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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
BE a TOE NOTCHER.

Probably the greatest corn cam
paign Kansas ever has had is JUS
starting, says the Kansas Industrialist
Every man or boy in Kansas who Will
| agree to try to raise more corn this
year than ever before is eligible to
join the top notcher'' club. The
| agricultural college is calling fol-
10000 top notchers." Hundreds have
already responded. Entries must be
made before April I. The final limit
for entry for prizes will be next fall
when the farmers institute meets in
every county.
To be top notcher'' a man or boy
must grow more corn this year than a
prescribed limit set by some local
organization which has in charge the
boosting of the club. In certain parts
of the state these limits will be smaller
than in the better corn-growing sec
lions. For instance, the limit in DON
iphan county, where yields are large,
might be rs bushels to the acre, while
in some of the western counties of the
state the limit might be as low as 40
bushels an acre.
j. Fl. Miller, director of college exc
tension at the agricultural college.
started the campaign. He believes
that lot of good, healthy rivalry in
jected into the corn-g growing commun-
tiles this year would result in better
corn yields. And it not only would
make the boys in these communities
more interested in getting larger
yields. he says. but it also would
stimulate interest among older corn
growers.
Mr.. Miller suggests that the school
officers of every school district-rurai
school-f1x the limit that top
notcher'' must exceed and let the
teachers get the name of every boy
who will agree on or before the first
of April to strive to be a top notcher''
for a single acre of corn and for five
contiguous acres. Then let his teacher
take the name of every farmer who
will enter the competition for a five
acre plot Let every teacher report to
the county superintendent the names
and addresses of boys and girls and
men who will join the top notchers''
club. Every county superintendent
should publish the list for the county.
One list should be sent to the agri-
cultural college. If the college can
have the names, 1t will help with bull
letins, suggestions. and personal let
ters. Mr.. Miller says he would like to
get two hundred letters a day about
the scheme.
To make the campaign a big sue
cess, cooperation on large scale
will be necessary. The agricultural
college has asked the help of county
superintendent, rural school officers,
farmers Institutes, oranges, farmers
unions. anti-horse thief associations,
commercial clubs, merchants, bankers,
farmers-everybod interested in the
agricultural welfare of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


TFrom the Chicago News.1
Strike a man for SO if you want to
borrow s..
A liberal minded man isn't always lib
eral handed
And one touch of weather makes the
whole world talk.
If you can't do anything else to benefit
your town move away
A fat woman will do anything to ge-
thfn-except to quit eating
BY putting two and two together the
result may be a double wedding
man may go through the world on
credit. but it isn't always to his credit
It's far better to be an oculist than a
chiropodist-if your patients are mules
Let the president get busy and bust the
millinery trust and every married man
will be his friend.
A lazy man is apt to take your advice
if you tell him to hump himself; at least.
he gets his back up about it
Living up to ones reputation is av-
fully monotonous. Perhaps that is why
men like TO get away from home occa-
siona1ly-
The first thing the devil does every
morning is to make sure there is lot Of
finery displayed in the shop windows the
world over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
GARDENS ON VACANT LOTS.

THE Garden. club of MINNEAPOLIS
closed a successful vacant lot garden
ing campaign in the fall of 1911, with
a harvest of vegetables that demon
strated the practical value of cultivat-
ing city vacant lots, put Minneapolis
on the map as one of the most pro-
gressive cities in the country, and re-
suited in other cities less successful in
a similar venture, swapping myself
as president of the Minneapolis Gar
den club with requests for information
in regard to our plan and methods of
campaign This is the enthusiastic
declaration OF Leroy J. Boughner of
the Minneapolis Tribune in the The
Survey.
1.-The members of the Minneapolis
Garden club planted 325 vacant lots
to vegetables and flowers in the year
of 1911-200. 600 square feet to vege-
tables and 100000 to flowers It COW
cred every vacant lot along two miles
of the main arterial street with grass
or flowers, and cleared 600 acres of
rubbish and screened 20, 900 feet front
age with bushy plants. Under its in
fiuence, 700 persons (not its members),
also gardened vacant lots and $4,000
had gardens at home. Nineteen hun
dred acres in all were improved. The
cost of the Garden club was So
5s4-43; the value of the crop was SILL
SOILS.
In Minneapolis there are 5000
acres of vacant lot. sufficient to sup
ply the entire state with vegetables.
The economic value of vacant lot gar
dens to those who took them up great
ly outweighed the cost. So many veg
etables were grown that complaints
were made by the grocers. Many of
the stores were supplied with fresher
vegetab les at a lower cost People in
vacant lot garden neghborhoods bought
from the gardeners; the hotels during
the week of the Minneapolis civic ceIe-
bration served vacant lot vegetables
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
I'D YER Using Talks
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

The Advertising Mems league of New
York has undertaken great work
A grievance committee is industriousIy
engaged in ferreting out the fraudulent
advertisers. in order to protect the hon
est advertisers who greatly predominant
in every community.
Not only will this committee try to dis
cover the unreliable advertiser, but they
will collect evidence and have him prose
cuted under the laws of the state of
New York
One or two Jail sentences will clear the
decks. Men will be afraid to nlisrepre-
sent in their advertisements. They will
tell the truth because it will be easier.
I wonder did it ever occur to men who
employ trickery business methods that
they have to work harder to succeed
with the chances all against them, than
the men who work on straight lines and
build carefully and win the confidence of
the people?
There are over two hundred earnest
workers in the New York Advertising
league. every one of whom is pledged to
do all he can to dignity advertising-to
make it truthful, earnest, honest convinc-
1ng-tO point out to all advertisers the
necessity of stating facts in their copy
to protect advertisers who, by the prac-
tice of honest methods, are entitled to the
trade 70 he people.
No greater work can be done than to
enforce the law, which is explicit in stat
ing that representation of merchan-
disc or price is punishable by q fine of
$500 one years imprisonment or both.
We all talk about our impressions OF
this or that advertising-we say we do
not believe tive do not respond to it
but talk does not amount to anything.
is acting.
When the time comes. as it viii, to
send somebody to jail for a year, the
honest advertisers viii get greater re-
advertising liar will go out of business.
ITO be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

A nephew Of ]. Pierpont Morgan,
whose only bid for fame is that he is
the husband of a japanese woman,
declares that any man who marries an
American girl might as we'll give Up the
idea of being boss in his own house.
Perhaps he thinks that he is slamming
the American girls. AS a matter OF
fact, though, there are few American
men who have any desires at all to
be boss in their own homes. Bossing
a home is a perplexing and vexatious
problem that most wise men are per
fectly delighted to place III hands more
competent than their own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's never well to bank too strongly
on the consent given by silence.
y
And the proportion of GROWERS
among men is even larger than it is
with dogs.
Experience would indicate that
many people claim to be hard of
hearing for Interior purposes.
X X
The man who says he has only one
fault is not very we'll acquainted with
himself.
Few people like to be bound by the
the rules and regulations they deem
absolutely necessary for others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

If the society scandal club runs
short of local subjects to view with
alarm, it might take up the Johnson
case. 1t is rumored that Jack john
son s marriage to his white wife is not
properly recorded. Shocking, amt it.
If expert testimony is desired in the
Everglade land fraud case, Hondo
has no late data on Everglade con-
ditions, but might testify that six
teen or seventeen years ago one could
tand did cross said semi-aquaeous
region in a canoe.
/ At that time the only equipment
necessary for cruising in those parts
was hollowed-out log and a Semi
mole boatman, skilled in lodging al
llgators, large trees and small islands.
The alligators as a class, were larger
than the islands
Representative Clark. of Florida.
says that the glades should be sold
by the quart rather than by the
acre. When he runs for reelection
the sharks will undoubtedly oppose
him on the grounds that he has given
the principal industry of his state
black eye.
Shipping coal to Newcastle or
scranton or rattlesnakes to Arizona
should be profitable enterprises COM
pared with shipping European sun
flower seeds to Kansas, but they do it.
In looking over the sport pages,
one may observe that a good baseball
player costs about as much as an
a ble-bodied colored gentleman did so
years ago But the baseball player
is alone as a human with cash value
at present The value of the c. &. was
abolished by war and congress.
The "trifling'' sutton should be care
full to first look under the sofa for
a photograph. One of those things
would come in handy in a breach of
promise suit.
Orozco may be a Mexican patriot,
but he sounds more like patent tooth
wash.
There is a whole lot in a name
What gets into all the papers as a
duel in France, would get into po-
lice court under the classification of
"disorderly conduct" in Topeka.
No one will pay any particular at
tention to Hon. O'Neips joke tele-
grams-unless, later. the wire charges
are found in the expense account of
his junket to Chicago and other for
eign parts.
Every little bit, added to another
bit, makes two bits-the price of a
pound of third grade bacon. It viii
also buy a trace of natural gas
wherewith to cook the bacon.
When a woman is reading, and
chirps: Now, isn't that true to life?'
you may know that it is another roast
on Mere Man.
We have it from a friend who keeps
one eve prefer white rabbits), there
is nothing like a baby to brighten up
the home. In fact. he says. it bright
ems up the home long after others
bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

When Banker Morse was pardoned the
reports came that his physical condi-
ton was such it was doubtful if he
could be moved for weeks. possibly
never. 1t was stated that at most he
could only live for a few months. AL
ready has he recovered sufficiently 10
stand a journey to New York. This is
only a preliminary to a lengthy ard
trying trip 10 a health resort in far
away Germany. 1t is unusual for a
man to be taken thousands Of miles
away from home to lie. No one, how
ever, will be surprised very much if
the cure at Bad Nauheim does not put
Banker Morse on his feet in short order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Governor Stubs seems to have the
idea that it is of far more Importance
to chase around the country trying to
drum up a sentiment for the nomina-
ton of Colonel Roosevelt as the next
Republican candidate for president,
than it is to remain in the executive
offices and transact the business of
Kansas, that he was hired to look af-
ter by the people Of the state and for
which he gets paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
HUAOR OF THE DAY

Farmer Cto horse deaIer)-No. don't
bear ye no malice only 'ope when you're
wolves you'n be a-drivin that orse you
sold me.-Tit- Bits.
Poor Jane is in despair" What's the
matter with Jane2" "Why, she has Just
begun to realize that she's too fat for an
actress and not fat enough for a prima
nna.''-CIeveland plain Dealer.
There's Mrs. Merrygirrs husband over
there. Somehow he doesn't look like a
very bright chap to me. Does he know
anything" Know anything, my dear.
lie doesn't even suspect anything. Town
Topics
The old army sharpshooter was Boosting
Of his prowess- In all my career" he
for man. Chicago Tribune.
King FREELY with much feeling)-1
once loved a Woman-but alas. she mar
ried. Baron Rubberneck fsynnpatheficaf-
ly)-Whom did she marry? King Ffrefly
dn a deep tone Of many grieD-She mar
Hood"
Mr.. Botts--I think. my dear. have At
last found the key to success. Mrs Botfs
Well, Just as like not you'll be able
to find the keyhole--Yonkers Statesman.
Benham-I always have to do the linn.
share of the work. Mrs. Benham-Yee.
the lions share is to yorktown Topics
why are cities referred to IN the femi-
nine always 1t may be because some
Of them pad their figures kansas cit,1
Journal -
''wot you doin'. chile2r ~Nothin'. main
my" MY, but you IS gittin like yooh
father. Baltimore World.
The Caller-Do you need any typewri,or
supplies. supplies, SIR The Guvnor-.Typewriter
a box Of Observation-Disclosures Opinion.
As a reminder.-She-I' m so afraid th,t
when go away you'n forget me. He
Indeed won't. dear. But III Won fcel -.
my little finger.-Satire.
Mr. Hilsondigger-Wh killed DO rsrrd
der Narp2 Mr.. PanRo-De dorfnb $50
he had torpedo liver, and I spec n
done 'sploded.-Puck.
Bright Boy.-''Aren't you afraid ,-,,,
VIII eaten cold on such a night a. thia
my boy No sir. Selling papers Keen
W the circulation. "-Lippincott'n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Governor Wilson has such a fine
sense for the prophecies that he re-
fuses to do any campaigning whatso-
ever in Ohio because it is the home of
Governor Harmon, who is also a can
didate for the Democratic presidential
nomination. Governor Wilson is like
" to lose caste with the many Repub-
lican insurgents who flirt with him
occasionally. They consider it emf
nently proper to make their bitterest
fight against Mr.. Taft in his home
state, which also happens to be this
same Ohio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

cheering department that, among
other things, shall have charge in a
general way of the road construction
throughout the entire state. Such a
department would naturally map out
systematic plan for road improve
ment which could be followed by the
localities. And Kansas could we'll af-
ford to give material financial aid in
the construction of good roads of the
trunk line variety. All the other states
that are making real progress in the
building Of good roads do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Mr.. French Strother, writing in
the February Worlds Work about
c. P Rogers's trans-continental flight
says that financially the trip was a dis
appointment. He received IS mile
Worth; and from Fort Worth to Pasa
dena. after he had heard the last Of
could arrange for on the side He thus
received about $4,000 from his back
ers and about $4,000 or $4,000 prize
money. But his machine cost $1,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Not so long ago the Chicago Trib-
une printed a twenty-page advertise
ment one Sunday morning for one of
the huge department stores of that
city. This was conceded to be the
largest single newspaper advertiser ent
that has ever been printed. More re-
Gently the New Orleans Item printed
with its Sunday issue a four-page ad-
vertisement of one OF the restaurants
in that town. the House of Fabacher.
The Item is probably right in its be-
lief that this is the largest restaurant
advertisement ever inserted in news
paper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
DAFFYDLLS
BY U. NoALL

If a conductor knocks down nickels
what does motor-eop2
(Bite him hard. F'ido. He sings of
fairy queers-)
If they bury kings with great cere-
mony would they make much of a fuss
" hen d general merchandise
(Say, # my folks could see me now
they'd disinherit nle.)
When a f. rmer is intellectual would
you call it Agricultural
pardon me, Uncle. But those oyster
forks are not toothpickS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Now watch the Japanese war-scare
come to the front with a rush. Fol-
lowing their unfavorable attitude on
the proposition to authorize the con-
struction of two more dreadnoughts,
the Democrats of the house propose to
decrease the size of the standing army
by eliminating five cavalry regiments,
Hobson and a few of his martial
friends will have to migrate to Ger
many if they wish to have any happi-
ness on this earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

H. S. James of Independence. presi-
dent of the Kansas Good Roads as
ISOLATION, holds to the opinion that
Kansas is spending 100000 annual
" on good road work, nearly half of
" hich is wasted because of the lack of
. systematic good roads plan and the
fact that some of the work is merely
of temporary character Nor can
there be much doubt that Mr. James
opinion is in line with the facts. What
Kansas needs is bona-fide state en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

A six-year-old Kansas lad shot and
instantly killed his four-year- old sister
the other day while they were playing
rabbit Moral: Parents should see to
it that when their children are playing
rabbit, or other games. loaded revol-
vers or shot-guns should be placed
easily within their reach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

BARRIERS have now come to the front
as expert witnesses in the matter of
making identifications. Several have
been called in the Kimmel case to tes-
tify that Whites beard does not grow
as Kimmels did It's not probable,
though, that jury would hang a man
on that kind of an Identification alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

and repairs cost about $4,000 more,
SO his net return was small.
But he unconsciously Summed up
the significance of his fight. at Pasa-
dena, after he had heard the last of
the applause and received the last con-
gratuIations and had laid off the Amer
lean flag they had thrown across his
shoulders, when he placed his hand on
his mothers shoulder an said:
Never mind about the money 1t
I did it, didn't T."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
REFLECTIONS OF a BAcHELoE

TFrom the New York Press
The way a girl wants q fellow to kiss
her is the way she won't let him.
A place would have to be mighty at
tractive for women to be willing to live
in it without gossip
What makes a rich relative so popular
with you is he isn't going to be when he
leaves it to somebody else
The most honorable family tree is the
one that supplies the switches to hep
bring up the children right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Perhaps this, has been an unusually
severe winter in Kansas. with dark,
cold days predominating, because the
manufacturers of the weather got the
idea into their heads that the anti
''blue sky law. for which this state
is famous. was also directed against
than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

There is also a possibility that the
large per capita consumption of water
in Topeka is due to the fact that the
prohibitory law is we'll enforced here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

At any rate. the stenographers who
took the testimon at it have gained
something worth while out of the sec
ond Lorimer investigation. Their fees
aggregate $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
FROM OTHER PENS
MORALITY AS AZ AssET.

The perfect type makes a better i'm
preston. literally speaking, on the paper
than does the worn or faulty cast. Why
should not this be true also OF mcn2 a
clear-cut character, with tho strong facets
of morality, viii more truly print the
conceptions of man. The real men,
whose character has left its lasting mark
upon the page of history. were men who
were "type-high." men who measured up
to their responsibilities.
The greatest incorporating from the
standpoint of their evolutionary efficiency
are not the soldiers. the men Of the
brawl and the camp: not the kings, the
men of the court and the council. the
molders of the 1-orld have been the think
ers; not the idle dreamers but the bold
thinkers who had strength to cleave out
ideas and fortitude to hold them.
Socrates. Plato. Luther, Erasmus, Con-
fucius, Muhammad, st. Paula group Of
men as great as humanity ever attained
were all moral men, their great achieve
ment lay In the building OF a deathless
structure of idealsm, tower far higher
than Babel and far stronger than Gibral-
tar. To such men, more than TO the sol
der or even the statesman, does the
world owe its present advanced position
on the road of progress toward ultimate
MISUNDERSTANDING Observer.
PROGRESSIVE PERSIAN WOMEN.
W. Morgan Shuster, in one OF the
interviews attributed to him on his
homeward journey from Asia. tells OF
$50 women of Persia who tore of their
wells, abandoned all ideas of caste. and
in their robes. appeared in the Persian
parliament and compelled the states
men of that body to resist Russian az
gression- The scene. as described by
the returning American. was most
dramatic and inspiring. 1t takes its
place with the leadership of Joan OF
Arc, and IS comparable to the thrilling
and glorious tales of woman's courage
and self-denial in the wars Of medieval
Europe.
These women of Persia thought only
of their nation, its entity. traditions and
noble history. Centuries OF seclusiou
and the 1ong-established custom OF
yelling their faces were forgotten in
an instant before the greater thought
of danger to their homes and native
land. Duty done. they went back to
the old seclusion and their wells. but
for the time they were the most potent
political force in Persia. just as they
are in any country and at any time
when aroused to action.-Washingto
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

If the society scandal club runs
short of local subjects to view with
alarm, it might take up the Johnson
case 1t is rumored that Jack john
sons marriage to his white wife is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

Farmer Ito horse deaIer)-No. don't
bear ye no malice. I only 'ope when you're
chased by pack OF ravishin' 'unEry
wolves you'n be a-drivin that 'orse you
sold me.-Tit- Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

If expert testimony is desired in the
Murphy should be subpoenaed He
has no late data on Everglade con-
ditions, but might testify that six
teen or seventeen years ago one could
tand did cross said semi-aquaeous
region in a canoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12

We have 1t from a friend who keep,
one eve prefer white rabbits), there
is nothing like a baby to brighten III
the home. In fact. he says. 1t bright
ems up the home long after others
have put out the lights and gone tC
bed.