Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-22
LAW TO FIX TEACHERS PAY
State Association Working to Secure
Adoption by Next Legislature.
MINIMUM PLACED AT FORTY DOLLARS
Dss EiOines City COunciI Passes
Ordinance ProhibitinE EmpIOyes
from Playing Poker while
on Dpty.
(From a stan CorrespondentD

next legislature of iowa will be asked TO
put minimum on the amount Of wages
that can be paid to the school teachers OF
the state. The proposition will be taken
up and discussed in the convention of the
Iowa Teachers association to be held here
during holiday week. The proposition meets
the approval Of State Superintendent Riggs
and other leading educators, who have long
advanced the theory that school teachers
are not paid enough. Many of the leading
educators assert that in the country dis
tricts the farmer members Of the school
board cannot refrain from comparing the
wages Of a school teacher to that of the
hired man" and for this reason they ad-
vocated that there will never he the proper
wages paid to teachers unless the legisla-
ture fixes a minimum amount to be paid
This they assert will also insure a better
class OF teachers, as those who enter the
profession will know that they are sure OF
a specified amount 1t is proposed to fix
this amount at something like $40 a month
and to Furthermore require at least eight
months school In every district Of the state
Ohio has just such law. Higher wages
have been advocated for some time in this
state with only partial success and it is
now proposed to agitate the proposition of
wages and the number Of months of school.
In a number of counties of the state there
is now not a school district where as much
as $40 is paid to any school teacher.
Advance Important Case.
A stipulation was filed with the clerk OF
the supreme court today asking that the
case of the Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid
Transit Company against the Board of Su-
pervisors OF Blackhawk County be ad-
vanced on the docket so as to be submitted
at the June period of the May term of
court The case involves the right OF the
executive council to assess street railways.
The executive council has the right to as
sess interurbans and has been assessing
this line for the fun length through Water
loo and Cedar Falls on the theory that II
is all interurban. The railroad asserts that
the parts Of the line in waterloo and Cedar
Falls are street railways and not interur-
bans. The motion to advance is made be-
cause the executive council will do the as
sessing beginning the first Monday in
July.
Employees Cannot Play Poker.
A resolution was passed by the Des Moines
city council today ordering that no en-
! ploye OF the city shall be allowed in the
future to play. poker while on duty. The
resolution was Offered by Alderman Ham
cry, Who asserted that the men played poker
along the highway when they should be
shoveling dirt. Quite "a. discussion preceded
the passing Of the resolution.
Business Woman's Home Burns.
Fire broke out today in the Business
Womans home and damage to the amount
of 81. 900 from fire and water was done. The
home was started by philanthropic per-
sons, to AFFORD a home for women stenog-
raphers and Others. earnine their own Nv
ings, 1t is Supposed 70 have caught fire
from painters burning of paint.
Secretary shaw Coming.
Secretary f5eslies-h MI Shaw will be In Des
Moines at the time of the republican stat,
convention. August /. He has accepted tn,
invitation to address the teachers chautau
qua at Waterloo July %, and will com,
from there to Des Moines. lie will alsC
be one of the speakers at the reunion o.
the National Society of the Army of tn,
Philippines here, August 10 and Il
Big Crowd at College Meet.
More seats have been reserved for tn
state athletic meet of the big colleges o
the state. which will be held Saturday a
, the fair grounds, than ever before. Tn
athletic meet is an annual affair. 1t 4
, I held in the space in front of the amphthea
ter in the race track at the fair grounds
The committee OF one from each of tn
, colleges, known as the games committee
, today announced the following as the Off
Gals for the meet: Referee and starter
, c. o. Duplessis OF Chicago; assistant Car
, Rothfus, st. Paul; clerk of course, Harr
, Graefe, Des Moines; assistants. Cal
: Kraetch, John Martin and Carl Harris
Judges OF finish, c. D. Slinker, James Greer
G. L. Carton, James Hunt, l.. f. SeageI
field judges, +. F. w. Huttenlocker r. 4
Weesner, George Richter, n. w. Wicks. {
, Wendelberg G. d. Dobson; timers, II.
Slip, John Prawl, Claiming Smith; score
b. e. Trout; announcer Don Evans; IL
spectators, II. J. Harting. c. F. Helling, /
p. Duncan, w. II. Brecht
? Followers OF Perkins in the gubernatoriI
\ contest are much elated over the result
81 Wapello county. Said one today:
e ''Wapello county was pivotal county
= the present contest. Twenty-six delegat,
were at stake. The fight I'm the variot
n wards Of Ottumwa and in the country tow
2 ships had been intense. When the La
caucus had been held II was plain TO an
a one in touch with the situation that Pc
: kins people were I'm the majority, althous
the margin was close. The Cummins lea,
a ers were defiant. They published sign,
II articles to the effect that the deegat tic