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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

to its future course, but also serves as
notice to all business men and com
panies that unlawful combinations
will not be tolerated. All of the judges
concur in declaring that the under
standings resulting from the Gary
dinners and committee meetings were
illegal. Many men and companies, in
the opinion of the judges, were guilty
of illegal conduct, but the court is I'M
able to see why one participant, the
Steel Corporation, should be punished
in a drastic manner and the other not
at all. Says Judge Wooley: The
Corporation dominated only In the
sense of contributing substantially TO
what was done and making attractive
what it desired to be done, ana the
others yielded cheerfully. Their OF
Tense was no different from that OF
the Corporation, and the offense OF the
Corporation was distinguished from
others only in the leadership 1t as
sumed in promulgating and erecting
the policy In plain language, the
words of the court mean that no IL
cense for: wrong doing has been issued
and that the little fellow has no more
right than the big fellow to engage in
any arrangement for controlling
prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCRISoN GLOBE.

Ever notice how good the samples
are?
Fishing is too much like coon hunt
ing; you don't catch any.
If you are careless just once that's
the time the mule kicks you.
Your business won't run like a
clock unless you are the handspring.
A woman doesn't need any brains
She can win her argument with tears.
The expectation of a reward often
keeps the scent keen and sustains in
terest-
Nearly every man knows lot of
good rules about raising other peo-
pies children.
1t may not be generally believed.
but once in a while a reporter longs
for a quiet day.
Early history of most of our self
made men, usually reveals the guild
ing hand of good friend.
A large per cent of the people who
are always kicking because they don't
get enough, don't give enough.
Every married woman thinks that
every girl who is going with man
overlooks a whole lot of warnings.
A young man who seems to dread
the office after office hours, is sell
dom asked to become a member of
the firm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
of their homemade" preserve depart

of their homemade" preserve depart
ment.
Long after he had gone down the
mountain, Priscilla lay on the sofa
looking out at the sun blazing over the
new-waShed world.
He had promised to come back
again and his eyes betrayed an inten-
ton to return again and yet again I'M
til Priscilla babe him stay beside her
always.
Grandfather sat nodding and
dreaming about coming days of afflu-
ence when Priscilla should have her
own pickle factory.
Then Priscilla remembered her
mothers saying: DO your duty
and love will find you no matter
where you hide"
Love comes in many guises-artist.
millionaire, poet or even pickle sales
man.
And Priscilla knew that whatever
disguise love wears he always is the
same-the most beautiful thing in the
World.-(Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
C1ure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
WHEAT CROP AND EXPORTS.

Some interesting wheat statistics
and prospects have been put out by
the federal department of agriculture
in connection with its estimate of June
of a $4,000, O0O-bushel wheat crop
in the United States this year. The
19O9-i913 average was $4,000. 900
bushels. The price on June l was
s1315, against sO.s44 per bushel on
June 1, 1914. Exports Of wheat in the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1914, to-
tailed 92,393,775 bushels, valued at
sS7,953,456. Exports of wheat for the
first 10 months of the fiscal year 1918
July 1, 1914-April 80, 1870 were
236,O19,679 bushels, worth 1927, $685.
O69. Although these shipments
abroad of American wheat are I'M
precedented. expectations of this sea-
sons crop during the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1, 1915. will probably be
on a still greater scale. Wheat flour
shipments abroad have correspond
ingly increased. The total for the fis-
cal year ended June 8, 1914, was H.
S21,461 barrels, valued at s54,454,175,
while for the 10 months ended April
80, 1915, exports have already reached
13,936,094 barrels, worth $79,O5S,695.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
Jayhapker lots

If you have plenty of wheat and
plenty of zinc you are all right, points
out the Philips County Post.
Too often, declares the Moundridge
Journal, the deacon who prays loud
est also kicks the old cow hardest.
The fellow who would have people
talk only when they have something
to say, would deprive many of speech,
insists the Liberal News.
If some men, suggests the Havens-
vile Review, could make up their
minds as quickly and effectively as
help some.
1t doesn't matter much if we're not
believed when we tell the truth, OBJ
serves Jere in the Hutchinson Reform
atory Herald, but it hurts like the
dickens when we fail to put a lie
across.
A Norton county farmer who prob
ably had a calf washed away by the
recent flood in the Solomon puts
lost calf advertisement in the Lenora
News and asks for information of the
calf, dead or alive"
This conversation tells the story of
life as it really is. says the Marquette
Tribune: Sue-There, is Edith over
there. She married Dick Brown.
romantic about their
wedding? Sue-Nothing whatever.
She can cook and he has a job. -
A rather suggestive position is given
in the Strong City News Courant to
this notice.: Those who are owing
accounts to Miss Ida Laswen are re-
quested to call at her millinery store
and settle same promptly 1t is
placed Immediately under the Society
Column"
A Hamlin man taught his dog to
chew tobacco. fables the Hamlin Re-
porter. Now the dog comes into the
house by the back door, never will
scrape his feet on the mat, never goes
to church or Sunday school, is care
less about his meals, gets burs in his
tail, goes with the lower grade of
dogs, stays out late at night and 1t is
feared he is beginning to take an in
terest in politics.
What eventually became of the old
fashioned Republican who thought a
good wheat crop couldn't be grown
under a Democratic administration ?
asked the Kansas Optimist recently
And the Beloit Gazette replies most
The last time we saw him
he was out with a lantern looking for a
Democrat that really believes that the
Wilson administration has reduced the
high cost of living, the cost of gov
eminent, busted the trusts or has done
else except violate the prom
lses made in the Baltimore platform
of 1912.
"A man IN the poStoffice lobby on
recent holiday was storming and stew
ing around because he couldn't get
his mail, tells the Barber County In
dex. He asserted that he was a very
busy man but had spared the time Just
then to come to the postoffice One of !
the office force happened to be work
ing at the desk and heard the indig-
nant patron. He opened the window
and waited on the "busy man. but |
there was nothing for him-not even
IPafIat he 4
away considerably crestfallen The
moral is this: Don't be too sonorous
in public places. You never know |
how soon the thing will react to your |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

the intangible beauty which birds
bring to the places where they live. A
forest without birds would be a thing
of grim terror or at best spectacle
of solitary, forbidding awe. Why not
bring birds to our own yards? A bird
house, with food IN seasons when food
is scarce, will bring them. A Manhat-
tan boy of perhaps 10 years built a
bird house short time ago, and with
in two days it was occupied by a pair
of wrens. 1t ADDS to the pleasure of
the whole neighborhood. 1t is one
of the simple things that are worth
while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
Evening Chat
The Psychology of Obsessions.
BY RUTH CAMERON

What causes obsessions?
How do people get into the state of
mind in which their fear of some dis
aster becomes a mania untrammeled
by reason or common sense?
. Having a natural tendency in the
direction of obsessions I have studied
their psychology very carefully and I
have come to the following conclu-
sion:
An obseSSion consists in getting into
the state of mind where you do not
stop to reason about the possibility of
the thing you dread happening but
jump over that part of the subject en-
tirely and concentrate upon the dire
consequences if it should happen.
For instance, the woman with an
obsession on fire does not stop to rea-
son out as to whether it is really pos
sible for the basket of stockings she
removes so carefully from the radiator
to catch afire there. She does not
consider whether the radiator could
ever give off a heat equivalent to the
igniting point of the wicker basket.
She thinks only of what a terrible
thing it would be if the basket should
catch afire and the house should catch
afire and burn down. She pictures
her beloved household belongings van
ished forever; she imagines herself
and her family burned alive in their
beds. 1t would be a horrible calam-
ity, tits better to take no chances
and so she removes the basket.
You may wonder how 1 can know
what goes on in another's mind. L
don't know. only construct by anal
ogy.
You see, as I before remarked, I
have a strong tendency in that direc-
ton myself, and the other night when
was on the verge of giving way to it,
stopped and analysed my feelings. 1
was in a friends home. I was the last
person to leave the bathroom for the
night and as I clambered into bed I
found myself wondering if 1 had
turned off the Water cock. 1T would
be terrible if that should overflow I
found myself thinking; Its right over
that new ceiling" 1 actually started
to climb out of bed and go back to
make sure and then I restrained my
self. You know. perfectly well you
turned it Off" I told myself. And
even if you hadn't of course there is
an extra outlet in the bowl. You can't
remember it but there always is. You
aren't looking at the thing reasona bly,.
You are simply thinking of how terri
BILE it would be If 1T should happen"
An obsession is a cancer of the will
1t grows by what it feeds on. The
time to nip it is in the bud.
Have you any dominating fears that
other people are inclined TO call OBJ
sessions? If you have, suppose you
subject them to the test 1 have out
lined and if you find you are forget
ting to use your reasoning powers,
take hold of yourself. make fresh
start, and use them.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Question-Does one congratulate
the bride or the groom or Doth?
Reply-If one wishes to do just the
right thing I believe one congratulates
the groom and wishes the bride hap
piness- By the way. if one wishes to
be ultra right, one congratuIates an
other only when one is or has been in
a similar position. Otherwise one fe-
dictates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
From Other Pens
PROGRESS OF GOOD ROADS.


New Jersey first provided state aid
for public highways twenty-four years
ago. Her action was initiated by
Massachusetts and Connecticut, and
the policy of state aid toward good
roads was firmly established. Since
then $500, 100000 have been expended
from state treasures in aid of i'm
proved highways and about $1,000
miles of surfaced roads constructed
under state supervision. The statisti-
ca1ly minded may be interested to
know that this is equivalent to an
annual expenditure of more than
$3.50, 100000, with, AN annual construc-
ton of 1892 miles. BY Ear the most
active period Of state-aided road
construction, however, has been that
since 1905. The last two years have
actually been responsible for the
building of 200 out of the total 3d.
900 miles. With 10000 square miles
of territory less than the single state
Of Texas, France lacks but 5000 miles
of having as extensive national high
way system as the United States has,
counting the state roads as national.
To get rid of graft and politics in both
state and local boards. and to estab-
lish energetic and competent engi-
neering supervision, are the steps still
to be taken in many states before the
social and economic arguments in
favor of better highways will pre-
vail.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
NO LICENSE FOR WRONG DOING.

In an extensive analysis ami COM
ment of the recent decision of the
federal court in the United States
Steel corporation, the Iron Trade Re-
view emphasizes an important point
that should not be overlooked by big
business, and little business as we'll
Let no individual or concern imagine,
however, says The Review, that the
decision permits unrestricted combi-
nation and control of prices. The
court still has grip on the case, SO
that it could promptly take action at
any time if an unlawful attempt were
to be made to control prices. This is
not only hint to the corporation as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Mr. Bluey Blackbird surveyed the
garden with a look of disgust. 1T
surely is tiresome to see all those crea-
lures eating, eating and eating! One
would think that all there was to do
in the world was to eat!
Mrs. B1uey Blackbird happened to
fly up just in time to hear his remark.
I'm sure I think eating is very nice, -
she said in surprise, 81 think you eat
quite as much as anybody else does
too, so you needn't talk"
Bluey gave his tail flirt as much
as to say, "Of course you don't un-
derstand." then he turned back to the
garden again. Look therc-did you
ever see such a sight ?"
Mrs. Bluey looked as she was told,
then she said in a puzzled voice, I
don't see anything different from be-
fore!"
That's just the point" exclaimed
Bluey. Every day that I come, over
There's Billy Robin hunting for
worms, and Tommy Sparrow at his
heels There's Mr.. Garden Toad snap
ping at flies and Frisky Cottontail
nibbling carrots! Everywhere 1 look
there's some creature eating-it
makes me tired"
Mrs. Bluey looked anxiously at her
mate. She was used to Bluey's ill tenn
per, she thought nothing of his greedy
ways-his selfishness and crossness
could this new strange notion mean
Bluey must be sick! "I'll tell you
what you better do she said per-
suasively. you better go back to the
nest and rest awhile"
s'Rest nothing" exclaimed Bluey
with more temper than politeness, 1T
simply will have nothing more to do
with this stupid eating business-it's
too common for me.'' And with that
declaration. he flew off to the front
yard.
Mrs. Bluey looked anxiously after
him for a minute. then she spied a
nice fat worm and Immediately she
forgot BIuey's troubles and started
eating her lunch
Out in the front yard. Biuey strut
ted around grandly for a while. He
told himself what wonderful bird
he was; how different from the other
creatures who did nothing but eat He
5moothed his beautiful green and
black and blue neck and he preened
his tail feathers till every feather lay !
lust as it should.
Pretty soon, though, that got tire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Bluey soon found that strutting with
out an audience is stupid business. To
make a bad matter worse, he soon
found himself getting hungry Not
commonplace hungry. of course, but
out and out b1ackbird hungry-so
hungry he could hardy walk And
the more he determined not to eat, the
hungrier he got-it was most distress
ing.
He stood the pangs of that terrible
hunger for all of five minutes-great
patience for him, that was-then, with
a rush and flourish, he descended
upon the garden, Billy Robin and
Tommy Sparrow flew for their lives
to a nearby tree and even old M
Garden Toad and Frisky Cottontail
found it convenient to have business
elsewhere just them
Bluey gobbled up every worm he
could see and then hunted for more.
Mrs. Bluey happened by and saw his
greedy eating. Thought you were
not eating today" she unwiseIy re-
marked. You thought wrong" re-
piled sBluey between bites. 81 lust
SAID that!"-(Copyright In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
MORTALITY.

that the dust had eyes to see the sun.
When he rejOices in an April sky!
Believed / this, more tranquil might lie,
Soft in the dust, when my bright days are
done.
Or had it ears to hear this wind that
passes,
Or hands to feel the softness of this RAIN
Truly to lie with dust were not such pain,
Dust softly closed about by roots Of
grasses.
But to forego this exquisite gift of sense,
Laughter in sunlight, love of lovely things !;
Have the worlds beauty that the full heart
sings
Scattered in darkness, fathomless, i'm
menSe-
And all the laughter that was I dispersed
Never to be united, nevermore!
o Earth, reach hands to me-; / walk the
OF some black ocean, pitiless and accursed.
Reach hands to me J lest be swept away.
And hear this music crumble down like
clay.
Conrad Aiken, in the June Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
Journal Entries

A good cause is the one in which
you are interested.
r I.
The more that is done for some peo-
pie. the more they look to be done.
4 I. +
What you expect usually differs
considerably from what you get.
= =
Of the buying of good books, there
should also be no end. Don't forget
the good though.
4 +
No son is so bald-headed but his
mother can notice indications of a
new crop of hair on his shiny pate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
Kansas Comment
MOULDING THE MAN.

Men enter this institution. many
of them, as plastic as clay and they
become very much like the potters
that fashion them. The state says:
Il am sending you the clay; there may
be some Jumps mixed with it, some of
it is common mud, some gravel, some
flint, but the clay is in abundance
yea, it is mostly clay. Put it in the
mill; pick out the gravel, separate the
mud; discard the flint, temper it, that
it may make a vessel the Master Potter
would DESIRE" There is vast differ
ence between a clay-mill and a crush
er. crusher grinds things to pow
der, the clay-miller mixes only the
clay. The one is for underfoot, the
other is for ornament. If you crush
the spirit out of a man you have SIM
ply trampled him underfoot. He was
intended not for macadam but as an
ornament to society. The penitentiary
should be human pottery where the
clay is moulded and fashioned into
vessels fit for the Masters use.-Kan-
sas Penitentiary Bulletin
A STORY AND A LESSON.
In a certain Kansas town, there are
many ''old Settlers Two of these
men were money makers and soon ac-
cumulated a nice little wad of this
worlds goods They both began
''bucking the board of trade" and
both went broke. Eventually some of
their wives folks back east died and
left small fortunes to the Kansas pio-
neers. The money went the route of
the first nest eggs. One of the men
died poor man, but to his dying day,
imagined he could get rich by invest
ing his savings from time to time in
bucket shop operations. The other
man will die poor, but still thinks
that if he had a little money to work
WITH he could get rich in a few days
playing the margins" In the mean
time during the forty years covered by
the events mentioned, the other old
timers have accumulated ample for
tunes to live and die in peace, content
ed, honest, respected, and are able to
leave the children a start" Maybe
there is a lesson in the story.-Newton
Kansan- Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

II the German drive in Galicia has
been checked by the Russians it would
indicate that the Germans are able
to go just so far and no farther Or
does it emphasize the nothing-that-
happens when an irresistible force
meets an immovable object. Are the
opposing armies engaged in the great
war too large and too evenly matched
with the modern murderous equip
ment of war to win an overwhelming
victory? 1t would seem scr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15
BIRDS ARE WORTH WHILE.

Both the farmer and the city man
may well take to heart what ento-
mologists and biologists say about the
value of birds, says the Kansas In
dustrialist. AS destroyers of insects
and of harmful weed seeds. they serve
a function that nothing else in nature
and nothing invented by man, can
serve so we'll. The usefulness of birds
is not the whole story. however. 1t
Is impossible to estimate the worth of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

1t might be cheaper for all con-
cerned to eat our own eggs and let
the people of other countries eat
theirs Although egg imports into the
United States, from China and else
where, are increasing. a 400-case ship
ment of American eggs was received
last month at Sydney, Australia, from
San Francisco
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

If most of the wheat farmers in
Kansas and elsewhere throughout the
country are in a position to hold their
wheat during a few weeks immediate
ly following the harvest, the wheat
spectators who are now concerned in
an effort to beat down the price of
wheat will be taught a lesson, the
financial bitterness of which they
would not be likely to forget
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

How perfectly lovely. The gentle
man who occupies the role of the ac-
cused in the murder trial now on at
Paola, is being exploited in the news
papers in recent photograph which
pictures him with a spray of flowers
in one of his arms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Intoxicated persons ought to have
the easiest time in pronouncirg the
name of the places that the military
operations of Italy have brought to
the front. Glimpse Pozzachio and
E'ugaZzi for instance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

A big snow storm in Kansas when
the winter wheat needs it is hailed as
being of the million dollar variety.
And a Kansas rain storm in the
spring that sends the creeks and
streams out of their banks and over
the lowlands is also a million dollar
affair-it does that much damage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

News of an encouraging variety. The
United States weather bureau has de-
cided to operate under a new system.
But change doesn't necessarily mean
an Improvement. However, there is
consolation in the fact that no system
which the weather bureau might use
could produce any more undesirable
results than the one that has been
used with such little success for SO
long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Mr.. Bryan's ambitions for a high
place in the history of the nation hav-
ing been thwarted, apparently, he
possibly will go down in it among the
Bills who have cut more or less of a
swath, such as Pawnee Bill, Buffalo
Bill, and Wild Bill. And, of course
he will take his place as Chautauqua
RiII
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Possibly. the Million Population
club of st. Louis reached the concIu-
sion that its town needed the largest
American flag in existence because of
the enormous foreign population of
which that city is possessed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Nor are the German newspapers
alone in their quandary of not being
able to understand Mr.. Bryan's atti-
tude- Neither can any other newspa-
per nor anybody else, and probably
not excepting Mr.. Bryan himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Probably everybody will be salts
fled with the award of the current
Nobel peace prize to Pope Benedict
with the exception of William Jen-
nings Bryan. He has certainly
worked overtime for it, and the
$4,000 that goes with it, and his dis
appointment must be keen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

At any rate. this has been a perfect
ly wonderful spring in these parts for
colds in the head, colds on the chest,
the grip, and catarrhal affections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-15

Villa and CarranZa appear to be
willing to get together only on basis
that will put one or the other of them
out of business,