The Columbus Weekly Advocate from Columbus, Kansas • Page 2

nor xuscn fuxd. RURAL SCHOOLS HXPEXSIYE, kOXfi DUE LOSE JOB. C0LE3IAX RAPS ROAD BILL. of $3107 nas Beeh Donated i nvvniiuu uuit i imu i i OFFICIAL COUNT PAPER rnmTnIttp n.Mrt. xnrecior noma lonsoiiaaie Kansas i mess senate Jajses Action, Tax A "Wolf of Johnson County Senator Says.

From Monday's Daily. Raral Schools, Commissioner Smith Will Go. The committee that has beeh so- Emporia March Kansas. Topeka, March 8. Unless the sen N.

W. HustonPublisher and Owner Mrs. N. W. Huston Managing Editoi T0WV3 flh 1ft, nilmolnviiinrf In tot pay.

ate takome funber.actI0n,Clar-;th6dMdsblls-;-a!, OR CONSTRUCTION OF COX-CRETE ROAD EXTENSION. lunch fund reports that a total of dearly for it ence Smith tax commissioner, will Bas legislature as a "ravening wolf of every Thursday and entered I $310.97 has been donated to carry on "The expense of sending- a child to be out of office July 1, when his tern rfoen eoLunous weekly advocate WILL START WORK SOOft oeen aDie to give wis sooner on ac- months term is greater than the cost woum unseat u. toster, pesentjtne slate senator Coleman of John-count of organizations not being able cf attending a university for a whole commissioner, also a Republican. The 'son County, pleaded with the senate SUBSCRIPTION RATE year car school year of nine months," says M. Smith, director of school consolida- wiuuiuswon win oe composea ortoday hold faith with the motor Xoah Bowman, of Garnett; John Lvners kepw Kanwc nnt owners and keep Kansas out of n.tt I Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS SCCIA7 ION THE DEMOCRATIC WAY.

0 Lret the KepuDiicans pay seems iu have been a consistent policy of the! have been con's a81 eue" Church from $500 to $800 a term to teach the len appointee, had been illegally seat- Up for threadTno-tiom Wnle McAdoo was director of nn 0f1 c.w Jas npror tnxra reaamto. Ran, of Holton; both Davis' appoin-) tees who have been confirmed by the senate, and C. D. Foster, already on cumraisswn. The trovemor.

i senate, contended that Poster, an Al oulu ake his place on the commission af ter July. Foster's term expires in Foster was coufirmed bv the sen ate at the 1921 session, and is now An office. If the srovernor still is detpr railroads he would not nermit any suits to be brought for damages tc persons or property, and the claims accumulated, to be paid after the roads were returned to private owners. xiie guvwuunui rma tiio riiifms hprflnsp thev ae- KCme of thefae claims because tnev at. i I except as it mignt pjease ponuc mined he anoarentlv will have to th.

(TmwnmMt waq nn- i rxnBa m. cui v. rderi fliie tn government of Pythias 10.Maore than five pupils. eratmg the roads. ipriVAl Cluhs.

-he country school child spends KUt tne cnarges were d.nru frothers r)nh 10.00 tjon at the Kansas State Normal gcnool here. A nUmber of the rural schools of Kansas have an average attendance TJI lJUi puPn. districts nay an inexperienced teacher scnooit exciuslve ot expense. Consequently, it' costs from $250 to j400 to educate each child for seven 'months. which is greater than the tu fc nf TTn-rvnrrt nr Ynia for jnine months.

At the present time 411 tw.ii school or a total of-63 months. The mnicfoc on I CJ11IU 111 cue: vuiuiJicii-n to education in. eight years of nine-month terms, or a total of 72 months spent in school. Thus the country child loses an actual year in his education, and at the same time receives nine months less instruction ritxr nhild durintr the ele- mentary period. ftlU W-.

"There are now 141,000 children in Kansas who are attending rural schools. It costs the rural taxpayer more 10 seuu eatii vrniiu. ij fnr a venr than it' costs the citv tax- payer, making an added cost of $1- 100 noo that Kansas is navincr for the privilege of maintaining the 1,700 one- room, 'cracker-box' country schools. addition to this added cost of rural education, the country child is frequently taught by an inexperienced teacher, while the city child has the Democratic postpones io the itepuoiicans to pa. It also develops that tne "emocrauc -r-.

administration collected million ot dollars of income taxes without au thority of law. and spent the money, and now, under court decisions. tne Republican administration must re- turn tne money tnus uniawiuiiy uiKtii. Tho Democrats wer able to make a good showing on the face of the books uwrause iney coiiecieu me mouey. The Republican administration, through no fault of its own, must re- the mud.

The bill to give to the county Commissloners of state the ri to spena the" license fees for motor udou roads that lead no whom jnu to restore the old policy of dis- t-r A tk. The bin has been fought at jturn by the forward looking mera Qf both branches of the itUre. It has been regarded as a vent ftny poad construction in this at iavomes 01 tne county commis- tosioI5ers The bill destrovs thx iegis Uation of two years ago under which 'H0 ctfl 1C -nmnit0 tem of road COYered seven thousand miles and. connected every county seat and every market center. "I consider this measure to be the ill-begotten offspring of a broken faith on the part of this legislature and near sighted provincialism and green." declared Senator Coleman, "Like Richard 31.

this come into the world a pestiferous thing, born with teeth that it may bite and rend and play the dog. It began its career of destruction in the committee on roads and bridges by destroying temper and good feeling. "It finally was brought out here and dropped gingerly on the floor of the senate by the chairman of the committee on roads and bridges, who loathed and hated it. It continued its destruction by consuming the time and destroying the temper of this senate In its consideration. It is about to proceed upon its journey, with the characteristics with which it is cursed, down to the executive offices to receive the blessing of that paragon of statesmanship.

Its chief and foster father will thi riafnrmwl thinir its final blessing and send it out into the high- bvways Df Kansas to con-1 'tinue on its career like a ravening v.olf of destruction, to tear up our highways and to undo the constructive work that has been accomplished during a decade of the past. "Some day Kansas will be gridiron- to iurmsn a report, some urgumcu- tions and cjubs wish to make dona- tions later which will be acceptable whenever given. Tho committee (wishes to thank all for their offerings and xne many Kinunesses snown. r0iftWinr, is. the Ii.t nf donattons: Chnrphfis, "Tll Z7r' -Z'ZZZ Lxiribiiaii c'jt'uro v-iiurcH JCatholic church 15.00 0.00 jKurnjoinus Class Christian church Church 10.00 Baptist Church 7 67 EodeeS.

25.00 v- Shakespeare Club 10.00 ifnmo cnltnr ninh 5 00 VUo 5Q0 S. T. Club M. and M. Club 5 00 5-00 7-50 500 5.00 and Bf.ng Youp Work Star sters Individual Gifts.

Stanley Timberlake 25.00 Mary Simkm 5.00 I)r. Lee Baxter 3.00 Mrs. Eva Baxter 3 00 Total $310.97 The Masonic lodge had donated $10 previous to the time the campaign was put on and they donated $15.00 during the campaign, bringing their donation up to $25.00. HEALTH REPORT. Much Work.

Was Accomplished Last Month. The monthly report of the Cherokee County Public Health Service for Feb ruary shows three lectures given last month with an attendance of 125 persons and 650 pieces of literature distributed. A total of fortv-three sanitarv in- i vato homes nine; schools, three; restaurants, five; groceries, six; meat markets, three: barber shops, two: miscellaneous, twelve; special food products, three. Three wells were in- spected and all passed. A tuberculin test was made of fifty milk supplies; twenty-three sanitary privies were installed.

Anti-smallpox vaccinations were given to 185 persons last month. One .1 v.i" pay the money at the same time thatu, en Mrs. S. Mayhood .50 advantage of competent and prepared Another contest developed for the instructors. The rural child attends job of state oil inspector.

Hugh Duff, a school that is poorly lighted and of Sabetha, another Allen recess ap-heated, that provides no adequate li- pointee, is holding the office Gov- ed with beautiful roads and we in near Baxter. Eastern Kansas shall Ye able to step 1 Tho roads in the south part of the into our flivvers and in a few hours the county are subject to an unusual-reminisce with the senator from Paw- -7 heavy traffic which made it al- The Koss Construction Company ofT Des Moines. Itu, and Maxwell Con- Mrucucu l-O. UCl VVUiniCLN. From Monday's Dally.

Contracts were let this morning by- construction of the 4.6 mile extnsion of the SP1111 Valley Con- Road, from north of Riverton toV IBaster Springs. The Koss Construction Company of i ,7 -i 1 iwuiueu iuc im -in. smu iouu a. Wd of The Maxwell Construction Company Columbus was awarded the ron- (tract for the four bridges. Their bids- were as 130-foot rainbow arch bridge, 18-foot bridge, 16-foot bridge, SO-foot bridge, $11,467.70.

Total bid. on all four bridges, $46,457.17. The project which was let today, is- the connecting link in the Joplin- Baxter concrete road. When complet ed it will provide a hard surface road, from Joplin to Baxter. The beginning of the road, is at the point north of Riverton where the present concrete road now ends.

From-there it will run two miles straight west and then 2.6 miles south into-Baxter. The Koss Construction Company, which was awarded the contract, is-one of the largest and most. reliable-construction concerns in tho They built the large concrete bridge over" Spring River and are now completing eight miles of concrete road in Crawford County. Their work in Crawford County i rapidly nearing completion and the machinery will be moved down on the-Spring Valley project. The contract states that the contractor must begin work within thirty days.

The Koss Construction Company expects to fin- ish the job by December 31, 1923 The new road will provide a new and better route of travel into Baxter Springs from the east and will do away with the necessity of crossing jthe two river bridges at Riverton and most impossible to maintain any kind of a chat or river-, gravel road for anyt length of time. The old steel bridges-over Spring River were also receiving much heavier traffic than they were-built to stand. Good roads boosters from the south end who have boosted the proposition and the county commissioners believe that the concrete road will prove an economical proposition to the taxpayers of Cherokee County in a matter-of dollars and cents. The Joplin-Baxter club is paying $110,000 on the cost of the bridges and the federal government is paying i oi nni m. i in can ue reauuy sceir (that Cherokee County is getting four substantial concrete bridges for the cost of one.

In addition to. donations and outside-help on the bridges the federal aid on the road amounts to $69,510. The Joplin-Baxter road club is also pay- jing a portion of the cost to the farm- ers nving in the benefit district along the road. MUST FILE POLITICAL STATUS. Senate Passes Hasty Bill Pri mary Party Election.

Citizens of cities of the first and second class in Kansas soon will have to register their political affiliations before they are entitled to vote at the primary. The senate by a vote of 22 to 4 has approved the Hasty house bill. This bill was passed in the interest 1 jOther at the primary. ine weakness of the bill just passed lies in the fact that it only applies to cities, leaving the way open in rural districts or villages for voters to perjure themselves as before, by asking for tickets at the primary, to which they have no allegiance. Preliminary Continued.

"From Thursday's "Daily. The preliminary hearing for Seth Edwards, charged wfth speeding, which was set for trial before Justice F. H. Hawkins this morning, was continued until March is at 4 p. on account of the illness of the defend- ant." Mr.

and Mrs. George Jones, who have been living on West Elm have moved to Scamznon. woman was sent to the quarantine en during both the forenoon and at- en up more time and drawn more hospital for women. There were three sessions with messages from than any other measure con-visits by health officials to diagnose the governor's office which caused sidered on the senate floor this ses-suspected cases; one visit to impose plenty of excitement. The forenoon jsion.

quarantine measures. A total of 196 message was the governor's veto ofJ Introduced byi Senator J. M. John- Jsome other source than the senate Joust Foster. The industrial court will consist Judge John II.

Crawford, presiding1 iudere: and Judees James A. McDer mott and Henderson Martin. The gov- ernor lost an appointment on the court when the senate confirmed Crawford's appointment instead of th governor's choice, Lee Goodrich, of Parsons. One new face soon will be seen on lne public utilities commission. The senate confirmed the governor's nom- jnee, J.

C. Rugh, of Abilene, to suc- ceed Commissioner H. A. Russell, But on the utilities commission Governor Davis also lost an appoin- tee. He had sent the name of M.

H. Rice to the senate to succeed Jesse W. Greenleaf, present commissioner, an Allen recess appointee. Instead of considering Rice, the senate confirm ed Greenleaf. Clyde M.

Reed contin- ues as chairman of the commission. emor "a via sougni 10 unseat mm anu rive the job to J. E. Barrett. But'the senate comirmea duii ana passed Barrett by.

The following nominations also wre confirmed by the senate: arl J- I'eterson, state bank com-f missioned J. J. Wilson, state grain inspector. SCHOOL CODE BILL THROUGH. Bare Constitutional Majority Obtained by Call of Senate.

Topeka, March 11. The school code bill, completely changing the Kansas system of rural schools, fin- ally passed the senate yesterday by vote of 21 to 17. This bill has tak- son of Brown County secretary of jtional majority. Information has come from the house that the house committee on education is waiting for the bilrand already has killed a companion meas- ure. The bill was slightly amenaeu districts CUTS APPROPRIATION.

Connty Farm Bureaus to Lose $31,000 Federal and State Aid. Toneka. March" 9. The Farmers' i The conference committee split the difference between the senate county farm bureaus will receive $17,000 less from the state, and also 7 ft ft ft loco nnm Tm foYora I OYiVftrn- rm. iAJtruc.

IIUIU 1U Lae LLUbL IWU VCiU r. iuc farm bureaus lose $34,000. But they $165,000 state aid, plus $165,000 federal aid, which the Farmers' Union tried to cut off entirely. of is a cases were quarantined last month. There were twenty-sevxen office con-j for experiment work by the state ag-jthe school code commission, this bill sultations.

Sixty-two communica- 'ricultural college in southeast Kansas, has had tough sledding. It has been tions were written. Twenty visits contained in a senate appropriation attacked by various senators and made to other towns, and ten visits committee measure. The governor barely squeezed through yesterday, were made in the county. also cut out items of $3,00 for new For a time yesterday the bill seem- The statistics report for the month superintendent's cottages at the Gar- ed to face certain defeat.

With the which includes some delayed reports den City and Colby stations of the ag-'vote 18 all. a call of tho senate was follows: ricultural college, and voiced a strong moved by Senator Johnson. Only two Tuberculosis, two cases and two objection to increases in salaries at senators were in town, and these two deaths reported; measles, three cases tthe various state educational institu-( votes would not have passed the reported; diphtheria, one case re- tions which had been allowed. The af- measure. However, Senator Charles ported; mumps, one case reported: jternoon jolt came when the governor Ridgway.

of Kansas City, who had op-smallpox, one case reported; pneu- imessaged to ti house charges that posed the mea'sure, changed his vote, monia, nineteen cases and fifteen 'state Auditor Tivner and Treasurer and it went by with a bare constitu- it is trying to cut expenses and reduce taxes. Tbere are some people who will not see through the deceptive record the Democratic method of management, but they are few. Albany (N. Journal. CUTTING TAXES WITH TARIFF.

The swift growth of customs receipts in recent months is as cheering to taxpayers as it doubtless is confounding to those who thought import trade would cease with the enactment of the new tariff law. When, on the eve of the new schedules becoming operative last September's receipts went to $53,000,000 because importers were rusing.in goods to avoid paying the impending higher rates, it was supposed that these fig-tides would be the high-water mark for a long time. Yet the estimate of February is now $55,000,000 and it is predicted that March will show an even greater total. Federal officials are predicting that the aggregate for the fiscal j-ear. which ends June 30 next, will be half a billion dollars.

This would give but about eight months of operations of the new tariff regu lations, what next year will see this law earning for the country, and thus making taxation less burdensome, can veil be imagined. St. Louis Times. SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST. To Be Held In County High School, Saturday.

March 17. From Friday's iafly. The annual Scholarship Contest for the pupils of the rural schools of Cherokee County, will be held in Columbus, Saturday. March 17, beginning at 10.30 a. m.

in the, county high school auditorium. A list of very attractive and valuable prizes has been solicited from Columbus merchants by G. A. Sanders, county superintendent of schools, and much interest is being manifested in the contest. Rural Fchool children all over the county are working for the contest and it promises to be one of the best ever held.

Following is the program which has been prepared by Mr. Sanders: 10:40 a. m. In high school study hall Written Contest in Arithmetic. Class Spelling.

Class Spelling. Class Spelling, Class "IV Geography, Class Geography. 12:00 o'clock Dinner. Teachers. Parents and bring your lunches with you.

Tables will be placed in the lower hall of the high school where you can eat and visit with each other. Good hot coffee will be served free. Afternoon Session. 1:15 p. m.

In high school auditorium Final contest in Arithmetic 2:00 p. m. Radio concert over the ing. Death of Jlrs. Bora Roberts.

From Monday's Daily. Mrs. Dora Roberts, age 68 years, 10 months and 29 days, died at her home seven and one-half miles northwest ot Columbus, Sunday, March 11 at 1:15 a. m. Funeral services were held from the.

home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Alphon Goodrick. Interment made in the Oak Hill cemetery, at Galena. i nee or the senator from Stafford, on their baronial estates, upon the happenings of the past. But when the history of the road building of, Kansas is written there will be a dark chapter.

It will be the chapter we are now writing, and let us hope that the future historian will be merciful in his brevity. Little will be heard this legislation for a few months after wo adjourn, but there will come a reaction when one-fourth million motor car owners of this state realize what this destructive piece of legislation means, and we shall regret this action, for the headlights of every flivver ki this state will become the burning eyeballs of accusation to our remorseful consciences." A BUDGET OF $2,394,459. Estimates for Running Executive and Judicial Departments Presented. Topeka, March 10. The executive committee and judicial budget under which the salaries and expenses of all the state departments are paid, was reported to the house by the ways and means committee touay.

me uuugi carries deficiency appropriations for the remainder of the present biennium of For the fiscal vear be- ginning in July the appropriation is $1,173,387.50, and for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1924, the total' is $1,119,360. The highway commission is given a total of outside of the exec utive budget. The total appropria- brar- and laboratory, and that has facilities for recrea- ti omnepment. nnilv rv fnr what we need whether we get it or not, and the rural taxpayers of Kansas- are more ilmn nnvnmr for the education that their children are not getting," Mr. iSmith concluded USES VETO AGAIN.

Governor Cuts Out $12,000 for South east Kansas. Topeka, March 8. The house had one of the liveliest daya of the ses- sion today, the usual monotony of an- sweriug roll calls or considering bills committee of the whole being an item of $12,000 for the biennium e. T. Thompson had indulged in cer- tain irregularities in office.

When the veto message was read the vice chairman of the house ways ani means committee, Representative Hatfield, got the floor immediately da over these appropriations and done our best all the way through." The governor eliminated the items because he said experiment work seldom made a fair return on- the investment and could generally! 'be taken care of by local authorities I ho mt nr Vt i-nrw he had said himself." Pickler then i denounced the governor's veto m'es- saoe an MninstiM rtri that "I'd better sit down before I say something I shouldn't." Beard hot i- fied the hous that he will mnro tn- rrmr Ktu mi kcdw uc governor's, veto "Just as it went through originally. TRY ADVOCATE JOB PRINTINO: I I the 1 get had dcaths reported; scarlet fever, one caso reported; influenza, 167 cases and five deaths reported; gonorrhoea. one case rerorted. Total, 196 cases i reported and 22 deaths. ine nursing report for the liaxter district follows: Pre-natal, six home 'on a point of personal privilege, yesterday just before it passed.

Sen-visits; pre-school, three home visits branding message an.ator A. II. 'Skidmore slipped in an reported. School: 52 consultations, and declaring "it's hard to amendment which gives school dis-fice and school, four home visits: 21 have something like this shot at us the referendum right to decide school visits; nine talks. Other activ- Rafter we've labored fourteen hours a they will become community iues: ueuisiue nursing, nz cases; home instruction, obstetrical, one; tuberculosis cases visited, raiscel- laneous visits, consultations.

IS; miscellaneous activities, 10; dress ings, 3. The report from the Columbus dis- tions under the bill for the two years of Parties, is the explanation given on $2,394,459.78, an increase over thethe floor, of the senate. It will pre-appropriations for the same depart- vent Persons who belong to one party trict follows: Pre-natal, 13 cases giv- and because he i unalterably opposed Vnion won only a partial victory in en advice and 13 home visits; pre-to any "unnecessary" building at this its fight to kill the county agents bv school, four cases examined, eighteen 'cutting off federal and state appropri- home visits. School, fifteen home Hatfield was supported by Mrs. ations.

The senate and house yester-visits. pther activities: 135 cases of Minnie Grinstead. Representatives day agreed to the conference report bedside nursing; .34 home instruction; "Board and Pickler, the latter moving appropriating $165,000 of state funds obstetrical. tuberculosis cases vis-; that Hatfield's remarks be printed in for county farm bureau support in the miscellaneous visits, 78; con- the journal and a copy delivered to next two years. The house had cut sultations 65 cases; miscellaneous ac-the governor.

withdrew the mo- the senate appropriation from 174; dressings, 20. tion, however, when Hatfield thanked 000 to $150,000 after a fight in each The report of the Galena division is him and said he was so "sore" when house to cut out the appropriation en- ments made by tne l'jzi legislature, departments s2.mretaoinetaoinetaoin Waived Preliminary Hearing. From Thursday's Daily. Joe Linway, who was arrested in the south part of the county, Tuesday by Under-sheriff John Church on a charge of. wife desertion, was arraigned before Justice J.

R. Carter yester day. He waived his preliminary hear-1 ing and his bond was fixed at $1,000 Sued for Divorce. From Thursday's Dally, Harry Laizuxe filed suit in the district court here yesterday asking for divorce from his wife, Gertrude Laizuxe, on the grounds of abandonment. They were married June 1, 1921,, and Laizuxe alleges his wife abandoned him March 5, 1922.

iouow nre-natai. 5 cases men advice; home visits; pre-school, 10 home visits; school, 12 consultations, office and school: 40 home visits: 18 mmis, six taiKs. utner actm- ties, bedside nursing, 20; home in- 1 fi szrucuon, tuberculosis, 13; miscel- laneous visits. 26: consultation a. 15: miscellaneous activities, 2.

Pauline Dresia visited friends ia Richer Sunday..