The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
MUST EAT BY LAW
Kansas Boards Ruling Subject
for Jest in East.
Evils of Bureaucratic Form of
Government Shown.
KANSAS COAL MINES BUSY
Over 8 Millions in Black Dia-
mOnds Taken From Earth.
Senator Bristow's Story of
BurgIar-Fearing Woman.


Washington, July 12-The scheme
of dining, as laid down by the Kansas
board of health, is getting the state a
great deal of free advertising down
east Here is what the Washington
Evening Times has to say on the sub
Ject:
THE evils of a bureaucratic form of
government have reached a climax in
the pernicious activity of the Kansas
board of health. Under the pretense
of crusade to outlaw the gourmand,
these grave and reverend functionaries
will carry out a series of experiments
to determine the most scientific food for
a man engaged in any given vocation.
Gastronomy is to be reduced to rule
of thumb. The gustatory charms of
the table are to be measured in
grammes and meters. The banker will
he told that his line of work requires
just so many units of protein and a
ditch digger will need a specific meas
ure of calories to keep the human fur
mace going.
The specious plan of the Kansas
organization should be exposed with
out further delay. The gourmand
should be made to feel his own I'M
worthiness, to be sure. He has never
been a factor in gastronomic circles.
But the gourmet, the epicure, the bon
Vivant-he is altogether different
sort of person He has reduced liv-
ing to a fine art, and in his scheme
units have no part. To him the rare
and exquisite SAVIOR means everything.
Only incidentally is his food a nutri-
ment. He would rather rise half hun
CRY from a feast of nightingales'
tongues and peafowls' brains than to
get up satiate and plethoric from a
dinner of beef and potatoes. He be-
longs to a race which is already pass
ing all too rapidly, and if the Kan
Sas board of health really wishes to
be of some service to mankind it
should espOuse his cause rather than
become a party to the overthrow of
the vanishing art of dining"
The production of coal in Kansas
in 1911 was 6,254,22S short tons, val
ued at s9.645,572, according to a
statement made public today by the
United States geological survey, COM
piled from data collected by the feder-
al survey and the Kansas geological
survey.
In proportion to its coal production
Kansas suffered more than any other
state in the Mississippi valley region
from the labor troubles in 1910, the
decrease from the output for 1903
being 1856 per cent and the produc-
ton being the lowest during the last
decade, 4,921,45 short tons, valued at
$7,914,709- The production in 1911 in
creased 1,922,177 short tons, or 27.0S
per cent. in quantity and $1,730,S63,
or 21.8T per cent, in value. This, |
however, was not enough to bring the
total up to normal for the production
in 1911 was nearly $4,000 tons less
preceding five years, which included
the greatly reduced tonnage of 1910
Kansas Miners Were Busy.
In 1910 there were 1850 men eIG- |
ployed in the coal mines of Kansas, /!
and of these, 1896 or 80 per cent, |
were idle during the six months |
strike. The average number of work |
ing days in that year was 14S. The /
average production for each man was
3S2 tons for the year. or 2.5S5 tons
working day. In 1911 there were |
1888 men employed for an average
of 1873 days, the average production |
for each man being 53S tons for the |
year or 2.S5 tons a day
The major part of the coal output |
of Kansas is used for locomotive fuel
and some of the larger mines are Op-
Grated by the fuel departments of /
the railroads or by companies affili- |
ated with the transportation interests.
None of the product of such mines is
marketed commercially.
What is true of shooting coal off |
the solid in the other states of the |
Mississippi valley region applies with |
equal force to Kansas. Out of a total |
of 51SS,15S short tons for which the |
the geological survey for 1911, the |
quantity of coal shot off the solid was
4,665,140 short tons, or 1913 per cent.
=
with party of Kansas politicians in
the lobby of the Raleigh hotel last
evening. Stories were being told by
the different men in the group. 1t
came the senator's turn, and he re-
cited this one, apropos of 1ndepend-
ence day, when he was discussing the
troops under CORVALLIS during the
Revolutionary war:
And in the end" said the sena-
tor, they became so panic-stricken
that they were like Blanc's wife.
'Blanc's wife, you know. whenever a
shutter ratified or a board creaked, would
wake up her husband and say:
. oh, John there burglars down
stairsi Don't you hear them? Oh, what
shall we do?'
But Blanc hit at last upon an idea
that he though would compose his wife
permanently.
= Look here he said. you can rest as
lars work in absolute silence. You never |
hear a sound from Them
And now" he said. Mrs. Blanc wakes
her husband up in blue panic whenever
there's noise"
THE third party movement has petered
out in Kansas and Mr. Taft will carry
that state easily" declared Dan Anthony
today after leaving the White House. Mr.. !
Anthony has not heard from home lately |
The clergy of Washington have pco-
vided ministers to fill their places dur