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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

the pit Of Mr.. Bennett's stomach in the
Herald office received several dollars re-
ward for his unusual haste. These and
many instances like them were traditions
of Herald employees.
He laughed at conventions, and invaria-
bly, printed in the Herald the worst things
his enemies said about him When Jay
Gould gave to the press letter of 10000
words attacking Bennett's personal life,
the editor Of the Herald turned about and
published it In full with the curt remark
that Mr. Gould was "a gentleman" When
john Kelley, leader of Tammany Hall,
publicly assaulted Mr.. Benefits character,
he retorted The proprietor of the Herald
lost his reputation long before Mr.. Kelley
was ever heard Of"
He swung his newspaper from one side
to another In public questions with start
ling abruptness.
In his innumerable promotions, all bear
ing upon the promotion Of his newspap per,
Mr.. Bennett figured as notable patron
OF sport. He introduced polo into America
revived coaching in France; organized in
ternational automobile and aeronautical
races, and built and sailed numerous
yachts. f. P. NJ.
(TO Be Continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men in
Americas Fighting Service

The man who can smile in the face
OF danger and the man who can lift
up the spirits of his fellows with
words CT cheer in a crisis has in him
the stuff that heroes are made 8of.
When a United States destroyer was
tcrpedoe,i in foreign waters by a Ger
man submarine, the missile of death
came SO Unexpectedly that there was
no opportunity to take the defensive
or maneuver the ship out of the path
As soon as she was struck ii was seen
there was no chance to save the shin
and the men started in to save each
other. Officers and crew made for
the sea, and for hours in bitter cold.
circled about in the boats, picking
up men IN the water. The command
Ing officer of the ship in his report
gives unstinted praise to the men
who. by going about from raft to
raft, kept up the spirits and nerve of
the men with their words of cheer.
Among those cited for gallantry in
this regard are Harry Louis Gibson.
chief boatswafn's mate, whose home
is at 5s11 Market street, PHILADELPHIA,
where his wife resides. The other is
Edward Meier, a water tender Meier
IL son of John E. Meier living at
205 North Monroe street, Bay city,
Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

the real worth of the parents whose
greatness of loyalty and service and
sacrifice Is beyond the power of the
schools to bestow. Any education
mother and father is a bad education.
A gentle heart is more to be de-
sired than a stored brain. For edu-
cation is successful in so TAR as II
trains one to live helpfully and hap
PLY with other people.
A shrcwd lover of nature, who has
invested his talents in helping boys
and in unfolding the lore of woods
ures, remarked, after attending re-
union of his college class. Il was dis
appointed to find the fellows all tank
ing of their success In terms OF
money. Most of them thought 1t was
enough 20 tell how much money they
had made: we heard little about what
they had done for their neighborhooo
CT the state. Surely dollar marx
is not The truest sign of an educated
man." The observation struck the
weak spot in much of our mooern
views Of education. Thousands OF
young persons are going to conege,
not because they want a finer cui-
ture, or a wider fellowship. or admit
lance into the charmed circle OF tne
arts and science, but simply IN oraei
t. enable them to earn more money
If that is the first and last goal OF ar
education, then it is mot. in the ole
and broader sense, an education AZ
all. .--s---
A detail of education too often neg
lected is knowledge of the English
Bible. That is civilization's oldes
book. Its characters and phrase.
should be the most familiar in al
literature. Moreover, this book has
the peculiar quality of imparting life
1t fires all the higher faculties of tbs
reader. Proof is abundant that L
transforms character. making gooe
coarse, pure men out of vile, nobl,
men out of ignob1e. In all the cur
ricula OF education there is no othel
one book SO valuable as the Bible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

Topeka's quota of the Red Cross
find is so small that the entire
amount should be raised in the first
day of the campaign. Why make two
Bites at a cherry? Let us "go over
the top" the first day and permit the
men and women of the soliciting COM
mittee to go about their customary
business. They should not be required
to give their time to attending to what
is everybody's business. Sooner or
later all will subscribe to the fund
why not do it the first DAY and with
cut waiting to be asked?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17
A KANSAN IN NEW YORK.
CHAPTER VII.
A Visit at the New York Herald.

A Visit at the New York Herald.
En- Route to Philadelphia, May IA,
1918. Pennsylvania Train %. near
Pittsburg.
The announcement in the Assocfat-
ed Press dispatches this evening in the
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph which
have Just read. of the sudden death
of James Gordon Bennett, the great
editor of great newspaper, induces me
to change Chapter VII as planned for
Fridays State Journal to chapter
devoted to Bennett and my visit a
few days ago to Ills office in New York
and with w. A. Rogers. my old school
mate in Ohio and chairman of the
New York Herald council.
This chapter was to have been "a
Dinner With Dean" but that chapter.
not yet written, will now become
Chapter VIII for Saturday.
1t might be noted that Chapters ",
" and VI. appearing Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday were writ
ten, dictated, on the train since leav-
in Topeka Monday and sent in.
Rogers and the writer meet period
ically in New York when business per-
mits.
One recent evening in the latter part
of April w. A. r. took dinner with
me at my hotel, the Martinique.
Naturally a good time was had"
Later we went over to the Herald Of
flee, near by.
do you still keep Mr.. Benefits
room in there and his desk, spick and
span, with fresh blotters, ink, clean
pens and stationery, ready for him, ii
he should step in any moment, with
out warning?"r asked.
YES" said Rogers. that's our Gus
TOM"
And you meet every day. as al
ways. at 3 p. M. and preside at the
council and formulate your daily cable
to him to Paris, or wherever on the
globe he may be, and receive cables
from him?"
yes"
Rogers is the cartoonist, a famous
one. He succeeded Mast He had
given me many of his originals, which
hang on State journal walls and in my
home. On this trip he gave me his
BLACK and White Book of War Car
toons'' and this is the inscription on
the fly leaf:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17
THE COMING ECLIPSE.

On the afternoon of Saturday, June
8, the wonderful spectacle of total
solar eclipse will be visible, weather
permitting, over a track extending
from the Pacific to the Atlantic. This
track of the moons shadow is seventy
miles wide at the western coast in
Washington, narrowing to forty miles
in Florida
Z Prof. Edwin B. Frost of the Yerkes
Observatory, writing regarding the
approaching eclipse for Popular Me-
ehanics, says:
n For about an hour the moon will
GRADUALLY encroach upon the suns
disk, the daylight will fade, then the
narrowing crescent of the sun will
Suddenly disappear, and around the
1et-black ball of the moon, hanging in
the northwestern sky among the
brighter stars, will be seen the pearly
radiance of the mysterious solar CO.
roma The remarkable spectacle may
be enjoyed for 122 seconds at the
western coast, and for half that time
IN Florida. Then the crescent of the
sun will appear on the other (western)
side of the moon. and after another
hour the full disk of the sun will shine
as usual.
This event happens at any one place
on the average. only three times in a
thousand years.
The gaseous envelopes of the sun
can be advantageously studied by as
fronomers during the brief interval OF
total eclipse. and it is then only thai
the corona can be observed. 1t is es.
timated that there are only about
ninety minutes in. a century for the in.
vestigation of this interesting but still
perplexing outer appendage of the
sun. Its shape is not constant. bu
varies with the eleven-year cycle o.
the suns activity in producing sun
spots. Sun-spcts are now about a
their maximum, and accordingly WI
may expect a corona with streamer.
distributed in all directions around tn,
sun, but not so widely extended cas-
and west as in 1900. The streamer'
Issuing from near the suns poles sug
gest somewhat certain appearances o
the aurora borealis.
The light of the corona is partly re
Elected sunlight and partly radiation
due to the intense heat IL receives from
the sun. But the most interesting par
Is due to an unknown gas. called CO
1onium. which has not yet been fount
81 the earth or in the spectrum of an,
other sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
lFrom the Atchison Globe. !

One mans hero is another mans
dub.
Election to congress is too often
taken rs license to scold. Ff4
Girls rarely get into trouble while
walking on the residence streets
When an Atchison baby looks cross
II looks Just like 1t father the neieh-
bors say.
Just because a certain man sweara
to everything he says no one believes
anything ne says
What has become of the old fash.
toned boy who was afraid to ask his
father for a nickel?
Some people are willing to do anv.
thing except work for the man who
is paying them wages.
The person capable of criticisms
usually IL SO busy doing somethInS
useful That he hasn't time to crftict.s'
They say a bachelor is a gone ro..
ling when a widow takes after MIN
but there is one III Topeka that ont.
ra three
When an old-fashionkd man forget.
something and has to go back for n
he says: II make my feet do shat
my heal won't do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

is not claimed that this great work
which involves the forming of new
lion men. has been accomplished
without hitch. There have been
mistakes and difficulties. But the
thing has been on the whole a ire
mendous success. The soldier seldom
lacks an attractive appointment for
his day off He may occasionally stay
out bit late at dance and be sleepy
at revcIile the next morning, as his
been charged. He may occasionally
eat too much cake at the behest of
some fair hostess and contract Stom-
ache ache But the big, fact is that
i've thousand men, turned loose ON a
town after a week of drill and study,
are offered something wholesome and
pleasant to do, and that a goodly ror-
ton of them accept it
The way the cities feel about it is
shown by E letter from Mayor Gambler
OF Atlanta to the commission: "If
we had not provided various satisfac-
tory forms of recreation for the men,
as has been done by your organiza-
tion, there is no doubt that they would
have found other and certainly less
satisfactory forms of recreation that
we would not be SO proud to make
public"
Even if the soldiers could be kept
| absolutely isolated from the civilian
population, even If this were desira BILE
from military viewpoint, which it is
not, the war department does not be-
lieve that such a policy would be just,
CT in keeping with the spirit of a
democracy. 1t takes the attitude
that the United States government
owes To these men 1.-The normalities
Of life;" that it has asked them to
make a 81 eat sacrifice, and has a duty
tc make that sacrifice as small as
possible. It further believes that
American manhood is not easily pam
pered. The American army is COM
posed of American workmen and
business men, from every walk of
life. These men have not been ac-
customed to neglecting their civilian
responsibilities for frivolities and di-
versions, and there is no reason to be-
lieve that they will neglect their duty
as soldiers. They are responsible citi-
zens of 2 republic which is supposed
to be founded upon the principle of
individual liberty. AS far as is COM
patible with military discipline, that
principle is going to be preserved.
Names in the News.
Drum fire-is continuous artillery
fire so-called from the fact that the
reports of the guns follow each other
SO closely as to resemble the roll OF
a drum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

We were fourteen then, same age,
and in a minor league. very minor.
German helmet is compliment to
the State Journals vigorous swatting
of kaiserism and Prussianism.)
Rogers also gave me his cartoon:
He Has Paid His Liberty Bond"
which was printed in the Herald a few
weeks ago and represents a soldier
boy lying on his back, after being list
ed with the fatal casualties. This car
toon attracted the attention of the
government, which ordered seventy
five thousand reprinted and distrib-
uted to help the Third Liberty Loan
Drive.
Many times have 1 visited the Her.
aid office, year after year, before the
present State Journal building was
| constructed, and studied it inside and
out; from top to bottom, every depart
ment- The blinking owls at Eighth
and Kansas were inspired by the Her.
aid owls, which only glare steadily.
Other features were noted and mod
| flied to suit the Kansas environment.
| But of the dead editor: He died in
the harness at IT; a bachelor till 73,
when he married Philadelphia, the
widow of a son of Baron de Reuter-,
who founded the celebrated British
| news service, with which the Asso-
ciated Press has long enjoyed recip-
rocal relations.
| los
were about his newspaper.
Several thousand miles away from
his main newspaper office, Mr.. Ben
nett directed in minute detail the at
fairs of the New York Herald and
maintained for himself one of the
most commanding positions in Ameri.
can Journalism. For more than q
quarter of a century he lived in Pari:
land worked simultaneously there and
in New York. No man before him oil
since has attempted such long-dis.
lance editing.
Two years ago the editor of ths
State Journal was detained in Cali
fornia by illness in his family fol
many weeks. The telegraph was uset
freely; mails were SO often too slow
That was probably the nearest tina
any Kansas man ever came to loni
distance editing.
The present four years contrac
with the Topeka Typographical Unto,
was then negotiated by wire, wherein
the printers and the proprietor en-
tered into one Of those many agree
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

I The Lloyd George ministry has
weathered another political storm and
come thru it with colors flying. The
Britons seem to believe with Abraham
Lincoln that it is poor policy to swap
horses while crossing a stream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

master Of the house wayIaid she
servant in the kitchen.
Look here" he began anrr3lv
how dare you tell my wife Whst
time I came home this morning sffec
/ told you not to?"
The Irish girl eyed him steadily
Shure an Oh didn't" she rerIf.s
calmly. She asked me phwat toimc
yez came in. an OF only twold hir
that OF was too busy gettia the breaE.
fast ready to look at the clock"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

If the Englishman who sank an old
cruiser in the harbor mouth of Ostend
were a citizen of this country he could
come home, be kissed by all the girls
and elected to congress. Our heroes
are nearly always considered to be fit
ted for and entitled to hold public Of
flee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

Names in the News.
Drum fire-is continuous artillery
fire so-called from the fact that the
reports of the guns follow each other
SO closely as to resemble the roll of
q drum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

His whims, amounting, his critics said
to eccentricities, were one of the most in
teresting angles of his personality. 1t il
related that he dismissed musical criti
simply because .he was such funny look
ing man." and put the financial editor ii
his place; and that copy" who ran int,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

Whatever helps a person to sweep
a wider horizon in his vision; and to
view life's happenings with poise and
detachment, whether that agency be a
university or an experience of per-
sonal adversely. is a good education.
The stored mind is strong; men,
tality grows, like the body, by being
fed. knowledge Is a tested route to
wisdom: but meditation is a surer.
What digestion is to food, meditation
is to knowledge. The end of all edu-
cation Is to teach a person to think
clearly. strongly and practically
He that studies only men will get
the body of knowledge without the
soul, and he that studies only books,
the soul without the body. He that
to what he sees adds observation and
to what he reads reflection is in the
right road to knowledge. providing
that in scrutinizing the hearts he
neglects not his own.-Colton
One regrettable fact about the adj
va,pced education of many young per-
sons is that they have been alien
ated from their homes and families
and the ld-fashioned" ways of the
latter. The tragedy of this gulf
which school and college have created
between students and their parents ia
known only to the mothers and faith
ers who have endured 1t. Usually,
also, the explanation is that the chill
dren have not won to even the begin
ming of wisdom. else they would value
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

Education" means ito lead out"
and the higher education is also Ito
lead up" inspiring man with the fear
of the Lord, which is the beginning
of wisdom. We have not learned
life until we have learned God.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-20

means his opportunity show hard common sense and
patriotism In the first place, his Government must be
supported this against German autocraey in the
form submarines his crops viii get to market
and he Will not be able to his share Of the world
wealth That The hard, OF It, And II
his Government is not supported by his money viii
able 60 purchase from him here in the home
markets That also is hard.
IN the second place. the farmers patriotism should
tell him that the Government al Washington has given
him and of protection for his prop
erty his rights citizen. and should be sup
ported by his mone4-not because the government a.
Washington is something apart from him. but because
government himself neiehbor The south
his neishbor the and all his neighbors IN the
and the United States, The Government is our
selves and should know enough TO display practical
enthusiasm our own good fortune and ideas
OF what is right and lawful among nations and indi-
v,duals TO back opinion with money and our
lives
The American farmer is feeding himself and his
friends when he works hard long produce bumper
in this period and BE spending his money
himself his future. well that Of his allies
he supports the Cove purchasing Liberty
bonds
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-20

IN the great Napoleanic war against
Russia on tho Hungarian fields for
the freedom Of Hungary. etc. etc. We
sec from the above facts how much the
Poles love freedom. not just their own.
but freedom in general a freedom for
all nations.
Let US ren1ean Der IN the month OF ma
tioual celebration that the same Po-
land whose sons fought great battles
not only FOR the freedom or their own
country but also for the freedom OF
others. are doing their bit in the pres
ent great worlds war. While poor
and overridden by the Prussian army
Poland is bleeding and her people dy-
ing from starvation. the Polish legions
are fighting on the Allies side IN
/ France. Volunteers III the the L. s.. Ca
madam and French armies are very nu-
4 nerous. The Poles will have soon a
/ big army Of their own consisting en-
tirely Of Polish volunteers from 81
parts Of the world and especially from
the United States. hghting in France
side by side with the French BRITISH
and American armies for tho freedom
of great united and independent Pc
land. consisting Of Russian. Austrian
and German Poland. with Gdaask a.
the Polish port on the Baltic sea
Long life for United States. POLAND
and the worlds pemocracvi
L. CuRZANOWSKL LIB. 4
Indiana Harbor
hcsciuszko's birthday. Feb 10
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-20
IN
IMEMORIAM
VOICE OF
-usA THE Aln.-
p e Q L E
FEBRUARY, TBE MONTH OF "A
TIo%AL CELEBU ALTON.
Editor Times.

Editor Times.
We celebrate this month the great
Anniversary OF the birth o. Lincoln
and Washington. the fathers Of this
country. for whom not only Americans
have high respect but tho whole world.
They we're fortunate in their work for
their fellow citizens. who as the re
suit or their endeavors are today
powerful natlon-ths United states Of
America
In tho same month of February, the
birthdav o. America n1artyred pres
idents Lincoln and Washington. we
the American Poles. celebrated the
birthday OF Polsnds national hero
great Thadeus Kosciusko, who too.
gave his life for his country. but with
ont a chance 70 rebuild IT, and with
out chance 10 regain freedom for his
beloved Poland,
Thadeus KoscIuszko was The second
great but unhappy man 90 Poland.
who arrived in America and fought for
the freedom OF this country where he
left en- everlasting an d immortal
/ memory. which the American people
are proud tc commemorate.
Through the efforts Of the two he
lroes or Poiand-Pulaskt and kosciusz-
ko. came Into contact for the Arst
time the annals or tha two great ma
tions-the one pulled down from the
worlds stage by the outrsges OF three
usurrers ard Practitioners o. Poland
Prussia. Austria and Russia-apd the
ether arising n thu worlds mona BY
the sAaiue u her sseat sons.
Poland. through her wonderful his
tory. same a America, never knew the
Weigh ~ deSpotfs4n. Although Po-
land never Used any force Of the
sword 70 add any nelghbors terri
tory to her own. her power did grow
We see the unusual historical phenom-
enon where nations II their free VII
requested Poland to include them VIII
her territor,1 which vas done oy RI
thenia and Lithunia
Poland. like America. does not know
snv conquest or robbery OF 4 foreign
nations territory We see in Poland:
history the high proof OF the love o.
liberty in the act OF wars ike: IN 144'
waged against Turkey By the powerful
king or Poland T.sdislaus. on tho fels
OF Warm in defense Of Chri stianit'
from the invasion OF barbarian Turks
about two centuries later We see again
the hero Kingdom sobieski. unde
the walls OF Vienna N the year 1885
whore in defense or Europe and Chris
tianity called by Pope and the En-
peror or Austria. he fastened with III
Polish army and repealed the Turks
erancipatfnF from their harha~ity an
J burtalitv Viena and the whole OF EU
ro7e Even after the last partition 0
Poland IN the year 1873. the defeate
Polish army By thes combined horde
: az Russia. Prussia and Austria. march
ed from their beloved country, reor
gained tho Polish legions. who Tough
later on the Italian fields for italia
| freedom. in France. a. the Parisis
barbados Tor the freedom Of Franc
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-20
POLITICAL TRICK cry.

The political trickery involved in the attempt TO
heat popular wil-the wishes maiority-by PUT
ting over prohibition through the alteration
of the national Constitution is apparent at glance
In such scheme prohibition Idaho with 100000 popuia
ton counts much New York with 100000
population and prohibition Arizona with $4,000 popu-
lation scores equally with PENNSYLVANIA With popula
ton Of S5oo00o Three-fourths OF the states ap
prove This amendment even though hreefourths Of the
people Of The country opposed 10 any such sweeping
annulment OF what they regard righful personal
privilege declares the Baltimore Star.