Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-13
Scope and Purposes of State In
stitution to Be Greatly
BrOadened Soon
FOR BETTER MANUAL TRAINING
If Present Plans Are Carried Out the
Iowa Industrial School For tncor-
rigible boys Will In Time Become a
Model Institution Of II. Kind In tho
United States.


les Moines, May 13.-Superintend-
entSB. j. Miles, OF the state industrial
school for boys at Eldora, who has re-
signed to accept a better position in an
eastern institution of similar import,
will be succeeded July by superin-
tendeut who will be expected to greatly
broaden the scope and purposes Of the
state school and make it an insttu-
ton much more nearly what its official
title implies. 1t has never been re
form school; burt now 1t is to be more
than ever strictly an industrial school
for the training Of young men in the
way OF usefulness to themselves and TO
the state. The school has always been
hampered by lack of proper equipment.
A few trades have been taught, such as
printing, shoemakln, tailoring and en-
girseering Two years ago the legisla-
ture authorized the construction and
equipment OF splendid new work
shop, as well as u new school building.
The workshop will soon be ready for
use. It is planed to erect and main
tain a first class printing office where
boys may be taught the printing trade.
There will be abundant machinery and
tools for teaching carpentry, Mechan-
les, plumbing, wood working Of all
kinds and In fact great variety OF
useful trades. 1t will then be possible
TO give ohe boys a preference. or to
adapt the trade to the boy. But very
few OF the boys OF the school come from
the rural districts and while 1t Is re-
ga rtlssd as possible with a large farm to
make the school almost self support
ing vet that would not be. of great
b,Yaft 10 the aoys. few OF whom would
go to farms after leaving. In the past
the greatest success for the boys has
been in music Many of them have be-
come bandmasters or leaders in music
or music teachers, and this has been
an inspiration to them. 1t has long
been known that the girls who leave
the Industrial school at Mftchellville
are better educated and better ntted
for life than the boys who leave Ell
dora. The state board OF control mas
Investigated and found that 1t Is large
ly due to the fact that at MitcheNvlile
there is greater inspiration and more
OF a general spirit of ambitious de-
sire to excel and become useful. Ana
so the man who Is selected TO take
charge of the five hundred or more
hoys at Eldora and to succeed sup
erintendent who has maintained his
posit.on for twenty-five years, VIII
have to be more than a dtsciphnarian
and a teacher for he must take up
more extensively than ever before Nne
diq.ection Of great industrial ana
manual training work for the purpose
Of making every boy capable OF SELF
support. Quite recently 1t has come 70
notice that a number Of the Industrial
sohno, hoys have drifted into lives OF
crime when left to their own resources
and this Is attributed to the lact tilat
the manual training at the school mas
been practically Impossible. II IS eA-
nec.ted that IN time the Iowa lnuus-
trial school for incorrdgible boys VIII
become a model institution OF IT'S kiiiu
in the United States.
Governor Cum1nins INTENDS gong 70
shiloh and Pittsburg Landing Win
members Of the Iowa commission on
The Shiloh monuments--provldeu the
a..ta convention next week does not
hang and quarter him. He VIII start
on the evening of the convention. the
willing, and Will go dl-
rect TO the state of Kentucky, where
he will ioin the national commission
ers on battlefield parks, ana tney VIII
move into Tennessee. The governor
has not allowed other things to divert
his mind from the question or seeing
that the Iowa soldiers are fairly treat
cd in the matter of the official records
on the monuments. The governor has
considered the claims Of the Iowa sol
d,ers took 1t UP as lawyer and has
prepared the argument, and will pre-
sent the case to the national cofnmls
sion as to a court, we'll prepared ana
we'll backed up at every point. 1t VIII
not be his fault II the record Is made
I'D wrong at the Shiloh battlefield.
The plans for the new adminfstra-
ton building for the deaf school at
Council Bluffs have been drawn. II
the plans are approved the main
building will be an imposing structure,
of design somewhat different from 9TH
Ell state buildings. For instance, it will
be of strictly colonial design, with
large windows and small panes of
glass: a building 225 feet long, three
stories high, with fun basement story
in addition. There will be two main
entrances and the offices of the super
intendent. steward and teachers be-
tween the entrances. This main build
ing will be the living place for the Of
fcers and teachers as well as the Of
fees The dermitories for the pupils
will run diagonally off from the ends
and be In fact wings of the main
building. The construction OF the CEN
trail building in this way is made nee
essary by the position of the ground,
and the lack of room for properly sep
arating the buildings.
II ,s learned that the imported and