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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01

OF momentous concern to the con-
tinued prosperity of the country is the
conference that begins today between
tie officials of the railroad companies
AMI the big bulk of the operating en-
ployees on the railway lines, the en-
ginemen and firemen and the con-
ductors and trainmen. That they COM
pose their differences over the matters
of pay and hours of labor in dispute
is the fervent wish of the great mass
of the people on the side lines, as it
undoubtedly is also of the railroad
officials and the railroad workers, as
well. In fact. the general public has
big stake in this conference. 1t has
railroad rights that are as important
as are those of the railroad owners and
their employees. A strike of the lat
ter, one of such nationwide proper
tions as might be involved in this case,
would seriously interfere with these
railroad rights that the public pos
sess. Hence it would seem that the
general public demand that there be
no strike must be needed, as it prob
ably will be. There must be an am
icable way out of the differences be-
tween the railroads and their en-
ployees, and the chances are they will
find it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
Jayhawker Jots

The report that Ireland is now quiet
is, of course to be accepted, suggests
the Kiowa News-Review, as meaning
quiet for ireland.
To realize that the right will
triumph, points out the Lawrence
Journal-Worid, it is necessary to be
on the winning side.
National conventions were invented,
observes the Wichita Beacon, for the
benefit of hotel owners and the de-
scendants of favorite sons.
An eastern show advertises $1,000
people; 1000 costumes" notes the
Oakley G-~ohic. And, the Graphic
adds, that is the naked truth.
When burglar goes to the peni-
Tertiary, says the Pittsburg Headlight,
he has the consolation that he won't
have to work on the night shift.
Mrs. Homer Hoch points out in the
Marion Record that successful picnics
are three days long-one to get ready,
two to go and three to get rested
y'know.
Don't be afraid to lend a helping
hand to the needy, urges the ReXford
News. Your crown in the New Jeru-
salem will be large enough to hold all
the stars you are entitled to anyway.
Here's a forceful preparedness argu-
ment in the Wichita Eagle: 1t cost
Switzerland $32.0O0,0O0 to guard its
borders last year. During the same
time Belgium was taxed SOS, 000,0 900 in
indemnities.
Some excellent advice from the Ian
sing News: In the church, in politics
and in business you want to think a
many patterns-make one of your own
occasionally.
According to the Leavenworth Post,
the fellow whose health is SO poor
that his wife must carry the baby is
often found in the lodge room with so
pounds of regalia upon his shoulders.
Thus equipped he will march farther
than the average soldier on hike.
The pickpockets are laying for the
Republican national convention to
make a clean up, notes the Arkansas
City Traveller, and it adds: A Repub-
lican just naturally has the reputation
for being prosperous. We never
heard of a pickpocket hanging around
Democratic convention.
War news. in the Muscotah Record:
Frank Liggatt had a battle the other
day Two snakes, blue racers COM
posed the enemy. Frank. being I'M
prepared, retreated until within reach
of munitions when he returned to the
charge and killed half the foe. The
remainder gave up the fight and dug
in.
Sez Uncle ST, IN the ottawa Her
aid: When Teller falls in love tn girl
usually tumbles. Gettin' a piece
of a womans mind amt conducive to
your own peace of mind What
| the preacher says at tn wedding is
| quite important, but who remembers
it? -. You can get more reliable
data about self-made women from the
modiste than from tn historian.
Related by the Chanute Tribune: A
| little boy who was sent to Sunday
school for the first time was given a
nickel to contribute to the cause. He
came home with bag of candy and
his mother asked him where he got it
He explained that he spent his nickel
for it. But why didn't you give it to
the Sunday SCHOOL," asked his moth
err At didn't hat to- explained the
youngster- 'aThe teacher met me al
the door and got me in free"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01

his three score and ten years and eight
years more. And his life was. not one
alone OF prolific himself. as seems to
be the case with a few of our multi
millionaires. It was of large advan-
tage to his country and to the big
northwest section of it that was the
scene of his incessant and intelligent
labors. He had long been called the
empire builder" and the designation
was most apt He played a tremen-
dous part in the opening of the great
Northwest. He was pecuniarily sue
cessful for himself to measure that
comes to only the few, but he made
these gains in the achievement of a.
work that has been a boon to a null
titude. James J. Hill will go down in
the history of the nation in a place of
prominence among those who have
contributed largely to its development.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
$320,OOO,OOO loss

Washington, June Charges that
approximately 100000 is being
annually withheld from the treasury
by income tax frauds and evasions
were made today before the house
committee on treasury department eX-
penditures by Basil NJ. Manley, form
erly connected with the industrial re-
lations committee.
The committee took up resolution
by Representative Heating, directing
Secretary McAdoo to furnish the house
with a statement of facts.
Secretary McAdoo in a letter sub
mitted to the committee today said
the treasury was making every effort
to collect all dues. Mr.. Manley's es-
Inmates. the secretary suggested, were
promised on the assumption that the
gross income of 1914 was S46,000,000-
900 instead of s2o,o0O,oO0,o0O as Of
ficially estimated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Next to salvation, probably the
greatest institution is suspenders.
Occasionally someone puts over old
nonsense disguised as New Thought,
Still, if everybody agreed about
everything, it would be hard to place
a bet.
If you don't talk too much. people
are apt to regard you as a thoughtful
person.
Don't be too easily discouraged. but,
on the other hand, don't be too bull
headed
Perhaps she is called the eternal
feminine" because it takes her SO long
to get ready.
No day is so long that an enterpris-
ing farmer won't find occasion to use
his lantern.
A fat woman extracts some con-
ISOLATION from the fate of some other
woman who is fatter.
An optimist is a man who has both
feet cut off, and who is glad he isn't
troubled with corns.
No man can thoroughly enjoy a
meal where he doesn't know which
fork or spoon to use next.
There is also the sort of young men
who are willing to begin at the top of
the business and work down.
While a woman finds considerable
fault with the men, her hottest shots
are reserved for other women.
You can figure on having some enc
mics. if you have much of anything
else, but don't devote too much time
to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
ALso. A WISE Old GUARD.

Stories emanating from anti-Roose-
Welt sources suggest that the Old
Guard of the Republican is another Of
those Old Guards of song and story
that dies but never surrenders."
They are to the effect that the Re
publican Old Guard will never accept
Colonel Roosevelt as the presidential
candidate of the Republican national
convention But these stories are of
the thing variety. The Old Guard
of the Republican party hasn't been
telling anybody during the past few
weeks what it will do or won't do at
the Chicago convention. This Old
Guard is as wise as it is brave. 1t car
not afford to take a presidential can
didate of a "pig-in-the-poke" variety.
So where else can it turn but to
Roosevelt, if it is keen to win victory
on election day and if 1t is anxious
to have the Republican party march
into the presidential campaign and
against the common enemy with a
united front, or with its normal
strength, which would include the A.
100000 votes that followed the colonel
into the Progressive party four years
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
THE DAFFODILS

A long row of bright yellow 'daffo-
dis nodded in the warm sunshine.
They were very young to be standing
up so straight and tall. for they had
bloomed only that very morning.
Isn't this a beautiful world ?" said
one; AL sunshine and brightness and
warmth
beautiful" said another land so
different from what L expected
Different" asked a third. How
different"
Don't you remember the raindrops
who used to visit us in the ground ?"
said the tall daffodil who had spoken
second. They told US nothing about
the sunshine and the warmth. They
did not even hint about the bright
ness of the world. I expected to find
the sky gray and cold and the ground
wet and soppy. 1 was sure 1 knew
what the world was like" She shook
her golden head thoughtfully. But
didn't
A soft little laugh echoed round
the daffodil row.
"Ahi" whispered Mrs. South Wind
(for it was she who had laughed,
shine, O course they could not tell
you about it, They never see the
SUM-"
Never see the SUM-" exclaimed the
whole row of daffodils. why, the
sun is. all Overt How can they help
seeing it? The sun is everywhere,
all the time-we know that, for we
can see iti''
The kind south wind laughed softly
and whispered, wait and sect Wait
and seei Wait and see," And then
she slipped away.
While she was gone, the daffodils
were so busy looking around the yard
and learning about this wonderful
world, that they failed to notice the
clouds that were piling up in the sky
till-an of a sudden, it seemed to them
the sun disappeared.
"Ohr cried the daffodils (and. to
tell the truth, they were much fright
enedD, "the world is endingi The
sun has gone."
Nothing like that" whispered the
East Wind kindly. 4 did not mean to
brighten you. 1 am only bringing a
shower. Turn your faces down and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
And how does it happen that some

And how does it happen that some
of the Republican political wiseacres
already on the job at Chicago are so
clever as to be able to set up an array
of delegate figures which count Col
onel Roosevelt out of the Republican
presidential nomination and not suf-
ficiently clever to count some other
candidate in as the nominee. The
truth of the matter is the wish is the
father of the thought just now with
those who are laboring so Industrious
ly to demonstrate that Colonel Roose-
welt will not under any circumstances
be given the Republican presidential
nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
EJECT CLUB WOMEN
Exciting Time at Federation Meeting
Officers Elected.

New York June by a two-thirds
majority the federation voted to at
filiate with the National Council of
Women, which in turn is a member
of the International Council of Wo-
men.
Several women were elected from
the meeting because of their protests
when they weer denied the right to
vot on this question. The off1cers
elected included:
Presidet, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles,
Los Angeles.
First vice president, Miss George A.
Bacon, Worcester, Mass.
Second vice president, Mrs. Eugene
Kelley, Charlotte, N. c.
Recording secretary, Mrs. Carrie A.
Mcfarland, South Dakota.
= Corresponding secretary Mrs. Fran
els D. Everett of Illinois.
Treasurer Ono choice, directors to
elect tomorrow
Auditor, Mrs. w. P. Harper OF the
state of WASHINGTON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
MASTER BUILDERS.

There are masterful men who build
up and destructive men who tear
down, writes John A. Sleicher in
Leslie's. The man who can tear down
is not as proud of his work as the
man who can build up. There are
employers who know how to build up
a business, to choose competent
heads of departments, to decide on
workable plans for efficiency and for
the expenditure of additional capital
proftably. From the humblest places
at the work bench, these men develop
with marvellous celebrity. They gradu-
ate to the foremanship, 10 the super
intendency and finally to the head of
their own business and are honored
sometimes with a place among the
captains of industry. Nearly every
great business institution in this
country has at it's head a man who
began at the foot. The richest man
in the United States began as clerk in
country store at 81 a week. The
grhmbler complains that such things
cannot happen now. They are hap
pening all the time. Current news
dispatches report that, at the age of
] forty-seven, Mr.. T. E. Wilson has been
placed at the head of the firm of Sulz-
berger & Sons Company in New York
at a salary of s150,00O a year which
will be doubled by other emoluments.
Yet he began as messenger in the
establishment at SO a week. All of
his success occurred in the brief pc
riod of about thirty years. from boy
hood to middle age. Mr.. Theodore N.
Vail. the head of the American Tele-
! graph and Telephone company, says
that he is looking every day for men
fitted for $4,000 a year positions.
Never before were finer opportunities
presented for wide-awake, energetic.
industrious, constructive young men
to make their mark. The world is al
ways looking for the man who can
build. It pays little attention to the
one who can tear down. Strange, in
deed, 1t is that so much attention is
paid by the credulous to dcmagogues,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
Household Hints
The Table.


Potato '"Trifles"-Into a saucepan
pour one cup milk, add one tablespoon
melted butter and when milk reaches
boiling point add one-fourth cup flour
that has been thoroughly blended with
two tablespoons cold water. Add two
well-beaten eggs and stir rapidly three
minutes. Into mixture place three
boiled potatoes and continue stirring
until potatoes are thoroughly mashed.
Season with one teaspoon salt, half
teaspoon paprika and one tablespoon
minced parsley. Have ready a deep
pan of boiling fat. Take up a potato
mixture, one tablespoon at time.
drop into fat and fry ten minutes.
Turn potatoes occasionally, but lift
them gently while doing so in order to
prevent the ''trifles'' breaking.
Salad-Chop one small head c3b-
bage into dice, mix well with one
fourth teaspoon salt and any desired
salad dressing. Hard boil four eggs,
separate white from yolks after they
are thoroughly cooled. Chop separate
ly and add a pinch of salt to each,
being careful not to mix or mash
them. Arrange a lettuce leaf on each
tablespoon of cabbage salad, then a
good big teaspoon of the chopped
whites, then the smaller spoonful of
the yolks on top, cone shape. Sprinkle
Just n dash of cayenne pepper over
all. This will serve six people and is
very pretty.
Chocolate Cream-Two cups scald-
ed milk, five tablespoons cornstarch,
one-half cup sugar, one-fourth tea
spoon salt, one-third cup cold milk
1 u squares bitter chocolate, three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01

door, still holding the discolorec hit
of paper in her hand.
SAM" she called. Sam, wait a
minutei"
But Sam didn't herr; at least he
did not halt.
SAINT" she called again. And, so
running and calling, she reached the
peach tree at the same instant that
Betty's grandfather stepped up and
shook his fist under Hartley's nose.
Look here, Sam Martini she cried
excitedly. Il found g-andfather's last
will up in the old chest, and Tom AMI
II have a right to two-thirds of your
money. I'm going to give my share to
these two lambs this minute, and
there's going to be a wedding at my
house about tomorrow or 1 miss my
guess. There. nowi You just step
along back home out of my way, will
you? I've got some things to talk
over with Harley and Betty before
lunch,"-(Copyrigh 1915, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
OUR WORTHLESS SUBMARINES.

Possibly the H which is used to
designate some of Uncle Sans SUBJ
marines is also the one that stands for
hoodoo. At any rate, the submersible,
H-3, that is one of the curious parts
of the U. S. navy, has run amuck again
along the California coast. Not SO long
ago it tried to leave the water and
make an overland trip, and it made
a pretty good start by climbing a lot
of rocks on the shore. The other day
it went careening around in the vicini-
ty of the Mare Island Navy yard, hit
ting a cruiser, fouling a dyke and
finally nesting in mudbank. Why
not scrap all of our defective sub
marines and replace them with real
ones? All of the money that is ex-
pended from time to time in overhaul
ing the former appears to be little bet
ter than wasted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
PEACE MOODS AND PROSPECTS

Reports come in a round about
way from Berlin that Germany is now
in a mood to welcome overtures
through neutrals, the United States,
possibly preferred, for the bringing
about of peace in Europe. And these
same reports also contain the informa-
ton that Kaiser Wilhelm is of the
firm conviction that Germany and the
Central Powers have already won the
war. But if it is fact that Germany
is in a mood for peace, doesn't it
mean rather that Germany sees the
handwriting of eventual defeat on the
wall Perhaps the Kaiser wants the
neutrals to step in now as referees to
decide the winner of the war on
points. On such basis Germany and
her allies might be entitled to a vic
tory. They have landed the most and
heaviest punches to date. But fight
isn't won until one of the parties TO it
is knocked out, unless it be limited
round affair. And of course the Euro
pean war isn't such go" and the
Entente Allies are decidedly still in
the ring. So the fight will go on until
the latter are victorious, or so COM
pletely whipped that they are willing
to throw up the sponge, to quit. And
they are hardly of that mind now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01

tablespoons hot water, white OF three
eggs, one teaspoon vanilla; mix corn
starch, sugar and salt: dilute with cold
milk; add to scalded milk and cook
over hot water ten minutes. stirring
constantly until thickened; melt
chocolate, add hot water, stir until
smooth, and add to cooked mixture;
add whites of eggs beaten stiff and
vanilla. Mold and chill and serve
with cream.
Salads.
Cauliflower-Soak the cauliflower
in sailed water an hour; cook in boil
ing sailed water until tender; drain
and chill; then sprinkle with French
dressing and set aside for half an
hour. Sever the flowerets partly
frorl the stalk, but SO as not to change
their relative positions, and place on
a serving dish; put heart leaves of let
tuce between the flowerets and about
the base of the vegetable; pour a cup
of mayonnaise dressing over the
whole and sprinkle with pimentos or
fine-chopped parsley. In serving sep
arate the flowerets with sharp
knife.
Tomato Salad With Horseradish
Dressing-Plunge the tomatoes,
placed in a wire basket, into a Kettle
of hot water; remove at once and rub
off the skin; chill thoroughly and cut
in halves. Serve on lettuce leaves
with a star of cream dressing sea-
soned with grated horseradish on top
of each slice.
Celery and Nut Salad-Cut fine
tender stalks of celery and English
walnuts and mix with French dress
ing. Garnish the center of the salad
and the border with tender leaves of
lettuce and bits of curled celery.
Asparagus and Salmon Salad
Mix cold cooked salmon with mayon-
naise, form in a mound and encircle
with a wreath of cold cooked aspara-
gus tips dressed with French dressing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
On the Spur
of the Moment
The Cold Gray Dawn
By ROY K. MOCLTON.


When you rise from your bed
With terrible head,
And your tongues like shredded wheat
When your feeling at first
Is fire engine thirst,
And you have no desire to eat;
When your brains in a reel
And you're sure that you feel
The floor of your bedroom rock;
When the walls seem to sway
In an uncertain way,
Ant you're sure it's an earthquake
shock;
When you're cold and then hot,
And you really do not
Know just where you hid your shoes;
When your hair stands end
And refuses to bend,
Though plenty of lard you use;
When your fingers are thumbs
And your dome of thought huns
Like saw in a lumber mill;
When your features all hurt
And you can't find your shirt,
And the furniture won't stand still;
Though you may not confess,
1t is easy to guess,
And really no sort of chore;
You can surely depend
You were with no sick friend
When you sat p the night before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
PEACE BY NOVEMBER?
triumphant Demonstration Before
Election, SAYS Secretary Baker.

Election, Says Secretary Baker.
Cleveland, June before election
there will be a triumphant demon
stration" of the value of the Wilson
administration moral neutrality, Sec
rotary of War Baker told 200 Cleve-
land Democrats.
Coupled with a statement that every
warning nation is actively working
toward peace, Secretary Bakers pre-
diction was taken to mean he believes
peace will come before November
Secretary Baker urged his hearers,
members of the Tom L. Johnson club,
to work for the reelection of Wilson
as an apostolic" duty.
The statements Of the secretary
were understood to foreshadow what
he will say Thursday when he delivers
the keynote speech of the Wilson cam
paign before the state Democratic
convention at Columbus
"Today. with every nation looking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
Journal Entries

Altogether too much is taken for
granted in this old world.
= +
1t is sad but true that business
never seems very dull with the under
takers.
Did truth come as easy as false
hoods, there'd be more of it floating
around.
Most people realize that life is
short and yet they are mighty care
less about wasting it.
= +
Men and women who are overly
sensitive to criticism are usually in
exceedingly untenable positions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01

Germany's distinguished emperor Is
riding on the street cars in the same
plebeian fashion that his less distin-
guished subjects do. But the fact re-
mains that Kaiser Wilhelm doesn't
have to travel around in this manner
II he doesn't care to, while the only
alternative of most of his subjects
would be hoofing it. In other words
the ruler of Germany, when he takes
his street car trips, is merely doing a
little grandstanding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
CAN'T RUN MOTOR CAR
German Authorities Refuse Gerard a
Supply of Petrol.

Amsterdam, June lowing to the
scarcity of petrol, the German au-
thorities have practically stopped the
use of motor cars even by neutral
diplomats. Ambassador Gerard applied
to the foreign office for permission to
buy enough petrol for one car for
three months.
The request was refused with a curt
statement that the German military
auhtroities did not feel in position to
grant the supply. even to the Amer
lean amhaSS dor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01
0'NEIL IN THE RACE
Former Commissioner Announces for
Office of County Attorney.

Ed L. O'Neill is candidate for
Judge of the court of Topeka to sue
coed Hugh Fisher. He announced to-
day that he is a candidate for the
Republican nomination and that he
will make a campaign for the place.
The only other avowed candidate
for the Republican nomination is Rad
Lee, now an assistant county attorney
under w. E. Atchison