Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-07
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
ITS SALIENT POINTS
Recommends Trained Supervisors
for County School System.
ACADEMIC COURSE In M. A c.
Would Create Office of State Conser-
walton Commission --0ther Good
Suggestions in Message of
Marylands Governor.

In summarizing Points in The Gov
ernor's Message" which it prints IN
full, but which space forbids puhlica
ton in these columns, the Baltimore
American has the following summary:
There are ways yet open which may
be reasonably employed to increase the
States income
1t is time for the State to insist that
all children of school age shall have
at least minimum education
The certification of teachers should
be the sole function of the State De-
partment of Education
The State and county school systems
are sorely in need of trained, super
giscrs
The laws should be so amended as To
make ii to the advantage of those in
stitutions that are willing to affiliate
with the Maryland State University.
The academic courses at the Mary
land Agricultural College should. in a
large measure, be discontinued and its
resources devoted entirely to the pro-
mitigation of agricultural knowledge
and skill
1t is important that the colored peo-
pie receive such education as will en-
able them to meet properly the de-
mands of citizenship.
The State Board of Health should be
able to make one general survey of
county each summer and school sur
vey each winter
No new steps should be taken in the
campaign against tuberculosis before
special provisions are made for tuber-
cular negroes justly proportioned to
their number, their racial susceptible
ity and their economic status
The past two years has marked a
great Improvement in the conduct and
management of the penal institutions
of the State
1 suggest that the appointment of
members of the Advisory Board of
Pardons and Parole. as well as of their
investigators, be vested in the Gov
ernor
l favor the establishments of a farm
for the reatment of inebriates
The results attained by the State In
dustrial Accident Commission have
been more satisfactory than even its
advocates had dared to hope
| favor the creation of the office of
state conservation commissioner, un-
der whose direction shall be placed the
work now performed by the Shell Fish
Commission, State Fishery Force, Fish
Commissioners for the Eastern and
Western Shores, state mine inspector,
game warden and the State Board of
Forestry
1t would be we'll to enlarge the func-
tions of the Highway Commissioner
to include those of the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles and abolish the lat
ter office
A publicity department might be
properly organized under the Bureau
of State immigration and Animal In
dustry
Consideration should be given to
some system that will fix a minimum
amount beyond which the Legislature
| cannot appropl late money to any par
ticular function of government
1t would be wise and economical to
provide for a constitutional conven-
tion to bring our Constitution up TO
the requirements of the day
The message is full of wisdom and
carries with it thought and careful
study of the situation Of the body pol
itic 1t contains suggestions and rec
| arnn auda tiouc that cbouI1 bo haa1ed