The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-15

Crossley-Orr law, provides free text
books from the incidental fundcof
district adopting same by proper vote.
|. A proper proportion of the county fire
sand Insurance tax money received
from the state Is placed to the credit
of the Incidental fund Of such dis
trict, thereby enabling ii to purchase
free textbooks for the children. Be
fore the adoption Of this law, free
textbooks were supplied to only Ave
districts in the state, whereas today
the number of districts runs into the
hundreds.
To the end Missouri may ever be
ready to push forward our educational
interests, | recommend that you enact
law creating an education commits
sion, consisting oftthree or five mem
bers appointed by the governor to
serve without pay, but whose expenses
are raid out of the general revenue
fund.
Reformatory.
The penal Institutions of the state
consist Of the penitentiary, Missouri
Training School for Boys, at Boon
vile; Industrial Home for Girls, at
Chillicothe, and the Industrial Home
for Negro Girls, at Upton The mere
punishment by combining in these
penal institutions is not the full meas
ure of the law The state can and
should render a higher service, that
of reforming as large per cent as
possible. bringing them back into the
paths of rectitude aud good citizen
ship
Realizing this, believe there should
be a new building or buildings erected
at Boonville, and that institution made
not only training school for boys,
but also a reformatory. The name of
the institution should be changed from
THE Missouri Training School for
Boys, and there should be substituted
the name THE Missouri Reforma-
tory"
There should be different classes or
departments established in the re-
formatory, according to the offenses
committed, the age, conduct and char
acter Of the innate, and provision
iil'ee loL Tue pl"'iSle- ll'iii 0iie 1'''''
or department to another
n i"'ile w '-''iiiiuB soIio0l anu
i-lI'''ia'OIt az tne same pace anu Oh,
! inc Ss-Ae latln, presenting 'he sool
ana the Tad as object lessons, and
"idt 'He rs"aiu Noulu De u soou' anu
Wha1 the punishment "oulu DC II pau'
very Wholesonae' lsssoh. couiu "
taught and great good IoiIoW' AT me
same ul'e' IL would reileVe the con
eesuon al inc pehiten'lalF' as our pen
leatl"ry IS Nhe larsest single PENN
ihatllunon III Inc WCrid. Fernaps some
z0V OF more men could DC removed
from the peAitentlaiF 70 the fetorma-
torF' and the reiornatory continue lts
laDoFa ana INDUSTRIAL framing, us tle
BocnFille framing school IS locateu
upon iarm OF ooo acres
Good Roads.
Since the proclamation declaring
two Good Roads Days in Missouri,
III August, 1913, there has been awak-
ened a new spirit for this important
internal Improvement Since that time
some Is states have, by proclamation.
had their annual Good Roads Days"
and some of the foreign countries
The public highways Of the country
have ever marked hy distinct epochs
its civilization, and agricultural and
commercial progress. 1t has marked
1t in the life Of Missouri and OF the
American republic. Until the high
ways stand abreast our broadcast
civilization, We Will not be living up
to our best privileges and the highest
standard we can maintain in our civic
and commercial life. We need to con
tinue the construction, improvement
and maintenance Of our dirt and our
hard surface roads. The dirt road.
however, is the most important OF all
the roads. 1t constitutes 80 per cent
of the road mileage of the state, and
will continue so to do for many years
TO come. 1t is the real road of the
people and the great highway OF com
merce-
We are in favor OF the construction
and maintenance OF macadam, rock,
M and nthGB HIGH pY-4lip Fn9dE