The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-16
From, Other Pens
PROSPERITY FOREsEEN.

PROSPERITY FORESEEN
The crop reporting board of the De-
partment Of Agriculture. in a statis-
teal statement issued the present
month. makes the pleasant predic-
ton that the wheat crop of 1914 will
be the greatest ever harvested in the
United States. Estimated production
10000, 5000; ooo ooo bus Estimated
1913 will be exceeded by approximate
ly 3OO,OO.000 bushels. Unusually good
conditions rule also as to rye, hay
lands. pastures and spring blowing.
Dame Fortune never smiles on the
farmers. who constitute more than a
third OF our population. without
beaming upon the whole country.
One official at Washington expresses
the same idea thus: Wheat means
bread: 1t means greater railroad traf-
fic. and this in turn means better
condition Of finance. Railroad stocks
and bonds improve. Put into q sin
gle sentence, a prosperous agricultural
year means prosperity in all direc-
tf0ns." The omens are propitious for
q marked business revival on a sound
industrial and commercial basis in
the near future. Take heart and pc
an optimist! Lend a hand!-Boston
Globe.
DRAMA UPLIFT.
This is something which causes
seems to know just what 1t is or who
wants it, New York thinks that it
can secure something of the sort by
lowering the prices on the better
shows. We have our doubts. New
York is having dramatic spasms Of
late in two directions. 1t seems to de-
mand and to produce either sex hys-
terra or sensational horrors and no
other kind Of play has had much of q
chance with the public there for some
time. We are inclined to think that,
on the other hand, the highbrow play
wrights give US too much dialogue and
not enough action and, on the other.
that prices have not much to do with
the kind of plays that the people will
attend. The public will go where it
likes and IL quite likely to get what IL
wants. A little theater venture or a
municipal theater would not do any
better at 81 than 1t would at 81
seat unless its productions accorded
with public appetite. These thtnep
come In waves. People will not go
ton. but they go a little stronger In
all directions for each change made
Los Angeles Times.
TO SAVE THE BABIES.
1t was q particularly sensible thing
for the national house Of representa-
tives to do when It overrode the Pc
INJURIOUS appropriations committee
which gave $1.0oo.ooo to protect hogs
from cholera and cut the appropria-
ton for protecting babies. throukh the
children's bureau. down to $4,000. 1t
IL to be hoped that the senate would
have done II II the house had failed,
but the house. in spite Of the adverse
advice of the committee. voted 31e6. 900.
which - al that the bureau asked for
the present year. Various nations are
doing everything possible to increase
the birth rate while Americans let 6a-
bies die at the rate of 100000 year,
when a very large proportion could be
saved by proper care and precautions,
IL the mothers only understood. This
fact has been abundantly proved in the
city Of New York and to some extent
in other localities. This knowledee Il
what the children's bureau IL trying
to impart- It certainly deserves one
sixth ~ much a. we expend to save
hogs, ana In time we may come TO
realize the fact that children are the
greatest asset Of . nation and worth
whatever Il may cost to preserve a.
well - to educate thems-ean DieGo
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