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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

and who seek the farm to escape the
mischances of employment
49, Mechanics, school teachers, tall
ors, clerks and sawmill men who seek
agriculture as preferable to uncertain
business and employment
'It is infrequent for a city-born
man to become a farmer Usually
the men who gave up city occupations
to return to the farm lived on farms
in boyhood.
"a large part of those who return
are farmers sons who have been lured
from the farm by the false promise OF
high wages, but who subsequently
learn that the cost of living in the
city is high and that the money rate
of wages in the city is deceptive. These
young men often return when they
find they have made no Roadway In
the city. Retired farmers, also, who
moved to town with the expectation OF
spending the rest of their lives there
have in many cases found town life
short of their expectations and nave
returned to farms.
Lastly, there are the agricultural
colonies made up to large extent or
FOREIGNERS. who had formerly been
farmers in their native country and
who welcome opportunity to COLOMBO
on farms"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

EUening Chat
Luck.
By RUTH CAMERON.

Luck.
There is no such thing as luck" /
heard a New Thought lecturer declare
the other evening.
Like Grizel of Sentimental Tom
N.Y. fame, who rocked her arms in
church because she couldn't get up
and contradict the minister when she
thought he was wrong,I writhed in my
chair.
For of all the high-sounding, empty
meaning fallacies that creep into the
beautiful New Thought philosophy
none irritates me like the idea that
there is no such thing as luck.
What is luck, anyway? Wei, &C
cording to the dictionary, it is chance.
Can anyone stand up and say that
chance doesn't play some part In
everyone's life?
Take an absolutely simple example.
I was finishing up some errands In a
hurry the other day. Three times L
arrived at an elevator shaft just as
the elevator had started up, and had
to wait two or three minutes. That
delay made me just miss trolley; the
trolley 1 did catch was delayed two or
three minutes by a stalled auto; ana
I reached the station just in time TO
see my train roll out.
Now wasn't that a string of chances
running against me? Was L In any
way to blame? Could even the most
ardent believer in no such thing as
luck DlaIf10 THOSE OAA
feet of character? defy him. They
were Just chance-SimO pure chance
Mind you, dosnot deny that luck is
a. much abused wcrd. People blame
many things on luck that are due. to
their own carelessness, lnaecuracy
and what not "A neighbor of mine
told me last year that she never had
any luck with seeds" This spring
she happened to be with me when
was planting my seeds. The direc-
tons babe me to cover the seeds with
loose earth and then press II gown
with a board. / was hunting for a
board when the neighbor who never
has any luck with seeds dropped
over Dear me-" she said, 81 never
bother over them like that" And
then understood her lack of luck.
Again. the man who grumbles about
his neighbor's Tuck in getting some
excellent position into which said
neighbor has really worked and
fought his way is certainly abusing the
word.
But that does not mean there isn't
any luck in business. There Is
Because some people blame things
to luck that are really their own 1auit
is no excuse for going to the other
extreme and shouting that there is no
such thing as luck.
have a hay idea that once when
1 was young and foolish wrote some
thing along that line myself, because
it sounded well and was easy to Illus
trate with examples of people VINO
called their follies bad luck If I did
and some faithful reader friend hap
pened to remember that talk, Will he
please consider that have evacuated
that position and not try to attack me
with my own words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
CoLLEGE PRESIDENTS.

ITO beg like college president"
says a writer in The New Republic,
has become a byword, but the case de-
serves sympathy rather than a. sheer.
Splendid possibilities. of educational
and social leadership lie dormant in
the office OF college president, nor has
the glory of the old scholarly tradition
quite disappeared But to realize the
former and to recreate the latter
much constructive effort will be re-
quired. Faculties can help greatly by
standing more boldly for greater free
dom and for pure scientific and liter
ary ideals Presidents themselves
must take firmer position against
the forces that are making them mere
fiscal agents. As a first step they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
HOGS AND BABIES.

New rules and regulations are to be
laid down by the states live stock de-
partment for the moving of hogs
throughout the state. One end sought
is to lessen the danger of the spread
of hog cholera, but larger comforts
and more sanitary conditions for hogs
in transit are also sought. Fond par
ents, though, can continue with their
privileges of dragging or pushing
their babies about in any old kind of
an uncomfortable and pain-racking
go-cart, and can surround them with
such conditions of filth and dirt as it
may please their fancies. And when
tho state makes a start to give the lit
tie babies a better show for their lives
the sentimentalists begin to sigh for
these good, old fashioned days.
when a mans house was his castle.
even if it took on the semblance of a
DigDon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
When money talks the world stops
to listen.
1t is quite possible to toe the mark,
and still put your whole soul into 1t.
In the pursuit of filthy lucre, it
isn't every man who can keep a clean
record.
Some men are so absolutely neutral
that they can form an impartial opin-
ion of themselves.
Some people are so suspicious they
think if you are polite to them you
want to borrow money.
There is no middle ground with
some people. They believe only half
they hear, or twice as much.
No, Maude, dear; there is no game
law to prevent you from shooting the
rapids at any season Of the year.
There is quite a difference between
telling fellow he has chip on his
shoulder and calling him a blockhead.
Wigwag-'Did you ever try to pass
counterfeit money in a saloon?" Guz-
zler-"Gee! no. I'm never even able
to pass a saloon
1--WE can only die once" unused the
Parlor Philosopher. "Alasl yes" re-
gretfully sighed the Melancholy Man.
who subsequently turned out to be an
undertaken. -------
"How do you distinguish between
verse and poetry?" asked the Mere
Man. 81 read it over three times" re-
piled the Magazine Editor "If 1 un-
derstand it, it's verse. If 1 don't, it's
poetry"
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Kansas Comment
THE PRIMARY.

Massachusetts, has tried the pri-
mary system also, and has found IL
very much as it was worked in Kan
sas. The Boston Herald, a non-par-
tisan paper, and one that was in favor
OF the primary system, has this TO
say: I'VE ought to go back to SIM
pier system of NOMINATING candidates
The preliminary campaig-', such as
the state is now going through, I'M
der the direct primaries, is burden
some to aspirants, in time and money,
is limiting our choice of candidates to
however. wearying men with the
turmoil of politics, it's contests conn
ing one after another in ceaseless
procession" In Kansas we have found
that the professional Office seeker has
forced himself to the front, and the
voter has no chance but to take him
or some other professional Office
seeker. The fact that a man wants
an office in Kansas is enough to Sc
cure 1T for him, regardless of ability,
hIness, experience or any other pub
lie virtue or necessity, if he can sue
coed in getting by with his claim
and we all can call by name a
great many who have succeeded. The
primary, excellent as it is in theory,
gives the voter but little chance to
select for himself The man who
wants the office selects for himself,
and the voter has nothing to do but
endorse the acknowledgements Ga
Zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News 2
An easy way to borrow trouble is to
lend money
Woman is better at driving bargains
than nails.
The uncertainty of love is one of
life's sure things.
WOman's browning glory seldom
looks it in the early morn.
Patience may be the lazy mans
only virtue.
Most men are Industrious from ne
cessity.
Spoiled children and foolish parents
are often found in the same house.
Anyway, a man never sits down on
the floor when he puts on his hosiery.
A feeling of superiority is the sole
satisfaction some men get out of being
good.
An evening call is productive Of
much pleasure-if not when you come
at least when you go.
But the man who restricts his Joy
riding to street cars doesn't have to
worry about punctures.
If you recommend a man for a DO
sition and he acts badly it is dough-
nuts to fudge that YOU will be blamed
for it all the rest of your days.
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MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circulat1ons.
American Newspaper Publisher
Association.

In expressing doubts as to the con-
etitutionality of the Harrison anti
narcotic law, Judge Pollock joins the
feeble chorus that is signing over the
tendencies of our governments, state
and national to order the lives of all
the people in this and that direction.
He declares that the people will soon
lose all vestiges of personal liberty.
But in selecting an effort of public
authority to wipe out the dope and
drug evil, he chooses a mighty frail
peg on which to hang his walls and
fears. The dope fiend is a far more
dangerous element to society than
even the drunkard is. And Judge
Pollock must recognize by this time
that the prohibition of the liquor
traffice is exceedingly popular with
many people and growing more popu-
lar as time passes.
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From Other Pens
NEWS SHEETS TRUE TO TYPE.

NEWS SHEETS TRUE TO TYPE.
To think of the daily newspaper as
a dignified sort of round robin which
circulates throuhout the community
helps to an understa nding of it's
enormous unifying power More than
any other form of literature in this
day the newspaper seems to be
thought of any house into which
it is admitted. The seying might
be paraphrased. Let me know
what newspaper you take and 1 will
tell you what you are. One rarely
hears applied to any other current
literature so energetic an ct will not
have it in my house or "Oh, 1 sim
ply could not get along without it,"
as one hears of the daily paper. You
may read or let alone the last best
seller and no one looks askance, but
If you do not approve ones favorite
news sheet one finds it hard to be
convinced that you are a person of
thoroughgoing good sense. Perhaps
the time is past when newspaper con-
troversy could range the whole town
with one or the other of the silent de-
batcrs. Yet whether people realize
it or not the opinion expressed by the
newspaper, once subscriber has
given his approval to the publication
as a whole, often has at least the pow
err of casting the deciding vote for
those who are on the fence. And if the
newspapers opinions too long assail
some ones pet prejudices, either the
prejudice or the newspaper goes. All
these things show that readers of the
same daily paper bring about a large
amount of unified thinking, which is
n thing needful to peace among man
kind. Then the news sheet is a strong
factor for peace. 1t spreads far and
wide the noblest utterances of the
day, and it may choose to disregard
the ignoble. 1t is a purveyor of that
which is good, if it will be, in a
world where ill-news is wont to trav-
ell fast. Though newspaper forensics
have often constituted a wordy cut
and thrust, 1T is worth remembering
that Addison, whose paper was the
first example of journalistic work to
hive wide currency, was of all men
the most suave, impe rsonal, genial
attack upon his own utterances found
him smiling ready to consider where
in he might have been at fault, and to
restore himself or his critic in the
spirit of meekness. Your daily paper
of true lineage. then is a friend OF all
men, and has no bitter controversy
with any. 1t reflects, as it were, the
composite community, and IN refus-
ing to exploit advance errors, it
refuses TO fight with any man a gainst
himself. L is for every man in the
Same spirit of brotherly kindness
which animated Addison. There is
reinsurance then, when a paper with
this anirn1s can exist; for its support
ers show that they have in common
a desire for a sound and honest broth
erhood, that includes men the world
around.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
EYES THAT SEE NOT.

1t takes the Kansas City Star to see
the hole instead of the doughnut. The
Star is an ardent advocate of commits
sion government. The nearest thing
to commission government in Kansas
City is the city's board of health. 1t
is the only arm of city government to
which Kansas Cityans may point with
pride The head of this board of three
members is Thomas M. Finn. He is
making Kansas City clean, sanitary
place in which to live. But, in its
search for a suitable man for mayor,
the Star cannot see him at all. Finn
is not associated with any of the po-
litical factions of Kansas City. He's
independent. Possibly this may be
why the Star overlooks him.
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THE SUDDEN SHOWER.

Tommy Tittle-mouse sat at the door
of his log home and visited with his
friend, the Worker Ant. This is
such a very fine afternoon, L think 1
will go over and have a chat with
Mrs. Hen" he said pleasantly when
the Worker Ant had finished telling
an interesting story" l haven't seen
her for two days and talk with her
would seem agreeable. Then, too, 1
would not object to a morsel or two
over her yard
ITO be sure. to be sure" answered
the Worker Ant, land 1 must get to
my work again Three. minutes visit
ing is great extravaganza for mel"
So the ant hustled around in her
usual busy fashion and Tommy Tit
tle-mouse ran over across the alley
to Mrs. Hen.
81 hope you and your family are
well %
VERY well thank you Mr.. Title
mouse" replied Mrs. Hen. 81 was
this very minute wishing you would
come over and see me.''
"So2" asked Tommy much flat
tered.
Yes" said Mrs. Hen. Because
there are some extra fine grain
scraps on the floor of my house and /
know a mouse of your taste will APP
preciate them
OF course IL didn't take Tommy
long to get into that hen house! And
Mrs. Hen went with him to see that
he got the finest titbits-though he
was well able to find them without
her, And so busy were they and so
interested in their talk. that they
never thought of weather, or their
families or anything; till a great clap
of thunder resounded through the
sky and frightened Tommy so that
he nearly jumped through the hen
house wall and across the alley in
one mad leapi
No more eating of grain scraps for
him. and Mrs Hen. She ran wad-
ding out into the yard; called her
chicks from the garden and the
flower beds-they were SO big now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
Barge Propelled by Auto.

For crossing bay twenty miles
wide connected at each end with fine
driving beach along the seashore. a
motorist of Aberdeen, Wash, uses a
barge built for less than 500 and SO
equipped that it can be driven by the
automobile that it transports across
the water. The auto-ferrying barge is
shown in the cover design of the
August Popular Mechanics Magazine
propeller wheel, that is housed for
safety, is located at each side of the
barge near the stern. The axle OF
each wheel is at the right height 10
come in line with the rear car axle
when the end of the car is raised a
few inches above the deck of the
barge, and is capped with hard
wood wheel, eighteen inches in dame
ter and two inches thick. On each
wheel are leather clamps for securing
it to the spokes of the car wheel.
With the rear of the car raised so that
the wheels are clear of the deck and
these wheels connected with the pro-
pellers by the straps, the barge is
ready for operation by the engine of
the automobile. The work Of placing
the car aboard the barge and making
it ready for use requires about eight
YI1inIlfQg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

Bank Commissioner Benson to the
contrary Notwithstanding. and if the
news from Wichita IN the premises is
correct, the mCneybags of Kansas will
subscribe no less than S2,0OO.OOC to
the Anglo-French loan. 1t is reported
that j. Judson Mcknight of Wichita,
ana one of the states wealthiest men,
mas agreed to underwrite that much
OF the loan in this section. But such
"a sum, considerable though it is, will
not make much of dent in the Kan
sas bank roll, scarcely an impression.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

should put the responsibility fer col
lectipg funds where it belongs, name
iy, with the finance committees of
their boards. Also, if the acedaEnic
viewpoint is to receive proper consid-
Grafton the purely business elements
that now weigh so heavily among the
trustees must be balanced by strong
scholarly contingents. Only by decisive
measures can college presidents avert
further serious decline in character
and influence that will reduce them
ultimately from the highest of profess
sional eminences to the inferior rank
of corporate managers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

There are few men who know as
much as they think or say they know.
4. i j
A good-natured man usually gets
more than his share of the worst OF 1t.
% II II
The weather goes from one extreme
to the other-just like the people who
complain about it.
+ + J.
Did you ever get letter, advertised
bv the postoffice as being unclaimed,
that was worth going after?
= = j
An unusual mother is one who
doesn't think her baby is the cutest
and snartest child in the world But
IS there any such mother?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

A music lovers notion of heather
is one who likes ragtime.
Potatoes and love don't amount to
much when warmed over"
There seems to be no closed season
for the ultimate consumers.
You can't spill your beans faster
than by airing your grievances too
often.
Don't feel so bad If the conversa-
ton lags; people need little rest oc-
casionally.
It is just as mean to say something
unkind about the living as about the
dead.
Kindly notice to cartoonists: Peo-
pie are getting tired of seeing pictures
of Old Man War.
1t is well for man to keep on his
shirt most of the time, but no man
should sleep in his shirt.
There is enough Indian in most men
to make them remember their wrongs
longer than anything else.
A mean. low down item from the
DEVILS Dirk: Some barber shop COM
edy sounds more like TRACE dy-
1t doesn't hurt a man to visit a.
cemetery now and then and think
about what's coming. No man can
dodge it.
AS bad as cigarettes are. it is also
painful to see college student
equipped with q pipe so large It makes
him seem top-heavy.
If country editor gets out a good
home paper Re hasn't much time to
learn about tariff and international
law and to write long editorials
Is Occasionally. a reporter gets blue
and cranky and wants to write that
the men who says he doesn't know
any news doesn't know anything else.
Perhaps the funniest thing in the
world is the Indignant Subscriber who
says to a reporter: Hereafter you
will never again use my name in
print"
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of me. 1 owe you an eternal debt Of
gratitude
Thank you. But isn't the bacon
burning?' anxiously.
right. Do you like bacon?
Love it,
Silas junior sighed. at wish I were
pan of fried bacon"
Marjorie laughed in spite of her.
self. ..Sillyl'
why silly? I love you. 1 may as
well tell you now as in six months
from now. If I'm very good and work
hard, do you think you could ever
care a little?"
Knight try" confessed Marjorie.
Copyright, 1915 by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K MOCLTON.


Our Pome Contest.
They was setting In a hammock, him and
she,
And they looked just like as happy as
could be.
When the rope 1t went and broke
And the lady and the bloke
Had fallen out from which they can't
agree. Il. L.
"Oh, let me kiss your hand" he said,
Oh, let me kiss it now;
And If may not kiss your hand,
Why, let me kiss your brow"
You may not kiss my hand or brow
She answered with a squint,
Fer kisses on the hand brow
1 don't think fit to print
Ed Oliver.
She was only twenty-five,
And was pretty-sakes alive!
1t was In little village far away;
He was twenty-six and strong
And he always sang a song
As he shaved his fellow townsmen ev'ry
day.
Well. the city Teller came.
And he offered her his name;
He wore diamonds and suit of checkered
stuff
She accepted on the spot,
And the barber got real hot,
But the only thing he said was,
Pretty tough - j. w. T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
THOSE WHO GO BACK TO FARM

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside appears the following inter-
esting account of the kind of people
who go back to the farms:
The government asked about 49,
600 crop correspondents some time
ago To find out the history of the city
folks who went back to the farm.
Here are the main classes:
81. Small tradesmen who gave up a
hopeless struggle in an overdone retail
business and seek in the country a
small farm where the cost of living is
cheaper and where a more independ-
ent existence can be maintained.
.'2. Merchants who failed in business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

A Sanitation Parade" such as FIRE.
donia is soon to have, may be means
of arousinG the interest of the people
of a community in a subject so essen
tial to their welfare, but if the same
amount of attention and energy that is
required to arrange for and stage such
n parade were devoted to cleaning up
back yards, alleys, etc, the cause of
sanitation would be assisted on its
righteous way in a more material and
substantial manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

Kansas won first place with its agri-
cultural exhibit at the International
Soil Products exposition which was
just held at Denver. AS the name of
the exposition indicates, it was a
worlds competition. But what else
was to have been expected? Kansas
has the agricultural goods, and has
had them Cor a long time. But she
has been exceedingly negligent until
lately of taking advantage of her OPP
portunities to put them on display.
And she isn't doing as much in this
direction as she should. even now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
TILE RIJGHT OF POILTICs.

Possibly the regulation and super
vision of the railroads Of this country
by the several states and the federal
government are along the best pos
sible lines, and possibly they're not. At
any rate, there now happens to be as
many as $4,000 miles of American
railways that are in the hands of re-
ceivers; that are insolvent, in other
words The politicians are great lit
tie business men, are they not? Yes,
they are not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

More war taxes in a time of peace
or government bond issue appear to
be the only alternatives for the Demo-
cratic statesmen at Washington to
provide funds to meet the ordinary
expenditures of the government The
federal revenues for the month of
September were as much as 100000
900 less than were the expenditures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04

Better late than never of course
But England didn't discover the way
to suppress Germany's submarine war
fare soon enough. And it isn't at all
likely, either, that she has succeeded
in suppressing il entirely.