The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-22
 Montgomery's Long List of Passed Applicants. ALL TOOK EXAMINATION New Law for All Teachers Went
 Into Effect.
 - Jefferson County Came Forward with A LosE List of City
 Teachers Who
 Passed.

Montgomery and the enVirons VI Montgomery County should not suner this year from dearth of teachers, ss yesterday Secretary H J Willingham. of the State Board of Examiners, gave out . statement of the list of those ap- plicants for teachers certificates in the January examinations, showing total of I3s successful applicants.
 Probably the largest number of cer- tificates ever awarded to negro teach- CTS in any one county were awarded yesterday to the colored applicants from Montgomery County, this total being 10l. The total list of whites in- ciudes thirty-five names.
 It is believed that, in the results or the January examinations. Montgom- cry County will loom up in the end as second in the number of certificates awarded. Its leader is Jefferson Coun- ty,fwith It's total of III successful ap- pIicants this year. The lists of both these counties were made public yes terday by the Secretary of the Exam ming Board.
 Among the scores of names to be found in lists printed below are those of the public schools of Birmingham and Montgomery. The appearance of these names is a reminder of the fight which was made in the Legislature, especially at the extra session, to asnend the law regulating the issuance of teachers certificates so as to exclude as in the past certain teachers in the city public schools.
 It will be recalled that in the large cities of the State 1t was.not necessary before the last Legislature that the applicants for positions in the public schools should stand the examinations for certificates. The new law now in force exacts the examination of every &... aS. M IfA school that draws any money from the public school fund of Alabama. This certainly operated to bring no little in- convenience to the teachers in the city schools, but before they could organ ize any effective opposition to the measure 1t had been enacted into law.
 And to be exact in this bit of legis- lative history. a certain Jefferson Coun- ty member of the Educational Commit tee which reported the bill was re- sponsible for the examinations to apply to urbanites as well as the rural ap- plicants. It appeared perfectly logical to him that the teacher in the city school should be put on the same level with the country schoolmasm. Then he insisted on this provision which went through sailing as no conscien- nous objection could pc devised eisner in conmittAe or before the House. But on the return of this member to his home County of Jefferson he was beseiged by the army of school teach CTS in the Magic City for an explana- tion of why he should be a party 10 such a law. They had never done him any injury, they said, and how shock ing was it to be. compelled to go into examination halls and go through the gruellinE grind of examinations just as any other teacher. Tn storm of his constituents put different complexion on the face of this Jefferson member of the House. it is said. and he worked like a Trojan at the extra session to get the thing all undone. But the act was done for good and 1t is now on the books to stay, and 1t will be a far cry to the day when the urbane will be exempt from examinations again.
 The lists of Montgomery County ap- plicapts who passed the January exam nations and were awarded certificates are as follows. whites and colored:
 Nettie, Harwell, Banner. R. F. D. No. + Marion Heidt, city, 314 Washington Avenue; Jamie l.. Rives, Capitol Heights: Mrs. R. C. Rives, IT Mildred Street; Myrtle Owens, 511 South Mo- Donough Street; Mary F. Davis, I2 Noble Avenue; Clara Sullivan. Ramer: Kate Blue, 116 South Perry Street: 7nma Lamar. 103e South Perry Street; Annie E. Wornum, 21S Sayre Street; Daisy smith 1924 Highland Avenue; M. M. Duncan. Banner; Ruby Illges IS Pleasant Avenue; Marjorie Sayre, 72S Madison Avenue; Clara Patterson. Tal. lassee; Ida V. Walker. All South Hull Street; Bessie Blob, 511 South McDon-