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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

Nine little daffy-down-dilles peeped
out from under their covers of green
and looked at the world.
What do you see?" asked the roots
away down under the ground.
"I see sunshine" said one.
81 see grass that is turning green" y
said another.
And 1 see buds that are swelling;
Then you better go on with your
growing" advised the roots. So, with
out stopping for further talk, the daft
fy-down- dillies settled down to grow.
So hard did they work and so faith
fully did they grow. that by the time
another day or two had passed, nine
little daffy-down-dillieS stood up
straight and tall and strong.
What do you see now" asked
the roots when the flowers had grown
enough that they could rest a minute
and talk.
Now I see warmth and freshness
and more sunbeams," said one.
81 see grass that has turned green
and fresh" said another.
"And I see buds that have swollen
till the tree-tips are tinted pink and
red and green and yellow" said a
third.
"Then you had better go on with
your growing and make yourselves
taller and stronger" advised the
roots. So without further converse
ton, the daffy-down7dillies began
working again.
Now Just at that very minute, who
do you suppose came darling into the
yard? A sparrow? A robin? No,
neither of those! A chicken or a cat :?
oh, dear me, no!
A red bird! Yes. you have guessed
red birdi The very first red bird
of the season. He darted SO fast that
he seemed but streak of crimson
till YOU followed him carefully and
saw him stop on the mulberry tree by
the gate. There he paused for breath
a minute and then from there he
called his greeting to his old friends.
.sHigh-ho, good-day!" he called,
ARE you ready for spring."
The garden smiled. the sparrows
twittered and the car-pird called from
a nearby tree. But the little red bird
seemed to look for something else.
81 very well remember he unused
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
FARMING WITHOUT STOCK.

Yes, you can farm without live
stock" says the Breeders Gazette.
You can haul your farm inch by inch
to market and cash it in at the coun-
try elevator, if you like. You may
fancy you are doing a good thing for
yourself. Well, if you are a tenant,
perhaps you are smart in thus selling
that which belongs to somebody else.
But if you own the land, yourself. have
"A care! 1t may be wise to go out after
4 wild war market for wheat or some
other like crop as a temporary meas
ure, but you will never see the time
when it will pay as a regular system
to Danish good live stock from your
general scheme of management. Feed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
COMMISSION REGULATION.

In commission regulation of bust
ness, states Lindsay Rogers in the
April Case and Comment, there is a
peculiar danger which does not exist
in the control of industrial relations
and social relief. 1 refer to the fact
that private ownership and public
management of corporations are in
herently inconsistent. A high decree
of efficiency is the dominant charac-
teristic of the huge, privately owned
business. But individual initiative
can be demanded and economies en-
couraged only when responsibility is
concentrated. Under commission con-
troll the interest of the corporation is
hostile to the interests of the public;
responsibility is divided The way out
of this dilemma would seem to be
personal, and to lie in cooperation
between the agents of the public and
the managers of the corporation.
The commission control must pre-
serve efficiency; it must be regulation
rather than management, and, above
all, never tutelage. A real problem
exists, and if it cannot be solved, pub
lie ownership will supplant private
ownership under inefficient private
CONTROL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
CANCERS TOLL IS HEAVY.


During the past few years tubercu-
losis has been exploited in Kansas,
and from zone end of the country to
the other as WE'LL as the greatest of
the plaques of peace. against which
the people have to battle. And while
ii, is a terribly Formidable foe to the
human race, a most insidfuus disease,
it isn't the only one of such proper
tions. The mortuary statistics of To-
peka for the past year, for instance,
show that more persons died from
cancer than from consumption. Con-
ditions in this respect are probably
about the same throughout the state
and all over the country. And yet,
while the state, through its board of
health, has devoted considera BILE ener-
gy and attention to the eradication
of tuberculosis and the prevention OF
its spread, it has done little or moth
ing along similar lines In respect to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
PLAY VS. WORK.

Perhaps there is something to the
suggestion from the matron of the
Chicago Girls club to the effect that
not few of the evils of overwork,
affecting some young women are due
to ''overplay'' and nights out. Re
creation is as essential for the work
ing girl as tits for all 'other laborers.
But there is sharp line of demarca-
ton between wholesome recreation
and the excitement and fun" of car
ousaIs of one sort and another in
which many of the young folk of both
sexes are prone to indulge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
Jayh err Jots

AS the Anthony Bulletin observes:
The largest monuments sometimes
cover the smallest men.
Crop hint from Old Granny, the
South Divide correspondent of the
Jennings Echo: Have you sown your
wild oats yet?
Will Palmer of the Jewell County
Republican says that the most com
mon harbinger of spring this year, is
Fanother snow storm.
The Oakley Graphic thus defines
Neutral: Lady wearing Tipperary hat,
French heels and harem veil singing,
Is'Die Yacht am Rhine
IF money talks it surely lied to
soma of u.s. observes Jeres, one of
the regular contributors to the Hutch
inson Reformatory. Herald.
Back in 1880 the average American
had one wife and six children, notes
the Great Bend Tribune, and it adds:
As time passes styles change.
Some of the Leavenworth Times
philosophy: Happiness. is divided he
tween getting the things we want and
not getting the things we don't want.
Neither blue blood nor grit alone
will make you prosperous and hap
py, suggests the Hope Dispatch. The
woman across the table holds the bal
ance of power.
Told by the Jewell County Monitor:
An Irishman came home with a bird
one day. What kind of bird is
he replied. II read that ravens live
500 years and / am going to put this
one to the test E.
A growing dog at the front gate
will keep everybody out, but the dog
hasn't any better sense, observes the
Leavenworth Times, and it draws this
parallel: A growing business man
keeps customers away. and he doesn't
seem to have as much sense as the
dog.
We always thought, says the AIc-
Cune Herald, that the drunkard who
abused his family was the meanest
man on earth, but we saw the really
meanest man the other day. He was
perfectly sober, and went into a res
tauTant and ate good hearty meal,
while his wife waited for him in
grocery store.
Don't flock entirely with birds of
your own feather, advises the Galena
Times. Give yourself an opportunity
to absorb wisdom by spending some
of your time with the people who
think differently from yourself. They
will be useful in driving your ideas
into new channels. You will acquire
cosmopolitanism, and are not apt to
tire of yourself so readily.
The season, when the vandal hands
of boys and the Vandal claws of cats
will be laid upon every helpless quar-
ry of song and plumage bird that both
can find, is upon us, protests the Law
renee Journal-World. The law should
be invoked for the one, and humane
execution for the latter. Ignorant and
cruel torture and determination for
as heedlessly perpetrating inhumani-
ties upon babies and older children by
adults just to crafty a passion to see
something suffer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCEIsoN GLOBE.

What's q movie without woman?
Enthusiasm is great Institution but
not to be bet on.
If a is good workman he'll show
1t shoveling in ditch.
Smiling when everything goes dead
wrong doesn't help much either.
Many people expect mayor to make
flowers grow in their cinder paths.
If a boy has a baseball suit he doesn't
really care what else may be lacking in
his wardrobe
If man is disposed to be led into
temptation he can usually hustle around
and find leader
There is use getting angry by tele-
phone; you can't fight to any advantage
at that distance.
A man frequently belongs to the church,
but it takes a woman to figure that the
church belongs to her.
Aside from the candidates. nearly every
one else is disposed to overestimate the
Importance of election returns.
Speaking of vivid fmaginatiOns, there is
the financier who can bet a thin G
and imagine he is sport
1t may be you have noticed that after
meeting a great man you discover his repu-
tation is three four times greater than
he is
Before noon man is always hopeful
that he will accomplish something by
night. At night he proceeds to sidetrack
his hopes for use again tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
Kansas Comment
PARENTS RESPONSIBLE.

Dean Clark of the University of IL
linois, says that parents are RESPONSE
BILE for most failures in college. There
is nothing new about this. Solomon
wrote many centuries ago: Train up
child in the way he should go and
when he is old he will not depart
from it, That was true not only for
Solomons century but it is true for all
the centuries. There is much in he
redity but there is even more in train
ing. A very large proportion of the
failures in life are directly traceable
to the carelessness or to the selfish
ness of parents. well, you can't ac-
cuse me of being selfish with my
children" says Mr.. Complacency. II
do everything for them" That's just
it. You are so selfish that you do not
like to have the children do for them
selves. You would rather do every
thing for them than to bother seeing
to it that they do things right for
themselves. 1t is se1fishness that leads
you to ''do everything for them and
prevents their learning how to do
things for themselves and leads them
to grow up relying on some one %to
do things for them. Professor Clark
finds many pupils without Initiative
How can they have initiative when
everything is done for them? Selfish
ness of parents, impatience of parents,
thoughtlessness of parents and ego
tism of parents are responsible for a
vast amount of misery in this world.
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
QUAKER MEDITAToNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Even the dentist should hesitate to look
gift horse in the mouth
Truth is mighty and will prevail, if you
are not too polite to tell 1T.
Possibly it isn't wise to work on an
empty stomach. but the doctor often does
You can never tell. Many man is
all right in his way, but it's the wrong
way.
The advantage of being weather-wise
is in knowing just when to borrow an
un brella- s1sn
Trouble is one of the most obliging
things in the world. 1t will never try to
get out of the way of a man who is looking
for it.
wigg-..what are GraftIeigh's chances
of election? He's a promising candidate,
isn't hep wagg-"Sure. He's willing to
promise anything"
Blobbs1.I net Miss lis, Peaeh lie Oh last
Pretty: l should say So She's pref
ty. all the other girls positively hate her."
Miss Antique should hate to have
been of the women of the Middle
Ages Miss Caustique--1es; it must be
rather annoying to be known as middle
aged woman
Mrs Gnaggs-"At any rate 1 have a
mind of my own Mr. Gnaggs--"And
nobody can say you stingy with it,
my dear You are always willing to give
other people a piece of it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
HUNGER.

The Starving Men they walk the dusk,
With hunger in their eyes.
To them Lighted House is like
A lamp of Paradise.
1t is the Window in the dusk,
That marks the drifter's coast:
1t is the thought of love and light
That mOcks the drifter most.
Now 1 have been a Starving Man
And walked the winter dusk;
And have known how life may be
Heaven and a Husk.
The Painting Hands they pulled my sleeve
And babe me curse the Light.
But / had seen a Rich Mans face
That looked into the night.
A hungry face, a brother face
That stared into the gloom,
And starved for life and starved for love
Within lighted room!
Dana Burnet in Harpers Magazine for
March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

the land, and it will never fail to
feed Won and YOUR children. Breed
and feed good animals adapted to your
circumstances and markets, and don't
be stampeded by such disappointment
as come at intervals to every man in
every line of business. Faith in our
future, faith in ourselves, faith in the
average outcome of sound practices
persistently pursued, Joined with tnat
Judgment which is requisite to right
result in any calling, will do the rest.
And beyond all things else, arrive at
a balanced view of what constitutes
true success in life and permanent
Drofit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
AN EASTER ANTHEM.

AN EASTER ANTHEM.
Bass: See, oh, see her lovely haiti
Soprano Tell us which you mean by
Alto; that!
Bass: The sopranos hat 1 mean.
It's the loveliest I've seen.
TENOR: Bassos never have good taste /;
Modish hats on them you waste.
This sopranos hat is fair,
But you see them everywhere
It's from Madam Doemgood.
Alto: Yes, 1 remember It quite well +;
To me the madam tried to sell,
But / aspfred to better things
Than imitation heron wings.
Now let raise the heavenly
soprano: That brings us peace and joy
Tenor: And fill our hearts with blessed
Bass: love
That will earth's bitterness re-
move!
Soprano: She is cat! She is a cat
Alto: You know 1 have the smartest
hat!
Soprano: 1t only cost five dollars, SO
You have no right Ger me to
crow.
Alto: And yours was marked down.
don't you see,
To something very nearly three
Besides, the style was used last
In such antiques I'd not ap-
Tenor: Still to the altos hat lean;
Such lovely shades I've rarely
seen.
Bass: / think sopranos is by far
OF all the hats the brightest
star
Soprano: I thank you for that cheering
word.
The altos hat is quite alb
surdi
Alto: Snake in the grass!
Soprano: Not in my class.
Bass: You're right, my friendi
Tenor: Now heaven defend!
Soprano: As it was in the beginning, is
Alto: and ever shall be, world
Tenor: without end. Amen.
Bass:
Harvey Peake, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

van let drop a short laugh from his
lips. II have proposed to that girl a
half dozen times. but all she does is
laugh and tell me she is not half
worthy so great man as me- His
teeth clashed together. WORTHY! I
am not fit to tie the boot lace of Lau-
retta Austin"
Somehow the truth had worked its
way into Granton's brain before Dele
van had mentioned the name Surely
there were not two women who could
laugh as Lauretta laughed. two who
had SO great a strength as to conceal
tragedy behind mirth, misery behind
happiness and deep human under
standing behind flippancy-
"No-there cannot be two Laughing
Laurettas" Granton gazed back at
Delevan as if the other did not exist.
my story is confidential, Granton.
No one knows of the affair save a
plain clothes man, myself and the
girl
'.And me. And by your telling me
you have thrown the world at my
feet He extended a hand to Dele
van. Il will tell you all about it after
The impassioned tale he gave to
Lauretta when he arrived at her side
startled the girl. She laughed softly
flushed and eyes that sparkled. There
was a sigh in her heart. Lauretta
loved John Granton.
why do you think you love me?''
Sne asked mOcklngly, Il uOnt love
you
Granton made a quick move and
caught Lauretta in his arms. He was
breathing heavily and his voice was
not steady. IT love you because you
are YOU" he said softly, adorable,
beautiful, laughing Lauretta!"
Let me go-let me go." cried the
girl, and a half sob mingled with her
laughter Il am not worthy. Please,
please. let me go!' She struggled, but
Granton only drew her closer and
waited until the tempest had Gained.
When she was quiet in his arms he
tilted back her head.
Tell me you do not and cannot love
me-" he said, and looked deep into her
eyes.
A wistful smile crept into Laurette's
eyes and curled the corners of her
lips. Then she laughed softly.
81 cannot tell a-fib,' she said, and
Granton touched the smile that was
on Lauretta's lips.-(Copyright 1915,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate. }
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

Now for some yells of anguish from
the Observation-Disclosures. 1t develops
that the Crocker Cancer Research
laboratory in New York city uses from
5000 to 1000 rats and mice a month
in its experiments. What boots it, if
this institution is striving earnestly to
render a tremendous service to man
kind Down with it for it's Cruel
slaughter of mice and rats, even
though they be pests and disease car
riers that the world would well be rid
Of or, at least, these are the senti-
ments of Observation-Disclosures. who are
among the more unreasonable people
on earth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

An idea of the magnitude of the
great European conflict can be OBJ
tanned from the announcement in a
Paris newspaper that the troops of the
Allies occupy battle fronts whose
length totals 1856 miles. In the west
ern arena, the French occupy $40
miles of trenches, the English 81 miles
and the Belgians Z miles. while in the
eastern war zone the Russians are
strung out along a front of S51 miles
and the Montenegrins and Servians
are fighting along a line that extends
for 21T miles e.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

cancer. Until very recently, though.
| this has been the situation all over the
country. But health boards and 9TH
er health organizations have finally
awakened to the need of crusading
against cancer, and movement has
been begun that is likely to wax as
vigorous the general campaign
against tuberculosis that has already
been effective. But the cancer
proposition is different one to deal
with. Cancer is disease of countless
varieties of form and is still pretty
much of a mystery to the medical pro-
fession. The best opinions seem to be
that it is neither hereditary nor in
fictitious nor contagious So the prob
lem that battling against it presents
is much more difficult than the one
surrounding tuberculosis. Except for
the fakirs, who are seeking to get rich
quick by imposing worthless cancer
cures on a credulous public, there
seems to be pretty general agreement
among the physicians and surgeons
the world over that most forms of
cancer are only amenable to treat
ment and cure, if they are taken in
time. So about the only way that it
would seem possible to fight the raw
ages of this disease, until more is
known about it, is through a campaign
of education to arouse the people to
the necessities of reasonably frequent
medical examinations for the dag
nOSiS of possible cancer symptoms, and
urging them not to hesitate to seek
medical aid for suspicious sore spots,
Jumps and inflammations that may
develop on their persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
A big~eater always/says he eats slowly
Some men fail to get rich, and some
fail to become poor.
Two heads are not better than one in
the same family. 80 q.
Some people who pretend to be original
are not even good limitations.
It's no credit to man to keep his
word because no one will take it.
Some people go through life looking as
if they were sorry they had ever started.
1t is to be supposed that ghosts enter a
haunted house with the aid of skeleton
keys.
1t takes an unusually polite salesman to
overcharge a woman for anything and get
away with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

'Play ball." and xiii the umpire -
have been sounded in major league
baseball circles. and they'll be in order
in every section of the country before
many more days have passed. And
the questions of paramount interest in
these United States for the next six
or seven months will revolve around
the hits and runs on the baseball dia-
monds of the land and not on the
shells that reach their mark or the
advances or retreats that are staged in
the European war zones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15

Just at that minute somebody else
came into the garden-though you
wouldn't have seen this somebody else
any more than the red bird did. And
the somebody else slipped quietly over
to the -dfllies. as they
stood there straight and strong and
tall. And the somebody else whis-
pered softly, when he asks again
nod yesi"-
AS though he had heard (thoueh
you may be sure he didn't) the red
bird called again, "High-ho, good-dayi
Are you ready for spring."
And the little warm south breeze
(for the last newcomer was her
swayed the daffy-down-d illies SO that
they nodded and smiled in the sun
shine. That's what I was looking
for?'. exclaimed the happy red BIRD.
for always know spring has come
when the daffy-down -dilIies nod a.
greeting' Copyright. - Clara In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
Journal Entries

A wise man seldom ridicules any
thing he doesn't understand.
+ j. =
Most any criminal will reform if he
gets enough free advertising.
+
One of the tests of true friendship
is not to ask nor expect Sfavors.
= i j.
An optimist is a bald-headed man
who is cheerful because he isn't trou-
bled with dandruff.
p - +
Even those who insist they are not
SuperStitiouS, as well as everybody
else, has great respect for the sign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-15
On the Spur
of the Moment
Getting Rich.
BY ROY X. MOCLTON

Getting Rich.
When I was but a little lad,
My father used to say:
'.Save all the pennies that you get
And you'll be rich some day."
Now, father was a thrifty soul,
And wise among all men.
He saved his pennies and made good,
But times have changed since then
1 cannot save 'en as he did,
Although I've fumed and fused.
The pennies that / try to save
Are gobbled by some trust.