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The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
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LIES GARDEN.

LIES GARDEN.
My dream is Of a garden fair where perfect
roses bloom.
Where peOnies and columbine send forth
their sweet perfume,
In fancy l can see the yard as 1 would
have it be
Aglow with life and loveliness, but sorrow
comes to me
For notwithstanding all the care and labor
l bestow
Among the roses day by day the weeds
coutrive to, grow
battle with the stubborn soil with each
returning spring.
New hope of conquering the tares unto
the task l bring,
have in mind n garden fair that 1 shall
some day own
Where only beauty shall be found and
nothing rank Is known.
And yet despite my hope of joy and all
my visions fair
find tne-burdock springing up and this
ties growing there.
How like garden is my life, how different
from my dreams
OF what 1 hope to make OF it, Is that 1t
really seems.
1 pledge myself to what is best, in fancy
l behold
A work that I shall smile to see a. last
when l am old
And yet the dream is far away for in
among the leeds
That shine like roses, can see the tangled
growth of weeds.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
HOME OWNING VS.. RENTING.

One million dollars will be. loaned
by a Niles. Mich, factory to working
men for the building of 500 homes as
a means of keeping its organization in
tact and promoting the welfare of the
men in its employ. The federal labor
department, taking this as text, has
prepared figures showing the relative
costs of tenantry and homecoming.
Applying the entire capital to the
building of these homes and the pur-
chase of the necessary land, the fair
cost to each purchaser would be about
S2,1OO, according to the department.
That amount payable in ten years, as
suming the annual payment to be s210
and the interest rate per cent, would
be in all S2.725.
with a tax rate of $40 on $1,000 of
full valuation, SAP a year. a little
less than is paid in Topeka, 1 per
cent for repairs, $21 a year. and $6
for insurance, the monthly cost of
buying such a house would be about
$2S, including every ordinary cost be-
sides covering the usual upkeep of the
property.
On completion of the payment the
monthly cost would not exceed 81. so
the labor department figures it out.
The rental value of the same property
on the ordinary calculation would be
about $27 a month. That is figured
on a basis of 10 per cent of the as
sessed value.
Mofeover, advance in land values
may mean rapid advances in rents, a
gain If a man own his own home ard
a loss if he do not. A house that rent
ed for $12 month ten years ago may
now rent for $24, and altho not a
cents worth of labor may have been
expended on it, its value has doubled.
The home buyers payment is fixed
at the time he buys, and he need not
worry about any increase in rent. May
day will never come to worry him.
The only costs that change are taxes
and repairs, which the tenant must
pay anyhow.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

me and said 1 should have stayed
away because it was not proper for a
girl to call on a sick gentleman.
/ am sorry il 1 did anything wrong.
What do you think? ROSE.
[ think you did nothing wrong.
Since you were engaged it was all
right to go to the man. Your Thought
fulness pleased him and SO you should
not worry about any impropriety.
In reply to s. p. V. B.: Your hus-
band cannot do anything because you
spent the money he left you. You
were entitled to both the money he
left and the allotment since you had
not got a divorce.
There are some doctors who are
not honest in their practice. They
misrepresent and overstate in order
to make a case and get more money.
II is not probable that the patent
remedy would have helped you so
much of the doctors diagnosis had
been true.
! Consult a specialist and tell him all
about the case from beginning to end.
Let the doctors advice guide you in
the course you take. Also wait until
your husband comes back from the
army. You may find that what you
believe to be love for the other man is
merely infatuation.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

IS day Is fresh and as fertile as the
green fields after "A sprinkling of rain.
You are glad that you spent your
money in the store il the clerk. in TAX
ing ii, says-"Thank You" You are
glad for the service rendered to some
stranger, if. at the end. you get your
Thank You"
You are thrilled with the sacrifice
made, IL after what you have endured.
you receive your-"Thank You"
How dark your day would be--how
drab this world-without its ..Tffa nix
fous.' So remember. that no matter
how poor you may be in money or
station. you are rich in an inherita nee
of Thank Yous"
Spread out your Thank Yous,"
You can't give away too many. And
here's a little secret-the more Of
them you give away the more OF them
you will have to give away-for they
keep running back TO you.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BAB'S INDIGNATION Is ALL d.
RECTED AGAINST BLANCHE Or

CHAPTER LVI.
1 was terribly indignant with Neil.
Nothing, l told him, could exceed the
baseness of his proceedings. That he
should make Blanche Orton, a widow.
the repository of his business affairs,
was scandalous. There were clubs.
restaurants and hotels where he could
ceive in our home. 1t wasn't neces4
sary to take them--and Incidentally
himself-to her.
He listened for a while in silence.
He had exhausted himself before
had a chance to say all that was in
my mind. Then he broke out:
You refused to help me. You.
even tho you are angry because of
Blanche's kindness to me, have not
offered to do what she is doing-help
me. You are too high and mighty to
make yourself agreeable to men who
mean success to me, money for you.
Yet you object to my having q friend
who cares enough for me to make her
self attractive to my busine<s ac-
quaintances that she helps me already
more than you ever have in az the
years we have been married"
I recalled what she had said about
getting rested SO she could properly
entertain and interest some one who
bored her.
She did this for Neil.
The full significance of this action
on her part rushed over me. She was
in love with Neil and had taken this
way to make him care for her. She
had been in love with him before Or
ton died. i thought bitterly, as I re-
called many little things which were
unnotIced at the time because 1 had
thought of her as married, and 50 not
free. Now they fairly glared at me.
Had Neil also loved her? Did he care
fof her now as a woman. or only as n
means to on end? That, / must know
at all hazards. and-at once.
Jealousy of her was the predomi-
nant feeling now. / cared nothing
about the business. her connection
with 1t. 1t was Blanche Orton the
fascinating widow. with whom I was
occupied.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

1 was eating cake with jelly in
the middle yestidday, eating all err
round the jelly to save it for the last.
and Lew DaYis came up, saying, give
US a bite, Benny?
I'll brake a hunk off for you,
know your bites, 1 sed. Lew Davis
having the biggest bite for his size in
the nayberhood, and 1 broak off a
hunk that would of bin pritty big if
it had OF bin mutch bigger and pritty
small if it had bin eny smaller, and
Lew Davis ate it, saying. 1 tell YOU
let's wat, Benny, lets go into pardner-
ship for whackeys-if you see ME eat
ing enything 1 haff to wackey h.-lf
with you and if 1 see you eating sum-
thing you haff to wackey half wit
me, lets begin with that cake
wackey.
All rite. that's a go, I sed. And I
broak wat was left of the cake II
half and gave him one half and, kept
kthe other half, keeping the jelly half
by aXsident, and after suppir L saw
Lew Davis agen and wat was he do
ing but eating a apple, me saying,
Wackey. wackey. its my tern.
How do you meen. your tern? sed
Lew Davis taking another big bite.
wy, according to the partnership,
I sed.
Wat partnership? sed Lew Davis
| taking a still bigger bite.
! Our wackey partnership, you know
hay, stop biting a vile, 1 sed.
I don't remember-Wen did we
make it? sed Lew Davis taking sutcf
a big bite you wouldent hardly
| bleeve it looking at the hole in the
apple and then looking at Lew Davis
And he kepp On taking bites and
| looking as if he was trying to remem
ber about the partnership until there
wasent envthing left of the apple bu
the core and not mutch of that, Lev
| Davis saying, o yes. that's rite, l re-
member. do you wunt half of thi:
core?
! No, I sed and wawked away proud
| Proving agreements mite only werL
! on one side if you don't watch them
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
TO GET THE-"THANK YOUR

Few real men or women contend for
money. alone We give-that we may
get. Also we get-that we may give.
Not in materialism-but in-"Thank
Yous,"
Why did the soldier go "oyer the
-top?" Why was he gladly willing to
sacrifice his life-to go thru privation
and suffering such that no words
could explain? But for this-for the
Thank You" that would come later
from the man who led him or from
the ones who loved him or from the
country that gave him birth.
The greatest things that we do in
this little world are done for the
Thank Yous!" And the bitterest dis
appointments that We endure are those
that come to us because the Thank
You" does not come after we have
rendered our service or run our race.
A day sprinkled with Thank Yous''
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

Probably little will be heard for a
long time about the inability of Amer
t,Rn worktpen 10 compete with the
cheap labor of Europe The war
leaves our one-time competitors of
Elnrope with enormous debts upon
which interest must be paid. A gov
eminent can pay interest only from
fus.dS. paiu into its treasury. Those
funas must be taken from the people
OF Europe. The rebui,dtrs of the dew
astated areas and the reconstructors
CT the Industrial orge nizations else
where must contribute &c the treas
uEies of their /eountrieL in order thot
tnose countriEs nay pay not only their
ra.iIi:ig expenses but tho interest upon
these new hdgc natioral debts. The
only possible result can be an increase
in TIE cost of dCpig business; there
fore. an increase in the cost of living.
Taxes always are passed along from
one link to another. In order that the
Workers may he able TO pay for the
necessaries OF life lab,T will be ad-
vanced in cost, and It Is not at all un-
likely that this enhanc ment in wages
means wage scale equal to that
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

t"Business men should face the
FACTS" declares DR.. Irving Fisher. and
Aids; ITO talk reverently of 1913
1ba4 prices is to speak dead Ian
giiage today. The buyers of the coun-
tfY, since the armistice, have made
an unexampled attack upon prices
thru their waiting attiture. and yet
price recessions have been insignifi-
CANT. The reason is that we are on a
new high-price level, which will be
found a stubborn reality. Business
men are going to find out that the
clever man is not the man who waits.
but the one who finds out the new
price facts and acts accordingly"
Doctor Fisher is a recognized Ameri-
can authority on economics.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

The signing of the treaty at Yer
sa3lles may bring peace to the allies
and Germany but apparently it will
be far from bringing peace to the re-
rnainder of the world. The Ruma
mans are fighting Hungary, the Firms
are warning in Russia. the Russians
are fighting among themselves and the
Italians are preparing to do battle
With the Czecho-Slovaks. The neces-
sity for aleague of nations was never
MORE apparent than it is at this time.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
BY ROY K. MOULTON


1t never worries me as to what is
going to become of me after my work
here on this earth is ended. 1 know
that<I make a lot of mistakes and l
know that l try to do a lot of good.
Ny theory is that heaven is here
and now.
In fact, I like the way Jesus put it.
One day He was on his way to Jefu-
salem and someone asked him what
the Kingdom of God was like. Ard.
without hesitate lg, He replied that it
was like a grain of mustard seed
which a man planted and which soon
grew into a tree, where birds came to
lodge and rest.
In other W lrds, the Kingdom of
Heaven is what you make of youI self
for the good of the world.
And to every man and women who
does but this. there is an Immortality
both sure and secure. Good travels a
great deal faster than evil-regard'
less of the belief of sneerers and
cynics.
There are Kingdoms of Heaven in
ewspapeI offices, in stores, in fac
tories in out-of-the-way pls ces-in
rude huts, in palaces-in wheresoeN er
the heart stations its ,lf in determine
ton to do something that shall help
some one.
| Every man and woman is a Gcd-
affair. Were it not SO, every mystery
of great achievement every work OF
| lasting worth, every new knowledge
of advancement would be like So much
| loss and disaster.
The Kingdom of Heaven is
AROUND.
Note by the papers an actress died
! in the south "a victim of influence"
Nothing That a Child May Not Do
The day was spent in general con-
versation appropriate and proper fol
a family reunion and every one of the
children had an enjoyable time
Mount Ayr Uowa) Record-News.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06
DINNER STORIES

Two Americana visiting London
went to see the fire station, and seeing
one of the firemen, said:
do you know, in America we use
a nine-inch hose for fires. not a skinny
three-inch like you have"
oh" replied the fireman. I'VE only
use this for washing down the station.
This" he said (holding up a Pinch
hose, lis what we useNln case of fires.
When we want to send man to the
top of a building we place him on the
hose, turn on the water and he's up
there in no time"
-'Ah." said one of the Americans.
but how does he come down."
Well" said the fireman, he puts
his arm round the jet of water and
slides down"
Johnny was. at the grocery store.
Il hear you have little sister at
your house, said the grocer
Yes, sir" said Johnny.
do you like that?" was queried.
-''I wish it was a boy" said Johnny,
so 1 could play marbles with him,
and baseball"
Well" said the storekeeper. why
don't you exchange your little sister
for a boy?"
johnny reflected for minute. then
he said, rather sorrowfully:
we can't now; it's too late We've
pretty good seats. don't you
think >" said Biffkins as he slipped
his hat into the rack under his seat
at the theater and waited for a word
of approval from his wife.
They are fairly good seats" she
said, but if I had been buying them
wouldn't have bought seats SO far
over that you couldn't see the whole
stage, and there is post down there
that obstructs the view little, and /
never like sitting so near the orches-
ira and there seems to be a kind of
glare light here. Seems to me 1 feel
a draught and being SO far in we will
have to have a lot of people rise or
climb over them if we want to go out
into the foyer during the intermission.
STILL" with a sigh, 81 am a person
easily satisfied and long ago discov-
cred that you have a great deal to
put up with in this life and might as
well learn TO make the best of things
dear mei''
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

Government operation of railroads,
telegraphs and telephones has proved
failure. 1t has been proved that the
government is absolutely incapable of
reaching the efficiency and economy
of operation attained under private en-
terprise. Expenses rise upon a scale
that would mean bankruptcy if the
government did not tax the people to
rHeet losses. Not even a heavy in
crease in passenger and freight rates
GOULD meet these demands, which
must be passed on to the taxpayer.
The same experience has been had in
other lines; and whether in railroads
teiegraphs, shipping or other activi-
ties the results of government opera
tion have always been the same; in
.ferior service and higher cost as COM
pared with private enterprise. In the
opinion of Henry Clews. socialistic
movements have received a setback
that will last for a long period.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

cBurleson has announced that the
telegraph and telephone lines will be
returned to the companies as soon as
legislation can be obtained from con-
gPess safeguarding the owners. If the
postmaster general had kept his hands
off the owners of the wires would
have needed no protection. The pro-
lection they now need is protection
from Burleson.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

" hich obtains in this country. Many
of cur shrewdest, analysts of indus
trial conditions are convinced that
henccforth we in this country have
nothing to fear from dow wages obtain
ing abroad.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

The people of this coGntry will sub
scribe the full amount of the victory
lean, but they appear to be taking
their own time about 1t. There is no
emergency of war, so they refuse to be
hurried. They will be on hand with
the cash on the final day of the drive.
il not earlier.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

Among the many reasons being
urged against governnent control of
railroads is that it disc"urages initia-
tive. The railroad business of the
country is in a bad rut.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-06

ManaGing-Director Alexander of the Ma
tional Industrial Conference board recently
criticised President Wilson for writing a
foreword for. and Secretary Lane for ap-
proving. book written by two University
Of Chicago professors containing social
istie propaganda
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25

important matter" A great many sena-
tors agree with the President and 2 great
many, apparently, disapprove, and among
the latter we find such as Senator BOrah,
Senator Chamberlain, Senator Reed, Sen
ator Sherman, and others, and you will
note that these are not all Republicans.
Further we find such distinguished gen.
tlemen as DR.. David Jayne Hill opposed
to the President. Therefore we conclud-
ed that now is the time when Americans
should attend the meetings, should read,
should listen, and render the verdict af-
ter the evidence is all ip. President Taft
is presenting his side Of the controversy
and later Senator Borah is coming. 1t is
idle to think Senators are not going to
have their say, and when the time comes
they will have very material say. 1t
is worse than idle to decree in advance
that the President is right and all others
are wrong, for no living statesman Of
ancient or modern times has been on
more sides of question than has Presi-
dent Wilson, no man in the White
House has been wrong as many
times as has President Wilson. Why
Bishop, since he has been President he
has become veritable acrobat, and your
friends have wondered how you have be-
come so expert as member of the somer
sault brigade.
In your Characterization of us as lust
plain fool" you refer to propaganda. We
concede your right to discuss propagan-
ola, for God knows you have peddled it,
and the kind that you have peddled is
couched in the catch phrases above quot
ed, and the words traitor" and "fool,"
We note you are careful whom you call
traitor" and we are likewise alive to
the fact that SUCH notables as Georges
Clemenceau, Theodore Roosevelt, Will
liam Spry and Frank X. Nebeker are fay
orite targets for l. w. w. But calm
yourself, disturbed one, even the l. w. w.
know their friends.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25
BURLEsoN BEATS THE WORLD

1t took thirty hours to get "rush"
telegram from Philadelphia to New York.
1t took twenty-four hours to get tele-
phone connection between Philadelphia
and telephone subscriber in New York
whose Manhattan telephone address has
been in the local telephone book for ten
years. 1t took twenty-four hours to get
special delivery mail package marked
urgent" from New York to its Philadel
phia address, distance of ninety miles
with an hourly service covering the
ground in two hours. Altogether fifty
seven hours-two twenty-four hour days
and nine hours over-were consumed by
the. Politicalmaster Generals combined
telegraph, telephone and mail service
forces in doing an errand between Phila-
delphia and New York which messen-
ger would have done in six hours, with
time for leisurely luncheon in New
York before starting back.
We are not calling attention to this
speed record of the Politicalmaster Cen
erals coodinated telegraphic, telephone,
and mail services because it is unusual.
The interest in the case lies solely in the
fact that it is an interlocking demonstra-
ton of Burlesonian efficiency in all Of his
three systems of service To be sure it
involved the sacrifice Of human life.
But that is an irrelevant detail
A woman in Philadelphia was in immin-
ent danger of death. There was chance
that her life might be saved by serum
in possession of Dr. Silas P. Beebe, All
Park Avenue, New York Her physician
at 10 o'clock on a Thursday morning sent
a rush" message to DR.. Beebe. AT the
latest the serum should have been deliv-
cred early the next morning. 1t did not
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25
MILES DOING BIG THINGS

Representative Miles of Smithfield,
Cache County, is doing big things in the
legislature, and we'll wage penny that
our own Edwin will not be outdone by
any of his fellow legislators For instance,
he has introduced bill placing limit
of $4,000 year for County Attorney in
counties such as Salt Lake, $4,000 for
counties like Weber, and $4,000 for coun-
ties like Cache. We wondered why Coun-
ty Attorney Leon Fonnesbeck was spend
ing so much time looking after legisla-
ton, but now the "cat has jumped out
of the bag" When Leon put it over At
torney Gardner last fall he had an eye
to business. Three thousand dollars per
is worth going after, Ell Leon?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25
THE WILSON MYTH

Harriet Gaylord of New York City
writes Colonel Harvey as follows:
Sir:-Now that Colonel Roosevelt has
gone to explore the Land of the Great
Majority, your torch must burn the
brighter. Even your clientele be esateric,
if we all try to pass on to others some
thing of the insight and spirit of you
both we shall be lending our aid in very
salutary way toward pricking the Wilson
Myth. In letter which received from
Colonel Roosevelt two days before his
death he said, apropos of a certain editor.
Nobody asked him to attack President
Wilson. All that we have asked is that
he, and men like him, shall not lie about
President Wilson" words which might
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25

The day will come when l ought to
speak, and shall.-William Hohenzollern.
When? "Der Tag?" Or when the
court inquiries, civilian Hohenzollern
have you anything to say why the sem
tence of the court shall not now be i'm
posed upon you?"-The Weekly.
n.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-07
Of New Assessments
of Coal Lands to Go Out

Notices of the assessments of the
coal lands in Dauphin county from
the valuations furnished by 7. Ellis
worth Davies. mining engineer, and
his assistants, will be sent to the coal
companies owning the tracts, early
next week the county COM nisSloncfs
said to-day.
Isaac Troutman, assessor in Ly-
kens township, and Michael Knorr,
williams township, appeared before
the commissioners to-day and wei 9
authorized to make ch tugea in sur
face areas of tracts hetd by the COM
pailies. Isaac f. Bogner, Middle
Paxton township. was given similar
instructions late yesterday.
1t Is expected that soone after the
appeals. of the coal companies are
received they will BIO acted upon.
probabIp at one time Hearings of
appeals from the various townships
in whichs there are coal Iands which
were fixed . few weekly ago follow.
Middle Paxton, March Is; East Han
over, March 30! Wiconisco, March
25: Lykens, March 27i Rush and
williams, March 20.
During the morning eight appeals
were received from properly owners
In the Tenth ward. IN Monday ap-
peals .frem the Eleyepth an1 Four
tAAn tn wards. will be heard.