The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
STATE SCHOOLS
NEED MORE ROOM
A Pension System and Larger
Teaching Force is Also
Necessary.
BOARD FILES ANNUAL REPORT
State Urged to Encourage Wealthy
People to Donate Dormitories at
Manhattan and Lawrence.

educational institutions, more ade-
quate buildings and equipment, and a
system of retiring allowances for
teachers, are the three principal
recommendations made by the state
board of administration in its annual
report.
1.-THE university is in really seri-
GUS situation as to buildings" says the
board. "Since 1909, when the first
wing of the administration building
for the college of liberal arts was pro-
vided for, no precipitation has been
made to the University of Kansas for
buildings that would relieve the stu
alton as to class-rooms, laboratories
and lecture rooms.
"The student enrolment has in
creased about 1.150 and the number
OF teachers about 100 in that period.
This cannot go on Indefinitely, and
as the increase in enrolment for the
present year is the largest the uni
versity ever had, it seems likely that
the difficulty is to be increased rather
than diminished. The central portion
of the building for administration and
the college of liberal arts is, therefore,
Immediately necessary"
The board wants the state to en-
courage moneyed people to put UP
dormitories at the university and agri-
cultural college where a reasonable
rental for rooms can be charged the
students. The board says, "An investi-
cation made by the board convinces it
that by charging the rental rates now
prevailing in the college towns it could
cyiu hn irlS RI nd
make the dormitories earn at least
z per cent on the investment. The
leading bankers of the state with
whom we have consulted agree that
the bonds of these institutions might
be floated for 318 per cent and that
the buildings would pay for them
selves in about twenty years.
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A Record on Women ToiIers.
Kansas merchants employing wom-
en- and girls must keep new record
now for the Kansas Industrial Wei
fare Commission. The commission
has just sent out notices of the new
rule and how it intends to keep a rec
ord on the merchants of the state
Here is the record that must be kept
up regularly for every woman en-
ployed in any mercantile establish
ment: Name, address, age, either
adult" or if a minor, the exact age,
single or married date of employ
ment, wage of which employed, hours
of labor day and a week, length of
experience in present occupation.
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No u. S. Road Aid to Kansas.
Kansas cannot get any of the fed
eral aid for highways until it changes
its present law and creates a real
highway commission with some au-
thority. This is the ruling of David
F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture.
Mr.. Houston, in a letter to Governor
Capper, makes it plain that the $143,-
900 available at present is not COM
/ ing near Kansas until the legislature
acts. Kansas officials had it all fig
ured out that the state would be able
ITO get the federal aid money, but the
Secretary of Agriculture could not see
+ it that way.
Kansas May Tax Oil Output.
S. M. Brewster, attorney general,
has been asked if Kansas could have
a gross production" tax on all the
oil and gas produced in the state Ok
lahoma now has a gross production
tax that brings more than million
dollars a year into the state treas
ury. It would be a tax similar to
that now collected by the state from
those taking sand from the beds of
navigable streams. 1t would be levied
as a royalty on all the gas and oil
pumped from the ground within Kan
sas.
Some cause for the coal shortage
was developed recently by Governor
Capper. Several of the mines in
Southern Kansas are being worked at
less than 40 per cent of their eff
cheney. The Central Coal and Coke
Company in a report to the governor
on the November operations of their
five mines in Southern Kansas, show
SSS hours a day were lost in the
month, out OF a possible maximum eff
ficiency of $50 hours day. Part of
that loss was caused by the car short
age. but the greater part was caused
by short time strikes
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One Locomotive Kills Two Men.
During two days one engine on the
Rock Island railway has killed two
men. The first one killed was Klein
Lash. farmer, in grade crossing
accident, and the second one was JET
Winters. a railroad employe.
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Auto Repair Shops In Prison.
Automobile repair schools viii be
established at the penitentiary and
state reformatory to teach prisoners
that trade. This recommendation win
be made to the legislature by the
governor.
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Well Known Topekan Is Dead.
Vincent Kaczynski. president of the
Topeka Cold Storage, Ice and Fuel
Company, and one OF the principal
owners OF the Kaw Valley Ice and
Cold Storage Company of Kansas City.
died here Of pneumonia. He was Sc
years old.
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Plenty of Wheat in Kansas.
There are still SO million bushels
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