Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-27
TEACHERS REPORTING.
ALI But Ten County Superin-
tendents Have Forwarded
Their Annual Reports
RURAL SALARIES ADVANCED
More System Shown in Report. This
Year-!nterest in Appointment of
State Educational Examiner to Sue.
eeed Prof. Freer-FraternaIs to
Build at st. Louis.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 27.-This is the
time for the county superintendent OF
schools to be uncommonly busy in the
matter of preparing and forwarding to
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton their annual school, reports. This
work has been so well systematized
that already eighty-nine of the ninety
nine reports have been received in the
ofIice of Superintendent Barrett, leav-
ing only ten counties from which to
hear. These reports have all come IN
without the necessity of the county Of
licials being prodded. The work OF
compiling the statistics in these re-
ports for publication in the annual re-
,orts of the state superintendent is IN
progress now. But little can be re-
ported as to what these STATISTICS VII.
SHOW, but an inspection OF only a few
of the reports indicates that the school
work, especially in the rural schools OF
Iowa, is being well kept up, and 1t is
highly probable that the reports VII:
show that during the Fast year there
has been a marked increase IN the aS-
gregate of salaries paid to school
teachers. Some of the counties repors
that especially in the case OF male
teachers the salaries have been IN
creased. This is due to the fact tnat
there are 50 many opportunities TO en-
gage in private business that unless
salaries are increased the teachers
leave the profession. The complete
ness Of the reports from county super
iintendents is feature indicating tnat
In the matter of keeping accounts there
has been Improvement in recent years
among school officers and teachers.
The accounts, which finally reach the
state Superintendent and are placed IN
the annual reports, come from over
::5. 600 separate persons and the task
OF compiling is an important one. Many
OF the reports from counties are adj
s..r:.bly done, and in contrast with the
comparatively poor work which YVES
done some years ago. 1t is believed this
is due largely to the more general
teaching of the principles of account
Great Importance is attached to the
selection of a man for Il place on the
board of state educational examiners to
succeed Professor H. H. Freer, OF the
State Normal School. The board Of
educational examiners is of growing
Importance in the state. The State
Teachers Association has repeatedly
;oI, 20 fha
larganent of the functions of the
board. Last winter the legislature
added some new duties in the way of
giving supervision over semi official
normal schools in she state. The num-
ber of those who seek state certificates
of various kinds is constantly increas-
ing. There is by law one woman mem
ber of the board and Governor Shaw
named Miss Altoona as that member.
He also appointed Professor F'reer for
four years and his term expires on Nov.
of next. Members Of the board are In
eligible for reappointlnent. Already
there is some pressure being applied to
influence the appointment and political
considerations will, as usual, have some
weight in the selection of member.
Professor Adam Pickett. principal OF
the public schools of Mount Ayr, is said
to be slated for the position. Others
who are considered are County Super.
intendent o. j. McManus, of Pottawat-
tamie; Professor l.. Is. Lawrence, OF the
rublic schools at Belle Plaine, and Pro-
fcssor l.. T. Weld, an old-time educa-
tor of Iowa, now connected with
business college at Cedar Rapids.
There are those who deprecate the
recent decision of the Iowa supreme
court giving an extremely liberal con-
struction to the laws of the state in the
matter of placing names on the ofrclai
ballots. The law was planned to make
i'll necessary to have the names of per-
sons nominated for county offices filed
with the proper county officers fully
twenty days before the date of election
each year so that the official sample
ballots could be prepared and sent out
in good time. But the court has indi-
Gated that in order not to disfranchiseI
the voters where party managers are
negligent the names may be placed on
the ballot in an indirect way later than
the twenty-day limit. In short, and
that is all that the decision means. the
and thirty-day limit for state officers
are only Indications of what ought to
be done, not what must be done. The
attorney general, in line with this de-
cision, has ruled that county tickets
may be filed on the goth day before the
election. which leaves less than twenty
full days until the election. The ten
dency to construe the law literally
meets with no opposition, tho it may
cause some Inconvenience to county Of
ficials.
The fraternal orders of Iowa and
grand lodges generally have given
hearty endorsement to the plan for a
building for the fraternities at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The
Masons. the Workmcn, the Eastern
Stars and others have formally en-
dorsed the plan and have appointed
committees to solicit contributions for
the erection of the building. In thel
grand lodge meeting of the Odd Eel
lows the past week resolution was
passed approving Of the plan and
p,edging the support Of the Odd Eel
lows, and expressing pleasure that Ida
Van Hon, president of the Rebekahs.