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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
COMMUNITY CIvICs.

Community ciVicS helps the child to
know the meaning of his community
life, not merely a lot of facts about
it," says a bulletin just issued by the
United States bureau of education
This bulletin was prepa red by four
members of the committee on social
studies of the National Education as
ISOLATION, DR.. ]. Lynn Barnard, school
of pedagogy, Philadelphia; F. w
Carrier, principal OF Wilmington
(Mass.) High school; Arthur w
Dunn, specialist in civic education,
United States bureau of education
and Clarence d. Kingsley of the
massachusetts, board of education
The significance of the term com
munity civics' does not lie in its geo.
graphical applications" says the bull
letin, but applies this point of view
to the national community as we'll.
Emphasis is laid upon the local COM
munity because it is the one with
which every chiId-cit;zen has most
intimate relations. and for that rea-
son it is easier for him to enter into
actual cooperation with it, The
authors of the bulletin make clear
that the term "citizership'' is used
broadly. TIE good citizen" they say
lis a person who habitually conducts
himself with proper regard for well
fare of the community of which he
is a member, and is active and in
telligent in his cooperation with his
fellow members to that end Com
munity civics, according to the bulle-
tin, should be taught N the elcmen-
tary grades of the pubic schools and
should be continued in a more COM
pre- hensive course in the first year of
the high school Many pupils do not
enter high school at all. and those
who do should already have begun to
acquire habits of civic thought and ac-
ton. The greater maturity of the
high school pupil makes possible the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
WHY CUPID RALKs.

l have sweetheart, bright and fair,
WITH w1tch1ng ways and talents rare,
The beauty of her form and face
Are unsurpassed by all the race,
she fascfnates me when she talks,
But disenchants me when she walks.
She calls me her ideal man,
And do everything / can
To make her just as glad and gay
As any bird you know today.
But now and then my ardor ba1ks
Because she wabbles when she walks.
And there are men who envy me
And feel as sad as sad can be.
Because they cannot take my place
And revel in her smiles and grace
They can not see like owls and hawks }
How much she wabbles when she walks.
In rowdydom. it's plain to see
How fate steps forth to joust with me:
must endure the filings and fleers.
Coughed up and Kissed into nv ears
BY every gang of guys and gawks
Because she wabbles when she walks.
And, now, my friend. if you would know
The reason why she wabbles So
Her altitude, in high -heeled Shoes
Just beats the Gentiles and the Jews
And that is why Dan Cupid balks
Because she wabbles when she walks
HENRY w. ROBY, NJ. D.
Topeka, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
En- ening Chat
II q
The PaillnctCr.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


Some instrument like a thermom-
eter- that can be put in ones mouth
and measure the amount of pain one
is suffering is an invention much de-
sired by friend of mine.
He is normally healthy person
who has just passed through his tlrst
grown-up illness. The amount OF pain
he suffered was one of the important
SYMPTOMS, and the doctor and nurse
were continually asking him how
much pain he had.
"Confound it." he would say, after
trying to analyze and measure and
weigh his pain, IT don't know exactly
how much. I don't know whether
you'd call it a pain or discomfort
TODAY l wish there was some way
you could find out for yourself same
as you find out my temperature. You
asking me how hot 1 felt, would you,
and 1 can't tell you about the pain
any more accurately
IT is a strange and interesting
thought that no person can possibly
know anything about the pain another
suffers.
Perhaps we all have different meas
ures of pain. Perhaps what your
neighbor calls a terrible headache you
would consider a mere passing dis
comfort not worth mentioning. Or
contrariwise, perhaps what he calls a
slight pain you call the doctor for.
Sometimes we say that this person
or that does not bear pain WE'LL How
do we know? How do we know what
he has to bear? We say someone
makes terrible fuss over a little
pain. How do we know that it is a
little pain?
Anothers pain, no matter how
deeply we sympathize with it, is al
ways a ghostly unreality compared to
the flesh and blood reality of our own
pain.
The incommunicability of pain is
something I have often marvelled
over. Someone you love is suffering
intensely; you sit close beside him !;
you hold his hand in yours; but the
pain is as far away from you as if you
were on the other sfoe of the sun. OF
course that is natural and inevitable,
vet sometimes doesn't it seem marvel
lous to you that two can be so close
in heart and body and one suffer so
intensely and the other be perfectly
free from that pain?
1t is simply part of the eternal iso-
Iation of mind and soul, to which, in
spite of all our loves and our inti-
oil rOndemnRd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

development of phases of the subject
that are iInpracticable in the elemen-
tary school. Many courses in civies
fall the authors think, because they
fix attention upon the machinery of
government rather than upon the ele-
ments of community welfare for
which government exists. They
faniliarize the pupil with the manipu-
lation of the social machinery with
out showing him the Importance of
the social ends for which this ma
chinery exists A lesson in com
munity civics is not complete unless
it leaves with the pupil n sense of his
responsibility. and results in right ac-
ton. To attain these erds is perhaps
the most difficult and delicate task
of the teacher" Much civic instruc-
ton, declares the bulletin, has been
ineffective because it has left the
pupil to work out for himself the
application of general principles. The
translation of principles into conduct
is more difficult than the comprehen-
sion of the principles themselves.
while we urge that the citizen
should engage in these activities as
far as opportunity offers, it is neces-
sary to cultivate a motive sufficiently
strong to lead him actually to do so.
This motive is to be found in the COM
mon interest, which includes his in
terest, at least until such time as an
ideal altruism may lead to the placing
of the interest of others and of the
community above the interest of self
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
QUAKER fluctuations.

8 L From the Philadelphia Record
The man who wears squeaky shoes
has no music in his sole.
A human paradox is a fellow who
brags about his modesty. = r.
A round of applause is apt to make
a fellow feel square with the world
The average woman breads gray
hairs. In fact, she feels, that she
would dye first. =.
Most of US would rather be
damned with faint praise than to be
damned with none.
You never can tell. Many a man
boasts of his family tree who isn't up
in the higher branches.
Quite naturally the goddess of for
tune is tickle. Being a goddess, sh e
is consequently feminine. 81
Il prefer rainy night for a hold
up" said the footpad's umbrella,
but my master .sn't so particular"
Tommy-"Pop, a street piano is OPP
Grated by a cranA, isn't it?'' Tom
my's Pop-"Yes. my SON. Tommy
Then the music is always by Han
del, isn't it?"
Don't you ever get homesick, cap
tain ?" ask II the passenger on the
ocean liner. mo, I'm never home
long enough to get sick of it, replied
the captain.
Muggins-'tSc you are a firm be-
lever in hereGity, eh?" l3uggins-
Sure. Adam looked out for No. 1,
and his descendants have been doing
it ever since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON CLOSE

1t doesn't take much of a mechanic
to invent a poor excuse.
Most people are anti-something
rather than pro-something else.
1t is believed that postage stamps
were invented to peeve druggists.
A woman may seem reasonably
graceful until she attempts to run.
Sometimes one can't decide which
looks the worse. iodine or a guillotine.
Nearly every man is disposed to re-
mate.
seem to limit their hurry to rushing
down to work.
1t is believed that the Lord is with
the penitentiary.
liberal the chances are his wife does
all the jewing down.
Perhaps this is the most tiresome
saying. IF I knew anything 1 wouldn't
be working
You may be brave, or you may be
fool. Sometimes it is hard to dis
tinguish between a brave man and a
fool.
Z The law may assume you are in
nocent until you are proven guilty
but the public isn't anything like that
There really is not much difference
There is about as much flapdoodle in
a standpat speech as there is in a
Bull Moose speech.
Cooler weather is also indicated by
the appearance of the whole family
in union suits passing in review across
the magazine pages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
From Other Pens
VACATION FRIENDS.

It's strange vacation when one
doesn't find a new comrade. This is
natural enough when every new place.
even every new year in an old place
brings a different combination of hu-
mainly. It's easy to find comrades
for every one is bent on the same
errand, rules are relaxed, and two or
three days of play let you farther into
a fellow-human- beings heart than
a score of conventional meetings You
begin to know the man you fish with
and, if the biting is poor you know
him pretty we'll. Even when com
panions don't talk much, the thoughts
that come are likely to be spoken
from the inner part of a man that is
far from the surface in working
hours This making of friends is one
of the best things about a vacation.
It's just as truly recreating your life
as are the muscular exercises and the
opening of your lungs to deep drafts
of pure air. 1t is opening your soul
to fresh human influence, widening
your sympathies, giving you one more
anchor to windward, one more stake
in life. All that may be put down
with the friendship possibilities of a
vacation, and with all that store of
new health to seek, it oughtn't to be
necessary to say much about the kind
of friend to look for. There is only
one kind of a friend worth having
only one kind worth bothering about
even for the pastime of a week or
tWo.-M1lwaukee Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
Clara h@ra@Susson

Don't you sometimes wish that
you had something different to eat %
asked Billy Robin of Tommy Sparrow
one fine summer morning.
That do replied Tommy
heartily Gin spite of the fact that he
had never thought of the subject be-
fore). I'm tired of the regular things
all the time!'
We'll, then" said Billy. what
That was more than Tommy bar
| gained for How did he know where
to get something new to eat! He
hadn't even thought about eating
anything different-worms and grain
from the chickenyard were enough
for him. But of course he had TO
say something. He cooked his head
on one side: looked over the garden
thoughtfully; and spied Mr. Garden
Toad sitting in the sun There's
that wise old toad" he said in relief:
The always has good ideas. Let's go
and ask him what we can find"
So they both flew down to where
the toad was resting
Whats that?" asked Mr.. Garden
Toad when they told him what they
worms in this garden? where are
those two birds-a robin and a spar
row, methinks they were-who
wanted nothing better than to have
the fine fat worms to be found in this
garden? Seen them lately?''
"Oh, we know you are talking
about u.s. laughed Billy One of the
incest things about Billy Robin was
that he could always see when the
joke was on himself and that he was
always ready to laughD But you
see, Mr. Garden Toad. that was early
in the spring Now in the spring
nothing tastes quite SO fine as a worm
In summer worms are very pala-
table, to be sure, but Tommy and
want a change"
Mr. Garden Toad blinked his eyes
and thought in that serious way of his.
And we thought, Mr. Garden
Toad" added Billy, that you, being
so wise and kind, might tell US where
to find something new to eat
Mr.. Garden Toad thought so long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
ANOTHER FUTILE WAR.

In an endeavor on Chicago's part
to cleanse her underworld no less
than $50 of its denizens were arrested
in a single night. But regardless of
the arrests that Chicago may make
with this end in view, the Windy City,
and all other big cities for that matter,
will continue to have their under
worlds until the conditions that make
them possible are eradicated. And this
is a Herculean task that probably is
impossible of accomplishment, and
certainly not as long as Chicago and
her sister cosmopolitan centers have
saloons and their adjuncts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
Kansas Comment
WHY NOT sMILE2

Are you angry? Is your lip crack
ed !? Are you afraid of wrinkles? are
you suffering from an ingroWing
crouch? None of them? Then why
don't you smile? History tells us OF
men who trained themselves not to
smile, because they wanted a stern ex-
preston of countenance. The savages
also prided themselves on not show
ing any sort of emotion. Have you
noticed in the photographs, that the
mothers of the war heroes of Europe
are not smiling? Neither are the gem
erals who are doing the killing. Only
the heroes themselves are smiling. A
hard and stern expression does not
indicate a good heart nor a clear con-
science A thief seldom smiles. The
woman of the streets smiles with her
lips but her eyes are hard and cold.
The poverty stricken man on the street
who begs for a dime, sends his plea
direct to your heart If his appeal is
accompanied by smile. Only the
failures of life never smile. A smile
is the cry of the sentry of the SOUL
"AITs Welli"-Howard Courant-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

FROM the chicago NeWS.I
Matrimonial bonds are taxable, but
not negotiable.
Yes, Cordelia, the artists favorite
color in long green.
Bunko experts say that black sheep
are the hardest to fleece.
However, the self-made man never
seems to suffer from remorse.
It's easier to go broke in a month
than it is to get rich in year.
You may be justified in blowing
your own horn, but not in going on a
toot.
1t may be natural for a woman to
be fat, but it is unnatural for her to
admit it.
You can believe every word an hon
est politician tells you-but first find
your honest politician
A man begins by looking for a wife
who will make a nice parlor orna-
ment and ends by selecting one who
will make the dining room a palace of
delight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
NEW YORK MAY NOT PROFIT

New York states constitutional con-
vention has ended it's labors at a cost
of 100000 and by sumitting "a
amendments to the people for their
approval And as the people may vote
them down they might not get any
kind of a run for this large sum of
money. And the political machines
in New York will probably do their
best to kill the constitutional revision
at the polls because of it's short ballot
feature which reduces the number of
elective state officers to five. The
last thing that political machines of
the New York type desire is a larger
efficiency in government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
Heavy SIeepers.

Ancient tales about the policeman's
capacity for sleeping gain a certain
confirmation from happening re
ported, no doubt veraciously, among
the incidents CT Tuesdays heavy
thunderstorm.
While that storm was in progress
lightning struck the flagpole of the
Gates avenue police station in Brook
lyn. The pole was shattered and the
sergeant at the desk was thrown vi
olently from his chair. When he re-
covered from the shock ard had made
his apprehensive way upstairs to the
quarters occupied by the reserve
squad he found that not one of it's
members had never been awakened
either by the electric bolt or by the
prcdigious noise that announced its
arrival.
OF course, these policemen will have
to endure a lot of ridicule about the
profundity of their slumbers, but the
fact that even close-falling stroke
of tightening did not arouse Them has
nothing in it of the surprising for
those familiar with the phenomena of
sleep. All men performing duties
like theirs acquire the habit of Sleep
ing undisturbed by any noise except
marked the end of their allotted
period OF rest.
What the thunder in their ears
didn't do in the way of arousing the
reserve squad would have been instant
ly effected by the .sergeant's little
subconscious self. the never-sleeping
guardian of US all. would have heard,
and On hea rinS, would have routed
them out. reluctant, but submissive.
in its wisdom it decided that no ac-
ton was demanded. and let it's nomi-
nal masters-who really are its slaves
sleep calmy on.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

1 must admit that just now ran
think of nothing but the chicken
yard
We've been there said TOMMY,
hastily. I'VE go there every day 10
ge, graiE.' W
And don't you like the grain p,
Yes, we like it," replied Tomrv
but we want something we hare
never had before
Then you will have to wait ana
let me think the matter over" saiS
the toad positively. Go and CT
your worms and your grain todav.
come to me again in the morninp
different to eat" nm y
ana with that answer, the birds
neo 70 be acknowledgement Clara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

Carranza's orders to his troops to
aid the United States troops in pre-
serving the peace along the border
have an un-MeXican ring to them. But
if they are intended seriously they in
dictate that the Old Man of Mexico is
leaving no stone unturned to obtain
the recognition from the United States
that some one must get before there
can be hopes for anything like peace
below the Rio Grande and the estab-
lishment of a stable government there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
FoREwARNED IS FoREARNED.

Certainly it was exceedingly con-
siderate of the attorney generals Of
flee to make the public announcement
that it will investigate the lodges and
clubs because of suspicious that some
of them are providing their mem bers
with liquor on their premises in vto-
lation of the law. This will give any
organizations that might be traffick-
ing in liquors a chance to clear out
their ice chests and lockers, so that
they can show a clean slate when the
investigators get busy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
SOCIAL INSURANCE.

Our industries. writes Henry w.
Bullock in the September Case and
Comment, have progressed far beyond
the dream of Watt and Arkwright-
From the simple loom there has come
the complex life of the modern in
dustries. As life becomes more COM
plex we become more dependent upon
each other for production, transpor-
tation, and distribution of food and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

clothing; and those who distribute
and those who work must be paid by
all for whom they work. Accidents
result from a multiplicity of contrib
uting causes, and thus become cociab
instead of Individual, in their origin.
A high national standard can only be
protected through a high home life
High home life cannot be maintained
without social insurance, which Will
equalize burdens and rewards. Vir-
tue is not nourished by an empty
stomach, nor does it come from de-
bauchery, but from things which sat
isfy and produce health. Wealth.
schools, and art galleries have no in
spiration to the hungry; none can be
spiritually uplifted when the pangs
of appetite are gnawing at the vitals
of their body which holds their spirit;
none can be enraptured by external
surroundings when they are cast down
and depressed by forces greater than
those which might otherwise elevate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
Journal Entries

Most of the footprints on the sands
of time are meaningless blotcheS-
+ - =
The sharpest pain connected with
surgical operation is having to pay
for it.
= !. +
Altogether too many folk engage in
vigorous talk when they should be
hard at work.
i j. s%
Think of what an evil world this
would be if all the stories peddled
around concerning its people were
true.
= = j
1t also takes an expert at figures to
pick out the right kind of chorus for
a musical show.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

In some places the French and Ger
man trenches extend closely along the
line of the vineyards, says the Dundee
Advertiser, and the peasants labor
patiently with the din in their ears of
the laundering artillery. Happily
they have got used to it, and are no
longer to be discomposed. In the
circumstances, however, the cham
payne vintage of 1915 will enjoy a
celebrity denied to some of the most
famous years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
AN ExCELLENT IDEA.

when 1 was in Paris" said Rev.
Dr. Embree to a friend yesterday
morning, 'I noticed that all the pave
ments were in perfect order and L
thought, can it be possible that the
pavements of the whole city have been
just newly constructor But one
night 1 was out rather late and then L
saw. The pavements of the city are
of wood; during the day inspectors go
about spetting the defective blocks
and at night workmen are busy TAX
ing these blocks out and putting good
blocks in their place" And isn't that
the sensible way to do it2 When a
mans house shows a defective part
what does he do? Does he wait until
the house is so far gone that he can't
live in it any more before he begins
to make repairs? There is no reason
why a brick pavement cannot be kept
in repair as we'll a wooden pave
ment. brick can be lifted and q
new one put in it's place as well as can
a block of wood. But we wait until
street is almost impossible before
doing anything and then it is found
almost impossible to get contra ctors
to make the repairs. 1t would be an
excellent thing for Leavenworth to
adopt the Paris plan of keeping the
streets in constant good repair. Make
every visitor think that the streets
have been repaved in honor of his
coming. -Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09

According to the New York World,
old Doc Cook writes that he has
climbed Mt. Everest to a height of
81, 900 feet. a level at which few men.
if any, can live. even in a balloon. The
World expresses the hope that he
buried a brass tube, adding: This is
a suspicious age.