Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-17
THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS

as to the barn-yard confetti aimed a
Miss Leora Lockman, by Mrs. Cove
in the New Time. 1t is a notoriou
fact that the report was PERSISTENT
circulated that Miss Lockman was III
qualified and incompetent to fill tn
position of County Superintendent
and Mrs. Cowen was given as au
thority. Now Mrs. Cowen says sh,
does not believe in rushing int,
print, ETC., on hearsay or GOSSIP
it was not hearsay or gossip, and Mrs
Cowen unwlttingly admits that thai
was what she was doing, when she
says that until Miss Lockman's "un
warranted attack" on her, she
THINKS she had talked to less than
half dozen about Miss Lockman.
Mrs. Cowen may justly feel cha
grined at it's being made public that
she was responsible for the state
ment, in the face of the recommen-
dations that the board, of which she
was a member, gave Miss Lockman
and which Mrs. Cowen herself signed,
and her talk now about Mr.. Clays, the
clerk OF the board, having written
the recommendation is on the toodle-
bug order. OF course he wrote it. He
was clerk of the board, and to en-
phasize the recommendation each of
the other members signed it. If an
individual member of board does not
agree with the contents of a paper
or document, he should not sign it
and thereby make it his own statement
and the inference now that a fraud
was perpetrated on the public and
it was Mr.. Clay's, the clerk, that did
it, is toodle-bugism pure and sim
pie. II that instrument or recon-
mendation was fraud Mrs. Governs
signature brands her equally guilty
with the others. With that sigma
ture off, she might say Johnny did
1t with his little hatchet", but not now.
But the quality of he confetti used
in Mrs. Governs article is best seen
by her three lined statement that
has no bearing whatever on the mat
ter at issue, as to whether Mrs. Cow
en- had stultified herself by signing
for Miss Lockman the recommends
bion that she did when she was teach |
ing, and then when she aspired to |
office, starting the report, ('to | |
think less than half a dozen') that |
she was not competent. | refer to
he lines 1.-THE Elmore County Ger
,ificate which she held was primary
ssued in 1903, good for five years"
t is not generally understood except
ng by teachers and those intimately
connected with school work, Like MRS.
Jowen Is, (and she is not fair enough
o state it,, that In addition to a
life Certificate or first, second or
hird grade certificate, a teacher In
rider to teach in the primary de-
'artment, must take a special ex-
for that department. A
life certificate gives one the right to
each in all grades except the pri-
nary, but to teach that department
me must have i'm addition thereto a
urinary certificate. One can get
irst grade certificate on their educa-
ion, but for primary examination
ne must understand and be able to {
demonstrate the theory of teaching
s we'll, and as a rule primary teach
RS get larger salaries than grade
eachers, and to be a success {
ul primary teacher is considered
ute an accomplishment. /
Mrs. Cowen now says, "if the re-
ommendation had not been recon-
lending her especially strong in her
Urinary work she would not have
lgned it," That admission from
lrs. Cowen is all that is needed {
rom her. She virtually says, even |
ow, when Miss Lockman is run
Ing against her party candidate that I
he is EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG d
Y PRIMARY WORK. Miss Lock-
lan's Life Certificate from the State 1
formal at Albion, sufficiently attests |
err qualifications for the higher
ositions, and If there were anything r
leking as to her making good on Z
lose qualifications, 1t is to be found
the numerous testimonials given a
or from the various places where
ne has taught, all down the line to e
nd including 1914. s
Would 1t be asking too much of
Du Mr.. Editor to again print those !
'stimonials which appeared in your
aper a week or two ago? They e
'ad so at variance with Mrs. Cow
as present effusion of confetti.