The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-18
STATE NEEDS MORE FUNDS
Last Legislature Failed to Appropriate
Enough Money for State Institu-
tions-Extra Session Likely.

Kansas is reaping the harvest of
parsimony, the seed of which was
sown ten years ago in the Kansas
legislature, and which has been nur-
tured by every legislature since. 1t
may be necessary to call the legisla-
ture into special session before the
end of the present fiscal year to pro-
vide funds to maintain the Kansas
charitable and penal institutions and
to relieve a terrific strain put upon
the educational institutions.
James A. Kimball, the new state
manager, and members of the board
of administration already are worry
ing about funds and they have been
in office only month.
For years the Kansas legislatures,
sweating over an alleged bugbear of
taxes and animated strictly by the po-
litical futures of the members, have
made appropriations for the state in
situations on the basis of the least
they could get along on, instead of
what they needed. Each year the in
situations have had to fight to ex-
haustion to get enough money to pay
expenses and meet pressing needs.
There never was money left for i'm
proVement. Every penny had to go
for actual necessities.
Not single dollar was appropri-
ated to the state institutions for an
emergency rise in prices of any ar
ticles, for the possibility of dry
weather in the summer of 1917 or any
other year. The appropriations were
barely sufficient to buy supplies if
prices were the same in 1917 as in
the spring of 1916
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Found Sack of JeweIry-Forty-
eight pounds of jewelry in a white
on the Big Arkansas river south of
Wichita recently by two boys named
Hyde. The collection consisted of
rings, watch fobs, bracelets and other
small jewelry worth several hundred
dollars. The boys turned their find
over to the police.
Bather Drowned at WinfieId.-Ro-
maine R. Miller was drowned in the
Walnut river at Winfield while bath
ing. He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs
Matt Miller of Cherryvale.
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w. r. c. Worker Dead.-Mrs. Mary
| Sparkling, 10 years old, is dead at her
home in Arkansas City. She was a
prominent worker in the woman's re-
| lief corps.
Accepts Red Cross PIace.-Sheffield
Ingalls, has accepted the appointment
as field director of the Red Cross and
has been assigned to have the COM
plete charge of the Red Cross activi-
ties at the army cantonment at Des
Moines, Ia.
Editor Joins the Army. H.
Woodhouse, editor of the Valley City
Independent. chairman of the county
exemption board and member of the
last Kansas legislature, has sold his
paper to l. B. Greenbank, son of a
Little River, Kan, editor, and will go
into the Officers reserve corps.
Drowned at wickitatJohn Real. a
Santa Fe employee at Wichita, was
drowned at the Little Arkansas river
bathing beach recently. He had tried
to swim across. He was 25 years old
and leaves a widow and baby.
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Burned Kansan's Wheat-Richard
W. Kenney, a farmer near Kiowa. lost
his entire wheat crop recently by fire.
J An incendiary set the fire to thirty
: two stacks separately in Mr. Kenney's
field. There were three thousand
bushels of wheat consumed. There
was no insurance
| Farmer Killed by Biast-Albert
Doop. farmer five miles southwest
: of Cherryvale, was instantly killed
: recently when a blast in wen ex.
) ploded. Doop was in the bottom Of
the well setting the blast