Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-26
INSIST THAT HIS AD.
MlNlsTRATIoN AT AMEs IS
4 SUCCESSFUL.
COLLEGE HAS MADE GROWTH
DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE
College Extension Work Has Been De.
veIoped During Administration of
storms-state Support Fund and
Number Of Instructors Have Doubled
in Seven Years.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des iMoines, Feb. 26.-That under
the administration Of President Storms
Iowa State College at Ames has made
the greatest progress in all it's history,
is the assertion of one of the alumni
who this week visited Ames and talked
with members of the faculty and in
formally secured some interesting in
formation. That this growth of the
college, not only in numbers but in
quality of work and standard of ed
ucational value has been appreciated
is shown by the justice with which the
legislature has dealt with the college.
In no other period of the college his
tory of same length has there been
added SO much to the college equip
ment in buildings and lands and tai
ent.
The support of the college is Won
derfully different from that which was
doled out seven years ago when at the
suggestion of Governor Cummins, DR..
Storms was placed at the head of
Ames. The state gives in annual sup
500, as against $4,000. The entire
support, from all sources and for all
purposes, was then $21S,50O annually
and now it is $612, 1000.
1t is shown by the college catalog
that the instruction and station force
have increased from 80 to ISL in the
seven years. The student enrolment
has increased under DIR. Storms from
1,26S to 1866. In 1903 the graduating
class numbered S3 and in 1909 it num-
bered 236.
A great many of the men of the state
who have felt themselves vitality in
terested in the welfare of the college,
and especially those whose interest
came thru their association in agricul-
tural matters entirely, felt when DR..
Storms was elected some disappoint-
ment, but it is stated that their fears
have not been realized, and on the con-
trary they say that a careful investl-
cation of the college will show that
DIR. Storms has had a wonderfully good
influence in cementing all the college
interests and harmonizing all differ
ences.
Under DR.. Storms the college ex-
tension work has been carried to every
corner of the state, the standard of
education has been raised, the finances
of the college have been carefully
guarded, the faculty has been i'm
mensely strengthened, and the char
acter of the work being done is said to
be by far the best OF any agricultural
college. "A visitor at the college this
week states that there is very strong
sentiment there in favor Of permitting
the growth and advancement Of the
college to go on unchecked and un-
changed and against any shaking up
Of the entire faculty at this time.
iowa has the finest and best man
aged home for soldiers in the world
said William D. Christy, of the G. A. r.
committee which recently visited the
Iowa home. "They say that is what
inspectors report who have gone
around among all the homes; and GER
ta1nly there is nothing that could be
suggested by way of Improvement at
the Iowa home. 1t is as nearly per-
feet as could be made. There were
nearly 500 at the home when We visited
it. We never heard a complaint. nor
could we get suggestion of anything
wrong. Everyone is satisfied and
happy, OF course there is the isolation,
which sometimes becomes irksome, and
this may lead a veteran now and then
to grumble at nothing in particular:
but the men and the women at the
Iowa soldiers home are contented
and happy lot of persons and the state
is certainly doing the right thing by
them"
A rumor was put in circulation by
1I,~
Moines people who wanted the demo-
cratic state convention and did not get
it, that the rattle which fixed the To-
cation was not on the square. This is
in error The writer watched it close
ly, as did the girl at the Slavery house
cigar stand where the matter was set
tied. Besides it was done under the
direction of Mayor Thomas Maloney, of
Council Bluffs-made famous by Ma
bray-who has always insisted that ev
cry game should be on the square, and
Postmaster Frank Nimocks, Of Ottum-
wa, who is credited here with being a
Sunday school teacher. Both of these
gentlemen witnessed the rattle and can
vouch for it that it was as fair and
square way of disposing of a state
convention as ever was devised. But
for a settlement in the manner indi-
Gated, Internationally Des Moines
would have had the convention.
1t is expected that with Clifford
Thorne so promptly accepting the chal-
lenge of the railroads on a political is
sue for this year in Iowa, the con-
troversy will hinge on the question of
higher or lower rates and cheaper
trust made products. Thorne sat at
the university banquet and heard the
attorney for, the Rock Island deliver
500 REWARD, 500.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least