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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-26
New York Liberty Bond Market.

New York Dee eG.--Prices Of liberty
bonds 2:55 D. m: 3is's, 99.40: first IS.
$3.50: second As. a1t4: first as. 9i.lo'
second Az s. 91.6t: thiri ~ 93 20; fourti
AIS. a1.60; Victory 5s4 S, 1901; VICTORY
4a'S 9slr
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-26

London-The departmental committee of
the Protection of Wild Birds report recon-
mends the prohibition of the use of aircraft
for killing or taking wild birds British
airmen are asking who's been doing it?''
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-26

Duchess
follow
tote London county council Lady Ar the first
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-26

1t has been the policy of this House to hold pepared
sales Ceegan SteinBloch Langham High standard max
and it of such that stock consists We offer it at
this time ematey reduced at least twenty less than
estimates If had in mind the consideration of
profits Suit and Overcoat in the could be sold
money dealers We do business the allowing
each for itself the prices higher year
lower the beour profit will be based
market value at that time We clear stocks every
It pays and
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-26

Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel s27-
Acv
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
As Nature Arranses Them.

color MS best p,eases you at quiet
times. not 50 as 10 catch the eye. nor
10 look as il IL was clever or difficult
to color In that way, hui ~ that the
color may be pleasant To you when
YOU are happy and thoughtful, Look
much nj the morning and the evening
sly, and much AT simple ilowers-dog-
rose wood hyacinih. violets, poppies.
,histies, heather and such-like-as ma
lure arranges them In the woods and
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Economy in Telephone Use.

A BRAZILIAN newspaper has been for
some time enjoying the privilege of
using one telephone lire for three
simultaneous conversations. With
three telephone sets at each end of the
line, one pair of users talks English.
one pair French, and one pair Portu-
guese, The listeners seem to find no
difficulty in selecting the sounds in
tellicible to them and ignoring the 9th
crs. The newspaper people express
great satisfaction with the result. es-
pecially as they pay for only one line.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Nineveh's Pathetic Ruins.

Past Mosul the river TigriS rolls its
ancient, almost legendary. waters and
opposite ON the left bank. the dream
Of antiquity continues undisturbc,l.
There In the blazing sun or in the
shimmering Persian moonlight. Ii. the
ruins of Nineveh, the last and greatest
capital OF the Assyrian empire. The
wall of the disappeared city still stands
to height If 10 feet and is II miles
in circumference. Close by the bank
Of the river are the still imposing re-
mains of two ciladels.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Antiquity Of the Emerald.

The emerald has been known since
early times both In Europe and in GER
tain parts of the Orient, where its at
tiactire color and rarity have endowed
II with the highest rank. Its name
may he traced back to an old word
which appeared in Greek rs smarag-
dos. mentioned in Greek by Theopras-
tis 200 r. c.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Try This WAY.

II some one has been unkind TO us
be kind to others. The great law will
bring him a harvest Of what he has
sown, II we undertake to pay him
back, evil for evil. We overstep our
authority and we also make ourselves
liable TO Judgment for the part we
take In the affair. We could just as
well do something that would bring US
reward.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02

Little Frederick. five. was visiting
their ueighbor across the way and no.
ticed Mrs Smith with a new pair of
eye glasses. "Oh. mamma" he ex-
claimed on arriving home. Il went over
10 see Mrs. Smith and she wears look
Ing glass,s on her eyes"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Values.

Mrs. Peavish says that. although she
would be the last to knock Mr.. Peav-
ish. sometimes she feels as II she
would give twenty years of married
life for ten years in widows weeds
Dallas News.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Only One Clear Road 10 Success.

No unwilling worker ever yet
achieved great success. for men only
succeed where they think deeply. work
cheerfully and rejoice at the success
OF what they are working at.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Solitude.

A man thinking or working Is always
alone, let him be where he viii. Soil
tude is not measured hy the miles OF
space that intervene between n man
and his fellows.-Thorcau
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Much Difference.

u would be different world II we
were as discouraged with ourselves as
with other peoplc.-Soattlc Posi.Intei.
llgencer.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-10-02
Optimistic Thouoht.

II is not titles that reflect honor On
men. but men on their titles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
FAVOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
TEST FOR PHONE GIRL s
tCorrespondence Of The Star md III
Chicago Daily NeusN

tCorrespOndence OF The Star md III.
Chicago Daily News.)
STOCKHOLM. Sweden, September an
How ought one to choose a teIe.
phone girl? That question was nut To
the president of a large firm here nv
Two leading lights of the Institut fur
Experimentelle Padsgogik und Psv-
chologi at Leipzig, who are visitin ,
sweden to lecture and demonstrate
the latest methods of testing efici-
ency. The president replied that he
ascertained that the aspirants to the
hopor OF running his phone board
must have tidy hair and manicured
finger nails.
The German experts do not tbink
that goes far enough. They think that
employers are extraordinarily ineff-
cient in picking their hired help
They object to the Munsterbere and
Taylor tests. as they stigmatize them
as trying to get the greatest amount
OF efficiency out of a man or woman
instead OF hrst ascertaining whether
or no the subject of experiment ia a
round peg in a square hole
The theory OF these Leipzigers might
be summed up thus: If you get the
right men and women for the right
jobs you do not have to bother with
any efficiency propaganda and ex-
perts. Choose good tools to begin with
They see great scope for psychologist
cal tests in industry-in fact, moth
profession. Good looking girls will
continue to get the pick Of the steno-
graphic jobs. and there will be wives
younger brothers of fearful and Won
derful ineff1ciency furnishing in un-
suitable posts for generations to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
PLAIN JOHNS POSTSCRIPT
In Which He Makes Ans,Oer to Questions Asked of
John, Plain American Labore,' in Last
Sundays Star
BY w. w. c.

HAT was all very well, what
you put in The Star paper last
Sunday about our talk, 30
but must have been in a hur-
ry to get back to help out on this
overproduction idea of the boss" II
don't look like would answer such
a thunderin' long question just that
way.
What do we mean. "enigma@ Tn
just plain John, and blest If I quite
understand that long rigamarole you
put up to me. Why, old man. may
not be as simple as 1 look, but you
sure have got me guessing.
Why do you. Tom. Dick and Harry
pick on me? You fellers call your.
selves "the public" and say I'm some.
thing else. How'd you get that way!
And you are standing UP for Ameri-
canism and sort'a put me on the out
side. Why. Bo. America is my father
house and has been so, in my particular
case. for close on to 300 years.
I like your talk about man to man
pardner, but when you come tc
pitchin' me over the monument, ite
I'VE" that are going to do that to any
bird that doesn't show white stripes
and a field of stars mixed in with the
red Of his flag, and it's ''our SYM
its low estate and made it SC
chesty. Why man alive. what's the
difference between your forty iror
men a week and my bucks day:
We are in the same boat. And If there
| Is any leprosy going around among
my pals. I don't want to catch it any
more than you would. Isn't that so:
Who is more "the public" than the
laboring man? And who is more a la.
boring man than quill-driver al
forty iron men a week. 1 served time
at that myself once, before I got a
! job in 1.-The works"
Bo, you don't talk to me like ar
older brother ought to. You make me-
feel like a stranger fight here where
I live, and you doubleteam me with
Tom, Dick and Harry. But I know
those boys just as we'll as you do
was raised right alongside Of EN-
And I never heard tell of any "heri.
tage" they had that didn't have
and tell the truth. Bo. don't rightly
know what you mean by demand
and "arrogate" to myself your share
of things. I want what's coming te
me- of course, and I trust that each
new victory" will be a stepping
stone to higher things, but / wan
nothing that belongs to you. my
brother, or to any one else--that Ii
my limit" Yes, regard my interest.
as part Of the interests OF this ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02

ton. and respect the legitimate in
terests Of every other man.
But II I go on to proclaim myself
a patriot and loyal to American in
situations. and answer all the rest Of
do you mean to imply that this is the
end of the matter? Are there none
among us who reap where they
sowed not and gather where they
have not strawed? Can you see no
danger to our institutions except
some ultramodern governmental
such as I. John, have a vision of a
juster method of distributing the
products of labor and capital?
Let US say that both your patriotism
ana mine strikes its roots deep into the
soil OF America. and let us meet on the
level about ''the state of the Union"
I'll tell you how see 1t. 1 went into
business arrangement with two Of
those boys that you call "the public -
Tom and put UP a factory, and we
In the capital Harry looked on for
while and then went fishing. We
saw no more of him until the rent
was due. AS the business prospered
Harry kept raising the rent, so that,
no matter how successful the factory
was. there remained only a certain
margin to divide between Tom and
me. This looked all right to Harry.
because. as be explained to US, CAPT.
tai could only expect to earn a GER
tain average interest and labor only a
certain market rate of wages. 1t was
evident that Harry had the bulge
on US.
Believe me. pardner. this simple ar
rangement comprehends all that has
ever been written about the produc-
ton and distribution of wealth in all
the books On political economy. There
are no other factors in producing all
the riches and commodities IN the
world but John and Tom and Harry
labor and capital and the natural fac
tor. land, and Harry can command an
ever increasing share of all that John
and Tom produce. while he simply
fishes.
Well. this did not suit Tom, SO he
bought Harry out. After that he was
all right and kept charging UP ground
rent to the business just as Harry
did. But there were three economic
persons in the business just the same
as before. John did not see it. There
seemed to him only two, and he be.
unnaturally, thought he was not fairly
treated by Tom the capitalist. We
know, you and I, Bo. that there Is
really no conflict of interest between
labor and capital. but man to man. as
you say, Bo. are we quite candid when
we do not demand show down, cards
up on the table, American fashion, and
make it plain to every one that an
ever-increasing share of all that Ia
Dor and capital produce is taken by
a privileged class that own the nat
ural resources of the earth and render
to society no service in return.
I am only a. plain laboring man-no
socialist or communist or bolshevik-
just John, laborer, and American to
the back bone. and this is something
Of what I would have had you put in
the paper if I had not heard. the
whistle blow. So long. Bo. Yours
truly, JOHN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
BANKRUPT WORLD IS ROLLING
IN LUXURY. WRITER DECLARES
London Crowds Spend Money With Prod
g igality and Represent Many Glasses
as Well as Many Nations

Euston to Knightsbridge. The Brit
ish, said he. are a brave and thrifty
race, but in cerebral subtleties they
cannot touch Chicago. When he reach
ed the Turkish bath cubicles, how
ever, he found them full of mutton
headed persons with straw in their
hair. who had had the sense to book
their cubicles a week earlier The
Chicagoan could not get a cubicle
for week. I say said the man
ager. we can offer you a place on a
shelf on top Of the main boiler. The
stout gentleman who occupied it last
night has not yet come down, but n
you care to wait a minute 1 viii send
an attendant with a sheet of blottine
paper to collect him. Having thought
II over, the man from Chicago con-
GUIDED that seat on the embank.
ment might be better for his cold"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
'|DLENESS BONUS
DRAIN ON GERMANY
Many Former UnskiIIed La
borers Now Receiving More
Pay for "Loafing."
Correspondents Of The Star.

correspondence OF Inc Star.
BERLIN, October 5.-The voorhees,
support" bonus that thousands upon
thousands of men and women now are
drawing in Berlin and Germany is
proving heavy drain on the treasury
and it is charged that the bonus is
SO high that many men who in peace
times were unskilled workmen now
receive more pay for idleness than if
they went back to their labor.
Begun under the stress of the revo-
luton and with, the intention of tenn
porarily alleviating distress, complaint
Is made that this bonus system has
become deeply imbedded cancer that
sucks millions from a government that
can i'll afford it.
TIL numbr Of PRISONS idle in Ber-
lin during August was nearly a mil
lion.' 1t is estimated that 1901 900 of
them do not want work because they
are being supported by the state and
are free to carry on the illegitimate
pursuits of the unlicensed street deal
er. the fy-by-night gambler. the soap
and cigarette vender.
The streets and squares of Berlin
Where people congregate most are, de-
spite occasional attempts of the police.
swarming hives of humanity, selling or
buying poor soap, wretched matches.
immoral post cards and indecent liter
ridiculous prices, especially in the case
or American cigarettes, which now
glut the market. Recently the police
have begun to raid these vendors.
Many Dealers Caught.
The first "razzia." as such raids are
called. was unexpected, and so MANY
dealers were captured that they had
to be sent to collection points and then
transferred from there to the various
police stations. The confiscated food
and goods required auto trucks for its
transportation.
Roulette and little gambling games
played on tiny board that can be
hastily concealed as the crowd scat
tiers on the approach of the police
still attract more voorhees, than other
strata of the population, because the
voorhees, have time to kill and money
to spend and, likewise, the strong in
clination to spend. .g-a4,eaFr
One of the most unpleasant features
of Berlin street life Is the array of
wounded soldiers, suffering from
shell-shock or alleged shell shock.
who sit forlornly on the principal
street and manipulate a violin or a
harmonica. With hands and features
that tremble. these relics Of the war
beg from morning until long after
midnight. Their music" is always
narrowing.
A one-legged man with the face of
a criminal. dirty to the last degree.
with "a rough unkempt beard, seems
to have no difficulty with the police
as he hobbies up and down Inter den
Linden. positively insulting passers-
by, especially women. He fastens on
them, often holds them by the arms,
and demands, not, begs, aims. Count
less policemen pass up and down, but
the man Ii always there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02

I ments involved, not only military, but
financial and economic, including the
establishment of all new boundaries
and determining responsibility for the
war. Practically the only thing
omitted was the league of nation.
Now, this whole procedure was con-
trary to the long held and often as
serted policy of the President. and it
endangered the most important of the
fourteen points accepted by all ma
tions as the basis of settlement, the
fourteenth of which declares that "a
general association of nations must
be formed"
Before the close of the war; in his
liberty loan speech at the Metro
politan Opera Louise, in September,
1918. the President had declared posi-
lively:
1.-The constitution of that league
of nations and the clear definition of
it's objects must be a part, in a sense
the most essential part, of the peace
settlement itself It is not
likely that it could be formed after
the settlement. 1t is necessary to
guarantee the peace; and the peace
cannot be guaranteed as an after
thought"
But this was not all. nor was it
merely Mr.. Wilson's idea, for the
policy of including the league of ma
lions covenant in the treaty itself
had been formally adopted at the first
plenary session of the peace confer
ence. held January 25, 1919, which
contained these words:
This league should be treated as
an integral part of the general treaty
of peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
By EDWARD PPRICE BELL.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1919.


LONDON. October 27.-Alexander
Thompson, the regular labor CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, informs
the public that he has been launching
out in London. He found the res
taurants crowded as tens of thousands
had found them before. I will not
say that the Thompson picture is a
portrait; it is rather a caricature, but
underneath it one discerns the true
elements of the situation.
I'VE are hopelessly bankrupt" he
says. yet we roll in luxury. Never in
che past were the streets SO packed. SO
noisy. so rude. so boisterous. so topsy-
turvy. The restaurants. hotels. music
halls. theaters. picture shows and
shops are aswirl. Rome never saw
the like London outdoes the Arabian
Nights. Within hundred yards
walk along the Strand or Piccadilly
you jostle Japanese, Chinese. Amer
leans. an archbishop. victorious
general from the last foot ball match
Dutch actresses. tattooed islanders
from the south seas. Basuto chief,
a trader from Terra del t'uego and
natives of PudSey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
HAITI HOLDS PLACE
Of TRADE VANTAGE
History Recalled by Recent
Santo Domingo Stand
on U. S. Troops.

In connection with the petition sent
to Washington by a group of Span
iards, suggesting that this would be
an opportune time for the United
States to withdraw it's troops from
Santo Domingo, the National Geo
graphic Society has issued the follow
ing bulletin concerning the island
republic:
Geographically. the Island Of Haiti,
including within its limits the two
republics of Santo Domingo and Hal
ii, is in the class of the most favor
ed Of nations. situated on the western
continent ABOUT midway between it's
two grand divisions of North and
South America and Astounding in nat
ural resources" says the bulletin,
which is based on a communication
from Rear Admiral Colby NJ Chester,
u. S. N.
Name Based on Topography.
1.-The name Haiti, or High Island Is
topography. Sire once said a British
admiral to his king. George III. when
asked about the island. Haiti looks
like that" and he crumpled up a
Of and i the
may be, it well fitted the case. The
island is about 400 miles long. $50
miles wide. and Is about the size of
the state of New York. 1t is irresu-
lar in shape and is intersected by
three chains of mountains.
Historically, Haiti, or Santo Do
mingo. is the senior of our own coun-
try, If we leave out of consideration
visits Of the Norsemen to our northern
coasts 800 years ago. and we are
somewhat indebted to this beautiful
island for our own development.
ION st. Nicholas day December 81,
1892. Columbus entered a port at the
extreme west end of the Island OF
Santo Domingo. or. as the whole
island was then called by the aborigi-
mes. Haiti. The natives themselves
called the port Bohio. but Columbus
christened it. in honor ns, Of the s, day he
, the name still existing as st. Nicho-
| las Mole This date will ever be
memorable in the annals of the Hal
tians as marking the beginning OF
| the history of the island.
Columbus now called the island
Hispaniola. in honor of the country
which had sent him forth to discover
| it, and it is to be regretted that this
name given by the immortal discov-
erer has been lost, for its present two
names are conflicting and confusing.
First Town in New World.
Columbus then detern to build
a permanent settlement, /. ! after re-
connoitering he selected for this pur-
pose a site on an elevated plain near
| a spacious bay on the north coast OF
| the island. Here was established the
| first town in the new world, which
was dignihed by the name of his
| queen and patron, Isabella,
But the course of empire was still
I south, and soon Santo Domingo City
became the center Of the colonial &C.
tivities."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
Resolution Fathered by Balfour.

And this was no mere popular i'm
out. Though the details were not
then known-and are not yet publicly
KNOWN resolution, fathered by Mr.
Balfour. had actually been adopted by
the council of ten. sitting in Presi-
dent Wilson's absence. providing for
an immediate preliminary treaty con-
tanning practically all the settle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
Wonderful Mixture.

There are habitues of the court and
police court, of the church, of the
turf. of the stock exchange and of
pariiament-a wonderful mixture of
earthworks. pigeons. rocks. vultures,
carrion crows, fiunkies. panders and
cancers of the fevered time.
What are they doing here? Whence
comes the money they so prodigally
spend? At one of the highest priced
restaurants in London / found a
crush. Judging from the quality and
quantity of the wines imbibed, every
one belonged to the war-rich nobil-
ity. All drank as generously as the
lord of the proverb. A duchess at
the next table. whose jewelry must
have cost thousands. called a waiter
and asked for a double 'elpin' crack
lin. The scene at the exit reminded
me of the time when l played for
ward at foot ball. Every one wanted
cars or taxis and pushed to get them
One fat paunched marquis inserted
his elbow in the small of my back
while another plutocrat did me the
tonor to stand on my victory corn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02
Cerebral Subtleties.

~"F'rom Chicago came n theatrical
manager, thinking that London was
down and out with the shutters up
Hailing from Chicago and inheriting
brain waves. he had one here. He
would sleep in a Turkish bath cubicie,