The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-03-22

| points, will mean a dollar wisely spent | Not only do good roads reduce the cost and increase the ease of transpor-
 tation, wherever transportation by rail
 or water is not available but, Arizona
 has another and possibly greater in-
 centive for the establishment and lmainentance of creditable highways. Our state is a state of scenic wonders, climatic miracles and extraordinary
 geographical advantages. It lies in the
 route of tranScontinental travel and it's many marvels will annually attract
 thousands of sightseers and pleasure
 seekers, whose interest engaged and retained, may frequently convert them
 into investors, developers and loyal | friends. Good roads are an almost
 certain index to the communitys pros
 perity, and prosperity breeds happi-
 ness and contentment.
 | Your plans for rOadwOrk, if l mis-
 take not, should be laid along more
 systematic lines than the program the territory has heretofore followed, and I recommend, as a basis for this SyS-
 tem, the establishment by the state
 engineer of a comprehensive plan of
 public highways, with it's main arter- ies traversing the state from east to west, from north to south, from north east to southwest, and from northwest to southeast and it's feeders and
 branches reaching into the intermed-
 fate sections, communities and towns.
 Thus planned, the work of construc-
 tion should be carried on with system, with energy and with skill, until Ari-
 zona's highways become the admir- ation and envy of the world. To retain theb eauty of natural scen- , ic effects, the governor wants sign painting on the rocks to be prohibited. f Better Return for State Funds. = At the present time the state re- : ceives one perc ent per annum inter- est for it's money deposited in state l banks In my opinion this rate is in- ] sufficient and I recommend that banks ) carrying state deposits be required to : pay rate of interest more equitably a proportioned to the ruling rates paid l. by savings banks, and more nearly in f accord with the benefits they derive . from the use of the state moneys. y The anti-usuary laws should be e strengthened for the protection of the r small borrower.
 2 Corporation Laws. n It is desired to strengthen the hands e of the corporation commission by self t operating statutes defining the rules :, and regulations. The issuance o1
 charters should be from the corpora l tion commission office; and also the if control of foreign insurance compan l. ieS.
 l. Wild-catting should be suppressed l. under control of the commission. Pub if licity should be made concerning the n true status of all corporations holding > Arizona charters.
 Prison Reform.
 '.If Arizona is to hew to the line oi
 progressivenesS she has marked out II I for herself, and justify the position ac Il corded her even at this early date $ there is no way in which that progres l. siveness can be made more practical ; or productive of greater or more last U ing benefits than by mapping out and l. adopting a modern and advanced poli e cy of management of the states pen L' al and so-called reformatory or cor T. rectional institutions and of treating u the unfortunate inmates thereof, by l. common-sense, humane methods. 5 have no great criticism to make to
 ward the management Of our state III
 stitutions, nor towards the institutions
 themselves The one and the other T will compare favorably, I think, witf '- the institutions and methods in vogue }. therein, of all those states which have $ not yet escaped from the archaic ldes 5 that society'S ends are best served by $ the punishment and degradation o l. those convicted of tranSgressing the T. law of the land. But it is to those T. states which have adopted the ides T. that more good comes. of an effort tt g lift up, assist and truly correct th' II fallen than by continued demonstra e. tions of the policy of kicking mal w when he's down that I would hav' .e Arizona look for direction.
 III The inmates of the states prisol 1t should be fitted, if possible to talk e. their place in the world, and to honest Ss ly and successfully cope with it's prot pr lens, when their debt to society ha d. been paid the wrong they may hay lc committed avenged, their time served fe They should be afforded an opportun h. ty, upon their release, to start Tiff or anew with a reasonable chance of Sut IA cess.
 p- I subscribe, also to the belief hel or by millions and yet increasing million ne that capital punishments is relic ( he barbarism; that the legalized takin
 of human life, is a straining
 Chirsts law which has no place
 modern civilization. 1 therefore re nt ommend the submission to the peopl H. of an amendment to the constitutio mt directed to the abolishment of capit; rt punishment.
 a Protection of Children U n The constitutional provision for tn
 ~, treatment of juvenile delinquents is a I plauded and the powers of Superie ha Court judges should be clearly define be in this connection. A change in th nd location of the state industrial scho' % ~. is recommended and a thoroug ,,i1 change in methods of it's conduct. I'll ne provisions of the child labor law al ,,1 defined and recommendations made he adopt the form advocated by the n 5 tional child labor committee of Ne of York City.
 to An old age pension bill is desire
 for both sexes.
 eX- pandino of Off;ci,Is