Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-09

lug cOnciuslVeiy Lndt tueIe are mhHy " calities in the United States where suf- ficient opportunity is not given to the people to deposit their savings. The result is that money is kept in hiding and unemployed. It is believed that in the aggregate vast sums of money would be brought into circulation through the instrumentality of the pos. tai savings banks. While there are on ly l,453 savings banks reporting to the comptroller there are more than 6l,000 post offices, 10000 of which are money order offices. Postal savings banks are now in operation in practically all of the great civilized countries with the exception of the United States.
 Parcel Post
 In my last annual message l com mended the postmaster-general's rec ommendation for an extension of the parcel post on the rural routes. The establishment of local parcel post on rural routes would be to the mutual benefit of the farmer and the country storekeeper, and it is desirable that the routes, serving more than l5,000,00O people, should be utilized to the full- est practicable extent. An amendment was proposed in the senate at the last session, at the suggestion of the post master-g general, providing that, for the purpose of ascertaining the practica- bilty of establishing special local parcel post system on the rural routes throughout the United States, the post master general be authorized and di- rected to experiment, and report to the congress the result of such apartment by establishing a special local parcel post system on rural delivery routes in not to exceed four counties in the Unit ed States for packages of fourth-elass matter originating on a rural route or at the distributing post office for deliv' cry by rural carriers. It would seem only proper that such an experiment should be tried in order to demonstrate the practicability of the proposition, especially as the postmaster general es- inmates that the revenue derived from the operation of such a system would amount to many million dollars.
 The share that the national govern. ment should take in the broad work of education has not received the atten- ton and the care it rightly deserves. | support and improvement of our educa- tional systems and institutions rests and should always rest with the people of the several states acting through their state and local governments, but the nation has an opportunity in edu- cational work which must not be lost and a duty which should no longer be neglected.
 The national bureau of education was established more than forty years ago. It's purpose is to collect and diffuse such information "as shall aid the peo- pie of the United States in the estab' | lishment and maintenance of efficient SC hool systems and otherwise promote ! the cause of education throughout the country This purpose in no way con. flicts with the educational work of the states, but may be of great advantage to the states by giving them the full. est. most accurate, and hence the most helpful information and suggestion re- gardiug the best educational systems | The nation, through its broader field of
 activities, its wider opportunity for obtaining information from all the states. and from foreign countries, is able to do that which not even the richest states can do. and with the dis tinct additional advantage that the in | formation thus obtained is used foI | the immediate benefit of all our people ! With the limited means hitherto pro 1 v;ded, the bureau of e,ucati@n 'la rendered efficient service, but the con gress has neglected to adequately sup | ply tho bureau with cman to meet the i educational growth of the country. The | appronriations for the general work of the bureau, outside education in Alaska for the year 1909 are but $s7 ,500-an amount less than they were ten years | ago, and some of the important items i in these appropriations are less than | they were thirty years ago. It is an inexcusable vast of public money to Appropriate an amount which is SC | inadequate as to make it impossible properly to do the work authorized, and | it is unfair to the great educational in. terests of the country to deprive them of the value of the results which can be obtained by proper appropriations. l earnestly recommend that this un fortunate state of affairs as regards the national education office be remcdied by adequate appropriations. This rec ommendation is urged by the represen
 tatives of our common schools and great state universities and the leading educators, who all unite in requesting favorable consideration and action by the congress upon this subject
 Census
 ! l strongly urge that the request of the director of the census in connection with the decennial work so soon to be begun, be complied with and that the appointments to the census force bt placed under the civil service law, waiv, 1 ing the geographical requirements as requested by the director of the census The supervisors and enumerators should not be appointed under the civil servicc law, for the reasons given by the di rector 1 commend to the congress tho careful consideration of the admirabl, report of the director of the census, and | I trust that his recommendation will be adopted and immediate aetion taken thereon.
 Redistribution of Bureaus.
 It is highly advisable that ther, should be intelligent action on the part of the nation on the question of pre- serving the health of the country