Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-22
That is the Plan and Standing Army
Would Be Reduced to Minimum
Supreme Court Fights Shy Of Case
Involving Distribution Of School
Money-Enumeration Of State Wards.
Special to Tlmes-Republican.

i of national association, the object
OF which is to promote target practice,
and has been very deeply interested
In the matter himself. Professor
Riggs has assured him Of his interest
4 and has the matter under further con-
sideration.
4 If the plans that Colonel Cook out
lined to superintendent Riggs are car
ried out every school boy Of the state
4 Of Iowa who Is 13 years old or over
4 will engage in target rifle practice and
become an efficient marksman. The
/ target practice Is being urged by a
4 national board or association of gen
tlemen who believe that a nations
greatest defense is more in having a
citizenship that knows how to shoot
4 than in having a big standing army
4 and by having a citizenship Of qualified
i marksmen the arguments for a stand
/ ing army of large size is largely met.
i Colonel Cook outlined the work that
4 this association has already done. 1t
has induced the educational authorities
of New York city to engage the boys
4 in target shooting. For this purpose
Il eading citizens of New York who are
interested have donated to various
Il schools of the city what is known as
ssubtarget gun machhes.' This is
an ordinary Krag rifle but rugged up SO
that target a foot square is placed
against the opposite wall Of any of the
laschool rooms. When the boy after
aiming the gun pulls the trigger he
makes an electrical connection that
punches a hole in a little card about
the size Of a Visiting card that is at
1 tached to the mechanism of the ma
chine. This registers accurately the
position the shot would have made in
the larger target IL there had been a
cartridge in the gun. Furthermore
there lis no noise to disturb the COM
nlunity or the rest of the school which
may be in session. 5ksff5
That it works in practice is shown
from the fact that the boys of the
New York schools were later taken. to
the open country for actual shooting.
Scarcely one of them had every fired
a cartridgeeb but they ma de- scores con-
siderably better than the men Of the!
school Of applied sciences Of Column
bia university, who were allowed to
shoot at the same time and who had
done all their target practice with cart
ridges on the range. The record of
the Dewitt Clinton high school of
Manhattan III that shoot was go and
that of the men of the school OF appl1ed
sciences was 21S.
The supreme court refused to pass
a..
before it affecting the distribution of
school money. The people of Mills
county outside Of Glenwood objected
to the children Of the school for the
feeble minded being enumerated as
children OF school age in the independ-
emit district Of Glenwood, for the reason
that the school money is. apportioned
on the basis Of the school children
enumerated. They started a suit to en-
join the county auditor from appor-
tioning the school money on that
enumeration. The district court dis
missed their suit on the ground that
the auditor, being a merely ministerial
officer, performing duty enjoined up
on him by the statute, could not be-
enjoined from performing such duty.
The supreme court sustafns this. The
court states that If the parties starting
the suit have any recourse and remedy
at law, It Is not in an injunction suit
against the auditor, but the court does
no. pass on the merits OF the case, be-
cause 1t holds the merits Of the case are
not before 1t. The question is one of
and will probably be TESTED
in the courts in some other manner. II
the children in a state Institution can
be enumerated for the benefit of a
school district In which the institution
happens to be located, that district will
get a much greater slice OF the school
money than otherwise, tho the state |
and not the district bears all the ex-
pense OF educating such children. The
matter Is not one In which the state is
as IDS not affected, but the
districts in a county outside the dis
.trict in which the institution is located
are interested, because it cuts down
their proportion Of the school funds.
|
Haley, the editor Of Prison Press,
will not have to leave Anamosa at once
when the indeterminate sentence law
goes into effect. Haley's identity is a
matter Of some mystery. He is serv-
ing sentence for the murder of a po-
lice officer at Dubuque. He is in
charge of the printing plant at Ana
mosa, and the Prison Press, a monthly
publication gotten out there, reflects
his ability as writer and editor. It
is understood that it is the intention to
leave him at Anaanosa for a time at |
least, because to remove him would |
greatly cripple the printing establish
ment there, which turns out great
deal of state work.