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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1920-03-31

Ruso potfebue nejenom rus r odby pro sye zboz ale
pofebuje ruske polcke patestv nez Nemecko Dude
energicky uchaze akme tam budou jednou pomey uspo
radany. Az va, "a .gaf
prostou sketnosti spojenci dnes to jiz
nehraje" ako dob6, kdyz byl vSchni ohrozovani
meckorakouskym miarsmem; dnes H netyorl tax pevny
biloxi" iako 1918. Nemohu ramci stat znno-
va podrobne pricach jez tyo pom6ry vtvariy,
many isu kazdenu kdo eduje denn Sava
z Svaz Narodu pres Ameria kde myslenka vzala
svu wink, zUstva mimo nej nsledkem mirove
smlouyy senate ochranna ruka Narodu dosud
nemela pezos osv6dc svoj silu jest tezko fici zda
Narodu doved by vzbudll ldu sucasnenych
nadSeni sdyby uzna dobre neb nekdy
ensy zakrocit Poole naseho skromneho minenf nov
rodov6 jez vka povrch vynesa budou pred nemeckm
nbezpeGf bezpeGn budoucnost jenom tehdy kdyz
sam svu vlasni peyny "bok com Rusko vofti musi IL
helny kamen,
Ma tedy ceskosovenska vlada tezky vyb6r zahaji $
I5oeyy vyjednavan ako by nechumelio prose spok-
cch nou, Jest nemystelno Ceskosovensko potIebue Ru
patesk6 Rusko pax vvolalo by TO bou doma kde z
dyro pozadovn sociaisty blizeni sovetovym
skem Pusti bolsevky do poemily, poukazova, kde
sou misa tou iejich zalobou neni ami pomysen
TO liz zkuso neko diplomatic sv6tovych staniku, polem
soyat bolsevky, crem zoufalstv toho nechali.
Doufeime vsal ceskoslovenska vada naide nejakou
sblzeni sov6tovym Ruskem. Duzno pamaovat
spoenecke vlady doud sce neche muvt bol3evky
ticky dplomaticby, ale obchodovani mimi dali svo
skc Ceskoslovensko nesm do Ruska pfijt pozde. Tam
ma vu ogicky bohaty h odbyt sv6 zboz Cd amtud
ziskavat surovny. Jest samozrejmo ze bude p
Va yiii pfiiato kdyz pride nejenom obchodnm alc
take poickym pratestvm. tom ziska vyhodu pred do
hodoVJmi Stay tez pred Amerikou
Ably stalo aby ziskana byla tato vek vyhoda,
81 mnOhe zapomenOut mnohem ustat. Jakou ulohl
h CeskosoVenska sbSka armada ruske reVoucl to bu
z Vy5ereno nestrannOu parlamenni komis kazde Jm'
1emi stale by sejnych okonos elm drive tat(
Eapola bude uzavrena tim epe bude Pro kid zem pr
I5tvkv zahranGn Rozclovan idu nekterymi vravsimi
VQlci CeskosovenskG amady kerr c boSevky enon jake
bandu vrahu upitu zhafu, rozumne prirozen
4 yyvolava to odveu.
ak sd6lue bolsevcka ceskosloyenska armada ST
biIi uzvfela boevky pfmefi, cinlz nyni NysvetJe
proc obzi mohla vykidt SibiI. M6lo hy edy byi
zavleno prm6ii ez donna cesk1ruske styky pohzen
istiizliv6 porickeho a hospodafskeho hledska.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
A DISTRESSFUL SCENE.
CHAPTER CxLI.

Is it not wonderful that, having
carried the jealousies, the intolerance.
of childhood into my home,' into my
relations with my husband, had not
ruined our lives? Had it not been for
Everett's extreme courtesy, which in
yariably made me ashamed to voice all
of my suspicious we would surely have
landed on the rocks of domestic in
felicity
NV love for Everett had been a
constantly growing love. My pride in
him was enormous, and had increased
as time went on. l had learned some
thing of the quiet depth of his mind;
I recognized his dignity as being APP
propriate to a man in his position-in-
stead of thinking of it as belonging
to an old man Ca word now never
used in connection with hin1--not even
in my thoughts
Yet in all the years of my mar
riage, had never known any unal-
Logged happiness for many days to-
gether; my jealousy effectually pre-
vented this. However, in our married
life there was none of the mutual re-
elimination usually CAUSED when
either, or both, let the green-eyed
| monster sway their passions. This
was due entirely to Everetts command
of himself and a certain pride he had
taught me to feel about giving way to
my feelings before him.. lndeed
could more easily have done SO before
the merest acquaintance The few
times 1 had given vent to my jealousy.
were long past. Later had pretend
ed, as 1 had when jealous of Miss
Pierce, that nothing allied me: that I
did not feel well, had a headache, or
some other equally evasive reason.
I still occasionally felt nervous be-
cause of Miss Pierce-"Katey" as 1
now always call her. 1 knew Everett
both liked and trusted her. He had
shown his admiration for her openly
many times. But whenever thought
of letting her go. her care of Junior.
her devotion to him, made me hesitate.
Then too I should have been obliged
to combat Everett. He would not al
me to dismiss her without some good
reason-something he would consider
such.
1 wonder why it is that If one is
looking for trouble he always finds
it? I was insistently watchful of Miss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07

If william q. Foster, who engi-
neered the steel strike. had been able
TO achieve a victory he probably
would have been a rival OF Samuel
Gompers for labor leadership. But he
failed and now the National Labor
Journal. official organ of union labor
in the Pittsburgh district, says that
Foster ought to have been a passenger
on the Soviet ark" and continues:
Foster was the directing agency of
the steel strike and brought it to a
sorry pass. He was not much con-
cerned about winning the steel strike
His aim was to seize control of the
labor movement, wreck the American
Federation of Labor, and use the re-
sulting chaos as lever to achieve a
nefarious and political purpose. Eos
ter is among the most dangerous OF
radicals in this country. He is a
syndicaiist and anarchist. He is very
crafty. He does not, like others of his
stripe. cry out his purpose. for that
would attract attention to him and
land him on Ellis Island where sedi-
'tionists TO be deported are corralled.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07

Overshadowing every other feature
IN its effect~on the business and pros
perity of the country, says the Wolf
man Review, is the question of taxa
ton. An estimate of the secretary OF
the treasury places the cost of run
ming the government during 1920 at
more than s6,266.OOO,OOO. The expla-
nation for this vast expenditure is two
fold. The government is playing too
large a part in enterprises much more
efficiently conducted by private initia-
tive. The most glaring instances are
the shipping board and the railroads.
In the second place it has no co-o~oli-
mated plan for expenditures. The
adoption of a budget system that will
eliminate haphazard and overlapping
appropriations and expenditures Is the
greatest piece of constructive legisla-
ton that could be enacted by congress
this year. 1t will reduce taxes by a
billion and possibly two. and will cut
living costs three times as much as it
reduces taxes.
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with the things that the boy had to
go thru, but gave him this oid-time
advice: Grin and bear it, That boy
did grin and bear it''-then, and
afterwards He came back from the
war with distinguished honors, having
followed to the-letter what the Lion
had told him years before
Buck up
Probably never in the history of the
world have SO many people, at so dire
a time. had to face so many Difficult
ties together. But things are bound
to become ieavened. The world must
individually, buck UP. You must
buck up must buck up. We must
often remember what G. K. Chester
ton once said-'-'This is the very best
of all impossible worlds'-and
Buck IN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07

Q. How many persons are engaged in
taking the 1920 census Of the United
States "A. NJ.
A. There are about $1,000 enumerators
taking the fourteenth decennial census. 1t
is estimated that the percentage of increase
in population will be greater than that of
q. Have food prices increased in other
countries in the same proportion that they
have in the United States I'll L. s.
Labor food prices jumped 1O4 per cent in
the United Kingdom between August, 1914,
and August, 1919. The price of food in
creased 14S per cent and 167 per cent In
France and italy, respectively. The small
est boost in prices of food is reported for
Australia, where the increase was 80 per
cent. The increase in the United States
was about 81 per cent during the same
period
atoms are there in the United States p
A There are 1920 such associations.
and total assets of 81. 1G9, 1915. Pennsyl-
vania alone has more than two thousand
associations.
cars in use in the United States?-G. 1. T.
A. There were 1888 automobiles and
trucks in use in this country on July 1.
each at $500 the total value of ali the
motor cars then in use. would have been
more than seven and a half billion. dollars
for entrance to West Point Military Acad-
envy FL. w. s.
A No candidate will be admitted who
Is under seventeen or over twenty-five
years of age or less than five feet four
inches in height at the age Of seventeen,
or five feet five inches Mt the age-of eigh-
teen and upwards, or who is deformed or
afflicted with any disease infirn1ity
which would render him unfit for mil
itary service. Candidates must be unmar-
ried. The pay of cadet Is $50 a year
and communication at the rate of sixty
eight cents day
q, What per cent of the national army
= tne World War did the regular arms
and national guard constitute III. C. c..
A. Combined, these two forces were about
one-fourth OF the entire army which par
ticipated in war. There were 527 900 men
from the regular army, while 49,, 600 were
from the national guard.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal information bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director. Washington, ID. C.. This
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IS Members of the railroad brother
hoods are reported to be laying plans
for an attack on the cost of living.
which they hope to find far more sf-
fective in its results than strikes for
higher wages. Experience has estab-
lished the hopelessness OF trying to
overtake the cost of living by raising
wages above present level. Higher
wages for the members OF the brother
hoods would mean higher freight rates
ard higher freight rates would give
the cost of living still another boost.
The plan includes nationwide chain
of cooperative stores. 1t is said to
have been tried out successfully in
England. but it may be noted that it
has not put an end to controversies
over wages in that country. Employ
ers OF 1Sbor in this country have tried
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he whose body is frail is UNFOLDING
me. and his slim, white hands are
guiding me into a new light"
He had slipped MS arm further
within hers now and was walking
gently along the edge of the pord.
His unconscious abandon to her care,
his footsteps ready to follow where
she would lead had a marvellous effect
on Avis That riercing grief over self
melted out Of her brain and lest a
wonderful desire to live and live
worthily The gentleness of the blind
stranger and his quiet submission to
tragedy, or perhaps his complete sur
render to a power beyond the physical
swept Avis into state that borderea
very near the domain of a great love.
She knew that a mysterious light
was even then casting its first pale
rays across their Path, that out under
the moon and the barren trees and the
weird lovelin ess of the lily pond she
and the blind boy had found a world
to happiness undreamed until then by
either of them.
1.-THE warm tear drops are not fall
ing on my hand now he was saying
the big blue dome above us have
twinkled all the sadness from your
heart"
And Avis answered as If they had
known one another many years, her
voice betraying an on otion quite for
eign, SO gentle and true it was.
mo, not the stars, blind boy-but
you, just you"
He quivered and remained very
still, as if over his entire life a great
wave of warmth were spreading.
And lest the moment be fraueht
with TOO much emotion, Avis laughed
softly. 'I am going to get typewriter
tomorrow and begin taking down your
stories as soon as my fingers will obey
your voice"
II thought war was a tren endous
experience, but it must have been only
a stepping stone to this greater one,"
was what the blind boy said.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
INFORMATIoS FOR ALL READERS OF
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The wind was blowing like the
doose yeStidday and me and Puds
Simkins was down at the corner per-
tending 1t was blowing us GROUND
more than wat it RELY was, and 1 sed,
L tell you lets watts do, Pubs
Wat? sed Pubs, and 1 sed, Lets stay
heer and watch for mems hats to blow
off and then chase them and bring
them back, and maybe every man we
chase one for will give us a dime or
sumthing.
G, that's a pritty good of a ideer
sed Pubs. WITCH it was. and we started
to watch for mems hats to blow off,
and about 10 men started to go past
with their hats on and Keep on going
with them still on, most of the hats
wen they did try the men quick
grabbed hold of them as IL they
dident know about me and Pubs stand
ing there waiting to chase them, wich
they proberly dident.
G, you mite think their hats was
them, sed Pubs.
You mite think they was radium, ]
sed.
WITCH Jest then a man dident grab
quick enuff and his hat went up in the
air and started to roll up the street
fast as enything with me and Pubs
after it, and every time one of us
thawt we had it, we dident, and II
kepp on lodging as IL It was used to
being chased. and all of suddin IL
tried to roll between Pulses legs and
Pubs quick put one foot on it to hold
it while he picked it up. and the hole
top of the hat was denied in on ac-
count of Pulses foot, being a derby
hat and not Supposed to be denied in.
Pubs saying, Heck. C. gosh, don't
want to take it down to him, you take
1t down to him.
Tile finn ead And fort tt.nv,
body lelled Hay. Being the man still
waiting down at the corner for his hat
and proberly not knowing how 1t
looked on account of Pudses foot Be-
ing a big man with a tuff Impression.
and Pubs sed, Aw heck. I'm going to
lay it on top of this fire plug and run.
WITCH he did. me running too to keep
him compinny.
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Moulton Musings
BY ROY X. MOULTON.
why We Like to Ride in the street

Why We Like. to Ride in the Street
Car.
"Sure, I amt got the Indigestion
sumtink awful. Gee, I don't get
nothin, til all the rest is done! First
pa comes home and gets ct and then
Jake he comes home and gets ct
Overheard in a Main street car, Buff
falo.)
Tt has not yet reached the point
where the Germans demand indem-
nifty of the entente. but ainostE any
thing seems possible.
There are probably a lot of ham,
actors out in the sticks who are glad
that eggs are a. dollar dozen.
Just to keep the record straight and
the eternal fitness of things in good
working order. we feel in duty bound
to mention the fact that A. Farmer
lives at Naulakla Post office, Virginia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
THREE DOLLAR WHEAT.

Wheat again has assembled to SO a
bushel on the Kansas City grain mar
ket. Does this look like a movement
in the direction of reduction in the
cost of living? Doubtless this advance
in wheat prices will be attributed to
export demand for the purpose of
feeding Europe. But why should
Europe be fed at the expense Of Amer
lean consumers?
While Herbert Hoover urges US to
tighten our belts another hole. Attor-
ney General Palmer assures us that
the cost of living is soon to drop,
which may mean that food is to be
cheaper, or we are to be placed on an
oatmeal diet. II Mr.. Hoover and Mr.
Palmer ever get together and figure
out how additional burdens in supply
ing Europe with food can be laid on
America and thereby reduce the cost
of food at home, the nation will be
interested in their solution of the
problem.
During the first ten months of the
past year this country exported no less
than $2.275,437.o0o worth of food
stuffs, crude and manufactured. For
a like period the year before the Eu-
ropean war began-191S-our exports
of these same products-totaled $5S2,-
es1,o0 or about one-fourth the 1919
figure. Among the largest of the
items in this class of exports we find
sugar, refined. 1,s4T 100000 pounds in
1919, and 42,56o,oOo in 1918. The
gar (refined) left the United States
was seven and seven-tenths cents.
Another group is meat and dairy
products-s1.os5, 900 for the 1919.
and $135.054.o00 fo& the 1913 period.
In this group we find for the 1919
period 1.oe6. 100000 pounds of bacon,
1000. 900 pounds of hams. 796,723.-
900 pounds of lard and lard COM
pounds, and 705,s03,oo0 pounds of
condensed and evaporated milk, Here
is an official statement from London.
England. early in December: "Cold
storage accommodation is all full and
the glut of meat is likely to last well
into the New Year. There are 2,000,-
900 carcasses still awaiting shipment.
Bonded warehouses are choked; and 1t
is useless to discharge cargoes If you
have nowhere to put them. Distribu-
ton is the crux of the whole position.
A calculation shows that we are in
arrears to the extent of $500 railway
trucks. We are getting ninety trucks
a day." Italy is also suffering from
congested ports as are other countries
OF Europe, much of which seems due
to labor troubles. I'VE must feed
Europe" says Hoover. In face of the
figures how can prices fall?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
BIZ JANE PHELPS

Pierce. Of Everett. when she was
around. My espionage brought re-
suits.
One day 1 had been out driving
with Alice Sloane. I was bit late
In getting home, and Everett was in
before me. His hat and coat lay on
the hall rack.
had let myself in with my key,
so no one knew I was home. Voices
in the library arrested my attention.
I walked quietly in that direction,
with no intention of spying. But the
door was not tightly closed, and ]
heard Everett say:
There, my dear. don't cry any
more 1t will make you ILL.,"
I halted. Who was he talking to
In another moment would have mace
my presence known, and so never have
heard his remark.
Cautiously 1 pushed the door a trifle
open. It yielded noiselessly to my
touch. 1 could see into the room.
There, please do not give way So
Everett again spoke.
Miss Pierce was seated before his
desk, her folded arms upon it. and
her head pillowed upon her arms
She was sobbing heart brokenly
Everett's hand-I noticed with sharp
stab-was resting on her shoulder. as
he bent over her. TIE my jealous
eyes it looked as il he had been en-
bracing her.
"Tll try not to- she raised a tear
stained face. IT should be ashamed
to worry you when you have been Sc
good to me. But am so unhappy, SO
afraid she never will understand and
consent to let me stay"
Wen hope for the best. Come, &c
battle your eyes, and leave it to me. u
he said, gently assisting her to rise
and holding her steady just a moment
his arm about her.
I nearly screamed aloud. Then
quietly slipped into the dining room
just across the hall, nearly upsetting
Thomas with a tray full of silver.
rs Mr.-Graham-in?" I painted
| at am late"
"Yes, Mrs. Graham, he came in some
time ago.
..I'll be down in few moments, u
told him as I went into the hall,
purposely making a noise.
(Tomorrow-''There is no possible ex-
DIanation"l
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cite in this connection the incident of
an inexperienced mother who engaged
nurse for her first baby. The girl
had had only correspondence course
in nursing. and no practical expert
ence. The first three days the nurse
fed the baby cows milk and sweetened
water. Then she tried various patent
foods. She kept the baby asleep with
dope nearly all the time, and when it
was ten days old it died.
The public health nurse approved
by the chiidren's bureau is thoroly
grounded in hygiene, proper feeding
for babies Of various ages. emergency
remedies, care of newborn babies and
their mothers. She cannot stop in a
home to take care of a case for several
days, as she has too many patients IN
her charge, but she does give as much
T! attention to each family as possible.
and she leaves the mother with def
mite idea of what to do.
Besides visiting the families of her
district, the nurse conducts meetings
and councils at central point where
the mothers from the surrounding
country can bring their babies Here
they can ask questions. and see DEM
onstrations. and have the baby looked
| over to see if he is growing as he
should
This sort of thing is done here and
tnere turnout the country, where pub
lie health nurses and doctors are
maintained by community or state.
The federal appropriation would ex-
tend the work. and place nurses in the
many counties where they are SO
much needed, but where the popula-
ton is too scant or too poor to support
them by taxation or subscriptions.
Besides providing for maintenance
of nurses and doctors, the proposed
bill would establish especial care for
mothers and infants at home or in hos
pitfalls. This applies especially to
1t would possibly take the form of ma
and domestic helpers to assist moth
ers in their homework.
The ''home helps" as they are
English law for mothers who have no
one to take care of the homework
while they are at the hospital. The
home help stays until the mother is
able to resume her regular work.
Trial of this English plan in the
United States is under consideration.
Exact use of the proposed fund
would rest largely with federal and
state officials. Officers named in the
bill as the federal board of maternal
and infant hygiene are the secretary
of labor, the chief of the children S
bureau, the surgeon general of the
United States public health service,
and the United States commissioner
of education. In the states there must
be a similar board of state officials
created If the state board of health
has no child welfare division.