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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-05

TNHE mushroom sailor of medium size is
l. being worn with smart tailored suits. IL
is woven OF rough straw with lacquered
finish The bowl-shaped crown IS encircled
with band of velvet the ends Of which
are tied in a fat bow at the side A narrow
facing Of velvet TO correspond with the
band finishes the under brim.
The First Fisherman
Beside a vast and primal sea
a solitary savage he,
Who gathered for his tribes rude need
The daily dole of raw scaweed
He watched the great tides rise and fall
And spoke the truth--Or not at all!
Along the awful shore he ran
A simple pre-Pelasgian
a thing primeval, undcfled.
Straightforward as a little child
Until one morn he made a grab
And caught a mesozoic crab,
Then told the tribe at close Of day
a bigger one had got away!
From him have sprung u own a bias
TO ways the cult Of rod and fly has)
All fshermen---and Ananias!
Patrick Il. Chalmers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-05

CONTINUED TOMORROW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

BY signing two acts of the North
Dakota legislature Governor Frazier
in which women have the ballot for
something more than school or mu-
nicipal ele -tions. One bill which has
been made a law makes men and wo-
men equal in the choice of presidential
electors. which means. % course. vot-
ing for president. The other measure
submits to the vote of the people, sub
iect to favorable action by another leg
fslature. an amendment to the state
Constitution which, if adopted, will
give women the full right of suffra ge
on equal rms with men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
GLOBE SIGHTS


[From the Atchison Globe
A man wholly right needs no de-
Tense.
Do you know WY you married
him? Neither do we.
The smallest thing today is not the
atom, but dollar.
The best way to argue is to keep
Oh IS mouth shut and vote
A dub who gets the notion that he
is genius is the greatest bore.
Some men never amount to mucn
until they are henpecked and steady
down.
Some men never enjoy a pipe until
It gets strong enough to annoy every
one else.
One often wonders why it is neces-
sary to read the minutes of the last
meeting,
The way some men save for a rainy
day. you would think they are figur-
ing on a flood.
The fact that a pupil leads his class
at school is no sign he can keep it up
after commencement.
When the boat is ready to sink, then
is the time to work like everything.
Don't lay down when adversely IS
sternest.
There was a time when an AtchiSon
man, who is regarded as a failure.
was a very active man. During the
Civil war he was SO active he eluded
all of the recruiting officers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

The following optimistic paragraph
from the Los Angeles Times is worthy
a place in the scrap book: The world
has not gone to the bow-wows' IN
spite of the mistakes, inconsistencies
and seeming depravity of humanity
Instead, we are steadily going for
ward, constantly growing, forever be-
coming. II God made man in min
ute and found him a disa ppointment.
then it is not mans business TO worry,
for surely the Creator will. in good
time. manage TO shape man according
10 His ideal on the other hand, II
the theory of evolution is correct, the
human race is doing eXcellently we'll.
We get all things as we are ready fo.'
them We are constantly eliminating
all that we do not need. Two hun
bred years ago there was no special
need for railroads or automobiles in
the United States. Today, with our
good roads and increased population,
we need these things. and we have
them All blessings, material and spi-
ritual. will come To us when we are
prepared to receive them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

I46,1O7. This was double the net
earned the year earlier-S1 .926,322.
On a total capitalization of SS1.496,-
esq, common and preferred, the net
earrings represent return of moro
than 80 per cent.
The net income of the Packard Mo-
tor company last year was $6,2O6,0OO
"a return on the company's preferred
stock outstanding of 95.4S per cent:
and ON it's common stock outstanding
of 1888 per cent.
The Ford Motor Car company for
the last fiscal year earned 100000, 600
net or a capitalization of only $1,000
900, or a return of 5000 per cent!
The company paid a dividend of 50
per cent and retained a surplus of
SIS 100000 for reinvestment in the
business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
WHAT Ais THE SCHOOLS?

The great endowed agency for the
improvement Of American education,
the general education board. recently
took up the consideration of what
should be done for the common
schools in the United States AS a re-
suit. it invited two of its best known
members Charles W. Eliot, ex-presi-
dent of Harvard university, and Abra-
ham FleXner, to investigate and write
upon the subject. They reported back
that, at the earliest feasible moment,
the public-school system in the United
States should be reorganized from its
beginning.
These high authorities are not alone
in this view. Many of the parents of
school children in Topeka and thru
out the country are convinced that
there is something wrong altho they
may not have any we'll defined notion
as to what it is. Probably if they had
given the subject more thoughtful
consideration they would have reached
the conclusion that one of the greatest
faults of our school system lies in the
waste of time on useless subjects.
Foremost in the list of time MASTERS
are arithmetic and the higher mathe-
mates. The seven or eight years de-
voted to this subject in the grade
schools might well be condensed into
the last years study. The mind of the
pupil in the eighth grade in one
school year could master all the
arithmetic he would ever be likely to
need
OF what use to the ordinary man or
woman are apothecary's weight, alliga-
ton, aliquot parts, cube root, compound
and complex fractions. compound pro-
portion, foreign money, folding paper.
longitude and time, metric system,
progression and troy weight? Many
additional subjects might profitably
be eliminated on the ground that they
will be found useless in after life. I'm
less they be brought into use they are
soon forgotten.
1t is doubtful if as many as half
the teachers in the Topeka schools can
solve a problem in cube root today
without referring to the text book
And that fact. if it be one, is no dis
credit to them.
| Passing on to the higher mathe-
mates, of what practical use to the
average man or woman, who must
fight the world. in the ranks, for a
| living. are algebra and geometry =?
How many men and women who stud
led these subjects in school and have
had no use for them since. remember
anything about them?
Let any business man who has been
thru high school or even college be
l asked about his algebra, geometry or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
SIDE T ALM S
The Hardest Day.
By RUTH CAMERON.

whats the biggest day in the year
to the largest number of people" 1t
doesn't take any one a second thought
to answer that. does it?
And what's the hardest day-hard
in the sense of being the most diff
cult to get thru happily?
Some one, reminiscent of an utterly
tagged Christmas Eve at the end of
a tremendously crowded day spent in
tying up bundles and all other loose
ends of Christmas preparation. will
say feeHngly, THE day before Christ
mas
But 1 do not agree,
The day before Christmas is hard
crowded life is in many ways a sim
pie one. You haven't time to think,
and there's "a certain happiness in
that.
But to my mind the day that is
hardest in the sense of being the most
difficult to get thru happily is the day
after the day after Christmas.
1 put in that second after for
this reason: Christmas is such a long
preparation day to most of US that
the excitement does not entirely sub
side in one day. There is enough aft
erglow to light up the next day. 1t
isn't until the day after that that the
anti-climax really arrives.
Perhaps we weren't pleased with
the Christmas gifts we received, and
the wonder why people will not con-
suit our needs and wishes begins to
rear it's ugly head.
Or maybe we got what we wanted
chow l hate the commercialism of
that phrase!) and then we find our
selves sensing the flatness of having
what we want and wondering what
difference it makes, anyway
And in either case we will prob
ably be overwhelmed with a sense of
the futility and absurdity of the eff
forts we and all the other Christmas
crazy folks have been making.
OF course, the children are cross
because they have had too much ex-
element, and our housemates or bust
ness associates. being in the same
state of mind as we ourselves, are diff
ficult to get along with.
What is the use of reminding you of
all this, you may say?
Well. am going to take the liberty
of offering a piece of advice. Go to
bed early the night after Christmas
and get thoroly rested. Then plan
something for the second day after
Christmas. meeting with some slim
ulating friend. visit to- the theater.
some gathering of friends, or just take
good long walk. OF all the cures for
il. DIGESTION of the mind. there's none
can surpass that.-iCopyright by
George Matthew Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
BED TIME TALES
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON
ONE NIGHTS WORK.

Once upon a time, some forest fair
les were caught up in big white
snow cloud and blown thru a stormy
sky.
over village and meadow the Wind
carried them, till. tired with blowing,
he dropped them in a middle of u
great big city.
They looked around a bit. but the
more they looked, the lonesomer they
grew, for a big city is oh so different
from forest
q don't want to look around any
more" said one tiny fairy with a
quivery voice. Il want TO go back
home,"
But you can't do that" said a
bigger fairy "'cause we don't know
the Wav: but I'll tell YOU what we can
do he added brightly, I'VE can make
this old dirty city look like our for
est"
Look like our forest" exclaimed
the fairies altogether, why, our forest
is pretty and this city is just full of
buildings"
Eyes, but there are some trees"
said the bigger fairy
Trees" jeered the other fairies.
mot like our trees!'
You know the forest was full of
pine trees and these city trees are thin
and have lost all their ieaves,"
Il know" replied the bigger fairy
seriously but you see we are not in
the forest. we're here; let's make the
best of what we have
So with smiling faces the fairies set
to work and made their plans.
They summoned the Jack Frost
fairies to help and called the snow
flakes from the north pole. They
begged a bit of help from every pass
ing breeze. and coaxed snow and ice
from the clouds.
All night long they labored, on
trees and shrubs and houses.
Just before dawn the work was
done; they whisked away the clouds
and winds. brushed the scraps of snow
up to the house tops and hid to watch
the fun
AS old Mr.. Sun sleepily peeped over
the rim of day do you think he saw
day before?
No indeed he didn't. He saw a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
INVESTMENT RETURNS.

~ Despite the magnitude of the net
earnings of railroads in 1916, says
Trust Companies Magazine. they bear
no comparison to those of other big
Industries and the return on railroad
property investment is puny in COM
parison with the yields from other
businesses. On capitalization of
$40, 200. 600, common and preferred
the Bethlehem Steel corporation earn
ed $60.000,000 net-20O per cent on
S the company's capital. From this to-
tai there was available for common
stock $500 a share after every obliga-
tion of the company was paid; and of
this amount holders of common re-
ceiyed $40 on every share held.
From the gross earnings of the
United States Steel corporation. which
amounted to 1926. 900. there was
available for dividends on common
stock SAT a share. and each common
stockholders return was per cent.
General Motors company's gross
earnings in the last fiscal year were
S s156. 900.296 and its net profits, s2s.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
PROsPERITY TO CONTINUE.

In the course of a long interview
granted to George Creel and pub
lished in Everybody's for February.
President Wilson is quoted as saying
There are 100000 men under
arms in Europe, and back of these
vast armies the civil population of the
various countries is engaged in the
production of munitions and supplies.
Every continental industry and energy
has been, reorganized and redirected
for destructive purpose. Now is it
sensible to assume that these sore
pressed nations straining every nerve
in a fight for life, are accommodating
great stores of manufactured goods to
dump on the United States after the
war? Where are the raw materials?
Where is the time? Where is the
skilled labor?
Even upon the return of peace,
what instant rivalry is to be feared?
1t is estimated that the number of
killed, wounded and missing has al
ready reached a staggering total of
1S,5OO.O0O. The reorganization of in
dustries for commerce must necessar-
lily De ATTENDED by CONFUSION anu ue-
lay and it stands to reason that a
first task will be along the lines of re-
pairing the waste and destruction of
war.
Enormous debts will burden each
belligerent. Aside from interest rates
on money borrowed to carry on the
war, each government will have to
care for millions of cripples, widows
and orphans. and this load of taxa
ton must, as a matter or course, fig
ure in the cost of production.
What reason, then, 10 doubt the
right of the United States to expect a
continuance of prosperity? Not onlv
is there the part we will be called
upon to play in the reconstruction Of
shattered Europe, but the great mar
kets of South America and the Orient
are calling to us. With studious OBJ
servance of the rights of the Latin
American nations, and with a friendly
cultivation of the natural tendency of
those countries to draw close to us.
our trade relations with Central and
South America should take on a pre-
ferred character.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
L SHALL BE SOON.

L SHALL BE SOON.
Beyond the guys and jays a-tooting.
Beyond the wise owls, and their hooting,
Beyond the highbrows highfaluting,
l shall be soon
Beyond the kiddies and their wooing,
Beyond the fads and fakes pursuing,
Beyond much talk and little doing,
l shall be soon.
Beyond the scolding and the nagging,
Beyond the tongues forever wagging,
Beyond the little fools a-bragging,
l shall be soon.
Beyond the orators a-spouttng
Beyond the football and its shouting.
Beyond the inning and the outing,
/ shall be soon.
Beyond the doctors and their drugging,
Beyond the heavy burdens Juggling.
Beyond the toiling and the Juggling.
l shall be soon-
Beyond the politicians fooling.
Beyond the moneycrats a-pooling,
Beyond the dunmyheads a-ruling,
l shall be soon.
Beyond the willy MILES blooming
Beyond the handles rank pertaining,
Beyond the suffragettes a-fuming,
l shall be soon.
Beyond the folderols in teaching.
Beyond the ragtime and the creeching,
Beyond the lake of birthstone preaching,
l shall be soon.
Chanutc Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

The Danish West Indies are at last
to pass into American possession. All
that remains is to pay the SIS, 900. 900
and to hoist the flag. We paid less
han cents an acre for Alaska. less
han cents an acre for California
: less than IA cents an acre for Florida
and less than 81 cents an acre for the
philippines. Our highest price was
paid for the Panama Canal zone,
(which cost us sS5.S3 an acre. For the
new islands. however. we shall pay
more than 1926 an acre and in addi-
stion we shall surrender all our rights
of discovery in Greenland. The Danes
shave established a claim to being bet
: ter traders than the Yankees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

On Saturday purchase a forequar-
ter of lamb or mutton from seven to
ten pounds, 1t should be divided as
follows: Shoulder, neck, breast,
French chops, bones and trimmings.
The shoulder is boned, poc<et-cut
for filling, stuffed and roasted for
Sunday dinner and cut cold for Mon
day luncheon or supper.
Boil the neck with the shoulder
bone and trimmings. making two
quarts of lamb broth to be used for
soup for Mondays dinner.
The meat is trimmed f: ON the neck
bones for lamb croquettes. meat salad
or loaf.
The breast is stewed or curried with
rice.
The choicest part is left. that is.
one dozen Frenched lamb chops.
You must tell your butcher just
how you want it cut and trimmed
The chops are FFenched chine re-
moved, but the chops are not cut
apart. That is left for the house
keeper to cut just as needed
Wrap chops in waxed paper with an
outer covering of heavy paper Wrap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

arithmetic. aside from that portion in
use in his business, and he probably
will confess that he has forgotten.
The work of the schools should be
to teach the student how to learn.
The actual learning is done after he
leaves the school The high school
or college graduate does not discover
how little he has learned until he at
tempts to put what knowledge he
thinks he has acquired to practical
use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

He saw beautiful snow covered
trees. decorated with strands of ice
pearls. And the bushes were frosted
with silver and the hedges were deck
ed with white.
What has happened p he exclaim-
ed he rubbed his eye in fifty.
where's the dirty old town / left last
night?'' Without waiting for an an
swer he added, This is just the place
for sunbeams."
And he threw over the snowy city
handfuls of sunbeams that danced and
spaTkled thru the trees.
The little fairies in their hiding
place exclaimed at the beautiful sight
and laughed so happily that old Mr.
Wind. who was passing by, heard
them. and whisked them hack to their
dear forest -tCopyright-Clara
Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

The federal revenue tax returns
show that there was an increase of AZ
per cent in the consumption of Gig
arets last year over the year 1915.
These figures of course take no ac-
count of the hand made variety. This
* remarkable in the face of the fact
that the cigaret is the one form of to-
bacco on which ceaseless war has been
waGed for years. What is the an
sWery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

As was generally expected, Presi-
dent Wilson has u second time vetoed
the immigration bill carrying the lit
eracy test. The same measure was
vetoed by Preside Taft. Congress is
showing a persistence in the matter
worthy of a better cause and doubt
less an attempt will be made to pass
it over the objections of the president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

Little Willie was playing with the
girl next door, when the latter ex-
calined
Don't you hear your mother call
ing you? That's three times she's
done so. Aren't you going in?"
Not yet" replied Willie, imper-
turbably.
Wont she whip you?" demanded
the little girl. awed.
MOI exclaimed Willie. she's not
company So when I go in she'll just
say. The poor little man has been so
deaf since he's had the measles"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

Mr.. Wilson asks the world to &C
cept a COpperhead peace of dishonor
a peace without victory ror the right, =
says Colonel Roosevelt Evidently
the colonel is one of those persons
who believe that right and not might
always wins and that Napoleon was
wrong in believing that victory goes to
the general with the biggest guns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

If the legislature abolish the Mas
sachusetts ballot law and return to
the kangaroo system it may as we'll
include the double election board in
the clean up. 1t was the existing bal
lot law that made the double election
board necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

Investigations of the high cost of
living and many other things. which
have been in progress many moons,
do not appear to have brought about
any reductions. The money spent on
them might have been put to better
use in other channels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

The proprietors of two rival livery
stables, situated alongside each other
in a busy street, have been having
lively advertising duel lately.
The other week one of them stuck
up on his office window a long strip
of paper bearing the words:
Our horses need no whip to make
them co.
This bit of sarcasm naturally
caused some amusement at the eX-
pense of the rival proprietor, but in
less than an hour he neatly turned
the tables by pasting the following
retort on his own window:
True. The wind blows them
along!"
The family was having guests to
dinner, and 6-year-old Edward had
his supper alone and was sent to bed
somewhat earlier than usual. The ap-
petizing aroma of roast turkey, in
which he had not shared, reached
him as he lay awake bordering over
his hard fate, and he decided to de-
scend to the dining room and claim
his rights.
But when father, beholding the
sternly, well, sir, what do you
WANT Edwards courage fell, and
he answered apologetically, 81 just
came to see if you would lend me
bone when you're thru with it,
A young woman of pink complexion
but of heroic build-a kind way of
denoting obesity-applied to E. II. Cal
vert, the moving picture director. for
a position as an extra girl. She pre-
scented him a personal letter of intro
duction. Long years ago, it seems,
Mr.. Calvert knew her father and
mother. AS he gazed at this plump
Juno the light of memory came into
his eyes, but still he was not quite
certain about something.
Let me see,'' he unused, (which side
of the house do you resemble the
most ~
Sir" she cried in accents far from
mild. Il don't resemble any side of
any old house,"
Dr. Oliver Hobson was defending
certain appropriations, says the Wash
ing Star.
Don't call these appropriations
pork barrel appropriations" he eX-
claimed. Tho Pocatella numbers only
517 souls, she can appreciate a $780,,
900 postoffice as we'll as any bloated
metropolis could.
Cut appropriations of this kind.
gentleman, and you wound your cleo
tors as cruelty as the drummer was
wounded at the Pocatella house.
This drummer, being very fond of
Finally the pretty waitress, after
she'd brought him his fourteenth or
fifteenth ear, said, tartly:
Don't you think you would save
half dollar or so a day if you board
ed at livery stable?''
They were dining off fowl in a res
taurant. You see," he explained, as
he showed her the wishbone, you
take hold here. Then we must both
breaks the one who has the biggest
granted"
But 1 don't know what to wish
for" she protested.
"Oh, you can think of something
he said.
No, 1 can't" she replied. Il can't
think of anything 1 want very much. -
well, I'll wish for YOU" he ex-
claimed:
will you, reany?" she asked.
Yes"
well, then, there's no use fooling
with the old wishbone," she inter-
rupted with a glad smile; you can
have me-"
"Our Tommy" said the boys moth
er, Ought to make a success in life.
He shows great determination to stick
to anything he undertakes
Docs he?" queried the proud
father.
yes" she replied. why, he nut
in the whole day making soap bubbles
and trying TO tie strings to them
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beautiful snow white city, as white
and clean as could be.
And did he see naked gray trees as
the day before?
No indeed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31
DINNER STORIES

Il think the baby has your hair,
ma am" said the new nurse, looking
pleasantly at her mistress.
"Graciousi" exclaimed the lady,