Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-02
EDUCATORS DE- I
LIKE BOARD PLAN
Large Unsalaried Commission,
For Control of State Schools
Would Be Unsatisfactory
OPPOSITION BILL is LIKELY
OPPOSITION BILL IS LIKELY
Many Of the Educators are Predicting
Defeat Of the Measure Proposed by
the Committee Appointed to Investi.
sate-Meetins Of Secondary Schools
Will Be Lively.
Special to Tlrnes Republican.

Special to Tlrres- Republican.
Des Moines. Nov. 2.-Prominent edu-
Gators are asserting without reserva-
tion that the bill recommended by the
legislative committee for large un-
salaried board of control for the State
University and State College will be
killed when 1t is presented to either
house of the next legislature Further
details Of the proposed bill are now be-
! coming public property. The board
will consist of fifteen members as
reported with one from each congress
sional district appointed by the gov
ernor and the other four members will
be the state superintendent, the presi-
dent Of the State Normal, president of
the State University and president OF
the State College, The members ap-
pointed by the governor are to be ap-
proved by the senate. There is provid-
ed an executive committee that is ex-
pected to do the principal part of the
work It is claimed that the legislative
committee got its ideas from those
states where the Agricultural College
and State University are all on the
same campus and the normal school
separate from these. It is claimed
that the proposition to put the presi-
dent Of the State Normal on the board
as an ex-officio member is in order to
keep harmony in the school interests
of the state and unity the system, the
state superintendent being put on the
| board for the same reason. A promi-
nent educator was seen today who
stated that he had in the past week
talked to eight or ten Of the most
prominent school men In the state and
had not found one who was lin favor of
the idea OF a large. unsalaried board.
They are predicting the defeat Of the
proposed bill.
At the coming meeting OF the second
ary schools Of the state there will prob
ably be some interesting discussions,
especially on two subjects, viz: the
struction in English. Those who have
followed school matters will remember
that the state university has one sup
erintendent who inspects the high
schools of the state and the other col
leges and universities of the state have
another inspector, claiming that the
inspections made by the state univers-
lty were with an eye single to the glory
Of the state university and that it used
an unfair advantage to get students.
On the program for discussion at the
meeting Of secondary schools in this
city this month IS the subject, The
High School Inspector and His Duties"
This topic will naturally raise the
question which inspector?
Another subject that is taking the
best attention of some Of the educa-
tors Of the state is the matter OF Eng
lish instruction. There are two the
! cries on the subject, the impressional-
istic and the technical The high school
men argue that the greater number of
their students never go to college and
that 1t is their business to teach the
student to love literature, to Like to
read. so that he will continue to read
after he has left the high school. The
college people argue that by this meth
od the student gets merely an impress
sion of literature and likes 1t though
he doesn't know why and hasn't the
technical instruction and hence when
he enters college hasn't the basis for
further instruction in English and lit
erature. That subject is also on the
program for discussion.
state Labor Commissioners =. D.
Brigham expects to have his biennial
report ready for distribution within
ten DAYS. The matter Is printed for
the most part and in the hands OF the
state binder There are 400 pages OF IL
in the hands of the state binder and ali
that remains to be printed is the index
and the remainder of the information
from the government census on which
Mr.. Brigham is now at work. The
government has furnished the figures
and Mr. Brigham expects to analyze
these and put the information In the
form in which it will be best under
stood.
There win likely be a change sug-
getsed in the automobile law at tbs
coming session Of the legislature. The
intention of the law is to afford
means of identifying automobiles when
! the owners get to exceeding the speed
limit and run over people. The law
fixing the charging Of fee and as
signing numbers to all the automobiles
in the state is not intended as IL
cense. The law it is claimed is ambig-
uous in some sections. A fee of 81 is
charged each person owning an auto
mobile. The number is then assigned
! "a tho automobile and while the law
Is a little vague the secretary of state
has interpreted it to mean that the
number must stay with the automo-
bile even II it changes ownership. A
great many owners have Interpreted
the law to mean that the number be-
longs to them and that II they sell one
automobile and get another they can
change the number from one machine
70 another. That IL one OF the pro-
visions that WIN be asked to be chang