Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-11
|GR|S1 Of TEACHERS
Something Over 5000 Take
State Examinations and Ger
tificates Are Being Issued
100000 PAPERS INSPECTED
Prooes. Of Issuing Certificates Under
the New Law-Anti Saloon League
Serves Notice That Breweries Will
Not Be Permitted to Operate in
Des Moines.
Special to Tlmes-R-publican.

Special to Tlmes-Republican
Des Moines, July 11.-Something lik'
100, 600 teachers examination papers
have been read, marked, checked
double checked, re-examined and com
pared and finally disposed of and TIT
clerks in the office Of the state super
intendent will begin at once to grlnt
out the certificates in accordance Will
the markings.
l There were 5000 or more teachers
examined and each teacher was ex'
amined in several subjects, writing on
paper Of several pages for each subjec
paper OF several pages for each sub
ject The methods of marking usee
by the readers in the superintendent
office involves all sorts Of checks ano
| double checks to avoid mistakes and
errors. The questions are furnished
to the county superintendents. Ihe ex-
II amina tfons are held under the super
vision of the county superintendent
who reports on the moral character OF
the applicant for q certificate and mt
ness to teach and forwards the papers
to the state superintendents Office.
/ When the papers reach the state su-
| perintendent's Office they go TO the
4 head readers, who are county supemn-
tendents or principals. The papers are
identified by number aud neither the
Ihead readers nor the readers know
whose papers they are reading. Inc
papers are divided according to sub
iects, the arithmetic section reading al
the papers on that subject and so on.
Each reader is supposed to verify ms
own markings.
| Then they go to the head readers,
| who first see to 1t that the readers
have added up the percentages flght'
The percentage for each subject IS then
put together on a card to set tho To-
| tai average and these figures on the
card are compared with those on tne
papers to make sure they are correct.
The total average per cent - readdeo.
After all the recheckings and COM
parisons that are possible It gets down
to the stage OF deciding what grado OF
certificate a candidate 10 entitled 10.
The head readers 80 thru the lists OF
average percentages and comments OF
the county superintendent. Some OF
them are easy to place. Some times
an applicant just misses high grace
certificate and ordinarily would take
the next lower Before so ordering the
head readers go over the papers again
II the applicant is high on all but one
subject the papers on that subject
are reread in the hope Of finding some
error that will give q better grade.
re- no error is found and the county
superintendent's recommendation is
good and the candidates report shows
that the candidate attended good
schools and has had godo training the
low grade in the one subject IS disre-
earded and the certificate granted any
way.
Those who have been watching the
matter think there istaoi taoin taolnn
matter think that there Is very httle
prospect of there being brewery
started in Des Moines. The cam paign
for a brewery starts anew every now
and then, but dies out again. Whlle II
is not generally known, DR.. l. N. NC.
Cash. superintendent of the Iowa ANIL
Saloon League, has served notice on
the persons interested that he will ap-
ply for an injunction the minute the
first gallon of liquor Is manufactured
here. and there are so many legal
questions involved In the matter OF the
petition OF consent that the liquor IN
terests are loath to put their money
into the enterprise. Besides that 1t
would take year to get the brewery
buildings erected and ready for oper-
alton. There would then remain but
three years of the legal limitation, at
ter which time another petition OF con-
sent would have to be circulated, with
the liability OF its being defeated and
found to be insufficient.
Liquor men blame the anti-saloon
league as trouble maker, and 1t Is
quite certain that If 1t had not been
for the league, there would have been
brewery in Des Moines before this.
One of the technicalities In regard to
the circulation Of the petition Of con-
sent for a brewery Is the claim that
the proper number OF days notice by
legal publication was not given. Fur
thermore, Of the names signed to the
petition Of consent, 1913 did not cor,
respond to the poll books. That Is,
to say, the names while they may be
the same as ON the poll books are not
spelled the same or an initial is left
out, or something Of that kind. Then
there were 534 names signed to the
petition that were not on the poll books
at all. There were n names repeated
one or more times; 70 withdrew their
names, and 16 are charged to be forg-
cries, and three are names Of men who
were dead at the time the petitions
were circulated.
Then it is further claimed that the
petitions Of consent were circulated by
men whose characters will not bear
the inspection Of the law. The law re-
quires that the. men who circulate the
petitions shall be men of good moral
character, and 1t will be set up by
those fighting the brewery proposition
that some of these men had criminal
records.
Finally, as a last prophecy that there
will never be new brewery erected
here, attention is called to the fact
that three old breweries located here
are unused and rotting down. While
no injunction can be had till the law
In this case Is violated, the temper
ance people here are prepared to ask
for an injunction as soon as the first