The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-03-23
BY Steve Travis, Correspondent.

Iledlly support dCCOIueu 10 MN
by the legislature just closed, has
succeeded in placing upon the
statute books of this state more
legislation of a progressive nature
for the up-building, promotion
and advancement of the civic,
moral, material and financial de
velopment of this state than has
been enacted at any previous ses-
sion of the legislature in the his
tory of South Dakota.
Workmen's Compensation Act.
During the entire legislative
career of Governor Norbeck
while representing Sphinx county
in our state legislature, he has
made consistent and persistent
attempts to secure the passage of
a workmen's compensation law
but was unable to have such a
statute placed upon the statute
books until he had achieved the
height of his legislative career
and had been placed in the eX-
ecutive chair. Workmen's com
penSation acts are inherently just,
and now that the validity of such
legislation has been sustained by
the highest tribunal in our land
the Supreme Court of the United
States-the people of South Da-
kota are to be congratulated upon
the passage of this law, which
will be of untold benefit to a large
number of the people of our state.
Rural Credits.
1t has been the hobby of Gov
ernor Norbeck for years that the
state should provide some system
whereby all persons engaged in
agriculture, and the young men
of our state in particular who de-
sire to go back to the farm or re-
main on the farm, might have an
opportunity to borrow money on
long time at a low rate of interest
for the purpose of purchase and
stocking their farms. He con-
tended that the rate of interest
should be so low and the terms of
payment so favorable that, with,
annual Interest payment, portions
of the principal might be paid,
and at the end of the loan period
the borrower would have arrived
financially, so to speak. One of
the governors campaign pledges
was the passage of a rural credits
law, and he has had the supreme
satisfaction of signing as govern
or the bill putting his pet theory
into effect.
Irrigation.
There has been an insiStent de-
mand from the people in our state
residing west of the Missori river
for legislation which would en-
able them to create irrigation dis
tricts and incur Indebtedness and
thus provide funds necessary for
the irrigation of that territory.
There are approximately 25,0OO,-
600 acres of land in thiZ state
west of the Missouri River. Many
thousands of acres are so located
that irrigation is feasible, both
from an operating and a financial
standpoint. The placing of the
irrigation law on our statute
books at the recent session OF the
legislature will afford to our peo-
pie west of the river the relief
which they have so long sought.
Mere words fail to describe the
benefit which will be achieved as
the result of this legislation.
Schools In Unorganized Counties.
For many, many years those
residents of our state who reside
in the unorganized counties have
had no school system and the
state had never devised any
scheme under which their chill
dren might be educated. Oul
state educational institutions anc
the education of the children Of
our state are matters IN which