Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-05
PRESIDENT SMITH, OF STATE
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION,
FLAWS SYSTEM.
NOT LIVING UP TO
THEIR REQUIREMENTS
Says Majority Of Rural Boards Are
Evadins Laws in Deliberately Re-
fu.ine to Properly Equip Buildings
Enrolment at Association Meeting
Largest on Record.

Des Moines. Nov. 5.-The first Of
fetal day of the record breaking 1915
convention Of Iowa school teachers
closed last night when crowd esti-
mated at 5000 cheered and applauded
at the end of an anti preparedness ana
antiw address by David Starr Jor-
dan in the Dies Moines coliseum. He
had followed H. B. Smith, of Dubuque.
president of the teachers association,
who ripped the rural system of Iowa
up one side and down the other in his
annual address and pleaded for
change from the ''dngy school build
ings. rickety furnishings, and school
supervision that is only joke"
Enrolling Clerks Swamped.
Already the sixty first annual ses-
sion of the Iowa State Teachers AS
ISOLATION has developed into the big
gest of it's conventions ever held. and
still II is not thru developing.
Clerks enrolling the delegates at the
headquarters in the Chamberlain hotel
estimated last night that the total Tor
the day would reach 4.250. This IS
declared to break all records The en-
rollment will continue today and to-
morrow. but the number to register
from now on will not compare with
that of yesterday
Piles Of Money.
There vas a big pile of personal
checks. a ta;ful of paper bills Of DIFF
ferent denominations. and stacks OF
dollars. halves and other coins that
Was convincing proof of the big num-
her OF delegates in attendance.
When all this had been counted and
the coins wrapped and the whole thing
entered on DEPOSIT slip, Mr.. inquest
took the money To bank. II made
a large load for big leather grip. The
exact amount was not announced. but
il was said that the enrolment chair
man carried about $1,000 10 the bank
in the grip.
The Rural School was the subject
President Smitl, selected for this adj
dress in the coliseum
Not Meeting Situation.
The rural school is not meeting the
demands OF the situation Among them
IN Iowa YOU may FIND more implanted
poorly kept buildings than the other
kind: small! windows on opposite sides
of the rooms and sometimes windows
on ali four sides; Light actually shin
ing right into the eyes Of the pupils:
dingy smoky interiors, which have not
heen painted or kalsomined for ten or
twenty years, and even then in doubt
full colors.
Inside there are old double desks
arranged in steps. rickety tables and
chairs, old smoky mails torn. charts.
and small, poorly selected libraries.
have gone into rural school and
found the larger boys sitting with their
feet in the aisles because the seats
were so small they could not get their
knees under the front desk.
Would .Evade New Laws.
II fear that the spirit of majority
of the rural boards. wnen 1t comes to
equ!pping their schools with some
home economic and rural agricultural
apparatus will ne that of evasion rati1-
or than compliance with the new law.
They likely will say. What is the use
of buying all that junk; our teacher
doesn't know how to use it,
There is more truth than fiction