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The Washington times., 1916-01-18

Commissioner oliver p. Newman.
speaking before the Monday Evening
Club last evening in the Y. M. c. A..
assembly hall. urged that the estab-
lishment of social centers I'm schools be
not made dependent upon the philan-
thropy of few public spirited citizens" I"
Though the use of schools ultimately
should be provided for by Congress. he
said. in the meantime he advised citi-
zens' associations to finance the enter
prises to give practical and effective
demonstrations" to members of Con-
Henry p. Blair. president Of the
Board OF Education. described the new
Park View School as "a workable COM
binntion of the old town hall and the
modern school. containing everything
TO make 1t as useful in the evening to
ADULTS as It is in the daytime to chill
dren."
Edward ]. Ward. introduced as the
grandfather of the school sociQl center
idea said he came. not as q Professor
or as an expert. but "as something
more definite and to the point. a member
OF the Park View Citizens Association" "
Equipment Important.
Prof. Ward. formerly Of the University
of Wisconsin. now connected with the
United States Bureau of Education.
urged that too great emphasis be not
placed on buildings and equipment. He
said the keynote of the success OF a
wider use OF schools depended upon en-
Haging an expert secretary. or com
munity hired man.. who would see to il
thht things keep happening in the
school buildings"
Miss Margaret Wilson was to have
neon speaker. but was not present
because OF the regent operation which
she Underwent
Walter S. Ufford. president of the
club. turned over the meeting to
George f. Bowcrman, chairman OF the
committee on a wider use Of schools
In arguing that the way to a wider
use OF the schools lay through the
citizens associations, Commissioner
| Newnlan paid a high tribute to the
| civic spirit of Washington.
The commissioner explained that In
| other cities the interest was at white
neat at election time, and waned the
| rest or the year. When aroused, hC
| said, ii centeTed about candidates
rather than about issues.
Interest Always Alive.
5Iere. he said, conditions were such
that the interest was alive throughout
the year and 1t had to find expression
in things, not i'm persons
When he and commissioner SiddJns
| lhow, Justice SiddOnsI entered office
| ne Said. they decided TO go right ahead
| as II this was a'democratic community
I.instead OF an absolute monarchy" III
| said they found the citizens associa.
tions the most effective channel OF
| community EXPRESSION.
| Commissioner Newman. rs we'll al
: Mr.. Blair. dwelt upon the plans Cor Tho
new Park View School. The Comrris
| sioner brought copies of the plans Will
| him. and explained i'm detail the poiEt.
IN construction designed to encourage
II wish TO renew one pledge" Mar
! Newman said: that ! shall never nlIt
| my nam. tn plans for a school build
Ing. which docs not have an assembly
hall"
| Mr.. Blair cited the many buildings
| which had been built without reference
The Washington times., 1916-01-18
French ZOuapeS Go
Into Battle as Band
Plays Martial Airs
Regiment Refuses to Accept DEGREES of Modern War
And Takes Company of Musicians With 1t
in Every Campaign Sing of Foe
y of Former Wars.

Following fifth instaIlment of william Shepherds
story allied from Serbia The prev
on nstaent experiences of party of Amer
correspondents the French front in Serbia
just before the retreat actually began.
The Washington times., 1916-01-18
May Offer Bonuses.

II was the 4.SOO-acre maximum of area
that caused the big protest from the
Barnsdall forces. They saw prospect nf
having their immens. holding Of $4,000
acres cut 20 a paltry 4.SOO. The regula-
tions were made, however. 10 permit the
continuance of the leases in which
BRrusdull was a partner. without Af-
--,tinE this 4,sOO maximum. On this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
On the Spur
of the Moment
RY ROW " MOIiTToN
Dad.
BY ROY X. MOULTON.

DaQ.
Dad is an old-fashioned sport;
Has no manners of the court;
Likes to eat in his shirt sleeves
Every meal, and he believes
He should say just what he thinks,
Spite of mothers nudge and winks.
He is not well versed in Greek;
Plain old Yankee does he speak;
And his rules of etiquette
They have not been published yet.
You can always hear him chew;
Drinks out of his saucer, too,
And he doesn't mind a bit
When you call him down for it.
Takes old fashioned remedy
For what ails him. Says that he
Can't see much in this new thought,
Though, of course, he ought
He's not very long ON style,
And he wears no fine silk tile.
Interest in art to him
Is naught but a silly whim.
Hes more more taken taken up Win h GOES
Polish is not in his line,
But, I'll tell you, friends of mine,
When I'm lookin' for V,
Dad looks mighty good to me-
Uncle Abner.
There is one good thing about be-
ing a prohibitionist. A prohibitionist
is never disappointed in the outcome
of the presidential election
The railroad that runs through
Hickeyville buys a ham every year,
and that is enough to supply the ham
sandwiches along the line.
Kickin' on the street car service is
the oldest form of amusement in this
country.
Any husband who lets his wife
make a monkey of him is not en-
titled to any sympathy and he never
gets any.
Prosperity.
1t sometimes seems a feller's got de
very meanest sort of life and it
is really not what it's cracked up
to be;
But when he comes to figger out what
he has been a-kickin' bout he
finds dat many fellers mout be
much wuss off dan he.
1t sometimes seems dat things break
bad and den Teller. he gifts mad
when he ought to be downright
glad dat dey amt any wuss.
When everything am said an done,
All has a quite a bit of fun in life
an OATS no idle pun. All mus
remember dat.
By usin quite a bit of stealth, Alive
managed to retain my health
though one small purse kin hold
my wealth and not be very fat.
Prosperity may come some day, an
if she don't all dat All say, is dat
she kin jes' stay away; AhH get
along somehow
1t always pays to smile an strive. It's
mighty good to be alive, cen
though yo' bank book does net
thrive. Dat much you mus allow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
HUGHES, THE FAvoRITE.

No matter what class of Republi-
cans are polled on presidential prefer
ences, whether they be voters of the
rank and file, delegates to conventions
or officeholders, Justice Hughes is the
preponderant choice. The Boston
Transcript recently polled 140 of the
1919 Republican senators and repre-
sentatives in the Massachusetts legis-
lature. No less than rs of them reg
istered their sentiments as favorable
to the New York jurist. Colonel
Roosevelt was second choice with a
vote Of %. This showing is particu-
larly significant because Massa-
chusetts has a couple of "favorite son"
candidates in Senator Weeks and Gov
ernor Mccall. But Mccall received
only votes and Weeks got no more
than 6. Twenty-Five of those poIIed
were noncommittal.
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KANSAS MUST LOOSEN UP.

Governor Capper's arguments to
the effect that one of the greatest
needs of Kansas is a much larger in
dustrial development are unanswer-
able. AS he asks: Why sell raw pro-
ducts at low prices, ship them east,
and buy them back in manufactured
articles at high prices which include
the freight both ways? Why not turn
the Kansas products into manufac-
tured goods made in Kansas and keep
the costs and profits of their making
at home? But Kansas will continue
to lag behind in her Industrial de-
velopment until her cities awake to
the necessity of making larger induce
ments to manufacturing concerns to
locate in them.
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d e!:!a!eq6
ssseesssAA %clanh&ranIdcn 49,
MIST FAIRIES.

The mist fairies who live in the
clouds in the sky had always heard
about the wonders of the earth.
The earth is full of flowers and
beauty the sun had told them many
a time.
Birds and happy creatures live in
the earth.' was the story the winds
were forever telling.
Rivers and forests and meadows
and hills-those are what the earth
is made Of" the big, piled-up clouds
had always said.
But not one of all these wonders
had the little fairies ever seen for
themselves. For, as you can easily
guess. they were far too little to see
much of the earth when they lived so
far. far away-high, high up in the
big. big sky.
Many time had the fairies begged
their mother cloud to take them down
to the earth, but always she had re-
piled, Not yet, Not yeti" So they
had had to be content with hearing
about, instead of seeing, these won
ders of earth.
these same fairies were when their
mother cloud announced one morning
that she was going to take them down
to earth that very night.
When the sun has gone to bed"
she whispered softly, you must hold
tight. And l will drop lower and low
er and lower till we are almost to the
earth. Then, when the morning breaks,
you may look and see all that you
have heard Of"
So, when the sun had set, all the
little mist fairies chung tight and the
mother cloud slipped lower and lower
and lower toward the earth Till the
listening fairies could hear the whisp-
ers of the trees@though they could
not see a thing, and feel the warmth
Of growing fffOQe-fhonRh
deep covered everythingi
Now" she whispered softly, I'VE
are as close as we dare go. Hold
Tight And in the morning you may
see the earth
So all the little mist fairies held
tight to the cloud and waited till the
morning.
But alas. When the morning came
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
Eu ening Chat
Keeping Promises.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

What a peace-inspiring thing it is
to receive a promise from some peo-
pie! Your mind is set at ease on
whatever subject the promise con-
Germs. You know the thing is as
good as done, and you rest secure in
the haven of their dependability.
But alasi there are other people
whose promises give you no such
feeling of security. You hope they
will fulfil them, but you are never
surprised to be told at the eleventh
hour, or, by worse chance, at the
thirteenth, that they were not able to.
Sometimes excuses and explanations
are offered, sometimes even that for
mality is dispensed with.
My Experience With Promises.
Once upon time 1 had partial
charge of keeping the headquarters
of a certain society open. The days
were divided into sections of two
hours each, and various members of
the society were pledged to look out
for the headquarters during the hours
assigned to them.
On the second day my telephone
rang frantically. The woman who
had promised to take the shift from
IL to 2 was on the telephone. 1t was
o'clock and her successor had not
arrived, nor did she come at all. She
subsequently explained that she had
been called to town. She did not say
and she had apparently made no eff
! fort to get a substitute or notify us.
Yet she seemed to feel that that post
mortem explanation wiped the slate
perfectly clean.
She Keeps Promises; She's That Kind.
During the month that we kept
our headquarters open things like that
happened again and again. On the
other hand, there were women who
made considerable sacrifices to keep
their word. What a joy it was to
look at the schedule for the day and
be able to say, I'VE needn't worry
about this forenoon. Mrs. has
it, and she will be there, or see that
someone is. She's that kind
1 am a bit afraid that some of the
opposite sex will read this with a
curled lip and say, We'll, that's all
you can expect of a woman" No,
Mr.. Misogynist, all you can expect of
some women, and of some men, too.
Performances, Not Explanation.
A business man told me that he had
dismissed a young employee who APP
peared to me the brightest and most
promising of the half dozen in his
office 1 asked him why. and he said,
Because he seems to think that an
explanation of why he didn't do
thing is just as good as getting it
done. There are times when expla-
nations are necessary, but don't want
too many of them. I want perform
ances, not excuses" To enter a mans
employ is to tacitly promise to do the
tasks he requires. Constantly sub
stituting excuses for performances lis
breaking this promise.
Beyond and above and at the heart
of the world of material things is a
world of ideals and Municipalities that
to some is more real than the tan
gible actualities. In this world a re-
spect for ones pledged word is some
thing very precious and worth sac
rificing much to keep the right to.
Abe you a citizen of this world p
protected by The Adams Newspaper
Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
Globe Sights
81 THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Flattery often flattens the flattered.
Good work is more important than
good luck.
Stealing a mans time is as bad as
stealing a ton of coal.
A woman will forgive a man for al
most anything but another woman
to tell you his troubles is apt to sing
to you.
A lot of fairly decent men are a lit
tie too slow about putting on clean
socks.
A boy appreciates company if he
feels, as is often the case, that it
means better grub.
If you had rather be imposed upon
than fight. people are likely to i'm
pose on you.
Some noted writer's split an infini-
tive occasionally. but that isn't what
makes them noted.
A lucky man is one who isn't hen
pecked until his daughter gets old
enough to attend to it.
When the outcome seems a little
discouraging. remember that Ty Cobb
used to be a bush Lacquer.
If people were content to tell ali
they know, and let 1t go at that, the
conversation might lag worse than it
does.
Sometimes a man bases his repu-
tation as disciplinarian on the fact
that the children are afraid to see him
come home at night
After a man has been cross exam
ined by his wife a few times the
able attorneys for the opposition in
court can't worry him a great deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


IFrom the Chicago Newsl
Crooked ways often lead to straight
ened circumstances.
1t isn't every client who is able to
keep his own counsel.
An engagement ring on the finger is
worth two in the pawnshop.
All things come to those who get
tired waiting and go after them.
Much happiness or misery lies with
in the circle of wedding ring.
Don't count your chickens before
they are big enough to bluff the cat
The older an actress is the more
enthusiastically she makes up for lost
time.
1t takes a woman's dearest friend to
tell her things she doesn't want to
hear.
II woman doesn't want the last
word 1t IS because she wants to keep
on talking.
No work, is so well done as that
which his satanic majesty finds for
idle hands to do.
Don't slow down on the road to
success and wait for the other fellow
to get ahead.
Many woman firmly believes what
is to be will be-and that it will be
the fault of her husband.
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Strange Charm of Desert.

A playa is a shallow, flat-floored
depression chara of valleys
having no regular drainage to the sea,
in which storm waters collect and
evaporate-a wet and dry lake 1t
may be a shallow lake or a salt-fn-
crusted mud flat.
In his description of the prehistoric
Lake Lahontan, in the Great Basin,
the late 1. c. Russell of the United
States geological survey writes:
The scenery on the larger playas
is peculiar and is usually desolate in
the extreme but is not without it's
charm. In crossing these wastes the
traveller may ride for miles over a per-
fectly level floor, with an unbroken
sky line before him and not an object
in sight to cast a shadow on the ocean
like expanse. Mirages. which may be
seen every day on these heated des-
erts, give strange fanciful forms to
the mountains and sometimes trans
figure them beyond recognition. A
pack train crossing the desert a few
miles distant may appear like some
strange caravan of grotesque beasts
fording shallow lake, the shores of
which advance as one rides away. The
monOtoDy of midday on the desert is
thus broken by elusive forms that are
ever changing and suggest a thousand
fancies which divert the attention
from the fatigues of the journey The
cool evenings and mornings in these
arid regions. when the purple shadows
of distant mountains are thrown
across the plain, have a charm that is
unknown beneath more humid skies.
and the profound stiffness of the night
in these solitudes is always impress
sive. - Overland Guidebook, Bulle-
tin 612. U. S. Geological Survey.)
MiScellaney
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04

memory of the only girl that ever
charmed me- he said as soon as he
could trust himself to speak. Il sup
pose it is always that way when a
man really loves, even if he is only
a callow office boy at the time
But why did you never let me
know?' she asked, with the same
voice that had charmed him so many
years before.
so long as you had money and
position 1 never could have told you 1
loved you," Tim said, but now it ISM
so very difficult 1t seems strange that
1 should be glad of your apparent
misfortune Perhaps 1 can do some
thing for your father if he has failed.
1t is a long time since 1 have heard of
him"
Madge looked up at him with glow
ing cheeks and sparkling eyes.
oh, l quite forgot to explain she
said. Really father hasn't failed. He's
been so fortunate that he has retired.
He's cruising in the West Indies now,
But I was tired of too much leisure, so
decidd to forget that 1 was Madge
jenkins l came to town and studied
in a business school just to find out
what it really was like to earn my own
living. And after l had graduated
was sent here to apply for work.
didn't expect to stay more than a few
days till 1 realized that you were here.
Then 1 thought that I'd wait till you
discovered me. "-(Copyright, 1916, by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04

stir in two tablespoons flour, add half
cup milk, stir until it boils; add three
tablespoons grated cheese, an egg
yolk and the macaroni. Season, turn
out on plate to cool, shape into GRO
quotes, dip in beaten egg and bread
crumbs, fry in hot fat or olive oil.
Horticultural Loaf-Mix two cups
beans with three chopped pimentos,
one cup bread crumbs cooked to paste
with one-half cup of tomato PURGE;
season with pepper. teaspoon salt,
grated lemon rind, and few drops of
onion juice. Beat yolks of two eggs
well. add to mixture, fold in stiffly
beaten whites, pile into well oiled
bread tin, set in moderate oven, cook
until firm. Serve with tomato sauce
Things Worth Knowing.
To Care for Range-Wash with
warm water and soap. Wet soft
cloth with machine oil Cor kerosene)
and go over it twice a week. The
same cloth can be used to wipe the
top after each meal. Stove will never
need backing if cared for in this way
Talcum powder boxes make fine
pepper and salt shakers and are
splendid for any kind of spices, as
they are air tight. Open them where
the top joins the body part and after
you once have them open they will
open and close easily afterward.
To Furnish Dainty Bedroom at
Small COSt--For the dressing table,
a plain pine kitchen table can be pur-
chased for as low as S1.50. Give this
two coats of flat white. After this is
we'll hardened add a coat of white
enamel. Treat an old mirror in the
same way. and hang above the table.
This, with a bedstead painted to
match. makes a very dainty set. and
at so low a cost that any one may
have the freshest of summer cham.
bers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-04
A TIME FOR CAUmoN

"A needed spirit of caution is de-
veloping in nearly all departments of
trade and finance" writes Henry
Clews, the New York banker, in his
weekly financial review under date of
April 1, and he continues: THE VIC
lent rise in certain commodities, the
mad rush of orders for many manu-
featured products, the complete ex-
haustion of supplies in other commo-
dities and the unreasoning eagerness
of buyers created q situation so ex-
IRENE and unprecedented as to SER
iously raise the question, is it not
time for a pause? The war is of
course responsible for these extraordi-
nary conditions. which are addition
ally complicated by the unusual uncer-
tainties in home affairs. A glance at
the pace at which we have been trav-
cling is suggestive. For many weeks
bank ,clearings in the United States
have been running at about SO per
cent and more in excess of last year;
the greatest ratio of increase gener-
ally being at Eastern financial and
manufacturing centers. Approximately
half of these clearings are at New
York, and the increases have been
largely due to financial and industrial
activities created by the war, which
must stop or change their direction
when peace comes. According to
Bradstreet's index number, commod-
ity values on March l had risen 81
per cent since the war began. The
rise has been greatest in metals, tex
tiles and chemicals. No industry has
enjoyed more intense activity and
prosperity than steel. Production of
pig iron has about doubled last years
figures and prices have risen to a
point affording extraordinary profits,
which will continue until present con-
tracts are completed. Building is
about 20 per cent ahead of last year in
spite of dear materials. Textiles have
been very active. cotton goods often
advancing 20 per cent to 80 per cent.
Woolens have scored large advances,
and in some instances linens have
risen 100 per cent owing to the en-
barge. Railroad earnings have been
gaining at the rate of IL per cent to
20 per cent for a number of weeks
past. Our foreign trade has been
growing by leaps and bounds, particu-
larly in exports. Such facts as these
can be cited indefinitely to prove the
abnormal activity and prosperity of
the United States; chiefly the result
of the conflagration abroad, although
last years good harvest has been an
important contributing factor
Such conditions cannot last. They
will bring their own reaction without
fail, and it is only a matter of time