Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-27
STATE AID GRANTED.
MANY SCHOOLS HAVE ALREADY
STARTED THIS WORK, WHICH
WILL BE PERMANENT.
MEANS BIG STEP IN ADVANCE
Where There 10 Vocational Training
State Aid 10 Granted--Most compe-
tent Instructors are Engaged In
Work of this Sort.

tent instructors are Engaged I
Work of this Sort.
Des Moines.-There are now 10
places In the state where there ha
been consolidation of school district
and establishment of the consolidat
ed schools. The greatest advance
ment made in recent years in schoo
matter in Iowa has been in the mat
ter OF the coming together of tn,
small towns and the rural communi
ties Immediately surrounding, recog
milton OF their mutual interests ant
preparation to take advantage of tn,
situation as 1t is found. That is tn,
secret OF the school consolidation idea
On the first OF July next it become.
obligatory that in every school of tn,
state there be taught agriculture
manual training and domestic sci
ence. The problem of how to manage
this is easier in the consolidated
schools than any place else. There
is provision for state aid for sucf
schools when they engage in the vo
cational training, hence standards car
be set and the requirement be made
that they be lived up to. In majer
ity of these schools there Is some
equipment. In many there are in
structors who are competent and need
little direction.
The requirement as to teaching vo
cational studies has been great in
centive to better schools. 1t has en-
couraged consolidation and the cree
ton Of new school houses and other.
wise providing for better schools. In
most cases there is provision for as
sembly rooms and the vocational cen.
ter idea is made prominent. Where
these schools are the result OF coop
Grafton between small towns and ru.
raj communities there is discovery
that they both may profit greatly by
the partnership.
This thought ought to be better
known than it is" said Frank d. JOS
eph, deputy superintendent of public
that where there is uni
ty Of action between the small towns
and the rural communities in bchool
matters they are both getting the
most out of it all, and the burdens
are evenly distributed. In these
they are establishing
rest rooms for the people who come
In from the country, and they are
making use Of the travelling Libraries
and other such valuable things"
The problem of establishing in the
Dne room schools of the state some
'orm of vocational teaching is not at
Ill beyond solution. In very many
If these schools there has already
been started the work that is to be-
come permanent and state wide in
character.
More Discrimination Urged.
Letters have been sent by the state
board of control to the commissions
If insanity in each county of the
state requesting them to aid in re-
iucing the number of persons sent to
he state insane hospitals. The board
asks the local commissions to refuse
10 send harmless insane persons to
The state hospitals who can and
should be taken care of by relatives.
It also asks that as many insane as
possible be sent to the county farms.
The commissions are asked to con-
suit with the boards of supervisors
relative to Withdrawing from the
state hospitals as many insane as can
be accommodated in the county
homes. The move on the part of the
board of control is due to the fact
that the insane hospitals are over
crowded. At Clarinda the hospit1l
has capacity Of 1850 persons. There
are 1,205 insane patients being cared
for there. AS the legislature made no
provision for increasing the size OF
the four state insane hospitals, no re-
lief In that way can be looked for
IN the next TWO wears. The increase
in population at tie hospitals in the
last year was zoe. the board says.
Appointed Special Agent.
Governor Clarke and Attorney Gen.
aral Cosson have determined upon o.
}. Rock OF Logan as the first special
agent to be appointed under the law
passed by the Thirty-sixth general as
,embly. Although the law authorizes
he employment OF four special
agents, the governor will put on Only
one man at the beginning.
Liberty Bell In Iowa.
Governor Clarke received tele-
gram from the mayor of Philadelphia
stating that the liberty bell has been
routed through Des Mo.nes
On it's trip to San Francisco and that
I would arrive here July /, stopping
our hours. The exact time of arrival
has not yet been fixed. 1t will come
IN special train over the Rock Is
and.
Industrial School Crowded.
The state board of control, at the
annual inspection of the Industrial
school for girls at Mitchellville, found
hat institution overcrowded. The
members assert that there are more
iris assigned to one room than there
should be for the best results. "All OF
he state institutions are crowded."
laid A. M. McColl. 1--WE must do the
vest we can for the next two years,
Is the legislature has already fixed
he amount of expansion we are per.
nitted in the next biennial period"
%
suard Property for State.
Capt. Roy Logan has returned to
)es Moines after taking charge of the