Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-20
STATE DEPARTMENT TO AID
PUBLIC IN DETERMINING
WHAT is PURE.
EXHIBITS TO BE MADE
AT HALF OF COUNTY FAIRS
Opposition to Miss Garrison at Girls
Industrial School Disappearing -
cownie Says the Girls are Willing
and Easily Controlled - Librarian
Brigham Honored.
Special to Times-Republican.


| Des N1oines, July 20-In order that
the people out over the state may get
an idea of what the pure food depart
nent is doing and just how to be sure
that their groceries are all right. State
Food and Dairy Commissioner H. r.
! Wright proposes to make an exhibition
at the county fairs over the state He
VIII take the matter up at once. The
exhibitions will be made in but about
half of the counties of the state this
year and if the managers of county
fairs desire a good attractive exhibit
they should take the matter up with
Mr. Wright al once.
Some exhibitions have been made at
the conventions of womans clubs al
ready The fact is there are d great
many people in the state who are not
aware of the existence Of the purity
laws Then there are a greater num-
Der who know the laws exist but do
no, know the first principles OF where
TO look for impurities II is proposed
by Mr. Wright 10 make exhibits of
pure and impure foods and of mis-
branded and properly branded foods so
thai the people will know what TO
look for.
The suggestion to make such exhib-
lis was first made 10 Mr.. Wright by
some Of The members of the legisla-
ture.
Hon. John cownie. chairman of The
state board Of control, spent three
days last week a. the Mitcheliville In
duSrrial School for Girls. getting the
new superintendent. Miss Garrison
started in the work Mr. Cownie says
the opposition 70 Miss Garrison on ac-
count of her being a woman has large
" died down and he thinks Will NOT be
heard from again.
Mr.. Cownie has proved 10 be one
, Of the most valuable men N the state
board OF control that the state has had
Or could get. He is no; only one of the
best Informed men in the state on
farming and for that reason most
valuable asset 10 the state in the man
agement of the great farming interests
al each of the fourteen or fifteen in
stitutions, and one almost impossible
70 replace, but he has the peculiar fac
ulty of synpathizing with the inmates
/ that has worked wonders in the dis
cipline Of the institutions.
| In the management of the state in
| stitutions it is almost necessary that
at least one member of the board Of
/ control shall have such a faculty. Be
ing a man with a big sympathizing
heart and a Whole soul Mr.. Cowae
4 has been able 70 arouse many girl
at Mitcheliville and many a boy at FL
dora to firm resolution TO do better
when the more cold blo0ded business
methods of other men failed miser-
ably.
Speaking of the girls at Mttchellville
today Mr. Cownie said: They viii do
anything you ask them. They are as
/ willing as can be. While I was there
took over fifty of them out to hoe
in the gardens. 1 told the superintend-
ent l would take out one family. She
said TO take out the family known as
No. g. When passed one Of the other
cottages all the girls there began to
beg to be taken out too So they all
came out. We only had thirty Jour
hoes so some Of them had TO pull weeds
with their hands. They are very will
ing to work and anxious 70 learn. The
greatest difficulty the board meets with
is in being able to find persons wno
have tact in handling the boys and
girls"
State Librarian Johnston Brigham
has received notice of his appointment
TO the position on the council of The
American Library Association. The
council consists of fifty members and
they attend to the business affairs of
the association so that at the annual
Il conventions the members are concerned
with nothing but the work Of discussing
methods in library work. Mr. Brigham
was selected from 4 membership of
over 1000 70 fill one of the eight 81
nine vacancies that are elected by the
j past presidents of the association. He
| was once before a member of the coun-
Gil.
There seems to be a growing senti-
ment in favor of giving the manage
ment Of the state library and histor-
ical department in the hands of the
state board Of educa ton. There has
in the past been at times disposition
to criticize the supreme court the
members of which are ex-officio trus-
tees Of the state library for the con
duct of the institution. This dispo-
sition was rampant last winter during
the sessions of the legislature. AS q
matter of fact The mem bers of the
supreme court would be very glad il
| the legislature would relieve them OF
their duties IN that regard. They have
no particular connection or interest In
the state library outside Of the law
section, other than the interest main
tanned by every good citizen. They
are already overworked as members OF
the court and must sacrifice their time
to look after the state library.
To very much greater extent thar
most people imagine the state library
and its kindred institutions the histor-
ical department and travelling library
are educational institutions and could
very properly and fittingly be placed
under the control Of the board Of ed
ucation. There is a growing tendency
of cooperation between the library
. and the state university, agricultural
college and state normal. They are