Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-15
Governors Address on Rate
Question Uppermost Topic of
Conversation at Des Moines
BOOK AGENTS ARE COMING
This is tho Year for the seurge Of a
County Book Canvass to Strike
lowa-Thirty-six Counties Will Let
contracts-Teacher. Plan Better
Program.
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snecial to Times Republican,
Dos Moines, May 15.--Among polltl-
/ c,ans and men who keep abreast OF
public affairs there has been since iase
Thursday when the governor appeared
| hafora the senate committee on inter7
state commerce more discussion OF the
governors address than OF any oehe'
tonic or public matter. The opinion
is general and universal that the ao-
dress was the strongest presentation
of the peoples sid. of the rate questlo'l
4 that has yet been made and an ac-
/ companying feeling that while the SEN
ate committee may already nave i's
mind made up to do nothing YET the
1 address of the governor ana the cieai
/ statement of the case VIII go lai "
,keep public sentiment In line ana WI!
| also bring the governor IN declueu
prominence in the rate agltatloH. lhe
strong and unmistakable position Oh
/ the governor. following so closely the
4 decided stand Of the president In ia
/ yor Of the commission having power
to fix rates, produces striking con-
4 trast with Secretary Morton's state
ment that the president had receoeo
i from his position.
/ The governors friends and SYM
nathizers are positive that his politlcal
usefulness will not end on Jan. !, lSo.'
when he finishes his term as governor
and while it seems to cause heaVy
| hmm to appear in the pit of the stom-
acb of certain standpatt editors every
time the governor makes conclusive
aceument In favor Of the peoples side
"A the question on soine important
s,,hiect astute politicians believe they
can see the drift Of political events.
however, there is no talk among his
/ friends of third term as governor.
This fall the state of Iowa Will be
overrun with book agents, the em-
Moves Of the publishers 'of school text
hooks This is the year for the adop-
t,on Of new school books in thirty
six counties Of the state. That IS
little over one-third Of the state Will
Ax nnon the kind of books 1t will use
IN ;+s schools for the next five years.
The contest for sales among the repre-
sentatives of the publishing houses OF
school books is not always as edl1ylns
and open and above board as II IS m
tense. Recently in one county the
| trustees, men wholly unacqualnted
with the art of making books as we'll
as with the quality of the material ana
information given in them were told
by one agent that the books OF all the
other firms were poorly put togetner.
Opening book after book and holding
the firms tightly he broke the binding
by opening them till the backs
| touched. Taking his own books then
but not holding the backs so tight he
opened them as far back without In
| iury AS a matter Of fact the best
binding ever made will break II 1t is
opened with the leaves and back held
tightly together. AS further matter
| Of fact the school books of most OF the
eastern concerns are bound at the
same bindery.
| Otto Folk, who has been the state
agent for the Macmillan Company, has
been transferred from Iowa to Mis-
souri, and will have his headquarters
at Kansas City. The school book law
Of that state has been repealed and
the state is wide open to the ravages
of the book agent. His place is to be
taken in Iowa by R. A. Clingaman, of
| Alton, who has been principal of the
schools there and was at one time with
CHM & Company. The publishers have
been plannig for months on the open
| ing Of the school book harvest that
will begin in this state about Septem-
Der in the thirty-six counties and their
agents have been busy making ac-
uuaintances.. The personal acquaint-
ance of the agent is said to be the
principle stock in trade for his person
ality is the greatest argument in the
| selling of his books.
| An effort is being made to have
much better program for the next
convention of the State Teachers AS
sociation that has been had in past
years. The committee in charge of the
programs have been slow to contract
| for high priced talent in the east. for
the reason that bad week would
greatly decrease the attendance and
enrolment at the state convention and
| the association would thus run short
| of funds. The movement was started
| in the official paper the Midland
Schools, to get the enrollments in ad-
vance but this seems to have failed.
The expense for the program hereto
| fore has cost only about $50. The
enrollments have brought in about
$1,000 and 1t is believed that with an
especially strong program at least
| 5000 teachers would enroll paying 81
each.
The department of agriculture at
| Washington has not yet become aware
of the fact that Leslie NJ. Shaw of
Iowa is no longer the governor of this
state but is member of the presi-
dents cabinet. The forestry depart
ment mailed a postal card to Gov
Leslie NJ. Shaw, Dss Moines. Iowa."