The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-10
Stubs S0LONS
Governors Message Is Read to
the Legislature.
Takes an Advanced Stand on
Laws Delays.
TO HOLD UP THE PAY.
Would Hurry Judges by With
holding Compensation.
Recommends Changes in Inher-
itance Tax Law.
A UTILITIES BILL.
Renews Recommendations for
Such a Law
FavOrs Paying Earnings of Con-
Victs to Families.
Recommends Changes in Inher-
itance Tax Law.
UTILITIES BILL.
Renews Recommendations for
Such a Law
FavOrs Paying Earnings of Con-
Victs to Families.

Governor Stubbs' message to the
legislature delivered today folIows:
To the Legislature:
L. Our state constitution provides
that the governor shau make recon-
mendation and communicate such in
FORMATION to the legislature as. in his
opinion, is necessary and proper
Z. Onder continued favor of Dr.
vine Providence the commonwealth.
taken as a whole, has made satisfac-
tory progress during the biennium lust
closed. Our educational institutions
including the country districts. city
schools, state university. agricultural
college and normal schools, have been
moving steadily in the direction of a
more practical and common sense sys-
tenn of education.
3. The prohibitory law is better
enforced than ever before in the his
tory of the state. There is not to nv
knowledge an open saloon or joint in
Kansas The sale of liquor for all
purposes has been outlawed and
placed on the same basis as other
crime.
A. The federal government has en-
tirely revolutionized its policy toward
law enforcement in Kansas and all
dry territory in the United States.
Federal officers are now instructed to
prosecute and send to Jail bootleggers
and whisky venders who sell liquor
without an internal revenue stamp.
5. The taxable property placed on
the tax rolls of the state in 1910
amounted to $2,752,O9S,125, which is
an increase of more than three hun
dred million dollars in two years.
g.. The value of farm products and
live stock has increased and bank de-
posts, railroad earnings. manufactur-
ed products, the volume of general
business and financial transactions in
the state have also made satisfactory
gains.
Country School Districts.
1. I would be unfaithful to my trust
as one who believes in the superior
Importance of sound rural education
as one of the greatest factors in the
social, political and business uplift of
any state or nation if I did not give
forward position and call your spe-
cial attention to the condition of
through false economy in the matter
of employment and salaries, or
through the desire of young people OF
higher learning to flock to the cities,
where opportunities seem to them to
be better, it is a fact that some four
thousand district schools in Kansas
are taught by teachers who did not
themselves advance beyond the eighth
grade. ] am informed upon a most
thorough investigation that approxi
nately one hundred thousand pupils
are taught by these insufficiently
equipped and inexperienced teachers.
1t seems to me that there is a great
waste here not only of public funds
but of the public opportunities to
which the children of Kansas are en-
titled. The food, clothing. books and
waste of time of one hundred thou
sand school children mean an actual
the parents of these children, exclusive
of the teachers salaries and the cost
of maintaining the school.
2 After most exhaustive inves-
| -. hi in0f
vinced that the progress of each pu-
| pill in a term of school under the
charge of a young, inexperienced,
poorly equipped teacher wA not ex-
ceed fifty per cent of the progress that
would be made under the care and
| training of well equipped, well
| trained school teacher The above es-
timated less does not take into ac-
count the most important eonsidera-
ton involved in this problem, the
waste and loss of opportunities during
/ the school life of the child, and the
greater ultimate loss fo the state OF
efficient, intelligent citizenship
g. The last legislature established
normal training courses in one hun
dred high schools of the state, which
promise better practical results than
any known method of producing
| trained teachers I believe this to be
! fundamentally the most vital problem
we have to deal with in our common
wealth today, and I recommend TO
your most earnest and serious consid-
Grafton this entire subject, with hope
that you will be able TO devise some
means of giving to the youth of the
country an increase of educational
advantages proportionate to the very
large contribution the farmers of kan
sas make towards the expenses of the
state.
Public Utilities Commission.
| l. At the last session Of the legls-
Ilature L recommended the enactment
of public utilities law which would
provide for a public utilities COM
mission to take the place of the pres
ent board of railroad commissioners
and enlarge its powers to cover all
4 statewide public utilities. using the
present railroad law as a basis and
adding thereto the best features OF
i the wisconsin and New York public
i utilities laws.
2. 1 now renew this Recommended
q ton to this legislature and recommend
THAT you enact a law that will place
all statewide public utilities, rail-
roads, telegraph, telephone, street
railway, pipe line, express and Pull
man companies and common carriers
of all kinds, under the control of a
/ state commission having full authority
ever tT1e issue of stocks and bonds,