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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
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growth of which has been the further
development of organized labor in its
various forms. The right of men to
associate themselves together for their
mutual advancement is incontestable:
and under our modern conditions, the
organization of labor is necessary Just
as is the organization of capital: both
should make their contribution toward
the creation of wealth and the promo
ton of human welfare. The labor
union among its other achievements,
mas undoubtedly forced public atten-
ton upon wrongs which employers of
today would blush 10 practice But
employers as well as workers are more
and more approaching the human
equation, and realizing that mutual re-
spect and fairness produce larger and
better results than suspicion and
selfishness. We are all coming to see
that there should be no Sitting of la
Dor by capital. or of capital by labor;
and also that there should be no
sitting of labor by labor, or of capital
by ca pital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
Jdyhdwker Jots

Excellent advice fom the lola Regis
ter: Before you start to throwing dirt
into your competitors eyes, be sure
F., the wind is in the right direction,
One sad difference in the cooking
profession from others, points out Mrs.
Homer Hoch in the Marion Record, is
that the cook has to eat her own mis-
takes.
We have just read of an alfalfa
field As years old, in Nemaha county,
which is still producing, says the
Muscotah Record, and it suggests: If
there is a lazy farmer around here
who owns his farm he should put in
alfalfa. He can then sit and watch it
grow.
A hog-kiIling, as described by the
smith shop was a real packing house
Monday when Chas. Hasten and Sam
demonstrated to quite an audience the
art of butchering rated hog. Allen,
in trying to determine the name of the
firm, concluded that it wasn't Swift's
because they were too slow. However,
they succeeded in fixing up Mr. Porker
in No. l style and at this writing he is
resting easy, but somewhat in pieces,
and under the expert care of his two
doctors he expects to be well cured
soon.
When Hanch Glover was a farm
hand, he ran away and married his
employers daughter and he had never
and his wife had to nag at him to get
him to wash his feet every Saturday
night, relates Tom Thompson in his
Howard Courant. When he moved to
town and built his new house, she had
the fight of her life to get him to
have bath tub and hot water equip
ment built in. But she won out, and
now Hanch doesn't zee how he ever
got along without it. In fact he
monopolizes the bath room and calls
ut his room, doing all his dressing and
undressing in it, and his wife can't get
inside the door until after he is
through or leaves the house. The 9TH
err morning when he found long hairs
in his brush and some hairpins lying
on the shelf. he snorted and jawed
around till he made himself very un-
pleasant, and now he is planning to
have bath room put in which shall be
his exclusively and where his wife will
not be allowed to butt in and clutter it
up with her powder puffs and tooth
brushes and funny looking fixin's |
Hanch Glover has changed greatly |
since 1881.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
It's good plan to compel respect
but don't do it with n club.
Modest indeed is the woman who
bushes for her own cheek.
You can't stamp out an evil by Civ
ing it the stamp of approval.
Marriage is apt to be a lottery to
the couples who meet by chance.
The shadow of suspicion is gener-
ally cast by the strong light of pub
licity.
Man has more logic than woman.
but woman evens it up by having
more tears.
The way of the transgressor may
be hard, but it is far from being lone
some.
No man has ever reached perfec-
ton by following the advice he gives
others.
No man by standing on his dignity
can add to his stature, but he ought
to be well heeled.
The Married Man-"So you believe
in long enga gcments. eh?'' The Bach
elor-'Sure. The longer fellow is
engaged. the less time he has to be
married.
Familiarity breeds contempt"
quoted the Wise Guy, Yes agreed
the Simple Mug charity begins at
home. so, of course, it is seldom APP
preciatcd."
4 see you are n victim of the per-
niciouS tobacco habit" eXpostulated
the good deacon. We'll, | don't often
smoke" apologized the stilgy man, as
ne lighted a two-fer; but when 1
want a smoke. 1 want it bad"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Probably a busy line" caused the
war in Europe.
A telephone company never expects
to be loved very much.
A tragedy is a funny story told the
second time to the same man.
The little things are peculiarities.
The big things are boneheads.
Old Man Taylor and Jimmy Cedar
Brook are holiday guests here this
week.
Who originated the theory that
nothing is good for you unless it tastes
bad?
Don't forget that you can take your
self so seriously that you will become
a joke.
Short jerks seems to be one of those
men who enter stores to spit, and not
to buy.
The most conservative man is occa-
sionally guilty of Big Talk about
something or other.
There is also a good deal of differ
ence of opinion about what consti-
tutes a liberal reward.
Prejudice is a close rival of booze
when it comes to leading people from
the right way of thinking.
There is this about prohibition: one
hears less about that old wormy chest
nut, the water wagon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

The neat maid who opened the door of
the big stone house did not conceal
her surprise as Angy asked for Mrs.
Eads.
Mrs Eads has been dead about a
year" explained the maid.
''Oh, please pardon me-" stammered
Angy, but this message must have
been long delayed. Is her son here ?
The message can be given to him."
Angy was admitted to the warm
hall, and a few minutes later a tall.
broad-shouldered young man appeared
in the wide doorway of the literary.
In the semi darkness of the great
house. she delivered the package and
explained how and when 1t came into
her possession.
You are wonderfully kind to come
at once" The young mans hands
were trembling and his voice husky as
he finished reading the note. I've
made dozen searches for the ring,
but had given up finding it. Poor
mother must have kept it near her
heart as long as she lived. l felt that
she'd like her clothing to go to those
who could use it, and so 1 had the
housekeeper send a lot of it to that
committee. 1 wish l knew how to
thank you enough"
But you've already done so much
for me by sending the things that
mother needed So Daddy always said
that blessings and sorrows were made
to be shared, but"
Wait! Surely there was only one
man who said it Just that way" The
young man was looking hard at Angy
now. rs it really Angy Lane? Can
it be?' Angy's surprised affirmative
brought this further exclamation:
And am Harry, Angy. When ]
came home from college last summer
1 went to see your father, but all the
people could tell me was that he had
died and that you and your mother
had moved away. Has the world been
good to you, Angy?" Then for the
first time since they had recognized
each other both of them remembered
how they had been brought together.
There were tears in the eyes of both
as Harrison Eads, whom Angy had
known before only as Harry, led her
into the sunny breakfast room. sit
here and have a cup of coffee, and
then Wen talk everything over" he
said quietly, as he placed a chair for
her across the table from where his
own unfinished breakfast awaited his
return.
In talking everything over there was
so much to say and so many times to
say "and do you remember that 1t
was nearly noon before either of them
knew it. When Angy started home
she was in a big limousine beside
Harry, with a fur robe tucked all
about her. When they went together
you rem LENDERS" all over again, until
Harry's deep but trembling voice told
the mother that he and Angy had
a greed to share all their blessings and
sorrows as long as they lived, includ-
ing the joy of having her with them
as their mother. AS proof, he pointed
to the old-fashioned ring he had
placed on Angy's finger.-(Copyright /
1915, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
LABOR AND CAPITAL.

The worlds wealth is constantly
being developed and undergoing muta-
ton. and TO promote this process both
labor and capital are indispensable.
writes John D. Rockefeller. jr., in the
January Atlantic. II these great forces
cooperate, the products of industry
are steadily increased; whereas, if they
fight. the production of wealth is GER
taie to be either retarded or stopped
aisoeether and the well-springs of
material progress choked. The prob
,-n of promoting the cooperation of
kbor and capital may well be regard
a. therefore. as the most vital prob
Il m of modern civilization Peace
a. be established among the ma
Hons of the world; but if the underly-
liz factors of material growth within
Bach nation are at war the founda-
Hons OF all progress are undermined.
The development of indus
I-ry on a large scale brought the cor
pration into being, a natural out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
THE STATES EXPENSES.

All increase OF lOO per cent in the
expense of conducting the government
of Kansas during the past ten years
may have a rather extravagant look
on its face, but a scrutiny of the causes
doesn't give any reason for alarm or
suggest that Kansas has been exceed
ing, or. perhaps, even approaching the
financial speed limit. 1t is within this
same last decade that Kansas. or her
institutions, have experienced their
largest development, and a necessary
one, too, if Kansas is to discharge her
full functions to her citizens, and also
maintain reputable place in the pro-
cession of progress in which her sis
ter states are participants. As society
develops in this country, and every
where else. for that matter, the de-
mands that it makes upon the state
become more numerous, more exact
ing and more expensive. If a state is
not to be derelict in its duties if it is
not to stand still and be content to let
the well enough alone that leads to
decay, it must meet them. Kansas has
responded to most of these demands
and in a most intelligent manner
Considerable of the increases in her
expenditures have been devoted to her
educational institutions, and the re-
turns from these particular invest
ments have already been large, and
will be much larger as the years roll
on. The better care of her depend
ents of all sorts, but no better than to
what they are entitled, is responsible
for other increases in the states ex-
penses. And so on through the great
er part of the whole list of increases.
They represent an increased service
on the part of the state for the bene-
fit of the whole people And, of
course, the end is not yet 1t may be
expected that the expenses of Kan
sas will continue to increase as the
commonwealth grows in population
and in all other ways. There will be
new and expensive things for Kansas
to do If she is to keep apace with the
march of civilization in this country.
She has some sore needs, even now.
such as the proper Improvement of
her highways, and the control and
conservation of her flood waters. What
the people of Kansas should be con-
cerned with is not so much in the in
evitab1e legitimate increase of her ex-
penditures but in seeing to it that they
get wholly adequate returns for the
tax money they contribute for the pay
ment of the states bill. They have
been especially fortunate in the past
in this respect, although it is prob
ably true that some of the states mon
ey has been wasted here and there.
They must take care that the same
order shall continue for the future. ,
And it should be gratifying to all Kan
sans to know that compared with the
expenditures of many of the other
states those of their own are not near
ly so large. not even proportionately
with the older states whose popula-
tons are larger and whose problems
are more complex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

well-to-do, in the ways of right living
by keeping the facts constantly before
them, and to do this all the agencies
for conveying intelligence will be nee
essary-the public press, the pulpit,
the universities. the schools, in addi-
ton to the public health agencies and
the daily work of the medical profess
sion. Men must learn what their daily
need of food is, and avoid excess. They
must learn that a fat man is a vulner-
able man; each man must learn what
his weight should be, and keep within
that weight, while alcoholic beverages
can be eliminated as intelligent under
standing of human welfare advances
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
A HAPPY NEW YEAR To ALL.

What can be the matter with the
sun today" asked one forest fairy of
another. "All the whole day long /
have watched him. and he seems
thoughtful and almost sad. Has any
thing happened, do you know"
The fairy stopped his play and
looked up at the sun. I'm sure I
don't know" he said. after he had
sQuinted and looked several minutes.
HE does look sad. l wonder what
fairy queen!"
Quickly they ran to the fairy
queens winter palace. where they
found the queen making tiny stars Of
the snowfla kes. Can l serve you %
she asked, when she saw them run
ming toward her. rs there anything
you want ?"
yes, there is replied the two
fairies, breathlessly. I'VE want you
to tell us what is the. matter with
the sun"
What is the matter with the gun ?"
repeated the fairy queen in surprise
rs there anything the natter"
I'VE think there must be, because
he looks so sad said the fairies both
together.
The fairy queen looked up at the
sun. He was sinking slowly toward
his bed in the west, and. there was no
doubt about it. he did look sad-what
could be the trouble
GU are rlght, something is the
matter, said the fairy queen. posi-
lively; but what that something is
is more than 1 can tell you. I don't
know myself Let's ask the wise old
owl"
So the fairies climbed the tree in
which the owl lived and hunted him
up at once. please, wise old owl. :"
they said when they had walked him
up from his daytime sleep. tell us
what is the matter with the SUM-"
The wise old owl took down his
foot that was tucked up among his
feathers. blinked open his two eyes
twisted his head back and forth to see
if it was all right. Then ne looked at
the fairies and said: IF you want to
know anything about the sun. ask him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
RETROSPECT.

Look upon the year that's dying
Have you pressed your imprint on 1tF
Can you, now you stand and con It.
Say you've done your share Of trying
Have You barred your arms and worked
Like Old Busiman next door,
Or have you just stood and shirked,
Being nothing but a bore:
Did you make the old world brighter
For yourself and for the others
OF mankind whom we call brothers:
Did you make your wifes task lighter!
When affairs were in the rough.
Did you ease them up with joy:
Did your neighbors say, You stuff!
Or, with pattings, Alta boy!
Did you crouch, and were you gloomy:
Was your conduct every shocking
When Dame Fortune missed her knocking
Did you grunt Wont she come to me?'
Or did you get out and coax
Better things to come your way:
Get out with the toiling folks.
Fetch the sun and make il stay?
Take look. And take it clearly;
Would you change a single minute
If you could again begin it?
Was each spent for living. merely?
If it were, then blot it out:
Think of better things to do;
Then, to New Year, face about
Now's your chance to start anew.
A. Walter lifting. in Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
Euening Chat


There's one thing I've made up my
mind to do before next Christmas.
wonder if you'll care to do it. too2
For a New Years gift for myself
I'm going to buy little notebook
and in it I'm going to jot down the
glove. shoe stocking. etc, sizes of the
various people for whom I usually buy
Christmas gifts. I'm going to do that
right now while no one suspects that
have any Interior motive in asking
I'm going to keep that little notebook
in my shopping bag. and then when
see a chance to buy a gift at a sale
sha'n't be afraid to buy lest the size
won't be right.
I don't know how many times this
past year 1 missed chances like that
because 1 wasn't sure of the size;
Sometimes Tve spent perfectly good
money telephoning to find out, ana
other times even that wasn't possible
OF course you can't always exchange
goods bought at sales and even when
that privilege is allowed, the other
sizes of the goods will probably be sold
out long before Christmas.
Below is an extract from letter
from the general secretary of big
charitable society. 1t arrived too late
to be published before Christmas. but
there's New Years Day still to come
don't approve of making this day
to exchange gifts among friends, but
this Cor any other day) is the ideal
time to share with those who are in
want.
81, too" he writes. every often read
your column and have wondered
whether you could not influence peo-
pie to think little of those who are
in trouble in our city at Christmas
time. If when people are spending at
Christ mas time they would set aside
a little for the poor. Christmas would
mean a great deal more than it does
now to some people. A couple of doll
lars for coal or a weeks rent would be
a fine Christmas present to some or
our strugglers. and when you think
Of it. so many could spare that
amount.
Another thing that would be help
full is furniture in disable condition
There are so many attics filled with
discarded but still useful articles. and
so many homes needing chairs and
tables and almost everything else"
Tomorrow is New Years Day. start
the year right by getting rid of some
of those things in your garnet that are
only imped.menta to you and that
would be blessings to some one else.
And if you want your New Year to be
doubly blest by a good beginning. send
a thank offering of much money
as you can spare (and then some
more) with them.
Two friends of mine. a husband and
wife. had several books among their
Christmas gifts. asked them if they
should read them aloud.
NO" she said. 1--WE never read
aloud"
l was disappointed. that being my
ideal of conjugal companionship.
But She went on. we can't get
along fast enough, reading aloud. and
then it tires our Threats. So we di-
vide the books into pairs and he reads
one and l the other. Then we ex-
change. That gives us all the pleasure
of comparing notes without the tedium
and strain of reading aloud. We do
that with all our reading"
An excellent plan. l think. Don't
you - Protected by The Adams
Newspaper Service
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.I

From the Chicago News.I
A practical joke is one chat gets
a laugh across the footlights.
Time flies-and the leader of an or
chestIa can beat it.
The office never gets left when it
has q salary back of it.
A mothers praise of her children
never interests other women.
Some actresses seem to favor long
engagements and short maria ges.
Don't give your husband too much
rope tomorrow. Give him real cigars
for a change.
Blessed is the man who expects
handkerchiefs for a Christmas pres
ent. Cor he isn't likely to be disap-
pointed.
Nothing succeeds like the success
of the girl who knows just what she
wants for Christmas and hands the
right young man gentle hint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

During the first twelve days of its
life. the first session of the Sixty
fourth congress managed to establish
a new congressional record, but only
in the matter of the introduction of
bills. They reach the rather as
founding total of 6,TS1, or more than
twice as many as were introduced in
the same period Of the congressional
session of two years ago. 1t is i'm
possible to imagine the topsy-turvy
conditions that would prevail in this
country were all the bills that are in
troduced in congress enacted into law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

Announcement is made that the
United States Steel corporation will
share its profits with it's employees;
that is, the company will give its en-
ployees the privilege of subscribing
for 5000 shares of its common stock
at a price of SIS a share. And this
happens to be only 50 less per share
than the employees of the steel COM
pany. or anybody else, for that mat
ter, could now purchase this stock in
the open market.
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Journal Entries

Too many people confuse wants
with needs.
An X-ray picture of many brain
would be a blank
Cheer up! The good old summer
time is only a few months away.
i. = 4.
Nor is it possible to please some of
the people any of the time.
J. + !.
One reason more people are not
braggarts is because they haven't
to brag about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

Presumably, it is on the advice of
their attorneys that the state receiv-
ers of the Kansas Natural Gas COM
pany begin their extensive and expen-
sire journey through the federal
courts to dispute the jurisdiction of
the state utilities commission over any
Of the company's affairs. And wheth-
or the receivers win or lose in this suit.
heir attorneys will profit personally.
OF course, through additional fees of
the usual large proportions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

This sounds reasonable. DIR. J. E.
Wallin. a recognized psychological ex-
pert, expresses the opinion that nearly
everybody is crazy, or feeble-minded,
at least, if measured by some of the
sstests'' that have been developed by
some of the psychological scientists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

Old Man Winter has finally taken
a hand in the fighting in Europe and
the millions of mere men who are on
the battle lines will have to rest on
their arms pretty generally for the
next few weeks. There is no force
so tremendous and overpowering as
that of Nature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

Maybe he is right. though" said
one fairy, thoughtfulIy; lets ask tbe
sun. But we'd better do IL quick
he's nearly in bedi"
SO the fairies all climbed up on tbs
tip top of the highest tree and ca1led
out to the sun. Please. Mr.. S,,,,
what's the matter? Why are vo,,
sad % S"u
And the sun answered. tbe,, oo,,,,
hear it as plain as could be. I'm 81
because the year is ended. and Tva
made so many mistakes But I'm 90
ing TO bed early. SO as to get a s,or,d
start Tor next year A happy New
Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

\ definite code of international law
with an adequate international tribun-
al - administer it is the proposal of
Ell Root as the only means that
can make for a world-peace in the fu-
ture- But who would enforce the de-
crees of such a tribunal? That's the
Important question. And the Root
plan suggests the need of some such
concert of powers as is contemplated
by the League-to- Enforce-Peace plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

Excuse the oversight, please. But
perhaps it isn't altogether too late to
call attention to the fact that the re-
cent visit of General Snow to Kansas
Undoubtedly saved the wheat crop, if
only for the first time this season.
However, the 'crop-killer'' seems to
have Joined the company of old-fash-
ioned folk that it is pretty difficult to
locate NOWADAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31

II is all very patriotic and fine ex-
ample. too. for the Empress of Ger
many to use a bread card" But it is
probably also a fact that this distin-
gu.shed lady wouldn't be compelled to
use one if she did not so desire, while
the ether housewives of Germany
have no alternative in the premises.