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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
FIGHT GROWS HOT.
DIR. Jordan Withdraws Candidacy for
President of n. E. A.

st. Paul, July delegates to the
National Education association, the
annual convention of which Is in pro-
gress here today. continued their ac-
tivities in a campaign for the presi-
dency, such as has never marked q
previous meeting of the association.
Surprise was created in convention
headquarters when friends of DIR.
David Starr Jordan announced that
their candidate would insist that his
name be withdrawn from the race if
supporters of DIR. d. B. johnson.
Rockhill. s. G.. the chief opponent of
Dr.. Jordan.
No sooner had the possible with
drawal Of DR.. Jordan been announced
than administration supporters sug-
gested the presentation of the name
of DR.. James H. Baker. president
emeritus of the state university of
Colorado, as an eleventh-hour candi-
date to oppose DIR. johnson. A high
officer of the association stated that
such a move might be expected.
Speaking before the kindergarten Sec
ton, p. H. Claxton, United States COM
missioner of education, sounded a
warning to mothers who restrain their
children from playing with other
children, particularly those whom they
term bad" He advocated 1.-The great
big out-Of-doors'' as the most wonder
full kindergarten in existence
The child that is raised in the en-
vironment of brick walls and paved
streets and noises will not develop as
the child who is taken into the open
air and left to study out the little
problems confronting him." the speak
err said.
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Globe Sights

Is a mans first duty to his country or
his family?
1t can wear clothes and still be Art. al
thought an unusual variety, perhaps.
Very few women who are satisfied with
their personal charms are suffragettes-
Don't worry about your not getting
credit; q good bird dog can't tell you he
is good.
Mother IL unselfish and doesn't claim
credit for the smart sayings Of her chill
dxen.
An Eskimo has one more rib than any
other man. indicating that Adam was no
Eskimo.
Work. instead Of q long and serious
discussion. will solve quite a number Of
problems
professional nurse knows almost as
much as q doctor and some things the
doctor doesn't hear.
woman feels able to cope with any
difficulty II she just has time to give
her nose an extra dab OF powder.
Strangely enough, q rounder usually
makes more noise than any other Irate
Husband when his wife goes wrong
II you can be calm when excitement is
all around you. you'll make . good SOL
dier OF q pretty fair hand ON q daily
pcper.
several reapectA There.. for inStnnce. the
Eederab are ~ con1t6srSd IT, outlaw
league
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
MEASLES IN LEAD.
Contagious Diseases i'm Kansas Re.
ported by Board Of Health.

Measles led all other contagious dis
eases in Kansas in May, according to
morbidity statistics issued this after
noon by the state board of health. A
total of 1908 cases were reported. Next
came whooping cough. followed by the
malignant smallpox and uncomfortable
mumps
The table follows: Typhoid fever 81
cases: diphtheria, y; scarlet fever, 66;
smallpox. 241; measles. 1908: whooping
cough 2S8; meningitis. 2: pellagra, 2;
mumps. POS; chicxenpox. q: other COM
municabie diseases. 10. The list con-
tains the cheerful information that no
cases Of poliomyelitis occurred in the
month.
Shawnee county il q health resort
Outside Topeka only three persons were
afflicted with contagious disease-scar-
let fever. Topeka reported II cases of
smallpOx-the detention hospital %
empty after months of PATRONAGE
eight cases of measles and three each
of chickenpox, dfphthcria and typhoid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
Jayhawker Jots

1t Is surely a mighty lonely day in
yellow dogs life, says the Spring
Hill New Fra, if nobody hands him a
kick
Isn't C. G. E., the Gordon CORE
sponoent OF the Douglass Tribune. the
mean. old thing? Listen to this an
nouncement from that source: News
is a little bit shy here this week. but
we think we know something we must
not tell.
A couple of observations on dogs
and men by f. e. Kelley in the Toronto
Republican: In every small town there
Is always one man all the stray dogs
instinctively take up with. Also, in
every small town there is always one
bark
Told by the Holton Signal: you
in the rush shop. Den 1 Gala my
brother Petro." us Petro better at
hair cutting than your" asked the new
patron. Petro mucha better. He
tella da wonderful ghosta story an
make da hair rise. an he no losa da
time holdin' it up wild da comba.'
Observations by Click Fockele, in
the Leroy Reporter: The man behind
the gun has to stand the kicks. This
is also the season of the year when
the town man abandons his garden to
weeds. The hardest debt to collect
Is the campaign expense after the
candidate has been defeated. The
man who gets the least sympathy is
the professional horse-trader who
makes a bad bargain. The saddest
case is that of a man with a crouch
who is unable to get any one to listen
to his tale of woe.
Related by the Troy Chief: A
stumbling old negro went down the
street leading a big dog with For
Sale" sign on its collar. A little girl
spied the dog and wanted 1t. She
teased SO hard that her mother finally
asked its price. Two dollars" said
the negro. an expectant grin dividing
his features. Two dollars!" exclaim-
ed the lady. ''Why, the dog isn't worth
that much. I'll give you fifty cents IS
The negro drew himself up indignant
ly. Lady" he said, "Ah couldn't
think of it. Why, de fellow All got
dis dog from gave me a dollah to get
Projected on the screen by the
Lindsborg News Vitascope: or course
you may be having a good time, but is
1t worth the price you are PAYING?
Why complain because Of difficulties
and obstacles? One cannot win a VIC
tory unless there is a battle . If all
the boys became as great as the moth
ers expect them to, there would be too
many generals and not enough SOL
diers. 1t isn't SO bad to knock if
you do the right kind of knocking.
Even opportunity has to knock to
make herself heard. ;. And then,
| there are folks who sit around with
their hands folded and complain that
busy folks don't do enough for them.
| The SeGgwick Paragraph advises
that women could have q little more
heaven on earth il they would dress
after the manner Of angels and cut out
corsets and tight shoes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
LETTERS Are OFFERED
Senator Thompson Declines Evidence
in Mine Promotion Case.

Washington. July 7.-ComptrolIer
Williams. before a senate committee
today investigating charges Of misuse
OF letter heads for promotion of a
North Carolina gold mining project.
reiterated his previous statement that
he had no interest whatsoever In the
property and denied that he ever ar
ranged conference between the pro-
mOter and the prospective buyer.
Senators POmerene and Swanson
testified they bought stock in the mine.
w. q. Newman, the promoter, con-
tradicted testimony by Comptroller
Williams that he had received no COM
about the mine from New
man except a few kilograms. Newman
offered to produce letters. but Senator
Thompson, chairman Of the commit
tee declined to receive them.. Sena-
tor Clapp objected that the letters
should be produced
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in time to save her life. and abe could
never feel grateful enough.
Was it = big dog?" was asked.
Wa. We. II : black dox7"
"Why. that was Judge Swans
Newfoundland. and he is as harmless
a. kitten! was playing with him
back there. I shall take great pleas
ure in saving your life when the timee
comes. blu tit has not arrived yet"
The third experience fell to Widow
Barnes. She had been casting an eye
on carpenter named Toles, and one
day when he was working at q Job
opposite her house she set up q lad
der at the rear and mounted to the
roof and then sat down and began
to scream.
What in thunder is the matter up
there" shouted Mr.. Toles.
Pm going to fall"
but don't, them
I'm 30 dizzy"
Look at the sky till you get over
it,
'But-but-'
How did you get up there
by a ladder
Then get down by the same way.''
The LAWYERS widow heard of these
failures and 1t put her on mettte not
to make one. She had to wait for
three months before her opportunity
came. Then widower named Bell
removed to st. Clair and opened a
hardware store. She was one OF his
first patrons. and for a fortnight met
him daily at the store or on the
street. Then she entered the store
one day with a small wooden box
under her arm and said: "Oh, Mr..
Bell I found this in the road. viii
you open it and see what the contents
are?"
why. of course" he replied as
he looked around for a chisel
But he never opened it. AS he
was about to insert the chisel his
eye fell upon some writing in pencil
and he started back and turned pale.
What is it?"
He. made no answer, but walked
down to the bridge and flung the
box into the river. The writing
had read:
"Dynamite! Handle with care."
He refused to tell the widow what
the contents were, not wishing to
alarm her, but she already knew.
There were sawdust and gravel stones
in that box.
But they were married, and he
never knew. and the five other wild
ows got mad and busted the COM
btne. or course, a lawyers widow
would win out of course she
would!-(Copyright 1914. by the
Mcclure Newspapers Syndfcate.)
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with Flames Surrounding Her;
She Dug Out Papers.
Sister Of James n. Nation, For.
NOR State Auditor.

Miss Odella Nation Of Erie. teach
er In tho Pittsburg manual training
school. was . real heroine when nre
destroyed the schools big adminiBtra-
ton building week ago. It was due
to the pluck and courage Of Miss Ma
ton that the records at the normal
school were saved. and records Of the
years work at the school viii now be
compiled without delay.
While In Pittsburg. Miss Nation has
roomed but q short distance from the
normal school. When the flre started.
she was awakened and after hastily
dressing. rushed to the building.
The biennial report for the school
had just been completed. and all OF
the schOors records and vouchers
were stored in one Of the ofilces ON the
second floor OF the building. Miss
Nation thought Of all these things.
she knew that the building was
the biennial report and the records
meant days and days Of hard work.
ana perhaps the loss OF much Of the
data that the faculty had worked for
weeks to accumulate. The Pittsburg
nre department. had not arrived, and
the building was a veritable furnace.
she Found Ladder
In the engine rooms. Miss Nation
found ladder. She leaned It against
the brick wall Of the administration
building. The ladder was short and
barely reached the second floor win
DOW. But the plucky young woman
took chance. She climbed to the ton
or the ladder and with an effort raised
the window. Then she drew herself
over the window sill and into the room.
She knew Just where the records
We're placed-because she herself had
helped to make them. For ten minutes
the young woman worked in the burn
ing pudding. The room was filled with
smoke and the floor and walls were
beginning to burn. Miss Nation never
stopped. Her Individual work ssved
the records.
Today the records for the Pittsbur~
biennial and the normal trainin9.
school vouchers were received by 10.
M Bowen. secretary to the educational
administration board. The records
were singed and smoked. But thew
were complete and intact.
Deserves Much Credit.
Miss Nation deserves much credit. >,
said Prof. Bowen. 'She alone IN re-
sponsibie for the saving of the records
ana she displayed unusual bravery by
entering the burning building. Except
Tor her prompt action and courage. IL
would have. been impossible to have
made up the biennial at this time or
to have checked the schools vouchers
for the month";"
Miss Nation is well known in south.
eastern Kansas. She il a sister of
James M. Nation of Erie, former state
auditor, and one OF the most widely
known political leaders in the Third
district.
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TO WOMAN
DR.. Carman's Story to Detec.
tives Is COrroborated.
Witness Found Who Heard
Threat to Kill Him.

"a Philadelphia, July John Howe of
this city, who was reported to have tele-
phoned David Kennedy of Freeport that
a woman with whom Howe was cruis-
ing had threatened to kill DIR. Carman,
was found here today and confirmed
the story told by DIR. Carman to de-
tectives. Howe. who is In business here.
said that summer before last he invited
a Freeport man and his wife to an out
ing on Great South Bay, Long Island.
in his mOtorbOat. He would not give
their names.
said, ''and ran across David Kennedy
and DIR. Carman. I knew them both.
The moment we spied them the wom-
an In our party screamed and ran
back to the boat. Her husband re-
manned. He was surprised by his
wifc's action. 1 ran to the boat after
her. 1 found her on a seat in hys-
terics. She was creaming, That man
ruined my husband and ruined me.
am going to kill him if it takes a life
time She picked up a paper knife
shaped like a dagger and started to
leave the boat. 1 caught hold Of hel
and kept her back and asked whom
she meant. DR.. Carman.' she said"
howe said the woman refused to
explain her action and demanded to
be taken back home at once. When
her husband came aboard the party
returned to Freeport. Neither one
of them spoke of the incident again. y
said Howe II did not try to find but
the reason for it, and never gaves it
another thought until this murder &C.
Cured. l thought over it a lot since
and decided it was my duty to tell II
although I hated to do so.''
Howe said he telephoned Kennedy
of the incident and the latter recalled
1t and said he would notify the police
Howe also said that he had a tele-
phone message from Freeport today
that detectives had gone to the wo.
mans house. but did not find her al
home
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''H0NEST JOHN DOE"


IakeS to WOODS.
Leavenworth, Kan, July 7.-"John
Doe, No. 10,'' last week hailed as the
most honest convict in the Kansas
penitentiary escaped today. He walked
away from the prison pump house, to
which post he was attached after his
refusal last week to accept a parole
intended for another convict-"John
Doe. No. H.
"John Doe. No. H." was paroled last
week by Governor Hodges for his good
work in aiding the construction Of the
new Irvine plant at the state prison. In
making out the papers, however, q
clerk made them read John Doe. No.
TO-" The papers came to the latter
individual and he could have left the
prison il he desired. Instead, he told
the warden he believed the papers
were not intended for him.
Because of his honesty the convict
was given an easy job at the pump
house. Today when his guards were
not about, John Doe, No. TO-" walked
into a thick woods nearby to the lib
erty he mad refused to accept last
week
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proving tendency. particularly at Lon
don. At Paris there 10 still some ten
sion owing t. an uneasy political situ-
alton. but financial affairs generally on
the continent are settling down. and
nation at Sarajevo was received shows
that NO serious complications are yet
In prospect The shock Of tho Claf1in
failure has beeen safely passed; al
though It IL somewhat premature to
anticipate that the taking care of over
100000 Of liabilities can be effect
ed without some losses and dinlculties.
Current railroad earnings frequently
show very poor results, and additional
receiverships are unpleasant remind
ers Of the strain imposed upon rail-
road finances by recent conditions.
These. however. belong to the past.
The future certainly begins to look
more cheerful. Good crops and easy
money are factors powerfully helpful.
The improvement in financial affairs
abroad should make foreign buyers
more favorably inclined to American
investments. The administration has
about accomplished all that it wishes
in new legislation affecting business.
and our Industrial leaders are now
well informed N to coming readtust-
ment. Uncertainty should. therefore.
gradually disappear. Commodities
have been steadily declining and ere
long should result in a lessened cost
OF living. No one can pretend that
business is satisfactory. On the con-
trary. it is decidedly slow: but the rea-
sons given above warrant the hope
that we are about turning the corner"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

In . paragraph. appearing recently
IN this column. an error was made in
asserting that the first full fiscal year
OF the Wilson administration closed
with deficit in the treasury. This
statement was based on news dis
patches from Washington that were
preliminary to the ending Of the fiscal
year. and which forecasted such a
deficit. But on the last day of the
fiscal year. the returns from the in
come tax law were SO unexpectedly
large that the almost certain deficit
in prospect was changed to surplus.
30 the Wilson administration ended
its first full fiscal year with a balance
ON the right side of the ledger. and
not In the hole. as the paragraph in
Qpegtion made out.
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Journal Entries

He is also a genius who does the
right thing at the right time.
Too many people insist on giving the
oev1l much more than his due.
Trying to please everybody is an al
most certain way to please nobody.
Neither are there good and suffi-
cent reasons for most of the worries
that folk indulge in.
An accommodating man is never
permitted by his friends to lack oppor-
tunities to exercise his talent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
II Huerta insists on considering I

II Huerta insists on considering the
armistice between the United States
and his forces as no longer binding.
in view of the practical dissolution of
thea. B. c. mediation conference, the
slaughter Of some of the small Ameri-
can outposts around Vera Cruz will
be the natural sequence. And then
the Democratic administration will
hear just what the American people
think of its ''watchful waiting" policy,
ard its failure to supply Funston with
the soldiers he requested to make the
positions of his forces absolutely Sc
rs1re
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
after FILM TRUST.

Taking of Testimony to Begin in st.
Louis July 20.
Jefferson City. July THE taking of
testimony will commence July 20 at st.
Louis, in the Information filed by At
torney General Barker. in the supreme
court against the Mutual Films cor
pOration-
The attorney general contends this
company controls the output of films
for moving picture shows in such q
way as to constitute a trust. The testi-
mony will be taken before Special SUI
preme Court Commissioner Henry Play
of Warsaw. w. Rutherford, assistant
attorney general, will represent the
state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

Like a ray of sunshine piercing a
bank OF clouds comes the suggestion
from DR.. j. r. Horner, of the Cleve-
land Homeopathic Medical college.
that what the, human race needs is
more love and less eugenics. 1t is his
belief that as long as man is attracted
by beauty and women by strength,
eugenics will. in great measure. take
care of itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

Russia has it's Siberia where unfor-
Inmates are sentenced for life for doing
little more than making faces at the
car. And the United States has its
Alabama where a negro was sent to
prison for so years for stealing so
cents from another negro. That he
has been paroled after serving only
20 years of this sentence il not much
OF q saver for Alabama's face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
Prize winning Artist Dies,

Magnolia, Mass, July 7.-Frank
Knox Moron Rehn. an artist OF New
York. died suddenly just, outside his
summer home last night. Mr.. Rehn
who was born in Phfladelphia sixty
six years ago, had been awarded
medals and prizes for his marines.
landscapes and portraits in many ex-
hfbitions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
awny from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
81 ten cents a week or thirty cents
= month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State journal Will DC
70 you like daily letter from home.
Advance payment II requested ON
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07
Boy Burned 10 DeatIl.

West Plains, No., July 7.-SeArch
for the five-year-old son Of Ovid Pc
tefs, who was missing when . barn
on the farm Of his grandfather. n. p.
Peters. two miles north Of this place.
the charred body was found in the
ruins. The boy had . playhouse In
the barn and IL supposed to have been
playing with matches and set flre to
the hay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

Filming their subjects at $500 a
crack, as was done to Manager Sto-
vail of the Kansas City team. is neat
way for the promoters of the Federal
League to get back considerable por-
lions of the munificent salaries they
handed out when the league was or
~anSxoA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

The LATEST man in the world has
been discovered in this town, boasts
the Florida Times-Union. He stood on
Bay street yesterday and held a match
out in his hand until a street car
brushed by and struck it for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

why not some test flights on and
over the ocean for the America, the
hydroaeroplane that is being groomed
for an attempted flight across the
Atlantic, instead of on lake where
the surface is as peaceful and the air
currents above it as quiet as are those
on and about the proverbial mill-pond.
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0UI1. LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PREcSs

The state Journal Is q member ot re
Ae0ocleted Press and receives the full 0nv
eologroph report Of that great noWU -
gan1sat1op for the exclusive aft0Doo
Solicitation IN Topeka
The news ID received in The state Jou.
ri building Oveg wires fer this ooao 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

Nor would it be at all surprising il
Count Boni de Castellane. provided the
Vatican court gives him permission
to wed again. annexes another woman
of means. they seem to have such a
faculty for doing foolish things.
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schneider Ii Arrested.

Burlington. Wis. July Harold C.
Schneider. wanted in Chicago in con-
nection with the murder Of John H.
Lngue. a jeweler slain in his office in
the Mcvickers theater building In 1919,
was arrested today at Honeycreek,
near here. by Chief Of Police Beller Of
this city. Schneider was dressed A. Z
farm hand and was working at Honey
creek His wife was with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

AS the Chicago Herald points out.
the most sital and triumphant Of the
new ideas turns out to be the old one
Of brotherly love and social duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

According to the Galveston News
about the easiest thing to exaggerate
in this world is the good time man
Gays he had on his vacation trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

Attention is called by the New York
World to the fact that old England
keeps q nose ahead of us in the social
uplift by developing a prize-fight
referee in the person of a minister OF
the gospel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

The end of the alliance between Car
rama and Villa is in sight. They've
begun to quarrel over money matters.