From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 9, 1915:

• “WILD RUMOR GOES FAST – Some time yesterday afternoon the rumor was put abroad in town that Chancellor Strong was going to leave Kansas University. No one who heard anything about the matter knew any of the particulars in the matter. They did not know where he was going or why he was leaving, but the rumor spread until every one in town was wondering about it and wondered why the newspapers did not have anything about it. The fact of the matter is that the department of Journalism at the University has a number of model heads for stories and they are kept set up in the University print shop. A proof of one of the heads which contains the words, ‘Chancellor Resigns To Go To California’ happened to be in full view. Some one who visited in the Department of Journalism and was not acquainted with affairs there saw the head and thought it was a story for yesterday’s paper, and they told everyone they saw of the chancellor’s resignation until the story was spread over the entire town. So far as is known, resignation is the farthest thing from Chancellor Strong’s mind.”
• “The different road organizations of Kansas are doing all in their power to get the good road legislation started. The Bridge Trusts are doing all in their power to hold up any legislation in favor of better roads and in codifying the road laws of Kansas. The Red Line, Golden Belt, White Line and many others are sending out letters asking the men who are interested in better roads in Kansas to write to their senators and have them do all possible to hasten the work of the highway committee…. A meeting of the road men will be held in the near future and they will send a communication to the legislature expressing their desires in the matter of codifying the Kansas road laws.”
• “Topeka, Kan. – An effort is to be made by the present legislature to stop the blot on the Kansas legislatures of having too many employees. Only four states, Illinois, Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania, have more legislative employees than does Kansas. There are 217 house and senate employees at the present session…. Only three states make any attempt at efficiency in legislative employees but most of the states limit the number…. All the clerical work of both branches could be done by fifty people who really worked. Much of the time the employees in both branches sit around the senate chamber or in committee rooms and gossip and watch proceedings and when they see anyone with work headed their way make a dodge into some other part of the building. There are more doorkeepers than doors in both halls and more cloak room attendants and janitors for the two houses than for all the rest of the state house.”