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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
.LAYHAWKER JOTS

The Stafford Republican remarks
that woman who has a nose for news
usually has chin for telling it.
Some girls use almost as much
powder as a clown, is some expert tes-
timony from the society editor of the
Hiawatha World.
It Is reported by the Lawrence Ga
zette that a delegate to the late con-
vention. of launderers at Lawrence
wore a cel1uloid collar.
A Jap ball team from Waseeda uni
versity is beating our Western college
teams, notes the Hutchinson Gazette
and it adds: This is a portentous sign
of the decline of American education.
A pessimistic view of tho develop
ment of aeroplanes from tho Atchison
Champion: Some aerop1anes of unique
models will soon be exhibited, but they
will end in heaps Of kindling wood
that look much alike.
The Beloit Call makes a big news
item of the fact that several married
men attended the Peggy from Paris"
show without their wives and occupied
the front seats, notes the Concordia
Blade and it adds: Here in Concordia
the news would be made in case they
failed to do so.
Some unusual birth notices in a
recent issue of the Golf Advance:
Charley Cooley, who lives two miles
VI w 0LIlOICJ 1le1O AWAAA 10 OOA II
to him. One shortly before twelve
Wednesday night and the other little
later. %~% Mac Schuman had a
boy born to him Wednesday night.
Dan Anthony has never been ac-
cused of being frugal but he had this
to say in his Leavenworth Times the
other day: There is one thing that can
be said in favor of the harem skirt-it
costs less to press it. When taken to
the tailor it is called trousers" and
this makes a difference. The charge
for pressing trousers is 25 cents and
for pressing skirts it is 81.
Father sometimes goes to lodge,
says the Hiawatha World, because he
is good dead more important there
than he can ever hope to be at home.
The man who goes on a lark, says
the Independence Reporter, is apt to
hear more music on his return home.
Somehow or other a great deal of
the poesy of spring is lost when the
grass on the lawn gets long enough to
need moving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19

part, to the fact that the supply of
foreign low-priced workingmen made
it possible to meet the demand for
higher wages by means other than the
elimination of labor waste Human
nature. like the inanimate, seeks the
path OF least resistance. To think
hard and persistently is painful. The
path of the pioneer is beset with OBJ
stacles- It was easier to tap the in
exhaustible foreign labor supply than
to devise and to introduce better
methods and better management. IN
stead of keeping down the labor cost
by eliminating unnecessary human eff
fort and increasing the production of
the individual, we met the working
mans demand for higher wages by the
increased supply of workers. Instead
of conserving the working men, we ac-
cepted the ready substitutes for those
incapacitated by disease or accident
resulting from excessive toll or i'm
proper conditions of employment.
Fortunately a new necessity has in
tervened: the awakened social sense of
the community, with it's longing for a
truer democracy. This great ethical
movement for real brotherhood of
man reinforces the demand of the
workingman for wages, hours and con-
ditions which will permit his living ac-
cording to those higher standards es-
sentia1 to life, health and the per-
Torrance in a democracy of the du-
ties of citizenship. These new and in
creasing demands have created a new
necessity for economy in production.
And scientific management comes pre-
pared to relieve that necessity by a
revolution in industry comparable only
to that effected in the transition from
hand labor to machinery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fron the Atchison Globe. ]

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Speaking of open secrets. most Of
them are that kind.
Any man who doesn't agree with you
is a "disturber
Your enemies are pretty apt to for
get you If you will let them.
Ever notice that when you don't
care a rap trains are usually on time :?
If g. man can talk ten minutes and
then stop, he is a pretty satisfactory
orator.
It sometimes happens that the social
leader hasn't much of a following.
And it may be well to rem ember
that you can be concise without being
insulting.
If you have sense of humor, it may
help some to use it in locking yourself
over occasionally.
Regardless of what they say. there
aren't SO many people who are always
willing to admit the truth.
If you do a good deal for some peo-
pie they come to expect it and will
abuse you when you let up.
Nothing can be an entire success in
boys estimation, unless noise and
eats figure in it prominently
Southern gentlemen are usually pre-
pared to prove they are. If they have
to use a gun in the demonstration.
A lazy man says the sleep he gets
between and s o'clock in the morn
ing is the sleep that does him most
good.
When a man is late in keeping an
appointment, that is one indication
that it wasn't with a good-looking
woman.
Very few people, coming from
larger town than Rome, would be will
ing to do as Rome does while stopping
there.
Kind hearted neighbors sometimes
are misjudged on the ground that their
attention is prompted by thirst for
information.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The corkscrew is a poor key to a
situation.
It's the early fish that catches the
hook worm.
Many a debutante "comes out, I"
and, not seeing her shallow, goes in
again.
Would you say that the fan who
goes bughouse over baseball, was balled
headed?
wigwag: How does that fellow
Borrowed strike you?" Wiseguy:
"Unsuccessfully."
A Kensington man has invented a
new fly-catcher. He calls it the Sher-
wood Magee.
Speaking of baseball. when the ball
reaches first base ahead of the runner,
he feels quite put out about it.
There is nothing lovers enjoy more
than a moonlight night, unless it is a
night when there is no moon.
BIobbs: SIT seems as though I am
always in debt" Slobbs: Don't talk
about IT. / haven't even paid for the
Christmas present my wife gave me
last Christmas
why is it that our young men
don't marry /" asked the elderly spin
ster. IT suppose because they are not
asked" replied the Cynical Bachelor,
with more show of courtesy. than he
usually displays.
Mrs. Buggins: t'Mrs Bones says her
husband is the most generous man in
the world" Mr.. Buggins: "Geei I
she says she gave him a box of cigars
as a birthday present, and he only
smoked one, and then gave all the rest
away to his friends"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
BOOSTING KANSAS.
proposed


Secretaries of the Commercial clubs
of Kansas are to gather at Emporia
on June L for the purpose of forming
an organization which will boost for
Kansas. 1t is the aim of this aggrega-
ton OF boomers to engage in such ac-
Invites as will tend to increase the
population of the state in material
fashion. They hope to make the popu-
lation 100000 by 1920. And while
these hopes are extensive, such goal
is we'll within the realms of possibility.
Even if it is not reached. it is certain
that this organization will be able to
do wonders in helping Kansas progress
in population and in all other ways.
Surely the field is an excellent one
in which to labor. Kansas has every
facility for larger development in all
particulars that is possessed by other
states in this section of the country
and to the west and far west. Agri-
cultural and other prospects in these
latter states have been doomed to the
skies during the past few years.
Thousands upon thousands of colon
lists and manufacturers have been at
tracted to them because of this boom
ing. These people have travelled
through Kansas to get to their new
Edens. And simply for the reason
that Kansans have been backward in
advertising their resources and the
possibility of their development to the
outside world in the right way.
There has been nothing of concert
ed action in this direction and espe-
cially on the part of the Commercial
clubs. In the past each of these clubs
has devoted its energies exclusively to
the building up of its own locality.
That is the purpose, of course, for
which they were primarily brought
into existence. But the opportunity is
large for the Commercial club to do
this very thing and at the same time
work for the development Of other and
all parts of the state.
For example, a manufacturer in
some other part of the country de-
cides to change his location. He will
communicate, say, with the Topeka
Commercial club, concerning the OPP
portunities for the establishment of his
plant in this city and what aid he
might expect from local capitalists.
Perhaps the Topeka Commercial club
could not see its way clear to offer
much encouragement. Maybe this city
would not have the best possible facili-
ties for that particular kind of plant.
In the past this fact would be COM
municated to the manufacturer. The
matter would drop there. Now there
might be some other city in Kansas,
o. which this particular manufacturer
knew nothing, which would have Just
the facilities he was looking for. With
all the Commercial clubs in league
with each other, this fact would be
known to the Topeka club and it could
pass it on to this manufacturer. Thus
this plant might be obtained for KAN
sas, if not for Topeka.
In just this one way, and there are
many others, the Commercial clubs
working together, could do great
things for Kansas. It is a move in
the right direction for them to join
forces, work for their home towns
first, for their neighbors next and all
the time for Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19

glimpse of an Iowa corn field in
March-the grayish-yeliow stalks
sticking up through four or five feet of
snow drift. Maliciously. 1t seemed to
Margaret, did Uncle John lead the
confused young informant through
tortuous ways of transformation.
From cocktail to demi tasse the in
QUESTION lasted. With an almost over
WheIming desire to scream, Margaret
finally led the procession of four from
the dining room along endless, red
carpeted corridors to the little sitting
room. A change, even a scene of the
torture, was welcome rest
thought your nephew, Mr.. Jenk-
ms was coming to take dinner with
US tonight" she said by way of con-
versation to Aunt Eliza to whom she
supposed the amplv-proportioned
tain belonged.
HE did," slowly answered the voice
OF the blunderer about corn crops and
Iowa harvests.
In wide-eyed amazement Margaret
faced him.
eHe-and-you are" she gasped.
Yes. he did and I am
"And the fruit ranch and the"
Words failed her in the recollection of
Uncle Johns minute description of the
Jenkins homestead.
Yes" very carefully, as one on I'M
safe treading. "but I'm not the mis-
ogamist, Uncle john
And Uncle John let nne-and Aunt
Eiiza-and."
Uncle John made Aunt Eliza keep
still. Those two old geese are up in
their room laughing their old eyes out.
He loves a Joke better than good
meal of Aunt ELIAS own cooking"
Uncle John loves a jokei Why, I
Thought Uncle John had no-and now
he'll think-you'll all think
Uncle John has asked me to go for
a visit with them and you to their
ranch in order that I may tell you
what I think. Shall I?"-(Copyright
f1911, by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the chicago News.

lFrom the chicago NeWS.1
Most hair tonics raise more hope
than hair.
Love that feeds on vanity soon dies
of starvation.
A thin woman will admit that she
is thin where 1t shows.
People who raise objections are al
ways sure of a bumper crop.
Among other unsatisfactory trusts
we have smistrusts and distrusts.
Men might talk about women more
If they talked about themselves less
Some men waste half their time in
getting ready to waste the other hail.
A small boy no sooner breaks in a
pair of shoes than they begin to
break out.
The more rapidly a man goes the
more likely he is to be overtaken by
misfortune.
A Milwaukee woman is so jealous
that she won't allow her husband to
gaze at the stars.
Some OF the most important infor-
nation in a newspaper is to be found
in the advertising columns.
Some men are born to be married
and some others live in deadly fear
that marriage will be thrust upon
them se~.z 49,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
HUMOR or THE Day

An Improvement.-By the latest device
you can drop a coin in the slot and start
a fire in the house The machine will not
be perfect until you can drop in a nickel
and fire the cook.-Schenectady Union.
Teacher-Can any little girl tell me why
our heads are covered with hair? Little
Girl-To have something to pin more hair
to-Life.
Blobbs-When the mountain wouldn't
come to Mahomet, what did he do? Slobbs
4 suppose he went to the seashore.-
Philadelphia Record.
She-Bridge spells conversation. He
Only temporarily. You ought to hear the
remarks it inspires after the game breaks
up.-Illustrated Bits.
Els he capable man?' 81 should say
he is! He can hang pictures to his wife's
entire satisfaction."-Detroit Free Press.
"You know Mrs Van elders family
portrait gallery that she started last
year?'' YES" well that great criminal
detective officer who guarded the we'd
ding presents when Frostie Van Glider
married the oldest De Graft boy told me
that he recognized seven of the portraits,
and they had all done time-whatever
that means. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.

The assertion that American pros
perity is due to our great natural re-
sources is only partly true, writes
Louis D. Brandeis in The Survey. In
New England, particularly, our ne
cessities and not our resources, were
the real cause of our prosperity. A
poor soil drove US to manufacturing
High wages necessitated the saving of
human labor and became the mother
of our inventions, giving us labor saw
ing machinery. That the people of the
east have not attained even greater
general well-being Is due, in large
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
Prospects appear to be good that the

Prospects appear to be good that the
house OF representatives will order an
investigation of the administration of
the affairs of the Philippine Islands,
and especially as to the manner in
which Commissioner Worcester has
conducted things. Several other in
vestigations of various matters have
already been ordered by the house.
And IL a few more are undertaken
most OF the Democratic members will
have an opportunity to iunket around
a good deal after congress has adj
1ourned at the expense of the govern
ment. But it has been long time
since Democratic congressman have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19

Whenever and wherever there was
a big mobilization of troops during
Civil war times. it is related that the
rain poured down. There has also been
considerable rain along the Mexican
border since the United States troops
were gathered there. Hence it may be
argued that there won't be much of a
general rain throughout the country
until the mobilization OF the G. A r.
veterans on Memorial Day. But rain
may surely be looked fer then, and
particularly because it will be most in
opportune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The real wise man knows just how
ignorant he is, ~
Smiles at adversely seldom get be-
yond the sickly-grin stage. -f+-'-'
g.
Neither do the mills of divorce grind
slowly nor. exceeding fine.
~
Trying a get-rich-quick scheme is an
almost certain way to lose what little
you have.
The less man knows concerning a
proposition the longer and the louder
the argument he will make about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
FROM OTHER PENS
THE WORLD AROUND US.


The possibility of the existence of
life upon one or all of the other ce1es-
tial bodies that with our earth go to
make up what we call the universe
has ever "since man spoken word
mans spirit stirred beyond his belly
need" been one of the most absorbing
topics that ever stirred the human
imagination. Cyrano &c Bergerac, the
seventeenth century prototype of Ros-
lands hero, was not the first to visit
the moon and find it peopled with
strange creatures. and Kipling is the
latest poet to find beyond the path Of
outmost sun further than ever
comet f1ared or vagrant stardust swirl
ed,'' the dwelling place Of those who
sailed, and fought, and ruled, and
loved. and made our world
But they and all their company were
dreamerS, and seerS OF visions and
weaVers of romance. 1t IS starting
proof of the marvellous development OF
human intelligence to realize that to-
day the master minds of science, delv-
ing into the secrets of nature with the
most material instruments Of precision,
checking their steps by the immutable
laws of mathematics, the most exact or
all the sciences, are announcing not only
that some one of the nyriads of worlds
about US may be habitable, but that
there actually is life upon them.
We live in an age Of marvels. The
discoveries with which modern science
mas GnT1Caed human AlAC, A4SNOfC AAO6
through which the possibilities Of hui
man happiness have been SO INFINITELY
multiplied. have almost robbed us of
the power to wonder. And so we no
longer even scott at the assertion that
on Mars or Venus, or on some other
sphere beyond the loom of the last
lone star we can see there are living
beings.-Philadelphia Press.
o.
OUR SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
- To- 70
ter, in his address on the Defects IN
Our Neutrality Laws. at the Baltimore
Peace conference, illustrates only too
clearly the inconsistency between our
propaganda for peace and our exploita-
ton and stimulation of wars: Wniie
we exhort our fellow-nations to settle
their differences peacebly, we allow our
citizens to make money out OF equip
ping international conflicts or internal
instructions with all the arms anu
munitions of war While we deprecate
the pugnacity of the nations to the
south. We allow our adventures to lead
the fighting on both sides, and when
thew get into trouble we exert the
whole of our national might for their
protection.
Great Britain forbids its subjects to
fight for any other nation against any
power with which Great Britain is at
peace, Furnishes them for SO doing by
heavy fine and Imprisonment and re-
fuses them any support or protect1on
from any penalties which they may in
cur at the hands of the enemy. France
and other countries have similar laws.
It is doubtful whether we could inter-
fere with the personal liberty of our
citizens to the extent of Furnishing them
for fighting for other nations. But I'M
questionably we should cease to en-
courage them by making ourselves re-
sponsible for their security.-NeW York
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
THE HAPPY FARMER.

A certain class of newspaper men
assert that a. farmer is the most inde-7
pendent man on earth, and that he has
nothing to do but enjoy life. That
when winter comes and the billiards.
on the wing he toasts his feet and
reads the local newspaper and the only
thing that disturbs him is a call three
times a day to banquet of mince pies
and other luxuries. It is a mistake.
The industrious farmer begins work
long before the sun thinks of getting
up. With his soul shrouded in gloom
he proceeds to build a fire and soften
his boots with a sledge hammer. He
then takes a lantern and shovels his
way to the barn and feeds the hogs.
It is then time to feed the newly ar
rived salt, which seems to delight in
butting a pail of milk over the til1er of
the soil until he has only to be stamp
ed to pass for package of olemar
garine. He crawls through a barb
wire fence and digs the hay out of
the snow, feeds the cows, cleans the
stable, gathers up the frozen chicks,
chases stray pig Worth rs cents for
four miles and does not catch it, doc
tors sick horse, freezes his fingers,
gets kicked by a one eyed mule, and
when the cleaning comes and quiet
ness broods over all the earth he has
a single half hour to mediate and
wonder how he will pay his taxes
Ellinwood Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press1
There's nothing that can leak like a
pocketbook.
To a woman money means indulgence
of her child: to man, OF himself.
The more trips a girl goes on the
more she expects to have lots of ro-
mances with princes.
Some men are so mean they can wor-
~ abolit how much their funeral will
cost them some day.
The later a man gets home at night,
the earlier he'd better have him excuses
ready the next morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19

Several of the bands of Mexican
rebels are having such an easy time
capturing towns, looting banks and
draining saloons, it is unlikely that they
will pay any attention to the latest
armistice And when peace has finally
been declared, the reorganized govern
rnent will probably have to take the
field for the pacification of these re-
caIcitrants
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
KAMsAS.C 0MAENT
THE "NEyws TRUST"

A man who appar emily has never
had much of anything to do with the
newspaper business appeared before
the senate finance committee the other
day and said that the Associated Press,
which supplies the Salina Journal, and
most of the leading newspapers of the
United States with telegraph news, IS
trust.
He probably based this charge upon
the fact that the Associated Press re-
serves the right to say who shall re-
ceive its service.
And who is the Associated Press? ?
Is it a money-making organization,
like the Hearst service and other
smaller news supply companies? Is
the Associated Press a concern which
keeps "a huge mart for the sale of news
to any newspaper which has the price
No. That is a wrong idea of the
Associated. Press.
The Associated Press is composed OF
the papers which get the service. Each
paper has vote in the selection or
Associated Press officers. There are no
profits; the papers composing the AS
ISOLATED Press simply hire the men to
get the news, and divide up the ex-
pense. It is a mutual cooperative
concern, and as such a concern. 1t cer-
tainly has the right to say who 1t shall
have in its membership.
There is a law on the Kansas stat
ulSS WHICH, says lIldL L1lS <AooOCA0SO0
Press must give news service to
whoever asks for it. 1t is such a fool
ish law that no one has ever attempted
to enforce it. The Associated Press
papers did not fight the law because
they knew it could not be enforced.
There are scores of organizations
which are run exactly as the Associat-
ed Press is run. For instance, you can't
get into the Woodmen, or the MaSons,
or even into most of the churches.
without being voted in. Wouldn't it be
absurd to pass a law requiring the
Woodmen to admit member whether
they wanted him or not2 Wouldn't it
be absurd to say that the Associated
Press should be compelled to admit to
membership a sheet like the old "Sun-
day SUM-"
If the Associated Press were run for
profits, it might be called a trust, or a
close corporation. But it is run simply
for the benefit of the members and
through them, for the benefit of the
millions of readers who get their news
from Associated Press newspapers
Salina Journal.
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TO ONE KNEW.

Three years have burned to ashes since
we met
Ashes of roses, for their perfume c1ings
To memory-and still around me wings
The half-forgotten song I'll ne'er forget.
The burden of the word is sweet. and yet
No fairer than the songs that still shall
be;
Each year a rose to bloom and burn
for me-
Your hand in mine with lovely intent set.
More beautiful to me you are today
Than in that hour thousand days ago
When, lifting YEARLY, these eyes met
yours:
For have learned from you that, love
endures;
Your hand has stirred the waning fires
And set life's jeweled censers all asway.
Gardner Weeks Wood, in Harper's
Weekly.