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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Was there ever a college that didn't
need a new building?
Some men feel distinguished if they
smoke black cigars.
If an Atchison man could cash his
repose he could make a war loan I'M
assisted.
1t is either said of a man that he
hasn't any nerve at all or that he is
too nervy.
Every man has a plan that he con-
siders is based on plain, common sense.
When you say of a battle that 1t
swearing.
There is a difference between kid
nappers and chicken thieves, it should
be understood.
There isn't any such things as an
ounce of precaution. A person either
has a few pounds or none.
Every town should pray for the time
when surgeons will be able to take out
the nerves of some men.
What has become of the old fash
toned town man who had twelve chill
dren and exactly as many dogs?
Every once in a while some man dis
covers that he can't fool a squirrel. A
rel sees it.
toned man who referred to a half
dozen different kinds of institutions as
Necessary evils ?''
do not agree. The Good Book ad-
monishes one to let his light shine,
while the Law gruffly orders dim
merS''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
PAVING THE PIPER.

No doubt about it, American money
is cutting quite considerable figure
in providing the Allies with the sinews
of war. For instance, the new British
income tax is going to land some OF
it's heaviest blows on the wealthy
expatriated Americans who nave
found solace of late years, II not
peace, under John Bulls flag. Under
the new income tax rates, 1t is est1-
mated that William Waldorf Astor
will have to fork over as much as
$1,25O,000 a year; Mrs. David Beatty
an eastwhiIe member of the Marshal
Field family, 100000 annually; Mrs.
William B. Leeds, 100000; daugh-
ter of the late whitelaw Reid, $780,
600. and so on down the list of the
lesser lights. Hobnobbing with Brit
ish royalty has certainly become an
expensive pastimc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Euening Chat
Why Talk Is Cheap.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The other day 1 watched a woman
attempting to discipline her little son:
IF you don't stop throwing dirt I'll
take you in the house and put you to
bed" she said.
The boy began throwing dirt again
within a minute.
ALBERT, did you hear what I said ?"
demanded his mother.
Albert had heard of course. He had
heard similar threats a great many
times before. He was only five, but
he knew that his mother was one OF
those people whose words are not to
be taken at their face value. They are
to be discounted.
Albert's mother is continually
threatening him with punishment. She
makes all manner of dire promises.
why don't you put him to bed ?"
1 asked, as Albert threw dirt the third
time.
ITS so hot indoors" she confessed.
IT don't want him cooped up in bed
all afternoon
Albert's mother suffers from a very
common fault. Speaking quickly and
without thought, she says things she
doesn't mean. Albert, at five, has no
difficulty in analysing that trait.
The fault is not a rare one. Far
from it. Truly, talk is cheap. We
make statements that our friends, un-
less they are unduly credulous,
promptly discount, as Albert discounts
his mothers.
matumS that are the forerunners, not
of instant action, but of other ultima
tums. We hear a great deal and be-
lieve very little. Someone has well
said that we talk, because it's bother
to think.
1t would be a fine and splendid
thing if we should each of us say
what We mean and mean what we say.
1t would automatically act against
rash promises and rasher statements.
1t would put a curb on casual CONVEX
sation that would do much to end
chaos and confusion-and quite likely
conversation as well-for some of us.
The trouble is that we learn our
lesson early, like Albert. At five, AL
bert has learned a great truth. He
has received an impression that will
stay with him through life:
Don't believe everything you hear"
wonder what, if any, would be the
effect of a decision on the part of the
trustees of the coming generation to
make, in dealing with the Alberts and
the Albertas, conscious and con-
scientious effort to keep the spoken
word at par. by carefully considering
what they wished to say, and, having
said it, standing to it, no matter how
great the inconvenience (Protected
by The Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Don't cry over spilled milk, or crow
over other peoples.
A good man sometimes goes to the
wall. But then, so does a good pic
ture-
Even when the BASEBALL pitcher is
known as an iron man he may get
rusty.
Give some people a single grain of
hope and they will at once proceed to
raise the devil.
It's easy enough to preach that
money is the root of all evil, especially
after you are broke.
You don't have to be an angler to
realize that it's the biggest fish that
always gets a weigh.
Bobbs-"Fie! Miss Antique says you
kissed her" "Slobbs-"Merely in self
defense, my boy"
There is plenty of room at the top,
even when a man drinks. Liquor is
apt to go to his head
BorroweH-'My right hand itches.
That's a sign I'm going to get money,
isn't it?" Wigwag-'Not from me-"
A bad penny always turns up
quoted the Wise Guy. We'll, even that
is something to be thankful for these
hard times added the Simple Mug
Rollingstone Nomoss-'-Dat woman
once made me chop down a tree fer
me breakfast" Tatterdon Torn-'Geei
1 musta come along de next day She
made me chop it up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

sending it to you by registered mail
He said it as formally as possible,
wondering if the rransmitter would
convey the hammering of his heart.
How perfectly grand! I'll be SO
glad to get it back, if it really is mine
But can't you bring it out? Why send
it? Would it be very much trouble 2"
Was he dreaming, or were her words
trifle wistful?
why. yes! That is. thank you very
much, but you see-I mean, what
would Jack say?"
'Jack?"
Eyes. Jack, who gave you the ring?"
Silence for an instance, then peals or
merry laughter. Jack is my brother.
my sailor brother. Really, he won't
care if you come to see me, Mr.. Hale.
Bob gasped. sBut you wore it on
your engagement finger!"
1--WE girls often doNrhat to scare off
men patients who are apt to think
they are in love with their nurses. 1t
saves so much trouble
I'll be out in twenty minutes" an
swered Bob.-(Copyrighte, 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Kansas Comment

A LESSON OUT OF REAL LIFE.
This is a little story of efficiency
the Henry Ford sort of efficiency that
has become famous the world over.
few weeks ago Mr.. Ford opened
factory branch in Wichita. His man
ager looked about for likely-appear-
ing workmen and hired those whose
records seemed good. One of these
men was employed because he had ex-
perience in assembling Ford cars. A
short time after this man went to
work his foreman passed and noticed
that some adjustment on the car be-
ing assembled was not just right He
called the workman's attention to it.
Several times during the morning the
foreman's critical eye caught sight of
slipshod work.
That afternoon this particular work.
man washed windows. He did that so
poorly that he was given his pay at
night. Henry Ford's scheme of eff
ficiency had no place for a mechanic
who sighted his work. And that
workman missed a chance for a life
time job at SIS a day simply because
he thought a missing washer here
and half-tightened bolt there would
make no difference because no one
would discover it. The old, old moral
applies here: A thing worth doing at
all is worth doing well.-Wichita Bea-
con.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
cREECE AND THE WAR.

Another thing in respect to the
European war situation has all the
earmarks of being an absolute GER
tainty. Greece cannot expect to re-
main neutral until the end of the war
and then gather in some of the plums
that she so much desires. The prob
abilities are that she is in doubt as to
vrich side will win the war and
doesn't know which way to jump. Inc
ia ct that King Constantine of Greece
is a brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm
probably isn't much OF a FACTOR IN DC
the course that Greece will
nursue. If family ties, either of blood
or marriage, had anything 10 90 VIII
preserving the peace of Europe ina
present war would never have nap
pened
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Jayh Jots

1t occurs to the Salina Journal that
the sea of matrimony frequently is a
war zone.
the Pittsburg Headlight, as a hand
some mug in the barber shop.
There is something wrong with the
woman, insists the Lawrence Journal
World, who is constantly being in
suite.
Mrs Homer Hook of the Marion
Record advises that the mother who
doesn't take time to watch her little
people skip off to school is losing part
of her pay.
After riding to the fair grounds
through three feet of mud in a Ford
car, Conner Davies, of the Concordia
Kansan, doesn't doubt that its famous
manufacturer can turn it into sub
marine with very little trouble, and
with few minor changes.
The Newton Kansan Republican
quotes Hum Dinger as observing that
the Texas girl who has Venus with the
broken arm skinned for shape may be
the prize blue ribbon exponent of
form, but her pictures in the paper
look to me no different from ordinary
union suit advertisements
Told by the Hiawatha World: A
rather nervous Hiawatha woman was
out auto riding the other day. The
driver found a good piece of road and
was running his car at about 30 miles
an hour Suddenly the woman called
out: Wont you please go a little
slower; 1 didn't make my beds before
leaving home"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
THE TYRANNY OF SCIENCE.

Science has done great things for
us; it has also pushed us hopelessly
back, writes Katharine F. Gerould, in
the October Atlantic. Fer, not con-
tent with filling Its own place, it has
tried TO supersede everything else. It
has challenged the supereminence of
religion; it has turned all philosophy
out of doors except that which clings
to it's skirts; it has thrown contempt
on all learning that does not depend
on it; and it has bribed the Skeptics
bv giving us immense material COM
forts. To the plea, Man shall not live
by bread alore, but by every word
which proceedeth out of the mouth of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

god" it has retorted that no word
proceeds authenticity out OF the
mouth of God save what it has issued
in it's own translations. 1t is more
rigorous and more exclusive than the
Index of the Roman Church. The In
quisition never did anything so OPP
pressive as to put all men, innocent
or guilty, into a laboratory science
cares Supremacy for physical Things
If it restricted itself to the physical
world, it would be tolerable: we coulo
shut ourselves away with our souls In
peace But it must control the soul
as we'll as the body: it insists on re-
ducing all emotions however miracu-
Ious and dear, to a question OF nerve
centers. There has never been tyr
amy like this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Some men are dough losers rather
than breadwinners.
A man may break into jail because
he is too proud to beg.
It's all right to ride hobby il you
know where to get off.
Some girls break into song because
they are unable to find the key.
But the world owes every man
right to earn the high cost of living.
An eminent surgeon is one who can
open a mans anatomy and relieve him
of his bank balance.
A COW recently walked into village
bank in Ohio. She probably wanted
to have her milk certified.
A spinster grits her teeth every
time she encounters a widow who has
planted three husbands and is seeking
a fourth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
M11N1rIoN EXAGGERATIONs.

Probably nothing has been more
greatly exaggerated than the stories
about t. e volume of the war orders
that the European bell1gerents nave
placed in this country; 1hat is ORDERS
for munitions of war, shells, guns,
small arms, etc. For instance, the
eossip had it that the American Car
and Foundry company had such orders
of n value of between s5O,OOO,0O0 and
$4,000. 600. The president of the COM
panv announces emphatically that the
volume of such orders placed with his
firm have an approximate value of ST.
100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Judge Yates of the police court is
in a position to have excellent first
hand information about the city Jail,
and he adds his testimony to that of
all those familiar with the place, that
it is absolutely unfit for its purposes.
Official Topeka has been we'll aware
of this fact for a long while and it
would seem to be time that something
be done, besides talking about it, to
mitigate this evil. A municipal farm
seems to be the best solution of the
problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
From, Other Pens
THE TRAMP TAX.

THE TRAMP TAX.
1t has been estimated that the va
grants tramping about over the United
States are a tax to the country to the
amount of $126,0OO,000 annually.
This does not take into account the
loss in work and loss in wealth
through the idleness of such an army.
Every idler who could be at work but
does not, through choice, and yet sub
sists on the labor of others, is a bur-
den upvn the community and one of
the most expensive of all luxuries. If
every idle man in the country who is
able were put to work and kept busy
at work the condition of every other
working man would be improved The
profligate rich who waste what others
have accumulated for them represent
one extreme of undesirable citizens
while the idle tramp who produces
nothing and lives off the public repre-
sents the other.-Bloomington Panta-
graph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
D Audit Bureau of Circulation
American Newspaper Pub5tsheET
Association.

There isn't much in name, of
course. But it is eminently fitting
that the legislature designated the
board as the public utilities commits
sion and not a public service commits
sion. Certainly the service it has rem
dered to the gas portion OF
the Kansas public hasn't been such
as to earn any commentator, as the
delay that has resulted from it's faulty
finding in fixing the gas rates has
made it almost certain that there will
not be time left after the rate ques-
ton is finally determined, if it ever
is, for the receivers of the company
to provide a larger supply of gas for
the winter months. 1t takes more
than the presto, Change" of the
magician to augment the gas supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
THE END-A SONNET.

THE END-A SONNET.
There on the darkened deathbed dies the
brain
That flared three several times in seventy
years.
It cannot lift the silly hand again,
NOT speak, nor sing, it neither sees nor
hears.
And muffled mourners put it in the ground
and then go home, and in the earth it lies
Too dark for vision and too deep for sound,
The million cells that made good man
wise.
Yet for few short years an influence stirs,
A sense of wrath or essence of him dead,
" h1ch makes fnsensate things its ministers
10 those beloved, his spirits daily bread.
Then that, too, fades; in book or deed a
spark
dark
John Masefield, in the October scribner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Carranza's recognition by the United
States as the power-that-is in Mexico,
which recent reports from Washington
state is on the program for the near
future, also means that Uncle Sam
will have little or nothing to say as
to how the Mexican muddle shall be
Strengthened out. Carranza is one of
those himself fellows
and it isn't reasonable to suppose that
he will pay any more attention in the
future to the advice and representa-
ton of the United States than he has
in the past
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
ARE UP AND DOING.

Not so many years ago, and al1alia
was a Kansas hay crop of expert
mental proportions. Now the alfalta
acreage in Kansas comprises nearly u
million and a half acres, and the ag-
gregate value of the crop is close TO
S4O.OOO,OOO. All of which, among
other things, is evidence that The
farmers of Kansas are alive to all their
opportunities. A few years from now
and the agricultural statistics will also
show that the Kansas farmers are Civ
ing a commensurate amount of atten-
ton to the sorghums.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
Journal Entries

All things may be possible but not
to everybody.
And even a victorious football team
gets dragged in the dust.
4. j. j
When a man realizes his limitations
he's ready to make some progress.
+ j. j.
Another difficult job is to convince
the impractical man that he is.
= i +
That women can stand pain better
than men is also evidenced by the
tight shoes they wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
counts.

It's an unusual days batch of news
about the practice maneuvers of the
ships of the United States navy that
doesn't report one or more of them
as having become disabled. Uncle
Sam must be convinced by this time
that he hasn't come close to getting
his moneys worth from his huge
yearly naval expenditures for the last
decade and longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Another curious fact is that the
weather bureau usually hits 1t about
right i'll predicting weather of the I'M
desirable variety. Note its successful
efforts in predicting the heavy frost
and freeze of Thursday night, or Fri
daV morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

And the gain of the Kansas high
schools of from one-fifth to one-third
more pupils than they had last year is
also emphatic evidence of the general
prosperity of the people of the state.
It's necessity and not the desires of
parents and children that usually send
the latter from the grade schools to
work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

What a coy old chap the delightful
James Whitcomb Riley is? He re-
fused to tell even his intimate friends
which his recent birthday was. But
the who's Who books state that he
was born at Greenfield, Indiana, in
1853, which doesn't make him so very
old, after all. Moreover, he still has
the heart of a boy, and that's what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

One advantage of having a rev
bad habits, says the Columbus Jour
nal, is that it gives you something 10
swear off when your stomach or
something gets a little out OF Whack'
though we don't suppose this makes
up for the many disadvantages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

AS usual, there were countless fans
throughout the country who guessed
wrong on the results of the opening
game of the worlds championship
series However. only one team can
win in a ball game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Germany continues to protest
against the use of "colored" troops
by the Allies. But Germany continues
to work hand and glove with the in
defensible Turk, whose heart, at least,
is blacker than that of any other
human
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Late November weather during the
early days of October is only typlcai
of the climatic conditions that are
uSI1al in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

No longer can the cat ask for recog-
milton because of it's nine lives. Bos-
ton Corbett, the slayer of J. Wilkes
Booth who assassinated President
Lincoln, has died again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
% ciara h@ram& dson ~
THE FISH THIEF.

dinner! The first gull saw him COM
ing and knew at once what he was
intending to do. "Oh, dear" thought
the poor pursued gull. Now he will
get this fine fish and no telling when
1 can catch another onei Whatever
shall / do?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State journal in a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Telegraph report of that great news or
sanitation, for the exclusive afternoon
Dublication 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, 1915-10-09

The glory of war is dimmed, points
out the Atlanta Constitution. Inc
pick-and-shovel brigade don't want TO
present arms to the film men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

The Boston Record points out that
driving a wedge into Russia has about
the same effect as sticking a leg into
the ocean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
On the Spur
of the Moment
And Here's Another Line.
By ROY K. MOULTON.

And Here's Another Line.
I do not sing of gibbcus moons. OF
argoSieS of flame,
OF loves eternal poppyccck, nor brands
I do not sing of bcsky dels, or sepiternaI
OF convoIuted wampuses or epicycIoid
I do not sing of boshy deIIs, of sempi-
Nor do / sing of psychic trends, nor
auras lurking there.
kum's Liver Pill,
L do not sing a blooming thing, 1 merely
sing to fill.
Naming the Baby.
Dear Sir: We don't know what to
name the baby and we have decided
advice in your daily column of Mental
Uplift and Higher Ideals. Please
favor us with some suggestions.
MRS. L. p. w.
name him Clarence, Percy, Roy.
Perle, Cecil, Alwyn, Cyril, Guy or
Wilfred If it is girl name her
Pansy, Violet, Puss. Birdie, Duckie.
Tootsie or Dove. Then when the
baby grows up to be a 2oO-pounder
the name will just suit It. A great
many parents make the mistake of
selecting sensible names. This should
not be done under any circumstances
The Greek classic names are very
nice. For girl there is Iodine, Bella
donna. Menthol, Sozodont, Arnica,
Hydrophobia,T Ira gica nthe,
Listerine, Anti-Philogis-
tine, Alabastine, Scarletina, or Linol-
cum The Greek classics contain also
some very good substG ntial names for
men, including Erysipelas. Pneumonia,
Appendicitis, Quincy. Bron-
chitis Paralysis, Paresis. Eczema,
or Calomel.
But it really doesn't matter what
you name the baby, both you and the
baby will wish that you had named
it something different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09

Then the poor gull had a happy
thought Even if 1 cannot eat my
fish," he said to himself. II can keep
that thief from eating it-that I can't
And he dropped the fish out of his
mouth and into the water.
What do you suppose that second
gun did then? Quick as flash he
darted down from the air-ducked
into the water and came up with a
struggling fish exactly the same size
and kind as the one the first gull had
dropped! Do you suppose il was the
gram Judson.)
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-12
Here. There Everywhere. At Founts S or Bottled
Opening Alabama.

Rochester Post Express.
 The last link in the construction of a waterway system extending 450 miles into the heart of Alabama from Mobile on the Gulf of Mexico, was for ed recently by the construction of a lock on the Warrior River, followed by formal opening a few days ago. The work has been in progress nearly 30 years and cost the Federal Govern ment $15,000,000. Thenew route taps regions rich in coal iron ore, limestone and other minerals, and atfording great agricultural oppurtinies. It in sures all-the-ye year-round navigation, and it is reported that the new direct outlet for Alabama products has al ready had a stimulating effect on mines, mills, factories and farms. The official opening was attended by many members of Congress, Government officials, army engineers and leading business men of the South.