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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-23
ToDAY's BELLRINGER

= N. W. Aver, the famous advertising
agent! at a dinner in Philadelphia,
told this one: "Bfggs was a roofer
and was at work on building one
day when he let out yell. -
what is the matter, Biggs?",
asked the foreman. ,e
4 1--WE run a nail in my foot" yelled
Riggs.
HI why don't you pull it out?" an
Ewered the foreman.
Y What! In my noon hour?" yelled
Biggs.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-23
THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE

= Barber - viii you have anything
on your face when I've finished?
Customer don't know, but /
hope you'll at least leave my nose!a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-23

Parson = Well, I'm glad to hear
that you come to church twice every
Sunday, Tommy. .,.-.i>
Tommy = Yes, sir, I'm not old
enough to stay home yeti
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

from the first year to the fifth, when
the school medical inspection begins"
AS a suggested remedy Dr. Forsyth
describes a plan adopted in the city
of Westminster, England. In Janu-
airy, 1912, medical inspection center
was opened for children of school age
in the north half of the city. Here
staff of health visitors is maintained,
to get into touch at once with every
family where a child is newly born.
Through this staff every child in the
district is kept under medical super
vision from the time of its birth until
the end of it's fifth year, the purpose
being to hand the child over sound
and healthy to the school authorities.
The records of this inspection show
a rapid rise in the tide of disease with
each year of life. 1t was found that
while most children in the first period
are healthy, only a small minority of
them come through to the fifth year
without at least one physical defect of
some kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
AS TO FLOUR MINING.

That the American housewife is
herself quite capable of doing all the
flour mixing desirable, is the COM
mentary of Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Vrooman on the mooted
mixed flour question. He says fur
Their that the American housewife
could materially reduce the cost of
living if she were to get the flour mix
ing habit. There are some thirty
substitutes that can be mixed with
wheat flour in making bread" Mr..
Vrooman, adds, in a statement on this
subject that he issued recently. Many
of these are more nutritious than
wheat -four; some of them are cheap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
PROHIBITION,s BENEFITs.

Some tangible proof of the benefit
that prohibition has been to the Rus
slams, and especially. for the poorest
among them is to be found in stalls
tics which show steady increases of
deposits in the Russian savings banks
since the declaration of war. In 1913,
for instance, these deposits aggre-
gated $17, 10000, while in 1914 they
reached a total of S43,26O,0O0. In
December 1913, they were 1851 900
and in December. 1914, they jumped
to no less than $14,987,000. During
the first two weeks of January, 1914,
they were $4,000 as against s7,SSO,-
900 during the first two weeks of
January, 1915. For the entire year
1914 there was thus an increase of
5,75O,OO0 over 1913, of which S14,-
$4,000 fell to December alone. AS
the increase for the first half of Jan
uary, 1915, amounted to S7,725, 900,
the increase for the entire month win
probably be more than s15,450,O0O,
thus exceeding the enormous increase
for December, 1914. So far as the
poorer classes are concerned, accord
ing to Mr.. North Winship, the United
States consul at Petrograd, the in
creased savings are undoubtedly due
" lie dDSOlulS VI TIE
sale of vodka, while among the more
well-to-do classes a variety of causes
may be mentioned. The only two
ports that have been open to trade
since the beginning of the war
Vladivostok and Archangel-have
been occupied almost exclusively
with government consignments,s so that
the importation of foreign luxuries
has practically ceased. Further, the
business of the restaurants and cab
arets and the amount of private en-
tertainment have been greatly cur
tailed. Then, too, many families are
considerably reduced in size on ac-
count of absences due to army ser
vice. But the prohibition of vodka
drinking has been the chief reason for
increased savings among the poorer
people. And this is the story that
prohibition tells the world over. 1t
helps the poor the most, the very ones
who are in direst need of aid from
every possible source.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Wins over 4 VETO
ROsedaIe School Will Get a
New Building.
Under Attorney Generals Rul-
ing on Appropriations.
MUST Build BFORE JUNE 80
Use Of Veto by Governor Cap
per Is Ineffective.
Appropriation of $4,000 in
1913 Is Available.

The RosedaIe state medical school
NAV get a new building in spite of
Governor Cappers veto. A $4,000
appropriation for a laboratory in 1917
was not used and was included in the
legislative appropriation for hospital
extension, vetoed by the governor. S.
NJ Brewster, attorney general, held to-
day that the money may be used for
new building at any time before
June 80.
Rosedale's plan is now to defeat the
strict economy program adopted by
the house of representatives and
backed by Governor Capper when he
cut S229,000 from the appropriation
bills Under the attorney generals
ruling it is proba b1e that work will
be started at once on new hospital
building for the state medical school.
The money must be spent, though, be
fore June 80 or it will revert to the
general revenue fund of the state I'M
der provisions of the law.
When the legislature met two years
ago, the law makers were asked for
an appropriation for new laboratory
building. The-Democrats at that time
were almost as Jealous in making
record for economy as were the Re-
publicans of the house in the recent
session. There was no denying Rose
dale's need and the legislature gave
$4,000 for a building. The money
w
never used. Recently the legislature
provided $4,000 for hospital extern
sion.
Veto Failed to Work.
1t was urged by w. E. Davis, state
auditor, that since the expenditure OF
the fund had been diverted, that the
appropriation of two years ago was
killed by the governors veto The at
torney generals office was appealed
to- In an opinion sent to the auditor
today the state legal department holds
that the $4,000 may be used for
building.
Recently the city of Rosedale
planned to vote $4,000 in bonds for
a new park and to give the site to the
state for the establishment of the new
building. This plan may be carried
out if injunction proceedings are not
filed.
To make use Of the fund available,
the medical school must spend the
money in the next ninety days. 1t is
probable that new building will be
started, and if the funds for the work
are insufficient, completion of the
building will be held up pending a
future appropriation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
CHILD HEALTH SUPERVISORS,

That special medical attention
should be given to children in the four
or five early years before school be-
gins for them is asserted by DIR. David
Forsyth, an English physician, whose
views are published in a bulletin Just
issued by the United States bureau of
education. DIR. Forsyth declares that
medical inspection of elementary
school children points to a widespread
physical deterioration during the first
four or five years of life, which leaves
the majority OF children with serious
but preventable defects. Little or
nothing has been done as yet by way
Of solution says DR.. Forsyth. pre-
ventive measures limited to the first
years are unlikely to have much influ-
ence in warding off later troubles. A
gap, at present unabridged. stretches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

er than wheat -four, and of these, two
or three, at least, are commercially
obtainable almost anywhere Potatoes,
corn flour, and rice lin certain sec
tions) can be used with profit in mix
ture with wheat flour in making yeast
bread. With wheat flour as dear as
it is now the careful housewife stands
to effect quite a saving by using one
of these products to exc out her wheat
flour Experiments have shown that
the substitutes can be used successfully
in the proportion of one part to three
parts of wheat flour. At least three
fourthS of the mixture must be good
wheat -four" Potatoes have a certain
advantage in this regard, since potato
bread can be made without going to
the trouble to get the commercial po-
tato meal Plain mashed potatoes,
four parts of mashed potatoes to three
parts of wheat flour will serve the
purpose quite well. If the dry potato
meal or flake is used, the ratio should
be one part of potato to three parts
of -four. Boiled rice can be used in
much the same way as mashed po-
tatoeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCKISON GLOBE.

Every town has an organization de-
voted to flapdoodle.
Considering what they find out, in
spectOrS generally are overpaid.
bully is eager is to start a fight
because he thinks he can win it.
Most of the complaint of dishonest
elections comes from the losers.
Speaking about a 'coon's age, how
old does the average coon become?
Jude johnson can hardly sit down,
as a citizen put his feet where they
belonged.
A mans notion of relief is to get his
bills paid; woman's is to remove her
corset.
Good behavior pays, even in the
penitentiary, but it pays a lot better
on the outside.
So far as the records show, no first
class postmaster ever Succumbed to
the strain of overwork.
If you get mad at newspaper, buy
it and run it and it will suspend pub
LEGATION in a few weeks.
1t is also hard to convince a farmer
that any one can do days work be-
ginning at eight o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Nearly $3O0 in Prizes VIII Be
Offered for Garden Work.
Home Garden Plan Arrange
ments Were Made Today.

The Topeka Commercial club today
definitely decided to get back of the
home garden plan for the city schools.
1t is expected that several thousand
school children will become farmers
on small scale in Topeka. and will
compete for the nearly $500 in prizes
that Will be offered--$2 1885, O, to be
exact. The agricultural committee of
the Commercial club which met today
under-J. G. Mohler will undertake to
possible exception of 500 which II is
Will appropriate.
This spring the work will be con-
Quoted through the principals of the
perintendent of city schools, who was
present at the meeting today, will rec
ommend at the school board meeting
training department., who is an auth
serve as supervisor of the garden work
this summer
The conditions in the contests will
be similar to those of last year with
the exception of several changes. The
city will be divided in two sections
instead of three as was the case last
year. Kansas avenue will be the di-
viding line.
Information of interest will be pub
Iished in the Saturday issue of the
State Journal in connection with
home garden work in the next few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

If straws always show which way
the wind blows, the proposal to levy
a quarter of mill tax in Shawnee
county for the purposes of the Topeka
fair, and to assure a free gate at this
institution, will be adopted by an over
whelmlng majority of the voters who
register their sentiments in the prem
Uses. More than two thousand sigma
lures, twice as many as needed, were
obtained with little or no effort for
the petitions asking that a special
election be called for this purpose.
Few persons had to be asked more
than once to sign, and fewer were
asked who refused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
MRS. NELLIS RECALLS
The Time When Men Were Burned in
Effigy.

Mrs. Virginia McAfee Nellis, of To-
peka. is the daughter of the late ]. B.
McAfee former mayor of Topeka, and
the pioneer in the temperance cause
for Kansas. Mr.. McAfee, when mayor
Of this city, refused to issue any saloon
licenses. He fought for prohibition
from the beginning.
Mrs Nellis said today: 81 am fol-
lowing the trail of the Soldier 1 know
Best and whom many Kansans re-
member: not following that trail with
rhetorical flights, but simply telling
some of the things the soldier knew
best did and gave his life to accom-
piish, and because 1 do not want to see
us give in to the friends and defend
ers of liquor, or to those who make
jokes of and ridicule the principles for
which the pioneer fathers of prohibit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Jdyh duker Jots

1t is passing bogus money that
hurts, explains the Ottawa Herald. The
average man let's it pass his inspection.
while the counterfeiter shows his skill
in getting rid of it.
Social note in the Hiawatha World:
The members of the Hunt and Chase
club have meetings on Oregon street
after school each evening as we'll as
on Sunday afternoons.
A local Improvement note, suggest
ed by Walt Mason in the Emporia Ga
zette: When Harrison Parkman goes
into effect as postmaster he should
make arran gements to have his whis-
kers hoisted to the top OF the flagpole,
to replace the dinky weather flags.
Recently a Jointist walked into a
police station and laid down 500 in
gold in payment of his fine, reports
the Leavenworth Post, and it con-
and spends lot on lawyers fees
Evidently they are beginning to see
the light if this instance is any cri-
teriOn.
A man in a neighboring town, tells
the Belleville Telescope who took a
city paper in preference to a country
paper because he got more paper for
the money, was attracted by the ad-
VertiSement of a fire escape which
would be forwarded on receipt of So
He sent the cash and in few days
received a copy of the New Testa-
ment.
Aeons and aeons ago, writes Editor
Clark in his Alton Empire, the world
was a solid mass of black marble. eX-
cept one small spOt-a pond filled
with polywogs, singing serpents and
poisonous reptiles. One day this pond
went dry, ard the accumulated mass
of animal matter, scum and poison
formed the nucleus of an amoeba, and
the process of evolution has presented
the finished article in the person who
takes a paper a year or SO, and then
refuses to pay for same.
Here's a true story of Thanksgiving
and it has its setting in a Parsons
Sunday school. The time was Sunday
a week age. The teacher of the pri-
mary class asked her children what
they had to be thankful for. The first
little girl of said she was thankful
that her papa and her mamma were
so good to her; number two also was
a little girl who hadn't forgotten
Christmas and its joys. She said she
thanked God for Santa Claus. The
question then passed on to one of
the boys. He was a little younger
than the girls. but he was ready with
his answer: I'll thank God when
I can go home he said.-Parsons
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Indian Egg Dance.

Want a new dance? Why not try
the Indian egg dance? Place Is eggs
in rows on the floor and dance rap
idly zigzag among them without
breaking any of them-that's ALL AL
bert Pankof, IS years old, of St.
Paul is said to be an expert at this
exercise. He says it takes four or
five years of practice to become an
adept and that learners will do we'll to
use potatoes during the first two or
three years of practice. 1t may be
added that it is advisable to use strict
ly fresh eggs at any stage of the game.
The reason for this precaution can
readily be understood by securing a
defunct egg and breaking the shell
suddenly with an aN.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.]
Some women are truthful; all mir
rors are.
The meddIesome third party causes
many a divorce.
Bitter medicine, like bitter expert
ence may be the best.
A cripple has running expenses the
same as other people.
fool woman abuses her husband
to assert her independence.
If a man has a wife he always knows
what to do with his money
The easiest way for a girl to catch
a husband is by not trying.
1t is never too late to blame your
mistakes on the other fellow.
How many people do you KNOWN
Guiding yourself-who can repeat the
ten commandments?
OF course, your neighbor has his
faults, but you should have enough
self control not to mention them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
GIVES A new HOPE WELL WORTH Will
Arkansas Rate Decision Today
FavOrs the Railroads.
May Have Bearing on Case Be-
fore Kansas Commission.

kilograms received in Topeka this
afternoon are to the effect that the
United States district court for the
district of Arkansas holds the two
cent passenger rate in that state Illegal
and confiscatory. This means that the
state will return to the three-cent fare,
it is claimed.
In view of the passenger rate case
which will be launched before the
Kansas public utilities commission this
week, the Arkansas decision is of vital
Importance in this state. a ruling in
favor of a three-Cent fare at this time
will, it is believed, be of material bene-
fit to the railroads in their fight to
secure an advance in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Topeka GROWING
Increase in Postal Receipts
Shown in City.
Gain of Nearly $4,000 in First
Three Months.

An increase of S5,992.52 in postal
receipts over the same quarter last
year is shown in the third quarterly
report of the fiscal year at the office
of w O. Rigby, postmaster. The re-
port was completed today. The third
quarter of the fiscal year at the post
office includes the months of January,
February and March.
In the first three months of this
year the total postal receipts amount
ed to $107,915.32, and in the same
three months of 1914 the receipts
amounted to $107,922.S0.
In January, 1915, the receipts were
35,6S3.S5; February $35,262.21, and
IN March, $50, 1926. In the last six
months a splendid gain, amounting to
S11,252.29, has been made at the local
office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
THE CITY ISSUE.

The voters have probably by this
time pretty well made up their minds
whether they are going to vote for Mr..
Blakely, business man, former coun-
Gilman, of nerve and ability. and man
who believes in the prohibitory law
of Kansas; or Jay House, bright para
grapher, without much business train
ing or experience, and man who has
ridiculed prohibition and recently
threatened to Ego after" in the Capital
certain people who were opposing him.
The following in the Jay House
column in the Capital few days ago,
March 81, is almost blackmail and is
certainly not according to high news
paper standards, nor a desirable posi-
ton for any editor to assume:
ITO a newspaper man there is one beau
tiful thing about running for office. 1t
releases him from his obligation to keep
paper man finds that those whom he has
protected for years are, out kicking his
free to shoot. And we wish. in the con-
nection to say there will be some me fine
two or three months.
That paragraph has probably done
much to injure the Capital mans cam
didacy.
The following parag graphs have in
jured his standing with those who
have worked for and believe in the
prohibitory law:
The average candidates announcement
means that he is in favor. of anything that
will bring him votes"
Concerning the latest prohibitory meas
ure there is the cOnsoling thought: we can
still ship it in from Kansas City.
Attention has been called to the fact
that no wine was served at the Kansas
banquet in New York. Kansas is never
able to stay long out of the foolish
column
Some day there will arise a great per-
sonal liberty party which will emancipate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
Journal Entries

Among the strangers are women
and secrets
= !. j.
The man who always has a chip on
his shoulder OCCASIONALLY carries a
black eye.
I. = i
Nothing is more uncertain than a
girls name. She is likely to change
it any time.
= = +
If fortunes followed day dreams it
wouldn't be long before every one was
a millionaire.
-
A straight line may be the shortest
distance between two points but it is
frequently impossible to go that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

If birds of a feather flock together
it is reasonable to suppose that those
without any at all do likewise. And
on such a premise it is plausible to
urge that United States Senator Weeks,
of Massachusetts, one of the Republi-
can presidential possibilities, and a
recent Topeka visitor, would be GER
tain to poll the entire bald-headed
vote of the country if he obtained the
nomination, and it might be sufficient
ly large to elect him by a nice plu-
rality, or even a majority, perhaps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

AS the shoe slips on the other foot.
Many prominent figures in the Euro
pean war have deemed it necessary
to deny countless interviews that
many and divers American newspaper
men claim to have had with them.
And now President Wilson feels con-
strained to deny an interview that a
representative of the Paris Temps in
sistS he had with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

And the body of the late j. Pier
pont Morgan is probably tossing I'M
easily it's grave over the announce
ment that his son is about to sell the
bulk of the famous art collection that
his father assent led with so much
labor and expense. It is valued at
s45, 100000. OF what does it profit
man, indeed, to lay up treasures on
this earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

In all probability, the news that the
Germans are now possessed of an
enormous fleet of Zeppelins in fine
working order was permitted to leak
out of Berlin for the purpose of send
ing another bunch of shivers up and
down the backs of the scary London
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

More ammunition for the Socialists.
A new insurance policy on them dis
closes the fact that the jewels of Mrs.
Edward Beale Mclean, of Washington,
the mother of Vincent Mclean, known
as 1.-The $1OO,OOO.0OO baby" are worth
no less than 100000. Cleopatra
must be tossing in her grave in the
throes of an agonizing envy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

Canada also has a no inconsiderable
surplus of wheat on hand. Her total
holdings of this important cereal ag-
gregate SO,OOO,000 bushels. 1t is es-
timated that only 44,250,000 of them
will be needed for seed and home con-
sumption until this years crop is
available. This leaves 35,75O,00O
bushels of Canadian wheat for eX-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

According to the expert statisticians
in the governments employ, these
United States at last have the distinc-
ton of harboring a population that
numbers 100,000,000 souls, all o.
which also increases our problems and
responsibilities But the United States,
even with such a horde of people, is
by no means crowded as vet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05
BOTH HAVE PLANS.
BelIigcrents to Use Airships at Siege
of MatamOros.

Brownsville, April 5.-Announce-
ment that their monoplane has arrived
for use in defense of Matamoros was
made today by j. u. Cara, Carranza
consul here. The plane arrived here
in a refrigerator express car. Each
side at MatamoroS has one aeropIane
the Villa forces possessing a biplane
which has not yet been flown over tie
Matamoros entrenchments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-05

Germany is now worried over the
fat men in her midst. because they eat
so much. But there are glaring ex-
ceptions to this as to all other rules.
Some of the thinnest and scrawniest
men extant have marvellous capacities
for food.