Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-09
ACRICUL TURE IN
The HIGH SCHOOLS
STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
FAvORS PLAN FOR STATE
AID.
FIGHT OVER ATHLETICS
Ida Grove-sioux City Football War
Carried to State Convention and
Provokes Noisy Session Of
Educators.

Des Moines, JAMS. Rather than
have the state provide agricultural
high schools. as is now proposed. the
executive council of the state teach
ers' association will ask that all high
schools of second and third class be
given state aid with power to add an
agricultural department If it Is de-
sired.
A resolution to this effect was sub.
mitted yesterday to the open meeting
of the executive council at the Ply
mouth Congregational church by
Supt. G. McCracken and was unanim-
ously Endorsed. The resolution is inn
portant at this time and reads:
Deeming that 1t is important to Sc
cure state aid for the high schools
of Iowa, be 1t
Resolved, That this council believes
that the money proposed for agricul-
tural high schools could be better ex.
pended If devoted to use of many high
schools already established all over
the state. Any community deserving
course of agriculture could then use
its state aid in that direction within
the reach of all rather than few
whose finances and circumstances
make it possible to attend the pro-
posed agricultural schools which will
necessarily remove them from their
homes
State Board for High Schools.
The executive council asks for a
state board of control for high schools
to conform with other state boards Of
control. 1t does not fix the number
to be placed on that board by the gov
ernor but does stipulate in part what
the duties Of the board shall be. This
board shall have supervision over the
Llgh schools and give $500 or less to
the schools which could be benefited
providing that no tuition wss received
from rural students. The high school
must do four years work and prepare
students to enter some college course.
Teachers must have collegiate educa-
ton and no less than three teachers
shall be employed To meet the ex-
pense of the board and state aid a
levy Of one mill on the taxable prop.
erty of the state is asked to be made.
This law is asked not to affect the
high school teacher and schools until
after 1909. The board is to serve
without compensation but the neces-
sary expense Of the board shall be
paid in the same manner as those OF
state officers.
Session Formally Opens.
The fifty-third annual session of the
Iowa State Teachers association was
formally opened last evening in the
Plymouth Congregational church.
The invocation was delivered by
l. rJ-rlo "a ~ ~,
Mrs. Grace Clark De Graft gave two
vocal numbers including, 20, Come to
Me, Mavourneen," by Frank Lynes.
and Summer" by Chaminade. Frank
Nagel was the accompanist.
Cleveland, O., sent greetings to the
association signed by Samuel Mather,
inviting the association members to
be among the attendants of the Ma
tional Educational association which
will be held in that city June 20 to
July 8.
President F. E. Lark in his annual
address to the association, made a
number of recommendations
So far there have been 1900 teach
ers of the state enrolled for the asso-
citation.
Noisy Session OF Athletic Body.
If the boys and girls of Iowa had
been in attendance at the meeting Of
the State High School Athletic asso-
citation yesterday afternoon they
would have been treated to the as
founding spectacle of their teachers
engaging in most unruly row.
This was brought about by charges
preferred before the assembly by Ida
Grove against Sioux City. So intense
ly aroused did these school teachers
of Iowa become that they cheered
their favorites and Kissed their op.
ponents at different times during the
verbal struggle which lasted for an
hour and was terminated only by the
declaration of the chairman that the
meeting was adjourned. And the end
came at the most dramatic point
when the star witness for Ida Grove
was in the midst of his charge against
Sioux City, and its principal r. s.
Whitley.
Today's Program.
a. m.-Address, ''The Manual Arts
in the Elementary Schools" DR.. Jas.
P. Haney.
Address-"Public School Music To.
day and Tomorrow Mrs. Frances e.
Clark, formerly supervisor of music in
the Ottumwa schools, now occupying
similar position in Milwaukee.
Address-"The Present Status and
Dangers of Termination in Our Amer
lean Educational SYSTEM" President
G. Stanley Hall.
8 p. m.-Address, 1.-THE Present
Status of the Problem of Moral and
Religious Education" President G.
Stanley Han.
Departments.
2 p. m.-County superintendent
West high school; elementary and
graded departments. West high
school; normal and secondary, We st
high school; college, West high
school.
Sections.
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