Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-21
Board of Managers For State
Educational Institutions
May Soon Be Law
FAULTS OF PRESENT SYSTEM
Hard to Secure Justice for the Colleges
From LesisIature-severaI influen.
tiaI Members Of Present Boards of
Regents Favor the CHARACTERIZATION
Of Membership on the New Board.

SpeClai TO IlneS-R
Des Moines, March Ell predict
that within two weeks said a proml-
nent member of the senate, the board
of managers for the state educational
institutions will be a law and the
boards of regents and trustees will be-
thing of the past.
1t is found that the committee OF
sena tors, at the head of which is Sena-
tor Maytag of Jasper. has the bill
ready and that this week it will be
pushed thru. BY mutual agreement
the disposition Of appropriations has
been held back until this bill could be
considered. If there is to be a board Of
managers then there will be some re-
vision of the plans for the educational
institutions. The sentiment has been
growing rapidly in favor of the one
desire to do this for the State Norman
School as for the other two colleges;
but they must all so In or none. The
board will consist Of three members
appointed by the governor for terms OF
six years. Whether all the members
shall be on a full salary all the time Is
q question about which members diff
fer, but the board will have an ONCE
in the state capitol from which its
work will be largely conducted. The
boards that will be abolished COM
Prise a board OF trustees of eleven for
the State College at Arnes, eleven re-
gents for the State University at Iowa
City and six trustees for the State
Normal School at Cedar Falls. The
president OF the college at Anes is
president of the board while the gov
ernor is ex-ofiicio president of the
board of regents and the state super
intendent is ex-officio head of the Ce-
Oar Falls trustees. 1t is known that
several of the influential members of
these boards are in fact in favor of the
change. They declare that under the
present system it is impossible to Sc
cure Justice for the colleges from the
Legislature, that legislators have not
the time nor opportunity for learning
what they should know about the coll
elages. and that 1t would be much more
economical to the state to have one
management. In connection with this
board of managers plan is that of the
millage tax for support, which was
recommended in the message OF the
governor This proposal is waiting on
the other. Governor Cummins is very
strongly In favor of the millage tax
method of supporting all the state ed
ucational Institutions; and under u
beard of managers it would be doubly
cesirous. No definite decision has been
reached in regard to this proposition
by the legislators and will not be I'M
til after the one-board bill is disposed
of.
What manner of men will be named
for places on the board of managers
This is the first question that comes
up. The board of control for the other
state institutions Is composed of two
lawyers and one farmer-but all BUSH
ness men. All who talk about the
board of managers say that 1t should
be composed of college educated men,
preferably those who have been IN
executive positions In college work. But
nlanifestly it would be dangerous to
take persons who represent the three
colleges or those who are especially
loyal to this or that institution. 1t
might be possible to find among the
membership of the boards abolished
persons who could be induced to take
the positions, but a large proportion
of the trustees and regents are men
OF other large interests Then there
comes up the question, under the new
law just passed, of appointment of
soldiers of the civil war TO SUCH places.
1t will soon be the law in Iowa that
honorably discharged soldiers and sail
ors must be appointed to these posi-
tons and all positions in the state If
they desire the appointments. Now II
there are old soldiers who desire these
appointments it will be impossible to
escape the necessity of appointing
them.