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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
WIEN ALL ARE NEurRA1s.

In considering what export bust
ness the United States will have after
the war there is a tendency to base
conclusions largely upon the present
exports to countries that are now
neutral, to the exclusion of the pros
pective exports to the countries that are
now belligerent, says the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum. While the trade
with these two temporary groups may
be separated, it is well to bear in
mind that the future export trade of
this country will depend more upon
the business with the latter than with
the former.
! The United States now possesses a
larger trade with the countries that
are neutral than ever before, a fact
which applies particularly to the
South American countries and only to
a less extent to the Asiatic This
country has acquired a certain pres
tige and good will in those markets
and to an extent has taken the place
of the great exporting nations OF
/ Europe. This trade the United States
should be able to retain, and there is
the possibility of its extension. But
the trade will not come unsolicited
and preparation must be made to face
a severe competition.
The United States is now doing ar
abnormal trade with Europe, be-
cause of the demands of the belliger-
ents for war materials both of pri.
mary and of a secondary nature; the
shipment of articles of everyday use
is on the who'll below normal. VIVA
must be looked for after the war is al
export trade to Europe smaller il
the aggregate than the present, be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

cause of sudden and large declines in
the shipment of abnormal lines.
There should be a larger expectation
along normal lines. The increase in
sales in these everyday goods will
depend. however, upon the extent to
which industry has been disorganized
in the belligerent countries and those
contiguous to them, upon their re-
Operative powers and, a factor which
is apt TIC be overlooked, their ability
to dispose of their products in other
markets.
When all countries are again neu-
trail the United States is likely to find
itself in possession of an export trade
smaller in the aggregate than its
present trade, but more satisfactory
in character. In the readjustment the
losses will tall upon those firms, COM
paratively few in number, that are
shipping war supplies; the gains will
be made by the rank and file of manu-
facturers whose export business, now
largely confined to neutral countries,
will then be renewed with the Euro
pean countries that are now bellig-
erent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
Clio be Sights
By THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Singing patriotic songs has won
comparatively few wars.
A fault finder rarely spends much
time looking himself over.
If you exploit fool belief people
viii exploit you behind your back
You will also need something more
than slogan if you expect to get very
far.
A henpecked man arises to remark
that 1t isn't necessary to go to war to
be under fire.
Things might be worse. Surprising
you had been in the ice cream cone
business this cold spring.
1t is hard for the peacemaker to
figure out his blessing when he I'M
dertakes to settle kin ow.
In these days of mobilization, it is
noted that many of the girls are pa
rading in light marching order.
Rocks along the road to success
were there before your rival was
born. So don't blame him with every
thing.
Everyone remembers the picture of
Washington crossing the Delaware.
but good many forget his object in
going across
Baseball may some day go out of
fashion, even as did the gladiatorial
combat of Ancient Rome. but the
grandstander will always have place
| in the human race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

There shouldn't be too much enthu-
stasm among the people of the country
over the prospects of a considerable
diminution in the fixed military
charges of the nation that are indicat-
ed in the material reductions that are
showing in the pension appropriation,
and which will grow greater yearly.
Under the national guard provisions of
the new army law. and when this
guard is recruited as reserve force
up to the strength of 100000 men, as
the law contemp1ates, it is estimated
that the maintenance of the guard
win cost the federal government
500, OOO,O 900 a year. This new law
provides regular federal pay for the
officers and enlisted men in the guard
during times of peace. The enlisted
men will get $54 year each, and the
Officers on up to several hundred dol
lars a year each. according to rank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

and particularly for insanity. The
lack of work is often the cause of
many chronic maladies, and it is a
wise physician who can determine
when one needs work instead of rest,
and in prescribing the remedy pro-
duce no unpleasant situations. About
the most unhealthy person, as well as
the most unhappy and useless. is the
person with nothing to do. Work is
a dispeller of fears. 1t is the exercise
that is as essential to the body and
mind as are food and air. 1t is only
when work is carried to excess that it
becomes injurious, as in the case with
food, rest. and all good things. The
ideal of healthy, happy life is no
longer a world where work is not
necessary and life is one grand sweet
song of idleness. Life is activity; in
the broad sense, il is work-work that
produces and entails sacrifice. 1t is
not less work that we need, but work
in the right proportions and under the
right conditions. Such work is health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
Jdyhawker Jots

To many graduates. suggests the
Wichita Beacon, commencement is the
end of a busy life.
AS the Richmond Enterprise points
out: 1t is the thing that is none of
your business that works up your
curiosity.
Excellent advice from F.. M, of the
Caldwell Advance: When your caller
dilates earnestly upon his honesty, it
is time to lock up the safe.
The Duckerville correspondent of
party in his neighborhood at which
there were "only" IS guests present
because of heavy rain.
The editor of the Phillipsburg Post
is different from the roIk who say they
can hardly sleep on a Pullman. He
tried it recently and states that he had
as many as rs maps in one night.
The Arkansas City Traveller won
ders if it ever occurred to Billy Sun
day to go to Mexico for a campaign
against the devil. The Traveller says
1t looks as If that's the place where
the old Nick has his headquarters
| most of the time now.
Some fish story. as detailed by the
| Stockton Record: Charley Sanders
had big fish story to tell Tuesday
morning, and what was more to the
point, he had the fish itself to CO.
roborate all that he said. While it
was not a whale it was certainly a
whaling big carp, and weighed "a
pounds. 1t measured 35 inches long
| 10 inches depth and inches thick
ness. Its spread of tail was IL inches
| Charley caught this leviathan after 9
o'clock Monday night below Hick' s
| ford, with an ordinary hook and line.
Being unable to pull it out, steered it
| over to shallow water, passed the pole
to his companion and went in after it.
| He landed a kick on it's ribs and then
| grabbed it in his arms and carried it
| out. He feels justly proud of his
achievement, for "a pound fish are not
| common hereabouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

After Tommy Title Mouse Joined
the B. ks everybody in the garden
began to be very Interested II they
hadn't joined before, they fastened to
belong now, and there was little else
talked about from morning till night.
And everybody was kind-oh,' SO
kind to everybody else! You should
have seen that garden!
Mr.. Garden Toad looked out over
the garden one noontime and what do
you suppose he saw? Chirpy Sparrow
trying to get some nice fat worms for
Bluey Blackbird; Yellow Puff scratch
ing for his mothers breakfast and
Tommy Tittle-mouse attempting to
repair a house for Mrs. Hen.
This certainly does look good to
me-" sighed the toad happily; "only !
almost wish they didn't do it quite so
wel!--Tm afraid it won't last at this
ratei" (You see that toad knew the
garden folks and knew that they were
just like all folks everywherei They
liked to do something newD
And then he made a second resolu-
ton. 81 may not be able to make
them keep it up as they are doing it
now" said he to himself; but at least
I'll keep them reminded of being kind,
and that's something"
Hardly were the words said before
he heard a loud buzzing noise.
Whats that?" he asked.
-"Buzz, buzz, buzz-z-z-z-z." was the
only answer.
who's there?" he demanded sharp
ly for he couldn't see who was talk
ing and it's most annoying to hear
buzzes and not know whether they are
made by a friend or foe.
I'm here Buzz, buzz, and every
body has to get out of this gardeni"
Mr.. Garden Toad hoped out from
the shelter of the leaf and looked
straight into the angry eyes of his
friend, the bee. why, what in the
world is the matter, Friend Bee?" he
asked in surprise. This angry talk
does not seem like you, indeed it
doesn't, it Doesn't"
Then make him stop make him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY x. MOULTON.

The Flies.
with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe.)
Hear the buzzing of the flies-pesky flies
As they seem to drop by millions from the
skies.
Every one is a newcomer
Who has never buzZed before,
Who has come to spend the summer
And to put us the hummer
With his deadly germs galore,
That he brings IN at our door.
You will hasten with the swatter il you're
anywhere near wise.
Swat the flies, flies, flies flies, flies flies,
flies
Swat ,em early, swat 'em often--swat the
flies.
Oh, the doc who specialize on the flies
Have already sounded many warning cries.
One fly now will mean a million
Yes, a million by and by;
Later on twill mean a billion;
Then still later a trillion,
And that is the reason why
1t is cerl.in you and 1
Must go out and buy a swatter and must
take some exercise.
Swat the flies, file, flies, flies, flies. flies.
flies.
Swat em early, swat 'em often-swat the
flies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

Among the great mass of stories
that are being written these days about
the Mexican situation is recent one
from Vera Cruz that undoubtedly lays
its finger exactly on the sore spot that
IS responsible for most of the troubles
in Mexico. 1t places the blame on the
military leaders of that unhappy
land. who foment the ceaseless string
of revolts and fighting because they
can make an easier and richer living
for themselves in that way. This
story also states what is probably an
other fact, and namely, that a pre-
ponderant majority of the Mexican
people would welcome an interven-
ton on the part of the United States
that would put these military lead
ers' out Of business and assist the de-
cent and peace-loving Mexicans in
putting their house in order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
1From the Chicago News. !


The good die either young or poor.
Restitution if made would often pre-
vent restitution.
After a man gets married he is no
longer self-possessed.
How we dislike to meet a man who
acts as If our time were his.
People who do not believe all they
hear are fond of repeating it.
A man buys clothes to put on-a
woman buys them to show off.
Most men have a pet grievance that
they always exhibit after the third
drink.
There are two sides to every story
and some have four sides and ceiling.
When the meek inherit the earth we
hope that they won't make the rest of
US get off.
A woman can get more pleasure out
of a good cry than a man can extract
from a good laugh.
a postgraduate course is to impress
the graduates with the fact that they
don't know it all.
One of the easiest ways for a man
to get married is to tell young widow
that he intends to remain a bachelor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
wooD WASTE USED FOR PULP

WOOD WASTE USED FOR PULP.
An encouraging indication that the
American people, or some of them,
are beginning to get the most out of
their resources and especially in the
utilization of valuable materials that
have heretofore been wasted in a most
prodigal fashion is to be found in some
figures That have been compiled by the
United States forest service. They tell
of the use of a steadily increasing
amount of wood waste in the manu-
facture of paper pulp.
Although the pulp industry showed
a decline in the last year for which
complete figures are available (1914
on account of the increasing cost of
raw material and general business
conditions, more wood waste was
used than in any previous year.
Approximately 100000 cords of
waste with value of $1,4OO,O00 were
utilized by 35 of the 200 pulp and
paper mills of the United States 1t
is thought that as the price of cord
wood goes up the amount of wood
waste used will become greater.
The Canadian pulp industry has, it
is stated, had a vigorous growth dur
ing the last few years ard the greater
portion of it's product is marketed in
the United States. An average cost of
about $3.50 per cord, as compared
with the $40 to SIS per cord which
many manufacturers in this country
are paying for pulpwood, is the reason
| given for the growth.
1t is pointed out that the develop
ment of the supplies of spruce in the
national forests of the west and in
Alaska. together with the abundance
of cheap water power, will eventually
attract the paper industry to locate in
those regions
| Suitable pulp timber can be deliv-
cred to desirable mill sites for the next
twenty to forty years at prices OF
about $3.50 to 81 per cord, say ex-
perts of the forest service. 1t is
thought that the low price of material
and power will more than offset the
higher freight rates on the product tc
the eastern markets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
TUBERCULOSIS.

Statistics made public recently by
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
show that nearly 5000 agencies are
now listed in the fight against tuber-
culosis IN the United States, an in
crease OF 1900 per cent since 1914,
when the national warfare on this dis
ease was started These figures are
taken from a new tuberculosis di-
rectory just issued by the association.
The list includes 557 sanatoria and
hospitals, 1856 tuberculosis boarding
houses, 80 hospitals for the insane and
35 penal institutions making special
provision for tuberculosis, ASS dispen-
saries, 80 open air schools, and 1924
nti-tuberculosis associations and
committees. To these are added 15S
Canadiaa institutions and associations,
making a total of 3,087. The direc-
tory also gives a summary of munich
pal and state legislation on tubercu-
losis.
When the National Association was
formed in 1904 and the first list of
agencies was printed, only 1913 organ
izations and institutions were found
The second edition of the directory in
1908 reported $40 different agencies;
and LAO were listed in the third
edition published in 1911. On the
basis of the latter figures, the num-
Der of agencies in the anti-tuberculosis
movement has increased 1i5 per cent
in the last five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

Is the beginning of the end of the
great European war in sight? All of
the forces of the several Entente AL
lies appear to be well on their way
with drives of great magnitude and
power. Rumania, on the fence since
the first day of the war but only wait
ing because of selfish desires to jump
in on the side that seemed sure of
winning, is reported to be ready to
join with the Allies. This will put the
Bulgarian hordes and the Turks and
other forces of the Central Powers in
the Balkans between two fires. The
die of the European war appears to
be in the casting. If the Entente AL
lies have the punch Europe may be
sui of the trenches by Christmas. If
this punch is lacking, the war will
probably go on while the Allies go to
work again to develop the punch nee
easary. They have the resources, and
their control of the seas is as abso-
lutte as it ever was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

The good pay and good grub for the
extra hands that are incident to the
harvest of the Kansas wheat crop
have little attractions this year for
the unskilled and generally jobless
1aboring men in the big cities in the
central and eastern sections of the
country. They can make two and
three times as much money a day in
the munition factories. Even the col
lege boys who work during their vaca-
ton, and who have gotten a lot of fun
as well as work and good pay out of
harvesting in years past, are knocking
on the doors of these munition fac
tories rather than trekking for the
wheat fields.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
No Use Talking, War Is -
Euening Chat
More Pin Pricks.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

MOTE 1ln fr1Cks-
A pin prick is a very little thing,
isn't it? And yet most people would
prefer one quick sword thrust to
million pin pricks.
wrote you about the husband and
wife who fought constant pin-prick
duel of sharp, sarcastic remarks. I
have another kind of marital pin
pricl<ing to scold about today.
The husband is usually the offend
er in this respect There may be
wives who do this sort of thing, but
never happened to know one.
I think 1 can make what 1 mean
clear by giving you a little dialogue
The dramatis personae are two
husbands, conversing with each other
in the presence of their wives, at a
restaurant.
One says to the other, indicating
the next table with a motion of his
head: II guess we picked the wrong
table,
The other. looking in the direction
indicated, where very pretty waitress
is ostentatiously flirting with table,
full of m IN. II should say we did.
But 1 don't know as we would have
been any better off over there under
the circumstances
The One: well, we'll have to come
here again by ourselves
The Other: BY the way, did YOU
see that little peach they've got down
at the news stand?"
The Other: No. I've been getting
my paper from the boy at the cor
ner; but that will be all off now
A little later there enters the res
taurant a woman no better looking
than either of the wives She is
dressed in deliberately striking fash
ion that both men would have been
horritied to see their wives affect, but
which now attracts their favorable at
tention.
The One gives the Other facetious
poke. 1T doesn't hurt your eyes to
look at her, does it?" he says
Il should say not" says the other.
And so on, at intervals, ad nauseam.
Now both men love their wives and
j are perfectly good husbands.
don't believe either of them
ever gave another woman a serious
thought.
And yet they seldom miss a chance
| to say this sort of thing.
We'll, what harm does it do?" saws
my masculine reader. Their wives
know they don't mean anything"
In the first place, little slurs on her
attractlveness (and a husbands con-
slant ostentatious praise of another
Womans charms is a slur on his wife,
attractiveness) become exasperating,
even when they are made in jest
IN the second place. women are
prone to wonder if. after all. these
things are jeDts.
A judge who had tried many di-
vorce suits told me that ill-advised
jesting about the other sex caused
| a great many divorces.
People appear to take the jests as
i they are meant at the time, but after
wards. when something arouses their
suspicious or animosity, they wonder
if it was testing after all.
! I've answered by masculine read
er's question and now it's his turn to
answer mine:
| If these things the husband says
don't mean anything and do make his
wife little less happy, what good
does it do him to say them ?-(Pro-
tected by George Matthew AdamS)
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advantage of leap year and propose

70 you.
The biissful expression brought to
the governors face by this startling
confession was partially dimmed the
next instant by the shadow of Sem
ator Thomas re-entering the doorway
but he managed to whisper a reply,
and the senator wondered what on
earth 1t could be that Abigail had been
asking of the governor which brought
from him an impassioned assurance
that an official confirmation of his de-
cision would be given her at the
earliest possible opportunity. But Abb
gaiFs whims were always more or less
of a puzzle to her father.-(Copy-
right 1916, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
FIREWORKS AND FREEDOM.

Ho every patriotic son
OF Freedom who enjoys
A Fourth made up of powder smoke
And racketing and noise
If you are for preparedness,
Just listen to tip,
And give your fireworks funds to build
A giant tattleship.
Convert the rockets and the bombs,
The roman candles, too,
Ind whizzing pin wheels spouting stars
OF red and gold and blue.
Into munitions. mighty guns,
And armor-plates of steel,
That every foe of Liberty
Her power may fear to feel.
nickel, dime or dollar spent
On mere fireworks is cash
Burned up and turned to ashes gray
And wasted in a flash.
The cannon-crackers bang and burst
The rockets soar and die,
But OH it is a navy keeps
Old Glory in the sky.
So let us in Preparedness
True Spirit celebrate
The Declaration that we prize,
And Freedoms natal date.
By giving money, once on punk
And powder thrown away,
For superdreadnaughts to preserve
Our Independence Day.
Minna Irving in Leslie's.
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Journal Entries

Realized mistakes are great helps to
eventual success.
+ + J.
Too many people struggle along
without any particular object in life.
+ j. =
Too many mems patriotism is meas
ured by the amount of money they get
out of it.
+ + +
If dreams came true there'd be
much more trouble and unhappiness
in the world.
Sisters get along better if they are
built so that they cannot wear each
others clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
WORK Is HEALTH.

Work is not the curse nor the af-
Fiction that some people think it is.
says a North Carolina state board of
health bulletin. When taken in prop
ter doses it is the best of medicine. II
as now being prescribed for many
Forms of invalidism, such as hearts
fs-aases Bright's disease. nervousness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal away
: from home during the summer may nave
fhe paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only. Ad-
dress changed as often as desired. Whlle
out OF town the State Journal VIII be TO
xou like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
ing expenses.
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The HickeyvilIe Clarion.

Tage Butts tried to initiate an oat-
mobile and crank up his old mule the
other day by twistin' her tail When
last seen Tage was sailin' through the
roof of the barn.
There are other things that tend
toward longevity just as much as the
act of scorchin' around a one mile
track in an oatmobile in one minute.
Anse Purdy says his new 1916
model oatmobile is already five years
behind the style.
What has become of the old fash
toned dude who waxed the ends of
his mustache and curled his front
hair up over his finger?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-01

An Independence, Kansas, woman
recently varied the proverbial order of
zhings in seizing a bull by the nose
instead Of by the horns. AID she
3 eame out of the unusual combat badly
battered and bruised but with her life
Intact