Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-14
Iowa Has Not Yet Adopted Sc
we're Measures Resorted to
By Illinois
IOWA LOSSES IN FRISCO FIRE
One Company Pays Insurance Amount
ing to s4o,ooo-onIy Two Concern.
Caught drainage Law Increasing
Value of Farm Lands in Several
counties-Risss Dissents.
Special to Times-Kepublican.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 14.-Enforcement
Of the Iowa child labor law will no:
be after the manner Of enforcement OF
the Illinois law. Reports in THE Chi
cagO papers show that the persons
charged with the duty of enforcing the
law have resorted to generally harsh
measures so that they have drawn
down upon themselves some criticism.
Their plan is to make prosecutions just
as often as possible and by applying
the penalties OF the law compel dts
recognition. But In Iowa much more is
being done to secure observance of the
law by gentler methods. Inspectors
have been at work in the factory dis
tricts OF the state and they find that
the law is not observed i'm many places
But they also find that there is a dis
position to follow the law where it's
provisions are understood and EN-
ptoyers OF labor generally show will :
ingness to comply with all reasona BILE
requirements. Factory inspectors take
the position that it is better to induce
compliance with the law by merely
pointing out its provisions than by
causing arrests and convictions AS a
result it will not be long until the law
is well understood in every city aud the
violations will be very few. It is stated
that THE employers of labor everywhere
in Iowa have shown the right DISPOSE
tion toward all the new Iowa laws re-
straining them and regulating their
business in the interest OF the working
people.
1t 10 not generally known, but it is
a fact that two Iowa fire insurance
companies have paid losses on account
OF the San Francisco earthquake fire.
1t was advertised at the outset that no
Iowa company had been doing business
In San Francisco. Two companies had
taken policies at second hand, reinsur..
ing for others. One of these compan-
les paid $4,000 to Sam Francisco suf-s
ferers and the other a smaller amount.
Humboldt county is a fair sample of
W $500 ~ oSAaiS3 aOulS ull0Sl tilc IlCW Iowa
drainage law It is said there are six
teen separate bitches contracted for
there, and they average about seven
miles I'M length. The cost will be
enormous, but they will convert many
acres of land from 50 an acre value to
$50 an acre. A gentleman much in,
terested in these lands in Humboldt
county states that the law is giving
general satisfaction there and there is
no desire to amend or repeal it.
Attorney General Mullan has decid-
ed that bank deposits cannot be the
subject of insurance in Iowa, and the
banks cannot take and hold stock of an
insurance company organized for the
purpose of insuring bank deposits, CAR
rying such stock as part of their assets.
Inquiries Of this character were sub
mitted to the attorney general by Au-
ditor of State Carroll, an application
for authority to organize company
to insure bank deposits having been
filed with him by Sioux county man. 4
General Mullan holds that the legis-
lature of Iowa has clearly defined the
kind and character of risks upon which
AllSut dIlSc may Nc W1lCoCl. uC SllcCe
of the act Of the legislature is to pro-
hibit insurance being written In this
state upon any risks other than such
as are defined and permitted by stat
ute Bank deposits are not defined by
the statutes as subject to insurance
When State Superintendent Riggs
attention was called to the resolution
adopted by the teachers of Davenport, |
wherein they vigorously assailed the
new certificate law and went ON record
as favoring radical changes in it, he
said: Il consider the action of the
teachers i'll advised. The
new law has not been tested. 1t is not
a perfect measure, to be sure; no one
has ever claimed it to be perfect 1t is |
the best law we could get, and the part
Of wisdom now will be to apply it as 1t
stands for the next two years, and then
such changes as experience may prove
necessary may be made.
practically all teachers will in the
main agree with the Davenport reso-
ution, which declares that: "A grad
late of reputable college or of any
state normal school or holder of a state |
certificate or life diploma issued by
another state should be granted on
application uniform county certff-
.ata wit1oo,1t examinations