The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-10
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
duced From Saturday Evening Post by Special
mission.

good health highly accented. fnx
normal, and Just such D. social
as one should expect from III
that lived normal, wholesoNnG
Now as to the mind: Kaneaa ~
the first six of the States with II
percentage OF illiteracy. In . RI
ton of a million and three-Qu
or thcreabout. we have over -
thousand students in our Stats e61(x
tionai institutions of higher 1e43313
above high sc hool grade. and IN 1y4
higher educational institutlon0G1
other colleges Kansas has more o1~&l
dents in college according to p0pu4&
ton than any other State td Il
Union. Ssssa
Moreover, we have 39.4ss students tn
high schools and the increase -
mare than exceeded the grOWtM IL
population during the last five yeAx4
Thus we find that the State hayf8ms5
the largest number of students IN 0Q3HS5
leges. according TO population, hMvlM&$
the largest assessed valuation, hAylM4S
next TO the lowest death rate. and hAyNx3
ing the smallest State debt In DropOfe
ton TO fits population, is the state hIH
which the smallest average expenAfssa
ture is made for liquor. We hAv1
saved about twenty dollars hest
from our liquor bill to spend for
things worth while. n
Where the Money Goes. Il.
How. then. do we spend oar
money? What do we do with that
twenty dollars n head which repreeentN.s
the difference between the aver1GOs
American expenditure for liquor ana
the Kansas expenditure? Let IN take
All example IN a small but represen-
tative unit Ernporia is town 03
ten thousand people. the county aeAe
of a, county. of twenty-fve thousAnda
people IT Is n typical Kansas come
! Y,4ttyYirI- N ErnlDCria are thfftY-080Ns
groceries, FIVE clothing stores four dfys
goods stores. three furniture stores
three hardware stores, two big book;
stores, five bakeries. five banks. nv93
drug stores. two music stores. threes
tewelry stores and SIX hotels. An4@
this spring. following q year %
drought and had crops. the tom
raised $4,000 for a Y. NJ. c. A. butld~s
ing
The town has nearly twenty MfI94
| of paving. sevtnytwo miles OF ntonos
or cement sidewalks, owns It's wA&eE1s
! works and light plant--the Aste&l
being operated under a ease---cohecee
/ its own garbage and discusses Of III
( in an inclnerator. sweeps it, 6trOe49s@
has school property exclusive of ttgS
/ hirh school worth a hundrttd Art
/ niretv three thousand 's1oilarA and III
high school. Just completed Amds
equipped at a cost OF q hundred Ands
/ fifty thousand dollars. Three pubic
libraries are available to those who
desire to store their minds with mora
/ orl less useful knowledge, and twenty-
! nine churches receive the twon's de-
votionsh An average six months hMns
I Just passed and the police court RECORD
+ is this for these ten thousand peo~s
J pie and their tributary fifteen thOu-s
sand. There have been twenfy~6ouEs
arrests for drunkenness and about oS1es
hundred and thirty-fo for evOvrX
j thing in the police court.
| The taxes are low because our 3ait4s
/ are empty more or less Of the time
and the cost of criminal trials y o0s
small that the average time COM
sumed with criminal cases In the Dbl
/ trict Court Is but one-fourth a. thNs
time consumed at each quarterly se1-s
! sion. Last year these twenty-dvos
thousand people contributed eight prt1~
oners to the State penitentiA1y. -
have in the count 636 high eChN0&S
students: IT'S students in higher IN
stitutions of learning inside the 9eatos
and many outside the State that 60
cape enumeration in college catAlOgueoS
OF the State. There are 4,640 taxpayers
/ in the county, who own approx1mafe~
/ ly fortyone million dollars worth ~
property, and who. for all purpQgea
! Ii
hundred and ninetyeight thousand dol
lars. and do not have any help frOn1
/ saloon licenses TO It; hut then the
! legal machinery OF the county q mot
clogged by the capriccs OF whislkey. At1d
it costs us only s13.736 a year to run
our courts.
/ We seem to use our twenty dO1tAros
head. saved from the nations ayor-
age liquor bill. fairly we'll. We seem t4
put 1t into groceries and cl0thinoss
houses and schools and libraries 4ndEs
churches and municipal imprcye-l
ments Ard then we save some ~ 1ez
for a bank deposit OF three ma3fiQMs
five hundred thousand dollars, wh10Ms
is the average Lyon county deposit 304s
three years last past. This IL con11det@g
able above the average deposit IN t61s
/ county. When one considers thAk 1kxs
total deposit is distributed aMfoS
seventeen thousand five hundro6 A6sss
counts the figures do not show = De@S
perity denied by the facts. - = M~N1
IL we had large deposits and - N
positors N 4
We have honest politics becauo M
have no dealings with saloon Cxa4
in Lyon county and In EmpQg49 y
/ generation has elapsed since 1AGE
was a defalcation Of . penny o4 Im&
funds. There ts no purchaaAhleN
in the county. IN Aan9Ao C3N1 y. :
buy printers ink instead Of - !
election day. And on tho whoao, 1g
ters ink Is more wholesome An6
fewer bad effects on . cOnMnonq
than beer. We have acquired ~
for printers ink and havo -
taste for beer. That n aboux 60
result of thirty years c6 thu Juo ~
tory law In Kansas. s!s AZ
What viii this tAste 1of 1nk
us in the end? Az q StA4o - M
reached a stage Of economin an1 o
adjustment much nearer tn
status OF the dreamer chan ev0m
most radical missionary wou1G
thought possible without = deMm1
change Of the social color. c.
erty and class riches are b9Ne
eliminated from KansaA Tha 41
opportunity stands we'll A1Ar 10M
one. Education, from the k1nA
ten to the masters degree. = r.
libraries; fun Of boolrs. sran0 S1~
practically every village ana 1ol4
Kansas. and a thoroughly orr
State travelling library ccye41