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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-25

man. what does that signify:" Moth
ing, 1 suppose "Of course it signifies
nothing. There are medals for the near
great.'-Birmingham Age-Hera1d.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
Modern Maqic.

Industrial chemistry must be a fascinating business. It is like
some kind of magic. Germany runs out of nitric acid. The mill.
tary authorities need 1t in the manufacture of high explosives; so
they call in an industrial chemist, he waves his magic wand, and,
presto, he takes nitric acid in unlimited quantities from the air. The
war stops the shipment of dyes to this country; but the cotton
a few passes, and produces the most brilliant dyes, "synthet-
ically."
1t Is marvellous, and one of its greatest marvels is the recent
discovery Of 'bakelte." John A. Craig tells of it in the Worlds
W0rH; Camphor had gone up in price. A business house calls on
Lee Hendrick Baekeland, an industrial chemist, and says; make
us a substitute for camphor, something that looks, smells and acts
IKE It, but that is cheaper" He goes to work, experimenting, and,
IN the course of his work, puts carbolic acid and formalehyde to-
gether in a glass and pOurs in a little hydrochloric acid to heat it
Sizzles with intense heat, then settles down and gradually hariens
INTO a substance that hasn't a trace of either of the three chemicals
IN IT, out Is an entirely new material, the like of which does not
exist anywhere on earth unless made Just that way:
Who could be so rash in imagination as to dream that bvl
merely combining those three liquids one would get a solid harder
tnan glass that cannot be melted in the hottest fire known To
science; that is so strong that n short piece of it an inch thick will
sustain a weight of three tons; that is odorless, transparent and
Is not affected by oils, steam, water or any chemical.
If a man had performed that feat of black magic in the oldenI
times. the feat of mixing three liquids together and forming a solid
chunk like that, they would either have burned him at the stake
as a wizard, or made him a king. All they did to Baekeland in,
this day of flying machines and wonders in chemistry, was to give
him a medal.
But it brought him a fortune, for several great factories have
oeen built TO make things of his discovery. He named his new
substance but that was too
difficult, and business renamed it "bakelite." Before the substance
.hardens it is nodded into cigar and cigaret holders, pipe steps.
receivers, steering wheels for motor cars, combs, knife handles
lnsulators and a thousand other things. 1t threatens to supplant
cellulold and hard rubber for many uses, as it is odorless, cannot
burn and is cheaper.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

few examples of the type were built years ago, thus afFording long
time tests-some of them covering a period of ten years. However,
experience with separate. types of roads has shown that in the
case Of country roads subjected to horse and motor traffic, asphalt
macadalm makes an ideal wearing surface, while it has also been
demonstrated that no foundation material exceeds concrete in
durability and strength. Hence the combination not only makes
for efficiency, but low initial cost and minimum maintenance. The
latter important economies are obtained through %simplifed meth
DDS OF construction and by reducing the quantities of cement and
asphalt required for separate types of road, but without sacri-
nee OF stability and satisfactory service. Thus there is available
at last a permanent road of approximately the cost of waterbound
macadam, a type of highway that will become still cheaper when
methods of construction are thoroughly standardized. These
roads, with their attractive and elastic asphalt wearing surfaces,
sharply defined curb lines and u~nyielding concrete foundations,
will become the rule, once the public learns of their low initial
cost, No desirable feature of any other type of road has been
eliminated. The composite road cannot be transformed into mud
or dust. No boulevard or park road presents a more even and at
tractive surface. Its adoption will simplify matters for the engi-
neer and contractor, making good results more certain, but most
important is the saving to the taxpayer through greatly reduced
initial cost and low maintenance.
This state has the stone 1t can obtain asphalt and cement at
the prices paid by the Michigan county, and the composite road
should be adopted as the standard type of construction.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
Tra0eI as n Factor.

WHILE 1t is travel that wears out a road. very few people have
an idea of the actual amount of travel on any given highway. Lo
cal officials sometimes report that travel is heavy on a road when
not more than half e dozen light vehicles pass a given point an
hour. Sometimes they will report travel as light, when, as a
matter of fact, the roads are being torn to pieces by a few heavy
trucks engaged in continuous service on the roads.
This travel is really y very important factor among the con-
ditiOns that govern the proper choice of the type of construction
for a road. For instance. there was a %weH-known road IN Massa-
chusetts which was put in a condition that served admirably for
the quite numerous carriages and automobiles then using ii. One
summer it was noticed that it was going to pieces rapidly and the
reason was sought. Finally. by making twenty -four-h hour counts
Of all the users of the roads. it was found that very heavy wagons
had recently been put on the road to haul ice. Such travel re-
quired a modification in the construction of the road, which was
made when repairs became necessary and resulted in returning
the road to its satisfactory condition.
As no really satisfactory planning Of roads can be done with.
out definite knowledge Of the use made Of them H'eny of the chill
dTen in the country schools of Illinois are now being trained to
make enumerations Of the vehicles on roads IN their nuighborhood
under their teachers direction, and the counts are sent t. the road
officials. Intelligent youths make excellent travel counters with
a little training, and local road Improvement clubs will do a very
good work if they will follow the Illinois plan and have actual
counts made of the travel on their roads. Such counts are lust
as important in road improvement as taking a mans measure in
tailoring.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
To Sa0e the Birds.

THOUSANDS Of conservationists and conservation organiza-
tons throughout the country will this year turn their attention
to the preservation of bird life. This is a result of the action of
the national conservation congress. Just adjourned in Washington
The congress is composed of representatives from the state con-
servaton commissions and state and national organizations hav-
ing conservation committees.
The conservation body passed resolutions strongly endorsing
bird protective measures, along the lines suggested by the Audi
bon societies now pending in the Congress and urged upon all dele
gates present the necessity of preserving the birds of the country
for their value in destroying pests, for their beauty and song, and
the propagation of wild fowl for food an dsport.
The congress declared, I'VE strongly favor national legisla-
ton for the better protection of wild game blythe establishment of
game sanctuares in our national forests under the plan proposed
by the Chamberlain Hayden bill now before Congress, giving game
animals a home where they may raise their young in security
from ruthless and indiscriminate slaughter, without interference
with agricultural and grazing industries and thus provide by their
natural increase, and overflow into surrounding territory, a new
food supply and also the perpetuation of legitimate sport; and to
accomplish these ends, this body now urges Congress TO enact into
law at this session the Chamberlain Hayden bill, now before the
Senate and House respectively"
The congress also went on record as recommending that suit
able provision be made by the federal Congress for the adequate
enforcement Of the federal migratory bird law and urged the peO-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
The STANDARD Road at Last.

THE AMERICAN standard road has at last been devised, and
when adopted generally it will mean relief from the uneconomc
hlt-or-niss methods attending present construction of miscellan-
eous types of roads. 1t infringes upon no patents and wipes out
the costly competition between manufacturers of road materials.
thus effecting a saving of $4,000 to $4,000 a mile in the cost of
permanent roads.
The American standard road is e~verybodys road in the sense
iHplied by the use of a single material. 1t combines the best
properties of three types of familiar roadside stone of the old
macadam road, the asphalt of the bituminous macadam road, and
the Portland cement of the concrete road.
The stone, of course, is throughout. The cement is used for n
concrete foundation and the natural asphalt for an asphalt ma
cadam wearing surface. Thus each material is confined to the
purpose to which it is best adapted.
Monroe county, Mich, is building forty miles of the new tyne
OF road for less than $1,000 a mile. And this price includes a six
inch concrete curb at the sides of the fveinch concrete base. The
specifications also call for a twO-inch Bermudez or natural asphalt
macadam wearing surface, so as to insure a resilient and lasting
top adapted to both horse and motor traffic. The Michigan road
viii cost $4,000 a mile less than an allcOncrete road. The price
of the latter, according to the latest announcement of the Portland
Cement Association, Is now $4,000 a mile.
But the Michigan road was not devised as an experiment A
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
A Law That Honors Heroism.

=. WHEN Roger Waters, a workman employed by a building
foundation company, went to the rescue of an employee of another
company who was buried in a cavein, he voluntarily risked his
life and was killed, He did not wait for orders. Nothing in his
contract required him to try to save the other man. He was brave
and generous by instinct, and he acted from a natural sense of
duty to his fellows. And he lost his life.
In unfolding the award made by the WorRmens Compensa-
ton Commission for Waterss death, the court of appeals took the
Just and reasonable view. Waters did what every employer in
the circumstances would look for his men to do. The emergency
prompted him to render aid in n way that a self-respecting en-
poyer should praise and gladly reward, not condemn out of selfish.
regard for his own pocket.
There is a growing disposition on the part of the courts to be
more humane in their Interpretation of laws for the protection of
workmen. In former days 1t would have been sufficient to prove
that Waters did not come to his death through the negligence of
MS employment. On that theory it would be necessary to look for
carried the insurance that his fatal injuries did not result from
his employment, On that tehory it would be necessary to look for
%cowardice, not heroism Of selfsacrifce, from workmen facing
danger. because their employers demanded it.
The court Of appeals makes short work of that supposition.
ut is uncomfortable that any employer should expect or direct his
employees to stand still while the life of u felow-workman a few
feet away was imperiled.' 1t takes account of human nature. 1t
recognizes the moral responsibilities assumed by men working side
by side, it iustifes them and holds them up to employers who seek
TO evade the law as admirable and praiseworthy.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
Forest Affected.

WITH BIDS for furnishing wire to the forest service recently
advanced forty-fve per cent and with prices on other equipment
considerably increased, material curtailment of the program for
telephone line construction on the national forests this summer is
said to be in prospect. There are over 10000 miles of telephone
line was planned for the coming season.
A certain amount Of wire is required also for upkeep. since
the lines are peculiarly subject to breakage from falling trees and
similar causes. Every spring the forest rangers have to get the
lines in order in preparation for the fire season and although, to
lessen the effects of accident, the wires are mostly run on swinging
insulatOrs suspended from the trees, there are in the aggregate a
large number of repairs to be made.
Notwithstanding the number of telephone lines already built,
large areas are still without means of communication and conse-
quenty lacking in proper equipment for fire protection. Not only
are the telephones used by the forest officers, but they are a great
convenience to the public. Very often, it is said, they enable
Isolated settlements to have a means of communication which they
could secure in 10 other way.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
SANCTUM
VAUDEVILLE

"a kiss is nothing divided by two"
Bah! That's old stun. A kiss Is
two divided by nothing Lester.
%
The dentist told me I had a large
cavity that needed filling.
Did he recommend any special
course Of study?-Puck.
Jlnks-she's decidedly against WV
isoction.
Jenks-I found 1t out the minute;
tried to open my heart to her
Club Fellow.
Angler lin deep water)-Helpi
Help! 1 can't swim!
Country gentleman Con shore)-t
can't neither. but / amt hOllerin'
about it.-Harper's Magazine.
Little Lemuel-say. paw, what is
a statesman?
Paw-A statesman, son is a politi-
clan who knows a bandwagon when be
sees indianapolis Star.
Good morning. little one. Haven't
had the pleasure Of meeting you
before?"
IT'S quite likely. l used to be a
nurse in the insane asylum
Judge.
Bacon-Don't you think that man
Hambone is resourceful.
Egbert-Why so?
81 saw him today trying to eat
spaghetti through a sieve. "-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
I'VE dined out last night. Pa dis
graced us as usual"
How was that?"
"He got to the end Of the dinner
with three forks and two spoons still
unused. Boston Transcript.
THAT parrot Of theirs! Why it rat
ties off all the gossip of the neighbor-
hood!"
YES. When it was learning to
talk they forgot to take It out Of the
room the day the sewing society
met. "-Browning's Magazine.
The teacher-So DelIlah cut Samp-
sons hair and all his strength went
out of him. Now, when did Samson's
strength go out Of him. You may
answer. Willie.
WillIe-T guess II wuE when no
seen himself In tn glass.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

amounts when the occasion, to our
notion, seems to demandl
Though we as a people are
wasteful, yet every little while we
are told OF a use that is found for
something formerly considered a
waste product. 1t has been demon
strated by the bureau of chemistry
Of the Agricultural department that
the kernels OF cherry pits yield an
oil, very much like almond oil,
worth 40 cents a pound; and a vola-
tile oil like that of bitter almonds
that could be used in making per-
fumes and favoring extracts, worth
about $40 a pound; what is left
would make a meal for stock feed
like cottohsced cake, worth about
$40 a ton. The juice that Is wasted
in pitting the cherries could be
used in making table syrup, jelly
and alcohol.
Three and ono half millions tons
Of cherry pits are thrown away
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
PAPA
CAN'T COUNT
HIS FLOCK
At Age of 81, He Has Twenty
-Four Children, the Youngest
Three Years Old.

WHITESBURG, Ky, June H.
Folk in the neighborhood of Rock
house Creek. near here. claim the
acquaintance Of the champion father
in the country.
Uncle Bob" Bates Is n~inety-one
years old and the father Of twenty
four children.
The oldest is ffty-four, the young
est three.
Uncle Bob's" descendants number
we'll owe 100. Some say there are
that many grandchildren alone, not
counting the Observation-Disclosures OF
the great-great grandkiddies, OF
whom there are at least ten.
Uncle Bob" confesses he can't
count his flock. outside his W chill
dren.
"Lor, man. ask me something
easy" he pleaded when the subject
came up.
And He Rules the Home.
Thirteen children still live at the
home. The other eleven are married
and their families are scattered, '.IJn-
Gle" Bob" has been married twice.
At home this venerable Kentucky
father is stlll unquestioned master.
His policies are the households.
Here are some Of his rules and
policies about rearing children;
1T don't pay to pamper young.
uns.
Bring children up to respect you
Continued on page 5. first section.)
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
SKETCHES OF LITTLE "
Up NEWs y .. ! oRK
Eu' RSSms 121I2s HotG Majestic. West ssysnty-seosnt
9Tssa

NEW YORK. June 17.-Morgan
Kingston. the Metropolitan tenor,
was warbling an aria from "Pagliac-
ci." In his suite in the Majestic the
other morning. Down in the street
n group Of gPd-shiEted overhauled
Italians were putting down a new
roadway.
As the golden notes loatcd Town
to them. n stocky little son Of sun
ny It. with a mustache that would
have won fame for a melodrama VII
liam, cupped his ear and listened.
Then he laid down his pipe on the
fresh earth, cleared his throat and
Joined in the song.
His voice carried above the din OF
traffic and brought diners to the win
dows. while the policeman on the
corner stopped traffic. All the while
the laborer sung oblIvlous to his sur
rounding and evidently dreaming OF
his beloved Venice.
When he finished he was applaud
ed and %blushlng he returned to his
digging rs the great tenor looked out
the window and waved to him. The
foreman came along and glowered
savagely.
Them Ginnies." he said. know
all the opera airs. Sometimes this
runt sings and the rest OF them stop
and tears come TO their eyes. Funny
guys-these daGoes."
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

each season at the factories in this
country where cherries are canned.
This would make 200 tons Of the
fixed oil, worth $4,000; 5000
pounds OF the volatile oil, worth
10000 and $50 tons Of meal worth
$4,000, a toal Of $4,000 besides
more than 5000 gallons OF pure
alcohol; 1000 gallons Of syrup or
$4,000 gallons OF jelly that could
be made from the wasted juice.
Every wage Garner should un-
derstand how systematic saving,
though in small sums amounts up.
More than 8 in every ten or BIB
per cent Of males in the United
States, ten years and over were en-
gagged IN gainful occupations last
year. National statistics list the
workers as follows: 30,Ooi ,564 men;
S,075,772 women; LOOPS children
10 to is years, or over 1872 per cent
OF that group age, making a total
OF 40,l57,s6l. II each OF these
wage earncrs saved a dime a day IL
would amount to Si,465, 50 a
year. Or If each saved a dime a
week the total would be S20SsIo.-
3l7.0. A dime a month saved
would amount to $4S, 1872 03.20 in
a year. And only a dime a year
would total the sum Of $4,0ls, 7s0l0
in ono year.
If each wage Garner in the United
States saved one dime a day from
the time he first began to work
and invested it what a valuable an
nuity he would have to fall back on
when he could no longer work! It
is the small savings OF a large num-
Der that make a nation rich.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
o. o. McINTYRE

witness the Shakespeare masQue the
other evening, a distinguished look
Ing stranger tainted.
Who is he?" was the question on
every side.
a wag. who had been reading the
text OF the masque with the aid Of a
pocket electric light, overhead the
question.
Probably William Shakespeare"
was his answer.
Nellie, Rovelle. queen OF the
Broadway press agents. has written
a play and not only that, It will be
produced with scenery and every
thing. For some time Miss Reyelle
has been planning a knockout drama.
Between writing pieces for city edi-
tors about other plays she found ma
terial and believes the new endeayor
VIII be a real dramatic wallop-tbe
kind that makes 'em hold to the
chairs and swallow their chewing
gum. Zowie!
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

A four-year-old child is generally
twice as tall as it was at the time
Of birth.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
A Morning Motto.

A MAN cannot speak, but he judges himself. With his will or
against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions
by every word-EmerSon.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

pie Of every state to recognize the public necessity and ~benefcient
effects of this law and by eliminating local and selfish interests
uniting in sustaining a law so obviously for the public good.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT
By s. W. STRAUs
RtEiatnf Amtriean Ssahb q, Thrift

Ameri al
exuayaganee
b e comes q
very real and
vital thing
when we con-
slider that we
squander in
this country
eight billion
dollarsayear.
Think Of IL!
Eight billion
dollars year
-hereaiittle,
there a little
-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

-
water wagon? The New York bacter-
water wagon? The New York buster-
ioligists who devote themselves to
soaring the daylIEhts out Of the uI-
innate bacteria consumer. have an
nOunced that soda water as II is now
drunk is n menace.
They declare that every time n
sundae gourmand dips a spoon into
his favorite waistline e4plOder he IA
on the well-knOwn brink OF the eter-
nal with n spoon In the grave, in
the manner Of speaking.
The danger lies In the fact that the
clerks. as discovered by the bacterIa
hounds. very frequently do not rinse
the glass or dish in cold water, then
in hot water with cleansing powder.
As a result the monument work.
ers are clipping away gaily at their
task night and day aud coffin and.
hearse, preferred. has become a soda
water baby. In fact, the safest way
for the soda water Upper is to boil
himself In oil, fry the utensils and
Inject the delicacy into his arm,
When the shooting gallery vi
opened on Broadway near Longacre
Square everybody laughed at the moor
boob proprietor. What did he think
New York was anyway, KeokukP The
proprietor is having his little private
chortie de luxe now.
His business has so hOurished that
unless you IN his friend you have
to stand in line. It Is not prepared
ness stun. It's Just rubes. The.
same kind OF a gallery wouldn't make
gas light expenses out in the corn
belt-and on broadway, dear Broad
way. Il Is making a man a million
afro. Ho, humi sois
49, ...a \, ~ s,.a A..
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In The crowd At The stadium to
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18

CONTINUED on page 5. first sectiOn.J
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-23

There will be a meeting for the pur-
pose of recognizing Gen. Candy w. r.
C. No. 25, Saturday, Dec. End, 1916, at
the I. o. o. F. hall at $3.50 p. m. All
members and those interested in pat
riotic work are requested to be pres
emit.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-23

Another big Fox, Theda Bara in
Destruction a five act drama Friday,
Nov. "a. We have been told by movie
fans that our last Fox was the best
photoplay they have Q See this
one for 10 and Is cents.--Adv.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-23

Sermon subjects at the Presbyterian
church, Nov. 26. 1890 a. m. "The
Testimony Of Jesus Christ to the
Bible" 1880 p. m. Branded With the
Marks Of the Lord Jesus" Always a
cordial welcome to all.