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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
HIGH SCHOOL Explosions.

In the expulsion OF several boys
from the high school because they have
insisted on maintaining their mem
bership in fraternities. the local school
authorities have acted in the only way
open to them in the premises. 1t is
regrettable in many particulars that
such a move was necessary, but 1t
should receive the moral support or
each and every patron Of the schools
who have the real interests of them
and the pupils at heart.
There is room for differences of
opinion as to whether or not the fra
ternities and sororities have such a
baneful influence on school life as
many of their opponents claim for
them. But that matter is beside the
point in the case in question. The
state legislature. in its wisdom, enact
ed law, il line with the suggestions
of prominent educators. which forbids
high school students from belonging
to secret societies that are in any de-
gree school organizations. Necessary
rules and regulations were adopted by
the local school board for the enforce
ment of this law. These involved the
expulsion of pupils who insisted on
violating it. And that was the only
way they could be dealt with.
AS long as this is the law further
discussion of whether fraternities
are good OF bad institutions is not
very germane nor will it accomplish
anything. The law has settled that
controversy until such time as there
is shown 70 be a disposition to repeal
1t. Nothing is left to be done now but
to enforce that law to the letter.
Youths attending high schools are of
an age when their characters are
forming. It Is essential that they be
impressed with the necessity of obedi-
ence to all laws. If they are permitted
to violate one with impunity, it is but
reasonable to assume that they won't
have much respect for any of the
laws commands This would be far
worse for the boys and girls them
selves in the long run than it would
be for anybody else.
The chances are that there is no dis
position on the part of the school off,
Gals to be unduly harsh on the boys
who have been so f1agrantly disobedi-
ent in this particular. Presumably
those who have been expelled will be
reinstated on their promise to with
draw from The fraternity. If they are
not willing to go this far, there should
be no dealings Of any kind with them.
They, and any of their parents who
may have disposition to uphold them,
will merely be biting off their noses.
If they prefer to violate the law and
belong to fraternities rather than to
enjoy the advantages of the excellent
education which Is theirs for the ask
ing, that is their privilege.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
LARGER CROPS NEEDED.

James J. Hill. who has been an
enormous factor with his railway en-
terprises in the development of the
great Northwest, is doing a yoeman's
service in his agitation for an in
creased crop production in the United
States by the proper use instead of
the abuse of the soil. His latest ad-
dress on the subject was delivered at
the recent National Corn Exposition
at Omaha. AS is usual with his pub
lie utterances it is filed with matter
which is worthy of the deepest at
tention.
Some persons may be pardoned for
thinking that Mr.. Hill takes a little
too pessimistic view when he in
sists that the time will soon be at
hand when this country will not be
able to feed its population with its
own products. That such a time will
arrive some day. however. at the
present rate of increase of the
population there can be little doubt.
1t may be somewhat more distant
than Mr. Hill thinks it is, but it GER
tainly is on the way, and preparations
should be made for it now. This is
one of the things that cannot be put
off till the morrow. for a change of
agricultural methods which will yield
larger harvests per acre is the work
of several years, not of one season.
1t took Great Britain over half a CEN
fury to raise her wheat yield from
about Is bushels to 80 bushels per
acre. 1t will probably not take the
farmers of the United States that long
to do the same thing because the way
to do it has already been figured out
by expert scientists. The only thing
that Is needed is for practical
application Of the principles involved
This work Of application cannot be
undertaken too soon. The farmers
will have nothing to lose by it. They
will have everything to gain. There
will always be markets abroad for
such surplus crops as they may raise
until the time arrives when all of
them are needed at home. Increased
crop yields will also have a tendency
to reduce prices in foodstuffs and that
is one of the crying needs of the
times. Nor will the farmers be the
sufferers if they produce enough to
make for these price reductions, that
| is. of course, If they increase their
| crop yields. They will make much
more out Of them than they do now
with smaller crops at fancier prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
JAYHAWKER JOTS

"A good many things happen to Kan
sas.'' says w. c. Palmer, but she never
gets out of breath
Out in Wichita these days they are
getting so heightened that they refer to
Bookkeeping as ''pocket-bartendin
Noting some advice to buy old army
rifles for Christmas the Hutchinson Ga
zette inquiries to know if it would not
be cheaper to buy rope.
If the Emporia Gazette is consistent
it will have a falling out with Governor
Stubs because he referred to Kansas
the other day as a @greatn common
wealth.
Fighting snakes. alligators, dragons
and winged demons were all seen at
Wichita last Sunday. No, a geological
car had not stopped in the town. 1t
was merely the fancifal sights of a
citizen who haG loaded upon some of
the joy Juice of the peerless princess
Hutchinson News.
A number of young men in Goose
town have organized a hunt club. The
club has imported several coon
hounds with ears and pedigrees as
long as your arm and a voice like the
sad refrain of an orphan jackass. The
first twelve nights out the dogs sue
ceeded in jumping a large full grown
'possum and running 1t up tree.
After a desperate fight the varmfnt
was killed and the club marched
home in high .glee.
AS related by Charley Blakesley via
the Kansas City Star: During one of
the class hours at the State Agricul-
tural college this week a masked man
carrying a revolver ran into the class
room. He was followed by others
armed, and when cornered he drew his
gun and ordered his pursuers to halt.
A fight followed in which the masked
man was disarmed and taken from the
room. This happened at the beginning
Of psychology class and was DR.. Nc
Keever's method of finding the per cent
of girls who would scream with fright
and the per cent of boys who would
rise to their defense
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

and : es has long been recognized and
utilized, and it would now appear-as Il
the wind can render helpful service to
some extent in connection with locomo-
ton over normal roads :, German in
ventor has perfected and patened a
simple sail vehicle which makes fair
progress over good roads and across
sandy stretches, such as a sea beach.
The dominating features in the con-
struction are lightness and effective
steering facilities.
1.-THE present form is light frame
work supporting a saddle and mast
for the sail, and resting upon fouc
wheels. one wheel on either side and
one before and one behind. The two
latter are of larger diameter than the
former, and all are far apart. as is the
practice with automobile wheels. The
chief popularity in the device is the
connection of the wheels with one an
other. The rear wheel and the right
side wheel are rigidly connected to-
gether. and the same is the case with
the the front wheel and the left side
wheel. The two connecting bars are
joined with each other by means of an
each end being of a hinged type.
IA person sitting on the saddle rests
his feet on this transverse axle, and by
suitable pressure can alter at once the
relation Of the wheels to the main axis
of the framework. This arrangement
furthermore leaves his hands complete
~ free for adjusting the position of the
sail or using a brake. The whole device
has certain hghtness and elegance
which will appeal probably at first to
the lover of sport. Contests of speed
will involve but little of the danger ac-
companying competition with cycles or
automobiles. but will afford play rather
for the quickness and dizziness required
of the mariner in utilizing to the ut
most the surrounding atmospheric con-
ditions. Experiments made with the
new vehicle on smooth roads give good
promise Of its availability, especially in
fiat regions. where no serious grades
are to be encountered"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
WIND IOCOMOmON.

A sailing vehicle for use on the high
ways is the latest invention in the field
Of locomotion. 1t is the work of a Ger
man and is described by Thomas H.
North, United States consul at Chem
nitz, in recent letter of his which was
printed in the Daily Consular and
Trade reports. This description fol-
lows:
with the increased study of the wind
as a direct factor in aiding locomotion
in the air inventors have taken up
again the problem of utilizing the wind
for transportation by land. 1t is true
that early experiments with horseiess
vehicles included sail wagons as well
as steam wagons, but both at the time
failed to promise any measure of prac-
tical utility. In these days of light
construction, rubber tires, ball bear
ings. and, above all, of smooth, solid
roads, the conditions are totally
changed. The feasibility of sailing
easily over the frozen surfaces of rivers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom) the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
No, Maude, dear; of course a metal
clock never has wood ticks.
A life sentence-I do now pro-
nounce thee man and wife"
Many fellow Is more seriously
pressed for money than his trousers
are.
It's when her shoes are too small
for her that a woman is addicted to
signs
Love is disease that is apt to be-
come epidemic among girls about 16
years old.
Mistress-"Do you believe in fate.
Bridget?" Bridget-"Sure, how could
OF walk II 90 didn't, mum?"
I'm giving it to you straight" re-
marked the bartender as he showed
the bottle toward the thirsty Gus
toner.
It is to be hoped that when the
moving pictures Of the Jeffries-John-
son night are taken they will both look
pleasant.
THE wicked are punished in the
hereafter" says the Marayunk
PHILOSOPHER. 1.-THE good generally
get it in the neck here"
Blobbs-"No. 1 shall never marry"
Slobbs-"But you don't seem like
woman hater. In fact, you seem
very fond of the fair sex" Biobbs-
"Yes, and talk in my Sleep"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

One of the best jokes of this or any
other season is conveyed in the dis
patch from Ossining, N. Y, which
tells of the keen disappointment that
is felt at the famous Sing Sing prison
because some of the convict contribu-
tors to the magazine published there
have been dishonest to the extent that
they have stolen gems of thought from
writer's of fame and had them publish
ed as the work of their own brains
as though anything else might be ex-
pected of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Almost every person has the feeling
that he suffers some sort of martyr
dom.
e
There are any number of people who
absolutely refuse to believe that the
good die young.
There may be many a slip 'twixt the
Gun arS the lip but there are more of
them on icy pavements.
X X X
Just because he doesn't express it,
that's no Indication a man hasn't a
high opinion of himself.
x X x
If some girls faces arr their fortunes,
they, poor things, are in perpetual
state of bankruptcy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison GIobe.1

IETOIn the AIcniSOn GlODe.J
Some one has defined Faith as be-
lief in what we know to be untrue.
Within a month after you first start
lawsuit. it doesn't look so favorable.
About the only way a boy shows ap-
probation of his mother is to eat and
eat, and eat.
When a man is insulting, he usually
prefaces his insulting remark by say
ing: This is a time for plain speak,
ing"
Notice what a short time a piece of
candy lasts with a boy? Happiness
lasts the grown people just about thai
long.
You are always hearing of the at
Effectiveness Of widows. Know why
widows are So attractive? Live insur-
ance.
They say loafing is a bad habit. and
that every loafer feels the disgrace so
keenly he never enjoys it; but we'd
like to try it.
There is a certain girl singer in
Atchison who is pretty good, and it
hurts her feelings If you praise Melba
in her presence.
There may be some excuse for steal.
ing. or flirting. but there is none for
injurin your health by eating more
than you need.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned woman who said, when complaint
was made OF diminished work, Il have
only one pair OF hands?'
A woman was accused of looking
cross the other morning. IF you had
as much company as I have" she re-
piled, you'd look cross, too" The
next time you think of going visiting.
remember that people nearly always
talk about visitors.
The average Argument is about the
most ridiculous thing We know any.
thing about. Two men will make mis-
statements to each other for hours and
cultivate the habits of lying, idleness
and stubbornness, without ever realiz-
ing that there is anything wrong in
their conduct.
You have doubtless noticed that
sometimes doctors statement that a
man has only a few weeks to live is a
mistake. and the man sometimes gets
up and around, but when an old fash
Toned woman looks at a sick man. and
says: he can't live but a few days, her
prediction always comes true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
FROM OTHER PENS
ENFORCE MINE LAWS

Testimony obtained on Saturday by
the coroner who is inquiring into the
mine disaster at Cherry. ILL.,, indicates
that there was violation of the state
laws, and that this violation might have
been responsible for the fire and ex-
plosion. An inexperienced boy, who, it
is said, was employed in disregard of
the child labor law. testified that he
had pushed the car of hay which sub
sequently caught fire close to a torch
spector testified that he had not been
in the workings since last July and
did not know that torches were being
used in place of electric lights.
This testimony is peculiarly inter-
esting in view of the statement made
by one prominent Illinois operator a
few days after the disaster. that min
ing laws were not sufficiently compre-
hensive and that laws were not thor
oughly enforced. There appears to have
been law enough to cover the hiring OF
this boy and there may have been sufh-
cient law to cover the use of torches
instead of electric lights in this mine.
In the case of the boy, at least, the
miners could hardly be at fault. The
operator who was quoted laid much
stress on the fact that miners are care
less and pointed to European laws
which provide severe punishment Tor
carelessneSs. What may be necessary
in amending laws can be done in due
be made to enforce rigidly the statutes
row on the books.-Buffalo Express.
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.
President Taft's order simplifying the
present requirements for admission into
the lower grades of the diplomatic
corps will go far toward completing the
good work of establishing merit as the
sole test for diplomatic appointments.
The consular service was put some
years ago on a basis of permanent
tenure. appointments being made to the
lower classes after examination and
promotions to fiji vacancies being de-
termined by efficiency records. The
country was shocked in 1888 by the last
wholesale looting of the consular SER
vice under Assistant Secretary Josiah
Quincy. The anachronism OF such a
political raid AS the more apparent be-
cause the value of genuine consular
body was then beginning to be recog-
nized. What Secretary Knox calls "the
remarkable growth of the political and
commercial foreign relations Of the
United States and the increasing diff
Guilty of the problems growing out OF
these relations which have to be dealt
with through the fundamentally of the
diplomatic service forced an abandon
ment of the spoils system In appoint
ments to consulates. BY executive Or
ders and legislation the principle of ap-
pointments for fitness was introduced
and the service was finally taken out
of politics by the act of April 5. 1906.
followed by President Roosevelt's Or
ders of june q and December. ID, 1906.
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
HUNOR OF THE Day

yes ,wa dsd be Polite Is to to everyone. son.
f hafk s r yo1 get a little more than your
Ia" share. kansas City Journal.
N. Eather made an awful break at thu
that Sop .e gunner party last night" Is
second second helping OF saladI'-Detroit Free
the ModeEHow is that friend of YOUR
IN Wno went to study in Paris? The Artist
IN, mes getting on famously. The Model
him? The Artist-No that's how / Know NOW
mes doing SO wen.-Iiiustrated Bits.
the 3oI ssy !: ga' zsus double: that sto..
Its gave y, you thirty days once for chicken H
this time you get sixty. That's the courts
ooubie."-Philadelphia Ledger.
father looks with all that gray hairl The
Naughty Son-Yes, and he's rot me to
tnank for It, too!-Puck.
She-Whom do you consider the greatest
. pJinelactor IN mankind? He-The party
t Mno Iirst induced women to remove their
49,, Have q a drink. old man7" mo; I've
my companion here 1 1f s tshs ar,ns sl
City Journal.
General-send my orderly to me at once.
been cut In two by a bullet. General
Sourir.
to me for a position today. why did she
leave your employ? Mrs. W.-She whip
nothing. Mrs. B.MIndeed! S M lnr ai W'M
yes he hadn't done thing but bite the
w aspi ca MeR 2t,.I aud, hair il what you
or imi-T1tian. Boston Transcript
LoaferLCan yer spare US 'apenny,
q: .ts W 1 want
I wants another for the price of art a
pint. Workingman.Ever done days work
IN In your hfe? Loafer-No, guv'noE, eawn't
anyway. 'Ere's yer a'penny.-Punch.
Prim Landlady-If you please, sir. I've
aired your-er-er-perspire : London
Opinion.
the waiter, George? Georse-Oh, il he
serves me well, I give him tip OF q
him a tip on the races.-London Opinion.
The 1,@,I Fare, Blu my s9Ss mar, It's barely
NOT Sioomin IL py r sf sfetes can
did opportunity knock at your door?''
Yes, but the cook always maintained that
1t wasn't her place to answer it-"-Puck.
Teacher-what are the duties Of the
vice president of the United Statesf
Young America--He has to play golf n
the absence Of the presidept.-Puck
snubbubs-what do you intend to do
with the lot you bought at SwamphurstS
Commute am thinking some of making
a fishing preserve Of it.-Brooklyn Life.
MY wife has bought DR.. Ealott's Five
Feet of Literature That sof What's
she started on the concluding inch
Cleveland Leader.
''what do you want7'' asked the farm
er's wife, as the Unlocking tramp came
shufrling up to the door. II want to get
replied the tramp. "'Oh. certainly said
the good woman with prompt cheerful
ness and freedom from alarm which made
the ugly visitor turn apprehensively. You
can have all the bites you want. Here,
Towseri-Raltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

It's quite evident that congress is
not In entire sympathy with the plans
of President Taft and the members of
his cabinet in keeping governmental
expenditures down to bedrock. The
house committee on military affairs
considered the estimates for the war
department the other day and in
creased them of its own volition by
nearly a million dollars. At that,
though, they are several million dol
lars less than were the estimates for
last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.l
A woman's idea Of how well she looks
is when it's mostly clothes.
A girl can fool a man except when he
thinks she can't, and that's only al
ways.
When a man says he has convictions
it means he can get madden than you
in an. argument.
A Christmas present most men Womb
like would be a Christmas without any
present-giving. 80
The delightful thing to a woman
about her imagination is how IL r1sEas
everything seem real to her excent A.
real things. 'iAs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Judges are inclined to get peevish
whenever any of their actions or de-
cisions are criticised but what can
they expect in many instances? This
Is good sample of the way they work
out occasionally. The judges of the
court of last resort of Missouri re-
versed the conviction of one of the
bribe-takers in the ST. Louis city
council because the word "the'' had
been left out Of their indictment on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Little or no grain is being moved in
Kansas these days and the reason for
this Is assigned to the fact that the
roads are generally in such an impas-
sable condition that 1t is impossible
for the farmers to haul their products
to the railroads. No more potent
argument could be presented on the
necessity for the building of good
roads, in this state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago New,

L6Tom tuS OuiCdSo NswssJ
If a man looks ut his watch while
you are telling story cut 1t short.
Wives look forward to buying new
clothes, and husbands to paying for
them.
When it comes to minding their
own business men have women beaten
to a FRAGILE.
If people were compelled to follow
their own advice they would generate
a better brand
No man would be able to escape
matrimony If nature had fxed it SO
that all women could have been born
widows.
When a millionaire points out the
road to riches he invariably
designates one that leads away from
his own private pile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Marching to victory has been the
tenor of the daily reports for some
time of the insurgents activities in
Nicaragua. Apparently that country
is much larger than the geographers
give it credit for being. Or else, the
insurgents are marching around in a
circle of small diameter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

John 'sWatch-me" Gates has either
turned over a new leaf or he does not
intend to practice what he breaches.
He delivered an address at Method
ist conference in Texas the other day
on the evils Of gambling and urged all
men to shun 1t as they would vipers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

In Maine. New Hampshire. YER
mont, Massachusetts, and in the
Canadian provinces of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia, "a persons lost their
lives incidental to the open season for
hunting which has just closed.
Twenty-six of this number were
killed by being shot at under the i'm
preston that they were deer. This
outdistances the carnage on the foot
ball fields. so why not abolish the
open hunting season entirely?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

which he was tried. This was purely
a clerical error and the omission of
this word in no way interfered with
the sense or the purport of the SEN
tence in which 1t was used. Frequent
ly, the way learned judges admins
ter justice is sufficient to draw laugh
from horse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

RULES are rules, by why asks the
New York World. SHOULD the simple
inscription In writing mot to be opened
until Christmas day subject a package
70 postage at first class rates? The
ruling of the postofflce department
gives an apparently unnecessary set
back to the shop early agitation in
80 far as 1t relates to the early mail
ing Of present packages to avoid a
holiday congestion of mail matter"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Illinois thinks the commission form
of government procession an excellent
one to get into. Legislation is going
to be enacted at the present special
session of the legislature Of that
state which will authorize the cities
there to adopt that form Of govern