The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
A DISTINCT SHOCK.
FROM OTHER PENS
EXTENDING OUR FOREIGN COM
MERGE.

Business men of the United States
will watch the approaching meeting
of the National Council of, Commerce
in Washington in the hope that 1t
may find a. way to, demonstrate its use
fulness along the lines indicated when
it was organizeda-tWo years ago. This
council was to be cooperative among
American business men, with the idea
of more widespread extension of our
national export trade, but after Sec
rotary Stratus had launched it on it's
preliminary way the expected govern
mental support of American houses
in their efforts to increase their ex-
ports failed to be>.forthcoming, except
through the limited circulation of the
daily consular reports.
These reports have an immediate
value to such interests as have
prompt access to them, being backed
as they are by the entire fund of in
formation and effort of the consular
service. And to facilitate the dissem--
ination of this official knowledge and
Of other matters pertaining to the i'm
mediate news of the foreign markets
was the very purpose of the national
council. officials in the department of
commerce and labor believe that such
a council may become great factor
in cultivating international trade. as
they have all along been among its
strongest advocates.-Omaha Bee.
STATE COOPERATION.
The conference of governors and
other representatives of the states
which assembled at Washington upon
the invitation of President Roosevelt
for discussion of the conservatism OF
natural resources was an important
factor in centering public attention
upon that issue, and no doubt pro-
NOTED better understanding ana
greater solidarity among those pres
ent President Taft, at least. holds
this opinion, and is so satisfied of the
advantage to be gained by such inter
change of views that he has stated his
intention during his incumhency OF
the White House of inviting the gov
errors of all the states to an annual
conference at which the problems OF
government may be formally dis
cussed
There are several policies in which
the president believes the fullest CO.
operation between the federal govern
ment and the states will be required.
or, as he puts 1t, that Will demand all
the power of the federal authority ana
all the powers of the states. His
forest preservation and water-poWer
conservation referred to the obIiga-
lions resting upon the states in these
matters. The regulation OF corpora
lions is still another instance He
hopes that informal discussion pc
tween Tie SOfCAIlOio stAN ~--S r.
may point the way to cooperation
Pittsburg Despatch
DRINKING AT MEALS.
One by one old and cherished ideas
are giving way before the simple APP
pIication of practical tests. perhaps
no other one idea with reference TO
eating habits has been more wide
spread and more persistent than that
it is Injurious to drink water at meals.
The old medical rule against eating
before going to bed has been dls-
countenanced by the medical profess
sion itself for a long time now. ana
it has been repeatedly shown that a
reasonable amount of food taken pc
fore retiring is beneficial to many
nervous people and is not infrequently
cure for insomnia.
The rule against drinking at meals
has been more persistent. but 1t ap-
pears to be doomed, now that the pro-
fessors in the physiological chemistry
department of the University or IL
linois have set about making expert
ments to prove the digestive value OF
copious draughts of water taken while
eating. One quart OF water at eacn
meal was the prescription followed,
and it was found that the subject ac-
tually throve on it. The theory Is that
the water, diluting the saliva, causes
the digestive fluid to assume greater
digestive NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. I'm
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