THE STATES

KANSAS: 30,000 men from outside the state will be required to harvest the crops, according to Judge Crawford of the Industrial Court. It is prophesied that wages will be as high as $4 a day, owing to the attractively high wages paid in the neighboring oil fields. NEW YORK: Judge Knox of the Federal District Court ruled that the provision of the Volstead Act limiting the amount of liquor which a physician may prescribe to one pint per patient every ten days was unconstitutional. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Gifford Pinchot lost an important point in his stubborn single-handed fight for wholesale reform of State politics. Senator Vare, who had been supporting the Pinchot prohibition enforcement bill--particularly a law enforcement fund of $250,000 which was a prominent and vital feature of the bill--at the last moment announced that his " machine " was out of control and would not support the bill. With the enforcement fund item removed, the bill was passed up to the Senate by the House. TEXAS: Mr. C. B. Stokes and Mrs. Callie Stokes were indicted at Dallas by the Federal Grand Jury for forming a conspiracy against the United States through the alleged purchase of illicit liquor. If this indictment is valid, the buyers as well as the sellers of contraband liquors can be prosecuted. (The 18th Amendment forbids only the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors.) THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: An investigation begun by Governor General Leonard Wood of the use made of the $500,000 Philippine Independence Fund is said to have revealed that various Senators, Congressmen and others prominent in Washington have received money for supporting the cause of Philippine independence. The names will be made public at the end of the investigation. To date it is shown that Charles Edward Russell (well-known Socialist writer), former Representative Ansberry (one of Cox's campaign managers) and George S. Parker, magazine writer, all received money from the fund for supporting Philippine claims. This fund was appropriated by the Philippine legislature from the revenue of the islands.