Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-22
|PLAN D TURN POOR
TEACHERS LOOSE
Danger Of the Legislature Legal.
izing a Lot Of Illegal Teach
ers' Certificates
MRS. HuEoLE MAKES TROUBLE
Polk county's incompetent Superin.
tendent Of Schools disappearing
Matters to Other Teachers-Hroad-
enins the Work Of tho Historical So
ciety-Lesislative Gossip.
Special to, Times-Republican.

tuS NILS. JSllule I1ucSlet SuptAiLtCliuSA
Imatter Of this county is successful thi:
| Legislature is liable to legalize the lille.
4 gal making of lot Of first grade
teachers who never have and never
/ will pass a first grade examination
| When Mrs. Huegle won in the district
court in this county in her fight fol
the position Of county superintendent
of schools she Immediately got hel
4 lawyers, to work on a legalizing act t.
4 make legal the first grade teachers
i certificates issued in the state after
/ Oct. l, 1905, and prior to Oct /, 1906
intendents and all the teachers Of the
/ state who received certificates after tina,
time and has stirred them up to think
| that their certificates are of no account
! unless legalized by this legislature.
! This Is not true. All such certifi-
Gates are good for a year to teach bu,
mot. as it is claimed. to hold the posi-
ton Of county superintendent OF
schools They will, however. have I'd
take the state examination il this leg
alizing act does not pass.
| The fact has been ascertained, it Is
claimed, that in one county up the state
a county superintendent issued $50
first grade certificates during the cam
| paign OF 1906 in county where prior
to that there were never more than a
dozen such certificates issued In any
one year. It is claimed that the ma
jority Of the persons receiving such
certificates are not entitled to them
and are largely incompetent as first
grade teachers. They will have to take
an examination before the state board,
however, before SUCH can be renewed.
Sut If the Jennie Huegie legalizing act
is passed they will not have to take the
state organization and their certificates
will be renewed each year without ex-
animation. ~ ~
Educators are here, to appear before
The judiciary committee in an endeavor
to induce the committees to allow the
Jennie Huegle matter to be fought out
in the courts of the state without in
reference on the part of the legisla-
ture. The educators claim that there
is as much professional spirit among
the teachers of the state as there Is
among lawyers or doctors and they do
not wish to have second grade teachers
carrying first grade certificates. but
would not be SO much interested IL
Mrs. Huegle was the only one affected.
They are arguing to the lawyer menu
,bers of the legislature that they should
act in this matter as they would if a
man who failed at the bar examination
was elected county attorney.
A modest bill, introduced by Koontz
a day or two ago. providing for small
approximation for an Industrial history
OF Iowa is not so insignificant as it
looks. It is proposed by the State His
torical Society to gather data that will
be comprehensive and quite exhaustive
on the Industrial history of the state.
A start in that direction has already
been made by the society in a modest
way, but at a rate that will take thirty
years or more to complete when an
other history would be due An APP
preparation is asked from the state
so that the work can be done thor
oughly and at once.
i. There il a national movement
backed by Andrew Carnegie to pro-
vide national Industrial history This
will not go into the details of the state
histories and therefore there arises
the desire for state histories. 1t is
proposed by the State Historical So
ciety Of Iowa to secure the services of
some competent person, probably at
the State Agricultural College, to pre-
pare history Of the land of Iowa,
& with the agricultural developments
OF the state. Another will prepare a
history Of the banking industry of the
ufacturies Of the state There will
probably be thirty or more Of these d.
visions. It is proposed not to compen-
safe the persons writing these histories
moro than to reimburse them for their
actual expenses and to use the funds
appropriated by the state in publish
ing the histories. The work would
be under the general supervision of
the Historical Society and more par
ticularly under the supervision of
Professor Shambaugh of the State
University. 1t ID claimed that the var
ious county histories of the state have
been gotten out by publishing houses
for sale. and are usually written by an
old settler who has had little training
in the work and are consequently in
accurate and unreliable and are most
4ly filed with biographies sold at $15
or $40 each.
The state fair people made good
showing before the appropriations
committee of the senate on the bill to
appropriate $4,000 for swine pavilion
at the state fair. The persons inter
ested especially In swine breeding
showed the great advantage to the
state in having Iowa hold the greatest
swine show on earth, and they declared
this to be possible If the state would
provide for a suitable place of exhibit
ton. The committee was given statis-
tics to show that in the twenty-one
years since Iowa has had the fair at
Des Moines the state has expended
s179,oo0 on the fair, and the property is
now worth, s35s,0oO. 1t is not in any
sense a Des Moines institution and the
state should make regular appropria-
lions to care for 1t.
The C. o. D. liquor bills in the SEN