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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
SIDE TAIL IS
They Do Exist .
BY RUTH CAMERON

They Do Exist.
Il want to ask if you can make some
people understand" writes a letter
friend, that just because one happens
to be the mother of a big, healthy,
active baby boy of seventeen months,
that the infantile paralysis and that
awful disease etc, are not ENJOYABLE
subjects to be greeted with every
where one goes.
Why, 1 have even been stopped
by utter strangers on the street who
say, My, aren't you afraid of that aw-
Wouldn't it be a shame if he should
get that infantile paralysis?'
ITO tell the truth I am worried
enough without hearing such things
If you could reach some of these
tactless people, 1 think MANY moth
ers would be gratedful."
1t would be difficult to realize that
such utterly tactless people exist, if
it were rot for corroborative evil
dence in ones own experience. We
all know people of this kind who seem
to take morbid interest in calamity.
1t is this type of people who, tho
they never consciously admit it TO
themselves, enjoy carrying about any
tidbit of bad news.
They are always saying, isn't it
dreadful how Mrs. So-and-So looks
There is nothing they enjoy more
than surprising you with the infor-
! nation that some friend is critically
| Ill.
They are the kind who get just out
of ear shot of a sick person and whis-
per about his conditions.
+, 1t was a woman of this type who
cheerfully assured a member of my
family who had had the hiccoughs for
some hours that her cousin knew
someone who got started hiccoughing,
land they had doctors and doctors,
and nobody could stop them and final
| ly she died"
I Il was a woman of this type who
on meeting my mother for the first
time after a nervous Illness, greeted
| How you have fallen away!"
! My letter friend would be answering
Il fool according 20 his folly if she
answered, wouldn't it be a shame il
] he should get the infantile paralysis p
by saying, Yes. and wouldn't it be
awful if your husband were brought
home dead?"
But 1 don't suppose she would want
to do that.
So here's hoping that some of these
people see this mint CD and wake up
i-(Copyright by George Matthew
AdamS)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau OF CircuiatIons.
American Newspaper FuD"slierS
Association.

Topekans will probably be killing a
goose of golden-egg-laying tendencies
If they cannot see their way clear TO
provide their, share OF the addluon
that Washburn so sorely needs tor
her endowment fund and which is SO
nearly ir sight This money IS needed
nv Washburn for its normal develop
unent. and a better developed WASH
b,rrn means a larger Washburn i'll
every particular. And the larger that
washburn IS and grows, the greater
the material advantages that come to
topeka thereby Numerically the
student body at Washburn has trebled
in the shor- space of twelve years. If
Wsshburn can increase her facilities
as they should be, the roster of her
students is certain to grow, and II Is
likely to grow more rapidly in the
next few years than even it has in the
past. So from the purely selflsh
standpoint, Topekans should leave no
stone unturned to see that the Wash
burn endowment campaign, now in its
final stages. is crowned with success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
LOCAL MENTION

Notice of appeal on pleadings ruled
upon in the district court here was
filed today by attorneys for the city in
the case of the city of Topeka, against
John Richie and the Fidelity and De-
post company of Maryland. Accord
ing to Frank G. Dreaming, attorney
for the city, the plaintiff has a judg-
ment against the defendants for S2S,-
$50 and has collected $1,000. The ap-
peal involves an attempt to collect the
remainder with costs and expenses,
the latter amounting to about S. 500.
The litigation is the outgrowth of a
sewer contract given Richie by the
city several years ago.
T. F. B. Dance, Moose Hall Wednes-
day evening, Oct. II. Saunders or
chestra. Admission 25 cents.-Adv.
The Commercial club will entertain
125 Kansas City automobile dealers
who will arrive here next Saturday on
a good roads trip. E. E. Peake is
at the head of the car dealers.
| The Epworth League of the First
German Methodist Episcopal church
rendered a reception to it's president
Walter vogel and his bride. formerly
Miss Minnie Address. The couple
have returned from a wedding trip to
st. Joseph. They will be at home al
1915 West Seventh street.
Miss Silvie Green, injured in a mot
orcycle smashup a week ago, is rap
idly recovering, according to DR.. A. B
| Jeffrey, attending physician.
THE Evolution of Life is the title
of the third lecture in the series be-
ing delivered under the auspices of the
| Kansas Academy of Science. 1t will
be given by Dr. B. M. Allen. head OF
| the department of zoology in Kansas
university, Friday night in Memoria
! hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
SUBURBAN DAYS
October IS, 10, 20 Set Apart by
Merchants of Topeka.
Special Bargains and Other In
ducements to Shoppers.

October 1S-19-2O have been set
aside for suburban shopping days
by the merchants of Topeka. Special
attractions are to be offered to pur-
chasers living outside the city on those
days. Aside from unusual bargains to
be presented, a refund amounting to
per cent of the purchases made will
bring many buyers from away
This refund, according to w. w
Whitney, head of the Retail Mer-
chants association, will be paid only
up to the amount of the actual fare
required if the trip be taken by rail-
road.
For example," says Mr.. Whitney
suppose a farmer living two and a
half miles away comes to town in his
automobile and purchases $50 worth
of goods. He would be paid not five
per cent, but the amount of his fare
had he come by railroad. On the 9th.
er hand, should he come frem 81
miles distant, he would be refunded
his full five per cent to pay TOWARD
his fare.
Dealers are offering bargains
which will be announced in the news
papers. The dry goods stores, espec
tally, are expecting large trade"
The actual refunding will be dom
| thru the offices of the Commercial
club. The latter will make the prope
charges of the retailers. The Gus
toner will be given a book in whicl
to keep a record of all his purchases
days after they are made, and mus
have made his purchases within tn
days set aside, in order to be paid hi
| rahatp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11

Kathleen in its embrace. Desperately
fighting, she freed herself from the
whir1 of the terrific undertow and
rose to the surface. She made feeble
effort to swim, but the furious sea,
leaping after her, again caught and
pounded her into submission. dragging
her toward a low sea wall. Fighting
and struggling with every atom of
strength left in her body, she rose once
more Stretched before her eyes was
a smooth, white field of sea foam and
a few feet away the cruel outlines of
the sea wall doomed up. She fought
hard, only to be dragged down and
dashed in shore on a roaring breaker
Giving up the struggle she called out:
Pete! Pete."
Two powerful arms grasped her
body. Pete, fighting like a demon.
was holding her up! With his right
arm, he cut the water and together
they resisted the mad sea. With the
coming of Pete came a kindly wave.
a playful fellow who perhaps had
atone. he caught them up and rolled
Pete, with Kathleen clinging Imply in
his arms, up on the beach safely away
from old ocean.
In sheltered spot among the sand
dunes. resting in Pete's arms, they
watched a dull sun slip behind a dis
tant mountain peak.
Dinner hour! It's overt" gasped
Pete, sitting up straight
We've lost our places" laughed
Kathleen.
Arriving at the hotel, they found
their trunks in the servants hall. a
| new head waiter presiding over the
dining-room and the orchestra playing
dreamy waltz. They were both dis
missed for inattention to duty
kathleen fairly danced down the
hill to the boat landing. Pete trudged
silently by her side Both out OF
jobs she laughed ruefully.
| We'l find minister at Portland
said Pete.
! Kathleen was silent Perhaps the
| telling of her side of the story might
be postponed. Their trunks were I'M
loaded from the hotel wagon and
placed side by sida on the makeshift
boat dock. Kathleen sat on Pete's
trunk. gazing at him with whimsical
eyes. Il should tell you, Pete
about" Suddenly she shrieked. She
pointed to a card neatly printed on the
! top of Pete's trunk. How daret
your she cried.
The card directed the trunk to bs
sent to Sir Peter Gordon-Smith. Lon
don, England" Fete, in retaliation
pointed an accusing finger to a nam.
card attached to the express tag OF
Kathleen's trunk.
81 read that" he explained. "jus
before we left the hotel So though
I'd best Introduce myself at once
"Why did you DO this? Here, il
disguised" asked Kathleen
ITO find you," he whispered, "an'
to take a vacation away from tn
blamed title. "-(Copyright, 1916, b.
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
serbia's reiuvenated army continues

Serbia's rejuvenated army continues
its onward march, but the fighting
in the Balkans is on so many fronts
these days. and the pawns on the great
wars checkerbcard in that region are
so mixed up, that it is pretty difficult
to tell if any of the forces of any of
the nations engaged there are getting
anywhere in particular And the re-
ports from that section seem to be so
unreliably conflicting. If tho word of
the Central Powers is to be taken, for
instance. Rumania has already lost
more soldiers in killed. wounded and
captured than were in her armies
when she finally entered the war,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
LFrom the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Youth seeks adventure as certainly
as age wants rest.
The only time a bluff amounts tn
anything is when it isn't called.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned boy who wore patched trousers ?
An independent man is one who
can get home late without explaining
why.
A man who drinks before break
fast is TOO anxious to get an early
start.
A man who thinks he is always get
ting the worst of it probably wants
the best of it.
If a man is good to his wife and
children the women folks overlook
most of his other faults.
There is "a disposition to suspect
the man who talks too much about
the ethics of his profession.
You may not think training
amounts to much, but they say that
married men make the best soldiers.
There seems to be a good deal of
ingratitude in this world: talk to any
man long enough, and he will tell you
of an instance.
The man who wasn't invited is apt
to feel that the affair didn't amount
to much anyhow, but a woman takes
a different view of the matter,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News
Some women are as flighty as some
men are cranky.
All the worlds a stage, but some
prefer automobiles.
by their works We shall know
them" said the matchmaker.
And some people actually believe
that their troubles interest you.
There is probably nothing more I'M
like battle than a picture of one.
It's better for man to do a little
kicking than to become a human foot
ball.
Be honest, if you can-otherwise
your patrons will buy their canned
goods elsewhere.
And some men who are short on
hair imagine that they are exception
ally long on brains.
1t isn't at all likely that a woman
will ever discover that shes beautiful
if she waits for another woman to tell
her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11

duty to stand up for weak outside peo-
pies like the Belgians. Armenians, and
Syrian Christians, when cruelty
wronged by strong oppressors; and
has failed in its more primary duty
of protecting its own citizens from
German submarines and Mexican
bandits.
! "On the Mexican boundary war of
raids and assassinations has been
waged against our people for some
years, and hundreds of Americans, SOL
diers and civilians. have been killed
and wounded on our own territory, or
in Mexican territory when our troops
have followed thither the fleeing raid
ers; and hundreds of American men,
women and children have been killed
| in Mexico itself. Yet President Wilson
says he has preserved peace
Two years ago the conditions were
as bad as today. If President Wilson
did not know the facts, and did not
know of our complete unpreparedness.
his ignorance was pitiful. If he did
know, then his failure to prepare the
army was crime against the United
| States. Yet in his annual message to
congress, two years ago, he stated that
we were fully prepared for our de-
Tense and denounced all those who
said that we needed preparation. If
he had then done his duty and led
Congress and the people as it was in
cumbent on him to lead them, we
would at this time have a regular
army of a hundred thousand men t.
patrol the border. and we would have
punished the bandits. and all Mexicans
responsible for the bandits, so sharply
and resOlutely that not one Mexican
outlaw or revolutionary official would
have dared to raise his hand against
an American.
1.-THE Dove. the Dollar and the Vul-
ture! Does the combination make our
people proud? Is n one calculated to
restore our lost national self-respect
Is it calculated to impose respect or
great military nations such as Ger
many and Japan? Thanks to our owr
shortcomings, and thanks especially
to Mr.. Wilson's course as President
we would new be almost as helpless as
China before a powerful and de-
termined foe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
STRIKERS BUILD
bARR|CADE and
BATTLE POLICE
Twelve Fall Wounded in Charge
on so PatrOlmen.
Try to Blockade Oil Town
Street With Flatcar.
5000 STANDARD OIL men OUT
Try to Compel Men in Other
Big Plants to Join.
Strikers Picket Line IsOlates
! Four Large Works.
Try to BLOCKADE Oil Town
Street With Flatcar.
5000 STANDARD OIL men OUT
Try to Compel Men in Other
Big Plants to Join.

Bayonne, n. J., Oct. 11.-Police with
Winchesters and automatics today pa
tro1led 1.-The Hook district near the
great Standard Oil company plant
where four patrolmen and eight strik-
eFs fell yesterday during riot Thru
out the district which was a storm
center of similar strike year ago.
when six strikers were killed, police
and strikers alike attempted to draw
picket lines today.
The riot yesterday occurred when
several hundred strikers pushed nat
| car across the street car tracks in an
attempt to block traffic and isolate the
entire Industrial district at the lower
| end of the long peninsula on which
the city lies. They hope to force
workmen from the Tidewater Oil
plant to join the strike.
] Eighty patrolmen armed with Win
chesters and sawed-off shotguns at
| tempted to remove the flat car. the
police reported. and were fired on.
Before the fight ended twelve men
had been dropped by bullets.
Prepare for Siege.
Six thousand strikers were out to-
day, leaders reported and they pre-
dicted heavy additions to their ranks
before night. Hudson county boule
ward police who were called to strike
duty during the night were relieved
early today but were instructed to be
ready for instant call
The strikers claimed today to have
established a picket line which abso-
lutely closed the southern end of the
peninsula. isolatins the Standard Oil,
Tidewater Oil. General Chemical and
International Nickel plants Bari
cades were being built to make this
siege effective.
George B. Hennessy. superintendent
of the Standard OIL plant. announced
the old plant would remain closed un-
, til the men are willing to come back
. to work at their old wages.
Block Street Car Lines.
, | The trolley lines leading to the in
, dustrial section were barricaded b.
) strikers and sympathizers today AM
? no cars were running. The com
panies' employees went to work b,
) roundabout routes, many being trans
i ported on tugboats and motorboats.
After a small disturbanc early il
the DAY the police arrested two men
1t was asserted that many of tn
strikers and their followers appeare,
to be carrying weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A little encouragement is also
among the more helpful things
x X X
The man who doesn't make mis-
takes seldom accomplishes much
worth while.
X Y
Making the best of a bad bargain
is at least profitable to ones peace
of mind.
y X X
1t often takes the lash to bring out
the best there is in man as well as
beast.
y y \
Almost everybody has the failing of
giving full credence to the evil tales
told of others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11

President Wilson rather flamboy-
antly announces that Kaiser wilhelm
must keep bis word in respect to the
methods of warfare that will be pur-
sued by the German submarines. And
just what was this word? AS a matter
OF fact was it not so involved as really
TO permit Germany to operate her sub
marines under this and that condition
just about as she pleases. Wasn't it
accepted as a promise that Germany
would see that her submarines be-
haved themselves. rather than being
an actual promise to such an end?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
NEAR SUICIDE FOR LOVE
He Believed She Didn't Care Much
for Him and Shoots Self.

Chicago. Oct 11.-Because he be-
lieved she did not love him. Clyde A.
Briegel is in the Illinois Central hos
pital, probably fatally wounded from
his attempt to commit suicide early
today while returning from an amuse-
ment park with his sweetheart, Miss
Alice Learn.
Br1egel and Miss Learn have kept
company six years. He objected to
her going with other young men. it is
said Without warning as they were
walking home. he pulled a revolver
from his pocket and shot himself thru
the left side
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11

sunbeams danced across the sky. and
three early birds called, Good morn
ing, good morning, It's going to be
a fine day."
Now just look at that" grumbled
Bushy, The nights all gone and we
haven't had that party yet. We aren't
even home"
Never mind said Mother Beaver.
well soon be at the tree: please don't
hurry so. Bushy, You might break
something I'll tell you what we can
do. We can hide the dishes in the
sycamore tree and then they'll be
there all ready for tomorrow night"
of course that was the best thing
to do. SO when they came to the hol-
low tree. Bushy helped hide the bas-
ket of dishes under some dead leaves
and then he tumbled off to sleep and
to dream about the party that was to
be the next night--(Copyright
Ingram Judson-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
OPPOSE DRAFT POWER
Portland Socialists and Benson Protest
to President.

Portland, Ore. Oct. IA telegram
denouncing the Hay-Chamberlain
army re-orga nization bill as contain
ing a draft clause was sent to pres
ident Wilson today by Allan r. Ben
son. Socialist candidate for presid emit.
who Is here on campaign tour. The
text OF the message was approved by
mass meeting which heard Benson
last night The telegram requests that
the president set forth your reasons
for having sigQed a bill which gives
the president power, in time OF war. to
draft American citizens into the
army"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
NEED MORE IRISHMEN

Dublin, Oct. 1.-THE Irish division
at the front will need reinforcement
of 10000 men before Christmas ac-
cordirg to a statement made last night
by Lord Wimborne, the lord liteuten-
ant, in an address made at a ban
quet.
The lord lieutenant said that before
the war there were 34,SS2 Irish Pro-
testants with colors and in the re-
serves. Since the mobilization, a.
342, Catholic and 1891 Protcstants
had Joined the army from various
parts of Ireland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11
THE RURAL SCHOOL TERM.


As ]. L. McBrien, school extension
agent of the United States bureau of
education, .,tates in another article on
this important subject, the further one
delves into the question of rural school
attendance IN it's relation to the length
of the rural school term. the more evil
dent becomes the need of an aroused
public opinion for a better rural school
attendance and a more. rigid and eff
fective enforcement of compulsory at
tendance laws to make cure of this
better attendance-not alone for the
betterment of the children themselves,
but as a matter of simple justice to
the taxpayers.
1t is unjust to tax A to pay for
teaching BIS children when the au-
thority that levies and collects the tax
from A allows to keep his children
out of school, whether it be thru in
difference, ignorance or selfishness.
Furthermore, it is a crime against
BIS children to let him keep them out
of school.
Whether poor attendance of pupils
comes from indifference of parents, a
sleeping public opinion or a lax en-
forcen1ert of compulsory attendance
laws-or from all of these things
the penalty falls hardest and most
directly upon the children in their lost
opportunity for an education, though
society must pay heavy toll in the
end for it's own SHINING against such
children.
AS a concrete example of the mag
nitude and gravity of these problems
in some of the states, take the condi-
tions in this respect in Pennsylvania.
The enrolment in her public schools
for the year ending July 5, 1915,
reached the colossal figure of 1,461,-
987. The average daily attendance in
her public schools for that year was
1,166, 513-making her average daily
abrences climb to the startling num-
Der of 295. 424. The cost of enforcing
the compulsory attendance law in
Pennsylvania for the same year was
S19S.991.71. These figures cover both
| the rural and urban schools.
The. latest available statistics on
separate attendance in the urban and
/ rural SchoOlS or pennsylvania snow
that the number attending daily in
every 100 children enrolled in the
urban schools OF this state was So
while in the rural schools it was
only 1876.
1t is evident, therefore that the
rural schools C Pennsylvania had q
larger per cent of pupils in the 295, 42z
daily absentees than did it's urbar
schools Yet Pennsylvania is one oil
the six states with tie highest daily at
tendance in rural schools.
Statisticians claim that every day G
pupil attends school is worth nine dol
lars to him. On this basis the 295,424
pupils daily absent from Pennsyl
vania's schools last year cost owe
$2,655, 600 daily, or for the schco
term of 10 days. over $3.50, 100000.
For the nation at large the 5000. 90
boys and girls daily absent from schoo
thereby lost on an average school tern
of 160 days, $1,000, 900, 900.
And there is as much truth toda,
for this country as there ever was il
the observation of Henry Ware
Beecher: I'VE must educate, or w.
must perish"
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What does President Wilson propose
activities of the German submarines
result in the loss of American lives?
Reopen the correspondence and dis
cussion between the government of the
United States and the government Of
Germany relative to the methods OF
submarine warfare that are per-
INVISIBLE under the tenets of interna-
tionaI law and the demands of human
ity7
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SOLDIER SPEAKS.

1 do not fear the battles overmuch
Nor yet the thought of death while NE
is youngi
The cannon's threat from me no sigh Las
wrung,
And yet my constant Ggony OF war is sucn
II keeps me thrilling, as at doom's own
touch
The wrong of it, The wretched. woeful
wrong
The lack of needl The worse than foolish
ness
Strikes at my soul-its blows strong ana
more strong
AS 1 behold each comrades brave distress
Such strife proves barbarism's vicious
clutch
On evolution. More, 1t tells mans place
In the great plan of world accomplish
ment.
Thus am / thralled with sense of my dis
grace
A fighting beast-on murderous deeds
intent!
-Lurana Sheldon, in New York Times.