Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24
DEs MONIES TEACHERS WHO
WHIPPED BOY WILL APPEAL
FROM DECISION.
FINED FOR ASSAULT,
CASE WILL GO HIGHER
Des Moines Boosters Attempt to Muz-
zle Newspapers and Prevent Pubi-
cation of All That is Bad in Capital
City - Taxation League Delegates
Expected to Learn Something.
Special to Republican.

Des Moines, May 24.-The supreme
court of Iowa will be called upon to de-
eide the question of administration of
corporal punishment in public schools.
Two Des Moines teachers recently beat
a boy until he was black and blue. The
boys father caused their arrest. The
city superintendent whose salary was
just raised by the board to $4,000 an
nually announced that corporal pun
ishment is justifabe. In police court
Saturday Judge Steward held it was
not justifiable and fined the teachers.
They at once appealed to the district
court and said they would carry the
question to the highest court. The
father is equally determined. SO the
supreme court will be called upon to
pass upon the justification of beating
| children with fists and rods. The moth
ers clubs turnout the state, the men,
| bers of which do not beat their own
children, will be interested in watch
ing the development of the case and
the ultimate decision. 1t is generally
conceded among club women of Des
Mones that the courts decision may
\
tendance of the public schools.
1t is expected that the delegates
named by Governor Carroll to the in
ternational conference on state and
local taxation in Louisville, KY, Sept.
81 will bring back to Iowa some ideas
with reference to taxation such as will
be beneficial in suggesting new laws
~, Loo; e.lo T1,n n
sembly discussed taxation to consid-
cradle extent but failed to pass any OF
the bills introduced They turned down
the freeing of mortgages from tax
alton, the freeing of corporation stocks
in foreign corporations from taxation
and the bill providing a tax commits
sion The men selected by the governor
are interested in the taxation question
Among those who will be one of the
keenest participants will be Frank G
Pierce of Marshalltown, secretary u
the Iowa League of municipalities. The
, Sioux City, A. C. Savage of Adair
Charles Mclean of Dubuque, F. T
True of Council Bluffs and Karl John
| SON of Usage. 1t will be noticed that
Mr.. Savage is a member of the senate
Iowa legislature. The commission rs
i named is made up of progressives
standpatters and democrats.
City councils all over the state ar
!; anxious about the new laws passed b
! the general assembly, and the office o
+ the attorney general is being floode
, with letters of inquiry a. to whethe
~ Low, +t,,ax,
q publish in a newspaper report o
J. what the council proceedings were, an
pay for such. The two cities under tn
Des Mones plan of government ar
also much interested. Under thei
!. charter they must print reports of tn
' council proceedings for distribution
and if compelled to also pay for print
ing such in newspapers, it will put
double burden upon them.
: An effort on the part of the Create
q Des Moines Committee" to establis
n a censorship over the press in De
c. tMoines has been the cause of consider
v able comment the last few days. :
few evenings ago members of the edi
torial staffs on all the local paper
a. were invited to a free banquet of tn
q. committee. At the banquet as mem
- bers of the committee, were some {
the big advertisers of the city an
some of the prominent business mel
Their presence might have bee
planned to give weight to the reque!
made Then the papers were appeale
to 10 suppress all news conccrni,
quarrels at the city hall under the DE-
Moines plan of government. corrup
ness of public officials, crimes by prom
inent business men, etc. In fact, the
wanted only the good side of the cal
ital city portrayed and the offenses
politicians, business men and the MOI
eyed class suppressed. The effort w;
failure. One paper, learning of II
nature of the banquet, failed to send
representative, whereupon a commltt
called upon the editor and asked hi
to keep his paper clean" along II
lines indicated. The committee w;
told by this editor that his paper w
CLEAN and that if the commit
would look after cleaning up Il
scandals of other papers whose ed
tors were members of the committe
they would do a good work The e
fort of an organization of capitalists
establish a censorship on the loo
press is being widely discussed, and
not meeting with universal approval
those who believe in the old principl
of one law for poor and rich and
freedom of the press.