Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-03-25
PROHIBITION PAYS KANSAS
State Answers Widely Published State
ments Made BY the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers.

Kansas, there it stands; first in
wealth, first in health and first in edu-
cation.
That Is the answer of Kansas to the
statement issued recently by the Ma
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers Asso'
citation, in which 1t was asserted that
prohibition had brought the state be-
low the average license state as re-
CARDS moral, health and economic
standards.
Kansas has more wealth per capita;
more young men and women in col
leges and the university. in proportion
to population; more children in the
Sunday schools; a lower death rate; a
lower percentage of illiteracy; twenty
eight counties without Jail prisoner
last year; forty-eight counties that did
not send prisoner to state prison;
seventy-eight that did not have an in
sane patient last year.
All OF this credited to thirty years
of prohibition.
"The liquor interests OF the country
are centering their attacks on Kan
sas," declared Arthur Capper, COVER
nor of the state, in a recent interview.
THE country Is being flooded with
literature containing ridiculous and
manufactured stories regarding the
failure of prohibition in Kansas. With
that monument to prohibition out OF
the way, they feel they have removed
their greatest obstacle"
Woman Blew Safe.-Someone, sup
posedly a woman, blew open a post
office safe in rural station In To
peka the other morning and escaped
with $50 in currency. 1920 In stamps
and all the keys to the mail sacks.
The muddy shoes Of a woman found
near the postoffice and the declara-
ton by neighbors, awakened by the
sound, that they saw woman running
down the street, form the belief by the
police that 1t was a woman safe rob
Der.
More Stock DIseased.-The most
serious outbreak OF foot and mouth
disease yet recorded In Butler county
was discovered on the James letter
farm, two miles from Eldorado the
other day, Just as the government
force of veterinarians was about to
dispense for their homes. Thirty per
cent of the 512 head of fat cattle and
1870 hogs were found to be infected.
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Kansas Building Dedlcated.-The
Kansas state building, with sunhowers
decorating its front was dedicated re-
Gently at the Panama-Pacific expos
ton. w. p. lines of Wichita repre-
scented Kansas and replied to the well
coming addresses by representatives
of the nation, state, city and exposi-
ton and Kansans resident In San
Francisco. -
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New College Head-Dr. Walter
Huntington Rollins Of India has been
installed as president OF Paramount
College In place OF w. b. Thayer, who
retires to take up other interests.
Several widely known speakers took
part in the installation of the new
president.
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Gas Fumes Overcome eoy.-Clifton
Jackson, the 15-year-old son of Mrs
s. r. Stone, was overcome by gas
fumes at his home in Olathe recently.
His mother heard him fall. broke the
locked door and dragged him into an
other room.
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Raymond Robins Wins.-Raymond
Robins, the Chicago SOCIAL worker,
need not pay the bankrupt firm of Cox
BIodg+tt Dry Goods Company of Wich-
itu $11,250 which the trustees claimed
he owed. A federal jury has SO de-
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