B. International Peace.
126. The United States should at once announce and carry out a policy of total disarmament.
127. The present growth of armaments should be checked by mutual agreement between the nations.
128. The United States should immediately provide for an increase in its navy.
129. International peace is best promoted by extensive warlike preparations.
130. The German system of compulsory insurance should be adopted in the United States.
131. The Federal government should control all life insurance companies.
132. A system of compulsory industrial insurance should be adopted in the United States.
133. The United States government should grant uniform pensions to all citizens over sixty years of age.
134. The Federal government should grant old-age pensions.
135. All church property should be taxed.
136. The modern church should maintain more rigid rules regarding the personal conduct of its members.
137. A union of all Christian churches in the United States would further the cause of Christianity.
138. Sunday baseball should be prohibited.
139. Public libraries, museums, and art galleries should be open on Sunday.
140. Lavish social entertainments should be condemned.
141. In times of business depression the states and municipalities should furnish employment to the unemployed.
142. Capital punishment should be abolished.
143. All cities of over 25,000 population should establish free public employment bureaus.
144. State institutions should be established providing for the care and training of homeless children.
145. The growth of monopolies shows a tendency toward Socialism.
146. Congress should enact laws providing for the censorship of the stage.
147. Moving picture shows should be compelled to exhibit only such pictures as can be shown to have an educational or cultural value.
148. The United States is moving toward Socialism.
149. The tendency of the population of the United States to concentrate in the cities is detrimental to the best interest of the people.
150. Children under sixteen years of age should be prohibited by Federal law from working in factories.
151. A maximum eight hour working day for all occupations should be established by state law.
152. Vivisection should be prohibited by law.
153. Arctic and Antarctic expeditions should be looked upon with disfavor by the public.
154. The United States government should grant permanent copyright.
155. Automobiles should be prohibited from running more than fifteen miles an hour.
156. Railroads should be required by Federal and state law to adopt all devices such as block signals, steel passenger coaches, etc., which minimize the danger from wreck.
157. Greater security should be given by law to wills and bequests.
158. The negro is not fitted to exercise the right of suffrage.
159. There should be a state censorship of the stage.
160. Letter postage should be reduced to one cent.
161. Male citizens should be compelled to serve two years in the United States army.
162. Popular literature shows a decline in public morals.
163. Social settlement organizations offer the best means of conducting charitable work.
164. The plea of insanity shall not be available as a bar to punishment for crime.
165. Newspapers should be prohibited from publishing matter which has a tendency to corrupt the public morals.
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166. The Bible should be taught in the public schools.
167. Free text-books should be furnished to all pupils below the high school grade.
168. The state should prescribe uniform text-books for the public schools.
169. Public funds should not be appropriated to aid private or sectarian schools.
170. No prizes should be offered in public schools.
171. Every high school should be compelled to maintain courses in manual training and domestic science.
172. Secret societies should be prohibited in public high schools.
173. High school courses should be revised so as to furnish more practical educational training.
174. The high school course as at present given by almost all high schools is of no practical value to the pupil who does not go to college.
175. Military drill should be compulsory in all public high schools of the United States.
176. The honor system of examinations should be adopted by all American colleges.
177. Freshmen at should not be permitted to engage in intercollegiate athletics.
178. All college courses should be completely elective.
179. Athletics, as now conducted, are a detriment to American colleges.
180. No college should be located near a large city.
181. Denominational colleges should not receive financial aid from the state.
182. For the average student the small college is preferable to the large college.
183. Admission to American colleges should be by examination only.
184. Intercollegiate football should be abolished.
185. Segregation of sexes in American colleges and universities is preferable to coëducation.
186. Students in college courses who attain the rank of ninety per cent or higher in daily work should be excused from examinations.
187. Two years of college work should be required for admission to any course in law or medicine.
188. Written term examinations should be abolished.
189. The class rushes at the beginning of the college year should be prohibited.
190. Chapel attendance at the University of should be compulsory.
191. Student government should be established at the University of .
192. The Oxford type of university should be adopted in the United States.
193. For the average man a college education is an aid to business success.
194. The colleges of the state of should be combined into one centrally located university.
195. A National University should be established at Washington.
196. Novels should not be placed in circulation by public libraries until two years after publication.
197. The number of subjects taught in high schools and colleges should be greatly reduced.
198. The recommendations of the simplified spelling board should be adopted throughout the United States.
199. Night trade schools should be established as a part of our system of public instruction.
200. Industrial education will solve the negro race problem in the United States.
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