Show the first thing to do with a state legislature Is to abolish it by WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE emporia kan tale take men of all walks of life in nanas kansas a majority of them farmers fan ners give gire 75 per cent of them a seventh grade education and 15 per cent college degrees and let the rest straggle from the third grade to the hil high it school round them up in a strange town under mider strange influences iii lucHe all of tile the lunch bunch strangers to each other put them in two rooms where one third never does get acquainted with the other two thirds organize alinn into committees and in the backs of the leads heads of about forty of them inject a mean nasty selfish yet sneaking a ambition to hold a state job ami move to town then bang slap down on oil thein from the outside about Tons ons of statesmanship questions that most of them thein never heard of bilings thin es involving millions of dollars and the good 0 od fortunes of a million people then let the outer circles of the strong strange e place in the strange town be filled with greedy 0 wolves seeking a special privileges of varion sorts and on top of all this ghe their ninety days in which I 1 to solve the thee questions question what infernal nonsense to expect good results TC SUItS what a damnable henle that is to go guarantee mi TOri p government it if the devil birn himself self planned etl it ho he couldn coulden t have done better it vas besig designed tied for another age age 13 and it worked well in the country that aliat was fifty years ago but it does not work now it only plays ji 1 1 I the ilie first fira thing to do aith a state is to abolish it it |