Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-08
TROUBLE AT SCHOOL FOR DEAF
AN ECHO OF INSTITUTIONAL
ATTACK.
AL STATE INSTITUTIONS
HAVE FELT ITS EFFECT
Part of General Scheme to Diseredit
Work of State Control Board and Its
Subordinates-Bie Dairy Rally to Be
Held In Connection With State Fair
Defect in Pure Food Law.

deaf at Council Bluffs is another re-
suit of the agitation which took acute
form during the legisla tive session of
a year and a half ago One Of the
superintendents-no of the deaf school
nor Of a hospital, but an institution
which runs so smoothly that no person
would ever suspect a chance for trouble
tated to the writer at the time of the
1ast quarterly conference two months
ago, that all the institutions We're SUI
lTering from the agitation and disturb
ances which had commenced with the
demand for a legislative probe and
which eliminated in the MitchellviNe
outbreak. He stated that he wished
fthe newspapers could have entered
upon conspiracy of silence about the
matter: but on the other hand that
some way might be devised for having
leading newspaper men visit the in
stitutions and see for themselves the
work that has been done for Iowa's I'M
Sortunates and dellnquents IN recent
gears.
I'VE have al suffered from this
trouble he said, much more than
anyone knows of We feel that every
institution is in measure under sus-
picion when the head Of the system
Is under attack We have never been
able TO understand just why the de-
tnand came for an investigation Of the
institutions and an effort 20 discredit
'ail our work; but we do know that 1t
mas crippled Us in our work and we
fear that for the future there is a
possibility of trouble for any or all
Hence
good work as we would otherwise
The attack upon Superintendent
Rothert. however. is an old matter.
The deaf people are very hard TO man
age It is notorious that they are never
satisfied, are sensitive and somewhat
suspicious, and for a number of years
a small group of the graduates Of the
deaf school have been insisting 1non
having deaf person at the head Of
the school This will not be done. how
ever. as the position is essentially an
administrative one having largely 10
do with the relations Of the school to
business affairs. 1t is related that
sast winter when the board Of control
was being bomharded with letters from
deaf persons. demanding q change a
letter came from a former student
Who had been. in fact a very obstrener
Gus student and who had been resent.
ful of the punishment inflicted upon
him. He was then IN Cuba and wrote
fhat he had been urged to write a let
ter attacking Mr.. Rother- He said
NE declined TO do so. that he left the
.schooI feeling very hard toward the
superintendent, but that now he real
lied that ne the boy. was wholly ar
fault and ne would not saw a word
against Mr.. Rothert. This fairly H.
illustrates the nature Of the attack now
made.
The Iowa state Dairy Association
has arranged for big dairy rally at
me state fair Aug. 81, as part Of the
propaganda for more and better cows
A big meeting will be held in a tent
and there viii be addresses by lead
ing specialists and demonstrations and
discussions. This movement is d.
Tected toward having more butter made
on the farms and not a booster move
ment especially for creameries. The
number Of creaneries has been actual
ly reduced in recent years but the
amount of butter made is rapidly in
creasing. The Legislature appropriated
$4,000 to aid in the work and a great
campaign is being made. W. 3. Bar
ney, the state dairy commissioner is an
enthusiast in the work for more butter
! making and is giving the cause valu-
ablce assistance.
The ice cream cone crusade will not
be able TO reach its most important as
pect until the laws of Iowa are changed
The law gives authority to the com
missioner to require sanitary condi-
stions in the dairy business, but there
are no sanitary provisions in the pure
food law and the result is that while
If cone is caught carrying a boric
compound il may be arrested and dealt
with roughly, the makers of cones NAV
be as dirty and unsanitary as they de-
sire and there IS no way to reach them.
In fact, the slight Investigation already
made shows that a great many of the
ice cream cones are manufactured I'M
der the most unsanitary condition and
there is really more danger from that
than from anything else.
John NJ. Work, the candidate Of the
socialists TOR governor of Iowa, wants
a joint debate with Governor Carroll
on the issues of the day" without stat
ing what they are. Of course he will
not be accomm odated, nor will there
be any other joint debates in the state.
Mr.. Work is an exceedingly able and
eloquent lawyer who has done a great
deal of lecturing for the socialists
Their recent state convention, how
ever, did not show evidence OF any
great gains for the party.
Railroad men are insisting that there
Is not a desire, at least not among the
men Of the operating departments, to
punish Iowa for railroad regulation, and
2-cent fares by Withdrawing all excur-
sion rates. There has been no proba-
bility of a refusal on the part of the
railroads to grand reduced rates to the
state fair. In fact that matter was
fought out a year ago between the ex-
ecutfve committee of the state board
and the railroad men in Chicago, and
the Iowa people convinced the rail-
road men that 1t would be mutually
beneficial to grant reduced rates. In
fact the railroads want the business
and want It at the old rate.
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