The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-16
FROM OTHER PENS
MIR. .BRYAN's ENGAGEMENTs

| %
Japan at Washington, is carrying on deli
ment under extraordinary difficulties. We
| infer that the ambassador has matters
! rotary of state. There is revival in
Japan of interest in the California land
clusion thus far in the negotiations of the
| two governments regarding this matter
has led to ill-feeling there against the
| therefore has international business on his
hands which needs to be taken up with
| spare only twenty minutes of his valuable
| time on Friday, as he had important en-
and Woodbm i Tent at ri YesterdaT Mr.
Bryan's spare moments were few. too, as
West aa4 Virginia The ne foreign criticism of
| his neglect of his duty secretary of
| state probably does not bother him much.
| ers who do not breathe the free air of
| the land of the setting sun and there is no
| that SO many of his fellow-citizens are an
noyed by those harsh comments, which
are nevertheless justified. 1t is sorry
spectacle. For many years the state de
partment has not had so much pressing
business on hand. Tie unsettled questions
of international policy are 1mportant anu
burdensome enough to demand all the
mental concentration and all the physical
endurance statesman OF ripe experience
and the best ability could give to them:
But our secretary of state gives most or
his attention to profitable work out of the
keeping his personality and his rhetorical
gift uppermost in the public mind. so that
presidency, which appears to be the prili-
cipaI object of his existence.-New York
Times.
WHEN THERE. is NOTHING TO EAT.
According to Prof. Dickson of Edin-
burgh, whose address before the British
Association ''created a sensation, the
failure of the wheat acreage to keep pace
with the increase of population will bring
humanity face to face with starvation
within the century" And according to DIR.
Kellogg, who addressed the American
Public Health Association at Colorado
Springs, 1.-The birth-rate is decreasing in
a manner that will bring it to the vanish
ing-point in 2012." AS the dates for these
dire contingencies coincide, it is obvious
that the one will offset the other. Every
body having persisted by that time, there
Will be no new mouths to feed and no
need of wheat or any other kind of food.
You pay your money and take your choice
of theories. AS respects the wheat sup
quarters of billion bushels for about
90, Oc0, 600 people compares with 1893 crop
of 39o,0G0,OU0 bushels for approximately s.
OOO,010 people, and holds out the promise
of enough bread to go around for long
time to come, in this country at least.
Throughout the world the supply of wheat
for quarter of a century past has in
creased prOpOrtiOnately with population,
if not in excess of it. But are not alarm
list echoes of Nautilus out of place at this
day? Mankind has never been so well
ter the enumeration by Nautilus of his
theory of the dread consequences to ensue
from the tendency of population to in
crease faster than the means of subsst-
ence." Doubtless the resOurcefulness of
society will provide plenty of food for the
future, assuming, of course, that the race
does not become extinct meantime by the
cessation Of births-New York World.