From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 7, 1915:

• “If your clerk wants to go to the annual encampment of the Kansas National Guard let him go, for the law will get you if you don’t. According to a bulletin received by S. G. Clarke, captain of H company today, a fine of from $5 to $50 may be levied against any employer who refuses to allow any of its employees to attend the camp by threatening dismissal. ‘We have had little trouble in this respect in Lawrence,’ said Captain Clark, ‘but we want to stop the little we have had. In some Kansas towns it has been very difficult for the companies to make any kind of a showing because of the inability of the men to attend the encampment and hold down their positions. If the trip is going to lose a man his position of course any captain would hesitate to say that the man should go, but I believe that when employers think this matter over seriously they should be glad to have men in their employ who are willing to devote part of their time to a preparation for national defense.'”
• “One hundred fifty miles of highway lying between Paducah, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee, was built in a day recently by 10,000 volunteer workers. They were strung out sixty-six to the mile. How many men could be spared from Lawrence for two days? and how much road could they build in that time? Every sixty-six men properly managed, means a mile of good road into Lawrence…. We all hope to do something for the good roads cause – to make Good Roads Day something besides a picnic holiday…. If we turn out August 18-19 we will have made the sacrifice and be entitled to the reward. If every business house in Lawrence sends out upon the highways with a spade and pick every man it can spare upon those two days a great deal will be accomplished, as can readily be understood if one stops to figure up how many hundreds of men could be released for the purpose. Let there be immediate organization and calling of the roll. This is the time of year when business in all lines in the city is most slack – when the men can be spared from the counter, the case, the bench, the roof, the last, the burr, the roller, the ditch.”
• “Students who attended the University last year are scattered from one side of the United States to the other. They are engaged in many kinds of work. Some of them take work at distant points and in this way get the experience from the country in which they are located. Others take the places at a distance because they can get better offers there than they can near Lawrence.”
• “Milk Inspector Holyfield is out of the city visiting several model dairies so that he may have ideas about how to advise the dairymen of Lawrence in the campaign for sanitation that he is waging.”