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THE HUTCHINSON NEWS. TWO. Hutchinson Weekly News future peace, as Germany will not disarm until thoso colonics have ESTABLISHED 1872. been 'given back. W.

Y. MORGAN. s-ntrfi th Pomofflc In Hutch od of manufacturing gold out of cheap materials, and ol finding the elixir of life, which was to make men live forever. It is still a dreum, but with the electron theory and the goat glands, there are hopes for some future generation. Y.

MORGAN. revolution, which is their ordinary method of displaying their feelings. Tbe bead of the Greek government saw that the only way to stop the Inevitable conflict was to change the government Into some form which could not be upset by a popular vote. Hence the Kaiuan. for transit.

lflon EDUCATION OF PARENTS, PLAN Wichita's Scheme Attracts Attention Classes Are Four Times Week. ture to papers of private and official nature. But so few of them have been found by those who have sought tho prize that he Is now not only known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but as tbe man whose autograph is the most valuable of all those credited to Americans. W. Y.

MORGAN. itiall ecnn1-clat throug-b th FACTS ABOUT THE COURT. matter During tbe Senate debate on the country than there were voters in the state. Kansas was one hundred percent loyal, even though a few stragglers may have run back to Missouri and South Carolina. lu celebrating the birthday It Is always well to look back and note the progress from the first.

It is also well to look forward and estimate the future. Kansas can do both. We can look backward or forward and be proud. W. Y.

MORGAN. THE WEEKLY NEWS. There are some questions which cannot be submitted. Those are questions which Involve national honor and local legislation. Buf there are questions which must either be settled by a judicial decision or by a fight.

Tbe Court will provide the place for the action by which the fight can be avoided. There will still be plenty of opportunity for disagreement and war. The Court merely lessens that opportunity. After our entrance into the World Court is established, there nn Con. On fear IB'" One Couy.

Bl Months KANSAS' BIRTHDAY. World Court question a great many things were said and circulated which were not true. Apparently the opponents of the Court felt that their only chance for success lay In scaring tbe American peoplo Those of us who are worrying The state of Kansas is sixty-five about conditions in the United States should glance around the years old today. On. the 29th of January, 18C1 President Buchanan Tbe Siaiger Drug Co.

PRESCRIPTION SPFXIAUISTS world and see if there is any other OTHER PEOPLES' TROUBLES. While the people of the United States are exercised over various problems affecting their domestic and international aTfairs, tho peo signed the bill which made Kansas Into changing their minds on the adherence of the United Stales to country which offers a better place one of the states of the Union. The bill had been before Con for a calm and quiet existence. We will probably be no further discus the International Court of Justice NO. 17 North Main 6treeU Hutchlnoon.

Telephone sion of the subject, and in a few nave tne naDtt or deciding our ple lu other countries have So these senators set up a lot of dummy terrors with which to questions at tbe ballot box, and are years the people who opposed the1 Court will be trying to forget that accustomed to accepting the decisions of Congress without at gress for some but bad been blocked by the opposition of the pro-slavery element because the Constitution, which had been adopted by the people of Kansas, prohibited human slavery. Several fact. W. Y. MORGAN, tempting to overthrow the govern Wichita, Feb.

A plan for parental education in Wichita, has gained the attention of the American Federation cf Women's Clubs and the National Mothers and Parent-Teachers' Associations. Its chief feature is the correlation of the work of all civic, judicial, educational and correctional agencies for the purpose of giving parents training In bringing up their children and meeting the pressing, new problems born of the new and modern social order. In a sense, the courses taken by the student-parents constitute pref ventatlve medicine for moral ills. The civio clubs, the Y. M.

and Y. W. C. women's clubs, the juvenile court, churches, welfare organizations and the police department are cooperating in the movement. The work is in charge of a "parental education commit.

ment. W. Y. MORGAN. troubles especially their own.

Take for example the terrible situation which is agitating the Japanese. In their country, as in many countries, the sale of tobacco is a government monopoly. The soldiers who were in France will remember the little shops with the sign "Tabac," which meant that a government agent was prepared to members of the Senate, and sev BUTTON GWINNETT. It one were asked whose auto eral Congressmen from southern states retired from the capltol, pre- graph he would value most highly, ho would probably answer that of paring for their attempted scces frighten the public and thus secure at least a delay in action on the recommendation of President Coolidge. If there still be some who are worried over the effect of the entrance of America Into the World Court, I want to urge them to forget it and go on about their affairs with full confidence that the American statesmen have mado no mistake.

The simple and easy thing to keep in mind is that after adhering to the World Court, it will not be THAT WONDERFUL PACKAGE. sion. This opened the road, aud John D. Rockefeller, provided, of course, it was written at the right THE SCIENTIST'S DREAM. The Scientific American, which is perhaps the highest scientific authority in this country, announces that two scientists of the University of Amsterdam have succeeded in changing lead into mercury.

If this' proves to be true, and there is no good eaaon t0 doubt its correctness, these two Dutch professors, Dr. Smlts and have accomplished the result for which scientific men have been laboring through all the ages since there has been science. If lead can be changed Into mercury, there no outstanding reason why it the bill went through' by a vote of By Ruth Cameron. place on a bank check. Hut thero sell them a very poor quality of tobacco for a very high price.

"Iu Japan the sale of tobacco is a gov- ono ana seventeen 10 THE LOST COLONIES. There are several features in the European situation which are Important as regards the future, but which are not discussed on account of other and more pressing matters. When the Germans 1 get the French and English armies of occupation out of Germany, and secure the removal' of the restrictions on aviation and armament, which were imposed by the Versailles Treaty, their next demand will be the restoration of their lost African possessions. They thiuk more ot these African colonies than we are Inclined to believe. For a generation tlicy had looked forward to a time when their commercial activity and their business ability would put them at the head of tbe economic world, and they counted greatly on the resources of Central Africa.

At- the beginning of the World War, Germany was the sovereign are autographs which are consider forty-two in the House of Itcpre ed valuable, and which can bo sold ernment monopoly, in order to in sentatives, and thirty-six to sixteen for high prices, provided ambitious crease revenue without adding to in the Senate. purchasers are found. These are tee." The news of the birth of the new the other taxes, the Japanese gov ernment has been selling constant usually tbe signatures of famous Parental claHSPH. lipid In fnnr stale was sent to Kansas in a tele' men and women, who have distin ly poorer tobacco at constantly necessary fur us to submit any gram from Marcus J. Parrott to school buildings in different parts of the city four times a week, constitute one department of the work.

The teachers for the classes are higher prices. Recently an ad' the Leavenworth Conservative, vance of twenty percent was an then edited by D. W. Wilder. That cannot be changed into gold, the specialists.

The physical as well nounced by the government on the retail sale price of tobacco either in its natural form or iu manufac as the moral and mental sides ot child-training is stressed. Once a week a lnr.nl nowEnpnrv tured shape. devotes space to answering ques. tions propounded by parents of While the Japs are not near as much given to smoking as are the growing boys and girls. The department is conducted hv Mn.

T. over a large area of land In Africa. G. Klepper, mother of six children. The territory was not developed, and had not gotten far out of the case to that Court for consideration unless we desire to do so.

The Court will have no jurisdiction on Its own account. The only way in which it can be called into action is by both sides to a disputed question agreeing to submit their differences fo the Court for adjudication, Joining such a Court is very little more than entrance into a debating society. However, there may he times when our membership will be most important, and will actually affect the peace of the world. The United States has been consistently in favor of the World Court for a hundred years. The proposition' has been repeatedly favored by our government.

Both political parties have endorsed the Americans, they have adopted the habit sufficiently so that the screams of the tobacco users mounted above all other cries, and political meetings are being held and parties formed upon this issue. The government is evidently not trying to limit the sale of tobacco, paper printed an extra edition, aud copies were sent to Lawrence and to Topeka. The state officers bad been chosen at a previous election, and therefore were ready for business. Tbe first Governor was Charles Robinson, of Lawrence, and he was sworn into office on the ninth day of February. The Legislature was called into session and began tbe process of making laws, which has been continued up to this time.

The of Governor of Kan: sas at that time was two thousand dollars a Governor Robinson had been an active worker in the free state cause, and had taken part in the territorial strife. The population of tbe state had been taken the year before, aud jungle state, but it bad fertile soil and wonderful forests, so that under efficient administration it might become one of the richest parts of the earth's surface. Quier In Race for Attorney General Topeka, Jan. 29. Charles II.

Quier of Winfield, county attorney of Cowley county, announced here today his candidacy for the Republican nomination for attorney general of Kansas. The announcement was made a3 G. O. leaders guished themselves in literature, art, government, or other public activities. No doubt the name pf George Washington, written by his own hand, would be considered at first thought the most valuable autograph to be found In America.

But George was a ready writer. He attached his name to so many letters and documents and public papers that it is not difficult to secure his signature either as a curiosity or to add to a collection. Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore, Roosevelt, or Woodrow Wilson, might be selected as the individual whose autograph would stand out for its popularity and its prominence. No doubt this would be true, but these gentlemen were so frequent users of the pen that their autographs are neither rare nor valuable.

The most expensive autograph In this country is that of a man named Button Gwinnett, and thereby hangs a tale. The enthusiastic and patriotic As sopn as war was declared, the because that a large part of its revenue. It merely wants English began to move upon the German colonies in Africa. The more money aud takes this method of extracting it from the pockets home country could not help the of the spenders. colonies.

England controlled the The Japs have lost their interest seas, and there was no way to send in the racial problem and the eco assistance. All that the German Idea in their platforms. The Re objective for which the experimenters have been straiulng for centuries. Time and again some scientist or alchemist has believed that he was on the track of this transmutation of metal, but always there has been some obstacle which presented itself to prevent the consummation of the change. Kings and capitalists have contributed to the funds required for research, expecting to gain great profits from success.

Scientists sometimes work for glory, but these experimenters have always had also in mind the great wealth which would result if the common metals could be transformed into are called "the precious WHEtals." change l.SG; N'y understand the Dutch pro- t-4uit announced, it is the dis- No. 3 Mf a method by vhich t0 C'OFhgo tt-'e electrons, which make the at.om. And as the different Jetals arV presumed to be merely Novi'e dlfferW arranging of eloc- 6ons, it Is yiot unfair to say that having "found a method to re- p'-range the electrons bo as to KiaUe mercury out of lead, further "leading to the gold are' scientifically pos- j. Science changes from one age to ltyther. Not so-many years ago atom was discovered, and was the smallest particle into which an element was divided.

When we spoke of blowing an ob nomic conditions. They are pound publican party has specifically sup government and garrisons could do was to retreat and finally sur ported the Court idea in all of its was reported as 107,206. render. In a comparatively short ing on the tables and getting red in the faces over the advance in the price of an article which is not a necessity, but which is a habit. recent declarations, and at the last national convention endorsed the time the great area over which the German flag had floated was In the entrance of America into this trib These few facts are worthy of being kept in mind, even though they are the record of a long time ago.

Although Kansas is sixty-five It does not occur to the Japs, and unal, as recommended by President possession of the British and the French. The peace conference divided Harding and by President Coolidge, Nature works in a miraculous way her wonders to perform. And of all her contrivances, is thero any more cunning, more beautiful and more appalling than the way she wraps up her scheme for carrying on the race in trailing clouds of golden emotion and rosy illusion? In my morning paper the other day were two news stories side by side. One concerned the sordid yet tragic case of the young scion of a fine old family who got tangled up In a very unhappy and undesirable marriage and was trying to get out. The thing that struck me most forcibly about that case was the genuine power of his emotion as expressed in the letters he wrote to his wife-to-be, when he was separated from her, despite the letters he was receiving from her.

His were intelligent, devoted letters. Yet in return he was receiving incoherent, utterly Ignorant and unintelligent and indicated to an unprejudiced reader' at least that he did not mean much to her. How could he persist in his devotion? Only because of the fearful and wonderful power that takes hold of men and women at such times. The other story was in regard to a young college girl who had disappeared under baffling circumstances. Her love letters were also produced and were pathetic In the state of mind they showed.

She was on a vacation and should have been having a wonderful time but life to her wa3 simply hours to be gotten through between mail times. And mail times were the worst of all because he did not write. "I could hardly wait until It was time to go for the mall," she wrote, "and after all there was nothing there." One could feel the siyk sinking of her heart as she turned away from that empty mail box. Somehow those two cases side by side brought home to me with new force the old fact that this is a tremendous power that takes hold of men and women twists them and drives them and takes away their sense of proportion. Here were two young people who had all kinds of material advantages and yet all the happiness of life seemed to them to focus in the presence and affection of one person out of all the world, and lacking that they could not be happy.

Truly it is appalling when you stop to think of the power and the glory and the weakness and the misery that are all wrapped up together in nature's plan for peeping her race going. Yet who would have it different. Or who would wish never to have known that time when "a single tone of one voice could make the heart bound, when the most trlval circumstances associated with one form is put in the amber of misery, when he became all eyes when one was present and all memory when one was gone." Bank Rule Hits Loans to Farmers neither would it occur to the Americans that they could reduce I think it is fair to say that such these territories taken from Ger collector of American autographs naturally begins with those which were written by the signers of the Declaration of Independence. A leadership as Coolidge, Harding, and Hughes is much safer to fol years old and should le looking and acting as a conservative old many among the Allies -which had strength in Africa. Great Britain, low than that of the opposition fac man, there Is still evidence in sight that the red blood of youth 1s cir complete set of these signatures of France, and added more tion, made up largely of senators who are never for anything, hut square miles to their possessions culating vigorously, and that in by this treaty than they had ever are always against something.

stead of being an old man, the state is still a young chap, willing to try anything once, aud Insisting This Court was established by a protocol of the League of Nations, on learning from his own experl ence andnot from that of others. but the plan was worked out with American advice and cooperation. The League of Nations Is dominat done by any other act of conquest or colonization. Apparently the Germans were out of Africa for all time to come. But the Germans are a powerful people.

They occupy a strategic point iu central Europe. They must be consulted and counted In every activity which concerns Europe. They are getting out of The real birthday celebration was Lnwrence. The people there dug up an old cannon which had been captured from the pro- ed by the countries of Europe. It is an alliance and not a peace or the signers is only possessed by twenty-seven collections in the United States.

One of the signers was Button Gwinnett, who represented the colony of Georgia. Although he was doubtless a prominent man In his home community, it has been almost impossible to find any document or letter to which his -name was attached. Recently a small piece oi paper, which bore his name as a witness 'to a will, was sold by the descendants who discovered the document, for twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. This Is said to be the highest price ever paid for an autograph of an American. The record of the Revolutionary time shows that Mr.

Gwinnett was born In Bristol, England, and came to Georgia after he had attained ganization. If the United States should enter the League of Nations, we might well look forward to the time when we would be com Charles H. Quier. met for the annual Kansas Day love feast. Quier is purely a Cowley county product, having been born on a farm near Burden in the eastern part of the county in early days.

He graduated from the law school of the University of Kansas in 1903 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. Ho is 48 years of age and has been practising law for several years in Winfield and Arkansas City. For the past three yoars he has been county the demoralization which followed the War, and 'they are again the rfbst powerful nation on the continent. There is no reason so far as they can see why their friendship should not be worth a return of those colonies in Africa, which are now doing much good to their new owners, and which would do them no good at all unless the peace of Europe could be preserv GARDEN CITY WILL EXTEND WHITE WAY. ed.

mature years. He took an interest in public affairs without holding an office. When the assembly of the Statesmen must look forward. slavery army when it was attack ing Lawrence several years before. The cannon was known as "old Sacramento," because It had been a participant in that battle in the state of California during the war with Mexico.

It was too old-style to be considered an effective gun, but the people of Lawrence sat up all night and kept it continuously booming in honor of the new state. Kansas had been through a struggle which amounted to a civil war. For several years the contending forces for slavery and freedom had battled for control of tho territory. Gradually the oppon-ents of slavery outnumbered the friends, and after several attempts to form a constitution, a convention at Wyandotte formulated a document, which is now the organic law of the state. In addition to the civil warfare, there had been many other troubles.

Hostile Indians were numerous on the border. Settle' ments had only reached about one hundred miles west of the Missouri line. The greater part of the western half was considered impossible from an agricultural viewpoint. In 1860 there had been a is not difficult to sea the Europe of twenty years from now with Cermany once more the strongest colony sent delegates to the colonial congress, it naturally picked men with the financial ability to pay their own expenses, and alsofl of all the countries and most feared of all the nations. Certainly by that time the old-time Allies will realize that they must comply of course, men who were loyal to the Interests of America.

Mr. Garden City, Jan. 29. A "whlto way" extension which will add greatly to tho beauty of Garden City at night, is planned to be made by the city commissioners in the early spring. For ten years Main Street has been ono of the most attractive, streets in the state, with a "white way" extending one block south and five blocks north of the Santa Fe tracks, with four poles to block, three globes on each pole.

Stevens Avenue, a single block in the heart of the business section, has also been lighted. The'J extension will probably cover the two blocks of Seventh street from the station to the postoffice and also the two blocks of Stevens Avenue known as Motor Row, and several streets connecting Main and Seventh--the first street east. Such good returns are being made by the light and water department that no extra tax levy will be neces-sary, according to Mayor II. O. Trinkle and Ben Bullard, city superintendent.

with the German request. Already they are whispering among themselves that perhaps they might bet Gwinnett came up to both of these specifications, and as a delegate to the congress, affixed his name to that immortal list which was head their expenses and cut down their taxes if they would stop using tobacco altogether. The government of Turkey has changed the calendar in that country. According to the method of calculating time, which has been used in Mohammedan countries for centuries, the present year is 1344. The years are calculated from the Hegira, or the time of the flight of Mohammed from Mecca.

The Turkish parliament has adopted the international calendar, which makes this year 1926, thus skipping five hundred and eighty-two years, and abandoning the ancient and honorable tradition of the Moslem faith. We can get the resulting situation in Turkey from thinking what would happen in the' United States if our government should change our calendar with the birth of Christ "as its base, and resolve that the year 1926 would be 1508. The protests which would arise from the church people and the calendar makers would be worst than the clamor for a reduction in Federal taxation. Turkey is trying to become modern. The present government is changing in many of the old ways, from the custom of requiring the women to wear veils to the habit of the men wearing fezzes.

Now comes this last and most startling change from a Mohammedan tradition to the Christian custom. When thej recent change of government in Greece from a republic to a dictatorship was announced, there was considerable surprise over the world because of the action. taken. Apparently the Greeks were satisfied, and as they were the parties most concerned in the transaction, there was really' nothing for the rest of the world to do about it. But the overthrow of the republic was not an ordinary political Incident.

It came from the loss of confidence In their government, which developed among the Greek people. A few months ago the Greek army fudged over into Bulgarian territory' and shot up a Bulgarian village. There was "nothing unusual in the circumstances, as it had been a customary procedure for many generations that when Bulgarians or Greeks desired to start trouble, they could always do so by crossing the frontier. The League of Nations council took up this latest development and ordered Greece to pay a fine to Bulgaria. A couple of years the Italian fleet had bombarded the Island of Corfu, killing some Greeks and destroying much property, and the Geneva council had refused to even consider the grievance of the Greeks.

Such a change iu policy on the part of the Geneva organization could not be understood by the Balkan people. The Greeks were just about to start a ter do it sooner than later. pelled to enter into war on account of European quarrels. But the Court has no characteristic of an alliance. It is merely a tribunal to which conflicting interests 'may appeal for a decision in a dispute which they cannot settle themselves.

Membership In the League would, in my opinion, be a sad mistake for America, but membership in the Court Is a move to aid in peaceful settlement of controversy, and therefore Is tho perfectly safe and proper step to take. Most of the opposition to the Court was on account of its connection with the League of Nations. It is the height of folly to be against something merely because somebody else Is for or has had something to do with it. It Is not only folly, but it Is a very poor brand of statesmanship. It is necessary for tho nations of the world to come together in apreement for disarmament and for a Judicial settlement of disputes.

There is no other court, and there- will be no other court for a long time. With the reservations which have been adopted by the Senate, and with the jurisdiction of the Court limited to voluntary submission, there is no more danger to the United States in adhering to the World Coifrt than there is in Joining the European nations in a scientific study of disease. The objection was raised that this would permit "foreigners" t3 decide disputes for us. Of course it would. Every court or arbitration tribunal is made no of "for ed by Hancock.

The glory of having colonies has The signers of the Declaration of Independence realized the importance of their work in many ways. always appealed to progressive They knew they had formed a new nation, which, if successful, would be great, and which, if unsuccess stacle to atoms, we ineuuc ji win entirely destroyed. But now it la known that we can decompose the substance into atoms and still have tubstances which can be further divided into elections. Probably we will later on have a discovery of dividing electrons into Something else. It is another case of the big fleas, which have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and these fleas have other fleas, and so on ad infinitum.

The problem is to get to the last little flea. If the discovery is verified by experience, the world is going to see a lot of wonderful things. We now accept 3 a matter of course the change of one substance to an entirely different substance by chemical reaction, which chauges the proportion or eliminates part of the elements which make up the base. The addition of an acid or the application of heat or some 'other lorce, which changes the composition of what has hitherto been considered unchangeable, is a frequent occurrence in chemistry. But now the proposal is to change the unchangeable, to divide the undividablo, and as the colored philosopher said, "to unscrew the Inscrutable." If future scientists, following the liscovery of Amsterdam, find a way to rearrange the electrons which, make up the atoms of iron lead or salt, until they form the itoms which make up what we cull and silver, it will be necessary find some other method than present by which to set up our itandards of value.

It is possible the precious metals will as common as those which ve now consider base, and that ihere will be no wealth of buried treasure which cannot be duplicat-id by the scientist adding a few Irops of acid to an ordinary piece rock or ore and bringing out the jroduct from which he can make a told bracelet or a diamond ring Aith platinum setting. Thus will the dream of the old Arabian and Egyptian alchemists lecome true. They doubtless dealt ith other theories than that of the flectron, but probably they had the ight hunch and were working as apidly in the direction of success is they could with their knowledge, fhich has now become theCom-ron information of all workers. Through all these centuries sci-wiiOc jmau have sought the meth people. They feel the limitations of their local trade territory and want to go out into the wilds and make profitable investment in places where Nature has not yet been fully cultivated.

We Ameri Des Moines, Jan. 29. (AP) A. Andrew, state commissioner of banking announced today that because of a recent ruling by the federal farm loan board, land banks have cancelled loans to Iowa farmers aggregating The banking commissioner In explaining the cancellation of loans said: "The federal board recently established a rule that all real estate acquired by the banks in foreclosures must be charged off at the rate of 20 per cent annually. "The order is impairing the capital and Burplus of these banks," he said, "because they have sufficient real estate on hand to be charged off out of the surplus but they are prevented from Issuing further bbnds.

The law permits the issuance of these bonds, on the basis of the amounf of their capital and surplus. "As a result the banks which had planned to grant the of loans, March 1, have been compelled to cancel them." HUNGRY STUDENTS GET HOT SOUP SHOWER. terrible drought and the people had NOT WORK ENOUGH FOR HALF OF APPLICANTS cans felt that way about Texas and been left, poverty-stricken and suffering. Aid was sent from the eastern states. But in spite of all these dark cloud3 in the sky, the original Kan-sans were as full of optimism as are those of the present day.

They Topeka, Jan. 2S. (AP) Less than half of the 1,018 men and women who sought employment through the free employment bureaus in Kansas in the last week succeeded in finding work. There were 138 women In the "battalion of job hunters." Outside work "is almost at a standstill on account of weather conditions," J. H.

Crawford, federal director In Kansas for the United States free employment service, reported today to the director general in Washington. Most of the odd jobs available are handling of coal, shoveling ot snow and cleaning of basements. Emporia, Jan. 29. The heavy cover of one or tliree electric eigners" to tho partlesNn the con.

ful, would probably only be marked by their own execution. But it Is doubtful if anyone of them, and especially Mr. Gwinnett, had any thought that one hundred and fifty years later an autograph signature would be sold for twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. In those days such an amount of money was considered almost fabulous. Mr.

Gwinnett probably returned to Georgia aud continued in his business of selling merchandise and advocating patriotic principles. He was only forty-four years of age wheii he died in 1TS7, and the cause of his death was a wound received In a duel with General Mackintosh, another Georgia patriot. We can judge from these few details, which are about all that are known of Button Gwinnett, that he was not only a merchant and politician, but had the spirit for fighting, which was necessary in the early days of our- republic. No doubt Mr. Gwinnett wrote his name many times.

It is not likely that he could go through a business career and aid in the formation of the new government without frequently attaching his signa- California. We have a little of that feeling in regard to the Philippines. Great Britain counts her overseas dominions as her most valuable possessions, and France is hoping for a great future in that part of Africa which is on the Mediterranean Sea. Italy is looking forward to Africa as a territory into which the Italians may spread and prosper. Frequently the possession of colonies is a weakness, as they were In the case of Spain.

But it is impossible to make people believe that such Is a fact until after they have lost them. Spain was stronger after we took Cuba and the Philippines than she had been when forced to maintain a defensive army and navy to guard those distant islands. Germany would be weaker wllh an African possession, but the Germans do not think so. This question of the future sov ereignty of the African territory taken from Cermany by the Allies during the World War is certain to be a most important factor in determining the arrangements for looked beyond the Indians, the war, and the drought and saw the progress of a great state. It was no accident that under such circumstances the official motto was adopted, "Through Difficulties to the Stars." We may thiuk we have trouble nowadays, but if we glance back to the time of the admission of Kansas to the Union, we will admit that our lot is cast in very pleasant places.

Our population has increases? nearly twenty times. Our resources are greater by several hundred fold. Our ambitions and our hopes are at least equally as high, and we are as proud of Kansas as were the optimistic settlers who suffered and dreamed. The Civil War followed soon after the birth of our state. The civil war in Kansas was a forerunner of the coming struggle.

Kansas sent more men to fight for the hi Los Angeles each e-brary dictionaries is limtteii minutes. State of Kansas, percolators ot Emporia Teacners college cafeteria, blew off during the evening rush hour Thursday when the steam pipe became clogged with lime sediment. Dropping into a container holding soup, the cover splashed those in line with the boiling liquid. Miss Maurine Allen, a member of the women's debate team was slightly scalded, and others standing near the counter were burned. No one was dangerously hurt; the damage was confined mainly to clothing of patrons.

The cafeteria serves 2,000 meals daily and the majority of students on the campus take their meals there. riono County, s. -nf Hip EstatP Of (' In (lie Matter troversy. Otherwise there could be no fairness expected. Several times we have gone into arbitration, and always we have submitted our case to foreigners.

We would not permit our opponent to name the judges, and our opponent would not permit us. If any time we do not like the World Court, we can withdraw from it, but I predict that American Influence on this most important international question will be so helpful that the Court will have frequent occasion to flemon3trate the wisdom of Its existence. William H. Clark, late of P.cno KannHK. Notice of Appointment, Notion Is JIrrely Given.

That in the 2Slh l3of January, A. 1. 19-fi. the undoryignrd wan. by the Prohate Court of Keno Kansas, duly appointed and (inalififd as Executor of the K.fate of William S.

Clark, late of P.pno County, deceased. All parties interested in paH pxtate iil takt notice, and govern themselves accordingly- JOSEPH CLAP.k. Wk1y-Fet 4-3t Executor. China imported 10,000,000,000 in 1923..