From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 22, 1914:

• “Urging a permanent appropriation to meet the needs of the normal growth of the University of Kansas, Chancellor Strong recommends for the state legislature that a permanent building plan be provided, in a report to the alumni of the University published in the Graduate Magazine for October. Chancellor Strong says that the University has stood still during the present biennium so far as increasing the physical plant in Lawrence is concerned. He thinks that even though an appropriation for more than two years cannot in the future be made in the legislature should outline a plan for a permanent building fund…. ‘The problem of centering the interest of the University students on the intellectual side of college life is one of the greatest problems the American institution has to meet today,’ says Chancellor Strong. ‘The social life, athletics and various other student activities detract the interest of the students from their main purpose in coming to the University.'”
• “City Clerk Frank Brooks is busy today with voters who want their names to appear on the registration books by Friday night. There was time for nothing else in the clerk’s office this morning. Many of the people who are already registered but have not voted in the last election came to the office to see that their names still appear on the books. It is estimated that at least 100 names will be added to the books in the last days to register.”
• “The officials of the Red Line have had a number of large danger signs painted and will mark the dangerous places along the road. There are many places where a warning to the tourist is very beneficial in eliminating danger.”
• “Never again is the American woman likely to have such splendid opportunities to buy cotton goods as she has today. The war has forced the price of raw cotton to an unprecedently low figure. That, of course, means lessened prices for cotton fabrics and greater buying opportunities. It would pay to buy cottons today and store them up. When the war situation clears prices will jump. The stores are showing many attractive values, as can be seen from the advertising in The Daily Journal-World.”
• “Taking the Bible quotation: ‘And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more,’ as a text, Secretary of State W. J. Bryan has purchased a number of old swords that were used in the Civil war and has had them made in the shape of small plows. They are to be used as paper weights. Secretary Bryan announced a few days ago to a number of his friends that he intended to give one of these paper weights to every ruler of the world who would sign the international peace treaty with him.”