Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-12-02
COMMENT

The educational institutions of Kan
sas are asking the next legislature
for total appropriation OF Slo,ooo,-
900 for their care and Improvement
for the next year. 1t is not likely the
legislature will grant the request.
Other institutions and departments
of Kansas are asking for ike increase
in appropriate tions and it is not likely
there will be any reduction in state
taxes for the next two years, which
remind us all that this talk of reduc
ion in taxes never gets very far and
that on the average taxes increase
from year to year
The only way to keep taxes from in
creasing is to stop improving. This,
very few people are willing to do
State legislatures, boards of county
commissioners and city administra-
tiofs are up against proposition
when it comes to taxes and appropri-
ations. People are constantly de-
manding improvements in t-our'
neighborhood and If they do not get
them because there is lack of money
in the public treasury, they cuss the
adnainist tration; if warrants are is
sued and the improvements are made
| they cuss the administration for rum
ming the state, county or city in debt;
If levies are made in order to raise
| money with which to make the i'm
provenents they cuss the administra-
ton for increasing the taxes A per
| son does not hold a public office very
long until he learns that people are
| 70 G,,I
business is conducted and that the
straight ahead and do the best he can
and let. the people holler.
Which reminds me that ia the thir-
ty years I have spent in the news
paper work have found out long ago
| that that is just the disposition people
have toward an editor. Some people
| will cuss him If he does do certain
things and others will cuss him if he
does not do them He soon learns to
do what he considers to be to the best
interests of his business and to the
public.
You can't suit all the people all the
time but you can suit some of the
people some of the time and in the
| 0nQ you nave suited ali OF Jn6n1 al
some time.
Some time agosI wrote the story o.
a murder case. I got my story from
the evidence given by the defendan
and the pleas made by the attorney:
3 in the case, all doings in open court
I I wrote what considered an irnparti
al story and gave no opinion or con
c1usins. The story was good one bu
friend of the defendant came afte
| me very unceremoniously for pub
fishing such a story claiming that
greatly misrepresented the facts an
l that my informant was greatly in er
TOR when he told me such a story
| Remember, I got the story principal
| from the defendant in the case.
HI In thirty years one generation
supposed to have passed away and ar
other to have come on and to hav
taken its place. However, there ha
been the same class OF people on cart
= all the time, with the same class {
= likes and dislikes. A pretty goo
8 class all the time but a little pecuha
g at times. An illustration
81 No long ago I wrote somethin
g which could have been taken as crit
g icism the action of public officia
81 yet 1T was straight news. That o.
= fetal came to me and criticised me fe
g giving out the Information. He di
b a good job of criticising and said
q had no business to do it. Som
months later the same official came
q me with complaint against anothe
& public official and demanded that it I
g published stating that no public offici
g al IS infallib1e and that their actor
z should receive public criticisms f,
the good of the public. Investigate
e showed that no offense had been con
n1itted against the affairs of the pul
lie but that it was a personal matt.
between the two men
s But then, there IS more sunshine