Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-27
STATE CERTIFICATES
Board Of Educat tional Examiners Con.
frontsd With ! Perplexing
Problem
Law Insists Upon Examinations Be-.
fore the Board For State
Certificates.
The Books For the School Libraries
-Des Moines Slow to Raise
Money.

-Oes MUlAoS gsAOW W 0dle0
Money.
Special to Times- Republican.
Des Moines. April 27.-The state board &
of educational examiners at its meeting
yesterday was confronted by perplex-
ing condition. The legislature did not
consul. the board with reference to the
in the law fixing the standard
for state certificates. The board has
consulted the attorney general and 1t isi
agreed by all that in the future the
board will have little discretion in the
matter of issuing state certificate or in
fixing the standard for them. Hitherto
the board has adopted very liberal pol- I
Icy, recognizing as much as it could the. I
work done in the colleges and universe |
ties. not only IN Iowa but OF other
states, in the granting OF state certif1-
Gates. Now the legislature has in terms
prohibited the board from granting cer-
tiicates TO the graduates of the Sttae
Normal School, Who have been trained
according to the best facilities the state
1 affords for teaching school. 1t is provid-
ed that the board must examine for
Estate certificates in certain branches,
naming fifteen. Bookkeeping is includ-E
\ ed in the branches upon which candi-
ldates for state certificates must pass ex-
Iamination. So in the future the board
i Will be compelled to abandon the en-
Heightened policy which it has pursued in
1.-The past and confine itself to the narrow
limits of the law passed by the last gem
leral assembly. 1t should be understood,
.lhowevcr,S that this law is in some re-
|spects an accident. The house passed
4 bill providing for the recognition OF oth-
4 I,er schools than the State Normal School
on complying with a standard to be
4 fixed by the state board of educational
i|examiners. The senate committee on
schools was altogether opposed to this
Idea and brought in substitute compel
ling every person who would have a
Estate certificate to be examined. The
5Icommittee thought that this bill. if it
4 ever passed the senate. would certainly
q be defeated in the house, leaving the Jaw
the senate. went to the house and was
hastily passed by that body.
the board is going slowly and careful
lily. 1t is the intention to provide such
l lregulations as shall guard against the
objectionable results that the opposition
Ito this law have predicted would follow.
{ They have said that he law would not
accomplish what was promised for 1T be-
: -Icause the books would soon be scattered
| and lost. Therefore the board Will try
hard to provide that, first. the money
: appropriated shall buy as many books
= as possible. and of the right sort to be
: lmost useful for the schools: and second
that the books once purchased shall be
: slswell cared for and some one made re-
. sponsible for the reservation of every
volume. A system has not yet been
worked out. but ii will be at a subse-
!. quent meeting of the board. The frs,
i thing toado is to secure list of hooks
T from Which the directors may select
the libraries and to provide for the eco
: lInomical handling of the books at some
z zlpoint in Iowa, so that the boards ma!
= purchase them at the LOWEST cost ant
I with the least trouble. The secretary o
. the beard was directed to prepare u srG
= gestive list of 900 books TO be submitted
,9lto the board at its next meeting Thi
Hist when revised and perfected. will b.
submitted to book dealers and publish
ers. who will be requested to bid upol
the entire list, and the lowest aSerag
bidder will be designated to handle tn
), books aud the local boards will be rec
:, commended 10 purchase books thru tha
= = mouse for the sake of convenience a
s, we'll as economy
:, :, The board recognizes that the success
- - of the Law is lragely dependent upon tn
& practicability OF the system devised fo
N the care and use of the books, and
- may be expected therefore that by en-
amining the operation of similar laws j
- other states and by securing the exper
a. lence of others a perfect system will b
. devised.
pe Iowa City had a good lesson in its nal
n row escape from the passage of the fiyt
s., mile limit bill. Conditions there hay
&c wonderfully improved during the pa.
month. Screens have been pulled dow
and the back doors of saloons close
The local authorities are determined |
=. = enforce the law They promise that
~ shall be faithfully and efficiently don
" They know that If it is Rot done a fiv'
~ ~ mile limit bill will certainly be passt
= by the next legislature.
". sfq ~
= The old spirit of wanting sure thir
" has been manifested in the attempt
nne raise money to buy a site for the arm
se post which congress has presented to Il
city of Des Moines. The insurance cor
pany which undertook the contract
- raising the $4,000 required by securil
Y Insurance for the purpose and givil
81. the commission to the army post ful
a.s for the sake of the advertising the cor
:. pany would secure, has given up 7
y - attempt. The reason that 1t did SO W
80 =, that it found that nearly every man W
~, ~, was approached said he would subscri
Nv providing that the location was sat
factory to him. A great many locatio
were proposed and each location has
he friends, and IL they could not ha
lb- their way and reap the profit more
le- less direct out of the location of the pt
at they were indisposed to contribute. I'll
us. is the old spirit that has retarded I
Air growth OF Des Moines. Too many OF I
older men Of this town who have mon
insist upon seeing s2 come back straie
to them personally before they will
md out 81 for the benefit OF the entire CT
fn- There is too much selfishness and nj
lrowness among the moneyed men OF I