Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-28
Nebraska
COMMITTEE SCANS CREDITS
Peru Normal Students Soon to Know
Who Graduated.
LED TO BELIEVE HAD ENOUGH
Examining Body at Loss 20 Know
why Rules OF Board Were not
Better KnOwn-Lumber
Men Complain.
.CErom a SAD correspondent.l

(from stair Correspondent)
ke'CoLN, June 27.--(special. )-E. ]. Bod
well and oJseph Sparks, members of the
State Examining board. have completed
the work of checking up the credits of
the students Of the Peru Normal school.
This was done tc see IL any mistake had
been made when the reports were sent in
to the board. 1t is possible that one stu
dent will profit by the checking up, as
the board found that nine weeks summer
school had not been credited to this student
at all.
The report Of the board, therefore, will
be OF little consolation to those students
who had been told by former Principal
Crabtree that they were entitled to gradu-
ate. Many of these students to whom
the former principal had held out false
hopes appeared weeping before the ex-
aiming committee and made statements
that repeatedly Mr.. Crabtree had informed
them they would be graduated and that
their credits would justify their graduation.
At that time Mr.. Crabtree was in posses
sion OF the credits to which each student
was entitled and the normal board is at a
loss to know why he would care to cause
each student so much humiliation and dis
appointment. AS a matter of fact the rules
adopted by the state normal board here
were suggested by Mr.. Crabtree himself,
these rules fixing the standard for gradu-
alton. At the conference held in 1905 by the
heads of the various colleges the rule was
proposed by Mr.. Crabtree and It was not
effective for one year. the normal board
desiring to give the various schools that
length of time in which to adjust them
selves to the new conditions. The normal
board, which was declared defunct by the
supreme court, adopted the rules August 20,
100 9,while the present board simply re-
adopted the rule in January. Printed copies
of the rule were sent to each of the normal
schools for distribution, so there should
have been no question OF who was entitled
TO graduate even among the studnets, but
II seems at Peru the distribution was never
made to the students.
The examining board held meeting
this afternoon in the office of the state
superintendent and probably tomorrow il
viii formulate its report to Mr.. Bishop.
The report Will be in line with what is
said here.
Normal Board ReOrEanixes.
The, state normal board has reorganized
and today Dr. Shellhorn Of Peru became
president instead Of Mr.. Childs, whose
term has expired; n. p. Mcdonald became
vice president and Luther p Ludden was
continued as secretary. Governor Shall
lenberger has not yet appointed sue
cessor to Mr.. Chlds.
Lumber Dealers Complain.
Eleven lumber dealers of Omaha have
Joined in a complaint against the rail-
roads doing business in Nebraska, alleging
the rates charged for the shipment of lum-
Der from Omaha. and South Omaha are
unreasonable and unjust. The complaint
was filed with the state railway commits
10 baa
at a date yet 10 be fixed. This complaint
takes the place of the complaint filed by
the Commercial club of Omaha and later
Withdrawn.
Meme Terry Files.
Memo Terry of Beatrice filed his name
with the secretary of state today as a can
didate for attorney general on the demo-
cratic ticket Mr. Terry wanted to file
also as a pOpulist, but he was informed by
the secretary that it would be necessary
for hum to file a petition to get his name
on that ballot.
Ludden Salary Bet Paid.
Though it has been more than week
since Judge Cornish decided that Luther
z. Ludden was entitled to salary as secre.
tary of the state Normal board and that
the board acted within the law when II
gave him So month to get the work OF
secretary done, no warrant has yet been
issued TO Mr.. Ludden for the amount due
Attorney General Thompson is out of the
city so that it is not possible to learn now
whether an appeal will be taken in the
case Arthur Mullen wants to appeal, but
as the democrats have been playing horse
with. the normal school and the norma
board for about year and a half, it is
believed the legal department will put a
stop TO any more such play. Auditor Bar
ton has not issued the warrants because
he Is waiting for the return of the attorney
general to pay the warrants. upon a sug.
gestion from the legal department. The
vouchers for postage and stationery used
by the normal board are also held up.