Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-14
Law Students Desiring Certfi-
Gates Have to Take High
School Examination
MANY COMPLAINTS ENTERED
An Examination of This Kind is Re-
quired on Entering the Law School,
And Students Claim it is an Injus-
tice to Require it Second Time
Weather Forecasts Scheme.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 14-The Iowa law
commission today completed the exam
ination of a class of fifty young men
who desire certificates emitting them
to practice law in Iowa. About two
| thirds of those who came up for exam
Ination were treated to a surprise when
| the law commission refused to accept
|, as hnal the certificates they presented
from the heads of law schools showing
! that they had passed examination In
education. When the law commission
was organized rule was made that
persons desiring to be examined show
competency in high school branches.
Complaint was made at Iowa City by
students in the state university law
school that inasmuch as they had TO
be examined in these branches on en-
tering the school, 1t was an injustice
to require a second examination; and
last January modified the rule in a
manner that was supposed to obviate al
| trouble. But the law commission
backed by the attorney general, held
that the only certificate that could be
| held as sufficient would be one from the
head of a college or school showing that
the student had studied in that partic-
,Iar school and r,oaSa corora-
tent in high school studies. The heads
| of the two law schools here protested.
The law commission even went further
and held that in the case of three stu
dents of one of the local law schools,
who presented certificates showing
! they had pursued studies in that par
| ticular school at the same time they
we're studying law, this was incompe-
! tent, as 2 student should not be asked
/ to take any other than law studies
! while in 4 law school. The college men
carried the matter before the supreme
court and argued in favor of a loosening
up of the rules. but the court decided
] that it would not interfere, as 1T was
! a matter wholly with the commission.
! The commission holds that to permit
| d certificate based on an entrance ex-
animation to be submitted for the eX-
animation in high school branches by
the commission would be contrary to
| law. This ruling compelled practically
all the students TO pass a preliminary
examination before entering on the law
examination. The result was there
We're about thirty of the students that
were pretty mad. They are now de-
| ciaring that it is practically a discrim-
ination in favor of the law students at
Iowa City, as that is the only place
where the preparatory work is done
under the same management as the
law course 1t may be stated, however,
that neither the law commission nor the
supreme court were unanimous on the
point of upholding the rigidity of the
new rules.
If the plans of DR.. George NJ. Chap
/ pei, United States weather bureau
chief for Iowa. are fully maintained and
carried out, the farmers of Iowa will
be still further accommodated in the
matter of securing weather forecasts.
DR.. Chapel believes that inside of
three years practically every farm in
the state will be reached daily with
weather forecasts. His latest move is
to enlist the telephone companies. For
instance, there is now being sent out
daily from Marshalltown weather fore
casts by telephone which reach $500
subscribers in five or six counties The
forecast is wired to q central office.
DR.. Chapel wants to extend this to
every part of the state, and to every
telephone system, however large or
ln a j.t of q he.
telephone companies in the state, some
TOO of them, and will Immediately en-
ter into communication with the man
ayers with view to securing their
aid. If he has the hearty cooperation
of the telephone men he will arrange
to send them each morning the weather
forecasts to be transmitted by phone
to all subscribers, especially to the far
mers. Many thousands of farmers in
Iowa are now reached by telephones.
The scheme can be worked to perfection
if the telephone managers will do their
share. DIR. Chapel is also interested
in a system of making 1t easier for the
distribution of forecasts by mail. de
is perfecting a printing press that WIZ
print the weather slips from rolls and
perforate them, and the slips can he
sent in punches by mail to the post
masters and they may be given to tho
rural mail carriers in this form, thus
obvating the necessity for each post
master to print the cards with a rub
ber stamp each day. This would save
q vast expense to the government in
the printing of the cards.
A. C. Rankin and Alexander Cooper,
the two speakers who have been en-
ployed in Iowa the past slN months
organizing the clubs to work for Il law
to provide for state marshals 10 work
for the enforcement of the prohlb'tory
liquor law, report that clubs have been
organized in more than fifty cities and
towns of the state and that the work of
Organization has proceeded far enough
so that it is deemed advisable TO per-
feet state organization. FOR this
purpose meeting is to be held In
Grinnell May 25-26. A provisional state
organization has already been made
with j. c. Willetts of Grinnel. as pres
ident, and II. e. Benson OF Brooklyn,