Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-02

| tiles commission is considering plans
for an increase in the price Of natural
gas when the average for gas CON
sumption in homes is exceeded.
Henderson Martin, chairman of the
committee, has suggested to officials
Of Kansas cities possible scheme
whereby the present price of twenty.
five cents thousand feet VIII be
charged for natural gas with limit
up to ten thousand feet month foF
each consumer. When that Is ex-
ceeded the excess is to be charged al
prohibitive price. Mr.. Martin SUBJ
mitted the plan to Mayor Jost OF Kan
sas City, NO., and Mayor Jost said he
would submit 1t to the city utilities
committee for a decision before he
could reply,
1t is the idea of the Kansas officials
that the average as consumption per
family In the Kansas cities Is ten
thousand feet month. It is believed
the plan will act for the conservation
Of the gas supply for cooking and
lighting only.
II am not certain that such an order
would be the right thing" said Mr..
Martin, "and by no means have de-
termined that it should be done.
! simply have taken the matter up to
get the ideas of Missouri people. We,
of course, would not want to make
such a restriction on Kansas con-
sumers and let Missouri users have all
they can get If Mayor Jost does not
favor the idea 1t likely will be dropped.
Another reason why perhaps 1t
would not be right is that people down
In the Kansas belt would be limited,
when 1t seems they should have all the
gas they can get because the Lord put
1t right at their DOORS"
.
Governor Hodges believes that the
next big movement In Kansas will be
the teaching of eugenics In the schools
and the governor is going to help
along the movement. The governor
was at Winfield recently. where he
visited the state school for the feeble
minded and, IL reelected governor OF
Kansas, he will ask the entire legls-
lature to take special train and visit
the institution. IF a Kansas legis.
4 lature will visit that Institution there
will never be any doubt of the enact.
ment Of real laws on eugenics," said
the governor. 1.-THE patients one sees
at that institution are pitiable. One
never can forget them. Every child
has the right to be we'll born, but
there have been latle or no enact
ments on the sulOect that gives the
child what 1t is really entitled to. II
we can get laws and study of Ell.
genlcs In our public schools 1t is our
duty to do It,"
Representative George p. Crippen,
Of Cove county. is eager to have q
special session Of the legislature called
to extend some kind Of aid to the
farmers of Western Kansas who have
been hard hit by the dry season. Rep.
resentative Crippen has come to To.
peka to work In the Santa Fe shops
this winter, while his family remains
In Cove county to take care Of his
A0Ilu anu AlNO otOCh1 anu h0 bC(h0Aoo
that other farmers OF the western
part of the state have been obliged
TO leave home and seek work else
where for the winter in order to get
through crop failures. He says that
In fifteen counties the situation Is de.
cldedly serious and many farmers win
be obliged to leave unless they can
get help of some kind.
o -
The next move in the grain inspec-
ton fight, It is understood, will be to
call on the grain dealers and shippers
OF Kansas to demand state inspection
OF all grain handled by them. A cir.
cular letter will be sent out to every
shipper In the state, asking him to
demand that his shipments be In
spected by the state grain inspecting
force, and representing to him that the
state Is doing better Job Of grading
than is the board OF trade.
Twenty-seven sand companies, In
Guiding practically all the larger COM
panies in Kansas, already have signI.
fled their intentions Of 'obeying the
provisions Of the state law.
There are seyenty-nine Kansas
counties where there is not govern
ment liquor Incense in effect, and
there have been issued thus far In
this fiscal year only little more than
half the number OF licenses issued In
the same period a year ago. The
Kansas State Temperance Union has
Just completed the tabulation Of the
federal internal revenue licenses Is.
sued since July 1, and 1t shows a total
OF 1876 revenue stamps to liquor