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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL -Sunday, January 19, 1913. away from the cemeteries after night The Topeka Daily Capital BY ARTHUR CAPPER, On Second Thought BY JAY B. HOUSE. A Bouquet of Sunflowers BY TOII MfNKAL. "THIS IS THE THIRD KIMBALL PIANO fall.

You will also have noticed that the man who Is willing to trust the people seldom runs a grocery store. "I don't know what we aro coming to." Evangelist Rees is quoted as saying. Well, whatever it is. there Is no disposition to blame Evangelist Rees for it. In printing the picture of a woman a newspaper generally succeeds in tearing down all her photographer has built up.

W. W. Kimball Co. Established 1857 BUILDERS OF PIANOS, PLAYER PIANOS PIPE and REED ORGANS I have bought for the girls," said one of our customers the other day, after a Bale had been closed. "I expect that Mary, our youngest, will take this one away before long, and then Mother and I will have to get one of those new fashioned Kim exceeding the llabillt'es.

It id an opportunity to get In early for such publicity as the proposed investigation would give. The expense of mak'ng the Improvements that might be Indicated by a thorough-going social survey, as Mr. Harrison when here pointed out, is altogether exaggerated. In the first place, it is not the Intention to get up a program of immediate renovations or changes in any dlrect'on, but Bimply to bring the whole community together in a sense of community interest and welfare on the basis of a knowledge of how the city stands, physically, industrially and In other vital respects. On the other hand, the advantage that will come to Topeka, from such a good piece of work will be to furn'sh actual knowledge and to indicate along what lines the long pull should be made of city development, to provide the foundation for a city plan In the broadest way and for the long years tb come.

There ought, not to be any question of the desirability of having this work done for the cty'3 good 'n a variety of ways. Some men are born lucky," Is that the farmer needs the ck Kilby yesterday. "I see by the V1 intf need ivllOy yesterday ball player pianos. kt "We have always had a Kimball organ or piano in our home as far back as I can remember, and then some. No man is good enough to sell me anything but a Kimball.

I expect there are other, good ones, but I know about the Kimball." "Why not have sure satisfaction with a Kimball in your home! W. W. KIMBALL CO. 822 Kansas Ave. F.

P. Whitmore, Mgr. We didn't see the number of the Philistine for which Fra EIbertus drew a fine, but It couldn't have been worse than some of those which preceded it. Our long standing encounter with the public has taught us' that It rather likes the sort of thing provided the indecency is neatly wrapped, tied with a blue ribbon and sprinkled with toilet water. But the Fra often failed to go to all that trouble.

Jack Johnson says he is Borry he didn't get out of the country. That, we believe, makes it unanimous, the votes of all the aspiring white heavyweights having been counted. If we are asked to point a moral In the case of the Chicago woman who heaved a brick through a saloon mirror, we should say that the marksmanship of the women is improving. If you leave it to us, no law to prevent Intermarriage between the whites and the blacks is necessary. Those whom such a law would affect are not worth protecting.

And the relationship which such marriages sanction would be maintained in any event. Credit Rube Marquard with, another game. He has Just won another man's wife. Madam Calve's young husband differs from most of those attached to prima donnas in the respect that he will be on exhibition when she sings. Ordinarily when a man marries a prima donna it Is equivalent to going down for the third time.

The case of the five Philadelphia ball players who are holding out for more salary -reminds us of that of Benton Cookbottom of Topeka. The tinware for Cookbottom had been purchased. His employer was merely awaiting a propitious time to attach it. At this juncture Cookbottom struck him for a' raise and got It. He has had since and still is on the payroll.

If there is any moral it is that the boss often accepts you at your own estimate. Surgery has progressed to the point where the human heart may be shifted from place to place without the impair ment of its functions. Great stuff for the pitchers who develop a lump in the thorax. Evangelist Lowrey, now current in Atchison, says there is no hope for a man who uses tobacco. As one more or less addicted to the fragrant weed, we desire to ask him why there isn't? We are one of those who wish to pe ruse his authority for the statement.

The fact that he personally disapproves of tobacco is not a sufficient indict ment against it to constitute a case. Pleasure may also be defined as a woman's expression of Joy in spending money before she gets it. Senator Mahin wants the Chautauqua salute abolished. Senator Mahin can consider that it has been done so far as this colm Is concerned. But at the same time we hold that the rights of the "pee-pul" should not be abrogated.

To many the Chautauqua salute is as precious a boon as Sunday baseball Is to others. We have never used the Chautauqua salute extensively. Our foolish streak expresses itself in another way. a Legislature assumes too much when It begins to monkey with the rights and privileges of others. "One reason I have no automobile," said Sim Heckle yesterday, "is that I have no home to mortgage." The rule is that men love the Lord and hate their enemies.

We agree with Richard Fritz that there are no spooks. But we stay BANDS. a fourteen fragment band rolling through "Poet and Peasant" in a heavy sea, the cornets four beats in the lead with the clarionets and alto horns catching up fast and tne bass horn THE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF WOMEN. Emporia's Federation of "Women's Clubs is on the right track in its movement to obtain from the present legislature the repeal of discriminating laws against the property Interests of women. That the first thing that women should demand and obta'n, fol lowing the concession that has just been made to them of political rights.

Equality of property rights between men and women should have been granted long ago, but can scarcely be withheld now that women are able to enforce their appeals by the ballot. There are some anachronisms in our laws and some archaic customs and opinions that are tolerated for no other reason than because of the force of habit, the difficulty of breaking away from the roots of long established custom, the monumental conservatism of the American people. We speak in general terms of the equality of women, or of the superior rights and influences that women possess without political power to enforce such rights, but we still hold women to an extent as vassals by depriving them of the 9 same rights in the matter of property as men, and there is nothing that is more onerous to women than financial dependence. There are millions of women, wives of well to do husbands, who nevertheless have no property whatever In their own control. Wives of wealthy husbands, whose economies and household work have contributed to the family prosperity in an Important degree, nevertheless can not at death dispose of any part of the family property by will, while the husband at death can dispose of all of It except the widow's portion.

The women of Emporia are right In demanding the repeal of discriminatory property laws against women. Armour Co. in 1912 made a profit of 50 per cent on Its capital stock, but like Standard Oil, Armours are undercapitalized in the sense that their big profits In years past have not been capitalized but have largely gone into the property nevertheless. The big packing concern made during the year a fraction under 4 per cent net profit on the business transacted. The magnitude of the Armour business can be suggested by saying that It Is nearly three times the business done by, the Santa Fe railroad, and more than four times the business of the Union Pacific.

On that volume of business the profits available for dividends are but half as large a sum as on these railroads. Considering that it is about 60 years, more or less, since Kansas adopted its constitution, and that a few things have occurred In that period In the way of social progress. It cannot be denied that Senator Waggoner's resolution for a constitutional convention has some smack of reasonableness about It. BIO EATS. "Can you come up tomorrow night? We're having an engagement dinner." "Daughter engaged, eh! I congratulate you." "Oh, no; we've engaged a new cook." Tfce Only Newspaper fa KaiiM Published Every Day la the Year The Oaly Morning Paper atd Only Sunday Paper In Topeka.

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Visitors from Topeka or Kansas when stopping in any of these cities will be welcomed at tne Capital branch offices and can always find the latest Issue of their home paper. DAILY CAPITAL CIRCULATION FOR DECEMBER. Dec City. 1 9,744 2 9,173 3 9,173 4 9.139 5 9,200 6 9.17 7 9,207 8 9.777 9 9,255 10 9,238 11 9,228 12 9,230 13 9,221 14 9.268 15 9,813 Total. 32,346 34,283 34,110 34,038 84,066 34,008 34,006 32,275 84,179 33,987 33,942 33,922 33,912 33,947 32,222 Dec.

16... 17... 18..., 19... 20... 21..., 22...

23..., 24... or i.0 i 26..., 27... City. ...9,293 ...9,294 ...9,264 ...9,257 ...9,843 ...9,277 ...9,238 ...9,429 ...9,259 ...9,263 Total. 34.0S0 83,952 33,926 33.884 33,883 32,219 84,058 33.SS9 34,080 83,890 33,887 33,873 32,271 34,009 33,879 28.

.9,263 29 9,797 30 9,252 31 9,272 Net Dally Average, City of Topeka 9,336 Total Net Dally Average 33, .08 Total Circulation for Arthur Capper, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital, does solemnly swear that the above figures represent the actual number of copies of the Daily and Sunday Capital printed and circulated in the month of December, ial2. ARTHUR CAPPER, Publisher. Thirty-first day of December, 1912. FRANCES WRIGHT, Seal) Notary Public. A THIRD DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.

A judge pro tern at Kansas City showed. In sensational style, how to expedite justice the other day, when he fined two lawyers for not being ready to proceed, commanding one lawyer to pay $10, and the other to pay $25, to the opposing counsel in each case, who, on their part, were ready to proceed with the trial. But was If real? The unhappy truth is that It was another delectable example of those legal optical Illusions that you read about, demonstrated by the Instantaneous alacrity with which the two penalized lawyers proceeded to cough up the $35 and hand it over to brother what's-his-name, opposing counsel. A lawyer got It, but did a lawyer pay it? Well, not if the lawyer retained the use of his legal faculties. He passed it on to the invisible plaintiff, or defendant, as the case may have been, and as usual the innocent byBtanding litigant, or "ultl mate consumer" of Justice, got It where sister wears the beads.

Reform of legal procedure if left to the lawyers who profit thereby is going to be as dila tory a process as the other dilatorl nesses that President Taft declares to be a disgrace to the legal profession in the United States. SOCIAL SURVEY OF TOPEKA. Tne Sage Foundation's preliminary report of a social survey of Topeka, made by Its director of surveys, Shelby M. Harrison, suggests the benefits that cities obtain such an investigation or tneir own conditions, assets and liabilities, and the directiong in which the greatest advancement can be made at the least cost. Some 40 cities have applied to the Russell Sage Foundation, which is an evidence of the opinion growing out of the surveys that have been made that they are a paying investment.

As to the efficiency of the work -if the expei te of the Sage Foundation there is no kind of question; they are men who know their business and havfc experience behind them that enables them to get the work done at as little cost of time and money as possible. There are two mistaken ideas liable to occur to mind as objections to a social survey. In the first place, will it hurt the city's good name? And will it get the city into, a financial hole, trying to carry out the advanced Ideas represented by these civic reformers? So far as Topeka is concerned, a first class social survey by the Rut-fell Sage Foundation would In all probability prove the best advertisement In the end that Topeka has ever re ceived. It would get not only Into the newspapers but nto the magazines, for several reasons, and there Is no question about the social, moral and commercial assets ot lha olty far Economic and agricultural Inquiry from the Howard Courant: "If the hens pay the living expenses of the country family, then why do they sell the chickens In the fall and keep a team of high living and non-producing horses all winter? Why don't they sell the team, live off the chickens, and buy the team back in the spring?" One answer to that is that it is easier to sell chickens at the beginning of winter than horses. Another is that a hen generally loafs in the winter.

An- nuuiuer is lid. ii. me I ii I III sold his horses at the beginning of the winter and depended on buying them back in the spring he would probably have to pay as much more than he sold them for as the winter feed would cost Finally if all the farmers wanted to sell at the beginning of winter there would be nobody to buy, consequently they couldn't If we had time we might think of a few more reasons, but we will let those do for the present. "I used to know a man," say! Abe Peters, "who was the worst bore I ever met He used to stop me whenever he met me and start in with a line of talk, generally about himself, and stay with me for an hour or more. He was an absent-minded man and had a habit of catching hold of a button of my coat and holding onto that while he talked.

He would hang onto that button and Just ramble on and on 'till I was nearly ready for the bug house. One day- a happy thought struck me. I got out my knife quietly and cut the button off and slipped sway. He kept right on talking. An hour later a friend of mine came along and found the bore still Btanding there with the button between his fingers and talking about the year of the big snow in Michigan.

He hadn't noticed that I was gone." A Kansas man who has been looking In on the legislature gives it as his opinion that so far as appearance goes it will match up with any of the legislatures he has seen and he has watched all of the legislatures for the past thirty years. "But the thing that imaja ins me, says me jiansas jman the of th Amor, an nan. pie for legislation. Suppose for instance that this legislature had not met at all, provided some arrangement could be made to get the money necessary to run the Institutions of the state, would the people have been worse off? If there had been no new laws passed during the past thirty years would the people have been worse off? Maybe they would, but I have considerable doubt about it We think we need to legislate about everything under the sun, but my opinion is that we could get along with very little legislation, and that a considerable part of the cost of living might have been saved if we had had neither a meeting of congress or of any state legislature for the past twenty years. Of course I understand that we are bound to have these legislatures.

The people wouldn't be satisfied if they didn't have them, but as a matter of fact they would probably be Just as well off if all the legislatures had adjourned at least ten years ago, and not had a meeting since. And I am no stand patter either." A Youthful Bridegroom From the Wilson County Citizen. When Ewing Herbert, of Hiawatha, took out a marriage 'license the other day, the probate judge, without asking, put down his age at 38. William Allen White saw the item as to Ewing's age and immediately penned this reminiscent story: "Ewing Herbert 88 years old! Wouldn't that curdle the tomato scip? Why, Ewing Herbert of course. Ewing isn't so old he has two grandchildren in the Leavenworth Soldiers' home, but they were soldiers of the Civil war and not of the Mexican war, and while Ewing had too much hair to get In the war of 1812, still he is a comparatively young man yet; but he's way past .38.

Back in 1S85 he was a printer in El Dorado, and In 1886 he was a student in the College of Emporia, and was so old then that the college girls felt entirely safe with him. He lent them hairpins, told their fortunes and took a fatherly interest in them naturally. But he was out of the eligible class even in that early day. You can figure It out, however, and see Just how old he Is, by remembering that it was in the campaign of 1804 that Ewing vowed never to cut his hair until the Democrats were finally and forever defeated, and at that time he was drawing a pension for service in the French and Indian war. Of course.

If an Old Tom cares to turn kitten, that's his business. But when the Progressives get in power there will be a law against a man who landed with the Pilgrims gingering up with cayenne and pepper sauce and cavorting around the country as a young blade in his thirties. When we first met Ewing at Marston Moor and stood with him at the execution of Charles he was a dashing young buck; but Lawsee, that was a long time ago. Why, that was before the hoop-skirts passed and bustles came in. when they used to ride those old-fashioned high wheeled bicycles.

Ewing rode one of those in the coronation procession of Queen Anne, and was quite a figure of a man with his Windt-or tie. his loose-fitting cheviots and hi3 celluloid Byronic collar. Of course, we have no idea of shelving Ewing, but it is really getting time that he should settle down, for he's had his fiing. He had his last big time at the dance before the battle of Waterloo, and it's time he was getting down to business. THE GOVERNORSHIP CONTEST SITUATION From the Mound City Democrat, Considerable talk Is being Indulged in again about Capper contesting Senator Hodges' right to his seat as governor.

The fact of the matter is that a majority of only 29 votes out of a total of 350.000 leaves a bad taste In the mouths of most of those retiring appointive officers, most of whom will lose their Jobs. They are the feUows who are doing this howling, and may succeed In getting Mr. Capper's consent to contest, although he has declined to permit it to bo done up to this time, although the small majority Is very tempting. As things stand now Mr. Capper Is very popular, and as the old saying goes, all 1 could not beat him, out of the nomination two years hence and he would be a mighty hard man to beat in an election unless Hodges as governor makes his administration a decided success a thing mighty hard to do even for so well meaning and able a man as Hodges.

Mr. Cappor is smart enough to know all this and for that reason wo do not believe that there wiU bo any contest. The Law of Bohemia BY ELBERT HUBBARD. (Copyright. 1912.

Internationals News Service.) The Bohemian club of San Francisco has a record of which its members aro justly proud. The Bohemian club does things as well as talk about them. It seems to have qualities peculiar. unique, individu al, that diffen-tlato it from all other clubs in America. It Is historic, operatic, vaude-vllllan, -educational, economic, fln-ciaL altruistic and philanthropic, also gustatory and convivial.

On Its roster aro the names of some of the biggest and best men on the continent. Occasionally a ky B.I.. rrwd. pheimcr creeps In under the canvas, but he Is not apt to remain for the concert. In some way the atmosphere does not agree with him.

All of which Is by way of preface. In the Bohemian discipline there is an unwritten law that everybody shall do what the governing board shall In vite him to do. and do it at once, quiet ly, surely, and as well as he can. And so it happens that whenever a member Is Invited to do a certain thing, to fill a certain function, to carry a certain message, no matter whether it be economic, altruistic, or purely Jinks-tide, if ho declines, refuses, ex cuses himself, begs off. then ho is never again Invited or asked or ordered to do a single thins; for the Bohemian club.

The good Bohemian thinks first ot the club; never of himself. The interests of all aro the things that aro supreme. The Individual himself Is only a pawn on the Bohemian checkerboard. So, to repeat, the man wno Is asked to do a thing and declines Just onco Is never asked to take part in anything. He Is out of the game.

And this is exactly as it should be. Get in the game; play the part In the cast that Is assigned to you. We can't all play Hamlet; and before anyone plays Hamlet ho must be able to play Horatio welL The leader in the orchestra Is always the man 'who has played second fiddle. Little parts In life are Just as nc-sary as big ones, and the man who feels too big to play an insigincant part or do a menial thing lacks the stuff of which bravo Bohemians aro made. Life is one big Bohemia.

There is no more interesting state in the union from its past, present and future, than Kansas. Jts past has been the height of romance. At present it is a very live wire. Its future has limitless possibilities, and Rome liabilities. A.

E. Winship, Editor Journal of Education. CANNED EDUCATION. "WelL do you think you've gained anything from your two weeks In the country?" "Indeed, yes. I've learned more about the different branrs of fanned goods than I could pick up In a year at home." 1 TOWN AND COUNTRY Oh, the ways In town are merry.

Where the marts of fashion are. While along the level asphalt Whirls my lady in her car; But the country roads are fairer Silver ribbons, winding down. Edged with pink and white of clover, I From the woodland's grassy crown. Oh, the lights in town are flashing; Jewels they of burning glare. Searing tired eyes to blindness.

Blanching all the upper air. But the country lights are hearth-Bome Leaping fire and candle-spark. Or serenity of star-shine. Smiling through the friendly dark. There's a splendid flush of color On the crowded ways of town.

Blush of chiffon, sheen of satin, Fruity bloom of velvet gown; But the daisy's alabaster. And the flash of bluebird's wing, And the rose's tender tinting. More content and Joyance bring. All the city's ways of fashion Throng with idlers, pleasure-bent, Avid, eager, wasting daylight. Fluttering till the night is spent; But my little rustic ribbon.

Softly colored, summer-drest. Leads me home before the sunset. Leaves me with my heart at rest. Nora Archibald Smith. From the Brochure Issued by Secretary W.

D. Cobura. "A brother-in-law values his Illinois farm at $200 an acre. I value mine here in Allen county at $50 an acre. yet I can make more clear money, acre for acre, and one year with another, from my place than he can make from his." An Allen county farmer made that statement, and it struck me as being one mighty good reason why investment In Kansas farm lands cannot fail to bring big returns.

Another farmer tells me that his thlr-teen-acre alfalfa felld brought him $120 an acre last year. Government statistics show that all farm property In Allen county has Increased 109 per cent in value in ten years. In my judgment it will Increase as much in the next decade, for we have Just be- gun to learn to farm, and our markets are bigger every year. What Is true of i Allen county Is equally true of all the ether counties suitable for general agriculture. But? the great big reason why people should come to Kansas Is because It is Kansas! Because It is big and free and generous and democratic and up-to-date no caste or class; every man taken for Just what he is and what he can do.

Charles F. Scott, Member of Congress 1901-'ll. PURSUING THE DOLLAR. "What happens when you put the dollar before the man?" bawled the candidate. "The man goes after It," answered an old farmer In the crowd.

Louis ville Courier-JournaL 6 isucK paper that an Abilene man has been given $500 for the alienation of his wife's affections. While his parents are entitled to sympathy, there is no disposition to censure the boy who grew so tired of St. 'Joe that he ran away from home. A good many married men will watch the progress of the Topeka divorce case, wherein the husband alleges that the wife refused to comb her hair, with interest. They want to know whether that is a good and sufficient reason.

It will cost $3,600 to have a social survey of Topeka made. Our first guess is that there will be no social survey. This colm adds its regrets to the general feeling of dismay. The effi ciency of the Olivet basketball team has been seriously Impaired by the team's consumption, of fudge. The plan of the Lincoln Star to pay the same attention to the "parties and receptions of the common people" as it does to those of the "swell and rich" is unlikely to prove popular.

It is the doings of the "swell and rich" that the common" folk wish to read about. inj And no one cares to have it inti- mated that his party was attended by the common people. The Star seems to have cut out quite a Job for itBelf. In Topeka 25 Years Ago JANUARY 19. 1888.

The and I club is supporting an elderly lady at Ingleside this winter, and there is room for one or two more permanent boarders in the institution this winter. Topeka now has six daily newspapers. The Red Men received their new regulations yesterday from the manufacturer in Boston. They are one of the handsomest sets of fraternity regalia in the city. Marshall's band, is preparing to give a concert at the Grand opera house in the near future, when they will appear for the first time in their new uniforms.

The members of the Press club who intend attending the luncheon at the Copeland Friday evening should notify the secretary, Mr. Swayze. not later than tonight. O. N.

McDowell, of Bustus. Sherman county, is in the city today to confer with the governor regarding the outrages perpetrated by the Goodland faction in that county in forcibly removing the county records from Eustus to Goodland on Friday last. Mr. McDowell says the feeling is very high in Sherman county, and there is imminent danger of a clash of arms at any moment. The U.

Homesteaders' Union association a secret organization among the homesteaders, has taken sides with the Goodland faction, and the latter thus outnumber the eastern people. The North Topeka board of trade met at the engine house Tuesday evening. Mr. Johnson, the inventor of the Topeka wheel, for the manufacture of which he proposes to put in a $100,000 plant, was present, and gave a very clear statement of the advantages to be derived from the industry. He asked a bonus of twenty acres of land on which to operate, and $75,000 subscription either in cash or real estate.

It was learned yesterday by a reporter of the Capital that a company of young men in Topeka and from several other places in Kansas are organizing a company of about sixty members the object of which is to make an extended geological, survey in some of the western territories for the development of gold and silver mines. The directors of the Capital Humane Society fer the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals met yesterday afternoon in the office of Judge Foster, and after electing Bishop Thomas temporary chairman and T. E. Bowman temporary secretary, effected a perma nent organization by electing Judge John Martin as president and C. F.

Kendall as secretary. Mayor Metsker was present, and gave assurance of hearty support from the city officials In the prosecution of the humane work of the city. ABE MARTIN Some fellers aro so lucky that If it rained peas they'd have a knife in ther pocket. Th only way tell when a trust is dissolved is by th' raise in prices. VEST POCKFT FSSA YS By Geor geFitch ViOi i VfC EOOSl Author At Good old Siwasfi i BRASS A brass band is a largo number of ditsurbances merged into one harmoni- ous whole.

Nothing illustrates more vividly the benefits of union. A trombone played alone on the streets would be a nui sance. A cornet Is a crime against an entire neghborhood. No one would go four feet to hear a bass drum by itself unless there was a chanoe to kick it in. People go out of their way to throw bricks at a clarionet when it is in full cry alone.

Yet when these instruments are all played together in a band with a drum major attachment business suspends, windows open to catch the divine melody and small boys follow the players from Main street until past dinner time. The brass band Is one our most useful institutions. Without brass bands we could not have circuses, presidential inaugurations or large funerals, and political campaigns would be sadly crippled. A street parade without a brass band would be as aimless and melancholy as a garter snake, without a head. Ambition without brass bands would die for what would be the use of glory If there were no brass band to welcome the successful candidate back to his native town? Brass bands are of six grades, good, bad, unedurable, horrible, atrocious and worse.

There are only a few of the first grade, but almost every small town has a band of the sixth grade. It is composed of earnest young musicians who meet in a lodge hall every Saturday night and practice while the inhabitants stuff cracks in the doors and windows and put on tight shoes to divert their minds. Many a time death has paused over a small town to take toll, but as he has listened to Copyright. 1913. by We Expect to Move Our Business to the Bank of Topeka February 1 All accounts and balances will be found there Monday morning, February 3.

Your safety deposit box will not need any special attention on your part it is a good steel case, locked up and subject to no danger in moving. Checks against your account made on Prudential checks will be taken care of as before. The Pudential Trust Co. The Prudential State Bank Urg LSI fast on a bar and sending up distress signals, he has shuddered and passed on. No one would object to band practice because there can be no good bands unless the closed season on bad bands is religiously observed.

But the scale of prices for bands Is not managed right. It is aU right for a band to charge $50 per performance after it has learned to play unanimouslly tn one key. But before that time the citizens of the twon In which it practices should be allowed to charge 25 cents per practice. This would stop the steady loss of population In the small towns and would stop the drift to the cities to a marked degree. George Matthew Adams.

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