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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
IMMIGRANTS AND COLLEGES.

Social work among immigrants is
assuming special importance as a col
lege subject, according to a bulletin
issued by the United States bureau of
education. Fourteen institutions are
now offering special courses which
treat the subject of immigration,
though few of these have as yet given
much attention to the practical prob
lem of what to do with the immigrant
as a man and a citizen. Sixty-nine
institutions treat the subject incl
dentally in connection with courses in
economics, history, and sociology In
order to help in the present urgent
demand for Americanization service
for immigrants, the bureau of eduea
ton has had prepared a syllabus en-
titled: professional Course for Serv-
ice Among Immigrants" Some of the
topics treated are as follows: The
Incoming Tide and Its Distribution;
Legislation and Restriction; Employ
ment; Standards of Living; Education,
and Ideals and Methods in American
ization Work. In view of the interest
shown by colleges in the subject of
immigrant education, the United
States commissioner of education has
offered to give assistance and advice
with respect to courses of study and
methods to any colleges or universe
ties planning to introduce courses in
training for leadership in American
ization service. The division of i'm
migrant education in the bureau has
centered its attention upon the prob
lens connected with the education of
I ar7fe "a Of
American civic ideals. DR.. F. E. Far
rington of this division declares:
american colleges and universities
are more and more awakening to the
necessity of touching modern life on
it's dynamic side; of inspiring and
initiating social progress, and of train
ing leaders in the work of civic uplift.
Here is a field which opens up almost
limitless possibilities in the way of
social service. One needs, however,
a peculiar sympathy for and a specific
knowledge of the foreigner, apprecia-
ton of his limitations and his posi-
bilities, as well as a realization of
what he can contribute to our econom-
ic, ethical, and spiritual progress when
properly assimilated, and what grave
dangers he can also bring if we fail to
Undue him with our national ideals.
The fields are already ripe unto the
harvest, but trained and competent
laborers are few. Letters have been
received at the bureau of education
lamenting the fact that evening school
classes for foreigners have been given
up on account of the lack of trained
principals and teachers to handle this
problem. Upon our colleges and uni
versities, therefore, devolves the re-
sponsibility of preparing these work
ers, of giving them breadth of vision,
and catholicity of purpose. in short of
training them for their tasks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
Jayh awker Jots

AS Ernest R. Trimmer of the Cove
County Republican-G Gazette says: It's
hard to convince the Sweet Young
Thing that dishwater is the best pre-
paration in the world for softening
and whitening the hands
Editor Briles, of the Stafford Re-
publican, who has been married less
important discovery: The Xxx
brand of an optimist is the man VINO
can cook his own meals and be cheer
full about it,"
A Sabetha woman keeps the talking
machine by the head of her bed, re-
ports the Sabetha Herald. When her
husband calls her to get up and get
breakfast, she turns on the record 'I
Hear You Calling Me-" and turns over
for another nap
Meditations of a Mother, in the
Leavenworth Times: OF what use is
our gift unless we use it for another's
benefit? Civilization is a veneer
which rubs off when We are aroused
to war Our ancestors are of
two kindsHthe kind we hope to live
up to and the kind we hope to live
down Father wants to know if
a man who wears a shiny suit is a
polished gentleman. 4. A real life
comedy is only an accessory. If you
get the proper focus, life is real
tragedy.
Observations by the Lebanon Times:
Sometimes it is better to have loved
and lost than have won.
If people would practice more Chris
tianity and less churchanity. St. Peter
would be better pleased.
Sometimes it doesn't seem to pay to be
good, but you don't have anything to
be remorseful about afterwards.
A woman gets fully as much
enjoyment out of telling what she had
at a swell feed as a man does out of
eating it. 1t is probably a
mistake to say we do not see our own
mistakes, but we do not talk about
them as much as we do about the
mistakes of others.
Says the Editors Broderick in their
Marysville acknowledgements: Wise
is the man who can remember his
wife's birthday ana forget her age.
We can't all dwell on Easy
street but it behooves US to live on the
square. AS a rule you will
find that the successful man is a grad
uate of the University of Hard
Knocks. A woman has just
as much right to lie about her age as a
man has about his automobile expense
count. Running for office is
like coasting down hill. The going is
easy. The walk back is the disagree
able part. . The fellow who
makes a business of loafing loses all
the fun of knocking off work oc-
casionally and just laying around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
En- g Chat
Answering the Cynic.


Some time ago the Wants-to-Be
Cynic took the floor and told women
how they could be more efficient about
their housework. One thing he COM
planned of was the way in which the
average woman rushed from one
thing to another.
A most interesting letter in answer
to the Cynic has been overlooked in a
pigeon-hole. For the sake of the sex
it so ably defends, l want to give it
even at this late date.
Yes, Mr. Cynic, we would save
time if we didn't rush from one thing
to another; but suppose, on her way
to cellar or refrigerator, the doorbeH
rings, or the telephone, or the baby
aWakens and cries, or the delivery
boy comes in, is it any wonder if, by
the time she has attended to any one
or maybe all these demands upon her
time and mind. she should have for
gotten half of the things she started to
get?
Can a man work in any place and
around and asking questions? 1 say
no, and write it with big m
You step into a bank or place of
business-do you interrupt the cashier
or business man? No, indeed; be you
in ever so much of a hurry, you must
wait until he is at liberty to attend to
you. Not so the woman in her kitcl-
en-. Her good husband never thinks
he is adding to her already overtaxed
mind when he says, BE sure you take
correctly the telephone call from Mr..
W, it's very important
L say it with all reverence-God
never permitted to live upon this
beautiful earth a more helpless Great
ure than some men are.
Let me cite one instance of many
we know. I was standing in the YES
thule of our church one Sunday morn
ing when the wife of our pastor a
very brilliant man, came in, followed
by her three small children. She us
ually has a quiet and serene face, but
she now had an anxious expression as
she said I am so ashamed to be late,
but we had callers late last evening
and I failed to do some of the many
things I always do Saturday night Mr..
c. never can do one thing Sunday
morning. I must lay out all his
clothes, see that he takes his Bible and
notes, that he has a clean handker-
chief in every pocket, that his break
fast is on time, and get it too, get my
self and three children ready for
church, all under a nervous strain, for
it annoys him if we are late
Was she an inefficient woman?
Il will let the Cynic answer.
"A very good man once said, fWo-
men would make excellent train dis
patchers.' The man to whom he was
talking, said, with great establishment
tWhy?' The first man replied, Because
they are able to attend to so many
things at one time
ALAS. the man who said that died
He was 1onesome!
81 am not asking that men give us
the right to vote, but I do ask that
/ they respect our endurance, perse-
verance and efficiency. - protected
by the Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

sources, and it seems likely. human
nature being what it is, that for at
least a generation the bitterness en-
gendered by the present great conflict
will not make MADE in Germany q
recommendation amongst the allied
powers or their colonies. To what
market will she therefore naturally
turn under the stimulus of her neces-
sity? Must it not be once again to
South America. in which she had
greatly established herself, and our
own great domestic market, the most
alluring mart in the world? What
will be her position in such a conflict,
if we are called upon to meet low
wage costs, long hours and high eff
cheney with high wage costs, short
hours and low efficiency? Is it not
then our part to look, not with timid
ity and fear to the future, but with
clearness and understanding? The
world contest of peace succeeding that
of war will be fought with trained
men in shops and commerce, as the
present war is fought by trained men
who, to win, must have behind them
superior capacity in shop and office.
In an hour when trained skill,
whether of labor or of capital. is the
chief buttress of national defense, it is
organizations of employers that must
lead in the great work of industrial
preparation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Record.

fFrom the Philadelphia Record
Some people are so naturally dis
agreeable that even the climate doesn't
agree with them.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, and
too many nightcaps will keep a man
out of bed entirely.
When he lands in Jail, even the fish
dealer may experience some difficulty
in scaling the wall
Most of US despise a cynic, but if it
wasn't for the cynic a man would new
er realize how happy he isn't
In spite of the fact that time flies,
it never seems to catch up with the
man who was before his time.
Where talk is concerned, give a
woman a handicap of a mouthful of
hairpins and she will beat a man to it.
A girl looking for a husband is some
times as hard to please as a college
graduate looking for his first job
Any man who has never had any of
his own will tell you that the more
money people have the less they know
how to spend it.
Muggins-'1 believe in being mas
ter of my own house" Buggins-
That's very nice, but my wife insists
upon keeping a cook
wigg-"How is the table at your
boarding house?'' Wagg-"Fine
Solid mahogany. It's the stuff We get
to eat we kick about"
The lean sparrow had been up since
dawn and was still hungry. They
used to say the early bird caught the
worm" he complained, but that must
have been before the days of the Early
F3ird Trust %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

There came a day in the late. late
winter, when even the old, expert
enced creatures went hungry. And
the worst of it was. they had thought
the winter was almost over! Then,
one day, without a speck of warning,
the worst storm of the season swept
the woods, covering everything eatable
SO deeply that it would take days 10
dig food out
Shppy and MiIIy White-mouse in
their well-stocked home in the corn
field Jared the best of any, for they
only had to big deep into the stack to
find all they could eat and more.
Bushy Beaver had a lean fare, but
he had something, for the creek was
not frozen solid, and he could find
a stray bit here and there in it's bot
tom.
and the raccoons and the Weasels had
a hungry time of it, poor thingsi
When at last the wind abated and
they dared to stick their noses out of
the shelters they had hidden in, the
hungry folk peeped out to see what
food was to be had.
'Ah me-" sighed Mother Raccoon,
Il hope my children are all safe. 1t
isn't as though they were babies, of
course, but 1 will feel safer when 1
know where they are She shifted
around in the snow a bit and then
she said: Il think I'll find something
to eat; then I'll hunt up Billy and tell
him where he, too, can find food"
So she slipped out from the dense
thicket where she had hidden during
the storm, and hunted around for
food, but not bit could she findl
After a long hunt she gave it up
and just then she saw Billy, He,
too. was hunting busiIy-not trace
of his laziness was to be seen just
then.
Have you found anything to eat ?"
he asked, anxiously.
Not a morsel,' replied Mother
Raccoon.
Then what shall we do?" asked
Billy.
Mother Raecoon thought a minute
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frorn the Chicago News. ]

[Fror the Chicago News.l
The electric chair is a sure cure for
insomnia.
Do you believe all the good things
you hear of yourself2
A witty girl may be drug on the
matrimonial market.
Some hair is prematurely gray and
some is prematurely dyed.
AS long as a man does his level best
he isn't going down hill
Don't worry if your sins find you
out; they'll be sure to call again.
A shiftless man is always boasting
of what he would do if he had the
money.
In after years a man rejoices be-
cause of the failure of youthful am
billions.
No girl who is able to bring a man
to the point cares for leap year priv
i1eges.
If people were as wise as they think
they are the unexpected would seldom
occur.
Our idea of true faith is that of a
man who advertises for the return of
a lost umbrella.
1t is believed by some that the time
will come when an honest man will
command respect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

vice is usually subtle form of flat
terry or else method of lodging re-
sponsibility. The person who is wise
enough to take good advice and the
one who is too wise to give it generally
tie the knot of perfect friendship. Ad
vice is a drug on the market. The
principal reason why the supply ex-
ceeds the demand is because those
who need the most take the least.
Advice should never be followed. If
it is good advice, it cannot be followed.
The only advice which is good is that
which drives you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
GIob Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

If you have positive opinions you
are crank in somebody's estimation.
A crank would be only an enthusi-
asst if you happened to agree with HIM.
In trying to be interesting people
say things they shouldn't, and hear
from Them later.
There remain a lot of orators who
haven't learned anything from the
Gettysburg address.
A good many of those who are go
ing to the devil are so slow about it,
and worry their friends.
In the average community a loafer
is treated as well as an Industrious
man, and often little better.
A man just naturally wouldn't ex-
pect much to eat in a house where a
kitchenette takes the place of a
kitchen.
1t is always a mystery to man why
a woman doesn't starve to death when
there are no men in the house to cook
for.
A course in knowing when to stop
when you have nothing more to say
is needed at all our leading schools
and colleges.
A man learns a little as he grows
older, and isn't so much afraid he will
miss something by not coming down
town at night.
Save some of your sympathy for the
boy who seems to be all legs and arms
and hands and feet. He feels as awk-
ward as he looks.
Any man who finds himself drift
ing towards buzz saw will put up a
good fight for a living. The trouble
in this fat country is there are not
enough buzz saws.
You are so smart, perhaps you can
understand why the woman who is
anxious to marry her daughters off
doesn't think any girl is good enough
for her SON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
EXES

EYES.
My Father. Thou art good to give me these
With which to see along the common
way
The outer beauty of Thy mysteries
These orbs that catch the eyer-varied ray.
My Father, Thou art good to let me peer
Through such fine lenses Thy world
that lies
So beautiful along the changing year
Why, all our life of joy is in our eyes.
My Father, though they often look through
gloom
On shadowy skies that clouds have
turned to night,
thank Thee most for faith to see the
bloom
And know, through faith, still shineth
Thy clear light.
And would mine eyes-so gifted, Lord to
The outer beauty of this world of
Thine
Could also catch that inner sight of Thee
Which maketh our golden visions seem
divine.
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
The Table.

Braised Beef-Two pounds round
steak (cut thick), one egg, cracker
crumbs. Cut off all fat and bone,
put in frying pan with butter. Cut
meat into individual servings. Roll
in egg (beaten), then in cracker
crumbs Brown quickly in hot fry
ing pan. Place meat in casserole:
make gravy of fryings and pour over
it. Bake one and one-half hours in
moderate oven.
Jellied Chicken and Egg Salad
Cook l y cups chicken stock Cor wa
teri with one finely chopped onion,
one chopped red pepper, one tea
spoon salt, one tablespoon Worcester
shire sauce; cook three eggs until
hard; cool, soak in enough cold water
to cover two tablespoons gelatin and
when thoroughly dissolved pour into
an oblong wetted mold to the depth
of half an inch; set on ice until stiff
ened; then arrange slices of the hard
cooked eggs on the jelly, finally add
the remainder of the eggs cut in
slices and two cups of diced chicken
meat to the hot stock and pour all
into the mold. Chill and serve with
salad dressing.
Baked Peas in Graham Baskets
Two cups dry peas, one-half pound
salt pork, one small loaf of graham
bread. Soak peas over night. Bake
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

with pork and salt to taste six hours.
Use covered bean pot. Cut bread
into four equal parts. cut away crust
and scoop out centers, toast golden
brown and fill with hot peas, bits of
pork on top. Peas are good cold.
Salads.
Tunny Salad-One medium sized
can funny minced fine, one cucumber
chopped (salt and let it stand while
preparing other ingredients), one
stalk celery chopped fine. Chop one
chopped hard-boiled eggs and mix ali
with salad dressing. preferably plain
mayonnaise. Very little seasoning
is necessary, as the peppers, pimen-
tos and oil of fish give it its flavor
Best if it stands an hour. This also
Tunny Salad-One can funny, add
slices of sweet pickles and celery.
mix with mayonnaise, serve on let
tuce leaves
Salad Dressing (new)-One table
spoon spiced vinegar. two table,
tablespoons sugar, pinch salt, one
tablespoon catsup. Chopped onions
and green peppers are very nice in
this dressing.
Pineapple Salad-Piace slices Of
pineapple on lettuce leaves, fill cav
ity with cheese Dali (NeuIchaIel
cheese mojstened with cream or may
onnaise nodded into balls and rolled
in chopped nuts). Put spoonful of
mayonnaise on cheese, then whipped
cream and top with maraschino.
Rainbow Salad - Minced apples.
celery, seeded white grapes, finely
chopped red peppers, olive rings and
green lettuce leaves cut into rib
bons; chill thoroughly and mix with
a heavy mayonnaise. Pretty served
in half red or green pepper shells or
orange baskets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
ADVICE.

Advice is a yelled but egotistical at
tempt to show your neighbor how you
surpass him intellectually. says Judge.
1t is a magnifying glass. which you
hand to him, after which you make
certain that you are standing at the
proper focal distance. Advice is also
used as a sugar coating for criticism,
as a diplomatic method of checking
offensive conduct, and as a pastime.
There are two classes of people ebul-
lient with a desire to give advice;
those who have had experience. and
those who have not. A request for ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
Journal Entries

Every man has his price but it is
seldom the figure he fixes himself.
= = =
After you're sure you're right, then
do a little more thinking before 60
ing ahead.
J. i. =
If a man doesn't profit by his mis-
takes, somebody else will make all the
more profit out of them.
= *
It is also the rule that the man who
doesn't want much has even a harder
time getting it than does the follow
who desires a whole lot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

- Nor was it necessary for Washing
tom university professor to stage a
fake shooting scrape" to establish
the fact that the testimony of eye
witnesses is seldom reliable as to the
vital facts or even the subsidiary in
cidents of any happening that they are
called upon to tell about. This is
demonstrated in every court room
daily, and it suggests that in the or
binary affairs of life folk would do
well not to believe in everything they
see, for they don't very often see with
any degree of accuracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

Another United States submarine
is in misery. This one was bumped
out of commission by little tugboat
off New London, Conn.,, and is now in
the New York navy yard for repairs.
-Four of her sister submersibles are
also undergoing repairs in the same
yard. Why not scrap the navy's
present supply of submarines, as all
81. them appear to be worthless. and
get to work constructing some real
ones to take their places?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

Even though Russia's losses in the
war aggregate the tremendous total of
2,542,639 men, they are, relatively
speaking, a mere drop in the Russian
bucket compared with the losses that
the other belligerents have sustained.
Russia's resources in men are prac-
tically limitlesS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

Are you going to get out to the
third community sing which will be
staged at the auditorium next Tues
day evening? Don't be bashful if
you do not recall the words of the
old songs that will be sung. You can
hum the tunes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

It is also fortunate for Great Brit
ain that she hasn't gone through with
as many crises on her battle lines as
she has with her cabinet. Another
cabinet melee is in progress over the
question of compelling the married
men of the empire to enlist for mill
tary service. And this is only more
evidence of what nuisance politicians
are and especially in times of war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

When quiet" is reported at YER
dun nowadays, it merely means that
the opposing forces are contenting
themselves with hurting tons and tons
of Shells at each other-they have
stopped for the time being their in
fantry engagements which turn
trenches and fields into shambles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

Co-eds of the University of Michi-
gan are pretty generally agreed that
ideal matrimonial timber is a physi-
clan who doesn't wear a dinky little
mustache, who doesn't drink and
whose income is $1,642 a year But
those of them who are matrimonially
inclined will probably be delighted to
take what they can get in the worser-
half line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

Truth is often stranger than fiction
or sometimes it is just as strange. The
famous Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce. case of
Dickens Bleak House has a parallel
for longevity in Missouris famous st.
Clair county bond case. The end of
the litigation in the latter case which
has been in progress for forty years is
finally in sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
r0 Association.

ed Inasmuch as the state board of
health has decreed that the circus
lemonade dispensed in Kansas in the
future must be the real thing in the
lemonade line, Kansas has already
reyeled in circus lemonade for the
last time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

And the high winds that fan little
fires into disastrous CONGREGATIONS
and destroy lives and property when
they take the form of tornadoes and
cyclones have much more for which
to answer if the theory of the physi
clans is correct that they also spread
the grip among humans. But there
doesn't appear to be any way of SWAT
ting the winds, so what's going to be
done about it?