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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL1 Sunday, January 14, 1917. 4 SIMPLY IN EXPLOSION The Topeka Daily Capital BY ARTHUR CAPPER. On Second Thought By JAY E. HOUSE. MaaHaananaHaaaaBaniiaHaiBaMaaMaaaMaaMMaMaiaaiBM Kansas Municipal Bonds doubt, but neutrals have never desired the annihilation of the German Empire.

There is some foundation for German complaints of a strait jacket European system, shutting them off at the north and frustrating one after another all their -well calculated plans of expansion to the south and east. Germany Has been checked in every effort of expan- Thoughts to Think About Anger succumbs to a soft reply like a troubled sea to a little strand only froth and shells remain. Knowledge is the sequence of things learned by experience; it is common sense classified. Cheerfulness is the oil of gladness which lubricates life's machinery. Success is the result of character multiplied by intelligent activity.

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Kt. HOC Chemical Uuilding. Oklahoma t'Aty: 513 c'olcord Building. WHEN JOHNSIE SMS i Emporia Professor Explains; Cause of Youthful Outbursts, Deep Demand of Human Nature to I Express Itself Is Another Rea- son, Browne!) Declares. A member of the State Normal stool faculty at Emporia.

Baker Brownell. i has advanced an answer to the ques- tion, "Why Johnnie Swears," in Teaching, a Normal school publication. "Goddam to Johnnie has unique significance," says Brownell. A Vivid Bow-Wow Yes! "In the half-instinctive, half emo tional background of his consciousness a cuss is expressive of something in i Johnnie's soul, felt but not seen. It indicates with a vivid bow-wow some-thing that cannot be predicated.

Some i tough circumstance is resisting intelli- 1 gent analysis when Johnnie swears; some impulse can not frame itself into purposeful action. The oath represents in its crude way those stubborn, blun-derinEr mvstpries of life, that Diehead- edness of little things, which defy in-' teiiert fnrre nn to resort to shook i ''Where father is more capable of rational consciousness, where father has learned to translate life into formal MflRF THAN ONE THING The Capital will always be on file ut the decided vein of self-seeking aggran-abuve offices. Visitors from Topeka or Kan- ax, when stopping in any of these cities, dizement, to which neutrals can make will he weli-omed at The CaDltal branch of- il.h. u. sion, while Britain is some little ex- as the boys say.

Neutrals do not object, as do British rivals, to rational German expansion. So far as the greatest of neutrals is concerned, if it is a question of German expansion to tiie Mediterranean and to Bagdad, releasing her energies, I occupying them for a generation or so in development in that direction, and on the other hand a strait jacket in ami amhitimia pvnanslon in Brazil v. and other western hemisphere lands, this neutral would prefer the former method. The Hall Caine protest, like the ally answer to German pleas for peace, has a vein of morality with which disinterested countries sympathize, and a no sympaineui; icapunst- wnaiever. NEW WINE: BUT OLD BOTTLES.

Senator Harding of Ohio, noted ora- tor, got off this sparkling sentiment! the Other day: "One of the disturbing phases of American progress has been the constant desire to forsake the proven thing and try something What was the Buckeye solon thinking of? Is he knocking on the type- writer, the steam thresher, aviation, wireless telegraphy; or the automobile, ffinino- cmfinoorititf sn.ctnrv nffia I buildings; or trusts, giant new devices like steel. Tobacco and Oil or what was he driving at? Does the Ohio Senator mean-ter-say that he is opposed to th sudden. new. unoroven thine Hardly, for he has been for it vigorously. We don't know what was agitating in his cerebellum, unless it might be the idea that with social and industrial Iife generally changing with wonderful kaleidoscopic rapidity, so that, as has been said, the whole world has become a new world in 50 years, there should be great care used to see that nothing I i terms, immature Johnnie must still butt that a vote may soon be expected, ac-into his world with explosions." I cording to Col.

W. W. Smith, bailiff Mr. Brownell thinks a secondary I for the supreme court of Kansas, cause of Johnnie's swearing is his Colonel Smith has just returned from natural rebellion against the forbidden, Washington, where he represented the Association of Civil war officers, in THE STONE MOUNTAIN MEMG'M Gigantic Sculpture Undertaken Borglum Will Be Explained by Merrell Gage Today. by The story of the Stone Mountain memorial, an eight years' contract taken Gutzon Borglum, will be explained detail by Robert Merrell Gage in his lecture at the Topeka Art guild rooms this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

In addition, Mr. Gage will tell of the Borglum exhibit of statuary now in the guild rooms, describing the different pieces for his audience. The Stone Mountain memorial is by the largest piece of statuary ever conceived and will include the figures the five leading Confederate generals, chiseled from the solid granite Stone mountain, just out of Atlanta, and a frieze of mingled horses and riders, 1,000 feet in length in all, be sides smaller groups of officers. Stone mountain is nvo miles long nd roo feet in height and the figures to be carved by the Borglum brother? will visible for a distance of five miles irom. 1 5- Ane The Borglum exhibit "will be open in Topeka every day this week.

There will be lectures on the pieces of statuary afternoon and evening by some members of the guild. George M. Stone, Mrs. Belle A. Spencer and Mrs.

R. W. Coppedge will be among the speakers. audience of seventy-five attended the Gage lecture last night. FORMER TOPEKA SANTA The Spiritual Ontburnt.

"The deep spiritual demand of human nature to express itself is, however, at the bottom of swearing, Mr. Brownell concludes. "A great sonata may be called a great man's spiritual ejacula tion. Rembrandt's Night Watch is in which even the majority may lavor. some essential respects an oath saved 1 The bill nas Deen UP a number of times from blight; an oath refined and de- I as unfinished business, but each time veloped into intelligent form.

A folk the Democrats have succeeded in dis-dance or a game artistically played placing it. Every Republican in the may be as many cuss words rescued, senate favors the bill and fifteen or tTC MAM PCTC DIP IOdI lnoie of artistic outlet, a wave of pro-it IVIMN UlIo DiU JUDjfanity will sweep over this country CIVIL WAR OFFICERS' BILL IIP soon Colonel Smith Says Long Delayed Volunteers' Retiring Measure May Be Voted on Soon. The bill for the retirement of volunteer officers, of the Civil war, in fulfillment of a promise made by con- Kress in 1S61. held back for months by its enemies in the present con- gress altho a majority are pledged toj voce ror its passage, is now- approacn- ing a point where it seems possible an effort to have the bill brought up for consideration. "The bill Is now in the senate," said Colonel Smith last night, "where the rules are such that a minority can almost indefinitely delay a measure.

twenty Democrats are pledged for 1 but they say that is only for final passage and they haven't hesitated to vote against taking it up for consideration, or in voting to lay it on the table. Just "before I returned several of lour Democratic friends said that they had made up their mind not to vote for the Democratic side all the time. "In the house the best prospect seems to be for a vote a week from Wednesday, when the chairman of the committee on military affairs has agreed to" give it right of way. I have been assured by men, who should know, that the bill will be given a two-thirds majority in the house when it comes up for passage." The bill in which Colonel Smith and thousands of other Civil war veterans are interested follows a promise made by President Lincoln to the non-commissioned volunteer officers that thev would be treated in all respects in the same manner as men in the regular a rnncrriiea mtiilo It slrfttltrpr hi' an act specifying pay and emoluments and later in, "all respects." The promise has never been redeemed, the veterans claim, and this is the object of bills introduced in the senate by Townsend, of Michigan, and in the house by Raker, of California. One calls for the payment on retirement of not to exceed two-thirds of the pay of captain: the other two-thirds of the pay of a second lieutenant, which would amount to about $1,275 a year.

PUN KENTUCKY CLUB IN KANSAS Meeting Will Be Called to Form Organization Among Kansans from Blue Grass Region. An association to include all native i Kentuckians and their descendants Is being former and at an early date a meeting will be called in Topeka to complete the organization of what will be the first Kentucky club in the state. promoters to make it a state-wide or- new snouiu come 10 uie iront in pon- plausibility. A man doesn't know-tics or legislation. Maybe that was the I much and has small capacity for powerful idea he wished to convey to a waiting multitude.

But the Ohio Senator in that case would have his quarrel with a greater authority than anybody in these parts, an authority who a long time ago enunciated the doctrine: "And no man I Howard C. Phillips, former valuation engineer of the Santa Fe, was recently-elected general secretary of the Presidents' Conference Committee on Federal Valuation of railroads. Prior to taking charge of the office, Mr. Phil- lips was aSs1tant general secretary of the committee. Mr.

Phillips entered the service of the Santa Fe system in 1S98, being employed as inspecting engineer. He is well known among local Santa Fe railroad men, having made his home nere for several years. putteth new wine into old bottles, else do scout the idea that one of them re-the new wine will break the bottles and fused a drink. V.rt V. find th, latest Issue of i their homJ paper.

The moat of us have a heart full of charity for everybody except the people whose opinions don't jibe with ours. In our secret hearts we all want to burn such heretics at the 6take. From "A Jayhawker's Philosophy." varjoua oyi.iiuu why the Kaiser so earnestly desires peace at this time, but while these opinions differ, they are not inconsist- I ent with one another. A great body of opinion Is that the Kaiser believes that Germany can not last out another year or two of this grinding war on all fronts. A Budapest story the other day described Austria-Hungary as in des- I perate financial and economic situation, with not enough food to last more than lx months, when all is minutely scraped up thruout the empire.

Bulgaria has accomplished about all that Bulgaria ever was concerned for, and might at any time conclude to make a separate peace on advantageous terms. A public statement the other day by the Bulgarian premier affirmed officially that all German and Austrian troops and officers in Bulgaria are strictly under the orders of superior Bulgarian military officers. Another opinion Is that while the Kaiser Is neither defeated nor believes the allies capable of conquering him, yet making a close calculation he be lieves that he never will be in better position. He may be nearer a position to command terms, where he now offers them, and to get better terms than he can now hope to get. but the fetter terms obtainable later will not be worth the cost of continuing the war until it Is demonstrated that the Central Empires can not ba conquered.

So the Kaiser is willing to offer more liberal terms today than he would ot-fcr or could command a year from now. A third view is that the Kaiser wants peace and is willing to pay for it far more liberal terms than is generally supposed, not only returning to the status quo before the war and paying a Belgian Indemnity and even surrendering German colonies, for the sake of peace, not because he fears defeat, but because the right stage has been reached In the consolidation of the Central Powers into what is in economic effect. If not political, a new Central European Empire, the Kaiser at Its head, to be now carried forward by the measures of peace rather than those of war. In short, that compensation has been found for lost colonies, surrender of captured territories and even money indemnities, In the creation of what is practically a great new empire stretching across central Europe from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. Some such Idea is suggested in the protest uttered by Hall Caine against the wickedness of neutral intervention at this time, this protest reading, in part: When Nature placed the British Islands where they stand, it gave them the mastery of the northwest of Eur-i regenerated, and expanded into beauti ful figures.

Cuss words are, in short, ugly and gnomelike forms of art. They are the aborted and misshapen expressions of spiritual impulse that will come in spite of restrictions. Man will be artistic, and unless teachers provide Johnnie with more means of common expression than he has now, unless teachers train Johnnie in a better that will drown all teachers' voices." TICKETS FOR KANSAS DAY CLUB BANQUET READY The Kansas Day club will hold its twenty-sixth annual banquet on the night of Monday, January 29, in the Scottish Rite banquet hall in the Masonic temple. Tickets may be secured from E. T.

Thompson, of the state treasurer's office, or at the National hotel. have been recognized by his state that has been quick to adopt them, and as a result Kansas is better as well as greater and more than ever before. prosperous today PRESENTS GREAT PROGRAM. Kansas City Star: Governor Capper's message presents the greatest program of social and political betterment ever offered to a Kansas legislature. It is too much to hope, of course, that such a splendid program will be adopted without a hard fight against it by the big corporations and the small politicians of the state.

Never- i i CAUSES H. C. L- Trusts, Wasteful Housewife, Stock "Gambling." All Contribute, Food Inspector Says. A eongdon. state hotel and food inspector, told the members of the Academy of Science at the session of the forty-ninth annual meeting yesterday afternoon In his lecture on "The Fight for Food," that he did not believe the high cost of living to be lue to any one thing.

Trusts or monopolies, the wasteful housewife, the higher standard of living and the "gambling" on the stock exchange all contribute their share toward the rise in the cost of foodstuffs, he declared. "The Prevention of Child Mortality" was the subject of an interesting talk by Dr. Lydia De Vilbiss. head of tne department of child welfare. In which she pointed xut the danger of unhygienic conditions In the care and nursing of the baby.

She declared that there were two main divisions of th subject: First, to take care of the children of the present day; and second, to strive for the welfare of generations to come. She urged that society should not leave the birth conditions of the coming generations to chance, and that we should have efficient legislation to control them. After hearing the talkt the academy passed a resolution Indorsing the division of child hygiene and asked to be allowed to help extend the work. Other addresses of the afternoon program were: "Activated Sludge A New Method of Sewerage Disposal," by C. A.

Haskins. sanitary engineer; "Chronic Diphtheria Carriers," by Dr. Sara Greenfield; "A Neglected Ally of Science Sociology." by D. M. Fisk.

Washburn college: "Factors Influencing th Winter Killing of Grain Crops." by Prof. S. C. Salmon; "Measurement of Stresses in Railroad Track," by C. C.

Williams, engineering department. Kansas university, and "Wasteful Yet Prosperous." by E. II. S. Bailey, Ph.

D. Dr. F. S. Agrelius, head of the department of botany of the Emporia State Normal school, was elected president of the academy; Is.

D. Haven hill, dean of the pharmaceutical department of Kansas university, first vice presi dent, and Dr. R. M. Allen, dean of th zoological department of Kansas university, second vice president.

W. A. Harshbarger, of Washburn college, was re-elected treasurer, and W. W. Swingle, of Topeka.

secretary. Ieroy Hugh-banks, of Anthony, was appointed head of the executive council for 1917. The. council will conslft of the following membres: Dr. J.

M. McWharf, of Ottawa; Alva J. Smith, city engineer of Emporia, and J. A. Shirk and J.

A. Yates, of Pittsburg. MOVIES TO EDUCATE CHILDREN Under New Plan Two Shows Will Be Given Each Saturday for School Pupils. Educational, travel and lnrutrlal films to counteract movies unsuitable i'unu nneaa upon, ami a lumber in- dustry film as the probable Announcements to the teachers of the new plan will be made Monday and jineir co-operation or -r m- 1 1 1 vi ill nnnru assist In th- selection of the fiiniH and will be furnished a synopsis -of the pictures a week ahead of time. gilng an opportunity for claps discussion, or study in advance of th? day the pictures are shown.

The shows will be given ea-M Saturday, one show at 9 o'clock and on at 10:30 o'clock. It will be nerFary to fhow to an audience of 1. each Saturday to roeet expanse r.n the lans of films secured, which will Include children's Ptorles and fairy tales In addi- I Ia tKriBA fi on rl nn ii 1 rj it rA The children will be aimltte-l for 5 trpnis. or to iweive nnow ior cents rarrniif win ie prcipij I 'i admission. C0N6DQN Kansas Press Comments on Governor Capper's Message Mr.

Lee of the Brotherhoods says that with President Wilson so firmly fqr the principles for whfth the Brotherhoods stand they can rest content for the time being. In figuring President Wilson's attitude Mr. Lee should take into consideration the fact that the election was IAST fall, not NEXT fall. Mr. Lee's willingness to accept the dictum 'of the Supreme court may dis arrange Mr.

Gompers' plans. Mr. Gompers, you may remember, had planned to defy it. The colm suggests that medals be pinned on the two Miami county men who can withstand the temptation to listen to the sound of his own voice should be given some recognition. Our opinion of Harry Thaw is well known and need not be repeated, but as soon as we acquire language ade-I quate to express them we shall pro- ject our views concerning the fellow Thaw hired to assist him in his ac- tivities.

some one kindly transmit to-as tu nprman pnnivalpnt nf thp wnnl "flapdoodle." We should like to use it in connection with the Kaiser's assertion that he still has complete confidence in a full victory. We have opinion as to what the terms of peace may be. As to the merits of the controversy, there is something to say on both sides. But it has been, for some months, apparent that Germany isn't going to lick any- body. The only thing which the war still is to settle is whether Germany can be licked.

There is grave doubt as to that. But the magnificent organ ization which carried the fight to the Allies is no longer a projectile of offense. We are credulous enough, but the story of the Denver woman who says she shot her husband because he tried to force her to drink liquor lacks learning, but he knows enough not to attempt to force his wife to do anything. Ana the story lacks plausibility from another angle. We know little about Denver or its women, but those who Sim Heckle, who hasn't been in one since 1893, fs against the proposed new- liquor legislation on the ground that it will prevent the churches from buying wine for use in their communion services.

We deire to compliment the Ohio suffragists. They have refused to "picket" the Whitehouse. The colm occasionally criticises its fellow citizens, although it has none the best of them in that respect, but i it never fails to applaud sound, com- mon sense, have it. The Ohio women seem to The St. Joe Gazette has an interest ing editorial on "The Supreme Court as a Bulwark." What, by the way, is the Gazette's favorite palladium? We make some progress.

Mrs. John W. Kirkpatrick who yesterday was granted a divorce from her husband in the District court of Shawnee county is compelled by its terms to pay him alimony. The weaving of the above "wheeze" around the marital troubles of the Kirkpatricks is by request. A good many thought the appearance of the Kirkpatricks, both of whom were deaf and dumb, in a divorce court presented rare opportunity to a "wheeze- master." It isn't much to offer, but we try, so far as is possible, to cater to public sentiment.

ine pian to oring lactones to io peka is all right, but a factory can neither be chloroformed or placed in irons. We learn from the young pup of the Empory Gazette, who recently visited in Concordia, that Corner Davies has a new wooden leg. Tad Whitlad, who has been married only two years and ii l. nx moving picture theaters with his wife, is displaying a gall mark where the ph.iiiK of hi hnndaFA ha.v rhafpd v. Somebody in Chicago must have a "snrker" list We cot an invitation to attend the Allied Bazaar.

The theory that the colm needs a desk calendar seems to be widespread and prevalent. As to the plan for a six-man jury, snouia sa" ai smauei Jury lhe beUer tne cnance the inno- cent man win have to cape convic. tlon. 5. uanftn minimize that danger should receive; hearty support.

OUR ROUND TABLE An argument aeainst a fhnntrp. is hat Kansas has done ior more man a tnira or a centurv, and. therefore, ought to have a prettv strong constitution. I i Jffi thei "eltef a case, 1 of long standing. After his con- yersion he returned a wrench and ties co a ra.iroaa company he had taken several years before.

And then Judze Ruppenthal argues: "That kind of con- version would do lots of people good." by in far of of be An I i i i I I I theless, it is inconceivable that the Membership will not be limited to resi-legislature as a whole will fail to grasp of Topeka. as it is the aim of the ganizatlon. for children are to inaugurated In It is estimated that there are 20.000 Topeka for the benefit of the grad-Kentuckians in Kansas. In 1890 there I school children and high school tu-were 6,000. according to figures fur-! dents.

Prof. Raymond Heine, fup'r-nished by W. E. Connelley, secretary of i visor of manual training in the elernen-the Kansas Historical society. lar' ffhools and the man ho started 'Perhaps the people of no state in the night "auto school" In Topeka.

I- the Union have cause to be more proiM ln originator oi me new mea. i ne of their history than those who have flr8t fihow wln bp at th Orpheum lived in Kentucky." said Mr. Connelley. rday. January 20.

with Mark Twain's SXJJ 111, dull lite uuiiica AUttll peiisu. New wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved." HILLS TO MAKE KANSAS WHY. Two laws from the present legislature will clean up the booze question. The Stone bill making the place of delivery the place of sale will probably cause the railroad and express companies to refuse booze shipments. They do not desire to be made lawbreakers by a statute which makes delivery of liquor a sale.

Another bill purposes to give mayors and city attorneys the inquisition powers now granted only to the Attorney General and county attorneys. By such a law where law enforcement has a single sympathizer in a city, either the county attorney or the mayor, the law can be enforced. As it now stands, a mayor and city attorney can accomplish little without the backing of the county authorities. These two bills ought to make Kansas dry. Automobiles will be availed of to bring booze into the state for private use, but the common carriers will probably go out of the business.

The proposal to limit the quantity that an individual may bring into the state for his own consumption seems a doubtful proposition for Kansas. In all the fight for prohibition Kansas has never yet said that importation of a limited quantity is lawful. Such a law may prove desirable, but on its face it looks like a etep backward for this state. At the close of Senator Works' "swan Senator Poindexter called he Vice President's attention "to the absence of a Nobody listened t0 the California Senator's farewell ad- everything by "consent" in the Record. Four Governors-elect of New England states Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut recommend in their inaugural messages "the simplification of government machin- Lnntw lrt another 40 thousand million dollars.

An considerable "good could be done by investing 40 thousand million dol- ivs ed icitiomi nnrt nn.i i liJTT rPa' in ii uiieiv oi wavs. lr nrnnn i supposed it could afford such an out-1 jlay. Poor old John Barlevcoi a Even thosp 8upposed to l0 hi; friends us are. now to "Well, as every-" uoi eise is Kicking you around. Ii think I ill take one at you myself.

I The a um maKing Washington dry, and when Congress enacts a Hw for Wihlnn it enacts a law ror Washington it is en- forced. King Constantine to keep out of war has yielded to another ally u'timitiim u.timatum. ite nas prooaoiy noticed that Serbia, Bulgaria and Rumania are not saying with any great enthusiasm, "Come on in, Gr.eece, the water's fine." i in riiseiiKsin th nronosfd el.ih "The state early won the name of 'The Dark and Bloodv Grounds' bv virtue of its! Indian warfare, which at times wipe out whole settlements." At the first meeting of the club a dinner will be given and an appropri- ate program of speeches by persons versed in the history of their native state delivered. All those interested are requested to write to Mr. Connelley at the Memorial building in Topeka, and they will be informed of the date of the meeting at which the organization will be consummated.

Mr. Connelley. W. Carswell and ex-Gov. E.

W. Hoch are among thoe interested fJ(. 'lu- Plants have ben established in both! lf mrt ii i ri. i i jam i- urw-i i i clble steel by an open-hearth proves. Ililllililllillll i i ope.

Germany knows that now. It has dress, and vet it fills nearlv a full issue taken two and a half years of the in- of the congressional Record. With pa-ternment of her fleet to enable her to learn the lesson, but commodity, now is the ihe has learned it, and now the eyes of time for Congress to revise its rules lur diplomatists, her military critics. which permit printing anything and A l.il.KI 1 ....1. AX INSPIRING Emporia Gazette: Following his inspiring inaugural.

Governor Capper today delivered a message to the legislature which for constructive statesmanship has never been excelled by the legislative message of any other governor. The governor is asKing ior things just as important, and just as far forward of today as the things asked for by Hoch and Stubbs and Hodges in their days. Indeed probably the changes in our system of city, county and state government asked for by the governor are more advanced than the primary was, more radical than the bank guarantee law, more far-reaching than the Massachusetts ballot, to take three examples of three major changes in Kansas political life secured Irom the legislature irom three different governors. We are printing in today's paper part of the message the most impor- tant part, as it seems to us. It will pay every citizen of the state to read these recommendations, for in a few years these things will be part of the political Xiiid economic system of Kansas.

The Governor Capper of today who faces the legislature is a stronger, more effective man than the gov ernor who iacetl the legislature iwu years ago. He will get results He will do for Kansas what Governor Johnson did for California, and Kan sas complete the parallel MERITS SUPPORT OF PEOPLE. Arkansas City News: Governor Capper's message to the legislature to day is doubtless the most exhaustive statement of the state's condition ever made. The Kovernor has not over looked a single item that enters into trt tho MdlC U1IS, UUl 'demand, he emohasizes perhaps more vigorously the necessity for a change nron jnvprn- ment to one of efficiency and econ There i nn Himnr for 'I i lea hut nnlv 1 ,1 -vi i- i ml aa i iictfucu in luuiuuie 'v in for much urgency on the part of the governor. In this connection Kansas leads most of her sister states, Out there is still much to be done to bring work up to the standard the peo- nle would like to see it.

Kansas is rea(jy for such a program of construe tive legislation as Governor capper has designated in his message to the legislature. It is the duty of the folks; i their he PPort his efforts us. Je bne of th leV know the Stuens' Se re a dis- it D. no .1" eooa mailer ku dv uciaun. men them of your desir-s on penning uim and recommendations by the governor.

and the legislature will have an index as to how to proceed. STANDS FOR HIGH IDEALS. Lawrence Gazette: Kansas has never had a chief executive who took greater Dride in and had more solicitude for the moral and- intellectual welfare of Maie man uovtruui -1 exhibited, and during his two years office the state has made more progress toward a higher and a better citixen- ship than ever before in the same time. And it is but fair to believe that much of this progress has been due to the splendid teachings and example everv oc- ca5ion he has urged the people to' live better, busier and more useful lives tn mi the bet- terment of themelves and the state, The high ideals of Governor Capper i I vT iniBia uic- I'vn i ii i iu iuuk in anouier direction. We think they are looking east and southeast.

Germany has failed to defeat the combined forces of France, Great Britain, Russia and Italy, but thero is another force which she has not failed to defeat the force of her own allies. Nav. she has the great opportunity presented to it Governor Capper makes the suggestions for breaking the ties that bind Kansas to the old order of things, after a campaign among the people of the state wherein he received the largest vote and the largest majority ever accorded a governor. His recommendations are in line with what everyone who knows Kansas believes to be the overwhelming sentiment of the state. TIIE PEOPLE WITH THE GOVERNOR Baldwin Ledger: Governor Cappers inaugural address was replete with good suearestions to the sober, thinking: people of the state, and Incidentally there wfre several strong hints to nele Sam.

Governor Capper is on the right track and he will find that the people of Kansas are with him. MESSAGE STRONG ONE. Dodge City Journal: Gov. Arthur Capper, in his legislative message, makes some timely and sensible sug- gestions to that body and if they are ennnteH into latt'! i i the linne the chief executive, the state and its people will benefit greatly. Governor Capper view me oi ine state jum as lf ouiu nis anirs, aim 11 cn-ci i imic uiiu nnri i inn tives would do well to imitate.

Espeei- ally commendatory in the list are his yjew on roads, schools and public 'welfare. The message of Governor Capper is a stronir one, is worthy the earnest consideration of every resident the state. STRONG PLEA FOR EFFICIENT V. Lansing News: Governor Capper in his message to the Kansas legislature i ch documents The larger part is neoiea in pians ior me urunninn cii men. not merely as a matter of money.

men. nui merely as a mdiitr oi id but as a proposition making life beter'. con- A very interesting and instructive part is that relating to the schools and the rising- generation. It is a strong plea for efficiency in public service, and the reasoning is sound, logical and intensely practical Ti message Is optimistic for the fu- ture and mighty helpful for the present. ARE REIIINI) THE GOVERNOR.

Concordia Blade: If the present session of the legislature Incorporates tne recommendations of Governor Capper into ia-. the statutes fit Kansas will be moJe' for the other states in the Unit More than fifty reform rr.eas- ures have been suggested by the governor, and chief among them is the calHr.g of a constitutional convention. The old antiquated constitution wnich has teen in existence for po many years woefully in flexibility and it I now so far behind the times that sorr.ething must be jf the great state of Kansa is to keep up with the urocf ssion. The majority of th mod! of the state realize this, and are! behind the governor in this I The Prudential Trust Co. TOPEKA, KANSAS Affiliated with the Bank of Topeka Phone 614 the allied nations to help her defeat lP'-cially they favor consolidat-them, and now Austria-Hungary.

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many means to absorb her allies ami carry her empire thru the Balkans down to the Persian gulf. Having aban- doned her western line of develop- ment. her course is now southeast from Berlin to Bagdad. For a central tier- s. i so vast, so rich.

show. lng such limitless scope for economic expansion and such measureless possi bllities of military power. Germany is probably willing to abandon her west ern European arms, to restore Belgium. and to leave Holland alone and to rec ompense France. If only she can be permitted a Tree nana with her own allies.

Such is our interpretation of Uf rman) a mniuirs ui I'ruir, There is something entirely British in the implication in Calne's letter that as soon as they glimpse the possibility that th German Empire may accomplish such an expansion southward, tho restricted to Europe, with a small slice of Asia or Syria, neutrals will in holy horror back away from mediation and deslrs for a "premature Such is a natural British view, no OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: S- ott Hopkins. F. I. Coburn. V.

W. W. Bowman, V. E. Gauit.

V. S. E. Cobb. Sc.

and H. Eari-mer. Counsel. Directors: Arthur Capper. John It.

Mulvane, W. II. Iavi. M. A.

Iw, Iavid Kowle. Joab Mulvane. A. I. Kendall.

E. ('. Arnold and Monroe..