Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-23
WALLACE OUT
FOR THE YOUTH
OF THE STATE
Veteran Farm Editor Would
Forget the College Fight
for Boys and Girls in the
Country Schools.
(BY ORA WILLIAMS

sDes ,Moines, Jan. 22.-Henry Wal
lace takes exception to the program
which has been laid out by few OF
crowding all educational questions
aside that the college qui Eel shall
have the right Of way in the legisla-
ture. and he gets over onto Governor
Clarke's program of devoting the en-
ergies of the state for awhile to bet
terment of the rural schools and the
grade schools. He says: ts
1T is good time to consider
whether the state owes any consider
alton to the farm boys and girls who
now get no education after they finish
the work in their little rural schools.
1t is good time to consider the mat
ter Of establishing district state
industrial schools. And it Is good
time to remember that Iowa is far
behind most other states in the edu-
cational opportunities it affords it's
youth. We trust the legislature will
take hold of the real problem and not
permit it's attention to be diverted
by the clamor of the partisans of the
three institutions. To us it does not
seem very important whether five or
six hundred engineering students go
to the University or to Ames. Nor
does it matter particularly whether
three or four hundred girls get their
instructions for teaching domestic
economy at Ames or Iowa City. We
are thinking Of the forty or fifty
thousand girls who do not get far
ther than the local school. And we
are thinking of the fifty to hundred
nr1 h~y yyN0 CT Sy0 nj RI tNn
trades without any educational help
from the state. Why not take this
opportunity to study our real educat.
ional problem?"
After Insurance Policies.
Representative Whitney has his
knife out for the insurance laws of
the state and has introduced bill
to change the form of what is known
as the standard fire insurance policy.
This policy contains number of
clauses which refer to the conditions
which surround the policy at the time
of it's issuance, such as a mortgage
on the property or another insurance
policy or the property not rented. II,
when the time comes for settling a
loss, the company can show that 1t
was unaware of any of these various
things, the policy is void. Now what
Mr.. Whitney desires Is to place upon
the insurance company the burden of
finding out all that it needs to know
about the mortgages and the proper
ty, and having SO found out that 1t
be estopped from raising objections
to payment on the policy when the
finish comes He claims that the
standard fire insurance policy form
is trap which leads many property
owners into trouble and results in
such litigation, and that therefore II
should be amended in the interest OF
the insuring public.
Reformatory for Women.
The move for a separate reforma.
tory for women received a boost
among members of the legislature
yesterday when Warden McLaughrey
of the reformatory at Anamosa min
gled among the members. Mr.. Nc
Laughrey is earnestly in favor of q
separate institution for women. II
was contemplated when the legisla
ture made start in that direction
some years ago, but there never was
sufficient funds to really get started
Il am fully convinced" said Mr.
lMcLaughrey, that an institution OIL
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