The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-27

| movement in this country gather for
| the transaction of business and the ex-
| change of views.
over the Pass new novel by
Frederick Palmer is published by the
Scribners today. Mr. Palmer has had
wide experience in life and letters; has
made a name as journalist, short story
writer, novelist. AS war correspondent
| he saw the Greek war. the Spanish war,
and the Philippine war. AS represen-
! tative for Golfers Weekly he was In
the field with the Japanese army. He
accompanied Kurokis staff in the Rus
sian campaign, wrote with Kuroki in
| Manchuria" as a result, later produced
novel 1.-THE Vagabond'' and still
later a volume of exhilarating short
stories, "Danbury Rodd, Aviator
! Among his other works are I'm the
| Klondike," and THE Ways of the Ser
vice." but over the Pass" which has
the thrill of melodrama without becom-
ing ever at all unreal, is by far his
most important work to date.
Jack Wingfield is a young fastener
of wealth, pOsition-everything but
health. He goes West for that; rides
the vast, clear landscape of plain,
without the Q.-because he is never
auckland finds it. Therefore when
his novel opens he is headed east and
his direction lies "Over the Pass
over the Pass" out of the vast clear
landscape he comes on his pony P. D.
without the Q.-just in time for Mary
Ewold of Little Rivers, Ariz.; just in
time to send about his business one
Pete Leddy. bad man of the old
school," with six notches on his gun
handle To be thwarted was more than
Leddy could endure anyway-but by a
in sill Ch irf nd fpH
sombrero whose dry humor was like
salt in the woundi So there was one
situation-you could not compromise
with Leddy; Leddy was given to de-
cisive methods; his gun handle itched
for another notch.
If this had not determined Jack to
delay his journey East, the ride down
the steep mountain side with Mary
Ewold would have done it. He stayed
in Little Rivers-a community which
rather centered about Jasper Ewold
the first settler, a scholar and dilettante
turned rancher. Jack took to the plough
and became popular in the town; but
between him and Mary there seemed an
impassa BILE barrier. She would not take
him seriously, though Leddy was COM
PEELED to. It was not till Jack went
East. summoned by his father that he
found out why.
Jack came to unimagined difficulties
in New York. The duel with Leddy
Struggle
in which he was there involved. He
uncovered a situation which barking to
old inheritances, linked Jasper Ewold
to his fathers past in a way which
multiplied Jacks difficulties in gaining
the regard of Mary.
To explain this situation would be to
reveal the points in Mr. Palmer's clever
plot on which the romance turns |
enough. that Jack hurried back to Little |
Rivers, showed himself one who put
nothing before love but honor, and set |
tied with Leddy at last in one great |
scene on a moonlight night in the |
desert.
The Magdalena Bay incident recalls |
the warnings to this country by Gen |
Homer Lea, author of 1.-THE Valor of !
Ignorance" Gen. Lea declared that:
Japanese dominion in the Pacific is
consequent upon the possession of such |
naval bases will in the future pre-
vent the establishment of a Pacific
naval power by any other nation. As
a game of chess is won by position, so
in this approaching conflict, the kings
square toward which Japan moves is
the Pacific coast" It's defense. Cen
Lea further says, depends solely upon
the power of the Republic to prevent |
Japan from gaining a foothold. To rely
upon the untried hope of reconquering
these coast states is but the slothful
of that evasion and ma
tional vanity now so rampant in the
Republic
1.-THE world housekeeper-that is the
future woman recently said William
Hard. author of 1.-The Women of To-
morrow" just published by Double
day, Page & Co. What I mean" con-
tinued Mr.. Hard, "is that the unique
province of the woman of the future
will be the thousand-and-one unre
munerative jobs of civilization. She
household duties toward her husband
and her children. But modern house
keeping and modern schools give her
in many cases large relief from home
cares and a certain amount of leisure,
as she grows older. This
leisure makes it possible for her to be
a much more active citizen than her
husband. She has much more time
than he to work for, or serve on, the
water commission the milk commits
sion, the factory or tenemen> house
department. After a while
IN these and kindred fields of public
housekeeping, there will be developed
A system of 'part-time' jobs in which
hundreds of thousands of married
can find a distinctly useful and
4 distinctly feminine occupation for
several hours each day. Ultimately
-hese 'part-tirne' jobs will carry sal
aries with them, but in the meantime,
although they are unremunerative,
hey are attracting multitudes of earn
EST women and they are showing us
hat outside the home as we'll as in
side it we need a housekeeping touch
which only women can give. OF
course, 1 think women should vote