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Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13
. DAVIS. AND THE.
APPROPRIATIONS,

We, have noticed in several OF
our Republican exchanges long ar.
ticles concerning taxes; in which
State. Auditor Davis is supposed to
give some rock bottom. facts. con-
cerniag taxes and appropriations and
which is being circuAated by the Re-
pgblicagf State Central Committee as
Q body blow to Governor Hodges.
We're cit not for the fact that some
persons, who confine themselves TO
reading Republican papers. are being
misled by some .o9 the hoG-wash that
is being gotten out BY the opposition,
the statements made by: Mr.. Davis
would be very amusing. - o.
The facts are Auditor Davis is at
the present a time e on the fence.
He is undecided whether TO offer
himself as a sacrifice by becoming
a candidate for Congressman of the
7th District on the Republican tick
ct, or whether to stand for a third
term Cor State Auditor. In either
event he needs some advertising, and
the way. to get it, according to his
notion is to exploit his own iguor-
ance and attack the administration
Of, Governor Hodges. It is not our
intention, or is it necessary to de-
fend the Governor; from the attacks
Of Mr.; Davis, but It is cthel purpose
4: OF. this article to SEE the people right
concerning questions which are civ
en- prominence, and we have gather
ed the. following facts to .substan'
tiate the statement that Nj. Davis
is simply lookinS for cheap publicity
and has been talking through hif
bead covering. From Mr.. Davis ar
tcle we quote as follows: ..
.'The Governor says that the State
Auditor. recommended appropriation
to the 1918 legislature tOtaling $11,
OOOSOO. The STATE a0litor submitted
the estimates of the several depara
o ments end institutions. in his repOr
Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13

necessary by the departments and
institutions of the State total $11,-
SS9,3SS. This is am increase of 3d.
O1S,SS6 over the appropriations allow
ed by the legislature of 1911. The
educational institutions are asking
s2,324,574 more than was allowed to
them by the last legislature /; the
charitable, including the new insane
hospital and the tuberculosis Sanitar.
ium, $916,19S, or an aggregate for
the two classes of institutions Of
s3,S4O,7O7, which is greater, it will
be noted, than the total increase.
This shows for the demands Of the
other institutions and departments col
lectively a decrease over the amount
allowed by the preceding legislature;
and, in addition, decreases in spe--
cific items have been suggested by
me approximating 100000. 1t is
clear, therefore, that the only posi-
bilities for greatly increased appro--
priations lie in the consideration Of
budgets of the educational schools
particularly, and of the charitable in
situtiOns, and preceding each Of
these general budgets l have SUBJ
mitted few remarks to which / re-
spectfully invite the attention of the
Legislature"
| You will note that after examin--
ing the estimates made by the var
ious institutions and departments,
that he only found specific items to
the amount of 100000 that might be
eliminated. Mind you now, after si1
years i'm the office of State Auditor
four of them as assistant auditor
and two as auditor, having his pulst
on the growth and needs of tbs
Estate, he can only find 100000 aske(
for by departments that is not need
ed. This places him in the position
Of 0K-ing estimates which called 70,
pruned them down, or almost 81,
100000 more than was appropriated
by the legislature. Let us see nov
what particular items he has elm
mater.
, Under the Adjutant Generals es
: Inmates he has a few remarks, bu
they really do not eliminate any
thing. Under the budget Of the E
ecutive Council he urges that cel
tain work be done on the state hous'
which was necessary. His first d,
crease is shown under the budget {
the .Adjutant General, ON page 1:
where he suggests; a decrease an
omting to $4,000. The budget {
the Attorney General called Il
s1S1O4O; the legislature appropriat
er $4,000, or. slS,ssO more tha
Mr.. Davis suggested. The nel
!lttem on the same page was the bu'
Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13

get of the Bank Commissioner, and
this asked for $lO6, 100. Mr.. Davis
recommended decreasing this sum
by $4,000; the legislature apprOpria'
ted $S6,5OO, or going $1,000 less than
the Auditor.
His next specific recommendation
Is in reference to the John Brown
Memorial Park. The Boad asked
for $4,000 (see page 1S); Mr.. Davis
recommended $500, saving s2,lOO tc
the state. The next specific item
is in relation to the Soldiers Home,
at Dodge City. THIS is the insttu-
tion over which our Republican
brethren are always so very solici-
tous and are always putting on the
grand stand play of wanting. to dc
something for the old soldier. The
Auditor reports on page % that $12,
600 is asked for new buildings. re-
pairs and side walks, in order that
the Home might be made more hab'
table for the old fellows than al
present. Mr.. Davis evidently did moi
think St that time that he would be
a candidate for another office, and
he recommended that the appropria-
ton for this particular item be re
duced to $1,000.
These were the only specific am
cunts that Mr.. Davis could find il
the estimates to cut out, and they
amounted to s97 100. He states il
his report on page % that ever.
dollar needed to properly provide 30
! the comfort and welfare of the unfOr
tunate of the state should be grant
ed" and yet he throws the respOn
sibility upon the Legislature, with o
ldays time for the Ways and Mean
Committee Of the two Houses to sc
cure the accurate knowledge that Oh
State Auditor should. possess cor
cerning what is needed at the inst
tutions. On page q Mr.. Davis car
tions the Legislature to be carefU
about the appropriations for ednca
tional institutions particularly, b
cause, he says, some of them aske
for twice as much money as the pr
Hous Legislature should have gil
en-. Here again he throws the r
sponsibihty upon the shouldes Of tn
=, Ways and Means Committee Of. Il
two Houses. O..
II Mr.. Davis vas cOlgersant Wit
Kansas institutions, and he shou
have been, 1t was his duty, as Aud
TOR of State, to make such recon
I mendations to the Legislature co
+ eeming the appropriations as occu
: red to him from his experience an
d duties. Failing to do this, he 81
t mitbed the estimates. as he has.
: Ills last Annual Report. making b
Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13

citizens of our State. than to have
them handicapped by a penny wise
pound foolish administration Of Il.
fairs through the lack Of sufficient
funds Il.
auditor paws. IL properly quoted
ID this Ttiole referred I'd. ois absO-
lutely ignorant o& the duties OF his.
position. and tbe contents Of his own
last Biennial Report. dAe should Oh
serve Ebert Hubbard's rule Of five.
Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13
BEST FAMILY LAXATIVE.

I Beware Of consultation. 0se DR..
Kings New Iite Pills and keep wen.
Mrs. Charles p. SSiths Of W. Frank,
lin. Me-, als thAR 'oSr family lax-
atiVs5. Nothing better for adults o..
aged Get them tOdsy. 25c. All. Drug.
gists o.. by mSlo
H: E. BG&len % Co., philadelphia
orpSt, Gouis: " -
pr,nO ,,s vIsSa- -oIoh uorL
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bloodless revolution as that which
effected her own independence. Un-
der this provocation, just as Greece
and Turkey signed secret treaty IN
May, 1918, for the restoration OF
Adrianople to the Turks and for
the seizure of southeastern Thrace
by Greece, so Turkey and Bulgaria
may well have signed now a secret
treaty for the discontinue of Greece.
Russia is intimately concerned in
the outcome. Though prevented by
the rest of Europe from taking Con-
stantinople for herself, she has no
mind to see her dearest ambition
achieved by Greece. She, too, has
planned to re-establish the ancient
Christian Byzantine empire. AS at
the time when Egypt threatened to
replace a weak with a strong Mos
lem power at Constantinople, SO now
Russia does not hesitate to support
the tottering Turkish throne in the
hope that she may some time sue
cessfully assert her claim.
In the face of these determined
though silent enemies the prepara-
tions made by Greece to defend her
island possessions with battleships
bought from the United States seem
only the beginning of the drain upon
her resources.
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
WITH DUKE
NOT TO EXPOSE SELF
Wife Of Ferdinand Displayed Ex-
treme Bravery in the Face
of Death.

VIENNA, June 2s.-Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand died, as he probably
would have preferred to die, in the
arms Of his beloved wife. the wife
whom he married in the face of strong
est opposition, and who herself re-
nounced all claims to royalty.
The duchess pleaded with her hus-
band after tho bomb throwing not to
expose himself again. He would not
hear hsr warnings, and inEsted on
making his visit to the hospital to
inquire concerning those whom tho as
sassin's bomb had injured. His wife.
not the less courageous. insisted thai
she 60 with him
The assissin had evidently been caro-
fully coached in his part. He lay In
wait at q spot where he knew the car
rage would have to slow up because Of
a curve In the road. The presence OF
the duchess in the carriage made him
hesitate momentarily. Then he cred.
His bullet struck the duchess Imme-
diately his second shot lodged In the
archduke's throat. severing the jusular
vein. Herself almost unconscious. the
duchess by superhuman endeavor
raised the bleeding body Of her royal
husband In her arms Her blood ran
red with his as she wept and pleaded
for his life not to pass out with the
bloody stream He died as she held
Kim. As his body stiffened. the mortal
ly wounded wife fell on her knees,
praying. and herself died IN this posi-
ton. The automobile. meanwhile, had
been speeding to physician The
royal couple were dead a few moments
after the shots
The duchess devotion TO her husband
has always been remarked upon IN
Vienna
Vienna court were never better Illus
trated today in publication in official
organs of the details of the assassina-
ton here. The Vienna Gazette, official
government paper. described TIE death
OF the archduke in detail In its official
section. with no mention of his consort.
In another section, unotficially, the
death of the wife was described.
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WILSON'S JUDGMENT
CAUSE OF NEWMAN
Friends Say Commissioner Nh
Contest Jury Verdict q
President So Advises.

II 10 10 vindscate Pressdeus W6
judgment. rather than 10 gTa<fey n
own personal desires. that OrS9 n
Newman will continue the legal hgn1
to retain his place ON the Board oe
Commissioners Of the District q c1hmns
bia. according to close friends ok the
Commissioner who have vtttsd hfr7
The Commissioner takes tho position
that to allow the finding Of the jury to
stand would be to admit that tha Pfesf~
dent was IN error IN making tho aps
pointment. and that the Senate also
erred In confirming It II the highsr
courts reverse the finding. as Comnis-
siouer Newman feels sure viii Be the
case, It will establish President VILE
sons position In the matter beyopd q
doubt. which is the primary considkra-
ton Of the Commissioner.
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
AHISTORIC LOG.

If the American Greenwich and
uautical museum on Staten Island
planned by Cornelius Vanderbilt and
others comes to fruition there ought
TO be a place on its walls for a
bronze tablet letoered with the first
log on record of an oceangoing ships
passing through the Gatun locks
The passage was ordered by Colonel
Goethals as a test and the vessel
making 1t was the Panama railroad
steamship Alliance, under command
Of Captain Hudgins.
With proper sense of the histori-
al Importance of the occasion the
liners skipper kept his log by min
.tes. as the following copy showsi
N
O8-Entered Atlantic approach to canal.
-S5-Entered lower level Of Gstun locks.
,.l-Started into lower lock chamber.
'-2S-Ship in place in lower lock cham
7:0-Gates Of lower lock chamber
s2-started TO I'LL lower lock chamber
Slower lock chamber filed.
i245-Gates to middle lock opened
4I-shtp started into middle lock
chamber:
-6S-ship in place in middle lock cham
Der.
f:57-Gates In middle lock chamber
closed.
s'oo-started TO I'LL upper lock chamber.
s:l-Cpper lock chamber full.
':l2-Gates to upper lock chamber
opened.
i:25-Shp in place in upper lock ckam-
ber.
i:2S-Gates TO upper lock chamber
closed.
l:2s-Upper lock chamber full and gates
to Gatun Lake opened.
t:4e-Ship towed out Of upper lock
chamber
I:4S-Ship cast OF by towing engines
and proceeds under own steam.
By his setting down in his log
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
MAKING CITIZENS OUT
OF IMMIGRANTS.

The great present-day problem of
immigration to this country is that
of assimilating these outlanders, ig-
norant Of our tongue as Of our in
stitutions and ideals, into the-fabric
of the American nation. From this
mass comes a large, perhaps the
largest part of the recruits who
swell the ranks of the Industrial
Workers of the World and kindred
organizations. Easily Influenced,
easily led, because they are at dis
advantage in the struggle, they re-
iect helpful counsels which they do
not understand or the inspiration of
which they regard as selfish and look
with favor upon the visionary's wild
dream or the agitator's Indictment to
violence
Assimilation of immigration is
made even more difficult by the fire.
quent loss of sympathy between the
immigrant parents and their chill
dren and the resulting failure Of
discipline and family solidarity. The
children attend school and learn a
language which is a closed book to
their elders; too often it happens
that they look with contempt upon
Old World habits and Old World
speech.
It is some Of these conditions that
the Jewish Educational Alliance in
various cities labors with such zeal,
devotion, and intelligence to correct.
Fathers and mothers and the
younger folk who will be the fathers
and mothers Of tomorrow are learn
ing English for themselves and ac-
curing incidentally an acquaintance
with American institutions. If It
is permitted to suggest an addition
to the curriculum, we offer the Flag
Day address of Secretary Of the
Interior Lane, delivered to the clerks
Of the Interior Department.
A better description Of what the
American Flag symbolizes and of
what American patriotism means it
would not be easy to find.
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
JUST WHATITS FORl

The new worimen's compensation
act of New York State is Just about
taking effect, and there is a good
deal of discussion concerning its de-
tailed operation. Some of its oppon-
ents have invented and dragged in
to the daylight a curious new bogie.
"What would happen to the fund, for
which the State is to serve as trus-
tee and administrator, If a great ca
tastrophe should take place, costing
a great number of lives of working
people insured In the fund, before
in fact any considerable amount had
been accumulated"
That's the poser that the opposi-
ton asks. Suppose, for instance, a
big factory should burn with the loss
Of hundred employees, all insured,
where would the money come from,
night at the start, to pay their in
IDENTITIES
It's a question, Of course, TO be
answered only in the light Of a full
knowledge of just what the law says.
But it isn't after all a very hard one.
The State might worry along for a
few weeks or months about getting
the ready cash to pay these indemni-
ties. But it would be a fine thing to
see the State worry, instead of the
widows and the orphans. The State
does those things better.
That's exactly why the law was
passed: to shift this kind of worry
to the State.
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
A UNITED EFFORT.

Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadel-
phia, associated with Mayors Harri-
son, of Chicago, Baker, of Cleveland,
Mitchell, of New York, and other
leading municipal executives, is
planning for big convention of city
officials. Its purpose will be to or
ganize the cities interests for their
struggle against the franchised pub
lie utilities.
The mayors of experience have
long since discovered that the fran
chise holding concerns invariably
make common cause to get as much
as they can and to hold all they get
There are national organizations of
street railway and gas and electric
and heaven knows how many other
special interests, which hold their
conventions and plan to support one
another in all their onslaughts on
communities from which they want
privileges.
So it is proposed to organize the
publc's interests together, to put up
an effective front against this organ
izaion of the monopoly seekers. The
idea Is a most excellent one. One of
the greatest difficulties that the rep
resentatives OF the people have is
in getting information. One city can
not readily learn the facts about
management of utilities in other
cities. Distorted statements are con-
stantly made by special interests,
calculated to injure the cause of pub
lie ownership and of public regula-
ton. These are unfair and mislead-
ing; commonly, they are directly
false. It is very important to know
how far they may be relied upon,
and how the truth may be secured to
counteract such vicious misstate-
ments.
There was recently presented, for
example, to the District Committee
of the House list of some hundreds
of cases in which, it was alleged,
public ownership of public utilities
had proved an utter failure. That
list could not safely be accepted as
ingenious or honest, and 1t was in
fact neither. Yet it was imposed on
the committee because of seeming
ly respectable authority that stood
behind It There is pressing need for
some means TO protect the public
against such impositions. A cooper
alton among municipal executives
who want to know the truth and to
achieve results In the real interest
of the public, would be Of the great
est possible usefulness.
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
THE ROYAL ASSASSINA-
TON.

A few years ago when Austria
calmly defied the wrath of Russia
and of Italy as well, and announced
definite annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina TO the dual empire, she
imperiled the peace of Europe. But
to the view of the diplomats in
charge of affairs at Vienna, the final
acquisition of these two principal-
ties was important enough to justify
all the chances that had to be in
CURED m getting them.
There was no war as q result Of
the annexation; at least, no war in
which Austria was party, though
it would be hard to tell how far the
Bosnia Herzegovina incident may
have contributed to bring about the
recent struggle in the Balkan PEN
insula. Certain it is that the bitter
ness of Servia against Austria has
been much accentuated by tie real
ization that Austria would have no
scruples against seizing all or any
part of Servian territory, If she
cared do it and thought the advant-
sge would Offset the cost.
The House of Hapsburg has SEEM
ed, on the whole, to have succeeded
rather cleverfy with the bit of land
piracy that was the annexation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina. But now, at
last, comes retribution. 1t is in the
capital of Bosnia that the heir to the
Austrian throne is shot down by the
hand Of Servian youth, and one
mwe is added to the appalling list
of tragedies that have been enacted
around the foot of Francis Joseph's
throne during the long reign of that
monarch Of sorrows.
The Emperor is now eighty-foor
years old. For a long time the world
has received persistent reports that
ne was sinking, and that he must
presently yield up the scepter that
represents the dubious integration of
the two halves of his empire. For a
generation wiseacres have shaken
their heads and protested that Aus
tria-Hungary would fall to pieces
whEnever Francis Joseph passed on
But the wiseacrss have been in er-
ror. There Is every reason, today, to
anticipate that the dual kingdom will
hold together, and that from time
to time It viii be more firmly united
byreason of the essential community
Of interests among its people. The
murder of the heir to the throne
brings another heir into the lime
light; but that is all. The House of
Eapsburg will continue to wear the
imperial regalia in Vienna and the
regal dignity In Budapest.
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TRAGEDIES OF HIS LIFE.

These were the great tragedies Of his
life, the tragedies which have made
the name of Hapsburg synonymous with
misfortune:
Macmillan II, Emperor Of Mexico.
executed after defeat by revolutionists.
brother.
Crown Prince Rudolf. died by suicide
or murder at Mayerling. SON.
Elizabeth. Empress of Austria, assas-
sinated at Geneva by anarchist, wife.
Franz Ferdinand. crown prince, shot
at SeraJevo, nephew.
Disaster Laid To q Curse.
Other misfortunes flowed from these
almost without number, making tho
record Of sorrow which has marked the
family Of Franz Josef one almost with
out parallel In either ancient or modern
history.
All Of this train of disaster Is laid
by the people Of Austria Hungary to a
curse laid on Franz Josef soon after he
took the throne as youth facing a
The Washington times., 1914-06-29
THE CL.ASHINC BALKANS

In the struggle which Turkey has
been spelling to begin and for which
Greece Is buying two Of our old bat
tleships many forces are at work.
Greece herself, though Insecure
because Of the mixture Of races and
religions IN her newly conquered
Macedonia, can never for a moment
forget her dream Of re-establishing
the old Christian Byzantine empire
which the Turks overthrew when
they captured Constantinople in the
fifteenth century.
In Constantinople the aristoratic
Phanariotes of Greek descent would
welcome revolution Premier Ven-
ezelos. with reason enough on his
own account to bear a grudge
against the Turks because they once
tried to pick quarrel over his rise
from Cretan origin to Greek leader
ship, has found it difficult In the past
10 restrain his adopted country with
IN the bounds Of prudence, and is
now only voicing the feeling Of the
more conservative party in his stern
warning to Turkish aggressors.
The most obvious power behind the
scenes is Bulgaria, including within
her borders hundreds Of thousands
of Turks and of Pomaks, or Moslem-
lied Bulgarians, whose people are
nearer of kin to Turks than is any
other Balkan race. Her resentment
against the ideals of Pan-Hellenism
Is of long duSation, antedating even
her break with the orthodox Greek
Church in 1850 and the founding of
her Independent exarchate by the
porte ten years later.
Nevertheless, the systematically
harsh regime Of the Young Turks in
Macedonia for a time drew together
all Christian sufferers. The states
forgot their policy Of keeping groups
Of bandits in conflict over the con-
version and reconversion of Mace
donian villages, and formed the sue
cessful Balkan alliance.
AS soon as the fear of the COM
mon enemy died jealousy revived,
the more virulently because of the
unequal division Of the spoils from
the war. According to the present
arrangements, Bulgaria with her su-
perior army has gained 25,200 square
kilometers, while Greece has gained
more than twice as much. Greece
lost e8,000 soldiers and Bulgaria
$4,000. Greece is building railroads
which for the first time permit COM
by land with the rest of
Europe, while Bulgaria is unable to
control the railway connections with
the one new port on the Agean
which she has acquired.
This situation forms something Of
all anticlimax after the original Bull
garian plan of an autonomous Mace
donia ultimately to be annexed to
her dpmiuious by the Same sort of