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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
CANCER IN THE FAMILY.

| Perhaps nothing causes more need
less worry than the fact that one or
more persons in a given family have
died of cancer. This is commonly
taken as a proof that'the disease is
| hereditary. But this does not follow
at all. insists the Journal of the Amer
! lean Medical association. There is
| probably no greater chance of inher-
iting cancer than there is of being
killed by lightning or of breaking
ones neck by falling down stairs.
| Perhaps there are people who worry
even about those contingencies hut
the statisticians have shown that such
fatal accidents are exceedingly rare.
People who are concerned because
their relatives have succumbed to
cancer fail to consider how wide
spread the disease is. A malady that
causes one death out of every eight
among women and one out of every
fourteen among men over forty is
fairly common. On this basis it does
not take much arithmetic to figure
out how likely it is that cancer Will
occur many times in some families.
The eminent statisticians, King and
Newsholme, have pointed out that it
does not prove heredity to show that
in one family, five deaths occurred
from cancer. By the very frequency
of the disease, and the laws of chance,
such cases would be expected even if
no one ever suggested the idea of
heredity. Cancer is very large word
covering a number of widely differ
ent diseases. 1t may be, also, that TN
der highly artificial conditions of in
breeding mice certain susceptibility
to tumors may be inherited. Never
theless, as applied to human beings
and in the practical views, the fore
most authorities believe that heredity
in cancer may be regarded as a neg
ligible factor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
QUAKER fluctuations.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
In moulding public opinion, don't
let it get moldy.
When a woman expresses a wish, it
generally comes collect.
Charity covers multitude of sins,
but some of them show through
Being known as a good thing has
put away many fellow to the bad.
Unlike the average run of fruit,
bridal pairs are softeSt when they are
green.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again, SO even truth has its ups and
downs.
A man doesn't have to be a bigamist
to discover that too many cooks spoil
the broth.
The business man who really be-
lieves 1t is more blessed to give than
to receive is apt to go into the hands
of a receiver.
What prevents the ocean from ov-
erflowing the land?'' asked the teach
er- Its tied" came a voice from the
foot of the class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcEIsoN GLOBE.

There is no such a thing as a posi-
ton in dairy.
AS rule a mans rich kin are af-
flicted with longevity.
A dangerous man is one who fights
and cries a the same time.
No farmer has much time to devote
to his artistic temperament.
There is also considerable wisdom in
knowing when you have enough.
Money is more frequently tele-
graphed for. than it is sent that way.
Short jerks has decided that his
winter underwear will last all sum-
mer.
No man can enjoy life very much
in close communion with a hot water
bottle.
1t is usually said that the orneriest
man in town was educated for the
ministry.
Talk to any man long enough, and
he will tell you of a number of narrow
escapes.
You are so smart you may be able
to explain why a popular song is
popular. And then, again, you may
not.
Neither does the alumni tell all the
fond recouectionS brought back by the
sight of the college campus in spring
time.
The neighbors are rarely sufficient
ly interesting to warrant one in spend
ing spare time watching them, as
many snoopy persons do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Finally, his curiosity grew bigger
than his pride, and he pushed his way
into the middle of the clacking, fight
ing circle
And what do you suppose he found
when he got there? Some wonderful
new food? No. Some new little
chicks? No, nothing like that
He found piled up on the ground.
Just where the farmers daughter had
tossed them, some bright green and
yellow and blue and purple things that
LOOKED like eggs-only who ever
saw eggs in such colors? He clawed
them with his feet, he poked them
with his biIl-then, quite suddenly he
knew what they were! "Oh you stupid
thingsi" he said to his fellow chicks,
"those are old Easter eggs that they've
thrown out for us to eati" And he
felt so comfortably superior, to think
that he alone knew something, that
all his grumblyness dropped off of
him like wornout feather and he be-
gan eating with awill.-(Copyright.
1915-C1ara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News1

IF,rom the Chicago News.1
Warmed over love reminds US of
hash
Two often cease to be company after
they are made one.
Some men die of heart failure and
some live with brain failure.
1t is twice as easy to fool,yourself as
it is to fool other people
The Lord freezes the water, but we
are expected to cut our own ice.
The funny actions may be due to a
missing sense of humor.
Our idea of martyrs a man who
poses as a good example in a small
town.
After marrying the man who court
ed her girl is apt to find that he has
changed.
Only selfish man will allow his life
insurance to lapse just before passin &
in his checks.
Often a man is not on speaking
terms with his wife because she takes
up all the time.
The truth is always getting in the
way of some people. That's why it is
crushed to earth SO often.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
THE CRIME OF. WASTE.

Waste is the crime of today and it
is especially the great crime of this
awful war; waste in human life, In
hope, in love, and in the common
savings of US all, writes a contributor
to the April Atlantic. Millions of dol
lars worth of the savings of the peo-
pie of this earth, all of them our
brothers and our sisters, ara daily
burned up, exploded. and wasted in
the madness of the nations;J and even
that is trifle when we compare it
to the great human value of the lives
of the lost 1t will not make any peo-
pie rich; and we Americans, rarely
fortunate in not being involved in the
awful strife. shall find our. part of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
THE GREAT SEA FIGHT.


In my watch on deck at the turn of the
night
saw the spindthrift rise,
And L saw the thin moons waning light
The shine of dead mems eyes.
They rose from the wave in armor bright
~ The men who never knew fear;
fhey rose with their swords to their hips
And stripped to their fighting gear.
hauled below, but to and fro
] saw the dead men glide,
With never plank their bones to tow,
A the slippery seas they ride
While the bale-star burned where the mists
swayed low
They clasped each hand to hand,
And swore an oath by the winds that
They swore by the sea and land.
They swore to fight till the Judgment Day,
Where the thunders boom and the light
In the wrrack of the -battleglow.
They swore by Drake and Plymouth Bay,
The men of the Good Hopes crew,
By the bones that lay in fierce Biscay;
And they swore by Cradock, too
That every night, ere the dawn famed red,
For each man there should be twain
Where England rules the Main.
They piedged-and the ghost of Nelson
When the last ships gunner fell,
They would man the guns-these men long
And ram the charges we'll
So Wen choose the night for the Great Sea
Nor ever give chase by day,
Our compeers rise in the white moonlight,
In the wash of the flying spray,
And If we fall in the battle-blight,
- The shade of a man long dead
Fights on till dawn on the sea burns bright
And Victory, overhead!
j. Robert Foster, in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
TRADE QUIET, But IMPROVING.

"All signs indicate that we have en-
tered into period of permanent re-
covery from the war; writes Henry
Clews. the New York banker. in his
weekly review of the trade and finan-
cial conditions in this country. THE
first effects of that cataclysm," he
goes on, were panic, followed by
paralysis, then a period of vacillation
between fear and confidence. Through
all of these phases, the process of
financial and commercial readjust-
ment has been progressing with re-
markable steadiness, until fear has
now almost totally disappeared and
buoyancy is taking it's place. Trade
and finance, at least SO far as con-
Germs the United States, have been
completely adjusted to war condi-
tions; and the tendency now is to
discount in advance the coming
peace" Mr.. Clews puts forward the
change of attitude at Washington and
by numerous politicians towards big
business. and the fact that money
continues abundant and easy as two
important factors that are powerful
aids to business recuperation. He
characterizes general trade as quiet
but improving and on this score
writes: more activity is shown in the
iron and steel industries, also in the
textile trades, although the volume
of business is still much below nor
NAL. Some of the railroads are max
ing better returns, partly as a result
of the advance in rates, but the vol
ume of traffic does not as yet show
any important increase. Should the
present spirit of hopefulness which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
From Other Pens

WRITING TO THE NEWSPAPERS.
number of letters written by readers
of his paper, he is not only self-con-
scious, but he is not telling the truth.
they are the best proof that his paper
essential. But it may be pointed out
that good many writers to the editor
would save themselves trouble If they
were first to consider whether they
are adding anything to the sum of hui
man knowledge. partisan letter
about the war, which offers no new
thought, is not an argument. 1t is
merely an expression of the writer's
opinion. Here is a paragraph from a.
letter of one such partisan whose crit
icism of an aspect of the war, from
the British point of view, was dis
cussed in these columns: "Of course
my letter was partisan. / wrote it
purely and simply to let off steam,
never dreaming you would publish IT,"
The writer of this is frank; and 4
good deal of steam, to say nothing of
hot air and gas, does escape through
the correspondents column of the
But writer's with strong
German sympathies have been still
more partisan, without helping the
discussion or. in fact, doing anything
but adding to its bitterness. May il
therefore be suggested to our readers,
that unless they can add something
helpful, conciliatory, il,
or novel to the discussion.
they let off steam in other directions?
Wall Street Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
MILK FOR CHINAMEN's TEA.

Americans who have been inf1u4
fenced by the Orient to the extent of
taking their tea clear, without milk
or sugar, will probably be astonished,
as a United States consular report
suggests, to learn that the Oeetdent
is now bent on teaching the Chinese
to use milk with their decoction of
tea leaveS-and condensed milk at
that. An enterprising condensed milk
company is pushing the campaign,
and expects to be successful This
concern has already introduced con-
densed milk ice cream to the Chinese
and they like it SO well that many of
the restaurants keep it always on
hand. Practically no fresh milk is to
be had in China, although the natives
seem familiar enough with the vir-
tues of both the fresh and the con-
densed article. Perhaps, after all, the.
Orienta1S have taken their tea clear
because there was milk to put in
it,, and not because they thought the
addition of milk ruined the beverage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
Journal Entries

The back views of a good many
folk are by far the more interesting.
Il Il =
Usually there is altogether too
much talk on both sides of every
question.
= i -
It would be a fine plan for every
one to try and look happy even
though he isn't.
- =
A penurious chap is wise if he picks
out a girl who would rather dance
than eat.
10 10 j.
Where life and novels differ. In
the former the hero doesn't always
get the girl he goes after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

exists in financial centers extend to
commercial and Industrial circles, as
1T probably will we may look for bet
ter reports from the railroads. It
is a little early to form any opinions
about crops, but the agricultural
classes as a whole are prosperous, and
the present spring will undoubtedly
see increased efforts to augment the
yields, particularly of food and ami
NAL products, which are bringing war
prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Business men in this country are
having more or less trouble plying
their trade with many of the Euro
pean countries because of the war.
But their difficulties in this respect
can't be any worse, and are probably
not as bad, as they are in doing BUSH
ness with Mexico. Nearly two years
ago a firm in ,Mazat1an ordered from
an American pillow company three car
loads of p1ows and other agricultural
implements. These articles are still
at Nogales, Ariz., no safe opportunity
having been offered during the two
years for their forwarding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Although Colonel House, of Texas,
did not do very well on, his recent
trip to Europe as a peace emissary
from President Wilson, the president
has named him as his confidential
agent in the Mexican situation. But
perhaps his duties in this particular
will not concern the esta blisilr1lerlt of
peace in that unhappy land More
likely, he merely becomes another
one of the official Watchful Walters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

That trade conditions in this coun-
try should gain slowly. as the experts
In these realms report that they are
is far better than that there should be
a trade boom of sudden and large pro-
portions that would be almost sure to
pave the way for a disastrous slump
To progress slowly but surely is the
most substantial way in all lines of
eDdeaVOr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Any number of writer's have ro-
manced about this and that feature
of the war to the limit of their irnag-
nations. But the diary of a British
soldier which tells that life in the
trenches in the western arena of the
war this winter was a veritable Hades
Is not in the same category, far from
1t; 1t is only cold. cruel fact and
truth in their most horrible ferns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Summer, the good old summer time,
not Spring, of gentle mien, appears to
have arrived. But the oldest inhabf-
tants and the goosebone weather
prophets are wagging their heads pes
siTnistically, as usual, and insisting
that we will pay dearly for the fine
spell soon with a cold snap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Does Chicago want Billy Sunday ?"
is one of the paramount questions
that is being discussed pro and con
in the Windy City nowadays. There
can be little doubt though, but Chi
cagO needs him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

The report of a battle on the east
ern front in which only 720 prisoners
were taken conveys, to the New York
World, the melancholy suspicion that
he observers have. lost their count
ing machines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

After the winter they've expert
enced kansanS are at least well quail
flied to extend intelligent sympathy to
the folk east of the Alleghanies who
were the victims of that terrific
snowstorm and blizzard that recently
ragged along the Atlantic coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

A submarine is also at the disad-
vantage of not being able to fight
back when it is attacked by a bomb
dropping aeroplane. Still, the sub
marine can duck out of the way if it
is quick enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Nor is it too late for the stay-at
home who may be reading these lines
to hustle to the polls and do his full
duty by his community and himself
The polls are open until Z O'Clock this
avAuinr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

Unusual climatic conditions for
Kansas have begun to prevail here
abouts. Weather that is of an an
proximately normal variety for April
is on deck. Now for the showers to
bring forth Nav flowers ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
7TCEara la&ramJ Wdson

But just the same, he was very curl
Gus. He walked closer and closer, and
each time he went by the group of
eager chickens he creened his neck
to see what the chattering was about,
and each time he failed to see what
was on the ground in the center of
the group.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

All the world hopes and prays that
General Joffre, the commander-in-
chief of Frances army knows where
of he speaks when he says that the
war will come to an end soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
Willard

Although it remained for Kansas to
produce the white hope" there are
probably any number of other things
in connection with the state of which
the bulk of Kansans are prouder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06

1t is incumbent on the Austrians if
they would keep up-to-date to change
the nickname of their famous howit-
zers from Jack Johnson" to Jess
Willard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
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
Plantation, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Good-by, Jack! But it would be
gratuitous to suggest that you take
care of yourself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-06
Kansas Comment
MORTGAGE TAX LAW VOID?

MORTGAGE TAX LAW VOID?
Representative A. M. Keene told
the Current Topic club MONDAY eve
ming that he believed the mortgage tax
law passed by the legislature Wounu
be held unconstitutional for various
reasons. This appears to be the opin-
ion of Attorney General Brewster anu
other lawyers at Topeka. There was
a suggestion at the beginning or the
last legislature of the appointment OF
a commission to draft or pass upon
bills so that they will pass muster IN
the courts, but this proposition got no
where. What surprises the average
man unfamiliar with the way things
are done in Topeka is that legisla-
| ture would deliberately pass a bill that
was known to be unconstitutional
Mr.. Keene will probably tell you the
legislature was fully advised that this
mortgage tax bill would be unconsti-
there are many lawyers, went right
ahead and passed u--Fort Scott
Tribune.
o
VIRTUE IN OMISSIONS.
1t is quite generally conceded that
the legislature just ended will be re-
membered best for what it did not do.
There was ample opportunity given,
and much temptation, to pass legisla-
ton that would have been very detri-
mental to the state, but a rule the
legislature SHE'D from such bills, and
in the end succeeded in adjourning
QO1nB anything
injurious to the state. 1t is true that
the appropriations aggregated a mil
lion dollars more than those of the
legislature before it, but that fact has
already been loudly proclaimed by the
Kansas City Star. a paper that urged
that still another million be spent, but
the increase is not much greater than
the proportionate increase in all
things, private and public. The chief
virtue possessed by the legislature was
that it did few if any bad things. while
it did the things that were absolutely
ecessary.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-12
NO ONE IN PERIL,
CARRANzA SAYS

GALVESTON. Aug. i7.-''it Ia
false that strangers are In immi.
nent danger Ia Vera Cruz Gen.
Carranxa personally cablcd hls
consul here today.
Carranxa declared he had been
Informed by the president OF Ar.
gcntlna that the latter country en-.
tered the pau-American conference
with the understanding there
would be no discussion OF Mcxico'e
internal affairs or armed interyen.
ton.
The Brazilian minister has do
parted from Mexico because OF III
health. and Minister Ortega Of
Guatemala was expelled. CarranEa
declared. as a pernlcious foreigner.
siding with the Zapatlstas.
He charged that President Ca
brera OF Guatemala had encour.
aged recent troublesome revolts.
Carranxa declared the corstitu.
t!onalists would guarantee the
lives and property OF all individu.
ais. of whatever race"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-12
MANUFACTURERS
CHIEFS ARE MERE

They arrived Thursday morning
Col. George Pope. president OF
the National Association OF Manu-.
facturers. and James A. Emery. o!
New York. general counsel for the
National Council OF Industrial Dc
Tense. both staunch champions OF
the employer. who are on the coast
giving our industries the look over.
A luncheon by the Rainier club
was followed by an auto tour OF
the city. and dinner attended by
$50 at the Commercial Club. whore
they were 10 be the guests OF the
Employers' association.
Friday they will be In Everett.
inspecting the Weyerhacuser mills
and meeting the business men. re
turning for a round at golf and din
ner at the Seattle Golf club. They
leave Friday night for Aberdeen.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-12
YUMA'S GOING
TO VISIT US
Msnsoer Bronson Of the EN-.

Manager Bronson OF the En-.
press theatre 10 perplesed.
The cause Of his perpIeslty
10 . telegram which states that
Yuma viii arrive In Seattle at
1880 Saturday morning In a
Merry Widow hatbox.
This has a looney sound.
Now. Yuma 10 vaudeville
performer. Bronson doesn't
know whether Yuma 10 he, she
or II. He. shc or IL was wished
on Bronson BY a booking agent
who said he, she or II was
knockout and . scream.
Yuma will arrive by express.
Bronson r. directed 20 pay the
charges aud losd the Merry widow
hatbor on truck. The box IN
= by 2.
lie Ia then 90 open the box In
the street at the corner OF Second
and Spring at exactly ! O'Clock.
The booking agent says Yuma will
rise out OF the box and that. he'll.
meted and decked out In the brave
finery OF war. he. she or It will
stand seven feet two.
Yuma will collapse into the hat.
box. and the truck IL 10 proceed TO
The Star office. reaching there at
1880.
The lid OF the box will again be
raised. and Yuma will reappear.
But I'm what form? The telegram
doesn't say. But not as a soldier.
4 don't believe this guy Yuma
can do IL. says Bronson. III
doesn't sound reasonable"
We're going 20 show Yuma up.
We don't know who he. she or II
In. Maybe Yuma IL a mechanical
man. an antomaton.
For how could a aeven.foot man
travel In a 2 by ? hstbox by ex.
press7
And how could he appear as
soldier one time. and something
else another time.
We're going 10 have trust.
worthy committee 10 sec TO Il that
somebody else doesn't play any
tricks.
And we're going 10 have moving
pictures taken OF the stunt.
IL you want 10 see uH show Yuma
Ip. be at Second and Spring at II
,'clock. Then follow the truck 10
The Star. Get In the movies. II
won't cost you ji,ney.