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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06
TOO MANY MINERS.


The editor of the Mine Workers
Journal states that in 1918 the miners
produced S5.OOO,0 900 tons of soft coal,
This peak production was obtained by
the mines averaging only 10 per cent
capacity. and with a skilled working
force reduced by $4,000 miners. He
states that out of the S12 working days
the WESTERN Pennsylvania miners aver
age ESQ, Indiana 249, Illinois 22S. and
Ohio 224 days.
This year he estimates that the mine
workers will not have worked more
than $50 days. He says that if the
force worked steadily durin~ the year
that it would produce 500. 100000 tons
of coal. He says also that in 1920 it
was estimated that the country would
need only 55O,OOO.O0O tons.
These figures show" said Mr..
Searles, editor of the unions magazine,
that there are too many miners in
the coal business for an eight-hour
day. A shorter day would distribute
the work thruout the year. and it
would take only a short time to edu-
cate consumers to buy on the basis of
steady, rather than seasonal produc-
ton"
If there are more miners than there
is coal to dig then some of the miners
should go into something else. Doubt
less they would have no difficulty in
finding employment at tasks more to
their liking. If there be more miners
than there is coal to mine, there are
not farmers for the farms and there
are not enough men engaged in other
trades. The country is now suffering
because of a scarcity of carpenters.
bricklayers and other skilled trades.
1t is also suffering from a lack of I'M
skilled laborers in many lines.
If there be only enough coal pro-
duced TO employ all of the miners five
Gays week and thirty-hours a week
the miners are putting too much of a
burden on the rest of the labor of the
CT untry for the mount of labor they
do. If 400 men can do a job working
producing forces of the country who
work full time that these men are paid
full time wages.
Why should the rest of the labor of
the country be compelled to pay an
amount of money that would permit
the miners to spend one day in the
week of idleness. and work only six
hours five days. while they are work
ing all the week?
The logic of the miners position,
says the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
is that they want blacksmiths, ma
chinists. printers and editors and
farmers to work six days in a week
and a little more, if necessary, in or
der to get money to buy coal, the price
of which is higher because 400. 1000
miners make a living out of it when,
as a matter of fact. 10000 miners
could do the work and work no longer
than other people
= That is one of the troubles in the
present order of things. Millions of
men work six or seven days in a week
and other millions of men, doing no
harder work, work from four to five
days a week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06
WHERE Is THE UNIVERSAL
SPIRIT,

I believe in the soundness of Amer
lea and her ideals. They are revolu-
uonizing the world. But there is one
type of fellow in our midst that l DO
not understand. He is the chap who
is knocking to pieces the machine ne
has been helping to run.
And in this case, the machine be-
longs to the public.
You would think the driver of an
automobile crazy if. for some reason
on the refusal OF his car to run, he
should Immediately begin to break ii
to pieces with an ak. And yet that is
exactly what radical labor is doing at
this minute
What America-and all the world.
for that matter--needs right now is a
breed of regular old fashioned WORK
ERSt There is too much talk and too
little work. How are costs to come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

The Plumb Plan provides that
the railroad operatives. in addition to
fair wages, shall collectively receive a
special dividend based on whatever
savings they may effect thru efficiency
in management and operation. This
is in effect a bonus systerr to which
organized labor has hitherto been ops
posed. A man who must be bribed
TO do efficient work is hardly the sort
that would be regarded as desirable by
the average employer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

/ was up to one of the most tx
citable parts of Frank Feernaught in
His Aireoplane last Sundey and ma
sed, Benny, how about Spndey skool
wunt to go, and pop sed, Benny. did
ent you heer your mother tell you to
go to Sundey skood?
No sir, she jest asked me how about
it, sed, and ma sed, The reason
put it that way, Benny, was because
1 wunt you to realize that wen you
go to Sundey skool 1t is ony for your
own good.
Well cant I stay home and finish
this book today and try to get twice
as mulch good out of Sunday skool
next Sundey? l sed. .-s-
You can not, folwerd martch, sed
pop.
Sutch boy, sed ma.
Meening me, and I quick finished
the chapter and went to Sundey Skool,
and wen came back ma sed, Well,
you don't look eny the verse for your
Experience.
He looks 100 per cent better, in my
estimation, sed pop.
feel better, l sed.
There, see that, sed pop, as the old
proverb says, a boy is as good as he
feels.
And now are you willing to admit
that going to Sundey, skool is good
for you? sed ma.
Yes mann, / Sed.
See that, sed ma.
SeeN that, sed pop.
II 1 found a dime on the way, sed
II Id of stayed home 1 wouldent of
found it.
zee gods, sed pop.
Sutch boy, sed ma.
- Meaning me
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

At Spokane, Wash, the lumber
workers of the I. w. w. have called a
strike in the logging camps of eastern
Washington, northern Idaho and
western Montana. They ask the re-
lease of all class war prisoners" and
the immediate withdrawal of troops
from Russia. They set forth that they
will not return to work until there has
been established minimum wage
scale OF SIS a day and not more than
81 day for board. The strikers say
that in the futu. men must be hired
on the job and not thru employment
agencies and that the eight-hour day
must be from camp to camp. But the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

Senator LaFollette has emerged
from the woods long enough to pro-
pose an amendment to the peace
treaty. LaFollette is the man who not
only voted against the declaration of
war but who narrowly escaped punish
ment on a charge of disloyalty. Yet
the Wisconsin senator's aid is well
coined by those who have for the last
four months apparently been trying tc
find way to kill the League of Ma
tons and thus add to the world tur-
moi1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

master ,5e of the whole strike is
the construction of housing and uplift
that must be provided. These include
free blankets. sheets and pillows and
bathhouse. dry room and wash room
seven days a week-in other words
free baths ad infinitum. When it
comes to the. L w. w. asking for baths
it seems that the limit of strikers de-
mands has been reached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

Time has been when striking work
hen easily won the sympathy of the
public Jobs were scarce and hard to
get and the public assumed that no
body of men would quit work under
such circumstances without just
cause 1t was assumed also that en-
bloyers were taking advantage of the
scarcity OF work to impose their own
terms. on their employees. Now, all
this is changed. Any man who is dis
satisfied with his~job can quit with the
assurance that he can obtain another
At good pay There is no reason why
anybody should strike. The steel
Strike and the coal strike are not due
10 actual grievances sustained by the
strikers; they are conspiracies de-
signed to destroy the industries of the
country and finally the government it
self. Former President Taft. law
YER a professor of constitutional law
and a former federal Judge, has point
ed ont that certain strikes have always
been criminal conspiracies under our
Constitution and laws as they would
b. under the constitution of any other
civilized, democ1 tic state. when
enormous combinations of workmen."
says Mr.. Taft, deliberately enter upon
a countrywide plan~to take the nation
by the throat" and thus force it to
compel employers to yield to their
demands they are engaged in an un-=
lawful conspiracy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
The Autumn Limbs.
RY ROY &. MoULToN

- &IAC <1ubuA4an AAAAAOo-
ut is not often that we resort to
written any before. WE have never
believed in It, but the autumn is upon
us with its falling leaves and limbs
that are slowly growing to a state or
nakedness. and autumn brings unusual
thoughts, so here goes some vers libre
or leeb. as it were.)
I walked along the avenue,
The autumn avenue.
GoshI -,
The tang OF autumn
Was in the air.
And l noticed the limbs,
The limbs almost bare
That lined the avenue,
Long limbs sN
CHASTITY limbs,
Straight limbs,
Knotted limbs.
Some thin, some thick.
Limbs that had lost
Their summer foliage,
And / thought
That is the hardest thing to do
Think.
And / thought and thought
And thought
How much more / admired
The limbs in summer
when they were covered.
For then could not see them.
anu i lhO04AN
GOSH @
1 amt never saw
So many limbs before
In ell my life and
worried as to how
Those limbs will shiver and cFeak
When the wintry zephyrs blow
And the snow is deep.
OF course II is the style
In Autumn.
Yea, 30,
I'll say IL is.
So l worry no more.
Let Nature care for her own.
No, Ethelwyn: no, Eloise,
am not speaking
OF the trees.
The prohibition of tobacco will have
no effect on some of the cigars we
have been buying lately.
Speaking of cannibalism, one paper
says, ''Turnkeys for Thanksgiving din
ner will be very high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

In this country there are but two
ways of settling questions in which the
public is concerned. One lies thru
appeal to the courts; the other thru
the ballot box. The courts have been
appealed to in the controversy be-
tween the coal miners and the oper-
ators. If they fail to settle the matter
so it will stay settled. resort to the
ballot will come later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Secret of Happiness.

The Secret OF Happiness.
The other day a group of women
were discussing the great quest of
every human being in the world--hap-
piness One woman said:
THE last time that Mary Anderson
was in this country had long heart
to-heart talk with her. During our
conversation I said to her:
"'You, above all othA people that
I know, seem to have found the secret
of happiness. What is it,?
The secret of happiness she re-
piled, is to decide what you most
want in life and then have the courage
to take it. That is. OF course. when the
thing you want doesn't injure other
people.
life with time to read. and think. and
invite my soul and enjoy the COM
wanted a domestic life with home, and
children. and friends -i'
ITO get the domestic life that I
desired I had the courage to leave the
stage at the zenith of my success, and
/ have had the courage to-, resist the
offer of fabulous sums to return 10 the
theater. To get the, quiet, leisurely life
I had the courage to turn my back on
the destinations of London society, and
to go down in the country and live,
where I see nobody but my family and
few congenial friends.
Therefore l am happy because
knew what wanted and have had the
courage to take itr"
That's a good definition OF khappi-
ness" commented another woman,
but the trouble with most of us wo-
men is that we don't know what we
want. We have 10 one overmasterins
desire. Probably the woman who has
always gets what she wants. but the
most of us just shilly shaliy along,
with fancies that blow first one way
and then another. and as result we
are always dissatisfied, discontinued,
and miserable
THE secret of happiness" said an
other woman, Consists in determi-
nation to be happy. You must refuse
to let yourself be worried and made
miserable by the little pin pricks of
life. There isn't any one in the world
so fortunately situated as not to have
some sort of a skeleton In the closet,
nor are there any so miserable that
they can't shut the door of their skele-
ton closets if they have enough grit
and strength to do it,
A~& ~.
j
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint
BREAKFAST.
Stewed Berries.
Fried Tomatoes Cream Gravy
Toast Coffee
Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Deviled-egg Salad
Raspberry Custard Cocoa
DINNER.
Homemade Pickles
Radishes-
Liver and Bacon, Creole Style
Mashed Potatoes Buttered Beans
Coleslaw
Country Style Green Apple Pie
Coffee
Good Thick Soup.
Chestnut Soup = Two cups of
blanched ehestnuts, two cups of milk.
t-9o tablespoons of butter, two table,
spoons of flou-, two egg yolks. two
tablespoons of cream.
Cook the chestnnts in just enough
water to dover. AS soon as tender
stir until boiling. Rub together the
butter and flour, gradually thin with
the liquid, and add TO chesfnuts.
When finished remove from fire, add
beaten yolks of eggs and cream and
serve at once.
Squash up-Three-fourths cup
cooked and strained squash, one quart
milk. one slice onion, two tablespoons
butter, three tablespoons flour, one
teaspoon salt, few grains pepper. one
fourth teaspoon celery salt.
Scald the milk with the onion Re-
move the onion. and add milk to
squash. Melt the butter. add the flour
and seasonings, then slowly pour on
the scalded milk and squash and cook
until slightly thiekened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

Those persons who planned to alb
duct EdseI Ford are said to have laid
in provisions sufficient to last two
weeks. 1t would have required an
enormous ransom to cover the initial
expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

The striking miners assert that the
war is over. President Wilson, Attor
ney General Palmer and the United
States congress have taken steps de-
signed to convince them that it isn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

The government has fixed the price
of coal. An anxious public now waits
for it to fix the supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-06

On the other hand. it IS noticeable
that girls, in spite OF their lack of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-11-21

plunged back again. "We1l have to
forgive him." said M'sungo, sitting
down and proceeding to open the tin
and lay out Andrea's lunch for her.
"The elephant--especiauy dead one
holds q place in the native cosmos
that no white man has ever quite sue
ceeded In grasping. All those boys
are quite mad I've seen one sever
hts thumb from his body when he was
like that and never notice it till he
reeled from loss Of blood"
Andrea shivered but M'sungo did
not notice II. ''They believe" he con-
tinued. "that the meat Of elephant Is
compound Of tbs flesh of all animals
and that By eating It they acquire all
the leading attributes-the courage Of
the lion. the slyuess Of the jackal. the
rorgins capacity Of the snake. the eye
sight Of the hawk BY day and Of the
fslines BY night. the industry of the
ant and the honaing instinct Of the bee.
You 80 the unef It's endless; and
Just because they have more than a
smsttering Of the qualities they seek.
the superstitaen will never DIE"
BE stopps 10 give Andrea . drink
Of water and TO feed her first sand
wich. "And that isn't the only thing
that never dies" he went on, his eyes
narrowing to = peculiar look she had
never seen in them before, such look
40 one 10 apt 10 connect only with
mysties, fanatics, ardent believers, and
thoroughly out OF keeping with the
conception Of the White Man she hal
builded for herself.
why. White Mani" she cried.
what do you uean1 What's come
over your
He looked away and then back at
her. "well," he said. quizzical gieam
creeping into his eyes. who's afraid?
Why shouldn't tell once more thing
that's been written a hundred times
By greater adopts than I and never be-
lievedf It's this. Andrea Pellor. Don't
set yourself too high above the native
and his worship Of the greatest OF
beasts for he knows what you can't
even believe and that Is that elephants
are killed. they never die. In all the
centuries that blacks, Arabs and
whites have padded the myriad trails
Of Africa. no man has ever seen or
heard Of an elephant dying from old
ago or any other natural cause"
His eyes hardened on her face. You
seer hs Whispered ''You can't be-
lieys Il Elephants never die"
(To BE Continued)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-11-21
Little Benny's Notebook
Housewife: will you please tell n


By Lee Papc.
Adam and Eve had no father
Or mother or other relations
which proves that everything has to
have start
Before 1t gets eny'+variat.ons.
Adam was the ferst persin in the werld
OF eny size or gender,
And he sed, II don't see eny shoe
stores,
Wat Of II? My feet ainr tender"
Eve was the and pers!n In the world
And the ferst you could call Madam.
And she sed. Its a wonder I'm so
comfortable.
Being made from rib out OF Adam.
And thcy went and married each
other,
Because there was nobody e!ts er-
round.
And for . vile they was perfeck!y
happy.
And they both felt safe and sound.
They lived in the Gardin OF Eden,
Ware all the wild beests was tame,
And their house was short and venti-
lated,
And the clothes they wore was the
same. #.# ~
Then Eve went and ate n appel
WITCH was strickly not allowed.
And lest for. that they was both put
out,
Wawking fast but proud.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-11-21
Efficient. s
AAU Lauro A kirknaN -

A SIMPLE u ncHgoN MENU.

yeast stirrtng We ! uat,l those ,ngTcd-
tents are thoroughly MIXED. Nt a. II
not fairly thick, Ike mortar, u httl'
moro -four should be added now I'll
the larger Kettle with water a. hot
- the hand can stand Ceut nSI no,
enough TO scald four ana sct the two
kct,tcs. "a they arr, In the warming
oven over the stove for Ia hours
After this take n small china bowl
and In Il pa, , teaspoons each OF
sugar salt. pnd Lard. miSlns welt ani
stand This bowl aside. IN readiness for
the third process. Also take rim pan
Oarge. - inches In diameter) and int"
this put honping cups cf hour; place
this pan on the back OF the stove to
warm.
.. Mtxins-Add III caps Of hot
water almost boil!ngl 10 the small
bowl containing the sugar, salt and
lard. Now make little hole IN the
middle OF the sour In the pan which Ia
on the stove. and pour this mixture
into II. Add sponge next, mixing we'll
(If more hour 10 needed. use more.)
Grease {: bread tins and. dividing the
dough by Hitting II high in the middle.
thus breaking II In halt drop the arst
half on Toured bread board; take u
up and mold II into the corners FIJI
tho second bread tin In the same man
per. with the other half Of the dough.
Place the two filled bread tins In the
warming oven over the stove TO rise.
Bake as any bread.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-11-21

Nut Cheese CssserplN
Salt Risina Bread ... Butter
Tea Preserves
Nat Cheese Cssscro'e--ore-hal cup
cracker crumbs. y cup grated chec'',
"A cup chopped walnu,s, Ia teaspoon
LEI, sage rubbed Inc. small chopped
on,on, y cap tomato SOUP u cup
wster. Mix thc ingredients IN the
order given, blending wcli. turn into n
casserole ara bake for twenty minutes,
servs piping bot. frh.s recipe serves
three pcrsons)
Salt Rising pread--(Thcre are three
processes TO DO observed In making
this breaD
|. Isast--Put In u tin measursp2
cup. ! cup OF sweet milk. Place this
tin cup on the stove until the milk
bells, then ssir I'm s lowell teaspoons OF
whIto corn meal and pinch OF soda.
Wrap up the measuring cup warmly
with a piece Of clean flannel and put
IT In an empty tin bread box surround
ed by a hot irons, clamp!ng down the
lid oe the box. Leave 1t IN this way
over n,ght--untit It rises.
2. nse--SeIect 2 tin kettles. one !,
or inches Ia diameter, this other
smallsr--,perhapA s inchss In diameter;
plase tho smaller IN the larger and IN
this smaller kettle put y cup OF
water AZ hot as the hand can stand,
but not hot enough to scald the -four;
add two cups Of flour, and tho risen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-11-21
syNopsIs,

CHAPTER f.-AndreA PeHor. hAndsone
s s. e lou.d p; q marry ': a. Hit:
mine owner. She di.aonsoisfsiy wandsrs
from her hotel in South hfr d , and d ~.
s Isssn h. slsS Nh 5. merely plea ssns
excursson. Shd : welcome relief from
riagS, abe begs TO Be taken for flight.
although she does not know him. be
somswhst unwiilingiy agress and they
Start
CRATER. u.-whsn she reali.es ner
aI:c ~ ds:Pfr.sio s.is: TO s ssons n1%
her and they san on into the very heart
A16rss Arda the natives all bow In wos-
sven = s,srs Soy. "Bsthtab." and the
whits Man sets about building hut Tor
CHAPTER fII.--Andrea Is given .
glimpse OF the homo which - to be hers.
Man invites her to dianer that evening
and in spite of the fact TINT he has re-
fused To take her back to civiization An
,inu.s at dsas 10 he. pleading that he r..
store her 10 her friends.
CHAPTER Iv-Andrea Is awakened
from sound sleep next morning By loud
pounding on her doorway and y told to
prepare Tor days hunt with White Man.
She sn3sys ia' ose af hs
his apparently ruthies: slaughteriny OF
animals He ~ providing for the force
of blacks he employs and VINO look 20
him for suatenance. :
her dsplorabls lack OF change OF clothing.
IL surprised and delighted when . trunk.
loaded with everything ~ the way 81
q asi her e 81 ss.ssrt
they are hers. White Man n skiiiful
shot ssyss her from To sstask o. .
oseiIed to her tate after eight days in
the craaL 4,g-- .ss....
CHAPTER W.-on another expedition
the donkey on which Andrea 70 mounted
4 moment made ridiculous: White Man e1-
s sss.. ss Ht.sss 81: "i Z q
ward she lstsns % the report Of native
] runner. that z herd Of ELEPHANT. !: in
NJ W,. ss' Maa an they sssss down '
dils-iufsstsd stream tor the scene se the
hunt
He had become died With IN es-
i serce Of youth. % though years Of life
| had rushed from past and future to MI
4 TO overlooking the cup Of this one
transcendent moment. His face was
tense hut alight and his ordinarily
gray eyes had attained to an unfathom-
able blue that seemed to deny meas
IRE 10 the depth Of his emotion. His
thin lips were drawn in the crooked
line OF q fixed smile-a smile that
struggled on the verge Of an Infinite
soleinnity. When he moved he gave
an Indefinite impression Of disem-
bodied action as II spirit alone passed
on, leaving desh behind. Like a black
monitor the taeker went before him.
Andrea was suddenly aware that
M'sungo carried the big gun. Its dead
weight of eleven pounds lay In his
hands lightly as though It also were
sustained by q spiritual force. She had
not seen him take It and there was
something ghostly in the mere fact OF
his possession Of 1t. Her mind was In
4 turmoil; she knew that upon tho
taking over Of the big gun had hung
SOME vital instruction to herself but IL