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THE MODERN WAY
Unrestrained Passions of Religious Intolerance
and Racial Hatred
By HENRY J. ALLEN. Governor of Kansas.
We confront in Kansas an astonishing development of prejudice,
racial anil religious. It is socking to establish the un-American idea that
we can improve the conditions in the state by turning the reins of govern
ment over to a masked organization which arrogates to itself the right to
regulate the individual.
In the South and in the Far West it has committed many crimes up
on the individual, and only recently i.as invaded this state, which budded
'strongly u | h > u respect for law and order, and has given us the shocking
exhibition at Liberal, Kans., of taking the mayor of the town by violence,
carrying him to a secluded place and whipping him because he refused to
allow this masked society to hold a meeting in his hall.
It has introduced in Kansas the greatest curse that can come to any
civilized people—the curse that arises out of the unrestrained (ussioiis of
•men governed by religious intolerance and racial hatred.
It brings chaos and hatred and menace to every law-abiding citizen
who may fall victim of the private quarrels and animosities of mow who
InJe their identities behind a mask. If we deliberately allow this organi-
•rstii.u to take the law into its own hands, then we break down all the safe-
‘ guards of society.
Our Railways Should Rapidly Improve and
Expand Their Properties
Th» Cd Lady Again.
Caller I am glad your niece la gag.
th g siting so well with her studies
l>o you think she will get on the merit
rail?
Mrs. I’lunderby—Oh, undoubtedly.
Iler teacher says her work la so mere
tricious.
a
Hardly.
"If you will allow me to ativlse you,
my I my. I wouldn't propoae.”
"Why noir
Uncle Joe- So tomorrow you bring
"She Isn't pretty."
borne your bride?
“She has an adorable back"
Sammy—Naw, uncle; that's old
"Stilt, you don't want that turned on
fashioned. She's taking me home to
you all your married life."
her folks for a while.
Where Science Will Tell All About It
By C H. MARKHAM. President Illinois Central.
Clearly, it is essential to the welfare of the country that the railways
ifdiould, as rapidly as practicable, put their existing facilities in good con
dition and that they should for some years rapidly improve and expand
'their properties. The only thing which ever will enable and cause the
¡railways to carry out a sufficient program of expansion will lx* to let
'them earn sufficient net return to raise the new capital required for that
i purpose.
It is plain to every man who thinks that the wag«*« labor can l>e
;|>aid, the income the farmer can get, the profits that can be derived front
■ busineM, depend in ‘.lie long run upon the total amount of production and
icoinmerce that can be carried on. If the necessities, comforts and luxuries
txm-h of our people has are-to be increased, we must increase our total pro
duction and commerce morn rapidly than our population. We have always
done this in America.
But nothing could be more obvious than that the increase in produc
tion and commerie which is vita! to the welfare of all cannot be secured
'without a corresponding increase iu transportation.
Would Hang Their Heads in Shame Over the
Action of Their Ancestors
By SENATOR PAT HARRISON, of Mississippi, Filibuster Speech.
What if a hundred years-from now your great -great-great-grand
children should look over the Journal of yesterday and discover that no
mention is made of the fact that there was prayer yesterday in open
ing this body, and they then should take the proceedings of the following
day, as they will appear in the Journal tomorrow, and slioukl read that
their great-great-great-grandfathers voted against my motion to amend
the Journal so that the prayer might be incorporated in the Journal?
Why, thdse children of tomorrow would hang their heads in shame
over the action of their ancestors.
So we must change this policy, if it has been a policy, and start
a new one today, so that the record of this body that is to be handed
down to fufure generations will reveal the fact that we had prayer ir
opening this august body.
Smartness.
“Is Mi* Fllmgllt In Hie smart sett”
"Modernly speaking,'' replied Miss
Cayenne, “«lie Is. Il>r husband must
litre been pretty smart to make all
that money.”
*
In Kentucky.
The Major—Over there Is the col
onel ; a flue Judge of horseflesh.
t'4t> Visitor— Ke am i-Tve dined
at restaurants for the last twenty
years.
Just Looking On.
“What was th* name of that horse
you bet on?”
“Spectator.'*
"An odd name for a race horse.”
“Rut appropriate In hie rase.
He
watched the others go by."
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Alice—Does Marie expect many
wadding presents?
May—Oh, yea; but ehe has no Idea
she will receive ae many ae she e»
peats.
weoairu Note.
“Not long ago,“ snya a metropolitan
newspaper man, “I ran across a conn-
try paper which contained tills para-
graph In regard it n lo< nl wedding!
“The bride wore a llraidgn-ea
silk on Whose check blossomed rl,a
flush of dawning womanhood.'"
LJIVH you ever seen the amt's
■A* spots? Baie you ever seen dem.
onatrated Foucault’s celebrateti pen
duluui et|>erlinaat to prose Hie rota
Hon of tlie earth? Have you ever
watched the antics of minute Infuso
Hans swimming In water?
With the <-om | det Ion of the new
home of the National Academy of Bel
aurea at Washington, these things wilt
bn a regular part of the Interesting
exhibits open to the public.
It Is Imped I» have the building
completed by the fall of lllg.'t It will
be locateti near the rscantly dedl
rated Lincoln memorial and will be
three stories high The first floor will
be given over to the public and mil
aeuas purposes. where many sclentIflc
facts will be demonstrated The two
upper floors will Im devoted to ofllces.
The main demonstration feattire will
lie under n dome In Hie central It.ldty.
where the sun-spot phenomena will Im
deuton st rated.
Foucault's rx|>ertmcnt demonstra
tion w ill l»e embodied In n tkbfuot pm-
■lulum swinging In a wide arc. The
swinging itendulum wilt mark an In
variable direction In »puce, and ae
the earth revolves beneath It rtilulloa
will be plainly shown by the steady
change In direction of the imndulum's
swing over the divided arc. Here ths
pressure of light, earthquake action,
magnetic storms, the gt avltatlonu) pull
of small masses, the growth of plants,
living bacteria and other phenomena
will be the subjects of other exhibits
In the seven exhibition rooms sue
rounding the central rotunda, the lat
est results of arlentlflc and Industrial
research will l«e demonstrated.
One week there may be displayed
the latest forma of radio telephony
and the next |mrha|M a set of psycho-
logical tests or a new And of fossils
nr a aeries of synthetic compounds
The building, designed to caM
EB.tMXI.IMO, was Hie gift of the Carne
gie corporation.
The ground was
bought with a fund of S'JtSi.lMxt col
lected by donations throughout the
country.
The building will lie of marble to
classic simplicity.
Uncle Sam to Keep Tab on Sun Spots
TTNCLE SAM and the Western
Union Telegraph company, which
was damaged to the extent of a quar-
ter of a million dollars by a aunspot
In May of last year, are now develop.
Ing a system of precautlmis against
sunspots like tlmt of the mariner and
farmer against the weather.
The sunapota shower the earth with
excess electrical current, producing
the electrical storms which now and
then imralyxe telegraph, cable and
telephone service. Arrangements have
been made with the United States
Naval observatory for a regular bulle
tin service on tlm condition of sun
spots. Whenever a new one appears
on the rim of the sun and starts to
move around where It will be In a
position to volley the earth with elec,
trical showers, notlre la sent from the
observatory to rhe Western Union of
ficials. In retnrn for this service the
Western Union Is preparing to collect
Information on a large scale on elec
trical currents, their strength and di
rection, and their apparent connec
tion with sunspots.
Sunspots occur In eleven year cycles.
The present year Is near Hie middle
of the cycle, or In the period when the
sultspofu are fewest. Last year was a
time when few annspotx were normal
ly tine, so that lite sunspot, or cluster
of spots, which caused Hie great elec
trical storm on Muy 111, 21) ami 21. was
quite unexpected.
It Is only since
telegraph and telephone wires and
cables have been In uae that electrical
storms of this type have made any
great difference to hiimnn beings, so
that records of them have been
meager, but that of last year Is by far
the worst that ever occurred, when
measured by damage U electrical ap
paratus,
It burned out fuses and short-cir
cuited apparatus all over thia Country,
caused Area In Rurope, and probably
caused one In a rallrond yard In Wash
ington. It damaged cables so Imdly
that the Western Union Imd to send
out a repair shop to put them In good
order.