From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 6, 1915:

• “The house ways and means committee has provided for the inspection of moving picture films by the state superintendent of public instruction…. The constitutionality of the film inspection law was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, and a decision has just been handed down that the law, as a police measure, is perfectly constitutional. Superintendent Ross will begin his work of inspecting the movies at once…. The women of the state, especially, have been insisting that movie films be censored. Only recently a club woman came to Topeka and tried to get another censorship law passed, declaring that the youth of the state are being systematically taught, through a series of films being syndicated over the state, the prohibitory law is out of date. These films, she declared, teach the children that everyone that ‘is,’ as Ruggles would put it, drinks, smokes cigarettes, and generally conducts himself – or herself – in a manner that the women of the state declare is entirely indecent. There undoubtedly are a number of films of decidedly doubtful character being exhibited in the state, especially in the smaller towns where the city authorities have no power in the matter.”
• “In discussing the campaign carried on some months ago to force the bakers to wrap their bread a prominent citizen said recently, ‘I saw a little incident yesterday that made me wonder if the public health did not demand that all bread handled by the drivers be wrapped. A bun fell from the driver’s hands onto the pavement lighting in the gutter. He picked it up, carefully wiped the mud onto his coat, placed the bread in the deliver wagon and drove on.'”
• “The condition of the roads in Douglas county is something terrible said many of the Douglas County farmers who attended the Fair Association dinner at the Merchants Association today. Many of the farmers came to town on the train while others walked rather than take their horses out on the road. ‘We are willing,’ they say, ‘to put up with such roads for a while because we know it will help our crops next fall; all of this snow will go into the ground and wet the subsoil and we will be better prepared to stand the dry weather of the summer.'”
• “A large amount of trans-continental automobile travel will pass through Lawrence this spring according to the present indications. The number has been estimated in thousands by different ones interested in the good road movement. Automobile clubs in every city along the routes have made some plans for the improvement of the different roads…. This movement for good roads is not a matter of interest to the automobilist alone. The farmers are seeing the great advantage of good road movements. In many sections of the state the farmers were unable on account of the roads to haul their wheat to market fast enough to catch the top price. This has converted some of the most unprogressive farmers to the side of the good road movement.”
• “One hundred and fifty K. U. seniors and graduate students signified their intention of teaching school in the state of Kansas next year, at a meeting called by Dean Olin of the School of Education yesterday. Dean Olin will at once write to the boards in the various districts of the state in an attempt to obtain positions for the candidates. An unusually large number of the men are qualified to assume control of athletics at any high school to which they may be assigned.”