The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
KANSAS COMNENT
LOOKING FORWARD.

4 OLA1-NCT Ofl w ARD-
| Fohtc1ans have begun to talk about
the taxing of the next federal census
ana to wonder who will be chosen
70 20 the work. While this work is
nearly a year distant it is none too
soon ior the professional job hunter
~ 81 pusy in an effort to land good
Jop LOT himself or some of his friends.
anu LOT th1s reason it is time for other
People TO be taking some interest in
one OF the most important depart-
ments of the government is its census
uepartment and it is one in which
evIly person at all interested in the
MeiIaTe OF the country should be CON
lieu. 10 obtain the best results
~ Is necessary that capable men be
Snoseh 10 do the work, and for this
reason 1t is to be hoped that Mr.
Snnuroock and other representatives
rom Kansas in Washington use care
w. recommending for appointment
men VINO possess qualifications other
IMAM tnat they are politicians solely
II VIII not be forgotten that nine
Years ago, when the census was taken
IN tnls city, lot of politicians did the
work. and the result was SO unsatis-
factory to the public that several of
the business men caused another
enumeration to be made, paying for
II out OF their own pockets The re-
SUIT OF TINS second census. was that
\ 1'OVO pGTSOHS were 1OunQ IN
Wlcn1ta who had been overlooked by
the government enumerators. Build
lhsS were found in which families oc-
cupled the second and third floors and
not one OF them had been discovered
by the enumerators paid by the gov
eminent for that purpose.
Topeka, Oklahoma City and numer-
GUS other places had the same exper-
fence and they. as well as Wichita,
VIII see repetition of it next year
10Th 1t;
pointed to look after the work
1t Is be hoped that those who have
the naming of the enumerators will
profit by the mistakes of the past and
see to 1t that good men are chosen to
these places.-Wichita Beacon
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THE FOOLS LUCK.
Old saws frequently are as given to
mistakes as old maps, which made the
world fiat, and located a dragon and
the Jumping off place a little east of
New York. So it happens that the
old chestnut about fool for luck"
DOESN'T amount to much as applied to
me me general run. The man who plays
the stock exchange from the outside,
may imagine he is a Napoleon of
FINANCE, but he is, in all probability,
a TOOL of the type which parts readily
from money. At recent investigation
or the stock exchange methods in New
ork, members of many years stand
ing asserted that they never knew a
Spectator from the outside to quit
winner. One broker stated that. in ten
years search, he had failed to find one
winner by speculative operations. Even
If the game were perfectly fair, the
cost OF breaking in is such that the
odds are in favor of the brokers. But
there is more than a suspicion that
stocks can be manipulated. Still. you
hear men say they can take a thousand
dollar bill and go on the stock ex-
change and make a fortune-Atchison
Globe.
MORE FOR THE TRASH HEAP.
Along with the activities against
the dandelion. the rubbish heap and
the housef1y, the Herald notes with
swelling pride of the movement of CITY
Marshal Bruner against the bum and
the town loafer. The loafer consti-
tutes one trash heap against which
the towns enmity and energies should
never slacken. Ottawa does not even
desire to enumerate the loafer in her
census statistics; she prefers to main
tain the standard. at the expense of
the numbers For the marshal. the
administration - whatever influence
are behind the anti-bum crusade
there are accommodating three cheers
and a monument of gratitude.-Otta-
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