Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-02
HIGHWAY COMMISSION WANTS
TO KNOW WHY LAWS ARE
BEING IGNORED.
DIES MONIES AND OTHER
CITIES ARE NEGLIGENT
Commission to Demand Why Township
Roads Within Capital City Limits
Are Not Being Drasssd-stats Insti-
tutional Libraries Growing - Ae-
credited High Schools.
special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. June 2-State highway
commission and city council may clash
tomorrow over what to do for good
roads.
The Des Moines city council will be
on the carpet. and will get chance to
explain why it is that here at the CAPT
tai city where at one time it was
thought all wisdom in regard TO good
roads radiated, there is such serious
complaint because no effort whatever
is being made to even drag the roads
within the city limits.
'eWhy don't Des Moines editorial
good roads makers attend to the clean
ing up of their front yards? Why is it
that here at Des Moines there is such
dense ignorance about good roads :?
Why does the state highway commits
sion have to come here to prod up or
binary officials to get even start in
good roads making"
These are questions calling for an
swers. Mayor Hanna. Councilman
Myerly and others will get a chance
tomorrow to explain. The highway
commission wants to know. and auto.
mobile owners seek light
A great deal OF complaint has come
to the commission to the effect that the
road dragging and bridge approach re-
pairing is not being done on the town
ship roads, or any roads, within city
limits. either at Des Moines or in 9TH
er cities of the state. In fact the COM
mission has been hearing that one Of
the hardest problems of the making
a. no
in the suburbs of the cities where the
city authorities have full authority and
must act as road superintendent and
highway commissioners. But the COM
mission is going to insist on it that
road work shall not be neglected IN
any place in the state. If city Off
Gals take it for granted that the leg
islature didn't do much Of anything at
all toward good roads they will awaken
rudely to some important facts very
soon, say members Of the commission.
And Des Moines is regarded as
good place at which to make start.
There are nearly $4,000 volumes in
the libraries ct the state institutions
under the management of the board OF
control. The state Is constantly In
creasing these libraries; and is doing
great work in having them very
carefully selected and the elimination
Of worthless books. There is an In
creasing use Of the libraries. especially
at the state hospitals, for very many
Of the insane persons are capable OF
making use Of good books to advan-
tage. The prison and reformatory
libraries are we'll thumbed.
Julia a. Robinson, supervising lib
rarian. who has general charge of this
work for the state, will tell of some
problems in institutional library work
at the quarterly conferences Of the.
state institutions tomorrow. She de-
votes her entire time to supervising
these libraries, and one OF her delicate
tasks has been to throw out OF some
Of the older libraries a lot Of litera-
ture that is worthless or worse. In
fact great many books found at the
institutions were found to be objec-
tionable.
Florence R. Curtis, instructor in the
Illinois library school at Urbana. will
tell Of the selection OF books for
prison libraries and Miriam E. Corey.
Of the Minnesota public library COM
mission, will tell Of The book and the
nurse" In fact, the conference will
have a decidedly literary and bookish
character.
Other papers on the program which
commences tomorrow are: Mentally
Deficient Juvenile Delinquents," Su-
perintendent w. L. Kuser, Eldora;
"Eugenics." DR.. George Mogridge,
Glenwood; employment Of the In
sane" Superintendent w. P. Crum-
hacker, Independence.
There are now Just 2eo accredited
high schools In Iowa. While there
are other high schools, there are in
these 290 at least 80 per cent Of all
the pupils attending high school in
the state. This means that more than
80 per cent OF the pupils in high
schools in Iowa are receiving instl'uc-
ton in schools following a course such
as that approved by all educators, and
work is proceeding under normal con-
ditions The inspection OF these high
schools for the purpose Of determining
whether or not the work done is up
to standard is done by Prof. P. c.
McClenahan. under sthe state board of
education. Recently the state inspec-
tor has added to the list Of accredited
high schools the following: Jewell
Lutheran College, Central Holiness
university. high schools in Lisbon,
Jewell. Sumner, Preston. Dexter, Eddy
vile, Roland. Oxford. Blairstown,
:Monona, GAINESVILLE, Aurelia, Radcliffe.
Ruthven, Riceville. The list is con-
stantly growing.
Plans are being made by the state
architect for the new hospital at the
State Orphans Home at Davenport.
For long time the state has merely
temporized by the use Of small resi-
dence building which is poorly adapted
to the purpose. When infectious dis
eases have been discovered the state
g. noafo!,
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