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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
TOPEKA DAY Ar FREE FAIR.

The merchants of Topeka meet to-
morrow to decide on action to be taken
IN closing their places of business for
BIT least one day during the Big Free
Fair here in September.
For the gool OF the fair, for the
benefit of the employees OF the business
houses for the success of the opening
day OF the exposition. it is hoped that
The merchants will agree on Monday
BIS their recognition of the institution
hat President Penwell and Secretary
Eastman have built up for Topeka and
kansas.
out OF town crowds always attend
hairs on late days As a rule the
'srounds at the Big Free Fair in To-
peka are damned beginning Tuesday
hnd lasting until the end of the week.
For this reason alone Topekans should
make Monday their holiday. This
gives them more freedom on the
grounds, opens the exposition with a
bang and guarantees the fair associa-
lion a good return. II the merchants
close on Monday it will give them the
remainder OF the week to care for the
put OF town trade.
A few business men are in favor OF
not closing the stores on any day dur
ne the fair. Instead they would send
! certain percentage OF their employees
bach day. This would tend to throw
sold water on the opening event. In
the first place It would cripple the
stores to handle their trade every day
n the week. In the second place it
would not unite the city in a general
holiday for the statewide event. BY
Nj means the merchants should decide
on Monday as their aid in christening
The 1919 Big Free Fair.
The fair managers have made elab-
',rate plans for the events this year.
lii will be the largest fair in history
1uite a boast when one remembers the
program at the 1918 revue. Monday
viii be Kansas derby day with the best
facing card of the week. The~night
show will b. complete. Monday Is, by
bar. the best day for all Topeka TO
show her spirit in support OF the mann
snoth institution.
Topeka trusts that the business men
win take proper action at tomorrow's
meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
A FAvoRITE INSTRUCTOR.

Seldom has any public improvement
been undertaken by Topeka or Shaw
nee county without being delayed or
defeated entirely by a citizen or body
of citizens. The Injunction has been
the favorite weapon in use in the war
on progress. 1t has been employed
successfully iR holding up the erection
of the county home. The highest
court in the state has held that the
county commissioners can not proceed
with the construction of the building
on the site decided upon by them and
favored by a large majority of the
people. The delay promises to be
long one. Probably the next move on
the part of the obstructionists will be
an effort to obtain a mandamus to
compel the commissioners to place the
building nobody knows where. The
difficulties which now threaten are
obvious. There will be the same or
greater strife should the selection of
another site be attempted. The proba-
bility is that the home finally will be
built where originally contemplated or
not at all. The work was of fire-proof
construction.
The court was almost equally d.
vided: Justice Burch wrote the
opinion by the court. Justices Porter.
Dawson and Mason Joined in the
opinion. Justice Marshall wrote a dis
senting opinion, concurred in by Chief
Justice Johnston and Justice west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
MY HUSBAND AND |
By JANE PHELPS

door and an occasional sentence
would float to me. Then Neil became
excited and talked in loud angry
tones. but I could not catch the words
save as I sometimes caught SCOTS
name. Then came a question in the
clear quiet voice of the gentlemanly
reporter:
Scott is the only man you fear ?"
yes, the squealer!"
81 am afraid. Mr.. Forbes, you are
not facing this as you should. There
are others-many of them who are
ready to make trouble"
What others?"
Men and women who have invested
their money with you hoping for the
enormous profits you have promised
them in your circulars" AS he fin
ished I heard the rustic of paper
Then after a moment he added I'm
less you are frank and tell your side
of the story quickly-you see Mr..
Forbes / am supposing you can con-
tradict Scott's charges-it will give the
yellow sheets a chance for a lot of sob
stuff-widows and orphans deluded,
etc"
"WhereNd you get that circular -
IT am afraid 1 can't tell you. But
you may be sure that my paper isn't
the only one with copy. In fact Mr..
Forbes we have planned to print this
in the morning unless I hear some
thing from you that prevents" A
groan, st.fled. was his answer. Then
to my disappointment one of them
closed the heavy door tightly and
heard nothing more. 1 crouched on
the stairs some time longer, then as
heard them come out. and Neil bid
him q hasty good night. I scurried to
my room so that Neil might not know
had been listening.
sat by the window. my mind in
perfect whirl. What in the world did
sob stuff" mean2 That reporter had
said the yellow journals would print
h I knew nothing of newspaper
terms and II made me doubly anxious
for that reason. Would Neil never
come up so ] could question him.
asked myself just as 1 heard his heavy
dragging steps so unlike his usual
quick climbing of the stairs. l held
my breath as he staggered into the
room, his face white and set, a logged
look in his eyes.
What can we do. Neil2 Oh. you
poor boyi" 1 exclaimed. going to him.
DO Take my medicine I guess"
and with that re flung himself into
a. chair. covered his face with his
hands. and hard. dry sobs broke from
him.
(Tomorrow-Neu tells Barbara his
story.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Yestidday L wasent very good, and
ma and my sister Gladdis sed they
was going to tell pop on me, me thing
ing. G, better tell him ferst.
WITCH I did, saying vile he was
hanging up his hat, Did you see Glad
discs new skert, pop?
Good mite, has she got one of
those? sed pop. and sed, Yes sir, its
so tite she cant hardly wawk in it,
and she has to take sutch little bits
of steps you wouldent hardly think
she was taking eny, and this aftir-
noon I met her coming home and l
kepp wawking GROUND her in circles
Jest to prove wat little steps she must
be taking for me to be able to do
that, and everybody started to laff.
and Gladdis tried to catch me and
couldent, and everybody kepp on
laffin.
Ha ha ha, no W bnder, still, that
wasent a very gentlemanly thing to do
on the street and I'm sure Sir Walter
Rawley would never of done it, ha ha
ha. sed pop.
The new vacuum cleener came to-
day, pop, I sed, and pop sed, Yes?
does it werk all rite? and 1 sed, Not
with string it don't, pop, he'd a long
peece of string under it vile it was
going and the string got all twisted
up in that thing that goes GROUND.
and ma had to send for the man to
come and get it out agen.
Well that was very brite OF you,'
must say, sed pop. Meaning it was
ent. and Jest then suppir was reddy
and we all started to eat it, and Clad
dis sed to pop. Father, Benny was an
Exceedingly bad boy this AFTERNOON
and he should be punished severely.
Wy, you don't meen to say he put
on a tite skert and wawked cercles
GROUND you, or enything of that sort +?
sed pop. a.- D.
Well for goodniss sakes, sed GIaddIs
and pop sed, Ha ha ha. CESS I'm prit-
ty slow as n mind reader. ha ha ha.,
You wont think its so funny wen
you heer the trubble and Expense he
put me to this aftirnoon, seid ma.
1t cant be posserble that he tied
himself all around with string and
Pretended that he was a vacuum
cleaner. or enythins of that discrip-
ton? sed pop.
My grayshiss. for goodness sakes.
sed ma. and pop sed. Ha. ha ha. who
says I'm not a mind reader ha ha ha.
and he kepp on laughing and Gladdis
sed to me, You think you're smart.
don't you? and I sed. wy. watts the
matter. wy?
o shet-up, sed Gladdis, and ma sed
to pop, o. well wat do I care. laff
away, you'll haff to pay the repairing
bill
Ha ha ha. it will be werth It, wat
ever it is, sed pop. and he kepp on
laffinE every once in a vile dooring
suppir. witch the more he LATED the
more ma ana Gladdis dident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

And while we're on the subject,
writes the Buffalo News Photographer.
nothing is so foolish as the remark of
that class of individual when the news
papers find him out and camp on his
departing suitcase. His defense is,
THE newspapers have it in for me-"
be the average man, being heckled
thru the headlines. knew how much
he counts within the office he would
hide his head with humiliation. The
reporter is apt TO forget him overnight
hnd the proofreader more than likely
DO misspen his name at any time. 1t
lsn't the individual a newspaper is aft
Err: it's the system that makes the in
dividuaI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIL SENDS BARBARA FROM THE
ROOM WHILE THE REPORTER
TALKS TO HIM.

CHAPTER elk.
When the exporter announced his
errand Neil turned a bit more ghast-
", and I trembled so I could scarcely
stand. 1t was my Introduction to
newspaper tactics. and I was fright
ened as well as anxious.
You are talking of this scurrilous
article p" Neil pointed to the paper
lying on the floor. the bold headlines
staring up at US.
yes. Our paper wishes to state
the facts. Scott has given us his YER
sion. now we want yours"
You have been to Scott? ?"
"Of course He claims to be the
aggrieved party. He is going to make
it hard for you. Mr.. Forbes. If you
can clear things up it would be ad-
visable before he goes any further.
with a meaning glance at me which
I rightly judged to mean that he had
something to say to Nell which he
preferred I shouldn't hear.
Leave us. Barbara. Mr.-Moore."
the young man gave his name. Mr.
Moore proba bly, feels embarrassed by
your presence" he added. the last SEN
tence so sarcastically wondered
please let me remain" 1 replied
quietly. Then to Mr.. Moore: II know
all about what the other paper has
said, why shouldn't I hear the rest
whatever you know" How I wished
I might say with truth that I knew
all about my husbands business and
that II was all a lie. a monstrous lie.
But 1 knew absolutely nothing. yet
l must show my faith in Neil-even
tho felt there was some foundation
for the awful scandal.
LAS Mr.. Forbes wishes"
''No-go, Barbara"
There was nothing for me to do but
to leave them together. But / didn't
60 beyond the reach of their voices.
I sat on the stairs where they curved
upward and so out of sight should
the door of the music room open. 1t
was fortunate I did so. as. after few
moments they came out into the hall.
Il have some papers that perhaps
may interest you" 1 heard Nell say,
that same peculiarly sarcastic tone in
his voice as they moved toward the
library. Some with SCOTS sigma
ture"
They didn't quite close the library
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

The lynching record for the first six
months of the current year as COM
piled by the Tuskegee institute shows
a total of twenty-eight. This is seven
fewer than the number thirty-five, for
the first six months of 1918, and four
teen more than the number fourteen,
for the first six months of 1917. OF
those lynched, twenty-five were ne
groes and three were white. One wo-
man is reported to have been lynched.
The states in which lynchtngs took
place and the number for each state
are as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas.
4. Florida, q. Georgia. 8; Louisiana, A.;
NIississippi. Z; Missouri. l; North Car
olina, 2; South Carolina, /; Texas. l.
Il may be noted that with the excep-
ton of one case I'M Missouri, all were
in southern states. only seven of
those lynched were charged with at
lacks on women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

have q proposal to make to you"
Anthony was visibly nervous.
You mean to mother, don't you"
asked Rena depurely, but with a
laughing CLINT in her eyes. Morse
flushed, but somehow gathered cour-
age. NO" he said boldly. the pro-
posal Is to you. but 1 have a PROPOSE
ton to offer your mother want
you both to help me run a market
garden at Stonehill on shares"
Mother Is fine at that sort of
thing. I'm sure she'll be delighted.
But where does my share of running
it come in?" asked, the girl naively.
You can run me if you'll take the
job"
why. IL you think can do as
good a Job Of running you as I did of
running into you-well-I'n try"
PICK UP
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
ChecrfuIncss.-1.

ChecrfuIncss.-1.
Did you ever think of cheerfulness
as a financial asset-something that
is money in your pocket, and that is
legal tender for food and drink. and
lodging and clothes. and with which
you can buy success and popularity,
and all the good things of life?
Well, it is. We are in the way of
considering cheerfulness a spiritual
quality, the glow that emanates from
happiness and well being. 1t is that,
and more. It is the first aid to get
ting there, and the man and woman
who wear the smile that won't come
off, carry about with them talisman
that brings them sure good luck.
Take two boys of equal ability. of
equal character, of equal energy and
ambition. Let one of them have a
bright sunny disposition and the other
one be glum and morose, and grouchy,
and in ten years time the cheerful
lad will be so far ahead of the gloomy
Gus that he won't be even in telephon-
ing distance.
For everybody will have helped the
cheerful boy and given him a hand
up as he went along. and everybody
will have side-tracked the melancholy
one and kept out of his way as far as
possible. Employers like to have
bright. happy looking employees around
them. Customers like to deal with in
terested, smiling sales people. Bust
ness men enjoy doing business with
jolly men who have funny stories to
tell and whose laugh is hung on a hair
trigger.
Optimists run the world. The pessi-
mist who has no faith in God or mani
Who thinks that everything is rotten
and that the universe is going to the
dogs never pulls off big deal. He
chills enthusiasm, he paralyzes effort,
he Stays hope, and makes you feel that
nothing is worth while, and every
scheme a foredoomed failure even be-
fore he breaches his plan. and you
ton because his personality has wet
blanketed it to such an extent that it
is no longer allurinR.
On the other hand the cheerful man
can sell us fur overcoats to wear in
the tropics, or orange groves in Maine.
because under the magic of his smile
everything seems right and feasible in
this best of all good worlds.
AS for popularity, cheerfulness is the
sesame that opens every door. 1t will
make more friends for you than all
the cardinal virtues, and carry you
farther in society than brillancy, or
wit, or any other talent or grace,
The friends that we grapple to us
with hooks of steel are those whose
coming is like the turning on of the
light in a dark room, the men and
women who bring us something of
hope and cheer, and good will. and
who leave us the happier even if we
only see them for a moment. The
guests who are always welcome in our
houses are the merry and the light
hearted. those who can make a dinner
party go to the tune of laughter and
Jest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
THE COUNTY HOME.

In the effort of Robert Stone as at
torney for the, Rotary Club to prevent
the construction of the county home
and hospital upon the county farm
adjacent to the city, it appears that
the real result will not at all accomp-
lish the purpose which Mr.. Stone. as
an Instructor with his injunction
weapon, attempted to bring about.
Apparently the thing accomplished
is merely to saddle upon the city and
county an addition of $4,000 to the
current taxes.
We certainly do not wish at this
time two county homes and hospitals.
pletion and a great part of the ma
terial has been purchased and de-
livered on the site.
The county commissioners must
complete the building, and now that
Mr.. Stone, thru the supreme court.
has apparently deprived the commits
sioners from using the bonds voted for
the purpose of constructing the build
ing. the commissioners will undoubt-
eddy be compelled to resort to direct
taxation to secure the funds.
There were other organizations aside
from the Rotary Club which took part
in the campaign for the $4,000 bond
issue, the newspapers for instance. .
The preponderance of legal opinion.
barring the narrow margin of one vote
in the supreme court. was entirely
with the commissioners.
The board itself was unanimous in
the opinion that It would be best for
all interests to construct the building
on the spot where it is now going up.
The county attorney advised the COM
missioners that they w re doing the
proper thing and the Shawnee county
district court concurred.
II is likely that no one building is
more needed or more necessary than
the prompt completion of the county
home and hospital building now I'm
der construction. The present build
ines are inadequate and not fireproof.
The maintenance of the home and
hospital on the site selected and the
care and comfort of those within its
walls will be by fair more efficiently
administered on the farm than in the
city.
our morning contemporary says,
Eventually the county hospital will
be built in or near the city limits and
within reach of fire protection, cleo
trio lights and quick medical service"
Topeka is preparing to do too many
things eventually" The time TO o
them IS now. AS for electric lights,
the buildings on the county farm al
ready have them. AS for fire pro-
lection. the hreproof construction Of
the building now under way provides
for that, and as for quick medical
service, the hard surfaced road now
under survey to the county farm will
give that.
It was a famous legal victory. but
the county will get its county home
and hospital and get it 1T once. and we
may get two of them: one constructed
out of the taxes, and the other from
the bonds at double the proposed
cost, with an inferior building as the
second one, because part OF the pro-
ceeds of the bonds must of necessity
go to the purchase of ten expensive
acres nearer the city than the county
farm. according to the view Of the
majority OF the court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
DINNER STORIES

Representative Reavis of Nebraska
was talking about his trip to the from.
Il witnessed a mild quarrel at the
front" he said, between two young
chaplains of different denominations.
The senior chaplain got the better of
the quarrel"
Let us bury the Ratchet, my
brother he said. After all, we are
both doing the Lords work, are we
not?'
We certainly are said the junior
chaplain, quite. disarmed
" Let us, therefore, said the senior
Suavely, do 1t to the best of our abiI-
ity, you in your way and 1 in His"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Welsh tinplate manufacturers are
en- route to this country to study our
manufacturing methods. They will
find the United States producing
three-fourths of the tinplate of the
world, while twenty years ago she pro-
duced none. Meantime our imports
have fallen from 1000. 0oo.O 900 pounds
in the year in which our industry was
inaugurated to practically nothing
last year. Production. which made its
first record in 1891. amounted in that
year to about 100000 pounds.
reached 1000. 300. 600 in 1908. 2.Oo0.-
600. 900 in 1912. S,ss7.OoO.ooO in 1917.
and Approximately a like quantity in
1918
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

A meeting OF deputy apiary inspec-
tors recently was held in Manhattan.
Anybody who wants to be an aplary
inspector is welcome to the job and
will encounter no competition from
the writer of this paragraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Now that strikes me as a silly hat.
sister. Why. you can't see whore
you're going and It doesn't shade the
back OF your head"
Never mind my head or where I'm
going. The purpose Of a wornan's
hat is to make men look under t."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

The rapid progress being made in
aviation forecasts a possibility that by
the time a system of good roads has
been completed in this country, we
shall not so greatly need it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Copyright. 1919. by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

20 10 p. m.-Another thunderetorm.
Again we have to change our course TO
avoid II and as every gallon Of petrol Is
worth its weight in gold IL almost breaks
our hearts to have to lengthen the distance
10 get clear Of these storms
SUNDAY. July g. 4 q. m.--Si9hted Amer
lean soil at Chatham.
island.
IS 30 a. rn.--Passing over Martha's Vine.
yard. lovely island and beautifully
wooded.
LANDED 0 As a. M, L. r. A., summer.
time. AZ Hazelton field, Long island.
twelve minute&"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

we see the sea at 1900 feet between
patches Of cloud Rather bunny. We find
ourselves between two layers of clouds the
top layer 1000 feet above us and the lower
layer 500 feet below, with occasional
glimpses of sea.
. p. m.-The sun is now setting and
gradually disappears below the lower
cloud horizon. throwing a wonderful pink
glow on the white clouds in every direc-
ton. Course steered go degrees Course
made good 20 degrees Air speed forty
four knots speed made good fifty five
miles per hour.
IAN thrl this first night over the At
lanttc the ordinary pirship routine Of
navigs ton. steering and elevating. also
maintaining the engines in smooth run
ming order goes on. watch and watch as In
the daytime.
The night Is very dark The aIrship,
however. is lighted thruout. q much en-
iarGed lighting system having been fitted.
All Instruments can be individually iIlum-
mated as required and IN case Of failure Of
the lighting system. all figures and fndica-
tors are radfumfzed,
The radium paint used 70 50 Iumi-