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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
LORRAINE DASHES BAB'S HOPES
OF SOCIAL SUCCESS.
CHAPTER Tx.

With an onrush almost staggering,
all my doubts which had so long lain
quiescent came back to me.
SHADY characters, undesirable &C
quaintances," Lorraine had called
them. 1 could not very well refute
her when 1, his wife, had refused to
receive them. How ignorant was of
society is apparent in the fact that |
had never thought that Neirs peculiar
business methods might Illustrate my
social ambitions He had money. That
was all that was required of him, so
1 imagined. 1 would do the rest. And
now this!
You must know if this is so, Bah.
even if you do not know much of his
affairs. Does he ever bring. such men
home with him."
'No-not now"
''Why-'not now?'"
Because I refused to receive Them
4 see-then it is true-au of it, 1
am afraid"
For heavens sake, Lorraine, say
what you have to say and be done
with it, I cried in desperation. 1 felt
as if a hand had clutched my heart.
Yet I would not believe it SO bad as
Lorraine had limited. She was a nat
ural gossip-she exaggerated.
well, Bah, I will! 1t is the only
way am more sorry lot you imam
l can say. more sorry that 1 encour-
aged you to think you could make a
social success. 1 am sure, however.
thaS it is of no use for you to go on.
You have a lovely home, but the peo-
pie you have Planned to entertain will
not visit ycu-I am afraid" she
stopped. I waited in silence. Final ly
1 could stand it no longer.
Don't be afraid of hurting me, Lor-
raine. Go on, tell me all you have
heard"
II want you to know it will make
no slightest difference in me. in our
| friendship. You do know that, don't
| you. Bab?"
| 1 nodded.
But it is common rumor. A friend
! of my fathers came to him about II
because I have been with you so much
| This man said that your husbands
business methods are 'unsound'-
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BIG JOE FOR CONGRESS.

Next to passing the necessary ap-
preparation bills, the most important
matter that will appeal to the extra
session of congress for action is that
of the railroads. From the standpoint
of good business the existing condi-
lions are well nigh .intolerable.
The deficit incurred by the railroad
administration continues to grow fast
er even than the most pessimistic have
feared. 1t was $5S. 900. 900 in March.
This made the total deficit for the
first three months of the year APP
proximately $13O,OO0,0O0, or almost
one and a hslf million dollars a day.
Director General Hines, on his re-
cent trip to the Pacific coast, made a
number of addresses and public state
ments. He appears to have attributed
the current bad showing of earnings
and expenses chiefly to the heavy de-
cline of traffic. He indicated that in
his opinion the results will improve
when industrial and transportation
conditions become normal. Yet it has
been asserted by an eastern newspaper
friendly to government control of
railroads that a decline in traffic was
one of the objects sought when rates
were advanced. 1t is true. says the
Railway Age, there has been a decline
of traffic. But conditions in 1917 and
1918 were not normal and the traffic
handled in those years showed a vast
increase largely due to war conditions.
Let us go back to the first three
months of 1916. In that year the rail-
ways had the largest increase of traf-
fic that ever occurred in any single
year. They made the largest operat-
ing income ever made in one year.
Consequently most people assume that
because of the recent decline in traf-
fic the business which has been moved
thus far this year has been much less
than in the remarkable year 1916. 1t
is somewhat disconcerting, therefore,
to find that in the first three months
of 1919 the freight traffic of the rail-
ways was IS billion ton-miles while
in the first three months of 1916 it
was only so billion miles, an in
crease in 1919 over 1916 of over 6 per
cent. Furthermore, the traffic han
died in the first three months of 1919
was only 10 per cent less than that
moved in the corresponding three
months of 1917 and 1918.
Says the Age in conclusion: ut is
easy enough for anybody who care
fully examines the figures to see what
is the main trouble with the railroads
1t is not the decline of traffic, but the
| increase of expenses"
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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The assembling of congress May 10
probably will be followed quickly by
discussion of the league of nations in
the senate The New York World
notes that Representatives of the Re-
publican round-robin covenanters who
recently pronounced the doom of the
league of nations now say that the
covenant of Paris cannot be made
party issue" The World then pro-
ceeds to administer advice to Repub-
licans as follows:
There is just one way by which a
party issue on this question can be
avoided and that is by a Republican
retreat all along the line. There are
many evidences that this movement is
in progress, and it is clear that it is
proceeding in response to unmistak
able public opinion.
A war admitted by its authors to
have been ineXcusable has cost mill
lions of lives and hundreds of billions
of money. 1t is now predicted that
befoFa the account is settled the price
to be paid by the United States will
be casualties of 100000 and expendi-
lures OF at least 80 billions.
Whether perfect or imperfect, the
covenant of the league of nations is
an attempt by honest men to save the
world from such another scourge.
I Junkerism, everywhere devoted to
war and the profits to be derived from
it. has f1outed the idea of a league OF
nations as visionary. and to this sor-
did view a majority of the Republican
members of the United States senate
have in effect subscribed.
Thus opposition to a covenant de-
signed to free mankind from a rel e.
tition of the sorrow. suffering ard
! debt of this conflict became a Repub-
lican party issue It was so regarded
publicans and most Republican n
newspapers committed themselves.
In Europe 10 confused the coun-
| sells of the peacemakers, embold-
ened all reactionaries and gave aid
| and comfort to the enemy. We shall
not know at once how powerfully this
| worst of all party issues operated to
delay matters at Paris. but some day
the truth will be told and it will be
| grievous.
If opposition to. the covenant of
peace is no longer a Republican party
issue, why? The answer is plain.
| Millions of men served in the war.
| There are few votes among them for
more war. Tens of thousands of fam
lilies are in mourning. There are no
votes in those afflicted circles for more
war. Millions of our people are stag
gering under uneXampIed financial
burdens. There are few votes in that
| category for more war The victory
loan calls upon men and women in
every walk of life to testify with their
capital and their savings to their
faith that the war was won and not
lost. There are few votes in this great
host favorable to a lie.
All things considered. the Repub-
lican managers can hardly 60 wiser
thing than make support of the league
of nations nonpartisan.
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THE JOURNEY TO TIL
WOODMAN.

"OODhAN.
Tip was we'll soaked and dripping
water from every angle of his body;
but he managed to lean forward and
shout in the ear of the Horse:
Keep still, you. fool! Keep still"
The horse at once ceased struggling
and floated calmly upon the surface.
it's wooden body being as buoyant as
raft.
what does that word fool mean?"
inquired the horse.
"It is a term of reproach," an
swered Tip, somewhat ashamed of the
expression. Il only use it when 1 am
angry"
sThen it pleases me to be able to
call you a fool. in return" said the
horse For L did not make the river,
nor put it in our way; so only term
of reproach is fit for one who becomes
angry with me for falling into the
water"
''That is quite evident" replied
Tip; $50 1 will acknowledge myself in
mpkinhead, Are you all right,
There was no reply. So the boy
called to the King: Are you all right,
your majesty"
The Scarecrow groaned.
I'm all wrong, somehow" he said,
in a weak voice. How very wet this
water isi'
Tip was bound SO tightly by the
cord that he could not turn his head
to look at his companions; SO he SAID
to the Saw Horse:
Paddle with your legs toward the
shore"
The horse obeyed, and altho their
progress was slow, they finally reached
the<<opposite river bank at a place
where it was low enough TO enable the
creature to scramble upol dry land
I1n MIA ~
aged to get his knife out of his pocket
and cut the cords that bound the rid
ers to one another and to the wooden
horse. He heard the Scarecrow fall
to the ground with a mushy sound,
and then he himself quickly dismount-
ed and looked at his friend Jack.
The wooden body, in it's gorgeous
clothing, still sat upright OH the
horses back; but the pumpkin head
was gone, AMI only the sharpened
stick that served for a neck was Wis
ible. AS for the Scarecrow, the straw
in his body had shaken down with the
jolting and packed itself into his legs
and the lower part of his body-which
appeared very plump and round, while
his upper half see ned like an empty
sack. Upon his head, the Soarecrow
still wore the heavy crown, which had
been sewed on to prevent his losing
it; but the head was now so damp and
limp that the weight of the gold and
Jewels sagged forward and crushed the
painted face into a mass of wrinkles
that made him look exactly like a
Japanese pug dog.
Tip would have 1aughed-had he
not been so anxious about his man
Jack. But the Scarecrow, however
damaged, was all there, while the
pumpkin head that was so necessary
to Jacks existence was missing; so
the boy seized a long pole that for
tunately lay near at hand and
| anxiously turned again toward the
| river.
Far out upon the waters he sighted
the golden hue of the pumpkin. which
| gently bobbed up and down with the
motion of the waves. At that moment
| it was quite out of Tips reach. but
after a time it floated nearer and still
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MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

that's fathers word This friend
feared your husband would try to get
my father interested in some of his
schemes, and came to warn him Fa-
Their is getting old''-she said apollo
getically-''and is easily infuent ed.
We haven't any money to spare, you
know Thea he also told father that
Mr.. Forbes was constantly seen with
men of no standing; and that Mr..
Forbes himself was suspected of he-
ng-weIl-not-stri h; nest; that
no man could make money as fast as
he made it, live at the rate you lived,
and do it honestly-without misrepre-
senting things and promoting schemes
which would not stand daylight" She
stopped minute. Then: Most of
what I have said, Bah. is quoted. You
wanted to know. SO 1 told you. The
man who told father is Mr.. Powers"
g I almost groaned. Mrs. Powers
had been the woman whom I most
desired to know.
There is one other thing U am go
ing to tell you,' she went on: Per
haps l shouldnt-but 1 think you
ought to know it: Mr.. Forbes makes
a rendezvous of Blanche Orton's
home. He takes men there-perhaps
the very ones You have refused to re-
ceive. They gamble and drink, and
incidentally put over those big deal
much money. Blanche has been so
terribly snubbed because of it-altho
she never cut any ice socially. / liked
her, and enjoyed her unconventional
ity. But since orion died she has be-
come almost too unconventional even
for me-
And you think it is no use TO x
on as we had planned" 1 spoke now
of an entertainment for charity with
which we had decided to make my
first plunge into society. 1 was TO
throw open my lovely new home for
the purpose
Absolutely no, You would only
be Inundated. Enjoy your home with
your family and those whom you al
ready know, and who are not critical.
But, under the circumsta do not
attempt the impossible"
We were interrupted by the butler.
He brought me telegram from Neil:
Have been called out of town. Back
Friday" 1t was Monday.
(To be continued.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

We need paved highways to help
bring prosperity. The immediate con-
struction of a large amount of this
work will afford an outlet for labor
and will stimulate all kinds of activi-
ties. When the highways are COM
pleted, they will stimulate trade in ev-
cry community. Good highways ex-
tend the areas of the cities. They
mean a wider radius of trade area for
every merchant; they encourage peo-
pie to move about. Trade is dull when
people stay at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
DINNER STORIES

Altho British War Secretary Lord
Miner cannot exactly be said to shine
as humorist, he can enjoy a good
story against himself. as witness the
following. which he is fond of relat-
ing.
Some years ago. fresh from his
South African triumphs, he addressed
an audience of undergraduates at his
old university.
I'VE must remember not merely the
beauty of the individual colleges but
the beauty of Oxford as a whole. And
what a whole it is
Hear. heart" yelled the varsity
man. Yes, what a hole!" they groan-
ed: What a beastly hole!'
Then it dawned upon Lord Miner
that this was a sentiment he would
rather have expressed differently.
IT wish I had baby brother to
wheel in my gocart, mamma" said
small Elsie. MY dolls are always
getting broke when it tips over"
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The Park Ave. News.

Weather. Yes.
Spoarts. Ed Wernick and Skinny
Martin had a high kicking contest
last Satidday. Ed Wernick kicking so
high he lost his ballents and sat down
hard some place ment to be sat down
hard on, but not that hard.
Big Explosion. Pubs Simkins sneez-
ed so sudden in skool last Thersday
that Miss Kitty dropped a flower pot
with flower growing in it and made
Pubs Simkins eileen up the dert and
ipologize, witch he did by saying it
was the Ony way he could sneeze.
Sissiety. Mr.. Sid Hunts mother was
showing some lady GROUND the house
Satidday mite and she opened the bath
room door to show her the bathroom.
and who was taking a bath in there
but Mr.. Sid Hunt, Mr.. Hunt being
more Embarrassed than the lady altho
neither one had aver saw the other
one before.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Cross says he wouldent
mind going to heaven wen he dies,
but judging by the different picktures
a devil has better time than wat a
angel does.
Fancy initials on hankerchiffs with
indelible ink, sents for initials
See Leroy Shooster. (Avvertizement.)
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has friends near at hand to repair
damages, nothing very serious can
happen to you"
Il wonder if hot sunshine is liable
to crack pumpkins said Jack, with
an anxious ring in his voice.
Not at all--not at all!' replied the
Scarecrow, gaily. "All you need fear,
my boy, is old age. When your golden
youth has decayed we shall quickly
part company-but you needn't look
forward to it; We'll discover the fact
ourselves. and notify you. But come!
Let US resume our journey. 1 am
anxious to greet my friend the Tin
Woodman'
So they remounted the Saw-Horse,
Tip holding to the post, the Pumpkin
head clinging to Tip, and the Scare
crow with both arms around the
wooden form of Jack.
GO slowly, for now there is no dan
ger of pursuit. said Tip to his steed.
"All right" responded the creature,
in a voice rather gruff
Aren't you a little hoarse?" asked
the Pumpkinhead, politely.
The Saw-Horse gave an angry
prance and rolled one knotty eye back
ward toward Tip.
"See here" he growled, cant you
protect me from insult ?"
ITO be sure" answered Tip, sooth-
ingly. Il am sure Jack meant no
harm. And it will not do for us to
quarrel. you know; we must all re-
main good friends
''Tll have nothing more to do with
that Pumpkinhead," declared the Saw
Horse, viciously; ''he loses his head
too easily to suit me-
There seemed no fitting reply to
this speech. so for a time they rode
along in silence.
After a while the Scarecrow re-
marked:
This reminds me of old times. 1t
was upon this grassy knoll that / once
saved Dorothy from the Singing Bees
of the Wicked Witch of the West"
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more time for play. and they never
borrow unnecessarily from their
neighbor.
If you are ION the level you don't
have to go around with a gun in your
pocket-fearing every leaf-fIutter and
every alarm.
Folks like to meet the fellow ION
the level His word is better than
his bond. His smile and sane assur-
ance is of more value than a great
balance at the bank
When you are ION the level" you
can hang up your apologies and your
excuses and your worries. For you
will then be a four-square person.
If you are ION the level" people
will single you out wherever you may
be.
1t pays everyone to associate with
the person ION the Level but it pays
YOU most,
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
Some Time This July.
BY ROY K. MoULToN

Some Time This July.
"Y'ain't looking very fit this morn
ing. Jones"
Don't feel it. either"
What happened?"
ooh, 1 was out with the boys last
night and got mixin' 'em up. Must
have had twenty English mustards. a
dozen horse radishes. a lot of Wor-
cestershires and a couple of tobascos."
II. L. S.
Col. Bill Doyle. commenting upon
the correct English of the Bostonians,
says he knew one once who aIways>re-
cited the quotation as follows: Whom
the gods would destroy, they first
make angry"
Horace Fletcher left money to be
used for prizes fer slow eating. Can
not somebody do something to pro-
mote noiseless eating2
Washington man has sued to re-
cover $4,000 worth of whisky.
As a waE remarks, somebody must
have stolen his pocket flask.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
DOROTHY DIX TALKS |
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Write
= Protect Your Old AgeA2.>


Nor is this difference between the
way in which poor old people and
prosperous old people are treated as
altogether outrageous as it seems. AS
mere matter of fact we had as well
admit that old people are seldom
either interesting or attractive of
themselves. As We grow old we lose
our charm. We grow ugly to look
upon. We grow dull to talk to. We
become bores who tell over and over
the same tedious stories. We get lit
tie ways and habits that CRATE upon
the nerves of those about us.
Why, then, should the young who
have their own full lives wish to both
worth their while? After all life is
run on a barter. give-and-take plan,
and SO it is not unfair that when we
are old. and can add nothing to the
pleasure of others by our responsible
ity. we should lay our way in good
coin of the realm.
For this reason. if for no other.
when we are young we should begin
laying up something for our age so
that when we are cid it will pay peo-
pie to be polite and courteous to us.
You never see a rich old person who
isn't coddled. and given the best seat
at the fire and welcomed as a guest
in the house of his or her relatives.
And you seldom see a poor old per-
son who isn't neglected, and forlorn,
and whose relatives do not regard a
visit from him or her as a species of
martyrdom.
Human nature is selfish and des-
perately avaricious, and ones own
children are just as selfish and Just
as money grabbing as everybody else
is. This is why any man and woman
who turn over all their property to
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tOSI
faint i'm the way o. common sense.
To growl at rain an bring the sun,
A grumbler never built n fence
Or finished work that should be done.
I've never known the clouds to 60
BecOz some Teller sat an whined,
When it's too vet TO pillow or hoe
Some other task to do l find.
I've never known n kicker yet
To alter things past has control.
Nor met man with power to fret
An easier journey to his goal
Fond hopes go wrong an plans will stray
However much man complains,
An spite of all we have to say
When Ii is willed to rain, 1t rains.
The chap that gets the biggest crops
Is mot the one that wears the frowD,
When growlin starts all progress stops,
No man can climb by sittin' down.
Time spent in whimperin is lost,
An cursin' never changed the sky;
The grumbler pays heavy cost
For every discontinued sigh.
So when in mire my wagons stuck
/ do not idly stand about
An start to rave an curse my luck,
/ go-to work to dig II out.
An when I've wanted weather fair.
But skies are gray instead o. blue,
1 change my plans right then and there
An find some other work to do.
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After an extended study of prices.
It is the opinion of the United States
division of public works and construc-
ton development that a new price
level has been established by economic
conditions attending the world war;
And that economic forces already ap-
pear to have acted to stabilize prices
at level below which they are not
likely to fall by any Cppreciable
amount in the near future. 1t is be-
Heved that the growing confidence in
the future of business in this country,
evidence of which is seen on all sides,
Is we'll justified by the facts that have
been learned thru the study of the
price situation. Evidence of the sta
bility of business today is the fact that
during a five months period of stag
nation the number of business failures
has been unusually low. At present
there is less concern over high prices
than there is with regard to the sta
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People who do things straightfor-
wardly, do not have to know the
"ropes''-they do not have to call
upon some man higher up-or depend
upon some clever art or genius.
When sou are ION the level" you
may be sure of succeeding very well
with the brains you have IN your own
head,
L have always been interested in
studying great law cases and / have
noticed that it has always been the
people who felt that they had a bad
case who hired the smartest and trick
lest lawyers, whereas the man with
the good case only needed one honest
man to see him through.
Another thing-people who are ION
the lever sleep better and their food
digests more accurately, and they have
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{ A New York newspaper defending
government control of railroads pre-
sents an entirely new argument as to
why, under government control, the
railroads have been running so rapidly
Behind in receipts as compared with
expenditures. This advocate of gov
eminent ownership says: THE in
crease in freight and pa senger rates
was not intended solely to bring in
more money. 1t was intended to keep
people off the trains. to keep non-es-
sential freight down to a minimum -
The plan seems to be meeting with
remarkable success.
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!. While the war was in progress the
big life insurance companies patriot
ically refrained from combating the
entrance of the government into their
chosen field of activity. Now, how
ever, attention is being called to the
alleged fact that Uncle Sam cannot
furnish protection at the rate he is
charging without calling upon the tax
pa yers to meet a heavy deficit.
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Japan. which did little fighting in
the war. comes out of it with the
Hons share of the material proceeds.
Not only has she profited enormously
in money, but her territory has been
greatly extended. Poor old China.
willing to help but impotept, might
about as we'll have been on the losing
side. The war could hardly have re-
suited more disastrously for her had
she been an ally of Germany.
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wisest business men are those who
decide now to go ahead with the con-
struction of buildings and the produc
ton of goods; the need for both forms
of activity are more imperative now
than ever before.