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We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
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Duties
Functions
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Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.
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Administration
Bureaucracy
Concentrating
Creation
Dangers
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.
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Citizens
Clean
Men And Women
Produce
Good Men Women
Bodies
Good Women Men
Good Citizens
Minds
Perpetuate
Souls
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
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Pressure
Sections
Special Interests
Interests
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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
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Dollars
Million Dollars
University
Life Education Business
Colleges
Fits
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Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
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Farming
Following
Immigration
Largest
Skilled
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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
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Capacity
Citizens
Develop
Likely
Nourished
Powers
Properly
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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
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Schooling
Struggle
Life Education Must
Life Education Better
Cent
District
Per
Provide
Whose
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A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
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Eight
Fitting
Grades
Livelihood
Complete
Earn
Possess
Practical
Received
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
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Loyalty
Civil Service
Dare
Explicit
Merit
Public Service
Rewards
Civil
Enactment
Official
Partisan
Promotions
Salaries
Solely
Urge
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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
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Credit
Farming
Operations
Owners
Requirements
Time Money Long
Time Money May
Meeting
Obtain
Readily
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Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
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Connected
Highways
Amendment
Change Future Work
Continuous
Cooperate
Counties
Change Work Future
Result
Such A Way
Uniform
Urge
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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
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County
Paid
Reducing
Consolidating
Duties
Greatly
Offices
Salaries
Similar
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Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
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Candidates
Election
Free Expression
Interfere
Amendment
General Election
Naming
Primary
Several
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