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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
TOO MANY COLLEGES.

There is much food for thought OF
| the part of the members of the new
board of administration that has JUS
taken charge of the educational insti-
| tutions of the state in the report OF
DR.. K c. Babcock. in the year book OF
| the United States Commissioner OF
Education. just issued.
| differences. in general, that may be
clearly drawn from this report are that
there are too many colleges in the
| United States with inadequate equip
| ment and support. attempting to give
full courses for the bachelors degree;
that much duplication of work is go
ing on; and that there could be pro-
itable merging of existing institutions
to the resultant benefit of the insti-
tutions and the community.
The problem is particularly acute at
this time, according to DR.. Babcock. in
the case of state-supported institutions.
Many of the states have their work OF
higher education centralized In the
state university or agricultural college,
But in nine states-and Kansas quail
ifies in this respect-there are three or
more state-supported and state-con-
trolled institutions 1t Is in these
states, particularly, that conditions are
found under which 1.-The distribution
and subdivision of what should De
unified function of the state as a whole
has led inevitably to waste duphcatloh'
undesirable competition for approprla-
lions. and campaigning for students IN
order to get more appropriations.
IT Is conceded in the report that IN
zon,e states circumstances demand tnat
tho institutions be distributed IN ac-
cordance with special needs. Thus there
is an obvious advantage in the locatlon
of the Michigan College of Mines anu
the Missouri School of Mines IN the
mining districts of those states. Furtn-
arr,ore DR.. Babcock frankly states
+ba+ tho waste due to duplication or
faculty, equipment and buildings Is
fraouen+1v overestimated. There is no
loss of economy or of efficiency" he
savs .in carving on in different places
the work of the first year, or the first
two wears, of a liberal arts course OF
of a course preliminary to chronological
work. provided the faculty and equip
ment of these two years are 1uly
utilized.
eft is when specialized and technolo-
gicaI work is begun in the second or
third year of the usual course, when the
services of high-salaried men and
enormously expensive equipment are
required. that the waste and efficiency
of plant inevitably appear"
DR. Babcock concludes with the OBJ
servation that while considerable EFFORT
has recently been put forth to prevent
needless duplication, both in cases OF
public and private institutions little
actual consolidation has so far taken
place among state institutions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
FROM OTHER PENS
THE PASSING OF HISTORIC TREES

THE PASSING OF HISTORIC TREES
1t is too bad that nature will not al
low trees, or some trees, at any rate,
to live forever. In many places in
this country. in the East particularly,
the guides or the local historians once
began their holding tales with Under
that tree" The famous colonial and
revolutionary day trees are gone or are
going. Some of the present day events
which are likely to have patriotic or
other sentimental interest for posterity
might be staged purposely under thrift
ty trees of long-lived species.
Inc Charter Oak is gone, the Old Elm
of Boston Common is gone and the elm
at Cambridge under whose shade
Washington took command of the Con-
t1nental army is almost gone. The trees
which Alexander Hamilton planted one
for each of the thirteen original states
have either died of old age or have sue
cumbed to the encroachment of civili-
cation which takes little heed of senti-
ment or of natural beauty. Now it is
reported that the Treaty Tree at the
base of which the Whites signed a COM
pact (Which unquestionably they
broke) with the WequadQueek Indians
Is dying and cannot survive the sum-
mer. 1t was under this tree at Sleepy
Hollow that Washington Irving wrote
of Ichabod Crane and the Headless
Horseman.
The old cottonwood at Eighteenth
street and the lake in this our city
died some years ago. A part of it is
preserved in the building of the Chi
cago Historical society, but a bit of
dead timber is as nothing to the living
tree The Sequoias of California come
pretty close to living forever They
certainly live long enough to satisfy for
ages mankind's sentiment concerning
deeds done in their shadow. 1t is a pity
that the ancient eastern and middle
western elms. cottonwoods and oaks
were not all Sequoias. Trees ought to
De spared for their own sakes, but
when they mark the scenes of stirring
national events they ought to be tend
ed with double care and solicitude-
Chicago Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
Makes Profit in Tinfoil.

Il am not ashamed to pick up a
penny whenever and wherever I can"
said the proprietor of a small tobac-
CO shop. There are lots of people
who think it is a sort of stigma upon
their ability to pay so much attention
to small sums. Not 1. however.
''One scheme has netted me q very
nice little profit every year. I run a
small circulating library, and offer
one years subscription free for a two
dollar purchase. All my subscribers
agree to return the book promptly
after a week has expired, or pay
fine of three cents day.
about pennies than I am, and there
is hardly one of them who does not
keep a book one or two days longer
than he should. Not only do the sums
1 collect in fines pay for the books 1
purchase, but they even make a pro-
fit for me, and, what is more impor-
tant, the library scheme helps to at
tract customers.
Then. too, I manage to make sew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
EVENING CHAT
On Believing in Ones Self.
III NUTA CAATlcRON,

Modesty as a quality has been so much
p1ralsea that 1t has cast an edge of it's
sIamor over many similar qualities which
are not particularly Observation-Disclosures
oash1ulness and self-distrust, for example
once upon time there was a girl who
was naturally self-distrustful and who
because she disliked vanity and admired
modesty so much, cultivated her self
olstrust. This girl was not pretty She
was painfully conscious of the fact. her
sensitiVeness made her prickly and sIs-
plc1ous, and needless to say, her prickIi-
ness and suspicion did not bring lovers
locking to her feet, for men, especjally
do not like that sort of thing
NOW in common with all girls on the
oorderland OF plainncss and prettiness
she had one great advantage over a
Deauty-there were glorious nooaDts
when becoming gown, flush of excite
ment, or a successful couture made her
momentarily pretty, and thus gave her a
thrill of happiness which habitually
pretty girl can experience. On one such
occasion she CHANGED to be thrown into
the company of a man to whom she was
greatly drawn, and who would probably
have been drawn to her if II had not been
for the repellant force of her exaggerated
self-distrust. Now, this occasion her
consciousness of her momentary beauty
her confidence and happiness completed
the circle by adding to her beauty The
man obviously admired her, which. Of
course, made the color in her cheeks
flame pinker and the light in her eyes
shine brikhter. And that again COM
pleted the circle by adding to his admira-
ton So, altogether, they had a very hap
Ply day,
On the way home the young man, being
a rather unusual person, gave way to
burst of frankness. why aren't you al
ways like this?" he asked her. She turned
startled eyes upon him. What do you
mean?" she countered. why don't 1 al
ways look so well?"
NO. he said, II didn't mean that. But
why aren't you always so happy and sure
of yourself?"
What the girl answered doesn't matter
particularly. What does matter is that
the thought sank in; she acquired a dis
trust of her self-distrust and is now try
Ing to overcome 1t, with the most delight
full results. And now I suppose you want
to know If a wedding is likely to take
place. Well, then, 1 should not be at ali
surprised.
It is by request that I tell this story;
the request of the girl herself. She thinks
there may be other women who are re-
pelling love and admiration by exaggerat-
ed self-distrust.
The woman who is trying 70 win or to
hold man cannot afford to be uncertain
of herself; such uncertainty begets uncer-
tainty.
Believe in yourself, and you will make
others believe in you 1 think that is an
equally good suggestion both for the man
of business and for the woman who is en-
gagged in "woman's only business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
COMMON ENEMY.

labor and capital alike, find a COM
mon enemy in the Il. w. W., writes
Herbert Kaufman in Woman's Worio
for July. The property holder ana the
worker are equally menaced by the
spread of it's doctrines.
The Industrial Workers of the World
declare for the abolition of control over
individual liberty, deny the right OF
state or nation to impose it's WILL
preach the destruction of property, ad-
vocate the overthrow of government
and urge the confiscation of all sources
of production.
It's leaders are demagogues without
parallel since he French revolution.
Wherever they appear, the missionaries
of the l. w. w. incite violence to the
point of civil revolution. They capital
ize the unrest of a growing nation and
poison ignorance with venom.
Their wild promises of a millennium
which will abolish employers. raise the
incompetent and shiftless to the level
of the efficient and thrifty and reward
the undeserving in equal measure to the
earnest and self-respecting would be
ludfcrous and ridiculous, were 1t not
that their chief activities are devoted
to the PROSTITUTION of the most unintel-
ngent, superstitious and less illiterate.
There are no constructive ideas nor
elevating ideals in the /. w. w. propa-
ganda. Labor has its just causes and
grievances, but he who seeks to cancel
representative government and declares
for the overthrow of legislative ma
chinery, threatens to annihilate the
very influences through which labor's
wrongs can be most rapidly righted.
So long as human nature manifests
itself, there will &c weak men and
strong men, leaders and failures The
greedy and the callous will always seek
to benefit to the full extent of their
advantages; but the progress of hui
manitarianism is swift; the spirit of
brotherhood between master and man
grows stronger every year; cruelty is
rapidly disappearing from industry;
wages have never been so high; hours
of employment never so short: the
paternalism of the employer never so
broad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Honesty may be the best policy, but the
policy sometimes expires
1t isn't every fellow who can hug a de-
fusion without getting engaged to it.
Perhaps it is possible for a man to be
driven to drink without the aid of a pony
of brandy.
A woman may not be a close observer.
but on the other hand she is clothes OBJ
server.
Hoax-"why did Mohamet go to the
mountain" Joax-"I suppose he was
tired of the shore"
No. Maude. dear: 1t isn't altogether har-
monious for q person who is blue-blooded
to have red nose.
Wigg-"'That girls face is a perfect
poem" Wagg-"Judging from the coat of
tan she has, 1t must be Browning
Hem the days of old the gallant used
to kiss his lady's hand What a bother
to have to take off ones glove"
Mrs. Buggins-"Do you darn your hus-
bands socks?" Mrs. Dashaway-''No
speak of them a little more profanely
than that.
Tommy-"Pop. why is wife called the
better half?" Tommy's Pop-"I suppose
because she is the more expensive half,
my son."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TFron the Cbicapo News 7

from the Chicago News.J
All the world loves a good liver. mora
or less.
If you would save money. never be+ On
sure thing.
Only little girls and engaged girls care
for hen parties.
A woman married to a good fellow
usually has a bad time of 1t.
A woman's idea of a good husband 4.
one who never feels sorry for himself
Even the intoxication of love may re-
suit in a severe headache the next morn
ing.
There is always plenty of room at the
top, the bottom and all sides for sue
cessful men
When some men feel like communing
with the spirits they interview the maj,
behind the white apron
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man seldom profits as much by his
mistakes as others do.
r. = -
Occasionally, when a girl marries her
father is the happy man"
IL - j.
Maybe some peoples prayers are not
answered to their satisfaction because
they ask for too much
d d d.
In this era of materialism, the great
writer's. in the estimation of most folk,
are those who can write big checks.
d T. a
1t is safe to assume that most of the
wise ones who lay down rules and reg
1ations for keeping cool in warm
weather, don't have to work for liv-
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

The president is criticized so much
more severely than congress because
of the rider to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill, although congress has
twice adopted it by large majorities,
says the Springfield (Mass.) Republi-
can. that the incident becomes useful
as an illustration of the relative posi-
tions of the legislative and executive
branches of the government. 1t might
be argued with force that IL the pres
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
Tail No Longer Ways.

Good-natured Jack is every body's
dog in Sayville, L. I. 1t was discov-
cred long ago that he is very fond of
candy. Sugar is a pretty fair substi-
tute, and in going around his neigh
borhood Jack gets that trust product
at many houses. The granulated stuff
is given to him on a plate.
A couple of days ago somebody
gave Jack a plate of salt. He took
one vigorous lap at it. At once his
tail ceased it's grateful wagging. 1t
dropped limp, and, in a fit of sneez-
ing, Jack cut circles around the room
as if mad. Repentant persons put
several plates of sugar upon the floor
but the plan was vain.
Jacks heretofore automatic tail
was paralyzed from stump to tip. A
local veterinary says it will never wag
again.
Its been sailed down to stay" says
this scientist-NeW York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 q week or thirty cents
q month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal VIII De
to You like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

ident is held more sharply responsible
for legislation than congress, his lead
ership of congress should be more
firmly established and more unques-
toned than it ever has been. With
responsibility should go corresponding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
According to Uncle Abner.

Most of the automobile accidents seem
to happen to affinities instid of regular
married folks.
to nav than a livery bill after the gal has
turned you down.
It seems to get harder every year to buy
a good nickel seegar.
A woman kin take a good wire frame
and willow plume and make forty-seven
different hats out of EN-.
Hold Peters has got alarm clock that
won't ring and he says 1t is the best alarm
he has ever had. 1t never annoys him
when he wants to sleep in the morning.
Rev Hanks says he will never have
enough trousers to use up all of the sus-
penders buttons that he has been getting
in the collection plate lately. He also
nounces that he has got enough iron
washers and hossless piano slugs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

eral dollars year by collecting the
tinfoil used in wrapping up plug to-
bacco and cigarettes. I usually find
a good deal of 1t lying about on the
floor, and since can sell 1t for about
20 cents a pound, whatever I get for
1T is pure profit New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Not a few men will undoubtedly go
into training at once to develop their
abilities in the sprinting line. A Win
sted, Conn, girl advises her sisters that
the best way to get a husband is go
out on the street and grab the first
man that comes along
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Reports from Pennsylvania are to
the effect that the veterans of the
Blue and the Gray are fighting the
battle of Gettysburg all over again.
even to its minutest details. But this
time, luckily, only verbal shots are
being fired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Felix Diaz is entitled to prominent
position among the people VINO don
seem to care what happens to them- he
is a candidate for the presidency OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Those women who decline to debate
with DR.. Anna Shaw because she says
unpleasant things about them appar-
entity are disinclined to take the first
elementary lesson in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Something that approaches real
optimism prevails among the people OF
Wyoming, Ohio. A couple OF sundays
ago they all went to church' ieaFlns
onlv the police on guard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Now comes a statistician who says
that married people really live longer
than single people-that it doesn't
merely seem longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Neither is it at all probable that the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
is working overtime in the tales that
are being snapped these days by the
soldiers of Meade and Lee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Evidently the Marquis of Northamp-
ton is not a titled Englishman with
out funds An actress is threatening
IN sue him for breach Of promise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Just what is going to be accom-
plished by the joint debates between
Henry Allen and Charlie Scott is no
easy matter to determine Anyhow,
the cost of living will probably not be
reduced thereby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

How times change! Now they are
operating on boys heads to make bet
ter BOYS of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

In all likelihood, the heat wave mas
merely gone on a little vacation so
that it can return to Kansas before
long with renewed vigor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

AS is the case in most divorce suits,
the tough nut to crack in the dissolu-
Sion of the merger of the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific was the
equitable division of the property
riRhtS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Champ Clark says we are losing by
a heavy emigration to Canada. But
he should not complain. The circum-
stance may make for ultimate annex
alton and that is one of Champs hob
yhieS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

No wonder the courts come in for
more or less criticism. An Illinois
Judge recently held that a man can be
beautiful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

One of Chicago's clergymen insists
that the Apostle Paul was an advocate
OF equal suffrage. This is only more
evidence, if any were needed. that
Paul was the greatest politician of his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Californians are at present concern
ed in an effort to make talk cheaper
but it is of the long distance telephone
H,ariefv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Those who accuse President W1lsor
of being a lobbyist forget that ne na'
a. private room in the capitol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Lady-''You told me 1 need not take out
a license for the dog till the end of the
year. and now they've sent me the sum
mons" Fancier-''Thern revenue peopIe
will do hanythink. lady. / sold a gentle
man a parrot larst week, an they sum
moned i'm for keeping dog without
license, just becos the bird 'appened to
ave a 'usky voice."-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Something must be wrong with the
ship of state. Brother Bryan says ne
is too busy to talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02

Ad Vertysen-''We want a man who
knows both how to keep his mouth closed
and how to stave off the curious" Ap-
plicant-"I think 1 would suit you
used to be clerk in an information bu-
reau."-Puck.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-08-23
FL PAS0 HARDIV1"'n''"'F
MEN SELL ARMS
To FEDERALS
Forty thousand Rounds Of AM
munitiOn and Four Hundred
Rifles Go to Juarez by Per-
mission of Washington


lll paso. Texas. Aug. e2.-By vir-
tue Of special permit from the see
rotary of the treasury. American Gus
toms ana army officers today allowed
IN" expectation TO the Mexican federal
garrison in Juarcz of 10000 rounds of
and 400 rifles The mu-
uitious of war were bought for cash at
a local arms store. 1t is part Of a pur-
chase Of 100000 cartridges and 4
quantity of rifles bought at the store
SEA era days ago.
Todays expectation is only small
Fart of the ammunition and guns that
have been sold by lll Paso dealers
during the past few weeks, believed. by
agents of the department Of justice
to he for federals. the cartridges are
Winchester brand 30-3O and the rifles
are in boxes stenciled Frankfort
U\cntucky) armoy. A carload Of
weapons and ammunition boxes is Il
part Of one OF the nine federal trains
tkat are expected To leave Juarez for
Chihuahua tomorrow
Local dealers IN arms are selling
fer cash. Internationally and their
rule is to leave consgnments at their
back doors. and notify purchasers that
they are to attend to their own de-
livery The sales books OF dealers
here are under inspection Of depart
ment of justice agents, but there are
not sufficient representatives Of that
department on duty mere to watch ail
deliveries. Consttutionalist agents
have, in some instances. assisted the
atcnts with information Of purchases
lN federal representatives,.
The expectation today was made at
the Santa Fe international bridge Fed
cral representatives exhibited papers
issued at the El paso customs house
Which were accepted by the American
inspectors and army officers. COL
lector \. L. Sharpe said that the per-
nit to export had just been received
from Washington by mail