Show QUESTION OP OF ELIGIBILITY Lw Law Fies Fixes Qualifications of State Superintendent of Schools Prominent educators both Democrats and Republicans who are partIcularly anxIous that the very ery best available timber from each party shall be put In forthe for the office of state su an of be belive 11 live that they have discovered a pro provision vision in the law which wi shut out outwit wit mt a few aspirants for the office I It Is pointed out by them that sec tin of the revised statutes pre pres s of the state su of public instruction to toI I lV other thing thIngs that he shall h l th the holder of a state teachers of the highest grade or shall shaH tI b a graduate of a reputable college Or r schol school taking a ful full course The point made by the these educator educators i Is that whoever the superIntendent may be ht he must b be possessed of ofa a at least a professional diploma of high school gad such JS as Is required b by ex examination or other evidence of having attained 8 a high degree of shola scholarship In al all of the higher branches of study taught in the state for the very ap apparent parent sound reason that the state su superintendent of public instruction IS chairman of the state board of education which Is charged with wih the dut duty of Issuing certificates and dI dIplomas diplomas of to teachers To han hae a who possesses only a diploma of a lower gradt grade Ping passing judgment upon a candi date for a certificate of higher scholar scholarship ship hip would b be an an incongruity that Is not to b be desired and would certaInly rist ri up to plague plague the superintendent This queston question of eligibility is one that J is no little ute amount of discus s Zion n in educational and political circles |