The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03

helpful. However, the schools of st.
Louis must necessarily be governed
by the samegeneral provisions as all
other schools of the state.
Mrs. Walter McNabb Miller,
chairman of the Committee on Pub
lie Health and Welfare, spoke in
Columbia Wednesday, on the work of
the convention, before the Fortnight
ly CLUB and the state nurses asso-
citation convention.
The convention has voted to take q
recess over election, starting Friday,
November 8, and ending Thursday,
November 8.
A resolution was introduced this
week to take up the constitution of
1876 section by section for amend
ment or approval, and to vote on it
finally. The proposition was voted
down on the contention that it was
not following the plan adopted for
the revision of the constitution and
that several articles had already been
acted on in the order which they
came from the committees.
With the report of the Committee
on Taxation filed with the convention
this week all but one report is now
before the body for consideration.
The report of the Committee on Ag-
riculture, Conservation and Industry
has been delayed because the chair
man has been absent on account OF
sickness. Seven reports have been
considered in whole or in part and
four have been passed to the Commit
ZEE on Phraseology and Arrangement.
The three remaining may be disposed
of before the recess is taken for cleo
ton. Then, with all the reports be-
fore it. the convention will be in shape
to push its work through to an early
conclusion.
Speaking on the subject of "home
rule" for cities. Daniel G. Taylor,
chairman of the Committee on Coun-
ties, Cities and Towns, Wednesday
night gave ten-minute talk via ra-
do from the state capitol. The gov
eminent of the large cities, he point
ed out. was one of the most difficult
problems before the people today. He
urged that it was a question in which
the people Of the country as well as
those of the cities were alike inter-
csted because they were interdepend-
ent upon each other. The character
and DEVELOPMENT of the one reacted
upon the other, so that if the citizens
and the government of the cities were
bad, it was bound to follow that the
country would be affected in a seri-
Gus manner. II was therefore most
important that all the people aid IN
the bringing about improved govern
ment in the cities.
The refusal in the past to permit
the people of the cities to have con-
troll, over their own affairs, the speak
'er declared, was largely responsible
for their utter indifference at the
polls and to all matters Of govern
ment. The surest way, in his judg-
ment, to induce and continue and fos-
ter indifference in either individual or
aggregations of individuals was to
relieve them of the power of attend
ing to their own affairs. The citizens
of the cities ought to be aroused to a
sense Of duty to governmental mat
tiers or they would become menace
TO the STATE and nation. The best in
formed students of municipal govern
ment believed. the speaker said, that
if the seat of power and control over
rurely local matters was transferred
from the state to the city and city
consciousness would be awakened and
he citizens Of the municipalities
would take hold of their own affairs
and correct the evils in their govern
ment just as soon as they felt the
pinch of Encouragement and realized