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13. A lunchroom should be established in the X---- High School.
14. Athletic regulations should not debar a student from playing summer baseball.
15. No student in an American college should be eligible to compete in intercollegiate athletics until he has begun his second year's work.
16. All studies in the X--- College (or High School) above those of the Freshman should be entirely elective.
17. In all public high schools training in military tactics should be required.
18. Public high schools should be under state supervision.
19. Admission to American colleges should be allowed only upon examination.
20. Academic degrees should be given only upon state examinations.
21. The library of X--- College (or High School, or city) should be open on Sunday.
22. A plan of self-government should be adopted for the X--- College (or High School).
23. The terms "successful" and "failed" as the only indication of grade work should be adopted by the X--- School in place of the present plan or working.
24. Gymnasium work should be required in X--- School.
25. Training in domestic science should be required of all girls at X--- School.
26. Manual training should be a requirement of all boys at X--- School.
SOCIAL QUESTIONS
27. The influence of the five-cent theater is beneficial.
28. A state board with power to forbid public exhibition should exercise stage censors.h.i.+p.
29. Children under sixteen years of age should be prohibited from working in confining industries.
30. Children under fourteen years of age should be prohibited from appearing on the stage.
31. A minimum wage for women employees of department stores should be enacted by the state of X---.
32. Public owners.h.i.+p of saloons would be a desirable method of dealing with the liquor problem.
33. The English system of old-age pensions should be adopted by the United States government.
34. Vivisection should be prohibited by law.
35. The publication of court proceedings in criminal and divorce cases should be subject to a board of censors.h.i.+p.
36. Education under the direction of a state board, should be required in the state prisons of X---.
37. The laws of marriage and divorce should be uniform throughout the United States (const.i.tutionality conceded).
38. Local option is the best method of dealing with the liquor question.
39. The army canteen is desirable.
40. A system of compulsory industrial insurance should be adopted by the state of X---.
41. An eight-hour law for all women workers should be enacted by the state of X---.
42. Immigration should be restricted according to the provisions of the Dillingham-Burnett bill.
43. Free employment bureaus should be established by the city of X---.
44. Free employment bureaus should be established by the state of X---.
POLITICAL QUESTIONS
45. A permanent national tariff commission should be established.
46. The const.i.tution should be so amended as to make more easy the pa.s.sing of amendments.
47. The restrictions on Mongolian immigration should be removed.
48. The President of the United States should serve one term of six years.
49. Complete public reports of all contributions to political campaign funds should be required by law.
50. The Monroe Doctrine as a part of American foreign policy should be discontinued.
51. The interests of labor can best be represented by a separate political party.
52. The naturalization laws of the United States should be made more stringent.
53. Aliens should be forbidden the ballot in every state.
54. The state of California is justified in her stand against land owners.h.i.+p by aliens.
55. Permanent retention of the Philippine Islands by the United States is not advisable.
56. The United States navy should be maintained at a fighting strength equal to any in the world.
57. Direct presidential primaries should be a subst.i.tute for the present method of presidential nomination.
58. Corporations engaged in interstate business should be compelled to operate under a national charter.
59. The Panama Ca.n.a.l should be fortified.