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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIT MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Th ,mpson: I am girl
twenty years old and have been keep
ing steady company with two fellows,
One has asked me to become his wife.
I don't care for him as much as do
the other one. Would it be right for
me to keep his presents and jewslry, or
should I return them?
The other fellow hasn't presented
me with as many presents, but ! think
lust as much of him. Should l give
one up and keep steady company
with the other? =.
UNDECIDED.
Let love and not presents govern
your choice. Yes, l think you should
return the gifts of value to the young
man who wants you to marry>him. 1t
is better that he should know that you
do not love him. He may want to re-
main your friend; in this case do not
accept any more jewelry. I can see
no harm in keeping both as friends If
you want to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
Dorothy DIX Tails
Being a Woman.
1T DOROTHY DIX
~. rxs-L. n.&S vx,., ma

A group of children were playing
underneath my window.
IT am going to be a general and
have medals on my breast, and ride q
big white horse when I grow up" said
one little boy. II am going 10 be
banker" said another. u am going
, to be a doctor when ! am a man"
said another. I'm going to have a
hotel" proclaimed another little boy.
! I'm going to be a, woman, when I'm
grown" piped up the one small girl
whom the boys had condescended to
permit to play with them.
Aw. Marjory isn't going to be any
thing by woman when she grows up.
That's nothing!" jeered the little boys.
But I smiled pityipgIy at Marjory.
hardest job on earth, and that her
life work would comprise that of all
the careers the little boys had chosen.
And then some. For woman has to
be q soldier, doctor. the family saw
ings bank. and run a hotel that gives
food and lodging to man and beast
just as sort of side lines to her regular
business of life.
| We are In the habit Of speaking OF
being q woman as a kind OF cinch.
Especially if a woman does not have
to go out into the world and earn her
own living. she is regarded as a OAR
ling OF the Gods, and men are forever
telling her how lucky she is, and how
easy she has got things, and how
thankful she should be that she does
MT have to grapple with the difficult
ties of profession as they do.
As a matter of fact. the profession
of being a woman is the most COM
plicated, and difficult profession on
earth, and requires the widest range
of knowledge and talents, For we
man, even of just the common, or gar
den variety. the woman we speak of
as just being ordinary, and having no
especial genius or gifts, must be an
expert in so many different lines of
endeayor that the wonder is that one
small head can hold all she knows.
or one pair of hands accomplish all
the labor that she performs, or that
any body could be strong enough to
endure all the strain that she puts
upon it.
To begin with. a woman must have
the bravery that does not finch before
| pain. The most sheli-riddled soldier
! on the battlefield does not go thru
! greater agony than the agony every
woman experiences when she goes
down into the valley of the shadow
to bring up her children. Nor does
| he pass thru a greater danger than
she does. IF she had her deserts ev-
| cry mother would wear a hero's
medal, with palms, upon her breast
A woman must be a soldier. a wo-
| man must be a fascipator. Every wo-
man who gets husband must have
| a certain dizziness in casting the spells
! of siren over men, and she must do
this subtly and insidiously, for custom
| does not permit her to openly go forth
| and choose her mate. In some secret
way she must conjure to her side the
man she desires. and having gotten
| him she is in for a lifelong Job of
vamping so that he will not perceive
that she grows old. and fat, and loses
her girlish figure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
The Woman Who Loved-and
Earned A Modern s.o.y Of Home and Bushes.
BIZ JANE PHELPS
By JANE PHELPS

boarding house-and thinks OF That
thing all day, that he's going home TO
it. don't you think it might make him
reckless"
But what am I to do. Nary"
II wouldn't advise you or anyone
for the world, ! know what would
do, butsyou see / might be wrong"
Robert earns SO little, Mary, 1t
would be simply out of the question
for me to stop working and take an
apartment even very cheap one ]
never have told You how little he
earns" l felt my face flushing, but
he couldn't pay rent and buy the me-
cessary food. Prices are awfully high.
Why, Mrs. Lane has raised her board
because of the cost of food"
II know, Gerry. Lies hard; ain |
it? 1 mean isn't it 81"
so hard 1 am ready sometimes to
give up" l replied.
Don't be so discouraged. Gerry. it
isn't like you. There. said It right
for once"
think any more about it. You see !
didn't get single wink of sleep last
night"
You better get home and go to bed
early. You'll be sick If you work all
day and then don't sleep nights"
took her advice and hurried home
not because 1 wanted to get to bed
early, but because l wanted to be sure
and be there when Robert came in.
/ recalled I had promised to go out
to dinner with him. But when I got
home he was already there lying on
the couch.
You're home early" I said as I
kissed him. had determined to ig-
more what had happened the night be-
fore.
Yes"
where shall We go to dinner"
Anywhere you want to, but what
I said last night goes. l won't live
on a woman. If both of us can't live
on what earn, one of us is going to,
and that's final"
His tone and manner made me anxi-
Gus, but I made no remark, and we
started out for a nearby restaurant.
(TomorroW-Cailer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

Nearly $io.O0O,O0O in gold arrived
In New York from England this week.
The gold movement has been largely
outward for a considerable space of
time. Imports of gold during Febru-
airy we're unusually small. amounting
to only s4,473,0OO. against exports of
$4,000. OoO.-, For the eight months
period ended with February gold inn
ports amounted to 100000 against
exports of 1882, 100000. Silver i'm
ports amounted to $12.0OO.OOO in Feb
ruary and s6s.OOO.OOO in the eight
months. while silver exports were s16,-
00o.O 900 for the month and ei37.
900 for the eight months eSA<d with
February.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

Herbert Hoover,s platform. as COM
muhicated by him to his Republican
friends in California. might well be
accepted without reservations by
any political party. There is nothing
in it 4 offend and nothing which
challenges the opposition of any pa
triotic citizen. But he still insists that
he is not seeking the presidency and
will accept a nomination only in case
demand be made upon him and it be
felt that he is needed in that capacity.
in substance. what he says is: III you
agree with me in principle and want
me for a candidate. here 1 am. Come
and get me-" To nominate a man for
president on such terms would be an
anomaly in American politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
MouLton Musings
BY ROY x. MoULTON.

A Collector.
NY wife is collector
She has been at it for years.
She collects antiques and curios.
She can scent an old spinning wheel
For nine ieng miles, and SO far
Not one has ever escaped her.
She does not collect sensible things
Like old postage stamps or butterflies,
Which can be carried in trunk.
Gran6father's clocks, four-post beds,
Louis Ounce chairs, what-nots,
Horsehair lounges, highboys,
Ancient dining room tables, tea wagons,
Spindle-legged chairs, and irons,
Fireplace cooking utensils
Antique bean pots and such like.
When I go to sit down she yells:
Don't sit on shat It's an antique,
And it might break and so
The only safe place to sit down
Is on the steps of the back porch.
Whenever We move, cur regular furniture
Makes only a third of n van load,
While the collection takes
AS many as five vans. and
Every time we move we have 10 have
And take larger apartment.
At our present rate we will,
In a few years. be living
In the Hippodrome.
Yesterday we were in the station,
And she began sizing up locomotives
And parlor cars and baggage trucks.
can only hope that she
Doesn't think of elephants.
It's a grand life?
fou said II.
Many cafe waiter is in the secre
service. He can serve a drink so tina
nobody but the customer knows it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
YOUR INSTRUCTIVE IMPULSES.


Most people grow commonplace and
tread in fear because of repression. =
Our instructive impulses are natural
They quite frequently get US into trou-
bic as they run into set conventions.
but they make our personalities all
that they are.
Nearly every child has a distinct
personality. And it is free and at
tractive, because it is so impulsive.
As people grow in age. they>start to
repress, so that to many the perfectly
wholesome acts of those who are
younger are almost a shock.
But to the mind that ever is grow
ing. a new world is opened up each
morning.
The more you express what you
think. the more generous in viewpoint
do you become. And the finer vision
ed, also. So that, after all, your in
stinctive impulses are quite a safe and
sane guide to honest conduct.
Not every thought that We have is
good and worth expressing. But the
more that we do express what is good
and worth while, the more are we
able to express at all.
The viewpoint of the unschooled is
always NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1t is al
ways personal and original. 1t isn't
coIored up with opinion.
The province OF education is to
bring out and to create. but in too
many cases it reacts and kills off
honest expression
Do not be ashamed to obey your
instructive impulses.
Natural society acts as a protec-
torate to itself. So that IL we are
taught to regard the feelings of others.
our very freedom Of action comes
forward TO spur US individually and to
lead others along with US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
JUST FOLKS
HUNGRY FOR SPRING,
BY EDGAR a. GUEST.

Lord, am hungry for spring!
For the birds on the wing,
For the laughter of children at play;
For the blossoming trees,
And the soft southern breeze,
And glimpse at the beauties Of May.
Give me back the blue sky
And the clouds drifting by,
And the rollicking laugh of stream;
Let me get back to Thee
With my spirit set free,
Let me live out day In a dream.
would wander once more
Where there's never n door.
Or roof or a sheltering wall;
And find there anew.
Where mans worship is true
The power which has fashioned US all
From the sham and the strife
OF the game we call life,
And the poor little goals tbatw we crave
From the madhouse called town,
With it's sneer and Its frown,
would go where all creatures are brave
Tired of stone and Of steel.
/ want things which are real,
The birds and thei= courage to sing,
The trees and their speech
And the lessons they teach
Lord. 1 am hungry for spring.
Copyright 1929 by Edgar A Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01
SHALL WE HAVE TAX REFORM?

The agitation against the excess
profits tax, which has been going on
thruout the country. apparently is pro-
ducing results. 1t is announced that
Republican members of the house
ways and means committee and the
senate finance committee are about to
give consideration to the subject.
The plan which appears to be most
generally favored is the substitution
of tax of one per cent on sales. This,
it is estimated would raise between a
billion and a half and two billion dol
lars year. Such a tax. it is held,
would help reduce the cost of living
by eliminating the excess profits
taxes, which are passed on to the con-
sumner.
1t is pointed out by the Bache Re
view that:
The present methods of taxation
threaten to drain the resources on
which the entire business structure of
the United States depends, and while
we hear many predictions that taxa
ton will decrease, we must face the
fact that for many years to come the
requirements of our debts, including
the amounts loaned to our allies, as
well as the high rates at which gov
eminent expenditures have been fixed,
will call for a taxation of from four to
five billion dollars per year.
To continue to raise this amount by
excess profits taxes and heavy income
taxes means the complete elimination,
in our opinion, of the resources of the
investors upon whom this country and
it's enterprises have been dependent
during all these years, to furnish such
new capital as commercial and finan-
cial developments required.
A tax of one per cent on sales. while
it would produce in the aggregate an
amount large enough to make it I'M
necessary to keep the excess profits
tax in force, might be large enough
even to reduce the surtax on income
and would bear so lightly upon the
Individual that its existence would be
scarcely perceptible. 1t would be, In
effect, a flat percentage of one per
cent against volume of business, to be
paid monthly by every corporation,
partnership, association or individual
in trade.
The advantages of this tax as set
forth would be that it would be equal
Iy paid by everybody in the country
and might lead, perhaps, to thrift,
since those who wish to avoid paying
taxes would need only to decrease
their expenditures.
1t would be the simplest tax that
could be collected, and there need
never be any dispute as TO the amounts
of individual taxes. as now arise in
multitude of cases under the present
tax laws. 1t will require a. very much
smaller staff to collect, and practically
no expert service. 1t will materially
reduce the expenses of the government
in collecting taxes and the yield can
be very closely figured, and cannot
materially shrink or increase by tenn
parary developments in values or the
volume of business.
In estimating the effect on the price
of a loaf of bread, the tax would be
levied first when the wheat leaves the
producer; second When it leaves the
miller; and. third, when it leaves the
retail grocer or the baker. And even
then the added cost would be but a
fraction of cent a loaf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

The annual alarm over threatened
labor shortage on the farms has ap-
peared earlier than usual this year.
A considerable increase in the wages
offered farm help is said to be power
less to lure workers from the bright
lights of the cities. Probably the
farmer will find himself under the
necessity of furnishing the "hired
man" with an automobile. in addition
to board and lodging. This would
enable him to spend his evenings in
town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

The president of the United Broth
erhood of Maintenance OF Way En-
ployes and Railway Shop Laborers has
resigned his $4,000 a year position.
1t is reported that he is Disguised with
the actions of other officials with
whom he was associated. and resent
full of criticisms of his handling of
the recent situation, when his organ
ization called a strike and later called
it off. Probably il the railway broth
erhoods, as we'll as in other unions
there is gradually widening between
the radical and conservative elements
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

Within sixty days. Virginia food in
spectors destroyed 1,312.s12 pounds of
ham, SSH pounds of beef, s,6sS
pounds of pork and 125 pounds of
poultry that had been held so long in
cold storage that it had begun to de-
cay. During the time this meat was
withheld from the market. thousands
of people could not, on account of
high prices, afford to eat meat. But
the federal department of justice is
advising the people to eat the cheap
cuts. Diligent search by the house
wife has failed to find the cheap cuts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

ton are like everybody else in loving
a lover. For nothing happened. At
least nothing beyond what might be
expected when a soft hand nestles con-
tentedly in the crook of ones elbow
and a pair of beautiful lips draw in
vitingiy near
Downright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

1t may be noted that in the South
Dakota presidential preference pri-
mary. Hiram johnson. who has been
violent in his opposition to the peace
treaty, ran behind his competitors
Wood and Lowden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

1t is the open season for presideh-
tial candidates In Mexico and good
bags may be expected from now until
election day. Ygnacio Bonillas is the
first one to be potted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

The quotation is from Mencken's
"A Book of Prefaces," and he cites
in footnotes the cases in which<these
presidents have been established. He
chinery to exist in a. country which
is supposed to be the home of a free
press, free speech. individual liberty
and justice.
The actual workings of this legal
machine have been exceedingly iryeg-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-01

Many a cafe waiter is in the secret
service. He can serve a drink so that
nobody but the customer knows it
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-30

the princess was feted at Oconom-
owoc.
AT that time Commissioner Bout
mistrow, representative of the Rus
sian Red Cross in New York, de-
clared he never had heard of the
princess.
Captain Schultz expressed entire
faith in his wife.
Ever since her arrival In America
she has been in the limelight. The
story OF her adventure in the war
caused her to be among the most in
terytewed and photographed persons
in the country.
The princess, according to her
story, came to America early in 1917
10 recover from wounds suffered
Whe9 a hospital In which she was
WorKlng as nurse in Russia was
bombed by German zeppelins. In
boston she said she met Capt. VIC
ter A. Turin, former member of the
imperial Russt guard. who was In
,nls country .,pecting artillery to
De shipped to sssia. They were qui-
Guy married Are Oct. 81, 1917, ana
iaier Iurin Sled the French army
ne was rep ed killed at Verdun.
1ape. sch 81 has long been popu-
tar IN Inc Snger social set here He
is associat : in business with Paul
huoer as - engineer. He has made
NO loilie Sr some time at the Uni
versity e.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-30
Army Chief Processes Sc
curity to Nation In New
Discoveries.
ENEMIES WOULD BE
SLOW TO ATTACK
Nation Makes Great Progress in Per-
fecting Defensive Measures Since
Close Of World War and is Now On
Equal Footing With Any Nation
on Earth-Gasses Perfected For
Defense Rather Than Aggression.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 30.-Declaring
that the world war demonstrated that
an enemy bent on aggression can
not be trusted to live up to any set
rules for war;" Brig. Gen. Amos A.
Fries, chief of the chemical warfare
service OF the army, in his annual
report to Secretary Baker, asserts
that the development Of this branch
of the United States army tota point
where it is impossible for any nation
to go further" Will do much toward
deterring other nations from forcing
hostilities against the United States.
This country is in position to
manufacture and deliver on the field
OF battle more chemicals than any
other nation or group of nations, says
General Fries. adding that "the Unit,
ed States has wisely decided to con-
tinue the chemical warfare service
with sufficient powers and funds to
develop its possibilities, not for ag-
gression but to insure that II Amer
lean boys must ever again shoulder
arms in defense Of the liberty OF their
country they will do SO nn an equal
footing with any other nation, so far
as chemical warfare is concerned"
Now. Gasses Discovered.
During the last year the service has
conducted experiments OF great value
in the production Of new gas and
chemical instruments Of war, the re-
port says, and has effected a closed
Iiaison with chemists and chemical
societies in civil life.~~A All formal war
contracts OF the service have been
settled and informal contracts are
more than 9S per cent liquidated. the
report asserts. OF the sormal con-
tracts 1,2,4 have been settled for
slightly more than S287s000. a saving
to the government of more than $6,-
100000. The salvage and sales Sec
tion of the service disposed of plants
and materials representing an expen-
diture of nearly $7.5o0I0o0, the report
said the sales averaging % per cent
Of the cost prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-30
STOCK JUDGING IMPORTANT.
Show to Further Ability to Judge As
Well As Raise Stock.

Show to Further Ability to Judge As
Well As Raise Stock.
BY Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 30.-While one OF the
most important purposes of the In
ternational Live Stock Exposition
which is being held here is to pro-
mote better breeding Of live stock,
and consequently the production OF
better meat animals. even more i'm
portant than that perhaps, is the
judging of meat itself-the result of
better breeding and. growing acttvi-
ties.
At the exposition this year the
Judging Of the carcass meat is being
done by w. B. Margerum, a retailer
Of Philadelphia.
Prior to the show, individual cat
tie were slaughtered for the exposi-
ton. These carcasses represent
what in the opinion Of the expert
buyers Of the packers is the, stock
that will dress out" to the greatest
percentage and best quality Of
edible meat products. Then at the
exposition he determines from which
of the animals has been produced
meat of highest quality and finish,
irrespective of the manner in which
the animal has been fed or raised.
Those carcasses as Judged will then
be placed on display at the exhibi-
ton. so that live stock producers as
well as the packers representatives
and retail butchers may have an OBJ
ject lesson in the best kind of animal
to raise, buy and sell so far as It's
utility for meat alone is concerned.
The Judging ofthe carcass differs
from the judging of the animal on
the hoof in that it does not take into
consideration the fine points OF
breeding such as carriage and mark
ing, or the quality of the hide or tho
worth of the other by-products. 1t
is strictly the judging Of an animal
on it's merits as the raw product for
meat. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-30
Collins Under Heavy Bond.
,ial to Times Republican.

Special to I1meS-RepuDllcan.
Council Bluffs, Nov. so.-sans his
former jaunty air, yet bearing trace
of defiance, Keith Collins, erstwhile
army aviator who is charged with
being the master mind in the $780,
600 mail car robbery Nov. 13, was ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner w. A, Byers shortly after
midnight this morning.
While the charge against him was
being read Collins eyes furtively
glanced about the windows Of the
third story Of the federal building
and then back to the group Of federal
officers who relentlessly and unceas-
ingly had tracked him across four
states and who were secretly if not
outwardly happy over the end of this
part of their labors. The Importance
, which the government attaches to
Collins part in the robbery is indi-
| Gated in the amount of bond which
was demanded, s5O,000, and which is
not believed possible for him to Sc
cure.
To his brother, Tom Collins, of Ce-
dar Rapids. Neb., belongs the credit
for the final capture of Keith Collins.
Tom telephoned from his Nebraska
home Saturday night to government
officials here that if some Of them
would come to his home he would
give them the desired information,
which he did. Collins sister, in CO.
lumbus. to all requests. told the fed
eral officers she did not know where
Keith was and that she would not
tell if she did know.