The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-09
FROM OTHER PENS
NECESSITY OF NOISE.

There are predictions of a noiseless
| city in the near future, this condition
to be brought about largely by abund-
anee and cheapness of rubber, so plen-
tiful and so cheap that it will be used
as paving material for streets and side
walks. The word noiseless, however, Is
employed only in a comparative sense
in this connection, for mankind abso-
lutely requires a certain degree OF
noise.
Imagine a city over which silence
broods day and night. where the only
sounds are those of human converse
ton and of domestic life Imagine
streets over which pass noiseIess pro-
cessions of vehicles and sidewalks that
give back no answer to the tread of
into which no sounds can come from
the outside. Such conditions would
be maddening-a strain under which
the strongest brain would give way.
1t is the eternal silence Of the great
desert that drives the herder to insan-
ity and to death. It is the silence of
the frozen north that fills the bravest
with the frenzy of despair and de-
thrones reason. Man is so constituted
that he must have the noise of action,
not the silence of the grave.-PittS-
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
10
KING GEORGE AS A REFORMER.
Inc Duke Oh w SdlQ
the battle of Waterloo was won on the
cricket fields of Elton and Harrow-or
words to that effect. More modern
observers, however, have expressed
fear that the English were becoming
demoralized-that devotion to outdoor
ton to the serious business of life.
Recently society revelry has conspired
with sports to lure the English bust
ness man from his work.
1t is stated that King George be-
lieves the late hours of dining in the
evening and of starting business in the
morning that prevail in London inter-
fere seriously with the Industrial and
commercial progress of Great Britain.
He has determined to use his influence
to bring about earlier hours and also
to shorten the weekend" period
which now brings so much business in
London to a standstill on Friday night,
not to be resumed until the following
Tuesday During his travels when
Prince of Wales, the King was pro-
foundry impressed with the fact that
in all those countries that have made
the greatest strides commercially the
community is given to early hours and
few holidays. He hopes to be able to
counteract a tendency injurious to his
countrymen, and means to set them
good example+-Milwauke Wisconsin.
o.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEROES.
All of the military powers are going
into the aeroplane and etrship game
deeper and deeper-or is 1t higher and
higher? It Is increasingly evident that
flying machines are to play pictur-
esque and important part in great
wars.
What opportunities for individual
heroism will come with this change!
It has been said that modern methods
of fighting at long range with the aid
of many mechanical devices and scien-
tific discoveries, have iront war nat
as far as individual powers of the old
visible, thrilling kind goes. There is a
certain degree of truth ir this, but the
aeroplane and the dirigible balloon
will be all on the opposite side
They are fragile, and the use even
In peace involves great risks. They
will be subject to many attacks and
peri1s, and their little crews, often or
one hero, will take chances such as
few soldiers ever have dared In forlorn
hopes With the right men in charge
flying machines may prove the sensa-
ton and the deciding factor of the
next great war. Without such men
they will be ridiculous.-Cleveian
Leader