The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
FRON OTHER PENS
IMAGINING DISEASE.


1t has been announced by a promi-
nent physician of New York that one
man out Of every 81, and one woman
out of every IL in this country. die of
cancer. We don't believe it. That is
too great a portion There are many
deaths from cancer but one in every 30
persons is rather too much of the bad
thing.
1t is hoped the announcement will not
have the effect of creating in any per-
son the imagination that he or she has
cancer. 1t is an awful state for one to
be laboring in, that he is or may be
afflicted with some dire malady. A
person should will himself away from
any such notion. Don't try to find out
if there is disease brewing in some
mortal part. Better take it for granite
there isn't. For If there is, fear and
distress about it is likely to aggrava%e
it.
If there is any doubt on this score,
better resolve the doubt in favor of
health hope and happiness. There is
this condition precedent involved in
this counSel-that a person must obey
the laws of health; that he must eat
and breathe right, exercise, hope, look
up, treat people justly and kindly, and
then the liver the kidneys. the lungs,
the nerves, the mucous membranes
will rise up and call him blessed.-Ohio
State Journal.
TOO MUCH GOLF.
deserving of respect as well for its ira
ditions as because of its excellence as
sport. But is it not being taken TOP
seriously? Is not the nOngolfing public
treated to an undue allowance OF
news" and gossip about the game
Championship matches in which skill
full players compete have an Importance
for a constituency now large, and
presidential foursomes are not without
their interest. If Mr.. Taft were to play
first base for the Beverly nine every
body would want to know the score.
But from the reams of space devoted
to golf chitchat, to the history and
philosophy of the game, to descrip-
lions of the methods of illustrious golf
ers, anecdotes advice and what not it
might be inferred that golf was the
main occupation of a large. element of
the public. The results of buffers
contests for plated cups are chronicled
with all the gravity of championship
contests.
Not since the bicycle craze has there
been anything like it, The hysteria
seems now to be at its height when
players choose a putter with the care
they would a house and discuss the
points of their game with an earnest
ness that would be ludicrous If it were
not so serious.-New York World
STRIKES AND PROSPERITY.
There is more or less truth in the
paradox that strikes and other labor
and starvation, but rather high wages
and abundance. During the period of
the highest wages ever known there
was an almost unbroken series Of
great strikes. When hard times
brought actual distress to industrial
centers, labor contests ceased. AS
prosperity reappeared. strikes began
to threaten in Pittsburg. Chicago. New
York, New England and Philadelphia
The reason for the truth of the
paradox is evident. If it points now
to strikes. there is some compensation
in the thought that without a higher
level of earnings and a wider ambition
to live well, the workers would not
risk such contests Employers are re-
Iuctant to suspend profits when profits
are constant and high: and that is the
time of high wages and liberal pur-
chases in the class which works with
its hands.-Omaha Bee.