The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-07

bank accounts, empty prisons and hap
py homes. Now the answer to Whites
statement is being sent broadcast over
the United States and is being used as
argument against prohibition in Oregon,
Washington and other states.
CabelIs figures show that the Kansas
insanity rate is 1920 per 100, 900, or
above II license states. The record for
pauperism, says the report, is l349 per
100000 in Kansas, or above Louisiana,
Wyoming, Texas. South Dakota, Flor
ida. Idaho, South Carolina, Minnesota,
Arkansas and Alabama, license states
The Kansas record for divorce is
held up t" scorn by the Cabell report
1t shows that for twenty years under
prohibition her divorce record is
greater than that of thirty-one liquor
states. Her record is given at 286
divorces for every 1907 Inhabitants.
License states with better showings,
according to the report, are: Rhode
Island, Missouri, Utah. New Hamp-
shire, South Dakota. Illinois, Tennes-
see, Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky. Ohio.
Nebraska, Florida, Mississippi, Ala
/ bama, New Mexico, West virginia
(then Icense), Wisconsin, Vermont,
Minnesota. Connecticut, Louisiana,
Massachusetts,. Virginia. Maryland,
Pennsylvania. Georgia (then license).
New York, New Jersey. Delaware, and
North Carolina (then license). The
1898 to 1902
The percentage of illiteracy in 1910
was 20 in Kansas. This was greater
| than Washington. Oregon. Nebraska,
Iowa and Idaho, it is asserted.
Church Membership.
In church membership, Kansas is
| fifth from the bottom, according to
figures of 1906. 1t is further urged
by the report that of the seven states
| lou oCt IN,
are operating under prohibitory liquor
| laws. They are: Maine, Oklahoma.
| Kansas and West Virginia
| In the matter Of saving the. boy, the
Cabell reports says, Kansas is behind
16 liquor states. The rate for juvenile
delinquency in Kansas is given at 25.6S
per 100000 inhabitants.
! With a percentage of 4.49 life pris-
oners for every 10000 citizens. Kansas
makes worse showing than Few
York. New Jersey. Arkansas. Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland, New Hampshire, Mis-
souri,, Virginia, Utah, Massachusetts.
Nebraska, Rhode Island. Washington.
Maine, Idaho. Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and South Dakota
| In the number of prisoners Of all
kinds, the 1910 census figures put Kan
sas with her rate 1904 per 100, 900, be-
behind the nine license states of South
Dakota. Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin.
| Minnesota, Arkansas, Ohio, Idaho and
Illinois.
| Even Take Savings.
| The report of the comptroller of the
currency on June 4, 1918, is used as a
basis for proving that Kansas is i'm
provident. This report shows that there
were 1,14S savings depositors in Kansas
for every 100000 inhabitants. This
number, Cabell's figures show, IL be-
low 81 license states. 1t is also shown
by the cOmptrOller's report that the
average savings deposit for each de-
positor in the United States was $500
| In Kansas the average savings account
| is 1921. SO. says Cabell.
The Kansas state and city death rate
| is attacked by Cabelfs report, which
urges that in Topeka the death rate Is
higher than in II Of the % capital cities
from which mortality reports are avail
able. White placed the Kansas death
rate at rs persons per thousand popu-
| lation.
LAS a matter of fact says Cabell.
1.-THE death rate in Kansas is not
| definitely known. The report Of the
Kansas state board of heath for 1918
shows a death rate of IL for the entire
state, but the registration law in Kan
sas is new and the report of deaths ts
admittedly incomplete.
| kansas IS not recognized by the gov
eminent as a registration state because
of incomplete returns. However, the
mortality report OF the census bureau OF
1912. the latest recognizes the regfstra-
ton reports from twelve cities in Kan
sas with a total population of 326.656, as
estimated by the census bureau. In
these cities tie deaths totalled 4,796
making a decth rate of 14.6. The rate
for all the registration cities. including
the congested centers and population Of
cities with large negro population. wal
Is for 1872
/ The Topeka death rate is given at 1s-5
Death rates from II capital cities in
wet territory. show: st. Paul. 1O2
Madison 10.7: Lansing, 11.4: Salt Lake
City. 11.6: Lincoln. IA: New Haven
1873: Denver. 14.2: Helena. 49,; Column.
bus. 14.3; Harrisburg. AS; JEFFERSON
City. 149: Indianapolis. A.9: Spring
field, 1877; Providence, 1873; Boston. 1853;