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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
A PROMISING PLAN.
CHAPTER ia

For days I thought of my problem.
For it was a problem to me, altho 1
know many who read my simple story
will wonder why I could not be con-
tented to be just housekeeper now
that Robert was doing so well. But
those women have never been real
business women, or. il they have, it
was in some business that did not in
terest them beyond the size of their
pay envelopes.
1 know that there must be many
women in the world situated Just as
1 was, VINO feel the same. Women
without children who have too much
time on their hands, but whose hus-
bands do not want them to work out
side of the home for fear they, their
comfort, will be neglected-or because
of false pride.
have known many young couples
who. simply because of pride, have
grubbed along on starvation wag es
rather than let the wife help, even
when there were no children or other
cause for her to remain idle save for
the short time 1t took to do the work
of two or three rooms. I can't see
how q man can be so foolish
There is another side to this also.
The working girl, whether from shop
or office. isn't accustomed to so much
time. Usually she gets into mischief
is divorce. caused simply by nothing
to do.
Small flats with every convenience
do not require the time to take care
of that a house does. The small
town girl, with her tiny house and
garden. chickens, etc, has her day well
filled. while the poor city girl am
speaking now of working girls who
marry small-salaried mems all fin
ished in an hour or two, and then
has nothing to do but walk the streets
or go to motion pictures.
This Is especially true of the very
young wife Girls like Betty and Jane
who wait until they are 25 or more
before marrying-and then. as Betty
and Jane did, have families-are ex-
ceptions.
One more. customer dropped out,
Mrs. Plat, the woman to whom. Mrs.
Black had so kindly recommended me-
I was to go to her that day. In the
morning mail was q note from her
a kind, but rather thinly disguised,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

PLAYTIME.
The only real time for fun
Is when you know your work is done.
Who leaves neglected tasks behind
Takes with him an uneasy mind,
But he can sing along his way
Who earns the right to rest and play.
The sweetest hours Of joys are those
Which every weary toiler knows
The holidays which now and then
Shine thru the lives Of busy men
When, free from care and duty's grind,
They leave the daily tasks behind.
There is no real joy in play
For him who knows that he should stay
And keep his post however sweet
The pleasures he has gone to meet,
Because forever on his mind
There lies the task he left behind.
He only knows the thrill of fun
Who plays not till his work is done
Then he may wander fancy-free
And claim the joy, whateer it be,
knowing the laughter and delight
Which come to him are his by right.
God grant that when come to rest,
With LIES sun sinking in the west,
And the last bugle call is blown
By duty's herald, l may own
The right to turn from all toll and rest,
Knowing that l have done my best
Copyright, 1870, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

Wheat growers of the west have de-
cided that $3.13 a bushel is about the
right prico Cor their crop. They did
not reveal the method by which they
plan to get it. About the only way
open to them appears to be the organ
ization of a combine to hold their
product off the market until buyers
meet their terms. This is the favorite
way of boosting all prices and the pub
lie is accustomed to it. Since every
bcdy's doin' it" probably there will be
no attempt at interference with the
farmers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
SLEEP ON 1T.

Most of the restlessness of the night
time could be eliminated-by taking
happily thought of the morrow
The thoughts and worries and little
irritations that you take to bed with
you are sure to wake up with you.
Fight like a good soldier with all
your might and main during the day
Face your battle and give no quarter.
But when the rest time comes, send
your fighting men to their barracks,
and to to your pillow for pleasant
dreams.
How will you do it? BY saving up
the happy things of your day for sleep
ing time And by taking each one
to sleep on
The good and generous things that
you do, rest and sooth you-when you
think about them. Then sleep on
them
The body is quick to relax If the
mind is quiet and calm. And if you
form the habit, as soon as you toch
your head to its night rest, of group
ing together all your noble thoughts
and healthy imaginings, and then
playing with them as you silently
travel into the kingdom of sleep, yours
will be a rest of happy foreboding.
Think on the things that give you
pleasure and real joy. Then sleep on
them.
Tomorrow. then, may come truer
than you think
Keep hunting for things and saving
them-to sleep on. Oh, how wonder
full is an undisturbed sleep, a Sleep
Gained by conscious power and wrap
ped in blankets warmed by the we'll
wishes of those we love
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

There are millions of other workers
with families in this country who are
living on less than $4,000 a year.
Let's treat all alike. Allowing five
members to a family in a total popu-
lation of 100. 100000, an average in
come of $500 for each family would
amount to 1000, 900, 900 year-a
little less than the estimated total cap
ital worth of Germany before the war.
If the farmers of the country were to
demand an average earning for each
farmer OF $4,000, the price OF food
would be double what 1t is now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
Dorothy Dix Talks
Telling the TRUTH.
BY DOROTHY DIX
WORLDS Highest Paid Woman writer.


OF course it is one of the things
can't be done Telling the truth. If
we started out in the morning and
attempted to speak the~truth for one
single day, we would end up in the
hospital by mid-afternoon, and prob
ably spend the balance of our lives on
crutches, because we had been SO
MANNED, and roughly man-handled by
those whose vanity we had offended.
And we would be poor, forlorn
creatures, without a friend on earth.
Nobody ever knew even a moderately
veracious person, who was popular in
society, or one of those lucky indi-
viduals at whose coming every eye
brightens, and every one begins to
purr.
age to speak the truth. There have
been heroes who have led forlorn
hopes. but nobody was ever foolhardy
enough to hope that anybody would
ever be grateful for being told the
particular facts in his, or her, individ-
ual case.
Yet, can you think of any one thing
that would work such an immediate
and wholesale reformation as for each
of us to be handed a nice, large, solid
chunk of truth about ourselves, and
thus have our attention directed to
would give US a chance to correct it,
for most Of our faults are the faults
of ignorance. We are so blinded by
our own egotism that we do not know
that we possess them, and we'd lop
them off quickly enough if we had
search light turned on them. Par
ticularly social sins.
Wouldn't you like to be the truth
teller with steel helmet and gass
mask, a coat of chain armor on ana
an airplane to make quick get away
in until the offended parties had had
time to cool down and realize that you
were doing it for their good.
There's a boy know. Such nice
young chap. So handsome. clever. and
agreeab BILE, and with such charming
manners. An p-and-coming young
man, too, because he's just full of
work up. Some of these days he is
going to be a big man, but he must
have had a careless mother because
she did not teach him how to hold his
fork He grabs it as if it were har-
pooh. and he was going to make an
attack on a deep sea whale. Nobody
could see this boy eat without having
his stock go down SO per cent in their
estimation.
How I wish I had the courage to
tell him the truth, and advise him to
take a few lessons in table etiquette. 1t
would be worth hundred thousand
dollars to him, but I shall never dare
even whisper to him that table cutlery
is an appliance of luxury and not
weapon of offense and defense.
There's a young girl know. Really
a pretty, sweet nice girl, with plenty
of gray matter just above the hair
mattresses over her ears. This girl
greatly desires to be admired by men,
and to make a good marriage, but
somehow she's made the mistake of
thinking that the way to attract at
tention of men is being loud, and
brazen, and fast appearing.
Copyright, 1919, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

Q. Why doesn't the postoffice redeem
postage stamps for cash "A. f. r.
deemed in cash because because there is NO no author
ity in law for so doing. 1t is a measure
of protection against the use of stamps
for remittances. which use 10 contrary 70
the interests of the postal service. since 1t
diverts the postal revenues from their
proper channel, causing the mailing post
postoffice gets the revenue. Another OBJ
lection to redemption is that It would az
realize upon their plumber.
Q. Who are Druses &C. Fl.
A. Druses are n people of mixed origin
who inhabit district in Syria Their re
their faith mingles the teachings OF the
Mosaic law. the Christian Gospels. and the
They believe in the transmigration of souls
with constant advancement and purifica-
ton. Their teachings enjoin abstinence
from wine and tobacco. from profanity aud
obscenity. and polygamy is unknown
among them. There are a few hundred OF
this sect in the United States.
Q. Has the Yuma project been success?
&C. B. NJ.
A. Work on the reclamation Of the Yuma
mesa in Arizona began IN 1905. and water
In June of 1912. The total cost of this work
up to December, 1919. was s9,ooO.0oO. while
4T3, Je3. This shows that in less than seven
years the Yuma project has more than
ably leading all other sections in the United
States by a very wide margin.
Q. How many 1rishmen enlisted under
the British flag during the world war?
p. Il.
A According to the Irish National
bureau, a total of 1882 Irishrnen from
ireland served in the British army and
navy. which was 81 per cent Of Ireiand-s
total population.
ANY reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Hsskin. Dircctro, Washington. d. c. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal. medi-
cal. and financial matters. It does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor TO
undertake exhaustive research any sub
1ect. Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
age. All replies are sent direct to the
fnquirer.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

even more confusing than you do. If
possible. They welcome the new ar
rangement which places FL Paso defi-
nitely in its proper time zone and COM
pels interstate carriers to break time"
before they reach there.
Certain other towns have also been
made happy. Cleveland used to have
three times-local time, railroad time
and steamboat time.
In other places. the changing of the
old time lines has caused discomfort
and some hardship. Wherever this is
the case. the commission holds a hear
ing and tries to decide the matter on
its merits. 1t required ten thousand
miles of travel and millions of words
of testimony to fix these time lines.
You would have to look at them on a
map, to appreciate the job. They are
very crooked lines, looping this way
and that to include various towns in
the time zones they prefer, and to con-
form to the convenience of the rail-
roads. But they are not nearly as
crooked as they used to be. They are
triumphs of the art of compromise.
Copyright. 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Modem s.o.y Of Home and Business
BIZ JANE PHELPS

apology for saying she would not need
me any more.
1 sat down and cried. I had hoped
so much from my work, and 1 had
failed. or course had succeeded for
a time, and it had helped wonderfully
in keeping me contented, and also in
furnishing our home But to fall
For the first time since we had gone
| to housekeeping my breakfast table
was uncleared when noon came. my
beds unmade; 1 had not stirred the en-
tire morning. 1 thought of Robert.
how I loved him, and how happy ne
was.
"I must do nothing to spoil that
happiness. I couldn't bear TO see him
unhappy again. / said aloud.
Then came thought. ] would so
down and see Madame Leets.
l hurriedly cleaned up my rooms,
did my marketing, then dressed myself
peculiar in that appearances went a
long way with her. I had an idea in
my mind it might come to something,
but she must not suppose for
moment came to her because it was
again necessary for me to work. If
she did, my plan would amount to
nothing.
When I was dressed 1 was perfectly
satisfied with my appearance, all but
my hat. But that could not be helped.
! 1t was an old. one had bought of her,
and very becoming. But 1 realized It
was last seasons shape. and that she
would remark upon it at once
left the bus before I reached the
shop. II she were out I would not go
until another day. i did not care to
have the girls question me-which
they would if they had q chance. l
went into a drug store and called her
on the telephone.
This is Mrs. Meredith-Gerry, I
told her. IF you have few moments
to spare, I am coming in to talk to
you
Come right alongl What is 1t?
Want TO come back?'' A note in her
voice that sounded as If she hoped 1
did.
Il am only a short distance away. I
will be over at once" replied, paying
no regard to her questions.
Perhaps it will turn out all right ="
said aloud as hurried down the
street.
Ito be continued.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
PULLING OUT THE PROPS.

! Dispatches from Washington an
thru representatives, attending a con-
ference with the federal reserve board
| in that city pledged themselves in
helping the board in a drive on high
prices and to aid in efforts at defla-
ton. Specially the bankers agreed
| unreservedly to support the board
new policy in discouraging 'habitual
and unnecessary borrowings" and to
seek curtailment OF long standing,
non-essentIaI loans. as an initial step
toward ending the era of high prices
and speculation.
Governor Harding warned of inn
pending dangers in the cycle borrow
ings and speculation and appealed to
bankers and public alike to be con-
sentative in its demands for banking
credit.
In some quarters the federal reserve
board itself has been held RESPONSE
BILE in large measure for high prices
and profiteering. Enormous in
creases in the cost of necessities thru
the financing of the federal reserve
have Melted millions to the worst form
of profiteers," representative Edward
]. King, of Illinois, declared recently.
The charge was made before the rules
committee of the house in support of
resolution for a congressional inves-
tigation of the activities of the federal
reserve board.
The sugar shortage is due almost
entirely to the financing of the hoard
ers by the federal reserve" continued
Representative King. The bureau
of markets informs me that On April
% there were 127,s47 tons of raw SUI
gar stocks in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, compared with 11O,9e1
tons a ear ago. But with the aid of
our government, working thru the fed
eral reserve, these hoarders of sugar
are enabled to keep it off the market.
Withdraw your credit and these stocks
will come tumbling on the market in
adequate quantities and at reasonable
prices. These sugar stocks are being
released in just sufficient amounts to
maintain the shortage and keep the
price soaring"
UOOA SdAAiCnlS are dU pTOllD-
tive figures, he pointed out, the sup
ply of wool in March was 4s7,1O7,OOO
pounds compared with 47S,6s7,OOO
pounds year ago. AS long as the
federal reserve will loan unlimited
amounts of money to the holders of
this wool, the wool will be allowed to
filter on the market only in sufficient
quantities to maintain the price
large amount of raw silk is being
boarded in New York. We may soon
expect to have federal reserve bank
notes issued against this silk
In New York City alone, he declared.
there is held at present 7o,415,oo
pounds of unsold condensed and evap-
GRATED milk compared with s,061,oO0
pounds year ago. Financing Is en-
abling the holders to keep the milk off
the market and the price up altho to-
tai stocks in the United States are $50
per cent in excess Of those A wear go
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

The following extract from the Lon
don Times of September 5, 1894, re-
published by the Manufacturers Rec
ord, shows that the conditions prevail
ing today are not new: THE wages
given to servants have increased dur
ing the last ten years more than thirty
or forty years before. -. Manufac-
turing laborers now have got in many
places only to work three or four DAYS
IN the week. Increase of trade
and wealth have produced increase of
luxury and made the necessities of life
more expensive. Workmen con-
tinually are combining together to
leave their work unless the masters
consent to increase their wages, and
which only proves to be a temporary
compromise until they have an oppor-
tunity of making a further demand"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
Dinner Stories

A small girl in a street car was try
ing to say something which her
mother appeared to be greatly trying
to suppress.
Several times the little one started
and each time the mother leaned over
to her and enjoined silence.
When the mother thought her child
ham been effectually squelched the
youngster blurted out:
81 don't care. That lady over there
says amt" and it goes isn't"
well" said her husband, did you
take the house
(which one"
why, the one that was described
as overlooking a plendid garden, richly
adorned with statues, in which we
would be at liberty to promenade"
'I did not" she returned in dis
gusted tones. TT was a cemetery"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

The editor OF the Detroit News, be-
ing in a reminiscent mood remarks:
Those were hard times when a man
worked sixteen to eighteen hours a
day for 20 cents. and a man who
owned a blackboard was in the limou-
sine class. And yet some of those res
olute. hard-handed old people braved
the hardships OF those hard times and
founded fortunes for themselves.
They did it by not spending quite all
they earned" But people these days
must wear silk shirts and ride in mo-
tor cars regardless Of the state Of the
times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

An anomalous situation in the poll
tics, of the day is seen in the fact that
Indiana has no candidate for the
presidency this ar. Eight years ago
the Hoosiers put forward Mr.. Mar
shall. He obtained second place.
which he has since held against all
corners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

Secretary Houston has suggested to
congress that it would better find
some way of enabling the government
to meet current bills before mourning
new obligations. such as the soldier
bonus. Congress might retort that the
government is spending more money
than it should and in ways that are
unnecessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

McAdoo. Democratic leader in the
Literary Digest's poll OF 1900, 900
voters for their presidential choice,
now says he is not a candidate for Of
flee and will not even go to the DEM
ocratic convention at San Francisco.
President Wilson appears still to be
master Of his house, even II he has
lost his grip on congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

Kansas crops rarely are so poor as
they seem. Several million bushels
OF wheat have been added to this
years output by the experts since the
last report on conditions. VIII the
present outlook cause the producers
to reduce their price of s3.13 a bush
ell? Probably not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

washington dispatches indicate that
the house will pass the bonus bill at
an early date but that the senate will
wait until after the national conven-
tions have completed their work. All
members OF the house are up for re-
election this year, while only one
third of the senators are so situated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

There is nothing more insidious
than the propaganda of capital. Sew
eral times lately We have read In the
cApitalistic press statement TO the
effect that E. Raymond. assistant
general manager of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railway, who died
not long ago. started in life in 1878 as
a track laborer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22

1t is enough. We go on TO say. ia
make Upton Sinclair weep and, I'M
doubtedly, will have that effect. This
incident of Mr.. Raymond's death may
be even more far reaching. 1t may
inspire Mr.. Sinclair to write another
book.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-07-29
AUTO PARK is WIN
Ming POPULARITY

The Hood River automobile park
opened only a few months. is already
winning popularity with motor trav.
elers from many states of the Union.
number of nights this summer the
camp haa been filed 10 capacity, more
than 25 automobile loads of men, WON.
en- and children having slept in the
shadows Of the oaks that cover the
plot. Sunday license plates showed
cars from the following states: Mis-
souii, Wyoming. Colorado. Oregon.
Wa hington, Idaho, California. Utah
and Kansas.
Visitors declare the park one of the
best eduippe in the state. Four ovens
have been provided for cooking. Mem
bers of the Woman's Club have notified
City Water Superintendent Price. in
charge of the park, that they will fur
nlsh Washtubs, in order that motorists
may do the family wash. The park is
supplied with city water and already
many campers. carrying their own
tubs, have .strung clOthesllnes between
oak trees and hung out the family
laundry.
The city has expended all available
funds this year. but it is planned by
another season to have rest room,
equipped with magazines. A place
will then be made available for regis
tfatiOn Of visitors.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-07-29

! their tasks they left a work that will
! bring increasing fame to Oregon with
every passing year. The five open win.
dows of the Mltchells Point tunnel eX-
eel the orldfamed Axenstrasse tunnel
of Switzerland.
The Columbia River Highway has
been the key that has opened the treas
ure chest of id-Columbia Cascade
scenery. The route is now fully paved.
and traffic of automobiles in an uainter-
rupted stream will visit the region
daily. The purpose of local citizens to
secure roads into remote wilds around
Mount Hoods base has been stimuiat-
ed. Lost Lake, really lost to all but
the hardy recreationsts, will soon be-
come accessible as result Of the initi-
ative of the United States Forestry
service and the Hood River County
Game Protective Association. Financed
jointly by county and forestry appro-
priations, which were augmented 6y a
fund raised through subscription cam
paign waged by the game organization,
work on the Lost Lake highway was
begun last summer. Today motorists
may penetrate by wide and comforta.
bile grades to within mile and a
half of the mountain lake. The road to
the shores of Lost Lake will be com.
pleted by fall
And now local interest is being con
centrated on the Mount Hood Loop.
which will make accessible to the eyes
of those who love nature, in all Of its
virgin grandeur. faryIand meadows Of
wild flowers, vistas of mountain for.
ests, snowfields and glaciers of Mount
Hood