAR
A constitutional amendment providing
"for issuing
bonds for adjusted compensation for
service in the
World War" was submitted by our
General Assembly
at its recent session to the electors
of Ohio. It will
be voted upon at the coming election in
November.
Briefly stated this amendment provides
for raising
the bond limitation under the
constitution of Ohio and
would authorize the General Assembly to
provide for
the issue of bonds to the amount of
twenty-five million
dollars ($25,000,000). A board of "Commissioners
of the Sinking Fund" is authorized
to sell bonds to
this amount, bearing interest at not to
exceed 51/2% per
annum, and to administer the proceeds
of the sale of
such bonds as additional compensation
to World War
soldiers for the period of their active
service at the
rate of ten dollars ($10) a month, the
aggregate not to
exceed in any one case two hundred and
fifty dollars
($250). The bonds are to mature in twenty equal
semi-annual installments, commencing
not later than
the first day of April, 1923. No officer with rank
above captain is to receive any payment
from this fund.
A number of states have already
provided addi-
tional cash compensation for honorably discharged