The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-01
KANSAS C0AMENT
DIGGING THE RrvEps nEEpr

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| through his Mississippi voyage
fresloent Taft is pledging his SUPPORT
- l.scF improvement. and the procla-
inaeions are In each instance answered
IN OF endorsement To the
4I OF the president Is added
snaa OF many congressman and
| senators, including that of Sneaker
Cannon himself.
j Inc sentiment for deep-water navi-
sauoh Is no idle outburst of enthus-
| catchy pledge of the expenditure
pupilc money. but is an affair of.
vital interest to the whole central
west, whose prosperity is closely tied
y ~ WIN the question of transporta-
ton and freight rates.
Navigation of the Mississippi and
missouri is not a matter of benefit to
the river towns alone. through the
outlay OF easy money in improve
point in the west. and to every point
from which the vests resources are
| shipped out.
River navigation is one of the
agencies by which the west may hope
TO eaualize the output of govern
mental fayors. which are claimed to
the past.
But 1t may not be supposed that
any such scheme of Improvement as
TINS is TO be carried out without large
1
whole matter centers again in the
question of national revenues. The
west knows the question in a more
familiar form, in the problem of good
roads.
Sentimentally, everybody is for
good roads, good river channels,
good Panama canal Practically,
every citizen must be concerned with
the fact that these things cost money
and that, all totaled in the demands
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enormous sum of money. The
proposition has been worked out to
show conclusively that the invest
ment is worth while. Plainly. new
sources of revenues must be found, or
specific issues of bonds must be made
to make the investment possible.
The plan of calling for more outlay
while promising lower revenues by
the established methods of raising
money won't harmonize.-Ottawa
Herald.
WHO WANTS THIS JOB?
The State Agricultural college an
nounces that it is looking for a college
graduate. who is also an experienced
newspaper man, to take the reports
and treatises and documents and
events of the college, and write them
UP in good shape for the newspapers.
A newspaper man of real experience
will hesitate a.long time before he
takes a job of this kind. unless he hap
rens to be very hard Up for a job.
We have had. in times past, some
experience in writing to suit college
professors-just writing the little
events which now and then crop up at
college, and we want to say that it
is about the toughest job that a NOR
tai ever had.
Not that college professors are in
clined to be fussy, but they have diff
ferent way of looking at things from
that of a newspaperman.
The State Agricultural college will
enced newspaper man whose ideas will
mix with those of the professors.
What the newspaper man thinks is
a good feature for a story may be Just
the thing that the professor wants to
leave in obscurity, and the result will |
be that they may either spoil a good
newspaper man, or spoil a lot of good |
news. Se-f ~
The fact of the matter is that the |
real live news is often the thing which |
the chief actors do not like to see in |
print
When the newspapers print the real |
spicy news about the University of |
Chicago and the discoveries of it's pro- |
fessors, we have observed that it some |
times makes the professors mad.
It is possible to take a scientific |
treatise. or book on agricultural sub |
jects. and handle it in such a way that |
1t is interesting.
But it must be done by an artist, and |
even a word artist must depend on
good pictures for much of his effect.
There must be some human inter-
est" in sorry to make the people read |
IT eagerly, and it is pretty hard to in
ject human interest into a discussion |
of how to build a silo, or how count |
the bumps on a kernel of corn.-Sa-