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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
KANSAS CONMENT
THE FLoURFARIFF JOKER.

The nation is not run SO much by law
as it is run by regulation. 1t isn't the
law which congress passes which US
ually controls; it is the regulation
which is drafted in the department
having the administration of the law in
charge.
The Minneapolis milIers apparently
succeeded in getting a Joker in the
last tarin bill or thought they did. This
was the provision that imported ma
terlal may be manufactured in bonded
warehouses and any waste material or
by-product sold for domestic consump
ton. Now the Minneapolis millers are
counting on an Interpretation and q
regulation from the secretary of the
treasury which will permit them under
this clause to mix flour from Canadian
wheat and flour from Kansas wheat.
export the product and get a rebate
duty on the Canadian wheat. This is
an operation, the mixing of Canadian
ana kansas flour for export which the
Minneapolis millers have been schem-
ing on for years. They now believe
that the Joker" in the tariff bill will
warrant the secretary of the treasury
IN writing a regulation which will let
them nave their desire in the matter,
TO their own benefit and to the detri-
ment Of their competitors who are not
dependent upon Canadian wheat for
quality of flour.
There is another provision of the law
Whlcn plainly provides that all articles
be in such condition as to he identified.
1t Is impossible to identity the Cana
dian part of mixed flour. But the Min
neapoHs millers expect the secretary of
the treasurer to overlook this phrase
Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
THE vALOR OF IGNORANCE.

ITO judge the discipline, morals, and
fighting capacity of troops, their loyalty
ard self-sacrifice. is possible in two
ways: during active service by cow
ardice and desertion; in peace by dis
obedience and desertion," writes Gen
eral Homer Lea in Harper's Weekly.
THE Ten Commandments of a soldiers
honor are all broken in the one act of
desertion. BY the lack of or preva-
lency of this military crime, are we able
to judge the degree in which national
nonmilitancy and antipathy to military
ideals have their effect on the soldier
The deserter is the product of civil life,
not of militant institutions.
In Japan desertion is unknown.
I'm the United States during 1906
there occurred in the national army of
only $4,000 men. $3.50 assertions
Whenever recognizable deterioration
exists in some portion of the govern
ement, instead of meeting this condi-
ton frankly and undertaking in a just
ard reasonable manner its renascence,
the nation endeavors by substitution to
evade responsibility. With war near
at hand, public evasion is found in the
formation of shooting or rifle clubs, I'M
der the delusion that to shoot consti-
the source OF all military success. The
fatal error of this belief is shown in
a single comparison of the internal
economy OF the japanese and American
armies. demonstrating that in those
phases of military activity that are
least considered rests not only an
army's efficiency. but its existence. To
shoot is less important than to march,
to shoot accurately less important than
to obey implicitly and to kill is less
important than to survive.
THE energy of an army, or its fight
ing capacity, depends primarily upon
the physical vigor of the men that COM
pose it. A body of men to fight and
march and endure the hardships of war
must be as physically perfect as posi-
BILE. A sick man entails greater loss
than a man killed on the field, so that
the ability of an army to conquer de-
creases geometrically as sickness and
mortality increase in excessive ratio
over the number killed in battle.
''In the American civil war mere than
four men died from preventable sickness
to every one killed In the Spanish
American war Il men died of disease to
one on the battlefield. In the Japanese
army during the Russian war four
deaths resulted from bullets to one
from sickness.
'sIn war between Japan and the Uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
THE CASE OF WALSH.

There is this interesting side to the
case Of John r. Walsh, the former
Chicago financial king who is facing
prison. walsh belonged to the militant
rich who through political domination
Tor years, made Lawmakers. judges
and jailers. His kind had a measurable
contempt for their creatures and DOW
erIuI little regard for the laws they
made or interpreted or executed.
Law did not mean to Walsh in his
paImy days what it means to the aver
age man today. 1t was a thing which
was built up to guide and restrain the
nnlliions- 1t was not for him and his
Klnd, as he saw it.. If he could evade
II, there was that much added to his
reputation for cunning. Punishment oe
ms KIND could not be entertained as
serious possibility. 1t is said that the
oid man today, does not realize, to its
1uII. the impending blow.
Times have changed. The attitude Of
WaIsh's class towards the law and its
enforcement has changed They know.
he doesn't know. With his kind of
career, his long ascendancy, the power
ne credited to money it is probable
mat no sense of humiliation John r.
walsh can feel will equal the sense of
wonder--Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

With quite number of persons the
head is anything but vital spot.
4 -
ALTOGETHER too few people have a
nroper idea of their place in the world.
That man, whose work never De
comes an old story, is going to make
fine success.
Considerable terror now invests
those folks who will have to break in
new winter underwear.
n 4
There is nothing to the theory that
a girl can learn to love man or vice
versa. Real love is spontaneous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
Turtle Too Much for Lifesavers.

Six life savers were dragged so yards
by an enormous sea turtle they were
trying to capture on the beach in front
of the Point O. Woods life saving sta
ton this afternoon. The turtle got
away. The only consolation to Capt.
Charles Baker, who commands the sta
ton, is that he and his men did not tie
1t to the life saving station building.
IF we had done that one of the
crew said after the struggle with the
turtle had ended in the discontinue OF
the savers. 1.-The station would now be
bobbing up and down somewhere out in
the broad Atlantic. Transatlantic skip
pers would be heading toward New
York trimming over with stories of a
new Noah's Ark being adrift and a
menace to navigation. used to think
my brother Bill was the worst temper
ed cuss in the world when awakened.
He was an angel compared to this sea
turtle. We might as well have got hold
of the business. end of the Lusitania
and tried to hold her. 1t will take three
or four tides to wash out of the beach
the trenches that turtle dug with our
bodies as it dragged us along. Say
vile IL ID dispatch to New York
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.1
dull family maketh its head to
think he is a Solomon.
The deeper a man could fall in love
With a girl the deeper she would want
it to be.
We can work for our own bread and
butter or we can play for the delight of
the devil.
one OF the Qualifications for the way
girl makes fool of a man is he
never dreams it,
woman wants to get better clothes
than her neighbor. k6owinr the ot1,er
viii go and get better than hers, when
she can do it again, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.

That things designed for one purpose
are often utilized for another merely
shows that inventors are not omniscient
and that shrewd, resourceful users Of
their inventions have needs other than
the ones they have tried to sat.s'-' As
an illustration: The government estaD-
lished postal money order system
for the transmission of money through
the mails. All well and good; it is a
useful branch of the postof1ce. The
public has used it for its original pur
pose-but not exclusively.
The Outlook calls attention editorially
to the fact tina. an unaccountably large
rumber of these orders were not pre-
scented for payment within reason
able time Upons investigation it was
found that within a year more than
$25o,000 had been deposited with the
postal authorities with no intention Of
having the money transmitted. The or
ders were drawn by the depositors, pay
able to themselves. and thus the immi-
grant laborers of Kansas City, familiar
with the postal savings banks of Eur
ope and afr aid to trust our banks, were
using the postoffice for savings bank.
Newark News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
FROM OTHER PENS
LESS LAWYER. MORE STATESMAN

AH-oo LA w YER. MORE STATESMAN
President Taft will always be a law
yer IN his way of thinking ONT n1Ihiic
problems He has the legal mind by
nature as well as by training. His de-
Vot1on to the 6laWsis ingrained. and II
Will endure to his death. But the presi-
dent will be less a lawyer and more a
statesman than he was when his term
pegan That changeIin his mental et1t-
look, his point Of view. is. taking place
already. He does not see national
problems so much through the jurist's
eyes as he did when ne was Inaugural
teo His office is teaching him the ay-
erase mans view of many things, in a
sense d1nerent from that in which he
reanzed II before he became the execu-
tive head of the nation.
The presidency is so big an Office that
unless the man who attainS that great
station Is hopelessly bourbon in his ma
ture anu tendencies he must necessarily
expand In his own outlook and his mem
tai grasp, no matter how wide his
range of interests may have been. If he
has been a thorough lawyer in his men
tai processes, he cannot fail to be lifted
out OF and above law books and court
environments. in a new and more vital
sense. He is led to think in terms of
great national interest. not of legal pre-
cedents.
1t detracts nothing from the reputa-
ton which President Taft had when he
was elected to say that he has grown
broader and bigger since then. He is
responding, as all men fit for the presi-
dency do, to the tremendous expansive
force OF that high office.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

the depot and told to buy tickets for
Topeka. 1t will be remembered that
the local authorities of late have fire.
quently lodged their responsibility by
turning paupers and criminals loose
on other communities. Turn about
may be fair play and Topeka and
Shawnee county may not have any
good kick coming. but the swapping
of troubles of this sort by COM
munities cannot be justified on any
score
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

mo one now contends that the legis-
lature of 1909 cost the state more than
that OF 1907 says Mr.. William Allen
White, the Emporia editor and writer
OF romances. A vigorous exception to
this statement is to be found in the
figures presented by Mr.. Nation. the
state auditor, which show that the ap-
propriations Of the legislature of 1909
were $651,650 more than were those OF
the legislature of 1907. Of course, fig
ures come within the category of mo
one" but they have habit of speak
ing very forcibly nonetheless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

to find the plaster gone, and after
look he cried out:
why. Miss Dolly. you've got the
prettiest dimpled chin in all America!
Really, now; but"
Not was a month later that he
proposed. And he took her down to
the old chestnut tree where the squir-
rel chartered;
IT thought so! I thought sol First
you shoot a girl and then you tell her
how much you love her and ask her
to be your wife! Go on, both of you!'
copyrighted 1909. by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Mr.. Bryan hopes that nothing will
arise to make it necessary for him to be
a candidate again for any public office.
This keeps him in the race for the next
Democratic presidential nomination.
That is exactly the attitude he assumed
a couple of years before he walked
away with the last nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

1t is to laugh. California's anti
race track law is now being attacked
as to its constitutionality by the cru
dite lawyers for the gamblers of the
state on the ground that it is worded
in an ungrammatical manner But,
then, less important reasons than this
have been known to turn the scales of
justice in the California courts when
the rights of certain interests"
have been at stake
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Mr.. Littleton, New York's famous
criminal lawyer. told his client, Mr..
c. w. Morse, who was sentenced to
prison for Is years for bank frauds,
that there was only one chance in
a hundred that the federal court of
appeals would not reverse his con-
vfctfon and sentence. It's peculiar
isn't it that the court with such
slight leeway should decide against
Mr. Morse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Wireless Geographic communica-
ton was recently established between
a station and vessel at sea no less
than 1900 miles away. And yet
there are some people who still insist
that wireless telegraphy is something
in the nature OF a fake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

How do. the local authorities like
IT? In their midst now is a married
couple, each of whom accuses the
other of being crazy. They are
likely to become a public charge of
some sort if they do not move on.
Thev were driven out of Kansas City
nv the authorities there, escorted to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
Asks Aid Against slavery.

The Antislavery society has issued
an appeal for $50 to send a representa-
tive to America to endeavor to obtain
the cooperation of the United States in
a boycott of cocoa from Portuguese
West Africa, which, they allege, Is
produced by slave labor.
The society points out that English
cocoa firms have refused to purchase
cocoa produced by slave labor in the
islands of San Thome, and the prin-
cipal effect has been, it says, to drive
San Thome cocoa on the American
market at a cheaper rate. The Daily
News says:
I'VE are quite sure an appeal to the
American people and manufacturers
will not be in vain. The United States
has known the curse of slavery itself
and has most nobly purged its own
country of the reproach. What finer
tribute to Lincoln's memory in this
year of his centenary could be paid
than the resolve to assist in destroying
the most fragrant instance of old-fash-
ioned plantation slavery that still sur
wives in the world"
The Daily Chronicle thinks American
cocoa firms are acting in ignorance. 'IG
is unthinkabe," it declares, that 1t
should be otherwise. They cannot know
the terrible facts Of this business
London dispatch to New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Captain Ronald Amandsen, the Dan
ish explorer, is going to use polar bears
for draught animals n his coming
polar trip. His efforts are going to be
in the nature of a fairy tale from the
very beginning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Philadelphia to the fore: She has
pulled off a big automobile race for
the benefit of her charitable institu-
tons. Another remarkable feature of
the affair was the fact that the contest
did not result in a serious accident of
any Lind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
Roosevelt's Call for Bass.

Col. Roosevelt has called from the
shores of Lake Naivasha, in British
East Africa, for stocking of it's waters
with bass by this government. Com
missioner Bowers. of the fisheries bu-
reau, has assented. A correspondent
queries, rs not this an improper use
of the government funds?"
How can it be when our distinguish
ed ex-president asks it? Commissioner
Bowers might reply that it will cost
very little for his bureau to comply
with the request. The spawn or fry
of the hardy, large-mouthed bass may
central or southern Europe, thence
forwarded in aerated water at a mini
mum cost to the government. Besides.
our ministers and consuls frequently
apply to the governments to which they
are accredited for like favors.
Minister Horace G. Knowles has, re-
Gently brought from the Balkan provin-
ces the erlet and the sturgeon of the
Danube, with which the fish commits
sion proposes to stock the waters of
waters of this country are especially
rich in edible fishes, but we have found
it desirable to import the brown and
the Scotch lake trout. the best known
in Europe We have also the exotic
paradise fish, and the Swiss lake trout.
Not all of these. of course, were
brought in through the courtesy of
foreign governments. We are more in
debted to them for the Introduction of
valuable and bewildering array of new
fruits and vegetables. We think it high
~ probable that it is within the powers
OF the federal fish commissioner to ex-
tend reciprocal courtesies. Mr.. Bowers
ready assent would indicate this. and
rot. as our correspondent seems to think
that he is awed into compliance with
Mr.. Rooseve1t'S reQuest-New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Apparently, Lo. the poor Indian,
does not need all the sympathy he
has been getting. His race has in
creased by 10000 during the past two
deczdes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13
A POLICY OF LAW.

Chief Forester Pinchot has learned
a thing or two from his recent con-
troversy with the world in general
and the administration in particular.
Formerly he was going to save the
forests and other things single
handcd, law or no law. Now he is
going to ask congress to helr him
save them. This is a wiser way. 1t
is also more in accordance with Mr.
Taft's way.
The president again assured his
listeners at Tacoma that he is in ia
vor OF the Roosevelt policies, ''as he
understands them" They were not
always easy to understand, but Mr.
Taft, who was in Mr.. Roosevelt's
cabinet, thinks he knows something
about them. The difference of in
depreciation is simply that which was
expressed in the presidents letter to
Ptnchot. Mr.. Roosevelt wished to
conserve the forests. the mines, the
water power. Thinking the acts of
congress inadequate for this purpose.
he went ahead without regard to
them. AS result, much of the
ground which he tried to leap over
must now be covered more deliberate
~ and effectively by lawful process.
Mr.. Taft is not less concerned for
the conservation of natural re-
sources, but he appreciates the adj
vantage of having the law upon his
side.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Some of the enthusiastic opponents
of higher education for men will
probably try to bolster up their argu-
Tnents with the fact that a trolley car
conductor defeated a Yale man for
the mayoralty of New Haven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Governor Marshall of Indiana in
the fight he has started TO wrest the
Democratic leadership in that state
from the hands of lFen=Taggart says
that moral issues ought to be divorced
from politics. And he's right. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

A cheap and efficient substitute for
radium has been found. But what's
the necessity? Radium is one of the
few articles on the free list in the new
tariff faw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

A young man is to run for COVER
nor of Wisconsin on the strength of
the record he made as a football
player at Yale. Times certainly are
changing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Senator Curtis is to- accompany
President Taft in his trip down the
Mississippi. So is Governor Stubs.
Fortunately. however. separate boats
are going to be provided for the con-
gressionaI and gubernatorial parties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Rev. Charles l. Goodell, a New
York clergyman, has gone Dr. Osler a
few better. He believes a man begins
to decline after he has reached the
ago of Al wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Spain is becoming modern. A trust
has been organized there to control
the bull-fiEhting in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

But" said the merchant to the appli-
cant, you don't furnish any reference
from your last place" You needn't wor-
ry about that replied the man with the
cross-cropped head and strange pallor;
II wouldn't be here now IL 1t hadn't been
for my good behavior in my last place.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Friend-I understand, Mrs. Stern, that
your daughter has been married since Wa
last met Mrs. Stern-YeS, and been di.
vorced. Friend-Ah! And who is the hap
py man ?-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

differences of opinion?" asked the i'm
pertinent acquaintance "Only once in a
while,' answered Mr.. Meekton when
Henrietta changes her mind about some
thing and neglects to notify me."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Her Father (sternly)-Genevieve, you
are engaged to some young man. Herself
%, father, how did you discover my
secret? Her Father-The gas bill for the
last quarter Is suspioiously small.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Willie-Pa, may ask one more ques-
ton? Pa--Well, what is it? Wtllie-1f n
man from Portugal is a Portuguese. is his
little boy Il Portugosling? Pa-Right to
bed with you.-St. Louis Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Are you indeed a really and truly
fairy?" asked the little girl. Yes, I am
a fairy 1 live here in the woods, but mo-
body but good children ever sees me-
But how do you fix people so they can't
see you?" Il lend them money. "-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

.Pa,, said the beautiful heiress. you
mustn't fail to get back in time for the
wedding. There vii be no one else TO
give, me away ITO give you away?
Didn't I pay the baron $4,000 in cold
cash to take you? I guess you amt no
premium, are you?'-Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

THE Chinese have a much older civiliz-
alton than ours" Yes" answered the
New York detective. They have shown
that the Ananias Club is by no means the
modern affair we had considered IT.
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Father said little Rollo, What is an
optimism According to my observation,
son, an optimist is a man who finds his
own affairs prosperous and tries to per-
suade other people not to make a kick
and disturb conditions. w ashington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

There is a man who does not care how
many tears he may cause said the emo
tional citizen. He takes no count of the
blighted hopes with which his pathway
may be strewn, but" Cut it short, old
is he, a baseball umpire or a customs in
spector ?''-W ashington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Magistrate-Are you a friend of the pris-
oner? Buxom Witness-No, I'm his
mo ther-in-law.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

IT hear you spent your vacation with
friends" 1--WE were friends during the
first week."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

Where are you going to spend your va
cation?' I'm not going to-" "Huh2" 1T
just earn my vacation-my family spends
it."-Cleveland Leader.