Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-10

which have SO signally failed and adopting
new ones in keeping with the needs and
demands of our people. The time for play
ing with our waterways is past. The coun-
try demands results.
National Parks.
I urge that all our national parks ada
cent to national forests be placed COM
pletely under the control of the forest
service of the agricultural department, in
stead of leaving them as they now are,
under the interior department and policed
by the army
Pure Food.
The pure food legislation has already
worked a benefit difficult to oVerestimate.
Indian Service.
1t has been my purpose from the begin
ming of my administration to take the In
dian service completely out of the atmos-
phere of political activity, and there has
been steady progress toward that end.
Secret Service.
Last year an amendment was incorpor-
ated in the measure providing for the
cret service, which provided that there
should be no detail from the secret service
and no transfer therefrom. 1t is not too
much to say that in its present form the
restriction operates only to the advantage
of the criminal or the wrongdoer.
Postal Savings Banks.
1 again renew my recommendation for
postal savings banks, for depositing saw
behind them. The object is to encourage
thrift and economy in the wage-earner and
person of moderate means. There are
many localities in the United States where
sufficient opportunity is not given to the
people to deposit their savings. The re-
suit is that money is kept in hiding and
unemployed. 1t is believed that in the
aggregate vast sums of money would be
brought into circulation through the instru-
mentality of the postal savings bank.
Parcels Post.
In my last annual message | commended
the postmaster generals recommendation
for an extension of the parcel post on the
rural routes. The establishment of a local
parcel post on rural routes would be to the
mutual benefit of the farmer and the coun-
try storekeeper, and it is desirable that the
routes, serving more than 15,000,00 peo-
pie, should be utilized to the fullest prac-
ticable extent. 1t would seem only proper
that an experiment SHOULD be tried il order
to demonstrate the practicability of the
proposition.
Education.
The share that the national government
should take in the broad work of education
has not received the attention and the care
it rightly deserves. The immediate respon-
sibility for the support and improvement
of our educational systems and institutions
rests and should always rest with the peo-
pie of the several states acting through
their state and local governments, but the
nation has an opportunity in educational
work which must not be lost and a duty
viii h should longer be neglected.
With the limited means hitherto pro
vided, the bureau of education has rendered
efficient service, but the Congress has neg
lected to adequately supply the bureau with
means to meet the educational growth of
the country. | earnestly recommend that
this unfortunate state of affairs as re-
CARDS the national educational office be
remedied by adequate appropriations.
Public Health.
1t is highly advisable that there should
be intelligent action on the part of the
ton on the question of preserving the
health of the country. The first legisla-
tive step to be taken is that for the con-
centration of the proper bureaus into one
of the existing departments. l therefore
urgently recommend the passage of a bill
which shall authorize q redistribution of
the bureaus which shall best accomplish
this end.
Government Printing Office.
1 recommend that legislation be enacted
placing under the jurisdiction of the de-
partment of commerce and labor the gov
eminent printing office.
Statehood.
I advocate the immediate admission of
New Mexico and Arizona as states This
should be done at the present session of
the Congress.
Interstate Fisheries.
l call the attention of the Congress to
the Importance of the problem Of the fish
cries in the interstate waters. In this
in similar problems the obvious and simple
rule should be followed of having those
matters which no particular state can man
age taken in hand by the United States.
Fisheries and Fur Seals.
The federal statute regulating interstate
traffic in game should be extended to in
clude fish. New federal fish hatcheries
should be established. The administration