The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-01-05

tne mlllage from ten mills to fVe
This will pay their salaries for many
years, and shows what they would dc
were they adequately equipped with
legal authority and had the right
kind of men on the board. 1t will be
our pleasure to try to get the Legis.
lature to see that this body should
be given full and competent power
to equalize the taxes of all property
lying within our domain.
Changes in Primary Law.
The primary law will also come in
for its change, as the recent election
muddle proved conclusively that it is
very deficient in regard to second
choice votes. Just what the changes
are to be cannot yet be said, but we
notice that many newspapers of the
State are taking this matter up, and
are insisting upon it that the law shall
be simpliied and the second choice
vote cut out entirely. Our sugges-
tlon will be that not only this change
be wrought, but that others also shall
| be effected which will materially
change conditions" of collusion and
fraud, and which will simplify the bal
lot to such an extent that "the way
farlng man. though a fool, need not
err therein"
Initiative, Referendum and Recall.
Many of our sober and best think
ing men also think that the time has
come in the history of our State when
the initiative, referendum and recall
laws shall be put upon our statute
books and become corporate part of
the laws of the land. They also
think that, with proper provisions of
protection, these laws should run the
gauntlet from constable to the highest
officers of the State, and thus insure
in times of danger that no czar-like
procedure shall ever be taken part in
by any official or set of officials.
Prohibition.
Another problem that will come up
For solution upon the initiative of the
House and Senate, will be the matter
Of prohibition. This is a question
which, like Banquo's ghost. will not
lown until it shall be finally settled
or what is best to the greatest mass
IS of mankind. The whiskey men of
he State all feel that it is a question
which will ultimately go against
hem, not only in Florida, but in the
lation.
opening All Closed Institutions to
Police Inspection.
The next question that will come be- :
ore US for solution will be the open =.
ng of all closed institutions within
he State of Florida for police inspec- =
ION, such as converts, parochial =
chools and other institutions of like Z
ature. The taxing of all church l.
property, with the exception of the .
astoral homes and the churches )
themselves, and the same universal !!
Examinations for all teachers, whether l.
hey be in public or parochial or de- v
ominationel schools. This possibly u
ill have some disquieting effects up o
n legislation, but like the great II
uestion of prohibition will never g
own until it is settled upon a ba- s ;,
is of Americanism. +
Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls. -
Another question which will claim y
he best thought and attention of our "A =,
louise and Senate is the matter of i,
ldustrial schools and training for the
oys and girls of Florida. As Sena-
II Williams says, the time is past :,
hen boys and girls know all about =, "A
attn, Greek, French, Hebrew, San l., L
lrit and all the dead languages, and 1
ct when they go to sell goods know ,n
othing about how to be polite to peo- Il -
e, to cut the goods right, or to re- II
in their positions, and when they 60 n n
farm "it will take two years to N
axe their sugar cane grow big
ough to chew" If we desire to re- A
in the respect of ourselves and the
tions of the earth we must educate u
e hand as we'll as the brain. This III
one of the great schemes which ..
, hope to see instituted in Florida in Gl
e next four years. "A
Better Shipping Laws. "a =
Another question of vital impor- He
ice will be to get cooperation be- No
cen the people and the railroads of Th
State, by system of properly Flo
,ulated freight rates which will in An
'e to them the early shipping of Go,
ir commodities, vegetables and WI
it, no discrimination against them Ale
such thorough cooperation as An
ii put the magnificent productions
Florida into the Eastern markets .
the same basis of railroad COOP l
tion as California now enjoys. To tho
this we must have the attention of to
railroads to such an extent that IN
Y must attend to the wants of tina
rida with no less avidity, by hav- tor'
plenty of cars always on hand, mas
id transportation low freight TEN
IS, ETC., as now marks the ship teer
g facilities from the wheat and lum
4 regions of the West, and from gull
fruit regions of California. Such and
1itions as these will make Florida the
golden State of the Union. glat
Our Trust in Jehovah. , Llus
tanding as we do today, without If :
pale of specific knowledge, it is mo
ossible for US to tell of many tieS
5 that should be corrected. Suf- tbo
it to say that with the help and mo
peration of all the forces involv- +bo,
), +baca ,,,ottarc y-a cbo1l ctriya ac WV