Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — MORE SCHOOL LEGISLATION. [ARTICLE]

MORE SCHOOL LEGISLATION.

Cotton Proposes Higli School ant) Normal School Inspectors. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 18. — Fasset A. Cotton, State Superintendent of Public instruction, in his annual report, which will be handed to the Governor within a few days, will recommend that the next Legislature pass a law creating the position of high school inspector and normal inspector. Mr. Cotton believes, the State

Board of Education should be relieved of some of its duties. The law passed by the last Legislature, fixing the salaries and qualifications of teachers, requires teachers to have high school and normal school training. This makes necessary the inspection of the high schools and normal schools of the State. This work has been done by the State Board. ‘‘All members ,of the State Board of Education,” said Mr. Cotton, ‘‘are busy men. Their duties on the board are not light and in addition they are busy with thgir work as, superintendents of educational institutions.” Mr. Cotton did not go into details in giving his plans. The inspectors, however, would need to be men of j good educational qualifications, men | who would be able to judge whether ] the proper ( standard was being j reached In the schools which they j inspected. Representative Lewiß A. Stephens, of Madison county, will Introduce in the next session a bill providing that convictiotf for horse stealing shall carry a penalty of imprison-! ment of not fewer than ten years] for the first offense and not fewer; than tw'enity years for the second j offense. Mr. Stephens’s bill will < carry out the ideas embodied in a I resolution adopted at the annual | meeting of the Indiana Horsethief l Detective Association at Peru last | October. Senator C. K. McCullough i will Introduce Mr. Stephens's bill in the Sengte.