Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-17
EDUCATION system
WORKING BACKWARD
State Normal School to Report
Bad Arrangement of School
Curriculum
LANGUAGES ARE PLACED FIRST
Report to Legislature Will Recommend
That Studies Now Taught as Ad-
vanced Should Be Given to the
Child EARLY, and Vice versa-criti-
eisims Based on Experience.
Special to Times Republican.

Des Moines, Sept. 17-The next re-
port to the legislature by the Iowa
State Normal at Cedar Falls will call
the attention Of the legislature to what
is alleged to be very bad arrange
ment of the courses of study in the
public schools. The report was ap-
proved by the board of trustees which
met at Cedar Falls Tuesday. 1t was
prepared by President Seerley and
makes the claim that studies which are
now reserved for the advanced years
OF the pupils school days should be
among the first taught, and others
which are taught early in the child's
life should be reserved till late
Language, says the report. is one of
the easier studies. IF foreign Ian
guage is to be taught it should be
given to the child early, before geog-
raphy and history, instead of after
Geography and history are ranked as
among the more difficult studies and
should be reserved to period when
the childs mind is more matured. 9th
er arrangements of the curriculum are
criticized in the same way.
The criticisms are based upon ex-
periments which have been made in
teaching children at the state normal
and are in line with addresses and
statements Of President Seerley before
reachers' institutes and the state as
,sociation and elsewhere. Coming in
an official report to the legislature at
session that is to revise the school
laws of the state, the recommends
tiens OF the state normal may result in
some action on the part Of the legis-
lature.
Judge w. d. Evans has filed his
resignation as district judge with Gov
ernor Cummins.
Governor Cummins will appoint
Judge Evans, Immediately, to the SUI
preme bench to fill out the term Of
Judge Bishop, and he will probably sit
with the court when it reconvenes in
Des Moines next Tuesday.
His resignation makes q judicial
convention in his district necessary,
and one will be held at Hampton with :
in short time. 1t will nominate j
successor of Judge Evans on the dis
trict bench.
Senator Charles F. Peterson OF
Wright county, and A. NJ. Boeye Of
Hamilton county, are the only candi-
dates whose names have been mem
toned in connection with the nomin-
alton.
The nomination must be made before
thirty days prior to the election in
order to get the name Of the nominee
on the ticket The convention will be
held then about Oct. 1.
The Iowa fraternal congress, at it's
annual session just closed, went on
record as bitterly opposed to any in
surance rate legislation by the next
legislature The members are espec-
tally determined that the proposed
minimum rate shall not go thru. The
discussions at the meeting yesterday
were largely on the subject of legisla-
ton, and it developed that the entire
body was in full accord with the SEN
timents expressed by President Koch
in his annual address yesterday, when
he stated that it should be the policy
of the congress to work against any
attempt to change the existing laws
or to add new ones.
A resolution to this effect was Of
fered at the meeting yesterday ana
adopted In brief the resolution states
that congress shall refrain from in
stigating any rate legislation, and rec
ommends that officers and committees
remain vigilant for the interests of
the anembers Of the congress, in case
others shall inaugurate rate legisla-
ton. It puts the congress on record
as opposed to any minimum rate bill,
and urges that in the event that any
such bill is offered in the ensuing ses-
sion of the general assembly of Iowa,
the officers and committees OF the
congress, shall actively oppose it,