The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-15
COUNTY EXAMINER
 IS OUT OF LUCK
Has No Place In Which Work of Testing Applicants For Teach
 CTS License May Be Held.
(From Wednesdays Daily Press


 The quarterly examination of applicants for license to teach in the public schools of the state will be held tomorrow and next day. This examination IS uniform in date and test all over Arkansas, and is held on the third Thursday and Friday following in March, June, September and December. All ap- plicants for license to teach are re- qured ot pay a fee of two dollars, before presenting themselves for examination, this money going into a fund to pay the officer for con- ducting the examination.
 The examination costs the appli- cant for license two days hard work, in addition to the fee of two dollars, whether the person makes a certificate or not. There are three grades of county license: A third grade, good for six months, after an approved examination in nine branches, which may be re- newed by the county examiner at it's expiration one time, on the pay ment of the fee of two dollars. The second grade, issued on an ap- proved examination in twelve branches, good for one year, and renewable twice on expiration, by the payment of the fee of two dol lars. X -rITst grade. issued on an approved examination in fifteen branches, good for two years, and renewable any number of times, making this certificate virtually a life license. First grade applicants arc required to make an average grade of S5 per cent, the second grade 75 per cent, and the third grade 65 per cent, with nothing below 60.
 The law of the state provides that the county court shall provide the examiner with an office at the court house and a suitable place to hold these examinations. No such provision has ever been made, and the examinations are conducted anywhere the officer can get per mission to hold them. For the last few quarters they have been held | in the court room but circuit court lis now in session, and the school buildings are occupied.
 In the past he has purchased lumber, and improvised temporary writing desks on the benches in | the court room, or begged the privilege of conducting the examin- ation in the private office of the Security Bank & Trust Co.,, or any place he could get permission to hold the examination. At the March examination there are usually quite crowd of applicants for license, often as many as fifty, presenting themselves for examination, and it will require a large room to ac- commodate the crowd at this test. Because of the peculiar nature of the work, requiring, as it does, a vast amount of writing, it is in dispensable that the applicants have desks or tables. The only place now available is the audito- rum at the West Side school building, and even here there will be no better accommodations foI the work than the simple opera chairs.
 l Thos. H. Lloyd, County Treasur- CT, will attend the examination oi teachers during the forenoon to- morrow, and receipt the applicants
 for the fee, required by law to be paid before taking the test. This lis matter of pure kindness and courtesy on the part of hte Coun' ty Treasurer, and will save the
 teachers the trouble and delay oi Visiting the Treasurer's office tC secure this receipt