The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-21
Pension of $75 a Month for
Loss of Leg Or Arm.
FREE SCHOOL BOOKS.
In a Washington Interview
Stubs Favored Plan.
State Publication in Kansas in
Spite of California Failure.


naval service of the United States dur
ing the civil war. The text of his bill
follows:
THAT from and after the passage of
this act ali persons on the pension roll,
and aall persons hereafter granted
pension, who while in the military or
naval service in the war of the re
bellion and in the line of duty, shall
have lost one hand or one foot shall
receive pension at the rate of $65
per month; that all persons who, in
like manner, shall have lost an arm
at or above the elbow or a leg at or
above the knee shall receive an allow
ance of $40; that all persons who shall
have lost an arm at the shoulder or
a leg at the hip joint, or SO near the
shoulder or hip joint or where the same
is in such a condition as to prevent
the use OF an artificial limb, shall re-
ceive a pension of SIS per month; and
that all persons who shall have lost one
hand and one foot shall receive 500;
and all persons who shall have lost both
hands or both feet shall receive an al
lowance at the rate of $125 per month"
Clyde NJ. Reed, of Kansas, has been
appointed to the important office of
superintendent of the division of rail-
day adjustments in the office of sec
ond assistant postmaster general His
salary will be $1,000 a year.
Mr.. Reed earned his promotion from
the ranks. His appointment came to
him largely through the recommends
ton of Joseph Stewart, the newly APP
pointed second assistant postmaster
general, who held the office of super
intendent of the division of railway ad-
juStments prior to receiving his present
appointment. Mr.. Stewart is also
Kansas man. He says his father was
one of the pioneer citizens of the Sun
flower state and was identified with
much of it's early history Mr.. Reed
was born in Wichita, Kan, and was
educated in the public schools of that
city. He entered the postal service in
1889 as a railway postal clerk, and for
the past eight years has been chief
clerk of the railway mail service of the
Wichita district. Mr.. Reed was APP
pointed to his present position on the
recommendation of Second Assistant
Postmaster General Joseph Stewart,
who is also a Kansas man.
pointment of DR.. John A. Holmes as
purchasing agent for the postoff1ce de-
partment, to succeed to the vacancy
created in that Office by the removal of
w. E. Cochran, of Topeka, who has
been appointed an inspector in charge
of the Denver inspection division of the
department. The Office of purchasing
agent pays an annual salary of $4,000.
Mr.. Cochran's present pay is $4,000 as
an inspector.
DR.. Holmes advancement in the SER
vice has been unusually rapid. Several
years ago he was a copy boy" with the
United RreSS ASSOCldIlOn, anu While lie
worked there he studied stenography,
took a civil service examination, and
received an appointment in the post |
office department. His aptitude there |
was soon made manifest and it was |
not long before he attracted the atten- |
ton of the postoffice general. His ap-
pointment as Mr.. Meyers private sec |
rotary soon followed and as a reward |
for his effort in that capacity he was
made purchasing agent for the postal
service.
estate publication of school books
and compulsory district ownership is
one of the reforms that Governor
elect Stubs of Kansas has under con-
sideration now" said George F. Starr.
of Kansas, who is a guest at the Ma
tional hotel.
1.-The fact that California has made
a failure~of state publication of school
books doesn't necessarily mean that
Kansas would make a failure is
sas now gets all of its common
school books for a trife over IS by
the present contract system, while
California gets more than 81 for its
full set of common school books un-
der state publication.
''That there is a good profit in Kan
sas school books at present prices is
admitted by all book publishers, ex-
present school books. They are max
ing no admission of that kind. They
are conveying the impression that
there is no money in the contracts
with a view of getting prices lifted.
'I am informed that the profit on
Kansas books now averages, perhaps,
200 per cent. 1t will soon be known
what it will cost to do the mechanical
work on the books. State Printer
McNeaI is now figuring up the cost.
Estate publication of school books
does not mean free school books by
any means. Nearly all the advocates
of state publication are opposed to the
state supplying books free. Their
plan is to sell the books at cost direct
to the school districts. Then it will
be optional with the districts whether
they shall supply the books free or
make a charge for them.
IF they make charge for them,
then the law will provide that the
books shall be sold at actual cost by
the districts. Mr.. Stubs favors
compulsory district ownership of
common school books do not expire
until 1912"
Senators Curtis and Long were
quet of the National Geological
society.
Charles w. Mcclure has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Blue Mound.
Linn county, Kan, to succeed G. l..
Porter resigned.
Akron postoffice, Cowley county.
Kan, will be discontinued on Deem
Der 81.
in Kansas: Aaron Lawson
and Alma V. Lawson at Freeport;
Larmon E. Scott and Asa Ellis, jr., at /
Piper.
at the New Willard hotel.
An electric reading lamp would {
make nice useful Christmas present