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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.
Making a wife To Order-2.

Making WIG To Ordef-2.
A soft. innocent young girl is the
blank page Of humanity over which
we have all sentimentalized, and 1t
does look as if it would be easy
enough to write your name all over
1t in big capital letters. Nor has any
man, contemplating doing So. ever
doubted his ability to do it. That is
what has strewn the shores of the
matrimonial sea with the wrecks of
marriage.
For woman's pliability is all on the
outside Underneath it there is some
thing as infleXible as granite. and as
hard as steel. that can neither be
changed, moulded, nor abated. What
she is, she is. and she is going to stay,
and no mans hand may change her.
Moreover. there has always been
one moulder ahead of any possible
husband, and that is the girls mother.
She has determined the form in which
the girls character shall be run. She
is the potter who has kneaded the clay
and fashioned it into thing of beauty
and use, or of ugliness and valueless-
ness. and with her work no man may
interfere.
This is true of all women, and espe-
cially is 1t true of the kind of women
that men gen orally choose as subjects
for remodeling according to their own
ideas-the clinging, artless, doll-baby
type, who having no ideas of their
own seem a good receptacle for other
peoples ideas. AS a matter of fact
the less intelligence a woman has the
more immovable is she set in her
ways. and the less chance is there of
changing her. You may convince a
clever woman and induce her to alter
her point of view, but a fool sees the
same thing the same way from the
cradle to the grave.
Matrimony is the paradox of the
contradictions of life. 1t reverses all
logic. 1t is the place where the thing
that couldn't happen always happen.
In the home the weak invariably
rule the strong. and in the family cir
Gle IL there is any moulding to be done
the one who is least fitted to do II,
does II. The wise man cannot lift the
fool up to his level but he can sink
to hers. The man of broad Views cam
not make the CONSTRUCTED, ignorant,
prejudiced woman see as he does, but
she can narrow his horizon. Men have
changed the face OF nature, but not
wornan's character.
A man has no right anyway, to
marry a girl who is one thing and
expect to convert her into something
else. The only safe way is to marry a
ready made character that suits him.
~~I IT.
downright, 1919. by the Wheeler Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15

sected one of his better halrs picking,
and here is something I have never
seen before
well. what is it," asked nom,
bristling.
"This"'
And he scooped out the seed and
exhibited it. O
'They are very particular at the
new bakeshop. The girls who wait
on customers have to wear white
gloves"
Yes. and I'm told they don't even
allow the ladyfingers to touch the
other cookies"
They were speaking of English hu-
NOR and the Englishman now dwell
ing in Pittsburgh offered the follow
ing as a sample:
He was riding on a London tram
car when the driver became involved
in an alteration with the conductor
on the rear of a car just ahead. Both
swore at one another violently as the
cars moved slowly thru a contested
street. Finally. being bested in the
verbal battle. the conductor tied a
piece of string around the emo of a
lead pencil and then dangled the pen
Gil toward the driver. The latter be-
came more vituperative than ever.
keeping up his harangue until the
front car turned into another street.
The Englishman said he was curious,
and asked the driver why the dan
Cling pencil had made him swear so
violently.
"Oh. that is just a little joke be-
tween ourselves. You see, my father
was hanged" he explained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15
DINNER STORIES

Dad was an irrepressible wag in
his younger days, and every once in so
often it breaks out on him again.
II have been eating peach pickles
for the last forty years" he remarked
yesterday evening, as he deftly dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15

The eight cylindered motor car has
been followed by one with eight
wheels The increased cost of tires is
said to be offset by their longer life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15

''They are very particular at the
new bakeshop. The girls who wait
on customers have to wear white
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Exploiting the Balkans

PRUSSIA is falling into the mistake
OF Friedrich Wilhelm II and III, and
already we must fear lest we miss the
hour that will never return in
which Austria's sword should take part
in distributing Turkeys lands. That
sword would now be drawn, not for
the Hapsburg dynasty, not for Austrian
stubbornness, but for the German race.
For our cause-let every Ger
man hear it, Whoever admon-
ishes Austria to weak concession
throws away a stronghold of Germania."
He harped on the same chord again
on December ID, thus: "Never should
Austria, as power looking toward the
east, tolerate it with stolid resignation
that Russia become her neighbor in the
Balkans under the name of Serbia, and
that the Hapsburgs bring home moth
ing out OF the Osman estate in bank
ruptcy." As late as March, 1913 he is
still blaming Germany for not having
thrown its whole power into the scales
in Austria's behalf mot merely
for solicitous self-defence, but, if it
had to be SO, for a storming attack"
On August 16 he still regrets that
Prussia did not push Austria into a
war: "a courageous statecraft of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Passing around Property

Now, this executive committee
had under it several other Bolshe-
vik committees, or commission
naires. There was a most furious
committee, known as the committee
on domestic economy The council
of domestic economy had nothing to
do with schools or railways or any
thing of that kind. 1t was charged
with the task of making a list Of
all private property. with the idea
Of distributing the same among the
people of the Belebei district. The
work Of listing this property, Of
requisitioning it and bringing it to
central distributing centres, was
undertaken by some of the workers
Of this committee, and in very good
part they worked hard. Others were
downright thieves, too lazy to
do anything except fill their own
pockets. The outcome Of their en-
deavor was to have whole lot Of
the removable private property in
Bclebei and the adjoining district
change hands, hut it was never dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
By William c. Dreher

- tRLIN. June 14.-As study
Of one interesting phenomenon
~ of Germany's post bellum life,
went to hear Macmillan
Harden lecture. There must be some
thing in a man who can several times
a year draw an audience filling the
largest hall in Berlin and keep it
listening with rapt attention for two
hours.
But the bubble reputation that is
sought on the lecture platform differs
from that won at the lannon's mouth.
It is easier to win, and then for
ge.fulness of the human mind bright
ems rather than furnishes it. Harden's
reputation depends upon present i'm
pressions-the written word of the
famous editor, the spoken word of a
really effective speaker, an exceeding
" rare variation of the German
species. But the trouble for Harden is
that some people refuse to forget his
"Zukunft" is on file in the public
Libraries, and now and then some dill
gent plodder does a most merciless
thing by culling from Harden's back
numbers bunch of choice quotations
that make the great editor look exceed
ing silly.
This form of cruelty to editors has
just been INDUCED in by DR.. Thimme,
who was librarian to the defunct @rus-
sian House of Lords, but who has
latterly been helping the Germans TO
records OF the recent past. His i'm
parchment of Harden by quoting Har-
den against himself is exceedingly eff
iective.
AS most American newspaper readers
sill take their Harden with the eager
approval Of that two-hour audience of
which I spoke. it is we'll to give them
IN opportunity to see the other Harden
not the one who now pours forth his
weekly diatribes against everything
that is post-bellum German with such
seif-certitude and all-devourng con-
tempt, but the Harden of three to eight
years ago, who piped most stridently
with the Pan Germans and breathed
out slaughter along with the worst of
the war patriots and high old aristo-
Gratis OF Prussia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

ing 1t to enter firm, unequivocal al
nance. 10 accomplish this all that is
necessary is a return of the belief in
Germany's willingness to go to war.
Our house, closed forty years ago, is
getting too small. Every one of our
grandchildren would feel the conse-
quences if their forefathers should dis
gracefully trihe away in fatuous play
the period allotted to them for extend
ing the sphere of national power"
On August 10 he said that peace was
a good thing only for those who are
contented and love the comforts OF
their homes.
Finally, at the end of the year he
raised a war whoop against France in
the following form December 3o):
"Humiliate France without weakening
her-unpardonable folly! Our eyes
must be directed to Paris, just like 100
years ago. There is where Europe's
carbuncle is beginning to tester Should
we wait passively till Grey finishes the
Turko-Italian peace with the aid of
Vienna, and in France a new savior
seeks a halo?"
During the Balkan wars of 1912 and
1913 Harden was still sounding his war
trumpet vigorously, and he impatiently
scolded those Germans who advised
Austria to take conciliatory course
in respect to Serbias wishes. "If it
were but trifle," he wrote, "the straw
upon which honor hangs is not too
dearly paid for with streams of blood"
which is good German circumlocu-
ton Of carrying a chip on the German
shoulder. And again: with still
firmer brow than in 1909 it must be
said that if war comes it will be for
a German purpose, not for a Vienna
mood" But the love of peace in Prus-
STA was still too strong to please Har-
den. He wrote November 30):
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Pianos for the President

"The President, or the head COM
missionnaire of this council of do
mestic economy, had three pianos
in his own parlor, which he had
removed from other peoples
homes.
"Another story told of the head
commissar- of this Council Of Do
nestle Economy is that in the house
where he was staying, where he had
requisitioned room, he socialized-
to use the Bolshevik term-the
family silver of the gentleman with
whom he was staying. This gentle
man dared not make an open pro-
test, but he and his faithful servant
who stayed with him and also his
friend watched for the reappear
ance of the silver at the distributing
centre. 1t never appeared, and he
is thoroughly convinced that this
commissar had appropriated his
family silver, and he despaired of
ever recovering it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

any just cause except in the few
cases where a Bolshevik committee
or a Bolshevik organization of some
KIND would get after another Boil
shevik organization because there
were conflicts of interests, and some
times they actually executed their
own members because two conflict
ing parties would have this battle
for power in the organization, and
whichever one was the strongest
would have the other one put to
death.
In other words, there was no
honor among thieves. according to
the testimony Of these judges, and
they fought for the spoils just in
the way that a pack of wolves fight
for corpse.
"Now, another one of the com
mittees was a kind of Bolshevik
court which attempted in some
cases to give trial, but, as we were
Informed by these judges, the Ex-
traordinary Investigation Commit
tee, which had no court and which
had the power of executing peo-
pie, never allowed this Bolshevik
court which the Bolsheviks them
selves had established to operate
and 1t was as if it were non existent
and there was no justice to be had
"Lenine himself is credited as
saying-and believe it to be cor
rcct--that to one Bolshevik there
are in the Bolshevik party thirty
nine scoundrels and sixty fools
Now, believe that is a right per
centage. l believe one is a Boil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

work with the Bolsheviki. 1t
seemed that they found it impos-
sible to work with the Bolsheviki,
because they were trained to do
things in legal manner, and moth
ing after the taking of Belebei by
the Bolsheviki was done in a legal
manner. They managed to save their
lives by declaring that they were
heartily in favor of Bolshevism.
ITO begin with the story as they
gave it to us, the first thing that
happened was this monster meet
ing in the town hall, attended by
some fifteen hundred soldiers and
armed workers, whom these judges
described as being the riffraff and
the criminal classes of Russia, and
among them, also, were a large
number Of foreigners, Chinese and
some of the wild tribes of that part
Of the country. Now, these Boil
sheVikl entered the town and looted
part Of the city as they came in,
lat that night they were together
In assembly to hold meeting. Dur
ng the afternoon and evening the
jals we're opened and every Grim
inal in the county Jail was released
and was present at the Bolshevik
meeting. It WAS at this meeting
that Judge Famisky, whom just
mentioned, was made the Minister
Of Justice.
THE other appointees - you
could hardly say they were elected
to various Bolsheyik Offices we're
Of a far different type. One Of the
men who was made a Bolshevik
commissionnairc at Belebei was a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

something of that kind, and I do
not see where it differs in any es-
sentlal from our local county gov
eminent, or town council form of
government which f1ourished in New
England in the early days of Amer
lea. Where men like Raymond
Robins and Albert Rhys Williams
and Mr.. Reed and others can see
the superiority of the Soviet is in
comprehensive to me. I do not
see any point of superiority in it.
1t really stands for democratic
organization and a democratic wav
of running local affairs in a county,
town or government; but as it has
become under the Bolsheviki. ac-
cording to the testimony of the
judges at Belebei, it is anything
but democratic They do not have
elections; they do not have anything
but mass meeting at which the more
voluble may get up and make fiery
speeches such as We're read yester-
day. Then certain men are elected
oommissars, and first of all they
have the task of dividing up all the
property-all the private property
and proceeding to live on the
people. They are parasites. The Boil
sheviki as I know them in Russia
are the greatest criminal organiza-
ton the world has ever seen. Moth
ing that is released from our state
penitentiaries and county jails
would approach in horribleness
what the Bolshevik - the much
praised Bolshevik - government OF
Russia is doing to-day wherever ]
have come in contact with it."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
TOHN A EMBRY, who mt

IOHN A EMERY, who until
recently sOas United States
" Council at Omsk, Siberia, aoas
called before the Lusk Conn.,
mtsee to tell a0hat he knew about
Solshevism os q result Of his stay
IN Russia. His testimony, in part,
jollows:
I'VE were going to the town of
Selebei, in company with Judge
raul Blumenthal, presiding judge
II tire Belebei court. This court
Consisted Of seven judges, of whom
Judge Blunenthal was the chief.
JUICE Blumenthal, according to
Els statement, had never held polit-
hal office, before the revolution of
i'if, because he was known to be
republican. Of the seven mem
Ssfs Of this court four Of them had
aed when the Bolsheviki took Belle
'si, IN December, 1918, Judge
''urnenthal being among that mum
FER When we arrived at Bclebei
10 company with Judge Blumen-
nal, we went a. once to the court
mouse, where Judge BIumenthal met
'aree Of his colleagues who had re-
named in BeIebci during the Boil
shevlk conditions. These three
aages related that they had re-
named In Belebei because, being
socialists, they believed they could
esps with their lives and possibly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

title for some of his bellicose para
graphs the words: The good war"
In respect to Belgium he adopted
Bethmann's utterance that NECESSITY
knows no law" and delighted in am
pIifying it, writing thus: Necessity
takes no heed of parchments or of
pledges Of honor-dares not take heed
of them. Should we pine away in
narrowness, although strong enough
TO stretch ourselves to wide limits
Should we suffer the ridicule and pin
pricks of impertinent weaklings, al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

Prussian stamp, of our Steamboats,,
Stems and Bismarcks, would--instead
of putting bit and halter upon Austria
have pushed her forward into the
fight, without which nothing consider
able can be got out of the Balkans"
Not having got his war at that
time, however, Harden leaped up with
JOY, so to speak, when the Great War
broke out. He hailed its arrival as
the supreme experience of happiness"
which made it possible to take up
arms for Germany's power and illus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Where Napoleon Failed

Harden was one of the original
champions of unrestricted submarine
warfare, and he strongly urged Ger
many not to yield before American
threats. After the German Admiralty
issued its first order establishing a
submarine blockade around Great
Britain February IS. 1870 and warn
ing neutral shipping to keep away from
those waters, Harden wholly approved
the measure and demanded that there
be not the slightest relaxation of it.
Here is what he wrote on May 20,
1915: England wants to cut off our
supplies of food and raw materials and
we want to do likewise against Eng
land. Only a flawess blockade-no
patchwork-can prove swift remedy.
The watchword, here if anywhere must
be: Everything or nothing. Whoever
can be frightened must not venture
into the fire. The new weapon
of submarine warfare has not yet been
national law; nowhere is the way
barred by bolt that cannot be broken.
Lord Haldane, when Minister of War,
said An enemy of Britain would have
cut off our food supply That result
is hoped for by 6O,OO0,0O0 Germans,
who are willing, for such retaliation, to
undertake the hardest work, for it is
now case of You or l. The sub
marine is just as clean an instrument
of war as any other. If there is one
link lacking in the chain of paragraphs
German seamanship will swiftly spring
through it and hire their best cook to
the island rentiers.'
At that time Harden had still one
unrealized wish-he was exceedingly
anxious to have Tirpitz succeed Beth
mann Hollweg as Chancellor.
In those first two years of the war
Harden was one of the heaviest hit
tiers on the literary firing line in all mat
ters respecting the war. He was one
of the leading spokesman of all Pan
German and old Prussian aggressive
of his daring schemes, and he did not
shirk the thought that Germany should
assume the role of word-conqueror,
in which Napoleon failed. He wrote
on September y, 1914: SIS it a crime
for us to try what he failed in? Mo-"
Already in the first year of the war
the idea of settling the controversy by
arbitration, with President Wilson as
arbitrator, had come up for discus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

come really Russian, and Russia her
self would gain time for completing
her ornaments and bringing the
Triple Entente into firmly welded al
lance. In which case the war would
come at an hour when it would suit
others; come, too, as surprise to us,
not to them"
From the first Harden regarded the
war as Stern necessity in the liferin-
terest of both Germany and Austria
for him the war was not only good but
holy. He used on September as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Muxin1iIian Harden

trious future" Harden saw at a very
early date how things were going, saw
that Austrias ultimatum to Serbia
meant that Austria wanted war; but
instead Of blaming Austria, he praised
her for taking a step which she should
have taken long before. Up to the
very eve of the war Harden was still
afraid that it might prove only local
affair, the localized hostilitics" put
forth by the German government as its
line of policy; in which case, he ar
gued, Serbia would more than ever be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Harden a Turncoat

Last year Harden brought out book
under the title War and Peace" con-
sisting of quotations from his writ
ings upon those subjects in "Die
Zukunft." But his selections were
quite characteristic Of the present
Harden; all the extracts quoted above
and others of similar tenor were care
fully expurgated. The result is that
reader not conversant with the writ
ings of the real Harden of the first two
years of the war would get the i'm
preston that Harden had been fairly
consistent advocate of pacific and rea-
sonable policies from the start But
Harden's record is so we'll known in
Germany that no leading newspaper
now pays any attention to what he
writes. His style of controversy. too,
has visibly deteriorated; he adopts ex-
lower the dignity of men whom he at
tacks.
Ebert may not be a great statesman,
but he is the President of Germany
and is respected as such even by most
Germans who are not Socialists And
they feel it to be a shameful thing
that Harden should indulge in the
familiarity of calling Ebert "Fri-ze"
and addressing him as a naughty
schooboy.
1t is now Il we'll grounded opinion
here that what Harden is suffering
from is disappointed ambition One
hears in very high political circles shat
he fully expected a high position in
the government-Secreta of Foreign
Affairs, chairman of the German peace
delegation or a first class ambassador
ship; also that he expected, at the very
least, that the new government would
consult him in matters of foreign
policy. Instead of that Harden has
received no appointment, and NOT even
has his opinion been asked on any mat
ter whatever.
Hence, it is everywhere said, Harden
has dropped back into his old role of
political Ishmaelite, hitting out right
and left against everybody connected
with the present government. and
seeking to curry favor with its deadly
foes at home and abroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Death Without Trial

"Now, another one Of the COM
mttees was known as the Extraor-
binary Investigation Committee,
which had the peculiar power Of
sentencing to death without trial
and of executing any man, woman
or child believed to be guilty of
any Of these three charges: Counter
revolution, speculation and sabotage.
"Now, most Of the executions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Cermany's House Too Small

Thimme begins with the year 1909
to mold the mirror up to Harden. It
was during the Bosnia Herzegovina
crisis that Harden wrote March 13.
1867: The highest price. even the
price OF blood of German men. is
rot TOO high to be paid for Germany's
life interests" .
Still more bellicose was Harden dur
ing the Morocco crisis of 1911. On
July ! he wrote: Forward we want
TO go, and we can only do so by con-
qaering France again, or by persuad-