Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-21
Not Anticipated That Situation
Will Be Improved With Open
ing of Fall Terms
MANY SCHOOLS TEAcHERLEss
Farm Hands and Department Store
Girls Fare Better-New Crop of High
School Graduates Will Not be suf-
fcient to Fill Demands of Rural Dis
tricts.
,necial TO. Times Republican.


a strike by the teachers Of Iowa Tor
higher wages? The mass meeting ol
the Burlington teachers recently al
which thew passed resolutions demand
ing higher wages: the refusal OF iory
teachers in Johnson county to, sign
contracts for next year unless there
was an Increase in pay; the ACTON "
the teachers in Plymouth county ano
m situation in Crawford county where
many schools have been vacant pc
cause teachers refuse to work unless
,he wages are raised makes the ques-
tion somewhat a serious one In THIS
state. All indications are that the
trouble viii get worse rather than bet
ter.
It is anticipated that the teachers are
not so organized as to conduct any
systematic strike but 1t Is admitted
among all educators that the teacneV'
acting independently are insisting on
higher wages and that unless higher
wages are paid. schools will continue
10 90 teacherless because the teachers
can get more renlpnerauve wages ~
other empoyments. County Superin-
tendent Jennie Huegle. of Polk coun
ty,, recently went on a tour thru lhe
department stores OF Des MONIES
where girls are reputed to be MOTOR
iously underpaid, but she was unable
to get a single one to agree to take
school when they learned what the
wages are With farm hands drawing
$40 a month and getting their board
and washing and the keep of horse,
and school teachers drawing only $s9
and $40 and having to pay their own
board and, other expenses after spend
ing considerable money to lit them-
selves for the position Of teaching,
educators admit that the situation IS
not very encouraging. High school
girls lust graduating are usually
counted on as being willing and
anxious to take most any wages fof
the first term just to "get started but
the crop Of high school girls. all edu-
Gators of Iowa say. win this year be
far short of meeting the demand ana
filling the country schools. 1t is
therefore not anticipated that the sit
uation will be any better by fall.
-.
BY pleading guilty III the federal
court yesterday to the charges OF using
the mails in the conduct Of lottery
scheme, John F. Wheatley and George
n. Witch, of Keokuk, prevented the
authorities from making their diamond
eyif cob a fest case.
1t is said that hundreds of firms thru
out the country are carrying ON opef-
ations exactly like the Keokuk firm.
Had wheatley and Witch not
pleaded guilty, their case would nave
been the Mrst one Of the kind brought
to trial since the enactment OF the
present anti-lottery law. The govern
ment authorities will probably take &C.
ton against other concerns engaged
in a similar business.
Messrs Wheatley and Witch claim
that they did not knowingly violate
the law, and as evidence of this they
point to the fact that they did not try
to conceal the operation Of their bust
ness from the postoffice Inspector who
Investigated it some time ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baird. secretary of
the Humane society. against whom
charges were filed Saturday by Mrs.
Charlotte E. Ansley, claiming criminal
libel. was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Fred Cope yesterday morn
ing.f waived examination and was
bound over to the action Of the grand
jury with bond Of $4oo, furnished by
James Watt, president of the society.
II is +be ALLEGATION that Mrs Baird de-