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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
PLUMB AND HIS PLAN.

Glen Plumb, who came to Topeka,
short time ago to enlighten the peo-
pie on his scheme for operating the
railroads, has been in Des Moines in
the same line of endeavor. The Reg
The Time to Spring Fool Schemes
deals editorially with Mr.. Plumb and
his plan as follows:
This is an age of great heads and
great schemes
Glen Plumb apparently has q great
head and great scheme.
He has visited Des Moines and has
made a popular address to a large
crowd of people. Why should he not
draw crowds when he has railroads to
give away? He does not propose to
is going to give them to the railroad
men,
The government IS to buy the rail-
roads and in payment is to issue gov
ernment bonds. Then Glen Plumb and
ten railroad men, assisted by five in
nocent government directors, are to
run the railroads.
Glen Plumb would make Townley
look like joke. In North Dakota
Townley requires the state and county
government to put up the money for
whatever they buy.
Gien FlumD proposes Inat the red
eral government put up the money.
Then the brotherhoods are to have a
part OF the profits If there are 20 be
any profits.
The government is to pay the losses.
OF course there will be losses and of
course the brotherhood meWA would
not have money with which to- bay the
losses
Glen Plumb promises TO reduce the
expenses of operating the roads 40 per
cent, yet those who go to hear him
expect their wages to be raised. Glen
Plumb must have one private argu-
ment and one public argument.
When Gen. Benjamin F. Butler was
running for president on the Green
back ticket he made speeches in Iowa
promising the farmers $500 per hun
dred for hogs. In the same campaign
he promised the, working men of
-Massa chusetts that they were to have
pork for their tables at $500 per hun
dred. That passed all right for a time
until the farmer began to meet the
working man; on which occasion a
comparison of promises was made and
both OF them repudiated General But
Ter.
Any way you take it Glen Plumb IS
going to have a fat year. The railroad
men are all contributing to his cam
paign fund. They have q Glen Plumb
organization. a Glen Plumb hcadquar-
ters, and Glen Plumb documents.
II Glen Plumb's scheme goes thru
he will he richer than the owner OF
an oil we'll at Tulsa. Okla.
Reader. il you have fool scheme
in your mind. now is the time to get
into the public eye.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
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For less of personal disgrunt. cem-
plant, criticism, hate. discontent-and
for great deal of love, consideration.
cooperation, Fellowship. and whole
heartedness in all places and at all
times.
For fewer long facest
For the -betterment of all copditions
of workers-especialIy women For
not only living wage" but a decent
wage. whereby the smile of the stars
may he appreciated. and laughter shall
be able to dance with little cfliidrea.
For books. music. art. and an I'M
derstanding of the beauty of the out
of-doors for all.
For an elimfBation of all mudiers.
mediers, mugwumpers-who are only
able to see what Is wrong, with no
vision for the right
For n free country to all I WIZ
Workers-and a country free OF all i
Wont Workers.
For richer blooded men and women,
as well as dogs and horsesi
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

wife and their kids are here with him.
The girl has an interesting history.
Let me tell you about her"
II shall do nothing of the kind. No
decent woman would be in such a
business nor dress as she does. You
have mortified me beyond forgive
ness publicly associating, in a place
like this, with such an impossible crea-
ture. I'm afraid you do not appreciate
the obligations of the class to which 1
belong. Perhaps we have made a
mistake in becoming engaged"
This was a sheer bluff OH Gladys s
part, but she felt sure of her ground
with Jimmy. She was tremendously
surprised, therefore, when Carruthers.
with an unwonted seriousness in his
countenance. answered. after a
moments silence:
II rather think you are right.
Gladys I'll be getting my things and
goinG."
An hour later Jim and the jazz girl
were sitting together on a shaded rock
at the edge of the, cove. But" pro-
tested the girl, 'Ijhadn't the faintest
idea. when 1 told you all about myself
in town last winter. that you even
knew Gladys.
You don't suppose. do you, that if
I'd known how things stood between
you and her I'd have told you all that
story about her fathers treatment OF
mother-about the property and all ?
Nor that last night 1 would have
pointed her out to you as the snob
cousin I'd told you about"
No, Edith" responded Jimmy, 81
cont. A girl who gave up college TO
support a whole family, the way you've
done. and did it all with a laugh when
she'd have given her hearts blood,
almost. to go on with her painting,
isn't the kind to make mischief But
on the other hand. when a girl like
Gladys, whose only thought is to make
a front with the money you ought to
have-that's rightfully yours-pre-
tends not to know her own cousin. and
not only that but affects to despise
her as a person not even respectable.
why, Jimmy Carruthers. if he's going
to become a relative of that girl, would
a whole lott rather be her cousin by
marriage than her husband"
Nonsense, Jimmiei''
why nohsense?"
And to save her life Edith couldn't
tell him why.
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
peper. Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
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ICE.

ICE.
Warever it's cold enuff there is ice,
and warever its too cold there aint
hardly enything elts. If the people
in Africka could swap the people
erround the north pole a buntch of
bannannas for every 10 cent hunk of
ice. it would be CRATE thing for both
of them, ony they cant, on account of
the people in Africka proberly never
herd of. the north pole. and the people
erround the north pole proberly never
herd of bananas This proves un-
educated people don't know what
they're missing.
Ice is reely wattir froze into a
square shape and staying that way to
prove how cold it is. If you try to
set on wattir vile it is still s. ft you
will go rite throo and wish you a:-1ent
of tried. and if you try to set on enuff
of it you will drownd. But ice is easy
to set on and would proberly be set
on rputch moro. than wat it is IL pee
pie sdident mind the cold, damp sensa-
ton.
The most popular places for ice is
in ice tea and on lakes to ice skate
on. The most unpopular place for it
is down the back OF the neck.
Ice should never be left out in the
sun if you wunt it to keep its
shape.
The closest thing to ice is ice wattir
but no mattir how cold wattir starts
to feel. it aint ice as long rs you can
get your finger in it.
The fattest ice is ice berg and the
Skinnest ice is a icicle.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
SELLING OUR MONEY.

While European money passes at a
heavy discount in business. transactions
our once despised silver dollar Is worth
approximately $1.05 even in our own
money. The market value of silver
recently reached $1.34h a fine ounce
as against SIS 4 cents in 1914, and at
the same time the number of silver
dollars in circulation has dwindled
nearly one half. This latter phenome-
non is due to the action of the govern
ment in melting many dollars and
shipping the bullion to be recoined in
East India, whose people want their
silver rupees and will have none of
paper money.
Our silver dollar coinage rate is
$1.29 an ounce and the rate of our
subsidiary coins s1.SS. the latter be-
ing lighter proportionately than the
dollar piece. The silver dollar was
originally intended to be standard
coin. that is TO say, its bullion value
and money value were intended to be
Identical, but the subsidiary coins were
intended to be merely token coins, and
were purposely over-vaIued in order
that they might not be taken out of
the country or melted.
With silver bullion in the public
market above coinage rate for dollars.
with possibility that the price may
even go above the subsidiary coin rate,
the situation is interesting. There is
no law against the melting of our
coins by individuals. and II the market
value of bullion should remain for some
time above the coinage rate the coins
probably would be melted.
The action of the government in
melting dollars for India was due to
the fact that we buy more from that
country than we sell it, In other
words India had a favorable balance
Of trade. and the Indians will accept
nothing but silver in payment of debt
So congress gave the treasury author
bullion. At that time there were
$4,000 900 silver dollars in the coun-
try and to date the treasury has melt
ed 26O, 100000 of them.
On the first of the last month
the treasury reported that our present
stock of silver dollars is 3OS.145,OOO,
but as 156,135.714 are held IN the
United States treasury as trust funds
against silver certificates there are
only 1885, 900 in circulation today.
less than one silver dollar each for
population of one hundred million.
Whether silver will jump still higher
and our last dollar go into the melting
pot depends upon general trade con-
ditions between the rest of the world
and India and China-also a user of
silver money alone-and an increase In
mining production. The worlds out
put of silver fell from 226,192,OoO
ounces in 1911 to 1856, ,626,O 900 ounces
in 1916, and probably has dropped
considerably since. Undoubtedly the
mine output will increase now that
the war is over. but on the other hand
the consumption of silver for table
ware and other manufactures is run
ming above all previous records and
there Is no reserve of silver in sight
at present.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
FOR THE REVOLUTION.


For more honest, old fashioned
WORK, and less desire for ease and
unearned rewards.
For greater respect for law, so
lcng as it is law. The only way. to
get rid Of bad law is to enforce II
to the letter. For to wink at a bad
law is TO put in i'll repute all law.
For a continuation of the sort of
patriotism that doesn't excuse wrong
but that is not afraid to support the
rig ieht-come what may.
For following your own best inter-
pretatiors and decisions, honestly con-
1eived.
For giving more time to self de-
velopment and the enrichment of hu-
man character--and less to money and
place.
For a keener interest in public af-
fairs (which are in truth your own
private affairsl and for the enlarge
ment of the activities that go TO make
a purer democracy here and now.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

Despite the discouragements which
have presented themselves In inter
national matters and. Notwithstanding
the delays in the adjustment of do
mestic industrial conditions, writes
Henry Clews. prosperity continues at
full tide thruout the country. The
United States is the chief if not the
only source to which foreign countries
must turn for assistance in the recon-
struction process, a fact fully attested
by authoritative utterances both of
ing the recent past. Continued activi-
ty OF business and the keying up of
production to the highest point with
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
MouHon Musings
BY ROY X. MOULTOS.

new natural red dye has been in
vented in this countr.-. No, not red
eye.
The ladies' wrist watch is a great
traveller. 1t Travelled from the wrist to
the ankle and is now at the knee.
We know a very rich man. He has
contracted for a half-interest in a
Thanksgiving turkey.
The limit of commercial candor
seems to exist in the following window
sign: sale One Week Shirts
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

Bigger Hogs for America" is the
slogan adopted by an association of
swine breeders in the, East. If state
ments made by Secretary GLASS may be
relied upon. the association might find
among the coal operators. what it
seeks
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

One of the signs that production in
certain instances is Overtaking con-
sumption. is reported from Belgium,
where so many shoes have been Inn
ported from the United States and
other countries that the market is over
stocked. Dealers are said to be plan
ming to export the surplus.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

When the great need of the country
is production. it is bad enough to have
a half million coal miners idle, but
now other thousands of citizens must
he taken from productive industries
To spend their time protecting lives
and property from destruction by the
afriI,pr..
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

''I wish to carry these reservations
into the campaign" Senator Lodge is
quoted as saying. There is the foun-
dation Of his opposition to the peace
treaty. Can any body doubt who is
responsible for the defeat Of the
treatN2
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

Troubles continue to pile up. One
OF the latest to overtake Uncle Sam.
is the discovery that the marines re-
quire larger shoes than they did be-
fore they went to France. Months OF
walking on land caused an expansion
of their feet which renders stocks of
shoes on hand unavailable for future
ueo
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

the resultant effects upon wages and
prices. he holds. would seem to be the
order of the day for some time to
come
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

for breath. "I dropped my diamond
ring off my finger. and I can't find it
anywhere"
ITS all right, Bess," replied Mr..
Clarke. II came across it in my trou-
scrs pocket"
my daughter is positively delighted
with her new piano." said Mrs. Potts:
shes. quite familiar. you know, with
all the classic composer
Familiar" exclaimed Mrs Pep
perry. why, she's positively flipDant."
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

A census OF the Country's manufacturers
was made for the first time in 1910 Cnder
the present law a manufacturers rensus Is
to be taken in connection with the four
teenth decennial census and every two years
thereafter.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22
Dinner Stories

Mrs Clarke came running hurried
ly into her husbands office one morn
ing.
"Oh, Dick" she cried, as she gasped
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We all know that prices are high in
this country, but in England, as shown
In the report of an American trade
commissioner there has been an ad-
Vance of 800 per cent over those of
the pre-war period.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We have no notion as to the gravity
OF the criminal offense committed by
the two Philadelphia girls who spent
Si2 for ice cream and oyster stews.
But we go so far as to say they were
guilty of a grave dietetic error.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We suggest. therefore, that the next
moonshiner convicted of Illicit distill-
ing be sentenced to drink his own
product.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

That seems to us to be an extreme
view. Now We should say President
Wilson has pulled another "boner'
and let 1t so at that.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We strive to serve. When we chance
upon an uninportant piece of news we
are unhappy and distrait until such
time as We have passed 1t on to the
general public.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

The president. you may remember,
wrote a letter once before.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

The Dallas widow who broke her
engagement because of the fear that
she would have her prospective hus-
band under her feet all the time. had
both the feeling of every woman who
has experienced the marital relation
and the courage to publicly express it.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We have no wish to reflect upon the
character or habits OF the twelve Ala
bama farmers who have been sem
fenced to Jail for making moonshire
whisky. but having tasted moonshine
whisky, we hold that. considering the
nature of the offense, the punishment
is inadequate.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

We have habitually referred to him
as the young prince. We held that a
man who has had one year OF active
service in the British navy. four years
of war and one year in a university
cannot properly be classified as "a
BOYS
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

Upon the action of the senate in re-
jecting the peace treaty there will be
varying opinions. But 1t EMERGED
from the combat with one distinctive
achievement t6its credit-it restricted
Senator La Foliette's loQuacity to o
period of sixty minutes.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

1t may interest you to know. pro-
vided you contemplate running for
president. that you must advise the
voters of South Dakota of such inteI-
ton by January 1 or forfeit your
chance of receiving the vote of the
South Dakota delegation in the ma
tiopal convention.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Voice Trials for Opera
Chorus School Begin Tomorrow

Voice trials for admission to the
chorus school of the Metropolitan
Opera Company will begin tomorrow,
continuing till the end of the month.
The metropolitan Opera Company
maintains d school where American
singers interested in grand opera are
given instruction in sight reading, for
eign languages and repertory free of
charge in evening classes. The entire
school takes part every season in those
performances at the Metropolitan
where the demands of the score i'm
pose the use .cf larger choral masses.
These young singers are thus given the
opportunity to hear at close range the
greatest singers in the world.
Applications for~voice trial should be
sent in, by mail only, to Edoardo Petri,
director of the chorus school, Metro
politan Opera House
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
7 ourth " eek Of Concerts
At Columbia Includes
s'Tschaiko,usky Night

The fourth week of the season of
concerts at Columbia University, un-
der the direction Of Edwin Franko
Goldman, will begin tomorrow night.
The New York Military Band has be-
come such popular attraction that
its future success as permanent or
ganization is assured.
The largest attendance last week
was on Friday night, when there were
1868 persons in the audience. For
this week there have been over 10000
applications for tickets during the
past few days.
During the first two weeks Mr. Gold
man reports having received over 400
written requests asking to have GER
tain selections played.
The programme for tomorrow even
ing Includes Saint-Saens's "Marche
Militairc Francaise," Goldmark's "Sa-
kuntala" overture, Gounod's ave
Maria" Wagner's "Meistersinger,
Verdi's "Rigolctto," and Lakes "Evo-
luton of Dixie" Ernest S. Will
Jams, cornetist, will be the soloist.
On Wednesday evening Chopin $
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
The Saint Cecilia Orchestra

The first announce ment of the forth
coming tour of the United States by
the Saint Cecilia Symphony Orchestra,
from Rome, which will be at the
Metropolitan Opera House in October,
has brought to the directors, Richard
G. Herndon and his associate, Frank
Taylor Knitting, letters and kilograms
from the Italian and civic musical So
cietes throughout the United States.
This will be the first tour of this mu-
steal organization, which comes under
the direct patronage of his majesty the
King and the royal Italian government.
The Royal Academy of Saint Cecilia is
the parent organization of the orches-
ira. which includes more than eighty
mem bers. The engagements will large
ly be under the local patronage of Ital-
ian-American societies and associa-
tons and local civic bodies, as was the
Royal Grenadiers Band, which toured
under similar auspices last year
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Lithuanian Music
At Aeolidn Hall

A concert of Lithuanian music will
be given to-day as part OF the first
days programme of the Convention Of
Lithuanian Societies in the United
States, being held at the Vanderbilt
Theatre to-day and tomorrow. More
than 100 singers, selected from the
Lithuanian singing societies through
out the country, will render the folk
songs OF Lithuana and the latest
Lithuanian music composed in the
Lithuanian motherland and by Lithu-
anlans in this country.
The singers will be dressed in the
Lithuanian national peasant costume,
and the aim of the concert will be to
reproduce the native artistic atmos-
phere. Travellers have long appre-
ciated the music and art of the Lithu-
anian and Lettish peasant folk. Their
descendants in this country have aimed
to keep up the tradition, and now that
their country's renaissance has begun,
there is a reflected artistic awakening
in this country.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Latest Musical Increment
WiH Promote National Opero

An American operate and choral
movement has been started 20 promote
national opera in America The object
OF this movement is primarily to es-
tabhsh operate choruses in every sec
ton of the United States. Two organ
izations are already at work in New
York City, one studying in Italian and
one in French The choruses are be-
ing trained by Thaddeus de Wronski.
of the original Boston Opera, and
Chester McKees, chef de chant of the
Rouen Opera, France. The business
arrangements are in charge Of j. F..
Allen, of Aeolan Hall.
The second city to take up this move
ment is San Diego, Cal, with Miss
Slocum in charge. THAT city will not
only have municipal orchestra, but
ballet and orchestras as we'll. Among
the other cities that are falling into
line are Columbus, Ohio; Detroit,
Mich, and Lincoln. Neb
The requirements for admission to
the choruses are a good voice, a good
appearance and good character ref
erence. All choruses will be under
welfare supervision when they are en-
gagged with opera companies. The New
York section of the chorus movement
already has orders from two opera
companies for full choruses for next
season
The operatic movement has two
fold object The fs-s, is to encourage
the study of opera in America and to
have young artists become familiar
with stage routine. The second object
is to establish opera choruses in every
section of the country
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Random Impressions
Of Current Exhibitions

Following the exhibition of paintings
by distinguished contemporary artists,
including John Sargent. summer ex-
hibltion Of work by the younger gen
Grafton Of painters is being held at the
parish house of the Church of the As
cension, II West Eleventh Street.
These pictures are attractively ar
ranged They show abundant talent
and in many cases unsual achievement.
There is an even sprinkling of por-
traits, landscapes, marines and still
life. THE Girl in Blue" by Emily
Nichols Hatch, is the most telling por-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
A Dream of Early Summer

is practical and to<be encouraged and
such encouragement ought to be given
to the series of summer orchestral con-
certs to be opened week from to-mor-
row night at the Lewisohn Stadium.
r &c, seated on marble tiers un&lsr tho
stars and away from the billboards, VIC
can food our souls with Beethsven and
Brahms, Bsrlioz and Tschaikowsky, Just
as Il it wasn't July at alA bat January.
IN good old Carnegie Hall
@hes2 concerts ara an earnest Of
their supporters faith ths.t the classics
N music should ring the yes- and not
Dc put off with our furs and furnaces;
thAe Eoc's music nullises heas aaa cold
ahs,e Good luck to the venture, its
bccAers Conductor Volpe, his musicians
ara the various assisting artists. Again
they are determined to prove that sum
msr New York is no. a Boatis, and we
are convinced that the NeTe York public
viii respond nobly and with enthusiasm.
Thus having freed our minds Of pious
wishes which we feel sure will be real
i1eel, lc1 us turn to wishes Of which we
are much less sure.
The man Or woman who has money
can live like a civilized bang evea when
the heat rolls it's waves c. fame upon
an already smoking city, There are the
roof gardens, where reign much imam
.s'. l. IFS true, We much good music
o. the lighter sort, music wc!l played
amI tbs breezes which always sweep
above the city, Here, beneath the quiet
stars and in company with long iced
drinks, which no longer carry flame con-
ces.tsd within, we can listen 70 Lehar
and Strauss, even to Bizet and Gounod
and Wagner, and watch white shoulders
and jewelled fingers gleam from out the
darkness, and let our thoughts steal
urWard with the spirals from our Gig
alEttes- Here VIC can dream and phi
Josephine and bathe ourselves in
beauty which, if somewhat mondaine,
IS none the less strangely poignant, as
o. q life lived between human laughter
an the quiet mockery of the stars.
But, alas, roof garden pleasures arc
not for the lean of purse. By the great
majority they can be enjoyed only
vicariously, through the Sunday news
papers Tiny Tim, and after all most
OF us even in a democratic world are