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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
ADOIEsCENT INSTABILITY.

THAT the period of adolescence
brings with it numerous problems is
fact we'll known to all who come in
contact with young people of that
age" writes DR.. Augusta F. Bronner
of the Chicago Juvenile Psychopathic
institute in the February number of
the PSYCHOLOGICAL Clinic. The
changes, physical, mental and moral,
which take place at this time, are too
little known and appreciated by many
of those who desire most earnestly to
deal sympathetically and understand
ingly with young people. 1t is import
ant to realize how these changes affect
behavior The whole problem is
large one. DR.. Bronner discusses one
phase of adolescent conduct, general
instab ility. and cites several cases
where this has been the fundamental
cause of delinquency. While they
represent cases brought into the juve-
nile court, they serve to picture be
havior no more extreme and unlawful
than that of many who, because OF
more fortunate circumstances of one
kind or another, escape punishment"
The adolescent varies greatly in
his behavior" continues DR.. Bonner.
He is at once extremely secretive,
then most DESTROYS of confession; re-
ligious and sacri1egious in turn;
going from one extreme to an
other-a creature utterly unstable,
changing from day to day, and from
mood to mood. We know that
the storm and stress of the adolescent
period varies with different individ-
uals. Some pass through it with COM
paratively slight mental disturbances,
while in the case of others the period
brings with it the most intense strug-
giles. In some instances the boy or
girl develops into young manhood or
young womanhood slowly and evenly,
but with others there are marked
changes of character accompanied by
extreme phenomena in the mental
and moral realm. No doubt the hered-
itary background is one element at
least that accounts for this difference
in the forces of adolescent impulses.
In every case these great changes,
these great forces not yet adequately
understood and controlled, account for
the instability so characteristic of the
young adolescent.'
DR.. Bronner finds close relation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
GIob be Sights
BY THE ATcHIsON GLOBE.

The balance of the people always
seem foolish.
A change is just as apt to hurt as
help a business.
The good ship, Piffle, always car
ries full tonnage.
Not all the people who dislike you
show their hands.
No woman bases her demand for
alimony on her own earning capacity.
AS a rule it is the man who needs
exercise who doesn't want to take it.
Sometimes the after dinner speaker
acts like he is conducting a filibuster.
There are also those who are dis
posed to make explanations their life
work.
It's a mighty polite man who says
Thank YOU after using your tele
phone.
There is something 1kab1e about a
man who says, "Fll tay you," for TN
tell you
Some fool is going to arise some
day and say there are too many lodge
poor people.
A man often goes on a camping
trip with his friends and comes back
with his enemies.
An Atchison girl is getting thin on
account of the rapid manner in which
she chewS gum.
There is nothing more humiliating
than to strike at man in anger and
miss him entirely.
Some men move to the suburbs to
engage in the chicken business, while
others head for Broadway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
WASHBuRN LAW BOOKS
College Will Publish Case Records
Edited by A. w. Benson.

The Washburn law school will be-
gin soon to publish a large number of
caSebOOkS to be used in the school
Plans have been under way for sew
eral years but active steps have only
recently been made to publish the
first one, which will be a collection
of leading Kansas cases on the law
of damages.
The book will be edited, compiled
and arranged by A. w. Benson, an
instructor in the school and former
justice of the supreme court. Mr.
Benson is teaching a large class in
damages and during the preparation
of the book the students will read
the Kansas cases from the volumes of
regular reports.
A demand for books of this kind
has been felt by western law schools
because the eastern institutions nearly
control the law book publishing. Ow-
ing to an important divergence in the
code law of the eastern states from
that of the western, many leading
cases in New York and Massachusetts
cannot be made to apply in Kansas
and it is to supplement these cases
and thierd holdings with western deci-
sions that the Topeka school is I'M
dertaking this new work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
IDEALS.

THE ideal is the real" By means
of the ideal we shape our lives as the
sculptor shapes the image from the
rough marble, writes Orison SWEET
Marden in March Nautilus. Our very
longings are creative principles, in
dicative of potencies equal to the task
of actual achievement. These latent
potencies are not given to mock us.
There are no sealed orders wrapped
within the brain without the accom-
panying ability to execute them
If the emancipation procla nation
is written in your blood, it is indi-
Gated in the very texture of your be-
ing, you will have within you-unde-
veloped, it may be, but always there
strength to break the letters that
bind you, power to triumph over the
environment which hampers you.
No external means alone, however,
will accomplish this. You must lay
hold of eternal principles, of the ever
lasting verities, or you never can ac-
complish what you were sent into the
world to do. You never can reach the
goal of your highest possibilities until
you believe in your God-given power
to do so, until you are convinced that
you are master of your will, and that
the Creator has endowed you with
strength to bend circumstances to aid
you in the realization of your vision,
and to realize it here and now. Not
on some far-off height, in some dis
tant scene, or tabled land, where
longing without endeavor is magical
ly satisfied, will we carve out the
ideal that haunts our souls, but here
and now in this poor, mean actual,
here or nowhere is our ideal!'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
IN SCHOOLS FIGHT
Senate-HOuSe Educational Ap-
preparation Up Tuesday.
Narrow Margin Between Bud
gets Except on Buildings.

The real fight over the 1915 appro-
priations will come in the house Tues
day when members of that body will
attempt to substitute the senate edu-
cational appropriation bills for the
house committee bills. In this fight,
no direct party lines will be drawn
and Democrats who will doubtless di-
rect the battle, Will be Joined by a
number of Republicans and several
members from the Progressive side.
Except on building appropriations.
there is a remarkably narrow margin
between the appropriations recon-
mended by the two houses. The EN-
poria normal appropriation SHOWS a
difference of but $4,000, while the
Pittsburg general appropriation con-
tains a difference of but $4,000 and
the Hays normal a margin of but
$4,000. The big difference Is over
building items. 1t is the intention of
a number of members to fight for the
substitution of the senate bills for the
house bills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CF'rom the Chicago News.l
Woman makes poor silent part
ner.
No artist can paint a woman as she
can paint herself.
Once in great while a man falls
in love with his wife.
And no man can judge a cigar or a
woman by the wrapper.
Women live longer than men. They
are never talked to death.
About the time a man thinks he
knows a woman he finds that he
needs another think.
Money may not bring happiness.
but the average man is willing to
take a chance with it.
What a happy old world this would
be if people who lose their tempers
were unable to find them again.
So many queer things happen ev-
cry day that a married man expects
his wife to believe a lot of things he
tells her.
Judging by the looks of some hus-
bands, it looks like a safe bet that
their wives annexed them merely to
keep out of the spinster class
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
HEALTH INSTRUCTION.

Common sense is an uncommon
quality. Those who in their early
youth read and enjoyed the William
Henry Letters, will recall that this
was a refreshing characteristic of that
young hero. When sent away to a
boarding school, he was told that he
would have to take dancing lessons
in order to learn how to enter room.
He could not see the need of taking
lessons for this purpose. He said,
Just walk right in One of the
most difficult lessons to learn is that
the way to do a thing is to do it.
The county health commissioner of
Union county, Indiana, feels that one
of his duties is to teach the people of
the county how to keep well He has
accordingly prepared a little seventy
five page pamphlets, made up large
ly of material published by the vari-
Gus state boards of health. The board
of county commissioners made an APP
preparation to send a complimentary
copy to every home in the county.
The pamphlet is simply but forcibly
written, and contains chapters on the
home, contagious diseases and the
baby. In the first chapter, the peo-
pie are told how to keep their homes
clean and healthful, how to dispose of
their garbage, now to care for their
food and how to take care of their
bodies. Directions for disinfection and
especially for various contagious dis
eases make up the second chapter,
while the third and most important
contains directions to mothers for the
care of themselves and their children.
We have been long time in learning
that if the teacher of good health
would compete with the patent medi-
cine man, he must meet him on his
own ground. Instruction of the peo-
pie on health topics is a public duty.
1t should not be left to professional
zeal or to philanthropy. The publ
cation and distribution of such
pamphlets as the Union County
Health Book are directly and solely
for the public good and will yield
large dividends in the form of better
health and prosperity for the people.
If each county in the nation had a
health officer as wide awake and a
board of commissioners as broad
minded as those of Union county, In
diana, says The Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association, the prob
lens of the prevention of disease and
the prolongation of life would be i'm
menSely Simpiified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
BATTLE IN MEXICO,
Villa Forces Defeat Carranza Troops
and Take Prisoners.

Ell Paso. Texas, March IA battle
between Villa and CarranZa troops at
San Mateo, Chihuahua, and the cap
ture of Aconbaro, GuGnajuato state
is reported in a brief telegram signed
by Francisco Villa received here last
night by the Associated Press. The
message, dated Guadalaja ra, follows:
II take pleasure in informing you
that in a battle held yesterday (Sat-
urday) at San Mateo, the forces be-
longing to the column of General Ur-
bina defeated the Carranza forces
who lost between As and so men.
They also captured seven prisoners
and about 200 fugitives besides SO
rifles and a rapid firer.
I'm the state of Guanajuato the
forces under General Isaac Arroys of
the northern division took the city of
Acambaro, capturing several locomo-
tives and a large quantity of war sup
pIieS'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01

ried it out, season by season, they fell
in love with each other.
One day he told her of his love and
of what he had hoped her answer
might be.
My answer is yes, of course" Mat
tie said But We must continue to be
partners in business as well as in our
home. I-wel, I'm glad the war
brought to you and to me the neces-
sity for earning our living together.
For it was the eXigencies of the war
situation that brought us together,
wasn't it? she asked
Yes, it was the enemy in your
trenches, dear" he said laughing
Copyright 1915 by the Mcclure
NeWspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
Topeka MOVIE TONIGHT
''MilliOn Dollar HeiresS'' Featuring
Local Celebrities at Auditorium.

1.-The Million Dollar Heiress'' will be
presented to the public for the first
time at the Auditorium at o'clock
tonight. The local film of two reels,
featuring Speaker Robert Stone of the
house of representatives Arthur Cap
per, Charles Mitchell, Miss Helen
Griffin, Miss Grace Dana, Willard
TroXa1 and others, will probably
prove attractive.
Two other reels of feature pictures
will also be shown, changed every
night. A musical program will be add
ed. The one for tonight has not been
announced. The High School Glee
club will be on the bill Tuesday night:
WaShburn orchestra, Wednesday;
Washburn Glee club Thursday, and
the Friday and Saturday musical pro-
grams have not been selected.
The admission price for the picture
and musical program will be 25 cents,
and 5 cents for children under IL
wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
RUNS The BLOCKADE.
Steamer New York Reaches Port
With 221 Passengers Aboard.

New York, March with life
boats swung outward from the davits,
ready for instant use; with four tor
pedo boats steaming alongside as con-
voys and under cover of darkness, the
American line steamer New York
slipped out of Liverpool and through
the submarine war zone, around the
British Isles for this port, which she
reached today.
Two hundred and twenty-one pas
sengers were aboard Fifty of these
came from Paris and because of their
delay in reaching Liverpool the New
York was held at her dock there until
their arrival. at the request of the
American ambassador in Paris.
With her engines going at top
speed, the New York passed through
the war zone and reached the safety
of the ocean without incident. Dur
ing her passage through the waters
believed to be infested with subma-
rines, however, passengers and crew
were ready to take the life boats at
moments notice. When the war
zone was left behind, the torpedo boats
returned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
TIP. ANDERSON DEAD.
Former Member Legislature and Conn
mander G. A. II. Dies i'm Il. G..

Judge T. p Anderson of Kansas
City, Kan, former apartment COM
mander of the Kansas G. A r. died
at his home this morning. Judge An
derson was enc of the prominent law
yerS of the state and leading mmber
of the c.. A. r. He enlisted in an
Illinois regiment at the outbreak of
the war and rose to rank of captain
Following the close of the war. he
came to Kansas and settled in Chero-
kee county.
Judge Anderson served several
terms in the state legislature from
Cherokee county. He later removed
to Kansas City, Kan. He preceded
Col J. n. Harrison as commander of
the Kansas G. A. r. At one time he
was district judge of Wyandotte
county.
Word of his death was received in
Topeka today by his sister, Mrs. 7. w.
Durham. Mrs. Durham went to Kan
sas iCty this morning. Judge Ander-
son is survived by his wife and one
daughter, Mrs. Pansy Hoffman of
Kansas City. The funeral arrange
ments have not yet been made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
Jayh Jots

AS the Peabody Herald suggests:
The man who has seen better days
hasn't anything on the man who eX
poets to see better days. In fact, he
is not as happy.
Some folks have more than their
share of good luck, says the Sabetha
Herald. One Sabetha girl has had
two engagement rings from the same
man and is still engaged to him.
Marquette can be thankful for one
thing at least, insists the Marquette
Tribune. No one here has the mumps
this winter. The Tribune also OBJ
serves that the ailment that troubles
the printer may be called hand to
mouth disease.
A prohibition lecturer from Ken
lucky delivered a lecture on prohibit
ton in Clay Center recently, notes
the Concordia Press, and it adds:
What license or chance has Ken
lucky prohibitionist got in Kansas
where we know more about prohibit
ton in one minute than Kentucky will
know in the next 100 years Ken
lucky is supposed to be the state
where they make whisky so pure
that intemperance is a virtue.
Observations by the Marysville Ad
vocate-Democrat: A woman may
coax a nail, but she can never drive
one. 1t is more than like
ly that the devil told Eve that apples
were good for the complexion.
Begin at the bottom and work your
chance, you are well digger.
There is an excuse for everything
except knocking on your home town.
If you don't like the place, move
on. Some people are con-
tent with being up-to-date, while
there ore others who borrow trouble
two or three years ahead.
Something a little out of the ordi-
nary in the way of a card of thanks
in the Chanute Tribune: Il wish to
express my thanks to the young lady
ing the picture show the other even
ing Being directly behind me she
read aloud all the announcements as
they were thrown the screen and
described the scenes in a loud, clear
voice, and / was very much inn
pressed. She, being tender hearted
and seeing that 1 was near-Slghted
conferred that favor upon me-. She is
my idea of what young lady of s
shy little things who is afraid to
speak out loud. It was a vast help
to me because L didn't have to look
at the screen at all-could talk to my
companion and look over the audi
ence and hear the pictures at the
same time. A gentleman in front of
me bothered quite a bit because he
kept turning around and finally he
got up and left the theater. L noticed
that it bothered the young lady who
was befriending me, too, but L assured
her he had no reference to her. In
order to fully thank the young lady
and that there be no misunderstand
ing [ will tell her name: She is Miss
Chewgum Openface, eldest daughter
of Mrs. Gadabout Openface. She is
to be commended"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
SCHOOL MEETINGS.
Superintendent Eby Sends Notices of
Events in Shawnee April 9.

Notices of the annual school meet
ings to be held in the different dis
tricts of Shawnee county April at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, will be sent
to members of district school boards
in a short time from the office of
John F. Eby, county superintendent
of schools.
AT the April meetings clerks in
every district will be elected for the
coming term of three years. The
length of the term-not less than
seven mOnths-Will be voted as well
as the district tax levy for the term.
The notices which will be sent out
also give the citizens of the various
districts permission to vote a small
sum for a library and pictures for the
school room, if needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
WASHES HIS HANDS.
Governor Capper Will Not Act Per-
sOnally on Dean SquabbIc.

In reply to a query from the sem
ate committee as to his action on the
Panama-Pacific exposition secretary
ship squabble, Governor Capper today
sent d message to the senate saying
that he had withheld action on look =
ing to the recovery of the APO paid
to II. f. Dean.
Recently the senate committee re-
solved to pass the matter up to the
governor. In his message today the
governor stated that unless there was
special legislation ratifying the action
of the commission in paying Dean the
money he would instruct the attorney
general to recover the salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01

Oregon appears to have gone the
short ballot limit. A law just adopted
there places in the hands of the gov
ernor the power to appoint all of the
other state officers, and gives him the
further power to remove all state
officials, whether appointed by the
governor or by state board. This
gives a governor most unusual power.
But it also centralizes the response
bility for the administration of the
affairs of state and should make for
a cohesive efficiency in their conduct.
The Oregon experiment will bear
watching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
MAKE MAN new MOUTH
Surgeons Remove Cancer From Wis
cOnSin Judges Lip.

Chicago ILL.,, March 1.-Justice
William H. Timlin of the Wisconsin
supreme court was recovering from
an operation here today. said to be
UNIQUE in the history of surgery.
Surgeons removed a cancerous
growth from Justice Timlin's face and
fashioned a new mouth from strips of
flesh taken from parts of the face
not contaminated by the cancer.
Justice Timlin, who is 81 years old
watched the proceedings calmly as the
surgeons decided it would be danger
Gus to administer more than a local
anaesthetic because of the patients
age. He was fully conscious during
the operation, and it was said, evinced
the greatest interest in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
Journal Entries

The things left undone are the ones
which initiate against success.
+ T. -
Many folks save money in one way
only to fritter it away in another.
j. IL =
Truth is mighty and strong but it is
not as fleet of foot as lie.
= - +
Letters of regret occasionally carry
more cheer with them than do notes
of acceptance.
g = e
While some men wait for their luck
to turn, others keep pegging away
and beat them to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
JAIL is CROWDED.
Shawnee Prison Holds Fifty With
Prospects for More Soon.

The crowded condition of the Shaw
nee county Jail is causing the jailers
and other county officials no little
worry. At the present time more than
so prisoners are being held at the jail
with prospects of more commitments
before the end of the present term of
court.
About half of the county prisoners
have received sentences in the last few
weeks to the penitentiary or the re-
formatory. 1t is possible that q spec
ial order will be issued by the court.
permitting the prisoners to be taken
to the institutions, prior to the end Of
the term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
BACK TO REFORMATORY
George Winton, Who Stole From
Farmer, Will Not Stand Trial.

George Winton, the 19-year- old boy
who was arrested the latter part of
last week by Joe Quinon, deputy sher-
iff. for breaking his parole from the
Hutchinson reformatory by stealing a
suit of clothes, a gun and other ar
ticleS from the residence of George
Miller, Willard, Kan, will not be tried
for stealing the goods, but will be re-
turned to the reformatOry soon by
county officials.
1t is thought that when Winton was
arrested he was contemplating suicide,
as a pathetic letter to his sweetheart
with whom, officials says. he had quar-
relied, was found in his pockets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
The Day in Congress.

Washington, March 1.-The senate
committee investigating charges of
lobbying in connection with the ad-
ministration ship bill heard P. A. S.
Franklin of the International Mer-
camille marine. Appointed a subcom-
mittee to work on a revision of the
judicial code during the recess De-
bate was resumed on the Indian ap-
preparation bill. House debate was
resumed an the agricultural appro-
.priation bill with rural credits plans
attached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01
WANTS MARTHA'S WILL
State of Virginia Is Planning to Sue
j. p. Morgan.

Washington, March Attorney
General Pollard of Virginia today
asked the supreme court of the United
State for leave to file a suit in behalf
of the state against J. P. Morgan to
recover Martha WashinSton's will.
The will it is alleged, was taken
from the Fairfax county, Virginia,
court house. during the Civil war, and
eventually found it's way to the late
J. P Morgan's collection of historical
documents. The state of Virginia con-
tends that J. P. Morgan, who inherit
ed the will from his father, has no
title to it and that he has refused to
return it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-01

For the legislature to be much
more prompt with its attention in ap-
propriating money to cope with a dis
ease among cattle than it was with
considering an emergency appropria-
ton for the state tuberculosis sani-
tarium merely stamps its members as
normal human beings. The avera ge
farmer gives a lot more attention to
his cattle barns and pig sites, and the
average city man does likewise with
his horse stall, garage. or backyard
chicken coop than they do to the
school buildings where their children
pass a good share of the time