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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
DO YOUR Duty. FANS,

Why the makers of the Kansas
game laws failed to include baseball
umpires when they passed out protec-
ton to all other birds and beasts from
the polecat to tho dodo is another of
those mysteries of the inexplicable
variety. So go to it, boySi You're
perfectly safe from the strong arm of
the law. Kill the umpire as often as
you like-with words and shouts of
derision. Hurl at him all the vitriolic
anathemas that your nimble wits can
conjure up. OF course, he doesn't
draw his pay for being a target for
such tributes or TRADES. But he'd be
lonesome without them. And the hos
pitality of Topeka and Kansas in all
things and for all persons must not
be Sullied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
MY DADDY,s lead.

They tell me that my Daddy's des,.
the other day my Mamma read
ietter that the postman brought.
ana ana tnen she bowed her pretty head,
ANA cried, and cried an awful lot
Ihen took me in her arms aud said:
y, Ladd1e, Iaddie! Daddy's dead,
hardly can believe it SOL
Why, Just little while ago
ne STOOD with me by Mammals side
ana spoke so quiet like and slow
WINE Mamma held his hand and cried
OnllI ne stopped and whispered low:
our country needs her; sons you know ~
ANA then he said "good-byn and took
Me IN MS arms-my, how they shook
ana hugged me to his breast for keep
Just ike the Shepherd with the crook
HoidS IN His arms the little sheep
ana Daddy's eyes had just the look
AS mas the Shepherd in the book,
And just this morning Mamma staid
Upstairs so long I grew afraid
because the house was awful still
Ana even when 1 talked or PLAYED
It sounded empty like, until
knelt by Mamma where she PRAYED
AND on my head her hand was laid,
And then I felt it must be true
Ana closer to my Mamma drew
why, we need Daddy Just as bad
AS anyth1ng-indeed, we do
For Mammals heart is awful sad
And something hurts me thru and thru!-
Ny Daddy dead! What will we do!
Grant Kyler, in the Ashland News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
Eueniin g Chat
Misinforming Children.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

One of my little nieces has a queer
delusion. She thinks people grow
down." as well as up. The other day
she told her mother, casually, by and
by you will grow down and have a
dolly, too
I know another youngster, chap
of four, who believes that firemen go
around setting fires to peoples houses.
1t may be that both of these child
rem have worked these solutions out
for themselves. I think them far
more likely the result of the practice
of passing down misinformatton to
children who ask questions.
The normal child cannot but be in
quisitive AS his mind develops there
are SO many mysteries! What makes
the electric car go? What makes n
river? Where does the rain come
from? What makes it get dark at
night? There are SO many things too,
which present personal problems.
Why have bread and butter forced up
on oneself and then be refused cake
or candy2 Why not, get ones feet
wet? What makes a cold?
Everything is so new and SO won
derful to a child His mind is as i'm
questionable as wax. He Graves infor-
answer to his eager questioning, moth
ing but ridiculous INSTRUMENTATION.
I sometimes wonder how much of
this miSinfOrmation leaves its imprint
man who confesses to me that he
thought for years raisins made people
crazy because his mother told him so
in order to keep him from taking
them from the pantry.
A great mass of INSTRUMENTATION is,
of course, removed from the mind by
later experiences, but some of it, deal
ing with intangible things must leave
some impression.
The pity is that the opportunity for
CONSTITUTIONAL training presented by
a child's questioning should be so
abused. OF course a child'S questions
are sometimes hard to answer even
though they deal with simple every
day things, but that might perhaps
serve for a text of talk for
grown-ups. To discover that to
put some fact of which we have
fair conception in definite simple
language is hard ought to open
our eyes to the slovenliness and in
completeness of our own knowledge
1t may be pleasanter to save ones
self from such an eye opener by max
ing up some silly untruth and then
laughing at ones own wit, but I call
it downright mean to trade on a
child's credulity SO.
If child ask for bread should you
give him a stone?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Question.-What do you think of
people who take out a dozen records
from music store supposedly on APP
prevail, but with no real intention of
buying, wanting them to entertain
week end guests?
Answer-That they deserve to lose
the privilege of taking records on APP
proval, as they undoubtedly will. I'm
fortunately the innocent suffer with
the guilty, as usual
I present my thanks to the many
letter friends who wrote me that they
like the talks on bundles i was
especially glad because it came
straight out of my heart and I so
hoped it would find a place in yours.
Anent the subject one letter friend
writes: Did you ever read Just
Folks the experience of a young pro-
baton officer? She tells how all the
neighbors would follow home one of
their number who had been to the
store, to see the sunwrapping-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
Glob be Sights
BY THE ATCKIsoN GLOBE.

Globe want ads work while you
loaf
The good in gold seal goods is liable
to be in the seal.
What good is wisdom? You know
you shouldn't overeat.
Probably the funniest word in the
English language is debut.
Most of the good listeners among
the men folks are married.
Did you ever know a house so large
that 1T had an empty closet?
A colored man never wants safety
razor for social purposes.
Father hands down most of the mi
nority reports in the average home.
1t is easy enough for both sides to
lose in lawsuit if they keep it up
long enough.
About the time a man sees he is go
ing to get whipped, he begins to be-
lieve in arbitration.
The man who insists on pleading his
own case frequently gets stuck but
not for attorneys fees
While woman isn't anxious to
vote, she doesn't mind it so much if
her candidate is good-looking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
. Clara lnSraraJ0dson

For many an hour they Travelled
slipping from cover to cover; shaking
with fear when they met anything
either man., or wagon or creature; till
at last footsore and weary they
slipped into yard to rest.
This travelling is not as much fun
as 1 thought it would be- said Mrs.
Frisky in tired voice. II wish we
didn't have to go any farther"
Maybe We dong said Frisky, won
stay here and rest and I'll look
around" So Mrs. Frisky snueeled
down under some leaves and Friskv
went off to investigate. In three min
utes he was back. I've found the
finest nesti" he declared, tits made of
soft grass. Do come and sect So
Mrs Frisky went She found a ereat
pile of fresh cut grass neaped up bv a
PACK yard renee, ana 1t smelled so.
decided to stayiin it. This is lust the
place for u.s. she said, and so the new
home was chosen and thew set about
making 1t fine and comfortabIe -
(CopyrightTClara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
Kansas Comment
CALL OF THE TOMATO PATCH

CALL OF THE IOMAIO TAI III
The man with the hoe is again with
u.s. In a thousand back yards ne IS
turning up the dirt and planting seeds
against the day of hoped-for fruition-
Strengthening up his back, achlng
from its unaccustomed toll, he tracks
his muddy way through the immacu-
late kitchen, daring the wrath to come.
and leaving behind him eloquent
proof that at least once a year man
actually does return to the SOIL In
the spring time man becomes one OF
our most thoroughly domesticated ami
mails. His volcanic spasms of agricui-
tural frenzy in a two-by-four garden
patch testifieS to a survival of an an
cient instinct which was born of ne
cessity, in a day when every man had
to do some gardening for his own self
preservation. This man with the hoe
is still with. US, even in the big city.
He is content to blister his hands and
the back. of his neck in an effort to
coax from Mother Nature food which
would be better and cheaper If bought
in market, but which is StiH his own
1t is the thrill of being producer
which stirs him. And if he bOreS us
with his boast of accomplishment, his
complacent recital of skill and per-
sistence, we must treat him indulgent-
ly and with compassion. We can new
er know when the same instinct for
dirt grubbing and kitchen tracking
will seize upon us.-Marysville Advo-
cate-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
On the Spur
of the Moment
Psalm of Lives.


Lives of tomcats oft remind us
After all is said and done,
We would hatesto pay insurance
On nine lives instead of one
Lives of centipedes remind US
We would all ambition lose
If we had to find the cash to
Keep a centipede in shoes.
Lives of elephants remind us
1t would put US in a funk,
If from birth to death we had to
Lug around silly trunk.
Lives of CRATES oft remind us
In the race of life, by heck,
Were we only built like they are,
We could win out by a neck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO HELP.

This is the eleventh hour of the
local end of Washburn's campaign to
raise the half-million dollar addition
to it's endowment fund and which it
needs to maintain in the future the
prominent position the college now
holds among the educational institu-
lions of the country. If you have neg
lected to do your full duty by Wash
burn and the city that is its home, 1T
is not too late to make amends The
telephones are working. So is the To-
peka postoffice. You can phone your
pledge or send it in a letter And don't
forget that an unsolicited gift, wheth-
er it be for a small sum or large
one, is after all of the most desirable
variety. If you have not been visited
personally by a Washburn campaign
er, it is not because you were deemed
poor prospect or anything of the
sort. There are a lot of people in To-
peka, and while the workers for
Washburn have been many, it has
been physically impossible for them to
see everyone. If you haven't been
called on in person, show your patr1-
otism for Washburn and Topeka by
giving anyhow. Your assistance is
needed and it will be appreciated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
Useful Information.

!
| Statistics show that there are 1907
100000 swine in the world, not includ-
| ing those who push women and chill
dren out of the way SO as to get the
best seats in the street car
There was once a street car con-
ductor who got off and opened UNI
brellas for women passengers during
rain storms. He died of pneumo nia-
The best way to make balloon
Hight is to touch a match to it.
In one month a single caterpillar
deVours six thousand times its own
weight in food. A married caterpillar
probably devourS much more.
Once Upon a Time.
Once upon a time man invented
glasses with which people could see
-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Once upon a time a preacher told
his congregation Just what they de-
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Once upon a time lover told his
girl that she was not the only girl
he had ever kissed. She dropped dead
Houston Post.
once upon a time a man planted
some congressional garden seeds and
they came up and he had a fine gar
den and he went to the insane asylum
Uncle Abner.
If Hank Tumms has enough left
after buying his wife a new hat, he
is going to buy an automobile for him
self.
Uncle Ezra Harkips believed he was
in need of the absent treatment so he
sent his wife away to visit with her
sister for a month
When a Teller comes along and
slaps me on the back, reach in my
trousers pocket automatically, for 1
know what it means.
Teller with g. blond hair on his
shoulder is always under suspicion.
Every time there is fire in H1ck-
eyville the sight seers are badly dis
appointed, for the hose company puts
it out almost instantly.
Lem Higgins has won a pair of fine
automobile driving gloves in a rattle
and now all he has got to do is to go
and win a car and he will be fixed,
provided somebody gives him money
enough to buy gasoline.
One way to make money is to play
poker fer it, but there are several bet
ter ways.
Mrs Lem Purdy says it is a burned
lie that no man kin come back. Her
husband has come back to her three
times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
DON'T MAKE DRUDGES OF BOYS
AND GIRLS.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside an Ohio woman makes the
following frank comment on how to
keep boys and girls on farms: Don't
get the idea in your head that you
must raise your children you were
raised. Times have changed since we
were kids, and we must change with
them to make a success in life. Give
them all the education you can afford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
Journal Entries

Patience is the virtue that others
expect you to have.
+ j
Economy seems an easy proposition
to those who don't have to practice it.
+ i i
It's undoubtedly true that no man
is perfect; but every woman thinks
she is.
The best is whole lot too good for
many folk; or, at least, they don't
deserve it,
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A good speech is one that conveys a
message in tune with your sympathies
or prejudices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
According to William Allen White

According to William Allen White,
either Victor Murdoch of Kansas or
Hiram Johnson of California will be
the sacrificial goat of the Progressive
party in 1916; or, in other words, its
presidential candidate. Mr.. White
figures out this political problem on
the premise that Colonel Roosevelt
will return to the G. Q. p. And if the
latter possibility happens there won't
be enough left of the Bull Moose party
to give it anything like an excuse to
put contestant for the presidency in
the field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

An Italian paper calls attention to
the fact that the European war is a
magnificent thing financially for the
United States. But the United States
would have been delighted to worry
along without the financial advantag es
that the war has given them. To
profit at the expense and misfortune
of others is far from being an ambi-
ton of the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

It may be, too. that Carter Harri-
sons announcement that his days as
candidate for public Office are at
an end, was encouraged to some ex
teIt by the trimming that the Demo-
cratic voters gave him in the last
mayoralty primaries in Chicago. A
fellow can't get very far in politics
when the home folk finally turn agin
him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

Work must still be mighty scarce in
these United States. How else can be
explained the flood of applications
that are being received by the secre-
tary of the interior for all kinds of
jobs in connection with the construc-
ton of the government railroad in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

While the present brand of weather
is of the ideal variety, it is of the
kind as far as temperature is con-
cerned that would be normal in June.
which is more than thirty days away.
And the question naturally arises to
the kind of weather that June will
carry on its shoulders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

Some of the old letters that passed
between the late Tom Plat, of Easy
Boss fame, and Colonel Roosevelt.
when the latter was governor of New
York, might possibly be labeled as be-
ing of the love variety. They were
friendly, anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

Now that General Activity is in the
saddle again in the several European
war zones, the newspapers will be re-
plete, as they were last fall, with dia-
metrically opposite reports about the
same engagements from Berlin and
Vienna on the one side and Paris,
London and Petrograd on the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

What a lot of energy, lives and fnu-
nitions of war have been wasted in
the great European conflict! A rather
definite report now has it that the
Allies realize it would be practically
useless for them to continue their at
tempt to force the Dardanelles unless
their fleet is backed up by rather
enormous land force, which doesn't
appear to be in sight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
WASTE BASKET ADVERTISER.

Waste basket exclaims Leslie's,
and it adds: The merchant who
wishes to reach 10000 waste baskets
into which his advertising circulars
fall must pay some one for their
writing, printing and posting, and as
the New York Herald-one of the
ablest opponents of business principles
in the country-says: The waste
basket cannot read circulars and is
unable to buy any of the things that
they seem to exploit Our esteemed
contemporary is surprised to know
that men of supposed commercial acu-
men spend large sums each year in
the futile effort to convert the waste
baskets of the country into customers,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Some of the smaller Kansas streams
are already kicking over their traces,
but think of the richness for future
occasions that the overflow will add
to the bottom lands affected. There's
ALWAYS a silver linging. mates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

Government statistics demonstrate
conclusively that the cities of Kansas
bear by far the largest burden of the
public debt of the state. This is only
more contribGtory evidence, if any
were needed, that the local taxes are
the ones which provide the real tax
burdens in Kansas, not the state tax
But the politicians of state caliber
seem to be able to fool the people into
believing otherwise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

An American newspaper man, of
course. is no better than any other
American citizen, and so if Carranza
follows his plan to shoot the one he
has in custody, Uncle Sam. through
the genial and peace-loving Mr.. Bryan,
will probably be satisfied to call the
account square if Carranza comes
across with monetary indemnity Cor
the victims wife or such other rela-
tives as may survive him. 1t sure is
great TO be an American citizen these
days. but only if you stay at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
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
genization 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, 1915-04-28

Maybe Governor Capper's admins
tration is reasonably satisfactory to
the Progressives, as Brother White of
Emporia opines. because of the sew
eraI fat state offices of the appointive
variety that Mr.. Capper has filled
with gentlemen of Republican antece-
dents and present Republican ale
glance but who were exceedingly &C
tive for the Bull Moose cause in 1912
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

while neglecting the advertising col
umns of publications that are not
thrown into waste baskets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

Although the foot and mouth dis
ease among the cattle tapped the
states till for a considerable sum, the
people of Kansas obtained something
worth while for their money. But
that is far from always being the case
with the expenditures that follow the
ranting and ramping of the politicians,
another variety of the foot and mouth
disease, and especially those among
them who are successful in attaining
Office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
From Other Pens
UNCLE SANS CHICKEN FEED.

Il
In the treasury statement of condi-
ton as of Wednesday, April IA, the
following item appears: Net bal
ance in the general fund, $26,244,-
914." In amounts varying but slight
ly from this figure the foregoing bal
ance has for many days past COM
pared with the following item from
the assets side of the treasury balance
sheet: Subsidiary silver, minor coin,
silver bullion, $33, ,227." Without
treasury statement, which would in
deed hardly stand analysis, 1t suf-
fees to say that the old gentleman
known as Uncle Sam is decidedly
hard UP, more so than he has been
in twenty years.-New York Sun.
THE LONG FACES
Numerous editorial long faces cen
sure a California millionaire, released
from the federal prison in Atlanta, for
saying as he left its gates that he had
spent there the happiest and most
useful sixteen months of his life. His
critics see something indecently anti
social in such an expression by a man
emerging from house of punishment
In heavens name, why? Shall we
never outgrow the spirit that dictated
the blue laws of New England? The
Californian in prison for the first time
learned the happiness of clean man
ual labor, of unselfiSh efforts to inn
prove the condition of his fellow men;
first perceived each mans obligation
to serve as well as to exploit human
ity He found himself spiritually en-
riched by his experience. Perhaps it
would do as much for the long faces.
Unhappily, these professional killjoyS
seldom possess enough force to do
anything so positive as would justify
failing them. They merely bleat-
which is a pestilential nuisance; and
they begin salarningIy to vote as they
bieat@which menaces virile human=
ity with the soft, smothering- chains
of a sheep despotism.-St Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
CLEVER MIR. BURLEsON.

Possibly you have heard from your
business correspondents and friends in
other parts that your letters do not
travel to them as quickly as they used
to. Surely you've noticed the delay in
your receipt of their letters. Perhaps
you haven't been annoyed or incon-
venienced to any extent, and maybe
you have But you can enjoy the con-
ISOLATION this condition of affairs is not
exclusive hereabouts. 1t prevails
pretty generally throughout the coun-
try, and is even more pronounced in
the larger centers of population where
the volume of mail is heavier. And it
is the result of an endeavOr on the
part of Postmaster General Burleson
to put the postoffice department on a
certain profit-making basis. With a
positively rare acumen he has actual
ly figured it out that this can be done
by slackening down the speed and eff
ficiency that years of painstaking eff
fort had developed in the handling
and distribution of the mail. Pre-
sumably the railroads. if they had the
nerve and public authority would per-
init them, could, even under the con-
ditions confronting them, increase
their dividends or turn losses into
profits, if they slowed down their ser
vice, if they accepted passengers and
freight and delivered them at their
convenience. But what bowls of rage,
and pretty righteous ones at that,
would go up from shippers and travel
ers if the railroads attempted to give
poorer and slower service, instead of
bending all their energies to improve
it. With the mails, though, it is diff
ferent. The government is handling
them, and the people know full well
that they have no power for redress
against the autocratic activities of
cabinet member except when they cast
their votes on a national election day.
Mr.. Burleson's present profitable but
sluggish management of the postal
service is also an excellent forecast of
what might happen in the conduct of
the railroads under government own
ership if their destinies happened to be
presided over by a government boss
whose genius for economy might be of
the same peculiar mold that's being
exhibited by the postmaster general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28

This war is a terrible thing; isn't
it 2" Perfectly dreadful. Still. you don't
have to keep explaining to people of your
set why you are not in Paris. Puck.