The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-28
Manufacturers Claim to Have
Investment of SsO,0O0,O0O.
Kansas Alone Has Grown Beets
That Sold for $2,OOO,O0O.
FREE SUGAR SPELLS RUIN
The New York World Views
With Alarm.
The Tendency of Kansans to
Joy Ride on Sunday.

Washington. July 2S.-The beet sugar
interests of the country claim they
have have $4,000, 900 invested in mas
sive machinery and fireproof steel con-
struction buildings in 16 states, and
that if sugar is placed on the free list
this great home industry will be ruined
factories will be compelled to close
down and many thousands w!l De
thrown out of employment, and in ad-
dition the farmer will suffer who Is IN
the beet growing business.
During the past seven years nearly
s.. 0OO0 600 worth of sugar beets nave
been grown in Kansas. There is put
one factory for this industry IN the
Sunfower state and that is located at
Garden City. 1t was erected in 1910
and has a daily capacity of 900 tons OF
beets
During the year. 1912. Kansas farm
ers, numbering 1863, produced 6.s12 acres
of beets, while the area grown by the
factory at Garden City was 2,7S3 acres
during the same period.
Partial disbursements since the cree
ton of the Garden City factory are as
follows: Beets, s., $40. S01.9S; wage earn
ers, Office help. superintendent, man
ayers and officers, 1874. 1895; freight on
heets. sugar and supplies, $6S6,z4S,Ol;
fuel lime rock. bags, coke and all other
supplies, $4S9. 0S0.31.
These figures show that the best su-
gar industry is of some considerable in
terest to the Kansas farmers.
Prosperity in Kansas is SO great,
according to the New York World, that
the people of the state in large num-
bers are abandoning churches on Sun
days and taking joyrides in their mo-
tor cars. The World says;
a state conference of pastors and
teachers in Kansas has brought 10
public notice that there are upward of
a thousand abandoned houses of Wor-
ship in that state. 1t is reported that
in the conference an opinion prevailed
that the decline of popular interest in
church service is due mainly to fond
ness for motoring.
THE facts are of more than passing
interest. Kansas was founded hardly
more than 30 years ago by men ana
women to whom religion was the
breath of their nostrils. Zealots in the
cause of abolition and of Christianity,
as they understood it. the Bible was
household book, and worship something
more than Sunday observance. Their
spirit was that of Puritans going to
Arma geddon to battle for the Eord
Their songs were all hymns Their
piety had ever fighting edge on it.
"Behold now their grandchildren
scott at worship. abandon churches
and take to Sunday joy riding.
This is the progress of bumper
in the land, too much milk and honey
in the streams, too many chicken din
ners for harvest hands, too many way
side inns where forbidden waters are
sweet, and though secret are abund-
ant: too many good roads for swift
riding where the corn grows high, and
the riders can't be seen; too many
motors for the farmers sons. and also
for the farmers daughters. With
these impulses pressing through the
week. Kansas can't sit still on Sun
day"
Frank B. Bristow, son of the Kan
sas senator, is student of oxford
college, England, where he is taking
a. four year course. He has just re-
turned to this country and Joined his
parents in Washington. Young Bris-
tow declares the English college far
more rigorous than any institutions of
learning and said the English A b.
degree requires as much work as an
American Phi. d.
Hugh O'Hara has been nominated
by the president to be postmaster at
Frontenac, Kan, in the place of
Charles Friskel, whose commission
expired April 8. L. A Walker was
also nominated for the postmastership
at Parsons to succeed Benjamin L.
Taft.
The nomination of George A.
Griggs for appointment as postmaster
at Marquette. Kan. has been with
drawn by the president.
Peter D. Spellman has been commits
stoned postmaster a PlainVille, Kan.
Fourth class Kansas postmaster APP
pointments: Isaac r. Dingman, KEEL
SO; William j. O'Mara, Reading,
Senator Bristow has introduced a
bill in the senate authorizing the sec
rotary of war to donate two cannon
for the city park of Abilene.