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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
sanitation, for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news Is received IN The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Dose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

fatal riot at Pennington last Febru-
airy. Five confessions were made
Monday night. The men were SEN
fenced Immediately by Judge w. S.
Haywood. The terms ranged from one
year to life imprisonment. Sixteen of
the 1873 cases have been disposed of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
Former Official Kills Self

Tuscola, ILL.,, May 4.-Walter j. Doll
son, former Douglas county Judge for
eight years, shot and Killed himself on
the court house steps today He was
defeated for reelection last fall and
has been respondent since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

After the great war is ended, the ro-
mantically inclined girls in Europe
won't have to hunt very far for hus-
bands of heroic mold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

Now that an umpire and a player
have mixed with their fists, it may be
said that the pennant races in major
league baseball circles are fairly well
under way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
Gar seeks Foreign loan

Petrograd, May Am imperial
ukase published today directs the is
sue on foreign markets OF per cent
treasury bills aggregating 200, 900, 900
rubles ($100, 100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

LOST-Small tissue paper package contain
ing one net sleeve Reward. Hhone sI5
PAYING 16c for eggs; hens. lie broiIers.
25c. Phone Cope, 3677
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
MEMBER:
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Audit Bureau of Calculations
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

If Italy eventually enters the war
she certainly cannot be accused of
taking the step without due deliber-
alton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
DIR. Mcclure to Illinois.

DR.. C A. Mcguire was called to
Kewanee. ILL.,, this afternoon by a tel
egram announcing the serious illness
of his mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
Death of Emporia Pioneer.

Emporia, Kan, May Airs. S. b.
Warren, widow of a former mayor OF
this city and a pioneer resident. died
here this afternoon of double pneu-
nOnia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

Think of May day dawning in
southern California with ice on the
ground and the thermometer show
ing a minimum temperature of "a de-
greeS. Oh, you Sunny Kansas,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04
EIeyen Admif GuiIf.

Fairmont, w. Va, May 4--Eleven
men have confessed in circuit court
Monday to having participated in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

Bronze Screen Wire at Forbes
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-04

Central Congregational church. Ban
quet at five, plates twenty-five cents.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
The Morgan Collection.

The sale of the celebrated Morgan
collection of vases that has been
loaned to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art for the past twenty years,
comes as surprise to the world. 1t
has been sold for $4,000,000 to a firm
Of art spectators, for just the same
purpose, no doubt, that induced the
present fictitious valuation upon
these pieces of pottery. The Dureen
firm wants the pottery because it can
do with it what has been done by
other English, French and American
spectators have done. The price
will be boosted away up to the skies,
aided by horde of aesthetic news
paper art critics, and after awhile,
piece by piece, the collection will be
bought up by idealists who are will
ing to pay the price, and it will fin
ally bring double, or more, the price
now paid by the dealers. But after
all, these huge prices of pottery are
merely imaginary. The smart deal
ers raise the prices, and foolish peo-
pie keep paying them. Only the
money-mad American has made pres
entday art prices possible. Mr..
Morgan does an ungracious thing in
deed, in selling this collection of pot
terry, because after twenty years of
stewardship it rightfully belonged to
the American public. At least he
might have given the municipality a
chance to buy it, because as it is, the
younger Morgan makes it an Indian
gift. The father virtually made the
public gift and the son takes it
away.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
The Front PAGE.

The front page of all newspapers
is the unwilling cause of much anx-
iety, much contention and a great
deal of trouble. Any man who has
ever been honored in front page
story of Metropolitan newspaper
has reached niche in the Hall of
Fame that falls to the precious few,
The front page is for exploiting big
news. Kings, emperors, potentates,
murderers, Shipwrecks, railroad acct
dents and all of the great things in
life that take place are certain choice
for the front page. Everything else
in newspaper is subordinate to the
front page-it must and does yield
and get out of the way. The inside
of some (most, in fact), newspapers
cuts sorry figure beside front
page. The real wideawake section;
the place with the snap and import
ance, is page No. l.
These preliminary remarks are the
result of a recent number of requests
from various parties who have sent
in contributions, some with "Put this
on the front page" another, "1r
won't have any effect unless you put
it on the front page" Still one more
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
The Architects Wrangle.

1t is unfortunate that anything
like a wrangle has been allowed to
creep into the selection of an archi-
tect for the new Cliffside Park high
school building. Mr.. Ernest Sibley
was elected, not merely because he is
Mr.. Sibley, but because he is, also,
good architect. There are many
other good architects. Mr.. Sibley
realizes this. But he is an architect
with a clean record in all that the
term means. He has never allowed
himself to wander off into forbidden
paths by seeking gain for himself
to which he was not entitled He has
stuck to his last, and has never been
criticised for seeking more than the
architects regular fee for his serv-
ices. In this way, by holding aloof
from entangling alliances of every
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
Looking Up.

If one may Judge by the ordinary
signs of the times, the American
business man is to be felicitated.
From every quarter came reports that
things are getting back to normal
again. The great European war has
made America more self-reliant and
far more resourceful. Things we
thought we could never get except
from Europe, we are actually pro-
ducing here. The school of necessity
has urged inventive genius to hasten
itself and it has done so to big advan-
tage. The recent Holiday season was
surprise to the world, so far as
American sentiment was concerned.
With millions going out in charity
to the European war sufferers, the
business of providing for our own lib
orally in the home was amply evil
denced by the almost unprecedented
attack made upon the wares of old
Santa Claus. In very hard times the
patron saint of the little ones has had
to carry scant packs on his reindeer
sled, but this year he was literally
overloaded. All of this, coupled with
visible evidences of revivifying trade
in the great manufacturing centers,
is a good sign that our cares need not
at this time give us undue alarm.
And in the midst of it all the fact
that peace reigns in America is of
supreme moment just now. We shall
indeed be the most blessed of all peo-
plies if the Ship of State can be
steered clear of the rocks and con-
tinue her course in smooth waters.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
THE THICKENING WAR.

working, putting forth all her energies
planning. Isolated in the seas, with
her ships her main defense, England
wards off all serious attack, is not
sure of herself, yet fights on, lands
more men in France, hopes, shouts,
waits. England says she will not lose.
France shouts give la!" and says she
die in the trenches. Germany, per-
fectly equipped, fortified to the death,
bids defiance to overwhelming odds
and says, "Come on" Germany'S
fighting is MARVELLOUS. But what are
you to say of France and England
And not forgetting Russia-Is she
not showing amazing power? Can
Europe resist her swarming millions
Is she too big to handle herself with
sufficient strategy to win! And Aus
tria? A second rater, from the rec
ords, may she not yet get into "sec-
ond wind" form and strike telling
blow? 1t is strange that 50,000,000
cannot make better show than is ap-
parent. Germany with her 60,OOO,OOO
is the wonder of the world A man
does not have to be German to
admit this.
But of the war, it is devilish, cruel,
poisonous, crushing, brutal, horrible,
repulsive, repellant, awful, nerve-rack-
ing, beastly, unholy, slaughtering,
blood-curdling
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
MISSION DINNER
AND DANCE GIVEN.

The Mission dinner and dance given
by the Woman's Guild of Grace Epis-
copal Mission, Grand View, on Mon
day evening, February 9Th, was one
of the most delightful ever given
there.
The attendance was all that could
have been desired, and the repast a
selectable one. The scene, itself, was
a picturesque one, with oblong rings
of diners, and pretty choir girls all in
a row.
Delightful music, for entertainment
and dance was rendered by a blind
pianist, Mr.. Rudy Fultonright. There
will be a final dance next Monday
night.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
Suspicion.

1t seems to be a human failing to
be suspicious. There is no apparent
way of accounting for this frailty of
the heart, but it has caused more
to the one harboring it than any other
evil tendency. 1t is an awful thing to
be suspicious. The trait is a mis-
fortune, first cousin to envy, jealousy
and hatred. Some natures have the
tendency to be suspicious because it
cannot be helped. Others possess it
from a narrow view of things. There
are people holding responsible po-
sitions who weaken their capacity
through imagining things that never
existed. Imagination is, Of course,
the basis of suspicion, but as trait it
is, perhaps, damnable as jealousy,
and far more damaging. Whatever
be the cause of suspicion, it invariably
cheapens one, and lessons any career
of usefulness. 1t brings pang where
a smile would logically be. 1t is a
species of mind horror that is compar-
able to nothing that can be named.
Suspicion leads down the road of
misery, and sometimes ends at the
door of crime. If the suspicious per-
son were to define hell, it would be to
picture his or her own disposition
There is no peace for others who
dwell in the atmosphere of a sus-
picious person.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13

this is the proper thing to do. mas
much as the government is already
operating a railroad and steamships
in connection with the Panama Canal,
the owning and operating more ships
should not be matter of concern to
other countries, nor should this fact
disturb the present relations between
the United States and them. The
United States is pledged to neutral
ity and has and will maintain this
attitude in so far as it relates to the
European countries now at war.
There are some newspapers just
now overly Jealous about the shipping
bill, for fear that it will meet the dis
approval of the Allies, meaning Eng
land, France and Russia. These lat
ter countries, the story runs, will not
stand for any foolishness in getting
supplies to Germany, and it is this
fear on their part that the United
States want to be fair to which at
tention is now directed.
Well, it does look bit squeamish
for England, France and Russia to
frown at our doing as we please with
our money, even to the extent of buy
ing ships to help our very thin. ship
ping interests. Then, too, there is
Japan. Geewhillicans! But whats
the use? The shipping bill is toe
frightful a thing to think about. Mr.
Wilson must be dreaming as usual.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
Woman Fight in NelU York.

The action of the New York State
Legislature in passing an act submit
ting the question of female suffrage
to the voters of that commonwealth,
is far reaching in it's effect an infu-
ence. 1t is liable to cause more and
larger comment on the issue as a
whole than anything that has so far
come up for considerat ton in conn..
ton with the cause of suffrage. That
it will meet with opposition in some
quarters and be favored in others, is
evident from the very nature of the
subject. So far, all other sections
of the United States that have fav-
ored and acted upon female suffrage,
have been subordinate to the issue as
finally brought up in the greatest Of
all the American States. If the cause
of woman votes wins in New York,
the rest of the country for suffrage
is safe and all opposition may be
called in advance.
the question of suffrage is manifested
in one of the hardest attacks ever
published in two-column editorial
by the New York "Times" last Sun
day. The "Times," while not mincing
words, admits the equality of woman
in all of the essentials of human at
tainments of the intellect, but con-
cludes in an argument that fairly
bristles with force, that woman's
place is not in channels that
place her in competition with
man to do the task that he has
so far done alone. There is so
much that the "Times" opposes in
the measure that only careful peru
sal will afford the proper conception
of that journals viewpoint. 1t is a
very logical document as a whole,
makes no attack whatever upon wom-
ans rights, but merely takes the
stand that woman's sphere is not in
any sense shown at it's best in politics.
1t says, among many other things,
that in order to Qualify as voters on
an equality with men, they must be
transformed made new beings of,
which is impossible, and adds, "But
without that transformation women
cannot qualify for the vote as men
qualify, and there is no other way to
acquire the qualification"
But in order to place the matter in
a bit clearer light, so far as the read
ers of this journal are concerned, the
best of the "Times" editorial is re-
produced in this issue, so that it may
speak for itself.
There have been prophets before
this moment who have asserted that
the woman question in America
would develop into the most momen-
tous of all that have come before the
people in the history of the country.
It begins to look like it might come
true. If the menace as forecast by
the New York "Times" is a real
scare, certainly the subject will be
given most careful consideration, to
say the least. 1t merits it.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13

was modest enough to write, "Put
on the front page or tear it up!"
The only bit of advice left to offer
these contributors is to suggest that
it is the editors purpose to make all
of the pages of equal value, so that
our friends may come finally to
know and understand that there is
no real choice between them When
something out of the ordinary is sent
in, however, it may Of necessity find
a lodging place-and, perhaps, at the
top of column, front page.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13

nature, he has built up a reputation
for square dealing and honesty that
He has never had an investigation
over any of his school work. Where
he has planned work he has seen to it
that all specifications were lived up to
by all contractors. The result has
been that the municipalities that have
had his services once want him again.
Whatever he has wrought for the
public eye has been something worth
understanding every taxpayer
could feel was the full moneys worth
everytime. A Sibley school always
looks good because it is good.
On the question of competition, a
correspondent alludes to the New
York Custom House being a competi-
tive work. Very true, and yet Cass
Gilbert, who planned it, said "Compe-
tition is like Sherman's views of war
-'h-l.'"
The truth is, Mr.. Sibley's success
has been an honor to the profession
of architecture, and he is entitled to
all of the schools he can get without
competition because by his system of
specializing he has become an expert,
and no man is his superior. Any at
tempt to call his selection unfair falls
by the wayside as so much mere
drime
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13

The war clouds of Europe are grow
ing thicker and darker. All war
clouds are dark but those of Europe
are now dense black. The situation
is putting to rout all of the wit of
diplomatists and rulers of the entire
world There is not yet a single rift
in the clouds to let ray of sunlight
thorough 1t may be that like the ele-
ments in Mexico, when an earthquake
is about to humble into grumbling
shocks, the sky darkens, the lighting
flashes and torrents pour. Perhaps
the European war cloud gets blacker
before the great final cataclism.
Germany is unceasing in her clash
es on three sides of her domain. She
seems never SO determined, and ap-
pears to force the fighting with no
diminishing force. Her ATTACK is
splendid, her charge furious, her la
ment terrifying. France, emplaced
in barriers continues her unceasing
lunging of the line. She rushes for
ward, is pushed back, gains, loses adj
vances, entrenches; holds, retreats,
goes forward again, rests and renews
the charge. England, slow, deter
mined, sluggish, yet brave and undaun-
ted, goes along in plodding fashion,
fighting, killing, dying, reviving,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
A Presidents POlUer.

Any President of the United States
must be under terrific strain while in
office. Perhaps no other service I'M
der the sun carries with it so many
personal responsibilities. Mr.. Taft
was saying the other day that in
making appointments a President
made DC migrate and ten enemies.
When one comes to consider the vast
ness of our country, and that each
State may have hundreds of Presi-
Dental appointees, to say nothing of
the ministerial and consular service,
special commissioners and the like,
there are required a vast army of
people to run the government, and the
President must conserve his energies
and his time in mastering the many
details connected with them. In add
ition to these the greater things in
mapping out a program of policies
and the effort required to execute it,
is tremendous undertaking. The
never ending obstacles, the infinitude
of detail, the clashing, opposing,
countering movements in putting any
measure through congress must tax
the patience of the governments head
almost beyond endurance. 1t is only
through the well-perfected system of
aid rendered by the members of the
cabinet and the departmental heads
that anything like order is main
tanned.
Being President of the United
States of America, regardless of the
fact that it is an elective office, is
possessed of the greatest number of
intricacies, and carries more power
with it than any in the world. No
King or Emperor has the power of
his country and people as our Presi
dent. To a man like Roosevelt the
office was a tremendous weapon;
with Taft it was burden; with
Harrison it was arduous beyond meas
ure, and with Wilson it appears to be
an enjoyment, because, as he says, it
is new university where he has
more opportunity for study than
in all of his previous fields of
research. Wilson has entered into
the real zest of being President,
and his equipment for the office
has never been surpassed, and
perhaps his real scholarship has never
before been equaled by any man who
has preceded him. His greatest gift,
perhaps, is the simplified form of his
writings and speeches. No man ever
failed to get clear understanding of
his language, although he has at
times purposely been bit vague,
only to have his real meaning finally
uncover itself 1t were foolish to
praise a man like Woodrow Wilson
merely because it is an easy thing to
think and speak of his genius and his
greatness. The power of the man is
self compelling, and the beautiful
quality and finish Of his language so
altogether admirable that no one
fails to be enthralled by it.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
The Shipping Bill.

There is at the present time a bill
in Congress which will give the
United States government the right
to build, buy, own and operate ships
of its own in the carrying trade on
the high seas. The President thinks
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-02-13
THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE.

The spirit of service-nOt a senti-
to it that the thing you do for the
public and get money for is the best
thing of that kind that can be done.
President Woodrow Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
DEATH FIGHT ON PILLS.
Effingham High School Boys Declar,
for Anti-Tobacco Law.

Effingham, Kan, Nov. 23.-The
boys of the Effingham High School
Y. NJ. G. A. recently served notice on
the tobacco dealers of the town that
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to
minors contrary to the laws of the
state, must come to an end. These
boys, entirely on their own initiative,
went quietly to work to get the evil
dence and then informed the guilty
parties that they had the goods on
them and proposed to use the proof
unless the law was obeyed. The
notice served on the dealers reads as
follows:
The Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION of the Atchison county high
school wishes to call your attention to
the facts in regard to the Kansas
we now quote: Tt shall be unlawful
for any person or dealer to sell or give
away tobacco, cigarettes or cigarette
papers to minors, or to allow minors
to use tobacco in any form in his
place of business.
I'VE have evidence that you sell
tobacco to minors and unless it ceases
Immediately we shall take pains to see
that it does, as we have the law be-
hind us.
ALSO in regard to the use of punch
boards and other gambling devices.
we desire to inform you that by re-
cent ruling of the attorney general
they must be removed.
I'VE do not wish to cause any
hard feelings or cause harm to your
business, but we mean to carry out
what we have said
This notice so far has had the de-
sired effect and the boys are pretty
sure it will continue to be needed.
A great work is being done among
the high school boys of the state by
the Y. NJ. c. A. There are thirty-two
of these high school associations, be-
sides nine high school Y. NJ. c. A.
clubs, the latter in cities where there
are city association buildings.