The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-15
Fiftieth Annual Meeting of
Agriculturists Closes.
All Members of Board Are Re-
elected For 1921.
SENATOR FRIzELL PRESIDENT
Urge Raising Standards of State
Education.
Board Protests Against Gross
Sales Tax.

The semi-centennial meeting OF the
state board of agriculture came to an
end Friday night with a banquet at
Pelletier's tea room. attended by all
the members of the board, and many
delegates to the meeting.
All members of the board were re-
elected. as follows:
First district; Perry H. Lambert.
Hiawatha and NJ. j. Hines. Lancaster.
Second district: o. o. Wolf, Ottawa,
and Paul Klein. lola
Third district: E. l. Burton, Coffey-
vile and E. A. Milliard. Burden.
Fourth district: W. j. Tod, Maple
Hil and F. III. Manning. Council
Grove.
Fifth district: H w. Avery, wake-
fleld and H. G. Kyle, Abilene.
Sixth district: H. NJ. Laing, Russell.
and 0. A. Edwards. Goodland.
Seventh district: II. S. Thompson,
Sylvia. and f. E. Frizell, Larned.
Eighth district: w. C. Edwards,
Wichita. and w. ]. Young. Mcpherson.
e. E. Frizeil Heads Board.
Senator E. E. Frizell. first vice.
president last year, was elected presi-
dent of the board at the Friday after
noon session, with H. w. Avery. as
vice president, w. J. Young treasurer,
and j. c. Mohler as secretary
The state fair board for the coming
year is composed of o. o. Wolf, e. Z.
Frizell, H. S. Thompson and H. w.
Avery.
Resolutions passed by the board at
their Friday afternoon sessions de-
manded adequate representation for
this state on the committees of the
United States which have to deal with
irS nf
dence of the state upon it's foreign
market.
The board of agriculture followed
the lead of the agricultural meeting
held iE the office of J. c. Mohier this
week. in a resolution urging that the
salaries of the officers and instructors
of the State Agricultural college be. in
creased to a point equal to the salaries
paid the officers of similar institutions
in other states.
I No New State Buildings.
Disapproval of program of state
building for the present was registered
in another resolution, which urged the
strictest economy compatible with ef-
ficiency. in the administration of the
states affairs.
Resolutions were also adopted ask
ing for the raising of the standards OF
education in the state, especially in the
rural schools.
The board of agriculture declared
themselves as against the general over
turn, or gross sales tax. and the repeal
Of the excess profits tax. Demurrage
should be paid by railroad which de-
lays in getting a car TO the man who
orders it. or in delivering It, loaded. to
its destination. just as the man who
delyas unloading the car should pay
demurrage. another resolution de-
clared.
J. T. Botkin, former secretary of
state, was the chief speaker of the
evening at the banquet held Friday
night. Botkin compared the condi-
tions in Kansas and the country gen.
orally at the present time with the
Civil war. and found many similari-
ties. The topic of his address was
"Fi< y-five Years in Kansas
Kansas Will Recover.
There was a period of frenzied
finance. reckless expenditure, and
blooms" in Kansas Immediately after
the Civil war. Botkin pointed out
This period ended in depression, loss
and hard times. The present period
believes, but the state will eventually
recover even as it recovered from the
hard times after the Civil war.
Il can think of nothing, not even
the passage of any law. that would
relieve the financial strain as much as
livestock and other farm products"
said Botkin.
Other after dinner speakers at the
banquet were Representative Charles
e. Mann. Senator Ben +. Hegler. III.
H Pugh of the Beatrice Creamery
company. and II. NJ. Laing, president
Of the board. who acted as toastmas-