Codification of child laws with establishment of child welfare department.
Compulsory provision for mothers’ pensions.
Creation of a Board of Clemency, to be in constant session for consideration of release, parole, and probation of persons under penal sentences.
Indeterminate sentence law under which first offenders are given every opportunity for rehabilitation, so that no men shall be deprived of the opportunity of making a new beginning.
Purchase of a penitentiary farm and building of a new penitentiary in the country.
Employment of prisoners in road work, including the manufacture of road building machinery and material, with compensation of prisoners for all work done, with earnings over cost of maintenance paid directly to dependants of prisoners.
Recommendation and passage of state legislation for woman suffrage.
Educational Developments
Consolidated schools in excess of 1200, with full high school courses, have supplanted more than five times that number of one-room school houses.