Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
HIGHsCH00LS GAIN

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THOUGH POPULATION DEcREAs.
yivED HIGH, SCHOOLS GAINED
5000 STUDENTS.
ma yet va
NtwsulLDiHGs 10 Be BUILT
State inspector Of High Schools states.
G That Every High School Of Iowa
Visited During Year Has Shown .
Marked increase Ii Attendanee.
Des Moines.--In q report made toI
university authorities p. E. McCler,
nahan. state inspectortof high schools,
states that every high school Of Iowa;
visited during the last year By the
inspector has shown marked In
crease. In attendance sometimes az
much as. 40 per cent, which would I'M
dlcstes that SCARCELY s1high school Of
the state has lost in attendance dur
ing 1914-15. Punishment Of the wa
ter buckets and tin cups In accredited!
schools, he said, had practically been
completed and in their places there
has been installed bubbling fountains
much. more beautiful and sanitary. He
also reported that sanitary conditions
In the schools were far better than
they were q year ago.
While the population of the state
was decreasing during the decade
from 1900 to 1910 the high schools
gained 5000 students in Iowa, and
in the same length OF time the per.
centage Of illiteracy in the state has
been lowered from 8 to 1T per cent.
Iowa now has the smallest percent
age of illiterates Of any state in the
union.
Some years ago the cry was made
that boys would drop out Of schools
as the male teachers did. according
to the state inspector. and that wom-
en- could not handle them, but as q
matter Of fact, the number Of boys
has increased until this year, In many
instances there being more boys in
the high schools than there are girls.
Schools with accredited records
have gained IN number In Iowa re-
Gently, Is another fact of the state in.
spector's report. Last year there
were 319 In the state with total OF
more than 10000 students, more than
2.250 teachers and In June practical
" 5000 graduates, Q very large per-
centage of whom are attending col
lege this year.
New buildings In a number OF Iowa
cities will soon be erected by high
schools, including Toledo. Grand
Junction. Tama. Sheffield. Extra and
Guthrie Center "A high school has
just been finished at Iowa Falls.
one-thlrd OF Bills Become Laws.
From an examination Of the jour.
mails Of the two houses II appears that
2S,1$4, biils and joint, resolutions have
been Introduced into the general as.
sembly 81 Iowa since the organization
Of the state IN 1916; and the same
records show that during this period,
which. covers sixty-eight years, 1913
bills and intsresolutions were enact
ed into slRwaAnd placed upon the
statute. boDkf of the @eommonw ealth."
This lathe statement made by Prof.
Benjamfn #. Shambaugh ina paper
On f6eiehti6c Law-makinge published
BY QhS atates Historical Society Of
fowa! s4tiring the session 81 1918"
continues the writer: Athe lThirty.hfth
general assembly alone entertained
the introdfcti6h or 1897 bills and
Joint resolutions, while 1t enacted 410
into laws and permitted SS7 to fall
BY the wayside., In, other words. 1t
appears that in Iowa there are about
one-third as many enactments as
there are bills and joint resolutions
introduced: two-thirds Of all meas
ures proposed fall to reach the stat
ute books"
suprsms Court Settles plsputs. y
The supreme court has made rul-
ing In the case OF T. r. Griffin, ap-
pellant. vs.. M. =. Brown Of Sioux
City which determines that IN boun-
dairy line disputes possession Of land
for over ten years does not give title
to the; property. The court asserts
that when Q person takes postAssion
Of piece Of property and by mistake
Of measurement or otherwise takes
possession beyond the true line and
occupies It for the statutory period.
he acquires NO title byl sucl, occu-
pancy. Ia the aioux City case. only
o few inches of ground were In dis
pute. A mistake had been made In
the original survey of the ground.
The court holds thatnow that the err
ror has been discovered Il must be
corrected BY each person taking what
he was entitled 70 IN the 6rst place.
Defends coian ,p nnis;stion Act. 4,,fS I.
Senator John r. clarkson Of Abba,
author Of the Iowa workmen'ss COM
pensation law defended, 4 the statute
from attack BY; the coal operators of
lows before the supreme court.n
The author Of the measurs being
tested told the court that the state
legislature had the right to pass
law lifting the burden OF Industrial
accidents from the employe to the in
dustry, under the police powers Of
the state. Ben l. Salinger, who was
e'ected to the supreme bench was
present and took part .'ssii
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