Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-20

ture takes any fur action. II at
the coming session the legislature
orders the grounds I'D perhaps at
the one following officers Of the guard
will want them repurchased. Gen.
Thrift has in mind some very far
reaching plans for the guard and for
the Improvement of the grounds. The
grounds were ordered purchased at the
last session and there has been no
money to improve them with since
then. 1t takes time to get every
thing going and 1t is General
Thritt's plan not to ask the next
session to appropriate any money to
fix UP the grounds for the reason that
there are othNr more important ways
lieves that il the legislature appoints
a committee to look over the grounds
with a delegation Of state guard Off
GERS with view to making an ap-
preparation for permanent improve
ments at the session year later there
will be greater chance of getting what
is best for the state and the guard.
The permanent camp grounds have
been plowed up and seeded to grass
and next summer Will be soft and the
grass not yet fully rooted. For this
reason General Thrift believes that
there should be no camp held there
next year and aside from that reas-
on believes it would be a good thing
for the guard anyway to try some-
thing new. He proposes to have each
regiment assemble at some central
city in it's section Of the state and
march overland forty or fifty miles,
making ten miles a day. This would
give the guard a new experience, teach
IL some army tactics and maneuvers
not heretofore obtained at the state
camp and would exercise the resources
Of every officer to the limit to take
care Of the proposition.
There is proposition that Il, believ-
ed will work for the passage of the
bill for a state certificate of teachers
and that is the provision of the bill
which appropriates so Of the $1.00
fee which the school teacher pays for
her certificate and examination to the
state for carrying out the provisions
Of the bill. When state certificate
was suggested before there was pro-
vision of the bill which appropriated
SIS, 900 year to carry out the provis-
ions OF the bill. It is claimed that that
appropriation was what killed the otfl-
er bill. At the county examinations
the teachers now pay a fee OF $l.VO,
which with the $50 given by the state
to each county pays the expenses OF
the county institute. There are about
60. 900 examinations Of teachers every
year and half of the fee would thus
provide the $4,000 necessary to pay
for the expenses Of the state certihcate.
The state pays $3.50 to every county
fai,. that is held. It pays $75 to every
farmers institute. The county ralrs
las. one week or about four dlys. The
farmers institutes last one Ind Two
days and the teachers county institutes
last one two and three wee KS. The
Institutes get $50 frot, ths state For
merly when the number OF teacners IN
a county were small one instructor
could with the county superintendent
take care OF the entire institute NOW
there are so many teachers that 1t takes
several fnstructors At first $50 to pay
ono instructor was sufficient. NOW IL
Iis entirely inadequate and except Tor
the fee paid by the teachers would
never answer the purpose. 1t is now
proposed that the state do as Wen ny
the teachers as oy the farmers insti-
t,,tes and appropriate $3.50 for each In
stitute or possibly 5000, This woui1
make up for the amount taken from
the fees for the state certihcates ana
would y be getting at the matter in an
othar wov.