The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-10
EDUCATORS ARE
 CALLED TOGETHER Superintendent Powers Urges
 Good Attendance HEART OF SCHOOL SYSTEM Programme of Work Not of Speeches Will Be Arranged.-Railroad Com mission Takes Action on Peti-
 tion for Lower Cotton Rates.
HEART OF SCHOOL SYSTEM

Jackson, Miss. October 9.-(Special}-- State Superintendent of Education Pow CTS has called a meeting of all county superintendents to be held in this city on November 26 and 27, and in urging their attendance says:
 The county superintendents constitute the heart of our common school system. As the county superintendents are so are the schools of the counties. It is of the utmost importance that you meet and confer a body with the state super intendent and with each other. If the school laws need revision, if they are in adequate, you are the proper ones to suggest changes. and make recommendd tions. Our state needs the most thorough organization of it's educational forces. Hearty cooperation Is essential to such organization The interest of the chil- dren and of your people demands your presence. Will you not be present even if you have to make sacrifice to come? Let no one absent himself. Come pre- pared to offer suggestions that you be- lieve will advance the cause Kindly ad- wise me by early mail if you will attend A programme of work, not speeches, will be prepared for the occasion
 One of the prominent matters for dis cussion will be the leaks by which the questions for examinations have been getting out to the teachers before the ex- animation. It is understood that the negro women teachers who were arrest ed in Lincoln county for cheating week since have declared to their county su- perntendent that they got the questions from a white man, and that they came from one of the members of the state ,.l-,,4 TDy..nT CTS does not believe a word of that, in fact he knows it cannot be the truth for the simple reason that the state board did not even know when the questions were to be sent out and had nothing to do with it, much less ever seeing one of them. However, a full investigation is to be made.
 Railroad Commission Acts.
 The railroad commission met yesterday afternoon and adjourned out of sympathy for President McNair, the death of his wifes sister, Mrs. J. w Heartfeld hav- ing been announced. However, the com mission has dismissed the petition of the Prairie Cotton company of Aberdeen, which demanded that the commission should have the Mobile and Ohio reduce rates on cotton shipped to the east. Also the rates of compressing charged by the Grenada Compress company matters over W1lcn lne LdS ioPOste edly declared it had no jurisdiction. The railroad rate matter is for the interstate commerce commission and the compress charges are private matter to be set tied by the individuals.
 The commission is In receipt of letter from the Louisville and Nashville Rail road company advising that the depot at Bay St. Louis has been repanted and that sanitary closets have been provided at Bay St. Louis. Biloxi, Pass Christian and Scranton. and that other depots are soon to receive new coats of paint.
 The Mobile. Jackson and Kansas City railroad asks permission of the commis- sion to issue passes to contractors work ing along it's lines and same will be granted if the commission has the right to grant such requests. The fact of the business is that the Mississippi commis- sion does not care how many passes any railroad issues, but in order to pacify the Hinds county grand jury 1t would be well for them to file a list of the passes issued hereafter
 The newspaper fraternity generally Will regret to learn that Editor F. L. Bel lenger of the Daily News of this city is in such wretched health that his physi- elan has ordered him to a higher and dryer climate and that hs will leave n a few days for New Mexico, where he will remain indefinitely.