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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
BRITISH LABOR AGREEMENTS.

With so much unrest in the world
of labor in this country, it is interest
ing to learn that a system of solving
labor troubles is being evolved in
Great Britain, which is working out
with considerable success. In a recent
issue of the Daily Consular and Trade
Reports, Augustus E. Ingram, United
states consul at Bradford. Eng, writes
in part as follows:
The labor department of the British
board of trade has just issued report
entitled collective agreements be-
tween employer and work people in
the United Kingdom and the import
ance of the subject is shown by the
fact that 1856 such agreements, at
fecting directly 100000 work people,
are now in force. OF these agree
ments, 80 are sliding scales, 500 are
niece price lists and 1,103 are work
| ing agreements. In many cases the
agreements are connected with perma-
lnent Cancellation boards and joint
lcommittees in the various trades, of
which there are at present 262, also
II district boards, which afford general
mediation and are not confined to any
narticular trade, and two boards
whose work is restricted to questions
AFFECTING employees of cooperative So
| cieties. AS stated in a government re-
port. the functions of these concilia-
| tion boards vary considerably, but
their real value depends on preventing
stoppases of work rather than on set
thing strikes or lockouts which may
have already taken place OF the
75OS cases settled by Cancellation
boards in the ten years. 1900-1910,
lonly 1O4 Cor about l per cent? were
preceded by a stoppage Of work
Some of the agreements contain
many details and provisions not only
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
RUINED BY WOMEN.

Under the above heading the Sat
urday Evening Post, in it's issue of
last week, had a few words to say
that will not be particularly palatable
for many men to swallow because
they are the bitter truth. They follow;
Blaming the women has been
popular masculine consolation since
Adams time. I was ruined by women,
said male citizen some time ago as
he was about to leave for the peniten-
tiary. He meant that he left his home
and stole his banks money to riot with
females, a majority of whom would
have been quietly at work in some
productive occupation if economic
conditions-that are made exclusively
by men-had given them fair chance.
Nearly all of them were merely stu
pid, passive straws borne along by
whatever current in a man-run world
happened to catch them. If they had
mt been of that sort they wouldn't
have been rioting.
Probably four-fifths of the initia-
tive and of effective power are in the
hands of men. This is true of society
and of most individual cases. If the
modern well-to-do woman is more or
namental than useful it is because
that status was fixed for her by her
father and husband. Men deplore
that women brought up in easy cir
cumstances consume much and pro-
duce little. Many of the men who de-
plore it loudest would perish of cha
grin if the neighbors should know
that their own wives were doing the
family washing to save expense.
Among the welI-to-do. the wife is the
token of the husbands gentility He
bemoans the cost, but is secretly de-
lighted to be the husband of a lady
1--WE write this in the interests of
conservation. A prodigious amount
of thought that might produce good
social steam wastes itself in mere va
por over the ruin wrought by women.
We do not recall a single case, from
Adam and Samson down, where a
man really up to his job was ruined
by a woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
GOOD ROADS.

One of the subjects that ought to be
given considerable attention at the
coming session of the Kansas legisla-
ture concerns the building of good
roads. Existing laws in the premises
seem to have developed a rather
chaotic condition of affairs. They are
so many and varied that county or
a community which has a mind to go
in for road Improvement scarcely
knows where to begin. And not a
little fault is being found with one or
more of these laws by interested par
ties. Where they have been tried it
has been discovered that the expense
is much larger than that which main
tanned under the old laws, and the
results are far from being CORE
spondingly greater.
Certain it is that the prosperity of
Kansas will be increased materially if
there is a general improvement of the
roads. Nor does it seem possible that
this can be brought about until general
and comprehensive legislation has
been enacted. It is all very well for
the legislature to pass all kinds of
permissive legislation which will au-
thorize county to build almost any
kind of a road that it sees fit. But
such legislation is not going to equip
the state in the way it should be with
good roads.
An essential need is the creation of
a bona fide state engineering depart
ment. with a responsible head who will
be adequately paid. This department
should have the necessary authority to
devise a good roads program for the
state which will be uniform and eff
fective. And state funds might we'll
be applied as an aid in the construc-
ton of a state system of good roads
that will be of advantage not to the
people of any community but to the
people of the entire state.
This is the plan which has been fol-
lowed in almost every state where
something real has been accomplished
in the way of road Improvement.
There is a righteous demand on the
part of the taxpayers of Kansas that
the state expenditures be kept within
reasonable limits. No good reason
exists why this should not be done
and a goodly sum of money be ex-
pended by the state each year to help
in the construction of roads which will
be worth while. If such a system
were followed, it would not be many
years before Kansas would have a
network of good roads that would be
of immense value to the state and all
of it's component parts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
lei WE'RE YOU

IF WE'RE YOU.
Il had lived in the gutter, you say.
Ere the dark was dawn. ere the dawn
was day,
Ere the sun arose on my infant eyes,
In an. underworld OF sad surprise,
would be as you, coarse, bitter, old,
Cursed from birth by the lust of gold;
I would be as you, foul and defiled-
A menace to man and woman and child.
And. if you had had my chance. you
The SUMMER skies and the nobler name.
Inc childhood guarded and guided sure
BY father sane and a mother pure,
gu would be as am, strong and young,
Where deeds are wrought and songs are
sung;
You would be as healthy. and as fresh.
In your human heart and your human
flesh.
And 5 you may be right Perchance the
That roars in you, in me. at least
has groWled, and growing shows that
we
Are fashioned one humanity.
Perchance my passions unexpressed,
In you are but made manifest;
Perchance in you 1 ought to see
The hell from which life rescued me.
II this be true, If desperate chance
or vast, unequal circumstance
Has given me much and scanted you
My brother, this is also true;
Out of my nobleSt, must give
Your lost abundance while I live,
And, at the doors of darkness stand
TO meet you, with an outstretched hand.
Margaret Ogden Bigelow in Ainslee's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
HUAOR or THE Day

yesterday Subbubs-Yes, that boy of
mine climbed up the porch when he
he fell and broke his subbubs-Not
much. He's sound as a dollar. But my
wife tried to whip him for it and now
she's a nervous and physical wreck
Ctaholic Standard and Times.
The Girl-Go back and lick him. you
coward! The yictim-But he's already
he can't. give you any more, can he?-
Judge.
whats the title of your new book.
Riter?" I'm calling it Salad for the
Solitary" Isn't that bit stale? Why
not cali it Lettuce Alone ?"-Boston
Transcript.
The Usual Thing.-Doctor. is 1t abso-
lutely necessary to operate on me? N
no. But it's customary.'-Toledo Blade
Governmental Machinery.-''Why do you
call your engine Central American Re
yentor. cit yields maximum number of
revolutions with a minimum application
of initial force. Star.
Mora 1nteresting.-Fair Girl-My father
made his fortune when he was a young
man. Would you like to know how he did
! I would like to know if he still has it
Catholic News.
Meat Famine.--"what has BECOME OF
YOUR geological GARDEN We'll. we
thought meat was too valuable to have II
ioafiny around in cages to look at.'-Meg-
gendorfer Blaetter.
Modest Pride.-s.How ridiculous the doc
tors wife is, She is always fusslng WITH
Eer little flower pots and talking aDout
botany while bless my soul, nave more
flowers in my hat than she has IN her
whole conservatory Fhegende biael'e1'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
QUAKER s1EDrrAT1oNs.

IRON the Philadelphia Record
The office that seeks the man never
gets lost in the crowd.
When the stock market is right, even
the bear may feel bully.
You can generally depend upon it
that there is something on foot when
you see a friend going into a chiropo-
dist's.
Romance is not altogether dead. The
most hardened old bachelor has a
withered flower somewhere in his pos
session.
Many fell-w flatters himself that
he is leading his bride to the altar,
when, as a matter of fact, she is push
ing him there.
Sillicus-'Love at first sight always
makes an unhappy marriage" Cynicus
-"Oh, don't know. Even love may
r1pen into friendship
Any rich man who gives his offspring
a liberal allowance will tell you that
you don't have to go to the Arctic re-
gions to see the midnight son.
Blobbs-"Don't beef about your
losses. You should remember that the
cat comes back" Slobbs-"That's just
it. Most of mine went to the kitty"
In the great educational controversy
the college president was forced to eat
his own words. 1t was, indeed, a diff
cult ordeal, for in one Of his speeches
he realized that he had made a gram
NAUTICAL error.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l


The 1911 calendar crop is now ripe.
Old Diogenes did his undertaking
with a lantern.
Wise is the man who learns lesson
from each failure.
Perhaps you think you know it all,
but can you prove it?
Some men look upon a high ball as
an antidote for low spirits.
About the first of the year many a
bank account loses its balance
Speaking of bad examples, a school
boy says his arithmetic is full of EN-
The love a man had for his first wife
seldom prevents him from marrying
again.
The average man would rather lose
$50 on a horse race than pay S. for
taxes. Why?
1t is only matter Of time until soma
chap will discover a way to renature
denatured alcohol.
The man who boasts of his wisdom IS
sure to see the reflection of a fool
every time he happens to lok in a
mirror.
The winter of a mans discomfort ar
rives when he begins to realize that it
is more blessed to give than to receive
the resulting bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02

as to wage rates and hours of labor,
but also as 20 the number to be en-
ployed in specified tasks, distribution
of work in slack times, enticing away
workmen, conditions under which
youthful labor shall be employed, con-
Citation and arbitration. All agree
ments are fully explained in the re-
port, their meaning and effect being
also reviewed. While these collective
agreements are undoubtedly beneficial
to work people, by aiding stability in
wages and hours. they are also of
ers. For the wide prevalence of these
arrangements in the most important
Industries
Must have an important influence
on Industrial enterprise. for when the
level of wages. the length of the work.
ing day and other principal conditions
of employment are regulated for spe-
cffic periods the employers concerned
must be enabled to calculate with
precision that part of cost of produc-
ton represented by labor. Further,
when these agreements bind the whole
or large proportion of the firms en-
gagged in given trade, the danger of
underwriting by rivals who find it pos
sible to obtain labor at lower price
is materially reduced"
This government report on collective
agreements is said by one journal to
be more than interesting. almost epoch
making, while another technical jour-
nal says that, as the publication con-
tains full explanation of all the
agreem entS, with a general review of
their meaning and effect, it would be
most useful to employers as a work
of reference and instruction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
.JAYHAWKER .JOTy

One of the social organizations COM
prised of young folks at Olathe is
called 1.-The Handy Kids Nuff sed.
Nothing could be more appropriate
than that Mr.. and Mrs. Fish should
live in Upper Clark's Creek, Geary
county.
A household hint from the Rossville
Reporter: Don't try the patience of
the good wife by giving her green
wood to burn
A certain Rossville man, relates the
Reporter, told his wife that he had
dreamed his mother-in-law fell in the
well and was drowned. Eyes. you
BRUTE his wife replied, st heard you
laughing in your Sleep"
Does the fact of your possessing
more money than your fellow citizen,
give you the privilege of breaking
laws that were made for all? asks the
Quinter Advocate and it answers: If
so we do not see it.
Secretary Meyers doesn't expect any
war in his lifetime, notes the Hal
stead Independent and it adds But
he would like a whole lot of money
for the navy department for use in
case it should rain or anything like
that.
A Sedan news story states that the
town marshal was after fugitive
from justice the other day and find
before on the Missouri Pacific foffow-
ed down the track and caught the
train when it was about a mile out Of
town. While the story does not state
it is presumed that the reason it took
him so long to catch the Missouri Pa
cific was that he had a wooden leg or
else was all crippled up with rheu-
matiSm.-Marion Record.
AS it struck the Cimarron Jackson
ian: Col. Abe Slupsky, of st. Louis,
broke the worlds record by drinking
twenty pints of beer every day for a
month. His name will go laundering
down the ages with those of Socrates,
Shakespeare and Beethoven and other
immortals, and every time his name
is mentioned a thrill of pride will
chase itself up and down the spine of
every patriotic American citizen who
rejoices in the superiority, the intel
lectual advancement of the human
race, the triumph of mind over mat
ter. Down with King Alcohol. down
with beer shouts the Hon. Abe, and
down they go-twenty pintsi Col.
Slupsky has achieved undying fame,
and the first honor thrust upon him
was a banquet given by Prof. An
heuser, DR.. Busch, and other noted
scholars and statesmen. Who cares
for paltry brain capacity when we can
boast of such giants as Slupsky to
uphold the honor of the race? All hail
Slupsky, the Human Tank!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
Rural Nursing Work.

On Christmas eve, eleven years ago,
a former wellesley president who had
gone to her camp up in the windsWept
mountains of North Carolina was
stricken with typhoid She sent TO
Philadelphia for a trained nurse. Miss
Lydia Holman responded and nursed
the patiert through successfully; but
the nurse had noticed the mOuntaineers
of the neighborhood passing the door
of the camp, and one or two of them
came to her for the treatment of minor
i'll. She grew very much interested in
these neighbors, but when she found
that she was actually doing the work
of a doctor for them rather than a
nurse she became frightened, and as
soon as her original patient was well
she came back to settlement work on
the East side of this city.
but all the time that 1 was here"
says Miss Holman, ''I felt that / was
running away from my true work. l
heard the call of the cabin folk. and
soon I was down there again, acting as
physician, nurse. and housekeeper for
what some one has called our belated
ancestors for all those people are de-
scendants of the original settlers of
this country, you know
Miss Holman told a small gathering
of interested persons at the home OF
East Twenty-firSt street, of her single
handed fight against filth and disease
in one of the worst counties in Amer
lea, according to her own statement,
as far as the prevalence of crime goes.
Mitchell county, n. c., is as bad as
any place well could be-" said the little
nurse, land I told the folks there that
when I came north to plead for them
would say so very frankly but just
the same. in all the ten years in which
have ridden up and down that coun-
try, have never been treated with
anything but Kindness
Then when it looked as if the fight
would have to die out for lack of am
munition. Mrs. Joseph Colt Bloodgood,
of Baltimore who formerly was Miss
Winifred Holt, and DR. William H.
WEIGH organized the Holman associa-
ton, which for it's purposes has the
promotion of rural nursing, hygiene.
and social service all over the country
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atch1SOn Globe
Dinner is never ready early enough
for a man with a big appetite.
About the only people who are real
~ prosperous now are the officehold-
ers.
Only occasionally do you find a
genius, and a genius is a genius only
occasionally.
One discouraging thing about Sci
ence is that it will testify on either
side for money.
We hear some comlaint of dullness
But think how much worse it is in
Texas. AS a matter of fact. there is
no boom anywhere now.
What has become of the old fash
toned woman who said to her son:
"Come in and change your under
clothes before they rot off of YOU
There is one thing to the credit of
the people: they are always trying to
do better: We never heard of a man
resolving to be worse during the New
Year.
Children usually have better man.
ners than their parents; children have
their parents to switch them, when
they fail to be polite, but who cor
reefs the parents for lack of polite
ness?
We once knew a man who was very
polite and very gentle; he was highly
educated, and a man of the most ex-
ceIlent morals. Yet he was the most
tfresome man we ever met, and SO far
as we ever heard, he never accom-
plished anything of the slightest value
to himself or anyone else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02

to live and conquer. Shall we test
it? Tomorrow night put on your
prettiest gown and go into the dance
expecting to be a belle. not a wall
flower, and see the result
THAT wouldn't make a bit Of diff
ference" she protested
ut will make a difference" he said.
''Try it,
The next night he saw her in the
midst Of group of men Her head
you see it worked" he said, as
he came up to claim a dance.
1T was the funniest thing. she
confessed. Before 1 came down
stairs I smiled at myself in the glass
and whispered over and over again
that I was young and happy, and
gradually I came to feel that / was
happy, and I came down to the dance
tonight without a fear. 1t seemed
as if I created a different atmosphere.
Do you believe in such things? OF
course you do, or you wouldn't have
advised it last night
'I knew you were Understanding
your own charms he told her. you
ran away upstairs to the balcony be-
fore people had half chance to see
you"
AFTER ALL" she said quickly. what
is it worth, what do L really care
what they think Of me?"
He looked down at her with new
light in his eyes. what do we care
for any one except ourselves? What
think of you, and what you think
of me; that is the important ques-
ton, isn't it?''
After a. while he took her up to the
balcony where they could be alone.
IF had my money" he saio, I'D
ask you to marry me-
IF you had your money" she said,
81 wouldn't let you ask me. I'm not
fitted to be the wife of a rich man. -
Below them the dancers whirled to
the rhythm of the music. Outside the
wind sang a wild song. but they had
no ears for the music within or that
without. They were listening to the
song of their own hearts, which told
of the love that laughs at Obstacles
copyrighted 1911 by Associated Lit
erary PreSS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If you don't call a spade a spade
you're apt to get into trouble-in a
card game.
y \
Some of the new resolutions of yes
terday are already nothing more than
pleasant memories.
Y y
Any number of married men don't
amount to any more because their
wives had such poor material to work
over.
y
The most disagreeable period of the
winter holiday season has arrived-tha
time when bills come due for most of
the Christmas presents.
X X y
If many men were paid wages that
represented only what their services
are actually worth, they wouldn't be
getting nearly as large pay as they do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02
LJMERICKS.
G

LIMERICKS.
Spasm VI.
We will open todays services-also
the 1911 ser1es-with a pair of contri-
catlons. Ihey are both on wet sub
1ects, and should be welcomed in this
dry town:
Two lovers on the Marias des Cysne
DrItted down with the current, wygne:
The gawk rocked the boat
They neither could float
think you can grasp what 1 mygne.
F. D. R.
And this one:
A man who lived on the Seine
Went home through a very dark Ieine,
Two robbers he met
And he made 'em both SWEET
Although it had commenced to refine
A. H. N.
Our lesson today will be a continue
ton of the broken English style. One
may observe in this example, that the
victim of the robbery breaks from very
poor French into worse English with
out slipping cog. Try this on your
lawnmower:
Said a Frenchman: "Quelqu'un prive
nos bouc,
And I'd like to know we're eet vos toue:
Eet's a hen of a note
To be robbed of ones goat
Wen one ees Noble-a Douc.''
However, when you do anything like
the above, it is time to crawl under
the porch, for your days are numbered
Having large batch of homegrown
ones on hand. we are constrained to
shorten the collection by recurring to
the low-grade type, and submit the fol-
lowing:
There was an old party named Brewer,
The champion smoker and chewer;
He became ossified
From the skin clear insied
And they laid him away in the seweri