The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
FROM OTHER PENS
THE roIrNTAIN OF YOUTH.

!
1t has been a matter of common
knowledge for long while that when
| Ponce de Leon was cruising around the
Florida keys, landing here and there to
explore the country, and poking his
Castilian nose into everglade and future
| orange grove in search of the fountain
| of youth he was wasting his time; but
not until now is the real reason ex-
planned for his failure to find the elus-
i've fount. The facts are that it isn't
! located in Florida at all, but in the
wilds of British Columbia, and it owes
its health-giving qualities to the fact
that 1t is a radium spring. Sir Edward
Standardization has told the New
York reporters all about it. and he
ought to know, because friend of his.
Rowland Stuart, owns ii. The radium
spring is located on Sinclair "crick" In
the Columbia Valley, and it's the real
thing. The Indians knew all about it
years ago, and used to go there and
lose their rheumatism in it's healing
floods. The waters postponed many a
trip to the happy hunting ground. OF
course the Indians didn't know 1t was a
radium spring, because they are simple
and ignorant savages, and wouldn't
recognize ton of the precious stuff IL
it should fall upon them from an air
ship. AS for the radium spring, ii is
a brand-new idea. 1t has the patent
magic purse, which remains full of
money, however much may be taken
out, beaten to a FRAGILE. Even the gin
seng farmers, and the fellows who
know how to extract gold from sea
water, have no such chance of becoming
rich as has the fortunate owner of a
radium spring. The trouble is that the
wilds of British Columbia are so far
away. No wonder Ponce de Leon
couldn't locate that fountain.-Wash-
ington Post.
CAUGHT MAPPING MORALLY.
For a party of morality the Progress
sive party misses a good many moral
tricks. 1t missed one, a big one when
it tried in some states to steal the Re-
publican party's name and place on the
ballot. The results in states where this
was tried show the consequence. It
missed another when IL set out to Ce-
clare that it would have no part in any
fusion to deliver this city from Tam
many Hall. It's failure TO pass the res
olution it intended to pass against
fusion indicates that there came to it
dim sense thai it was headed straight
against the current view of good polit-
ical morals But when it saw It was
going wrong it did not turn back. On
a moral issue the new party of moral
ideals halted and shuff1ed. No one
knows whittier it is bound. It's leaders
would like, If they dared, to sacrifice
the interests Of the city to what they
conceive to be the interests Of their
party In quite the way of the most un-
regenerate old boss led party. In a
word, the new party is caught behav.
ing just like the worst of the old parties
which have made municipal govern
ment byword by injecting their mean
1ngless national partisanship into CITY
campaigns. Tt is thus caught and
STANDS shamefaced, as a morally supe-
rior party should, but it has not aban-
ooned its attitude. Controller Prender-
CAST has the acutest political conscience
IN the whole new party though IL NAV
have been sharpened by the fact fbat
ne holds office as a result of a fusior,
and by the further fact that he did NOT
get nomination for governorshfp. Rut
however sharpened, the Progressives
should try the edge of the controIIar.s
moral sense on every party policy ar
tect1ng the municipality before adont-
ing It, Failure to do so in this caso
has cost them support For what sbaII
y profit the public to have a new nat.
II its attitude in municipal campaions
Is 10 pc more enlightened than that
u Tammany itself? - New Vs.
Tribune. Aork