Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-29
EQUIPMENT FOR WORK
MEAGER IN MANY SCHOOLS
Des Moines WrestIes With Smoke
Enthusiastically Encountered in
Preparing Suitable ordinance-Har-
nstt's Place Hard to FiII-More Fac
tory inspectors Are Needed.
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coming TO him, that already the higi
schools of the state have been doing
L great deal of work in preparing
teachers for their work. In almos
every county of the state a high schoo
!; has virtually maintained norma
[ course. A great number of the teach
ers in the rural schools Of the state
have some training in these high schoo
departments. They are therefore wei
fitted for taking up the new work. In
most cases, however, the heads of these
high schools report rather meagel
equipment for this work. but state
that they stand ready, if the state aiG
is received, to do whatever is neces-
sary in the way of securing equipment
Some Of them will employ special
teachers for the work.
1t will be required that they add
somewhat to their course of study with
special reference to preparing teachers
for the rural rather than the grade
schools.
a letter to these high schools making
application for the state aid will be
sent out next week, giving in gen
! eral terms what is to be expected OF
lliSiA, AoHo"AAS NAAASAi 'oAiiS NeSiAAAA"N
plan will be adopted for deciding which
Of the high schools of the state shall
become state normal schools.
Des Moines is having a hard time
trying to make a showing of how tc
get rid of the smoke nuisance. bill
was put thru the legislature drastic
In nature, providing for action in court
for abatement of a smoke nuisance de-
Scribed broadly as the emission OF
dense smoke within the corporate linn
it's 1t also provided for authority for
the city of Des Moines to pass ordin-
ances for rules and regulations and in
spectton, etc. Now the city authorities
are at work on an ordinance and are
trying to have one prepared that will
meet the approval of the commercial
bodies. Opposition has appeared and
in fact the coal users are lighting any
and all propositions. AS a result it may
be that Corporation Counsel Byers will
proceed in court under the state law
and not undertake to have any ordi-
nance, in which case the penalties will
be far greater than they would be pro-
vided by ordinance. The hope of the
Des Noines anti smoke people is that
Des Moines may show that the smoke
nuisance can be lessened and as re-
suit the law be made general instead
of applying to this city alone.
The state board Of control may have
some difficulty in securing a successor
to r. J. Harnett, state agent for the
boys industrial school at Eldora. Mr..
Harnett had been in charge of the
parole work for five or six years and
was doing a splendid work, but the
Pay of SIS month which is the limit
fixed by the legislature, was not suf-
ficient to keep him or any first class
man in the work. The board Of control
believe that the pay should be in
creased as this is work quite as val
liable as the actual work Of helping the
boys in the school There is a state
agent for the Mitchellville school, Miss
Hummer. and an agent for the Daven-
port home, Miss Cough. The board of
parole has a state agent also for fol-
lowing up the Iaroled persons from
Anamosa-
The factory inspectors of the state
complain that there are many man
ayers Of factories in Iowa who evade
the law for the greater part OF the
year, that they know about when the
factory inspector is due and have their
factories all right then, but following
this and with the knowledge that the
inspectors can only come about once
each year they permit conditions to
become bad. The remedy for this is
to provide a larger number of factory
inspectors. With two inspectors it is
possible to make the round of the
state just about once each year. There
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a day must be given to one place. The
labor department will ask the legisla
ture for an increase In its working
force next time.
The meager funds derived from the
number fee on automobiles will be dis
tributed soon on the township basis.
State Treasurer Morrow will probably
make out an order for the distribution
and State Auditor Bleakley will draw
warrants which will go direct to the
counties where they will be offset
against tax accounts due from counties.
There are about 1900 civil townships
in the state. The warrant for certain
counties will be larger than for others.
Kossuth will receive pay on the basis
of twenty townships and Winnebago,
by its side, on the basis of twelve
townships. Sioux county will get as
much as Woodbury., which probably
pays four or five times as much of
the tax. Polk county will get no more
than Poweshiek or Pocahontas tho
contributing a mucl, larger sum than
any other county Of the state to this
fund. The fifteen per cent of the tax
for the state will not more than pay
the cost Of handling the business for
the state. Next year the amount re-
ceived from automobiles will be more
than double what it Is this year.
The farmers of the state have
availed themselves more this year than
ever before OF the hog cholera serum
laboratory located near Des Moines
for procuring the serum to- prevent loss
among their herds. The price which
the state was compelled to charge in
other years almost made its use pro-
hibitive: but now with the price re-
duced to one third the former amount
the stun is available for all. The re-
ports from farms indicate that its use
has been followed by good results