The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-28
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FROM OTHER PENS
1A1L cELLs FOR A TRUST.

/ Judge HOLSTER, OF the OHlteu 0tdlC9
district court at Cincinnati, rises to dis
tinction by committing the president and
twenty subordinates of the National
| Cash Register company to jail for OIL
| fences against the criminal clause of the
sherman antitrust law. Generally there
rarticular part of the law and the theory
that guilt is personal have been Vinot-
Gated Specifically, there will be approval
| on the part of those who are famlllar
with the case, in the belief that the
.strangling'' methods by which ms con-
Germ has eliminated competition deserve
such severe punishment II II Is TO NC
melted out to any trust
But IS the differentiation between the
president of the concern, supposed 70 pc,
and actually, its directing spirit. and the
district managers and statesmen who only
carried out the policies defined for thein
by their supporters, to be measured Dy
tba * OO0 fine imposed on the former in
addition to the years sentence IN jan,
which twenty -four employees share WIN
Judge. like Lands of S29. 900 fine-noto-
riety seems to have opened the way LOT
the upset of his own purpose to put teeth
into the Iaw-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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EXTENDING THE PARCEL POST.
Tho farm papers, which are generally
given credit with having brought to bear
the greater influence in securing the
adoption of the parcel post, are now unit
I ing in a demand fof the aDoHtlon OF the
zone system as unwieldly, cumbersome
extensive and complicated. Those who
opposed it and who claimed that once
eiXen a foothold it would proceed to
sound the doom of the country town ana
: fine country merchant will now point with
nride to themselves prophets OIL genus
Rnt the truth probably is that thissis an
other of. those worries about something
that will never happen travelling men
say that if the parcel post or ahytmnS
else can inject more life into business in
, the small towns it will betthe best thing
that ever occurred to the country mei-
rTzr-. f1,f a w
they assert to be 9. fact that in the older
sett. I'd sections of q state the merchants
secure in the possession OF "a saelstaceo Of
business lack the enterprise that marks
the dealers in other sections anu That
their slow buying adds to the expense OF
doing business because it necessltate3
making more trips than are really neces-
Sary.-Lincoln News
.fBANEFUI4 JEWELS
We arise to protest against the present
oyersuppIy of magazine fiction centerirs
upon various East Indian Jewels OF bane-
full potency. It seems as If the poor pub
lie cannot pick up magazine without
having to hear the tale of the pearl. the
diamond the ruby which means death to
all who own It me G1lry Inttins seems ~,
orientsl secret society that wants to xiii
everybody, whether they have jewels or
not
Popular. fiction goes in waves, of course.
There was the Prisoner of Zenda" wave,
which is sull sending little trlckiets up
the beach: there was the young civil en-
sineer' wave; there was the romance OF
bie business wave. All these have
passed Even the adapted sclentlIic DIS
covery'' wave shows signs of receding.
But the .-baneful jewel is still with us.
Its mystery feature Conan Doyle did bet
ter than any of his successors IN "Th@
SDeckled Band because he did 1t with
some skill in characterization. He made
Sherlock Holmes an interesting person.
And If is sad fact that il you don't
know the person who is being "banefui-
ized'' you don't care very much about
any horrible thing that happens to him.
We would dearly like to read a story
about plain, ordinary jewel that WASH
stolen from eastern potentate and had
no desire at all to kill any human being
Chicago Post.