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court From there the President en
tered the Pope own apartments The
interview between the President and
tho Pope took place in a library and
lasted eighteen minutes Tao rector
of the American College was present
as an Interpreter
The Pope presented Mr Wilson with
precious piece of mosaic
After his Interview with the Pope.
Mr. Wilson told some of his friends
that be had been much moved BY bis
conversation with the head Of the
Catholic world
Miss Wilson and Crowd.
A pretty incident was noted on the
steps Of 81 Peters wsilo Miss VII
son. who. by the way. has become
very popular with the. Romans. was
mountlnv the stairs. little child was
knocked from "a mothers arms by =
sudden push Of the crowd Miss WI
son hearing the cries OF the people
asked what had happened. The little
victim. with scratched nose. was
brought TO her Poor child" she
exclaimed. kissing and fondiing II II
Is impossible 20 describe the impress
sion which this simple. kindly act
made upon the popuIace People
pressed round Miss Wilson. all trying
to kiss her hand. and shouting:
Long live Miss Wilson, Long live
America"
President 20 protestsnss
During his visit 10 the Episcopal
Church OF 81 Paul. President Wilson
delivered short address 70 the rep
resentafives Of the Protestant
churches. in the course Of whic3 be
said:
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WITH WILSON IN ITALY


"A iuHt peace must be a Christian
peace Mr. Wilson added that II was
his chrisiian faith that gave him tho
necessary energy 20 accomplish the
afduous task entrusted 70 him BY
Providence
one of tho most picturesque Tea
lures of TIE days program vas Pres
ident Wilson's visit 20 the monument
u oarlbaldi lie remained barehcad -
Cd before fhe statue for several min
uies. and when he got into his auto
moblle again. those Who were With
him noticed that he vas wearing a
particularly pensiye expression. on
his way through the popular quarters
20 the coliseum and the Forum Mr
Wilson was the object OF nninterrup-
ted ovailons. lie Was accompanied BY
Barone sonnino and sIghor Beranlnl.
Principessa Rospigilosl. senator Ian.
clani and number OF other political
pcTsonages
Mr. Wilson's ciserone.
The President was fortunate IN hav-
ing as cicerone sIgnor oiasomo Boni
toe eminent director Of the Roman
excavations. and a man n exceptional
culture and wit before the ruins OF
the Temple of Romulus. signor Boni
remarked Everything here hears a
relation 20 the events u che Great
War" THAT Is true" replied Mr.
Wilson: and ~e must not look upon
these ruins a. mere stones, but ~ Inn
mortal symbols. their eIoquenee f.
eternal"
sIgnor Boni rejoIned: In Ameri-
ca you have something grsnder. and Il
"a hidden In your hearts" Yes" re-
tcontinuec on Page esven.l
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Mr. Wilson was then introduced
into the -Ciemeniine Hall. where ~
met Mgr. SAM de sampeT and the 9th
er masters OF the ceremonies Of the
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continued ou rase seven
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
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and settle down with me in the old
family mansion. 1t is true, as you
have said, that have no worthwhile
occupation, but the interest on the
estate left by my father will suffice
to satisfy your slightest wish. 1 shall
expect an answer soon-one such as
I deserve after such long and faith
full courtship as mine has been" The
letter was signed Reginald Power
TOM
Della shifted at the scented envelope.
''Reggy is q good sort of chap" SHE
soliloquized, and he could give me
everything I desired-thae is. every
thing of a material nature. Only he
does persist in this abominable per-
fume-and he smokes those horrid
cigsFets don't mind a .cigaret
smoker. but when a man fairly lives
on them, and when they are per-
fun ned"
She did not finish the sentence. In
stead, she put on her jacket and hat
placed the perfumed letter in pock-
ct, Strengthened up her desk, locked
the school-for she was the only
teaeher-aEd wendell her way toward
the other end of the gulch, where
stood the boarding and rooming house
of Mrs. Patrick Maloney. which Della
called home.
Her route led past Uncle Franks"
log cabin, situated close to the road,
about to pass, CLEAN of yellow light
shot from the window. She paused
and could not refrain from looking
into the cabin
She saw the aprospector bending
over a crude table, reading by the
light of candle which evidently he
had just lighted, for the tiny blaze was
unsteady. Before him was a ponder
Gus book, the identity of which she
could not determine; but it looked sus-
piciously like the one that helped to
make one Webster famous.
Della watched him turn page after
page.
Must be reading the dictionary
thru" she decided, and then watched
while he left the table. He returned
in a moment and resumed his perusal
of the volume. putting dense clouds
of smoke from a corncob pipe which
now extended between his lips.
Della took the perfumed letter from
her pocket and tore it into minute
pieces. which the night wind proceed
ed to scatter promiscuously over snow
clad Cedar Guich.
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
ANOTHER CONVENTION MOVE.

(From Wednesdays late editions.)
1t is said that Governor Allen has
mot yet been thoroly convinced that
his constitutional convention idea has
been KILLED dead"
He and some of his friends who
have favored a new constitution seem
measure to hold what they call a
modified new constitutional conven-
ton" which would permit the old,
most approved sections to remain I'M
disturbed and have a Limited new
constitution"
This proposition, it seems to the
State Journal, is absurd. Kansas could
scarcely hold a constitutional conven-
ton to do only certain things, any
more than you can hold one legisla-
ture to be limited in its measures to
the action of previous legislature.
If this paper understands the tenn
per of the present house and senate it
is opposed to all of the enormous ex-
pense, the turmoil, the lobby from
every portion of the country. the pull
ing and hauling that would be sure to
result in any constitutional convention,
limited or unlimited"
This legislature has evidently made
clear the fact that if Governor Allen
wishes to promptly carry thru his
farm tenantry and other plans he
must do it thru the submission by this
legislature of three amendments that
can go before the people at the next
general election, one of which may
possibly be an amendment to increase
the number to be submitted from
three to six or more.
Governor Allen can accomplish
these things if he will recognize that
the senators and members of the
Kansas legislature have convictions
upon this subject and have pointed
the way for the governors procedure
to accomplish his hearts desire; name
ly, by amendments to the constitution
and not by a constitutional convention
of any sort.
The governor has friends, including
| this paper, for his reforms, but not for
COMMUNICATIONS or limited
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a habit Of reading the advertisements
of farms for sale, and imagining what
he would do with some of them if he
had them. Positively bewildering is
the amount of equipment and live
stock offered with some Nof them at
amazingly low prices. All you have to
do is buy the farm and then work.
The offerings of second hand auto
mobiles just as good as new, except
for a few defects frankly stated, are
full of interest, and so. to some peo-
pie, are the ads of horses. 1t is a
striking fact that most horses seem to
be sold at auction, while the automo-
bile changes hands by treaty only.
Whether you are looking for insight
into the psychology of the strange
mammal called man, or into business
conditions. or merely for job, don't
forget the want ads.
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law proprietors of restaurants who sell
cigars may request their patrons to go
outside and smoke them. Why not
require them to eat their meals on the
sidewalk and permit them to do their
smoking inside? Seriously, if persons
who object to smoking in dining
rooms would cease to patronize places
where it is permitted the practice soon
would cease. In order to stop it the
proprietor need do no more than dis
play a mo smoking" sign. Such signs
never fail to command respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
WARS WASTE.

The Americans are doing an initial
bit of work of enormous interest to all
Siberia. This is the survey of those
mountains of supplies packed away in
the caverns of warehouses, dotting the
hills with canvas mounds and splitting
over into valleys in every direction
from Vladivostok, those acres of sup
plies on which every correspondent
who has passed thru Vladivostok since
the beginning of the war has exhaust
ed his vocabulary of dimensions to de-
scribe and in vain.
The supplies in Vladivostok, says a
contributor to the Asia" magazine,
have become actual Sphynxes. If
anybody in the world can furnish an
accurate list of their contents, he'll
as yet undiscovered. The director of
tn customs does not know, the pres
ent government does not know, the
consular body can furnish no informa-
ton. For three years these -'ocks
have been accommodating. that one thin
line of steel crossing to Europe Offer
ing no facility ror distribution, piling
up in every Granny of the Hills and
warehouses, even of the streets, paid
for and unpaid for, belonging to deal
ers in Russia and Siberia. dealers
known and un' own, dealers alive.
bankrupt, dead or missing" or not
consigned at all.
OF these mountains and valleys of
stocks contained in the port of Vladi-
vostok the Americans have made an
estimate. They have a reasonably ac-
curate knowledge of weight, and of
some commodities they have been able
to state the quantity. The listings
made of the warehouses availab,a
have revealed the fact that in some
commodltieE Siberia is already fully
stocked. The supply of tea is enor-
nous. Rice is present in almost equal
quantities. whether impaired by its
long storage has not yet been ascer-
tanned There is leather sufficient to
boot and shoe Siberia and shoes lin
addition, mouldy but not wholly lost
The cargoes of raw rubber are ex-
tremely valuable; the manufactured
rubber goods are stiff but of good
quality and still disable. The quantity
/ of chemicals seems inexhaustible and
their value has increased since their
delivery. 1t is hardly possible to men,
ton a commodity which is not con-
tanned in the stores: aluminium, wire
matches. textiles-twice as many cot
tons as woolens, lumber. cotton. gun
cotton, and explosives enough to
wreck the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
THE GREAT THIRD PARTY.

There are today two great forces
contending for a larger measure of in
dependent freedom of action in the
United States than the democracy can
afford to grant. no matter if it is a
fact that each of these forces is essen
tial to national strength and prosper
ity. One of them is capital, the other
is labor. Both have become powerful
under a system of government which
places no limitation upon industry or
enterprise. AS consequence of CEN
turies of wrong thinking, each is still
disposed to regard the other with a
mixture of distrust and antagonism,
land, in the blindness of class preju-
dice. each, altho in less measure than
formerly. is inclined to forget that
there is a third factor in the nation,
and one which properly should always
be regarded as the first, whose inter-
ests and wishes must be primarily
consulted, namely. the people.
Figuratively speaking. the air to-
. day is alive with discussion of the
power and rights of capital and labor,
+ and the public, listening attentively to
she trend of the talk, cannot but adj
init that capital. on the one hand, and
Tabor, on the other, thru organization
and combination, have built up within
3 the republic conditions to be seriously
reckoned with, if private interests are
not eventually to submerge the inter-
ests of democracy.
! Using the term government as
ssynonomous of the people, it has been
: in the past too often regarded as only
an incidentally-intere third party,
and too often its interference in dis
sputes between the two great private
Interests has been rather resented
-than welcomed. Latterly, however,
lit has come to be recognized by a con-
stantly increasing multitude that the
government has everything to do with
-the growth. conduct and pretensions
--of these interests and that in going to
-the extent even of taking them, for
correction, regulation or control into
dts own hands. lit. is simply exercising.
rather than exceeding. it's function as
n government of the people, by the
Speople, for the people.
q ManifestIy, says the Christian
cclehce Mo3lltor, the great industrial
and labor organizations. yearly becom-
ing more powerful. must be alike SUBJ
5ect to government control, if one or
the other of them is not ultimately to
Control the government. Democracy
must rule, or democracy will be ruled.
PLAINLY. there are certain industrial
combinations in active operation to-
Jay the strength of which is only Sec
sendary to that of the government it.
self. Organized labor also yields q
power dictatorial and almost govern
mental in character. If either is al
lowed to go uncontrolled the result
pnust necessarily. be harmful to the
country. 1t was never intended by the
Founders of the United States govern
npent that any menacing factor should
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

/ Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have cared
for schoolmate from childhood.
used to think that I would never
marry another. he was so much to
me. While have loved him sincerely
from childhood to womanhood, he
never showed any particular prefer
ence fIi me. He always treated me
courteously. bW I know he did not
care for me as / did for him.
Nobody knows of my feelings for
him. ] have always said it would be
a secret between me and myself I'M
less he showed in some way that he
cared for me.
Lately 1 have become acquainted
with a man who is twice my age. He
has asked me to marry him. l feel
safe in saying that he is one of the
best principled men 1 ever met. He
has no bad habits and seems very fond
of me. l have no reason to doubt him
as he is a man of his word. My work
has brought me into his company for
the last four years so that / feel very
we'll acquainted with him and his
ways.
He is kindness itself, always re-
merlbering me in every way and does
not care to show his preference for
me before others. He has ample means
to furnish a good home and l have to
dCIfl IL 1T my own nedTI IIldt ne 10 NUTS
of man morally than my schooimate.
Yet am afraid If my schoolmate were
to ask me to marry him also, that L
could accept him. for I have dreamed
all my life of someday being his wife.
What would you advise me to do?.
Marry the one and forget that 1 ever
cared for the other. or reject the older
one and run the chance of some day
winning my childhood sweetheart?
He does not live near me now and
may never see him again.
Would the difference in my age and
the older mans be too great, do you
think? He will soon be an old man.
Should 1 tell him of my fancy for
my schoSlmate if 1 take him?
GRAY EYES.
The man you love does not exist.
You have dreamed about your school
mate until you have created an ideal
and it is the ideal you love. This Is
unfortunate because it has prevented
a normal interest in other men,
would not advise you to marry the,
older man for two reasons. You are
not in love with him, and there is too
much difference in your. ages to have
congenia1 tastes.
Do not wait for the schoolmate.
Recognize the truth-that YOU have
dreamed more than was wise-and
start now to take an interest in other
men.
Dear Mrs. thompson: am Twelve
years old My mother is all the time
scolding me for things my uncle does
and for having girl friends come up
and ask for me. She never treats me
as a mother should. She goes out with
men and scolds me for not wanting to
go to the show so she can have fellows
come. and 1 always have studies to
get.
Please tell me what I can do to
make her treat me as mother
should. A WORRIED ONE
Some people have SO many blessings
that their characters are not tested IL
you are strong under your misfortune
you will grow into beautiful woman
and can profit by the mistakes your
mother has made. You can findmuch
happiness in your studies and books
and friends. 1t may be impossible TO
help your mother. but perhaps thru
love and making an effort 10 UNDER,
stand her. you can gain your desire.
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be permitted to obtain sway under the
constitution.
In the last analysis. continues the
Monitor. the government of the
United States must be a democratic
not capitalistic nor labor govern
ment. but a government of the people,
by the people and for all the people.
and it must govern first. last. always.
because it represents the will of the
a free people desires to be governed.
and If it shall be admitted that the
American people are capable of gov
erning themselves, it must also be ad-
mitted that they are capable of con-
trolling, for the general good. every
condition, whether it has to do with
capital, with labor. or with any other
element in or phase of the body poll
tic.
Democratic government will see no
injustice done to any element of its
people. 1t will not confiscate. or
smash. or repress in the readjustment
that is at hand. 1t will undertake to
see that justice shall determine regu-
lation. whether with regard to capital
or to labor. Neither enterprise nor
energy will be penalized. There must
be equality. but no superiority, of
rights. The public welfare must come
before everything else. No one is to
be- deprived of what belongs to him,
and no man is to be afforded oppor-
tunity of proving upon his neighbor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
A soldier whose home in in Topek

soldier whose home in in Topeka,
and who has been in France since last
summer, landed at Hobozen this week
and was sent to Camp Merritt. He
Immediately sent night letter "col-
lect" to his people, stating that he
had not received a cent of pay or a
letter from home since he sailed for
Europe. Money was sent him by wire.
incidentally not a cent of his allotment
ever has been paid. Here is another
opportunity for Burleson and Baker to
explain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13

to Billy and say, Mother says / must
return good for evil, so here's a jelly
roll for you"
Tommy demurred, but finally con-
scented. The next evening he returned
in a worse plight and sobbed:
IT gave Billy the jelly roll and told
him what you said, and then he
BACKED my other eye. and says you're
to- send him another jelly roll tomor-
row."
We'll. yes admitted Gap johnson
of Rumpus Ridge, Ark, I've heerd
something or nuther about setting the
clock for'ards or backards for some
reason. I don't precisely know what
But it don't make no special differ
ence at our house, one way or tother
for the clock runs about as it pleases
till some of us sorter climb up and set
it b'guess and b'gosh, as you might
say. And if we save or lose an hour
or two what's the odds? We've got
all the time there is anyway"
Don't you want to lend hand to
our soldier boys on the other side p"
asked the orator at the woman's meet
ing.
Lend a hand2" piped out one of
the sweet young things. why. gave
my hand to one before he went overt"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-13
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
What Is Your Greatest Defect?-1.

What Is Your Greatest Defect?-1.
Do you ever sit down calmly and
quietly and try to find out what is
the greatest defect in your character?
No. 1t hurts our vanity too badly
when we try to vivisect our own
weaknesses, so we lay the blame of
our failures and our unhappiness on
luck, on social conditions, on other
people, and let it go at that
Yet if we knew what was otrr great
est defect we would have diagnosed
our case and found what a.led us. and
at least have chance to cure it, so
it is really worth while to investigate
the subject.
Perhaps your greatest defect is laZi-
ness. You have never admitted that
to yourself, but you have got that
chemically tired feeling that makes
you loaf and invite your soul instead
of rolling up your sleeves and tackling
a job as if you meant business. You
are never quite on time in the m6rn-
ing, and you work with one eye on
the clock. and are the first to leave
in the evening.
You never do one lick more of la
Dor than you are paid for. You never
really put your back into your task.
You never have any interest in what
you are doing or any enthusiasm
over it, anG yet you wonder why 1t is
that you never succeed when the rea-
son for your failure is as plain ps a
pie staff. It's because you are lazy,
and laziness is perfectly durable dis
ease as soon as you quit camouflaging
it the artistic temperament, or deli
cate health.
Perhaps your greatest defect is a
lack of grit and staying power. You
ar poor. miserable gutter. AS
soon as you strike the hard sled ling
tat it takes endurance and courage
and give up.
You have tried half a dozen differ
ent professions into which you en-
tered with high hopes and enthusiasm
You were sure you had found just
the thing that suited you at last, an 1
you were sure to win fame and for
tune.
Perhaps you would, il you had
stuck, but you didn't. The minute
your new occupation ceased to thrill
soL with its novelty you grew tired.
When you found that to achieve sue
cess in any line means long, hard,
persistent drudgery, ceaseless striving,
and heart breaking anxiety, you quit
cold. You wouldn't pay the price of
victory.
You have never gotten anywhere in
life. You have stood still and have
seen hundreds of people, wit a tenth
of your natural ability pass you in the
race, and you don't understand it, yet
there would be no mystery in it to
you if you would face the fact that the
reason you have failed is because you
have spinal column about the size
and firmness of silk thread.