Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-28
JUDGE TALKS TO TEACHERS
Informs Them There is No Longer a
Teachers Profession in Iowa,
LARGELY srtPPNG-SToNE TO WATRlWoNY
Railroad Commission Puts I'm Day
Hearing Arguments Pro ana Con
on Petition for Reduce
tion I'm Rates.
trrom q stan Correspondent

(Trom q staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Dec. 27.-(Special) before
the state Teachers association today
Judge H. f. Deemer Of the supreme court
said that at present there is no profession
Of teaching in Iowa and that women teach
ers ought not be paid as much wages as
men in teaching; that teaching now is but
a temporary employment or avocation lead
ing to '1aw or love, medicine or matri-
mony." He declared that there should be,
and will be some day, a profession OF
teaching but he hoped that love and mat
rmony would not be interfered with.
Judge Deemer's address was one of four
on the subject, shall There BE a Teach
ers' Profession in Iowa?" The strong po-
sition that the Judge took upon the sub
ject created. much comment among the
teachers. Not all were willing to follow
him in the assertion that women teachers
should not be paid as much as men and
/ that the measure of wages should not be
equal pay for equal service, but compensa-
ton on the basis Of the needs to support
| the family dependent upon the salary.
Judge Deemer held that the question was
properly stated in that it conceded that
| there is not now a teachers profession in
the state. President McClain Of the state
| university, one of the four to read papers
| on the subject said the program commit
| tee had refused to Join the popular Ana
Mas club singing. "In all things that are
good Iowa affords the best"
| President McClain discussed the problem
| with equal frankness. He said he be-
lieved there should be more of the state
| domination of schools instead of less; that
there should be recognition Of college diplo-
| mas; that there should be interstate comfy
with respect to certifcating teachers and
| that the jealousies of institutions fos-
| tered much by mistaken notions of en-
| thusiastic alumni must give way before
! there is a profession of teaching.
The convention of the State Teachers
| association monopolizes the attention of
| Des Moines. The teachers I'LL all the ho-
! tells and occupy the center of the stage.
| This year there is little or no politics in
the election of officers to the important
positions Interests of the various educa-
tional institutions usually dominate. This
year there is nothing but the personal
choice between the candidates. Only three
men have been mentioned for the position
of president. They are: e. j. Hook Of
winneshiek county. f. E. Lark of Monona
county and George E. Farrell of Clinton
| county. They are all county superin-
| tendents, as the election of president is
| to go to the county superintendent sec
ton this year. There Is the annual dis.
cussion of the place of meeting Cedar
Rapids being the only competitor to Des
| Moines. .H.Ta-..
The resolutions committee of the State
Teachers association tomorrow will report
| favoring state aid for high schools and
| changing the date OF the annual convention
to October. There will fbe no resolution
regarding more state normal schools.
The association went hpp record by the
adoption of resolution as favoring leav
ing the new state teachers certificate law
alone, and thus turned down the Daven
port people, who are attempting to get tn,
next legislature to amend 1t. The roSolu
ton passed by the association says tina
the law has much to commend IT, and al
It has been in force less than year the!
believe 1t should be unchanged for a
least two years more, and ask the Thirty
second general assembly to make NJ
changes.
More stability In the teachers profession
improvement of school houses and sur
roundings, more consolidated schools, i'm
provement of the status of the county su
perintendent, closer supervision by tn
state of all schools, including high schools
and the appointment of a commission b.
the legislature to revise all the schoo
laws were recommended by President Mai
in his annual address.
Prof. Athearn, editor of Midland Schools
the official organ of the association, de
livered a philippe against the Sunday conf
newspaper supplement. He read extract
from the sayings of Sunday supplement
characters to show the kind OF Engls
the children OF the land are getting ever
Sunday and in general declared that tn
Sunday comic supplement should be abol
| ished.
Commission Has Hearing.
The Railroad commission today gave
; hearing to petitioners asking for change