The Washington herald., 1914-06-10
Progress In Kansas.

The late Thomas B. Reed once said that the move
ment of the human seemed to be in series of up
ward starts and falls of almost proportonate length
This is called progressive age and all want to
do things in hurry and develop the greatest amount
of energy from the least of concentrated fuel
The automobile and the aeroplane illustrations
Until the discovery of gasoline, the most volatile
product of petroleum. these machines were impossible
There was at first much hostility to automobiles in the
country but now they have become general utility
vehicles and the Kansas farmers boast that they have
more progress than any other agricultural section
because they have more automobiles.
1t was even suggested by Western Senator's when
the agricultural bill was under consideration, that
there should be appropriation for aeroplanes that
the specialists who hog cholera should be able
to get the to the infected swine in the
shortest possible tEas While few years ago the
auoist who dared speed the plains of Kansas
would be in danger of lynching and the aeronaut
who dared fly across the State would be the subject
OF sport from the farmers with short guns popping
at him they did at the migratory birds, the
man who would preach against either in Kansas would
be denounced as reactionary unworthy the rights
of citizenship in that progressive State.
But Kansas has progressed in the utilization
of gasoline to get quick combustion and the great
amount of energy from the least of fuel.
those progressive people have turned against this
same progressive policy as to fuel for the human
engine. Col. Charles H. Melville, who long served
as the sanitary expert of the British war Office,
in an elaborate work on Military Hygiene and Sam
itaton" declared alcohol be food and he classed
it with the spirit lamp and the engines which use
concentrated fuel since its combustion in the body
produces certain amount of heat and this saves
for the use of the body an isodynamc' quantity of
fat or carbohydrate" So this English expert classes
alcohol for use by the human engine, along with al
cohol and gasoline for the automobile and flying ma
chine. 1t produces the greatest amount of energy for
the bulk OF fuel taken into the human system. 1t
may wear out the machine quicker than the use of
slower combustion foods, and it may wreck the ma
chine if too much fuel is applied at time, but
it is food rather than poison.
1t is not always advisable this quick ccmbus-
ton fuel especially by those who not in the to
who be the most progressive and get over the
most intellectual and moral ground in the shortest
space of time taking brds-eye view of the learn
ing philosophy and wisdom of the world, does the
bird man of the landscape which he scars, but
we see no reason why Kansas should adopt gasoline
and prohibit alcohol, a progressive philosophy.
They ought go together, and then in Kansas the
Progressive party would not be so much in danger
of disintegration, to persuade Senator Bristow
to make his campaign for reelection Republican
and possibly a reactionary.
The logical way for Victor Murdock to restore the
vigor of the Progressive party in Kansas would seem
to be apply the quick combustion fuel the human
body that he uses in his automobile Then with
alcohol and gasoline, he could circumnavigate the
globes political theories while he is skimmng the
plains of Kansas in his gasoline machine to beat Bris
tow and Curtis and all the Kansas reactionares. Kan
sas might then demonstrate the error of Tom Reeds
observation that progress is not constant and con-
sistent