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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-25
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcHIsON GLOBE.

Political faith isn't always orthodox.
The market report doesn't mean much
to a man who is broke.
When a man pays hts taxes he feels
like writing real political platform.
II you put it to vote, motion can
usually be carried by the fault-finders.
Possibly it is your business. If you
want to get tight. but it isn't much OF a
business.
There are a number Of people whose
principal object is making the welxin
ring.
So many people say the wrong thing 1T
conversation.
Although a rumor travels fast, it doesn't
travel far until it begins to disguise itself
as a fact.
There must not be much to the men.
because a woman who acts like q man
usually isn't very popular.
The average man manages to afford ten
cent cigars when he Is In his old home
town for Christmas
Jude johnson was taken home in the
patrol wagon last night, having done his
Christmas stopping early.
Some men commit suicide because of i'll
health. and others because they couldn t
keep 1t up with their rich neighbors.
Sometimes a man spends his life worry
ing for Gear he will be robbed and after
his demise the lawyers get to his estate.
Our search of ancient history fails to
reveal where the jokesmith got the notion
that a bald head is essential to q keen
interest In legs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-25

thority to place parents. as well a. chill
dren or probation for truancy and de-
linquency; they ask better state SUPER
vision of dependent children; civil ser
vice for all truant officers; and the
maintenance Of parental schools. special
rooms for truants and incorrigibles. and
health inspection of schools as material
factors in child welfare.
The attendance officer Of the new
type is to be a far better trained man
or woman and is to receive better pay.
Superintendent Of some Of the largest
school systems in the United States
Joined in advocating a minimum sal
airy of 500 per month, with services for
II months in the year, in order that
the officers may be In constant touch
with the home conditions of the boys
and girls.
The United States bureau Of educa-
ton has agreed to cooperate with the
league of compulsory school attendance
officials in the collection Of statistics
bearing on attendance problems. AS
part of the movement for better at
tendance, it has been urged that per-
manent census bureau be established
and maintained in every city in the
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-25
K{sasas Comment
WATCH THE BRAKES.


With the meeting of the Legislature
only q few weeks distant. plans are
being laid by various state institutions
and organizations to secure Al larBe
appropriations for their work AZ pes-
sible. Alumni Of the vsrious schools
are organizing for the purpose OF
pressing the claims Of their colleges
for enlarged appropriations for new
buildings and for current expenses.
Other institutions. supported by the
state, are preparing to make strong
cases for increased allowances, all OF
which il to be expected because Of
their interest In the work they are do
ing. But the legislators should bear
in mind the fact that the present adj
ministratiOn will cease at the close OF
its first term because Of unfulfil1ed
promises to trim appropriations and
reduce expenses and take 1t as an ex-
preston of the sentiment of the state.
Kansas does not wish to be niggardly
with its state institutions. Kangas
people take pride in them and are
perfectly willing to spend whatever =
necessary to keep them in the highest
state of efficiency. but on the other
hand, there 10 no need for prodfgal ex-
penditure and the legislature will do
the will of the majority II 1t holds
down appropriations as low a. possible
without impairing the efficiency of the
work done. With all the lobbyists
pushing the appropriations of their
particular interest, It will be well for
the members of both houses to keep
an eye on the brakes.-Downs Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-25
QUAKER siEDIrAToNs.

(From the Philadelphia Record.1
Strangely enough, you can make some
people hot by treating them coldly.
We are more apt to give a man credit
for good luck than for common sense.
When q man has more dollars than
sense. he 10 badly in need Of a little
change.
OF all people in the world. the critic
should be the last to live in glass house.
The man who Is always Quarreling with
his cook would probably rather fight than
eat.
Many man who wouldn't take any
thing else that. doesn't belong to him 10
quick to take offense.
A temperance lecture in q prohibition
town isn't always q case OF carrying
Goals to Newcastle.
The people who are always harping on
one string are generally out Of tune with
the rest of the world.
Blobbs-"He's so lucky everything he
touches turns to gold" Slobbs-'I
wouldn't mind being touched by q fellow
like that"
Love makes the world 90 round" quot
ed the Wise Guy. Yes, but 1t doesn't
always seem able to make both ends
meet" added the Simple Mug.
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IFrom the Chicago News.]

IFrom the Chicago News.J
When your ideal is shattered. save the
pieces!
Few people can afford to indulge in the
luxury of envy.
II you live in a flat, employ q cook who
can roast the janitor.
A woman may refuse to tell her age.
but sooner or later age win tell
Occasionally one meets a man whose
relatives use him for a doormat.
It keeps q man guessing when he meets
a woman who has nothing to say.
Be satisfied with the milk of human
kindness II you can't get the cream.
Anyway. Delilah didn't try to work
Samson for a dose Of hair tonic or a
shampoo.
Nothing interests = girl less than q
novel that the author has dedicated to
his wife.
1t is a poor neighborhood that is made
up Of men with liver spots on their dis
positions. 81
Anyway, the young man who has to
work hard all day Is too tired to play
the cornet at night.
Many a man fails to get rich because
he thinks it's up to him to run the coun-
try instead Of his own affairs
We knew q woman once who suddenly
returned = borrowed copy oes Mark Twain
because she found q WAD tz1l1oroua.
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THE MEANING OF TT.

That the world is effecting a read
justment Of values at this time is not
to be contested, says Golfers. Life.
which eemed so significant. a thing.
proves to be no more than smoke scat
tering upon the air or dried leaves
falling from the autumn trees. Sud-
denly our little snug, kindly world has
been transformed by frightful illu-
mination, and the aspect Of all known
things is changed. In another age
such an awareness might have
prompted men to excuses of prodt-
gality and self-indulgence. But one
of the reassuring features Of the pres
ent appalling time is that this realiza-
ton seems to have had a Quieting and
sweetening effect. Men and women
or to show by their own essential
rightness that the mad time is not
all mad; they try to prove to them
selves that the waters are not all bit
ter. Indeed, now, If ever, should
friendships be drawn closer and fam
lily ties bound faster with acts OF con-
sideration and love. Now, II ever. the
fortunate homes Of this land should
decorate themselves with graciousness
and unity. Now, if ever. hospitality
should be extended. Not hospitality
of the board alone, but hospitality of
the soul. 1t has been said of late that
Europe's catastrophe is Americas OPP
portunity. That is true in more ways
than one. If now" is the word which
the funeral pyres of the battle fields
have taught us to value above any
past or future possibility. let us make
that NOW" beautiful with kindlier
and more liberal living.
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Euening Chat
Wishing My Reader Friends . Most
Happy Christmas.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Wishing My Reader Friends . Most
Happy Christmas.
Dear friends, east and west and north
and south, to some of you 1 wish a
Merry Christmas this morning. And
to those Of you for whom change OF
loss or suffering have rendered the
wish of Merry Christmas a mockery, I
wish instead Sweet and Happy
Christmas, made endurable by the abil-
ity to see 1.-The stars shine through your
cypress trees and made happy by try
ing to make others SO.
This is the Christmas greeting send
to my reader friends each year across
the wireless Of our printed friendship.
And 1 am sending out Of my heart
this Christmas a wish that the two
greatest gifts in the world may be yours
today-the gift OF peace and the gift
Of love.
For today, at least, may the unrest
and the discomfort and all the mean
how creep into our hearts and lives
be driven out by the spirit Of Christ
mas and may q sense of peace and
serenity abide in their place.
For today, at least, may you love
your fellow men as you never have
before. may the gilt Oh love DC your
greatest Christmas gift. And, oh, my
reader friends, it 81 gift in every
sense of the word to be able to love
humanity, as great a gift as to be
able to sing or paint, for 1t gives as
much happiness to the world and
more to its possessor. It took Scrooge
lifetime and a vision to find out that
aft r all love is the only real happi-
ness. May the sense of that great fact
come to you today and may you be
filled not only with the love OF those
near to you, not only with the love
Of friends, but with that love Of all
humanity, with that great tenderness
for folks everywhere, with that pas
sionate wish for the greater happiness
of all and especially of all who sin
and suffer. that is the flower Of the
civilization which celebrates Christ,
mas.
When I sat down to write my
Christmas message 1 tried to think
what were the most beautiful things
1 could wish for you. the gifts would
give you II might. and the answer
seemed to come to me-wish that
they may have the great gift of peace
and that they may find the happiness
that comes from loving more.
So I wrote the wishes down as you
see them, and then rs 1 paused !
suddenly realized that they were no.
new. For I had simply been wishing
the first Christmas wish that ever
was spoken-the wish that in carol
and song still echoes down the ages
and will 20 long as we honor Christ
mas-the wish OF the angels to the
shepherds of Peace on earth. good
will toward men,"
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Jayhawker Jots

Ewing Herbert Of the Hiawatha
World declares that man never has
as good time while his wife is away
as she imagtnes he does.
Usually, as the jamestown Optimist
says, the fellow who insists that char
ity should begin at home has some
other excuse If you pass the hat for
the benefit Of home people.
Keith Clevenger Of the Osawatomie
Graphic points out that the school of
experience has no vacation, it goes on
season in and season out and it gives
two diplomas-failure or success.
A Concordia women has received
from her sister in Canada badge
which she says the folks in Canada are
all wearing. The badge shows the pic
ture of a helmet in white on blue
scribed the word TO-" while below it
appear the words der Kaiser"
To achieve the most in life, and to
derive the most from life, a sense Of
humor must be cultivated, advises the
Jewell County Monitor. AS individuals
we must be ready and willing to see the
pleasant side Of things. No pessimistic,
ever achieved anything worthy OF emu
latiOn. HumOr develops into DISPOSE
ton. Disposition foundations charac-
ter. HumOr is a password to progress.
1t leads to good judgment.
Shafts, from the Gridley Light: Few
friendships last long without a little
money to put into them. About
the easiest thing on earth is criticism
that's why there is so much of it..
/. Many and many a wedding gown
grows into a divorce suit before it has
gone out Of style. . A man may
think a lot but if he says or does
nothing his thinking does no one any
good. Some people are like a mule
they think all other voices than their
own are out Of tune. Some wom-
en- never realize what their husbands
are worth to them until they collect his
life insurance.
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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.

Nothing is finer than the Christmas
spirit. The possession of 1t, which IL
so general as the old year wanes. sub
jugates self. To make others happy.
to please them for the nonce with a
thoughtful remembrance in either
words or gifts, elevates one from the
mire Of sordid selfishness. the real
curse of humanity.
But this consideration for others
should not be confined to the Christ
mas season. 1t should be perennial
ST. Matthew reports Christ. whose
occasion for the dissemination Of such
cheer. as saying:
when the Son Of man shall come
in his glory. and all the holy angels
with him, then shall he sit upon the
throne Of his glory:
''And before him shall be gathered
all nations: and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth his sheep from the goats:
''And he shall set the sheep on his
right hand, but the goats on his left
Then shall the King say unto them
on his right hand, Come. We blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation
of the world:
For I was an hungered. and We
gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye
gave me drink: was stranger, and
We took me in:
NAKED. and We clothed me: 1 was
sick and We visited me: 1 was in pris-
on, and We came unto me.
"Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying Lord. when we saw thee
an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty,
and gave thee drink?
when we saw thee a stranger. and
took thee in? or naked. and clothed
thee?
"Or when we saw thee sick, or in
prison. and came unto thee?
"And the King shall answer and
say unto them, Verify, I say unto you,
Inasmuch as We have done it unto one
Of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me.
Then he shall say unto them on
the left hand, Depart from me. yeI
cursed. into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels.
For I was an hungered, and We
gave me no meat: 1 was thirsty, and
yet gave me no drink:
II was a stranger, and We took me
not in: naked. and We clothed me not:
sick. or in prison. and We visited me
not.
Then shall they also answer him.
saying, Lord, when we saw thee an
hungered, or athirst, or stranger, or
naked. or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, say
ing, Verify, say unto you, Inasmuch
as We did it not to one OF the least OF
these, We did it not to me.
land these shall go away into ever
lasting punishment: but the righteous
into eternal life"
Could the Christmas spirit only per-
wade the hearts of all men at all
times, what a wonderful world this
would be; and how tremendous would
be their rewards.
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W SSN BY rms E4N4LKER ?"

| house came to the door and said
something about having a porch light
for her present. but Drusilla only
looked wise and told them all they
would have to wait until Christmas.
Christmas morning Drusilla's little
| mother came into the play room
bringing a little tree glistening with
| tinsel, and when 1t was placed on the
table the little bundles that Drusilla
was guarding in the corner were put
under the tree and some were hung
on it.
can sit up and see the tree" said Dru-
silla's little mother to her mother.
Poor Bobby Jones has been broken
since he fell right over when you
opened his box, and have something
for him on the tree, so he must be
mended."
Bobby was carried downstairs. and
box again.
Now will give them their pres
ents," said the little mother. Here
are a watch and chain for you, Dru-
silla; let me put IL on
Then another package was opened
and little sweater for Teddy Bear
was in it. There now. that place the
moths mac, in your fur won't show
any more, Teddy" said tho little
mother rs she put It on him.
And, Bobby Jones, here Ii q men
cap for you that will cover the pIa@s
where the monkey pulled out YOU
hair" and Bobby held very still while
1t was put i his head.
The paper doll had a new set -
furniture for her dining room. ana the
little doll in the doll house had the
light for Ter porch just az she lad
wished.
Bobby Jones bodied up and broke
the silence OF the room that night.
"a Merry Christmas to ALI" he called
out, and up came all the heads, and
Drusilla spoke next.
what did tell you. Bobby
Jones? Don't you like Christmas
now" she asked.
ST should say so.'' re- piled Bobby.
wagging hi head. "I feel like q new
NANNY spring repaired and . new
cap. I certainly Jared WELL
Everybody said they received 3ust
what they wanted, and after talking
awhile Drusi1la took out her watch
and looked At II. my. it's late" she
said. Good night, must 70 to
sleep"
And the playroom settled down to
slumber. thinking: that there was
something In Christmas after all be-
sides new occupants tor the play
room.-(C opyftsht.1 1914, " me ~.
LeJure Ne5Rnpaeee lenoo.
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81 shouldn't think you would ask
questions SO near Christmas. Bobby
Jones'" replied Drusilla-
Christmas doesn't make any diff
ference to U.S." replied Bobby, "only
there are more new toys In the play
room and old ones get slighted for
q while"
'Now, that il just like q boy to
think Of Christmas in . selfish way"
said Drusilla, but this year you will
think Of it in another way, and a
pleasant way. too. can tell you, for
No are going to have q Christmas tree
here in the playroom."
~. told me about the one last
year" said Bobby. when the baby
doll came. but I didn't see any fun
fer me-
well, you will this time" said Dru-
sillA; ''the tree 10 to be for us all, and
We will all have a present, and the
tree II to be a little ONE for all that
live In the p1ayroom."
Teddy bear pricked up his ears, ana
the monkey swung around and looked
1t Drusilla; the paper doll put her
head out the window and the wooden
soldiers stood mp and locked 1T eech
other saying they did not expect .
thing.
Tks litels aela shat llvsl = tse eeal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-25
From, Other Pens
MAKING TAX DODGERS.

They have just had a brisk little inning
at batting tax dodgers in Illinois. where
as in various other states-that is ono OF
the standard forms of amusement. APP
propriately enough, they usually take It
UP at the close Of the baseball season.
Illinois has one of the silliest revenue
systems in the union-which is saying =
great deal. II IL not enforced. 1t cannot
be enforced. There Is not even q serious
pretense Of enforcing it. Everybody
knows that. Yet year after year the
legislature neglects to replace 1t by =
rational and workable system. The own
er of bonds or of the stock of corpora
ton organized in another state who pays
the taxes the law prescribes simply sub
mits his income from such source TO
Fcohfiscation. This revenue law makes tax
dodgers as certain as though that purpose
were declared in the title of the act. We
must assume the state wants tax lodging.
for it deliberately DEGREES that 1t shall
exist. This statement Is true of q regret
tably large number of other states. Every
attempt to tax money and credits. includ-
ing Investments. on the same basis a.
tangible property has been failure
SATURDAY. Evening Post.
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NEW TYPE OF TRUANT OFFICER.

NEW TYPE OF TRUANT OFFICER.
The old idea of the truant officer as
a kid cop" Is passing away. according
to W. S. Deffenbaugh, of the United
States bureau of education, who has
recently been in conference with at
tendance officials from all parts of the
according to Mr.. Deffenbaugh, is a
man of entirely different type. quite
frequently, in fact. a woman. In sew
eral cities a large percentage of truant
officers are college graduates; in other
cities they are men and women with
experience as social workers; but
whether colleges graduates or not, they
are required to know and understand
the home conditions of school children.
Attendance officers of the new type
are interested in removing fundamental
merely catching the offenders. The
chief cause Of the failure to obey at
tendance laws, according to the ma
tional league of compulsory education
officials, is inadequate family life. Res
buttons adopted at the recent meeting.
Of this organization. therefore, called
for adequate and uniform marriage
and divorce laws for the protection OF
childhood; enactment and enforcement
of laws pertaining to the issuance OF
marriage licenses that will prevent
child marriages ana prohibit the mar
riage of persons physically. morally and
mentally unfit to we'd" They urge that
| the Juvenile courts be given definite au-
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Journal Entries

No man is as wise as he needs to be.
+
The best joke to your mind is one
on the other fellow.
+
If man didn't have himself to deal
with he might get along better.
A pessimist is generally one who has
every material reason for being an
optimiSt.
=
Among the unwelcome Christmas
gifts are the neckties a man gets
from his women folk.
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On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY X. MoULTON.

10 the Gas Meter.
They say the problem 10 unsolved,
But stu have q notion
That when some man invented you
He found perpetual motion
You never loaf upon the job.
But do your stunt most gaily;
You are forever in our minds,
We think about you daily.
Down in the dismal, darksome depths,
In your most humble station.
You cheerfully perform your task
And ask for no vacation.
A faithful servant. tried and true.
We think 1t right to mention
The fact We think your masters should
Retire you on q pension.
You click ana chatter ali the day,
And seem to tire out never.
For men may come and men may go.
But you go on forever.
Signs Of the Times.
The latest danceis called the knock out
trot." 1t probably will remain the latest
dance for at least 20 minutes.
Every time the Simplified Spelling board
issues new bulletin ones mind 1mme-
diately turns to Josh Billings.
A New Yorker worth $50.000.0 600 never
WoSd bs y ns had he
There are now three kings at the from.
but it is not yet decided who will rake in
Medicine Hat seems to be a long time
getting into the dispatches this year.
Those Mexican generals seem to Keep
everything excepting their promises
atrocities? See what they have done to
the Bull Moose right here IN America.
is said many Of the battle
all battleships but scrap iron?
fitted up with bath tubs. o o
'Give me marriage or give mo DEATH"
shouted q Pittsburg girl Pat Henry
shouted It just the other way.
look down on the American flag by wear
ing 1t about their ankles
Twenty-seven nurses in New York hos
pitfalls went on a strike. The patients will
save lot Of money.
Edison says we need no sleep: Maybe
ing photograph.
Uncle Abner.
A fat man kin never make anybody be-
licve he is sick.
gossip as much as the wimmen and they
are the men.
I never yet see foreign nobleman who
A model husband is a Teller who kin
make his wife believe his excuses.
Abner Jones ran away with the hired
time his wife hears a knock at the door
she jumps. She is afraid the hired girl II
bringing him back
1t is getting SO a woman kin make a
salad out of almost anything and all
salads taste alike with French dressing
on 'em.
true friend is the Teller who comes
up and takes a campaign cigar out of
your vest pocket and smokes it,
1t is just some fellers' luck to be run
over by a garbage wagon when there is
a 5000 oatmobile going by every minute
or two.
Anse Judson is now mossback socially.
He hasn't learned the new step for nearly
two weeks.
There is many a town that never got
on the map until it was discovered by an
interurban railroad.
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Maybe the United States attorney
general, with the antitrust law for a
weapon, can take a hand in the game
that is being planned by the members
OF the National Retail Shoe Dealers
associat on to raise the prices Of all
shoes 81 per pair.