El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-20

location Of the State university in the
/ city of Austin, Travis county, Texas.
as a university of the first class, which
shall also have a president with full
power Of control at the will and pleas
ure of said central board of control.
81 would also provide for the state
Medical university to be permanently
located in the city Of Galveston as q
medical university of the first class
with a president with full power OF
control subject to the viii and pleasure
Of the board Of control
Urges Home Printed Books.
Il will be glad to see the day come
when every school book used In a
Texas school will be printed in Texas.
THE legislature can save millions or
dollars to the taxpayers of the state
( by giving this question careful study
1t is true that existing contracts must
be respected, but before it comes time
! to make another contract for hiSh
priced school books, arrangements can
be made to in some measure abate the
increasing burden of buying school
books printed i'm a foreign state for a
low price and i'm turn sold to the peo-
pie of Texas at high price
Pcnitentiary System n Menace.
'The Deuftentiary system is the can
Ger carbuncle that is about to develop
into alarming proportions. 1t is a can
Ger because it cats an the treasury OF
the people. Tt is a carbuncle because
when YOU try to do something with lr
You hit q sore spot on some politicians
neck or some fellow who thinks he
has a right to use the prison system
for his private advantage.
'sWithin the last eight years the peo-
pic have been taxed to pay about
So. 100000 loss in the operation OF the
system. The system is now over $4z9,-
coo in debt as a result of recent opera
tiOns.
about $500 men are confined in the
prison walls and on the prison farms.
The number viii gradually increase.
What to do with the labor IS and VIII
continue to be problem.
Suggests Work on ROnds.
'I therefore suggest that the legisla-
ture look carefully into the question
OF constructing system or puPHC
highways and if it can be found tnal
convict labor can be successfully used
to build permanent roads, that you
pass such legislation as would give US
piked roads from one end of the state
to the other, maintained by the state.
Reforming the Courts.
Much has been said. much can be
said and much will continue to be said
about how to reform the courts Of the
country. Some OF the criticism is justi-
fled and some is not
From Is years experience and OBJ
scrvation as country lawyer. a farmer
and 2 business man. / have come to the
conclusion that one Of the main causes
OF the laws delays is the unequal dis
tribution Of the work OF the trial
courts
IN the cities where the population is
dense and the volume of litigation IS
proportionately larger than IN the
country. we find that the trial judges
are overWorked and underpaid 1or tne
services performed It would not De
inequitable if they had even more trial
courts than they now have. For in
stance, Dallas county and Harris cOun-
ty now have 90 times as many people
and so times as much wealth as they
had % years ago, yet they have not
over four times as many courts.
In the country under the system OF
state terms Of court we find that the
courts are not engaged as continuous
y as in the city.
Suggests Remedy.
AS one of the remedies for reform
IN court procedure I would suggest
that all district court districts be ar
ranged so as to have an equal popu-
letion as near as practicable to each
district court. I would then abolish
all terms OF court and keep every court
open for business all the time with the
exception of one months vacation each
year. and REQUIRE al parties concerned
TO answer process in ten days after
service
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81 years Of age, and sooner il they did
not work or learn some law.
Il would then Increase the number
of courts of appeals by about two and
one viii probably do for the present
1 would make their jurisdiction final
in all cases arising in the county courts
and such other cases as now provided
in the constitution.
Platform Demands.
The platform demands relating to
he al Il. o ID 49,
the fee system for paying peace Off
GERS, and the protection of the livestock
industry of Texas are all matters that
should, and I am sure will receive
your careful consideration.
The protection of our forest reserves
is an important question, that has not
had the attention which it demands. An
investigation of the facts shows that
our timber supply is vanishing with
alarming speed. I suggest that a COM
mission be appointed to study the ques-
ton OF necessary legislation bearing
The Land and the Mnn.
Texas has so many homeless people
and SO much vacant and unused land
suitable for homes that the work of
the S4th legislature would not be per-
formed unless some effort was made
to pass legislation that might bring
together the landless man and the
homeless land.
Many Things can ne uOne. luSl6du
OF our farm experimental stations
spending their time in abstract
theories. let them, instead of trying to
tell the chemical analysis of soils in
stead OF experimenting to find whether
Sedan grass is civilized Johnson grass
or a half brother to Bare grass, let
them demonstrate how much land 1t
will take to support a family of five
pc rsons in east Texas or west Texas
Let them demonstrate how man with
five children can so to south Texas
and not starve. Let the book farmers
demonstrate just how much land under
intense cultivation in north Texas 1t
win t"ke to support family of ten
children.
study Mutual Aid Problems.
Let us begin to study the problems :
of mutual aid. Let us begin to study ?
how to orCnnize mutual loan societies
and associations as a credit basis upon
wnicn we can hope to attract cheap !
money to Texas and with it buy homes
and build thereon. Interest rates IN {
Texas are too high and must come /
down."
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