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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
KANSAS COMMENT
COLLEGE HAZING.

Formerly the college freshman said
goodby to mamma with fearful pre-
monitions of battle Visions OF mlo-
night baths under the cold town pump
were seen by female relatives. If OF a
shrinking and timorous disposition, ne
''sported his oak" following the olu
English phrase for barring door. "A
good stout bolt was necessary arm
ament. This spirit of reserve only
tempted the militant sophomore 70
tease him the more. Freshmen OF
greater confidence argued that II you
look a wild beast in the eye he lets you
alone. They trusted to social graces
Ito win their way without friction
and usually succeeded. In Justiflca-
ton of hazing it was commonly said
that only the fresher and more
"smarty'' youths were attacked, ana
that these received a needed training
in humility of spirit. Undoubtedly
many supercilious young sprouts did
receive some highly profitable les
sons. One trouble with hazing was
that physical penalties were common
ly resorted to. A college sophomore
is not an expert in physical culture.
While cold bathing is beneficial,
ducking in the college pond on cool
autumn night is not necessarily whole
some to all types of physical develop
ment. On one side there was the ad-
vantage of a year of physical growth
and muscular training. The sopho-
mores were well organized, banded
together under known leaders. If the
freshmen attempted to do battle for
God and native land, the chances We're
two to one against them. Thus the
custom violated the principle of fair
play and is steadily dying out. Modern
fraternity limitations take its place to
some extent. AS their aim is mostly
to put a fellow in absurd positions
rather than subject him to physical
hurts, this is pretty harmless.-Win-
field Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.
Living Within Our Incomes.

A friend of mine whose husband prob
t anly o earns d ABOUT sS year tod me
in keeping her household budget-includ-
ing rent, domestic service, food and fuel
deal'' she admitted. but most of my
friends spend about that. 1 don't really
see how one can do it for less and live
decently.'
AS 1 listened to her there came into
my mind two different and yet similar
complaints to which had listened.
The first was from a woman whose hus-
band earns in the neighborhood of 81 900 a
year. I've done my best she said, but
can't keep our household expenses below
Sz2 a week, and when clothes and spend
ing money and doctors bills and all the
unexpected extras have to come out of
the other ST. that doesn't leave much to
save, but 1 simply can't see how could
live comfortably on any less"
The second statement came from a
is $25 a week. I'VE spend exactly SIT
a week on our housekeeping" she said.
Il wish we could save more, but we really
can't live comfortably any less with
things costing as they do
And now L suppose you want to know
what I'm aiming at with all these figures?
Just this. The tenacity with which
standards of living and incomes cling to-
gether.
For the woman with the $50 a week in
come, the minimum on which one could
decently keep house was $50. The woman
who had to reckon $40 a week man
aged it on s23; and the wife who had to
family needs got along on ST.. Each one
said she was doing the best that could
be done. And yet if the $50 wife had
been put in place of the $40 or the $25 wife,
L know she would have managed very
nicely. But because she had the $50 in
come to help spend, she got an $50 point
of view.
Do you know howSthe foreign born tor
toise who often pass our American
hares in the race for wealth manage that
miracle? They just don't let their stand
ards of living keep right on the heels
of their incomes all the time. They keep
the first stationary, or nearly SO, while
the other increases.
Yes, L know the American standard of
living is a precious thing, and 1 know it
is natural and right for people to want
to have pleasanter surroundings. better
food, etc, etc, soon as they are able
to. But L do think we could keep a some
what wider gap between our incomes and
our standards of living if we would try
to do
The ability to save is not question of
possessing any particular amount of
money. Like Boston, it's just state of
mind.
OF course there is such a thing as keep
ing ones standard of living too far below
ones income, but know very few people
who do it. More of need to remem-
Der that If we were earning S. to $40 less
a week, we would still manage to live
quite comfortably on that much less and
to ask ourselves why We can't do it any-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

William Harris, veteran theatrica
manager, was walking down Broad
way, when at Forty-second street he
met Jacob Tanenbaum, for 40 years
proprietor of the Mobile theater at
Mobile, Ala. Tanenbaum wore a wide
band of heavy crepe on the left sleeve
of his white flannel coat.
Mr.. Harris delicately edged up to
the subject of bereavement.
1T wasn't your wife, Jake?' he in
quired, solicitously.
Nope" responded Tanenbaum. 1T
was no relative at all, only an actor
Then he mentioned the name of a Ca
nous comedian.
But that man isn't dead" protest
ed Mr.. Harris. Il saw him at the
Lambs club yesterday"
Il can't help it if you saw him. I
say he's dead. L know he's dead I"
persisted Tanenbaum. He borrowed
$500 from me down in Mobile and
he says to me, If you don't get this
back in three months to a day. Jake,
you'll know I'm dead I haven't
heard from him since, and as the
three months were up yesterday 1 put
on mourning.
You can't tell me he's alive. 1
know he's dead. 1t was his ghost you
saw, Willamette ghost that wouldn't
walk. New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

versities. The financial loss. resulting
from destroying one another's homes
in the civil war would have built 49,
000, 900 houses each costing $1,000. We
pray for love but prepare for hate. We
preach peace but equip for war.
Were half the power that fills the world
with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camp
and court
Given to redeem this world from error
There would be no need of arsenal and
fort.
War only defers question. No issue
will ever really be settled until it is
settled rightly. Like rival ''gun gangs"
in a back alley, the nations of the
world, through the bloody ages have
fought over their differences. Denver
fight Ohio. Why should Germany be
permitted to fight France, or Bulgaria
fight Turkey?
When mankind rises above creeds,
colors and countries; when we are citi-
zens, not of a nation, but of the world,
the armies and navies of the earth will
constitute an international police force
to preserve the peace and the dove will
take the eagles place. Our differences
will be settled by an international court
with the power to enforce its man
dates.
In times of peace prepare for peace.
The wages of war are the wages of sin
and the wages of sin is DEATH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
The Old Fashioned Doctor.
By ROY X MOULTON.

The old-fa shioned doctor wore whiskers-
A place for the microbes to swarm.
He took some long drives and the spinach
1t helped to keep the good doctor warm.
on could tell the old doc without question
Far off by his shiny black hat.
He wore it in all kinds of weather
No man was doc without that.
The old-fashioned doctor was jolly,
He joked with his patients a lot;
He came with bunch of new stories,
And stories that just hit the spot.
He wasn't SO darn scientific,
AS doctors nowadays;
He wasn't so grave and mysterious
And professorlike in his ways
The old-fashioned doctor was chummy,
His business sense was not so keen;
He didn't keep books like banker,
Like latter day docs We have seen.
We liked him because he cared for us
And cured all our ailments and ills
And was not gol durn partickler
When it came to collecting his bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

One thing that always pleases a coun-
try editor and makes him believe that
life is worth living is to spend several
years educating the people to trade at
home and then have the merchants send
to the city to have their job printing
done.
Miss Amy Pringle says she will never
wear hoopskirts, even if they do come
into style again. She used to have one
but she sold the wire in it to the tele-
phone company to construct the line be-
tween here and West HIckeyville. thir-
teen miles.
farmers mule baked in the road and
remained baked, although the farmer did
everything excepting build a fire under
him. AS he was about to resort to this
method of starting the mule, the country
doctor came along. The farmer asked the
physician If he could give him something
to start the mule. The doctor said he
could, and, reaching down in his medicine
case, he gave the animal some powders.
The mule switched his TAIL tossed his
head and started down the road at a
lively gallop. The farmer looked first at
the flying mule and then at the doctor.
How much does that medicine cost ~
he asked. "Oh, about fifteen cents,' re-
piled the doctor. Give me a quarters
worth quick" said the farmer. i've got
to catch that mule"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
WAR;!

The last of the savage instincts is war,
says Leslie's Weekly, and it continues:
The cave mans club made law and pro-
cured food. Might decreed right. War
riors were saviours.
In Nazareth a carpenter laid down
the saw to preach the brotherhood of
man Twelve centuries afterwards his
followers marched to the Holy Land to
destroy all who differed from them in
the worship of the God of Love. Fri
umphantly they wrote I'm Solomon s
Porch and in his temple our men rode
in the blood of the SaracenS up to the
knees of their horses
History is an appalling tale of war.
In the seventeenth century Germany,
France, Sweden, and Spain warred for
80 years. At Magdeburg 10000 out of
So 900 were killed regardless of sex or
age. In Germany schools were closed
for a third of a century; homes burned,
women outraged, towns demolished, and
the untitled land became a wilderness.
Two-thirds of Germany's property
was destroyed and Is, 600, 900 of her citi-
zens were killed, because men quarrel
ed about the way to glorify The
Prince of Peace" Marching through
rain or snow, sleeping on the ground,
eating stale food or starving, contract
ing diseases and facing guns that fire
900 times a minute for 80 cents a day
this is the soldiers life.
At the window sits a widowed mother
crying. Little children with fearful
faces pressed against the pane, watch
and wait. Their means of livelihood
their home, their happiness is gone
Fatherless children, broken-hearted
women, sick. disabled and dead men.
This is the wage of war.
We spend more money preparing men
to kill each other than we do in teach
ing them to live. We spend more money
building one battleship than in the an
uual maintenance Of all our state uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
by TIE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

! According to the company, the way
to provide plenty of gas is to raise the
price. If this be true, the problem of
the Great American Desert is solved;
make the price of water "a barrel In
that region and there will be plenty
| of it.
One may pipe by the press that the
| state has committed serious. crime
against certain church colleges by
stealing their professors However,
| the theft will not come under the head
! of KIDNAPPING, as the professors were
merely enticed away by the offer or a
salary in place of wages.
| Ollie James went after Bristow with
a corkscrew, monkey wrench and
| jimmy, but failed to expose the bony
| senator's present brand of politics
The senator is saving that as a glad
| surprise to some party.
Pardon us for pushing Hons Hob
son and Underwood across the state
line in a yestiday paragraf. 1t was
merely a slip of the typewriter-but it
got past a proofreader who is usually
loaded and set on hair trigger for such
faux pas.
Nine. Savarie exhibited a costume of
5000 years ago, but it didn't seem to
interest the ladies present, as styles
of that period are too modern The
present trend is toward the styles of
$4,000 years ago.
But the Madame could have secured
rise from her audience by telling how
she kept the moths out of that thing
for 5000 years.
Hondo Murphy thinks Col. Roosevelt
should stay in Brazil II believe In
segrega tion," says Mr.. Murphy.
The lawyer in the New York case
a million dollars for alternating the
affections of her husband. should
choose his jury with care. picking only
men with exaggerated ego. 1t will
take jurors with awfully swelled heads
to decide that the affections of any
man are worth it.
Otto Typenheimer, of the composing
room, was originally a German, but
seems to have outgrown it. When
asked for a German translation of Il
should worry" he began: Itch solte-
erich solte-aw, worry in some other
language. There's enough worry
around here, without importing it,
anyway
Hon. Vice President Marshall threat
ems to get and bestraddle a motorbike.
much attention any other way. he is
entitled to try it. He could at least
garner a passing glance from the Pc
destrians that have to do a "Brodie"
out of his pathway.
According to report, the police are
looking for a negro footpad who held
up two women" Working, of course,
on the charitable theory that there
cannot be more than one specimen of
"footpadis negrotis'' in our village.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record
The good dye young, especially If they
happen to be red-headed.
A good story will always bear repeating,
if it isn't at expense.
All ships carry logs, whether they hap
pen to be lumber vessels not.
A drinking song by the tenor often
makes US wish he would cut out high
bawls.
The widow feels that she is looking for
No. l when she is looking out for No. 2
The man who is under a cloud naturally
doesn't expect storm of applause
Bjones is going to marry a cook
ng-school girl Wagg-"Wen, 1 hope she
pans out"
Muggins-"Bjones was one man in a
million Buggins-''In what way?" Mug
gins-"He died of overwork.''
Hoax--How is the best way. to get rid
of bore?' Joax-"Lend him money.
Then you won't see him again till he
wants some more"
Blobbs-'I believe it's a good plan to
laugh and grow fat Slobbs-"Yes, but
too many people take on weight laughing
at their own jokes
Wigg-"I understand Meekton is mar
ried- Does Mrs. Meekton make him a
good wife?" Wagg-'I don't know about
that but do know she makes him good
husband
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
WILL NOT STOP HER.
Mrs. Pankhurst VIII BE Allowed to
Make Her Speech.

Washington, Oct 16.-Congressman
Conry was assured by Assistant Sec
rotary Post of the department of la
Dor today that any action of the i'm
migration authorities toward Mrs. EN-
incline Pankhurst, the British suffra-
gette. when she lands in New York
Saturday would not prevent her ap-
pearance Sunday night at Madison
Square Garden. Mr.. Post promised
that in the event of Mrs. Pankhurst's
detention the immigration authorities
would release her under a bond
The secretary specially disclaimed.
in his action, however, any indication
that Mrs. Pankhurst would be de-
tanned, saying her case would he
treated as that of any other immi-
grant when she landed. Congressman
Conry acted at the request of those
managing the Madison Square Garden
demonstration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
L AMT DEAD YET.

1 AMT DEAD YET.
I've knocked around amaZin'
In this world of storm and calm
And I've had some hard old battles,
But I've kept a-plodding on,
And my spirits just as CHEEKY
AS 1t ever was, you bet,
Oh. I've had my tribulations,
But 1 amt dead yet.
I've seen a heap O. changes
IN the country round about,
And my old-time friends and neighbors
Is most all a-dyin' out,
But guess I'm tough and hearty,
And the time fer me amt set;
I've seen my friends a-leavin',
But I amt dead yet.
But sometimes I git to thinkin',
AS I'm settin' by myself,
That there's a reason fer it.
why 1 amt laid on the shelf;
There might be some leetle sarvice
That the world would never get
If 1 was taken from it,
So l amt dead yet.
And so I'll keep a hustlin'
With all the might I've got,
And I'll plant a few more posfes
In the old worlds garden spot;
And though I'm old and fogy.
1 won't settle down and fret,
But / Al show the folks around me
That I amt dead yet
And when git up yonder
Where eternal flowers bloom,
And stand among the thousands
All around the great white throne,
Even though we haven't met,
why, this beats all creation.
Fer I amt dead yet"
Christian Endeavor World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.1

If1OIll lHt ONICdSO NEWS.
Unreal pleasures are the most extensive
Taking things philosophically is easy If
they don't concern you.
And the heiress who marries a title sell
dom gets her moneys worth.
After hearing both sides of a story YOU
are in a position to pass it up.
Jealousy will not listen to reason be-
cause it doesn't believe there is such a
thing.
- PoLi ~ ~ - q man VINO oe-
TascalS out
We imagine that a dumb barber would
be even more satisfactory than a dumb
waiter.
Let the small boy make the noise of the
the work. X
# man can't persuade some woman to
lead him into temptation he gets busy and
butts in of his own accord
You can flatter man by calling him i
sly dog, but call him a measlv cur and
he'll try to alter your map.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
HIGH SCHOOL GAME OFF
wet Grounds Cause POstponement
Topeka Ottawa Game.

The game which was to he
played at Ottawa tomorrow between
the Topeka high school and Ottawa
nigh school football teams has been
called off on account of the bad CON
dttion of the grounds. The manager
or the Ottawa team said this after
noon that the field there was covered
with water and it would he imnossit'I1
to play. This is the second game the
nigh school team has been unable 70
play on account of weather coDdi
uons' the game with the Usage civ
couple of weeks ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Even a teetotaler is likely to become
intoxicated with success.
i j
All men may be born free and equal
but they don't grow up that way.
J. r
You seldom hear of a breach of
promise suit when the man hasn't a
bank roll.
i +
A lover of good music seldom gets
satisfaction out of the neighborS'
pianos.
r +
A critic is generally that way in an
effort to display his imagined superior
wisdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

DR.. Crumbine makes the excellent
suggestion that the money collected
under the state dog tax should be
spent first of all in the treatment of
persons bitten by dogs and in danger
of hydrophobia. 1t seems to be more
often the case that those bitten by
dogs are not financially able to stand
the expense of proper treatment for
threatened rabies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Kansas City's ordinance prohibiting
automobiles from being within ten
feet of a waiting street car might well
be adopted in all other cities. 1t is no
more than a reasonable measure for
the safety of persons getting on and
off the street cars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Some school books. 1900 years old,
have just been unearthed in the ruins
of Nippur. But there is no record to
show whether they were free text
books produced by the state, or prod
ucts of a book trust that may have
fiourished in Babylon in those days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

In assuming absolute control of the
government of Mexico. Huerta is par
ticular to announce that he has taken
charge of the finances of the country
This has always been the ultimate aim
of the freebooters who have had the
chance to exploit that unfortunate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

There has been a material decrease
in the number of horses in Chicago
during the past year. And while the
increasing popularity of the motor car
is presented as the official reason for
this decrease, it is also barely pos
sible that it may have been due to
the efforts of butchers to augment
their beef supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

A theological professor gets little
notoriety out of an expressed belief
that the rise of the feminist move
ment is responsible for an increase in
immortality. But he will have hard
work to get much applause for his
opinion, even from the men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Secretary Bryan at least might wei
come Mrs. Pankhurst as a worthy mis-
tress of the art of acquiring guar
antees and gate receipts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
An Incorrect Diagnosis.

An old rustic, bent and painfully
limping, was accosted by a friend who
inquired:
Hello, Zeb, what's ailin' of yep
"Got a big corn between my toes, ~
said Zeb, "and it hurts something aw-
full
'Lemme see it. Mebbe 1 kin do it
some good"
mo use, Joe. It's been that way six
weeks
Slowly and tenderly the old man re-
moved his boot.
Great guns, man." the friend ex-
claimed, how long did you say you
had been suffering?'
Just about six weeks, joe"
That amt any corn" said joe Its
a collar button"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

If political history repeats, the
speech-making assistance which
Henry Allen, Victor Murdoch and w.
R. Stubs lend to the cause of the
Progressive partys candidates in
Massachusetts will not bear much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

The Prince of Monaco says he came
to this country after big game. Yer
he has a big game of his own al
Monte Carlo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Presumably there will soon be a
picture in the movies showing the
burning of the Volturno and the rescue
of her survivors by the dozen ships
that responded to the call for help.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Huerta has been called down" again
by Uncle Sam. This is the steenth
time. And there is little reason to be-
lieve that Huerta will pay any more
attention to this verbal chastisement
than he has to the others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
TETEPHONES
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news IL
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Among. other distinguishing fea
lures, the New Haven railroad has 8
directorate from which directors are
only too happy to resign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

At any rate, Great Britain has not
insisted that double tolls for use of the
Panama canal be charged American
vessels if any,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

1t is reported that the Mississippi
river contains gold. But that's not
strange considering the quantity the
government has put into it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

And the man who said that time
moves slowest at twilight, evidently
never waited for a bellboy to bring
him ice water in the morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

Brazil will certainly have to 60
some to make good its boast that i
will give Colonel Roosevelt the time
of his life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16

And the latest Mexican question is:
How long will it take Huerta to reach
a vessel on the coast when his success
sor is elected?