The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-12
Professors Told to Go Home
and Tend to Their knitting.
Their Dabbling in Legislative
Matters Is Not Appreciated.
CITY HOME RULE BILL KILLED
Fat Salaried Teachers PromOt-
ed 1t, Reno Member Asserts.
X. e. Faculty Man Is Accused
of Disgracing Kansas.

| High salaried professors in the state
| schools who are paid to instruct in
Latin, Greek, mythology and spots on
the moon, should bundle together
their pamphlets and diagrams of
| needed Kansas legislation and slip
gently back to work. The Kansas
j house of representatives is after them
with a club. Just to show their indie
! pendence and utter disrespect for col
| lege professor advice, the house today
I called out the city home rule measure
and gave it beating that brought
tears to the eyes of the supporters
| from the state university and agrlcul-
! tura1 college
Not in years has lobby before the
| state legislature received a more Sar-
castle and bitter drubbing than house
members gave the professors from the
rah rah towns. Frank l.. Martin, of
Reno county, led the attack on the
| college heads. A dozen other mem
bers waited on the side lines with
warm compliments. Bardwell, of
Riley, whose home town houses the
| state agricultural college. finally
! stopped the revolt against college
| manufactured sentiment by moving
| the previous question Possibly the
| gentleman from Riley recalled that
the agricultural college has not re-
ceived it's biennial appropriation and
| an open fight on college dictation of
1 state legislation was not regarded as
| healthful for promotion of big appro-
priation measures.
/ Bird Started Row.
Bird of Shawnee county, inadvert-
emily started the row when he moved
| to override the house state affairs
! committee and place the city nome
| rule measure on the calendar. The
| committee had voted to Kill the pro
posed constitutional amendment. Gill
man. of Leavenworth, directed the
| throwing of the first bricks which
| hit Birds measure.
| Then Martin of Reno county was
recognized. That was a sad moment
/ for the high salaried state educators
! This is one of those promoted
! measures" sarcastically remarked the
Hutchinson lawyer. 1T is promoted
| by a man at the State university whose
principal time and efforts are devoted
! to promoting sentiment for things
| THE trouble in Kansas right now is
/ that the cities have too much power
more power than they have sense
| enough to employ. But the man at
| the university who promotes this SEN
| tment prints in a book a map of the
| United States in which he prints Kan
| sas in black and all the surrounding
states in white. This in itself is
SANDER against the state that ought to
to be enough to separate him from his
pay check"
| Martins remarks were directed pri-
| r1arily at Secretary Talbot of the
| Kansas League of municipalities, who
is on the state pay roll at the State
| university. But Martin didn't quit
| with a mere trimming of Professor
| 7 Talbot.
Keep Hands Off
Il want to object to and protest
against this interference with and pro-
motion of legislation by the men in
our state schools" said Martin. These
n,en are paid salaries-big, fat sal
aries. too-for work in the state
schools and not for legislation they
| think we should enact or which they
are trying to convince the people they
| need
Then Martin declared a personal
privilege.
| Rising to personal privilege, I
want to protest. l went home to
spend Sunday. One of my neighbors
| had received a letter or a telegram
from the dean of the state university.
! He urged her to get together the Wom-
en- Of my town and beat the tom toms
! that 1 might vote for their appropria-
| ton measures. The lobby has right
| here, but | object to this interference
| by men and women paid by the state
who drop all business during a 1egis-
| lative session in order to tell me how
| to vote. l object to having these pro-
| fessors suddenly remind the little girls
from my town who attend the state
!
l am in the legislature and urging
them to send me letters about this
| thing and that. Now, I think it is
| time that we tell this lobby from our
university and state schools and state
| departments to go away back and sit
| down.
| Many Measures promoted
Bardwell moved the previous ques-
ton Bird wanted to close the debate.
| Moore of Cowley arose to point of
order. He held that a previous ques-
| ton is not debatable and further that
| a member cannot talk after a pre-
vious question is moved. But the
chair didn't see it that way, and Bird
closed by declaring that fully half of
the proposed constitutional measures
are promoted measures and that his
/ pet should have an equal chance with
| the others. House members gave the
| city home rule resolution short, hard
body wallop and the reform as advo-
Gated by the league of municipalities
| and directed by heads of the state
! schools is dead.