The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
KANSAS COMAENT
TO HELP THE FARMERs.

TO HELP THE FARMERS
The four banks of Parsons and La
bette county are to be commended for
the interest they have taken in Sc
curing a farm demonstrator, who will
spend the summer in the county, try
ing to demonstrate the methods OF
farming that will bring the largest and
pest results. The man who owns a
farm and fails to secure the largest
returns from it is in the same posi-
ton as a merchant who has a large
stock OF goods and no customers, or the
owner of a factory who is unable to
secure the largest possible output. The
results are even more far-reaching in
the case of the farm, for it is to the
FARMER that all must look for the food
supply of the country, and it is upon
MIN that We all depend He is the
very foundation of life, and whatever
can be done to strengthen that foun-
dation is a benefaction. The demon
strations and experiments that will be
made in this county during the spring
and summer will cost the farmers moth
ing, the State Agricultural college fur
nlshlng the demonstration, while the
banks pay the incidental expenses, ana
the citizens are the ones who are
benefited, along with the farmers. mer-
chants, shopmen and bankers, each re-
celVlng his individual benefits The
farmers or Labette county are as in
teLlgent as the men in other voca-
lions, or as the farmers of any other
community, but they realize that they
are not getting all out of their farms
that they should. 1t is to make these
returns larger and to better conditions
on the farm, increase the value of the
crops and the live stock that these
oelhonstratlons are being made. They
are being made all over the state of
Kansas and this is a part of the
work of the State Agricultural college
that is of practical benefit to all the
people.-Parsons Sun
EXIT, THE SLAPSTICK
If airs we'll that ends well. the adj
mlnistration of Mayoress Ella Wilson
or Hunnewell, which started out in
such tumultuous manner and now
promises to close decently and in or
uer, win sympathetic council acting
IN perfect harmony with the head Of
tne city government, will go down in
history as a grand success IT has
oeen nearly two years since Hume
wen ana It's woman mayor came into
tne ln1eLsnt, and those who witnessed
the actions of the slapstick comedians
VINO made up tho council at that time
Will be pleased to learn that this muni-
ctpal farce comedy has some of the
wholesome features of the drama in
which virtue is rewarded and everyone
gets his Just deserts in the last act
Inc curtain was rung up on the last
act saturday, when the supreme court
ousted the councilmen whose crude
IDEA OF humor handicapped the woman
mayor a every turn until she appealed
TO the courts. Now the parties whose
merr1ment has featured the show up
to this point have abandoned the stage
business of laughing in their sleeves
and Mayoress Wilson is enjoying a
little wholesome satisfaction over the
discontinue of the trio, who will be
compelled to p1y the current market
price for their part in making the
council business a joke.
1t must be gratifying to Mrs. Wilson
to complete her administration with a
council that sympathizes with her
wishes to give the town a clean adj
m1n1stration, and the coming month
should be valuable as a demonstra-
ton Of the sort of government the
town would have had under the direc-
ton of a woman mayor had she been
given the support she might naturally
have eXpected.-Salina Journal.