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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
MINIMUM WAGES FOR CLERGY

In decreeing that no new parish
shall be established unless the salary
of its clergy be fixed at not less than
$1,000 for single men and $1,000 for
married, the New Jersey Protestant
Episcopal convention, in annual ses-
sion at Atlantic City, has taken quite
an advanced step. Minimum wages
for clergymen is a subject which has
been discussed for years, but the early
enforcement of such policy on con-
gregations was generally believed to
be out of the question. While the At
lantic City rule does not include the
whole body of rectors, Wears and
curates, but only those who shall serve
new charges, it is nevertheless cause
for rejoicing among them, for it is
bound to have good effect and may
open the way for q general raising or
salaries to more equitable level.
Frequently men of the cloth are
forced to struggle along on wages
which in other professions or trades
would be deemed insufferable-
Churchgoers who believe in organizing
unions to obtain better pay as artisans
or to exact higher prices for their
wares as manufacturers, most of the
time seem to forget that preachers are
human like the rest of them and must
eat at stated intervals between the
proverbially sumptuous chicken din
ners served to them when they are in
vited out on Sundays If bricklayers,
tailors, bakers and other craftsmen,
and the girl mill workers, as proposed
in bills now before the legislatures, are
to be assured a livelihood by the pro-
lection of minimum wage rules, says
the Philadelphia Bulletin, why not the
pastors of the f1ocks? 1t is a natural
and logical development of the spirit
of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ArcE1soN GLOBE.

You feel better if you pay for what you
get.
You forget easily, perhaps, but not what
you want to forget. sEZ
The longer an article remains lost, the
greater it's value appears.
You needn't set the pace at the start
in order to win the race.
Regardless of what you just said, the
woman problem remains unsolved.
A man sometimes wants sympathy, but
quarreling with woman is no way to
get it.
Be grateful because you aren't expected
to celebrate Decoration Day by eating
too much.
However, a duel has this advantage
over other forms of quarreling: it doesn' t
last very long.
Hint to the Young Things: Love is
blind, and a man may not notice the pow
der unless he tastes it.
but human nature and mems straw hats
remain about the same
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who wore pencil above his ear, and
looked unusually wise?
Men say the women talk too much, and
men are also disposed to object to inter
ference in their other favorite pastimes.
This is the time of year when the aver
age small boy wishes he was a giraffe, so
he could look over the baseball fence.
AS the years of a woman's wedding an
niverSary begin to pile up she announces
that she was a mere child when she was
married.
An anarchist isn't the worst kind of a
will hire a boy to do some work and then
forget to pay him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.J
A short answer seldom helps things
along.
The girl who accepts her first sutton
misses whole lot of valuable expert
ence.
the man who gives himself away can't
expect the world to value him very highly.
The man who gets there with both feet
is too apt to regard the world as his door
mat.
Wigg-"Who wrote Ills better to have
loved and lost than never to have loved
at alr?' Wagg-"Some divorce lawyer,
suppose
Nell-''Mrs. Bargainhunter will take
anything that looks cheap" Beliefs
that why she took her husband?''
THE Lord loveth a cheerful giver''
quoted the Wise Guy. well, who
doesn't?' retorted the Simple Mug.
For one man who can't stand prosperity
there are a hundred who never have a
chance to find out whether they can or
not.
'Bjones says he is married and
glad of it, Slobbs-"He must be an op-
tinist." Blobbs-"Either that or liar
The laws of gravitation decree that
what goes up must come down. This is a
comforting theory to apply to the high
cost of living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
AN ENDLESS CHAIN.

The determination of the eastern
railroads to petition the interstate
commerce commission for an increase
of freight rates is viewed with deeply
pessimistic interest by the New York
Financial Chronicle. On the whole, it
advises against such a course. For it
believes, or affects to believe, that as
soon as the carriers got an increase of
5 per cent. in rates, railroad labor
would demand and get higher wages,
thus leaving the companies in no bet
ter condition than they are now.
But in that case would not the roads
be entitled to another raise? They
can have no serious objection to in
creasing wages as long as they are per-
mitted to collect the increase from the
public If the public can stand it sure
ly the roads can.
If the wages are in excess of any
reasonable standard, the cost must ul-
timately be paid by shippers and must
enter into the "cost of living of those
who pay higher prices for the COM
modities transported, Higher rates
must be permitted in many or all
cases, unless the earnings of the rail-
roads are to be so reduced as to i'm
pair their credit and disable them
from extending and improving their
facilities to meet the requirements of
a growing traffic. Credit depends upon
available income, and if it is so i'm
paired that capital cannot be raised
on reasonable terms, the capacity of
the roads will be crippled and indus
try and trade will suffer. Interstate
commerce will be restrained and OPP
portunities of labor in many indus
tries and on the railroads themselves
will be curtailed.
So it will be seen that the question
of wages and rates is everybody's ques-
ton and any advance in either must
be paid by the ultimate consumer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
.AYHAWKER JOTS

A member of the Newton gun club
is named Wing. Probably a good
wing shot.
E. F. Hudson of the Fredonia Her
aid has bought the Lafontaine Ban
ner of Ira NJ. Fink.
A Wichita fan suggests that the
trouble with the team is that the
catcher does not wear shin guards
Why not start the harvest hand
movement a little earlier and put the
job hunters at pulling dandelions?
A continuous rock road from lola
to Chanute through Humboldt will
soon be one of the useful improve
ments in southeastern Kansas.
The manual training departments
of the Cherokee county high schools
have been turned into fly trap manu-
factories. The product is sold at cost.
'Broilers on the Farm was the title
of an article in the Chicago Farmers
and Drovers Journal, and the Kansas
IndustrialiSt remarks: Mr.. Goodall
should see them in The Follies of
1919"
Jess Napier pays the following trib-
ute to his brother editor of the Sedg-
wick Paragraph: The old Sedgwick
Paragraph this week starts out on
volume 80. For "a years of that time,
Mack p. Gretchen has been the editor
and proprietor of the paper, and has
made it one of the widest known
country papers in the west. His terse
paragraphs are copied even in some
of the eastern magazines. They say
everybody around Sedgwick reads the
Paragraph
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
KANSAS COMMENT

THE SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE.
The public highways harbor an in
congruous array of vehicles, whose pur-
poses methods, and characteristics are
more or less hostile to each other, and
inclined to infringe on each others po-
sition Ii the road and on the rights of
the pedestrian.
In past years the motorcycle type of
vehicle hes been about as obnoxious
as any of them, by reason of it's sharp
and resounding clatter, and the speed
with which its riders have lodged in
and out of public thoroughfares, scar
ing horses and making pedestrians
jump.
The newspapers report some acci-
dents this spring from the reckless
use of these machines, and the riders
thereof should consider their RESPONSE
bility toward the public.
The early type of motorcycle was
particularly Objectionable by reason
of its nervous and explosive chug-chug,
which must have been more alarming
to horses than the more leisurely throb
of the motor car. The first motor
cyclists were set of sharp faced fell
lows with constitutional objections to
speed limits. While the ordinary per-
son would hate to make himself con-
spicious by driving such a boisterous
contraption through town, they SEEM
ed to enjoy the publicity which their
noisy speedmaker gave them.
Later types of these machines seem
to have handled the noise problem
pretty successfully. But such a ma
chine, capable by its power and small
size of threading it's way at high speed
between larger vehicles and in and out
OF crowded streets, has serious possi-
bilities of damage.
They are largely ridden by young
men, who may or may not have the
caution that goes with a more mature
experience. few seconds cut off
their speed ought not seriously to in
terfere with their happiness. 1t might
save a serious or even fatal accident
for needless children or decrepit old
people.-Winf1eld Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

cost. Stick knife into that-and
who has not felt the temptation at
one time or other-and it will mean
four months hard labor. At least,
that is what it meant for madam. If
your sense of humor is highly devel-
in which you can give it harmless vent
harmless, that is, for yourself.
Take the case of the grocer's appren-
tice who made a jolly bonfire in his
masters shop. 1t cost the master
$4,000, but the apprentice had his
fun for nothing. There was the asy-
lum nurse who put the refractory pa
tient in a bath of boiling water and
kept her there till parboiled. We
really think that was carrying the
joke a little too far, but the jury, no
doubt, considered that the bounds of
legitimate humor had not been passed,
for they brought in a verdict of ac-
quittal. Husband killing is no muir
der, as you well know. Only the wife
must shoot straight. The jury does
not like a botched job. Thus, Nine.
Bourdillon, who could do no better
with six-chambered revolver than
shoot her husband in one of his big
toes, got six months for her bad
craftsmanship. So did Nine. Sarrasin,
missed her lover altogether. Again,
there was Leon Douvelle, who tried to
bite off his wife's nose. He was con-
demned to eighteen months for this
vulgarity. Another man who had the
decency to use razor for the same
genial purpose was, of course, ac-
quilted And the moral of it all is
it be one which by its finish or it's
humor will appear to the aesthetic
susceptibilities of jury or judge.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

reform is becoming such popular
pastlme in this town." says Jacl
supp. that it will soon be necessar,
10 import a consignment of vice fol
the rerormers to reform"
Huerta is peeved because the Unitee
states does not recognize his alleged
government. The United States is
Wen known for it's willingness to lie
down and roll over at the request OF
some foreign nation, but the trouble
with Mr.. Huerta's trouble-pastur is
that its government could not be
spotted without a search warrant ano
a microscope
Mr.. Sartin, progressing progressive
describes the national committee as
the gang who robbed Roosevelt and
the progressives in Chicago" But we
have been reliably informed that Mr.
Sartin should not be so sartin about
II; In the first place it is alleged by
persons who were on the job, that Mr.
Roosevelt didn't have anything worth
stealing, and secondly that after the
Chicago hotel keepers got through with
them. both the Republicans and Bull
mooserS We're in the same condition.
But, If Dave Mulvane ct al DID dc
it, they should be charged with nothing
more than petit larceny.
1t is said that in Japan the women
are required to dress differently each
year of their lives, thus advertising
their ages to any expert in dressology
But no imperial decree or act OF
legislation could put over anything like
that in this country where women have
their rights, one of which is the con-
cealment of their sacred years.
AS to the music they are playing down
in Mexico: Their technique seems to
be on the fritz, but their execution is
good.
Shooting as a regular high school
course has been advocated, but we fail
to pipe the advantage of learning to
shoot. With hawks and skunks on the
song bird list of the sacred game laws
and Mr.. Bryan refusing to permit
the potting of the Honest Japanese
Schoolboy, what is the use of learning
to shoot?
No, Angelina, the lady cops will not
be required to carry one end of a SPIT
fiicated sponge from the bull-buggy to
the cell room. The lady cops will
merely act as an advisory board to
tell the gentleman cops what to do.
Riding IN an aeroplane is a form of
trouble hunting, but our idea of the
ultimate of trouble hunting is riding
one of the dadblamed things from the
United States into Mexico.
Washington correspondent. who has
inspected the government laundry for
washing tainted money, says that the
cash is washed just like shirt and
handled in practically the same man
ner. So, if you find a five-dollar bill
with the edges frayed and containing
IS pins and a wooden collar button,
you may know where it came from.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

| the boy as he finished and wiped the
| tears away with the heel of his hand.
If I was I'd get to be a waitress at
Lne Waldorf-Astoria and marry a
w all street broker. I hain't making
90 cents day, but s'posen 1 was a
dummy like these folks? Well, there's
old granny's, and she's out in the back
garden. I wonder how they are going
to say howdy to each other? Whoa,
you wild steeds of the prairier'
Miss Laura didn't wait for any help
to descend. and she had no word for
anybody as she hustled for the cottage
and Granny.
Only one dummy left" said the boy
as he gave his horse a cut. and the
next moment he got the surprise of
the season.
He was taken by the shoulders and
shaken till his teeth ratified, and the
man beside him exclaimed:
You fool of boy, but you ought
to be in an idiot asylump
Great snakes. then you can talk
and hear, can your
should say I could!''
And the gal?'
Il can't say, but I'll bet she wished
you had that whip laid over your back
good and plenty. You'll have some
thing coming to you If you keep on
trying to be smart"
1t was half mile from old granny's
to Farmer Fox's. The farmers wife
was Mr.. Ashton's sister, and he had
been invited down for a visit. He
told about the girl that rode with
him, but they didn't know her. Next
day after his arrival he went wander
ing over the fields. Next day after
her arrival Miss Laura went wandering
over the fields. The magnet of Fate
brought them almost together when a
tramp who was sleeping under a tree
awoke with a grunt and sat up.
The girl was almost upon him, and
she started back with a scream. At
her scream Mr. Ashton gave shout
and FASTENED up.
IL was so startled" she said.
''Then-then you can talk?' he
asked.
Yes. and >you?"
"Of course I can. It was that fool
boy. We thought each other deaf and
dumb. Has this tramp
This tramp hasn't done anything
but wake up like a lunatic when he
was dreaming of a banquet" replied
Weary Willie. 'And now, lady and
gent, bein' there's goin' to be what they
calls a 'sitavashun' here, and bein' it
can be managed without my help, I
will bid you a fond adieu and hope
the welded bliss will be all you can
desireT-(Copyright 1913 by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

How illiteracy is about to be BAN
ished from Kentucky county
through the moonlight schools" is
told in a statement by Mrs. Cora Will
son Stewart, superintendent of Rowan
county, addressed to the United States
commissioner of education. The
school workers have on record the
name, location and history of every
illiterate in the mountain county, and
are able to make a special study of
each individual case. In the past two
years the thousand and more litter
ates have been reduced to a few hun
dred: and it is believed that the last
vestiges of illiteracy will be wiped out
by the close of the present year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
welsh Rabbit Deadly.

Welsh rabbit is the most Injurious
substance person can eat" according
to DIR. Francis G. Benedict director
of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory.
He believes it is even worse than small
quantities of benzoate of soda and
borax and boric acid. The only diff
ference is that one can achieve a weird
dream on a rabbit, whereas benzoate
of soda does not spur the sleeper's
imagination.
DR.. Benedict ridiculed food faddists
from Fletcher down. He declared
vegetarians, although they might not
indulge in a meat diet, were doing
their best to initiate the taste and
smell of it.
Man is carnivorous, and is at his
best only when. he lives on a meat
diet said DIR. Benedict, "notwith-
standing the fact that there are excep-
lions to this rule. OF course modera-
ton in meat diet produces the best
results We are becoming a nation of
cranks.'-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
Replying to charges that the Demo

Replying to charges that the Demo-
crat legislature was extravagant and
increased the appropriations 100000
over those of two years ago, Senator
Howe in his Dickinson County News
says: 1.-The increase over two years
ago will be a little less than 100000.
The increase of the Stubs administra-
ton from 1909 to 1911 was about two
million. Yet for the actual running
expenses the Democratic legislature
expended less money than was appro-
priated two years ago." He then pro-
duces figures to show $366,50O went
for new and burned buildings and
$43S,000 for new projects needed by
the state. These totals he adds make
$500, 800, which sum under all ordi-
nary circumstances should be deduct
ed from the total appropriation, and
if it were it would mean that a con-
siderable less sum was appropriated
than two years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
EVENING CHAT
One Road to Success.
NJ RUTA CAMBRO1e.


An ambitious lad who was anxious to
make a success in the world, not merely
widow mother, secured his first position
with a big jewelry firm.
He was to get unusually good wages for
a beginner and he carried the news home
to his mother in high feather
But the next night. after his first day
at 1I work, he came home disconsolate.
change of mood. What was the matter?
Was the work too hard? Didn't he I'M
derstand it? she asked.
TOO hard" he retorted II should say
not It's too easy. Why, mother what
DO you think I've been doing all day long?
Stringing beads! I'm going to get out
If there's much more of that. iii never
get ahead stringing beads'' e.
Son. said his mother gravely, II
You will get ahead stringing beads il you
string them just as well as IT can possibly
be done. 1t isn't very big thing. know,
but I'm sure 1t can be done carelessly or
We'll You put your heart into stringing
those beads just as well as you possibly
itself"
No, the boy doesn't own that jewelry
business today. That was only eight
our rich men would have us believe, it
usually takes some other factors than
hard work and economy for such fabulous
rises. But he did rise as rapidly as an
honest, ambitious. brainy young man
without special privilege or Opportunity
can rise; and he does hold responsible
salary which makes it possible for him to
give his mother all the ease and comfort.
she so richly deserves And II he holds to
his present policy of doing everything that
IS given him to do we'll as IL can be
done, there is every prospect that he will
go much farther
There is nothing that makes for success
IN ones work any more than that policy.
There is also nothing that makes for
happiness in work any more than that.
used to dislike the cutting of grape
fruit more than any household task; and
l used to do it very poorly. Finally 1
made up my mind that 1 would do II as 1t
should be done. bought knife especial
ly adapted to the purpose and made a
kind of game out of seeing how skilfully
l could prepare our morning grapefruit.
Today 1 can cut grapefruit perfectly
and 1 love to do it.
TO do the common duty of each day
uncommonly well' says Scales, that is
success" 1t is also happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

The increase in imports into Japan
from the United States for 1912 was
unprecedented, being upward of SEA-
100000, or SO per cent. over the pre-
vious year, making the total more
than 63,250,0OO. This increase was
chiefly duesto the activity in the ex-
portation of raw cotton, bar iron. steel
plates, etc. At the same time Japan
increased its sales to the United States
by approximately $13.000,000 during
1912, thus making a total Increase in
the commerce between the two coun-
tries during the year of about $685.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

It's waste of time to tell your troubles
Extract equity from justice and it leaves
injustice.
as girls.
Perfection is made up of .trifles, but so
is a million dollars.
Most girls names sound as if their
mothers were novel readers.
Even a lazy man will work-if he can
discovery an easy mark
A man never knows how many friends
he has until they need him.
One kind of a coward is a man who re-
mains away from his office the first day
of each month.
After a man becomes famous he DOESN'T
need press agent His friends will then
attribute to him all the ancient jokes they
can dig up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

100000. This constitutes the most re-
markable increase in trade yet record
ed, the sale of American goods in
Japan having more than doubled in
two years. Must this trade be lost be-
cause a few japanese have acquired
title to some of the waste places in
California?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
Aesthetic Crime Not Punished.

A French humorous paper has been
at pains to compile two parallel col
umns of verdicts rendered in the
courts of France. And very funny
reading they make, too. AS guide
to wouldbe criminals, the list should
be invaluable. Do you wish to love :?
Do so with all lightness of heart
Joseph Frecht did it, and left the
court without a stain on his character,
though rather a big one on his knife
But a motor car tire is sacrosanct, as
Nine. Maret-Turel discovered to her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

The value of The Hague court of
arbitration was strilxingly demon
strated again yesterday by the peace
full settlement of the French claims
against Italy for the seizure of two
French steamers during the Turko-
Italian war. Italy is adjudged in the
wrong and has to pay $4,000 in one
case and $500 in the other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13

With legislatures deprived of the
privilege of electing United States
senators, it only remains to adopt the
initiative and referendum in order to
render them comparatively useless.
Perhaps the other business could be
handled very well by a commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
THE INCOME TAX.

(By Roy K. Moulton.)
Now they're going to tax the incomes.
Hit the man who's got the pile;
That's the best joke of the season,
Pardon us, we've got to smile.
Statesmen seem to be in earnest
And they claim it is not chaff.
For the first time in a decade
Here is where we have a laugh
We're immune, it will not touch US.
We're defiant, like Ajax.
Go ahead and see If we care,
Plaster on the income tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the rull day
wanfzatfon for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publica ton in Topeka
The news is received in The state jour
nal brIiIdinx over wires for this sole pur-
pose