Evening times-Republican., 1913-09-08
PROFESSION NOT POPULAR WITH
MEN IN IOWA. STATS.
TICS SHOW.
Low PAY PROBABLY
CAUSE OF CONDITIONS
Are Males, While in Indiana, With
Minimum Wage Law in Operation,
36.6 Are Msn-stats Auditor Die.
tributes $1os,ooo in School Funds.
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HcS Mc!ces. Sept. s.-Herdly a state
in the Iowa class but that teaching as
a profession is more popular among
men than Iowa. Low pay is probably
the chief cause. In Iowa only little
over per cent of the total list Of
teachers in the public schools are men.
In Minnesota the percentage is a trifle
larger: but in Indiana, where a min
mum wage law has been in operation
several years. 36.6 per cent OF the
teachers are men. In Iowa not one out
Of ten teachers is man; in Indiana
more than one out Of each three is a
man.
Prof. P. E. McClenahan, for the state
board of education. has been compiling
statistics for comprehensive compar-
ison of Iowa with these midland states
in the Iowa class. namely Ohio, Iii
nois. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota. North Dakota. Nebraska,
Kansas. Missouri and South Dakota.
Loads in Pupils.
Iowa has total of 22.7 OF the en-
tire population Of the state enrolled
in the public schools; Ohio has only
1863 per cent Of its population en-
rolled In eight of the states the per-
centage is less than in Iowa.
In the matter of average daily at
tendance in the schools seven of the
states have larger average attend
ance in school. but not one Of them
has as many days in the school year.
Iowa shows Ill per cent OF average
attendace as compared with enroll
~ 0o
wear IFS days. North Dakota only has
144 days.
Iowa spends s5.35 per capita on
elementary and secondary schools. SIX
states spend more. North Dakota
spends ss.o5 ana Missouri $4.oS per
capita. Iowa spends $33.01 per pupil
per year. Less is spent by Missour,'
Kansas Michigan. and Indiana. Nortn
Dakota leads with an expenditure oa
s52.o7 per pupil. Iowa expends 1873
cents per pupil per day OF schoo1,
while Missouri spends IA cents per
dar nor nunil and North Dakota
spends 35.3 cents.
School Funds Enrich Cd.
School funds OF the state were en-
riched by an aggregate OF Sloen4i'.'
by order Of state Auditor Jonh L.
Rlcakly this month. This is the inter.
est on the permanent school fund anu
state bonds. The total OF the 1uno
loaned out for the benefit Of the schools
ia s4.sO3,195.ss. The interest is ap-
portioned to the counties twice each
year. As the interest rate. IN nmes
when banks want 8 per cent ana aS'ois
commission, is only per cent annual-
ly. All the state auditor does Is to 81 :
rect a county auditor to transfer eitne9
to or from the general fund and from
or 10 the school fund.
The county that has the largest part
of this school fund loaned out to peopAe
in the county is winnebago with $210'-
o7s: wayne county has Sl2s.07s. Sioux
has S12s.452, Lyon has HM,7s4, Ply
mouth has $117. 45S. Kossuth has $1oe'-
1877. Decatur has $107,33s. and O'Brien
has s1o1,500. But many counties nave
none. as Scott Muscatine, Linn. Du-
buuue and Clinton. Polk county gets
the largest slice OF the interest, $o.olo
for the half year, but collects oni3
$62.28 in interest.
4 funny thing happened after the
September apportionment In that
county auditor who had received one
OF the orders for transfer from schooi
to general fund, simply cashed 1t at a
bank and it went thru the clearing
houses and turned up at the state
treasury marked "for collection. II
showed how carelessly the business IS
done in the counties OF the state.