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The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
LAYHAWKER JOTS

Any charge that Wathena is not
progressive will be repudiated with
scorn. Wathena has just passed an
ordinance against chicken running at
large.
Ralph Faxon's serial argument in
favor of concrete bridges bids fair to
exhaust the Roman numerals. 1t is
now in chapter DXXVII, whatever
that is.
The Sterling Journal "rises to in
quire" as follows: A Chicago woman
physician says that tobacco takes the
fine edge off the users taste. Now,
how does that woman know?
Fearless 'let-the- punishm ment-fit-the-
crime" editorial in the Manhattan
Mercury, contains this reference to the
Frisco dynamiterS: There should be
no more mercy shown criminal labor
leaders than criminal millionaires.
These man are just as much entitled
to mercy as the men who bought the
election of Lorimer to the senate, but
whoever is guilty in either case is a
traitor to everything good in the
American government and should re-
ceive the penalty of treason Public
sentiment should support every right
eous effort made to bring the guilty in
both cases to the bar of Justice
Had the editor of the Oakley
Graphic taken time to break this up
capital letters, it would have been a
spring poem-almost: "It has been
raining a little off ana on each day
this week and it has been colder than
the dickens for April. Spring, if you
will pardon the expression, seems to
be lingering in the lap of winter for
some time, and let's out the impress
sion that she is some snuggler herself
The wheat, 6earie is not exactly
saved but it is at the mourner's bench
and with considerable praying may
pull through. If it becomes thorough
ly baptized the Heavenly Sunlight will
bring it out in all it's glory"
The sadness of the accident to Mr..
Foley lost nothing in its telling by
the Sharon Springs Times. 1t ap-
pears from the report that Mr.. Foley
was rolled more than once: 81. l..
Foley, car inspector for U. P. r. R.,
was very painfully injured by being
rolled over and over under a car, Fri
day evening. He had given the train
a signal to go ahead, and on discov-
ering something wrong with the air
had given them a stop signal, and on
their getting the two signals confused,
and him thinking they were going to
stop he was caught by the break
beam and rolled quite aways. He is
doing nicely however, and the doctor
thinks he will recover nicely"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

This forty-Sixth annual convention or
the Kansas Sunday School association,
which has just been brought to a close,
cannot help but be fraught with much
of good to Kansas and its people. 1t
was largest in point of attendance
of any of the other conventions in the
history of the organization. Not only
that, but it was one of the most en-
thusiastic conventions of any kind that
has ever been held in Topeka.
These things go to show that in the
hurry and rush in Kansas for the more
material things, the Sunday school is
not forgotten. And this is well. 1t is
one of the bulwarks of civilization. In
the development of all civilizations to
their highest degree, Christianity has
played a paramount part. 1t Is the
Sunday school, too, that is one OF the
main spokes in the wheel in inculcatins
the principles of Christianity among
the people. 1t begins with them in the
days of their youth, when their minds
are most susceptible to all kinds of
teaching 1t points out to them the
ideals of life that are more worth while
to follow.
There is considerable criticism of the
Sunday schools these days that they
are not doing as great work as their
field offers. Some of this criticism
may be well founded. But on the whole
it must be admitted that they are do
ing their work pretty well. They are
gaining strength, numerically speaking.
and in all other ways, as has been evil
denced by the various reports which
have been submitted to this annual
convention. And it is such assem-
bIages as this convention was that
helps this work along. The ideas that
we're exchanged are bound to bear fruit
in the development of the Sunday
schools of Kansas to higher levels and
more effectiveness. This will mean an
irnrovement in the states citizenship.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
EsrABLIsH FAIRGROUNDS.

What has become of the movement
to provide Topeka with a few OF the
public Fairgrounds that are needed
for its children? There is Topeka
Fairgrounds association in existence
to further the establishment of these
necessary adjuncts to city life, but it
seems to be resting on its oars these
days. And, this is the very time of
year when some steps should be taken
to have some such Fairgrounds in ex-
istence by the time the schools con-
clude their sessions for the year.
1t was only the other day that May
or Billiard came out with a pronun-
ciamento that the children would no
longer be permitted to play in the
streets. The reasonableness of his
contention is not to be gainsaid. The
streets are no place for children to
play in and especially in these days
when they are filled with rapid-go-
ing automobiles.
But children have to play, for all
that. It is not second nature, but
first nature with them. Neither can
they be well content or expected to
play within the confines of small back
yards or on the sidewalks. There is
only one alternative, therefore, and
that is to provide them with play
grounds.
Something of expense is connected
with the establishment of modern
Fairgrounds for children, equipping
them with all kinds of apparatus
which will amuse and entertain them.
But these things are not necessary.
Topeka has many parks situated in
various of it's sections. Why not set
aside certain parts of these for play
grounds for the children, where they
can play at the games which delight
them to their hearts content? The
equipment of these Fairgrounds with
apparatus could come later. But
let's have the romping places any
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
sCIENrTFTC MANAGEMENT.

In the May American Magazine Fred
erick w. Taylor, the inventor of scien-
tific management, the new Industrial
system, has the following prediction to
make:
LET us now examine the good which
would follow the general adoption of
these principles.
The principal profit would come to
the whole world at large.
1.-The general adoption of scientific
management would readily, in the fu-
ture, double the productivity of the av-
erage man engaged in industrial work.
Think of what this means to the whole
country! Think of the increase. both
in the necessities and luxuries of life.
which becomes available for the whole
country, of the possibility of shorten
ing the hours of work when this IS de-
sirable. and of the increased opportuni-
ties for education, culture and recrea-
tion which this implies!
But while the whole world would
profit by this increase in production,
the manufacturer and the workman
will be far more interested in the espec-
ial local gain that comes to them and
to the people Immediately around them.
Scientific management will mean, for
the employers and the workmen who
adopt it-and particularly for those
who adopt it first-the elimination of
almost all causes for dispute and dis
agreement between them. What con-
stitutes a fair days work will be a
question for scientific investigation, in
stead of a subject to be bargained and
haggled over. Soldering will cease,
because the object for soldering no
longer exists. The large increase in
wages which accompanies this type of
| management will largely eliminate the
wage question as source of dispute.
But more than all other causes, the
close, intimate cooperation, the con-
stant personal contact between the two
sides, will tend to diminish friction and
! discomfort. 1t is difficult for two peo-
| pie whose interests are the same, and
who work eide by side in accomplishing
the same object, all day long, to keer
up a quarrel.
"The low cost Of production which
accompanies a doubling Of the output
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
KANSAS COMMENT
CORN IS KING

droe ast year the United States pro-
ouIeu o,Iz5'71S,000 bushels of corn
tao1, ~ II was worth 1888, ,968, 900. Thir-
S,Sa Sou sucn crops, at the same price per
- tSapICal' surplus, deposits and cir
try. 49,
mere are increasing demands for
Urn ana some of them were not
.,sea eanleu @ OF thirty years ago. 1t is
5 searenes, glucose, distilled liquors,
,ys5' geer and various mailing purposes.
Ihe amount of corn exported is grow
fLs steadily. Most of it is going to
Gredt Britain, Belgium, Denmark,
o,az GeImany, l,y, The Netherlands, Canada
Only Australia and Mexico are pros
RectIVe rivals of the United States in
tne. production of corn and it will be
many years before the crops of these
countries will approach those of the
United States.
IL appears very strange that, though
eIllS u valuable grain has beer known to
shie =. world almost ever since Columbus
discovered America, yet ii is cultivated
~ ouL very small part of the terri
tory that Is fitted for its growth. In
Lne greater part of the world it has
peen looked upon more as a curiosity
tnan as food, and there are civilized
countries in which it is only cultivated
Ior the beauty of its stalk while grow
ing MANY nations are slow to develop
any liking for corn as a food but the
taste Tor 1t Is growing throughout the
world and is growing rapidly in this
country. 1t is fast becoming, if it has
not already become Americas most
important crop.
IN production of this important
cereal Kansas is the sixth state in the
Union. She produces twice as many
Dushels or corn as of any other grain.
Under the proposed reciprocity treaty
with Canada the production of corn
VIII be a good deal more important
than 1t Is at the present time. Canada
Is country that cannot produce corn
IN large quantities but the demand for
the grain in that country is rapidly in
creaslng. 1t will be a market in which
we will have almost no competition.
Hereafter corn will be king in Kansas
--Leavenworth Times.
PLENTY OF ROOM IN KANSAS.
That only 43 per cent of the work
ers of New York state have steady
Jobs and that the wages of the un-
skilled class of laborers there amount
to less than $500 year, is the gist of
the third report submitted to the leg
1slature by the commission on employ
er's liability. This commission com
posed of members of all parties, found
that in the industrial center "at all
times of the year. in good times as
well as in bad, wage earners willing
and able to work cannot find employ
ment." They found also from the re-
cords of charitable societies that from
rs to 80 per cent of those who applied
for help are brought to their desti-
tute condition through lack of work"
City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.]

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Some mems credit is too good for
their good.
When the hand holders union goes
on strike, it isn't for shorter hours.
You are too easily influenced if a
motto can have much effect on you.
Whenever a man begins to get the
swell head, he believes he is Man
OF Destiny.
The fact that you can't take it with
you, is no sign that you may not need
it before you go.
When a man compliments his COM
petitor, it is usually with some kind
of a string attached.
Weather needrt be very threaten
ing to make a man take his rain coat
If he has new one.
If man contends he doesn't care
for public opinion, he is also apt to lie
about other things.
You are eating too much if you
can't relish a steak without catsup,
horseradish and tobasco sauce.
A Good Fellow isn't a good fellow.
or good for anything else, when his
financial resources are exhausted.
A young mother is apt to over
estimate the joy a grandm other finds
in taking care of her grandchildren.
Rebuilt machinery isn't as good as
new, T6gaTuIeSS Ol WHdl lHS doN01-
tisements may have to say on the sub
ject.
Try to forget to take your crouch
home from the office as often as you
forget to take your umbrella, anyhow.
Not all the confidence men operate
in the cities. A good many agents of
different kinds infest the rural dis
tricts.
Nearly every boy grows up nursing
the unsatisfied hope of some day find
ing a bee tree and getting a lot of free
honey.
When a man courts an investigation,
it may indicate nothing more than
that he is fairly farniIi-- -Ei+-- '-eAsti-
cations.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
friend-a very good friend-back

friend-a very good friend-back
home.
They had been month on the road
and Were looping back toward the East
when Jerry came. 1t was a mild.
starllt night in spring. Trixie's blood
was stirring expectantly when she
strolled to the theatre.
She knew the cause of that delight
IuI unrest when the curtain went up.
jerry was in the right hand lower
box.
Trixie never did better than she did
that night in Mellonsburg. They all
admitted it afterward. There was a
SOFT, suppressed fire in her acting and
singing which brought the audience
forward in their seats and caused that
little, breathless hush, SO dear to the
neart of the actor, between her clos
ing notes and the thunderous volleys
of applause.
There was the usual crowd of
ohnnles" about the stage door when
IL was ali over. Jerry was among them,
standing modestly back near the arc
that lighted the brick-paved court.
His eyes quickened at sight of her.
man stepped out of the smirking
tnrong. He was in evening dress. The
othef mashers shrank back.
He took Trixie by the arm. ooh,
you kid!" he said, with thick genial
lIy. come on FIR a time with yer
Uncle Dud. Muh cars out here"
Anger and dislike were mirrored in
her face as she twisted out of his
grasp Let me aIone!" she said,
trembling
The masterful masher regarded her
moment in ugly silence. Then he
said, deliberately, with an oath: "Say,
Kid: yur can't put anything over on
me! Cut it out, an come along. Why,
you amt nuthin' but an actress!"
Jerry!" -.
Jerry was already there. He whirl-
ed the big young man around with his
were cutting into the palm.
An actorine friend, eh?'' sneered
the big man. Jerry, swinging viciously,
struck him in the mouth.
A policeman sauntered out of the
shadow when the fight was over, and
laid a friendly hand on Jerry's shoul-
der.
Better beat it, sport" he MUIR
INJURED. "That guy" he nodded to
where the masher. half-unconscious,
brother Of the chief of police. You
ought t. have vote of thanks for
trimnin' him, but they'll soak you if
you don't make a getaway"
"Our train leaves for Pierceville in
half an hour volunteered Fitzmau-
a witness of the battle. "Take Miss
Trixie, young sir. and hurry to the sta
ton. Well look after her baggage
Were not going to Pierceville,"
painted Jerry. mo more such stunts
as this. We're going back to Area
dia-to get married. Come on, deary!".
He drew the girls hand through his
arm and turned away
"Oh, Jerry!" they heard her say, in
heartbroken accents, a world of shame
in her voice, did you hear him ? He
said I was nothing but-but an
actress!'
Billy Langstroth looked Significantly
at the manager "I told you she didn't
have the temperament, Junie!" he
crowed.-(Copyrigh 1911, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
Support of a Wife.

The crude common law notions of
the matrim onial relation, which often
resulted in great injustice to the wife,
have gradually given place to more
enlightened theories. The modification
of the law, in this respect has been
brought about chiefly by statute but
to some extent also by judicial deci-
sion. An important case, recently de-
cided, which marks another step in
this progress, is the De Brauwere VS..
De Brauwere (69 Misc. 472), where
the late Justice Whitney held that an
abandoned wife who has expended her
own money for neceSsaries for her
self and the children of the marriage
may recover the amount so expended
in an action directly against the hus-
band. This decision seems to have
been a novel one.
1t is, however, only the logical ex-
tension of doctrines long recognized by
the law, namely, that one who has
supplied a wife with necessities which
the husband has failed to provide may
recover the reasonable value thereof
from the husband, on the theory of an
agency implied in law, or, to put it
otherwise, that the wife has the ire
vocable right to pledge her husbands s
credit for neceSsaries in case he fails
to supply her therewith; and further,
that she may in such case even borrow
money on his credit and expend it for
necessaries, and that the lender may
recover the amount SO lent and ex-
pended from the husband, on the
theory that he is subrogated to rights
Of those who have furnished the nee
essaries purchased with the money SO
loaned.
These rules were, however, made
quate to meet the needs of the wife
in many cases, because oftentimes the
delinquent husband had no credit
which. she could pledge, and even If
he had credit, or she could procure
assistance from friends, she was
placed in the position of a suppliant
extending the doctrine Of subrogation
to the wife herself has placed her in a
position of independence, where she
can draw upon her own resources, if
she has such, for necessaries, or pur-
chase them with her cwn earnings,
and compel the husband to reimburse
her.
The doctrine of subrogatien is GER
tainly sufficient to support the deci-
sion, but Justice Whitney suggested a
ground even more satisfactory from a
legal view-although he expressly re-
Trained from deciding the case on that
ground-namely, that the right of the
wife to recover sis based upon an abb
solute right to support from her hus-
band; that at common law she could
not directly enforce this right because
of her disability to sue; that therefore
she was restricted to her authority. as
his agent to order necessaries; -
that since her disabilities have been
removed by recent statutes she can sue
her husband directly in this state for
breach of the contract of support"
IN. 475)-Bench and Bar.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

About the only distinguishing char
acteristic of some men is their appe-
tites.
y ::
Some people seem to have a mortgage
on most of the luck-of the bad variety.
=
The man who makes a good fight
and loses is entitled to a little credit
but he seldom gets it.
X =
Wedding trips are not the rare events
in men and womens lives they used to
be. In this day of grace they happen
quite frequently.
Not a few travellers measure the sue
cess of a trip to Europe by the number
of transportation and hotel labels they
can get pasted on their suit cases.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chieago News.l


Every woman's aim in life Is to boss
some man.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by
nursing.
A smart man is one who agrees with
a woman-so she thinks
In this era of expensive living the
father of ten children has a strenuous
job.
Merely loving a woman doesn't sat
isfy her; she wants you to make love
to her.
A man who insists that he's Just as
good as you are may be extra good at
that.
How giddy girl does enjoy making
a man keep on trying to kiss her when
she won't let him.
It's a good thing for man to bump
up against the proof of his own un-
Importance occasionally.
You wonder why you have more
trouble than other people, and they
wonder why you have less trouble
than they do.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New york Prass1

From the New York Press.
ABOUT the only skill in lying is hav-
ing an awful nerve.
A common mistake in the kitchen
Is thinking that bad temper makes a
good cook
Hardly anything seems more unfair
TO most OF us than for man to be
able to keep his own money.
Nobody can have such a clear con-
science that he doesn't look scared
when his wife begins to tell him he
talked in his sleep. A-
A woman can be so loyal to a man
that she will be grateful to him for an
allowance that he makes her but never
pays her.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Yes, said Nagget, "a woman USUALLY
treats her husband as the average se1vant
treats bric-a-brac." go ahead" said the
wise Mrs. Nagget. WHATS fhe answer9''
why. the more he's worth the more she
tries to break him. m."-Catholic Standard
and Times.
Try that madam" said the serpent
pohtely, as he offered Eve an apple. you
can raise 400 barrels of them to the acre
on one OF our irrigated orchard farms in
the Bezingo aVlley. Your husband can
purchase a forty-acre tract on easy pay
ments. Shortly afterward the family
moved from Eden to seek the new home.
Chicago Post.
I'VE have come, SIR" said the utiUtv
man TO the stage manager, "to ask that
a portion of the part played by Mr.. Brown
be cut out Which portion ?'' s'Tbe one
where he borrows S. from the disguised
duke Every time he thinks one of ms has
any money, he calls a rehearsal "-Boston
Traveller.
Mother has a new spring hat
So has Sister 10;
Wnlle father wears the same old tile.
He bought five years ago.
Judge.
Willis-So your military school wasn't
success? Gillis-No; none of the pupils
coulo stay on horse long enough to
nave their photographs taken for the ad-
VeruSementS OF the School.-Judga
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

Although general business has been
in a decline Of late it appears that all
men will have their tobacco, whether
or no. The American Tobacco COM
pany, the trust, has declared an extra
dividend of Z u per cent in addition
to its regular quarterly dividend of
2 " per cent, and this on a capitaliza-
ton which approximates $12o, 900, 900.
The Tobacco trust also has a bonded
Indebtedness approximat:ng another
1OO,oo0,O0O on which it pays and
per cent interest.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05
FROM OTHER PENS
PROBLEM OF DEGENERAcY.


Lecturing in London on The Prob
lem OF Degeneracy, DR.. Bernard Hol-
lander called attention to the illogic-
ality of attributing. insanity in great
part to drink, while it is a fact that
insanity is increasing, though drinking
is not. The lecturer went on, how
ever, to express the opinion that if
men drink less now than formerly,
women drink more, especially among
the upper classes.
He was disposed to attribute this to
hotel life and the increasing vogue of
restaurant parties. What this English
lecturer says is true in this country as
well as in Great Britain, with the sub
stitution of the newly rich" for the
upper classes The tendency to live
in flats increases resort to restaurants
and the habit of attendance on amuse-
mentS beyond the home. The strain of
modern social life is another factor,
causing women to resort to drink as
stimulant for the purpose of overcom-
ing fatigue.
The problem of degeneracy is as
complicated as modern civilization, and
it is rarely that a single casual OBJ
server has looked at its origins from
every point of view. There is a decline
of faith which destroys spiritual ideals
and standards and puts extravagant
values on creature comforts and SEN
sual delights. This accounts for the
tendency toward degeneracy in more
cases than any other single cause
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

Professors at the University of Chi
cago will have to. go some now. A
Yale professor has been given a $1O,-
900 prize for the best opera in Eng
lish in the Metropolitan opera con-
test. But then the language in which
it is told is the only thing English
about the opera. 1t tells a story of
love and war in the days of Roman
rule in Britain.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

This makes even the 50 a word re-
ceived by Colonel Roosevelt for his
African hunt stories seem picayunish.
An autograph letter written by Martin
Luther to Emperor Charles v was sold
the other day for $4,000.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

The mobilization of 10000 troops in
Texas is the largest military activity
of the United States in time of peace,
but it pales into insigniicance with
the million men who will participate
In the forthcoming military maneuvers
In GerrnanY
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

President Tafts assertion that the
United States would keep it's hands off
and not seek to extend its domain or
to acquire foreign territory should be
taken at its face value. It expresses
the exact temper of the people of the
country in this particular.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-05

There will be general insistence
that the possession of Alaska by the
United States be discontinued, that is,
If it is ever again responsible for such
a cold wave at this time of year as
has lust been experienced.