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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
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veterans of the World War. According to the best
information at hand the list of states making such
pro-
vision is as follows: Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Wis-
consin.
South Dakota has authorized a cash bonus which
must be applied to the purchase of a home or for edu-
cational purposes.
The following states, by legislative enactment, have
provided special educational aid for returned
soldiers:
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North
Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin.
Connecticut and Wisconsin have enacted laws pro-
viding relief funds for soldiers.
In certain states the question of additional compen-
sation has been submitted to a referendum vote with
the following results:
For Against
M aine
................... 105,712
................. 32,820
M ichigan ................ 471,159................. 185,602
M issouri ................. 210,238 ................. 100,131
New Jersey
............... 534,532................. 165,555
New York
............... 1,454,940 ................. 673,292
Oregon ................. 88,219
................. 37,866
Rhode Island
............. 10,535
................. 1,303
South Dakota............. 93,459 ..... ............ 56,366
W ashington .............. 224,350 ................. 88, 128
W isconsin ............... 165,762................. 57,324
These figures have been carefully compiled by the
Editor of the QUARTERLY, after considerable corre-
spondence, from what are considered strictly reliable
sources.
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The amount of money provided in the
different
states for additional compensation to
World War
veterans varies from $2,500,000 in
Rhode Island to
$45,000,000 in New York.
TABLET FOR CAMPUS MARTIUS
The Ohio Daughters of the American
Revolution
will have placed upon the old Campus
Martius house
at Marietta a tablet marking this as an
important his-
toric point in our state. It will be
unveiled Wednes-
day, September 28, 1921. Dr. Edwin Earl
Sparks of
State College, Pennsylvania, will make
the formal his-
toric address on this occasion. The State Chairman
of Historic Spots, Mrs. Eugene G.
Kennedy of Day-
ton, Ohio, on behalf of the Daughters
of the American
Revolution, will present this tablet
which will be ac-
cepted by Governor James E. Campbell,
President of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society.
The Legislature at its regular session
in 1917
passed an act providing for the
purchase of the Campus
Martius property and appropriated for
that purpose
$16,000. Since that time no money has been provided
for the repair and maintenance of this
property. From
a sum of money given by Miss Minerva T.
Nye for
this purpose, arrangements have
recently been made
for the erection of a retaining wall
for the Campus
Martius lot of ground and it is hoped
that this much
needed improvement will soon be
completed.
The Campus Martius site is a most
important one.
Here the Ordinance of 1787 went
formally into effect
July 15, 1788, with the inauguration of
Arthur St.
Clair, the first governor of the
Northwest Territory.
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