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Show PICTURE WILL HID SICK BENEFIT FUND Teachers to Profit Through Showing of "Fighting Roosevelts." For the replenishing" of the sick benefit fund of the Salt Lake Teachers' association, associa-tion, which was exhausted February 1 because of an extraordinary amount of sickness, "The Fighting noosevelts," a motion picture of in tenia tional interest, will be shown at the Orpheum theater Monday and Tuesday at 2:20, 4 and 8:C0 p. in. Fach teacher pfiys ?o to the association fund each year. Two dollars and seventy-five seventy-five cents is used for sick and hospital benefits and 25 cents for paying tlie general gen-eral expenses of the association. Because of the large number of cases of influenza influ-enza among the teachers, many of which were contracted while nursing those suffering suf-fering from the disease, the yearly benefit bene-fit money, which is paid in September, was expended by February 1 . At t he I present lime there are ten applications for : benefits, aggregating $400. Fifty-one dollars dol-lars is paid teachers who arc sick for i four weeks at home and $tfS to those who are in a hospital for the same period. pe-riod. Many members of t'ac association devoted de-voted ah of their time to nursing infiu-enzfi infiu-enzfi cases when the disease was most prevalent, . and by so doing undoubtedly saved many lives. Though the teachers receive no pay during . twelve weeks of the year because of school vacations, a lartre number sacrificed financial interests inter-ests to carry on the work of nursing the sick. |