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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
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YOUR PASSENGER COACH.


Everyone carries around with him
what I want to term as his "Passen-
ger Coach"
In our heart of hearts, terminate
the ideas and ideals that make US
what we are-that stamp our person
atty into our work and upon our
friends and into the activity of the
world.
AS a man thinks, and as a man does
so is he.
The people whom you love in your
heart. you live for in your life. And
all the numberless associations which
you have allowed to influence you di-
rectly, become a part of your secret
character, and it is your secret char
acter which always, sooner or later,
becomes your public character.
Who are those whom you carry
around in your Passenger Coach?"
1t is well to mediate upon those
whom you are allowing to shape your
daily career-the people who sit in
the seats to the coach-drawn by your
own individual power.
Many of us are carrying around
useless passengers-peopie who are
having ne direct influences for good,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
luna 2. 1894.

june g, 1894.
The Parkhurst-D Mercantile COM
pany of Topeka has been authorized to do
business. Capital 100000. Directors. G.
W. Parkhurst, w. H. Davis, J. A. Ranney,
]. H. Gender and F. H. Parkhurst
The Ranney Alton Mercantile company of
Arkansas City has also been organized
with capital stock of 100000. Directors
are J. A. Ranney. W. H. Davis and G. w.
Parkhurst of Topeka and s. T. Alton and
j. ]. Hill of Arkansas City.
At the Democratic Flambeau club rooms
last night Eugene Hagan, formally re-
sented pictures of Andrew jackson and
Thomas Jefferson to the club.
Albert Earnest accepted the pictures on
behalf of the club. Speeches were then
made by David Oyermyer and Rankin
Mason.
Miss Myra Williams gave a garden par
ty at her home on Fillmore street last even
ing for the benefit of the Episcopal church
Miss Kate B. Devereaux and Mr.. Albert
D. Flintham will be married in Lawrence
June IA, at o'clock.
Miss May Short entertained a few ladies
informally yesterday afternoon for her
guests. Miss Frost and Miss Brfnkman of
Great Bend. Among the guests were Mrs
G. W. Tackaberry. Mrs A. A. Rodgers
Mrs. c. B. Reed, Mrs. h. Gundry, Mrs. NJ
L. Laybourn, and Mrs Webb: Misses
Nam Waters, Gussie Fulton Mary Bun
ker and Inez Tuttle-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

Under the haphazard method by
which most workers are introduced
into factories and shops approximate
ly twice as much time is consumed by
employees in aequainting themselves
with their new tasks as would be re-
quired If they had the opportunity of
attending training departments, ac-
cording to Charles T. Clayton, director
of the United States training service.
branch of the department of labor.
Reports from large aeroplane fac
tory, from paper box factories. from
motor manufacturing plants and many
other lines of industry are. cited as
proof OF this statement. 1t is pointed
out that American industry must
eliminate every unnecessary expense
IL present wage standards are to be
maintained. Recent investigation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

For years the United States govern
ment has been compiling and distrib-
uting information about rats, the
most common, the most loathsome
and most destructive of all animals.
According to government experts, rats
are accountable for more deaths than
all the wars of history. There never
was an epidemic of contagious disease
where rats did not play a prominent
part in transmitting infection or in
fictitious germs. The great plague of
London, which killed more than half
the inhabitants that did not flee the
city, was by no means the worst out
break recorded. The plague, called
''black DEATH" devastated Europe for
fifty years of the fourteenth century,
destroying two-thirds to three-fourths
of the population of large territories
and one-fourth Of all the people, or
about 25,oOO,000. 1t costs more to
feed rats than it does to kill them.
Start their destruction today, says the
federal bulletin, and urge your friends
and neighbors to do the same. Only
in this way can the serious and costly
depredatons of rats be checked ef-
fectively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

THE BIGGER PLAN.
Self looms large in the life we plan,
But what do we for our fellowman?
What do we plant and what do we sow
For the joy of those we may never knowf
How many smiles we may never see
In a kindly way have We caused TO be-? =,
Our home is glad and our life is fair
We have bravely stood to our days of care
But what have we done in larger way
For the flag and the land that are ours to-
day? -
We have life to spend. we have days and
And the right to buy what we choose is
ours.
May win whatever we wish to claim;
Grow great in honor and truly own
The joys we have sought for ourselves
But we still have lived by a selfish plan
II we haven't thought of our fellowInan,
And never have turned, in his hour of need,
To brighten his life by a kindly deed.
There may be no stains on the joys we
On the things We treasure no shame may
We may walk heads high. with our records
true ~>-
And take great pride in the deeds we do,
But we haven't lived to noble plan
If we've had no thought of our fellowman,
If into the dream we have cherished long
There has been no CLEAN Of a righted
No thought Of a happier world to come
When our hands are still and our lips are
dumb.
We must spend our lives for the ones we
love,
But we still must cherish the Flag above;
We may work for joys that our. own may
know
And follow our dreams as We come and go,
And none may censure the choice we make
Or. the deeds we do for our loved ones
--.sss. sake. > =. 49,. - ~
But we shall be judged, when our souls
have flown
By more than the way that we served our
own,
For we shall have lived in a selfish plan
If we've had no thought for our feltowman.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

The Proctor & Gamble company of
Cincinnati has made a broad depar-
ture in an endeavor to solve the labor
problem by placing three workers on
the board of directors. These direc-
tors must have been in the employ of
the company one year; they must be
stockholders of the company thru the
profit-sharing plan which enables
workers to own stock. and they must
be elected by ballot OF delegates in the
employees conferences. who them
selves are chosen by ballot of work.
ers in the various departments. These
representatives of the workers will
have equal right and vote and expect
to have responsive cooperation from
their employer associates or the direc-
torate who are sympathetic and have
keen interest in the welfare of those
who produce. American citizens only
are eligible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

It is said that the Monroe doctrine
was admitted 20 place in the league
of nations covenant on condition that
we clean up Mexico. That country
certainly is due for a cleanup. Villa
seems to be a candidate for the job of
scavenger. A change or native rulers
in Mexico will not relieve the situa-
ton. Mexican leaders, since Diaz.
have all been much alike. There is
but one way to deal successfully with
our turbulent neighbor and that is to
pursue the policy that we did in Cuba.
We must take charge of the country,
make of it a going concern and then
retire with the understanding that the
Mexicans will be permitted to go their
own way as long as they shall behave
properly, but that any departure from
the straight and narrow path will
bring action by Uncle Sam. The plan
has worked well in Cuba; it can be
made to work in Mexico. 1t should
have been put into operation long ago.
Sooner or later such policy must be
adopted, why not now? This country
never was in better shape to under
take the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
AFTER BURLEsoN,s SCALP.

In these times of stress, when the
fates of nations are being settled,
Washington, it is said, finds time to
speculate on what is going to become
of Postmaster General Burleson, who
just now is devoting his efforts to
wrecking the rural free delivery sys-
tenn. Will the president, when he re-
turns from abroad, invite Mr.. Burle-
son to resign, and give the post to an
other?
Tho Mr.. Burleson charges that it is
the publishers, tho express COM
panies, Samuel Gompers and divers
other factors that are involving him
in difficulties. the real source of the
troubles is elsewhere.
Prominent Democrat politicians.
some close to the administration, saws
the Buffalo News, are the real men,
ace to Mr.. Burleson. They sense the
fact that he is a load on the partv.
They fear that he may greatly assist
to assure defeat for the party in 1920.
Hence, they would rudely throw
him aside, with no feeling for the fact
that he was an original Wilson man,
and that it was largely thru his eff
forts at Baltimore in 1912 that things
happened to Champ Clark and Oscar
Underwood.
These worthy opponents of Mr..
Burleson are out to land him-to bring
about his deportation to San Marcos,
Tex, or to do any other similar deed
of political violence. If they could
have their way, the president will not
wait until he returns to get rid of the
postmaster general.
Some believe that Colonel House
also of Texas, will protect Mr. Burle-
son from violence. However, close
friends of Colonel House say that he
! had nothing to do with Mr.. BurIeson's
appointment in the first place and that
/ he does not regard himself as Mr.
Burleson's mandatory. The peaceful
colonel is understood to be leaving the
postmaster generals fate to other
powers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
HI. @. L. HERE TO STAY.

Instead of falling. as many have
expected, or even remaining stationary
the cost of living still is going up.
Dun's index number on May /
reached $233.193. representing the
cost of a years supplies of a given
number and quantity of staple COM
modities in the wholesale markets.
This figure is per cent higher than
that of April 1 and "a per cent above
that of March /. last, which set the
low point after the signing of the ar
mistice. 1t was the foodstuffs group
which was chiefly responsible for the
further slight rise in the index num-
Der. In the face of this increasing
cost of living will there be sharp re-
auctions in the prices of manufactured
products inasmuch as such reductions
necessarily must be shared by labor?
Operating against such adjustment
Is the growing appreciation by the
public that higher prices are with us
to stay. Noted economists on both
sides the water are explaining that the
immense issues of bonds, notes and
currency by responsible belligerent
governments have wrought a world
wide monetary initiation and that the
process of deflation will be gradual.
They hold the increase in currency has
been more potent factor in forcing
prices upward than war demand,
pointing out that wages have increased
in China, in the East Indies and in
other parts of the world which did not
experience the war demand to any ex-
tent and had no labor shortage
The federal reserve board says
American business has resigned itself
to the present price level and is start
ing ahead on it. The National City
bank of New York expects a gradual
fall over many years. reasoning that
food prices are now at their highest
begins to furnish it's own food needs.
Food prices tend to keep up wages and
wages tend to keep up all other prices.
Consumers of manufactured goods
and builders have waited a long while
for lower prices, obligating themselves
only for immediate needs. In the
meantime untitled requirements have
been accommodating which sooner or
later must be satisfied. This time now
is approaching, says the Iron Trade
Review, for the public is beginning to
accept, with resignation, the prospect
of continued higher prices even in the
absence of war demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

Yestidday we was eating suppir, be-
ing roast beef and mash potatoes and
peez and loose gravey and bran new
eileen table cloth, me thinking. G. if
eny of this gravey gets on eny of this
table cloth, it will show, all rite. WITCH
1 hadent hardly got thru thinking it
wen 1 bumped a peece of roast beef
with some mash potatoes on my fork
and the peece of roast beef slid off
my plate and left a big gravey stane
on the table cloth, me thinking, Gosh,
G, jest wen l was going to ask for q
nickel to go to the movies.
And 1 quick moved the bred tray
over the stane and kepp on eating.
and after a vile ma sed, Benny, pass
me the bred, please.
G, 1 thawt. And I started to eat
faster like sumbody that dident heer
very good. and ma sed louder, Benny,
bred, are you def?
Yes mann, no nam, I sed. And I
picked a slice of bred off of the bred
tray and handed it to her. ma saying,
l asked you to pass the bred, Is that
passing the bred?
Yes mann. its passing one slice Of
it, sed.
Benny Potts, are you trying to be
impewdent? sed ma
No mann, gosh, no mann, 1 sed
Well then eat that slice yourself
and pass me the bred, sed ma, and
sed, Yes nam, would it be all rite IL
passed the plate?
1t would not, and meanwhile I'm
still waiting for the bred, sed ma.
Yes nam, 1 sed. And I started to
life up the bred tray to pass it, say
ing, Well would it be all rite If 1 put
about peeces on a plate and then
passed the plate?
Pass that bred and be quick about
it, sed ma.
WITCH 1 did, the result being that 1
dident ask for a nickel for the movies
and nobody offered me ono
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

The farmers national council advo-
Gates government ownership and oper-
alton of railroads, packing plants and
the war emergency fleet. Suppose,
says Leslie's, this principle were car
ried to it's logical conclusion. Suppose
the masses should insist that the gov
eminent take over the farms to reduce
the cost OF living! Suppose the con-
Stunning public should bring upon the
government a nationwide demand
that this be done to lower the cost of
foods. What then would happen to
the $2.26 price for wheat? In taking
over the farms suppose it were done,
not on the basis of what the farmer
considered his land now worth to him,
but at a price the government deemed
just under normal conditions. Farm
ers would not be so enthusiastic in
their advocacy of government owner
ship if it were applied to themselves,
but that may be expected if their pro-
gram as to other industries be carried
out to its ultimate conclusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Tie That Binds-2,

Inc lie mat Binds.
The humorists have long made
merry over the fact that you can al
ways spot married couple in any
crowd by the dull and weary express
sions they wear, and the silence that
reigns between them, but it is not
funny. 1t is the most tragic thing on
earth that the average middle aged
couple have no subjects of mutual in
terest on which they can chat agree
ably. After they have exhausted talk
ing about the children, and the bills.
they must remain either dumb or else
quarrel to put a little pep into life.
1t is worth while calling attention
to this subject as warning to young
married people, and to advise them to
begin during their honeymoons to de-
liberately cultivate an interest in each
others pursuits so that they may still
have mental point. of contact in their
old age, just as Talleyrand advised
young people to learn to play a good
game of whist in their youth so that
they would have some amusement for
their declining years.
When woman absorbs herself in
her house, and her children. and her
clubs, and a man sabsorbs himself in
| his business and his clubs, they little
dream that their difference of occupa-
| ton and interest is the entering wedge
| that will eventually divide their
| hearts, but il is true, nevertheless
|
tiny rivulet of separate thoughts and
| interests will widen and widen as the
years go by until at last it becomes a
great gulf that their love cannot
| bridge.
For this reason he is a wise man
who talks over his business affairs
with his wife, and makes her share in
| his plans and ambitions, and ankle
| ties, and she is a wise woman who
makes her husbands friends her
| friends, and who plays with them,
even if the things he loves to do are
| anathema to her. For it Is better to
! have feet that ache from tramping
after a man around golf links than to
| have a heart that aches with loneli-
ness for a husband who has gone off
and left you.
The tie that binds two people to-
/ gether is not love nor romance, as
boys and girls think. 1t is congenial-
| ity. 1t is similarity of tastes. II is a
mutual interest in things. 1t is know
| ing the same people and having done
| the same things.
If husbands and wives would only
! realize this and cultivate an interest
in each others tastes and occupations.
| we should have less domestic misery.
| For a mutual object in life is the only
| insurance one can take out that will
guarantee matrimonial happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

shows that the waste due to haphaz-
ard methods of introducing workers
to their tasks is one of the largest bur-
dens on industry. Not only does a
training department cut in two the
time required to teach a worker his
task but it effects an even larger saw
ing by increasing the general eff
cheney of the working force, say train
ing service representatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Sliced Bananas and Cream.
Fried Tomatoes and Cream Gravy
Toast Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Sardine and Potato Salad.
Rye Bread.
Apple Pie. Tea.
, DINNER.
Olives Homemade Pickles
Pot Roast in Brown Gravy
Mashed Potatoes. Asparagus
Lettuce.
Tapioca Pudding. Coffee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

Try These.
Heart-When purchasing see that
the fat around the top is clear and
crisp in appearance. Calls heart is
smaller than that of beef. but is more
tender and delicate in flavor. Lambs
heart is usually sold with the lungs
Stuffed Heart-One beef heart, one
cup of bread crumbs, one teaspoon OF
chopped onion, one-half teaspoon of
chopped parsley. one-quarter teaspoon
of salt, one-eighth teaspoon of pepper
three tablespoons of bacon fat, one
quarter cup of boiling water. Wash
the heart inside and out, then cover
with water and let it simmer until
tender. Drain and fill with stuffing
made of the other ingredients. Into
the bottom of a casserole put layer
of minced onion and tomato and hall
cup of boiling water. Place the
stuffed heart on the onions and bake
slowly until tender, basting OCCASION
ally with the gravy. When done
force the onions and tomatoes thru q
sieve, thicken with Drowned flour, and
add brown stock if needed. Season
we'll. Add a few drops of kitchen
bouquet or other savory sauce.
Kidneys Kidneys from beef, veal
1 and lamb are used. A good kidney
| is light in color and firm to the touch
| If dark red, it is less choice. If dark
and soft it probably is from an old OF
poorly fed animal. Veal kidney il
considered the most delicate in flavor
If they are not perfectly fresh the pc
culiar flavor will cause one to form
permanent aversion to them. AL
fat and gristle should be removed.
| Dreamed Sweetbreads-Blanc the
sweetbreads and cut into dice. Make
rich cream sauce, add the sweet
I breads, season with salt, pepper and
| finely chopped parsley.
Tripe-Tripe is the fatty lining OF
the stomach of animals used for food
| 1t should be thick, white and fat. II
dark and thin the quality is poor. The
'honeycomb" part is considered the
| best by many. but the choice is large
| ly a matter of personal preference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Would It b
all right for me to kiss a returned
soldier? 1 have known him all my
life and he lives near here. 1 am II
and he is nearly 10.
HoNEYSUCKLE.
I would not kiss him IL I were you
You can express your pleasure over
his return in some other way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

One of the most gratifying results
of the war lies in the fact that we have
escaped having the Huns for neigh
bors. If Germany had won she GER
tainly would have forced England to
surrender Canada.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON

Sighted.
/ thought that was prominent -
< And that my fame was known.
thought some notoriety
Chung to the name l own. IS
Oh. sad is the awakening
That comes to mortal man,
Who finds he's really not so much
In this terrestrial plan
With every one remembered, 1t
Is sad, you will agree,
That no one in this whole wide world
Has sent a bomb to me.
The American humorists VIII meet
in Philadelphia this year. OCCASION
ally the right thing happens in the
right town.
The city editor asked one of the
reporters the other day what he
thought of the Italian imbroglio, and
the reported replied: 81 dontsknow.
I never tasted any of it, ~
A learned educator asks: "What
win be the place of fat men in his
tory?'' There is only one fat man
we are worrying over, and what his
place in history will be is largely
problematical If people keep on
reading columns, he may havesa plaes
in history. If not, he may disappear
as a hole disappears when one pulls
his finger out of the ocean. 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

Indiana is going to have a national
bone-dry celebration. At latest reports
nobody was getting up any special
trains from either coast to attend it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02

Mihiel Mordkin, of Mike, as we call
him, who know him well, is coming
back to America to leap from crag to
crag in the mountain goat skin. Mike
used to be one of the Russian imper-
ial court dancers and came over here
with Pavlowa and danced all over our
landscapes for several seasons. He
was the one who invented The Dying
Swan" 1.-The Perturbed Porcupine"
and other classic dances, and was
quite the rage for some time. Later
he returned to Russia. and is nov
balletmaster in the Bolsheviki opera
house at Moscow, having ceased be-
ing an imperial court dancer about
the time the imperial court was
chased toward the Crimea. Mike was
never much afraid of the Bolsheviki.
When he got to leaping good. the Boil
sheviki could never catch him, and
so, being unable to arrest and depoTt
him, they decided to let him run the
opera house dances.
We don't know just what Bo1sheviki
skids Mike is going to show us. but
we hope he won't omit that favorite
Russian dance, the Leon Trotzky.
In Europe there will always be
something to fret and Fiume about.