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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Ma was in her room hitting sum-
thing without eny special shape Yet,
and I was standing by the window
looking down at the fellows playing
in the street and wondering if wpnt-
ed to go out, ana ell of suddin I
smeit a fine shell like pies, saying,
G, ma. that smells like pies.
Witch ma di6ent say enything and
the smell kept on smelling. and pritty
soon l sed, I bleevs it is pies, ma.
Ma jest keeping on hitting, and I sed,
If il amt, it serteny smells like it.
They're for suppirs SO you mite as
we'll ge>- them ,out Of your MINI for
a vile, sed ma. Meaning they RELY
was pies, and 1 se1, Can I go down
and ask. Nora for a peece in advants :?
You can ask her, for all the good it
will do you, sci ma.
Yes mann. 1 sed. And went down
in the kitchin and Nora was pealing
potatoes with q unhappy ixpres lion,
me standing there looking at her a
VILE thinking, I better ask her grad
ually. And I sed. WITCH is the cas-
lest. Nora, the big ones Or the little
ones?
I amt in no mood to anser fool
questions, sed Nora. Meening the one
about the potatoes, and she kepp on
pealing them and I Aepp on watching
her, saying, Ma says for you to give
me peece of pie in advants. WITCH
Nora stopped pealing and started to
stare at me, and I sed, If you feel
like it,
o, that's diff rent. well. I don't feel
like it, how DO YOU like that? sed
Nora.
o we'll, maybe they don't taist as
good as wat they smell, enyway. sed.
And 1 wawkee out Of the kitchin
proud.
Being revendge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.
Old Wives for Newt.

A man, who is sixty-five years old,
writes me that he has fallen in love
with beautiful young grill and he
wishes to marry her, but there is a diff
ficulty in the way. He is already mar
ried, and he has no legal excuse for
divorcing his faithful and devoted old
wife.
My wife is a good woman" he
says, land she has been a great help
to me in laking my fortune as we
were poor when we started put, and
it was to her thrift, industry and good
business judgment that I owe much of
my success. 1 do not forget his, and
am willing to make a good settle
ment on her if she will only get out
of the way and let me marry this
young girl. She refuses to do this, and
1 think it very selfish of her as she is
old and rheumatic and no longer at
tracts or interests me-"
No, gentle reader, I am not making
up the letter 1 have just quoted. 1t is
a real, genuine, bona fide commune
cation 1 have received from a man
who wants to know how to go about
swapping old wives for new.
He thinks his wife is selfish be-
cause she refuses to go out and COM
SulClQo III SOIlo nice, Qu ct pldCG
in order to give him little pleasure.
He thinks his wife is selfish because,
in order to crafty him, she isn't will
ling to step down and out. and turn
over to another woman all that she
has spent her life toiling for. and
hoping for and planning for.
AS the husband says, they were a
poor young couple when they were
married. There were years aud years
in which the woman got up in the
cold gray dawn to cook her husband
breakfast, and sat up after he had
gone to bed mending, patching, wash
ing and pressing his clothes, so that
he might present a good appearance at
business. There were years and years
in which S. toiled, scrimped and
saved, and in that bitter labor and
economy she laid the foundation stones
of the fine house that she. is now
asked to relinquish to a young girl.
1t was her energy upon which her
husband drew when his own failed. II
was her ambition that pushed him
forward when his own faltered. 1t
was on her shoulders he climbed to
success. and now that she is no longer
necessary he thinks her selfish be-
the big hou, she has helped build with
her very life blood. and beca Sc she
wants to share in the rewards of the
battle she has helped to win.
There isn't any use in telling i
man who is tired of his old wife, and
who wants to exchange her for a new
one. what an migrate he is. or how
dastardly it is to rev. I'D a lifetime OF
faithful devotion and loyal service by
breaking a woman's heart and sham
ing her before the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

Some have the gift of song ami fome pos
sess the gift of silver speesh.a
Some have the gift of leadership and
some the ways of life can tteGch.
And fame and wealth reward their friends.
But in good time their favorites grow very
faint and gray and old.
But there are men who laugh at time and
hold the cruel years at bay;
They romp thru life forever young because
they have the gift of play
They walk with children. h..hd in hand
thru daisy fields and orchards fair.
Nor all the dignity of age ana power and
pomp can follow there:
They've kept the magic charm of youth be-
meath the wrinkled robe of Time.
And there's friendly apple Free that
they have grown too old to- ci1mb.
They have not let their boyhood die, they
can Ne children for the day:
They have not bartered for surcess and all
its praise, the gift OF play;
They think and talk in terms bf youth,
with love of life their eyes ire bright.
No rheumatism of the soul has robbed
them of the worlds delight;
They laugh and sing their way song and
join in pleasures when they gan
And in their glad philosophy they Eold
that mirth becomes man.
They spend no strength in growing old.
What if their brows be ctowned with
gray?
They still possess the gift of play.
The richest men of life are not the ones
who rise to wealth and fame-f
Not the great sages. old and, wise, and
grave of face and bent of frame.
But the glad spirits. tall and straight, who
spite of time and all its care
Have kept the power tic laugh and sing and
in youths fellowship to share!
They that can walk with boys and be a
boy among them; blithe and gay.
Defy the whitening blasts of Age because
Copyright iio by Edgar Il Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

Ever since the conclusion of active
hostilities with Germany business has
been in what is currently referred to
As waiting attitude" The cause of
this waiting attitude is very generally
said to have been a belief that prices
were likely to decline in a marked de-
gree. Assuming that such a shrink
age of prices was in prospect. it was
natural to refrain from making heavy
Purchases. inasmuch as the goods
might shrink in value before they
could be, manufactured or sold. Now
4 is reported that this waiting attitude
has been abandoned in many direc-
tipns and that a good many business
men are of the opinion that the de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Lcnten Recipes.

Cheese Fondu-One cup chopped
cheese, one cup bread crumbs, one
half tea spoon salt, one and one-half
cups milk, two eggs: scald the milk
and add the bfead crumbs; beat the
egg yolks: add these and cheese and
salt. Fold iI stiff1y beaten egg
whites. Bake twenty minutes in mod
crate oven and serve: at once.
Cream of Corn Soup-Equa1 parts
of thin white sauce and corn pulp,
white sauce) one pound butter or
substitute one pound flour, one cup
milk, one-fourtn teaspoon salt. one
eighth teaspoon pepper. mix and boil.
When boiling add corn pulp and boil
two min dtes. Celery and onion may
be added If desired. Recipe may be
doubled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

For the year 1918 the Federal Re-
serve bank of New York. a govern
ment bank, is reported to have earned
on It's paid in capital stock 100 per
cent. The capital stock in this bank
is owned by banks-which are MEM
bers of the federal reserve system and
the dividends are limited by law to 6
per cent-so that the government
share of the profit was 1913 per cent
Who's profiteer? Such earnings are
enough to make Burleson turn a
bright emerald hue. The government
might devote a part of its profits in
the banking business to making good
its losses in the railroad business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

Ii is reported that the proposal to
fnrn Palestine over to the Jews is be-
Ing bitterly opposed by the inhabi-
tants of that country. 1t is set forth
that the Holy Land is inhabited by
$4,000 Christians and Mohammedans
With but 100000 Jews. many of whom
efe recent immigrants from Spain.
Opponents of the Zionist movement
rfge that Palestine be included under
4 SYRIAN government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

failed to get to Europe now have an
opportunity The government has
called for 10000 volunteers for for
Sign service. Probably few of those
who have been across will care to go
again. Most of those who have re-
burned from overseas. unite in saying
That they have had enough. AS one
young soldier put it: IF the God
dess OF Liberty desires to see me again
She must turn around"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
The Crime Of Substitution.
BY ROY K AoULTON

The Ben Davis was invented as
substitute for the apple in 1887 by a
dentist at Hohokus, N. J., and named
in honor of an old gentleman who was
killed when one of these apple sub
stitutes was thrown playfully at him
during a husking bee that same year.
D ring the Mexican war these Ben
Davises were used as a substitute for
ammunition when Zachary Taylor ran
short of cannon balls and resulted in
he defeat Of Santa Ana. Thus the Ben
Davis has played an important part
in history.
In 1920.
Nipht--a II oon-a burglar grim.
A safe and a stick of dynamite;
why does he toll with Zest and vim.
And tremble there like soul In plight?
What docs he seek while goo1 men dream.
And all the world is asleep In bed
S LIKE a the stars stars hat twinkle overhead.
Behold the treasure trove in sight.
oh, luz " fellow. smart and risky;
The wealth of kings is his tonight,
For he has found a flask Of whisky!
Morris Abel Beer.
German. Navy Cut to Eleven Big
Fighters.--Headlire.
No doubt of the Jess Willard type.
JAY EN-.
The Germans fear they won't get
justice, and somehow or other we also
fear they won't.
We often wonder IL julius Caesar
wasn't laBoring under forty h. p. Jag
when he invented March and put it
into his calendar.
Congress voted s200,o00.OO0 ITO
make our roads better during the next
three years. How much would 1t cost
to make them uetter permanently?
Fuller Skin coming" warns a
fashion note. Rut it seems as tho they
are nretty full now.
The most important thing about the
arrival of Geor 6e Creel in America Is
that George Creel has arrived in
America.
Have You q Chile Born To-day?
If you have a child born today it
will etcna, eofsanid,: eoatin mayaiQm
pg jAudbe EAOTIN.-"Astrolog in
Des Moines News.
But it is ext 'eme1y unkind to refer
to him even accidentally, as a western
paper did, as exSpeaker Chump
Clark.
Beginning Young.
Harold Hill. age years, of Wealthy
street. was picked up by the police at
the Orpheum theater. where it was
said he was making friends with the
chorus women. He was return ed
home,-Grand Rapids (Mich) News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

: on March IS, more than four
months after the war ended, the war
risk bureau dismissed l,400 of its
] 5000 employees, and set p a cry of
of the work because
of lack of funds. With half of the
army demobilized, it seems that more
than 10 per cent reduction in force
should have been effected within four
months after the war ended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
LOCAL MENTION

A bright and lively farce comedy
known as Mary Ankle will be The
offering at the Grand tonight. New
York favored it with Il run of four
months at the Bijou theater and it is
said to have been we'll received in Bos-
ton, Chicago and other large cites.
May Tully. author of 'Mary's Ankle"
Is given credit for having. evolved sew
eral new situations as well as having
written some crisp and amusing dia-
1ogue.
Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Erunt-
Martin.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

cline of prices. so far as 1t occurs Ia
the near future. will be slow and grad
ual. Should they wait for it to reach
its lower point. VS. the New York
journal of Commerce, they would lose
more in postponement than they
would gain thru avoidance of loss due
to shrinkage of values.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
WAS FOR TEST TO ALLIES
Hungnrians Wanted To Know How
! Far Allies Would Let Them Go.

Paris, April 1.-Reports to the
French foreign office indicate the
Hungarian revolution was staged
largely with the purpose of testing
the strength OF the will of the entente
powers and was @esigned to brighten
them with the idea that Germany
would also rapidlv disintegrate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
REGULATIONS ARE STRICT
Officers school Due To Start at Camp
Funston Today.

junction City, Kan. April 1.-Regu-
lations governing the officers school
scheduled to start today at Camp
Funston, are strict. requiring attend
ance of all officers whose duties will
permit, regulars. PROFESSIONALS and re-
serves being included.
A school for enlisted men. in which
instruction in stenography and type
writing will be given, also will be
started at Camp Funston this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
COL. HAYES IS CHOSEN
Will Inspect Military Departments OF
Schools an Kansas.

Washington. April Assignment
of general staff Officers to make the
annual inspection of military Depart
ments of educational institutions a
which regular ARMY officers are on
duty were announced today by the war
department. Coz. Philip Hays was de-
tailed to cover the institutions in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Colorado. Col.
Francis Honeycutt to Arkansas, Texas
and Oklahoma, aud Harry l.. Miles.
to Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

- Having learned what the senate
wants in the way of league of ma
tions covenant. during his short visit
10 the United States. President Will
Son apparently is trying to get the
document amended in accordance
With the senate's wishes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

The supreme court of the United
States. in its decision of the gas case,
appears to have sown seeds from
Which will be harvested a big crop of
Has suits in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
BUYS A HOME HERE

w. L.. Huggins OF P.J. c. To Move
Family to topeka From Ernroria.
w. l.. Higgins. newly appointed
member of the state utilities ctsmmis-
sion, has purchased the Gas S.
Locknane residence. S2s Lane street.
and will occupy the same about May
1, moving his family from EHaporia.
Mr.. Higgins rece4tly sold his Twelfth
avenue residence lin Emporia. which
is one of the finest in that city.
Il am not leaving Emporia for good.
by any means" said Mr.. Higgins. IT
have lived there FOR thirty-one years.
and expect to &C back there in few
wears"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

= The B0Shevik government in Hun
gary is doomed to an early collapse.
1t has decreed that everybody must
work. Most persons who join the
Bolsheviki do so for the express pur-
pose of avoiding work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
SEND THE ss2ND HOME.
Yank Draft Men Have Sailed From
Italy fer Homo.

New York, April 1.-The italian
consul general here announced today
that he had recei@ed an official mes
sage from Rome. stating that the
332nd infe ntry, composed largely of
draft men from ;Ohio and western
Pennsylvania now Is on its way home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

Dispatches from Paris indicate that
the allies are DESTROYS of seeing the
color of the Hun money before pro-
ceeding farther in the supplying of
food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

New York Liberty Bond Market
New York. April Liberty bond close:
3Is's. 1912: first as. gi.GO: second As $50:
first 4As. 0f.4: second 4h's. $3.50; third
Ans, $3.50; fourth AIS, o5.Go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

New York Cotton Market.
New York, April 1.-COTTON-Spot
quiet; middling, 2OGO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01
Beginning Young.

Beginning Young.
Harold Hill. age years, of Wealthy
street. was picked up by the police at
the Orpheum theater. where it was
said he was making friends with the
chorus women. He was return ed
home-Grand Rapids (Mich.) News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

But it is ext 'eme1y unkind to refer
to him even accidentally, as a western
paper did, as ex-Speaker Chump
Clark.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02

the Commercial club chambers, if it %
deemed that these rooms can aeeomodat ]
the crowds.
At a meeting Wednesday evening OF
the board of directors of the CONNER
ciai club support to the Salem Building
&, Loan association was urged. 1t u
said that persons desirous of building
and availing themselves Of the chance
of hurried sale of their property, wis
find themselves without sufficient funds
on hand to build, can align themselves
with the association, under plans that
are said to be aeceptible, and go aheac
with the association s aid and build
This win be explained at the meeting.
The incompetence of the suggestion
that building syndicate be induced to
come to Salem and erect homes is now
seen in the fact that the housing situa.
ton is equally acute in all parts Of the
United States. Therefore there is moth.
ing left to do but persuade local inter.
ests to take up the matter.
1t has been estimated that at least oor
new residences should be built in safer.
this winter to accommodate the influx
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02
Mass Meetine to Consider housine
Situation in Salem Is Called For

of families. After that, prominent
citizen said Thursday, building should
continue with gradual increase to Keep
pace with the growth of the city.
Fred A. Legg, local architect, declar
ed Thursday that he has not been call
ed upon for plans for houses for thre>
months.
II is reported that one enterprisirS
capitalist Of the city is now plannin1
the construction Of between Is and &c
houses within the near future.
off he can do ii and make money at
it, said Secretary Mccroskey of tho
Commercial club. Thursday, "why can't
others here do it and thereby sGlve their
civic pride to the extent that they have
made great'stride in the development
Of the citys'
Ali effort is being made by the Com
mereial club to solve this problem.
Members are aware that the future Of
Salem depends largely upon the imme-
diate undertaking of the housing situa-
tion here; and are now launching upon
an educational program toward this
end.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02

To further strive at solution of the
critical housing situation in Salem, a
public mass meeting, at which the ur-
gent necessity of building will be inn
pressed and at which the opportunity
which lies in this direction for capital
will be shown. will be held here some
time next week. Since the facts under
lying the situation were made plain in
a statement in The Capital Journal We'd
nesday interest in Salem has been thor
cughly aroused, with the result that steps
will be immediately taken to solve the
problem.
It is well known fact that the only
solution lies in building. The reluctance
of local interests to invest in this chan
mel, because they apparently are net fa-
miiiar with the opportunity for profit
able investment that building promises.
viii be attacked at the meeting, and it
is expected that civic pride will be sur
fieiently aroused TO induce Salem finan-
ciers to take up this matter.
The exact date of the meeting has
not yet been set. II is announced, how
ever, that the session win be held at
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02

One white man and a number Of me-
groes were killed when the riots were
renewed early today. The others lost
their lives in Wednesdays 's fighting.
Soldiers from Camp Pike at noon
had surrounded a large number of me-
groes hiding in the cane brakes, accord
ing to reports received here.
Couriers were sent into the cane
brakes to demand surrender of the me-
groes under threat of an attack from
the troops. Machine guns are reported
mounted and the troops ready to attack
the brakes.
Despite the presence of troops, feel
ing is high.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the negroes were well drilled and fully
prepared, = Mayor Knight Of Helena
said, nThey employed military tactics
throughout the fight
Recurrence of the rioting preceded the
arrival in Elaine of five hundred vet
eran soldiers Of the Third division who
were sent there from Camp Pike, armed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02
farm DEALS IN.
COUNTY BACK IN
FORMER STRIDE

Farm property is looking up in this
part of the valley and county record IS
office is doing rushing business in
excess of the days of 1912 and 1913
when farm lands were sc greatly in de.
mand.
For consideration of $500 James
N. Robertson has sold to Andrew Fletch.
er Lockwood and wife, as tenants in the
entirety, so acres, parts of the dona
tion land claim of Felix Raymond In
section 10, range 2 west
J. w. Woodruff and wife have con
veyed to Clarence A. Poole and wre,
in the entirety, 77.74 acres in town
ship south of range 3 west, for Va
consideration Of $4,000. The tract is
directly north Of Salem.
John Scheffe has sold to August Hill
fiker 64.59 acres in township south of
range 2ewest, for consideration OF
$4,000. The tract is east of Salem few
miles
Harriet A. Curtiss and husband have
sold to Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Batch
ford of 1745 State street, home in
Queen Anne's addition, known as lot
9 of block J.. 1t is on the north side Of
State street between 18th and 18th
streets.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-02
Treaty FRIENDS
WIN VICTORY IN
AMENDMENT VOTE

Washington, Oct. 2.-First vote3 IN
peace treaty amendments ii the senate
today resulted in 4 victory for support
ers of the pact.
After rejecting four of the series of
Fall amendments to eliminate Amcri-
can representatives from 'arious SON.
missions SCI up by the treaty the sen
ate continued debating and preparing
to vote on the others. The first vote
was 80 to 5S and the next record vote,
81 to So.
Y The amendments defeated so far
would have eliminated this country
from the Belgian boundary commits
sion; excluded the United States from
arrangements regarding Luxemberg
and eliminated American representation
on the Saar basin commissions.
By unanimous agreement the senate
Jumped twcnty-six of the Fall amend
ments and without a roll call rejected
them. All Of these amendments provid-
ed for elimination Of the United States
from various commissions. There arc
still several other amendments to be
voted on.