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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY X. MOULToN

At one of our favorite eating places
yesterday we noticed a new sign:
Roast Beef Sandwiches. Is Cents"
The price formerly had been 10 cents
Asked as to the reason, the proprietor
said: They have raised the price of
beef three cents a pound" Nothing
like having an answer ready in case
one Is required. $3.50 Sc
Speaking of race riots, colored
friend of ours says: "Ef any white
man ever comes after me with a gun,
there'll be a race, hut no riot.''
Dear Roy: Japan wants Shantung,
but is going to give it back. Will all
those who disbelieve that please send
me 81 ?-Bobbie Speck. s.ss
An advertisement in a shoe store on
Fulton street, Brooklyn, reads like
this: "Hully Gee! Only One Dollar"
The sign was placed in q basket of
slippers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

I was setting in the parler last Sum
dey with brown stockings on on ac-
count of ma making me put them on,
and pop sed. Benny, as the cat sed to
the erster wen it wouldent come out
of its shell, watts the ideer of sticking
in the house on a bewtifill day like
this?
He's ashamed to go out with brown
stockings on did you ever heer eny-
thing SO redickiliss? sed ma.
Do you think 1 wunt all the fell
lows laffing at me. 1 sed.
wat fiddlesticks sed ma and pop
sed wy don't you appel to his rea-
son, mother. that's the ony way to
manage a boy at his age.
He hasent eny reason, sed ma, and
pop sed, III manage him-Benny.
don't you realize that brown stock
ings are as respectable as eny other
color and that we must not Judge our
fello beings by the color of their legs :?
Well, the other fellow don't know
that, l sed.
That's very true, that's a good an
ser, Benny, but at the resent time.
wen everything is so Expensive, don't
you think you awt to wear even
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
WHEN WILL PRICES FALL?

1t cannot be questioned that the
will be downward from present levels,
but there are counter influences which
will tend to hold the movement in
check. 1t is desirable that the gen.
eral wage scale and living costs shall
decline together. so that the wage
Garner may lose nothing OF his present
command over the goods which enter
into his budget
In due time the cost of living will
certainly come down. 1t would be i'm
possible by any concert of action that
can be ina gined to keep farm prod
ucts. at the present level. They are
bound to follow the law of supply and
demand. and the development which
is going on in agriculture, together
with the rehabilitation of the armies
will bring them down. The farm trac-
tor is an agency which will have an
important effect especially in the
opening of new lands and there are
numerous other influences at work.
But when farm products come
down, so that the farmer is feeding
the industrial population at lower
prices. he will expect that the indus
trial products which he buys will also
come down. 1t will be unfair to him
If they do not, and if they should not
do so promptly there will be a renewal
of the movement away from the farm
and into the town industries until the
equilibrium is restored by natural
forces.
It is to be hoped that. in these re-
adjustments all parties will gain some
thing, and that will be the case If they
all improve their methods and are 10y
al and fair to one another as partners
should be. They are all members of
the productive organization, exchang
ing services with one another, and if
they all increase In efficiency, they
will all find their labors bringing them
larger returns. And no class can in
crease its net earnings in any other
way without reducing the share of the
others.
1t is evident that there must be a
general readjustment of trading rela-
lions, or in other words, of wages and
time 1t cannot be regulated by any
arbitrary authority. 1t must work it
self out. There has been talk of hav-
ing the government fix minimum
prices to prevent a too rapid decline.
but it is evident that the government s
control over rising prices, altho not
absolute, is greater than over falling
| prices. The producers would not want
the governments minimum main
tanned if the public failed to buy at
that level, and fixing the minimum
would accomplish nothing unless the
government stood ready to take the
output.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

be true to your ideais--for no reason
in the. woridAexcept that it's the most
natural ana most wonderful thing to
do.
How few there are that take adfan-
taee of the chance to do things just
because they are going to get nothing
the end.
a great many people spend all their
lives trying not % act human because
they are afraid that it may cost them
money or position-or som ething. But
I believe that the large majority of
thoughts and acts may be worked out
for no reason in the world--except
that the process is going 10 make us
better-and if we are made better
then everybody within our radius is
going to be made better.
Don't yea think this about the right
sort Of philosophy to live by9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

Fedora Reserve banks issue currency
is the answer to the riddle. When
the cotton picking season is on in
the country around Houston, Tex, a
great deal of cash is necessary for
plantation payrolls. Every farmer
takes a neat little package out of the
bank. The local bank knows that this
demand is coming. 1t is member OF
the federal reserve system. 1t has a
deposit of gold at the district reserve
bank at Dallas. 1t has plenty of
other negotiable paper in its vaults,
as have all banks. 1t decides that 1t
will need an additional 100000 in
currency. 1t authorizes Dallas to
charge up $4,000 against its gold re-
serve and sends to Dallas 500, 600
in negotiable paper. Upon this Sc
eurity Dallas sends Houston $500, 900
in federal reserve notes.
The depositors in the Houston bank
draw these out and pay them to the
cotton pickers. There is a lot of cash
required. There is an expansion of To-
cal currency to take care of the need.
But along about Christmas the busy
season is over. The plantation owner
takes his unnecessary cash back to the
bank ana deposits it. The cotton pick
ers spend their money with the mer-
chants and these in turn deposit it in
the banks. The banks get more cash
than they need except at harvest time
They want the securities back that
they have deposited a-NDallas. They
send in the currency which they had
requested a little earlier and redeem
their securities. The currency in the
Houston district contracts. The whole
thing works almost automatically 1t
works everywhere as it does at Hous-
ton. In this way we have an elastic
currency. We have had it only two
years, but treasury officials hold that
its effectiveness has been positively
demonstrated. Under 1t there can be
no initiation of the currency.
All that we need now Ia a system
whereby the purchasing power OF this
currency will be made as stable as its
circulation is flexible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
THE RED GROSS RO1I CALI,.

The annual Red Cross FOIL call is
set for the first week in November.
1t is not a drive for funds. 1t is a
campaign for members. The Red
Cross is an army that never can be
demobilized. Joining the Red Cross
does not obligate one to serve person
ally in it's undertakings. 1t simply
signifies sympathy with the spirit of
the Red Cross and support of those
who are in position to work in the
active ranks of the organization. Ev-
cry American should be proud to en-
list in an organization with so splen-
did a record of service both in war
and in peace.
Preparations for disaster relief on
a scale never before possible is being
undertaken by the American Red
Cross as one of the important features
of its wide peace program, for the sup
port of which an effort will be made
to obtain a record membership.
Because of the lack of the spectacu-
lar in many of them, it is not general
ly realized how frequently. year after
year. disasters occur. bringing wide
lGNdStdliOIy Qedlh anu surveying
their wake. Since 1900 disasters of
peace have costs many thousands of
lives and have brought personal injury
and property losses to no fewer than
1900, 600 persons, at this same time de-
stroying property valued at more
than $1,000, 100000.
During 1917 alone. eighty disasters
came to the attention of the American
Red Cross; Sixty-two tornadoes, five
| floods. four great fires. two earth
quakes, two serious mine explosions,
two munition plant explosions, a race
riot, shipwreek and the tragic calam-
ity which befell Halifax. The total OF
deaths entaiied was 1.75s, while 5,927
were injured and the property loss
reached s11O, o0e,0u0
That. in brief. Is the situation that
demands preparedness for emergency
relief comparable to the service and
speed of the fire department The
people instinetively turn to the Red
Cross when fire. flood, tornado or
great accident comes to leave men
women and children dead, injured
homeless or starving. Under its dir. c.
| ton the entire relief resources of ali
communities for emergency relief are
modified for instant use when needed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
FOR No REASON IN THE WORLD,
ENCERT-

1t is fine that we do not have to
buy everything with money. 1t is
splendid that most OF the great things
in the world you couldn't buy with
money if you wanted to.
The desire to work intelligently and
well, for instance. The real achiever
works for no reason in the world
except that he loves to work and that
he finds q constant revelation of him
self being made because of work. Lots
of people are happy fo@no reason in
the wor1d--except that they like to be
happy, and because 1t pays everybody
including, themselves, to- be that way.
Let the sunshine into your heart. be
good, smile your broadest smile, put
your real soul into the tasks you per-
form, be patient. believe, have faith
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

From the news dispatches it appears
that a delegate to the convention of
farmers, held at Hagerstown, Nd,
struck a popular chord in the hearts
of his hearers. when he submitted a
formula for dealing with the bolshe-
visit labor agitators in this country
His plan was embraced in the five
words: "Shoot 'em or ship 'em-"
There is no sound reason why any
man who is not an American citizen
should be permitted to carry on activ-
tiles designed to wreck the govern
ment of this country. Since there
probably are not enough prisons to
hold all the alien pfotters, the Hagers-
town plan may yet come into general
favor with both the government and
the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worid's >Highest PAID woman Writer.


What Qualities Women Most Admire
In Mem.
Not long ago a woman wrote q let
ter to the mayor asking his honor's
assistance in getting a husband. She
didn't seem very critical about the
mans qualifications as a life partner
except in one particular. She said she
wanted as a husband a masterful man,
and one who would boss her.
There spoke the primevat woman,
the woman who reverted back to her
ancestress who was won by brute
strength, and who worshiped the lover
who dragged her by her lovely red
hair from her own cave to his. where
she lived ever after in fearful happi-
ness of his big stick with knobs on IL.
But this woman who wanted a hus-
band who would boss her is only a lit
tie more frank than her sisters. Prac-
tically every woman has the same de-
sire, for women are still at heart cave
women. and they still dove best the
men who conquer them.
The one quality thru all the ages
with which men have been able to
| conjure women has been strength, and
this is true whether the strength is
! mental or physical. or used for good
or evil
Power. that mysterious something
1 in a man which makes him superior
to the occasion, able to fight with fate,
and to wrest his own from the world,
1
thing Godiike in that that simply
| hypnotizes a woman's imagination.
That is why refined and gently born
and reared ladies have eieped with
double listed, bull necked prize fight
| ers and husky stable men, and chauf-
feurs. and why sweet, innocent, pious
| Sunday school teachers fall in love
with the criminals they are trying to
| reform.
These men have done something.
They had the strength and courage to
go after the thing they wanted, and
| the cave woman instinct In the wo-
| mans soul responded to it.
The quality that woman adnlres In
man above all others Is strength, the
| ability to do things All women are
by nature hero worshipers and what
they adore in success is not the result
but the grit. the determination, the
energy that carried the man to sue
cess.
Women admire men who know how
to do things from the biggest to the
littlest; who are adequate to every
situation. men who can conduct big
business or order good dinner, men
who can protect a woman from dam
ger with his own good right arm. or
pick out the right seats at the theater.
1t is this instructive admiration that
women have for the man whose
strength and superior knowledge they
can rely on that makes them easy Vic-
Tins for the so called man of the
world" who happens to be a villain,
and that keeps a good woman infatu-
ated with man whose morals revolt
her. A woman can forgive a strong
man any sort of a past for the sake Of
his, strength.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

Gently about democratization of indus
try. In the plant of the Colorado Fuel
G Iron Co. at Pueblo characterization
OF the industry was established by
young John d. Rockefeller in con-
junction with his employees a few years
ago. 1t worked satisfactorily to all
concerned until a group of boIshe-
visit leaders in the east called a gem
eral strike of steel workers. then it
was all off at Pueblo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

will not simply be 4logged with un-
worthy disputes. SO that whilst the
classes fight, the nation may not shiver
for want OF coal, or go hungry for
need of bread. For this is exactly.
what thu class war has to offer to the
public. and the public, in the very
irony of the situation, includes the
classes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

The greatest trouble with the labor
situation in this country lies in the
fact that there are too many jobs
waiting for men. When times are hard
and work is scarce. strikes are rare,
There is no surer way to bring about
these conditions than that which now
is being followed by organized labor.
The more industrial plants they close
the fewer Jobs there will be. when
strikers are ready to return to work
they may find that they must take
what they can get or so hungry. The
big war chests which the unions have
provided cannot last forever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
DINNER STORIES


A farmer had come up to town for
a few days. Before he started he had
promised TO bring his daughter d
present, SO he went into a jewelers.
shop and said 10 athe assistant: Il
want a pair OF earrings, cheap, but
pretty"
YES, sir" said the jeweler; you
want something loud, / suppose 2''
''Well, I don't mind IL one of them
is a little loud" replied the farmer.
MY girl slightly deaf in one ear"
They were seeing San Francisco.
They had done Chinatown, the seals,
a couple of museums and the
spaghetti tunnel on Bay street. The
evening found them in Peacock alley
watching the Frangipani parade.
Finally one OF them had an ihspira-
ton. She turned to her companion.
..Do you like art?' she queried.
s"Oh, law, yes. Whenever I hit a
big city with an artery in it 1 always
blow in.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30


1t is reported in the dispatches that
the coal miners realize that public
opinion is against them in their pres
ent controversy with the operators.
Public opinion is, on the whole, says
the Christian Science Monitor. likely
to be sounder in its judgments than
organized class opinion. and. for this
very reason, the sudden awakening of
public opinion in the great dispute be-
tween capital and labor, is calculated
to develop into a strong factor for
peace. Public opinion has no greater
interest In seeing labor sweated than
in seeing capital fleeced. 1t has a
great interest in seeing entire justice
extended to either for only in this way
will the mills OF men grind out the
legitimate requirements OF the race.
Only in this way, again. can any Sc
curity be assured that the miIlstones
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

The threatened coal strike has
ceased to be an issue between the
operators and miners and become one
between both and the American peo-
pie as a whole The government must
step in without vaeillation or hesita-
ton and employ every means in it's
power to continue the mines in opera
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

A plot to kidnap young Mr.. Ford
and hold him for 5000, ooD ransom is
reported. II he be worth that
amount. it is not surprising that he
would take no chances before Hun
bullets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Honeydew Melon ~
Cereal with Dates
Omeiet Mullins or Toast
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Spanish Toast Sweet Potatoes
Bran Mullins Baked Apples
DINNER.
Stuffed Hamburg Roast
Potatoes Baked in Half Shell
Boiled Cauliflower Waldorf Salad
Bread Lemon Cake Pie
Coffee.
Some Good Dressings.
Italian Dressing-0ne cup of salad
oil. four tablespoons of vinegar, one
teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of pap
rika. three tablespoons of grated
cheese. Place in a fruit jar and then
shake the blend.
Roquefort Cheese Dressing--Place
two ounces of Roquefort cheese. in
bowl, mash fine and add, one quarter
teaspoon of paprika, Dfie-half tea
spoon of salt, one-half teaspoon OF
sugar, one-half cup of salad oil, juice
of one large lemon. Mash to a
smooth paste before adding the oil
and lemon juice
English dairy cheese and pimehto
cheeses may be used to replace the
Roquefort cheese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

Q. Why have you not answered the
question ! sent in two weeks ago. signed
with my initials, and which asked you
to print p. A.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-01
BRITISH ADMIRAL
PRAISES OUR FLEET
ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY
THANKS AMERICAN OFFICERS
AND MEN FOR COOPERATION
Doughty Warrior Declares That Brit
ish and Americans Were Disap-
pointed at Not Having Been
Able to Meet German Fleet.

LOndon.-!The American battleship
squadron attached to the British grand
fleet displayed spirit of true COM
radeship throughout its period of serv-
ice, declared Admiral Sir David
Beatty, the commander in chief of the
grand fleet, in farewell address on
board the U. S. S. New York the day
the squadron was detached from the
grand fleet. All hands had been called
to muster on the forecastle to hear Adj
miral Beatty.
After thanking the. American Off
GERS and men for their cooperation, Sir
David remarked that both the British
and the Americans were disappointed
at not having been able to meet the
German fleet. He declared that the
day the German fleet surrendered was
a "pitiful day to see." Sir David said
he had always had misgivings that the
Germans would never come out for a
finish fight, and these misgivings had
been strengthened by the coming of
the American squadron.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-01
SINKING OF SHIPS
NOT On !. PROGRAM
oEcRETARY DANIELS DECLARES
HE KNOWS NOTHING OF PROPo-
SAL TO DESTROY HUN NAVY.
First Suggestion Of Plan Comes from
London az one Possible Way OF
Settling q Very vexin0
Problem.

Washington.-Press dispatches from
Paris saying that the American peace
delegates, with British support, will
urge the sinking of the surrendered
German warships as the solution of
their disposition, led to initiation of
steps in the senate on Thursday to
obtain an official statement of the
facts and to wide discussion in naval
circles. At the state and navy depart
ments no information was available,
Secretary Daniels repeating his pre-
viOus statement that he had never
heard the suggestion officially, while
at the state department 1t was said
that SO far as known there no such
project was included in the American
peace program.
The first published suggestion that
the ships be sunk came from London
several days ago, but even before that
1t was learned. this has occurred to
some naval authorities here as one pos
sible way Of settling vexing problem.
Admiral Benson, chief of naval Oper-
atoms, and designated as naval adviser
to the American peace delegation, has
been in Europe some time. His views,
worked out with Vice Admiral Sims
and officials of the British admiralty
and the French ministry Of marine,
will have great weight with the Amer
lean delegates on naval questions aris-
ing at the conference, but there is
nothing. here to indicate what conclu-
sion he may have reached on the dis
position of the surrendered craft.
There were many indications that a
proposal to sink the ships would meet
strong opposition in congress.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-01-01
Just ImaQjne!

Senator Garcia Informed the Argen.
tine senate recently that the foreign.
ers resident in Buenos Aires are "a
per cent of the population, and added.
courteOusly, that "if it We're 20 per
cent it would be all the better for the
country" Although acknowledging the
compliment, British paper published
there says: IF we were Argentines
we would disagree decidedly, not
merely with the senator, but with the
circumstance. Imagine London with
an alien population Of more than half
the total! Imagine the country az
war, with such collection of dubious
consistency in its business and execu.
tive base! 1t would not be possible to
intern them. 1t would, on the other
hand, be quite possible for them to In.
tern the men of the sOil.'-New York
Post.