Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-23
SOLE PURPOSE OF LAW
TO SECURE BETTER SCHOOLS
Districts Must Get Away
From Out of Date One Room System
and Comply With Provisions Of Law
or State Aid Will Be Withheld
Agriculture Must BE Taught.
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take more. than the out of date one
room rural schools.
/ This fact was impressed strongly
upon the county superintendent at the
state conference this week. Professor
Deyoe, head of the department of pub
; lie instruction, gave the educators
plainly to understand that the purpose
of the law was to secure better schools
and not merely to make an outward
change with the same work done as
before. The superintendents asked
many questions about the state aid
for consolidated schools and for nor
NAL work, indicating that this is i'm
mediate1y one of the Invest subjects be-
fore the school men and women Of
Iowa.
These consolidated schools must be
organized under that section of the
code supplement referred to in the law
or there will be no state aid for them.
so they were told. Some Of them stated
that consolidation has been effected. or
is contemplated, under other sections
of the code and wanted to know if
such schools could get the state aid.
They were informed that the CONSOLE
dation must be under a certain section
of the code. This requires CONSOLE
dation of a tract not less than sixteen
sections. 1t may include an independ-
ent district and a town or be wholly
rural.
Most important, however, and that is
what seemed to surprise some of the
superintendent was that even with
consolidation in the proper way still
the state aid might be withheld unless
in these consolidated schools there is
taught agriculture, domestic science
and manual training. Professor Deyoe
explained that there is no escape from
this situation. The very purpose Of
the state aid law was to encourage
making schools in which there is
taught something more than the ordi-
nary studies.
Superintendent suggested that there
should be some standard as to these
state aided consolidated schools: and
they were informed that the state de-
partment Of education will prepare
plans for school houses and equipment
and specify minimum requirements as
to this and the curriculum. A circular
OF information on these state aided
schools is to be prepared and sent out
the subject is great. Several superin-
tendents reported on movements to-
ward consolidation in their counties
and desire for informatio
The state aided high schools will
also be increased in number, as the APP
preparation was made larger. Each one
and this regardless of the fact there
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Dictated that there will be more CT these
schools ready to do no normal training
for teachers than the state has the
money to pay for
During the conference Prof. A. T.
Erwin of the state college. showed by
lantern slides largo number of school
houses and showed what is being done
in Iowa and elsewhere in the improve
inert of school grounds and lettering
conditions around the rural schools.
The spirit of the superintendents at
tending the conference indicates that
the better schools movement in Iowa
is to be we'll backed up by them in the
application Of what some Of them de-
clare to be the most advanced and
progressive legislation which any state
of the union has yet produced.
Promoters of various schemes for
practically circumventing the Iowa
workmen's compensation law by or
ganization of private associations for
agreements as to payments for injury
or death, VIII likely come UP against
some of the laws of the state relat-
ing to regulation of insurance business
that will cause them to pause. There
is an impression abroad that under
the Workmen-s compensation law 1t is
going to be very easy to have en-
ployers and employees enter into an
agreement for compensation for in
juries that will satisfy the Iowa law.
But the insurance laws provide that
the insurance laws shall apply to as
sociations not incorporated or to part
nerships or persons who have to do
with insurance in any form: so that
whatever form the organizations may
take to apply the workmen's compen-
sation law there must be compliance
with the insurance laws. and regula-
ton.
Information received by State Audi
tor Bleakly indicates. that there will be
a great mum Der of associations formed
to effect indemnity insurance under
the law rather than to take out insur-
apce in the companies doing business
along that line.
Assistant Attorney General c. Fl.
pohb;p. baS ratl1rned from Davis