Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-16
Of SCIENCES
Time Of Annual Meeting Chang
ed From Holiday Time to
the Spring
TRADE AGREEMENTS in low
There is . Detailed Report of These
in the Report Of the State Labor eu-
reau - State Executive Council Plans
to cat.ios Books and Documents in
Possession Of the State.

POSSESSION OF the StAIes
! Special to Times Republican.
Des Mo.nes. Nov. 16-The annual
meeting of the Iowa Academy of Sci
ences will this year be neid in March
/ or April instead of at holiday time, as
For some time the meetings have been
! poorly attended. A number of men
interested in scientific study or inves-
| tIgaton have been meeting in the
rooms OF the State Geological Society
/ In the state capitol each year to ex-
change opinions. The papers read or
| all students of science. but not to the
general public. Those who attend are
chiefly from the college faculties. But
I holding the meetings at he time of the
state teachers convention has left the
science meetings overshadowed. Last
winter it was decided that there should
BE- a change in the time Of meeting,
ibut the members of the Academy at
tending did not feel warranted In fix
ing date, so that now a circular has
been sent to members by Bruce FINK.
of Fayette, the president, and II. w.
Norris, OF Grinneil. the secretary, call
ing a special meeting for business IN
the capitol building for Dec. next.
for the purpose of passing the proposed
amendment to the Academy eorstitu-
IL; l.,.a ra1
meeting. One good reason why ii was
thought bast TO change the time OF
meeting is that there is an increasing
number OF scie entific meetings held at
holiday time, and this year there Is to
be great meeting of the Association
OF Academies OF Science and affiliated
societies in st. Louis In December.
which VIII take many Of the students
of science from Iowa. The program
sfo;s. the Iowa meeting Is already partly
completed. but will not be entirely fin
ishad until the date Is known. The
state publishes the papers read at the
Academy meetings In small volume
each year and these annual reports ara
filled with good things for lovers of
science.
Another novelty in the report OF the
state labor bureau just printed, is about
120 pages devoted to setting out in de-
tail the trade agreements in force In
the leading industries Of Iowa There
has been some misrepresentation as to
the nature of these agreements made
between employers and employees. and
much of the discussion Of the Industrial
problem proceeds upon the theory that
there is some thing in the agreements
that is decidedly obnoxious and OPP
posed to public policy. The state labo-
commissioner has gathered up these
agreements and has included them in
his reports. showing all the principal
agreements, such as those relating to
coal mining, railroad service, printing,
building trades, cigar makers. etc.
There Is no abridgement and no effort
to summarize, but the agreements are
set out in detail 80 that these can be
no possible misunderstanding This
is given along with tables showing the
results OF industry in Iowa, as to the
items Of expense which enter into the
various lines of industry. All this is
new matter and Is something that will
bureaus in other states. Carroll D.
Wright. in some of his national re-
ports, has included portions OF this
matter and has made start in the di-
rection OF including the whole story of
industrial life. but this new report of
the Iowa bureau IL long step forward
for state reports.
The state executive council has
started upon the work of securing a
complete invoice OF the books and doc
uments IN possession Of the state with
a view to arriving at method Of cat
alleging the same and preparing for
the new order Of things when the doc
uments Of the state are to be placed in
the new state warehouse. It will be a
task Of several months and when fin
ished 1t will mean that hereafter the
state of Iowa is to have its affairs done
with order and regularity as relates to
documents. 1t is more than probable
that when the legislature comes up
against the problem OF providing fo-
future care of the documents II will d.
rect some committee to make thor
ough investigation and report whether
or not there may not be some saving
by the condensation of reports and
elimination of eXtraneous matter.
Some of the reports contain matter
that is of no value and nearly all go to
the printer in form that suggests
the use Of the blue pencil in condensa-
ton and saving of space.
There has been widely published in
the newspapers of the state what pur-
ports to be statement of the new
rules of the state supreme court. 1t
was intimated when publication was
first made that these came from re-
liable source; but as matter of fact
the judges of the court feel mortified
at the unauthorized publication and
state that the story of what the rules
are supposed to contain is all wrong
and give an erroneous impression OF
the plans of the court. The rules have
not yet been printed.
Recent paroles from the state peni-
tentiaries OF Iowa Robert Brown.
[Cass county, manslaughter: Walter