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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
AS THE RECORD STANDS.

That nothing ever done by human
! was satisfactory is easily proven.
Whatever is is not right is another
old saw of equal significance. The doc
| tors of the state helped elect Governor
Hodges, but now they view with alarm
! his failure to veto a bill that was dis
| tasteful to the men of medicine.
The 1918 legislature recognized the
| Chiropractors, a cult of healers who
have substituted the manipulation of
bones and tissues of the patient for
drugs and healing lotions. The chiros
were given the privilege of a divorce
from the medical fraternity, and can
go ahead with their backbone solos
and play vertebrae octaves without
fear of arrest by officers of the medi-
cal board.
The records show that the bill was
not railroaded through either house
and was on the calendar long enough
for the physicians to file their objec-
tions. After it passed both branches.
IL doctors called upon the governor
| and asked him to veto it. Having in
| hand a petition from 10000 people who
thought there YES some merit IN
| chiropractics, he didn't veto the bill,
| neither did he sign it. 1t passed by
default. Governor Hodges is not a
follower of the chiropractor, and has
little faith in the system, although
many persons of public Importance and
average intelligence take a mauling at
the hands of some chiropractor instead
of taking pills. But because he didn't
see fit to veto the bill. he has been
subjected to scathing editorials in med
ical journals.
There was some merit in the claim
of Kansas physicians that their organ
ization elected Mr.. Hodges. The doctors
objected to his opponent on account
of advertisements which ran regular
ly in publications owned by that op-
ponent, so they voted for Hodges. So,
incidentally, did a number of others
who were not physicians, and any three
dozen of them are entitled to the same
claim. Still the men of medicine seem
to blame the governor instead of tn
legislature that passed the chiroprac-
tic bill
The governor supported his medical
friends to the extent of warning the
legislature that he would veto any
measure which had tendency to take
the control of the state medical board
out of the hands Of physicians. His
warning stopped a bill that would have
disorganized the board of health, and
| it was through his personal efforts that
the tuberculosis bill was revived after
it had been killed in the house. But he
did not feel justified in using the pre-
rogative of the veto on the chiroprac-
tic bill with no excuse except his per-
sonal views.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?

! Those persons who are hoping for a
reunion of the discordant elements that
| once made up the Republican parry
| probably are doomed to disappointment
A review of the political history of the
country will show that whenever there
has been an extensive walk out from
the ranks of a political organization,
comparatively few of the dissatisfied
ones have returned.
! The first important split in the Re-
close of the war when a considera BILE
contingent set up business on it's own
account under the name Liberal Re-
publican and brought about the nomi-
nation of Horace Greeley for the presi-
dency by the Democrats.
I The candidate of the insurgents was
defeated and most of lem went over
to the Democrats bringing about the
election at the polls of Samuel ]. Tilden
in 1876
| In 1890 there was another big exodus
under the banner of the Peoples party,
which enabled the Democrats to carry
the country in 1892.
Again the third party died and the
ma ority of the members who had pre-
viously been Republicans landed in
the Democrat ranks. In 1896, under the
| leadership of Henry NJ. Teller, a con-
siderable number of Republicans
| again left the reservation and set UP
the Free Silver standard Teller was
| later elected to the United States SEN
ate as a Democrat and few of those
who went out with him ever returned
to the G. o. p.
| Henry Allen in an editorial in the
Wichita Beacon very wisely says:
The talk about the Progressives going
back into the Republican party is illosl-
cal. If the Progressives leave the Progress
| sive Part and go anywhere they
drawn there by the success of Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. Wilson in making the
! Democratic party thoroughly progress
sive.
If the -orogressives should go into
| the Democratic party then the StandpaI
| Democrats would leave it and go into
the Republican party. The Democratic
party is going to split, however, and
| the probabilities are that it will have
little effect either in this session OF
congress or any future session in legis-
lation along genuine progressive lines,
| because the same leaven is working III
| the Democratic party as worked in the
> Republican party before the split came.
| In the present session OF congress you
| will find standpat Republicans working
with the standpat Democrats. You will
! find the Progressives working with the
progressive Democrats. If the stand
/ pat Democrats, aided by standpat Re-
! publicans, defeat the efforts of Mr..
| Bryan and Mr.. Wilson to make the
| Democratic party a genuinely progress
| sive party, then the Standpatters will
! control the Democratic party and the
Progressive Democrats will join the
| Progressive party and the standpat
Republicans will remain with the
| standpat Democrats.
| This is a period of construction. Old
party lines are giving way. The pro-
y gressive Democrats would leave the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Peyton,'' said Anne graciously. ''Sir
THOMAS helped me get an Opportun-
ity to sing for the greatest manager
in the world. Tell US the good news!
You are to have the leading So
prano role in the new italian opera
he is going to produce next season.
He is enthusiastic over your voice and
more than delighted with your charm
ing personality. Anne has studied
abroad for years and yet she would
have been content to sing in church
choir if 1 hadn't come along and
forced her out to sing for men who
make prima donnas. Mr.. Thrane."
Sir Thomas daughter studied
when 1 did in Paris and he has been
like a father to me. How can 1 thank
you?" she said, turning to the big
Englishman.
Go to rehearsal in the morning.
Goodbye, goodbye" and Sir Thomas
was gone as abruptly as he had come.
What does all this mean, Anne ?'
That after years of training, 1 am
to have a chance to sing in grand
opera. It's splendid. isn't it, Tom? %
Aren't you going to begin at the
beginning and tell me everything?"
You remember we had supper to-
gether seven years ago on New Year s
eve"
Il remember"
That afternoon, father had called
mother and me into his den and told
us that he had failed, had lost prac-
tically every dollar"
And you never told me- cried
Thrane. Dear, proud little Anne!
So that was why you refused met
Anne was looking out of the win
dow where the hyacinths and tulips
in her flower beds made a brave
show of color in the sunlight.
Il knew that you wouldn't want a
penniless wife,
ThraDa mt his arms around her
and turned her face up to his. Did
you love me, Anne?"
Yes, Tom"
do you love me now?" His tense,
quiet voice startled him, for his heart
was pounding like sledge hammer.
'Oh, Anne, 1 love you so! Do you
care? Won't you let me try to make
you care again?''
"a woman's love is not a light
thing to be given and taken at will
"Oh, my dearr' he cried brokenly,
we'll make up those lost years.
hour of happiness But your career,
Anne? What of that?"
IN sing to you, SIR" laughed Anne
gayly. But. Tom, 1 can't go back
to the old life here. The people 1
used to know forgot me when 1 was
poor. 1 hear that you have accumu-
lated millions. I'm afraid I'm not the
wife for you, after ALL
Il. too, hate a life of sham. Anne
dear. Your manager can get another
prima donna, but there is just one
woman in the world for me-
How did you happen to find me
today?"
They say that every one of us has
a good angel to guide and guard. My
angel brought me here."-(Copyrigh
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
SAYS UNCLE CIV

| once in while something happens to
| make one believe that the octopus prob
lem is nearer solution than most of us
Ieanze For instance, there was thar
learn-to-laugh" order issued by a great
western railway system the other day
one IS wont to believe that the betentacled
| monster is becoming human. If we ever
get 1T down to that basis most of the
| trouble is over. INC
You can't hate company or a system
or combination very long whose repre-
| sentatlves greet you with a laugh
NO man or organization can very long
ploy the oppressor if it has the laughter
naplt. M1rth-good, sound, right-from-
the.heart ha-has are incompatible with
| dev1lment. The two cannot remain long
! In the same person company.
You can't laugh with a man and rob
| him. You can't take a club or gun
| or an act of the legislature and go out
| to animate the men that act as if thew
are glad to see you and enjoy your Jokes
Evidently 1t was long-headed railway
official who put these words into an Off
! cial order:
! "a good laugh is better than medicine
Learn how to tell a story. Learn how to
| keep your troubles to yourself. The world
] is too busy to care for your ills and
| troubles Learn to hide your pains and
aches under pleasant smiles. Meet every
one with smile; good-humored man
| or woman always is welcome. Above ALL
| give pleasure
| The world do move. The ticket agent
! of yesterday was the proprietor of an
| ingrown crouch that expressed itself in
hatred and contempt of the travelling pub
| lie. He stopped short of assault and bat
terry, but he had a working capital of
| SupercfliouSneSS that proved a practical
and inexhauStible substitute. Brakemen
were apparently selected from the ranks
| of the hopelessly disappointed and went
about their duties with the air of men
who had made up their minds to make
| the public hate the road. The conductor
might have been boss of all creation, and
generally seemed to be laboring under
! the impression that somebody had loaded
| him down with a bad job. The presence
| of passengers on his train seemed to be
\ a personal affront sand an inquiry as to
| delays, time tables or destinations was
| lese majestic. The baggageman had the
| reputation of a fiend in human form and
| did his best to live up to it. Nobody loved
a railroad man" while on duty, and no
railroad man loved the company. The
| company evidently didn't love anything
| but dividends.
] But a change has come over the spirit
of things. 1t is no longer true that a
| corporation has no soul. They're becom-
ing humanized. Employees are no longer
| merely cogs in machinery. They are re-
| quired to have personalities and to use
them. Railway passengers are treated
nowadays as patrons rather than victims.
| TRANSPORTATION companies are no longer
ogres.
The railway magnates have never I'M
| derstood the real attitude of the public
until this present time. 1t is pretty well
expressed by the old injunction. smile,
/ durn ye, smile.
We love. trust and help those who
laugh with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
EVENING CEAT
Repose of Manner.
81 RUrA CAMERON.

Five young girls drifted together at the
home of one of their number one after
noon and sat drinking afternoon tea and
chatting, after the manner of carefree
young folks. o. 5.t s.=
OF these five girls. two were thoroughly
pretty; one was quaint little creature
with a mop of red golden hair which
made up for her lack of beauty; one was
eyes and a great deal of style; and one
was just a wholesome, pleasant faced,
but thoroughly plain young girl entirely
without style, and lacking a single notable
feature.
And yet an older woman who came III
to call on the hostess mother and who
met these girls for the first time, pro-
rIounced this fifth girl the most attractive
among them.
them all who possessed that browning
quality without which many other charms
are incomplete,-repose of manner
OF the two very pretty girls the pref
cessantly that it made anyone to whom
she especially addressed her remarks
the other swooped down upon the kitten
of the household the moment she ap-
pear ed, and played with it restlessly every
moment of her stay. Not for an instant
were her hands still.
The distinctive girl with the style and
the beautiful eyes was the hostess, and
she poked the fire redraped a curtain
or did some nervous little thing when
ever her duties as hostess did not keep
her in action; and the little lady with the
mon of red gold hair showed her lack of
repose by continual nervous laugh WITH
which she punctured her own CONVERSE
ton and that of everyone else.
The fifth girl sat with her hands quietly
folded listened much, talked little.
laughed occasionally, fidgeted not at all,
and received from the older woman,-who,
by the way, is a rare judge of people,-the
palm for being the most attractive
To large extent prettiness is gift or
the gods. So is style. And SO are such
qualities as quaintness, and such blessings
as red-gold hair. But repose of manner
is charm within the reach of us all, and
II is a potent and powerful charm. How
strange it is that So few of us dare to
take possession of our kingdom.
And vet perhaps not so strange For
real repose of manner is the outward ex-
preston of repose of soul, and in these
days of hurry worry and wasted energy,
there are sadly few of US who seem to
have this deep serenity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Democratic party if they had cause
just as quickly as those four million
Progress ives left the Republican parry
last November
1t is a breaking up of old conditions
Out of the elements which have been
thrown into chaos two parties will
emerge. The efforts to force conserva-
tive and radical elements together into
one party are as illogical as trying
to graft a rose bush onto a cottonwood
tree.
Things that are not alike in their
nature can not be assimilated and
Standpats and Progressives are not
alike in their nature.
They see things from an entirely diff
ferent angle, both are necessary 10
government, both are here to stay.
Why try to make them wear misfit
brands?
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and so on, in the interest of minors,
seeking information as to the condi-
lions, temptations and means of pro-
lection, besides giving much time to
personal calls and street work, watch
ing girls who were without proper
escorts or in danger, taking girls
home, interviewing parents and CO.
operating and advising with them. 1t
must have been a fairly busy season
and the moral tone of the city should
be greatly improved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
BY TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

A new weekly state holiday should
be CRITICALLY recognized 1t is the
| dead day of a seven day bullmouse
paper, when a whole page is devoted
to knocking Hodges. Sometimes in
the rush, the editors fail to correct
the spelling of ''Veritas," zone Who
Knows, ct al, who offer contribu-
tions to the Hodges day. sheet, but
so long as it is a knock on the state
administration it goes anyway. So
put this in your pocket calendar:
Monday, Hodges day
THE church program" says Jack
Supp, contains a Stab at Mater
Mother usually gets the worst of it.
She either vegetables at home or is
pinched for suffragetting."
Things are pretty well evened up,
after all. The woman who just has
to have pin suffers no more than
the man who has a cigar but is a mile
from the nearest match
The short CUT methods advocat-
ed by some simp school teachers re-
mind US of the case of the unfortunate
gink whose name was Mike, but was
always called Microbe for short.
A southeast Kansas man shot him
self because his wife was sick. But
the report fails to state that the wife
was thereby cured of her illness.
The general idea of a change of adj
ministration seems to be that it is a
hospital for lame ducks.
A lot of American millionaires will
suffer as result of the great suffrage
strike IN Belgium. Nearly all the
phony antiques are made in Belgium,
and the supply may run short before
work is resumed in that country.
Trust a hog to stir up mud wher-
ever he can find a little moisture
Springfield, Illinois, baseball manage
ment sold duplicate tickets to a Sun
day game, because they needed the
money Mistake was they sold dupli-
Gates to two members of the Illinois
legislature, who talked it over and de-
cided to introduce an anti-Sunday
baseball bill
The choice of creed with some peo-
pie depends largely upon whether they
are IN business or politics; if in BUSH
ness, they join the church with the
wealthiest congregation and if in
politics, the biggest church offers best
returns in grabbing the church
vote
There are several reasons for a
consultation of doctors but the prin-
c1pal one is that some other one might
think of something to operate for
after the original case holder had
overlooked it.
II kittens would bring $40 each,
Tabby would show up with one an
nuaHy instead of a dozen quarterly.
And, such is the law of supply and
demand in relation to the law of price
II the Tables would follow the one
per-annum system for a little while.
kittens would sell for $40 each.
But they wouldn't really be worth
blamed bit more than they are now
one way to judge the higher edu-
cation of a man is by how much he
tires you. -0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
China TO Furnish Pork.

It is already an admitted fact that
Argentina is supplanting the United
states as the supp1ier of beef to the
great European markets. Not only
is she getting the great British trade,
but Argentina beef is being admitted
to continental countries, where here
tofore ancient prejudice has largely
shut out United States beef.
What Argentina has done in the
foreign beef market it might be pre-
dicted with reasonable safety that
China will do in the foreign pork
trade. Just as China has a population
that outrivals that of any other nation,
so is she the worlds greatest hog res
ervoir No hog census has been
taken there. any more than has a CEN
sus of her teeming hundreds of mill
lions of humans.
But the hog is the Chinaman'
standby in most of China's great prov
inces and is numbered by the untold
millions. When the Chinaman wakes
UP, land he is pretty near awake at this
time, Judging from news reports, then
the hog raisers and pork packers of
the world may well look to their lau-
rels.
II has been difficult to secure accu-
rate or adequate information concern
ing China's hog supply or pork trade.
Occasional brief news items and frag-
mentary information from consular
Representatives have been all that has
been obtained. Last year the high
price of American and other pork
products in the British market
trade in Chinese hogs to British mar
kets. There was some question as to
the healthfulness of this Chinese prod
uct and the British government took
steps to vestigate.-Philadelp
North American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a fellow has married for money
without ever being able to collect.
The only two absolutely sure things of
life are that we are born and that We die.
us when a man is dead in earnest that
he is most apt to be alive to his oppor-
tunities.
There are times when we must all
choose between telling the truth and be-
ing popular.
You can always flatter a man by asking
his advice, but you don't have to act
upon it.
Any man can tell you what he would do
if he were in your place, only he probably
wouldn't.
A girl will sometimes select a husband
with less thought than she will give II
selecting hat.
The trouble with the average man IS
that he wants his club to be homelike
and his home to be clublike-
Billy-"A girl shouldn't marry man
unless she knows all about him. MiHy-
But If she knew all about him she
wouldn't want to marry him..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
NOCTCRN,


The air is dark and sweet
This wet spring night
Spring, of the wandering feet,
The secret flight,
Calls through the slow, soft rain
o voice of goldi
Call for me once again,
AS oft of old.
The darkness signs and stirs,
Blind, blind and slow:
Merchandising loiterers,
The yelled airs go;
Mutes of the hidden spell,
The hidden power,
These-but my heart knows well
Its magic hour.
My hearts one festival,
o, far or near,
The spring could never call,
And 1 not hear;
Deep under graveyard grass,
1t could not be,
The spring could never pass,
And not see.
My heart, my heart would break
Could it be So
To think that spring should wake
And I not know.
-Rosamond Marriott Watson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

While there has been a marked de-
cline in the prices received by farmers
for the staple agricultural products in
the past three years, as shown by the
government reports there has been no
corresponding reduction to the con-
sumner. On April 1 prices of staple crops
averaged about ESQ per cent lower
than on like date of 1912, .3.7 per cent
lower than in 1911. 1872 per cent lower
than 1870 and 1870 per cent lower than
1909, on like date. Who is getting the
money?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

First the railroads We're attacked in
an effort to reduce the high cost of
living. Now it is the tariff If this
does not succeed, what next. Prob
ably prices will not be materially re-
duced until there is a panic or a gen
eral crop failure. Prices are always
high when everybody is working Low
prices and hard times always have gone
hand in hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
HUAOR Or THE Day

sagson-I see that New York city has
set aside a farm of LOO acres for the use
of drunkards. Toperly-Um! That ism:
mucn room for a man from Texas to Set
drunk in when he comes to the metro
polis.-Life.
''Clubman and his wife don't speak. "
MOP" He happened to be home for
rose in her place and began: Children.
we have with us tonight and Clubman
has had a crouch ever since. houston
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Longfellow's poem "Evangeline'' has
been dramatized and will be staged in
the east next season. 1t will be hard
to make of it a more delightful per-
Torrance than that of the burlesuue
musical comedy of that name put out
by Rice in the early sos, with its
Tone fisherman" "heifer dance" and
Big George Fortescue playing the role
of Gabrie. & mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Those English suffragists certainly
are unreasonable. When they are in
prison they refuse to open their
mouths. When they are out, they re-
fuse to close them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

The mother-in-law has been exoner-
ated from the charge of causing a
large amount of the prevailing domestic
infeiicity. Statistics compiled from
3,6s9 cases heard at the Chicago Do
nestle Relations court show liquor to
have been the cause in AZ per cent
of the cases, immortality in IA per cent.
Ill temper in IL and 1.-THE wife's parents,
q,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Huerta says the refusal of the Uni
ted States to recognize his govern
ment'' is causing him serious embar-
rassment. But wouldn't it be better
for him to get one before he seeks rec
ognition for it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch pro-
nounces Victor Murdoch the official
head of the Bull Moose party. Now
look out for rumblings in the direction
of OYSTER Bay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

1t is said that the Japanese language
contains nine words that are eouiva-
lent to the first personal pronoun. The
Chicago News suggests that it would
be a fine language for the colonel to
write his autobiography in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16

Anyway, under the United States
immigration laws, none of those Eng
lish suffragists who have been sent to
prison can settle in this country.