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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30
ROAD BUILDERS WEEK
Preliminary Announcement.

To be given by the Highway En-
ginccring Department. College Of
Civil Engineering. Lexington. Ky.
Feb. eth TO 10th, 1916.
The state University will open a
course in Road Building at the Civil
Engineering Building on February I,
10 continue one week.
Purpose of the Course.
Road Builders Week has been de-
signed to help advance the cause Of
good roads and in short period Of
time to give out information in the
form Of lectures i'm such way that
mon who attend may take notes and
put them into practice when they
return to their homes.
II is hoped that County Road Fngi-
necrs. Road Inspectors. Road Con-
tractors. County Judges and MaGis-
tratcs will take advantage Of this
course. The course will however.
he open to all citizens Of the state
and large number is expected to be
here
We do not expect to turn out
engineers in one week. but we do ex-
pect TO equip men who have some
practical knowledge with Informal
tion that will help them with their
work and give them a better under
standing of engineering methods.
Admission.
No charge will be made for the
course. all lectures will be open and
free to the public. The only re-
quirement for entrance will be to
register at the Civil Engineering
Building upon arrival.
Course of Study.
The entire week. morning. after
noon and night will be taken up
with lectures on subjects pertain
ing to construction and reconstruc-
tion Of all types of roads. A large
number Of men experienced in the
art of road building. and manufac-
turers Of articles used in the con-
struction Of roads have been secur-
ed to give these lectures. All lee
lures will be forty-flve minutes in
length and after the lecture fifteen
minutes will be taken with discus
sion.
Practical Work.
Classes will be open in surveying
and practical field work. This will
be at the same time that the lecture
work is in progress and men who
wish to study the use of the transit
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30
LIQUOR ADS. BARRED.
College Papers by Unanimous Vote De
eide 10 Ban Booze Publicity.

CoTe9e FApers by UnanImous vote Dc
eide TO Ban Booze Publicity.
New York. 80 Liquor advertisements
were barred from publications In all
college papers In the United States by
the unanimous vote Of delegates OF the
Associated College Newspaper Publish
ers at a meeting at Columbia uniyer
sity.
The purpose Of the meeting was {,
standardize the work ~ the thirty min
college newspapers REPRESENTED. ana
several important regulations. includ
ing a bylaw making compulsory III
maintenance Of advertising rates wer
adopted.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30

When the Jews lost the upper hand
In Spain there were 1900 900 OF them
living In that country. They we're Civ
en- three days in which to leave Spain
or suffer death. Out Of the 1900. 900
,nly about 100000 we're able to fie.
within the 70 hours. and all the others
were slaughtered.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDGYSQ1OOL
LESSON

By y. O. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course % the Moody
Bible Institute OF Chicago)
Copyright 1915 Western Newspaper unionl
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30
MOLASSESS FOR FUEL

A big Hawaiian sugar company is
shipping fuel molasses TO the Pacific
Coast. This is a waste product and
will compete with California fuel
oil.-Farm and Fireside.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-30
Practical Work.

Classes will be open in surveying
and practical field work. This will
be at the same time that the lecture
work is in progress and men who
wish to study the use of the transit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20

ments to spare while thinking out
passages of speech These she en-
ployed by watching RandaPs strong
body it plowed or built chicken
coops or gathered sticks for his camp
fire Her specializing as to his real
reason for working in a garden was
more vague than she liked.
IT wish 1 knew" she repeated often
to herself.
1t was her very interest in him that
kept Gloria away from Randall when
seeking information from him about
flowers or chatting on general sub
Jects- She was curiously shy about
seeing him and wondered not a little
ing to see much of her gardener
She had been sitting at her type
writer for many hours and was just
stepping onto the porch when a great
held her struggling against him.
Thought I'd come down and pay
surprise visit" the man told her with
a hearty laugh. isis. you are daffy
vine told her for the hundredth time,
but its jolly good to get into the
country for a day. Hope you don't
mind and that 1 am not butting into
one of those silences or something"
Gloria laughed and Rugged her big
brother affectionately.
"Helloi Who's the man in the
tent ?" Freddy cast swift eyes at his
Much to Gloria's digust, she blush
ed holly.
THAT is my gardener-he takes
charge of the chickens and -
Guess l will go down and have a
look at him. Freddy said with more
or less brotherly intolerance toward
his sisters mode of living. II am
not sure that it's respectable to have
strange man camping in the gar
den," he flung back at her
GO ind
flounced within the cottage to tell her
troubles to Martha. Had she waited
until Freddy reached the tent she
would have seen the delighted meet
ing or the two men and would have
heard the laughter that followed She
did, however, hear the returning foot
steps of her brother, and looking out.
discovered that he was coming arm
in arm with her gardener
Presented to her gardener in a most
formal manner by her brother she
smiled the smile that Randall remem-
bered as having fingered on the first
day of their meeting in Gloria's ewes
You are a pair of dippies,'' was
F'feddy'S comment in a disguised tone.
Il done knows he was a gentle
man." Martha said. as she stood in the
doorway watching developments
Il suppose you will be telling me
next that you two have fallen in love
with each other" There was a hint of
hope in Freddys tone.
You have no right to suppose any
thing of the kind" flashed Gloria
Besides, Mr.. Randall has not given
me a chance to fall in love with him
even if L had wanted to-
I'VE can soon fix that up laughed
Randall.
The sooner my sister is tied up to
sensible man, the better off she'll
be-" Freddy said, and drew Gloria into
his arms. isn't that right. Martha ?''
1T sure am, Mars Fred" Martha
nodded, grinning broadly.
Its a great pity Mr.. Randall is not
the sensible man." Gloria laughed de-
murely.
Il can be anything from a journal
list to a gardener" Randall told her.
Surely being sensible is not to diff
cult when there is so much at stake
Gloria blushed with becoming mod
1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
THE LITTLE LOB.

Up to late hour this afternoon
and this is legislative "goodby day."
the railroad lobbyists hold the belt in
the contest for the title of square
lobs'' When railroad lobby is for
or against a bill, the attorney for that
road goes before the house or senate
railroad committee and states his case,
just like any attorney who has
been handed a retainer to defend
under laws made and provided by
former egislatures,-some grocer who
worried over a sick child and let four
ounces of pickles go sour in the dis
play window. Under existing purity
laws, such grocer may be pinched
and incarcerated,-not to say fined.
Naturally, when some bill affecting
grocers appears on the calendar, the
little, as well as the large grocer, beats
it to the legislative halls. He may
forget to remove his apron when he
jumps in and tackles his member He
is trying to save the four dollars and
SIS cents that will pay for Little
Katie's cough medicine. He gets in
bad" because he doesn't understand.
The railroads have been on the defen-
sive for years. Throwing the gig into
the railroads has been a favorite leg
islative sport for long, long time.
The railroads have learned by expert
ence what the legislatively- tortured
little business man has not learned
and that is legislative dignity.
Every man who has any business,
whether it be a peanut stand or a
ten-thousand-mile railway system, is
on the defensive as soon as the pre-
siding officer of either branch of the
legislature says: Introduction of bills
now in order" The little business
man is liable to rush to the defense
with a muzzle-1oading gun. The big
business man, who has been harpoon-
ed for so many years that all his sores
are healed, meets said legislative body
by appointment. He doesn't rush into
the halls of elaboration and jump
into someone's lap. He carries a As
on a AS frame.
That is where the railroads, taught
by experience, shine in legislation.
They are no more entitled to con-
sideration than the small merchant
who makes a display of himself by
rushing in at an inopportune time
and being thrown out by the sergeant
at arms But big business gets such
recognition because they have been
taking the gaff longer and have had
more time to learn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
AGooD AVERAGE.

Now that this legislature is shrivel-
ing at the blossom end and about que TO
be picked, it might not be out OF place
to observe: that the personnel or TINS
legislative body compares right 1ayor-
ably with that of any legislative body
in the states history. The legislators
are a fine body of representative gen
tlemen, from all walks of life and i'm
bued with the best of motives rho
real drawback to this session has been
BY adopting the primary law, the
unloaded onto the whole body.
BY adopting the primary law, the
people of this state have registered
their modest request that law makers
and office holders confine their ac-
tivities to fields other than so-called
party pledges" These pledges were
made by a few people,-a1 office
seekers. Therefore, be it resolved:
that platform pledges be stricken
from the calendar. They are about
two per cent business and SO per cent
bunque anyway.
This session, owing to purely politi-
cal efforts to preserve the ante-elec-
ton pledges of office holders, has de-
veloped some severe cases of lepus
eunicuIosis, a disease fatal to the best
legislation. Maybe rabbits politicus"
would come nearer conveying the idea,
which is that some of the members
may have been derailed from the
straight mainline of their better judg-
ment and dumped in the ditch of party
politics.
But, regardless of the arctic chill
that has at times separated the house
and the senate, and the little jockey
ing on appropriation measures, it has
been a good average legislature. If
Kansas was absolutely sure of getting
an equally good legislature two years
hence, there would be no occasion to
worry about the legislature of 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20

standing idle would have soured with
in him.
1T has taken years of observation
and experiment to establish with any
thing like scientific accuracy the bane-
full effects on the laborer and his
product of the too long day. This has
been done finally with a complete
ness which even the courts are recog-
nizing. Moreover, in establishing these
facts there have been discoveries
made of the effects of the shorter day
which have been as heartening as they
have been surprising. They are dis
coveries which upset all the old
theories about hours.
Briefly put they amount to this;
An eight-hour day in a well-managed
shop yields as large a quantity of
work as a ten-hour day, and cuts out
almost entirely certain irritations and
Interruptions which always have char
acterized the longer work period. AS
for labor, it has become an axiom in
it's circle that shortening the day in
creases the pay There is many a
manufacturer that will tell you that
shortening the day increases the pro-
fits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20

sections. and it seems that this lano
of the free is too free for some IN
certain spots. Perhaps 1T is time 70
forget barbarous Mexico for aW1lls'
and cease sympathizing with the Bel
gians long enough to suggest modlIl-
cation of mob law in the south. me
night rider is essentially coward, de-
pending not only on the Iorce OF
might, but upon sneaking methods to
dodge the blame. He is thief or
murderer at night, although he may
pose as a patriotic citizen in daylight
Mostly his victims are innocent per-
sons, who merely disagree with him,
so there is not the slight defense that
prompts some other southern mobS
which go forth to avenge a real wrong
in a rough way. Yet these riotous
bors or to the manner in which white
neighbors market their crops, or who
seek to determine what crops shall be
grown and what shall not, being most
Nv common to the south, are not the
only examples of mob law which seek
innocent victims. There are night
riders in labor unions, and they hurt
the cause of labor much more than
the greed of capital. There are night
riders even in legislatures. who use
their lawmaking power instead of a
torch, a whip and a gun to put down
worthy enterprise which doesn't meet
their approval Also, the muckraker;
who stoops to distorted truths and
fabrications to damage the reputation
of men and institutions is a night
rider of a kind. But it is encouraging
to note that none of these are as COM
mon, nor backed by as large a follow
lowing as a few years ago, the intel
ligence and justice of people generally
having curbed them. And II is up to
the south to sit down on its own crude
variety Night riding of one kind and
another has been too common there
since the days of the Ku Klux Khan
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
FATIGUE is A POISON.

In the April American Magazine Ida
NJ. Tarbell wries another article in
her new business series entitled, THE
Golden Rule in Business. This
months article takes up the length of
the working day. Many interesting
points and storie-. are brought out
showing the baneful effects of too long
a working day. On the subject of how
fatigue wears out the human body
Miss Tarbell writes in part as follows:
Men and women come in the morn
ing to their tasks with spring of
fresh energy within them. Little by
little during the hours of labor they
empty that spring. When it is dry they
must draw from forces which should
be untouched. By some strange
chemistry which no one understands
too we'll, these intrusions on the physi-
cal forces which should be inviolate
produce in the human system a true
toxic condition fatigue poison, auto
poison the scientists call it
IF this fatigue poison passes a point
where the period of rest following is
not equal to the task of throwing it
off and filling afresh the spring of
energy, the man goes back to his toll
little unfit; the longer he goes on
the poison invades his system The re-
pairing forces-food, relaxation, pleas
ures, and sleep-eecome less and less
equal to the task. The man becomes
more and more open to the attack of
disease; less and less able to do his
work; unfit to improve upon it; unable
to grow. He is an unsafe man, too,
one not to be trusted among machines
/ in dangerous places. The man has
been poisoned into unfitness by the
slow accumulation of fatigue poison
VIII II he could not throw off.
1T was not work which did this. II
was too much work He needed the
work to keep him fit. without it or
its equivalent, a regular physical ex-
ereise, his spring of energy would
have as surely deteriorated as it did
| from overwork. The spring of energy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
FLOWER OF YOUTH.

FLOWER OF YOUTH.
Lest heaven be for the graybeards hoary,
God who made boys for His delight,
Goes in earth's hour of grief and glory
And calls the boys in from the night;
When they come trooping from the war
Our skies have many a gold star.
Heavens thronged with gay and careless
faces,
New walked from dreams of dreadful
They Walk by green and pleasant places,
And by the crystal water springs
Forget the nightmare field of slain
And the fierce thirst and the strong pain
Forget! God smiles to see them merry,
For His own Son was once a boy;
They never shall be old and weary,
And in the playing fields of heaven
shriven.
Now heavens by golden boys invaded,
Scaped from the winter and the storm.
Stainless and simple as He made it,
God keeps the boys heart out of harm.
The old wise saints look down and smile,
They are so young and without guile.
Oh. If the sonless mothers weeping,
The widowed girls, could look inside
The country that hath them in keeping
Who went to the great war and died,
They would rise and put their mourning
off
Praise God, and say: "He has enough
Katharine lyman, in the London Spec
tator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
You never can tell. A broad-mind-
ed man isn't always chesty about ii.
The next best thing to making light
of your trouble is to keep it dark.
Look out for number one If you
don't want to be considered a back
number.
We can always give advice to the
people who are anxious to get some
thing for nothing.
No, Maude, dear; we have never
heard that the favorite dog of the avi-
ator is the Skye terrier.
"a dogs bark is often worse than
his bite" quoted the Wise Guy. lust
the same, / prefer his bark" added
the Simple Mug.
Newlywed Married men are
much more philosophical than sin
gle men" Cynicus-"Of course; a
married man realizes he has got to
make the best of it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
ny GGasa l1gra@Judson

l care to know him after ALI guess
I'll just leave him alone"
So he went on with his morning
song and thought no more about the
rude newcomer.
But the newcomer, whoever he was
determined not to be treated that way
ne meant to be heard. So he set up
clamor all his own. He clanked and
he grumbled. he phished and he smut
tered till Pete had to stop and rest a
minute. p"
He pulled off the end of his song
with a jerk and gobbIed up a bit 81
seed by way of comfort "That,s hard
work singing against such a strong
person as that" he chirped to himself
That newcomer must be a great big
bfrd-he makes such a big noise
wish 1 could see him."
But though he craned his neck and
calIed and coaxed, not a sight or an
answer did he get from the clanky
newcomer
So he decided to eat his breakfast
maybe by the time am through eat
ing, ne said to himself, that new
DIrd VIII be hungry and want to eat.
Then 1 can sing my song in peace"
He ate and drank and then made
ready to sing.
Now all this time, the clanky per-
son. clanked and sputtered and made
an awful racket and of course Pete
thought and puzzled to who in the
world he might be. But he couldn't
guess. nor could he see anyone.
witch lie dt ldSI was all ready, ne
gave one final look around and began
his song. He poured forth such a
loud and lovely song that the room
rang with the sound and right at
that very minute the cianky person
set up such a racket that the room
sounded like grand opera fastened to
a boiler shop,
The father and the mother and all
the little children of the house came
running to see what the matter could
me- II guess I'll have to do some-
thing to that radiator" said the faith
er. "A canary and a singing radiator
are too much for one roomi"
Think of thati' chirped Pete in
disgust, nothing but an old radiator
all the timei" And all morning he
could say or sing nothing but think
of that Think of thatl"-(Copyright
1915-Clara Ingram Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.J
Don't expect two favors in return
for one
Spring openings make fat pocket
book lean
A little learning may excuse a man
from jury duty.
The wise worm turns in before the
early bird turns out.
Love may be blind, but small bro
theirs see everything in sight
Fewer marriages would be failures
if love were blind only in one eye
Some people make a specially of
condensing the milk of human kind
ness.
You may lead the landlord to your
house, but you can't always make him
repair it.
When men grow suddenly good it's
dollars to doughnutS they are think
ing of running for office.
And there are men who make
speciality of being honest because it
pays better than dishonesty.
About the only time a woman sees
anything adorable in hersown sex is
when she looks into her mirror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE

Alb Adkins describes his son-in-law
as rather a nice girl.
To the average cub reporter a spec
ial car is special train.
Remember that your opinion isn't
likely to settle the controversy.
Life insurance is Big Business to
some men and last resort to others.
Some people can't even keep their
credit good when things are coming
their way.
There are so many bu1lheads among
our species: that it's a wonder the jury
ever agrees
One need not, however, go to q
piano recital in order to find hem
pecked man.
Cruel fate turns some babies over to
Eorphanag eS, where they are not kissed
too much.
A bartender on the water wagon is
one of the best arguments against the
booze business.
You can't tell the age of an auto
mobile by looking at it's teeth, but
there are other signs.
If a woman is popular among most
of her acquaintances, most of her ac-
Qua1ntanceS are men.
The Socialist party would grow faster
if most of the poor men didn't expect
to grow rich some day.
While a man may have an even
chance in court, he is usually convict
ed by the neighbor women.
Alb. Adkins isn't particularly proud
of his ancestors, and says about all he
ever inherited was a kin row.
We should all have respect for old
age, especially if we have any hope
of being remembered in the will.
1t sometimes seems as though ma
ture can make a fool of a man al
most as easily as a woman can.
The chances are you can hear more
against a towns leading citizen than
against its most notorious drunkard.
You may not be able to conceal
your sore spots, but trying to is bet
ter than advertising them as on exhi-
bifion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
On the Spur
of the Moment
BIZ ROY K. MOO LION.

1 Don't Care.
with the usual apologies to Eva
Tank
Let food go up, let prices soar
l don't care;
Let ultimate consumers roar
Let statesmen all go forth and battle
Upon the cost of hogs and cattle;
listen not to their fiery prattle,
For don't care.
CHORUS.
I don't care,
sit still and keep right cool;
know my business and I'm no fool;
My wife's got a good job teaching
school.
So don't care.
An Honest Man i'm Remus.
The party who left a napkin at the
at the business mems
banquet can have same by calling at
tfaa Burroughs. - Remus
(Mich.) Index.
As the guests seem to have car
r1ed away all the other napkins, the
managers of the banquet appear to
be feeling sorry for the one honest
man and are anxious that he should
lose nothing through his honesty.
And Lectures.
Vice President Marshall should be
able to keep his time we'll occupied
while in Washington. There are sew
eral good vaudeville and motion pic
ture shows there.
Here's Hat. What's Hurry?
Don't like to be inhospitable, but
0. F. Winter has stayed almost long
enough.
Hairbreath Escape.
Man tainted w h l. watching
play the piano. Whether
this is a knock OF a boost for Ignace,
the critics do not say.