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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
Kansas Comment
GARNISHMENT.

The moral effect of the garnish
ment law of Kansas is so valuable
that a fake collection agency in Chi
cago undertook to invoke some of the
features of that law in soaring its vic
Tins into making remittances. The
concern tried to make people think
that it was a detective agency, or q
branch of the police department.,
sending out letters threatening to is
sue orders to bring the Delinquent
to Chicago for examination" 1t is
no wonder that this same concern
also undertook to imitatei the gar
nishment blank method of collection
Garnishment blanks, of the kind first
used by the secretary OF the Topeka
Grocers' association, are undoubtedly
the most effective legal means OF
bringing a slow pay or dead beat to
time that has ever been devised. They
are a formal notice to the Delinquent
that unless he pays, the creditor Will
resort to legal proceedings under the
garnishment act. 1t is a fair warn
ing, and it has served to save many
men their jobs, by bringing them to a
realization of the fact that they must
pay or suffer garnishment- me &C
ton of the Kansas legislature in re-
fusing to NEEDLE with the garniSh-
ment act is equivalent to an official
endorsement of the two-year record
of the law Merchants should see to
it that they do not abuse the privi-
liges which the law gives them dur
ing the next two years.-Merchants
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
BATTLES AND BIRD-MEN.

There may be nothing new under
the sun. But if this is so the histo-
rians of all time have been remiss in
their duties by neglecting to record
battles among men being fought in the
clouds. And these are becoming rath-
er common in the European war.
Only the other day a report came
from Switzerland that told of an air
battle on a rather gigantic scale. 1t
was stated that no less than twenty
French and German aeroplanes par
ticipated on each side. Allowances
must be made, of course, for the imag-
ination or excited vision of the cor
respondent who chronicled this event.
But a combat in the air between not
more than ten or a dozen bird-men
on either side becomes a conflict to
stagger the imagination. What ter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
REGULATING THE JITNEYs.

Jitney bus traffic is among the new
est of the problems with which the
municipalities have to deal. 1t ap-
pears to have jumped from the ex-
perimental stage into a quasi-public
institution, or utility, that promises to
be permanent. AS such, it demands
public attention and has begun to re-
ceive it in several places. In Van
couver, British Columbia, for example,
the jitney bus has been doing business
since the first of the year. The jitneys
there are now under the control of
one company and it recently petitioned
the city council of Vancouver for an
exclusive franchise for operating mo-
tor buses on the streets there. And
the provincial legislature has been pc
titioned to authorize municipalities in
the province to grant franchises for
jitney-car service under regulars along
the following lines: Power to exam
inc and limit hours of service of driv-
ers; prevention of overcrowding by
limiting the number of passengers to
be carried in each car; car owners to
provide bonds for insurance of pas
sengers and pedestrians against acct
be travelled; power to limit number
to require each owner of an automo-
bile carrying passengers for hire to
provide insurance up to a maximum
sum of $4,000 for each car, a maxi
mum sum of 1000 for passenger in
dividua1 loss, and a maximum of ST.,
900 for pedestrian individual loss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
DO NEGROES DESERVE LESS?

According to an announcement of
it's purposes, just made, the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People seeks to uplift the
colored men and women of this coun-
try by securing to them the full en-
joyment of their rights as citizens,
justice in all courts, and equality of
opportunity everywhere. 1t favors,
and aims to aid, every kind of educa-
ton among them save that which
teaches special privilege or preroga-
tive, class or caste. 1t recognizes the
national character of the negro prob
lem and no sectionalisnl. 1t believes
in the upholding of the constitution
of the United States and its amend
ments, in the spirit of Abraham Lin
coin. It upholds the doctrine of all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
Crowded Civilization.

In way Europe itself was out
grown. Draw line from Konigsburg
on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black
sea. West of that lies a stretch of
country, highly favored by climate
and water communication. But 1t is
now rapidly feeling it's relatively small
size. 1t would hold comfortably be-
tween Key West and Chicago, the
Aroostook and Mobile. Yet within it
are crammed half a dozen civiliza-
lions, a dozen languages and well nigh
20 armies, three quarters of which are
tile lines of competing tariff systems
are just as numerous; while a multi
plicity of traditions in which war and
religion play a great part, are hope
1essly rooted in past that is not alto
gether edifying. Imagine all this in
between Chicago and New York, and
see how unhappy we should be!-Cen-
tlIrV Ma 2aZine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
Jayh ker Jots

It really ought to be easy, thinks
the Leavenworth Times, to slip out
of the war.
Hasn't winter any sense of gal
Iantry, exclaims the Ottawa Herald,
keeping spring ffuttering around in the
cold.
Such fortunes as are made in pat
ent rights, tips the Frankfort Index,
are made by selling them, not buy
ing them.
Further evidence, if any were need
ed, of the delayed arrival of spring,
is to be found in scarcity of snake
stories in the rural Kansas papers.
You can't always tell by a mans
actions, as the Geneseo Journal says,
whether he has blue blood in his
veins or has the hookworn ailment.
According to Grant Harrington of
the Kansas City Gazette Globe, the
only man who can afford to do without
the sense of humor is the man who
has dollars instead.
Nor is Mrs. Ralph Tennal of the
Sabetha Herald alone in her obser-
walton: Il do not care for those who
weep at my funeral; the people 1 love
are those who laugh at my jokes"
Does your crocodile need readjust-
ment? asks Charlie Blakesley of the
Kansas City Star. Grant Harrington's
esteemed newspaper is Offering a
crocodile wrench" as subscription
premium.
It is not at all certain but it is too
easy to borrow money now, suggests
the Clay Center Times. When credit
is easy and too elastic a man loses
the sense of perspective. There are
lots of men who work for money
loaners all their business lives just
because the start was too easy when
they were young
Senator Thompson's bill permitting
a man to take up an extra quarter
of land reminds the Newton Kansan-
Republican of the story of the west
ern Kansas man who owned two quar-
tiers of land and sold one of them to
an easterner. A neighbor asked the
Kansas man what he was going to do
with the other quarter. Hush, he
cautioned, that fellow can't read and
1 slipped both of EN- in on that
deed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
THE FIELDs OF FAR AWAY.

THE FIELDS OF FAR AWAY.
Ho, for the Fields of Far Away
Let us go back there, brother mine;
Let US return for dream and a day,
Back where the beckoning vistas shine
Out where the road leads forth and far
Into the Bourne of the Days to Be;
There where the wraiths of our memories
are,
Lifting finger to you and me,
Down in the Fields of Far Away
How are the loved ones holding out
What are the old folks doing today?
What are the boys and girls about?
Still does the mother sit and Groom
Ballads of love to the brother wee?
Still does the fathers fiddle atune
Stir with its melodies you and me?
Lot IN the Fields of Far Away
Fathers asleep-and the grass aboyet
hers bent and gray
Let us go back and take our love;
For you are the brother once so wee,
And we are the children that use to play.
Mother is willing for you and me
Back in the Fields of Far Away.
-Robertus Love, in the st. Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

That restored good humor at once
for Billy Robin was well liked in the
garden and it was real honor to be
spoken to by him. "Good morning.
Billy Robin" replied the toad, land
will you be so good as to tell me why
that earth worm won't speak to me?
Everybody else speaks to me?"
Billy Robin chuckled.
"And didn't he speak to you?" he
asked sympathetically-
Never a word replied Mr.. Gar
den Toad sadly, land L spoke to him
SO nice and kindly"
Too bad, too bad" said Billy SOL
EMMY. but his eyes were twinkling.
But did it ever occur to you to no.
tice that the earth worm don't know
how to talk? And he laughed loud
and long.
MOP" exclaimed the toad "you
don't mean it! You don't say? Well.
Well" And he was so surprised ne
just turned around and went home.-
copyright, 1915-Clara Ingram Jud-
SOM
Tomorrow-Toppy CottontaiI Leaves
the Farmyard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

men up and no man down 1t abhors
negro crime, but still more. the con-
ditions which breed crime, and most
of all the crimes Committed by mobs
in the mockery of the law, or by in
dividuals in the name of the law. 1t
believes that the scientific truths of
the negro problem must be available
before the country can see its way
wholly clear to right existing wrongs.
1t has no other belief than that the
best way to uplift the colored man is
the best way to aid the white man to
peace and social content; it has no
other desire than exact justice, and no
other motive than humanity"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

About the only sufficient reason for
protest against the federal migratory
bird law is that the ducks are agents
for the spread of the hoof and mouth
disease among cattle. If this is a fact
the law should at least be suspended
at the present time when. serious
epidemic of this disease is threatened,
and the sportsmen in this neck of the
woods should be permitted to make
things as unpleasant as possible for
the broadbills who have designs on
resting hereabouts for a bit during
their flight northward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

rible thrills the daredevils engaged in
it must have experienced! What an
almost certain death all of them
courted. As a matter of fact, the
bird-men of this war, their evolutions,
maneuvers and their wing-to-wing
fights are something new under the
sun. The only other variety of birds
that have heretofore taken part in
wars, with the possible exception of
carrier pigeons, are the buzzards that
gorge themselves on the victims of a
battlefield and add to their mutilation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
The Weather Kiosk.

The Weather Kiosk.
Our faithful old correspondent,
Amaryllis, writes as follows: 81
have been reading a great deal lately
about the kiosk which they have put
up in our town. Can you tell me
briefly, dear sir, what a kiosk is? L
am perishing to know as we have
had quite an argument about it here
at home.'
A kiosk, dear AmaryIIis, is a wild
animal which infests the forests near
Burma. 1t was imported into this
country at tremendous cost by the
government and will be on exhibition
indefinitely.
1t is a half-step-cousin-in to
the lagoon, a number of which are
now in captivity in our park. 1t is
also relative of the gondola, the
gondola and the lagoon being init
mately related.
Personal.
Penelope.-You ask how to make
yourself light on your feet. Climbing
a telephone pole or doing tricks on
the parallel bars is recommended, but
care should be taken not to light on
your head.
H. W.-The kind of a package that
you refer to cannot be sent through
the parcel post. Every man has to
carry that sort of package for him
self.
Personal.
c. R.-No, we do not think the war
in Turkey will raise the price of
Turkish baths.
Fond Daughter-In reply to your
inquiry, we do not believe there is
any way to cure man of the Leo
Tolstoy whisker habit. You might
shear them off while the old gentle
man is asleep.
H. Gin case of a bungalow you
have to keep the attic outdoors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

1t may be all right to blame
women college graduates for such
race suicide as there is in the families
that they help to form, but it is ridic-
ulous to assert that they are in even
a small measure responsible for the
general race suicide conditions that
are said to prevail among native
American families; and for the simple
reason that the graduates of women's
colleges are so comparatively few in
numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
Journal Entries

The smarter the man, the bigger the
mistake he is likely to make.
4 + j
Some people get provoked If the
secrets they tell to others are treat
ed as such.
% j. Il
Most of the political enemies of to-
day belong to the same, not different
parties
= I. +
A debt can also properly be CLASH
fed as undesirable company, it's SO
hard to get rid of.
= + =
Many young folk waste lots of time
and money trying to cultivate talents
which they do not possess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
From Other Pens
STATE OF SIEGE.

In beleaguered cities the military
authorities have frequently seized all
food supplies and doled them out in
ways and quantities such as seemed to
them best calculated to strengthen
and prolong the defense. Whenever
this has been done, the necessity and
propriety of feeding the soldiers first
have always been recognized and act
ed on, and the civilian population has
had to be cOntent-or discomfort
with what was left, if anything. Never
until now, so far as can be recalled,
has all the food in a great country
like Germany been appropriated by
the government. paid for at the price
it chose to give, and then distributed
as was deemed best in governmental
discretion. The natural deduction
from the adoption of this device on
scale so colossal is that in the view OF
her ruling class Germany's position is
that of city compelled to make the
most careful use of the provisions now
in it's possession, and this involves
something closely like an admission
that a replenishment of supplies is at
best remote. There seems, therefore,
to have been an element of inaccuracy
in the many previous reports that lack
of food for the present or the future
was not a cause of German anxiety.
At least it has been a cause of German
action, and of action, at that, of an
almost or quite unprecedented sort.
The allies reasonably have found In
this procedure justification for de-
claring food now Internationally con-
traband. Since it. is all to go to the
government, the old distinction in
favor of that intended for civilians
passes away.--New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Chicago survey of why Hus-
bands Desert Their Wives" ELECTS
among other things that the per-
centage of desertion is shown to be
lowest among Italians and highest
among men of American birth. And
no stretch of the imagination can
construe this as a desirable feather in
the cap of the se1f-characterized king
of human beasts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
MONEY MAKES THE MARE &C


Kansas administrations come and
go, but the cost of conducting the
states government goes on increasing
with clocklike regularity. An official
count of the activities of the recent
legislature shows that it appropriated
moneys to the extent of $3.50, 644.77,
an increase of $656,725.31 over the
appropriations of the last legislature.
But this is natural, even if it isn't in
agreement with the promises of the
politicians in state campaigns to de-
crease the state tax rate or hold it
where it is. The higher cost of living
of these days affects a state, just as it
does railroads, all other business en-
terprises, or individuals. Then, too,
if a state is not to stand still, If it is
to progress and develop and keep in
step with the advance of civilization,
it must be prepared to increase its
annual expenditures by reasonable
sums. Although most folk seem bent
on ignoring it, the fact is that the
state tax rate is not now, nor ever has
been. responsible for their tax bur-
dens. These are created by the local
taxes, those of the county and town
ship, or municipal variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Topeka's registration books show
that no less than 1850 persons are
qualified to vote at todays primary
And it is more than likely that in the
several thousand who won't take adj
vantage of their opportunities and
discharge their civic duties in this par
ticular, there will be many who will
be loudest among those that are dis
satisfied with the results
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Not the least of Germany's tre-
mendous war problems is the one of
caring for the large number of pris-
oners she has taken. 1t is estimated
that their keep is costing her no less
than 100000 day. and most of them
have been put to work, too. r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Peace hath her horrors no less ter
rible than those of war. One of the
submarines of the United States navy
went to the bottom of the Pacific
ocean and stayed there with her crew
during some recent naval maneuvers
off Honolulu.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Before the European war began, a
report from Mexico that battle was
in. prospect between ten or twelve
thousand men on a side, like the re-
cent one concerning Villas advance
on MatamoraS would have suggested
to most folk a military engagement of
major proportions Now it looms up
as only a rather picayunish affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

February weather as March draws
to close and April appears in the off,
ing is no more than typical of the ia
nous, if peculiar, Kansas climate.
And the only thing you can do is to
grin and bear it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
ip, or municipal variety.

Kansas has finally climbed into
third place among the states in the
matter of crop production, and the
indications are that she has not
stopped going up. Out here in Kan
sas, too, there is plenty of room for
whatsoever may desire to come and
share in her prosperity and opportun-
tiles. Kansas is great state, but she
will be a greater one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Some folk are sure to insist that the
inventor of the first piano player,
who died the other day in Connecti-
cut, will have much for which to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Surely the millennium is approach
ing. Else how is explained the re-
spect of the ''pugs' for the proprieties
in postponing the Johnson-Willard
fight from Easter Sunday until the
following day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Old Man Winters lap must be a
reasonably comfortable place or Gem
tie Spring wouldn't be inclined to lin
ger in it so long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

The victim-'Ptomaine poisoning, Ell?
Well, 1 surely was a blamed fool to eat the
stuff The Doctor-"But, my dear sir,
you can't establish yurself as recog
nized epicure without touch of ptomaine
now and then.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

AS was to have been expected Aus
tria makes an official announcement
that the Russian victory at Permysl
is valueless from a military stand
point,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
Fly Clara agraaJUdsn

But before he had time to get very
cross, Billy Robin hoped across the
path and said. Good morning. Mr..
Toad" before the toad had ever seen
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

"If you find 1t impossible to keep open
your line of retreat" said the N military
up line of advance" was the prompt re-
ply.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Sure! So Is Everything Else.
Elevator call in department store:
GENTS CLOTHING, SHOES
AND NECKWEAR
GOING UP!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Catterson-"I see they have just intro
duced divorce into Mexico" PATTERSON
$50? 1 didn't suppose they had any home
life there at aH."-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received In The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-05

Russia has thirty-two schools for
seamen.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-05
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