Inexpensive study material is available in convenient, condensed
form. The N.E.A., 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.;
issues a Research Bulletin (Vol. XV-No. 3) on Teacher Retirement
Systems. Single copies 50 cents. Ten copies for $3.75. The Office of
Education, U. S. Department of Interior, Washington, D. C., issues
Bulletin 1934, No. 6 on Teacher Retirement Systems. Price 5 cents
each. The State Department of Education has recently issued a bulle-
tin (Bulletin 4 of the Kansas Program for the Improvement of In-
struction) which includes material on this subject. The various
monthly issues of the KANSAS TEACHER contain articles on the subject
of teacher retirement. Starting with the September, 1938, issue more
emphasis will be placed on these articles on school retirement by the
KANSAS TEACHER. If the demand justifies, the State Teachers Associa-
tion will try to provide copies of this report for study, and also to
send representatives to meet with local study clubs.

When a local club has studied the situation and the facts and has
opinions to express, it can do something definite to inform the public.
It can send its own local speakers to the women’s clubs, the men’s ser'v-
ice clubs, the P.T.A., etc. It can get explanatory articles in the local
papers. The Bulletins contain the material for such articles, and it
may find editors who will take a stand in the editorial column. It can
personally interview school board members, editors, members of the
legislature, etc., and at least let them know that there is such a thing
as school retirement, and that the local teachers are interested. All
this, if done this fall, may have its weight with the Legislature of 1939.
And without some such local show of interest, it is hard to see how the
legislature can be moved. It is assumed that the local teachers will
have to put up a little money for the expenses incident to their own
activities, just as such groups do in the business world.