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The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
GRAFT IN ENGLAND.

Charges of graft in connection with
public office have not been infrequent
in this country, and instances where
officials have used their positions to
further their own financial interest are
pretty we'll established. but it seems
that America is not alone in these
matters.
The stock speculations of British
government ministers 1hich compro-
mise such leaders as Mr.. Lloyd-George
have caused a scandal and brought
about a lawsuit in England that threat
ened at one time to overturn. the min
istry. The fracas began when Mr..
Herbert Samuel, postmaster general,
and Sir Rufus Isaacs, attorney general,
were accused by the Paris Matin, which
has an office in London, of fraudulent
ly transferring to the British govern
ment certain stock certificates of the
Marconi Wireless company. They
bought such stocks at about ten, it
was alleged. and sold them to the gov
ernment at 40, or thereabouts.
When the Matin people were charged
with slander they publicly withdrew
their statements and apologized. but
they were sued for libel in London
ana their cOmpla1ndnCS were Iully eX-
onerated from criminal act or intent.
The shares dealt in, it appears, were
of the American Marconi company, not
the British concern, and Mr.. Samuel
denies that he ever had shares in
either. Then the matter was taken up
by parliament and an investigating
committee appointed, one of whose
members had resigned, charging plan
to ''whitewash'' the accused. Whatever
the committees report, the affair seems
likely to play a prominent part in
British politics for some time to come.
The London Saturday Review COM
ments as follows:
THE evidence comes to this-that
neither of malice nor by accident has
any member of the government had
any dealings with the British Marconi
company. But Sir Rufus Isaacs has
dealt heavily in shares of the Ameri-
can Marconi company. Moreover, he
induced his friends, Mr.. Lloyd George
and the Master of Elibank, to come
in.
1.-The British and the American COM
panies are distinct; Snd it is very diff
cult to judge whether the fortunes of
Marconi patents in England could have
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
A WAY OUT.
shares.

While Topeka is pleading with, and
| threatening the street car company
| in an effort to secure a means of
| transportation to Gage park. eastern
cities are solving similar problems by
the establishment of automobile bus
lines.
Why should we continue to lay
tracks for our street cars to. run on?
Tracks were necessary when rough,
stone pavements abounded, but smooth
surfaces of asphalt, oiled road and
brick are now common, both in city
and suburb. over these, automobile
vehicles of all speeds and weights run
easily and i'll vast numbers. Amid
them lurches along the unwieldy street
car of the pattern of 1880, running on
steel rails that are laid and main
tanned at huge expense and serve only
to make the otherwise smooth pave
ment dangerous to motor vehicles.
New York, Chicago, Washington, New
Haven, and Indianapolis have had
motor 'busses for some time, Detroit
is introducing city owned 'busses to
compete with the trolley lines, and two
companies are being formed to intro
duce motor 'busses in Pittsburg. The
Pittsburg Auto Transit company will
apply for a charter with initial cap
ital stock of $4,000. The 'busses to
be purchased will seat thirty-four peo-
pie, and it is planned to make ten
minute schedule from down town to
suburban districts.
More than rs per cent. of the
route proposed is now used by auto
mobiles to the exclusion of nearly ev-
erything else. Ninety-seven per cent
of the distance is paved with asphalt
or wood block.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News-]
There is no perfect woman. Isn't it
lucky?
Love levels all things, when love is on
the level.
A man can knock and knock and still
fail to make a hit.
Seme women look upon charity as a
stepping stone to society.
When a pessimist lives well in the pres
ent he howls about the future.
But sometimes a bore talks to us about
ourselves; that is different
A flock of microbes may do more dam
age than a flock elephants.
Shorter engagements, if followed by
longer marriages, would help some
Needing an audience for job lot Of
hard luck stories, misery loves company
kissing is loves own medicine. 1t stimu-
lates love if taken in moderation, but 1t Is
fatal if taken in Overdoses.
Satisfaction can never be guaranteed
<a.ler Lots wife had been turned into a
pIllar of salt she probably kicked because
she wasn't a marble column.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
EVENING CHET
Motives.
BY RuTA CAMERON.


| Did you ever happen to consider
what widely different motives stand
! behind our good deeds? Something
started this train of thought for me,
and it carried me into a very interest
ing country. At least 1 found it so.
Of course tastes differ in mental land
ScapeS as well as material ones.
We are apt to think of an act of
charity a fixed quantity represent
ing a certain amount of merit. 1t
seems to me in reality that the act
itself is only one of the factors. There
are other factors which must be con-
sidered in reckoning the final product.
And the motive behind the deed is
one of the most important.
The lowest motive for charity is
that of the Pharisees who did their
aims Ito be seen of men," If you null
tiply any sum, no matter how large,
by zero, you still get zero. So 1t seems
to me that the merit of Pharisaical
aims, no matter how lavish, is always
zero, because the value of one of the
factors, the motive, is cipher.
A dominant idea of the old religion
was that we should be good, because
if we weren't we'd be everlastingly
punished for it. Can you see much
merit in being good because you are
afraid you'll suffer if you aren't? And
yet that is the spirit in which many
people give aims; because they fear
punishment here or hereafter if they
withhold them. A man who religious
ly gave away tenth of his income to
charity frankly confessed to me that
he did it because he was afraid his
prosperity would cease If he didn't. I
call this the superstitious motive, and
think it is a little better than the
Pharisaical one. but not much.
Still others give because they hope
to be rewarded for doing so. Some
expect an immediate earthly reward
in the shape of prosperity and earthly
desires fulfilled. Others hope to buy
a ticket to heaven with their aims.
Does that seem like a satisfactory mo-
tive to you? / must say it doesn't
quite content me. 1t is too much like
investing money with the expectation
ourselves pleasures and qualifications
in the fleeting today because we be-
1ieve we shall thereby win for our
selves greater pleasures and gratifica-
tions in the eternal tomorrow. And
yet, since much of religion is built on
just that motive, don't quite dare
cavil at it.
To be generous toward your fellow
men because you cannot approve of
really satisfactory motive. There is
only one higher, and that is to do
things for your fellowmen because you
love them and want to help them.
1 can't quite decide which of these
two motives is the higher. The first
involves effort, the second implies a
naturally beautiful character-''White
will of God and know it not" Perhaps
the best way to rank these two is to
say that the first is a nobler motive,
and the second more beautiful
From what motive do your kind |
acts come?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
COMING or THE souIH WIND.

SOh1NG OE THE SOUTH WIND.
From the South a welcome breeze
stealing through the leafless trees
ana creeping In the windows
A1mless in its quest as bees
Carried by the winds afar
Where the rarest blossoms are
1t goes where sweetest kisses wait
And steals them like a Lochinvar.
Laden with the fine perfume
OF the Southland's sweetest bloom,
1t forces its flirtations
Just as human loves presume!
St1Ii and covert it invades
F1ned and latticed ambuscades,
And there, unasked, it plies its art
And claims the love of blushing maids
Here to kiss a maiden's lips,
Inere to brush her finger tips
And then away, heartless
As the honey bee that sips
sweetest blooms and blossoms dry
or their nectar. then to fly
Where the fresher blossoms are
And leaves the first to pine and die.
Now to hover o'er a chair
Close beside the window there
Where Old Age sits a-nodding
Wreathed in smiles and snowy hair;
printing with gallant's grace
Kisses on a wrinkled face,
Or sealing ringlets snowy-white
From underneath a cap of lace.
Vagrant from the Southern sky,
Lover-like and maiden-shy
All, little does it matter
w mere your subtle wiles you ply!
what strange art or wizardry
Is 1t that possesses thee,
That, when you WOO, the coy world
Turns green and gold and blossom?
John D. Wells.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

| In a discussion of the tariff and
| income tax program of the Democrats,
! 'tThe Bache Review" a Wall street
publication, makes some comments on
the subject of taxation in general
worthy of serious consideration.
After pointing out that the tariff bill
and the income tax feature are as sat
isfactory as could be expected under
the circumstances, it says:
'HThe unsatisfactory thing about all
this tax business is that 20 per cent.
or more of the amounts realized from
taxes in this country are squandered
in extravagant administration and ex-
penditures. 1t is estimated that every
family in the United States is now
taxed on the average for government
state, municipal and other levies as
much as $500 each per annum. Saw
ings here would more materially re-
duce the cost of living than can pos
sibly come from tariff revisions. The
politicians, as class, and their de-
pendents, grow more numerous every
year as do their demands and expendi-
lures and all these the people must
support. Unnecessary laws in ever
increasing numbers are passed con-
tinuously and numberless places Great
ed for henchmen to carry out their
provisions. The long-suffering people
stand the burden while their attention
is distracted from the real source of
trouble and they are made to believe
that everything but the real cause is
what makes living high.
"Everybody's business is nobody's,
and there are none to lead and to in
sist upon government economy in eV-
cry direction, upon drastic cutting
down of the number of offices, and
upon curtailment of public extrava-
gance which has become great and
increa sing evil"
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
.NYHAWKER JOTS

Cherryvale has built a Carnegie Ii
brary building of cherry colored bricks
Fred Knapp issued 16-page
Booster edition" of his paper last
Thursday.
The building of an interurban car
line into Lawrence is considered 1mml-
nent by the Gazette.
Emporia is one ahead of other Kansas
towns in the matter of holidays. She
has Nit Wilhite" day.
The mayor of Hope whipped one of
his constituents and now he has been
sued for $780, The complainant is
hopeful.
]. r. Burton has placed his approval
stamp on President Wilson. The for
mer senator has become an ideal
Democrat.
The business men of lola have
formed a MONDAY Lunch club, which
meets once a week in a cafe. There
are no speeches, hence, forty-eight at
tended the first meeting.
Referring to the approaching joint
debate between Henry Allen and
Charlie Scott, Walt Mason says: Such
a conjunction of planets should have
it's effect upon the climate
Colonel Isett, of Chanute, who has
announced his candidacy for United
States senator, says no one IS urg-
ing him to be a candidate. He had to
do something to attract attention. HIS
name should be sufficient.
The legislature failed to make an ap-
preparation for the Hutchinson state
fair, but that doesn't bother Hutch
inson. The fellows over there went out
and raised $4,000 in 40 minutes. All
that scrap in Topeka last winter was
for. was merely to show Topeka that
Hutchinson had friends enough to have
their fair called the state fair.-New
ton Kansan. Not at all; not at all.
1t was to enable the stockholders in
the Hutchinson fair to unload.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

TFrom the Philadelphia Record1
We are never too old to learn the lates.
wrinkle.
Many a man has won his spurs, only to
find them a thorn in the flesh
Reputation and character are about as
synonymous the North and South poles
Wigg-"Scientists say that kissing must
go Wagg-"It already goes with most
girls
Things are not always what they seem.
Many girls modesty is pure affectation.
Many man never does anything worth
while because he thinks it isn't worth
while.
This would be a much more pleasant
world if there weren't so many ways of
making people unhappy.
Nell-'-Did you ever hear such a loqua-
cious woman a Miss Antique She talks
like co. Belle-"Well, 1 guess she is
A little learning is dangerous thing -
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, especially IL
1t is about an automobile added the
Simple Mug.
SillicuS-'I believe that any man. no
matter how diffident he may be, can Learn
to make love-. Cynicus-'fU Undoubtedly, if
the girl makes the lessons easy enough"
I've never done the turkey trot;
never hope to do it.
And yet it's such Internal rot,
I'd rather do than view it
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
FROM OTHER PENS

THE FICTITIOUS OFFICE BOY.
A reckless confidence almost leads US
to offer a so cent ticket to any ball
park to any person who can produce
any office boy who at any time went
to baseball game on other than Sun
day or a holiday, who at any time
suggested for the purpose of going tc
a ball game that any relative, young
or old, near or distant was dead, or
who at any time intimated by word
or look that he wanted to go to ball
game. There amt any such animule.
He's as much of a myth as the uni
corn. If he ever existed he's as ex-
tinct as the dodo. The only man in
any office who ever debates the rela-
tive Importance of baseball and work
is the boss. He may not show up
after lunch, but the help comes to
work with no other thought that that of
staying at work. The only man in
any Office who reads the weather fore
cast and regards the visible aspect for
signs of rain and who wonders who's
going to pitch is the boss. We do not
desire to depart from certain ground
and step on the shaky surface of con-
lecture, but, nevertheless, we will risk
the assertion that if bosses and Office
boys were examined on questions of
batting averages, etc, the bosses would
average along about 80 and the office
boys ABOUT oo.-Ch1cagO Tribune.
CITY MAN AND FARMER REJOICE
In bad crop years the cheerful op-
timists who see good in everything
generally wind up their comments
upon the shortage in foodstuffs with
the reflection that, after all, the far
mer did not suffer, because what he
lost in the quantity marketed he made
up in the high prices he received.
With all regard for the farmer and
his interests the city man finds it ex-
tremely difficult to extract any con-
siderable degree of comfort from this
line of thought. He may try to con-
sole himself with the reflection that
the farmers ability to buy city-made
goods has not been lessened, but that
hardly reconciles him to a market in
which potatoes are worth $3.50
bushel.
1t is much more pleasant to rejoice
with the farmer when the crop re-
port says, as the latest government re-
port said, that the outlook is for big
yields of farm products all down the
line. Such a report means prosperity
for the farmer, work for the railroads.
expansion for the foreign trade,
brisk demand for labor busy times for
the merchant and meal in the poor
mans barrel. Only the produce mar
ket bull can shed any tears over the
present agricultural outlook.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Profit-sharing plans have been
adopted by many important corpora
tions. among which are the steel trust,
the rubber trust, the cracker trust, the
powder trust and Proctor & Gamble.
The last concern began experimenting
with profit sharing plans twenty-six
years ago, but derived no particular
benefit from merely adding a bonus to
the yearly earnings of the workmen.
What was desired was to enlist inter
est in the prosperity of the company.
A majority of the employees are now
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

liably informed that they do not-but
| a number of them are still living.
In fact, it is reported that the wage
of a New York COP misses his cigar
and booze bill by several notches.
The most uncalled-for thing in the
world is the second tail on freak
cat The next is Ex-Governor Hoch's
apology for accepting an appointment
from Governor Hodges.
The Emporia Gazoot reserves one
column as a "wailing place" where dis
satisfied voters may air their openions.
The difference between the Emporia
Gazoot and other bull organs is that
the E. G. brands the department as
shoulder whereon tears of various
worth may be shed, and others grab
the squeak of the squeaker and print
it as an Important Communication.
Add Empory: Walt Mason-So they
tell us as a matter of town gossip, is
going to forsake the humble cottage
that made Empory famous by post
card because it was the only residence
in town that had pink grass in the
front yard, and build a palatial Hang
out on the bong-tong street of that
Billwhitish, Wilhitish village. And
here's best wishes for the fattish bard
whether he lives in Tincan alley or on
Senator Works knocks heavily upon
the newspapers in general, and cites,
as a Weepful example, the undue no
toriety given a proud family when H.
Clay Beattie potted his wife at short
range with shotgun. We hold with
Senator Works that it is an outrage
to print particulars of a case wherein
a perfect Southern Gentleman settles
his family arguments with cheap
single barrel shotgun, but we be to-
tally dinged if we know how to stop
it.
And, We are inclined to view with
alarm and rise to enquire-et cetera:
Is there no way to prevent this dis
agreeable publicity that comes occa-
sionally to high-toned crooks?
Which reminds us: A dozen years
ago, a Topeka business man got mixed
police took chips. Whereupon the per-
spring business man called a cub re-
porter to one side and issued an ultf-
matum. And the cub hastened unto
his editor and deposed as follows:
'Dinglebat says he will stop his ad-
vertising in this paper if I print this |
story. He says can't print it,"
Cant YOU? Try it and see,'' advised |
the city editor. The story, with all de-
tails appeared in the last edition.
And something should be done-by |
legislation or otherwise, to prevent |
these 1ow-browed editors and reporters |
from chronicling the crookedness of |
anyone who can trace his ancestry past |
or sign a check for any sum
above $4,000.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

taking advantage of the present plan.
which is limited to persons who own
common stock to the amount of a years
wages. But if they can't pay all Of
this in cash the company will advance
the greater part On his purchase
man gets 16 per cent. dividend on his
wages besides the dividend on the
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

any influence upon the fortunes OF
Mareoni patents in America. Sir Ru-
fus Isaacs' deal, in fact, Was specu-
lative. He 'f1uttered' in the Stock Ex-
change, and persuaded lis friends to
'1utter.' The imprudence of this is
clear; but it is not, in the light of the
evidence, corrupt practise
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

The administration has made another
blunder. 1t discharged Chief Moore just
when he had begun to turn out decent
brand of weather.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full DAY
teleRraph report of that great news or-
ganizatfon 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., 1913-04-19

A New York heiress is about to
marry man who is not her ideal.
Probably she has seen a few of her
ideals shattered
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Probably those York state farmers
who complain that wandering deer
bit their fruit trees would prefer game
laws that protected guides.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

New York is a fast city. They had
a boxing tournament there as a bene-
fit for the Ohio relief fund and for
warded the check two weeks later.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

As soon as the income tax law goes
into operation the theatrical press
agents will have to fall back on the
milk bath and the lost Jewels
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

1t is still legal for white persons to
marry Indians in Nebraska and doubt
less will be as long as the Indian lands
hold out
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Honors are about even-the Brit
fish cabinet has the militant suffragists
and the American cabinet has the mil
liant job-hunters.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

What a time there would have been
If some of those Roosevelt messages
had been read to congress by the col
onel himself?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

The professor who reports finding
prehistoric remains of giant bears,
wolves and camels in California does
MT mention the bull moose
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

''Apatite' has been put on the free
list in the Underwood tariff bill. Still
the hungry Democrats , don't seem
to be happy.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

If the income tax bill pass there will
be an extra inducement to hold for Of
flee. Salaries of officials are exempt
from its operation.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

The cat with its nine lives does not
seem to have anything on King AL
fonso. He has survived eight attempts
to kill him.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Texas is suing the Standard Oil COM
pany for 500. O.0OO, ,OOO Judge Landis
has missed something by remaining in
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

A New York physical culture ex-
pert declares that nervousness will
soon be a thing of the past. Still,
each league city can not be sure of
winning the pennant.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Vice President Marshallu says that
golf should be "debrutalized.' Some
body been taking his balls?
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

One precedent Mr.. Wilson seems in
clined to let stand. It is reported that
he will visit the Panama canal.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Probably no administration ever
started ous under more auspicious cir
cumstances than has that of President
Wilson. 1t is praised by almost every
body and condemned by Mr.. Hearst
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Anyway, those personally-deliver
presidential messages are sure to be
reasonably short.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Vincent Astor is much interested in
the development of his farms But
about the only plowing he does per-
sonally is on the ocean blue, with his
steam yacht.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

1t looks as if those who designed
the bulgarian blouses want to get
us into trouble with the Balkan al
lance
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

The farmers who objected to reci-
procity with Canada are now likely
to get reciprocity with the entire
world
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Almost everybody likes a title. But
probably the "Onion Queen would
be willing to dispense with hers.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Wise WiIlie--Uncle John-Willie, if you
could have your way, who would you
rather be than anybody else? Small Willie
Just me-if I could always have my
own way.-Chicago News
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

Begins to look as though wha
those English arsonettes want is no
equal rights, but unequal fights.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

In fact, it is reported that the wage
of New York cop misses his cigar
and booze bill by several notches.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19
by TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

New York cops claim that they can
not live on their wages. We are re-
liably informed that they do not-but
a number of them are still living.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-19

The most uncalled-for thing in the
world is the second tail on a freak
cat. The next is Ex-Governor Hoch's
apology for accepting an appointment
from Governor Hodges.