Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-05-11
EDUCATORS WEEK
Superintendent and New Board
Will Meet.
WILL CHOOSE NEW COMMITTEE
County Superintendent In Confer.
ence With Superintendent Riggs
Will Plan Many School
Reforms.
WILL CHOOSE NEW COMMITTEE

Des Moines, Ia, May 4.-The pres.
ent week will see developments OF
large Importance to the educational
interests of the state. On Thursday
county superintendent from every
Iowa county will meet with State
Superintendent j. +. Riggs in Des
Moines and decide upon a plan of
campaign looking to radical changes
in the Iowa school laws by the next
legislature.
On Wednesday the new board of
education meets with the regents of
the state university at Iowa City. and
few days later will meet with the
trustees of the state teachers college
and the state college at Ames. Before
they return to their homes the mem
bers OF the board will announce the
| personnel of the finance committee Of
three.
At their first meeting in Des Moines
| on April 20, members of the board an
nounced that the committee will prob.
ably be chosen at the Iowa City meet.
ing. Less than two months remain
before the three state schools will be
given into the boards charge and In
the opinoin of educators it will be
highly advisable to appoint the three
committee members as early as pos
sible, SO that they can become famil-
lar with their work before July 1.
Speculation as to who will land
places on the committee makes little
Roadway, and with the board of nine
scattered through the state and as
yet largely strangers to each other,
candidates are said to be in the dark
as to who are slated. The salary OF
$4,000 has attracted large field OF
candidates. Disquieting rumors that
the board wants men who have never
been connected with any of the three
anxiety to friends of the schools who
have urged the appointment OF men
in close touch with the administration
Of the various institutions.
w. S. Wilson, superintendent of
the Rock Rapids public schools during
the past twelve years, is the latest
candidate for place on the commit
tee. A petition to the board has been
circulated in Rock Rapids urging his
appointment Mr.. Wilson was deputy
state superintendent under ]. B.
Knoepfier, and has been engaged in
school work al his life.
Superintendents Want Reform.
At their Des Moines meeting this
: week county superintendent are ex.
pected to vote in favor of statewide
! campaign for reform OF the rural
! school system. State Superintendent
Riggs Is as enthusiastic in the cause
of the county unit and centralized
school system as he was before the
commission bill met its crushing de
will throw his influence for a cam
paign to convince the people that the
commission bill was defeated because
it was not understood by the public
and because of the opposition of bank
ers and school treasurers, which the
measure sought to abolish. His plal
for the next legislative campaign ii
to offer several seperate bills, so tina
! one offensive provision will carr.
down the entire plan for reform.
Much Merit In New Law.
State Labor Commissioner Val
| Dyne says that the new child labo
| law, passed by the recent Legislature
will prove of more. benefit to his de
partment than any other enactmen
| of the legislature. The amendmen
which the legislature added was back
ed by Representative nolmes.
forces the employer of labor to hav
always on hand certificate of tn
proper age of any juvenile employee
l. SO that when the labor inspecto
comes around, he may be satisfied
at once that the child labor law i
- not being violated.
8 Asks for Bank Reports.
= The National Monetary commission
: wants to know how much money
- in the Iowa state and savings banks
= Accordingly State Auditor Bleakle
has issued a special call to these il
n situations requesting a report as
y condition on April 20. This report
II to be forwarded to the state audito
n and turned over to the government
p The reports will not need to be pull
it lished by the banks unless they so d.
d sire.
Board at MitchelIvilIe.
The state board of control have r.
turned from Mitchellyille where the
went to make the semi-annual II
- spection Of the industrial school Il
=, girls.
- Flooded With Inquiries.
Secretary of State Hayward and h
head deputy, John Jameson. are foo
ed with inquiries from druggists
n Iowa relative to the new Hammi