The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-17
STATECETSSTUNC
Appropriation for Protection of
Bees Is Passed by House.
Three Thousand to Wipe Out
Disease Among Insects.

The Kansas legislature may prac-
tice economy and efficiency by per-
hitting patients in state hospitals to
sleep on the floor. 1t may delay ap-
preparations for the tuberculosis SAM
tarium while several hundred Kansas
men and women die from the white
plague. There may be no funds avail
able for replacing junk store furniture
in state departments. But the honey
bees-ah ha, my dear-they must be
protected. ,safeguarded, nursed and
coddIed at any expense.
While the appropriations for the
care of children is pending in COM
mittees, the bee bill was rushed to
passage, The house today set aside
$4,000 for the suppression and stamp
ing out of contagious and infectious
diseases among bees within this state -
Two years ago the economy gave S.
600 for the child hygiene department.
1t set aside $4,000 for fighting the
foot and mouth disease among cattle,
For thirty days it held up a 1000
emergency appropriation for the state
tuberculosis sanitari
AT the Osawatomie and Topeka
state hospitals, where conditions are
cramped and crowded, needed build
ings were denied. The state peniten-
tiary where all the rules and regula-
tons of the state board of health are
violated seven days each week, is to
struggle along under its unsanitary
conditions. There is no money for re-
placing the relic furniture in the state
house. There is no money for cutting
the dandelions or watering the state
house lawn.
They Have the Pip.
Even the most rigid efficiency and
economy, tho, does not stand in the
way of the states duty to the bee. Sew
eral Kansas farmers own hives OF
beS-honey bees-and some one from
the chronological commission made a
trip-at state expense-and discover
ed that the bees are suffering from
the pip, the epizoodic or the hebe gee
bies. Possibly the bees merely joined
a sympathy strike with the Kansas
helpful hen. But the chronological
commission feared the worst. And the
Kansas house-dutifu1, diiigent and
responsive to every state need-pro-
vided money for summer junketing
trips by bee inspectors in an effort to
save the honey crop.
Two years ago the legislature gave
$4,000 to save the babies. Then it sci
aside several times the amount for in
speetors of drinking cups, hotel towels
and fruit and vegetable displays by
grocery stores. 1t also set aside mon-
ey for the men who measure the
sheets in the hotels and roomine
houses But the budgets of state in
situations and departments were trim
med in the interest of a sacred policy
OF efficiency and economy
This year the spirit of 1915 is in
evidence. But in the mad desire TO
watch the public pocketbook, the Kan
sas bees shall not suffer.
Another appropriation bill found its
way thru the house. 1t provides an
APPROPRIATION of 81 600 from the state
general revenue fund for assisting in
the building CT a country school house
in Douglas county! Two years ago
the city of Lawrence was awarded an
$4,000 paving claim The Topeka
claim for paving around the state
house grounds was repudiated by nu-
merous legislative sessions. Then the
city cancelled it's $4,000 claim and
entered into a contract to furnish the
juice for the state house white way
system if the efficiency and economy
legislature would provide enough
money to install the posts.