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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
FREE USE OF FARM CREDIT.

The problem of farm credit is pre-
cisely the same as the problem of credit
in any other industry, says B. F. H1r-
ris in the August Worlds Work, except
that the use of such farm credit as
is already available is as little known
and efficiently employed as is the soil.
Honesty and good Judgment, with an
industrious application of both, are
the basis of good credit. The Sood
farmer, as the good business man, with
these attributes of credit and vita a
good farm on which to display them
makes an ideal debtor. We believe me
majority of country bankers appreciate
this fact, though their appreciation
of it does not produce so much b1si-
ness as the fact warrants. We want
the country to know this and to know
also the direct mutual and public bene-
fit that flows from an increase in bust
ness between the farmer and the bank
er. Official data shows that the farmer
is getting as good treatment as his
town neighbor. but we must do more
than that if the farmer is to begin i'm
proved farming that shall be construc-
tive alike for agriculture and the ma
ton.
any price for soil robbers land SKIM
mers," and farm exploiters. The farm
ers do not properly employ any large
fraction of their present borrowings IN
constructive, permanent, investment
farming. The reason they DO lot is
usually given somewhat like this: Be
cause the loans tEat are available are
for short periods, three to FIVE Yeas,
and must be paid long before any ma
terial returns can be got from the in
vestment." The facts, however, prove
quite the contrary. Every agricultural
college bulletin. every farm paper and
the practice of all progressive far2It rs
are daily demonstrating that almost all
the newer methods will pay themselves
out at a profit in one. three, or Ave
years at the most.
The American farmer has had great
opportunities to invest his money more
profitably outside than by putting it
into the hands of the loan societies. and
this has helped to keep interest rates
higher. And the independent AMI ~
dividualtic tendencies of our people
| make doubtful the success of coopera-
tive banking on any extended scale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News.1
patient. Si HoI 10 De
Charity sometimes begins 1vharo -.
ance leaves off repent
o.. Jealousy is the tribute a woman psvs
me man who gets the most of IL MAJ,
not get the best of it - may
Much of the average mans ooro...,.-.
Is due to a desire to show Off. 'si'S
aometimes the man who prays long and
loud in public needs it most, 'e anu
Some people never talk about anvtbing
climate for them. - the
conceited man is one who xva,+s g.
TAX about himself when you want 10 IA IL
about yourself. ' u 'aih
neh man can travel as far on bis
uehet the railroads are sure to lose money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

though it would of course, be inter-
esting to see it tried out under proper
safeguard. The result might be oencfi-
ciaI in developing business ability
| among the farmers.
1t is timely to point out that all
farm financing is intimately associated
or should be, with the greater prob
lem of a new currency system. the
most pressing of all our needs. With a
modern banking and currency system,
there would be no objection-indae1,
there would be great advanta ges-in
permitting national banks, especially
rural national banks, to invest at
least so per cent of all their saving
deposits, and the bulk of their sur
plus, in good mortgages The same
privilege might we'll be extended to the
governments system of postal sa wings
banks. A surplus of % per cent Of its
capital is all that is required of a ma
tiOnaL bank, whereas permission to in
vest its surplus, or excess surplus, in
approved mortgages would be a GER
tain incentive for it to build up a large
reserve. Such permission would enable
it properly to accommodate nearly all
desirable borrowers. and the increased
surplus would give added strength to
the bank and added security to it's
depositors and in turn would increase
the lint of its lending power. National
savings bank deposits total $3.50. 000, GOO,
and surplus and undivided profits
amount to $3.50 100000. Our suggestion
would, therefore, enable the national
banks to take a billion or more dollars
carry so large a proportion as that
which the state banks now carry.
The farmers need of improved sarnl
financing is not SO great as the whole
country's need of a new currency and
credit system: and as the farmers in
dividual requirements are comprehend
ed in the larger plan for the whole
people, he ought to lend his influence
to secure the legislation needed fer
this purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
EVENING CHAT
An inexpensive Rest Cure.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

1--WE had such a restful day. said
one woman to another, as they walked
home together at nightfall.
The second woman opened her eyes
in amazement. why! how can you
say that?'' she exclaimed. Just
think of all you've told me that you've
done. My dear, L should call that a
very busy day, instead of restful
one"
1T has been a fairly busy day." an
swered the first woman, but it's been
restful just the same, and I'll tell
you why-I haven't hurried once.
allowed myself plenty of time and
went leisurely from one thing to an
call, but when I found l couldn't get
it in without hurrying, I simply gave
1t up. So it's been happy, restful day,
because | haven't driven myself"
Isn't that an interesting and sug-
geStive point OF view?
If the amount of energy which the
average person eXpends in hurrying
and in worrying lest she won't be
somewhere on time. or get something
or other done, could be computed, !
imagine that it would not be so very
much smaller than the total of the
energy she puts into actually doing
things.
We think We are tired because we
have done so much. Half the time it
is only because we have tried to do
too much.
A young school teacher, who had
been OVERRIDING in this way, was adj
vised by her family doctor to take a
complete vacation. She told him that
was impossible. Very well'' he said,
"I'n give you another prescription
which will do you nearly as much
good if you have the strength of mind
to fill it. Keep on working but take
life easy, be leisurely; don't let your
self hurry once in the next three
months: don't crowd yourself; go to
bed early and sleep nine and ten hours
a night; stay outdoors a lot; don't
hurry and don't worry for the next
three months, and you'll come out all
right
The school teacher followed his pre-
scription for three months and proved
his prophecy true. That was five
years ago and she is still following
it in its essential details. and you
would hardly recognize the nervous,
sickly creature she used to be in the
well poised, healthy woman of today.
Sometimes we wish we could take
the expensive rest cures we read
about, and we say that he would if
it were not for the prohibitive cost.
Here's a rest cure which the only cost
is strength of mind and purpose.
Is that prohibitive?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
QUAKER MEDITATTONs.
[From the PhiladelDbia pooor, :,

ltrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Every egotist is an specialist
The blooming idiot is seldom nipped in
the bud. NI III
tombstone inscription is often a grave
1t takes a certain amount of cbeel e.
raise side whiskers !"
The naked truth is seldom exemplified
by bear story.
A letter remains statfonarv MAIN -
put a stamp on it. SoN
Naturally. the best time to see Niagara
is in the fall. aeai
No man is SO duh that he can,+
make a bore of himself S San
The chorus girl figures in comic opera
merely as a matter of form
The fellow who falls in love son,et,,,,as
lands with good hard bump
Hubbubs-'I should think this thine, 90
catchlns trains would be a great draw
PACK 70 SUBURBAN life" Subbubs-sNo.
IL missing them that's the drawhactr
Mrs Muggins-"My husband always
takes day off when he has birthdavs
Mrs. Bugg1ns-"And when Won have -.
suppoSe YOU take a couple of x-~~rs ~ :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

After reading all about The Beau
! tiful Baby Bride, Hondo Murphy is OF
the opinion that the bush-leaguer
who wrote the lola story got his
spondence school that uses Cooley s
| magazine and Bertha NJ. Clay's works
for text books.
A political job holder may ride to
it in an automobile, but he had to
run for office first
After thinking it over for a long
time, and reading a lot of Comstock-
ing regulations for bathing costumes,
and comparing same with the half
tones on the theatrical page, we feel
justified in arriving at this conclu-
sion: 1t is indecent to expose the
female form in public place unless
Some conflicting stories about
Dfdier Mason and the Mexican gun
boat, so Jack Supp wired the aviator
as follows:
"Didier or didier not bump off that
boat?''z
1t is reported that the jointists in
Crawford county have begun making
their own beer. That is a new wrin-
kle on beer, although Topeka joint
lists have been making their own
whisky for quite a while.
1t is hard for one who doesn't like
buttermilk to believe that people who
drink the stuff are not doing it on a
bet.
AS matter of reprisal the Speed
1acs have started the slogan, Swat
the Jaywalker." One Speediac the
parent of the movement writes All
About it He says it is more painful
10 the driver than the pedestrian who
IS run over, and speaks feelingly of
the Awful Strain on autoists who
must put on the brakes to avoid run
ming down the Awful Jaywalker
Which only goes to show that the
viewpoint depends largely upon
whether seen through motor goggles
or ordinary specs.
According to the Speediac, Jay
walker is the up-to-date synonym for
any one who cannot fly across a
street, or is chump enough to want
to get to the other side of a street
And for that slogan, swat the Jay
walker" they usually do.
Inc only thing peculiar about the
Wabaunsee county preachers affida-
VT ia the MounDay case is that
country preacher ever had that much
money to invest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
The Difference.
OY e. MOULTON

The Difference.
don't care how the robin sings
Or how the rooster flaps his wings.
L don't care how the sun may shine,
/ can't cheer up for woe is mine,
All nature may be glad and gay,
But 1 have blues that come today
When the home team drops a game.
1 care not how the rain may pour
Or how the price of meat may soar.
The clouds may hang close to the
ground
And pesSimists may grOWl around,
But happiness in me holds sway.
And naught keeps me from feeling
gay,
When the home team wins a game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
MOTHERS ANGEL CAKE.

When mother baked an angel cake, we
kids would gather round
An watch her gentle hands at work, an
never make sound;
Wed watch her stir the eggs an flour an
powdered sugar. too,
An pour it in the crinkled tin, and then
when it was through
Shed spread the icing over II, an We
knew very soon
That one would get the plate to lick, an
one would get the spoon.
1t seemed no matter where we were,
those mornings, at our play,
Upstairs out of doors somewhere we
all knew right away
When ma was in the kitchen, and was
gittin' out he tin
A things to make an angel cake, an so
we Scampered in.
An ma would smile at US an say: Now
you keep still an'wait,
An when I'm through I'll let you lick the
spoon an icing plate
We watched her kneel beside the stove,
an put her arm white
Inside the oven just to find If it was heat
in right.
An mouths an eyes were open then, be-
coz we always knew
The time for US to get our taste was
quickly comm due.
Then. while she mixed the icing up, She
hum a simple tune,
An one of us would bar the plate an
one would bar the spoon.
Could we catch a glimpse of heaven, and
some snow-white kitchen there,
I'm sure that we'd see mother, smiling
now, and still as fair:
And | know that gathered round her we
would see an angel brood
That is watching every movement as sne
makes an angel 1000,
For 1 know that little angels as we useu
to do, await
The moment when she lets them lick the
icing spoon and plate ,. 1,oo
Press,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
FROM OTHER PENS
MAKING CANAL A GARDEN.

MAKING CANAL A GARDEN.
some weeks ago the news dispatches
carried a fantastic story of some in
CONSEQUENTIAL railroad which found it's
right of way and it's buildings overrun
with climbing flowers which had
propagated from seed scattered by a
leaky freight car. Thus nature sought
to teach the management of the road
lesson which should not have needed
so striking an example. No transpor-
tatlon company in this day should
doubt the advisability of identifying
It's property. The United States gov
eminent needs no leaking railway car
to impress so obvious a truth For
some months a fine art commission
mas been studying plans for the beau
tlfIcation of the Panama canal Its
report is now complete and will go to
the president and congress within a
short time. The plans are said to in
ciude elaborate landscape effects about
the canal approaches and about the
rocks. So far as practicable the water
way over the isthmus is to be given
tne appearance of a natural passage
throush tropical gardens. Visitors
10 the canal have remarked that the
great engineering task, now nearing
completion, bids fair to leave the
isthmus with much the APPEARANCE of
having never been disturbed by man.
Dams, locks and lakes seem to fit into
the landscape in perfect harmony:
man mas simply rearranged the details
or the tropical picture without annear-
ms " I'LL ouuce any lncOngruOuS ele-
ments. That, one supposes, is the es-
sence OF artistic endeavor-to make
mans handiwork appear like natures
The fact that the engineering has been
done thus skillfully must prove Of
great help to the fine arts commits
sion 1t is fitting from every stand
point that effort be made to beautifv
the canal. Let the strip across the
lsthmus blossom like a garden. So
much the more pleasing will be this
contribution of the United Statas -
the commerce and amity OF the world
Indianapolis News H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Lies that are too large to believe are
harmless.
No man is as good as his press agent
intimates.
No man is greatly interested in parrot
that can't swear.
To a woman, there is nothing romantic
without a man in ii.
The liniment gets lot of credit that
belongs to the rubbing.
There are a good many jobs, but sine
cures that pay well are scarce.
a vineclad cottage is unhealthy. if there
is quarrelsOme woman in it.
A man expects his wife to have more
sense than his sweetheart mad or has
Generally speaking. flattery is a compIi-
ment that isn't headed your way.
You can't convince a reporter that a
drouth is bad as losing a note book
There are times when a tender heart
seems about the most expensive luxury.
He who regards booze as business
lubricant is apt to find business slipping
What has become of the o. f. boy who
was afraid to go swimming in dog days?
Sometimes married man thinks it is
his conscience when it is his wife he is
afraid of.
Considering the vast number of indus
trious daughters, only a few pianos wear
out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

was Barbara Scott. Her father,
Capt. Scott, had given big dance
in honor of the arrival of the battle
ship. He and Lieut.. Smythers made
their way across the room after the
introductions, and Barbara was left
to face a shamelessly delighted off
Ger, whose eyes made her color flut-
ter quickly into place.
you look at me so strangely,
she managed to say.
told her.
.'But-why?' questioned Bar
bara.
1T is rather a long story" he con-
fided to her and looked suggestive
ly toward the windows where the
doors.
Come laughed Barbara. ct will
take you out into the moonlight
since that is what you want. But
she admonished him, you must tell
me the whole story-every word of
it,
If you promise to listen, 1 will tell
you everything" He followed Bar
bara out into the moonlight night
and never before had realized that
one fragment from the feminine
world could possess all the lure in
the universe. He fumbled in the coat
of his dress uniform and produced a
card very much the worse for wear.
Barbara started and a high color
sprang into her cheeks.
You found that" she laughed and
her voice was a trifle tremulous, for
after all she knew that something big
and wonderful had followed upon her
whim of the moment.
Yes Lieut.. Cumming said SIM
ply. 81 found your name and now I
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

What has become of the oId-fashion-
ed girl who was bashful
- j. j.
A wife never finds fault with a hus-
band for betting, if he wins.
- 4. j.
And the tax-dodgers might also be
classified among the men of untold
wealth.
i = -
Soon after a man gets married his
faith is shattered in the theory that
figures don't lie.
j. j. j.
Operations for appendicitis are
dreaded by many, not so much because
of the danger involved, as because Of
the cost attached
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Why not submit to The Hague the
dispute between an American collector
and the Liverpool atheneum over the
possession of the Glen Riddel manu-
scripts of Robert Burns? England and
the United States getting into a war
Just now would, indeed, be a calamity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
KANSAS COAHENT
KANSAS COMMENT

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DRESS.
That's some dress you've got on, lit
tie girl-it sure is. That delicate,
clinginS, crinkly stuff is the prettiest
cloth on the store counters; that silk
Persian sash of many colors so grace
fully swathed about the center Sec
ton of your anatomy would knock the
spots off Joseph's coat. You are cor
seted and tailored according to the
most extreme model in the advance
August fashion books. But your neck
is too low and your sleeves are too
short, and your skirt is far and away
tighter than skirts were meant to be.
And that graceful slit exposing your
dainty left ankle shows a stocking
above your pump that is almost trans
parent enough to read through. And
you haven't any more petticoat than
rabbit-you know you haven't. oh,
you're some swell, you are. Have you
noticed how the loafers around the
grove rubber after you as you trip
demure1y by on your way to the uplift
lectures? And have you been think
ing, little foolish one, that they were
rubbering out of pure admiration?
Ask your brother about it. If he's
got any sense he'll tell you some
Things that will be hard on your van
lty and good for your soul. And if
you've got any sense, you'll take his
word for it; you'll lay that dress away
and don something that's wide enough
around the bottom to allow room for
two petticoats and one pair of legs.
For there never was a dress designed,
little girl, that is half so beautiful as
a young girls modesty.-Emporia Ga
zette.
THE LAWYER AND HIS FEE.
How would you like to go to a lawyer
as you would go to the information
window of big postoffice, for advice
free? How would you like to have a
lawyer assigned to defend you as a
health offer would be sent to quaran-
tine you if diphtheria developed in
your home. Before the Wisconsin Bar
association Judge DonnellY of Wilwau-
kee read paper the other day in
which he boldly predicted that the com
mercialized lawyer would have to go.
fcer of the court. a public servant UNI
der oath to assist in the administra-
ton of justice. But practically
many lawyers are for hire to do
what they can to obstruct and pervert
Justice. in the interest of the rogue who
pays the price. The Justices notion
was that lawyers should be hired on
salary by the state, to work for justice
impartially, which would do away with
a great part of the present burden
some cost of the courts, remove the in
centive for the multiplied ton of Htiga-
ton and probably lead to simpler and
SWifter procedure. Looks pretty re-
volutionary. doesn't it? But if it ever
comes to pass nobody but the lawyers
themselves Will be to blane.-Wichita
Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31
HOME NEW 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 rae
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Wmie
out of town the State journal VIII oe
tofyou 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, 1913-07-31

Senator Vardaman of Mississippi IS
of the men who frame the laws of the
nation. And he says that the defeat
CT the appointment of a colored man
to be register of the treasury is "of
more Importance than the passage of
the tariff bill and the enactment of
currency legislation 1t rises like a
mountain peak above the other ques-
tons of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

There is this to the credit of the
thermometer in the summer time. Not
only does it make every effort to reach
the top, but it also strives valiantly to
Sfav there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

News from Mexico, that Huerta may
quit his job in the near future might
also be construed as indicating that he
has connected with all the government
funds IN sight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

One of California's clergymen de-
clares that If the Savior arrived in
New York He would be rejected. And
it is likely that if the Savior landed
on the Pacific coast He would reject
the Californians for their discrimina-
ton against the Japanese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Congress might adopt electric Vot-
ing machines and still not be truly
progressive as long as the Congress
si1naI Record is published.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

How do you account for the lack of en-
thusiasn in your district said the in
quiring friend. We'll" replied Senator
Sorghum, 4 had to make a lot of cam
paign promises. And you know a cam
paign promise is very much like jack
snipe- 1t doesn't look nearly SO large
when you take off the feathers and get
down to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Incidentally, the clergyman who be-
heves it would be better for women to
dress in nothing more than beads of
perspiration doesn't claim it's anything
more than a belief.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Sun Vat Sen has evidently arrived
at the conclusion that he made a seri-
Gus mistake when he turned over the
presidency of the Chinese republic to
Yuan Shi Kai. Sun is prominent
among the revolutionary leaders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

In their demonstrations in behalf OF
Mrs. Young, the women of Chicago
should not overlook the efficacy of
the hunger strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Real civilization in the Balkan
states is, indeed, a long ways off. Even
the crown prince of Roumania is
equipped with a luxuriant growth of
whiSkerS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

How the cost of living must have
WINGED when the Democratic tariff
makers revised the schedules on bini-
trochlorbenzoI and diamidostilbendi-
S,,1fnncid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

Ohio strikers declared an armistice
to attend a deputy sheriff's funeral
Without these little amenities war
would be even more horrible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

AS the Chicago Record-Herald says:
Our congressman appear to have
about as much trouble with the money
question as the rest of us.