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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
SAYS UNCLE CIV

I confess that I am somewhat amazed
and wholly puzzled by the thing that we
call war and the incessant struggle of life
1t Is hard to understand why men should
kill each other for want of a little under
standing and why we should pull more or
less at cross purposes for our daily bread,
4 Wen we might by working together make
the earth to blossom the rose and
Danish from its happy face all poverty.
crime and woe. That these things
possible let none have So little faith as to
deny. That they are Immediately prob
able none will be SO foolhardy as to de-
clare. And We spend our little lives
multiplying largely each others efforts
working in wearied circles and dying but
a little farther along the wreck-strewn,
bloody, tear-wet road of human progress.
No one is able to give us one good, con-
vincing reason why we should do this.
We only know that we do it. 1t must be
food for the laughter of sardonic devils,
while kindly angels weep.
Yet this is but half the story-the dark
moves over the crushed forms of blasted
hopes, the wrecks of splendid, vital
dreams. So also it moves to the cheers of
fighting men, the bugleS of mad, inspired
charges, the shouts of them that fancy
they read victory in the seething, wav
ering ranks of circumstances.
For while the race is still young, before
1T has won wisdom and the fruits of its
aeon-long turmoil, it is good to fight. We
may not understand the all-embracing
battle. In saner moments we may abhor
that thing called war. Sitting in the shell
tered circle of our homes after the days
struggle has died away a little, may
wonder what it all means. We may even
see ourselves caught in the throes of an
insane conflict, hopeless, purpoSeleSS, mad.
Yet with the dawn and new courage, the
instinct of elf-preservation and of battle
bids us act rather than mediate, and we
plunge in again.
We come home battered and beaten. In
the long run 1t seems to matter little
which. After ALL the fight is the thing.
To strike, to be stricken, to give and to
take to bear ourselves as men, to win If
may be, and, if not, to solace ourselves
with the thought that it is the fortune OF
war.
And he only is unhappy who has proved
himself a coward. He is proud who has
striven in good cause, be it as hopeless
as death. The brave rise up with renewed
Joy to the conflict and know that no man
is beaten until he fears again to face the
foe.
Thus we live, whose backs are to the
wall of hings as they Betimes the
world puts smiling face and we fancy
ourselves at peace, but only for the mo-
ment. The fight swirls and engulfs us
again. We buckle on our battered breast
plates and are at it again, counting our
selves fortunate not to be mentioned
among the craven In the end We die still
happy in the consciousness that death
alone could beat
We do not know why this is so. When
we have time to think, we stand aghast
Leve that which speak. We have
much to say of brotherhood and know
that the day will dawn when what we
say shall be true. But for the time. we
ht.-(Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure News
paper Syndcate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

How the vocational guidance survey
of New York city voluntarily became
the vocational education survey, be-
cause those in charge believed that the
really needful thing was to train chill
dren to be efficient rather than to find
jobs for them for which they were not
trained, is told in a document just is
sued for free distribution by the United
States bureau of education.
What the children really want"
says Miss Alice B. Barrows in the
bureau report, lis vocational training.
The kernel of truth in this popular
| movement for vocational guidance is
the need of vocational training for
children. Vocational guidance should
mean guidance for training, not guild
ance for jobs. Hence, under present
conditions, the interest of public
school children can best be served, not
by the establishment of a vocational
bureau, but by the development of vo-
cational training
The survey was undertaken by a
joint committee of the Junior League
and the Public Education Association.
1t was organized for the purpose of
studying a group of New York chill
dren leaving school to go to work in
the hope of determining what voca-
tional guidance should mean to the
public schools of the city. Like all
careful Investigations of recent times.
this survey demonstrated that "eco-
nomic pressure accounts for only a
small proportion of the children who
leave school to go to work.
Investigation of the children at
work showed that what they wanted
more than anything else was "a job
where you can learn" In most in
stances they were not getting it. For
the most part their work meant moth
ing to them; they were rapidly devel-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE,

So many who do favors expect payment
with interest.
A chigre's idea of heaven is any place
under corset.
A man who travels for his health has
the longest journey ahead of him.
Women who are in favor of the eight
hour day should avoid getting married.
Until he gets out of job, nearly every
man is inclined to think he is a Wage
Slave.
You will find it hard to hold an audience
If you have nothing to tell but your
troubles.
If you still have the ability to borrow a
dollar you don't know what being held
UP is.
Men don't feel as bad about the thin
intimate.
1t takes women so long to get ready, a
mere man wonders how they find time to
CAD SO much.
If your milkman doesn't know, then
half of the world doesn't know how the
other half is living
In the summer when the furnace needs
no attention the lawn needs moving. It's
a strenuous life.
People are living longer and taking less
medicine than in the g. d. of O.; particu-
larly those who live longer.
AS we understand it, the art of CONVEX
sa1on consists of airing an extensive
vocabulary without saying anything.
D.ogenes, however, wasn't the only loaf
er to gain attention gadding about and &C
cusing better men of dishonesty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

oping a feeling of protest against the
lack of individual attention and train
ing; against the military discipline and
inexplicable tasks"
On one point the New York report
is unusually explicit. There are no
jobs for children under 16 which they
ought to take it declares. Further
more, it emphasizes the need for more
Information about Industrial condi-
lions before attempting to steer boys
and girls into positions. Neither the
vocational education survey nor any
other organization has adequate infor-
nation at present about the demand
for workers or the. opportunities and
conditions of work and training in the
20 largest industries. not to mention
the legion of smaller ones" Until
more exact information is at hand the
vocational guidance movement, says
the report. will remain little more
than a body of good intentions without
any clarified plan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
HUNOR or THE Day

Those fakirs can't make spirits APP
pear" Maybe not, but you ought to see
how they can make spirits disappear.
-Ba -timore American.
They say that unions raise the price of
labor" Quite right! Two of my clerks
got married last week, and struck me for
more NATURALIZATION Transcript.
You don't mean to say that Dugeon is
dead" Eyes, sir; and married his
widow" Dear me! You don't say! Poor
fellow,'' Don't be sorry for him, old
man. He has the laugh on me. all right.
Life.
Mrs Wellment (bestowing a dime)-
"Poor fellow! You say your wife and
family are starving-where are they?"
Weary Willy-"Dey are boardin' at a
summer hotel, lady."-Puck.
Griggs-''Did that little deal of yours
turn out paying Investment Briggs
sOh. yes. only I wasn't the payes."-Bos-
ton Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
EVENING CHIT
Thinking in Prime Factors.
BIZ KUTA CAHERoN.

Thinking in Prime Factors.
we would rather lie down and die
than think"
mat. according to a we'll kr own Irodorn
writer, is fact which any honest human
being will admit. This author ftaUcizes
thlnk. whereby judge that she means
II TO stand for something besides that
feeble, follow the-leader, take-things-for-
granted process which goes on in the
average human brain.
DO you admit the soft impea chment?'
1 do.
Especially If by thinking she means get
tlHg rlght down to first principles on any
problem, and working the whole thing out
from start to finish for ones self. When
man gets the habit of doing that he
certainly lifts himself out of the average
class.
A tremendously successful advertisement
writer describes his method this way. Il
try not to think in groove or take any,
thlng Tor granted. When am asked to
write an advertisement about an article,
try not to think anything about how
similar articles are advertised or what
the customary line of thought is. Nor,
on the other hand, do 1 try to be clever
or original 1 just do my best to begin
at first principles, to start with the article
to be advertised, and the kind of people
who are to use it, and build the whole
thing from those prime factors"
Now perhaps you think every good bus
mess man does that.
p, But does he? -..--- 5s-. 81 -
Doesn't the average man take more
things for granted than he realizes?
Every trade and profession has it's pass
words, it's traditions, its established GUS
toms, which have become such an integral
part of it that no one realizes they exist
To illustrate from the business with
which I am the most familiar-I often
hear newspaper men talking about ways
and means to improve their particular pa
pers. They talk in terms of lead story
and important news" ETC., ETC., and they
think from the same newspaper viewpoint
Now, 1t seems to me that if a newspaper
editor would try to forget newspaper ira
ditions and to just think hard and all
the time of people and what they want
to read, he'd have big start toward sue
cess.
OF course it is extremely difficult for
anyone who is STEPPED in the viewpoint
of any business to get away from 1t and
get down to first principles. 1 suppose
that is why those who do accomplish it
tower above their follows.
Now this habit of thinking from first
principles is not valuable for business
men alone; it helps everywhere.
For instance, If you have a church en-
tertainment to get up and can think of
people and what they like to do, instead
Of routine church entertainments, you
will be more likely to produce something's
worth while.
The next problem you have to think
out, try reducing everything to prime fac
tors too, and not merely what the world
has been in the habit of accepting as
prime 1t may make your head tired to
think that way-I confess it makes mine
nevertheless 1 think it will pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
FROM OTHER PENS
A CENTURY OF PEACE.

The advocates of International peace
through arbitration have rightfuI
share in the celebration of the centen-
NAL anniversary of Commodore Perry's
victory over the British fleet in the
Gpeat Lakes, which begins at Erie to-
morrow, as a forerunner of the celcbra-
ton of the signing of the treaty Of
Client, a year later. That treaty, which
formally terminated the last hostilities
between this country and Great Brit
ain, in 1914, established the principle Of
arbitra ton by providing for the APP
pCintment of joint high commissioners,
and by an arrangement effected under
il on April 2S, 1917, the two nations
adopted the policy of virtual naval dis
armament on the lakes. In the sue
ceeding SO years there never has beer
a serious suggestion looking to the
abandonment of this agreement, while
many important questions, involving
mutual relations along the more than
5000 miles of joint boundary line, have
been submitted to arbitration with no
table success in their settlement With
such an experience between two ma
tional neighbors, thrown so intimately
together in a relationship necessarily
involving the possibility of disputes, it
can hardly be denied that the theories
of the peace advocates who favor these
principles in a worldwide application
are something more than visionary or
in. practicable. While conditions and
circumstances may have been particC-
larly suspicious for the preservation of
cCrdiality, the result is nevertheless an
object lesson worthy of the observation
and study of the whole world. CEN
fury of peace, without the threat of
force and arms to guard 1t, is ali
achievement of which both nations
may well be proud.-Philadelphia Bull
letin.
KING GEORGE AND HIS PRAYER.
Many hard things concerning George
readers of the declaration. 1t is fair,
per contra, to set out the petition in
behalf of America that he addressed to
the throne of grace after the sigma
ture of the treaty of peace: Il make
it my humble and earnest prayer to AL
mighty God that America may be free
from those calamities, which have for
merly proved in the mother country
how essential monarchy is to the en-
joyment of constitutional liberty.
King George was a good man, II not
a good king; the prayers of the right
eous avail much. Because of his inter
cession or some other cause cOnstitu-
tional liberty Except in parts of New
Jersey and West Virginia) has been
able to sustain itself without the sup
port of a monarch. How far the world
has travelled in a hundred and twenty
five years is suggested by this prayer
of King George. Not even the kaiser
would have the nerve thus to associate
monarchy and iberty.-New York
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

tFrom the Chicago News
A vine may be all right even If it is a
porch climber.
When fiction bumps up against the truth
It seldom boasts about 1t.
After all, it is the cheerful idiot who
breaks the monotony of the simple life.
1t is hard to laugh at misfortune after
you have run into a rocking chair in the
dark.
Training is needed before she can give
a man a kiss and make him believe he
stole it.
when the aviators are able to control the
weather.
Any girl can use two beaux-one to take
her places and the other to bring things
to her.
It often happens that when a young
man descends from an 6ristocratfc family
the descent is something fierce
After a girl has had twenty-five birth
day anniversaries she feels that she has
had about all she needs in her business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
TWO oDEs TO SLEEP.

Come, Sleep; Sleep. the certain knot of
peace.
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of
The poor mans wealth, the prisoners re-
lease
TIL Indifferent Judge between the high
With shield of proof shield me from out
the prease
OF those fierce darts Despair at me doth
throw:
Q make in me those civil wars to cease;
1 will good tribute pay, If thou do So.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest
A chamber deaf to noise and blind Of
light,
A rosy garland and a weary head;
And if these things, being thine by
Move not thy heavy grace thou shalt
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image
Sir Philip Sidney.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by.
One after one; the sound Of rain, and
Murmuring; the fall of rivers winds and
Smooth fields, white sheets of water and
pure sky.
I've thought of all by turns; and yet
sleepless; and soon the small birds
melodies
Must hear first utterd from my orchard
And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
Even thus last night, and two nights
more, 1 lay,
And could not win thee, Sleep! by any
stealth:
So do not let me wear tonight away:
Without thee, what is all the morn
ing's wealth?
Come, blessed barrier between day and
day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and
joyous health
William Wordsworth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Time doesn't fly very fast for the
man who has nothing to do.
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Neither are there so many people
who actually know all they tell.
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Few people are at all polite when
they have to bow to the inevitable.
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AS rule. the more laborious a mans
work is, the less is his remuneration.
j. j.
Warm weather is not without it's adj
vantages For one thing, it seems to
put a large-sized crimp in the activi-
ties of the poets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
QUAKER fluctuations.
From the Philadelphia Record. ]

IFTOln Cne PhIIadcIpnla ReCOFd.1
Punctuation has its good points.
One way to obtain credit is not to
need it,
A honeymoon is often the calm before
the storm.
The woman who longs to talk usually
talks too long.
The pickpocket goes to church that he
may watch and prey.
Bread may be the staff of life but most
people prefer the pay roll.
Lots of men are honest because they are
afraid to take a chance
The successful man earns his bread by
the sweat of other peoples brows.
Some sportsmen seek a game of chance
while others seek a chance of game.
The man who throws care to the winds
may find the wind blowing all of it back
to him.
It's feminine instinct to look for
trouble, says the Manayunk Philosopher.
Even a hen does all the brooding for
the family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

so many big banking scandals to probe
after the smashes come. The condi-
tons that result in big bank failures
do not develop over night. They are
usually the effect of a acknowledgement
that covers an extended period, a mis-
management that should be discovered
almost at its inception by the govern
nent's examiners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. WhIe
out of town the State journal Will De
to you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

We have one advantage over Illinois,
which followed us in granting wom-
ems suffrage. 1t is not up to US to de-
eide the rights of women to hang one
foot on the brass rail and setemup-
again.
The eighth annual construction of
the Topeka Southwestern is now I'M
der way The Topeka Southwestern
is that classic string of hardware which
has been laid by six promoters and two
commercial clubs. 1t has been laid in
the interests of the Orient, Santa Fe,
Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and
Cages park. But mayhap one should
say lied instead of laid
But the latest laying of the Topeka
Southwestern looks like a failure.
There is no group of financiers in this
town that would stand for even sus-
picfon of that 100000 contribution.
"a woman" says Hondo Murphy,
should learn to sharpen a lead pencil
and drive nail before burning an
orphan asylum to gain vote"
A military prisoner at Leavenw orth
drank hair restorer and died. The
company that makes that brand of
hair restorer will probably advertise
that he died of hair of the liver
After a long time the local COM
mercfal club and the local merchants
will tire of having the Morning Squash
take unto itself every advertising
proposition promulgated. But while
they wait. said Morning Squash will
take credit for the change in weather
that is liable to appear about October
Is, and the widespread idea of using
ice during the summer months
The colored boy who feels an I'M
comfortable desire to play bal, gets
bat and starts down the nearest al
ley. He can raise two mines and a
bleacher attendance without crossing
three principal thoroughfares.
The meanest man beats his wife. The
next to the meanest man will not let
the street cleaners sit on his parking
to eat their midday lunch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Surely former Governor Stubs let no
secret out of the bag when he stated
in Washington recently that Colonel
Roosevelt would be nominated by ac-
clamation as the next presidential can
didate of the Progressive party. Every
body who pays any attention to politics
has been holding to the same belief
since last election day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Its a long road without a turn, in
deed. Now watch the men hold their
heads a little higher. The Mexican
government is willing to trade six
women for one man. However, it might
be well to remember that they are Mex
fear vNOrnan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Nor can much consolation be found
in the records of the weather bureau
which show that in Topeka twelve
years ago and at a silimar period there
were twenty-six consecutive days when
the thermometer registered 100 degrees
or over. What has happened once
NAV happen again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10
KANSAS COAEAENT
HELPING THE FARMER.

The department of agriculture
promises to become useful to the
farmers in practical, as well as
I1neoretlcai way, under the direction of
Doctor Houston, the secretary On
the first of this month an appropria-
tlon OF $4,000 made by congress for
use IN Stamping out hog cholera be-
came available. Secretary Houston
announced at once that an effort
would be made to go at the root of
the matter and discover the causes
OF cholera. Demonstrations will be
conducted, not with view to helping
some particular community cure its
SICK hogs, but with the idea in mind of
p i; a cure that may be used in
ali parts OF the country The experts
In the department of agriculture and
Doctor Houston are well aware that a
serum that helps to stop the ravages
or the disease has been discovered al
ready, but nothing daunted, they will
with that $4,000. The search for a
hog cholera cure will be made sys-
temattcally and without delay This
will be in line with the policy already
laid down by the secretary in his for
mer announcement that a farm bu-
farmer would be established. The
country has had enough of all theory
tnat does not bring about substantial
practical results. Not that the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton has not worked out numerous
theories and shown how they can be
applied. but the rural population is
beginning to realize that there should
perhaps be a preponderance of prac-
t1ce and less theory, instead of mostly
theory and very little practice in the
operation of the department of agri-
culture. Secretary Houston is going
to make the department useful to the
1arners-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Everybody will be from Missouri on
the proposition that has been advanced
by the scientists, to the effect that they
have made discoveries which will open
the way to sure predictions as to what
the weather will be a year in advance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Why hasn't a crusade been begun to
swat the golf ball? The acid put in
the center Of them to add to their re-
siliency is fatal to the children who
eat the little spheres. Even the house.
fdY Is not more deadly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

the big Pittsbur.r. Pa, bank failure is
to be probed to the bottom by the gov
eminent officials. And it would seem
that if the conditions of national banks
were thoroughly probed all the time by
these same officials. there would not be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

According to the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis, no less than 500 fraudulent
cures" for consumption have been ex-
plotted in this country during the past
five years and at a profit to the ex-
ploiters of not less than $50, OOO, 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-10

Presumably the law of supply and de-
mand is not responsible for the fact
that the price of flies has suddenly
doubled in Topeka. They are now quot
ed at so cents a peck.