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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
EVERETT SURPRISES sANDRA
WITH A LETTER

The world seemed very uninterest-
ing after Everett left. / felt almC=S
as If I were all alone, altho all the
town boys and girls were around as
usual. But someway Everett had a
way OF making you know he was
there. 1 don't know how else to ex-
press 1t. But Rose and some OF the
others made no secret of their JOY
that he had gone.
so grandpa has finally taken him
self out of the way, has he7" Rose
asked. Now perhaps we can have
some fun"
never said much when they leased
me, and called Everett grandpa" but
it made me uncomfortable, and I al
ways flushed terribly. When Ever
ett's first letter came, about three
days after he left. was so pleased
that 1 didn't mind their teasing me
one single bit
He had said nothing about writing
| to me, so I was awfully surprised. It
was Just a short letter, such a one as
any friend might have written me.
There wasn't a word about caring for
said:
Il have missed my little friend more
than 1 ever thought it possible to
miss anyone" 1t was silly. but 1
kissed the paper right on those lines.
| Then l carried 1t in the bosom of my
dress for days-just like the girls in
the novels did. But finally put it
away in the bureau drawer under my
shirtwaists. The boys never disturbed
them, and the letter was getting worn
| out.
1t took me, one whole afternoon to
answer that letter must have
wasted nearly a box of paper before
it suited me. Then it didn't-not per-
| fectly.
! 1 wrote about everyday things, the
J people he knew, etc, just as he did.
until I came TO the very end of my
letter. Then l told him that 1 had
missed him, too, more than ever had
missed anyone before. wasn't very
original. but l had spoiled so many
sheets OF paper I didn't dare use any
more. AS 1t was I had to burn up
all the spoiled sheets and the en-
velopes to match for fear the boys
would find them. 1T would have been
terrible IL they had. never should
hive heard the last of It.
1t is strange how things long past
come back to us. 1 recall distinctly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
ONLY A "REoUEsT. {"

The house has adopted a resolution
requesting Secretary Baker to place
on sale without delay surplus food
products held by the war department
and valued at 1920. 100000. The reso-
luton is based on hearings held re-
garding the supply and disposition of
foodstuffs. The report bares the fact
that large supplies of food. much of
which was perishable. have been with
held from the market.
The report Of the investigating COM
mlttee sets forth that when the armis-
tice was signed the army consisted of
300, 900 men, while food was being
accumulated for an army of 100000;
that rehabilitation began at once. and
by January IL. $780, 900 men had been
discharged and by May "a. 2,252,000
had been released from the army; that
on November 80. 1918, General March,
chief of staff, ordered the declaration
of a surplus of all perishable foods
sumers, but that no action was taken
to carry out this order until May, 1919.
The report shows that these food
stores were depreciating in value. that
the inexcusable delay resulted in the
spelling of millions of pounds of ham
and bacon to the great loss of the
government and the people. who were
in need of the food products" 1t
shows that this was due to a well de-
fined policy of the secretary of war
to sell these products only abroad or
to have them consumed thru substitu-
tions in the army ration.
This policy" says the report, finds
expression not only in the testimony
given to the committee by the Off
GERS of the war department, but in
documentary evidence as well. As an
instance of such intention to prevent
the American people from purchasing
these products the quartermaster gen.
erals department entered into an
agreement with the Gamers associa-
ton that 200. 900, 900 cans of canned
vegetables would be kept off the do
nestle market during the season; this
agreement was subsequently extended
by an order OF the quartermaster gem
eral adding these canned vegetables
to the soldiers ration in the expressed
hope that they would be entirely con-
sumed and that none would be left
for sale. This order would have re-
suited in a loss to the government. of
millions of dollars to be derived from
the sale of this surplus, as we'll as de-
priving the American people Of large
quantity of food. The purpose as
shown by the testimony was to pro-
tect the Gamers who had sold the pro-
duce from competition with the gov
ernmental surplus"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
Blu JANE PHELPS

that whenever Everett came to call in
that short first week 1 knew him, that
was always a bit frightened to go
down to meet him-he always asked
for me-for fear l did not look nice
enough. Even then ! had heard him
express an opiI4on upon the way some
of the girls in our town were dressed
at the tennis party. and it made me
uncomfortable. / wore simple wash
dresses at home, but they were always
freshly Numbered, and until he COM
menced coming to the house. l never
had thought of wearing anything diff
ferent. Even now 1 know there
could not have been anything very
wrong about my ginghams for morn
ing and dainty muslins for afternoon.
Anyway Everett said looked lovely
in them; and that mother was sensible
to keep me looking so young.
don't know that l was very diff
ferent from other girls of my age
brought up as / had been, and IL
confess that felt in some way diff
ferent, set apart from the rest of the
town girls. after 1 received Everett's
letter l think most people will under
stand.
1 attached a sentimental value to the
few lines he had written. that / new
er should have drea ned of putting
upon the notes 1 had received occa-
S-onally from the town boys. This
charming man from great city
where there were so many lovely girls
had singled me, Sandra Courtney out
for his especial attentions
1t was a long time before he an
swered my letter. Nearly six weeks.
/ But as he sent me some books and
candy in the interim did not feel that
he had forgotten me, altho I looked
anxiously each day for a reply; and
once or twice I locked myself in my
room and shed few tears when ia
ther said there was no mail"
Then came the morning when 1 re-
eeived Everett's second letter. 1 had
walked down with father, and went
with him to the postoffiee. 1 read it
as l walked slowly home under the
poisoning trees. the scent of early
flowers in the air. He sort of apol-
ogized for not replying sooner asked
me to forgive him, and said he would
De more prompt in the future II 1
would. He also said he would be in
Lakeviile again before fall, and
signed himself: your fond friend,
Everett Graham"
| (Tomorrow--Everett proposes.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
STRIKES HELP TO RAISE PRICES

The continuing advances in wages
all over the country seem to have
little effect in preventing strikes. In
Chicago $4,000 street car men are out.
Recently various unions in the building
trades. notably the carpenters, laid
down their tools Notwithstanding con-
tracts existed and demands of the
unions had been granted.
In the case of the International Har-
vester company 1000 men left their
work when the whistle blew at IL
o'clock and failed to return when
lunch time had expired. No reason
was given for this action. the first hint
that the workers intended to desert
coming only when the men failed to
return to work. The official statement
by the International Harvester company
is that no demands were made by the
employees nor have any since been pre-
scented. The average hourly wages
have increased ia per cent since June,
1914, at the Mccormick works in Chit
cago. The average working men, and
this applies to workingmen collective
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fects of high prices. but do not stop to
study causes. They fail to see, for in
stance, that every time they exact a
higher scale. to the extent of their
exactions the things which they pro-
duce also increase. and as labor enters
approximately 20 per cent OF the cost
Of production, that increase invariably
becomes reflected in the higher cost
of what they must have. and what
they must consume. to live. This Is
the circle in which the world has been
whirling since the war started. but
particularly in the last two and one.
half years. II workers quit. instead
of simplif. ing the situation. they COM
plicate it. because their idleness brings
a greater scarcity OF the articles which
they produce. on top of a scarcity
which already exists. Hence theil
idleness means still higher prices.
Under such conditions it is well nigr
useless to harp upon thrift. for thrift
in its very essence means saving, and
It follows that II the income of the
average workingman is insufficient Il
| meet needs Tor existence, there GER
tainly can be nothing left for saving
1t is difficult to find a remedy fol
this state of affairs. But that &
remedy is needed and that it mus
come promptly II we desire to escap,
what may be more serious conditions
than exist today with reference to tn,
cost of foodstuffs and commodities. 4
patent Somewhere in this endless
chain of high labor. high prices. higher
labor and still higher prices, Their
must be a max that ultimately will
break. 1t is no solution to pay out s,
today for wages, where 81 formerl.
sufficed, for the greater the amour
of money in circulation. the higher tn
prices for those things which can b
exchanged for money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
zinc Good old rlmes.-2.

Inc OOOO Ol0 11nlcSs-%'
AS FOR bringing up a family, on@
small infant is more trouble. anxiety
and expense in these sterilized days
of child culture than dozen babies
used to be in grandma's time. There
! were no mother classes and mother
conventions. nor pasteurized milk, nor
Grade A theories to harass her. She
didn't even know a child was an aw-
full problem.
She thought a baby was a little an
imal to be fed. and washed. and
spanked when II was bad. and kissed
when II was good, and generally kept
In the background. II it was healthy
| ana turned out we'll, grandma took
credit to herself. II 1t sickened and
| died, she laid it to a mysterious dis
pensation of Providence, but it never
occurred to her that she was in any
| way to blame, or responsible for IL.
Inc modern mother has got an enc
nghtenment about her children, and
| with enlightenment misery. She
| knows that If her baby dies OF diph-
| theria and scarlet fever that it is
| killed by bad drains, or bad air and
bad food. She knows that il her chill
oren go wrong when they grow up IL
| is because she fails somewhere in her
duty. Therefore, she spends her life
| IN ceaseless fight against microbes,
| and bad literature, and demoraIizing
pictures, ana Heaven Knows what 9TH
er evil influences, and she sighs for
the good old days when her mother
could shunt all her failures on
Heaven. instead of shouldering the
blame herself.
How restful, too, 1t was when wo-
men didn't have any mission to them
selves or anybody else, and that in
strument of culture and torment, tho
| woman's club, hadn't been invented,
| and you didn't have to keep forever
| toiling in the tread mill of progress.
None of us wants to be left behind.
| We w6uld rather fall dead on the
march than drop out of the process
sion. Still, one can but think envious-
| ly of the women who didn't have to
belong to study clubs, or go to SYM
| phony concerts, or parliamentary
drills, or take lessons in how to vote.
| or belong to societies for the promul-
! cation of this, and the suppressing of
that. but were thought to have fulfill
| ed their perfect purpose in life when
| they looked sweet. and were reasona-
bly, good housekeepers.
OF course we have progressed Ions
way beyond our grandmothers. but
probably grandma is mighty sorry for
US if she can see us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

scientist points out. be a proposition
involving very heavy expense. A pilot
and mechanic would be necessary. and
as naturalists' collecting trips usually
last some months. salaries and upkeep
would probably be out of proportion
to the value of the machine.
The usefulness of an airplane on
an expedition of this sort would be
limited chiefly to transportation of
supplies, which. by the way, is a more
important factor in tropical countries
than might be supposed. The same
scientist says that he would rather
depend on the natural resources of a
cold climate for food than on those
of a tropical country. In proof of the
truth of this statement he mentioned
one scientific expedition that only re-
Gently had to return from South
America before its work was ended
because its supplies failed and it could
not live off the country.
However, he added, the danger of
suffering from hunger is much less
in South Africa because of the preva-
lence of big game.
The public will probably never see
the greater part of the collection
made by the scientists. Exhibits of
special interest will be placed on dis
play in the museum show cases, and
the rest stored away for the use of
the museum scientists in study and
research. Museum authorities say
that the displays of our big museums
today are so large that person at
tempting to take in the entire exhibit
is in danger of museum fatigue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
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us the way in which we should acquit
ourselves as we face our day.
Necessity introduces US to our
friends. and helps us TO get acquainted
with them. She also. in kindness to
US. gives US the names of those who
would slyly pick our pockets
Necessity takes US BY the hand and
leads us-many times unaware to US.
Necessity smiles in the face of hun
ger and dire disaster and dispatches
aid when all seems lost. Necessity is
not afraid
Necessity Is not only the Mother OF
Invention" but of everything else
worth while.
II things are not going well with
you, get confidential with Necessity
She will rightly advise you. She will
tell you things about yourself and
about what you ought to do that will
both surprise and inspire you.
For Necessity is a particular kind OF
q goddess!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

Me and pop and ma went to a con-
cert last mite on account of pop hav-
ing bawt tickets because sumbody
asked him to for charity, and we was
setting there, me setting in back of
some man with bald he'd, and lady
in q wife dress came out and sang as
loud as she could, being pritty loud,
and about 10 people clapped inclooding
the man with the bald he'd In frunt of
me, and the lady came out and sang
agen for a reward, and then a lady in
g. red dress came out and played the
violin so long you mite of thawt she
had forgot to stop, and the man with
the bald he'd started to wiggle GROUND.
and I thawt, G, my feet are sticking
rite into him.
having stuck them thru the crack in
the sect in frunt of me. And 1 quick
pulled them back and the man stop
ped wiggeling, and the lady in red
stopped playing and about 4 people
clapped inclooding the man with the
bald he'd, and I thawt, 1 wonder how
far in can stick my toes without
touching him?
WITCH 1 started to try it, and the
man with the bald he'd termed err
round and looked at me mad, prov
ing my feet was touching him agen.
And I quick pulled them away agen
and then put them back. and the
man with the bald he'd termed err
round looking even madden, me think
ing, G, 1 must of put them in too far
agen, and ma whispered to pop, VIII.
yum. did you notice that man with the
bald heidi bleeve he's trying to flert
with me. that's twice he's termed err
round now.
The dooce you say, sed pop. And
| lest then the man with the bald he'd
termed GROUND agen on account OF
me having axidently stuck him agen
with my toes, and pop sed to ma, Its
wonder he wouldent look a little
more cheerful, he don't even know
how to flert-well. he better not try
| it agen, jest the same.
And the next time the bald heded
man termed Ground on account OF
my toes 'axidently sticking him poI
leening lords him looking even mad
der than he did. saying. Pardon me
sir. is there enything I can do fol-
your
There serteny is, sed the man with
the bald he'd, and pop sed. Name it
sir, and the man with the bald he'd
sed, You can use your influents tC
fpervent that brat of yours frum push
1 ing his toes into the small of my bach
every 5 seconds.
Meening me. and everybody GROUND
| laffed. and a man with short legs and
1 long hair came out and sang in g
| forrin langwidge. and pop took his hat
frum under his sect, saying, Enuff OF
this. lets go.
WITCH we did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

The federal trade commission
charges that the big packers absolute
ly control the livestock market. 1t
seems little remarkable il this be
true. that the prices Of livestock con-
tinue to advance. Usually, a business
man who can name his own buying
price max, it lower instead of higher.
The trade commissions statement
Hooks absurd on the face of it. The
pack ,rs cannot compel the production
of livestock; neither can they force the
producer to sell until he is ready to
do so. The livestock shipper knows
in advance within a few cents of what
he will get for his animals before he
starts EN- to market. If the pack
ers control the market why don't they
hammer down the price? They could
continue to sell at existing figures be-
cause they do actually control the SELL
ing market. Hogs at $23 and cattle
at $3.50 should be fairly remunera-
tive to the producers. How much DO
they want?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

John J. Mitchell has suggested that
the employers OF labor go on a strike
and see how 1t will work. He is quoted
as follows: Let's all go on a strike.
let's all close our mills and our fac
tories, and orr banking institutions.
and let's all take a week. ten days or
n month off. We may then discover
to what extent each and every one of
MS is dependent on the other for the
enjoyment and the pleasures of life"
No surer way OF Outstanding America
could be devised. The probability is
that when these employers desired to
resume business they would find that
they had no business to resume. There
must be a better way than Mr.
Mitchelrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

York. Then came two weeks of nurs-
ing, with Charity boss of the job, as
Doug himself said. and finally a day
when he was ordered home to rest.
Charity he said. as they were left
alone. I've just told Dad I'm going
to stay here and how much ! need
you ?"
You're all right now" Charity re-
piled firmly. shaking up his pillows.
He caught her hands in his. and pulled
her nearer.
I'D rather go back and get blown
up for good If you don't want me to
stay. Don't you care a bit. Charity ~
We'll" sighed Charity, smiling
down at him. Perhaps I wouldn't
have sewn on your buttons myself. or
gone up there that morning If hadn't
cared. And Len says the men need
you badly. II don't mind If you stay
a little longer"
Until you can go back with me %
Tom stuck his head in at the door
with a glass of egg nog. and withdrew
it quickly. He took II back to Delora.
HE don't need that stuff. Charity's
the doctor"
copyright, 1919 by the Mcclure News
pepper, Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIT MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: "a I am a
girl 10 years old and last winter at
place where 1 was boarding 1 met
young soldier boy. whom I loved
very much. 1 went to the show with
him, but when he was going away I
told him not to write, as my parents
always read my letters.
Now 1 am going to visit this town
and do not know what his address
would be. How can 1 locate him, as
the city is large?
Am L doing the right thing?
ca How can / learn to dance? By
going to dances or getting my girl
friends to teach me? How much is
usually charged for a lesson in dane
ing?
(3) Is it an insult for a man to ask
for kiss when he has just met a girl
and visited one night with her:
should she yield? DIMPLES.
% Do not go to the city for the
purpose of seeing the young man.
There is no way you can locate him,
since you do not know his address, and
your search would be futile.
Besides, it would be very poor taste
, to hunt him up. 1t is the mans place
to keep in touch with the girl II he
is interested in her, and not the girls
to look for him.
CD Dancing lessons cost so cents
or dollar usually. OF course in New
York City much higher prices are
paid in some instances. To have your
girl friends teach you will probably
be as satisfactory as to take lessons.
CD 1t is an insult for a man to ask
to kiss a girl the first night he is
with her. and still greater insult for
him to kiss her without asking. When
man respects girl he is afraid
that she will not like him If he takes
so much liberty.
Indeed the girl should not 'yield."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

whether the ex-kaiser shall be put to
death or left TO a green old age Telling
trees in a Dutch woodland will seem
a matter Of incredibly little moment.
For many it is enough that the despots
have gone and have made way for that
reconciliation of peoples on the basis
of equal rights. equal liberties and
mutual aid which is the dream of to-
day and which it is the task of the
future to make an enduring reality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
SONG o. FRIENDSHIP.

SONG o. FRIENDSHIP.
Never mind the thunder,
Never mind the storm,
Stop awhile for shelter
Where the hearts are warm,
Come inside to laughter
Where it's snug and dry,
And share the joys Of friendship
Till the storm goes by.
Never mind your failure
With Its black despair:
Come to those who love you
Aud your grief will share.
They will gather round Scu
Tho your skies are black,
Rest awhile in friendship
Till your strength comes back.
Come, oh man of sorrow
With your weight of woe.
Come and do your weeping
With the folks you know.
Come and sit beside us,
Let us take your hand,
We have wept and suffered
And We understand.
Copyright 1910 by Edgar A. Cues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

The lower house Of congress has
voted itself a recess of a month or
thereabouts. In other words the real
business of the country will be at a
standstill while the senate wrangles
over the League of Nations covenant
Apparently the way is being paved for
return OF the railroads to their own
ers !thout any of the remedial legis-
lation which the roads, their patrons
and the public generally have been led
to expect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31

Burleson has cut the postal rate on
aerial mail to 2 cents. or the same
price that is paid for transmission by
rail. The reduction is said to have
been induced by the fact that the pub
lie was showing little appreciation OF
the air service. 1t has been found to
be little more expeditions than the
ordinary mode of transmission and less
safe. The fact that aerial mail service
must be conducted at loss will make
no difference to Burleson. He will
make up the deficit somewhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-31
NECESSITY.

Necessity is not Miss Fortune. Ne
cessity is the next of kin to Oppor-
tunity.
Necessity is always sitting in the
background - waiting - watching -
ready You never need to coach her,
either. It's Necessity who coaches
you; in fact-and who even oftener
gives you strenuous push toward the
way which you should go.
Necessity never sleeps. She merely
rests while you mistake and blunder.
Then. when you seem most lost, she
whispers into your ear the thing that
drives you to action.
Necessity is always relentless. tho
never Intentionally cruel It's the way
you receive her.
selves.
Necessity puts US to bed at the
night time, wakes us in the morning.
cooks our breakfast for us and tells