The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-12
Kind Words for Dead Ex-GOver.
nor by Coburn.
Prof. r. r. Price Talks School
Property Values.
OFFICERS ARE NAMED,
Diesem, of Garden City, Heads
Agriculture Board.
Coburn, Of Course, Is Named as
Secretary Again.

President. L. Diesem, Garden
CITY. .p No
TT Tre sal T. Tredway. LaHarpe.
Secretary. D Coburn-
These were the officers reelected Dy
the state board OF agrlcuItI,r l,I TINS a.
.ernoon in Representative nail
Thos NJ Potter of Peabody, I. =:
Hubbard of wellington. r. B. Waru q
ReIIeville. George b. Ross OF AiusH
and H NJ. Iaing of Russell were c IoS
,ez4 10 succeed themselves as poaiu
members James n. F'ike OF Colpy We
elected to take the place OF the late
Ex-Governor George W Gllck OF A.
ison as a member of the boaro.
At 100 O'Clock this afternoon q
memorial service was held in honor q
4he late Ex-Governor George W - y
MANY were the complimentary thlngs
80 abort the life of this man. who
was Dopular as member of the Doafu-
COburn Praises Hubbard
Secretary F. D. Coburn IN the couIs -
&of his remarks paid a high TRIBUTE 70
lT1l,or,as A Hubbard of Wellington
who is at present a board member
II was for a third of century sucn
an admirer of Governor CLICK anu
44nSar ~ many and great obligations
- him for kindnesses during. those
wears that it is impossible for me 70
give voice in public to the gratitude
and affection for him which L enter
tanned 1850
entirely different from his own, we
nevertheless were the closest of friends,
and nv sorrow at his going hence,
which meant our parting at least Tor a
time. is greater than I can express IL
would be entirely truthful to say That
had it not been for Governor CLICK
would not be now and would not nave
been for all these years, the secretary
of this World-famous board OF agrlcuI-
Sure that has honored M so much. He
knew full well in his lifetime that
knew this.
sHaving said this of the dead might
say as much to another, Thomas A.
Hubbard, and this I am glad to do
while I can yet look into his kindly
eyes and while his ears may hear that
this will be my testimony
.I did not like Governor Click;
loved him. He is gone love Mr.
Hubbard; he is still here, which is a
happiness TO us all. This is not less
true of those many other gentlemen Of
DUR board, association with whom has
been a distinguished honor. an unusual
pleasure and an uplifting inspiration.
$50 long as I have an identity with
the board of agriculture I shall have
sense Of loneliness in the absence from
{ our meetings of the one who has gone
presence always illumines these gather
1ngs and with that of his colleagues
makes them among the important
events of a lifetime"
1.-THE school plant Of America is val
ued at one billion dollars" said Prof
Richard r. Price, of the state univer-
Eity, this afternoon. 1.-The public school
plant of Kansas. outside of the state
institutions, is valued at 90 million dol
lars. 1t is fair to assume that the
full use Of this property is worth to
the community 5 per cent upon the
money invested. The full use of the
plant, then, is worth to the United
States so million dollars a year: to Kan
sas alone it is worth I million dollars
q year Now let US see how near the
people come to getting the full work
ing use and value of their plant.
TN Kansas, as in most of the United
States, the school year in the towns
and cities is nine months of 20 days
each. The school property is in use,
therefore. during $50 days out of the
year-not quite half the time. More
over, during those $50 days the pro-
perry is in use only from about $50 to
4-30. During the evenings the windows
are dark. the doors locked, and the
grounds empty
Indeed it is by no means a rare
thing to find edict forbidding the
children to play on the grounds after
school. Hence much playing ball in
the street, broken windows. tracked
over lawns, mutilated flower beds. If
Tirated neighbOrs, rowdyism and town
rows. But this is depression.
School Buildings Little Used.
1T is estimated, taking into account