The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-01-07

water and sewers systems. and in the
should furnish a large S'sl amount Of s ex.
pert help. and the benefits resulting from
s s,c GO cooperation would be mutual The
means Of DEVELOPMENT in every phase OF
The state health department should be
authorised 70 inspect and control sanitation
statutes, hotel inspection has been very 1n-
SATISFACTORY. The inspection service In hotels,
as elsewhere, should be on q salary basis and
But this department can accomplish little
when Handicapped by such lack Of support
partment warrants larger appropriations and
no member OF the Legislature can Justify him
self IN refusing to appropriate the necessary
his constituents. therefore earnestly recon-
mend for your most careful consideration the
Dairy and Food Department.
one OF the most effective departments In
the state service today is the dairy and food
formly good and this is unquestionably its
strongest element of success. This success
interests. but has stimulated to a considerable
degree many food industries within the state,
notably the canning industry. The enact
laws are essential in the interests of public
health and this department should be accord
Department Of Labor.
1t has become a recognized principle by
est degree of mutual success can be secured
oniy When the responsibility OF protecting
labor DO and those dependent thereon is made
a charge upon Industry itself. The best inter-
ests Of both require that industry shall con-
tribute In the first place to the safeguarding
of labor SO as to prevent the occurring OF an
accident; and in the second place. in case
such accident occurs, It shall contribute a
and in case of deaths to those dependent ' upon
him For this purpose. the last legislature
authorized the appointment Of commission
IanrfuI at,. v,Awlr,. 10
labored diligently ana win unauestionabiy
In accordance Herewith, I recommend the
enactment of such a law. believing 1t to be
for the best interests OF both employees and
Department OF Education.
Forty per cent of the entire volume Of
sofa during the past year for state. county,
city. village, and township government; APP
p pbSid d .SOo'awas expended for
for education were s5,2oo,ooo, being two
thirds of the net cost Of state government
or about AZ .000 is enrolled in our high and
graded, semi graded and rural schools, as
PER Ne% Sf Nex
the per capita investment for education in
our various schools the superintendent Of
$1s.79 per capita for 100000 pupils in semi
graded and rural schools. $3472 per capita for
$3.50 per capita for s about sso oe in normal normal
schools. and $177.3s per capita for $500
attendants at the state university and agri-
cultural schools and college. The Investment
in our $500 school houses exceeds s2S, SOC, 900,
there having been constructed during the
past two years $50 buildings at q cost OF
$4.20Q000. Our permanent school fund today
exceeds $4,000, 900, an increase of $1,2s3,ooo
cultural lands during the past two years. The
teachers number over $4,000, and the school
libraries contain 100000 volumes.
No state department has more important
functions to perform than that Of education.
and yet there is perhaps not department
by such complicated executive machinery.
The expansion of the public school system
and the increasing multiplicity of educational
institutions call for greatly increased admin
istrative force and greater specialization of
work. Thirty three states have enlarged the
public Instruction by creating state boards Of
education. Arduous demands upon our state
Of p1Sc INSTR sar tS
penditure of nearly 100000 Of local taxes
and state appropriations annually, suggest
that the time has come in our educational
history, when the administration of all edu-
cational affairs should be placed in the hands
of a strong state board of education. This
far as possible from politics by giving the
members six-year terms, terminating alter
nately one every two years. The board mem
bers should have specialized training and
duties; one a specialist in common and in
and the third in school finance. To this
boarn should be entrusted the management
the state with the exception Of the normal
schools and the state university 1t should
appoint the state superintendent. the state IL
brarian, and all inspectors In the entire
school system. all of whom should be like
wise selected with reference to- educational
affiliations. These considerations seem to
me sufficient to urge upon the legislature
Submission to the people Of the necessary y
constitutional amendment. A similar provi-
sion should be made with reference to county
hna rdc of al, trati ion, hat thn tv otna
intendent can be selected purely with re-
ference to merit and qualifications. II the
should be submitted for adoption by the peo-
pie a constitutional amendment requiring
county superintendents to possess specific
The advantages of the consolidated school
system are SO well known as to make any
thing but a mere mention unnecessary. The
principal argument used against the CONSOLE
dalton Of the rural school Is that of expense.
The experience of eighteen hundred complete
ly consolidated schools and two thousand par
TALLY consolidated schools in thirty-two states
of the union, has completely demonstrated
that Of the best district school, and when the
items of transportation OF pupils to and from
the sonsodidated % schools and the study OF
as well as the greater efficiency, are taken
i2to consideration, the consolidated school
Becomes the cheapest school in our entire edu-
Department. Of State Institutions.
During the past biennial period there has
Of our state institutions and the state board
OF control Is entitled to great credit for its
work.
The hospitals and asyIums are crowded
beyond capacity, and the legislature should
provide for the necessary extensions. Per-
haps the greatest neglect on the part Of the
state is in failing to provide a reformatory
for women. The suggestion made by the
board of control that a new institution be
provided with two separate departments, one
feformatory and the other a prison for
women, should be adopted, as II Is essential
in the proper treatment and reformation OF
these inmates.
anoe with reference to the care OF criminals
is the enactment of q law authorizing the
court, except in case of murder, to impose
Sat sere nnS am Py
lions for murder in the first degree IL either
capital punishment were abolished. or i'm
posed only in extreme cases, and then only
upon the order Of the court or the unanimous
recommendation of the jury.
For the purpose Of paroling prisoners con-
fined In the state prison and reformatory.
parole consisting of the chairman of the
board OF control of state institutions, citizen
of the state versed in criminology, and
either the warden of the prison or the super
intendent OF the reformatory. as the case may
be. constituting the third member.
The Minnesota state prison recognized
construction of new buildings is progressin 9
rapidly. In the manufacture of farm ma
chinery the state has ts.xen an advanced
step and the output OF MI mowers and 70
binders during the past season will undoubt-
edly. demonstrate the Importance of this
work.
Some conflict has arisen with reference
inmates Of state institutions. The taking OF
testimony by the board Of control and the
state board OF visitors separately is a dup .ea-
should establish some cooperation between
the two boards that would make duplication