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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
BIG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..

Mr.. Harry A. Wheeler, the presi-
dent of the recently organized Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
of America, writes in the Worlds
Work for December to describe the
ambitious purpose of that body. He
says:
TT is a matter of common knewl-
edge that chambers of commerce,
boards of trade, and business aSsoci-
ations generally have multiplied with
incredible rapidity during the last ten
years, until today not only every city
but practically every hamlet has one
or more of these civic commercial or
CARNATIONS.
TT should be apparent how the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States of America, made possible by
the existence of this multitude of COM
mercial organizations, may in turn
of its own life: By encouraging
resources sufficient for the task; by
standardizing, in so far as possible, the
plan of organization and method of
operation; by bringing into the life of
every organization that contact with
national and international problems
which will thrill it's mem bers through
recognition of the part each commun-
ity and each individual is playing in
the worlds work; by articulating all
of these independent local forces into
a composite force, capable of thinking
in national terms and speaking with a
national voice: and finally, by eIevating
the work of the civic commercial sec
rotary to the plane Of an honorable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Boarding houses will lose out in
Chicago. 1t is now possible for the
transient to live for quite while on
the odor. A big warehouse full of
onions has burned to the ground, and,
added to the packing house odor'
makes the Observation-Disclosures odor
thick enough to eat with spoon.
Up to a late hour this afternoon,
all the evidence against the widow of
the Wichita grocer,-deceased
to be that she is the daughter of a
preacher.
In his Chicago speech. Rosinfelt
observed that the knights of the
Golden Circle" famed in history as a
band of outlaws, ''were admirers of
the Constitution" But, after what
agraph out of so small a break as
that?
zone mans anguish is another's
sport" said the late Mr.. Young in his
Satire" Maybe he was right, but we
know that the morning cold bath in
winter and a coolish country is one
mans anguish, and doubt like the
dickens that it is any mans sport.
Gambling seems to be the national
vice Of England. In England one-or
several for that matter, may purchase
insurance policies covering property in
the Turko-Balkan war zone.
England is also the place where you
may lay a bet on whether or not a
ship will ever reach port. 1t is even
suspected that some Englishmen bet
on Roosevelt.
This department has but one serious
objection to Mr.. Capper. The mug of
a pleasant, we'll balanced, smooth
shaver man, does not lend itself readi-
ly to a political cartoon.
A Topeka woman wants divorce
because her husband chased her
after they were married. GRAN
TED! Nex'case!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
WINTER TWILIGHT.

AS the evening shadows fall
Across the wintry lawn,
A gentle feeling comes er me-
On memory 1t is born.
Memory leads my thoughts backward
TO when the grass was fair
In summertime, when fragrant bloom
Perfumed the twilight air.
That perfumed air of summer dusk,
Love token from sweet flowers,
Comes back again to bid me think
OF LIES most joyous hours.
The joyful hours are waited back
With bloom, and scent, and song,
Just like dream to me they seem
As memory floats along.
Mary c. Burke, in the New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Invariably, a small man writes a
hand Of bill poster proportions.
e " 70
Just because a girl tries to sing or
play the piano that's no indication
she's musical.
Neither is there generally much
substance to a fellow who's a cracker
jack at writing love letters.
It's difficult for q man who hasn't
much to appreciate the fact that
money won't do everything.
4
Another disadvantage in being a
girl is that she must make afternoon
calls sometimes on her mothers
friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
TEACH ANGLEwoRMs TO THINK

TEACH ANGLEWORMS TO THINK.
Is science never going to stop pes
tering? Are scientists merely boys
grown up, playing their pleasant little
pranks on birds and beasts and the
like, instead of stoning frogs?
What, for example, has the angle
worm ever done to the Investigators
that his sanctity must be invaded and
he, himself turned inside out and out
side in to learn if he can think? From
time immemorial A. Worm has gone
his placid, unobtrusive way, Saying
nothing to nobody and doing nothing
to nobody" happy to exist. Now a
heartless professor of psychology in
Yale, Yerkes by name. has found out
that the angleworm has a brain pan.
Knowing that an angleworm will
always crawl out of a lighted place in
to a dark one, the professor put the
worm, which he was experimenting
on, into a glass dish in which were
two dark holes. The right hand hole
was merely a regular earth cavity. The
left hand one, however, contained
mildly charged electric battery, the
object of which is to give the worm a
shock in case it should desire to poke
itself into 1t.
At last reports the worm had learn
ed its lesson pretty well and was con-
tinually going to the right when it was
put into the glass dish.
This would be bad enough II It
stopped there, but does any one in
touch with the scientific mind imagine
it will not push the possibilities of this
find to the limit? Now that the angle
worm has shown he can think, he
must be made to think. Heretofore
nothing has bothered him because
nothing interested him. Now he will
have to worry over the high cost of
living. Christmas bills, auto repairs,
and church and club dues. Moreover.
having once shown his capacity, he
will be led to pursue it 20 its logical
end. He will have to learn auction
bridge and golf; harder still, he will
have to master the marking of his
ballot and take sides on the suffrage
question.
Science has worked A Worm a
cruel wrong by dragging him into the
intellectual light. If he had to think,
which, between ourselves. seems en-
tirely superfluous, and if he must be
taught, why not plan so that thought
and action should work to his better
ment and Joy? If Professor Yerkes
could teach angleworms to climb trees
when fishermen hunt for bait how
much nobler his work would be; how
philanthropic, how inspiringi But with
our knowledge of vivisection it would
be foolish to expect this sympathetic
attitude.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
rFrom the New York Press.J

CFrom the New York Press.
Nothing scares a man more than to
have it within two weeks Of Christmas.
Every time a man puts a quarter into
the collection plate he feels as if he
were throwing a good cigar into the
street.
When a girl is hard put to it she
can act as if circular asking her to
make cake for the church fair was
a love letter.
What makes a woman SO cautious
about taking little risks is she was so
reckless about the big one of getting
married.
People can be very much ashamed of
liking corned beef and cabbage without
being at all ashamed of not paying the
butchers bill for porterhouse steak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
HUAOR OF THE DRY

TN be glad when this carnpaien e. oo.-
ana the votes have been counted. :" ssvvhv
s5ouIo you care? Is your business affect
60 IN presidential years?" 'sNo. b1It 7
nave lot of old friends with whom I'ra
SrI l1lq Gus 10 be on speaking terms again.
Inc herald and Presbyter.
Winter Visitor Tin FIorida)-I should
love dearly to go sailing. but il looks verV
dangerous Do you people often get
drowned in this bay? Waternan-No N.
h hegu' mum. The sharks never let's any
oooy drown.-New York Weekly.
My wife and myself are trying to get
up list Of club magazines. BY taking
three you get discount" How are Won
making out? well, we can get one that
oont want. and one that she doesn't
w and one that neither wants for
s2-25. Washington Herald.
Fortune Teller-You are going to have
money left you. Customer-Glad 70 hear
It. I've only got 81 to my name Fortune
Teller-WelI. after paying me you viii
have dollar left you.0Boston Trans
cript.
There's only one thing I've got arairst
the Congressional Record" said Farmer
suspension of publication % ssSyo Ita
kind o. misleadin'. A lot of the speeches
our congressman makes about bfsSeIS
ought to be marked 'advt.' -Washington
Wei. dear" said the young husband n
his bride, TN make out the deposit slim
IN your name, and all you have to do is to
take IL 10 the bank" Yes" she respond
cd, but suppose want to draw out some
November. AOE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOALL-

If ten detectives chased crook
would the ten-spot the knave?
IDEAL the cards over, please. I
have one too many.)
If the key turns will the doorstep =?
Gilt him again. He's the boob that
put the cough in coffee.)
How can business at a newsstand
ever be good when it is always at a
standstill2
AS Oat Obar says: 1T is easier to
see through a window glass than it
is to see through glass eve"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Governor Blease, of South Carolina,
must have developed a fine rage when
he read the news from Maryland that
the law was permitted to take its
course there in the case of negro
assailant of a white girl, even if the
culprit did pay for his crime with his
life. And surely such legal vengeance
has much more to commend it than
any wreaked by a mob, and in accord
ance with the ideas of the unnatural
Mr.. Rlease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Nor are there likely to be any pro-
tests from the people because Secre-
tary MacVeagh, of the treasury de-
partment, has constituted himself a
sort of a national board of health. He
has followed his recent order Danish
ing the common drinking cup from the
cars of all interstate carriers with an
other placing the ban on the use of
common towels in the same sphere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Kansas City. Mo-, has moved in a
desirable direction by forbidding fake
Santa Clauses from parading it's
streets during the holiday season. 1t
must be disconcerting, to say the least
for youngster to meet a half-dozen
Santas in the course of an afternoon.
The happy illusions of childhood are
destroyed soon enough in the natural
order of events without any of them
being hurried on their way in such a
fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

engaged exclusively in coastwise trade.
But inasmuch as Uncle Sam has ex-
pended his own good money and
much of it in the construction of the
canal, it does seem that he ought to
have the privilege of operating it as he
pleases and to the advantage of the
shipping interests of the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Topeka loses a valuable asset
through the death of Frank Foster. He
was one of those energetic, whole
souled, public-spirited citizens who
devoted quite as much time to the
furtherance of the interests of the
community as he did to his private
affairs. No town has any too many
such men. And the untimely taking
away of even one is misfortune, in
deed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Modesty never seems to obsess those
who have designs on the federal treas
ury. The promoters of the deep water
ways movement think that congress
will be doing right if it provides an
annual appropriation of $5O,OO0,OOO for
this purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Less wheat has been sown through
out the country this fall than last
year. But it's condition at the present
time is far above the ten year aver
age. This must be great news for the
professional crop killers" who will
begin to get busy before so many more
weeks have passed on their way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

And the unreasonableness of man is
again shown in the suit for divorce
that has been brought by baseball
umpire because he is mortified by the
names his wife calls him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Won't some of the old-fashioned
Erandmothers snort! In London nova
days the insurance companies issue
policies against the arrival Of twins
which is classified among 'calamitous
happenings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Turn about is no more than fair
play. Mr.. Roosevelt passed the long
delayed tariff revision on to President
Taft. And the president proposes to
pass the deep waterways problem on
To MI Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

and permanent profession, one which
our colleges and universities will add
to their curricula thus encouraging our
young men to educate themselves for
the work, as they would for the law,
or medicine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

A two-hour trip over Berlin and it's
picturesque environs in one of the
famous Zeppelin dirigibles is available
to every one now at a cost of $50 per
passenger. But this fee includes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Presumably, that Chicago man who
was held up by woman and relieved
of all the money in his pockets, is a
bachelor. Else the experience would
not have been so unusual as to have
caus d him to kick about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

If Buffalo Jones succeeds in lasso-
ing a gorilla in Africa he will surely
be making a monkey of the brute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
from OTHER PENS
REvIsING THB TARIFr

Large numbers of briefs are being
filed by manufacturers with the ways
and means committee on all phases of
the pending tariff revision. Neverthe-
less it is the opinion of one member
that it may be possible to dispose of the
tariff question in the house in three
weeks after the opening of the extra
session. That would mean that the whole
subject would be settled in committee
during the winter, and that the sched-
ule by schedule plan of action must be
abandoned in favor of the general
tariff bill' of former times. Neither of
these assumptions accords with the pre-
dictions of those who are most closely
concerned in preparing the new meas
ures. The chances are that very much
more time will be required than the
optimists now forecast. There is
nevertheless, a general disposition to
complete the york as early as may be,
in order to end uncertainty on the part
of the business public.-New York Jour-
nal.
BRYAN AS THE RULING SPIRIT.
Word comes from Bermuda that
Bryan is to be the unattached premier
of the Wilson administration. The
thrice-defeated Peerless One gets the
power but not the place of president!
Instead of being knocked into a cock
ed hat he is elevated into a position
of prestige never before occupied by
any American citizen not in official
life by the will of the people or ap-
pointment by the president. Bryan
was bound to have it somehow. Since
the nations ballot box would not yield
to him he has found a responsive
chord in the grateful breast of the man
he nominated for president at Balti-
more. The president-elect having thus
frankly informed the country of the
source from which he win seek in
spiration, 1T will be interesting to note.
from time to time, how much better
Bryan administration headed by
woodrow Wilson can be than a Bryan
administration headed by Bryan.-New
York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Undoubtedly the most inconsequen-
tial of the current happenings is to be
found in the fact that the riders in the
six-6ay bicycle race in New York are
considerably ahead of former records.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
KANSAS COAAENT
POLITICS BEING OVERCOME!

POLITICS BEING OVERCOME!
There is a determined effort on the
part of the metropolitan newspapers
to- keep the public worked up over
politics They employ special cores
pondents to go to Washington and fur
nish feature articles on what the lead
ers of the different parties are doing
and what they are not doing. They
do not propose to let the public for
get anything or to give them rest. The
people of the west are tired of politics.
1t is not a profession with the farmer,
and he is not looking for a place at the
pie counter and he is no particularly
interested in political scraps. He VIII
wait until the new officers and the
party in power have had chance to
show what they can do before passing
judgment upon them. The country
needs a rest on politics. If 1t is TO
continue for the next four years as 1t
has started out, the public will become
Disguised with all the professional poll
ticianS and their names Will De
Stubs" in two and four years. There
is such a thing as OVERRIDING good
thing.-Frankfort Index.
THERE IS A CANT"
Perseverance, properly directed, is a
great little institution. and is respons-
ible for many notable achievements.
such as the Panama canal and q Demo-
cratic victory. But this minaret of
meditation questions the advisability or
telling the children there is no such
word as can't" OF course there Is, or
said parents might be keen opponents
of ]. p. Morgan or Christy Mathewson,
or others of the Elect, not to say elect
ed. And, while everyone should train
some for distance and endurance, 1t
isn't bad idea to know about this
word can't, without making it's applica-
ton general There is a difference be-
tween perseverance and plain bullhead-
ed-ness, and to grasp this distinction.
is to know some thing cannot be, and
reserve ones forces for those which
can.-Atchison Globe.
DAN SICKLES'S NEED.
There has been some mort feienting,
some more forgiving, and some more
debt paying in the family of old Gen
eral Dan Sickles. Every time the gem
erals wife forgives him for his colt
ishness, she has to come through for
a bunch of stuff to pay the debts he
has contrasted since the last reconcilia-
ton, and this the Spanish woman does
with great cheerfulness and wifely for
giveness. And while the old fellow is
getting $4,000 year pension, got a
million in an estate, and has had pres
ents and money poured in on him from
every side for the last forty years,
yet he is dead broke all the time and
usually has the sheriff close at his
heels. What the old general needs is
not an angel to come to his rescue
every time he goes broke, but a guard
ian to keep him from going broke
Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal II a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news Is received In The state Jour"
nal building over wires Tor THIS sole pS1F-
OOga-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
BETTER THAN HIGH BIRTH RATE.

In the first six months of the pres
ent year the number of births in
France fell off about 1000, compared
with the corresponding period Of 1911.
Yet instead of an excess of deaths
amounting to more than Is, 900 in the
first half of last year, there was a gain
of 14,172 in the first six months of
1912.
This change was brought about by
decrease of s9,643 in the number of
deaths. So that taking no account of
emigration or immigration, loss in
population in the first half of 1911 was
converted into a small but encour-
aging gain by the marked lowering of
the mortality rate.
What France is accomplishing is a
change common to all advanced coun-
tries. Everywhere the lowering of the
birth rate is Offset, in greater or less
degree, by a falling death rate, and
there is room for still greater i'm
provement along these lines. The
saving of life is better than a rising
birth rate. It means a vast decrease
in pain and suffering and losses of
many kinds.
If the French death rate could be
cut down to the level maintained in
Holland the present birth rate, which
is the lowest in the civilized world,
would give the French nation a gain
of at least 100000 annually, aside
from the slow growth which has al
ways taken place through immigra-
ton from Italy, Switzerland and Bel
GUM.
In the future human life will be
much better guarded than it ever has
been in any part of the world. Sci
ence and government and the humane
instincts which are constantly mani |
Testing new force will unite to lessen
the frightfuI waste of infant life
and of the workers who
perish because of the preVentable |
dangers of their occupations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

AS a matter of fact those rare days
of June that the poets rave about are
incompatible with a balmy day in
the middle of December.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Every Red Cross Christmas Seal is
a bullet in the fight against tubercu-
losis. Don't forget to buy a few.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

1t will soon be too late to do your
Christmas shopping early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11

Great Britain has filed formal
protest at Washington against the ex-
emption from tolls for the use of the
Panama canal Of United States ships
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-03
FORMER BANKER
is UNDER ARREST

Cincinnati. Ohio May 2.-E. L. Gal
breath. former president OF the second
National Bank. OF this city, was ar
rested here to-day by a United states
marshal on charge OF lnisapplying
the funds of the bank
The bank was recently discovered to
be in an embarrassed condition and is
now being operated by members Of
the Cincinnati Clearing House .Associa-
tion. After the bank was takun ov>r
by the clearing house a new set OF
officers was placed in control.
The warrant for Galbreaths Grres :.
charges him with having wilfully ana
unlawfully misappropriated funds. OF
the bank for his own use 10 the amount
OF $4,000. The warrant was sworn
out by the United States bank exam
liner, II. w. Goodhcart.
Before becoming President of the
Second National Bank, Galbreath was
d Federal bank examiner.
The transaction upon which the war
rant was issued occurred april s. II
is alleged on that day tialbrcath plac-
cd in the Second National Bank draft
for $4,000 drawn upon the Third Ma
tional Bank. of ST. Louis, of which his
brother, &. w. Galbreuth. is wise presl-
dent. IT is charged that he then drew
out of the Second National funds ag-
gregating this amount, although he
had no scount with the 81. Louis bank.
Following his arrest Galbreath was
taken before United states Commits
sioncr Adler. He pleaded not guilty TO
the charge and waived examination.
Bond was fixed at $1,000.