Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-02

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| ranks have been enfeebled by disease
and decimated by death. The departed
are enshrined In a nations reverence;
the surviving are adopted into coun-
try's love"
An important bill is to come before
the schools committee of the senate to
tomorrow relating to certain improve
ments in the method OF issuing certifi-
Gates. The bill provides that the ex-
animation papers for all who seek to
be teachers in the schools Of the state
shall be sent to the state board Of edu-
cational examiners and shall be exam
ined and marked there. The state
board shall issue a certificate OF schol-
arship to the county superintendent on
these markings showing the percent of
success in each study, and these cer-
tificates with the examination papers
will go back to the county superin-
tendents. The county superintendent
will issue the certificates as at present,
but 1t must be upon the markings as
determined by the state board, the
county superintendent having as now
the sole right Of Judgment as to the
moral fitness Of the applicant and 9th
er things. At present and for several
years the questions submitted to the
teachers are prepared by the state
board, so that there is that much Of an
approach to uniformity; but 1t Is no.
torious that county siperintendents are
subject to the local influences of one
kind or another and frequently mark
up the percentages of persons they de-
sire to favor when they know that the
favored ones have fallen below the
standard required. To avoid this local
influence is the purpose of the bill. It
has been prepared by Superintendent
MacManus. Of the state board It has
Riggs and the legislative committee Of
the State Teachers Association. The
bin also provides for reduction In the
number OF examinations In the coun-
ties each year. State Superintendent
Riggs believes that there should be
something done to relieve the superin-
tendents of much OF the Office drudg-
cry. He has made inquiries and finds
that the superintendents report that
from forty TO eighty days Of their time
eachSyear Is consumed in examinations
and marking papers. To place the
marking In the hands OF the state
board would help some. but the num-
ber OF. examinations might be reduced
to four or five year with advantage
The agricultural committees will on
Thursday give hearing to those who
are in favor Of the pure food bill which
was prepared by the agricultural de-
aartment OF the state. There is some
iessi opposition to the bill. I. Will
probably take the form Of suggestions
for changes and criticism of some spe-
cial features and an attempt to change
the bill so as to make it ineffective.
The opposition comes from certain
large manufacturing and jobbing
houses which would be affected by the
stringency Of the measure to prevent
adulterations and misbranding of
foods. There will be some changes
made in the bill. For instance. the
time six months, Is regarded as too
short for the grocers to clear their
shelves of adulterated stuff, and it will
be extended. There Is some objection
to the provision that where merchant
secures a written guaranty from a
dealer or manufacturer in the state he
is relieved Of responsibility for the
crime if the stuff bought proves to be
Iadulterated. OF course guaranty
from one outside the state is of no ef-
feet The outside dealers say that this
clause is clear discrimination against
the outside jobbers and would inter-
fere. They propose that the penalties
shall be made to apply to the CONNER
cial traveller who sells the stuff quite
as well as to the manufacturer or job
Der, and they say this would be just
as bad as Furnishing the firm direct.
Then there is a feeling that the penalty
has been made too heavy, as the man
ufacturer on third conviction may be
sent to jail. 1t is pointed out that a
jobber might accidentally send out
stuff that was not up to standard and
before the fact was discovered his
goods would be on the shelves in q
dozen shops and many suits would fol-
low from what is in reality one mis-
take This will be changed to suit the
iobbers. But as rule the members
are said to feel very friendly toward
the bill.
The house has amended the bill In
regard to maps of the railroad COM
missioners so that there will be $4,000
of the mounted maps purchased and
10000 of the unmounted. The un-
mounted maps are not in great de-
mand, but each year seems to increase
the demand for the maps on rollers.
An entire new engraved plate for this
map is needed very much. since there
are sco-es of towns marked on the map
that are practically put out of business
and many should be there that are not.
The old plates are much worn.
A CLERK ARRESTED